Chapter 83: Food is Life in Troubled Times
After re-energizing, under the supervision of Yuan Tao, hundreds of local tyrants were stubborn, brandishing bright knives and guns, shouting and rushing to the gate of the village, the people in the village were panicked, after the fight just now, there were not many stones, in order to block the attack of the local rioters, some climbed directly to the side of the stones, and used the stones to continuously smash the local rioters who rushed over. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
How can the people who lost the cover of the camp be the opponent of the local tyrants, under the agitation of Yuan Tao, everyone rushed desperately to the top, the big knife swung over, blood flew sideways, and saw several people injured, and the people in the village were terrified.
At this moment, suddenly the smoke and dust in the north were billowing and the sound of horses' hooves was bursting, Hu Jiusi raised his eyes and saw more than 30 horsemen rushing to the cottage ten miles to the north.
Just half an hour ago, Liujiazhuang was breached, and the displaced people swarmed in, and now they are preparing to carry grain and grass.
If you wait for the other party to kill the past, you will inevitably kill the displaced people, and it will take a lot of effort to transport away the food in the cottage.
But on the other hand, Hu Jiusi was quite annoyed by Ma Chao's tactics, Ma Chao often likes to use wheel warfare, his nickname is six teams Ma Chao, that is, the troops are often divided into six teams, one team at a time, so that you can't guard against wheel tactics.
Jiulongzhai has a thousand loads of food, and the rest is only more than a hundred loads, after thinking about it, Hu Jiusi still decided to make every effort to ensure the safety of Jiulongzhai, lest the attacking troops retreat just now, and Yuan Tao almost killed people.
Sure enough, Ma Chao adopted the strategy of dividing his troops to exhaust the enemy, and after seeing that Hu Jiusi did not react, the north side retreated naturally, and more than 30 horsemen suddenly appeared five miles to the east, rushing towards the local tyrants who were attacking the mountain.
Seeing that the cavalry was killed, Liu Weiming, the king of the rebellion, was quite annoyed, worried that he would be killed by the opponent inside and outside, and turned over on his horse, although he led his troops to retreat and meet them with all his might, he was still shot several people, and watched the other party slip away.
Now Hu Jiusi seems to be very determined, since Ma Chao is harassing, he is so ignorant of the officers and cavalry in other directions, stationed at the foot of Jiulong Village, as long as you don't get close to Jiulong Village, it's fine.
Under this tactic, at noon, Yuan Tao led his troops to finally break through Jiulong Village, and seeing that there was no hope of defending the village, Dutou Bu Dajing ordered the army rations to be burned, and then turned to street fighting.
This is much beyond Yuan Tao's expectations, what is the most precious in the troubled times, and the food is the most precious. With food, we can feed more people.
The other party wasted the food so much, which made Yuan Tao quite annoyed, on the one hand, it was like a red-eyed mad dog, killing every person, and grabbing every food.
Seeing that the local tyrants were so brutal, the men, women and children in the village picked up hoes, axes, steel drills or something, and fought with each other, so they fought for half an hour, and 20 people were strong and more than 80 Zhuang Ding were all killed.
The whole cottage was full of fires and smoke, and Yuan Tao ordered the looting of the people's food in the village on the one hand.
In the troubled times, there are the most people, and so far only four cottages have been attacked, and the largest is of course Jiulong Village, no matter what, these grains must be transported away.
The robbers violently slammed open the doors of one room after another, pushed away the panicked women, broke into the house, opened the cabinets, opened the jars and jars, and desperately filled the jars and jars with things.
This is the root of her own life, and the woman desperately holds the robber's legs, begging to keep a copy, so that she can survive.
With tears on his face, the child knelt down and shouted, leaving food for his life.
Some robbers could not help the torture of conscience, some brandished wooden clubs, large knives to hide their conscience condemnation, dispel the retribution of the cycle of cause and effect, and the whole cottage group of demons danced wildly, and it was only before the sun set that calm slowly returned.
Ox carts were sheathed, wheelbarrows lined up in front of the warehouse, and the robbers laughed heartily to encourage and cheer each other on.
The sun was about to set, and the carriage was slowly set, Yuan Tao looked extremely annoyed, just now he saw a team of nearly 700 people rushing to this side.
The other party acted quickly, and scattered in a formation less than a mile away from Jiulongzhai, everyone sang songs, one by one looked angry, and some were even hoarse, and surrounded Jiulongzhai.
Although Yuan Tao was quite surprised, he didn't pay attention to the other party's more than 700 horses at all, looked at the Xing Wanli Hu Jiusi beside him, and ordered him to lead his troops to rush over, while he led the main force to kill later.
Hu Jiusi sneered, he had more than 300 horsemen, and the other party was only more than 700 infantry, isn't this easy to capture?
In the past, when facing other rebels and official troops, when they saw their 300 or so cavalry rushing past, the other party was already frightened, and some even threw down their weapons and scattered in all directions.
Today, after being teased by the horse tide, everyone was quite annoyed, and when they heard the order, they turned over on their horses one by one, whistling, and in groups of three or five, forming a torrent about two or three hundred meters wide, surging forward.
Seeing that more than 300 cavalry from the other side rushed over, Yang Xuan didn't dare to be careless, since the last encounter with the Mongolian cavalry, all departments have carried out infantry and cavalry confrontation drills, but this is a real battle after all.
Of course, the combat power of the Turkish Tyrant cavalry is far from being comparable to that of the Mongolian cavalry, just like the more than 200 cavalry of the Ma Chao Division last year, after continuous elimination training, only more than 50 people barely qualified in the end.
Although everyone rode alone, many of the horses were weak and not as strong as the Mongol cavalry, and they could gallop freely in the plains and mountains.
Although the riders are carefully selected, everyone has not had much contact with war horses in the past, and now once they have war horses, although they have been trained, their riding skills are quite poor, and they cannot sit on horses and make various movements like the Mongolian cavalry.
In addition to that, not to mention fighting back and forth, not to mention constantly shooting arrows on horseback.
Despite this, after all, the other party had more than 300 horsemen, and seeing him kill, Yang Xuan was still quite uneasy in his heart.
In this era of China, if the Mongolian cavalry can be regarded as a first-class cavalry, then the local tyrant cavalry led by Hu Jiusi, Ma Chao and others can only be regarded as a cavalry that does not enter the stream, not only the horses are weak and there is no armor on the horseback, but most of them have very poor riding skills, can not ride on horseback to shoot, can not fight back and forth on horseback.
But in the era of cold weapons, the cavalry can be said to be the uncrowned king, and when he returned to the battle of Yilong a few months ago, he could not effectively suppress the infantry organized by Yuan Tao and Yang Bingyi in the face of crazy charging musketeers and crossbowmen, not to mention that he is now facing hundreds of local tyrant cavalry.
This is a typical hilly terrain in northern Sichuan, Yang Xuan looked at the surrounding terrain, and immediately waved his hand, taking the brigade as a unit, occupying six small hills in front and behind.
Quickly, the officers and soldiers began to set up, with musketeers on either side and various killers standing in the middle.
The situation was extremely critical, and when the opposing cavalry rushed to more than 300 paces, they had not yet set up a formation, and looked at the front of the formation with four or five sharpened female thorns.
Seeing that the other party was in a hurry, the rider in front of him was happy, and the other party's formation was so sparse, wasn't it waiting for slaughter?
A small number of people who are good at riding and archery take off their bows and crossbows from their horses and prepare to shoot (the local tyrant cavalry cannot be as good at riding and archery as Zhang Xianzhong and others, nor can they be as good at riding and archery as the Mongol cavalry. In ancient times, mounted archery was the most important indicator of a general's kung fu), and most people drew their sabers and prepared to slash and slash to their heart's content.
The fire flashed on a mountain peak in front, and sparks jumped out of the barrel, flew into the air, and then landed in the open space in front, the projectiles flew sideways, flying sand and stones, and an unlucky war horse happened to be next to it, and the whole batch of war horses were turned to the ground, and the war horses and the knights on horseback fell in a pool of blood.
The six tiger squat guns of the official army fired scattered bullets at the same time, different from solid bullets, scattered bullets are filled with a lot of fine iron sand in the barrel, and the fire rope is ignited after the opponent kills closer, and these fine iron sand are shot out and scattered around a radius of four or five meters, shooting near targets.
After understanding that it was difficult to effectively suppress the opponent's cavalry with bird guns and crossbows alone, Yang Xuan used the most common artillery of this era, the Tiger Squat Cannon, to suppress the opponent's cavalry through the Tiger Squat Cannon.
If these six tiger squatting cannons still can't effectively suppress the opponent, then they have to use the earth-shaking thunder, which has been used since the Northern Song Dynasty, there are three grenadiers in each squadron of the guard battalion, they carry a wooden barrel full of earth-shaking thunder, and constantly throw the ignited earth-shaking thunder on the opponent during the battle.
Since the grenadier tactics were still immature, Yang Xuan didn't want to use this tactic as a last resort.
At the same time that Yang Xuan was considering whether to use the new tactic of Heaven-Shaking Thunder, the six tiger squat cannons on the slopes on both sides were firing scattered bullets, which were different from solid bullets, because the scattered bullets were too small in size and too poor in air tightness, they consumed too much kinetic energy in the barrel, and could only shoot seventy or eighty meters, unlike solid bullets that could shoot one hundred and fifty meters in the tiger squat cannons.
The officers and soldiers had six tiger squat cannons, and only one round of firing shot over two war horses, and three other war horses were wounded, and the wounded war horses had already been hit by several iron sands, and now they were constantly jolting to eliminate the pain caused by the pain.
As originally stated, the Tyrant cavalry was at best a third-rate cavalry, not only were the horses weak and slow, but many of them were not skilled in riding.
In the past, when they fought with the infantry, both the local regiments and the officers and soldiers were scattered in all directions, but today it is strange that these infantrymen not only did not move at all as if they were nailed to the ground, but also set up the tiger squat cannon on the hillside and let it go.
But the vast majority of other riders do not consider it this way, although everyone is not very good at riding, it is difficult to ride and shoot on horseback easily and flexibly, and it is difficult to move freely on horseback, but long-term experience tells everyone that cavalry is the king of land warfare, and in the past, in the face of swarming cavalry, infantry often broke up.
Although everyone was shocked by the volley just now, the riders behind had no time to think, and one by one they rushed through the dense fog in front of them, ready to rush over, and at this moment, the musketeers opened fire.
There are very few plains in northern Sichuan, and there are hills everywhere, and groups of musketeers stand on the hillside, aiming at the local tyrant cavalry who rush over, and constantly release their guns at the cavalry rushing down the hillside, and then quickly reload the gunpowder and continue to shoot.
Unlike the Qi family's firearms ratio of 5 percent, now the proportion of firearms of the loyal and righteous army has already exceeded 3 percent, and each brigade has a squadron equipped with firearms.
This time, a total of four infantry battalions of Guo Chonglie and Yang Bingyi were dispatched, and the number of bird guns had already reached more than 100 poles, and now they were constantly firing their guns at the rushing horses, and it could be said that projectiles were constantly flying past them like raindrops, shooting and killing the horses.
Although the war horse ran quite fast, the size of the war horse was very large, and after a burst of shooting, several war horses fell in front, and the war horse that was shot fell to the ground, and the knight on the horseback fell down, making a dull sound.
The knights behind felt unbearable, their faces suffocated, and they rushed over from a distance, and the gunshots rang out again, and more knights on horseback fell to the ground.
The sound of horses' hooves shook people's hearts.
Although there were many muskets in the loyal army, the bird guns were fired very slowly, and the cavalry behind them rushed one after another, after shooting more than ten horsemen, everyone felt physically and mentally broken, and saw that the cavalry was about to rush to the front.