Chapter 197: Soldiers Enter the Cities
The second sentry was even more lax, and a dozen sentries dozed off on the fire when they were huddled in one pile. Bayi Chinese{Net ??). 8) It is no wonder that their generals all thought that this road was unlikely to lead to officers and soldiers, and the soldiers under them naturally relaxed their vigilance.
What's more, on such a snowy night, even rats are too lazy to burrow, let alone people. They are not unaware of the virtues of the officers and soldiers.
It was under such lax defense that the members of the first squad of the Snow Eagle Brigade easily eliminated a dozen rebel sentries at the second sentry, without even making a move.
The rebel camp was in front of him, Fang Jingbo made a gesture to his teammates, one of them nodded, turned around and ran to the back, telling the army behind to advance and attack.
Fang Jingbo and his team members scattered towards the rebel camp tent, and when the sentry was solved, what they had to do became much simpler - set fire!
I saw dozens of people separate and surrounded the rebel camp, and after finding the location of the ignition, they immediately lit a fire.
The weather was cold on a snowy night, and it was not easy to catch fire, but the team members brought fire oil, and after pouring fire oil on the camp tent, those tents were originally cloth tents and wood that were easy to catch fire, and the fire soon burst into flames.
With the four fires, Du Geng, He Zhendong and others also quickly led the army to arrive and commanded the soldiers to kill the rebel camp.
At this time, the rebels had just been awakened by the sudden burning fire, and they were all stunned for a while, and they didn't understand what was happening, and many people got up in a panic and ran around, in a mess, and some people ran out without even having time to take their weapons.
After the members of the Snow Eagle squad finished setting fire, they began to slash and kill in the camp tents of the rebels in groups of ten, only to kill the rebels crying and crying and wailing.
The rebels were awakened by the fire in their sleep, and they were already panicked, and the members of the Snow Eagle squad rushed to kill, and they didn't know how many officers and soldiers came, but they heard the shouts of killing outside the camp tent in the distance, which made the rebel soldiers terrified, and the scene was very chaotic.
Du Geng, He Zhendong, Bai Zhicheng, Jiang Dacheng and others led the army to rush to the rebel camp, and the rebel soldiers came out to meet the battle in embarrassment, but where was the opponent of the new Liao army? It didn't take long for him to be slaughtered.
At this time, Hu Sanfu woke up from his sleep, got dressed and left the two rich women and hurriedly came out to meet the battle with their own soldiers, but saw that there were fires everywhere in the camp, and the soldiers were also crying wolves. And the officers and soldiers outside were killing like a wave, knowing that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, retreat quickly!" ”
Saying that, Hu Sanfu took his soldiers and hurriedly got on his horse and fled, only running out of a hundred or ten zhang, but was stopped by an official army.
The official and general of the army was Bai Zhicheng, and I saw him shouting: "Thief! Where to run! Look at the guns! ”
Before he could finish his sentence, Bai Zhicheng stabbed straight at Bai Zhicheng with a spear in his hand, urgent and fierce.
Hu Sanfu had already been frightened by the formation of the official army, where did he dare to fight, dodged to avoid the spear of the White City, and the long knife in his hand shook with a false move, and he turned around and was about to flee.
How could Bai Zhicheng let him go, patted his horse to catch up, and the spears rained out, forcing Hu Sanfu to stop and fight, barely supporting.
But the new Liao army has the advantage of strength and excellent weapons, how can the rebels be opponents, as more and more of the soldiers around him fall, Hu Sanfu is becoming more and more panicked, and he has no intention of fighting at all, plus the two rich women who flew Shuangfei last night also consumed a lot of his physical strength and energy, so that he was not the opponent of Bai Zhicheng, and he was soon picked off by Bai Zhicheng with a shot.
As soon as the main general died, the remaining rebels had no intention of resisting, and immediately disarmed and surrendered.
Du Geng ordered people to quickly clean up the battlefield, and then continued to rush to Zhucheng non-stop, the general and they were still waiting to open the road to Taojiazhuang and march to Zhucheng to destroy the main force of Kong Youde's rebels.
In this battle, more than 800 rebels were killed, including those who were burned to death and trampled to death by war horses. In addition, more than 2,000 soldiers were captured and surrendered, and only a few dozen escaped.
The fire, due to the selective ignition of the Snow Eagle team and the difficulty of spreading under the ice and snow, gradually extinguished soon after the tent burned out.
After galloping forward for about ten miles, a group of rebel cavalry came to meet them, all of them with sleepy eyes waving their weapons.
It turned out that the fire just now woke up the sentries of Kong Youde's army, who were ten miles away, and there was a faint sound of shouting and killing, and the sentries knew that something must have happened, so they hurriedly reported to the authorities.
Geng Zhongming received the report and hurriedly ordered Xie Tingjun of the left cavalry battalion to lead 3,000 cavalry to investigate the situation, and at the same time ordered the officers and men of the whole army to get up and prepare for the battle, and he himself went to report to Kong Youde.
Xie Tingjun led 3,000 cavalry who had not yet woken up and hurried to the direction of Gu'an Town, but as soon as he rushed out of less than 200 zhang, he saw a group of officers and cavalry coming in front of him, which was the 3,000 forward cavalry led by He Zhendong and Bai Zhicheng, and followed by a mixed army of infantry and cavalry led by Du Geng himself, as well as charioteers.
The special forces of the Snow Eagle Squad also followed He Zhendong out, originally waiting for the opportunity to carry out the beheading mission, but they didn't expect that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming had been awakened, and it seemed that it was impossible to quietly carry out the beheading.
3,000 cavalry against 3,000 cavalry, the strength is comparable, but in terms of morale and momentum, the new Liao army is obviously much stronger than the rebels.
A new Liao army has just won a big victory, and it is a victory, and the morale is naturally high. Second, the equipment of the new Liao army is also much more advanced than that of the rebels, in addition to the traditional cold weapons such as spears and knives, there are also new weapons such as flint guns, fire dragon guns, grenades, and rocket slips. Third, the rebels have just woken up from their sleep, and many people have not yet reacted, and the siege of the city has been frustrated for two days, and the momentum is even inferior.
Mo Li, Cao Bianjiao, Du Geng and others originally planned to take advantage of the night to march and surprise the rebel camp before dawn.
But I didn't expect that due to the heavy wind and snow, the road was long, and when the new Liao army arrived at Gu'an, it was almost dawn. After cleaning up Hu Sanfu's rebels, it was already dawn when they went to the rebel camp, and the best opportunity to raid was lost.
Thousands of cavalry launched a fierce battle under the city of Zhucheng, the new Liao army had a great advantage, with the powerful firearms in their hands, caused a lot of damage to the rebels, especially the ferocious power of the fire dragon spear, but also scared the rebels' horses into panic and made a mess, the rebels were in a big disorder, and they were killed and retreated.
He Zhendong and Bai Zhicheng led the cavalry to cover up the victory, and when they were about to kill the Quartet, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others personally commanded tens of thousands of troops to meet them.
As Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming commanded the rebel army to kill, the cavalry of the rebel Xie Tingjun's army, which had already broken the formation, suddenly stabilized its position again, no longer collapsed, and continued to fight with the New Liao army.
He Zhendong, Bai Zhicheng and others suddenly felt the pressure doubled, the other party had tens of thousands of troops, and Chen Guangfu, Ansen and others were still coming in June, constantly entering the battlefield.
And Du Geng and the others' infantry army is still behind, about three or four miles away, and they are desperately rushing over. However, He Zhendong was not worried at all that he would not be able to hold out to Du Geng and their arrival, with the 3,000 cavalry of the New Liao Army, He Zhendong was confident that there was no army in the world that could defeat him in half a day.
And the massive use of grenades by the New Liao Army is a big nightmare for the rebels. Because of the large-scale lethality of the grenade, it happened that the large number of rebels became a condition for the grenade to make meritorious service and prestige, although the grenade of the new Liao army was still only a rudimentary level at this time, and the power was far inferior to the American military grenade in later generations, but it was enough to deter this group of rebels.
One by one, the grenades exploded in the rebel array, and dozens of lives were harvested in an instant, and at the same time, there were not a few wounded, and the battlefield suddenly cried and howled, and the new Liao army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and most of the rebels could only passively meet the battle at this time.
The fighting continued, and although the rebels were numerous, their combat effectiveness and weapons were far inferior to those of the New Liao Army, so the two sides were actually in a stalemate.
With the addition of Du Geng's follow-up army to the battle group, the disadvantage of the rebel rabble gradually manifested, in the face of the impact of more than 10,000 troops of the new Liao army, like a plate of scattered sand, no longer has an overwhelming advantage, and is still slightly inferior for a while, but relying on the strength of the crowd, this stabilized the position and did not collapse the whole army.
After the Wuqiao Incident, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde were able to get to this day by relying on continuous victories, or in other words, relying on continuous successes in captivity, which condensed the morale of the rebels under them.
Beizhili, Denglai, Shandong, more than a dozen prefectures and counties, large and small, local guards, Denglai's town soldiers, and Beijing camps from the capital, together there are tens of thousands of horses before and after, but they can't take the rebels, and they don't dare to fight or even fight.
In some places, the officers and soldiers were even more unbearable, so that the rebels were still in neighboring counties, and they left the people of a county 100 miles away and fled. The successive victories made the rebel army, which originally had only 800 people, snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and at this time, Li Jiucheng's troops are not counted, only Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and now they have nearly 70,000 horses under their hands.
But among the tens of thousands of rebels, there are not many soldiers who can fight, and most of them are strong men who have been coerced by the major forces. Now when the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, who are capable of fighting, are unable to resist the attack of the new Liao army, the strong men began to have ideas.
For a long time, what has supported tens of thousands of rebels is morale, once there is no morale, tens of thousands of rebels will be tens of thousands of rabble, and in the face of the new Liao army's terrifying new weapons, how many people can maintain strong fighting spirit, then only God knows.