Chapter 374: Annihilation of Bai Guangen
Feng Wubao chased after Bai Guangen for a few days, but he couldn't catch up with the other party.
It was not because of how disciplined Bai Guangen was with his troops and how fast he marched, but because Feng Wubao had no supplies.
Xingxian is located on the Loess Plateau, surrounded by bare mountains, endless, no people in a radius of dozens of miles, and the people of the nearby villages are all withdrawn to Xingxian, and it is even more lifeless.
Feng Wubao was in time, but there was not much grain and grass to come, and there were no villages and towns along the way to replenish grain and grass, so he had to go back to Xingxian County to replenish supplies.
Bai Guangen robbed a few villages, naturally there was no shortage of food and grass, and he ran away all of a sudden while Feng Wubao was returning to Xing County for supplies.
But as he ran, he realized that something was wrong, and all the nearby villages were empty.
There were no people, no food, no cattle or sheep, not even a bed board.
Bai Guangen knew that the other party was enclosing sheep.
When the circle is enclosed, it is the time of his death.
Bai Guangen immediately made a decision and immediately led his subordinates to retreat in the direction of Linxian in the south.
Linxian and Yongning Prefecture are both territories controlled by the imperial court, and as long as they retreat to Linxian, they will be safe.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at Baiwen Town, which is on the border of Linxian County, he suddenly received a report: an army of Emperor Guan appeared in the south, about 2,000 people, and was coming to Baiwen Town along the Huanshui River.
Bai Guangen was taken aback, and hurriedly led his army out of Baiwen Town and fled to the west.
He also had 2,000 soldiers and horses under his command, but he didn't even dare to fight Feng Wubao's 1,200 Guan Emperor army, and he didn't dare to confront the same number of Guan Emperor troops head-on.
The combat power of Emperor Guan's army is famous, and even Jiannu has planted a few heels, where is the opponent of the two thousand ** under him.
The other party started to block the circle, and he had to run quickly.
Linxian has been blocked, and you have to run to the Yellow River, run to Krupzhai to cross the river and return to Shaanxi.
Bai Guangen's idea was good, but just as he turned west and wanted to escape to Kryu Village, Feng Wubao had already stopped him on his way west.
Even if Feng Wubao only had 1,200 troops, Bai Guangen didn't dare to fight him head-on, so he had to go around Feng Wubao in a circle, throw down most of the mule and horse carts carrying grain, and only take hundreds of heads to march towards Krupzhai in a hurry.
Feng Wubao chased after him and kept biting him to the death.
When he arrived at Kruzhai Village, Bai Guangen was dumbfounded: an army that did not know where to fight had already established itself on the mountain beam next to the Krupzhai Ferry.
This army is not very numerous, only about 1,000 people, and it is under the banner of the word "Zhou".
However, there are more than a dozen tiger squat cannons and small Furlong machine guns on the mountain beam, lined up, and although the black muzzles are small, they are still terrifying.
When Bai Guangen was puzzled, Tanma brought back some bad news: Feng Wubao chased from the north, only five miles away, and there was an army of Emperor Guan in the east that was approaching rapidly, about 2,000 people, it seemed to be the branch of the Hushui River, only more than ten miles away.
In addition to these two Guan Emperor troops, there was another army approaching in the south, and the number was also about 2,000.
However, this army not only has a large number of artillery, but also carries the banner of the word "Qin", among which there are more than 100 soldiers in red armor, who seem to be the personal guards of a certain general.
Hearing the news, Bai Guangen broke out in a cold sweat.
The banner of the word "Qin", the red armor guard, who else is there besides Qin Chuan?
Qin Chuan came in person, indicating that he had been blocked.
Bai Guangen only hesitated for a moment, and immediately led two thousand subordinates to the mountain beam next to the Kryu Village.
When he crossed the river, all the boats were moored in Jiazhou on the other side, and the only way to survive was to defeat the 1,000 imperial troops on the mountain beam, and the Ming army who stayed in Jiazhou on the other side to guard the boats would drive the boat over to take him across the river.
It's just that the Guan Emperor army on the mountain beam has already been prepared, and it is he who is waiting.
The general of this Guan Emperor's army is a lynx, and he just came to capture Kryu Village with 500 subordinates yesterday, when he received news from Feng Wubao: Bai Guangen is coming to Kryu Village.
Lynx hurriedly transferred the 500 Guan Imperial Army, who were attacking several villages nearby, gathered enough 1,000 people, dug a trench on the mountain beam next to the Kryu Village, set up a horse rejection, and waited for the battle.
After Bai Guangen led his troops to climb the mountain beam and entered a hundred paces away, the lynx gave an order, and the thirteen tiger squatting cannons and the little Francophone fired at the same time, and fought more than a dozen bloody roads in the Ming army formation that surged up.
This was followed by a salvo of 100 flintlock muskets, and a few small Francophone cannons quickly completed the five guns, and after a round of guns, Bai Guangen's 2,000 men had more than 10% killed and wounded.
The hillside was covered with ditches and horses, which greatly slowed down the advance of the Ming army, and by the time they reached a distance of thirty or forty paces, the casualties had exceeded two.
Despite the huge casualties, under the encouragement and drive of Bai Guangen and a group of personal soldiers, the remaining Ming troops still rushed upwards desperately.
Then, they were greeted by an overwhelming barrage of javelins.
The Guan Emperor's army never abandoned the javelin tactics, but the infantry reduced the number of carries, one person carried three, three feet six inches long, and carried on their backs, while the cavalry of the Tiger and Par Battalion still carried five guns per person according to the previous regulations.
This thing is a big killer, as long as you can throw two rounds of javelins before the handover, you can deal a heavy blow to the enemy's forward troops, not only inflicting huge casualties on the opponent, but also demoralizing the opponent in the blink of an eye. Battle
After a round of javelins, the Ming army, which was already on the verge of collapse, completely collapsed.
No matter how Bai Guangen and his personal soldiers stopped, how they coerced and lured, and even raised their knives to slash and kill, they couldn't stop the rout.
In the blink of an eye, Bai Guangen's more than 1,000 remnants of the army were defeated and returned to the foot of the mountain.
At this time, an army appeared in the north, it was Feng Wubao, who had been chasing them for many days, and was setting up a position and slowly pressing towards them.
There was also a faint sound of horses' hooves in the east, rumbling like a thunderbolt was coming.
It was Liu Youzhu's 2,000 Wudang camp.
Bai Guangen knew that he was at the end of his rope.
It's useless to surrender, he killed so many people in Qin Chuan, and the other party will definitely not let him go.
Bai Guangen simply let go, raised his knife and shouted: "Brothers, go, go south, throw everything away, run for your life lightly, whether you can escape or not depends on yourself." ”
As soon as the words fell, Bai Guangen took the lead and rushed towards the south.
The remaining more than 1,300 subordinates also threw away everything they could, including the hundreds of heads they had won on this trip, except for weapons and shields, the rest were not brought, and they rushed towards the south lightly.
Seeing this, Bobcat and Feng Wubao hurriedly led their subordinates to chase after them.
Qin Chuan had already received a report and knew that Bai Guangen might break through to the south, so he ordered all the soldiers to slow down and arrange troops while marching.
It didn't take long for Bai Guangen to come, with more than a thousand Ming troops, and rushed to the south desperately.
Qin Chuan gave an order, and the two thousand Guan Emperor troops quickly deployed, and dozens of large and small artillery pieces were also laid out in the two mountains that Bai Guangen had to pass through, and Huang Liuxi also led dozens of marksmen to ambush on the two mountains respectively.
From a distance, Bai Guangen saw the banner of the word "Qin" waving in the wind, as well as the artillery on the mountain beams in the mountain valley and the Guan Emperor army.
"Brothers, if we kill so many of them, they will definitely not give up, if they want to survive, they must rush over, otherwise, if they fall into the hands of this gang of thieves, there is only one way to die!"
"Rush!"
Bai Guangen raised his waist knife and shouted hysterically.
"Kill!"
His more than 1,000 subordinates also knew that only by rushing over could they survive, and one by one they were red-eyed, kicked the war horses under their crotches, and rushed like a pack of wolves along the mountain valley towards the Guan Emperor army not far ahead.
Entering a distance of 300 paces, Emperor Guan's army did not open fire.
Bai Guangen was so nervous that his palms were already wet, and the other party did not fire the cannon, indicating that the barrel was filled with scattered bullets.
Those cannons were loaded with shotshots, and I don't know how powerful they were.
At a distance of two hundred paces, the other party still did not fire.
Bai Guangen raised his long knife, wanting to cheer up his subordinates again.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he shouted "brothers," and his voice stopped abruptly, and then he fell out of his horse and fell heavily to the ground.
Dozens of gunsmoke rose from the mountain beam next to it, and a series of gunshots were heard.
Huang Liuxi and other marksmen fired.
It was the Ming army with bright armor, and Bai Guangen and his personal soldiers naturally became the target of Huang Liuxi.
Bai Guangen's fall to the ground did not cause much turmoil, many Ming soldiers did not understand that the main general had been shot and fell to the ground, and those who saw it with their own eyes screamed at most, and then continued to rush forward without stopping.
They want to live, and Bai Guangen will die when he dies.
But when they reached a distance of 100 paces, more than a dozen cannons in front of them suddenly erupted tongues of fire, and countless scattered bullets rained down on their heads and faces.
The scattered shells of the red-coated general cannon and the big franc cannon are not comparable to the tiger squat cannon.
In the blink of an eye, the Ming army that rushed in front fell down in one piece.
Then the gunfire of hundreds of flintlock pistols rang out.
Immediately afterwards, the big Franc cannon quickly changed its outfit and spewed out tongues of fire again along with dozens of tiger squat guns and small Franc machines.
After the second round of shelling, more than 1,000 Ming troops had already suffered most of the casualties, and less than 30 percent were still on horseback.
This part of the Ming army, which had escaped death, was obviously frightened by the heavy artillery fire, and hurriedly grabbed the horses, then turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and told them to spare themselves.
At this time, Lynx and Feng Wubao had already chased after them from behind, and Liu Youzhu also killed from the side, surrounding this area tightly.
Bai Guangen and his 2,000 subordinates couldn't escape.