A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 494
Not allowing Mai Se to think too much, a long spear on the opposite side stabbed heavily at him with the momentum of the horse.

At the moment of life and death, Maiser pulled out the two-handed epee on his back, took advantage of the situation, and the long spear tilted to one side.

However, Maiser blocked the spear, but he couldn't block another long spear that followed.In the blink of an eye, Maiser only had time to avoid the vital point in his chest, and the long spear pierced right next to his left rib.

The blood rain sprayed, and the heavy and sharp lance, with the help of the horse's momentum, instantly broke through the fine armor leaves of Maisel's armpits, the cotton layer inside him, and the innermost chain mail, and his body was penetrated in one fell swoop. He stepped out, even revealing a long section behind Maiser.

Mai Se only felt that the strength in his body was drained away, and he couldn't help showing a sad smile on his face.

The bean-like pistols rang non-stop, and a Zhuang Da not far from the lower left of Mai Se brandished his tiger-tooth knife, and was about to charge forward to strike a Jingbian army knight.

However, at this moment, many streams of blood mist erupted from his left and right shoulder pads, arm pads, black-painted helmet, front belly pad, and even the horse under him, but Jing Bian, who was rushed by his wings, The military pistols hit one after another.

He didn't even yell, just rolled off the horse like that.

Just like this Zhuang Da, with the sound of the guns, there were constantly charging Ba Ya La men and horses falling down.At the place where the bullet was shot, a large stream of blood sprayed continuously, and when they fell from the horse, they howled at the top of their lungs, as if complaining about the unfair tactics of the enemy on the opposite side.

The constant blows from the Jingbian army knights on the front and on the two wings made these Ba Yala care about one thing and lose another, and most of them couldn't display their martial arts skills.

There was only Mai Se in the lower right position, a Zhuang Da with a face full of flesh, although his right arm was shot, his figure flickered, but he stood up bravely.With a loud roar, his body suddenly stood up from the saddle, and the long-handled pick knife in his hand slashed down obliquely.

The blood mist erupted, and a knight of the Jingbian army came head-on. The entire upper body and more than half of the horse's head were chopped off by the heavy, sharp, narrow, long and curved pick knife.

The roar of grief and anger sounded from the opposite side, and Zhuangda turned his head, and a heavy horse spear pierced through his throat.The impact of the horse's momentum also made this Zhuangda fall backwards, rolling heavily on the ground.

His eyes were wide open, the blood on his neck spewed out like a fountain, and the bloody fragments in his mouth also kept gushing out, staining his neck guard and the nail leaf on his chest red.He seemed to be struggling to crawl, but soon, several heavy horseshoes stepped on his head...

The battle was short and cruel, and it seemed that in the blink of an eye, there were very few Ba Yala beside Maiser.

He was still holding the flag in his left hand, and his epee in his right hand. The spear pierced through his body in his left rib, and the wooden pole in front of him had been chopped off by him, leaving only the long blood-dripping spear tip exposed behind his body.

Looking at the warriors beside him who seemed to be covered in bruises, and looking at the steady stream of Jingbian army knights ahead, another wave of knights rushed forward, each holding a pistol in their hands.

Maise fell into a cold cave, and seemed to smell the strange smell of white smoke mixed with blood again. Suddenly he howled, raised his Jialazhangjing banner, and roared loudly: "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, let Let's fight to the death here!"

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The sound of platooning guns rang out several times, and the rout soldiers had rushed to both sides like a tide, and they no longer dared to charge the Jingbian army's chariot head-on.

Even the Qingqi behind them tried their best to drive them away, but it was useless.

When the Jingbian army came to help, it made them hopeful. This is the strength and prestige of a strong army.Secondly, they were exhausted, and many of them couldn't run anymore. Thirdly, the firepower of the Jingbian army made them feel more fear than the Tazi soldiers who were chasing behind them.

When those Qing cavalry saw the rout soldiers in front of them, they either kept stopping in place, or shouted and rushed to both sides, and then drove the rout soldiers away, but the original effect could no longer be achieved.

Looking at the two wings of the Ming army, it seems that the smoke and dust are billowing, and there are constant cavalry riding out.They ignored the routs in the middle or in front of them, they just rolled towards the front of the two wings, as if they wanted to outflank themselves among the routs from the front.

Many chasing Qing cavalry had a bad feeling in their hearts, and some of them who were more clever and had a keen sense of the battlefield immediately rode their horses back to stand out before the encirclement of the Ming army's cavalry, so as not to be cut off from the rear.

There are also some lucky ones who want to see the situation, or drive the Ming army to retreat again, to achieve the effect of attacking Bai Guangenzheng barracks.There are even those who are bold enough to attack the chariots of the Jingbian army, so naturally one can imagine the result.

The chariots of the Jingbian army kept advancing, and the densely planted spears in front of each chariot made people feel chilling. Anyone who dared to rush towards the chariot had to weigh his own weight.

There are also blunderbuss soldiers layer by layer behind the chariots. Regardless of routs or clear cavalry, those who dare to attack the chariot formation will be killed on the spot.

As the army marched forward, roaring and galloping around, the sentry battalion refused to accept orders from the soldiers, one after another the soldiers and civilians knelt down on the ground, and some stunned Qing cavalry chasers who rode on horses fell out of them.

The situation in front of them made them fearful, and they fled one after another.In particular, more and more people shouted and sent messages to each other, saying that the cavalry had outflanked the front from both wings, and if they could not leave, they would be cut off from the rear.

The army array was always advancing like a wall, with a compelling momentum, more and more Qing cavalry began to flee in fear, the more the kneeling Ming army was defeated, the more Qing cavalry fled to the rear.A large number of defeated soldiers and civilians began to be contained.

The rout soldiers ordered by Wang Dou had to kneel on the spot and put down their weapons, and those who had horses had to dismount, and most of them obediently obeyed the order to lie down on the ground.

Of course, there were also some rebellious routs who were dissatisfied with the Jingbian Army's order to put down their weapons and horses. For these people, Wang Dou's order was to kill them on the spot.

The sound of gunfire kept ringing one after another. Obviously, there were many people who couldn't see the scene clearly.

A man with a Jizhen accent, who seemed to be dressed as a general or a guerrilla officer, led dozens of servants by his side, and shouted at a group of soldiers from the back battalion of the Jingbian Army: "I belong to Daming!" Guerrilla, who have fought to the death for decades, what right do you have to confiscate my weapons and my horses? This is a hard robbery, and I will go to Hong Du to sue Wang Dou!"

The team officer's face was ashen, staring at the guerrilla, and shouted: "Last order, throw away the weapons and kneel on the ground!"

That guerrilla roared: "I don't accept..."

The relentless sound of gunshots sounded, and amidst the gunpowder smoke and cries, the noisy servants who followed the guerrilla screamed and were knocked to the ground one by one.

The bird guns of the Jingbian Army pulled the trigger on their bodies at close range.The splashing rain of blood, the rising gunpowder smoke, those servants, even many of them were directly punched through the body, the blood sprayed out like a fountain, and the intestines flowed out of their bodies directly.

"what!"

The scene in front of him was unbearable for even the weakest of minds.The servants who were lucky enough to survive all collapsed, wept bitterly and fell to their knees, howling: "Don't beat me, don't beat me, let's just kneel down."

The guerrilla watched the people around him continue to fall down from the gunshots, his face trembling violently, and roared: "I am Daming's guerrilla, Wang Dou is not qualified..."

He let out a scream, but was shot in his big foot, and then a blunderbuss butt was enlarged in front of his eyes, and hit his mouth heavily, and immediately the guerrilla was bleeding profusely, and rolled on the ground howling.

A few thick Jingbian Army soldiers stepped forward to punch and kick him, and kept hitting him hard with the butts of their blunderbuss, shouting and cursing sharply.

"Dare to disrespect our general, you are courting death!"

"No one dares to resist our Jingbian army. Those who dare to resist will die!"

"You trash guerrilla who only knows how to run away, you deserve to be treated like trash, that is to be beaten!"

Seeing the guerrilla general howling and howling, all the defeated soldiers and civilians beside him were terrified.But no one complained about his miserable state, they just knelt more honestly.Even a general and a lieutenant general in Ji Town not far away knelt obediently like soldiers.

"All right!"

The team officer looked at the Jingbian army formation not far away, stretched out his hand, and shouted: "Take all this group of people away, and clear the way for my army to go out!"

Immediately, the civilians who were beside the Jingbian army of the team stepped forward to collect and escort the defeated soldiers one by one.

After this scene, the surrounding rout soldiers also cooperated very well, each of them put their weapons into the small carts of the peasants, and let them take them away with their horse mules.Many generals among the defeated soldiers even ordered their subordinates not to resist, and even took the lead in confiscating their weapons and horses.

No matter what the future holds, and whether those Jingbian troops will return their weapons and horses, let's save their lives now.

Soon, the area was emptied, just like this area, the broken soldiers that seemed to be scattered all over the mountains and plains were taken in one by one, and then escorted to the back of Wang Dou's central army formation.In the end, Hong Chengchou's Supervising Biao Battalion took over and brought them together in their large formation of the Chinese army to count the casualties in Jizhen this time.

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Wang Dou put down the binoculars. He saw the scene of his subordinates beating Jizhen's guerrillas just now, but his face was expressionless.

Zhang Ruoqi also put down the binoculars, with an unnatural expression on his face. As a supervising army, this matter... But he ignored it, just coughed lightly, and said: "Uncle Zhongyong, it seems that the rout has stopped. Don't worry, Hong Du's Chinese army will have no worries, and Yang Shuai's troops who attacked the mountain will also have no worries!"

Wang Dou said: "What Zhang Gong said is true!"

Looking at the situation of the Qing cavalry after the defeat, he originally wanted to order thousands of first-class troops in the battalion to attack, and cooperate with the cavalry battalion and friendly cavalry to surround and siege them.How dare they push to the front of their own army without showing them some strength, is he still a king?
Unexpectedly, these Tazi soldiers were all veterans of battles, and there were many clever people. When they saw that the situation was not going well, they ran away.Especially those cavalry, all of them had horses, some even had several horses, and they ran really fast. Although their own cavalry outflanked quickly, there might not be many Qing cavalry who could be surrounded in the circle in the end.

But Zhang Ruoqi would be satisfied as long as he outflanked the enemy, and what he was worried about was only the next battle.Although the Jingbian army is famous far and wide, the Lu cavalry should not be underestimated, especially not long ago, they defeated Bai Guangen's Jizhen army, which made him feel uneasy about the outcome of the battle.

So at this time, Zhang Ruoqi couldn't help but ask: "The elite cavalry in front of us is more than [-]. Does Uncle Zhongyong have a good way to deal with it?"

Wang Dou smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang, please rest assured. If the captives attack me with a sharp formation, I will respond with a concave formation. I will definitely win!"

According to the terrain ahead, Wang Dou had made up his mind early on. The Qing soldiers knew a lot about their guns, but they looked down on their own cavalry.

In response to this, corresponding tactics can be formulated.

Wang Dou decided to concentrate the infantry on the left side of the hilly area, guarded by rocket vehicles, Fran cannons and chariots, forming small concave and convex formations.The cavalry was concentrated on the right, and the Shenwei General Cannon of the Shenji Battalion, as well as the Hongyi Cannon of its own artillery battalion, were all arranged behind the cavalry.

Such infantry seems to have weak firepower and empty positions, but in fact they are full of traps.

Wang Dou remembered watching a video in later life.

During World War I, the Maxim heavy machine gun used 80 rounds of ammunition to attack the charging infantry head-on, but only killed [-] to [-] enemies.However, if they were to shoot from the side instead, the number of casualties to the enemy would be as high as [-] to [-]. This huge casualty ratio is really astonishing.

Aiming at this point, Wang Dou set up corresponding battle formations, and the enemy attacked the infantry formations. After entering each small formation, each formation fired sideways fire, which would inflict maximum damage on the captive cavalry.

If they attacked their own cavalry, they hit Wang Dou's arms, and countless artillery bombarded their cavalry, which would surely break up their battle formation.The cavalry of one's own side, under the cover of gunpowder smoke, rushed towards the enemy's cavalry in a strict formation, and would be able to easily defeat the enemy's cavalry.

And according to this strategy, he still has the advantage of defending the formation.

To Wang Dou's words, Zhang Ruoqi was a little baffled, and also felt unfathomable, thinking: "Concave formation? What kind of formation is this?"

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"Has the Chinese army sent aid?"

Wu Sangui suddenly looked towards the direction of Hong Chengchou's Chinese army, overjoyed.

At this time, his chariot battalion was being deployed on all sides to form a chariot formation. The outermost ring was a car city composed of heavy vehicles and artillery, and then a sub-city composed of light vehicles to protect the Chinese army.In Zicheng, there are a large number of pack horses and cavalry, and finally the Chinese army and the drums of the car camp.

Outside the chariot camp, Qing cavalry with various armors and flags were attacking from all sides at this time, but Wu Sangui's defense was tight, and more than ten thousand Qing cavalry could not attack for a long time.Of course, Wu Sangui was also secretly anxious. If the reinforcements did not come, his own Ningyuan army would not know how long it would last, especially when he saw the entire line of the Jizhen army being defeated not far away.

His position in the central army was also expected to be the pole car. Seeing the signal from the flag bearer in the distance, Wu Sangui felt relieved and suddenly settled down. The reinforcements came, that's great.

Afterwards, he learned that it was the Jingbian Army, the brave champion of the three armies, who came to help him, and his heart felt more at ease.

At the same time, complex emotions welled up in his heart. It seemed that Wang Dou was still needed as the mainstay. Could it be that he was not as good as him?

He tried his best to suppress the complicated emotions in his heart, and informed the whole army of the news that the Jingbian army had come to help.

According to the signal from the watch-rod cart, the cavalry of the Jingbian army were swiftly approaching from the two wings of the rout, as if they were going to outflank the chasing Qing cavalry.

Wu Sangui's heart moved, and he said to Zu Dale beside him: "Uncle, later you lead the infantry gunners to stand firm in the chariot formation, and I lead [-] cavalry to attack, maybe we can gain a lot!"

Zu Dale has experienced many battles, and he immediately saw the clues. Those Qing cavalry who were chasing the defeated soldiers were in a pincer state between the Ningyuan army and the Jingbian army. If they could take advantage of this opportunity to attack, they would definitely win a lot of heads!
He said: "That's right, take this opportunity and make more contributions. Gui Er, you can go out without worry, and the guardianship of Che Ying will be left to your uncle!"

However, when the two of them saw Qingqi rushing back like a tide, they couldn't help but cursed: "Damn it, you cunning Tartar!"

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"Wang Dou is dispatched? The Jingbian army is dispatched?"

About two miles away from the upper left side of Wu Sangui's car camp, there is a sea of ​​flags, in which there are many golden dragon banners woven by Baylor, Prince of the Qing Dynasty.

Among these dragon banners, there is the Eight Banners Manchuria, the owner of the inlaid blue banner, and the dragon banner of Prince Zheng Jierhalang.There is the Dragon Banner of Prince Su Hauge, the owner of the Zhenglan Banner of Manchuria.There is also the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria, and the Dragon Banner of King Azig of Wuying County.

There are also the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the gold-woven dragon banner of Gushan Ezhen Adai in Zhenghuang Banner, the gold-woven dragon banner of Gushan Ezhen Engetu in Zhenghong Banner, and the gold-woven dragon banner of Gushan Ezhen Buyan Dynasty in Xianghong Banner.

These banner owners or princes all wore the gilt armor of their own colors, which shone brightly in the sun.

In addition to these heavyweights, the generals of the Qing Dynasty in the field also include Manchurian Zhengbai Banner Baya Latuzhangjing Azignikan, Manchuria Xianghuang Banner Baya Latuzhangjing Yangshan, Manchuria Zhenghuang Banner Baya Latuzhangjing Tulai , Manchuria Zhenglan Banner Baya Latiao Zhangjing Alzin and others.

They are all famous figures in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the famous generals gathered here, which can be described as a crowd.

At this time, the generals of the Qing Dynasty rode their horses and stood there, watching the densely packed Aha servants in the arena, transporting the spoils of war.

Hauge, Azig and others led the army to attack Bai Guangen and Wu Sangui's troops. Not far behind most of them, there were more than [-] Aha miscellaneous servants.At this time, these handymen arrived and nervously transported the captured Jizhen chariots, horse mules, luggage, and some Ming army prisoners who could not escape to Rufeng Mountain.

Looking at the dazzling array of harvests, Hauge, Azig and others were in high spirits, and they both laughed: "Nikan is vulnerable, and Bai Guangen is known as a brave general of the Ming Dynasty, but that's all!"

Hauge glanced at Jierharang even more dissatisfied. If the old guy hadn't stopped him and sent more pursuers, perhaps the harvest would have been even greater.

After defeating Bai Guangen's Jizhen army, according to Haoge and Azige's idea, apart from leaving some people to continue to attack Wu Sangui's chariot camp, it is natural to send as many pursuers as possible.

But Jierhalang was cautious, saying that most of Hong Chengchou's central army was not far away, including Wang Dou's Jingbian army. It was very good to be able to kill Bai Guangen.Therefore, there are more than [-] Qing cavalry in the field, and the number of people sent to chase the rout is only a few thousand.

After the defeat of the Jizhen Army, the Sentinel Cavalry continued to send back news, saying that the pursuit of the defeated soldiers all the way was very smooth, and those defeated soldiers of the Ming Dynasty rarely showed signs of turning back to resist, and they gained a lot along the way.

This made Hauge and the others even more dissatisfied. Wouldn't it be better if they could drive the defeated troops to attack their central army formation, or attack Yang Guozhu's troops in Huangtuling?However, for the more than [-] Qing soldiers, the dominant power was in the hands of Jierhalang. No matter how dissatisfied Haoge, Azige and others were, they dared not disobey Huang Taiji's order.

However, the gains in front of them were enough to make everyone feel high-spirited, because when the Ming army arrived at Songshan, the worries caused by their military appearance were also swept away.Sure enough, those Ming soldiers were all embroidered pillow soldiers. Looking at the real chapter, they were no match for the warriors of the Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)