Chapter 697: Covered in blood
The Ming army, which felt that promotion and fortune were close at hand, chased and fought fiercely, even if they were counterattacked by the Qing army, they were willing to fight hard, even if they fought to the last person.
Therefore, more than once, there was a Ming army leading more than a dozen war horses, carrying several levels of Qing army heads, and the war horses carried a few robes captured and killed in battle, crying and returning to the team.
The Ming army pursued relentlessly and seemed to be more and more courageous, and some Han Qing troops figured out that they could not do it at this time to prepare to surrender, because the red-eyed Ming army saw that the Qing army did not answer at all and directly started to kill, seize horses, and rob property.
The "winged tigers" have been fighting in Shanxi Province and have made great gains in half a year, relying on the mountains to attack many scattered and robbed Tartars and Jiannu, seizing more than 300 war horses and capturing more than 200.
Zhao Shisannai was the head of the Shanxi Military Intelligence Department, and his flag guards had already heard that the Ming army had made a big move, and they also knew that Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun and other "Red Flag Army" who had stayed in the interior had organized to participate in the attack on the Qing army.
Jin Minghu, Zhao Shisan, and others would not lead this bandit army to get mixed up with the Ming army, and after discussion, they decided to wait for the main force of the Ming army led by Liu Zhilun, Lu Xiangsheng and others to fight with the Qing army, and then lead the selected 4,000 men and horses to choose a favorable terrain to ambush the Qing army.
The "winged tiger" moved to the junction of the three major mountain systems of Taihang, Taiyue and Zhongtiao, and lurked in a mountain col fifty miles from Liqinshui County.
There is an official road from Zezhou to Binh Duong Province here, most of which are mountain roads, which are not conducive to cavalry galloping and are suitable for infantry assault.
As the name suggests, bandits have been wandering in the mountains for many years, and they are very good at fighting mountain battles.
On the ideal mountain battlefield, the cavalry of the Qing army could not give full play to its advantages, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, which just made up for the huge gap in combat skills between some "winged tigers" and the Qing army.
Jin Minghu and Zhao Shisan personally led their subordinates to arrange the preset battlefield, and the nearby mountain people also came one or two thousand to help with the work, and the hard work of the "winged tiger" department was not in vain, and five or six hundred Qing troops fell into the ambush circle.
It was Jin Minghu who used the clairvoyant mirror to climb the heights to observe, and after letting go of the scouts and large troops of the three batches of Jiannu, he started the mode of closing the door and beating the dogs, preparing to intercept a part of the rear team of the Qing army.
A large number of rockfalls and rolling logs, which had been prepared for more than ten days in advance, rolled down the hillside, killing more than 20 Qing troops who were passing through on the spot, and blocking the road.
The Qing soldiers and horses who had already passed through the ambush area had no tools and were helpless in the face of a landslide-like blockage.
Due to the narrow working surface, only a few dozen people can be dispatched to clear the road at one time, even if the Qing army still has about 20,000 men and horses, it is useless, to enable the cavalry to lead the horses to pass, without half a day of uninterrupted transportation can not be done.
After successfully separating the Qing army, the "Winged Tigers" did not need to worry about being inferior in numbers, and attacked the five or six hundred Qing troops that had been intercepted by three or four thousand people.
Knowing that the Qing army that had entered the dead place of course resisted stubbornly, the quality of the rear team of the Qing army was very good, that was the veteran Duo Jili in order to reduce losses, in order to prevent the Han army from escaping or surrendering, personally led the elite men and horses to break off.
Therefore, most of the Qing soldiers and horses intercepted by Jin Minghu, Zhao Shisan, etc. were the children of the Eight Banners, among which there were more than 30 white-armored soldiers, and there was not a single Han army.
The "Winged Tigers" suffered from the lack of a single pound of Furlong cannons, and there were only ten Mini guns, and most of the gunners used bird guns, with less than 200 autogenous guns.
It's not that Huang Han is reluctant to give equipment, but he is worried that this Biao people's equipment is so good that it is not like a bandit or a rogue, and the task of completing the big fish heads such as Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and so on will come to naught.
There is no doubt that the quality of the bandits' armament is not high, and the equipment is not comparable with the "Red Banner Army" Guards, and they may face the king of the cold weapons army in the world today.
Therefore, although the ambush was completed in this battle, it was also very hard, but fortunately, Zhao Shisan and Jin Minghu had saved a lot of money in recent years, and there were 2,000 people under their command who had armor, of which more than 1,000 had a combination of iron armor and cotton armor.
The best equipment to get the "winged tiger" department is, of course, the elite of this biao people, these men live up to expectations, everyone is not afraid of death, and after shooting at Jiannu, they hedged and finally got together.
Fortunately, they were fighting in the mountains, and they couldn't run on horseback, and the Jiannu and Tartars were forced to choose to dismount and fight on foot, and their combat effectiveness was sharply reduced.
Jin Minghu took the lead, and the generals under his command Qi Yuguo, Zhang Shouzhong, Deng Linqiao, etc. also moved forward bravely, Zhao Shisan saw that the Qing army was fighting tenaciously, and his own elite continued to fall, and it seemed that he was gradually unable to withstand it, and he was anxious.
Because time waits for no one, if the Qing army blocked in the west digs a roadblock and rushes to support in time, their 4,000 people are very likely to be killed by the Qing army.
Zhao Shisan didn't care that he was left with sequelae because of his injury, and his arm couldn't use his strength at all, and shouted, "Brothers, the brave wins when you meet on a narrow road, follow me all!" Kill slaves! He rushed down with a short hammer in his hands.
The enemy and us were entangled in a scuffle, and the long-range attack could not be carried out, and seven or eight hundred bird gunners and more than four hundred step archers picked up their swords and guns and shouted and pounced up.
No strength does not mean that he can't help, Zhao Shisan, who was close to the scene of the fight, raised his hand and hit a Jiannu white-armored soldier who was wielding a mace and smashing it, at this time, this white-armored soldier was about to smash the head of Qi Yuguo, who was already injured.
Han Manzhi saw that his husband was out of the way regardless of participating in the charge, and rushed up with more than 80 female soldiers, all of whom were self-generated guns, and the only ten mini guns were also used by the flag guards among them, and the hit rate of firing suddenly increased a lot.
Seeing that the women and the injured military advisors rushed up desperately, the morale of the "winged tigers" was greatly boosted, and all of them were playing with their lives to attack Jiannu and Tartar, and the decline was suddenly reversed.
Jin Minghu's kung fu is very good, the eighteen-pound nine-ring machete dances vigorously, he is inseparable from the soldiers who have accumulated many gifts, and he is already covered in blood at this time.
The blood came from the splash of the enemy, and it also came from his own wounds, because Jin Minghu had at least three armor-piercing cones shot by Jiannu at close range.
When Jin Minghu charged, he danced the knife to protect the vital point, and the arrow on his body actually penetrated the flesh through the two layers of solid armor and again through the cotton armor, but fortunately it was not fatal and did not greatly reduce Jin Minghu's combat effectiveness.
After Zhao Shisan finished loading again, he saw Jin Minghu covered in blood and a few feather arrows, worried that he would be killed, so he hurriedly ran to help in the battle, and killed a Jiannu vest at close range.
At this time, a shot pierced Deng Linqiao's chest, and Duo Jili saw Zhao Shisan out of the corner of his eye, he didn't have time to pull out the tiger gun that Deng Linqiao was holding with both hands, pulled out the knife on his waist and strode towards Zhao Shisan.
Seeing that Duo Jili was about to raise his knife and slash Zhao Shisan, who was loading the short gun, "Bah! There was a bang......