Chapter 403: The Lost Dog Jiaozhou Camp Kills

Seeing the Dengzhou army array behind the camp fence, none of the soldiers who were full of Mongolia thought that the other party was in motion, and they had just pushed the camp fence, the infantry line was not stable, and their horses were running when they couldn't knock the other party away.

The Tartar soldiers subconsciously turned their horses' heads and fled in another direction, which was completely subconscious, and they were already dizzy from fear.

The cavalry lines on both wings are actually quite thin, although the iron cavalry wearing heavy armor looks terrifying, but it has lost the degree of impact, and the power has also lost a lot, as for the light cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion, it may not have the combat power of the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manmeng, but at this time, no one analyzes anything, everyone is in fear, blind, crazy, in this gradually tightening encirclement.

The cavalry on both flanks was originally light cavalry in the outer ring, and the iron cavalry in the inner circle, but at this time there was also a slight change in formation, the iron cavalry was outside the circle, and the light cavalry was on the inside.

Most of the light cavalry have already dismounted, and took out the torch with a sawed short barrel to prepare for shooting, the cavalry training of the Jiaozhou battalion, the chasers and the sentinel and the iron cavalry are all skilled warriors in horseback riding, these soldiers have already had experience in horseback riding before joining the Jiaozhou battalion, and there is another kind of that is extremely hard trained and has a particularly high understanding on horseback, these congenital and acquired cavalry are left in the iron cavalry.

As for the others, after all, the children of peasant and semi-peasant military households, especially in places like Shandong, are still very few who have horseback riding experience, and the training they have not necessarily improved much, and no matter how much they train, they may not be able to compare with those barbarians who have grown up on horseback, as well as those who are actually professional soldiers.

The cost of a cavalry is the sum of several or even a dozen foot soldiers, if you can't train a team with sufficient combat effectiveness, then such an expense will not be beneficial to the financially tight Jiaozhou battalion Shandong soldiers and horses.

The Jiaozhou battalion simply changed its thinking, except for the iron cavalry, which was used as a decisive mobile strike force. The light cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion was more like an infantry on horseback, equipping them with firearms and cold weapons, borrowing the ability to move on horseback, and the next unit could be deployed in a specific position at a very short time.

Therefore, the requirements for the riding skills of these light cavalry are not too high, but the combat skills that the infantry should master, they must be more proficient. They also had to master all the weapons used by the musketeers and spearmen.

The light cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion on both sides of the encirclement made an infantry firearm formation with firearms, and their firearms sawed short the barrels, and the firing range was not far, but in the encirclement on all sides, it was the most suitable weapon, after all, there were seven battalions of the first front inside the encirclement. The weapons with a shorter range but just as capable of killing seem to have been prepared for this battlefield.

This battlefield was on a vast plain, and the Dengzhou Army was in the south. The cavalry was in the east and west, the old battalion was 7,000 in the formation, and 11,000 in the north. The remaining 9,000 people began to slowly move towards the east of Henan.

The encirclement is gradually shrinking. The sound of fire has been sounding in a dense manner. Every musketeer is now free-firing. What they have to do now is aim as far as they can. Instead of hitting the air without scruples. Because of such a small space. Stray bullets can easily damage one's teammates.

The Manchurian and Mengbaqi cavalry teams were cornered. He also tried to storm the Jiaozhou camp front. But this charge is not on a large scale. They were all shattered in front of the infantry formation in the Jiaozhou camp. You can't even come back if you hit it.

Lu Hutai is the leader of the red flag. He could do that in his early thirties. This is an outlier in the Eight Banners. When he was twenty years old, he was still a Jurchen in the old forest. was captured by the Eight Banners Squad who searched the mountains and seas to arrest people. Only then did he become a member of the Eight Banners.

Giving birth to a girl like this is really brave and abnormal. They were all scrambled to be included in their own flags by the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners. Lu Hutai was favored by Prince Li. Sent to his own son Yue Tuo to serve as a personal soldier. When Dolgon led a large army into the Kanto for the fourth time. Yue Tuo followed him as a lieutenant. Who would have thought that Yue Tuo was infected with smallpox in the pass. Died of illness in Jinan.

It is said that these guards of Luhutai died because of their landlords. Nothing will end well. But two red flags land flag owners. Prince Li Daishan is quite magnanimous in this matter. Maybe it's seeing things and thinking about people. For them, those soldiers who followed Yue Tuodi were magnanimous and abnormal. Lifting this Lu Hutai made a red flag to lead the ground.

This time the entry is at the right time. No one could have imagined that it would be such a situation today. They are all desperately shoving their cronies into it. Although this Lu Hutai was exalted. But it's a lot better than others. It is valued very much by Dai Shan. This time, too, I was sent in.

Lu Hutai and the Ming army fought no less than 20 times, thinking that they understood how these Han armies fought, and began to arrange the formation is very decent, if the Qing army rushes here, it is artillery and firearms and all kinds of strange firearms are placed indiscriminately, and when they rush to the front, the firearms are all hit without ammunition, and the body can not be used in a red heat, and the next thing is to rush directly in, slash and kill, the Ming army is mostly going to collapse, and then follow behind to cut people.

If the Ming army rushes first, it is generally a group of people who are surrounded by a few Ming generals who are not sober-minded, although it will cause some trouble to the Qing army's front, but the number of people is too small to shake the overall situation at all, and killing these people will bring about a greater collapse.

Over time, Lu Hutai has developed a strong self-confidence in his heart, and under this kind of self-confidence, there will often be a higher level of combat effectiveness.

The same is true when communicating with his companions, Lu Hutai has heard more than once that the people around him and his subordinates have said that the Ming army is not as good as a year, when the old Khan was there, it was still very difficult to fight with the Ming army in the field, and now, when it comes to fighting, it is like a sheep, very simple.

The firearms in the Ming army are not worth mentioning, ordinary foot soldiers are not worth mentioning, the only thing that can take out their hands, counting combat power, is only those Ming army generals' family members, these family members and those generals, the number is too small, not to mention these so-called "combat power", it is only about the same ability as the armor of the Eight Banners, what use can it be.

It was with such high morale and previous impressions that Lu Hutai fought. Then, within two days, his morale and impression were completely collapsed.

Yesterday's army was already a strange anomaly, according to the common sense of the previous war with the Ming army, there would be no such army anyway, not to mention that if there was such an army, why not use it in the previous battles. Those few times I entered the customs, and those few big battles outside the customs, why didn't I use this army and suffer so many losses in vain.

Looking at the harvesting life in front of him as if he was chopping melons and vegetables, he looked at his companions trembling and his face turned pale. Lu Hutai's mind gradually became confused, and he just blindly followed the front team to rush east and west, and there were constantly screams full of soldiers in his ears, and the horses neighed miserably. And panicked cries.

The wildness of Lu Hutai that had not subsided gradually emerged from his heart, and his reason was slowly lost. I don't know why, Lu Hutai, who is the leader of the red flag, actually feels that these Ming troops in front of him are definitely not soldiers and horses in the world, and they are the ghosts in the old forest of Montenegro that the shamans said.

Because the cavalry ran around in the encirclement, stirring up smoke and dust, and dimming the light, it became the scene of the end of the world.

All kinds of ghostly emotions came to mind, making Zhenghongqi Zuo Linglu Hutai feel frightened and flustered, and he didn't know what to do. With the hundreds of bannermen and horses behind him, running around with no purpose at all, the panicked and desperate bannermen behind him naturally didn't know that their master was about to go crazy.

In this mental state, it is not strange that Lu Hutai has done anything, this kind of irregular team that rushes and bumps in the formation has a strange luck, and the whole team has not suffered much damage. The various teams of the Eight Banners of Mongolia were in a disorderly manner, and the soldiers surrounding them were stabbed with spears, and the firearms were beaten indiscriminately, and people kept falling from their horses and dying, but the team led by Lu Hutai actually bypassed the second front of the old camp and rushed to the place where Li Meng's handsome banner was.

Lu Hutai's blood-red eyes could see the big banner and the Ming army array on the opposite side, he didn't realize that this was the center of the Jiaozhou camp, he was actually crazy. It's just a crooked encounter.

There was little hesitation. Lu Hutai raised the big sword in his hand and urged his horses to rush towards the army formation in front.

General Zhendong and Shandong General Li Meng sent all the battalions in his hands out. But now he doesn't have many troops in his hands, that is, 3,000 people in the pro-military battalion.

Seeing these hundreds of Tatar cavalry rushing over, the soldiers of the pro-barracks were quite excited, watching the battlefield fight so boiling and lively, but on their side they could only be the marshal of the guards, and there was no chance to fight, and the fierce soldiers of these pro-barracks were quite depressed.

At the moment, it was good, someone actually sent it to the door, and the soldiers with firearms all ran to the front row, and quickly prepared for shooting.

There are also soldiers with spears and axes and guns who line up after the firecrackers to deal with the cavalry according to the formation of rejecting the horses, and the way to deal with the cavalry is that even if it is a pro-soldier battalion, it will not play any tricks.

Lu Hutai and the Red Banner cavalry behind him, their mounts are actually no longer fast, horses are not machines, and it is impossible to always maintain the limit state of the charge.

But in the feeling of Lu Hutai, he is rushing forward with an unprecedented height, and behind him is also the thousands of troops of the Eight Banners, no matter what is in front of him, he will definitely be able to completely rush away and crush, and after that, he will also become a person like the general Abatai, maybe even higher.

"Five columns ready!"

The officers of the pro-barracks shouted this order in a slightly excited tone, and the men of forty men in each platoon, a total of five platoons, began to check their ammunition and muskets, and when the muskets did not fire the first shot, the muskets had to be loaded with ammunition, and all that had to be prepared was nothing more than routine procedures.

"First Column Ready !!"

This order was given to prove that five platoons of bullet fire were to be fired in turns, and with the high quality of the soldiers in the pro-barracks, three or four platoons could be fired in non-stop rotations, and five rows of rounds could constitute an extremely terrible rain of bullets.

Lu Hutai brandished a broadsword, roared and slapped his horse and rushed up, in fact, his voice was hoarse and could not shout at all, but the cavalry behind him saw that this might be an opportunity to escape, a good gap, and the clever one took the opportunity to run to the other side.

But more people are completely dazed on this battlefield, not knowing that it is a madman who is leading them now. They all followed with their weapons raised, perhaps thinking they were working a miracle.

"Fire!!"

When this command was called, the officers of the pro-barracks no longer had any feelings, the first column of firearms fired, the second column, the third column..., and then the cycle repeatedly. At about fifty paces, it was already repeated to the third row.

Lu Hutai held the big knife high and rushed into a distance of about eighty steps, this time his good luck did not bless him, the chest part was hit hard, Lu Hutai felt particularly sensitive at this moment, and even felt that the bullet did not penetrate his foam nail cotton armor, but hit an iron nail very coincidentally.

It's not lucky, it's like a sledgehammer hitting hard. Lu Hutai let out a painful cry and came down directly from his horse to the sky.

By the time Lu Hutai regained his consciousness, the hundreds of Zhenghongqi bannermen behind him had already turned into corpses. He himself also has pain in his body, even if he wants to breathe, there seems to be blood gushing out of his throat, and his luck may be really good, Lu Hutai is still alive.

"Rush up and kill ......"

Lu Hutai struggled to crawl out of the pile of corpses, staggering and holding a large knife, and he could see the Ming general in shining armor on the other side, laughing and saying something to the people opposite. This is his goal, go up and kill him, Lu Hutai just took two steps forward, and suddenly felt a chill in his chest, this time something did penetrate his armor, pierced his body, and penetrated.

The movement of this sharp blade was very fast, and after the assassination, it was immediately withdrawn. Lu Hutai felt that all the strength of his body flew out along the wound, and at this moment, his groggy head finally cleared up, and inexplicably he actually had a thought: finally died.

Then came darkness......

A soldier of the pro-barracks armed with a spear, under the orders of the officer, went out of the ranks, cleanly completed his assassination maneuver against the Tartar officer who stood up, and then returned to the queue.

Zhao Neng, the general of the Dengzhou Army who led the cavalry, came to Li Mengdi's main formation, and Zhao Neng was older than Li Meng. Speaking of which, there are also poor friends who boiled salt on the side of Lingshan back then. But Zhao Neng's attitude towards Li Meng is the most respectful one among these generals, and he doesn't discount it at all.

And two days of hard fighting. It is a terrible torture to the human spirit, and when Zhao Neng saw Li Meng, he was really worried that he had put it all aside, and he only felt very emotional.

At this time, the pro-military battalion happened to shoot the Tatar cavalry team that suddenly rushed over with a firearm, listening to the gunfire like a burst bean, Li Meng was calm, and Zhao Neng did not move at all, and was not affected by this at all.

Zhao Neng's eyes were a little moist, he was also a general guarding the town, and he couldn't show such true feelings in front of his subordinates, so he quickly wiped the corners of his eyes with his hands, turned over and dismounted, walked a few steps quickly to Li Meng, knelt on his knees, and said in a loud voice:

"The last general Zhao Neng, see the big handsome, the big handsome mighty, the big handsome Wansheng!!"

The shooting of the firearm had stopped, Li Meng looked at Zhao Neng who was kneeling there on the horse, and felt a little emotion in his heart, the higher the position of the person, the more lonely he was afraid, Zhao Neng was his brother-like role that day, but today, he can only make such a gesture, and the distance between them is getting farther and farther away.

This is also the price of gradual upward movement, since he has chosen this path, there is nothing to complain about, he sighed in his heart, but Li Meng had a smile on his face, and said softly:

"What are you doing with so many courtesies, quickly stand up and speak, get on the horse!"

That's what he said, but the person didn't move, Wang Hai, the commander of the pro-soldiers on the side, jumped off the horse and stretched out his hand to help Zhao Neng up, Zhao Neng was actually worried in his heart, the Dengzhou army fought like this, and he didn't know that the marshal would not blame him, seeing Li Meng so kind, he was relieved in his heart. "Brother Zhao, if you hadn't led your sons and daughters to pull the Tartar soldiers and horses this time, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to fight such a crisp and neat battle of annihilation, this battle, you have a great merit!"

After Zhao Neng gave the salute over there, he also turned over and got on the horse, and when he heard Li Meng say this, Zhao Neng was a real person, and his face immediately turned red, and he lowered his head and said in a muffled voice:

"The marshal praises his subordinates so much, and his subordinates are extremely ashamed, if they are commanded by subordinates, it is better. The sons and daughters will not die so much. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Neng, the general of the Dengzhou Army, seemed to think of something, hurriedly greeted a person beside him, and said to Li Meng:

"Marshal, the victory of my Dengzhou Army yesterday depends on this mainstay. stabilized the military formation, and is a counterattack, if it weren't for his actions, the situation is afraid that it will be out of control, the marshal, the last general should be punished, but this person should be rewarded, and I hope that the marshal will be gracious!! ”

At this time, a terrible scream was heard on the periphery. Then the area around the barracks was quiet, but no one here paid any attention to this

Under the recommendation of Zhao Neng. A heroic young man stood up, stood in front of Li Mengma, punched his right chest with his left fist, made a battlefield military salute, and said loudly:

"Wang Tao, the third commander of the fifth battalion of the Dengzhou Army, see the big handsome, the big handsome Wansheng, the big handsome might!!"

"Turning the tide is about to fall, and sure enough, it is the fire that refines the real gold. If it weren't for the critical situation, Ben Shuai really didn't know that there were such heroes under him! “

The Jiaozhou battalion system lacks talents, lacks all kinds of talents, especially lacks talents who adapt to this system, and it is naturally a great thing to have such a person come out, and look at this young man's military posture and heroic spirit, it is also a good thing. Such a talent, but after yesterday's bloody battle, it is genuine.

Li Meng was happy in his heart, of course, he had to praise a few more words, Wang Tao was really excited when he heard such a praise from the marshal who was regarded as a military god in his mind, and his face turned red, but in such a situation, he couldn't say anything. I had to straighten my waist. The military posture is more standard.

The continuous sound of firearms on the entire battlefield had already stopped, and it became a little quiet for a while. But the screams of dying and the cries of fighting did not stop.

By now, infantry battalions had been arranged around this encirclement, and the line was gradually shrinking, and if you fired freely, I was afraid that you would hurt your comrades.

The fact that the firecrackers have been withdrawn into the inner ring or the outer ring does not mean that the killing has stopped, in fact, the attack at this stage is more effective, because the weapons are now spears and axes.

The spearmen and axemen of the various camps straddled over the corpses of the Tartars, and continued to stab the Tartar cavalry rushing in the middle of it, and by now they had really encircled them, and all that remained was the finishing touches.

In this battle, the worst performance among the Tartar soldiers and horses was the Manchurian Eight Banners, which were considered the strongest in advance, they completely lost the will to fight, and wanted to use the servant army as cannon fodder to rush forward, and they were behind to cover up, in fact, this is the loss of courage and the will to charge, and the soldiers who have lost these can no longer be called strong soldiers, not to mention, now the will to fight of the Manchurian Eight Banners has been completely crushed.

The fire on the battlefield stopped, so that several generals on Shuaiqi's side temporarily diverted their attention, Li Meng listened for a while, his vision was obscured by the eleven battalions in front, no one came to report, the second front slowly pressed forward, he smiled easily:

"This battle is almost a foregone conclusion, our Jiaozhou battalion has a big victory!!"

Although everyone had already judged this result, when Li Meng spoke, everyone's hearts were still excited, and their blood was boiling, and they were just about to say some congratulatory and cheering words, but Li Meng, who was in a very good mood, had a very rare look on his face, and said jokingly to Wang Tao:

"Wang Tao, do you know that in our military merit system in Shandong, you have made this great contribution, but it is not to attack the city, to capture the flag, nor to train diligently and innovate technology, there is really no reason to reward you, what do you say!?"

As soon as I heard this, everyone was embarrassed for Wang Tao, up and down Shandong, there are rules for everything, especially the reward for military merit, think about it carefully, if Wang Tao's actions are set in the regulations on rewards and punishments for military merits, there are really no corresponding rules.

This is really embarrassing and embarrassing, if such a great achievement is not rewarded, although it is in line with the rules, but it is not reasonable, what should I do with the morale of this army, what about the image of this hero!?

In the eyes of everyone, Li Meng is not a joker, after this conclusion, everyone is serious, for such an effect, Li Meng, who is in a very good mood, is even more happy, in the military merit system of the Jiaozhou battalion, there is indeed no reward and punishment in this situation, but the system is a system, and it is also appropriate to make a special case for such a meritorious person.

The sound of the fire gradually quieted down, and the sound of shouting and fighting prevailed, and after a moment of chatting, the sound of shouting and fighting also weakened, and the rest was indeed desperate screams and howls.

The troops of the Jiaozhou battalion are like a wall, full of soldiers and horses, but this wall is not dead, but alive, and the spears in the hands of the spearmen who make up this wall are constantly expanding and contracting, and every action is to open a bloody hole in the ** of the Tartar soldiers.

Now the cavalry of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Meng, in such a cramped space, the horses can no longer move too long, let alone any impact, in such an environment, the cavalry of the Tartars is not even comparable to the infantry, the movement is slow, and it is not easy to turn around.

The sluggish Tartar cavalry fell from their horses in large numbers under the dense spear stabbing, and the generals of the Eight Banners were all in the inner circle, and some people had already seen that this was wrong, and shouted loudly:

"Dismount, dismount, stand in front with your horse!!"

This was the only constructive opinion in the desperate chaos, and the Manchurian soldiers who had not yet been stabbed by spears flipped off their horses, stabbing the horses desperately with swords in their hands, and letting the horses run towards the outer circle, this rational order could be regarded as calming down the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

"The foot soldiers of the captives are extremely fine" This is the judgment of people of insight in the late Ming Dynasty, and the gathering and dispersion are all Manchurian Eight Banner foot soldiers who are quick and fast, and they have always been the nightmare of the Ming army in the field battle.

But that's all, in front of the spear phalanx of the Jiaozhou battalion, the last struggle of the Manmeng Eight Banners was also useless, in front of the dense and orderly spear array, the enemy's cargo within the length of the spear, whether it was a man or a horse, was mercilessly assassinated, and the change at this time was nothing more than that after the horse neighed and fell, the Tartar soldiers hiding behind him followed in his footsteps.

There were also lucky Tatar cavalry who fled through the gap between the two wings that had not yet closed, but there were still cavalry and firecrackers from the Jiaozhou battalion waiting to intercept and kill this kind of fish that slipped through the net.

At this time, it was a completely one-sided massacre, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion had no mercy and carried out the killing of the remnants of the Tatar army with confidence, they were to kill the Wenchen generals who had died in the battle with the Jurchens since the Wanli period, they were to kill hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers who died in the battle with the Jurchens in the east, and they were to kill millions of Han civilians who were slaughtered by the Jurchen barbarians outside the Guanwai Guan.

For Li Meng, the killing of the Jiaozhou battalion in this battle was for the three massacres in Jiading and Yangzhou for ten days in that time and space, for the darkness and backwardness of more than 300 years, and for the Opium War and the loss of power and humiliation of the country and the reparations for land cession for nearly a hundred years after that.

Slowly, all the voices on the battlefield, whether it was fighting or howling, were covered by the shouts of the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, and after every spear stabbing action, they would shout:

"Jiaozhou battalion, kill !!!"

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