Chapter 207: The Situation is Critical
"Really?"
Hearing that he could countercharge, Bai Ying grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and two shallow dimples faintly appeared on the side of his mouth, "Why do you have to be in battle by Uncle Uncle, let my nephew break them!" ”
"Listen, don't underestimate the enemy too much, you take the headquarters to attack from the left and right first, and I will take my own soldiers and then attack them directly...... Don't rush too deep, you can cut them off the front team. ”
Jiao Lian waved his hand, looked at the shape of the Qing army, frowned and said, this group of Qing troops is not good at attack, but the formation is very cunning, and a long snake formation is placed, and the team of seven or eight thousand people actually stretches for five or six miles, and if you want to hold them all, I am afraid that the horsepower is not enough.
The war horses of this era, the distance to really charge with all their strength, generally does not exceed two miles, not to mention slashing all the way......
Jiao Lian felt that the Qing army's offensive posture was not like attacking, and the defense was not like defending, it was clearly the two ends of the first rat, ready to smear the soles of their feet at any time, although there was no big threat, but it was impossible to hold them all.
Zhang Tianlu, the chief soldier of the Qing army, was coldly reprimanding his subordinate lieutenant generals and staff generals, and ordered them to organize an attack again.
After leading the team to chase to the bank of the Fuhe River, he divided 5,000 people to rush directly to the downstream ferry and tried to cross the river to attack the west on his own, while the remaining 8,000 people were personally led by him to cross the Fuhe River from the upstream and attack all the way to the north.
Unexpectedly, the narrow place was blocked by more than 1,000 Ming cavalry, and they rushed several times not only in vain, but also lost hundreds of people, while the Ming cavalry had almost no casualties.
Just as Zhang Tianlu was pointing fingers under the banner of the Chinese army, he saw more than 1,000 Ming soldiers coming to help from a distance, and seeing the situation, there was a sense of counterattack and attack.
Zhang Tianlu stared at it, came to aid the Ming army, and wrote a big word on the first big flag: "Jiao", and immediately felt a pang in his heart, this is, Jiao Lian came in person? No siege?
This is too much to look up to Lao Tzu, right?
Lao Tzu was just ordered to make a mission, if you don't go to attack the city and kill the Tartars, can you come and fight with Lao Tzu?
As a former Ming general, Zhang Tianlu, who had never heard of Jiao Lian's brave name, panicked, and urgently ordered the forward deputy general to rush back to the front team, and quickly organize spearmen, archers and Pu Daomen to fortify layer by layer, so as to block the wave of Jiao Lian's cavalry offensive.
Fortunately, although it shows that the cavalry of the army is strong, but after all, the number is thin, far less powerful than the number of people on this side, as long as you hold the position steadily, and then counterattack after the enemy is tired, Jiao Lian can't do anything about him, right?
However, Zhang Tianlu overestimated his subordinates.
As soon as Bai Ying's Ming army rushed to both sides, the Qing army began to riot, and several spearmen could not stabilize their positions at all, but quickly shrank to the center with the large group, and only a few archers in the formation shot sparse arrows.
When Jiao Lian's 600 personal soldiers got up and rushed straight to the middle, the front team of the Qing army quickly retreated, but how could two legs run more than four legs, and the formation became more and more crowded, and the crowd surged together, and they couldn't run at all.
Soon, Jiao Lian's 600 cavalry had rushed to the front.
Bai Ying's two-way outflanking iron cavalry had also crossed the front line of the Qing army, began to cut inward, and slashed all the way.
"Accelerate!"
Jiao Lian raised the gentian bright silver spear in his hand, pointed in the direction of the banner of the Qing army, and shouted.
Immediately, Jiao Lian leaned over and patted the horse's back, the war horse under his crotch let out a long neigh, and a man and a horse rushed into the enemy formation, and a bright silver spear in his hand danced with cold light, and the blocker was invincible, as if entering a no-man's land.
More than 600 high-speed horses followed closely behind him, like a rolling torrent, smashed into the dense infantry group......
On the horseback of the high-speed gallop, the Ming army riders wearing armor only need to raise their long knives flat, and they don't need to swing their knives to slash at all, and they see their heads flying in the air.
For a while, the sound of crying, wailing, the impact of knives and guns, the click of broken bones, and the sound of falling to the ground with a puff and puff became one, and the Qing soldiers who had no time to dodge were trampled into flesh in the blink of an eye......
The infantry, which did not have a tightly defended formation, was extremely vulnerable in the face of such a fierce cavalry, and there was no ability to resist.
Zhang Tianlu, who was still shouting hoarsely to his subordinates just now, saw that all the teams were running for their lives and had no heart to resist, and the cavalry of the Ming army rushed towards him as if they had entered a no-man's land, and he was immediately shocked.
"Made! This gang of cowards, usually shouting five and six, people look like dogs, and the sound of killing is shocking during the drill, and they are still grass chickens as always! ”
Zhang Tianlu scolded angrily several times, shouting and shouting that his soldiers were blocking the Ming army, and at the same time whipping the horse's belly again and again, but he himself was running for his life, how could anyone be willing to sell his life, everyone followed him and fled backwards.
Only high-ranking officers in the green battalion have good horses, and the personal soldiers also have horses, but most of them are inferior horses, and after a while, nearly half of the personal soldiers were left behind by Zhang Tianlu and became the ghost of the Ming army.
Zhang Tianlu rushed south in a panic, and did not dare to stop all the way past the infantry of each team......
Since you don't want to fight, then let Lao Tzu run first!
escaped seven or eight miles in one breath, until the war horse under his crotch was so tired that he foamed at the mouth, and the shouting of killing behind him finally gradually weakened, and he dared to look back.
However, looking back......
Nima's! What about the Ming Army?
It's too far! The Ming army didn't catch up!
Behind the dozens of remaining pro-soldiers, a large number of rear team foot soldiers followed all the way with their guns crooked......
Zhang Tianlu, who wanted to cry without tears, hurriedly ordered his soldiers to shout everywhere and collect the remnants of the soldiers to organize the formation.
After a long time of chaos, he finally stabilized his position again, and after a while, more than 2,000 people were lost in one battle, and in a blink of an eye, there were more than 5,000 dejected subordinates left.
Just when Zhang Tianlu was in a dilemma, not knowing whether to give the order to move forward or retreat again, there was a deafening rumbling cannon sound on the side of the Gan River in the distance!
……
Jiao Lian also heard this strange cannon sound.
Bai Ying led his team to outflank Helong and successfully held back nearly 2,000 Qing soldiers, and three teams of musketeers had also arrived, holding bayonets and shouting loudly: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" ”
1,500 cavalry and nearly 1,000 infantry surrounded the 2,000 or so infantry of the Green Battalion, who had completely lost their fighting spirit, and soon the soldiers of the Green Battalion threw away their weapons and begged for mercy.
Jiao Lian and his relatives also stopped the pursuit, waiting for Bai Ying and others to contain the prisoners, and at the same time guarded to the south.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the northwest direction, and Jiao Lian's heart sank suddenly!
It was the direction of the east bank of the Gan River, where only a thousand old-fashioned musketeers were stationed, and there was no artillery at all, how could there be a cannon sound?
Don't...... More than one Qing army reinforcement?
An ominous premonition wells up in my heart!
Jiao Lian didn't say a word, directly turned the horse's head, and drove north with his own soldiers, when he met Bai Ying, he saw a scout covered in blood rolling off the saddle, and behind him, more than ten cavalry Qing soldiers who were closely chasing him had been shot off the horse by a burst of musketeers.
The scout only said a staccato sentence before fainting: "Report to the Governor...... Ganjiang, Daying...... Tartar ......"
Jiao Lian's heart trembled, he already fully understood, and immediately stepped forward to inspect the costumes of the Qing soldiers who were killed, this is not a green battalion soldier, it is a real Tartar!
It must have come from the north, and it landed directly from the Ganjiang River, bypassing Nanchang......
I don't know how many Tartars came, judging by the sound of cannons, there will be no less...... Once the river bank is lost, there will be no defenders in the camp, and Liu Qilin will definitely suffer from the enemy on his back!
The situation is critical!
(Question: In the early Qing Dynasty, the main force of the Qing army was dominated by the Eight Banners, and after entering the customs, the Green Battalion was established, and during the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the corrupt Eight Banners and the Green Battalion had little combat effectiveness. )