Chapter 256: The Dead
Looking at the retreating Qing army's infantry armor, Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This battle was won.
Twelve thousand men defeated nearly thirty thousand Tartars. Although only 10,000 of the Tartars were soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the rest were followed by the Eight Banners of Mongolia and auxiliaries, this battle was still a great victory in the Biao Bingyu.
What kind of army does the Ming Dynasty have, which can defeat nearly 30,000 Qing troops in one battle?
The next step is to hunt down the deserters!
The 1,000 artillery soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment did not let go of the fleeing Qing infantry armor, loaded their shotguns and continued to shoot at the infantry armor. Although the infantry were scattered when they fled, they were bombarded by shotguns at close range, leaving behind hundreds of corpses.
Not only that, but the soldiers of the Swingers and the Drafters were still shooting. The soldiers, apparently not enough of the Tartars, stood in the front row one by one to shoot at the fleeing infantrymen, shouting "kill the slaves". If the infantry wanted to escape beyond the range of the Tiger Master, they would have to leave at least a thousand corpses behind.
Not far away, the 500 tooth-swinging soldiers turned their horses and fled north. Li Zhi raised his binoculars and watched the enemy's Chinese military command flag fall in the distance, and all kinds of military flags and the eye-catching gold-woven dragon were thrown to the ground without hesitation. Dressed in gilded armor, the Tartar general Yueto and the Swing Tooth Ra converged and fled north.
Want to escape?
It's not that easy!
Li Zhi shouted loudly: "The selection of the front regiment is on the horse, and the enemy general is hunted down!" ”
The horn of the Chinese army sounded for a long time, and the flag was waved. Instead of shooting at the fleeing infantry, the Selector Regiment returned to the middle of the phalanx to find their horses and chase after the Tartars' general, Yue Tuo.
The selection regiment is the elite of the Tiger Division, all of them are equipped with two war horses for one person, and the speed of riding is very fast. Li Zhi also rode a horse and led a horse, and personally led 2,000 soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment to chase after Yue Tuo, who had escaped.
The Tartar tooth swinger was also a man and two horses, and when he saw Li Zhi chasing after him, the Tartar spurred the horse to run fast. The two armies chased each other to the north of Fanjiazhuang, and after a while they ran ten miles to the north.
Li Zhi captured more than 10,000 military horses in these wars, and selected the best 4,000 of them for the Xuanfeng regiment. Compared with the war horses of the Tartars, the war horses of the Election Regiment are more elite and have more horsepower.
And Yue Tuo was very flustered, eager to get rid of Li Zhi behind him, and urged the horse too quickly at first. After running for more than ten miles, although Yue Tuo threw Li Zhi more than two miles away, his horsepower ran out. Li Zhi chased after him steadily, using horsepower sparingly, and after chasing for more than ten miles, he began to close the distance between him and Yue Tuo and bit it.
Yue Tuo rode as he rode, his face was pale, but his eyes were blood-red, and he was getting more and more panicked. He kept shouting at the Tooth Swingers beside him, but he couldn't make them run any faster. The tooth swingers have already changed horses twice, and even if they change horses again, they can only run at this speed, and they are about to be caught up by Li Zhi's selection team.
The tooth-swingers began to take off their armor in order to increase the speed of their horses, throwing away the bulky cotton armor and chain mail, hoping to run lighter and faster. But even with the armor off, the Pickers a mile away were still getting closer.
Yue Tuo's face turned pale, and he secretly said that he was going to die here today?
Du Du, the deputy general beside Yue Tuo, said loudly: "General Yangwu, divide two hundred fangs to stop Li Zhi!" ”
Yue Tuo looked at the tooth swingers beside him, and his face twitched. These tooth swingers are the elite of the elite of the red flags, and if they die, there will be one less, and Yue Tuo will never be willing to use them until the critical moment. I didn't expect to be used as a dead soldier now, using my life to stop the pursuers behind.
Yue Tuo's lips trembled, and he didn't speak.
Du Du said loudly: "General, give the order, if you go on like this, you will be caught up!" ”
Yue Tuo nodded and said, "Okay, let two hundred swing teeth go and stop Li Zhi!" ”
Du Du turned his horse and rode to the place where he was swinging his teeth, and loudly passed on Yue Tuo's order.
Two hundred tooth lamas were selected and left the ranks as dead soldiers to stop the Ming army chasing after them.
The two hundred tooth lamas knew that they would die, but they did not dare to disobey the orders of General Yangwu. The so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, the tooth lamas are pampered and respected on weekdays, and this is the time for them to serve the Qing Dynasty. They rode away from the ranks and rushed towards the Ming army behind.
Li Zhi was chasing Yue Tuo, and he felt that he was about to catch up, but he saw two hundred people rushing over. Obviously, Yue Tuo wanted to use the tooth swing horn to be a dead soldier and delay his pursuit.
Li Zhi snorted coldly and shouted loudly: "Xue Sanku led a thousand people to meet the Swinging Tooth La, and the remaining thousand people followed me around to continue the pursuit of Yue Tuo!" ”
"Today, Yue Tuo will be beheaded in Fanjiazhuang!"
Xue Sanku, the deputy commander of the regiment, led a thousand cavalrymen of the Xuanfeng Regiment to draw their handcuffs and rushed towards the two hundred swinging tooth lamas.
The distance is a little closer, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters. Both sides were approaching each other at the speed of fast horses, and the distance was very fast. At a distance of seventy meters, the warrior raised his horned bow and fired a round of arrows. About twenty of the two hundred arrows hit the soldiers of the Chosen Regiment, and several of them pierced the chain mail of the Chosen Regiment, inflicting damage.
After shooting the horn bow, he hurriedly raised the axe and broadsword, and galloped over to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the Election Regiment.
"Kill slaves!"
Twenty meters away, four hundred soldiers from the front row fired their handcuffs at the Swing Tooth Soldiers. Only a crackling sound was heard, and a dazzling fire shot from the handcuffs. A hundred brave and skillful tooth swingers sprang out of their bodies and fell under their horses. The tooth swingers didn't expect that the Ming army still had such a melee weapon, and a hundred warriors were killed in an instant, and it was suddenly chaotic.
After shooting the handcuffs, the soldiers of the front row turned around and rode to the left and right, and the four hundred cavalrymen behind rushed up with handcuffs.
"Kill slaves!"
"Kill slaves!!"
Another flash of fire erupted, and one by one the remaining hundred tooth swingers were shot and killed, and fell under their horses.
Two hundred tooth horns were shot to death at once.
Xue Sanku, who commanded the thousand soldiers, looked at the bloody corpse on the ground, and then looked up at the division commander Li Zhi, who had already chased away, and said with a smile: "Brothers, dismount!" Cut the head! ”
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Li Zhi led another 1,000 men and chased for another ten miles, gradually catching up with Yue Tuo in front.
Li Zhi rode on his horse, holding a well-loaded rifle in the bump, aimed at Yue Tuo's back, which was two hundred meters in front, and fired a shot.
"Smack!"
The bullet flew and did not hit Yue Tuo, but it startled the tooth swingers who fled in front of them. Seeing that the guns had already been fired, the tooth-swinging lamas knew that it would be a dead end to run away with Yue Tuo. Moreover, they were afraid that Yue Tuo would treat his three hundred people as the dead soldiers of the palace to stop the Xuan Feng Regiment, and one by one they no longer fled north with Yue Tuo, but fled to the east and west.
Even Yue Tuo's lieutenant Du Du rode away from Yue Tuo. Obviously, Li Zhi's target is Yue Tuo, as long as he leaves Yue Tuo and escapes elsewhere, there will be a glimmer of life.
Yue Tuo, who fled on a war horse, fled at the front, and at first he didn't realize that all his subordinates were scattered. When he felt how quiet his surroundings were, and when he looked back, he was surprised to find that all the warriors around him had dispersed.
A hundred soldiers of the Election Regiment, riding their best horses, had already chased after him a hundred meters behind. (To be continued.) )