Chapter 545. The afterglow of the dynasty
It is said that he has patrolled and defended, and the military experience of the governor of Shanxi, but militarily, Wu Fu is a little more than two hundred and five, verbally clamoring to exterminate the thieves, but he really met but numb his claws, he gathered more than 67,000 Qin infantry and 8,000 Yu soldiers who came to Henan General Chen Yongfu all gathered in the small city of Lushan County, and confronted the thieves for a day and a half, and he did not dare to order to go out of the city.
Fortunately, the army on the opposite side was huge and slow, and it took a day and a half to complete the semi-encirclement to the north, if it was to encounter any of the Dongjiang Army or the Qing Army, Lushan County would have to fall into a heavy siege at this time, and he Yuan Chonghuan could not enter the city.
In the entire north of the Ming Empire, only this Qin army is left with the main force of field warfare, and if the lone army is besieged in a small city, it will be a catastrophe, and he can be trapped to death if he does not fight.
It is still not too late, early in the morning, the drums of Lushan County, which had been silent for a day, were like thunder, under the startled gaze of the opposing army, sixteen cowhide snare drums roared in the east city wall, and the officers and soldiers carried the banner of Rulin from the southeast city wall slowly, and began to line up in front of the face of the million soldiers.
Although the fully armored border army iron cavalry has gone through a long journey, it is still energetic and sharp, the war horse snorts and steps on the hooves, and the Shaanxi cavalry with a horse spear under his arm is also eager to try and keep looking, the three cavalry first firmly anchored the three corners of the southeast and west, and then the brigade of infantry quickly lined up in a row, exposing the two thick fish scale arrays on the ground magnificently.
Facing the newborn sun, the neat array of bayonets facing the east reflected the chilling light of death, the large banners floating in the morning breeze fluttered and hunting, and the stout and heavy military cannons mounted on wooden wheeled carts pressed forward like giant beasts.
Today's officers and soldiers are simply not like a team like yesterday's officers and soldiers, just because at the forefront of the army, a handsome flag of Yuan Zi took the lead and led it in front of everyone.
This morale was so strong that it confused the opponent's formation after just one appearance, and in the chaotic shouting, the intruders wearing strange flower clothes and carrying standard blades and weapons came out of the shack where they were lying last night in horror, some squeezed forward, and had to shrink backwards, and the chaotic energy was like an earthworm that was entangled and inseparable.
At this time, if a surprise attack is launched, it will definitely be able to achieve a good result, Liu Yanai, Bai Guangen and other generals are eager to try, but strongly suppressing this fighting spirit, Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand to let the team standby.
His eyes were full of gloom, and he looked coldly at the large array of troops all over the mountains.
The chaos lasted for almost a few minutes, and the same drum sound sounded in the formation of the breaking army, which was different from the war drums of Yuan Chonghuan and the Qin army, and the frequency of the war drums of the breaking army was different, and it was noisy like the chirping of cicadas in summer.
But ......, overwhelming!
The sound of the drum was as shocking as if all the cicadas in heaven and earth were clamoring together, roaring dozens of kilometers from north to south, in the past, he spent the embattled overlord of Chu under the pen of Taishi Gong, but when he arrived here, Yuan Chonghuan really understood what it was like, not only him, but also the generals of the Qin army behind him couldn't help but change color, and talked in a low voice.
"It's just a bunch of stragglers! Thousands of people are chasing hundreds of thousands of thieves like rabbits, and it's not once or twice, I'm afraid of a ball!"
Gao Jie scolded and shouted loudly, which stopped the discussion of the officers, but his words did not fundamentally alleviate the morale problem, Bai Guangen, Niu Chenghu and a few immediately snorted coldly.
Everyone knows that Li Chuang hates Gao Jie to the bone, and he can't wait to pull his skin alive, and this husband has no way out.
But what about them?
In the hustle and bustle, the army carrying all kinds of long soldiers has gathered quite thickly, full of eyes, the hillside is full of dense and not very sharp spear sharp weapons, together like the bitter thorn forest on the mountain, people can't help but get a pimple, after three drums, the thorns in the clumps of thorns are suddenly cracked, a middle-aged man wearing a yellow robe and a Confucian crown walked out of the crowd on a horse, and shouted.
"Where is Inspector Yuan?"
Although in terms of appearance, it is already very different from Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, but Yuan Chonghuan did not give up this possible opportunity, tilted his head and signaled to the personal guard Li Weiguan, who immediately dismounted and drilled backwards.
After the man shouted three times, a reflection faintly shone on the city wall of Lushan County.
If Mao Jue was here, it is estimated that someone would have crossed again, this thing turned out to be more than three or four meters long, the kind of gun commonly used during the Opium War.
After all, I have been in the East *** layer, the difference between the infantry gun and the horse gun in the Dongjiang River is the length of the gun barrel, and the firing range, the horse gun is also shorter than the rifle, it is estimated that Yuan Chonghuan pushed back, and in turn, the longer the barrel, the longer the range, which has this weapon.
Moreover, Yuan Chonghuan does not have a steam machine tool like Mao Jue, so he can't drill all the birds of his subordinates out of rifling, but this is the same as the giant body, but he spent a lot of effort to drill out the rifling after the barrel of the Dongjiang River, and its accuracy has also increased, with a barrel of three meters and eight nine, the effective killing is as high as 250 meters to 300 meters.
is so painstaking, just for the sake of a crucial shot on the battlefield, don't say that assassinating the opposing coach is a small way! Standing and laughing to the end is the king! If there is a chance to get rid of Li Zicheng, Yuan Chonghuan will definitely do whatever it takes! Like nobody's business!
It's a pity, it seems that with the improvement of status, King Li Chuang, who took the lead in the charge, also began to stand under the dangerous wall, under the cover of several large shields, Yuan Chonghuan got up to greet him, more than 100 meters in front of the two armies, the two were about thirty steps apart, and the scribe with a stubborn face was smiling and bowing.
"This official broke into the king's tent to discuss the government bachelor Niu Jinxing, and meet Inspector Yuan!"
This title obviously disappointed Yuan Chonghuan, but his face did not show much, looking at the other party's smiling face, he shouted in a deep voice and with a little annoyance.
"You're also a reader! Abandon etiquette and loyalty, and commit yourself to being a thief! What face do you have to talk before me? ”
"Why not! Qin lost its deer, and the princes of the world chased it! In this world, there are originally virtuous people living in it! Three hundred years ago, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was not a thief in the Yuan Court? Inspector Yuan, look at your side, and then look at these people opposite, who was not forced into a corner by the imperial court and couldn't survive so he had to rise up? Overseer! Da Ming has lost his morality! It's time for the country to change color! ”
Being able to sit on the Shoufu University Scholar who is equivalent to breaking into the army, Niu Jinxing is naturally not given for nothing, and in the face of Yuan Chonghuan's disdainful questioning, he raised his head and laughed and talked eloquently.
"My family started from the end of the day! But it is Ziwei Star descending to earth, and it is inherently special! He has led his subordinates to overcome obstacles for many years, widely spread the virtue and government, and now he has two million armor and tens of millions of people, and it is the time to bravely shoulder the burden of the world!"
"Good birds choose trees to perch on! Inspector Yuan is not a person who is easy to kill, why bother to lose his life here for Zhu Ming, who brushes his sleeves! My family said that as long as the superintendent surrenders to sincerity, the officials will pick and choose at will, and after the world is ruled in the future, the territory will be sealed!"
This will be Yuan Chonghuan was a little stunned, the state of etiquette, the two armies are at war, and it is common for the messengers of both sides to be polite first, but he really didn't expect that Li Zicheng would actually surrender to his own trilateral governor, why should he?
Stunned for a moment, a sneer appeared on Yuan Chonghuan's face, and he laughed and scolded loudly in a high-spirited voice.
"Dezheng? Like locusts sweeping through the four fields, killing people for food, and coercing the people to follow thieves, you are really cheeky to speak of virtue and politics? In a certain opinion, Li Chuang is just a big thief!"
"It's you, follow Li Chuang's perverse actions, destroy the community, and be displaced, if you descend this morning, you can still be a good citizen, and you can live in peace, if you are obsessed again, blood will flow all over the field, and your head will be in a different place!"
Saying that, Yuan Chonghuan had already pulled the reins of the horse and turned away, originally watching him let go of nearly 100,000 family members of the intruding army, and thought that Yuan Chonghuan also had the intention of surrendering, but he didn't expect his determination to fight so firmly, he was bored, Niu Jinxing also hugged his fist stupidly, pulled out his horse and left, and the bloody battle between the two sides was about to break out.
After returning to the camp, Yuan Chonghuan gave another quick and loud order.
"Niu Chenghu, Liu Yanai! You two cavalry pressed the formation, without the order of the governor, you must not go out lightly, Gao Jie, you rush forward in the formation, resist the attack of the intruding army Bai Guangen's car and artillery battalion lifting, the thieves will attack from the road in front of Lushan County, which one will attack, will directly hit that one, each army will stick to the camp, and those who dare to take a step back will be killed!"
In the anxious order, the generals of all walks of life received orders one after another and hurriedly dispersed, but Yuan Chonghuan's entire military formation was completely in a defensive formation.
Just in the midst of the turmoil of this banner, the intrusive army also came out of battle, Li Zicheng's most famous tactics are none other than the three walls, the first to return to the array of horses, and elbow forward, the former to look back, the latter to kill! The heavy shock sound was like the sky cracking down, as Yuan Chonghuan expected, along the wide official road in front of Lushan City from north to south, the cavalry of the Chuang Army took the lead in killing the troops from the Chuang camp.
In recent years, Li Zicheng's power expansion has been directly raised on the cavalry, the first few columns are simply draped in the heavy armor of the official army, wearing a wind helmet, holding a horse pistol more than three meters long, and the back is also covered with leather armor, the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty has moved the nomadic line south, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the Song Dynasty, the horse administration implemented by the Ming Dynasty is now just to add wings to the army, the number of cavalry is not less than tens of thousands, and the dust raised by the horse's hooves is also several meters high, overwhelming, and it goes straight to the Qin army's main formation.
That posture, it is impossible to say that they are not afraid, the faces of the Qin army soldiers in the front line are like earth, and even another one is directly scared to pee, and a yellow trace spreads directly on the crotch of his pants, exuding an unpleasant smell, but the biggest difference between the official army and the peasant army is that the organization is strong, and the advance and retreat are measured! The orderly officers and soldiers who relied on the banner and the order once easily defeated the thief army more than ten times their own, especially Yuan Chonghuan, who was considered to have studied under the Dongjiang River, emphasizing this discipline.
"Tribulus array! Open!"
In the front army, one by one hundred households officers hoarsely voiced, screaming miserably, the officers and soldiers who were still neatly arranged just now quickly retreated, and some hard things were exposed, which was the stake deer village cut in front, even if there was a bayonet, Yuan Chonghuan was not stupid enough to use his own infantry to shake the iron cavalry of the army, each hundred households shrank behind the three deer villages, showing three triangles, and the entire army was like a bulge of countless iron thistles in an instant.
Immediately, Yuan Chonghuan also showed the troops what he had learned from the Dongjiang River, and in the face of the troops who were crowded on the official road, more than 200 large and small general cannons roared out, and a bore of blazing iron and fire sprayed on the heads of these iron horsemen.
Mao Jue's artillery first emphasizes accuracy, and the second is ammunition, but Yuan Chonghuan didn't learn accuracy, and he didn't have the capital to equip the army, so he could only draw cats and learn tigers to get a rough idea, but fortunately, the shrapnel was only used on a large scale on the battlefield during the American Civil War, and he was not disappointed.
The rudimentary cannon exploded in mid-air, and the blazing iron shotgun balls smashed down on the head and face, and in the clanging sound, the iron helmets full of bubble eyes cast could not resist at all, and the head of the cavalry in the wild rush fell down as soon as the head was tilted, and then they also hit their own people on their backs, and they had never seen the officers and soldiers use such firearms, and the first wave of the invading army was beaten over their heads, and at least a thousand horses were knocked off their horses in a round, and the momentum was suffocated.
"Listen to my orders, the thieves can't shoot until they are eighty paces!"
Walking in the military formation, Gao Jie, a big man in the four towns of Jiangbei in later generations, was also roaring in a relay, but in the end, there were many soldiers who only joined the army this year, and the overwhelming momentum had already scared them, Gao Jie's words did not wait for the words to fall, the sergeants in the first row had already pulled the trigger, and a large burst of gunfire suddenly rang out.
In the smoke of gunpowder, it was indeed terrifying, but the ironclad cavalry who rushed ahead of the army were stunned and did not fall two or three.
Fortunately, it was a three-stage shot, after the first row of shots, it was necessary to retreat, and before the mechanical office of the second row of guns had to put down the gun and fire, Gao Jie scolded and scolded his hand and fell, and he cut down several musketeers in a row, and the front-line soldiers also let go of their hands to kill, and cut dozens of people, before stopping this wave, one by one, the Qin army musketeers looked at the corpses of their comrades who lost their heads around them with their hearts beating wildly, and then looked at the overwhelming cavalry in front of them, under heavy pressure, everyone was on the verge of madness.
"Shoot!"
The sound was really like death was like a pardon, crackling the second row of bullets followed by the third row of bullets, and the tight cavalry formation was like encountering a heavy hammer, and countless people fell off their horses.
In the last thirty meters, the already sparse cavalry array was fiercely loaded into the Qin army's large array, and the horse's chest crashed into the deer village with a clicking sound, knocking the thing to pieces at the same time, and also throwing the knights above, and some of the ironclad cavalry of the army were desperately loaded into the formation, and the riding spears in hand pierced two or three like wearing sugar gourds, but this momentum also stopped abruptly, and did not disrupt the Qin army's formation.
"Fuck it, fuck me for my son!"
A small bayonet, really to the battlefield sent an incomparably big change, in Gao Jie's ugly scolding, his own soldiers first stabbed with a spear, in the future too late to change the saber of the army stabbed to death and dismounted, in the pro-soldier driven, layer by layer of bayonets like a mountain of knives to the outward, one after another screams, the army is like butter pasted to the fireplace, layer by layer melted down.
Finally, it couldn't be supported, wow, the army behind it pulled out the horse smoothly and walked away, and the Qin army with bayonets also rushed forward with red eyes, but in the army formation, there was a rapid bangzi.
"All back, all for Lao Tzu!"
Some of them were called back, but some of them had already fallen into the devil, and they followed with bayonets without hesitation, but the cavalry dispersed quickly, and before they could wake up, they were already greeted by a dense burst of guns.
Li Zicheng's second wall, with 30,000 spears, stabbed like flying! In the roaring roar, sickles, spears, halberds, shovels, all kinds of sharp, rusty long soldiers pierced all over the place, and the hundred and ten Qin soldiers who rushed out were pierced to the ground in the screams, and some turned their heads and ran a few steps, and more than a dozen blades were already coming out of their chests with blood.
In the face of this hedgehog mountain, Gao Jie's former army commanders also used their strength to drink milk, scolding their mothers and shouting.
"Charge, shoot!"
After fighting for more than ten minutes, before the second round of attack was about to end, the general's cannon roared again, and the gushing shrapnel and the blazing bird bullets tore through the gun formation, and the swords and guns were red, and the Qin army was once again strangled with this remnant array.
Yuan Chonghuan's gaze had already left the main formation, holding the telescope given to him by Mao Jue, he looked gloomily at the mountain, where, the cavalry of the intruding army that had just been defeated was like a monster, once again reunited from the disintegration, and once again overwhelming, and just behind this battle spear array, more ants from the army to find food gathered together, countless.
Too much!!!
(End of chapter)