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

Chapter 686 Encirclement
Right now Guide Mansion is full of thieves, where most of them are going and where the old camp is, it is difficult for Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen to determine for sure.

There are so many thieves and cavalry, it is difficult for the sentry cavalry to detect their specific movements. They seem to be rushing towards Xuzhou and Fengyang Mansion in Zhili in the south, but some sentry cavalry return. Still staying in Guide Mansion.

These can be ignored for now, and the thieves in Suizhou, Zhecheng, Ningling and other places that have been specifically detected can be wiped out first.

Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen are very confident in the fighting power of their subordinates. Of course, they also have concerns, that is, they are afraid that the bandits will have artillery. After all, the most feared thing in the dense gun array is the bombardment of enemy artillery.

Both of them have information. Everywhere the intruders went, they paid great attention to collecting artillery. Legend has it that they were taught a lesson by Yongning Hou Wangdou. Guns, etc., but no artillery was seen in the army.

Cao Bianjiao questioned Li Zhenzhen carefully, and Li Zhenzhen said that the intruders attacked Fucheng for more than half a month, but they did not use artillery to bombard them, but their own artillery bombarded many thieves and horses.

The two of them felt relieved. From the eighth day of the lunar new year, they began to wipe out the thieves from all over the Guide Mansion, and the thunder swept away...

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zhecheng.

"Ah, the officers and soldiers are here, they are the cavalry of Uncle Cao and Wang..."

On the flat wilderness, there was smoke and dust everywhere, and more than 3 bandit infantry, all looked blankly at the land in front of them, the iron cavalry, the fiery red armor, was like a red ocean.

Seeing the overwhelming momentum, many thieves gasped and their feet trembled.

Looking at the cavalry behind them and on the two wings, although the cavalry of officers and soldiers rushed straight to the frontal infantry, they were ready to escape at any time.

"Let the arrows, let the arrows go."

The thieves in the formation, only a few people, shot sparse arrows, or some people shot the three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss. Seeing the power of the iron cavalry charging into the formation, fear spread in everyone's heart instantly. It can face the cavalry on the plains.

"what."

When they were far away, they just shot arrows and fired guns, regardless of whether they hit or not.

Seeing the cavalry rolling and rushing towards them like a stormy sea, they collapsed in an instant, howled and fled back, disrupting the infantry who formed a spear formation behind, and then the entire infantry was in chaos.

"boom."

The flood of cavalry rushed into the formation, stepping the foot formation of these thieves into bloody alleys, and looking at the thieves' cavalry, they have already run away...

On the eleventh, Luyi.

"Ah, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Bianjiao..."

"It's Wang Tingchen..."

Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen led the cavalry in the battalion, and within a short period of time, they wiped out many bandits in Guide Mansion. Gather the fruits of victory later.

The situation was very good. After sweeping away many bandits in the west and southwest of the mansion, both of them thought that they could move towards the east of Guide Mansion and the southeast where there were more bandits.

sixteenth.

Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen led a large army under their command and marched towards Xiayi. They still used cavalry to clear the way, followed by infantry, and those who gathered there were fewer thieves with infantry and more cavalry. Riding, very easily, defeated the bandit's cavalry.

On August 15, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, they entered the boundary of Yongcheng.

It is rumored that this is the place where the Han Dynasty prospered. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bangyi, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, released the prisoners, killed the snakes and started an incident. Based on the Mangdang Mountain, he created the 400-year imperial career of the Han Dynasty. Not far from the north of Yongcheng County, it is famous Mangdang Mountain.

There were more bandit riders gathered here, and the two of them broke up the enemy riders, and after chasing for more than ten miles, suddenly Cao Bianjiao frowned, and a faint feeling of badness came to his heart.

How similar is the current situation to the Battle of Ningzhou?That year, his uncle Cao Wenzhao fell into Li Zicheng's ambush and died in a fierce battle.

Looking at the surrounding situation, there are many bandit cavalry not only in the front, but also on the two wings and the rear.

"stop!"

Cao Bianjiao yelled suddenly, and immediately the cavalry rolled and stopped, and some horses still snorted from time to time.

Wang Tingchen said: "Little General Cao, what's the matter?"

The knights beside the two were all looking at them.

As the knights of the main barracks, they all have armor, wearing long crimson armor and cloud-wing helmets. Because the armor leaves are inlaid in the armor, there are dense copper nails on the armor surface. Jiapao, each knight has arms between his arms.

These knights, all of them are tough, because they moved to Datong, Shaanxi, and Liaodong with Cao Bianjiao and others. They come from various sources. There are Liaodong clans, Datong clans, and Shaanxi and Henan clans. However, they have been loyal for a long time. dedicated.

They are divided into the killer team and the firearms team. The killer team gathers all kinds of cold weapons except for the archers.

The firearms team has three-eyed blunderbusses of the same color, wrapped with iron nails, and becomes three-eyed maces. False hair, very difficult to discuss.

However, compared with bird guns, these knights on horseback are used to using three-eyed guns, and many people have good accuracy when they immediately release their guns.

Cao Bianjiao looked around in front of him, and said solemnly: "Brother Wang, we can't go any further...We may have been ambush."

Wang Tingchen looked around suspiciously: "Zhong Fu, I didn't find any ambushes, besides, how can there be an ambush in this plain land?"

Cao Bianjiao shook his head: "It's an ambush. Their ambush is probably within the distance of the county. The thieves are cunning and have spent a lot of money."

Wang Tingchen looked around again, wondering and uncertain.

Sure enough, not long after, their sentry cavalry rushed back, and from Yongcheng County, countless rogue cavalry rushed in. Behind the cavalry, there were endless infantry and hungry soldiers.

Not only that, from the boundary of Dangshan County, the area of ​​Mangdang Mountain, and even the boundary of Haozhou, a cloud-like cavalry and infantry rushed straight to the rear of the army, and maybe they can encircle them today. It looks like they want to surround the army. On the plain of Xiayi and Yongcheng.

The faces of the two were ugly, it seemed that they had entered the main circle of thieves, where should they go?
If one wanted to choose the best plan, of course the cavalry would immediately return to Defu City. The encirclement of bandits, back and forth, with different schedules, was not so tight that the cavalry could not escape.

It's just that the cavalry can run, what about the infantry?
From Yongcheng to Guidefu City, the journey was more than 200 miles. The infantry would be overtaken by the bandit's cavalry before they ran too far. Moreover, once the infantry was defeated, no matter how strong the combat power was, the entire army might be wiped out.

The recruit battalion under the command of the two has gathered so much effort, how can they just give up like this?

But if you have to return with the soldiers, you will move slowly, and you will inevitably be surrounded by bandits in the end.

The thief has a public number of 70.

(End of this chapter)