Chapter 536: The Counterattack Begins

In three days, the entire Yan'an area was opposed, Lei Heng mobilized the order, and there were young and middle-aged people in Yao Town who joined the rebel Han army, and there were thousands of rebels, not to mention thousands of rebels

Ring the gong to call the policeman, he kept calling on the people to take up arms and prepare for battle: "The clear dog is coming, and the villagers are gathering in the bud grain field"

The gong kept ringing, but it was very difficult to get people up early in the morning, and yesterday the official warehouse received rice and grain, and the people closed the door tightly, and no one ran out

"Stone, his father, don't go out to clear the army and kill people without blinking, what kind of hero do you want, people use Mauser guns, you use bows and arrows to find your own death, and you want to kill the whole family," a woman in her forties cried and cried, dragging the man's clothes to prevent the man from killing herself

"Third Brother Ma called me outside, I can't go if I don't go," the man resolutely pushed the woman away, pulled the latch to do what he should do, and killed the demon

On the street, about thirty percent of the people who rushed out of their homes had shotguns, most of them were holding cold weapons, hunting bows, long-range attack weapons, broadswords, spears, iron plows, shovel knives, nail-toothed rakes, stone mortars, and rice pestles, and farm tools were readily available

There are thousands of villagers in Yaozhen standing on the bud grain field, so many people are willing to die to serve the death, so that Ma Sange has confidence, there are more than 1,000 soldiers stationed in Yaozhen, and he has recruited more than 1,000 people, adding up to two or three thousand people, can fully defend Yaozhen, ready to pull out thousands of rebels to the field to fight a battle with the Qing army

The villagers who fled into Yaozhen exaggerated the size of the cavalry of the Li Zi Battalion by ten times, and thousands of large troops of the Qing army came, so that the rebels, who were originally rabble, had just raised their courage and were timid, and they originally wanted to kill the rebels in Yao Town, and they did not dare to move, and they wanted to fight a street battle with the Qing army in their lair, and the Qing army did not attack Yaozhen for a day, and the rebels were full of suspicions, and Ma Zhankui, as a high commander, finally made up his mind to take three battalions out of the town to test the reality of the Li Zi Battalion

According to the news, the Li Zi battalion of Dong Zhiyuan was not expanded, but reduced, and many student soldiers returned to Tianjin to defend Li Guolou, and there was a sentry infantry and a sentry cavalry by his side, so the Li Zi battalion outside the kiln town was insufficient, so he did not dare to attack the kiln town, Ma Zhankui boosted the morale of the rebel army, and led the rebel army to kill it

Ma Zhankui was originally the head of the Qing army's baggage battalion, there was a sentry under his command, and the development of Ma Yao Town was very good, and he also forcibly seized 150 war horses from Yang Dawazi, and through two days of hard work, the number of cavalry exceeded 250 horses, and the horses of more than 1,000 horses were all equipped with American-made Haqi Kaisi guns, the only deficiency was that there were four howitzers and four bronze cannons, but no one would make the Qing army regard artillery as a high-level service, and not let the Han people touch it, and now the Han people also have artillery in the Chu army, but the Qing army has a very tight grasp of the ideological education of artillery, and the artillery has to go through political trial, so the rebels have cannons in their hands, but there is no artillery

Mortars do not need to be aimed, they are used to defend, short-range cannons sweep across a side, and must be supported by city walls to exert power, since the grenade has become smaller, it can throw forty or fifty meters, or even seventy or eighty meters, it is not a problem, it has become a short-range effective weapon, and the mortar has become a chicken rib, and it has been eliminated by the army, and there is no trace on the battlefield

Ma Zhankui did not wait for news from Yan'an City, and after breakfast in the early morning, he led three battalions of infantry to dispatch, and personally led more than 200 cavalry to press the formation, carefully set up the attack formation, and dispatched along the river from the east of Yaozhen

Although there was a burst of gunfire, a group of men and horses from the outpost of the Qing army did not suffer casualties, and all of them lay on the ground and did not even dare to raise their heads, the guns were too dense, and the bullets whistled through the air, hitting the embankment, and there was a pop

Li Yunzhu commanded the battle, looking at the ants, the rebel army spread over, don't you want money for this bullet, you can't see the Qing army, the rebel army shoots indiscriminately, what the hell is going on, the cavalry puts the infantry behind, the rebel army attacks in such a weird formation, attacking in a fan shape, isn't this looking for death, a burst of guns can shoot twenty or thirty rebels

"Shoot and withdraw from the sky" Li Yunchao Mao carried two revolvers on his waist and did not dare to disobey Li Guolou's order to lead the outpost to evacuate the embankment

The rebel army rushed across the three stone bridges, along the way there were hundreds of corpses of the Qing army and some broken guns, "whoa", this time the rebel army came to the spirit, increased the pace, rushed fiercely, thousands of infantry, the loess slope spread out, the ant-like rebel army rejuvenated the fighting spirit, and launched a charge

At this time, Li Guolou sat lazily on a dry grass, surrounded by sitting on the ground, and the cavalry was black and pressing, and Li Guolou ambushed all the cavalry on the hill

For the rebel army to send thousands of soldiers into the battlefield at one time, it feels incredible, the other commander has a pig brain, is not afraid of being bombed to break the formation away, although the rebel army is wearing military uniforms and white towels wrapped around their heads, but everyone knows that these people are mobs, fighting in the wild, the control of the formation is not good, no one can command such a large battlefield, only rely on a large number of veterans to fight, In the field battle, the rebel army did not see the shadow of the enemy, but ran down the loess slope, and then he wanted to send thousands of infantry without returning, but unfortunately the enemy commander was cowardly, and he dragged the cavalry back, and could not completely annihilate the enemy cavalry

Secretly slandered the Qing army, the elders would rebel, did not treat the common people as people, and wanted to win the victory with crowd tactics, but unfortunately he did not eat this set of rebels, the scattered formation of the rebel army was destined to be a massacre, ridiculous, and the Qing army in the heavy battalion also dared to rebel, these wide-bodied, fat moths, thought about the rebellion too simply, and even a person like him, who was full of reactionary thoughts, did not dare to rebel

"Hey, the rebels are carrying the American-made Ha Qi Kaisi gun, it is too heavy, this kind of gun is not suitable for our Qing physique, and when I go back, I will make a 7 mm caliber rifle, and the gun weighs no more than thirteen catties," Li Guolou was a little distracted, and he didn't put the enemy in front of him, thinking in his mind, a thousand Ha Qi Kaisi guns were about to arrive, but unfortunately this kind of gun weighed fifteen pounds and was not suitable for cavalry use

Fan Dahui has the demeanor of a general, standing proudly under a green pine, holding up a telescope and looking at the battlefield in the distance, and asking without looking back: "Sir Li, don't you take a look?"

Li Guolou looked up at the floating clouds in the sky, and said with a smile: "I'm not a god, I can command such a big battlefield alone, now I just need to take care of the two hundred cavalry here, listen to the command of the army, I want to thank the enemy, that commander dared to lead so many mobs to charge."

Fan Dahui said anxiously: "Why doesn't the bald head fire the cannon, what is he rubbing?"

Although Su Yuanchun, Fan Dahui and others, who commanded the campaign, had some objections and thought that Su Yuanchun was too young, Li Guolou made the decision to finalize the final plan

"Hey, the young man is too ambitious, the little bald head wants to annihilate all the cavalry, let him go," Li Guolou looked into the distance, those who couldn't run, the rebel army was in the open plain, and stumbled and continued to catch up with the Qing army, he was a little uneasy, the rebel army had already begun to form a team, Su Yuanchun had to seize the opportunity, otherwise the fighter plane would be fleeting

Su Yuanchun stood in front of the artillery camp excitedly, inexplicably raised his binoculars, looked at the position scene in the distance, the enemy had slowed down, touched the light, his head couldn't bear the commotion, and howled in his heart: "Open the cannon"

This was the first time he had commanded such a big battle, and Su Yuanchun was so excited that his voice was all trilling

The rebels began to line up, and then they were shocked when they heard the sound of artillery from the opposite side

Boom, boom, boom

Several rainbows swept across the sky, and cannonballs came from afar, and the first round of ten cannonballs fired directly at the rebel cavalry camp

"Ahh

Boom, boom, boom

Before the rebels came to their senses, the second round of shells struck again, and the shells drilled into crowded places like eyes, and then they saw one shell after another whizzing over, accurately shooting into the pile, hitting a piece of flesh and flesh, severed limbs, and when the fragments of weapons flew, the bombs turned into countless shrapnel, and the thighs, calves, and arms of the people were hit by shrapnel, causing a large number of casualties, and the rebels fell to the ground and wailed

Boom, boom, boom

Another round of loud bang, loud smoke, many shells whistling over, as the shells continued to shoot in, thick smoke billowed to the yellow earth, blood mist continued to explode everywhere, crackling and broken bones, hoarse screams, the rebels were terrified and confused, and most of them first shot a bullet in the chamber of the gun into the blurred front

On the opposite side, the soul was like an artillery, and a cannonball kept firing a cannonball, killing a flag supporter, and blowing up all the flags in the cavalry camp

Panic and panic in the howl of fear, the rebel army could not hear what the commanders of each team said, most of the rebel army members followed their respective squad flags, at this time, the team flags were crooked, and many flag support officers were taken care of by the artillery, and the people fell to the ground together, and suddenly heard a shocking sound from the left and right, like a muffled thunderstorm, it was the rolling enemy cavalry

"Kill"

The rebels saw the smoke thousands of kilometers in front of them, and countless heads were exposed, and thousands of Qing infantry armed with knives, guns, and clubs killed them

Yang Zhao led more than 30 dart masters, waving their swords and rushing to the front of the team, they all rode horses, raised enough horsepower, and the war horses rushed to the loess slope with fierce hooves

Yao Bin wore a military uniform, led a group of landlord armies, followed closely behind the cavalry, and thousands of people charged behind him, and the momentum was magnificent from a distance

On the left and right sides of the loess slope, two tide-like torrents of iron cavalry are inserting themselves into their wings, this is the main force of the Qing army, they are like hell and impermanence, suddenly appearing on the battlefield

The two streams of iron rushed endlessly, knocking on the ground, clattering, like turning over the river and the sea, the yellow dragon seemed to envelop the heavens and the earth, and the killing aura soared into the sky, and many rebels were stunned by these two terrifying momentum, and some even forgot to run away, desperately pulling the trigger, as if this could kill the oncoming Qing soldiers