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Chapter 159: Kill the clear dog and become a wise man
The terrible military discipline of the Ming army.

The fearlessness of death brought about by the prohibition of orders instantly extinguished the anger in the chest of Qian Zongzong of the Qing Army.

It's just a nephew. If he dies, he will die. He doesn't lack this nephew.

The number of officers and soldiers was not as large as that of the rebels, and the rebels were so perverted.

If this battle continues, the officers and soldiers will undoubtedly be defeated, and they may not escape death either.

This is almost no guesswork. After all, they are different from the traditional Green Camp Army. They are a true township party-type army.

If you insist on making a comparison, except for the difference in years, they are no different from the Huai army of later generations. They are all from Anhui. The generals in the army are either father and son brothers, or relatives and friends, or brothers from the same hometown.

It's a pity that this Qing army general Qian wanted to run away, but he couldn't retreat at all.

It's easy to lead the charge, but it's difficult to retreat...

The army is entangled and fighting, but individual bravery is only a small thing after all.

As the soldiers around him fell one after another, the strength of Qian Zongzong of the Qing Army reached its limit.

"Pfft!"

The sword flashed, and he subconsciously covered his throat in pain, and all his strength seemed to be drained away in an instant.

"Cough cough~ cough~~"

Blood flowed down the trachea into the lungs, causing severe coughing.

Qian Zongzong of the Qing Army struggled a few times and finally died.

The ears were also cut off by the Ming army sword and shield soldiers and put into the bag on the waist.

The death of Qian Zongzong of the Qing army did not affect the Ming and Qing armies that were already fighting each other on the battlefield, but the red eyes were the red eyes, and no one was more angry in the war.

Although the Qing army seemed to be unafraid of death, their formation had long been divided by the Ming army's moderate advance and retreat, and the Qing army's casualties were increasing.

at last……

Qian Zongzong, who had just retreated from the front line, shouted: "Ah... brothers, follow me to break through the encirclement as fast as I can, we will not sacrifice our lives for the stupid officers and soldiers!"

After saying that, he immediately ran away with his soldiers, and there were many Qing soldiers under his command, as well as his fellow villagers who followed him.

As the saying goes, the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest.

He ran, yelling as he ran, trying to take away all his people, and instantly destroyed all the Qing troops on the battlefield.

In an instant, the Qing army was defeated like a mountain, and many Qing soldiers did not even know what was happening.

They don't know, and the Ming army certainly doesn't know, but it doesn't matter. If you don't know, you still have to push back.

"Command the whole army to surround me!"

With an order, the First Army and the Second Army of the Ming Army began to divide their forces and rushed to the two wings to encircle them.

As for the artillery battalion, they also replaced the squatting tiger cannon with stone bullets and fired freely as shotguns.

Yang Gong felt that it was not enough, and suddenly said with a ferocious smile: "Send the order to the artillery camp, give me some shells!"

Not only the Navy but also the Land Division brought explosive bombs, but not many, mainly to test the actual combat effect.

The use of squatting tiger cannons to fire explosive bombs has been in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, the caliber of the squatting tiger cannon is too small, the range is too close, and the power of the black powder explosive bullets is too low. Rather than going to the trouble of making explosive bullets that have the risk of exploding the barrel, it is better to use them on the spot. Bounce with rocks.

But the Ming army was different. One shot of White Sugar Big Ivan was more powerful than ten, and the power of the attack was incomparable.

A total of twenty or so explosive bullets were fired, and relying on the function of the wooden support (top-heavy), they flew even further than the original range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.

None of the bombs fell, and they all fell on the Qing army's positions.

Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
……

The one after another explosions are more powerful than the grenade hammer of Tianlei Camp, and the range is also farther.

"Sorcery! It's the sorcery of anti-thieves!"

"Run quickly, the rebels are using magic."

"We lost! We lost!"

The actual casualties of this wave of shelling with explosive shells were much less than those of the grenade hammer, but it brought better effects than the grenade hammer.

There is no way, the power of artillery shells is definitely stronger than grenades!
In addition, the cannon had a longer range and flew directly into the Qing army's position instead of the forward.

The Qing army was in chaos!

"Don't mess around! No one is allowed to retreat!"

General Bao Shen brandished his sword and shouted orders, but no one listened to him.

The shortcomings of Xiangyong began to show up. The military training of each unit was formed by people from the same village. Even General Manager and General Manager Qian were selected from among them with the highest prestige or force value. There was only one Green Camp officer as the top general.

Longkodo's idea is very simple. This can not only expand the number of troops at hand, but also Xiangyong and Green Camp are not in the same system. Naturally, there is no need to fear that the Han people in Green Camp will rebel when they gain strength.

But the problem is, he guarded Lvying, but he forgot about Xiangyong.

After all, they are just a bunch of mud-legged people, how could Master Long think of them.

Now, the army was defeated, and no one listened to him, a green camp general.

Seeing that no matter how loudly they shouted, they could not control the training group. The army even collapsed and its formation was broken. Some of them defected on the spot.General Bao Shen lost his temper and immediately led his own soldiers and the remaining remnants who were still willing to obey orders, totaling less than a thousand people, and decisively abandoned the army and fled.

Once he ran away, no one would care about Dahu.

Even the big banner fell, and those Qing troops who were still on the battlefield no longer had any scruples, and they fled and threw in an instant.

Within half an hour, the battle was over.

Surrounded by tens of thousands of Ming legions, less than 3000 Qing troops finally succeeded in breaking through, more than 5000 Qing troops were buried forever, and only less than [-] prisoners were captured.

Of course, the Ming army also paid a price, with thousands of people killed in battle.

This number seems not worth mentioning compared to the [-]-strong army, and most of those killed in battle were new soldiers, but you must know that the Ming army was [-]-[-] strong.

And the battle loss ratio with the Qing army was almost one to two, which was almost impossible to happen compared to the past.

In this case, it is better to rely on the explosive bombs to scare people and scare the Qing army into confusion. Otherwise, I am afraid the casualties will increase.

Yang Gong and Zheng Dingrui both frowned.After gathering the prisoners, Yang Gong took it upon himself to take out all the prisoners including Mr. Qian and Mr. Gao, and then pulled them out and beheaded them one by one.

Zheng Dingrui did not stop it.

In extraordinary times, Yang Gong was first and foremost a general, and it goes without saying that he should be kind but not in charge of troops.

If we don't cut off the core of these people, it would be terrible if they rebel at a critical moment.

Rested for a day in Lijiazhai, took inventory and cleaned the battlefield...

On the second day, the Ming army general Su Tianwei, who had previously divided his troops to block the retreat of the Qing army, led the first town of the Second Army to meet at Lijiazhai.

They ran into them before dark yesterday, or it could be said that the fleeing Qing army ran into them on their own initiative.

The Qing army had long lost its spirit. Even if it relied on its will to survive, it faced an ambush from the Ming army whose troops, combat power, and equipment were far superior to its own. Especially when the opponent was waiting for work, the Qing army was short of men and horses.

Collapse at the first touch was the result of this encounter.

With the words "Kneel down and surrender without killing", more than two thousand Qing troops became prisoners of war.

It was a pity that General Da Yu Bao Shen, in order to boost his morale, actually charged into the battle in person. However, he overestimated his ability and was surrounded and killed by several sword and shield soldiers. He didn't even hit a single Ming soldier with his sword until he died.

Yang Gong also quickly learned from the captured green battalion deputy general that they had taken away almost all the troops of Taiping Mansion when they left the city. At this moment, Taiping Mansion City was already extremely empty.

Upon hearing the news, Yang Gong and Zheng Dingrui looked at each other speechlessly.

After a long while, they all said one sentence in unison: "What a damn talent!"

Now that he knew Taiping Mansion was empty, Yang Gong had no scruples and immediately ordered the entire army to advance rapidly.

Lijiazhai is very close to Taiping Mansion.

It was just noon when [-] Ming troops came to the city with a large number of prisoners.

Fucheng seemed to have known about it in advance. All city gates were closed and even the city bridge was cut down.

This is not surprising, because Su Tianwei intercepted and destroyed the remnants of the Qing army in Taiping Prefecture several miles outside the city.

Yang Gong looked at the crowds of people at the top of the city in the telescope and did not immediately order the attack. Instead, he asked the prisoners to go to the city first to shout.

The way to use soldiers is to attack the heart.

If we can attack the city without wasting energy, that would be great.

The Qing soldiers who were originally ordinary people in the city were driven away by the Ming army and were forced to go to the city walls to persuade them to surrender.

shhhhh~~

A round of arrows fell crookedly, and one of them missed, but it also showed the determination of the people in the city.

In this case, Yang Gong lost his patience and immediately ordered the army to attack the city.

Several folding bridges were pushed forward by the Ming army who first entered the camp. These were used to fill the moat, and they were also foldable, so they could be erected across any wide moat.

Behind the folding bridge, more soldiers pushing cloud carts slowly followed.

Actually, less than half of the soldiers who first entered the camp were wearing heavy armor.

Taking advantage of Kai Enke's time, Zhu Yijiong had already asked the Ordnance Bureau to rush to build heavy armor. However, due to time constraints and lack of manpower, only about 100 sets were made.

This time, they were all brought to the Western Expedition Army. This was the first time that the heavy armored infantry of the Ming Army went into battle.

when!
when!
when!
……

The cloud chariot's hooks hooked the battlements, and coupled with its own weight, it was impossible for the defenders in the city to push it down.

These heavily armored first-camp soldiers immediately began to climb slowly up the cloud chariot.

The garrison at the top of the city was no more than three thousand, half of whom were the servants of various wealthy gentry who had been forcibly recruited by the prefect, Wang Keduan, to protect the courtyard, and the remaining half were the only remaining rural warriors in the city who were training troops.

Originally, Wang Keduan wanted to recruit young men from the people, but he didn't have enough time, and even the local heroes couldn't defeat the rebels, let alone those men.

The rebels climbed into the city, and the defenders on the top of the city quickly bent their bows and fired arrows to fight back.

But the eggs were of no use. Against the heavy armor worn by the Ming army who first came to camp, the arrows fired by the Qing army were as weak as cotton.

As for heavy guys like Rolling Stone and Lei Mu, time was too tight and there was no time to prepare.

If it weren't for the fact that these heavily armored soldiers were not used to wearing such heavy armor, they would still have to climb the city in almost full body armor, even moving their joints would be very laborious.

The feeling of marching before was not very obvious, but now climbing up the city, the feeling is particularly prominent.

But nothing happened, the heavily armored soldiers braved the rain of arrows, but they hadn't attacked a few yet.

The west city gate suddenly opened wide, and the chaos inside was vaguely visible.

Yang Gong, who was watching the battlefield with a telescope, immediately became energetic and immediately ordered: "Quick, the whole army attacks! Charge me!"

On the other side, Zheng Dingrui, who also held a telescope, ordered in an orderly manner: "Order the rest of the troops to go to the camp first and launch a full-scale assault. The entire army in the first, second, and fourth towns will launch a charge, with the spear battalion in front and the sword and shield soldiers in front." In the center, the fire musket and bow and arrow battalions fired freely, the Tianlei battalion charged with knives and waited for the opportunity to drop bombs, the other towns followed up and responded, and the artillery battalion was ready to provide support at any time."

The two men issued orders one after another, and the first army set off first. Since most of the new soldiers were added, the formation soon became a little scattered.

The formation of the Second Army was very stable and orderly.

The Ming army launched a full-scale charge outside the city, and the situation in Taiping Mansion was over.

On the top of the city, Wang Keduan's entourage stumbled over and cried: "Sir! It's not good, the city is broken... The Liu Family Nursing Home... has opened the city gate..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Keduan stood up without hesitation and jumped down towards the city wall without leaving a single word.

"..."

"No, my lord has died for his country!"

"The city is broken, the master is dead! Run!"

"Why are you running? Kill the dogs and become a wise man!"

"Kill the dog, kill the dog!"

　The Tiger Crouching Cannon is not a mortar, it has almost the same purpose.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)