The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 323
Seeing that the battle had just begun, Jiao Lian was also very anxious, pulled the reins of the horse, and shouted to the generals beside him, "Follow me!"

Although there were only a hundred or ten generals in his family, they all participated in the suppression of King Jingjiang's rebellion, and they were quite capable. At first, Jiao Lian let them pretend to be servants and hide at home, so they escaped Ding Kuichu's dismissal.

Zhai Shixu first saw the commotion of the former army in the formation, and saw the former army leader Jiao Lian rushing towards the enemy, he was also very anxious, and hurriedly ordered the rebel army Ma Wenhu to lead his cavalry to rush for reinforcements.

Jiao Lian loudly ordered the soldiers in the front team to separate a path, and rushed into the enemy's path at the head of his own horse.

This Jiao Lian is also extremely brave, with an iron spear flying up and down, even if a chieftain soldier used his shield to block him, the iron spear charged over a thousand catties with the horse's force, piercing through the shield is as easy as piercing tofu.

Zhao Caixiong's men saw that the Ming army was vulnerable for the first time, so they never expected such a murderous god to attack, and immediately more than a dozen people were picked up by iron spears.

The family general behind Jiao Lian was also unambiguous, and followed his master closely, tearing a big hole in the enemy's swords and shields.

After Jiao Lian rushed forward another hundred steps, he had left his sword and shield behind him, and in front of him was the musketeer of Zhao Caixiong's rear, so he raised his gun and killed without saying a word.

These musketeers didn't carry bayonets on their muskets like the Dragon Guards did. They had no power to fight back when encountering enemy troops in hand-to-hand combat.Jiao Lian rushed into the flock like a tiger, and a big gun quickly turned blood red all over.

Ma Wenhu also rushed over at this time, seeing the situation, he immediately rushed towards the gap Jiao Lian opened, further expanding the victory.

Zhao Caixiong was in the rear, and saw that his subordinates had been killed by a small group of cavalry, and he didn't care about the enemy and us being mixed together for a while, so he hurriedly ordered the big gun to aim at Jiao Lian's direction and shoot.

Those big guns had been loaded with ammunition before, so they let them go as soon as they said they would.In an instant, a puff of smoke rose, and dozens of lead bullets killed six or seven of his own people first, and another two shots hit Jiao Lian's generals.

Jiao Lian heard a loud noise in his ear, turned his head and saw a row of giant bird guns being lifted from his shoulders more than a hundred steps away, and gunpowder was poured into it in a hurry.

He was on the verge of killing, and immediately led his team to rush towards those big gunners without thinking.

Ma Wenhu led the cavalry of the rebel army straight and galloped, but General Jiao turned suddenly, and the two teams immediately lost touch.He simply steered his horse back and started fighting with the brigade of swords and shields.

When Zhai Shixu's former soldiers kept retreating, they felt the enemy's attack paused, and when they looked up, they saw their own generals rushing from left to right in the enemy's rear without fear of death.

Although these recruits have no combat experience, as Guangxi men, they are no less passionate than anyone else.Encouraged by Jiao Lian, they suddenly burst into a surge of pride, stopped and retreated one after another, and reluctantly gathered together under the command of the officer.

Afterwards, the hundreds of bow and musket players in the back team who had never had a chance to use their skills also stabilized their minds and began to shoot at the enemy.

Zhao Caixiong's men and horses had just been attacked by the cavalry repeatedly, and they hadn't slowed down yet, when another arrow and lead bullets hit their heads, so they had to bite the bullet and hold up the Teng shield, and they squeezed close to the shield not to move.

But in this way, it would be like giving their lives to Ma Wenhu's cavalry.Hundreds of horsemen rushed back and forth with their own bows and guns, and soon the enemy was riddled with holes.

Zhai Shixu could see clearly from behind, and secretly sighed that he was lucky to have such a strong general like Jiao Lian. According to this situation, he might be able to take Tang Jiabin down before His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince led the army to arrive.

He was about to throw the Chinese army in, trying to end the battle with all his might, when he suddenly heard repeated exclamations from the north.He hurriedly looked around, and saw thousands of black-clothed soldiers rushing towards his left flank.

The terrain here is downhill from north to south, and the team of troops took advantage of the situation and descended at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they were killed with the soldiers on his left wing.

Those black-shirted soldiers held slightly curved long-handled machetes, which looked somewhat similar to Japanese swords, but slightly thicker than Japanese swords.

Zhai Shixu had seen this kind of knife before, but it was a refined Husa knife made by the Achang people in Yunnan. It was extremely sharp and very expensive.Being able to equip a thousand-man army with this kind of knife shows that this team must be the elite of the enemy army.

Sure enough, as he expected, when the soldiers covering the left wing came into contact with these Husa swordsmen, they were cut down by the opponent's sharp swordsmanship. In addition, they faced the north side and attacked slightly, making it even more powerless to fight back.

At the same time, there were more than 300 crossbowmen behind those Husa swordsmen, who shot arrows over the heads of the swordsmen and shot straight at the Ming army formation, which immediately accelerated the speed of the Ming army's retreat.

Zhai Shixu was shocked, he hurriedly dispatched the Chinese army to support him, and he called Jiao Lian and Ma Wenhu to rescue him.

But before the Chinese army arrived, the left wing collapsed under the enemy's rapid offensive.The war supervisor couldn't stop it at all, and the soldiers of the brigade dropped their weapons and turned their heads to run away.

Under this defeat, the rescued Chinese army was blocked, one on both sides was about to retreat and the other was about to advance, huddled together, but the black-clothed swordsman behind him was merciless, the cold light was beating, and the Ming army kept screaming and falling to the ground.

Jiao Lian broke through the enemy's big blunderbuss team, and chased Zhao Caixiong for half a mile. Hearing the sound of gold behind him, he hurriedly reined in the horse and looked up. He saw the Chinese army's warning flag waving, which seemed to be a danger.

He hastened to steer his horse back, calling Ma Wenhu to rescue him on the way.

Unexpectedly, the enemy army attacking the left wing came rushing in on the downhill terrain, and they themselves were elite, so they killed the Ming army's middle army in a short time.Zhai Shishi had personally led his bodyguards to fight against the enemy, but his own formation was in chaos.

Jiao Lian and Ma Wenhu hurriedly ordered the soldiers to get out of the way, but when the defeated army fled, no one listened to them.A group of cavalry were blocked by their own people, and they could only watch Zhai Shixu fall into thousands of enemy troops.

The two had no choice but to lead their team around to the north to rescue Lord Zhai from the place where the enemy invaded.But not long after they left, five or six hundred enemy cavalry rushed straight from the east.

Although these cavalry were riding low Dian horses, they were not tall, so the speed of the horses was not slow.When he got close to the Ming army, he immediately chose the most chaotic place, plunged into it, slashed back and forth with the machete in his hand, and in just a cup of tea, he killed Zhai Shixu's army in half.

Fortunately, Tang Jiabin ordered Pu Yongzhou to cut off the Ming army's retreat on the west side, so the team didn't notice Zhai Shisi, who was already stretched to the left and right, and only passed him, running for more than half a mile before stopping.

Pu Yongzhou ordered his men to turn around and prepare for the enemy to flee. Suddenly, there was a faint sound of drums on the west side, and soon he heard what seemed to be an officer shouting, "Quick! Faster!"

He frowned, wondering if there were still ambushes in the enemy army?Looking at Zhai Shixu's direction again, he saw that it was still in chaos, and he thought there was nothing to worry about, so he didn't turn around at all, and just lined up in place, focusing on dealing with the ambushes in front of him.

Soon, about 800 people came quickly from the west side. The team headed a banner with a huge "Qin" character embroidered on it.

(End of this chapter)