Chapter 66: A Pyrrhic Victory
But where is it so easy to escape, the yard is rugged, there are brick and stone obstacles everywhere, and they are all wearing armor, so they can't go fast at all, plus the head of the war horse rushes towards the yard, and it takes time to turn the horse and exit the yard.
"Feng Cheng, Ah Yu, you two are blocking them!" A banner man shouted at the two coats, and when he was in danger, he naturally sacrificed these Han coats to cover the Manchu masters.
The two coats named Feng Cheng and Ah Yu glanced at each other, and could only helplessly stop and turn around to face the pursuers. They also know that if they stop, they will die, but if they run away without orders, it will also be death, and it will also affect their families outside the gate. I just hope that for the sake of my own desperateness, the master who escaped can treat his family well!
"Kill!" Chen Yue hurriedly stepped forward, the tip of the spear flickered, and stabbed straight into the chest of a blocking clothed Qing soldier, the armor on his body was too thin to have a defensive effect.
On the other side, Yang Zhengping also withdrew the spear from the throat of another coat.
Just a hindrance, the other two bannermen have already escaped from the courtyard, they actually abandoned the war horses in the courtyard, Chen Yue led people to chase through the courtyard gate, and saw that they had jumped on the horses. Five Qing soldiers had two horses, five of which were killed in the courtyard with them, and the other five were left outside the courtyard.
"Kill!" Yang Zhengping ran a few steps quickly, shook his hand and threw out the spear in his hand, the spear leaped into the air like an arrow, and plunged directly into the back of a bannerman, and the huge inertia made the spear pierce his body through the cloth armor, and the bannerman shook twice on the horse, and fell off the horse with a pop.
"Kill!" Chen Yue threw out the spear in his hand like Yang Zhengping, only to see the spear cross the sky like an arrow and stab on the ground with a pop.
"Brother Yang's flying gun is really powerful, and I will ask my little brother for advice in the future." Chen Yue smiled to himself and said to Yang Zhengping.
"Whereever, as long as you are willing to learn, young master, I will naturally not hide my secrets." Yang Zhengping said with a smile, killing two Manchurians with his own hands made him feel very happy, and finally avenged his family a little!
"This spear throwing technique is also good in front of the two armies, and it can effectively kill and injure the enemy." Looking at the Qing soldiers who were stabbed off their horses with spears, Chen Yue was thoughtful.
"It's not as far as bows and muskets, and you can only hurt the enemy at close range, and if the enemy has a shield to defend it, this trick is completely useless." Yang Zhengping said.
Looking at the backs of the Qing soldiers who went away, Chen Yue knew that he couldn't catch up. Although he can ride a horse, he can only urge the horse to gallop, and he can't do it at all. However, four of the five Qing soldiers remained, and Chen Yue was already very satisfied.
However, although the victory was also a tragic victory, the number of casualties among his subordinates was far greater than that of the opponent. Six of the seventeen people in charge of Chen Yan Xiaoqi, who were in charge of the sentry, died, and in the fierce battle just now, four more family members were killed by the Qing soldiers. It was just a fierce battle, and ten of the fifty-three family members died, and the casualties were as high as 20%!
Since Chen Yue and below, all the family members have been depressed, and there is no joy of victory at all. For these underage teenagers, the war is so terrible, so cruel, and the companions who were still alive and bragging and farting not long ago died like that, and their lives are so fragile!
Chen Yue couldn't care about grief, and led everyone to start checking the results, although the casualties were large, but the results were very brilliant. The most important result is the head of the four Qing soldiers, in the Ming Dynasty, the only criterion for testing military merit is the captured head, and the first rank is rewarded with how much silver and how high the position has always been clearly marked.
In more than 20 years of battles with the Donglu, the Ming army has always been defeated and won less, and there are very few heads captured, even if it is the most famous Ning Yuan victory during the Apocalypse, relying on the red-clothed cannon to wound the old slave, and only more than 200 heads were captured. In the future battles, it is already a great victory to be able to capture more than ten levels of heads, and the generals who go to war can be promoted and make a fortune.
Now Chen Yue led his family to kill four Qing soldiers, in the fifteen years of Chongzhen, almost no Ming army dared to fight the Qing army head-on, it was already a rare victory! With this achievement, it is enough to promote a non-commissioned officer to the third rank, from an ordinary sergeant to a hundred households, and if he presses his military merits on the head of Chen Jianghe, it is also enough to promote him to one level, from the general to the thousand, and become a middle-level officer.
Chen Yue himself is not a sergeant in the Beijing camp, and the training is also in the name of Chen Jianghe's family, and now Chen Jianghe is only a hundred generals, and Chen Yue's private training of 50 families is already beyond the system, if he is promoted to a thousand generals, then it is justified to train dozens more.
In addition to the four heads, the largest capture was nine war horses, all of which were real Liaodong war horses, not comparable to the common pack horses of the Ming Dynasty. Not counting the first rank, these captured horses alone can promote a non-commissioned officer to two ranks, and if they are pulled to the mule and horse market in Beijing, each war horse can be sold for at least 100 taels of silver.
Of course, Chen Yue didn't plan to sell the war horses, but decided to use these war horses to train the riding skills of his subordinates. In the decisive battle of the battlefield to chase the death and chase the north, it is necessary to have an elite cavalry.
"How about Brother Zhengping's riding skills, you can choose one for your own mount." Chen Yue smiled and said to Yang Zhengping, Yang Zhengping made great contributions in this battle, so he naturally wanted to reward him.
"I can't talk about riding, I can only ride." Yang Zhengping said embarrassedly, if he was good at horsemanship, how could he watch a Qing soldier flee in front of his eyes? Hearing Chen Yue say that he could choose a war horse first, Yang Zhengping was very grateful, thinking that men in later generations would love cars, how could there be men who don't love horses these days, especially those who practice martial arts like Yang Zhengping.
After observing for a long time, Yang Zhengping chose a white war horse, which was the one that was killed just now under the crotch of the white-armored soldier Man Dehai. Chen Yue gave him the white armor on Man Dehai's body again, wearing white armor, a white horse under his crotch, and a spear in his hand, the heroic Yang Zhengping was like Changshan Zhao Zilong.
Chen Yue himself picked a jujube red horse, and the remaining seven war horses were not sent down, but were used as training war horses by the family members in turn.
In addition to the war horses, five armors were also seized, including the white iron armor given to Yang Zhengping, in addition to the chain mail worn by Man Dehai inside, as well as a pair of cloth armor and two pieces of half-body armor. In addition, four pairs of bows and arrows, six or seven tiger spears, shun knives, and fine iron sickles were also seized.
In addition to the war horses, armor and weapons, a few packages were found on several Qing soldiers' war horses, and more than 50 taels of silver were found from them, which was not much, which may be the reason why the Qing soldiers had just entered the customs and had no time to rob. Chen Yue distributed the silver to his subordinates to appease their frightened hearts. For Li Yi and the others who performed well in the battle, they were rewarded with an extra tael of silver.