Chapter 55: Kill them all
The cavalry of the Qing army is still charging fearlessly, and I have to say that the discipline of the Qing army is really good, and the ordinary army has long been dispersed under such circumstances.
In the burst of musket roars, like a symphony of death, the Qing soldiers were screaming one by one and were shot through the body, and the parts that were hit were all broken a bowl-sized blood hole.
Only a few minutes have passed since the whole battle, but in the eyes of the Qing army, it seems like a hundred years have passed.
The 600 Qing cavalry that had originally charged under the leadership of Tan Tai had lost most of their horses, and the remaining cavalry had broken through to a distance of only more than thirty paces in front of the musketeers of the Yongwei Battalion.
In the past, the Qing cavalry rushed to a distance of thirty paces, and the Ming army would definitely be so frightened that they threw away all their weapons and turned around and ran away.
However, to the horror of this group of Qing troops, the part of the Ming army in front of them was not panicked, and the original musketeers in front of the battle had retreated in an orderly manner, and they were again facing soldiers with spears in their hands.
The pikemen of the Yongwei battalion passed through the array of musketeers, stood behind the shield soldiers with their spears in their hands, and placed their four-meter-long spears in the grooves above the shields to meet the few remaining Qing cavalry.
The shield soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, holding a shield in their left hand and a two-meter-long spear in their right hand, cooperated with the pikemen to stab the last dozens of men and horses under their horses.
The cavalry of the Qing army, which has always been invincible, behaved very miserably at this moment, none of them thought that they would die here for unknown reasons for thousands of miles to break through the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom for hundreds of miles.
The people in the Yongwei Battalion don't have the heart to think about anything for them, and if they come out to mix, they will always have to pay it back.
At this time, nearly 2,000 infantry behind the Qing cavalry also attacked.
Sun Yingyuan waved the flag, and the musketeers who had originally retreated behind and on both flanks formed three rows in the front again, and the formation moved extremely quickly, followed by a round of fire, and the Qing infantry fell in rows.
The speed of the infantry of the Qing army was far inferior to that of the cavalry, and the distance of hundreds of steps was one step, and each step was poured with blood, which was very tragic.
"Fire!"
"Reload!"
After one order after another, after a burst of drums, the musketeers of the Yongwei battalion were not moved by the tragic scene in front of them, and still shot calmly, changing guns, shooting again, and changing guns again.
The more Qing soldiers rushed in front, the faster they often died, and by the time the Qing infantry had not yet reached fifty paces, nearly half of them had already been cleared.
"This is the real queue to be shot!" Zhu Cihong sighed, and at the same time felt stunned in his heart.
As the Qing soldiers got closer and closer, Zhu Cihong also clearly saw this almost massacre scene, and the rich smell of blood wafted in the wind, making Zhu Cihong almost vomit, he underestimated the cruelty of the war.
Wu Zhong, who was following Zhu Cihong on the side, had already turned around and didn't dare to look at it again, at this moment, his stomach was turning over and Haiti was disgusting, but he had to forcibly suppress it, lest he vomit it and mess up the army's heart.
Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan and other generals also felt a slight chill in their hearts, this kind of tactic is really fucking ruthless. They looked at Zhu Cihong, not knowing why the East Palace was so small and could come up with such a ruthless tactic.
Finally, some of the Qing soldiers and infantry couldn't stand it anymore, screamed, and ran back like crazy, and many people, driven by it, also turned around and ran backwards.
Under the death of Tan Tai and many Niu Lu Zhangjing, almost no one came out to stop the escape of the Qing army.
In a panic, many soldiers collided with the Qing soldiers advancing behind, and there was a big chaos.
Seeing this, Zhu Cihong immediately ordered the cavalry of Huang De's Yongwei Battalion to attack and pursue the defeated army of the Qing army.
Although the number of cavalry in the Yongwei battalion is not large, there are also a full 1,000 men and horses, and a thousand men and horses chase down more than 1,000 infantry, which is not as simple as chopping vegetables.
Finally got the opportunity to fight, and it was also a beating of the water dogs, the cavalry was naturally excited, Huang Degong howled wolf, and urged the war horse to lead the cavalry to the scattered Qing soldiers.
At this time, the Qing army's infantry was in chaos, and in the face of the impact of the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion, he had no power to resist, so he could only retreat.
In the previous battles between the Ming army and the Qing army, especially in the field battles, it was always the iron cavalry of the Eight Banners Army that pursued and killed the Ming army all the way.
Now the result is the opposite, the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion is holding the ass of the Qing army, and keeps shooting and killing, only to kill the Qing soldiers one after another.
The cavalry of the Yongwei battalion each had a flintlock pistol and a saber, and more cavalry of the Yongwei battalion were too lazy to load, so they directly pulled out their sabers and slashed sideways at the fleeing Qing soldiers, and immediately took away a bloodstain with a knife.
The Qing soldiers who killed them threw away their helmets and abandoned their weapons, and desperately fled to Shijingshan, only hating their father and mother for giving him two legs.
Zhu Cihong couldn't help laughing when he saw the miserable appearance of the Qing army, looked back at the people in the Yongwei camp around him, and said loudly: "The slave thief pretends to be invincible in the field, but that's it!" ”
The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion were overjoyed in their hearts, and nodded one after another, they had been soldiers for so many years and fought for so many years, but they didn't expect that with the conquest of His Royal Highness the Prince, it was so easy to kill the Tartars!
Zhu Cihong secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, after the baptism of this battle, the Yongwei Battalion, which he had worked so hard to train, could finally be regarded as a real strong army.
At this time, a cavalry reported and said, "Your Highness, there are hundreds of thieves who have surrendered on their knees, and General Huang Shen asks how to deal with these prisoners?" ”
Zhu Cihong said loudly: "Captive? Do you want to keep it for the New Year? Pass my order, the cavalry continued to pursue, all of them were killed, and not a single soldier was left! ”
When the cavalryman heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly went to give the order.
The imperial court stipulates that if you kill a slave thief, you will be promoted to one level, and if you don't want military merits, you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, so as long as there is a chance, no one thinks about keeping prisoners.
The reason why Huang Degong sent someone to ask was because he was worried that the crown prince would leave some to return to Beijing for prisoners.
After receiving Zhu Cihong's order, Huang Degong was so excited that he led the cavalry company to chase for half an hour, basically annihilating the Qing army.
Zhu Cihong saw that most of the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion had returned, and ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up immediately, and the losses and results were counted.
Seventeen men were killed in the battalion, most of them shieldmen, and more than fifty cavalrymen were wounded, of whom only twenty were seriously wounded, and it is expected that less than half of them will die from their wounds.
This data made Zhu Cihong a little surprised, but if you think about it carefully, it is normal, the Yongwei Battalion itself is an elite force, with strict discipline, and with the advanced equipment of flintlock pistols, it is still twice the number of enemies.
Later, the battle of Bali Bridge between the Qing cavalry and the Anglo-French coalition army was almost like this, and at that time, the Qing cavalry had tens of thousands, plus tens of thousands of infantry in the battle, and only a few British and French troops were eliminated, and the battle losses were one hundred to one.
In the end, the Yongwei battalion captured thousands of pieces of iron armor, chain mail, leather armor and other armor, as well as hundreds of war horses and thousands of various swords, guns, weapons and shields. Moreover, more than 50,000 taels of silver and more than 800 taels of gold were found from the Qing soldiers.
Zhu Cihong ordered that the captured armor, weapons, horses, and supplies be transported to Xincheng, and repaired for the soldiers of the new battalion to use. All the first levels were loaded and transported back to the capital, and the money such as gold and silver was directly divided on the spot.
The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion each held ten taels of silver, and those who were happy couldn't close their mouths, and there were also half a head per capita. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that there is still a big battle below, take everyone to pick up silver and earn military merits.