The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 326
Jiao Lian was also in a hurry, looked around, pointed at a place where the fire was weak, and shouted, "There is an ambush, follow me!"

After saying that, he kicked the horse's belly fiercely, and charged straight out with his gun. The cavalry behind him immediately followed.

After Jiao Lian led the team to run for two or three hundred steps, he heard a burst of firecrackers in front of him, and several masters around him would fall off their horses.

He gritted his teeth and continued to move forward, ready to break through the encirclement and help the Baigan army retreat, but seeing the enemy firing the guns dozens of steps away, he saw an earth barrier in front of him!
Although the mound was only as high as a person and loosely piled up, it was enough to block the horses.

That Tang guest was also quite deceitful. Pan Shigui and Zhao Caixiong were defeated together at noon yesterday, so he guessed that the officers and soldiers might come to rob the camp, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to build two earth barriers outside the camp, and filled the tents with Dry firewood and kindling are just waiting for the Yin official army.

As a result, Qin Zuoming and others just decided to attack the camp, but fell into a trap.

Another chieftain soldier hid behind the earth barrier and fired guns and arrows. Jiao Lian couldn't see the enemy's situation clearly in the night, but his soldiers were injured one after another, so he had no choice but to retreat.

Afterwards, Qin Zuoming also led a group of people to charge, but all of their troops lacked bows and blunderbuss capable of suppressing them, so they were helpless against the enemy's defense line.

The two led the team to break out of the siege in several other directions, but Tang Jiabin had already set up defense lines on several exit routes. They were wounded by the enemy's bows and guns many soldiers, but they still could not break out of the encirclement.

At Zhiyin's time, both the Baigan army and Jiao Lian's cavalry were exhausted, and before they had time to catch their breath, an enemy army in black with a Husa knife approached them quietly.

These people are not fond of fighting, they make a sneak attack, kill more than ten people before retreating, but the officers and soldiers dare not easily pursue them.Seeing this, Qin Zuoming had no choice but to order his subordinates to form a defensive formation on the spot.

All the soldiers stared wide-eyed in this way, and stayed up all night with high spirits, so that the large group of troops was not defeated by the enemy.Although there were still a few groups of enemies attacking with bows and arrows at night, fortunately, the white-armed soldiers were equipped with armor, but only about thirty people were injured.

However, as the sky was getting brighter, all the officers and soldiers were sleepy, tired and thirsty, and those in weaker health could not stand still.

Qin Zuoming was also poorly equipped, but he still stared at his red eyes and encouraged the soldiers, "Master Zhai sees that I haven't returned all night, so he will definitely lead his team to rescue me. Hold on for a while, and attack Lord Zhai's troops inside and outside, and the thieves will be broken. !"

On the side, Jiao Lian shook his head slightly in his heart, Master Zhai suffered heavy casualties in the First World War yesterday, only a thousand or so people were left who could still hold a knife.And even if those new recruits come, I'm afraid they can play a very limited role.

He glanced at the enemy's mounds in the distance, but instead grinned, "My department's duty is to hold Tang down. Right now, we can only fight until one soldier dies, so we have to hold him back for a while! My surname is Jiao." He is loyal to the court."

On the slope of a short mountain in the distance, Tang Jiabin raised his eyes and saw that the army was on the verge of collapse. He couldn't help waving his hands behind him triumphantly and said, "Zhao Caixiong, the enemy army can't stand it anymore. After the sky is bright, If you lead your troops to attack the enemy, you will be defeated with one blow."

"Subordinates obey orders!"

Then a soldier stepped forward to report, "Report to the general! As the general expected, the enemy came to rescue last night, but someone from General Pan's subordinates made a noise and scared the enemy away, and they did not come back until dawn."

"This trash!" Tang Jiabin scolded angrily, and then ordered the man, "There is no need to continue to ambush, let Pan Shigui come back, and first destroy the army in front of him together."

"As ordered."

When Pan Shigui returned with his team, the sky was already bright.Tang Jiabin ordered his soldiers to eat breakfast first, divided the troops into three parts, and planned to take down Qin Zuoming and others in one go.

His brigade had just completed formation, when suddenly a patrol came to report that a troop of cavalry had been spotted on the north side, and they were rushing towards this side.

Guest Tang hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?"

"Back to the general, there are about seven or eight hundred people."

Tang Jiabin frowned impatiently, guessing that the reinforcements found out that Pan Shigui had withdrawn last night, so they made a comeback.

He heard what Pan Shigui and others said, and he knew that among the officers and soldiers, only the Qin family's troops who were besieged by him were more powerful, and the rest were all ordinary people.

So he randomly named a low-ranking officer named Huang, and ordered him to lead [-] soldiers to intercept, while the others continued to march in accordance with the previous arrangement.

The officer immediately led the team to leave.Unexpectedly, only a moment later, Tang Jiabin vaguely heard the sound of gunfire coming from the north side, and then saw several soldiers rushing back in panic.

Tang Jiabin recognized one of them as the guard of the officer surnamed Huang, so he couldn't help asking with a sullen face, "Why are you back again? Who is the enemy's army?"

Those soldiers jumped off their horses, and they all knelt on the ground with pale faces. They ignored Tang Jiajie's question and said in a trembling voice: "General, General, Chief Huang was shot and died..."

"What?!" Tang Jiabin was shocked when he heard this.

The soldiers and horses can only leave for a meal, even if they meet the enemy immediately, it will take a while to fight each other, how could they be killed by the enemy so quickly?This fellow must have ventured in alone to eat the officers and soldiers' guns.

He looked at the soldiers again, "Who is in command now? Do you need reinforcements?"

Several people looked even more frightened, "Hui, Hui general, no one is in command..."

"General, all the troops in the brigade have been wiped out..."

"The enemy's guns are fired at once, and all the people and horses they point to are killed..."

"Thousands of guns fired at once?" Pan Shigui scolded, "Isn't there only seven or eight hundred enemy soldiers?"

"Yes, there are 800 people, but the guns are dense like rain."

Tang Jiabin frowned deeply. No matter how the enemy did it, he killed more than 500 people in a short time, so he had to be more careful.

He then ordered Pan Shigui and Zhao Caixiong, "The officers and soldiers may use small groups as bait, and there are large groups lying around. Order the large army to immediately turn to the north to form an formation, and first respond to the strong enemy."

"As ordered!"

The two rushed to their own units to deliver orders, and as soon as thousands of soldiers and horses turned around, they heard the sound of horseshoes approaching.

Tang Jiabin hurriedly ordered his men to resist horses and trip wires in front of the formation, the spearmen stepped forward to deploy defenses, and the bow and blunderbussmen were ready to attack the enemy.

When the team of cavalry approached, Tang Jiabin was relieved, there were indeed only about seven hundred people, but I don't know if there were other ambush soldiers.

But what he didn't expect was that these hundreds of cavalry did not charge straight up, but reined in their horses less than a mile away, and then dismounted extremely quickly and formed formation.

Afterwards, the team of soldiers in dark green uniforms came in a long and narrow horizontal line following closely behind to the sound of drum beats.

When Tang Jiabin saw the enemy approaching so carelessly, he was also taken aback for a moment, but he didn't notice that the few soldiers who fled back just now were so frightened that they curled up on the ground and did not dare to move at all.

When the soldiers in green shirts were [-] or [-] steps away from Tang Jiabin's line of defense, they suddenly stopped, the drums stopped, and then there was a chorus from the team, "Aim!"

(End of this chapter)