Chapter 82 [Battle of Pingliang]
This made the Rakshasas ecstatic and decided to kill them, and the Tsarist Yakutsk Overseer sent ten musketeers to keep an eye on the camps and kill the enemy as soon as they came out, while the rest were responsible for targeting the Manchu blue flag cavalry archers and the soldiers standing guard outside the camp.
On the spot, he killed the centurion of the canine department: Degen Noha, the Manchu blue flag Niu Lu Ezhen: Tong Jia Boult, and eighty Manchu canine soldiers standing guard, which instantly alarmed the Manchu blue flag cavalry archers.
Immediately afterwards, the Russian artillerymen on the high ground began to fire (dong, dong, dong) to bombard the Manchu blue flag cavalry archers who were preparing to shoot arrows, causing panic in the entire barracks! The Russian interpreter took the opportunity to sneak attack and threw the earth-shattering thunder into the enemy camp, causing the enemy to flee in all directions in fear! Some of the heroic canine archers just wanted to draw their bows and shoot arrows, but they were also shot by the Rakshasas with Pishaw arquebuses, and the entire military camp was condescendingly slaughtered by the Rakshasas, because the Qing court was afraid that the canines would disobey the order, so they did not store any firearms and artillery in this barracks, so that the Rakshasas took the opportunity to attack the camp in one fell swoop and captured the Manchu Canine Niulu soldiers who did not escape.
And seized a large number of bows and arrows, weapons and 10,000 stone of food stored here, and after receiving the supplies to replenish the supplies, the Tsarist Yakutsk Overseer suddenly had an idea, he did not plan to march so fast, but to capture some local canine women for pleasure, and indulged the Russian Cossack soldiers to burn and loot nearby.
The next day, a large number of rogue troops appeared in Lingtai County and Baishiyuan Township, Pingliang Prefecture, hanging the (valley) character flag and walking in front of the Shun army heavy armor soldiers holding spears, and behind them was a row of Shun cavalry slowly marching forward, causing nearby counties and townships to sound the alarm and report urgently! General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army led the soldiers to capture Lingtai County, Jingzhou, Chongxin County, Baishiyuan Township and other places, and the soldiers approached Andongzhong to escort them.
Wu Junzhen, who had just had breakfast here, was still counting the supplies like yesterday, and suddenly a soldier hurriedly ran over and reported to Ming Andongzhong's guard Zhenfu, "Report, five hundred meters outside the city of Lord Qiqi Zhenfu, there are traces of a large number of rogues, and please show Lord Zhenfu." ”
Heard that a rogue is coming? Ming Andongzhong's guard Zhenfu hurriedly asked the soldiers to blow the horn to assemble the team, (woo, woo, woo~) The spread to the four directions also attracted the attention of the commander of Ming Andongzhong's guard, he quickly got up and walked out of the camp and asked, "Where are the people?" Let's go and see what's going on? Wu Junzhen, who was alarmed by the sound of the horn, quickly put down the account book in his hand and thought; Killed so quickly by the rogue? He immediately said to the commander of the guard in Ming Andongzhong beside him: Qin Liyan, and said, "Lord Commander Tongzhi, I am afraid that this formation is coming?" I also asked Commander Wei to tell Commander Wei to tell Commander Wei to send troops to his Excellency as soon as possible, if it is a little later, I am afraid that the Wei Command Post and the government will not be safe! ”
Next, Ming Andongzhong's guard commander Tongzhi asked: "Wu Qianzong has fought with Liukou, he must be familiar with the opponent's tactics, why don't you fight with the general?" Wu Junzhen readily agreed, and the commander of the Ming Andong Central Guard, Tongzhi, sent someone to tell the Ming Andong Central Guard Commander.
Then the generals came to the city tower to watch the battle, only to see that the front row of the rogue on the opposite side showed a quadrangular formation, and there was an obvious triangular formation in the middle, which looked like the rogue was going to take the city with hatred? Seeing the momentum of the opponent's whole battle, the commander of Ming Andongzhong's guards was really amazed, and he climbed the city wall and sighed, "Hey! I can't imagine that the rogue still has such a formation? It seems that with our troops, I am afraid that we will not be able to stand the city! ”
As soon as the words fell, the prefect of Pingliang also climbed the city tower and said: "Commander Wei, don't panic!" Xiaguan has received a secret letter from the commander of Shaanxi, and it is estimated that he will be able to reach the territory of Fucheng at three o'clock tonight, so please stick to it and fight for a while. ”
Knowing that reinforcements had arrived, the Ming army defending the city instantly gained confidence, but everyone still didn't dare to take it lightly, Ma Wei proposed: "Commander of the Qi Wei Envoy, the last general thinks that the Liukou seems to be invincible, but in fact there is not much certainty of victory!" "This makes Ming Andongzhong's guards feel a little strange? He asked, "Oh, what do you mean by that?" Ma Wei analyzed the reason why the opponent set up a formation and did not fight? One is that he thinks that there may be help from the Guyuan Weiming Army behind him, and the other is that he thinks that the other party's forces may not be as good as our army? But after all, it's speculation, and I can't figure out what Liukou's real intentions are?
Therefore, Wu Junzhen suggested that an army should be sent out of the city as a mobile force to harass the enemy army, which could not only contain them but also disrupt their plans, and as soon as he said it, he was allowed to lead 500 lancers out of the city by Ma Wei, and at the moment of opening the city gate, General Zuo Guoyi, who led the Shun army, exclaimed, "What? The Ming army dared to go out of the city to meet the battle? Could it be a fraud? ”
Having said that, General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army still ordered a light cavalry of 800 people of the Shun army to fight, Ma Wei saw that the enemy iron cavalry was coming, he did not dare to engage head-on, so he used the V-shaped tactics to raise a multi-barreled fire gun to shoot at the Liukou, and after firing the gun, he quickly changed direction, so that the Liukou could only shoot back with archers to shoot a few Ming spears.
Seeing this, the guards of Ming Andongzhong on the top of the city tower were not ambiguous, and immediately ordered the gunners to reload and ignite and explode in front of them.
On the spot, he was so angry that the vanguard of the Shun army was in charge of the brigade: Ning Jiannan, and immediately asked for an order, "General Zuo Guoyi, please let the last general go out to battle and lead the heavy armored soldiers to attack the city gate." This was immediately approved by General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army, and the angry vanguard of the Shun army led 30,000 Shun army heavy armor soldiers to attack in two batches with a golden hook gun on his back and a cannon.
General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army in the rear immediately ordered the artillerymen to load the shells and open fire, when the artillery fire of the two sides was blowing, the Ming army gunners on the city tower quickly aimed within 300 meters, the charging Shun soldiers pulled the trigger, and rows of lead bullets were fired quickly (bang, bang, bang) on the body of the heavy armor of the Shun army, some lead bullets penetrated the body of the Liukou and broke the armor and killed on the spot, and some lead bullets only injured the skin! The heavy armored soldiers of the Shun army who were shot continued to advance with shields under the shouting of the vanguard of the Shun army, and the infantry of the Shun army beside him was responsible for pushing the Lu bus closer to the city.
Sure enough, the Ming army defending the city was replaced with flowering shells and blew them up, which could have killed three or four people at a time, but basically the people who were in the middle of the flowering shells could kill two people, and there were dozens of seriously injured and injured people next to them, which greatly reduced the threat of the rogue siege.
However, the Shun army's ten small generals' bronze cannons, fifteen Baizi grasp Franky cannons, and not all vegetarian food, all of them hit the city wall with solid cannonballs, and the two sides were evenly matched, in order to better suppress the Ming army's gunners, General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army pulled out a thousand archers in the front row of the triangle formation, approached fifty steps forward, and fired intensive arrows to the city tower.
Suddenly, the arrows in the sky fell quickly from the sky on the city tower, (whoosh, whoosh, whoosh) wearing transparent military cloth face armor, which effectively interrupted the loading time of the Ming army's gunners! Wu Junzhen, who was shooting with a gun, and Liu Ruilin, who was holding a bow and arrow, were very worried about whether the rogue would attack?
At this critical moment, Ma Wei outside the city played a role, he ordered the lancers to shoot the Shunjun archers outside the city with multiple barrels of firearms, and quickly rushed to change to a spear and rushed to the Liukou to assassinate, repelled the Liukou archers who released the arrows, and continued to pounce on the Liukou heavy armor soldiers who were attacking the city under the Lu bus, Ma Wei knew that he was not their opponent! Therefore, they could only use the wind and fire to ignite the lead and throw it at the Liukou army to disrupt their offensive purpose, and the heavy armor soldiers of the Shun army who were attacked quickly reacted, and a 5,000-strong Liukou rushed straight towards the Ming army lancers.
Faced with the attack of the Rogue Army, which was several times the strength of his own, Ma Wei was shocked and responded, "Immediately turn around and pounce on the Rogue Artillery Battalion." This move also attracted the attention of the vanguard of the Shun army, who took off the crutch and loaded the lead bullet and gunpowder into the gun and shot it right in Ma Wei's right arm.
Ma Wei covered his right arm in pain on the spot and continued to ride a horse, and the vanguard of the Shun army saw that they were only a few hundred people and could not make any climate, so they did not pursue, and took the siege as the main purpose, a large number of rogues pounced again, and the Ming Pingliang prefect who was watching the battle in the city was frightened, he was a little scared and his legs kept trembling, and the Ming An Dongzhong guard next to him commanded the matter: Yu Youkang, worried that the weak Ming Ping Liang prefect would be frightened, plus he himself also wanted to take the opportunity to go out from the back city to resist the rogues, Pretending to be kind, he escorted the Ming Pingliang prefect to retreat into the palace, and he went to order 700 soldiers and horses from the headquarters to fight from the back city.
The Ming spearmen who rushed to the Liukou artillery battalion were charging quickly when they were fired by the Liukou firefighters, and a row of white gunpowder smoke hit them, and the Ming spearmen hurriedly stopped and shouted, "Everyone be careful, the Liukou counterattack!" ”
Seeing that the flank charge was ineffective and he couldn't get close to the Liukou artillery battalion, Ma Wei held down his wound and gritted his teeth and shouted, "Attack the enemy's commander from the front." The people had no choice but to obey his command and charge from the front, because the soldiers in the triangular formation in front of the main general had been sent to attack the city, and the front was just the plain lancers, and the speed was very fast.