Chapter 161: Why is this happening?
The advance of the anti-bandit army continued to squeeze the position of the attacking Qing troops in the front row, and the casualties continued to expand.
There are many soldiers and horses in the Qing army. But after all, people are not simple number crunching, nor are they not afraid of machines.
When the belligerent soldiers and horses in front have desperate thoughts, no matter how many soldiers and horses are filled in the back, it will not help the people in front.
The Qing soldiers on both sides can't be said not to be heroic, they just didn't expect that the anti-thieves in their impression could be so able to fight, is this still a mud-legged anti-thief? The soldiers and horses of the imperial court are not so elite!
"Abandon his mother, what else is this fighting, withdraw." Seeing this, a veteran of the green battalion spat on the ground and scolded fiercely.
"It's like, what's the difference between this and forcing us to die. Don't fight, run away! Someone responded to the old soldier oil and shouted loudly.
"Thorn..."
"Receive..."
The Green Battalion soldiers who approached the spears of the bandit army suffered a lot of casualties.
"Kill..."
There was also a green battalion soldier who did not believe in evil and rushed forward
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I saw that he used his knife to block a few spears that stabbed in front of him, and then flew up and hurriedly kicked away the spears stabbed from the side with his feet. However, although he was not injured, he did not take a step forward, but took a few steps back.
At this time, the green battalion soldiers who were forced to retreat had not had time to stand firm in a hurry, and a few spears stabbed them.
I saw that he was also very clever, and it was inconvenient to use the shield in front of the pikeman to stab. Hurriedly dodged underneath, and then, ignoring the stones and dirt on the ground, hurriedly rolled back a few times out of the pikeman's range.
The space for squeezing is constantly decreasing. The Qing army in the back was ordered to keep advancing, but the Qing soldiers in front were so frightened that they kept retreating, even if some overseers slashed and killed a few retreating soldiers, it was to no avail.
"Lancers, go."
"Tiger, tiger, tiger..."
As the bandit army moved forward, most of the Qing soldiers in the front row turned around and ran back, and many of them even fought with the overseers.
"Defeated, run..."
The veteran soldier in the Qing army, Youzi, kept shouting and retreated.
The battlefield is so unfavorable that at this time they only think that more people will escape, and it will be easier for them to escape.
Anyway, in the battlefield, who knows who shouted? Even after the war, no one knew that they could be held accountable. In the case of the bandit army on the battlefield, even if he stays, he may not die.
Besides, he and the others were temporarily deployed. It is estimated that the temporary soldiers who manage themselves do not know who they are, and they may not be.
There was no need for the shouts of the bandit army, and the shouts within the Qing army on both sides began to retreat.
The pikemen of the bandit army kept coming forward and the Qing soldiers kept retreating, and slowly turned into fleeing back.
The Qing army is indeed a large number of people, if there is really a large piece of land that allows them to completely open up the encirclement, maybe the two sides still have to fight.
However, this battlefield is surrounded by the moat of Guangzhou City to the west, the Pearl River to the south, and the high mountains to the north. The one that can be flatten is the east side.
There were many Qing soldiers, and naturally the logistical support was not light. It is precisely because of this that the route of the march is naturally not as easy to change as the army with fewer people.
If there is a better battlefield, Li Shiyao will naturally pick a battlefield that can give full play to their military advantages. However, they could not have imagined that the bandit army would abandon the high walls of Guangzhou City and go out of the city to fight them.
There are pros and cons. The bandit army gave up the advantage of the city wall, but the Qing army also lost the terrain that could deploy its forces.
No matter how many Qing soldiers there are, what can they do? The only thing that can really deal with the bandit army is the people and horses on the contact surface on the ground.
In many cases, the battle is won or lost. In the battle of Weishui that year, more than one million horses in the former Qin Dynasty were killed by 80,000 people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
To start a war with the Qing army is to be worse than bad.
Because the Manchus guarded against the Han Chinese, the Green Battalion soldiers who fought with the bandit army at this time were all from all directions. They were either guarding the gates, or looking at the rivers, or they were looking at the streets, and so on
People are messed up, when they get together. The generals who manage them are all temporarily arranged, and the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Except for a few with large teams, most of them are small and scattered.
In this way, where will they be the opponents of the uniformly trained bandit army?
The green battalion soldiers in the front shouted in defeat, and although the green battalion soldiers in the back didn't know what was going on, they could only run back together.
If the army really retreats, then those who are left behind will not only not be able to save the tide of the war, but may also die in an unknown manner.
Died for unknown reasons? What's more, they are all people with families.
The rout of the Qing army made the fighting pikemen a little dumbfounded, how to fight yet, this is a victory?
Subsequently, the bandit army throughout the battlefield began to pursue the enemy.
"Kill...!"
"Rush..."
"Whoever descends will not die..."
There are all kinds of voices on the battlefield
"Big brother, this bandit army is too capable of fighting! It's only been a long time, and tens of thousands of Qing soldiers have been beaten by them like this... Defeated? Fang Meiyu, who was near the battlefield, asked in disbelief
Fang Meiyu, who is known as one of the Ten Tigers of Shaolin, is very confident in her martial arts. But when he and the others faced this green battalion, they still felt that they were not easy to deal with.
However, at this time, how can watching the bandit army fight this green battalion soldier as easily as cutting winter melon and tofu?
"Yes! Second brother. It is precisely because they are so powerful that Daddy and they all agree that this Sixth Brother Zhang is the one who can really carry the banner of anti-Qing Dynasty. Fang Xiaoyu on the side said very happily.
"Daddy, they're going to be happy." Fang Meiyu replied
"Well, after they prepared for this battlefield, they went to seek refuge with Sixth Brother Zhang. If nothing else, as long as you can make some contribution to the anti-Qing cause. Fang Xiaoyu said.
"Then big brother, are you going?" Fang Meiyu asked curiously
"Go, why don't you go? Qianlong is naturally a good emperor in the hearts of the Manchurians, but he is not here with me. Our Han people's rivers and mountains are about to be plagued by this Manchu Tartar, and then look at this pig's tail on the head, how disgusting it looks. β
"Now, this sixth brother Zhang is calling. Finally, I can cut off this ugly hair, and I can keep a hair worthy of my ancestors. If we don't help Six, who else will we help? Fang Xiaoyu gushed endlessly
"Well, yes. And that's not all. Looking at his zealous people, you can see that he will definitely be an emperor in the future. I also went with my eldest brother to help him with the bandits. Fang Meiyu said excitedly.
"Well done, second brother." Fang Xiaoyu stretched out and patted Fang Meiyu's shoulder and said
The retreat of the fighting soldiers and horses on both sides of the Qing army caused chaos in the whole situation of the Qing army.
Many of the Qing soldiers in the back didn't even understand what the situation was, so they heard the soldiers in front shouting defeat, and then they were squeezed by the green battalion soldiers in front and retreated.
"How so, why is this happening." At this moment, Li Shiyao, who was still looking at the battlefield intently, asked in disbelief.