Chapter 42: Defeat and Extravagance
At this time, a bamboo flute sounded, the four guards in front of them leaned together, leaving a gap wide one person next to them, a white pole soldier stepped forward from the gap, and hooked the native soldier who rushed in front with the hook in front of the white pole, and then pulled back, the second white pole soldier used the iron ring behind the white pole to hit the native soldier who pulled in hard, and hammered him to the ground, and the third white pole soldier used the hook to pull the hammered native soldier to the back, and the men of the guards and the soldiers of the baggage battalion cut off the head of the native soldier.
In the process, the front platoon of the Guards was still firing in an orderly manner, and the two sides cooperated tacitly, and occasionally a wounded soldier fell to the ground, and soldiers immediately filled it, and a baggage battalion dragged the wounded soldier to the back for treatment by a medical officer.
The first coordination between the Guards infantry and the white pole soldiers was indeed seamless, and the Guards swept away most of the native soldiers, and the approaching native soldiers were dragged by the white pole soldiers to kill them. Panlong saw that the situation was not good, so he wanted to retreat into the city, the sound of the bamboo flute changed, Qin Yiming waved his hand, and the cavalry of the Guards began to attack, Qin Yiming didn't care about the fleeing native soldiers, and rushed directly to the city gate, and soon crossed Fan Long's military flag.
Fan Long almost poured out of the nest this time, there were not many defenders in the city, and Qin Yiming ran too fast, the defenders were still urging Fan Long to run quickly, Qin Yiming had already rushed to the city gate, the drawbridge could not be pulled up at all, the native soldiers in the city gate wanted to close the city gate, but Qin Yiming was killed and scattered with cavalry, and the native soldiers shouted and fled in all directions.
Qin Yiming ordered the cavalry battalion to enter the city quickly, and led his own people to guard the city gate, Fan Long saw that the general trend had gone, dropped his long knife, knelt on the ground and shouted: "We are willing to surrender." The native soldiers also threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground.
Ruchin still led the Guards infantry to advance slowly, and the white pole soldiers were much faster, quickly passing through the infantry phalanx, and moving forward to tie up the native soldiers with ropes. Qin Liangyu ordered that no prisoners should be killed, and the native soldiers were first put into custody.
At this time, Qin Yiming had already cleared the native soldiers in the city and brought the gentry of the new capital. After Fan Long broke the city, he killed all the officials in the new capital, so Qin Liangyu could only entrust the new capital to the gentry, and the native soldiers were temporarily imprisoned in the new capital, while the leaders of the native soldiers below Fan Long were in the army.
After a day of repairs in the new capital, the army drove the CD. In the first battle of Xinducheng, more than 1,000 native soldiers were killed and more than 3,000 prisoners were captured, while only 11 people were killed in the Guards and two were killed in the white pole soldiers.
Within a day, I rushed to the CD city. There were more than 40,000 troops outside the city, and I heard that there were only more than 2,000 people in the city. The siege of the city on October 18 was less than ten days now, and the stone soldiers arrived at the CD more than a month earlier than in history.
After discussing with Lu Qin, Qin Liangyu decided to set up camp in Pingyang, which was far away from the CD, and then attack after the soldiers had rested. However, Yu Chongming obviously didn't think so, and after getting the news, he decided to attack first while Qin Liangyu's foothold was not stable.
When he first arrived in Pingyang, he had not yet set up camp, and the scouts came to report, and Hao Chongming's son Hao Yin led an army of 10,000 to attack with great vigour. The soldiers were tired and hungry, and the fortifications of the camp were not erected, so Ruchin urgently ordered that the guards quickly eat the military dry rations and distribute a part of them to the white pole soldiers. The military dry food was made by Zhu Youxiao after adding dried vegetable lard to the fried noodles, and it was stipulated that it could only be used in an emergency, because it was resistant to storage, easy to eat, and could quickly replenish physical strength in a short time, so it was generally not allowed to be used, and could only be used in an emergency.
After quickly filling their stomachs, they began to set up the formation, and there was still one battalion of infantry lined up in six rows in front, followed by the white pole soldiers, and another battalion followed behind the white pole soldiers, and the cavalry did not dare to separate on the two flanks this time, so they were arranged in the back.
The luxury army came quickly, Qin Liangyu set up the formation, and Xuan Yin had already led people to rush up. Originally, Hao Yin was not so bold, but he was just a little afraid of the white pole soldiers, and he didn't care much about the other Ming court troops. He saw that there were no white pole soldiers in front of him, so he rushed forward boldly with confidence.
The Guards infantry liked nothing more than to charge the enemy, because this would make the accuracy of the musket less important, as long as it was not fired at the sky and the earth, it would always hit people.
A burst of gunfire rang out, and the dense crowd became thin, and when Hao Yin saw his subordinates bleeding and falling to the ground next to him, he was stunned for a moment, stopped rushing forward, and shouted instead: "Rush for me, kill these Beijing soldiers." But he did not come forward again.
According to the density of the enemy army, Lu Qin gave the order to open fire, but Hao Yin's men were all elite soldiers, quick and fearless of death, and soon a large number of native soldiers rushed in front of the guards.
Ruchin shouted: "Bayonet defense, do not charge." The sound of the bamboo flute sounded, and the white pole soldiers began to rush forward from the gap between the infantry, and the hook was no longer used to pull, but directly cut the throat of the enemy, and soon mixed with the luxury army.
The drums sounded, and the first infantry battalion in front began to disperse into clusters, and the second infantry battalion in the rear quickly moved forward, quickly passing the front army, and the drums sounded three times in a row, and the rear army began to form a group, and then slowly approached forward.
The white pole soldiers rushed to kill extremely fast, and they had already rushed into the luxury army, and everyone was mixed together, except for the white pole in their hands, they couldn't see any other difference. The extravagant soldiers on the periphery slaughtered the infantry of the Guards.
The infantry held their firearms flat, and the extravagant soldiers looked at the small bayonets, but they didn't care at all, and directly brandished their weapons and rushed forward. Ruchin shouted, "Freedom to attack." "Although it is only one word away from free fire, the meaning is completely different. If the opponent is short-armed, the infantry will use a bayonet to pick him to death, and if he encounters a long-armed extravagant soldier, he will pull the trigger, and at such a close distance, it is basically a bullet to destroy an enemy. This kind of long and short style of play swept down a large part of the luxury army warriors who rushed to the front.
After the bullet was fired, the infantry stopped charging and stopped waiting for the enemy to attack, and at this time the soldiers of the second battalion rushed forward in whole formation, using bullets and bayonets against the extravagant army. The soldiers of the battalion in the back began to charge and moved on. This cycle of repetition soon swept away the luxury army in front and joined the white pole soldiers.
The formation of the white pole soldiers could not be inserted, so Lu Qin ordered to attack from both flanks to reduce the pressure of the white pole soldiers, and soon, under the double attack of the white pole soldiers and the guards, the luxury army began to flee, and soon evolved into a collapse. At this time, Qin Yiming began to chase and flee with the cavalry battalion, and the extravagant soldiers were aimless, running everywhere. Qin Yiming stared at the banner of Hao Yin, and wanted to capture him to make a head, but this guy was also cunning, and even let his subordinates play the banner, but he slipped away in the other direction, but Qin Yiming only captured a flag, but Yu Yin escaped.