Chapter 90
Wu Junzhen and others were not sloppy, and they also asked to fight together to resist Monan Mongolia, which was appreciated by the commander of the Ming Ningxia Guard, because the official positions of both of them were in the lost area, and it was inconvenient to act in the army, so they had to appoint Wu Junzhen as (Ming Ningxia Pingnan Deputy Thousand Households) and Ma Wei as (Ming Ningxia Right Tunwei General Banner) The newly enlisted Liu Ruilin was used as a recruit.
After the three Ming armies converged in the Acropolis of Ningxia, they set out from Xicheng and headed for the Shangyangling area of the Yuan'er Capital.
At this time, when the two of them led 80,000 cavalry to Shangyangling 100 meters away, the Western Tumut Commander on horseback began to chat, "Mongolian: Since we surrendered to the Qing court, we have not galloped the Hetao area for a long time, and now the Ming court is worried about internal and external troubles, Shaanxi Chengxuan has encountered the epidemic again, it is the time for us to make a lot of money, and the brothers let our honor stain the Ningxia Seven Guards of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Immediately, the cavalry of Xitumut were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they rushed forward with joy and shouting, and the Ming troops who were advancing in front of them also heard the footsteps, Wu Junzhen quickly dismounted and reported to Liao Zhixiang, Pingnan, Ningxia, Ming, "Lord Qianhu, if there is an enemy situation ahead, please quickly let the soldiers line up and arrange shields and firearms to meet the battle." ”
But the arrogant Ming Ningxia Pingnan Qianhu ignored him at all, thinking that he was just a newly promoted deputy Qianhu! I am not qualified to give any opinion in front of him, so Ming Ningxia Pingnan Qianhu walked to the Ming Ningxia Zuotun Guard General Soldier: Du Ren, Ming Ningxia Right Tun Guard Commander: Hui Xian, Ming Ningxia Zhongtun Wei Commander Tongzhi: Zhou Chaojun, the three adults reported the military situation, which made Ma Wei feel that this person was too snobbish! It's all villain! Not only did he suspect that this battle was more auspicious!
Sure enough, the general soldiers of the Ming Ningxia Left Tun Guard, who heard the news, and the commander of the Ming Ningxia Right Tun Guard, and the commander of the Ming Ningxia Zhongtun Guard, knew the same thing, and the three of them ordered unhurriedly, "The three armies obey the order to set up the formation~." ”
I saw that the flag waver asked the soldiers to quickly disperse and line up in a horizontal formation, the front row is the cavalry, the left is the archer, the right is the musketeer, the middle is the spearmen, and the back is the artillerymen.
Basically, once the Ningxia cavalry in the front row is moved, then the remaining formations will be self-defeating! After Wu Junzhen analyzed this line of thought, he wanted to advise the three adults here, but as soon as they saw that it was the newly succeeded deputy Qianhu, they were particularly excluded and did not listen to his opinion.
This made the opposite side of the Situmert all see the flaw, and he immediately ordered the Situmert cavalry to charge the Ming army on the right side, while the Situmert archers faced the Ming spearmen, and let the Situmert infantry knife players attack the Ming artillery battalion.
At first, the Situmert cavalry was suppressed by the Ming army's gunners when they rushed over, but the Xitumert cavalry had a characteristic, that is, when they charged, they liked to hold a shield in their left hand and a war knife in their right hand, and it was precisely because of this that the Xitumert cavalry easily broke through the firearm array, came to the front of the formation and slashed and killed the Ming army gunners who were loaded with ammunition, and then had the most accurate shooting horse archers on the Hetao grassland, riding back and forth and firing arrows, directly shooting the Ming spearmen into a hornet's nest! As a result, the archers of the Ming army turned to the West Tumut cavalry to release arrows, and the artillery battalion of the Ming army that opened fire in the rear was still loading and firing in an orderly manner.
At this time, the Ming Ningxia Zuotun Guard General ordered the Ming cavalry to pounce on the army of the deputy commander of Xitumut, and when the Ming cavalry moved, a team of brave men wearing black iron masks (bone hammer cavalry) was also sent to the opposite side.
Wu Junzhen, who was commanding the shooting from a distance, saw this kind of cavalry sent by the enemy, and he felt that it seemed that it would be difficult to break through the armor with a fire gun alone? Only with lethal Miru guns, self-generated fire guns, etc., can penetrate and break the armor, which undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on the Ming cavalry! As soon as the battle was engaged, he was hit the belly armor by the Situmut bone hammer cavalry, causing most of the Ming cavalry to fall off their horses.
Some of the Ming army's sabers were broken, and the Yongzi helmet was knocked to the ground, causing the brain to be shaken and vomit blood to death! The Ming army who did not draw their sabers was basically the object of being knocked to death by the bone hammer, and the Xitum Bone Hammer cavalry saw that the Ming cavalry was so incompetent and beat frantically, and many Ming cavalry were broken ribs and broken necks and died!
Soon the artillery battalion of the Ming army was also attacked by the Xitumut infantry, they took turns to send a small group of infantry knife players to rush forward to kill, and were transferred to Ningxia Pingnan Qianhu to resist by the commander of the Ming Ningxia Right Tun Guard, and the Ming army first blocked the Xitumut infantry with firecrackers in front and shot dozens of people.
Then Ma Wei and the rest of the Ming army rushed to the enemy to fight together, so 40,000 Ningxia Ming troops were all mixed with the West Tumut people to fight, only the West Tu Mo Tu Tong still had 20,000 cavalry around him has not yet been dispatched, because the Ming army is gradually weakening, it can only rely on the artillery battalion to cover the battlefield to play a role, so the top priority of the West Tu Mo Tu Du Tong is to take the Ming artillery battalion in order to completely defeat the Ming army, so he decided to lead the cavalry around the back to sneak attack the Ming artillery battalion.
At this moment, under the white smoke of gunpowder, the Ming army rushed forward one after another, slashing and slashing the Situmut infantry with his sword, Ma Wei also swung his knife and fought with the enemy, he struggled to knock down the enemy with his knife, cut his neck with a knife, and then turned around and stabbed other enemies.
However, Wu Junzhen, who organized shooting in the rear, had already seen that the general trend had gone, and it would only increase casualties if he continued to fight! Suddenly, on the hillside on the left, there were a lot of big and small red things flying over?
Wu Junzhen was immediately surprised, and when he reacted (whoosh, whoosh, whoosh) with rockets inserted around the Ming artillery battalion, the Ming artillerymen saw that it was a rocket and hurriedly shouted, "Not good!" Come on. Before the words fell, boxes of gunpowder exploded one after another.
The sparks completely covered the entire artillery battalion! Hearing this loud noise, the Ming Ningxia Left Tun Guard General Soldier, the Ming Ningxia Right Tun Wei Commander, the Ming Ningxia Zhongtun Wei Commander Tongzhi, and the Ming Ningxia Pingnan Qianhu woke up, they hurriedly ordered the soldiers to ring (cymbals) Ming Jin to withdraw the troops, and Ma Wei, who was slashing the enemy, was very unconvinced after hearing the sound of withdrawal, but Mo Nan Mongolia Xitu Mot Dutong did not want to end the war so quickly, but chose to continue to pursue and kill the Ming army, with cavalry archers and bone hammer cavalry all the way behind the slash, along the retreat road can be seen everywhere Ming soldiers corpsesFor this reason, Wu Junzhen, who retreated on horseback, and Liu Ruilin, who retreated before participating in the battle, sighed!
At the same time, Prince Xinshun led the army and the forward Shun Junquan General also came to the Acropolis of Ningxia and began to shout: "Listen to the Ming troops in the city, you have been surrounded, please open the city and surrender quickly to save your life, otherwise you will regret it later!" At such a critical moment, the commander of the Ming Ningxia Guard on the city tower was panicked, but he still wanted to fight, so he ordered: "The whole army is ready to fight." ”
But he was told by Ming Ningxia Wei's commander: Qin Zixin, who stopped and persuaded him, "Commander Wei, don't go your own way?" We have less than 10,000 soldiers at the moment! If you force the battle, I'm afraid it will be more than lucky! Hearing this, he immediately made the commander of Ming Ningxia Wei unhappy, and he slowly pulled out his knife and said, "That's right, you're right." ”
Immediately cut the throat of the commander of the Ming Ningxia Wei next to him, this move stunned the soldiers who defended the city, everyone looked at the commander of the Ming Ningxia Wei, only to see that the knife in his hand was bloody, he opened his mouth and reprimanded: "All the soldiers follow me to defend the city as much as possible, whoever dares to say the words of the rebel army will not be spared!" After speaking, he inserted the knife into the body of Ming Ningxia Wei Commander Tongzhi who fell to the ground.
and continued to arrange soldiers to prepare for battle, and the general Shun Junquan under the city saw that the Ming army had no intention of surrendering? He ordered the gunners behind him to light the fire and open fire, (dong, dong, dong) a blackened iron shell with artillery exploded and landed on the city tower, splashing sparks and blowing down many Ming gunners.
However, the artillerymen of the Ming army defending the city also loaded their shells and opened fire, and when King Xinshun saw this, he drew his saber and pointed forward and shouted, "Heavy armor charge." I saw the heavy armor soldiers of the Shun army pushing the ladder and quickly approaching the city, preparing to attack the city.
At this time, the Ming army of Ningxia's avant-garde defending the city in the north saw the artillery fire in the Ningxia Acropolis, and wondered if there were rogues coming? The soldiers hurriedly ran to the Ming Ningxia avant-garde commander: Zhen Dongqiang, and reported the situation, "Lord Qi Yuwei commander, Ningxia Wei in the south has found that there is a fighting situation!" Do you want to send troops to help? ”
Knowing that Ningxia Wei was in trouble, the commander of the Ningxia avant-garde dispatched the whole city without hesitation, leaving only a few people to defend the city, after all, he knew that if Ningxia Wei was not protected, it would definitely harm the Ningxia avant-garde! Just when the Ningxia avant-garde Ming army was dispatched, Liukou had already broken through the city gate and killed the commander of the Ming Ningxia guard!
Among them, Qingwangfu and Weizhou Qunmu Qianhu were also occupied by the Liukou army, Prince Qing'an of the Ming Dynasty: Zhu Zhuohong, was captured by General Shun Junquan, and when the reinforcements arrived at the destination, Liukou was cleaning up the battlefield, Ming Ningxia avant-garde commander immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse to shoot Liukou, (bang, bang, bang) a row of lead bullets of firecrackers hit over to kill the Liukou soldiers who carried the corpses and collected materials, and General Shun Junquan saw this and took a group of Shun troops to this Ming army.
King Xinshun felt that this Ming army still had some courage and planned to step forward to meet it, and transferred the light cavalry and archers of the Shun army, and when he was about to charge, a Ming army team suddenly appeared behind the Shun army?
The Ming and Ningxia avant-garde guards who were in charge of the shooting of the Ming army's firearms team here: Qin Zhichao, grabbed his saber and ran over to report, "Commander Wei, take a look, isn't that our army's Ningxia Left Tun Guard, Ningxia Right Tun Guard, Ningxia Zhongtun Guard, and Ningxia Pingnan Guarding the Thousand Households?" "Having said that, how do you look at it, as if they have lost a battle and are being pursued?