Chapter 118: Jianyang Town and Kaixian County
On Huguang's side, when Tan Wen's seventh battalion attacked the main force of the official army led by Chen Yan, Liu Hei's second battalion also arrived at the logistics transfer station of the official army - Jianyang Town on time.
Liu Hei's second battalion is the most adept at long-distance raids among the battalions of the Han army, and it is also the most well-informed and experienced battalion in the Han army.
The second battalion, including its predecessor Second Biao, had been to Shaanxi, and had a little discussion with Li Zicheng's Ma Ke Department, and had a long distance around Baoning Mansion and almost attacked Chengdu Mansion, and it was also the first Han army to enter Huguang.
Moreover, the second battalion is still the largest number of battalions in the Han army, and has reached more than 6,000 people, which is one more standard than the other battalions, but this does not mean that the combat effectiveness of the second battalion will be inferior to that of other battalions. The second battalion has always played the role of the vanguard in the Han army, not necessarily the strongest in combat but definitely the strongest in endurance.
When it was time to fight, the second battalion was able to immediately show amazing combat effectiveness, and it did not seem to show any fatigue due to continuous marching.
As soon as they arrived at Jianyang Town, the soldiers of the first target of the second battalion first pretended to be thieves and attracted tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the transport battalion out of Jianyang Town, while the soldiers of the second and third battalions, armed with muskets, quickly pursued them, forming a situation with the first standard against the officers and troops on three sides and preemptively attacking the officers and troops.
It is indeed dizzy, the white smoke screen formed after the explosion makes the officers and soldiers unable to see the number of thieves they shoot, the more unclear it is, the more terrifying it is, most of these officers and soldiers who have been eliminated to guard the grain and grass do not know what to do for a while except for organizing cover on the spot because of their rich experience in actual combat.
But at this time, the first target fighter had already rushed over. As I said at first, the speed of the soldiers of the second battalion of the Han army has always been the fastest among the battalions, and it is not only limited to long-distance even a short sprint of a few hundred meters, the soldiers of the first target are like cheetahs, and they turned around and rushed in front of this group of officers and soldiers in an instant, and then threw earth-shaking thunder in unison, and at the same time, taking advantage of the chaos of the officers and soldiers, the knife and the gun stabbed, and it didn't take long to hear the sound of killing, and countless plasma began to faintly spray out between the hazy white smoke.
At the same time, the fourth and fifth bids were also rapidly inserted into Jianyang Town, which had no city walls but a high wooden fence, but it was just a piece of cake for the Han army who were good at climbing rocks and walking walls. The fourth and fifth standards totaled more than 2,000 people, and the officers and soldiers fighting against them were more than 10,000 people, but they were obviously weaker in momentum, but they still resisted the attack with the advantage of numbers, but when the sixth standard joined in, the situation immediately took a sharp turn for the worse.
The ending was already without suspense, in front of the soldiers of the second battalion, the 20,000 officers and soldiers gave up resistance without holding out for half a day, although some officers and soldiers who were already alert immediately went to Jingmen County, which was not far from here, and informed Chen Yan of the news that Jianyang Town was attacked by thieves, but at this time, Chen Yan's center was suffering from the impact of the cavalry of the seventh battalion, where did he have time to take care of these old and weak. But after the 7th Battalion stopped attacking Chen Yan's main army, Chen Yan had no chance to snatch back his grain and baggage.
"Miss Du, tens of thousands of stones and grains and countless baggage of the official army have been detained by us, but we can't take all these things with us, we have to find a way to destroy these things as soon as possible, in my opinion, it is better to burn them directly!"
As soon as the battle in Jianyang Town was over, Liu Hei immediately came to the front of Du Xiaoyuan and suggested. Du Xiaoyuan found a clean grass and sat down, picked up a falling yellow leaf and blew it into the air, and said: "What a pity it burned, there are so many displaced people in this Jingxiang area, if these grains are distributed, it will not be a merit." ”
"That being said, but the officers and soldiers can recover their vitality and launch a counterattack against us in a blink of an eye, how can they have time to do these things that win the hearts of the people", Tan Wen walked in at some point, but his expression in front of Du Xiaoyuan was obviously more supportive than before, obviously, his seventh battalion performed well in the attack on the officers and soldiers.
"Why is there no time, our attack on the official army has not stopped, how can this official army have a chance to recover", Du Xiaoyuan chuckled, and then raised the Tiro skirt to avoid being contaminated by the autumn mud, and said: "Order, early tomorrow morning, Tan Wen will immediately lead the seventh battalion to continue the attack on the official army, the purpose of which is to divert most of the officers and troops around Chen Yan, and the second battalion will immediately go to the nearby towns and villages from tonight to distribute grain and weapons to recruit the army, at least 50,000 people, not too much, Too much will make Chen Yan too scared and send all the surrounding officers and troops to help, it will be more than worth the loss, too little will not be enough for Chen Yan to hide back in Jingzhou City. ”
"Early tomorrow morning! Miss Du, the soldiers of our seventh battalion can not rest after a day of fierce fighting, but this war horse must rest, otherwise they will lose weight, and once they lose fat, it will affect the combat effectiveness of the cavalry! Tan Wen was in a hurry, the reason why the cavalry cost is very high is because of the high requirements for the breeding and domestication of war horses, if the war horses cannot be given enough rest, then the war horses will become ordinary horses sooner or later.
"It's okay to make up for it if you lose it, but once the fighter plane is lost, there is no chance to recover it!" It was the first time that Du Xiaoyuan spoke sharply to Tan Wen, and after speaking, she waved her sleeves and said, "Quickly carry out the order!" ”
…… Outside the city of Kaixian, the left army was not intimidated by the sudden fire.
"A false alarm, a little bit of a small group of thieves attacked and disturbed, this thief leader Yang Ming is also using these tricks, wanting to slow down the march of my army, so as to give him enough time to escape!" This was Zuo Liangyu's original idea, and he ordered officers and soldiers from all walks of life to speed up, to tighten the encirclement of Kaixian step by step, and not let go of a single thief army. Zuo Liangyu's idea was good, but just as he and his officers and soldiers of Zuo relaxed again, rows of iron bullets came over one after another.
The shooting just now, it can be understood that the soldiers of the eighth battalion are testing the waters, and this time they are really reaping their lives, a series of shots made the left army have no time to change formation, and there is no time to return fire, the deployment of the left army was disrupted, Zuo Liangyu and the main generals of the left army from all walks of life, as long as they are not fools, will decisively order the army to retreat, and then launch an attack on the enemy in front of them after restoring order.
Although the left army didn't know how many thieves there were in front of them, they could also know from the few rounds of shooting just now that the thief army in front was not easy to deal with, at least the sharpness of the firearms far exceeded the bird guns in their hands. But this did not discourage Zuo Liangyu's enthusiasm, on the contrary, it also made him more sure that the thief leader Yang Ming and the main force of the Han family army would definitely be in this area, otherwise the resistance would not be so strong, and he now coveted the musket in the hands of the Han family, and has ordered that in the future, he will catch a thief from the craftsman must not be killed and report it, and one will be rewarded with ten taels of silver.
Although the muskets of the Han army are sharp, this does not mean that the left army has no way to take this, you know, the firearms and equipment of the Ming Dynasty army is not a simple embellishment, just a battalion of the Ming army has more than 3,600 thunderbolt cannons, hundreds of bird guns and Dalian bead cannons, etc., and more than 100 artillery and vehicle artillery, it can be seen that the degree of firearms attack weapons and equipment of the Ming army has far exceeded that of the army of the same era, and therefore, the left army used these attack weapons to prepare for an attack on the Han army in the front camp.
Maybe it's because of the negligence of drills, maybe it's because although the Ming Dynasty army has been equipped with a large number of firearms, but most of the Ming Dynasty troops can't effectively exert the power of weapons, in short, the left army spent nearly two hours when restoring order and using firearms to organize a counterattack, which made the Han army very impatient, if it weren't for the fact that the left army had retreated beyond the range of the Han guns, and Li Guangtian did not allow them to be exposed, I was afraid that the soldiers of the Han army had already rushed over to disrupt the camp of the left army.
The struggling left army began to counterattack with firearms, and the entire mountain range began to stage its epoch-making combat scene. The artillery of the left army is very sharp, countless iron bullets and chain bullets will be the Ming army in the Korean Peninsula to beat the majesty of the little devil out, in an instant, the whole hill in front of the artillery into a mess, countless stones and wood were blown up and injured the Han army soldiers who were careless, some Han army soldiers scolded their mothers while shouting to teach this group of left army a good lesson, but they were all beaten back by the sharp artillery of the Ming army.
The soldiers of the 8th Battalion could only stay in the communication trenches, poking their heads out from time to time to counterattack the enemy, but the left army was also clever and insisted on not taking a step forward, constantly bombarding with artillery outside the firing range. In this way, the battle situation was stalemate until dusk, just when the soldiers of the eighth battalion thought that the left army was going to rest, the left army rushed over with a large force, no way, although Zuo Liangyu wanted to continue to use countless artillery to bombard the hills in this area into the ground and then attack, but time waited for no one, he brazenly ordered the army to attack immediately.
Like Zuo Liangyu, the other commanders of the left army also brazenly launched an attack on the position of the Han army after the fierce bombardment of artillery, so the soldiers of the eighth battalion of the Han army were very unceremoniously beaten the left army again, but the left army did not flinch, and rushed over with rattan cards, muskets, bows and arrows, spears, etc., and rushed over in a combat group to brave the shooting of the Han army, forcing the Han army to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them. Li Guangtian would not let the soldiers fight with the left army in vain, and he decisively ordered the soldiers of the Han army to retreat to the second line of defense and carry out a second round of strikes against the enemy.
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