Chapter 183: Defeated in one blow
Zhang Yaoyang organized the team to move on, during which wild wolves came to attack from time to time.
But the sergeants were prepared, they shielded their sides, and the archers fired in the center, and marched slowly.
Except for the initial loss of a few hundred people in the panic, they never suffered any more casualties.
They walked for six hours and arrived at the station of Jiulonggou the next day.
That is, the fifteenth day of the lunar month.
Zhang Yaoyang surrounded this place with more than 30,000 border soldiers.
Garrisoned in Jiulonggou was Li San, and after receiving the news from the sentry, he immediately ordered people to go to Yunchuan and Guihua City to report the news.
"Those who come will stop, and those who trespass into the barracks will not be killed." Li San ordered someone to shoot an arrow, stopping the advance of the border soldiers.
"I am the general banner of the right guard of Datong, and at the end of each year, the imperial court allows us to advance three months' military salary to have a good year.
Now that we're about to see the bottom, let's ask the chief soldier, when will this military salary be paid? ”
Zhang Yaoyang's wound had been bandaged, and he raised his severed left hand and shouted loudly.
"If the court allows you, you go and ask the court for it.
What are you doing here? Li San looked at the more than 30,000 people outside the camp, and his heart tightened.
Because he didn't know if his 1,000 men could block the attack of so many people.
"Hahaha... The chief soldier is our Shanxi chief soldier, let's not ask him who is going?
Now I will give you a chance, hand over all the money and food in your camp, and if you don't, we will go in and get it ourselves. ”
"Hand it over."
"Pay for the food."
"If you don't pay it, you will fight."
The border soldiers behind him were excited, and shouted after Zhang Yaoyang one by one.
Zhang Yaoyang had these people to be bold, and he became even more arrogant, riding on a horse and shouting.
Li San was threatened by these threats, and a fire rose in his heart.
With trembling hands, he flipped through a copy of the "Rules of Engagement" compiled by Wang Zezhi and read it.
"Gather a crowd to storm the barracks and seriously disrupt the order of the station, kill!" When Li San saw this, his hands no longer trembled, and he closed the book.
Looking at the thousand sergeants in the battalion, he ordered.
"The border soldiers gathered a crowd to mutiny, stormed the barracks, and seriously disrupted the order of the garrison.
With warning arrows as the boundary, whoever crosses the line will be killed! ”
Li San drew his sword and pointed directly at Zhang Yaoyang and the others outside the camp.
"Damn it, shame on your face.
Brothers, what if they don't pay for food? Zhang Yaoyang saw Li San's appearance and knew that he couldn't be good today, so he began to encourage the border soldiers behind him.
"Rob, grab, grab!"
"Okay, brothers, kill me!" Zhang Yaoyang rode on the horse and slammed the saddle, and the border soldiers behind him were brought up, rushed up, and launched an attack towards the Jiulonggou station.
"Gunners fire!"
Two cannons in red and four Fran cannons fired at the same time.
The cannon smashed into the formation of the border soldiers, pulling out several long blood marks.
"Artillery, they have artillery, run away..."
"Ah, my legs..."
"Mother, how do you fight this..."
The border soldiers who had just launched the charge were frightened by the artillery, and more than 30,000 people began to break up in the face of a thousand people without even the courage to fight.
The reward and punishment system within the Ming army was too dark, there were too many empty salaries, and the incentives for military merit were almost black-box operations.
Those who sacrifice their lives on the battlefield will not be rewarded for military merit at all.
And those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, but through nepotism, flattery, rewards, and promotions, in the long run, the army will naturally have no warriors.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty was too corrupt, the bureaucratic system was rotten to the roots, and officials of all sizes were exploited layer by layer, not to mention that the army often did not get paid, and even their weapons and equipment were often deducted. Literature Great
Therefore, although these border soldiers were said to have 30,000 people, they were defeated by a single blow in the face of the well-equipped Wang Zezhi's command.
"Bow and arrow strike, archery!" Li San looked at the scattered border soldiers, and without saying a word, he ordered the sergeants to shoot arrows.
Wang Zezhi's command was good at shooting, and they were not surrounded by quivers, but a basket of arrows, each of whom had at least a hundred arrows.
The sergeants received the order and began to fire frantically.
"Ah, my eyes..."
Zhang Yaoyang, who rushed over, was shot in one eye first, and then hit seven or eight arrows in his body, killing him directly.
As soon as Zhang Yaoyang died, these border soldiers were even more vulnerable.
Li San's sex was very strong, and he wanted to rush out with the cavalry.
But there were so many border soldiers that he didn't dare to take any chances.
"Yunchuan Yang Guo came to the rescue."
After receiving Li San's message for help, Yang Guo immediately sent troops to the rescue in accordance with the provisions of the "Code of Engagement".
Because Yunchuan and Jiulonggou were next to each other, and the distance between them was only twenty or thirty miles, according to the rescue clause of the "Rules of Engagement", he had to go to battle after receiving a call for help from the Jiulonggou station.
So, he no longer hesitated, and quickly attacked with seven hundred light horsemen in the city.
As soon as they came to Jiulonggou, they saw the border soldiers who had scattered and fled.
"Ride and shoot!" When Yang Guo saw this group of routs, he knew that he could pursue them.
Without saying a word, he ordered the light horsemen to bend their bows and arrows and shoot at the scattered frontier soldiers.
"Ahh Cavalry, is cavalry. ”
Although the border soldiers in Datong Mansion also had war horses, they were few in number, and more were infantry.
The cavalry is fast, and the speed of the horse will give the bow and arrow strength.
Just one round of cavalry fire opened a gap in the formation of the border soldiers.
After Yang Guo took advantage of the victory and rushed over, he reorganized his soldiers and horses, lined up in formation, and rushed in again.
The border soldiers were charged by the cavalry for a while, and they were already frightened.
At this moment, they threw away their armor and scattered in all directions, unable to flee into formation.
Li San would not give up the opportunity to beat the water dogs, he rode on a war horse, ordered someone to open the camp gate, and rushed out with the seven hundred light horsemen in the camp.
With Li San's joining, the border soldiers knew that the general trend had gone, and they threw away their weapons one after another, kneeling and begging.
The king has stipulated that those who descend will not be killed.
So Li San let go of the beggars and handed them over to the infantry and shield soldiers behind him.
The shield-in-foot soldiers marched out in formation, collected the weapons of the border soldiers, and gathered them together to look after them.
Li San's rise to kill, rushing all the way to the end, and then going to join Yang Guo.
The two joined forces, lined up the cavalry, and began to surround and kill the scattered border soldiers.
People can't outrun horses.
The fleeing border soldiers knew that they could not escape, so they gave up their resistance one after another, threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg to surrender.
Li San and Yang Guodun were bored and ordered the cavalry to gather them.
When these people are gathered, the counting of people begins.
In the end, they killed more than 3,000 and captured more than 18,000.
The rest of the people had already taken advantage of the chaos to scatter and fled, and the grassland was so vast that it was impossible to find this group of border soldiers at once.
In addition, there is a cavalry team in the team of the border soldiers, and their number is about two thousand, they are composed of Yanghewei, Gaoshan Wei, Tianchengwei, and the border cavalry near these three guards.
These people were too slippery, and when they found out that they couldn't do anything, they ran away as soon as possible.
And those who saw it said that they went in the direction of the mouth of the tiger.
Li San and Yang Guo discussed it, but they still didn't decide to pursue.
Because the mouth of the tiger was seventy or eighty miles away, they chased it for several hours.
Moreover, there are not only 1,000 sergeants guarding the tiger's mouth, but also steel-armored heavy cavalry to garrison the patrol, and the 2,000 cavalry of the border soldiers are not enough to see at all.