Chapter 81: The Choice
"My own post guards the prisoners, and the guard post rushes over with me to make peace with the general and kill the Tartars!"
Seeing Yin Yue leading Wu Whistle into the stream, Chen Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the overall situation has been decided!
During this period of time, among the three thousand generals under his command, Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin have always made Chen Wen more trustworthy, and although Yin Yue, a subordinate, is impeccable in loyalty and ability, he always likes to play some cleverness, coupled with being deeply bewitched by feudal superstition, which makes Chen Wen not as relieved as the other two.
In this battle, the most important thing is naturally the main battlefield of the road, which is the only way to intercept the Qing army, plus the four outposts of A, B, C, and D have always been in charge of Wu Dengke, and Li Ruixin also has a cavalry team to lead, so the task of independent command of the flank battlefield was handed over to Yin Yue.
Although the specific data of the flank battlefield are not available at the moment, Chen Wen is also very pleased with the fact that he has annihilated the superior Qing army with extremely inferior troops, even if it is not clear whether he is consciously using the bamboo forest to strengthen the advantage of the Mandarin Duck Formation in narrow terrain conditions.
At this moment, the Qing army is no longer able to return to the sky, and all that remains is how to expand the results of the battle.
"Mr. Li Qian, take back your family's flag to the general!" The current Qing army has become a rout, and pointing to the general banner of Li Rong, the deputy general of the left battalion, Chen Wen immediately issued an order to Li Ruixin.
"Obedience." After that, Li Ruixin immediately led the cavalry of the cavalry team of the Nantang camp to turn over and get on their horses, and galloped away from the edge of the stream towards the banner of the Qing army.
"Li Shuai, you can't do anything, let's go quickly."
Even if he relied on his uncle to be a favorite general under Tian Xiong to sit in real power at this age, and even lead a garrison soldier, Xu Lei is by no means the kind of person who has not experienced the battle. At present, the total annihilation of the Qing army is only in the blink of an eye, if you don't run at this time, when will you wait?
Seeing the defeat of the Qing army that engaged in the battle, and the persuasion of Xu Lei in his ears, Li Rong, who had been in battle for a long time, knew very well that he was no longer able to return to the sky at this moment, but he was already very uneven, at least in his subconscious, even if his raised left battalion was defeated by the opponent with such inferior troops, it should be the Qing court's Full Eight Banner Army, how could it be a group of thieves from Siming Mountain?
Putting aside these thoughts that have nothing to do with this moment, Li Rong immediately signaled his soldiers to cut down the flag, he knew very well that as long as the flag fell, the Qing army would inevitably become more chaotic, and only in this way could he, the commander, take advantage of the chaos to escape.
At the moment when Li Rong instructed his own soldiers to cut down the general flag, Xu Leideng, who was still observing the enemy's situation, noticed a figure, only to see that person leading the cavalry, riding a horse and galloping on the edge of the rolling iron stream, and the Qing army on his side was like a wind and grass, unable to achieve even the slightest bond.
"Li, Li, Li Ruixin!"
Xu Lei's eyes widened, looking into the distance, trying to wake up from this nightmare, but what he got was to confirm the identity of the person who came again.
Back then, when he was in the same Huang Degong army, how could Xu Lei not know the most prestigious warrior of the young generation in front of him, and he had some special entanglements with the Li family, which made him react more quickly.
Li Rong's general flag was about to be cut down, and his own soldiers had not had time to create greater chaos, just when Li Rong was about to call the virtuous nephew who came with him to flee together, he saw Xu Lei actually pull out a knife and cut Li Rong's war horse buttocks, and then after shouting "Li Shuai run", he turned his horse and went to the north of the road.
Li Rong's war horse was injured after it was wounded, and it neighed and galloped away, Li Rong's war horse was originally a good horse, but at this moment it was obviously out of his mind, and he ran all the way straight away, and fell to the ground after knocking down several people.
At this time, Li Ruixin had already led the cavalry of the Ming army to the front, and after killing several of Li Rong's personal soldiers who had stepped forward to protect Li Rong who had been pressed on the ground by the war horse, he saw that Li Rong could not escape, and immediately turned his horse to chase Xu Lei.
"A few of you are optimistic about Li Ronghe and the general's banner, that is the military merit of our cavalry team, the others go to chase the brigade, and Lao Tzu goes to chase the Tartar general!"
At the same time that Xu Lei noticed Li Ruixin, Li Ruixin also noticed Xu Lei, although Xu Lei was not particularly famous among the warriors of the younger generation of Huang Degong's army, but his uncle Xu Xin was a military general who was quite familiar to Li Ruixin, especially on the day Huang Degong died in battle, which happened to be the old camp where Xu Xin was responsible for guarding the family of the lieutenant general of Huang Degong's army......
Just as Li Ruixin rode his horse to pursue Xu Lei, the slogan of "those who surrender will not die" also sounded on the battlefield, and as the Qing army dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground, more and more officers and soldiers fell to the ground.
"Kill!"
After stabbing to death the Qing army who shook the weapon of the rattan player next to him, An Youfu no longer had a Qing army trying to resist in front of him, although Shi Da Niu who was following him was always trying to protect him, but this stupid man's martial arts were really ridiculous, if it weren't for the rattan player in front of him who had been fighting hard, how could he limp so easily kill these Qing troops who tried to resist.
Seeing that there were no more Qing troops around who were trying to resist, An Youfu turned his attention to this temporary partner, although this person was holding the blade of the Nantang battalion, but he was not wearing armor, and his appearance made him feel even more faceless.
"Which whistle are you, brother?"
Luo Yongzhong, who was wiping his waist knife on the corpse of the Qing army, was full of embarrassment when he heard this. "That's, it's the temporary auxiliary team down there."
Temporary auxiliaries?
Isn't that the rout!
Hearing Luo Yongzhong's answer, An Youfu's face immediately showed a little displeasure, not to mention that the duty of the auxiliary soldiers should be to assist the firefighters to rescue those injured and sick, just to say that these people were greedy for life and afraid of death in the battle of Siming Lake, which made An Youfu, who has always claimed to be a warrior, quite disdainful.
Just looking at the corpses of the Qing army in this place, An Youfu's displeasure immediately decreased by half, after all, the vast majority of this auxiliary soldier was killed with him and Shi Da Niu, and it can even be said that if there is no such person, he will be killed by the Qing army if he is not a wounded soldier and Shi Da Niu, a stupid man with different martial arts, no matter what he says, he will have to accept this person's feelings.
At this moment, the herald loudly conveyed the military order to reorganize the team, and An Youfu immediately rushed to report with the support of Shi Daniu, but when he was leaving, he still turned his head to express his gratitude to Luo Yongzhong.
"My name is An Youfu, I am from the fourth killer team of the first post, if someone asks you what you did when you were fighting, it is to kill the Tartars with me, and I will testify to you."
After saying that, An Youfu hurriedly walked towards the position of the team, and Luo Yongzhong's gratitude also followed. "Thank you, Brother An, I'll go back to work."
After saying this, Luo Yongzhong hurriedly ran to a wounded Ming soldier not far away, and helped him to walk towards the military doctor behind the battle.
The battle here has completely ended, as long as the Qing army who is still present has surrendered on their knees as long as they are not dead, looking at those soldiers of the left battalion who were very brave and very brave in the battle of Siming Lake but kneeling on the ground begging for forgiveness at this moment, Luo Yongzhong couldn't help but feel a sadness in his heart while being happy.
If General Chen and the Nantang Battalion were also there during the war, how good would it be, so many loyal and brave soldiers died on the shore of Siming Lake, they shouldn't have died in vain.
Walking on the road, Luo Yongzhong was so made by such a thought that he was about to cry, and the soldier of the Nantang Battalion who injured his leg under his support hurriedly said comfort.
"Brother, this is a great victory, our Nantang camp killed so many two Tartars who don't want ancestors, and it can be regarded as avenging the robes who died in Siming Lake, you should be happy."
Hearing this, Luo Yongzhong nodded heavily, this wounded soldier was right, he also killed several Qing soldiers in this battle, and it was not in vain that he insisted on staying as this auxiliary, and finally avenged those comrades, and he could also wash away the shame of his escape.
"What the elder brother said is that the younger brother really doesn't treat this little daughter as such."
"It's nothing, it's nothing, it's human nature, haha."
Along the way, the two talked and laughed, just like the other Ming troops around them.
"If it weren't for that horse trap, how could the Tartars hurt me? If it weren't for the fact that it had caused a lot of trouble to the Tartars before, Lao Tzu would have to find them to reason. ”
On the eve of the collapse of the Qing army, he rushed up to suppress the Qing army, but he stepped on the air and fell to the ground, but he was still pierced in the leg by the pikemen of the Qing army under the dodge.
It's just that in Luo Yongzhong's eyes, although he knows that the Nantang battalion is all recruits who have never been in battle, they are all rare warriors, otherwise how could they defeat the Biaozuo Battalion, which is known as the elite of the Zhejiang Green Battalion, with extremely inferior troops.
Seeing that they were about to walk to the place where the wounded soldiers were temporarily housed, the Ming troops on the flanks were already carrying beheadings and booty, and escorted the prisoners across the stream to the main battlefield.
"According to the general's order, the six squads of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team Wu Sentinel, Ji Sentinel and the Chinese Army Firearms Team 1 to 6 were ambushed on the other side of the stream, and at the beginning of the battle, they killed and wounded the enemy with bows and arrows. One hundred and six were beheaded, three hundred and eleven were captured, and the seizures were not counted, but there were still dozens of Tartars who escaped, and they could not be chased by their humble duties, and they were sentenced to death. ”
The flank battlefield is the first to end the battle, so naturally it is also the fastest to calculate decapitation, capture, and capture. Hearing Yin Yue's report, Chen Wen was quite pleased, and immediately clapped his hands and praised it.
"Yin Qian beheaded one hundred and six with one hundred and seventy-two people and captured more than three hundred people, which can be described as a great victory, what is the crime? What makes the general even more gratifying is that Mr. Yin Qian used the terrain to strengthen the advantages of my mandarin duck formation in this battle, obviously he has worked weekdays, and if he can persist in the future, he will become a good general! ”
"I have thanked the general for my humble duties."
After inquiring about the casualties, Chen Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, one dead and three wounded, and more than four hundred, the mandarin duck array was undoubtedly revealed in the terror of the narrow terrain, and the banners of the Qing army were all soldiers who raised the right battalion, and they were not soft persimmons, but they had no power to fight back in front of the mandarin duck array, which made him full of confidence in the future.
Listening to Yin Yue's description of the details of the battle, Chen Wen quickly understood what was going on, the Ming army on the flank only had two outposts, but it was facing more than five hundred Qing troops, and they did not dare to take the enemy lightly at all, and always maintained a formation to fight. In such a narrow terrain, the power of the Mandarin Duck Array was extremely powerful, or eleven, or five, or the battle combination of two people really took advantage of the Qing army fighting alone, so there was such an exaggerated exchange ratio.
"It's no wonder that Qi Jiguang was like a full-level god outfit when he was fighting the Japanese invaders, this formation is really perverted in the southeast coast where the roads are narrow and the water network is crisscrossed."
praised Yin Yue and those meritorious soldiers, and Wu Dengke also calculated the casualties and results separately.
"Tell the general, I was ordered to lead four sentry posts of A, B, C, D, and four squads of the 7th to 10th of the Chinese Army's firearms team to meet the Tartars on the road, and 28 people were killed in this battle, and 94 were lightly and seriously wounded......"
So many!
Although he had expected this, Chen Wen was still quite surprised by this, after all, only two people were killed in the first encounter, and the seventeen injured were all slightly injured. At the end of the battle, twenty-eight people were killed, that is to say, a total of twenty-six people were killed in those two rounds of shelling and the final charge, and this was still the situation of using the vertical formation to reduce two-thirds of the hit surface, which made Chen Wen sigh.
Artillery, this is a problem that this rebuilt Qi family army must face, fortunately, a good tradition has been left in this battle, I just hope this tradition can be passed on.
“…… In this battle, four hundred and fifty-eight ranks were beheaded, three hundred and thirty-five people were captured, and the Tartars who followed them were completely defeated. ”
There were more beheadings than captives, and sure enough, Redeye was killed, just like he had done before. Chen Wen's desire to blame this is more than just that he rushed into the artillery position of the Qing army at that time, and even if it was not, he would not have any disgust. If the Ming army is defeated, with the style of the Qing army, I am afraid that none of the more than 500 soldiers here will survive.
At the moment, this is just the result of the main battlefield, the Qing army behind the battle is fleeing north, and the cavalry team is already pursuing, it is estimated that there will be some results, even if not much, there should be some.
"Take Ben to see the fallen soldiers."
Walking to the place where the fallen soldiers were parked, Chen Wen bowed to the end in front of everyone to these brave and martyred soldiers, and it took a long time to straighten up again.
"If it weren't for the generosity of the kings, my Nantang camp would have been able to achieve this great victory, not only these robes, including the generals, but even those people who had lost their lives would also remember the heroes. Ladies and gentlemen, go all the way! ”
"Good walk!"
All the Ming troops present shouted in unison to remember the fallen heroes, and even the members of the temporary auxiliary team chanted with the soldiers of the other Nantang battalions.
"Nantang Camp ......" Luo Yongzhong, who was in tears, muttered to himself, thoughtful in his heart.
At the same time, on the road north of the battlefield, Xu Lei was still riding his horse and trying to get rid of Li Ruixin's pursuit, and he threw all the weighty things on the road, bow bags, quivers, waist knives, horse oars, cloaks......
But anything that might slow down the running speed of the war horse was thrown out by him without hesitation, and he almost shaved his beard on the war horse, so that he could have a long escape technique with Cao Mengde in the Manchu high-level must-read military book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It's just that even so, Li Ruixin still followed closely behind, and did not let him go at all.
Suddenly, Xu Lei, who was riding on the horse, looked sideways, only to see a lightning light flying, Xu Lei subconsciously came to hide in a stirrup, but what he didn't expect was that the flying waist knife was clearly coming towards the war horse, and the knife was inserted into the butt of the war horse. Just like when Xu Lei was plotting against Li Rong before, the war horse neighed and roared under the severe pain, and threw Xu Lei down in a few strokes, and fell to the ground after galloping wildly for a while.
Xu Lei, who was in pain, saw that Li Ruixin had turned over and dismounted, and came with a horse oar in his hand, and hurriedly said: "Brother Li, everything in the past was the younger brother's fault, but the mother-in-law and Qian'er are still waiting for the younger brother to go home, so you can let the little brother go." ”
PS: It's finally finished, but it's still past twelve o'clock, so it should be a Saturday update, right?