Chapter 391: A Victory Through Hardships

The arrival of the tower undoubtedly turned the tide on the battlefield. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Ye Shaolong had already had the idea of retreating, after all, he couldn't do this kind of thing if he let the soldiers of Yejiabao fight with their lives.

It's not that Ye Shaolong is soft-hearted, but Ye Shaolong can't afford to lose. Yejiabao originally did not have many soldiers, and if he suffered heavy losses in order to block the foreign army, it would be more than worth the loss.

But just when he had the idea of retreating, he wanted to let go of an opening first so that foreigners could see the hope of escape, so as not to be too desperate. Unexpectedly, the tower appeared at this time, and directly chased and killed the boss Jesley in the foreign army.

The foreign army suddenly fell into chaos, and Ye Shaolong seized the opportunity and immediately launched a counterattack. The foreign army, which had just had the hope of breaking through, suddenly fell into danger again.

The Yejiabao army was suppressed and beaten by muskets just now, and there were many casualties, and the soldiers were holding their breath in their hearts. This will seize the opportunity, and it will naturally be a good killing.

Jesley hated the tower at the moment, shouting and cursing as he fled, strings of English bursting out of his mouth. It's a pity that Tie Ta didn't understand a word, and still clung to him.

Soon Jesley found out why he couldn't hide from the Tower, and it turned out that everything was due to the handsome flag carried by his own soldiers.

Jesley, who was so angry, didn't hesitate to turn around and cut off Shuai Qi directly with a knife, and then blended into the crowd again. Sure enough, he soon couldn't see the tower catching up.

But without the handsome flag, the foreign army is even more in chaos, and they don't even know where the commander is.

After Jesley escapes from the Tower, he has time to see his men, only to find that it will be a complete mess. Several orders were issued in succession, but they could not be conveyed to the whole army, and the disadvantages of not having the banner of the commander immediately appeared.

"Damn it!"

Cursing in a low voice, Jesley was completely dead set on integrating the army, and after watching left and right for a while, he finally saw the gap to escape from the encirclement of the Yejiabao army.

Immediately, without any hesitation, he directly left his subordinates who were besieged and killed, and galloped away on horseback.

Without the banner, no one paid attention to Jesley on the chaotic battlefield, and he easily killed a few people who stood in his way, and then escaped from the encirclement.

More than a dozen foreign soldiers saw Jesley's figure, and the dozen or so fled after him without hesitation. After these dozen people fled, the gap was quickly blocked by the Yejiabao army, and those who saw the opportunity to act later could no longer escape from the encirclement.

The cavalry battalion had arrived at this time, and began to strangle the foreign army with the infantry. The Qing army on the periphery has gradually been controlled, and Su Can and Li Chengke shouted all the way to surrender and not kill, and the effect is remarkable, almost immediate.

The Qing soldiers threw away their weapons and surrendered, and the Yejiabao army took the remaining thousands of Qing soldiers prisoner with little effort.

More than 10,000 foreign troops, besieged by Ye Shaolong's thousands of infantry and thousands of cavalry from the Iron Tower, quickly quelled the battle.

More than 2,000 foreign troops were captured, and the rest were either killed or wounded, and the smell of blood on the entire battlefield was overwhelming, and everywhere as far as the eye could see.

The screams and wails of the wounded are incessant, like hell on earth.

This battle can be described as the first real battle of life and death since the establishment of the Yejiabao Army. There was no fancy head-on decisive battle with the enemy, and although he was lucky to win in the end, Ye Shaolong couldn't be happy when he counted the casualties after the battle.

The Yejiabao army invested a total of nearly 30,000 troops, 4,000 cavalry, and 4,000 musket battalions this time. There were 20,000 infantry, and almost the entire Yejiabao soldiers came to meet them, but the result was thousands of dead and wounded.

When the number of deaths reached the largest number ever, more than 1,000 people. Most of them were infantry and cavalry, but Su Can's musket battalion had almost zero casualties this time.

cleaned up the battlefield, escorted the prisoners back to the capital, and summoned Tie Ta to discuss things with Su Can and Li Chengke.

After Ye Shaolong hesitated a little, he looked at the three of them and said, "The foreigners suddenly attacked, and we finally won the victory, but we also suffered many casualties among the soldiers of the Yejiabao army. ”

After a pause, Ye Shaolong continued: "Although we paid a great price, we still won in the end, and the foreigners were also hit hard. So I think it's necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill directly to Taiyuan City. While they are now empty, our army should be able to do wonders on top. ”

Su Can frowned and pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "This is not appropriate, originally our soldiers came from other places to support, and after coming to the capital, they didn't have any rest, so they went directly to the battlefield." Since the start of the war, most of the day has passed, and everyone is exhausted, and if they continue to rush to Taiyuan to attack the city, it is obviously impossible! ”

"Yes, what Brother Su said is reasonable, and I also support that we can't send troops to Taiyuan now." Li Chengke also expressed his stance after Su Can.

Tie Ta has never been involved in making ideas, he just kept silent, looking at Ye Shaolong's eyes with obvious dodge.

The tower couldn't take care of these at all, he was worried in his heart now, and he didn't know what Ye Shaolong would do with him afterwards.

He thought that he had impulsively pursued and killed Jesley, but abandoned the soldiers of the 4,000 cavalry battalion, and it was obvious that the tower itself was in trouble again.

Ye Shaolong seemed to notice that the iron tower was wrong, but this time didn't seem to be his time. Ye Shaolong glared at him fiercely, and then said to Su Can and Li Cheng: "Big brother is reasonable, but it's always a pity that such a great opportunity is wasted now!" ”

Su Can smiled and said: "Why should you be angry, although our losses this time are not small, we have also gained a lot." There were several thousand prisoners of the Qing army alone, and these people only needed to be disorganized into our army, and after a few days of running-in, they were elite soldiers. ”

Ye Shaolong thought about it and did not insist on attacking Taiyuan Mansion anymore. After all, even if Taiyuan City was broken by Ye Shaolong, the current Yejiabao was overwhelmed, and it was impossible to send a garrison to stay in Taiyuan City.

Now the Yejiabao army is not enough to hold the capital, so let alone divide the troops to stay in Taiyuan. If the garrison is not left after the occupation, it will definitely be reoccupied by the foreigners in a very short time.

Instead of doing such useless work, it is obviously better to take this opportunity to recuperate, and to run in those Qing soldiers who surrendered and strengthen the army. In this way, Taiyuan City can launch a complete attack.

"Brother Su is reasonable, just do what you say." Ye Shaolong hesitated a little and then agreed with Su Can's opinion.

At this point, a sudden war was hastily calmed down. Next, start to sort out the interior, train the soldiers and horses, and when the time is ripe, you can send troops to Taiyuan City to completely solve this cancer. Save some foreigners from always coming out from time to time to jump.