Chapter 109: The Ghost of the Night
On a hill not far outside Guiyang City, two men in strong suits took in everything in front of them.
As the rebels outside the city approached, the sound of gongs in the city shook the sky, the sound of firefighting and enemy attacks was endless, and the soldiers, strong men and residents of the city were suddenly in chaos.
Lu Qin had just finished dinner and was about to go out to inspect the city defenses again, when he just walked out of the gate of the General Soldier's Mansion when he heard about the riots in the east of the city.
Lu Qin's heart was cold, and he rushed to the east of the city after beating his horse, and did not forget to order his own soldiers to order all the soldiers and civilians to go to the city wall to defend them.
In the panic, Ruchin was not confused by the appearance of the riot in the city, knowing that this was a trick of the rebels, as long as he could hold the city, the riot in the city should not be worried.
But as the panicked crowd on the street grew, the more Ruchin walked east of the city, the more uncertain his heart became.
How many spies have infiltrated the city, Lu Qin has not yet received an accurate report, but looking at the chaos in the city, the number should not be small.
'Alas, the civil officials have misled the country! ’
Lu Qin secretly scolded himself, whipped his horsewhip fiercely, and hastened towards the center of the chaos.
At the gate in the east of the city, the fire was already big, and it was impossible to pass through, but the shouts and killings outside the city had been clearly transmitted through the city walls and the sea of fire.
Lu Qin did not hesitate, abandoned his horse and went up to the city wall, but as soon as he reached the city wall, Lu Qin's heart was completely cold.
However, seeing that the officers and soldiers at the city gate tower had been defeated and retreated by hundreds of brave rebels, and because of the fire, the rescue officers and soldiers could not catch up for a while.
Taking advantage of this short time gap, the rebel spies had formed an overwhelming advantage at the east gate, and the rebels outside the city were about to rush closer.
Without thinking much about it, Lu Qin picked up his saber and rushed forward.
Because of the hurry, Lu Qin only had dozens of personal soldiers around him at this time, although they were all elite soldiers, but against the rebels who were several times his own, it was difficult to parry.
Moreover, the rebels who had been prepared outside the city also rushed to the city at this time, because there was no interference from the defenders of the city wall, and the ladder was quickly erected.
"My lord, let's withdraw!"
Lu Qin was about to lead someone to rush again, but the soldiers around him stopped him with a crying voice.
Lu Qin looked back, and there were less than twenty soldiers left around him, and all of them were wounded, even a hole in his face was broken.
Although there are not many rebels left in the city, the scale is growing as the rebels outside the city continue to enter the city.
Although there are constantly soldiers joining the official army, the momentum cannot be compared with the rebels who have broken the city, although Wang Ji is charging ahead, but the hesitation is written on the faces of every officer and soldier.
"Today, several cities and hundreds of thousands of people in Guizhou have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the disasters of Wang Yan and Shi Yongan are also the disasters of the two people, and the Wenchen is misleading the country, and the Wenchen is misleading the country!"
Lu Qin's eyes were split, he shouted, broke free with all his might, raised his saber and charged the rebels.
In just one battle, Ruchin and a dozen of his own soldiers disappeared into the hundreds of rebels.
The rebels who attacked the city wall had already firmly controlled the section of the city wall near the east gate at this time, and under the command of Davoren, someone had already gone down to open the city gate.
"The city is ruined!"
Seeing the steady stream of sergeants ascending the city wall, Anji made up his mind that he would lead a large group of men into the city when the east gate was opened.
But at this moment, in the darkness not far from the east gate, there was a sudden noise.
Anji was about to send someone to check, when he heard the sound of "bang bang", like the guns of the officers and soldiers, and that direction was the gap between the two besieging camps, and it was also the weakest place to guard.
Although the rebels have been besieging the city for several days, they have not yet opened trenches and built walls, and they have become trapped and defended.
Therefore, the rebels besieged the city only to set up camps around Guiyang, and sent sergeants to patrol between the camps to prevent envoys from sending messengers to deliver letters in the city.
But this kind of siege without walls and ditches gives people an opportunity to take advantage of it.
It was just a moment of stunned moment, and suddenly there were several more violent explosions in the distance, like the artillery of the official army.
Then, the sound of fighting, scolding, and the sound of birds soon came, and the sound of birds was getting closer and closer.
At this time, Anji was in front of the east gate, and with the help of the fire in the city, the place was illuminated as if it were day, while the camp in the distance was completely dark.
In the darkness of the night, if you look at the dark place from the light, the dark place will be darker, and if you look at the light from the dark place, it will be very clear.
The horses sent out to inspect had not yet returned, but there was a commotion among the rebels waiting to enter the city at the east gate.
The projectile fired in the darkness knocked several teams of sergeants on the perimeter to the ground in a matter of moments.
The Forces nouvelles arrived.
In the evening of the same day, the new army rushed to the area of Lao Ya Mountain outside Guiyang City, and quietly hid with the help of the night and terrain advantages, preparing to camp in Changpoling in the north of Guiyang City early the next morning, and at the corner of Guiyang City, in order to contain the rebels.
However, not long after the new army was encamped, the scouts sent out hurried back to report that there was a change in Guiyang, a fire broke out in the city, and the rebels moved their horses.
After a brief analysis by the General Staff of the Brigade Headquarters of the New Army, it was quickly concluded that the rebels should join forces with the outside to attack the city.
Without too much hesitation, Lu Xiangsheng immediately sent 1,500 cavalry to rescue Guiyang, and ordered the rest of the men and horses to immediately pull out the camp and seize the Changpoling position in the north of Guiyang City, in order to respond to the selection of the front to rescue Guiyang.
So there was the previous scene.
After the grenadiers of the Forces nouvelles dropped dozens of large grenades, a phalanx of more than 1,000 Forces nouvelles soldiers easily broke through the insular defenses of the rebels.
Moments later, they were about two miles outside the east gate, and the rebels besieging the city were soon within range of the new army.
After the "bang, bang, bang" platoon of gunfire, the rebels on the periphery immediately fell one by one.
At this time, as the distance narrowed, more than a thousand soldiers of the new army appeared in front of Anji.
Like a ghost army that suddenly appeared in the darkness, columns of soldiers stepped from the darkness, raising their firearms to reap the lives of the rebels.
At a distance of five hundred paces, as the pair of Ming soldiers raised their guns, more than ten sergeants on their side fell.
Anji sat on the horse and looked at the scene in front of him incredulously, as if he was in a dream.
And the same is true of his soldiers, who even forget to dodge or run away when the projectile flies in front of them.
The distance of five hundred paces dwarfed any of the rebels' weapons, and they were useless, leaving only a dry stare.
In fact, the maximum range of the Mini rifle of the new army was 600 paces, and the effective range was about 400 paces, but in order to take the lead and delay the rebels' siege, they opened fire at a distance of 600 paces.
At this time, the rebels besieging the city were all under the light of the fire in the city, and one by one they became live targets, and most of them did not have iron armor to protect them, although it was a distance of five hundred paces, but the Mini rifle still had a strong lethality.
But it was only a moment of stunned, and Anji, who had been in battle for a long time, reacted instantly, and immediately adjusted the formation, so that the sword and shield hands stepped forward and the archers followed behind, in order to cope with the impact of the reinforcements.
Braving the bullets of the new army, the rebels finally moved, and a team of swords and shields stepped forward, raised the shields in their hands, and covered the robes behind them.
However, Guizhou Tusi lacked iron, and most of the shields were wooden, and as the distance narrowed, the wooden shields were also pierced.
The defense line that the rebels had just formed was broken through in an instant, and because of the distance restrictions, the rebels, who could only be beaten but had no power to fight back, rioted in an instant.
We can't wait any longer, we have to close the distance. ’
Anji made up his mind to immediately change the formation, and ordered the more than 1,000 horse teams besieging the city to use the speed advantage to rush towards the Ming army, trying to use the war horses to break through the thin line of the Ming army.
The Ming army not far away also saw the movements of the rebel horse team, and took advantage of the time when their horses were arrayed to change the array.
The thin three-line line was soon replaced by six-line line, and the rebel cavalry was the first to shoot.
At a distance of four or five hundred paces, the cavalry took at most one minute from the start to the front of the arrival, but one minute was enough for the six new troops to fire two bullets each.
In an instant, thousands of horses galloped, the momentum shook the sky, but the momentum only lasted for half a minute, after six rounds of volleys, there were already dead bodies, and the unhit war horses also hesitated, and even fled the battlefield.
And stepping on the corpses of those war horses, the Ming army was like a ghost in the night, stepping on neat steps, like zombies.
More than 1,000 cavalry were beaten by this strange army and were powerless, and Anki could no longer hold on, forgetting the robe that had already attacked the city wall, so he gave the order to retreat.