Chapter 324: The Great Collapse

A group of children fights with a group of children, if a group of children form a formation, it is often the organized and disciplined group of people who win, if it is a group of adults and a group of children, those children are useless even if the formation is neat.

After the long-range attacking wooden spear thrower was shot by the archers of the border army, the brigade of the border army Hula was covered up at once, and the peasant rebellion at that time was a good equipment except for the core troops, and the rest of the people who were coerced to have a hoe in their hands. Fortunately, Liu Shisan ransacked Laiwu's arsenal, and the rebels' equipment was quite good, but the weapons required combat skills to perform.

Compared with those armies that fought in the border pass all the year round, the vast majority of Liu Shisan's troops belonged to farmers with weapons, and the front people were quickly killed by the wolf-like border army, and the months of training and the knives and axes of the rear supervision team lost their deterrent effect.

The young men who came here began to scatter and flee, the chaos became bigger and bigger, and slowly it came to the point of being out of control, Liu Shisan sat on the horse, looking at the collapse in front of him, his heart was dead, he knew that he had completely failed. And there is no room for redemption.

Now he really knows that his ambition and his ability are indeed too far apart, and he does not listen to Dengzhou's orders and becomes independent without authorization, and the consequences of this have already been revealed, and he sees that there are still two thousand ironclad soldiers in front of him, and his heart is like a knife.

The ironclad soldiers can't run fast at all because of the weight on their bodies, and even if they take off the ironclad armor, what else can they do on this battlefield, that is, die from the official army, or die from the sword of the chaotic army.

"Those who are close to the Iron Armor team will be killed!"

Liu 13 gritted his teeth and gave an order, his own soldiers shouted together, the ironclad soldiers formed an unbreakable formation, and everyone who approached was assassinated by spears or slashed by axes, and those who fled slowly became scarce, or fled to both sides of the battlefield, of course, most of them died under the knives of the official army.

Several guards behind Liu Shisan exchanged glances with each other there, and someone came over and said:

"Second master, why don't we go first, the head of the family can still keep the second master in Dengzhou, and he will not lose his glory and wealth."

Liu Shisan looked back at the guards, these were all his close relatives, and he laughed miserably:

"I still have the face to go back there, and all I can do today is fight to the death."

Next, he ignored the few people behind him, and gave a loud order there, the current Ming army has already sorted out the formation in the fight, and the fight is very slow, but the pursuit is very fast, and the rebels who are running all over the mountains and fields are wrapped in young and strong, these people don't pay attention.

It's just that under the orders of officers at all levels, they slowly gathered towards Liu Shisan's main formation, and under Liu Shisan's orders, the ironclad soldiers began to move to the front, and the officers and soldiers in front were not in a hurry to act, but just kept a certain distance and followed the movement.

The ironclad soldiers are in a neat formation, and the queue of officers and soldiers is scattered, but now Liu Shisan also understands that the quality of this group of officers and soldiers is very different from those local soldiers in the past, this kind of casualness is more for the convenience of fighting, or because of the bravery of these soldiers, there is no need to use these formations to strengthen the combat power, and the officers and soldiers on the periphery look like a hedgehog ironclad army formation, and the knife and axe hand holding a short soldier slowly retreats to the back.

The soldiers with spears and horse lances gradually leaned closer to the front row, sure enough, they were experienced in combat, and the officers and soldiers with long weapons were admitted to the archers behind them, and after quickly shooting five arrows, the muscles of these archers were sore, and they needed to recover.

Now the distance between the two sides is about twenty steps, Liu Shisan's iron armor formation speed is very slow, because to maintain the stability of the formation, and the officers and soldiers who do not have such a good iron armor are much more flexible, after the archers complete the preparation, they all shoot bows and arrows one step forward, and then quickly return to the protection of the long soldiers of the formation, the iron armor of the Jiang family army only has the iron armor, and the rest of the iron armor is only the cuirass and arm and leg guards.

Although the archers of the border army said that not everyone was a marksman, they still had the approximate accuracy, and with the indiscriminate shooting of birds, the ironclad soldiers were caught off guard, and they were suddenly overwhelmed.

The border army with the long weapon was extremely fast, watching the rebel spearmen fall in front, hundreds of households and thousands of households gave a loud order, and they were about to rush forward, but the ironclad army also had its own way of coping, the knife and axe hand quickly went to the forefront, and the square shield in his hand was trained into a piece to form a defense, and the spearmen who retreated to the second row stretched out their spears from the air attack of the shield, so that the threat of bows and arrows was minimized.

The officers and soldiers saw that Liu Shisan's troops reacted quickly, but they were not in a hurry to pursue, but quickly maintained a distance of about thirty paces, while the archers retreated to the back.

There are more than 200 cavalry around Liu 13 behind the ironclad army formation, these are his Liu family's personal soldiers, these more than 200 cavalry can play a role in charging the battle at a critical time, Liu 13 is to wait until his ironclad army formation causes the largest Shanghai to the other party, the cavalry attack, causing the greatest results.

Now the distance between the enemy and us is quite close, the loud orders in the official army formation are clearly heard, the people in the official army shout loudly, but Liu Shisan's side understands it, it is all the accent of Hebei, and his heart is even more cold, it is actually a border army.

When Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi's white-clothed divine soldiers crisscrossed the north and south of the river, all of your guards were unbearable, and it was an exaggeration to say that they would collapse at one touch, but it was not far behind, but after Jiang Bin brought the border army of Datong over, the majestic Liu family's white-clothed side almost collapsed quickly when the snow met the scorching sun.

This is a psychological obstacle for Liu Shisan, feeling that the other party is a border army, the belief in death in his heart has dissipated a lot, and he began to be a little timid.

The rebels continue to advance, the officers and soldiers continue to retreat, Liu Shisan understands in his heart that if he is in the field, his soldiers are afraid that they will be dragged down by this, but if they retreat, it will be the city of Jining, and sooner or later there will be a battle, the position of the officers and soldiers has stopped, and now the front row has been replaced by a group of soldiers with spears, the faces of these soldiers are covered with white cloths, which is also strange, the spears held by the soldiers are helping the pipe at the tip of the gun, and there is a sneering sound of the lead below, For a while, I couldn't touch my brain.

The firearms of the Jiang family army in Dengzhou are firearms and artillery, these people are not from military families, so they naturally don't know the characteristic firearms of the Ming Dynasty.

The fuse ignited, and at the top of the tip of the spear, yellow smoke suddenly erupted, rushing towards the ironclad army array, and now the battlefield was originally a breeze, but now close to the city, surrounded by a large army, almost no wind, yellow smoke drifted past without any obstacles.

The soldiers who smelled the yellow smoke immediately coughed and cried, and some fell directly to the ground, and the solid formation was finally chaotic, and most of the more than 200 people behind Liu 13 were young people in their teens and twenties, although they were panicked at all, they didn't know what it was.

Only a guard in his forties who was following Liu Shisan gasped and said in a lost voice:

"It's a poison musket!"

The poisoned musket has basically nothing to do with the firecracker, in fact, it is a bamboo pipe on top of a long pole, which contains a mixture of gunpowder and croton arsenic and other things, and it is also regarded as a chemical weapon on the battlefield, relying on poisonous smoke to weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness, and then you can kill and injure.

This kind of weapon is often used by modern military enthusiasts to satirize the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army, as well as the child's play of their weapons and equipment, but in what era this kind of weapon appears, it always has its role, such as Liu Shisan's strong formation, if it is a hard attack, it will inevitably be dead and wounded.

But now the rebel ironclad who was caught off guard was already in a crush, and the officers and soldiers with their faces covered in white cloth had already rushed in and slashed and killed.

Liu Shisan looked at the power in his hand and explained it here, his eyes seemed to be dripping blood, he raised the knife in his hand, and was about to rush forward with the only remaining personal guard cavalry under his command to fight hard, but as soon as his arm was raised, he felt that the back of his head was hit hard, and his eyes were dark, so he fainted.

The forty-year-old guard behind him tied Liu Shisan to the horse with a cloth belt, turned his head and shouted loudly to the companions around him who didn't know how to be good:

"What the hell are you doing in a daze, follow Lao Tzu!"

More than 200 horsemen themselves are behind the ironclad array, and there is almost no rush, the horsepower is very strong, although the ironclad soldiers are in a mess, but even 2,000 pigs will take a while, not to mention those soldiers who are dizzy, tearful exchanges, and dance with weapons in their hands.

The officers and soldiers couldn't pursue, they could only watch more than 200 horsemen go away, and Han Cai over there scolded angrily, but there was nothing to be done, the terrain was familiar with the other side, and his own border army horse team was already a little tired from the back and forth, and the two sides couldn't catch up no matter what.

However, Han Cai and Lou Yaohua were not too anxious to pursue Liu Shisan, the weapons on the battlefield and these iron armors were already rich enough for them, not to mention that there were a lot of decapitation merits, plus the battle of the guest army was doubled, and the second leader Wen Dao had already been beheaded, and the rest of the matter was left to the Shandong Guard to deal with it himself!

The Lunan Rebellion, which lasted for nearly eight months, finally came to an end, the thief army was beheaded nearly 10,000, the thief chief was killed before hearing the sword, and all the thieves in Lunan occupied the prefectures and counties were recovered, and the thief chief Liu 13 was nowhere to be found......

King Jing's family is nowhere to be found, and it is suspected that he was killed.