Chapter 165 [Repelling the Rebels]
The fiercest of them all was a rebel general wearing a Wanli helmet (with blue and white feathers) on his head? He held a steel fork to stab the brave Ming generals, and successively stabbed to death the general Wei Qian: Jiang Zhengkun, Wei Zhenfu of Ming Quanzhou: Deng Hongkui, and other generals were so angry that the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department Shangshu was furious, and directly led the soldiers of the headquarters to slash and kill the soldiers under his command.
In the fierce battle, after Wu Junzhen cut down the three rebels, he thought of His Royal Highness the county lord who was in the army! He was a little worried about her safety, so he went to the team to find Zhu Youlan's whereabouts while killing, because most of the rebel soldiers rushed to the Ming army and disrupted the formation, the Ming army couldn't care about protecting His Royal Highness the county lord at all, and not many Ming soldiers knew that Zhu Youlan was in the army, so her current situation was very bad!
In order to find her as soon as possible, Wu Junzhen stabbed left and right like crazy, and four rebel soldiers rushed over with spears, and the angry Wu Junzhen jumped up and stepped down high to press the head of the gun, and rotated the blade to kill the rebels, holding the bloody saber, he stood up and stabbed to death the rebel soldier who raised the knife, saving the lives of the Ming soldiers next to him.
I saw Wu Junzhen grab the soldier and ask, "Where is His Royal Highness the County Lord?" The trembling soldier said, "What is His Royal Highness?" There is no county royal clan in the army! ”
Wu Junzhen opened his mouth again, "It's Lord Shi Shangshu, the young junior who was arranged in the army." ”
Only then did the soldier know that she was a woman? He replied, "Seems to be protected by the gang of the Fire Head Battalion?" ”
So Wu Junzhen continued to kill at the Huotou camp in the west, he held down his saber and swept across the ground, and when he jumped up, he stabbed a rebel directly from the neck with his knife, and grabbed his spear and quickly charged forward.
And Liu Ruilin, who was scattered, slashed and killed the rebels with the guards, and also started hand-to-hand combat! Ma Wei has been hiding behind the generals of the Ming army and shooting the enemy with a firecracker, after all, his skills are not as good as others and he dare not fight too hard.
He was still anxiously looking for Zhu Youlan here, slashed and killed several rebels, and shouted, "Your Royal Highness the county lord, where are you?" ”
After shouting about four or five times, I stumbled upon a girl in a gown who was using the three-claw technique to attack the approaching rebel soldiers.
This made Wu Junzhen very happy, he immediately stepped forward to stop the rebel soldiers with his spear, and stabbed to death three or four rebels who stepped forward, leaning against Yao Qiuyue and saying, "Thank you for protecting His Royal Highness the County Lord!" ”
In the face of his thanks, Yao Qiuyue didn't seem to care so much, but said very tactfully, "Instead of Xie Nu's family, it is better to say that she is dragging me down?" This makes Wu Junzhen feel a little strange?
In fact, the reason why Zhu Youlan went to the Huotou camp was because in the entire military camp, only the Huotou camp was not very demanding, after all, the army was not allowed to bring female dependents privately! Although she is His Royal Highness the county lord, there are still inconveniences everywhere, so I want to go to the Huotou Camp to help! By the way, I made a few dishes, but I was surrounded by rebels from all sides on the way to the escort!
At the moment, Wu Junzhen was not in the mood to discuss anything else, he just felt strange why this rebel army was attacking so fiercely? As if to annex them?
Most of the generals of the Ming army also felt it in the battle, so they planned to report the situation to Lord Shi Shangshu, and the generals gathered together and rushed up to pull the Ming Nan Zhili military department Shangshu who was fighting with the enemy, sat down on his war horse and proposed, "Lord Shangshu of the military department, I suggest that you avoid temporary risks, and don't fight hard with the enemy!" Don't forget that we still have His Majesty's will. ”
Deeply helpless, Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department clenched his saber and pulled back the reins, turned his horse's head and said, "The whole army retreats forward!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the Ming soldiers in the middle team immediately picked up the Luo hammer, and while pushing and walking, the sound of "cymbals" was knocked out in all directions, so as to guide the retreat direction of the soldiers.
When he heard the sound of Mingjin withdrawing his troops, Wu Junzhen hurriedly took Zhu Youlan's hand and said, "His Royal Highness the county lord come with me!" After saying that, he put her behind him directly, waved his spear and threw down a row of rebel soldiers, so that they were killed by the retreating Ming army, and in this way, the Ming generals of the brigade began to retreat north with their soldiers.
Liu Chao, a rebel general who solved the resistance to the Ming army, touched his face with his hand and said, "Well, bloody asked!" ”
Then he laughed with the rebels around him, because what he wanted to do had achieved his goal.
However, the retreating Ming army was approaching step by step in the direction of the Shangsizhuang Patrol Division under the leadership of the generals of the front team, and the Ming Fujian general soldier who was walking in the front glanced at the jungle near the dock, and he felt that the woods in the river area should not be so quiet? Is there bound to be fraud? It is planned to let the Ming Fujian Navy Counselor take the first step to explore the way.
But the general soldier of Ming Shaoxing next to him stopped and said, "Why, Lord Zheng, this is the best opportunity to delay our army crossing the river?" Do you want the rebels behind you to surround our legion here? ”
The general army of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty held back his anger and analyzed the situation with him, after all, he was the most familiar with the ambush on the bank of the wharf, so he insisted on refusing to let the army advance, so the two generals argued in front, so that the Ming troops behind also stopped.
The rebel ambush soldiers on the other side of the river saw that the Ming army refused to advance? I think it's a pity! It was decided to attack, after all, the distance between the river was only about 300 meters, so the rogue archers and rebel archers drew their bows and released their arrows first.
The Ming army walked to the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department near the dock and the accompanying generals, and saw that the soldiers in front of them didn't leave? He asked, "What's going on?" Go to the front and check the situation! ”
The soldiers were ordered to hurriedly run to the front to check, and after Wu Junzhen handed Zhu Youlan over to the Ming army for protection, he also walked to the front with Ma Wei and Liu Ruilin, and said while walking Ma Wei, "This is really the more urgent the more things are more!" Seeing that he was going north to Jinan Mansion, this incident still happened. ”
At this time, Wu Junzhen's ears moved slightly, as if he heard something? He immediately pulled over and shouted, "Be careful! ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard dozens of Ming soldiers in front of me being stabbed to the ground by arrows, crying and shouting, and some soldiers were stabbed by three or four arrows on the spot and died!
Wu Junzhen, who dodged the arrows, immediately came behind the shield soldiers, he turned to everyone and said, "There should be an ambush in front, you can't go!" ”
Liu Ruilin on the side hid behind the shield soldiers after blocking a few arrows with a saber, and even the Ming Fujian generals and Ming Shaoxing generals in front of them also retreated under the protection of the soldiers, and most of the soldiers were stabbed to death by the arrows!
Soon the second wave of arrow attacks came densely, accompanied by the enemy igniting the sound of artillery (knock, knock, knock, knock, knock) solid bullets and shotguns, like a meteor shower in front of the Ming army, the Ming army was blown off hands and feet accounted for the majority, which made the Ming soldiers in the front team panic!
The Ming artillery battalion of the squadron began to fire back with artillery, and was ready to open fire under the sword shout of Shangshu of the Ming Southern Zhili Military Department, but suddenly heard the sound of artillery in the Ming army formation of the rear team? The generals hurried to look behind them.
I saw that behind him was surrounded by the rebels and the Liukou army, which was a great pressure on the Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Army, and if the front and rear attacks did not break through as soon as possible, they would definitely lose the vitality of the soldiers!
At this critical moment, the Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department immediately took the opportunity to order: "The whole army listens to the order, and the rear team becomes the front team, and together with the governor, break through the enemy attack and fight out of the encirclement." ”
This move can be described as extremely dangerous, and it is obvious that the generals around him are a little scared, and they have persuaded him: "Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War, absolutely not!" If you turn around and hit head-on, our army will do a lot of damage! Why don't you spread your forces and break through from both flanks? ”
Although the idea of dispersing suddenly sounds good, it is easy to be broken by the enemy one by one, and once the dispersed army will definitely suffer heavy casualties, it is better to gather a group and fight back.
Seeing that persuasion was useless, the generals had to cooperate with the transfer of troops to turn around and attack the main force of the enemy with heavy artillery and firecrackers, and archers, which was beyond the expectations of the rebel general Liu Chao! His main army and the Liukou army were only 70,000 people, and now there are only 58,000 people, and the Ming army has hundreds of thousands of people, but they were just dizzy and stunned! Now that the Ming army is going to counterattack, it is conceivable that for the rebels and the rogues, this will face the attack of the Ming army.
But fortunately, the Ming army did not know their total strength, the original rebel Liu Chao was going to drive the Ming army to the ambush circle to slaughter to their heart's content, but now they can only accept it when they see it, and in the face of a large number of Ming army's counterattacks, the Liukou soldiers were defeated at once, and the soldiers of the Shun army carrying the banner were defeated and fled first.
Then the Dashun Dongping Brigade also took the lead in retreating, leaving only the rebel soldiers to resist, and the rebel general Liu Chao, who was still directing the rebels to open artillery and release arrows, received the advice of the soldiers: "Report, Qi Qi Marshal, the Liukou army has withdrawn from the battlefield, should we also withdraw?" If we continue to fight, our army will be annexed by the Ming army! ”
He was very unwilling to let go like this, he clenched his saber and slammed it into the ground, scolding: "Damn Daming, this will be inseparable from the imperial court!" ”
At this moment, under the counterattack of the Ming army's guns and artillery battalions, most of the soldiers began to break through the rebel formation, and also found out the approximate strength of the other party.
In the blink of an eye, the kung fu rebel soldiers who lost their armor turned around and fled, and were chased and killed by the generals of the Ming Fujian General Army, the Ming Ningbo Wei Commander, the Ming Shaoxing General Army, and the Ming Aid Northeast Water Division General Soldier, and killed a thousand people! also surrounded and blocked the rebel general Liu Chao to Dongguan City, Surabaya County.
This is not very far from Jiningzhou, the base camp of the rebels, as long as the rebel general Liu Chao goes back to contact the soldiers to mobilize troops, he can still make a comeback, and the pursuit of the Qin Wang Ming army will stop here.
All the generals gathered in the military tent to discuss the next plan, the Ming Fujian army thought that if the rebels were not eliminated as soon as possible, it would be largely delayed to go north, and the rest of the generals also thought so, only the Ming Shaoxing general soldier did not think so, he recognized and pointed out: "Zheng Zongbing, is this not planning to announce a personal vendetta, so that our army will be angry for you?" If you let the army fight this local rebel army, you will delay the rescue! Who can afford it? According to the general's opinion, it is better to take the waterway to get rid of the rebels and go north as soon as possible, and ask Lord Shangshu of the military department to make a decision. ”
After listening to their opinions, the Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department, who was sitting in the military tent, frowned and said, "The two chief soldiers, what they said is reasonable!" However, the Governor believes that the local rebels will inevitably endanger the people if they are not eliminated, and if they are left unchecked, they will continue to grow bigger, and it will be dangerous for the North to be directly subordinate to Gyeonggi, so the Governor intends to send someone to contact the Governor of Fengyang, who has stayed in the Fengyang Mansion in the capital, and dispatch troops to suppress the thieves. ”
At this moment, a team of Ming troops wearing red and white cotton armor and blue cloth armor in the western Liaoning region outside Shanhaiwei Pass, under the leadership of the Ming Ning Yuanwei General Guard, was escorting the people south, just after Ningyuan Zhongyou Yu Qianhu arrived at Heizhuang Wobao, he saw a small group of cavalry riding behind him and shouted, "Lord General Soldier, Lord Wu General Soldier!" ”