Chapter 3: Ruchin's Attack
Ruchin was furious and was about to go up and reason with him. Qin Liangyu stopped him and said, "Don't make more trouble at this time." Then he took the general out of the camp.
"May I ask the general's name?"
The veteran in his fifties hurriedly saluted and said, "Staff General Zhang Ling has seen Madame." ”
"General Zhang, what's the situation ahead? Can you tell us? ”
"Mrs. Qi, the two thieves of An Hao combined about 50,000 people, because our army general Qin Honghua fled first, resulting in the collapse of all the camps, and in desperation, I could only retreat to Weiqing."
"Thank you, General Zhang, don't say goodbye."
The veteran hurriedly said: "Madame's army is too small, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win, so it's better to let the order lead the army to help Madame." ”
Qin Liangyu said: "I'm afraid that General Zhang won't let the old general go, I'll try it first." ”
The three of them returned to the camp, Zhang Yanfang had already finished the beating, Qin Liangyu said: "Our army has few soldiers, I want to discuss with General Zhang, can you draw some generals from your army, led by this General Zhang, and attack the thieves with our army." ”
Zhang Yanfang squinted at Zhang Ling, and snorted coldly: "Although he is also from your Sichuan, but now he is my subordinate, why should he lend you to let you make meritorious contributions?" Don't even think about it! ”
Lu Qin couldn't hold back any longer, he stepped forward and pulled out the sword, Zhang Yanfang was shocked, and asked in a trembling voice: "What are you going to do, I am the chief soldier, although you are from the Beijing camp, but you are only a deputy general, do you dare to commit the next offense?" ”
Lu Qin glanced at him contemptuously, put the sword into the sheath, and Zhang Yanfang's expression was determined. Lu Qin raised his sword and shouted: "Kneel, this is the sword of Shangfang given by the emperor." ”
Zhang Yanfang's eyes were fixed on the sword, and after confirming that he had not admitted his mistake, he immediately knelt on the ground, and the other soldiers also knelt on the ground.
Lu Qin hurriedly helped Qin Liangyu up: "Madam, please get up." Then he turned to Zhang Yanfang and said, "You quickly hand over the combatable troops to General Zhang, assist us in going to suppress the thieves, and then stabilize Weiqing to meet our army." “
Zhang Yanfang nodded yes, then stood up and began to arrange the soldiers. Shang Fangjian can only behead officials below the third grade, while Zhang Yanfang is a first-grade, but the Ming Dynasty military generals are too worthless, if Lu Qin uses the Shang Fang sword to behead him, there will be no one to shout for him afterwards. A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, but it is better to know the current affairs.
Soon Zhang Yanfang cleared out 5,000 soldiers and handed them over to Zhang Ling, and the three of them took the soldiers out of Weiqing. Qin Liangyu said: "General Zhang, I'm really sorry for making you a bad person now." “
Zhang Ling hugged his fists and said: "Madame, I don't know, my whole family was killed by luxury thieves, this revenge will not be avenged, and I will not be a man." "It turned out that Zhang Ling was a Ming general, and he was coerced when he rebelled, and with the attack on Chengdu by the luxury army, he returned to Yongning after the defeat of luxury Chongming, Zhang Ling befriended Song Wu, who was also coerced, and found an opportunity to seize He Ruohai, the prime minister of luxury Chongming, and led the sergeants to surrender to the Ming army. Furious, he killed his entire family and razed the graves of his ancestors.
After listening to Zhang Ling's speech, everyone sighed. The army quickly arrived at Yachi, and the scouts came to report that the enemy had cleared the battlefield and were drinking to celebrate, and did not notice the arrival of the Ming army.
Qin Liangyu ordered Zhang Ling to lead his troops to block the back road of the thief soldiers, Lu Qin led the infantry battalion of the Guards Army to attack as the forward, Qin Yiming took the white pole soldiers as the rear team, Zhou Yuji led the cavalry battalion as a reserve, and Qin Liangyu led part of the white pole soldiers and artillery battalion to defend his back road.
The Guards quickly ran to approach the enemy troops, then lined up in three rows and began to charge forward. It was only then that the An Xuan army saw the enemy, and in a panic, they threw their lamps and plates, and they squeezed together casually, and rushed towards the guards. Lu Qin waited until the enemy rushed to about thirty paces away from the infantry front before ordering three shots, and soon routed the An Xuan army, and at this time the white pole soldiers began to pursue, and most of the enemy troops retreated to the Yachi River in a hurry, just to the river, a bang sounded, Zhang Ling rushed out with his troops, and fired at the enemy army in a burst of random shots, and many people fell into the river after being hit by arrows.
The white pole soldiers and Zhang Ling blocked the An Xuan army in a small area by the Yachi River, and although the thieves shouted hoarsely, it was no longer possible to put the soldiers in formation, and by this time the Guards infantry had also pressed up. An Bangyan ordered his guards to rush towards Zhang Lingjun, trying to find a way to escape for the army, but Zhang Lingbu gritted his teeth and refused to let go, using knives, guns, and arrows to firmly drag An Lingjun's army to the river, Zhang Ling's even stood in front of the formation, and nailed several of the most fierce guards to the riverbank with a strong crossbow.
By the time the Guards infantry rushed to the front of the Anyu army, the situation had become a one-sided massacre, the Guards were responsible for shooting, Zhang Lingjun was responsible for archery, and the white pole soldiers were responsible for clearing the few enemy troops who rushed to the front of the formation without fear of death, and soon the enemy army shouted in the formation: "We are willing to surrender, we are willing to surrender, lay down our arms." "In fact, there have been sporadic Anluxe troops who have surrendered on their knees, and now all the Anluxe troops have stopped resisting, dropped their weapons, and knelt on the ground to surrender.
Zhang Ling hatefully shot an arrow in front of a kneeling enemy soldier and ordered: "The whole army does not move, and is on guard at any time." And Lu Qin also ordered the infantry of the Guards to stand by, and only let Qin Yiming take the white pole soldiers to surrender. Seeing this, An Bangyan knew that his plan to escape by taking advantage of the chaos had failed, and he sighed and said, "Then let's descend first, and wait until there is a chance." ”
The white pole soldiers tied up the An Hao army and took them outside Weiqing City one by one. After setting up camp, the leader and the ordinary soldiers were divided and escorted. Ryuzo brought the native soldiers of the baggage battalion to deliver food to the ordinary native soldiers, and soon had nothing to say to them.
The rest of the matter is simple, under the mobilization of Long San and them, the native soldiers were very enthusiastic in the subsequent action of Xia Keshang, Zhou Yuji only made a simple mobilization, An Bangyan and Hao Chongming and the leaders below them all fell under the knife of the former serfs.
Now only Song Wanhua, the "King of Luodian" in Shuidong, remains. After breaking the Shuixi Army, Lu Qin took two infantry battalions of the Guards and an artillery bureau to Longli Division first. Longli is a small city, and when Lu Qin arrived, Song Wanhua was already in full battle.
The position of the Shuidong Army was located on a small hillside, and the Guards did not dare to rush up, wanting to wait for the other side to rush down, but they did not expect that the Shuidong Army was not fooled at all, and was only willing to attack from afar with blowguns and catapults, while the Guards returned fire with firearms, and the two sides fought lively, but there were basically no casualties.
After half a day of ineffective fighting, both armies were already tired and hungry, Lu Qin's army stopped the attack first, the soldiers began to rest, and there was smoke in the formation, and the local soldiers reported it, Song Wanhua couldn't believe that the guards actually started to cook and eat, and went out of the camp to take a closer look, but saw that the cooking smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and he was overjoyed, thinking that the guards had no losses in attacking, and began to despise his own troops. He ordered the Shuidong army to surround the guards on three sides after going around from the side, not to eat for the time being, to hold on for a while, and wait for the other party's cooking smoke to dissipate and start to eat before attacking.
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