Chapter 100: Capturing the Flag and Giving the Flag
When the Qing army retreated, the Chu army counterattacked in an all-round way, and the Tongshan battalion and Daye battalion on the front of Tushan, and the Tongcheng battalion and Gongyi battalion on the side of Tushan rushed down the hillside with great momentum.
The rhythm of the marching drum was bright and flamboyant, full of the excitement of victory in sight, and the soldiers of the Chu army rushed through the barricade and formed a slight formation, and began to trot briskly with the beat of the drum, adjusting the distance between each other while running, and the tacit understanding was that Cheng DΓΉ was not lost to those Eight Banner cavalry who could adjust their formation in the charge.
"Big bull! Die, you! Hurry, hurry, slow again! In the incessant scolding of the old soldier Wu, the big bull panted and ran forward, his fat body writhing back and forth, like a woman with plump breasts and fat buttocks running for her life, but no one around could care about laughing at him.
Da Guniu's face was pale, and he felt that his chest was about to tear and explode in the next moment, but he still stared at the team flag on the side with one eye, and the back of the head of his companion in front of him with the other eye.
Those veterans seem to have spare strength, Wu veterans ran very easily, and kept scolding a few recruits next to them, these recruits are too poor in physique, they are tired like mules after just running a hundred and ten steps, if they were placed in Jiangxi that year, wouldn't they all have to fall behind?
No matter what the battle situation was, Chen Tai, the chief general of the Qing army, was expressionless, but his face changed for the first time at this time.
The Chu army had been restrained in defense before, and did not fully show their combat effectiveness, and it was only from this charge that it was not much worse than the Eight Banner Soldiers, and the so-called Eight Banner Soldiers deduced from the tactics of one as ten. It's a joke in front of such elite soldiers, no wonder they lose this battle!
In front of the hillside on the side, Ma Jinzhong was gathering the scattered people and horses. Whenever a unit resumed command, he was immediately sent to intercept the Qing troops who wanted to escape, and he glanced up the hillside in his hurry, but he could no longer take his eyes off it, and was stunned by the smooth charging scene of the Chu army.
He had a lot of contact with the Chu army, and knew that they could fight well, but he didn't expect that they would be so strong. How did a new army, which had just been established three years old, come to be trained?
On the top of the earth mountain, Gu Zongfu was also asking the same question.
"It's been at least twenty years. Daming has never seen such a tiger and wolf army, may I ask the military gate, how did you train this strong army? "He has been in the Chu army for three or four months, and for the first time he has seen several main forces such as the Gongyi battalion show their housekeeping skills in actual combat. The expression was a little dazed. A little excited, compared with these main forces of the Chu army, his Ji'an battalion is still too far behind, but there is more room for improvement in the future, thinking that the Ji'an battalion will become such a strong army in the future, my heart is hot.
"No, it's not practiced, it's played." Wang Kefan shook his head. said: "Playing chess to find a master, the Chu army has been fighting non-stop for three years. Constantly challenge strong enemies, every time the weak defeat the strong, after a long time, you will naturally be able to fight some. β
If the Chu army has been shrinking in the rear to train its troops, even if it is familiar with the queue, it will still be a group of recruits on the battlefield, and it will never have its current combat effectiveness.
Even the most elite Eight Banners soldiers in the Qing army can only fight one major battle a year, but the Chu army has been in high-intensity and high-density battles in the past three years.
Eight Flags has met a real opponent!
Outflanking, intercepting, blocking, encirclement...... After the Qing army withdrew from the hillside, it had long lost its complete formation, and it was unable to resist the attack of the Chu army at all, so it could only rely on the advantage of cavalry to intersperse as much as possible, trying to break through and return to the rear.
"Amba, go and get the dragon flag back, if you can't get out, burn the dragon flag!" Chen Tai also ordered again and again, ordering the last reserve team to rush up to respond, especially to save the Bayala soldiers, the status of the two yellow flags in the eight banners is very special, if the Bayala dragon flag with yellow flags is captured by the Ming army, it will cause the imperial court to be extremely angry, and even Kong Youde can't afford to bear the guilt.
The Ming army was also obviously eyeing the Bayala Dragon Banner, several cavalry and infantry intertwined together, separating the Dragon Banner and the large force of the Eight Banners Cavalry, Wang Meng led another cavalry to block head-on, forcing the Dragon Banner to go around in a circle, and leaned towards the Tianyou soldiers who retreated from the front of the hillside.
The attention of all the armies is on the Bayara weaving golden dragon flag!
The flag guards of the Qing army are all warriors in a hundred, with superb riding skills and strong horses, throwing Wang Meng's cavalry farther and farther, getting closer and closer to the Tianyou soldiers under the hillside, seeing that the Bayara Dragon Banner is about to escape, the corners of Chen Tai's mouth showed a wry smile, although he fought a big defeat, but he kept the Dragon Banner, and he barely had an explanation for it.
Suddenly, his face became hideous, his eyes were fixed on the front of the hillside, the shape of the battlefield changed again, with a rapid drum sound, the Ming army's musket team rushed forward sixty or seventy steps, and then stood still and raised their guns, aiming at the Qing army flag guards who were galloping in front of the side.
The war horse galloped, smoke under the hooves, only sixty paces away from the big bull, his fire bolt locked on a black war horse, from the Wangshan can clearly see the developed tendons on the horse's body, the erect mane flutters with the wind, full of dynamism and vitality in the high-speed run.
"What a good horse!" With the swing of the officer's saber, the big bull pulled the trigger, and with the crisp sound of gunfire, the black horse seemed to suddenly step on the trap of the beast, suddenly jumped up high, threw out the Qing soldiers on horseback, and then ran forward for a distance, just when the big bull thought that he had not hit, the black horse suddenly weakened its front hooves and fell to the ground, but still struggled to raise its head and let out a long neigh.
Shoot only horses, not people!
Under Wang Yi's order, all the musketeers lowered their guns and focused on those war horses with larger targets and no vests, and the war horses of more than 20 flag guards were all injured and fell to the ground one after another. A puff of dust and smoke quickly chased up from behind, Wang Meng raised his knife and fell, cut off the Baya Lalong flag, and then held it horizontally in his hand, stabbing it out like a spear, and the Qing army flag bearer was swinging a knife to chop, but a transparent hole was pierced out of his chest by the broken flagpole.
The dragon flag is down, and the morale is lost!
The cavalry of the Eight Banners was completely defeated and fled in all directions, and two loud noises suddenly came from the rear of the Qing army, and Chen Tai blew up two heavy red-coated cannons and led the remnants to flee south......
The Ming army pursued and killed from behind, the Chinese army went down the mountain, and Ma Jinzhong came to Wang Kefan.
"Our army's hard battle and victory are a good opportunity to exterminate Chen Tai, why don't the military men send a light cavalry to the upper reaches of the Junshui River to block the escape route of the Tartars?"
"Don't chase after the poor." Wang Kefan said: "Chen Tai's department has lost more than half, and these two thousand Tartars are no longer a scourge, leaving them to put a long line to catch big fish." β
Ma Jinzhong's eyes lit up: "Do you want to lure the enemy from the military gate?" Is it Luck Dehun or Tong Yanghe, or Geng Zhongming? β
Wang Kefan smiled slightly: "Everyone who comes is a guest, and I welcome it as well." β
"What if they come together?" Ma Jinzhong asked.
"If the guests come together, my small shop will definitely not be able to entertain them, so I have to ask He Junmen to come out and let them go to Hunan."
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Wang Meng took the Jiang cavalry battalion to chase and kill all the way, and the capture was not calculated, and after collecting the troops, he went to the Chinese army to pay the general's order, and went to the field hospital with the army.
Because of the good sanitary conditions and low mortality rate, the field hospital of the Chu army has become a famous "enemy of Hades", and Ma Jinzhong's seriously wounded are also sent here for treatment.
The captain of the pro-soldier had just undergone surgery, and at this age, he had no ability to replant his limbs, so he could only perform simple hemostasis bandaging to clean up the wound and bone fragments to prevent infection, and his left arm must be crippled. When he was injured just now, he didn't feel too much pain, but he was tossed by Lang Zhong before he came up, and the captain of the pro-soldier was sweating profusely, and he lay on the bed in pain, and after seeing Wang Meng, he sat up hard.
"Brother, make a friend, what's your name?" This is a tough guy, Wang Meng admires it in his heart.
"Hehehehe, I got off the horse and saw General Wang Meng." The captain of the pro-soldier was seriously wounded, and his laughter was a little nervous, but compared to ordinary people, his self-control was already very amazing.
"Good name! Brother Ma has a bright future in the future, and if he is not in front of Shangguan in the future, he will call me Mengzi. Wang Meng beckoned, and his own soldiers sent the Bayala Dragon Flag in and placed it at the head of Ma Dedao's bed.
"General Wang Meng, what does this mean?" Ma Dedao was stunned.
Wang Meng patted him lightly on the shoulder: "This dragon flag is what you deserve, of course I will send it." β
Ma Dedao's breathing suddenly became short, and his eyes were full of desire and excitement when he looked at the dragon flag, cutting the general and capturing the flag has always been a great achievement in the army, not to mention that this is a Bayala dragon flag, this merit may go straight to the sky, and Emperor Longwu personally ordered the commendation, flying Huang Tengda, and glorifying the ancestors!
"General Wang Meng, if you give me this dragon flag, will you eat and hang it at Wang Junmen?"
"How so? You also think my military gate is too stingy! Wang Meng smiled and said: "If you didn't try your best to stop it today, the Tartars would have run away with this flag, and the military gate has always had clear rewards and punishments, how could I be allowed to rob you of your credit?" β
Ma Dedao hesitated, but still shook his head: "This flag was won by you after all, and you don't dare to fight for merit in the future......
"I am a peach picker, and this flag belongs to you." Wang Meng stood up and walked out: "Wang Junmen has long said that it is my credit that others cannot rob it, and if it is not my credit, it cannot be forcibly occupied, this is the sense of honor of a soldier!" β
Ma Jinzhong happened to walk in from the outside, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he suddenly found that the Chu army's armor and soldiers were still secondary, and there was a spirit that others did not have. (To be continued......)