Chapter 578 is cumbersome

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Worried about the safety of the second platoon, He Shouxin immediately led the soldiers to pursue bravely and swept away the remnants of the enemy all the way.

However, due to the fetters of the green battalion soldiers behind the palace, although they had the advantage of firepower, they were too few to catch the prisoners on the roadside, so they had no strength to divide their troops to pursue, so they had to watch a large group of Tartars disappear into the night.

When he arrived at Tugang, he found that the soldiers of the second platoon had also rushed down to capture the prisoners, and Mei Jianyong, the leader of the second platoon, was squatting on the side of the road, turning over a corpse.

The flesh-and-blood corpse was that of an officer who had been shot in the head by a sniper.

Mei Jianyong couldn't see this person's rank, but it was this officer who led a few of his subordinates just now, hiding on the side of the road and firing a desperate shot at them.

This cold shot not only prevented them from launching a charge in time, but also caused several soldiers to hang up their colors, causing his sixth squad to be wounded......

"Report to the company commander, a large number of Tartars have broken through my three lines of defense in a row and have fled to the northwest,"

As soon as he saw the company commander, Mei Jianyong immediately reported the battle situation to him with a helpless face, "We have many soldiers injured, and we are currently short of troops, so we ask for support!" ”

"Forget it, poor Kou Mo chase, let them live a few more days."

He Shouxin waved his hand and comforted.

The main purpose of this battle was to prevent the Tartars from setting fire to the city and keep this important city, and it was expected that most of the Tartars would run away.

"Your mission is complete, stay here for the time being to monitor and prevent the Tartars from counterattacking......"

He looked up at the sky, and didn't have time to say anything, so he could only explain briefly, "I still have to rush back to the city immediately and continue to purge the remnants of the enemy." ”

Now, Yangzhou City has basically been taken, and the purpose of the battle has been achieved, but there are still many defeated troops in the city, and sporadic fires are still raging, strictly speaking, the danger has not passed.

He must go back immediately, act with Zheng Jun jointly, and before dawn, organize those Cao Ding and Zhuang Ban anyway, and strictly defend them in pieces, where there are still manpower to support the pursuit.

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The Tartars, who are throwing off their armor and running wildly, will not know if there are any pursuers.

People who are bent on fleeing for their lives don't have the heart to pay attention to these - Cui Duyan and Wang Jijun are no exception.

After escaping through the paddy field path, there were only a dozen people left around them, and when they looked around, the rest of them had either fled or were still fluttering in the paddy fields.

But they didn't bother to gather their men, so they didn't hesitate to run along a dirt road to the north.

They didn't dare to go west directly - Wang Jijun estimated that according to the combat style of the Ming thief, in Xiaomao Pass, eighty percent still had their pockets.

In this way, with the only dozen or so people left, they ran out of more than three miles in one go, and at this time they had successfully run onto another official road to the west.

From this official road all the way forward, you can bypass Xiaomao Mountain and completely get rid of the entanglement of thieves.

At this moment, everyone was out of breath and exhausted.

No one can remember how many falls Fang just fell in the paddy field, and everyone was covered with mud, like mud monkeys.

However, they still did not dare to stop in the slightest, for fear that the thieves would chase after them.

I gritted my teeth and ran for a while, and I saw that there was the Yinjia Bridge in front of me - the ancient ditch turned around the city wall and immediately turned around, and here it became a north-south direction, which was the only bridge nearby.

After crossing this wooden bridge, even if they were alive on the other side, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but slow down.

This time, more than ten subordinates rushed up from behind, and Cui Duyan saw this and had the heart to wait, so he ordered to rest at the bridgehead for a while.

Sure enough, after a while, there were lone soldiers who came out in twos and threes, although most of them were Wang Jijun's subordinates, but Cui Duyan's standard battalion also had a lot, and more than ten of his own soldiers came back.

"It's dangerous!"

Seeing more and more subordinates gathered, Cui Duyan couldn't help but sigh, "It's another time to escape death......

Wang Jijun felt a little in a trance, he originally wanted to die here, but now he is once again surviving.

He didn't know what to say, so he nodded his head.

"It's nothing to lose a battle, as long as your life is still there,"

Cui Duyan thought that he was still annoyed by the fiasco, and comforted, "The so-called green mountains are in the ......"

"Huh~Dong!"

Before he could finish speaking, a cannonball whistled through the air and smashed into the paddy field three feet away.

"Boom!"

Cui Duyan was stunned for a moment, and the cannonball exploded suddenly, and the splashed muddy water suddenly splashed them.

He immediately jumped to his feet and ran wildly towards the wooden bridge, leaving only two words behind him - "Run!" ”

With this loud bang, several more cannonballs flew from behind him, and the horror of falling on their heads one after another made the routs who were pouring onto the bridge immediately panic.

The crowd squeezed forward desperately, and more than a dozen people on the side of the bridge were caught off guard and suddenly fell into the water, ghosts and wolves howled and struggled in the water, and those who knew how to swim over desperately, and those who couldn't fight in the water lost their voices after a few moments, and slowly sank.

Many of the soldiers were dressed in cotton armor, although there were very few pieces of iron in this cotton armor, but they were also extremely heavy when they entered the water, and most of them were northerners who did not know water, and several people in the panic never got up after falling into the water, and were dragged by the cotton armor and sank to the bottom of the water.

Wang Jijun did not wear cotton armor, let alone an iron helmet, except for carrying a flintlock gun on his back, he only wore an ordinary number coat, with a small gunpowder jar pinned to his waist, looking like an ordinary rout.

Not only himself, but also the leaders of the New Army were dressed in this way—this was also one of the tricks he learned from the thieves, saying that this was a better way to reflect the "equality of officers and soldiers."

In fact, he himself realized another advantage - when he went into battle, this kind of clothing was less likely to be "taken care of" by the opponent's snipers.

Not long ago, Cui Duyan ridiculed them for this, saying that this is a bullshit rule, the officer's dress is light, but when he goes into battle, no one obeys the military order, how can he command......

Just before leaving, he also persuaded Wang Qian to change into cotton armor - when he risked death to cross the blockade line of the Ming thief, the iron piece on the chest of the cotton armor could always play a little role.

However, this Wang Qian always rejected his kindness on the grounds that he was "not used to wearing".

It wasn't until he was fleeing for his life now that Cui Duyan realized how cumbersome his armor was.

It's not the first time he's running for his life on the battlefield, when he was in the Ming army before, in the battle against the thieves in the north, it has long been commonplace to lose battles.

However, he had never disliked Warframe before.

Normally, the opponent uses the most knives and guns, not even bows and arrows, and even fewer firearms, in the melee, wearing armor has a better chance of survival, and he always rides a horse, and he will not feel too heavy when he escapes, and it is more appropriate to wait until he is safe to "abandon his armor and flee......

Now, seeing that Wang Qian always walked lightly, he ran out in a few steps, but he was a burden, and he had no war horse to ride, and he galloped all the way here, and he was already physically exhausted.