Chapter 814: Recovering Ye County
Chen Yue did not stay in Jiaozhou for long, leaving Gu Junen to temporarily clean up the situation in Jiaozhou and command the soldiers and horses behind, and he himself went straight north with the recovered 20,000 troops.
The same light march, the same rapid march, the difference is that this time it carried armor and some artillery, after all, it was a march in an enemy-occupied area, and a battle could take place at any time. As for more baggage and red-coated cannons, they were carried by the follow-up army and slowly pursued.
Two days later, the army arrived in Pingdu Prefecture, and the defenders guarding Pingdu only had more than 1,000 green battalions. When he heard that it was Chen Yue, the king of Qi, who personally led the troops, the green battalion garrison guarding Pingdu Prefecture immediately broke off the city and surrendered.
Chen Yue summoned the green battalion garrison named Li Gouzi outside the city, and after inquiry, he learned that he was Tang Tong's old subordinate, and he had also pursued the Eight Banners who withdrew from the pass with Chen Yue's Xishan Army.
Since he was an "acquaintance", Chen Yue was not polite, and directly incorporated his army, gave him a letter, asked him to go to Tang Tong, and asked Tang Tong to surrender quickly.
"Tell Tang Tong, in the past friendship, I will give him a way to live, and when I arrive in Laizhou, he will surrender to my camp with his own hands tied, and I will intercede for him in the court, forgive him for his repeated rebellion, and leave him a place in the court. Otherwise, when the army arrives, it will be all powder!
He knows my temper, and he also knows that the situation is urgent, I don't have time to ink with him, and if he doesn't surrender after I arrive in Dengzhou, then don't surrender! Chen Yue said domineeringly.
The soldiers took Pingdu Prefecture without bloodshed, leaving hundreds of officers and soldiers to defend it, and the army continued to march to Ye County, the capital of Laizhou.
Jin Xin took 3,000 troops as the vanguard, and two days later he was the first to rush to Ye County, and immediately approached Ye County to provoke.
Guarding Ye County was a general of Bai Guangen, and there were more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Ye County. Bai Guangen was originally born as a thief, and later surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and became a general soldier, and his henchmen and generals were also born as thieves, seeing that a Ming army of more than 3,000 people dared to provoke, this general was furious, and immediately waved his army out of the city to attack the Ming army.
Then he saw the strong force of the Ming army, and when the two sides were one mile apart, they were attacked by a round of artillery, and dozens of soldiers fell, and the green battalion soldiers were not to be outdone, so they marched and fired arrows at the Ming army.
When they were half a mile apart, hundreds of tiger squat cannons of the Ming army were fired at the same time, and the dense projectiles were like half of the rain curtain covering the attacking green battalion soldiers, and immediately hundreds of green battalion soldiers fell, and the formation suddenly became a little chaotic.
"Rush over and kill them all!" The general shouted, knowing that as long as his side continued to attack, the Ming artillery would not have time to reload.
With their orders, more than 1,000 personal soldiers took the lead in killing, and the rest of the army followed, rushing towards the thin front of the Ming army.
"Bang bang bang" Countless firearms sounded, and the running green battalion soldiers fell to the ground from time to time, this general didn't care, this is a necessary sacrifice when attacking, as long as the two sides are short-handed, with their own strength several times enough to drown the other party!
Closer, closer, and it was already possible to see the Ming gunners retreating to the back, flashing several rows of spearmen armed with spears. Just with this thin queue of pikemen, do you want to block Lao Tzu's attack? The general sneered.
Looking at the swarming green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, Jin Xin's brows furrowed slightly, and he wanted to step forward with his gun and kill him happily. But no, it's a pleasure to do that, and your own side will have more casualties, and if you can easily defeat the enemy, why bother fighting?
Jin Xin sighed and ordered, "Drop the bomb!" ”
Following Jin Xin's words, the firecrackers lit the fuse of the grenade, and after waiting for a few breaths, they threw it towards the queue of clear soldiers who were less than ten steps away.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom", at this moment, it seems that countless thunderbolts fell from the sky and fell in the ranks of the Qing army, followed by lightning and thunder, violent sounds continued one after another, countless fires flashed, and gunpowder smoke rose up, enveloping the entire Qing army column.
The huge shock wave swept through the queue, countless soldiers were staggered by the impact, a grenade exploded and split into more than ten pieces of shrapnel, enough to sweep away the soldiers within a few steps, hundreds of grenades fell into the ranks of the Qing army, every moment there were people screaming and falling to the ground, the dense impact formation, so that many people could not dodge and dodge.
Seeing this tragic scene, the general was shocked and scattered, he didn't expect the Ming army to have such a big killing weapon!
Before the short soldiers were close, thousands of people died tragically under the big killers, and the formation of the green battalion soldiers was blown to pieces, how can this battle be fought?
"Stop!" Jin Xin waved his hand, and the heralds around him immediately waved the flags representing the generals back and forth, so the grenade throwers stopped throwing, and the explosion stopped.
Looking up at the Qing army array, the fallen flags, the soldiers lying on the ground screaming, the bloodstained ground, and the shocked and frightened expressions of the green battalion soldiers.
In fact, the explosion was only for a short time, but it brought thousands of casualties to the Green Battalion, and the Green Battalion was completely stunned by the explosion and did not know how to react.
The corners of Jin Xin's mouth provoked a hint of a smile, "Kill it!" Annihilate them all! "Don't you want to rely on the large number of people, now Lao Tzu fulfills your wishes!
"Kill!" The Ming soldiers, who had long been eager to try, rushed towards the Qing army a few steps away with swords and guns, and the musketeers also threw down their firearms, drew their short knives at their waists and followed behind.
"Boom", before the Ming army could be killed, the green battalion soldiers who were lucky not to die in the explosion at the front threw down their weapons and turned around and ran.
The Ming army is all devils, and there is thunder at hand, how can these green battalion soldiers dare to fight against them?
"Don't run, we have more people than them!" The generals were still "sober", knowing that although they had experienced the explosion, their numbers were still several times that of the Ming army. But how can the victory or defeat of the battle be determined by the number of people? When the morale of an army is completely lost, no matter how large the number is, it is just a herd of pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered!
And now the Green Battalion soldiers are like pigs and sheep, slaughtered by the Ming army, which is far less than their own, and no one pays attention to this angry general.
The general howled for a while, and a Ming soldier rushed in front of him, raised his hand and stabbed him in the throat, and the howling stopped abruptly.
"What nonsense!" The Ming soldier spat on the ground and drew his gun to join the chase.
Countless green battalion soldiers fled, countless green battalion soldiers threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, Jin Xin commanded the army to chase and kill, and took advantage of the situation to attack the county seat of Ye, the capital of Laizhou.
When Chen Yue arrived with his troops, he saw the military flag of the Ming Dynasty fluttering at the head of Ye County, and Jin Xin, who was covered in blood, greeted him with a smile outside the city gate. (https:)
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