Chapter 658: Master Wang of the Han family reappears in the Western Regions
"Retreat! Return to the fortifications as scheduled!"
After receiving the orders conveyed by the commander Sun Chuanting to the attacks of the army, Zhou Yuji also issued the latest orders to the Western Expedition Army of the Anxi Protectorate.
At the beginning, Zhou Yuji gathered more than 100,000 officers and soldiers from the Anxi Protectorate Mansion and took the initiative to attack the Rakshasa soldiers, just to lure the Rakshasa soldiers to continue to drill into the pocket formation set up by the Ming army, so he made the stance of fighting with it, rather than fighting the Rakshasa soldiers on the wild grassland.
Because Zhou Yuji would not be so stupid that he gave up his strong fortifications and took the initiative to go to the wild to fight the Rakshasa soldiers.
Of course, Zhou Yuji had previously taken the initiative to gather the army and attacked the Rakshasa soldiers, which was also to make Alexoro mistakenly believe that the Ming Dynasty was not prepared for defense, so he had to send a large army to take the initiative to fight.
Now, the Ming army has encircled more than 200,000 Rakshasa soldiers, so Zhou Yuji naturally ordered all his Western Expedition Army to return to the fortifications to block the enemy.
"Why did the main force of the Ming army withdraw?"
Alexoro still only brought the more than 100,000 main forces of the Western Expedition Army of the Anxi Army of the Ming Dynasty to the only main force of the Ming Dynasty here. When he saw the Western Expedition Army begin to retreat with a telescope, he also made a puzzled voice.
"It's incredible! Since they are going to retreat, why did they take the initiative to move forward to us in one move before?"
Zuokovarov was also surprised.
But Alexoro gradually became uneasy: "We may have been fooled!"
"What do you mean?"
Zuokovarov asked.
"I'm going to order the entire army to stop advancing, and the front army will be the back army, and the back army will be the front army, Count Zuo Kovalov, please lead your troops to cut off the rear!"
Alexoro was unwilling to spend more energy to explain to Left Kovalov and directly issued a military order.
"yes!"
Zuokovarov replied.
Alexoro ordered another Rakshasa cavalry general named Oslov, "General Oslov, please take your cavalry to Burzin immediately for support! Burzin cannot be lost in the hands of the Ming army!"
"yes!"
Oslov also replied.
"The front army will be the back army, and the back army will be the front army!"
At this time, the commanders of the Rakshasa soldiers rode their horses and quickly conveyed Alexor's orders between the battalions.
Alexoro looked at the Ming army's whistle captives who were beheaded by him with a serious expression: "If I had known that the Ming people had such a big appetite, I wouldn't have killed these people first!"
Then, Alexoro asked Ye Chuchun again: "The Ming Dynasty has deployed only more than 100,000 troops in this area?"
"Yes! We dare not hide it."
Ye Chuchun replied.
"If it is really as you said, it is impossible for the Ming people to encircle more than 200,000 officers and soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom!"
Alexoro said something.
"Can it be an empty city plan? The commander of the Ming army of the Anxi Protectorate's Office deliberately suddenly retreated the army to intimidate us?"
Burni, who likes to watch the Three Kingdoms, asked at this time.
Alexoro thought deeply and finally said, "It's better to withdraw back to Beitun first. If there is really a Ming army breaking our retreat and besieging us, then there will be news from Burzin in a few days!"
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"Why is the Rakshasa army also starting to retreat?"
Wuya asked.
"It seems that although the commander of the Rakshasa army is arrogant, he is also very cautious in using troops."
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
"They will come back. Even if he leaves now, the Ming elites who were transferred to them from behind will seize Burjin, Beitun, Fuhai, and Fuyun before they arrive, so that they can be in a situation without water!"
Zhou Yuji said something, then sneered, "Then they will find that there are no wells along the way. If they don't go south, they will be waiting to die of thirst!"
at this time.
The Rakshasa soldiers stationed in Burz were tremblingly watching the large-scale Ming army that suddenly appeared in front of them.
The commander of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, has adhered to the tactics of you and I attacking me from the very beginning.
Therefore, the Ming army has always been determined to eat up more than 200,000 Rakshasa soldiers, and will directly surround the more than 200,000 Rakshasa soldiers who are marching towards the Anxi Protectorate in the north and south.
After coming from the Mongolian Plateau, he used the map drawn by the Anxi Protectorate and the Ministry of War to cross the Altai Mountains, and then came to the Zhaisangbo area to cut off the Rakshasa army's retreat.
He traveled from Xi'an and all the way to Hami, and then from Hami to the north to the northern pagoda area, breaking the way for the Rakshasa soldiers to attack eastward.
The Western Expedition Army of Anxi Protectorate led by Zhou Yuji has been acting as bait in the northern foothills of the Bogda Mountains in the south, luring the Rakshasa soldiers to the south and blocking the retreat route to the south.
Of course, the Ming army was able to successfully surround the Rakshasa army, which actually involved the Ming Dynasty's advantages in intelligence and transportation.
After all, if there were no telegrams and railway transportation that could be conveyed instantly, the Ming Dynasty would not have enough time to prepare.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
The Ming army infantry and artillery scattered on the vast grassland lined up in rows and advanced towards Burzin and shouted neat and orderly slogans, which gave Burzin's Rakshasa guards a great sense of oppression.
This is the first time since the Tang Dynasty that a large-scale Han army has appeared in this area.
For the Rakshasa soldiers, they were unfamiliar with these Ming troops who spoke Chinese voice.
But they could feel that the Ming army with spears and flags in front of them were not easy to mess with.
The enemy cavalry in this era was basically light cavalry that was mainly shooting bows and arrows, so the infantry formation of the Ming army still retained spearmen. After all, only in this way can it be more suitable for combat in the field.
Because the opponent has not made progress to the same level as the Ming Dynasty in military weapons.
The Ming army had not yet begun to set up strait lines, so they still used quadratic formations to conduct intensive shooting.
Only in this way can the cavalry be shot and killed in intensively.
Therefore, the Rakshasa soldiers in Burz still saw the Ming army moving forward intensively, and the spearmen who were lined up like moving forests.
Of course, the Ming army not only had infantry, but also had large-scale cavalry.
More than 100,000 cavalry had been divided into two wings and quickly penetrated around Burjin, intending to go to Beitun and Fuhai, Fuyun and other places to intercept the Rakshasa cavalry that might come back to support, and prevent the Rakshasa guards from informing the news to Alexoro who was advancing to Luntai in the south.
The Ming cavalry, which seemed to have more white clouds than the sky, rushed south like a torrent, filling the entire Ertzis River basin on the west side of the Altai Mountain, sweeping across all the Rakshasa soldiers stations along the way.
The Ming Dynasty had accumulated national strength for decades, and now it exploded in concentration at this moment.
The Rakshasa soldiers guarding Burz could only watch the Ming cavalry sweeping past outside their city day and night, so they were so scared that they didn't dare to breathe. They had never seen such a large-scale cavalry unit.
Chapter completed!