Chapter 252: Pathetic, Hateful, Pitiful
After a few rounds back and forth, the cavalry of the Qing army was almost all on foot, and the gunpowder weapons disturbed the horses too much, especially the Jiaozhou battalion, which they had never seen before. Moreover, when Fang Cai fought with a short spear, he stabbed the horse more than he stabbed the man, and after several tosses, the Tartar cavalry simply fought on foot.
Whether it was a cavalry battle or an infantry battle, the Jurchens had never lost to the Ming army, which gave them great self-confidence, but although the infantry battle time was only a moment, the Ming army with short spears did not seem to be left behind.
In today's battle, everything is too weird, only when Wei Li and the others turn around and run away, everything becomes normal, but these Tartar cavalry chased a few steps and stopped, and they didn't have much strength to continue the fight, and it was okay to scare the other party.
Short encounters, short-handed battles, without the spirit of death, it is impossible to achieve victory, in the past the Qing army occupied the advantage in this, but today it is reversed.
The Tartar cavalry was now a little relaxed, thinking about how to return to the camp or find a place to rest, and they had to make up a reason to fool the past for today's encounter.
Who would have thought that the Ming soldiers who got on the horse did not run far, but went around halfway and killed back.
This time it was really condescending to the cavalry, Wei Li and his subordinates all stretched out the short spears in their hands as far forward as possible, and these Tartar soldiers were stunned for a short time, and they all turned around and ran away with a strange scream. After being stabbed to death by four with short spears, the remaining Qing cavalry also wanted to turn around and fight hard, but the number of people in the Jiaozhou battalion was already more than them, and there was not much suspense in the next battle, and the physical strength and horsepower were exhausted Tartars, and they could not escape the pursuit of the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers.
At this time, there is only a little bit of light in the sky. Wei Li gasped for breath on his horse. Half a day has not yet woken up from the desperate excitement and excitement of Fang Cai.
"Wei Tou, we have made a great contribution, no matter how you go back, you will also be promoted to the team, it is always possible to do it well."
When Wei Li heard this, he couldn't help but grin happily, and after a few laughs, the jubilant look on his face immediately disappeared. He saw a companion crawling on the horse, his body couldn't stop **, but he couldn't get up straight, Wei Li hurriedly drove the horse forward.
As soon as I arrived, I appeared. The companion's jujube red horse fur looked already purple under the reflection of the skylight, and it was blood flowing down.
Wei Li hurriedly dismounted, hurried to the front, patted with his hand, and the companion's body slid diagonally to the other side, Wei Li hurriedly grabbed it with his hand. However, he saw that the companion had a large wound on his left chest, which was bleeding down the mount's fur, perhaps just when he hit the ground. Wounded himself by the dying counterattack of the Tartars, and it was a mortal wound.
The Jiaozhou battalion has been in the army since it was formed. The casualties in the battle were not large, although there were few people in today's battle, but the number of dead and wounded has always been small, so small that the officers and soldiers could not feel it, but the number of people involved in today's battle was only 30, but Wei Li and his party came out of 10 people, and half of them died.
"X's. Wake up. Aren't we going to eat that lamb stew? ”
Wei Li shouted there with a crying voice, and the tears of the remaining few people couldn't stop flowing. Still, someone said:
"Wei Tou, let's go, since the Tartar land sentry is here, the army will not be far away, we are like this now, and we will not be able to stand cheap if we come again."
Wei Li wiped his face with his sleeve, shook his head in the cool breeze, and pondered for a while before he spoke:
"Since the horses are here, maybe the army of the Tartars is nearby, the third and fifth, cut off the heads of the Tartars, tie the dead brethren to their mounts, and take them back to the camp tomorrow, and the three of us will walk west for another day."
The two women who had been taken captive by the Tartars seemed extremely frightened, for to them, falling into the hands of the Tartars and in the hands of the officials and soldiers were nothing more than being spoiled by that kind of beast, and they were most afraid that they would not escape death.
However, these five sad officers and soldiers were not what they expected, and after untying the ropes on their bodies, they didn't do anything about beasts, just asked them to help cook, and asked a few questions in a low voice.
The two young women were residents of a village dozens of miles away, and during the day, they were rushed into the village by these dozen or so Tartar cavalry, and several of these Qing cavalry held an exit, allowing the whole village to come out of the house and hand over all the gold and silver belongings.
The whole village of men and women trembled and did so, after these Tartar cavalry collected their belongings, they began to slash with swords, from the head of the village to the end of the village, and no one resisted, and the two women were caught for sexual pleasure, and it is estimated that in the end it will be difficult to escape the end of death.
Although Wei Li was immersed in the grief of the sacrifice of his comrades, he was still very surprised that the village did not resist, there were no less than 200 young and strong people in the village, and there were almost 400 old and weak women and children.
But if you fight to the death with farm tools and sticks, you won't be slaughtered by a dozen Tartar cavalry without any resistance in the whole village until only two people remain, of course, Wei Li doesn't know any words, and he doesn't read much, of course, he doesn't know that when Meng Yuan was raging in the world, it could be seen everywhere in various countries.
Ridiculous, hateful, pathetic, pitiful, this is the evaluation of those villagers, Wei Li didn't have the extra energy to care, just gave the gold and silver looted by those Tartars to the two women, and the next day asked his companions to entrust the two women to the nearest family on the way back to the barracks.
Early the next morning, Wei Li and two companions went out together, and began to search again towards the west, this road was more desolate than the previous day, and there was no one to see at all, when he arrived near Zhaozhou, he finally saw the traces of the army stationed, but it should have been two days ago, looking at the signs of the army's movements, it should be going south.
If you continue to follow, it will take three days to return to the barracks, and this kind of information is no longer of much value, Wei Li, who made this judgment, and his companions hurried back to the barracks.
On the ninth day of the first month of December, Wei Li returned to Jingzhou, and the Texas battalion had already given a commendation document, and he was promoted to the general of the horse team.
The information that the Manchu army went all the way south was also sent to Li Meng, the camp in Texas, and the Manchu army was going south, and it was already a two-day journey, so where did they go?
Could it be that the Qing army is really the same as the pre-judgment, that is, to loot gold and silver treasures in Beizhili, not to other provinces, but this judgment is not very convincing, but Li Meng's side left Dezhou to pursue it is not realistic, in the final analysis, it is still a lack of troops, if you want to pursue, you must send the whole army of the Jiaozhou battalion, but in this case, Dezhou is empty here, and the Dezhou area is the gateway to the northeast of the mountain, and the soldiers and horses of the general soldier Qiu Lei have gone to the plains and Yucheng area, and the Jiaozhou battalion has gone like this again, completely empty.
At present, according to the military report from Beizhili, the Qing army in the territory is still divided into multiple roads, although Hejian Province, Cangzhou has not been harassed by the Tartars, but it is not without this possibility, on the battlefield, even if it is a little possible to take into account. Moreover, the order given by the imperial court to Li Meng was to stick to Shandong and attack rashly, which lacked a reasonable reason in terms of both the war situation and legal theory, and could only stick to Texas at present.
For Li Meng's Jiaozhou battalion, this is indeed a very depressing thing, but since he came to Texas to garrison at the order of the imperial court, he must act according to this rule.
However, the governor Yan Jizu and the supervisor Liu Yuanbin were very happy, the Tartars made the best trouble in the territory of Beizhili, the farther away from Shandong, the less responsibility the two of them bore, and the governor of Shandong, Yan Jizu, also wrote a letter to send to the Beijing Division, and reported the situation he had found here, which could be regarded as a demonstration of merit.
On December 11 of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng's military camp, strictly speaking, this military camp was only a few hundred steps away from the battlefield, and the Qing army caught up on the day of Laba.
And since the oath out of Beijing, he has been running with the Tartar army, and he can't catch up, which seems to be extremely passive, and this encounter between the two sides can be regarded as an opportunity.
Lu Xiangsheng knew that the Qing army on the opposite side was about 10,000, and he had three armies of soldiers and horses led by the general soldier Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu, and Wang Pu, with a total of more than 8,000 people, and the Guanning soldiers led by Gao Qiqian, dozens of miles away, had more than 30,000 people, adding up to 40,000.
Four times the enemy's army, and it is an internal battle, the chance of victory is very great, who would have thought that as soon as the war started, the high dive thirty miles away actually did not move, only Lu Xiangsheng's own more than 8,000 soldiers and horses and most of the Qing army on the opposite side of the hard collision.
Hundreds of steps away the sound of killing shook the sky, Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng had no personal soldiers around him, all of them were sent to the front line to fight, Lu Xiangsheng was wearing armor, still wearing linen clothes outside, holding a big knife in his hand, although he was the commander-in-chief, but he also had the consciousness of hand-to-hand combat at any time.
It's just that the food supply has been cut off for three days, and now the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who are fighting desperately in front are all hungry, and they are not left behind, which is all inspired by the commander's heroic fighting spirit.