193 The Green Camp is destroyed
Since ancient times, the morale of the green battalion has not collapsed because of the kindness and righteousness of the three partial generals. Since Ma Bao's death, the imperial court has not sent a new Xietai to take charge here, and the soldiers can only rely on the three partial generals Li, Wang, and Ding.
These three generals still have a little conscience, and they run around begging grandpa to sue grandma to fight for every penny of silver, and even they themselves have advanced a lot of silver. If it weren't for their kindness, these green battalion soldiers would have starved to death.
What are the big soldiers trying to do these years? Isn't it that the generals have a little conscience, and their subordinates can eat a bowl of food and still have a little money to sell their lives? In addition, in the bloody incident in the summer, a large number of bereavement pensions for the dead brothers were also raised by the three generals, so the brothers were very grateful to all three of them.
That is, under the sentiment of the three generals, more than 1,500 soldiers of the Green Battalion have died nearly one-third of them in battle by now, but the overall structure has still not collapsed, and the tide of deserters has not appeared.
They were waiting for Sun Sanhu to bring a miracle, and they imagined that in the next second, Sun Sanhu would rush over with Xiao Letian's head and end this nightmare completely.
But what they were waiting for was not Xiao Letian's head, but a battle flag, a broken battle flag with a large piece of residual blood. This is a Japanese-style vertical long flag, on which are the three big characters of Xiao Lotian written by His Royal Highness the Wing King.
The flag had been torn through a lot of holes during the bloody battle of Naha, and a lot of blood had been splattered, and now it was dark black. It was such a tattered banner, but it made all the new troops present completely crazy.
The two small companies, shouting like a tsunami, rushed towards the enemy wave after wave, all the soldiers forgot the ammunition base they carried, and the foreign guns ran out of bullets and copied the knives, without knives, daggers, and fists, and all of them still had endless will to fight.
The war had been a one-sided slaughter at this point, the last trace of persistence of the Green Battalion soldiers had been completely crushed, and when the hope of victory did not even exist in 10,000, the horror of death was infinitely magnified, and the last bit of loyalty vanished.
"Withdraw... Run... These are not people, these are all crazy people......"
"I can't fight, the musket is not as fast as others, and I can't fight with a knife, it's a shame...... Grandpa, I'm not going to serve anymore..."
One or two took the lead, and there were hundreds of followers, and in a short time the whole wilderness was full of fleeing green battalion soldiers, looking from afar like a pack of fleeing wild dogs.
"General Wang... General Wang, what's wrong with you? Wake up......" In the chaotic crowd, General Ding, who was rushing left and right with his own soldiers to kill and break through, saw Lao Wang lying on the snowdrift at a glance.
"Ding...... Brother Ding...... Let's go, leave me alone...... Listen to Brother Li's words...... "After speaking, his head tilted and he was completely angry.
General Ding was the youngest of the three partial generals, and when he saw Brother Wang's tragic death here, tears rolled out of his heart. And the pro-soldiers around him have long lost patience, and they will run away as soon as they pick up the general.
"The general will wait until he returns to the camp to cry, now is not the time...... Look, isn't it General Li in front?"
The oldest of the three partial generals was General Li, and at this time he had been shot in his left leg, and he was limping to the west with the support of his own soldiers.
"Brother Ding... You're safe?...... the old general grabbed his arm, "It's good that you live, I don't have to suffer this crime anymore, my family is the time to repay the emperor's grace, you have to remember...... Don't go back to the camp, just flee west to the canal and go straight to the Jingshi ......"
The old general's hand pinched General Ding to death, "If you want to live, you must live, don't enter Tianjin Wei, there are countless Xiao Letian here, he will spare no effort to kill you...... Go to the capital and tell the emperor about Xiao Letian's wolf ambitions, and you will say, you will say that Xiao Letian has raised the flag, and he has an army in his hands......"
"Dude... Let's go together, let's go back to the capital together......"
"It's too late, I'll lose my life here, I can't hold you back...... Brothers, if anyone owes me his life, stand beside me, and follow me to charge again, and we can't die on the way to escape..."
An atmosphere of tragedy and despair enveloped the surroundings, and in silence, dozens of deeply favored soldiers walked up, "My subordinates are willing to die with the old general..."
"Okay, well, I didn't hurt you in vain...... The rest of the brothers, immediately drag General Ding away, drag it away, I will cover you with this life, rush......"
The old general forgot the pain of the wound, drew his waist knife, and led the last guard to charge against the flow of people. At this time, General Ding was already crying, and he was lifted up by the soldiers and retreated westward without touching the ground.
"Let me go, let me die with my brother, what's the matter if I live alone......?"
At this moment, suddenly a series of dense gunshots rang out behind General Ding, and in the continuous flow of musket shooting, only to hear the old general shouting "The emperor has ten thousand ......", and the last word was not spoken, and it was already silent.
There is no suspense in the battle so far, the first cry of the milk tiger always eats meat, poor green battalion soldiers, brought out one thousand and five and the last count only survived seven hundred and zero points, this killing can definitely make them remember for a lifetime.
"Blow the rallying trumpet...... With the class as the basic establishment, attack the Xiao family's mansion, no longer care about the formation, and attack freely with the class as a unit...... Let's go save the adults..."
"Return... Assault to the North...... Don't stop even if you are tired and vomit blood, show your courage during the bloody battle in Naha, you must rush to the Xiao family's mansion before dawn......"
On a vast white snowfield, two hundred soldiers spread out in a large irregular fan shape, and their heads were smoking when they ran against the cold wind. At this time, you can see the excellent performance of Xiao Letian's individual equipment, the tweed military uniform is warm and lightweight, if you change to the cotton number of the green battalion and try it, you can get tired and fall apart in less than two miles.
There are also high leather boots on the feet, which protect the feet in all directions, and the soldiers can run wildly without worrying about stones and sharp branches under their feet. Not to mention the armed belts that can hold all the equipment in place, thick cowhide belts, which provide the best assistance for rapid marches.
War is already a science in this era, and if you want to win a war, you can't just rely on blood and bravery, Xiao Letian's concept of war is originally higher than all people in this era, not to mention the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is already behind the times.
Now is the darkest moment before dawn, Xiao Letian's mansion is the last eye of the storm, and at this time Xiao Lotian is about to be choked to death.
The cotton cloth on his face was wrapped in layer after layer, and finally there were as many as seven layers, but he could still smell the strong stench of burning sulfur. All the women and the old and weak wounded of Xiao Letian were concentrated in the only intact three main rooms, all the doors and windows were blocked with strips of wet cloth, and the people inside spent every minute and every second in fear.
And Xiao Letian took Long Ye and them, and they didn't shoot and fight at this time, they formed a fire brigade around the three tiled houses and desperately opened up a separation zone, and there must be nothing that could be burned within a distance of three meters.
The heat was rolling in, the cotton cloth on the mouth and nose was just splashed with water and dried dry, and buckets of ice water were baked into steam before they could hit the ground.
More than 700 villagers and guards present formed three fire warning belts, for fear that the slightest flame would reach the last three main houses.
The pond in front of the main house was now almost bottoming out, and a few large golden carp were fluttering back and forth in the sludge, how similar it was to these humans.
"Where's the reinforcements...... Didn't you say there were reinforcements? Why haven't you come yet...... Woo woo, I miss my daughter-in-law, I'm going home to see my wife...... You let me go..."
Someone finally collapsed, and the villagers were not very bold in the first place, if it weren't for the large number of people cheering each other on, they would never have held on until now.
One has a second, followed by more villagers who are in a state of devastation, crying and screaming to go home, and some even try to rush into the fire as if he were a world sprint champion and can rush through the fire in an instant.
"Hit all these troublemakers and put them all on the edge of the pond...... , we've done what we have to do, now it's up to fate... I'm going to see if God can take my rotten life......"
Just as Xiao Lotian was scolding the sky, there was a bang behind him, and another house was burned down.
Now outside the fire, Sun Sanhu has heard the desperate wails of the crowd inside, and he excitedly patted the neck of the war horse, "Okay, good, Xiao Letian will definitely die, even if his reinforcements come, he will collect his body...... Hahaha, this day will always be clear, if you dare to move your heart, God will not let you go......"
"My lord, ...... you listen" Just as Sun Sanhu was laughing wildly, suddenly the cavalry around him shouted to him, and everyone looked to the south in surprise.
At this time, in the grove to the south, the light of countless torches flashed again, and there was a faint shout of killing, and there was even an unusually thick murderous aura rolling on the ground.
Sun Sanhu subconsciously shivered, "Don't be afraid, I'm afraid it's Xiao Letian's suspicious soldier again, maybe it's the ignorant people of that village again......"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a dull sound of gunfire, and the unique light of a volley of muskets lit up in the woods in front of him, followed by the whizzing of bullets flying head-on.
"Damn, it's not a suspicious soldier, it's Xiao Letian's ghost soldiers, this group of ghost soldiers has been killed......"
That's right, at the most critical moment of the situation, the remnant blood flag held by Long Ye appeared in front of Sun Sanhu, and countless bald ghost soldiers under this battle flag rushed up with foreign guns, and the rolling crowd was unstoppable.
"Kill Sun Sanhu... The whole army killed Sun Sanhu ......"
Sun Sanhu, whose face was like ashes, didn't say a word, slapped his horse and fled to the east, what the fuck is to make a fortune, it's not as important as his own life... What kind of boy Gong, Red Sect protector, I am as frightened as I see a foreign gun...
"How did you get it? Fifteen hundred green battalion soldiers, even if fifteen hundred pigs were to be caught and killed, it would take a whole night's work, right? Why can we return to help before dawn? And seeing that this posture is not a division of troops, but the whole army has returned to help, is this group of green battalions incapable of reaching such a point?"
I can't figure it out, no matter how Sun Sanhu thinks, he can't figure out what went wrong, even the army of the Westerners can't have such a high combat effectiveness?
Damn, Xiao Letian is such a demon... R405