Chapter 180: The Battle of the Wind and Snow, Do You Want to Save You When You Die?
After Mao Yufeng led the remaining more than 200 cronies around him to join Li Yingyuan, he finally settled down, took a breather, and commanded his subordinates to fight with the New Liao Army together with Li Yingyuan. γLatest chapter reading. γ
Since the men and horses on both sides had already been mixed up, no one dared to fire any more cannons, and even flintlock pistols and muskets were almost useless, all wielding swords and spears to fight desperately.
On the battlefield in the era of cold weapons, the scene of bloody R fighting is difficult for modern people to experience. In fact, the visual impact of blood and R brought to soldiers by slashing enemies with cold weapons is far greater than that of hot weapons. Because hot weapons usually focus on long-range lethality, compared with the shock of face-to-face slashing with the enemy when fighting with cold weapons, it is much weaker.
Li Jiucheng rode to Zhang Tao's side, looked at it for a while, turned his head and said to Zhang Tao: "General Zhang, it seems that the official army has poured out, and these foot soldiers alone may not be enough to win, so let's send the cavalry out to help in the battle!" After solving these officers and soldiers, it is good to enter Laizhou City! β
Zhang Tao nodded, he also saw that the officers and troops had all been put into the battlefield, and there was no reserve army behind.
"What Du Shuai said is, brothers, kill!" With a wave of Zhang Tao's hand, the two thousand cavalry behind him quickly surged out, joining the battle group and fighting with the cavalry of the New Liao Army.
Under Zhang Tao's authority, the rebel infantry of Li Tianfu's army rushed to the oncoming New Liao Army, relying on the large number of people to fight with the New Liao Army. After all, if you don't retreat without a fight, you will be killed by Zhang Tao's supervising team, and if you fight desperately, maybe there is still a chance of life.
Li Guo led hundreds of cavalry to rush up, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and slaughtered into Li Tianfu's rebel infantry formation, slashing and spearing, killing the rebels and howling wolves.
At that time, Zhang Tao's cavalry had not yet been put into the battlefield, so Moli ordered Li Guo to lead the cavalry to break into the rebel infantry formation, and use the rapid mobility of the cavalry to disperse the enemy army, so that it could not form a formation and the army was in chaos.
Subsequently, Mo Li personally led the infantry soldiers into the enemy formation and started a fierce battle. This battle can only be won and not defeated! If you lose, there is no way back!
Li Guo led the troops in front, Mo Li commanded in the center, and Liang Peijun and Sima Jian guarded on both sides. Xiao Yang and Ma Jinzhong also led their subordinates to sweep the left and right flanks.
On the other side, Guan Feng, Zhou Yuji, He Zhenbei and others also led their subordinates to fight with the rebels led by Li Yingyuan and Mao Yufeng.
Although the cavalry of the New Liao Army was fierce, the number of rebels was too many, and under the bloody power of Zhang Tao and Li Tianfu*, all of them could only fight to the death, and almost no one dared to escape, so although the rebels were out of formation, they still continued to fight.
I don't know when Y came down, the wind blew fiercely, and the snow flew in with the wind, and the snowflakes that flew with the wind were splashed with blood from time to time, turning into red blood and falling to the ground. Maybe it's because it's close to the sea, and the wind is so strong that people can't open their eyes.
Although the new Liao army is elite, the cavalry of the original Dongjiang Liao soldiers is also good at combat, and although the new Liao army is good at fighting, after all, there are only about 2,000 people, and the remaining more than 3,000 foot soldiers are surrendered in Putai.
The rebels had nearly 20,000 people, except for leaving 4,000 foot soldiers and hundreds of artillery teams to guard against the defenders of Laizhou City and prevent them from suddenly attacking from behind, the other rebel cavalry and foot soldiers were all dispatched, and about 15,000 people joined the battle group, which was more than twice the number of the new Liao army.
More than 20,000 people fought fiercely under the city of Laizhou, and the sound shook the wilderness.
The cold wind swept the snowflakes in the sky, blowing people's cheeks with pain, and the remnant sun was like blood, reflecting the sky red.
On the ground, the blood shed by the soldiers on both sides had already dyed the earth red, and at a glance, the sky and the earth were dazzlingly red, and it was impossible to tell where it was redder for a while.
The defenders in Laizhou City were shocked when they first saw the rebels knocking down the city wall, and they didn't know what to do, but they suddenly saw the rebels who had attacked the city and withdrew from Laizhou City, and they were surprised and felt strange, until they saw the shouting and killing sound from the northwest direction, and they realized that it was reinforcements coming.
Jiang Taicheng, Xu Congzhi and others hurriedly instructed the soldiers to use sandbags, boulders and other objects to quickly plug the gap in the collapsed city wall to prevent the rebels from rushing in.
Seeing that the soldiers on both sides outside the city were fighting fiercely, and it seemed to be in a state of stalemate, everyone knew that if the rebels defeated the reinforcements, they would immediately turn around and rush straight to Laizhou City, Xu Congzhi said to Jiang Taicheng a little anxiously: "My lord, the imperial court reinforcements are coming, let's go out and join the reinforcements!" β
Jiang Taicheng stared at it for a while, nodded and said, "Vice General Xu, how many brothers do we still have who can fight?" β
"Counting the minor injuries, there are about 2,000 people."
"Can this little soldier defeat the rebels?" Jiang Taicheng said a little worriedly.
"My lord, now that the city wall has been broken by the rebels, if the rebels defeat the reinforcements and then rush into the city, we won't be able to hold it, so it's better to rush out and fight with them now!" Xu Congzhi said loudly.
"Good! Then let's fight against the water! Vice Admiral Xu, lead the brothers to kill out! Jiang Taicheng finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said.
"The last general obeys!" Xu Congzhi turned over his horse, drew his sword and pointed at the fierce battle outside the city, and shouted: "Brothers! Reinforcements are coming! Kill me and go out to pick up the reinforcements! β
Xu Congzhi led more than 2,000 people to open the city gate and rushed towards the battlefield outside the city.
Seeing this, Li Jiucheng hurriedly ordered the artillery team to open fire on the rushing Laizhou defenders.
Jiang Taicheng commanded the artillery defending the city to return fire to Li Jiucheng's artillery team with artillery fire at the head of the city, providing artillery support and cover for Xu Congzhi. For a time, the cannonballs flew again in the sky over Laizhou City, and the cannons rumbled, which was spectacular.
Xu Congzhi led his troops to rush out of the city under artillery fire, because he knew that there was no way to retreat now, and only by fighting to the death, fighting with reinforcements, and defeating the rebels had no chance.
After paying the price of more than 300 casualties, Xu Congzhi finally led his troops to rush to the front of Li Jiucheng's rebel army, and fought fiercely with the artillery soldiers and foot soldiers under Li Jiucheng's account. At this time, both sides can no longer fire artillery, because that would hurt their own people.
As the sky darkens, the battle continues.
I don't know when, the soldiers on both sides have been killed without formation, and they have completely fallen into a melee, you have me, I have you, and I can only die.
Since the formation had been disrupted, Mo Li, like Li Guo and other generals, participated in this big melee.
Both sides were already pressed by the whole army, and the battlefield stretched for several miles, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Because the rebel army was more than twice as strong as the New Liao army, and the strength of the two sides was comparable, Mo Li and other generals were scattered in the melee, and only Liang Peijun, Sima Jian, and more than 100 personal soldiers followed.
Mo Li rushed left and right, clenched the long knife in his hand, and slashed hard. The long sword in his hand was longer than the average long sword, and the style was similar to that of the later Oriental samurai swords, but it was more resistant to weight, slashing, and sturdy.
Now there is no tactics to talk about, it is completely a big melee, and the fight is who is not afraid of death!
Fight for your life!
I saw Mo Li's lifeless slashing and chopping, and in an instant, he had already cut down six or seven rebels, and the spears in the hands of several people were cut off by him, and he was stunned with Mu G.
Liang Peijun on the side was also wielding a long sword, constantly slashing and killing the rebels who rushed up, and covering for Moli from time to time.
Sima Jian also waved his long sword to protect Mo Li.
Soon, the rebels reacted, and when they saw that Mo Li was so brave and not low, they turned their attention to him.
"This is a Ming army official, the brothers caught it alive!" During the fighting, from time to time, I heard an officer giving orders to capture Mo Li alive.
With a scuffle of people all around, coupled with the wind and snow, this is destined to be an extremely difficult battle, a fight for life.
Mo Li and the others fought hard, especially with Liang Peijun and Liang Peijun, slashing and stabbing each other, killing the rebels who came up and retreated.
Zhang Tao, who was not far away, saw that the Ming army was so brave, and he had lost hundreds of people in just a few years, and if he continued like this, even if he caught them, he might not gain more than he would lose. These Dongjiang soldiers are the capital of fighting the country, and they can't be folded casually.
Especially when he saw that the commander of the Ming army was ruthless, he hit the key point, only died and was not injured under the long knife, his eyes were as fierce as a lone wolf, and he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates not to leave any more alive mouths, and they all were killed.
Even if there was no order from Zhang Tao, these Dongjiang Liao soldiers knew that there would be no mercy on their subordinates at this time, and they would leave a living mouth.
Seeing that the companions around him were cut down by Mo Li one by one, those Dongjiang Liao soldiers who had already killed red-eyed stabbed their spears at those cavalrymen like crazy, and as people continued to howl and fall off their horses, the fighting between the two sides became more and more fierce.
At this point in the battle, the casualties on both sides were very heavy, but no one had any intention of withdrawing their troops. Mo Li knew that persistence was victory now, as long as he persisted until nightfall, after the sky was completely dark, his own chance of victory would be great.
Because the night vision ability of the rebels is generally not high, while the new Liao army under their own subordinates is different, not only often drinking pine needle water, but also often carrying out night combat training.
Therefore, although after a fierce battle for a long time, Mo Li also felt that his arm was sore, close to collapse, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and the situation was becoming more and more dangerous, but he still held on to his breath and kept slashing at the rebels who appeared beside him.
was constantly fighting, Mo Li suddenly remembered that Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng's soldiers and horses should be nearby, because when they marched before, Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng's troops had been following about ten miles behind, and now the killing here is earth-shattering, why have Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng's soldiers and horses not appeared yet?