Chapter 140: Killing the King (5)
The shield array of the Qing army was re-formed, and the bird gunners of the Han army banner had already been bombarded to the two wings by Yue Le along with their master Liu Liangzuo. The number of people in Manchuria Zhenyi www.biquge.info is scarce, and they can't withstand such consumption with the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang. And with such an exchange ratio, if there are a few more rounds, the casualties of the Ming army will increase, but the Qing army will have already collapsed.
However, for a while, he didn't have a good solution. In this battle, it was necessary to rely on the Mongolian Eight Banners to try to break through the battle formation of the Ming army, but the Ming army relied on Qiaosi Town to form a formation, and with a fulcrum, the attack surface of the cavalry of the Qing army would become smaller, which invisibly suppressed the cavalry's mobile strike ability.
In this case, you can only wait for the opponent to make a mistake. It's just that Yue Le hasn't waited for this scene to appear, but the Ming army's offensive has become more and more fierce.
"Zhengwu, abandon the gun and draw the knife!"
As soon as the order was issued, the veterans who used the turtledove foot guns in the Ming army's battle formation threw the fire guns on the ground, pulled out their sabers, and squatted down and drilled into the spear jungle with the fire gun bracket on their left hand.
The rat battle under the spear forest was specially trained before, and when they entered the spear formation, they immediately made it easy for the long card players who pressed the formation to half-crouch together and walked towards the battle formation of the Qing army.
At a distance of several meters, the attention of the Qing army was focused on how to block the spear stab, but a group of people suddenly sprang out of the spear forest, half-squatting over, and the meaning was self-evident. As they expected, these veterans, under the leadership of the long players who can only serve as the commander, once they approached the vicinity of the Qing army, without saying a word, they would pass by the thigh of the Qing army.
The sword and shield soldiers entered the shield array, and the left and right were Qing troops, but the upper body was the spear thrust of the Ming army, and the lower body was the saber slashing of the Ming army.
In an instant, the screams came one after another, the shield array suddenly lost its effectiveness, and the speed of disintegration increased sharply, and the replenishment speed of the Qing army in the back row soon couldn't catch up with the attrition.
For a time, the Niu Lu Ezhen and the people in front of the Qing army had their own tricks, some let the sword and shield soldiers in the back row also squat down to engage in a rat battle with the Ming army, and some simply commanded the pikemen behind to assassinate from the gap behind the shield array. However, the shield array is not as good as the gun array, the soldiers of the gun array can attack sideways, and the soldiers of the shield array each hold a soldier in each hand, and they need to be ready to kill the enemy with the waist knife in their hands at all times, and they can only face the enemy head-on, and if they want to drill through this, or assassinate from the gap, the difficulty and limitations will become great.
The sporadic Qing saber and shield soldiers who came over did become an obstacle to the Ming army's rat warfare with their martial arts, and in cooperation with the assassination of those spears, the embarrassment of the upper and lower bodies being attacked together was quickly alleviated. However, the gap between the exchange ratios between the two sides has been further widened, and Yue Le will only fail miserably.
"Tell that slave Ibai, this king doesn't have time to wait for him to confirm whether it is a trap or not, as long as Chen Wen's barbarian's general flag is there, even if it is a pile of human lives, it has to be piled down for this king!" The angry Yue Le suppressed his voice and shouted at the herald sent back by Ibai, and only after the herald was so frightened that he crawled away with the order, he continued to give orders to the infantry of the Qing army.
"Pass the order and tell the minions of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Army that if they hold on, Ibai's cavalry will soon be able to break the enemy."
The order was conveyed, and the noble king, Nurhachi's grandson, Shunzhi's cousin, and the master with such a high status, had great appeal in the Eight Banners Army. The morale is stable for the time being, but if there is no way to break the formation, it will be consumed by the Ming army all the time, not to mention the Eight Banners Army, which has been in the customs for many years and has a lot of money, even the barbarians in the old forests of Liaodong will collapse sooner or later.
The order was given here, and Ibay's side soon received Yue Le's Pegasus order.
"The prince has already given an order, and this trap will not work if you don't go through."
Yibai is Gushan Ezhen and the Minister of Parliament, but Yue Le is the master of the Aixin Jueluo family, in front of the master, he is just a high-level minion, even if there is a different opinion, he will never dare to disobey.
Seeing this, Ibai had no choice but to lead the 2,000 cavalry of his headquarters and the cavalry that had previously attacked the Ming army's formation on the frontal battlefield to rush towards the set goal. As for the cavalry on both flanks, they still couldn't move, because they still had to continue to contain the Ming army's flanks there, so as to prevent the Ming army's infantry from advancing in formation and outflanking the Qing army's infantry on both flanks.
The cavalry of the brigade roared around the Ming army's defense line, and did not stop until the north of Qiaosi Town, the north of the Ming army's direction.
At the beginning of the war, Ibay, based on the return of the Tanma, quickly realized the disadvantages of the Ming army's defense of Qiaosi Town. The two battalions were in the south, as the main force, and the two battalions were located in the southeast and southwest respectively, covering the flanks, while Yin Yue, the general of the Jinhua Division, led the mixed force as the reserve for these four battalions.
With such a defense, Qiaosi Town has become an empty city, but Chen Wen's flag is placed there. This was Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, or a deadly trap with an alluring aroma, and Ibai had planned to see it before acting, but now Yue Le's place was in danger, forcing him to take the risk of probing.
The losses at the beginning of the war were not small, and the more than 1,000 cavalry was already the last mobile force in his hands. Seeing this small town in the south of the Yangtze River, Yibai knew that there was no room for delay on the battlefield, so he had to take the cavalry to pour it in.
"Master, let the minions take someone to explore."
The bitter persuasion of one of the banners, Meljangjing, but unfortunately could not change Ibai's will. "Prince An's side is still struggling, and those who are slaves have to share their worries with their masters, sons, follow Lao Tzu and rush in to kill Chen Wen!"
The cavalry of the brigade rose against each other, leaving only a few hundred horsemen just in case. Ibay led his cavalry and entered through the north gate of Joss Town, but he did not rush far into it, but he had to turn around and walk slowly.
The streets of the town were littered with wheelbarrows, carts, and sedan chairs, and not only these, but also empty boxes, vendors' stalls, and even fragments of fine and porcelain, as if they had just been looted.
"I think there was an episode yesterday."
Many of these things look like they were abandoned by the people who rushed to the market, and those people had been driven out by the Ming army nine times out of ten, otherwise it would not be like this. However, Chen Wen is not an ordinary person, and there may still be some dangers if he doesn't get it right.
"You, you, you two take these things to the side of the road. You, you, the two of you take the people of the headquarters and search for Lao Tzu. ”
Time was pressing, and Yibai didn't dare to stay too long, so he had to clear the road while searching while rushing to the direction of the building where General Chen Wen's flag was standing.
Qiaosi Town was once trapped in the sea tide during the Yongle period, but now it is a large town with a scale of more than 1,000 people, and the scale is not small. Ibai walked around with the Qing army, but not a single citizen saw it, and the more he did, the more frightened he became, God knows what demons and monsters were hiding here.
Soon, the anxious Yibai led the team to the center of the cross street, where to the south he could attack behind the main position of the Ming army, and even he could see where Yin Yue's general flag was, and to the east and west, he could cooperate with the Qing army on both sides to outflank the left and right flanks of the Ming army. Of course, the most important thing is that the building where Chen Wenjiangqi is located is not far away, only a few dozen steps, but there are no people on this street, even if it is a cat or a dog.
"There's no time, attack!"
Yibai gave an order, as if he had a heart in his heart, and Chen Wen's flag suddenly shook a few times. Immediately afterwards, the two-story buildings in the town opened their windows one after another, and one by one the fire guns stretched out, pointing directly at the Qing cavalry that had stretched over like a long snake.
The courtyards in the town were all sold from the inside, and the shops and doors facing the street were also locked, and the time was too short, and the north side of the Qing army's focus on searching was further modified, and the Ming army could enter it faster from the courtyard behind.
At the same time, in the alley near the left, a group of mandarin duck arrays came out of the corners and courtyards that blocked their vision, and even a large group of mandarin duck arrays rushed directly to the north gate of the town.
The mandarin duck formations of the two bureaus that did not appear on the battlefield of the two battalions of the guards and Shentang were all ambushed in the town, and Yibai had doubts before, but the situation simply did not allow him to delay even a second. In this way, the Qing army of thousands of horsemen was surrounded in this town, facing four hundred mandarin ducks and four hundred firearms, and they lost their maneuver space and became turtles in the urn.
"Master, you've been tricked, hurry up."
As if it was the whistle of the opening of the game, when a firearm fired at the cavalry of the Qing army, the other firearms also poured bullets on these live targets that were obviously home, and the Qing army was a group of people on their backs.
The Qing army in the town was in a mess, wanting to escape and fighting back on the spot, but in this small town in the south of the Yangtze River, the road is narrow, even if the debris on the road has been cleared to the side of the road, but in the chaos, it is even more difficult for the war horse to turn around.
"I can't run away, the barbarian surnamed Chen designed a good game, how can we escape so easily."
Turning over and dismounting, using the war horse as cover, Ibai and the Qing cavalry began to return fire with their bows. But the Ming army is condescending, and they are even more flanked by two sides, and they are just delaying time.
"For today's plan, you take someone to set fire, and I will rush to the location of Chen Wen's flag!"
Arson can slow down the encirclement of the Ming army, and at the same time create chaos, as long as the water can be mixed up, it is still possible to escape. Moreover, the fire on the town will also have a great impact on the mentality of the Ming and Qing armies on the main battlefield. And the general flag that attacked Chen Wen and killed Chen Wen in one fell swoop, Yibai didn't even think about it, but as long as the general flag can be cut off, it will be of great benefit to both the overall battle situation and their cavalry army.
"Master, let's let the minions rush."
"No, you can't do it!"
Where the flag is located, it must be a key defensive area, and the danger will naturally be greater. Although the Qing army is now outnumbered, it is extremely panicked, and compared with a Meler Zhangjing and a Gushan Ezhen minister, there is a big difference in appeal.
Ibai shouted, and a group of Mongolian Eight Banners stood up with him when he took Gosh Harden beside him, and rushed towards Chen Wen's flag.
Riding on the horses was too conspicuous, they had to move forward on foot, but under the continuous shooting around the perimeter, it was only a few dozen steps, but it was like ice under the scorching sun, and their lives continued to evaporate in this short distance.
Rushing to the front of the courtyard, Ibay pushed hard, but the gate did not move. According to that feeling, it was obvious that the deadbolt was inserted.
"Bump!"
The shooting continued, and if it weren't for Ibay taking the lead, such casualties, these Eight Banners would have dispersed long ago. Hearing this, a Mongolian man with a big shoulder and a round waist ran two steps and slammed into the gate.
The reaction force shot the Mongol Han back, but the Ibai did not give up and continued to ram towards the gate. This time, the sound of the door bolt breaking slightly, although there were fewer and fewer people around them, but these Qing soldiers, who had already been red-eyed, were extremely excited and crashed into the door again.
The door slammed open, and the man who slammed it tripped over the threshold. Knock open the thick door, and the rest will be very simple. And with the courtyard as a cover, there is no need to bear those shots outside, so there is no reason to be unhappy.
However, before he could get up, he clearly felt that the Qing troops rushing in around him basically stopped without taking two steps. When he tried to get up, he looked up and saw the two rows of flintlock musketeers standing in front of them half-crouched in the back, and the muzzles of their guns were all aimed at them......
The small building on the second floor, through the window, Chen Wen can see clearly. In the narrow terrain, the densely standing flintlock musketeers easily shot the team of Eight Banner warriors, and then a group of guards came out, and cut off the head of the Manchu high-ranking official who had not yet had time to enter the door.
Chen Wen didn't know that there was a solid mountain and a real minister here, and even if he knew, he wouldn't be too interested. Compared with Yue Le, what Yibai and Erbai are not even a fart.
From the eve of the start of this battle, the General Staff Department had already made a complete plan.
Relying on Qiaosi Town's array is specially tailored for this Eight Banners Army, the overall deployment seems to have wasted a lot of troops on the left and right flanks, but such a deployment is not only to reduce the strike range of the Qing cavalry, but more importantly, Chen Wen intends to bleed the Manchu cavalry. Save these guys from coming out to make trouble when he is attacking the city, or flee back to Nanjing to cause trouble for Zheng Chenggong. Moreover, the cross street of the town can also effectively mobilize troops, and the cavalry advantage of the Qing army has been limited.
At this moment, the fierce battle in the town was still one-sided, and the cavalry of the Qing army was really difficult to play in such a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. The Qing army outside wanted to rush in to rescue, but it was impossible in front of the Ming army who were waiting for it. As for arson, Chen Wen didn't have to worry about these things at all, and the officers knew how to deal with them.
Retracting his gaze, Chen Wen refocused his attention on the frontal battlefield, the continuous loss of Qing soldiers, and the formation had been forced back more and more by the Ming army.
Chen Wen knew very well that the decisive moment had come, and he had already prepared a big gift for Yue Le. After stepping down from the small building, he turned over and led the guards straight to the rear of the Ming army on the main battlefield. This was the assembly point of the Ming cavalry, and Chen Wen soon came here. After the banner of the king of Huiji County came to the battle, the morale of the Ming army was boosted.
Riding his horse to inspect the cavalry behind the formation, he saw Chen Wen pick up the iron horn, trying to let everyone hear his shout.
"Gentlemen, kill Yue Le, at this time!"