Chapter 118: Rampage

The Houjin army stationed in Luojiazhai had a Jiannu high-grade Niu Lu, two Tartar hundreds, and a total of 460 armorers.

But the actual number of troops was more than that, as the Tartars and Jiannu who had come and went to the base would come to the stronghold to rest, resupply, or temporarily store the harvest of the raids.

Therefore, the number of people in armor in the Jin army after Luojiazhai is always changing, and theoretically it is the largest number at night. On the afternoon of March 18, when the "Red Flag Army" broke through the city, the number of people in Luojiazhai happened to be the lowest.

That's because the Houjin army are all robbers, and they can't spend time in Luojiazhai in broad daylight, they think that when they loot in the Ming Dynasty, they really belong to an inch of time and an inch of gold, so half of the Houjin army stationed in the Houjin army went out to rob with two or three hundred banners and clothes.

The "Red Banner Army" raided at a fast enough speed, even if the Houjin army encountered on the road desperately ran towards Luojiazhai, only more than 100 Jiannu and Tartars were able to enter the city.

The name of the main general left behind in Luojiazhai is Eqili, he heard that a large number of Ming troops were coming, and immediately conveyed the order to close the city gate, and he hurriedly took his men and horses to prepare to go to the city wall for defense.

Who knew that just as they were about to arrive, after an earth-shattering explosion, the west gate of Luojiazhai disappeared, and the Ming cavalry rushed directly into the city on rammed earth and rubble.

The Ming army is not stupid, the law enforcement team has made clear the battlefield discipline, no one is allowed to rob gold and silver treasures, everyone must fight bravely to kill the enemy, the purpose of coming out is to build slaves, of course, they must do their best, but cutting off the enemy's head is not a small bag.

All the Ming troops knew that the heads of the Jiannu and Tartars were white flowers, and the law enforcement team did not explicitly prohibit the harvesting and beheading, and many fast-moving Ming troops were happy.

Because they had never found Jiannu and Tartar to be so easy to fight, they drove their horses on a rampage, and several fierce soldiers had already hung two or three levels of Houjin army heads under the horses' necks that were constantly dripping blood.

Eager to get the decapitation merit and was officially absorbed as a soldier of the "Red Banner Army", the white four-wheel drive horse brandished the horse lance and rushed to the front line, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and he got the two-level real slave to get the joy and laughed strangely.

Jiannu and Tartar are good at arching horses, and more than half of the defenders swarmed up the city wall before they could attack, and the Ming army blew down a section of the city wall at the gate of the city.

The Ming army rode directly into the city, of course, took the lead, the Ming army on the horse threw guns, archery or drove the war horse to hit the running Houjin army, this cover was really hearty, and the Ming army with fast action naturally gained a lot.

There are also many Ming troops who have completely taken advantage, where do those Houjin troops who were blown up have combat effectiveness, they are just lambs to be slaughtered, and some Ming troops simply take the heads of the Houjin troops who were killed as their own.

The more the Jin army fought, the smaller the number of people, but the Ming army and horses were more and more gathered, the disparity in strength was high, and it was only half an hour before Luojiazhai lost resistance, and Eqili saw that the situation was not good, and took more than 30 people out of the north gate to flee in the direction of Santun camp.

This kid is actually a fortune teller, he took dozens of people before they had time to go to the city wall and blew up, so they all rode war horses, and saw the soldiers and horses pouring in from the collapsed west gate, knowing that the city could not be defended, so they could only fight horses and escape.

Seeing that the main general slipped away, the Jin army lost their fighting spirit even more, they began to seize the road and flee, and the Houjin army who found the war horse in time still had a chance to escape, and there was probably only a dead end without horses.

There are really not many victories in this battle, planning to attack and kill more than 80 levels of Jiannu, cut off a hundred Tartar heads, and the Qiding and Baoyi who stayed in Luojiazhai basically did not get a chance to escape.

A small half of them were killed by the Ming army, and more than half were killed by the more than 10,000 Han people who rioted, and the Ming army collected a total of 200 or dozens of heads with money rat tails.

Luojiazhai is not very large, under the gaze of more than 10,000 Han people, the Houjin army has nowhere to hide, and the remnants of the enemy are quickly eliminated.

An hour later, after Ma Shilong's statistics, he got a total of more than 400 levels. The Ming army lost 32 casualties, less than 60 were seriously wounded, and more than 100 were slightly wounded.

Such a relaxed and pleasant battle and such a small casualty made Ma Shilong, Wu Zimian and the generals who participated in the raid celebrate, which was already second only to the number of beheadings in Zunhua.

The Ming army was very busy, of course, it was busy collecting the spoils of war, and there were no less than 350,000 stone of grain hoarded here, as well as more than 1,000 cattle, mules, and donkeys, and hundreds of pigs and sheep.

Huang Han knew that with only more than 4,000 Ming troops to carry it, there were too many things that he would definitely not be able to take away.

With the experience of mobilizing the masses in Pisces Village, he asked the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" to carry out propaganda, let 10,000 ordinary people come and divide the cattle and grain, and let everyone do their best to carry the grain and hide in the mountains.

Seeing the sunset in the west, it is impossible to rush back to Zunhua today, rather than camping in the wilderness, it is better to camp in Luojiazhai, after all, there is a city to rely on, and I will return to the division early tomorrow.

Staying here overnight also has the great benefit of allowing people hiding in the nearby mountains to take more food.

The morale of the victorious Ming army was high, and now most of them were busy helping the law enforcement team to collect gold and silver treasures, and the hearts of the people were less than eight or nine times out of ten, and the Han people who were allowed to carry food away would be taken in by the Ming army, because the Ming army found out that the gold and silver treasures were stolen.

The "Red Banner Army" did not interfere with the actions of the Ming army at this time, they put down the pigs and sheep and steamed the cooking cakes, and all the Han people in Luojiazhai, including the common people, could come to eat meat, eat cooking cakes and drink broth.

Tens of thousands of ordinary people saw the red flag fluttering, and saw the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" eating meat and cooking cakes for everyone, and everyone remembered this contingent called the "Red Banner Army."

The common people cherished food very much, and they learned that when the Ming army retreated, the food and materials that could not be taken away in Luojiazhai would be burned, and everyone did their best to make several trips back and forth to the mountains.

Huang Han instructed his subordinates to light as many bonfires and torches as possible, and strive to illuminate the entire Luojiazhai to provide convenience for the people to carry food.

The mountains here are undulating, and in some places the cavalry can't go up at all, hiding many people, and soon there are strong men and healthy women who rushed to Luojiazhai to move grain, so they were busy all night,

Early the next morning, when Huang Han ordered the retreat, he found that there were no materials worth deliberately setting fire.

It is obviously not advisable to burn this stockade, and the Houjin army will withdraw not long after, and the houses left in the stockade are the private property of the common people, and it is too simple to burn it down, and it is not easy to rebuild.

The army did not set fire to the city when it withdrew. Huang Han also made no special arrangements.

The 4,000 men and horses returned the same way, and the law enforcement team had completed its mission, and now it had a new mission, to explore the route of the army, and the reconnaissance line was relaxed to a radius of twenty miles.

The benefits have been received, and everyone is not willing to use the bamboo basket to draw water, Huang Han is so cautious that all the generals support it, and all the main generals consciously rotate to participate in the investigation.

After the defeat and escape from Luojiazhai, more than 100 people of the Houjin army fled to Santun Yingcheng in the north, and some fled to Majiapo and Qian'an in the south.

However, the garrison generals of the Houjin Army in these three places, without exception, did not dare to send troops to rescue Luojiazhai in the middle of the night of the third watch.

Hearing that the Ming army attacked Luojiazhai, the Majiapo guard general was too busy to take care of himself, he sent messengers to Qian'an overnight to report the emergency, and urgently mobilized the bannermen and clothed minions to strengthen the walled city, the only two gates were blocked by stones and grain bags, and it was impossible to send a soldier out.