Chapter 246: Conquer Boryeong Mansion
When Ao Bai led the soldiers and horses to arrive, Liao Qifang had already led the army to cross the Jialing River and control more than ten hillsides next to the ferry.
Commander Hillion was pursued by the volunteers all the way a few days ago, and suffered a lot, but after a day of rest, his strength recovered, and now he saw that the volunteers in front of him had little defense, so he immediately led more than 200 horsemen to meet him, hoping to block the volunteers.
In the past, everyone may have been frightened to the soul, but the morale of the generals was quite high, and everyone relied on the hillside to release their guns on the one hand, and rushed down to fight with the soldiers of the Manchurian Yellow Flag Forward Battalion who were swarming together.
The battle was very tragic at the beginning, although the soldiers of the volunteers were very brave, but after all, the other party was cavalry, fighting back and forth, and if you wanted to block the other party, you could only block it with flesh and blood.
Everyone was entangled, and although there were many volunteer musketeers in the back, it was very inconvenient to aim and shoot.
Although there are many wolf and palladium hands and spearmen in front, they are unusually slow.
Liao Qifang was quite anxious, and suddenly saw a large forest on the left, thinking of the scene of climbing trees and playing slingshots when he was a child, his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered a squadron leader to lead more than 30 musketeers to climb the branches, with the mentality of trying, to see if it was effective.
Due to the large number of hills in Xichuan, many people are very good at climbing, everyone held back a belly of birds after the battle, and now climbed on the branches, gave an order, and shot at the knight on horseback in the distance.
The Manchurian cavalry faced the volunteer infantry on the slope, and it was very difficult for them to form a military formation to fight against the strange rocks, slopes and natural trenches, and now they had to guard against the volunteers hiding in the treetops, and their passivity can be imagined.
Before we could figure out what tactics the Volunteers had, more than a dozen horsemen fell into a pool of blood, and in the end, although it was clear that hundreds of Volunteers musketeers climbed up to the treetops to release cold arrows, the two sides were already indistinguishable from each other, and they had no heart to deal with the Volunteers on the treetops.
But this is not over, just when Ao Bai is in a hurry, Qianzong Wang Fuchen led a large group of gunboats to arrive, regardless of the danger of running aground, one by one to the shore, at the Qing cavalry in the distance.
A Flying Tiger warship has 4 large Franc cannons and 4 small Furlong cannons, which are son-and-mother guns, and the firing speed is far higher than that of ordinary artillery, so as to slightly suppress the opponent and buy time for the army to cross the river.
Seeing that there were more and more soldiers of the volunteers on the shore, Ao Bai was quite depressed, and sent a staff leader to lead more than 100 cavalry to rush to the gunboat, hoping to eliminate its threat.
Just after rounding a few small hills, suddenly seeing that hundreds of soldiers had forcibly occupied the high ground in front, the infantry squadron quickly blocked the road with tricycles and knife carts, and then used bows and crossbows to return fire at the rushing Tartars.
Seeing that the soldiers and horses of a battalion of the Volunteers were covering the gunboat brigade, the Tartars were the first in the world to shoot on their own horses (the barbarians boasted about themselves), and they used bows and crossbows to return fire from a distance, but everyone rode on the horses, and it was impossible to shoot after aiming with bows and arrows on flat ground, so the distance was relatively limited, but because the volunteers had tiger squat artillery, Franc machine guns support, and musketeers covered, the shooting distance of these weapons was obviously better than that of the Barbarian Qing cavalry.
At this time, bad news followed, Yang Lin led the infantry regiment to cross the Jialing River, and was now outflanking from the flank.
The chief of staff, Hill Liang, was surrounded by Liao Qifang, and more than half of his troops were killed and wounded, and Hill Liang was also shot several times and is now dying.
Ao Bai sat on the horse, built a pergola with one hand, and saw that the people on the side of the ferry were boiling, and in the place where everyone was crowded, it must be Yang Lin.
Ao Bai decided to make a desperate bet and personally led a large army to attack him.
Ao Bai pulled out his sword, rushed over with projectiles and bows and arrows like raindrops, and rushed over the ridges of the fields.
The more frightened the Eight Banner warriors charged, the stronger the opponent's counterattack, and when they were more than 20 steps, the opponent actually threw out 5 or 6 earth-shattering thunderbolts at once, and the war horse passed by, with a deafening explosion, the projectile flew sideways, killing and injuring a large area.
Some lucky soldiers rushed to the side of the tricycle formation, and saw that the wolf whisks two feet long were stabbed in front of the car, and they didn't pay attention to the horses and horses, and the knights were stabbed to the ground.
Those who were glad to have escaped the wolf sabre drew their sabers on their horses, and were about to leap over to fight, when they saw a burst of spears in front of the tricycle, and they attacked the knights on horseback in groups of three or five, attacking the neighing horses.
In addition to these pesky infantrymen, what was even more unguardable were the musketeers standing on the hillsides on either side, who hid close and secretly fired cold guns, and each round of striking fire was not only quite loud, but also very harmful to the knights on horseback.
After paying the price of forty or fifty casualties, Ao Bai finally ended this suicidal attack, Jing Keqin saw that his soldiers and horses actually blocked the onslaught of hundreds of Tartar cavalry, and immediately waved his army to kill, through the continuous interspersed encirclement of various departments, striking at the Tartar cavalry, compressing its space, so that the Tartars suffered great casualties.
The two sides fought fiercely for an hour, and finally there were more and more volunteers on the shore, and when Ao Bai felt that the general trend had gone, he was ready to lead his troops to escape, and he had just escaped more than 100 meters, and suddenly saw hundreds of horsemen killed from the side.
Unlike other cavalry, these cavalry are very weird, and they don't light fire from afar, and when they rush to thirty paces, they suddenly raise a miniature version of their bird guns and aim at the opposite Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and after a round of shooting, everyone is dizzy.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, everyone raised their sabers and rushed over to attack the panicked Tartar cavalry.
The two sides scuffled together, and Ao Bai was entangled by several riders because the armor on his body was too obvious, and finally he was surrounded by a group of people, and he raised his gun to kill himself.
After hearing the news that Aobai Bingbei had been killed, Haoge no longer had the intention of fighting, and left the general Liu Jinzhong to garrison Langzhong City, and personally led the army to retreat north.
Liu Jinzhong snakes and rats at both ends, on the one hand, sent people out of the city to negotiate, and on the other hand, he made people strengthen the city defense.
Hearing that Liu Jinzhong sent an envoy to negotiate, Yang Lin didn't think about it, and asked people to shout around the city with a simple loudspeaker.
Hearing that Liu Jinzhong was preparing to surrender, and hearing that the Qing army had no intention of fighting at all, except that everyone would not be held accountable.
Yang Lin organized men and horses under the cover of artillery, everyone opened the way with earth-shaking thunder, and after half a day of fighting, they finally climbed the city wall of Langzhong and entered the city and occupied the city.
Hearing that the city was broken, Liu Jinzhong also wanted to flee for his life, but he was intercepted by Bu Ning halfway, and after a fight, he was finally defeated and captured.
After the Volunteers occupied Langzhong City, the battlefield situation slowly developed in favor of the Ming army.
At that time, the news of the defeat of the Tartars in the field battle of the Volunteers had already spread all over the place, and everyone did not believe it at first, until they saw the Qing army on the CD Plain retreating northward like a tide, and everyone understood that the Tartars had been hit hard and were now retreating north.
At this time, the deputy general Yang Zhan also defeated the Qing army in Qiongzhou, everyone first thought that the Qing army was defeated by Yang Zhan and retreated, and a few days later everyone understood that the Qing army suffered a greater defeat in Shunqing.
Seeing that the Qing army retreated, Ma Mingluan and Lin Shitai would lead their troops to chase north together with Yang Zhan, and it took a month of hard work to recover Guanghan, Jiangyou, and Mianzhou one after another.
In Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, after hearing that the Great Western Army had regained Chongqing in a desperate situation, Yang Lin rushed to Chongqing (Qing) with Gong Wanjing and Zhang Lang as messengers, hoping that the two families could join forces to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty, repay the country together, and also repay Zhang Xianzhong's blood and hatred of being brutalized by the Manchus.
Sun Kewang, who had already recovered his surname, was quite annoyed, pointing at Gong Wanjing and others and scolding: "If my Sun Kewang is a real villain, then Yang Lin is a complete hypocrite.
Since the beginning of the army, from time to time sent envoys to our Great Western Army to declare what joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty, but in the past two years, the most powerful fight against our righteous army is the Volunteer Army, these two years to kill Ma Yuanli, Zhang Guangcai, forced our army to move the capital, and finally caused the old long live to die tragically at the hands of the Tartars.
Now taking advantage of the defeat of our army, it has caused the division of our Great Western Army, and it is effortless to seize our tens of thousands of tiger and wolf divisions.
You go and tell Yang Lin that he will take his Yangguan Road, and I will cross my single-plank bridge, and if you dare to send envoys to disturb the hearts of our army from now on, I will recognize people, but I will not recognize the sword and axe in my hand. ”
Gong Wanjing and Zhang Lang were driven out of the city gate by the gangs, and were about to leave by boat, when they suddenly learned from the soldiers that they were worried that the Ming army and the Manchu Qing would jointly kill them, and the Great Western Army would make another strategic shift, that is, to evacuate Chong (Qing) and enter the more remote Yunnan-Guizhou region.
Everyone has a lot of discussions, you must know that Chong (Qing) is second only to CD in terms of population, land, strategic transportation, etc.), how can the Great Western Army finally occupy such a strategic place and evacuate Chong (Qing)?
However, Yan Ximing seems to be quite determined, believing that the success of the Liukou also lies in the flow, and the defeat also lies in the flow, since the beginning of the army, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have almost occupied the major cities in North China and Central China, but they have all given up, so there is no foundation, although it is difficult for the government to suppress and kill, but it is also difficult to form a climate.
Now that the rebels are in such a predicament, of course they don't want to be entangled with the official army and the Tartars anymore, and it is very likely that they will jump out of the Ming army's layers of round-ups, jump out of the Tartars to chase and suppress, and move to the Yunnan-Guizhou region, where the defense is very weak.
Isn't this some guerrilla tactic described in books in previous lives? Unexpectedly, hundreds of years ago, the rebels could be skillfully mastered, and in addition to sighing, Yang Lin, who knew a little bit of historical knowledge, was even more convinced of the authenticity of this news.
Yang Wei, who was guarding against the Qing army in Tongchuan Prefecture, was immediately ordered to lead the 3rd Regiment and Hong Zhenglong's militia regiment with the cooperation of the naval army to recover Chongqing Prefecture in one fell swoop.