I want to be emperor

Chapter 62 Surrender is not too much, right?

The numbers of these two Ming armies are about the same, about 60 to [-] each, and they are all warriors, including shield players, spearmen, musketeers, and archers.

The formation they listed is also relatively tight, and it is easy to tell at a glance that the cavalry will probably suffer certain losses if they insist on rushing directly.

This is also the reason why the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi and An Yongduo did not attack them immediately.

Because even if you can win, um, you can definitely win if you rush forward without accidents, but you will inevitably suffer certain losses.

The cavalry in the cavalry post in the Baoxiang camp are all very valuable. Most of the cavalry are elite cavalry who can charge and kill and are good at riding and shooting. No matter how stupid Wang Xiazi is, it is impossible for him to win , Take your own elite cavalry and the enemy's infantry to fight desperately.

Even if one is exchanged for ten of our own, it will be a big loss!
These cavalrymen only need to block the enemy's retreat and contain the enemy. Naturally, the infantry and artillery will solve the rest.

What is the best tactic to deal with a dense array of enemies who have been besieged, have a tight formation, and have long-range counterattack firepower such as muskets, bows and arrows?

Naturally bombarded with artillery!
It's the seventeenth century, since the enemy infantry is surrounded, who would be so stupid to fight you face to face, wouldn't it be nice to bombard it from a distance with artillery...

If there is no artillery, there is no way but to use traditional methods, such as using bows and arrows and facing each other, and at the same time sending out armored infantry to lead the way and rush up to fight the enemy.

Judging from the situation of the Baoxiangying, if the infantry of the left, middle, right and the supply battalion are simply allowed to deal with these two Ming army units, even if the opponent has been besieged, it is estimated that one's own side will need to pay a lot of casualties to take them down. .

After all, the infantry divisions in Baoxiang Battalion are really not good, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as these officers and soldiers.

But the Baoxiang camp has artillery, and there are several of them.

Of course, the artillery in the Baoxiang camp is only a light short-barreled artillery, not a long-barreled artillery that can directly fire solid shells.

But enough to deal with dozens of besieged infantry.

Now Zhang Malin has rushed over with the artillery with the artillery, because there is not much distance, and it is estimated that a moment will be enough.

Ever since, when Huang Guangmao saw such a scene.

First, some bandit cavalry bypassed their formation, then blocked their escape route, and then one or two hundred enemy infantry surrounded them.

Whether these cavalry or infantry were lined up a hundred meters away, they had no intention of approaching them at all.

However, the more this happened, the more worried Huang Guangmao became.

He didn't think these thieves would not attack, but planned to wait until lunch time to have lunch with them...

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to see the bandit on the opposite side pull out two cannons.

This is the artillery unit led by Zhang Malin himself.

When the two two hundred catties were placed in front of the formation, Huang Guangmao understood why these bandits didn't take the initiative to attack before, they were waiting for the artillery.

It didn't take long for Zhang Malin to prepare the cannons. Although the two [-]-jin cannons under his hands were small, they were also serious two-wheeled gun carriages. It can be used, and it is not necessary to move the artillery from the gun mount to fix it, or to fix the gun carriage like those traditional old artillery.

After the preparations were made, Zhang Malin did not fire immediately, because Luo Zhixue had also arrived at the front of the battle and was calling for the opponent to surrender.

Now Huang Guangmao is also very tangled!
Their current situation is that they can't escape, and if they line up to protect themselves, they can only be passively bombarded by the artillery from the opposite side.

How to do?
When Huang Guangmao was struggling, Luo Zhixue, who was on the opposite side, saw that the Ming army was not moving, and directly ordered Zhang Malin to fire.

He can't wait like this forever, no, there are still Ming troops who have been blocked all the time waiting for him to clean up, but he doesn't have time to chatter with these Ming troops on the opposite side.

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Huang Guangmao was wondering what to do, when he saw the bandit army on the opposite side firing directly.

After the sound of the rumbling guns stopped, the array of dozens of soldiers under Huang Guangmao directly fell to the ground...

Seeing this scene, Huang Guangmao couldn't help but take a step back.

The next moment, the confidant beside him said with a look of horror: "Du Si..."

Not only this person, but several other soldiers and small officers around him also looked at him.

Everyone looked panicked, looking like they wanted to say something but didn't dare to say it...

Looking at these people, Huang Guangmao didn't know what these people were thinking, they just wanted to make Huang Guangmao order to surrender.

However, Huang Guangmao is a majestic captain, a military general of the fourth rank, how could he easily surrender to a group of thieves.

At this time, someone shouted: "They reloaded..."

After a round of shelling, Zhang Malin led the artillery to start loading again. After they finished loading, there was another round of shelling. More than half of them would be killed or injured.

And more importantly, the soldiers who were waiting in line were panicked after being killed and injured by a round of shelling. Many of them retreated involuntarily. Vacancy created by shelling.

If this continues, I'm afraid they will collapse without waiting for the opponent to fire a second round of artillery.

After all, they are now besieged and facing shelling unilaterally.

With no hope of escape and unable to bear it, they really had no other choice but to surrender.

Huang Guangmao was also very aware of this, but he couldn't make up his mind before, and now he saw that the bandits were loading and preparing for the second round of shelling.

He sighed and said, "It's up to now, I have to wait and be brave, but there are kings, thieves and dog officials who have repeatedly threatened and disrupted the deployment of our army, which has brought us to the current situation."

After putting all the responsibility on Wang Jida, Huang Guangmao continued: "We have been fighting for the court for many days, with heavy casualties, and we are no longer favored by the king. Now it's time to think about the life of the big guy."

Speaking of this, he paused for a long time before saying the last sentence: "Tell the other side, as long as our lives can be guaranteed, we will surrender."

At this time, his confidant also said loudly: "It's all the bastard Wang Jida's fault. If he hadn't forced us to attack Songshan, so many brothers would not have died tragically, and we would not have been surrounded."

"With such a dog official here, the court will not be better. We have fought and killed for the court for so many years, and now it is not too much to surrender for our own lives."

"Not too much!"

Immediately, many people responded: "Fuck it, the dog officer won't let us live, so we just voted against him."

Whether it was for their own lives or because of their anger towards Wang Jida, a group of people were all courageous and directly agreed with the surrender.

For many ordinary soldiers, they served as soldiers anyway, and there was no big difference between working hard for the court and working hard for thieves.

Today they are defeated by the bandits and can surrender to the bandits, and they can also surrender after being defeated by the officers and soldiers, and become part of the officers and soldiers again.

Zuo Liangyu had already recruited a lot of elite rogues, otherwise the force under his command would not have expanded so quickly, and there were still many elites.

When Huang Guangmao decided to surrender, the next thing became easier.

Under the instruction of the thief on the opposite side, they dropped their weapons such as sword-pointed spears, bows, arrows and muskets one by one, took off their armor and came out in line.

On the one hand, Luo Zhixue arranged for people to guard these prisoners of war, and on the other hand, he also interviewed Huang Guangmao.

Huang Guangmao looks like a middle-aged general in his 40s, not tall, but very stout, but his expression is not very good now.

After all, he had just surrendered, so his expression was naturally not that good.

Luo Zhixue didn't talk too much to Huang Guangmao, but simply said a few words to him, which meant that Huang Guangmao's choice of surrender was right, and that Huang Guangmao didn't have to worry about the lives of himself and his soldiers. The Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp is not some ordinary thieves who like to kill prisoners.

Luo Zhixue really didn't intend to kill the prisoners, on the contrary, he even planned to recruit a group of recruits from these prisoners of war.

There were nearly 400 prisoners captured this time, more than 180 of them were soldiers, and the rest were county warriors and civilian husbands. As for the other Ming soldiers and civilian husbands, some were killed or injured, and some were unknown because of the chaos. Where did he go.

The county brave and civilian husband don't talk about it, but the more than 180 soldiers are more important.

These soldiers are all recruits from the Ming army, regardless of their combat effectiveness, they are not comparable to those county warriors and civilians. If some of them can be selected to join the Baoxiang camp, it will be enough to increase the combat effectiveness of the Baoxiang camp.

What's more, before surrendering, he heard some of the commotion among the soldiers of the Ming army, and many of them said that they simply surrendered or rebelled, and he knew that many of these soldiers of the Ming army really planned to surrender. thief.

That being the case, Luo Zhixue would naturally live up to their wishes, and planned to select some soldiers from the Ming army to supplement the rural protection camp, and the rest would naturally continue to be assigned to the prisoner-of-war camp as work.

But even if it is to choose people from among them, it is not now. You have to clean up the battlefield before doing these things.

Cleaning up the battlefield is also a troublesome task, not only to clean up the weapons and equipment scattered everywhere, luggage and other messy things left behind by the Ming army, but also to collect the soldiers who died in battle on both sides.

At the same time, the wounded soldiers must be treated, but the treatment of the wounded soldiers can only be described as human affairs, especially those wounded soldiers who are seriously injured. Given the current medical conditions, there is a high probability that they will not survive.

Even for some moderate injuries, it depends on fate whether they can survive.

There is no way, even if Luo Zhixue personally guided and established a preliminary military medical system in Baoxiangying, the level is still the same.

Minor injuries are better, as long as the infection is well controlled, then there is no big problem, but whether the injuries above moderate can survive, purely depends on fate!
(End of this chapter)