Chapter 508: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
Monk Greenqin is indeed defeated, people are unlucky, drinking cold water is stuffed between their teeth, originally in Henan twist bandits are fierce enough, who would have thought that a month and a half ago, Lai Wenguang of the Taiping Army suddenly went north, with a Taiping army into Henan, and the twist bandits? After all, Henan has two forces, the Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin and the green battalion of Shengbao, which cooperate with each other, and Shengbao is also a battlefield general, but he can also withstand the bandits south of the Yellow River.
However, unfortunately, at this juncture, Shaanxi broke out again, and the imperial court had to transfer Shengbao's green battalion to Shaanxi to quell the chaos, as a result, the whole Henan was left with a force to fight against the twist bandits and long hair, even if the monk Greenqin can fight well, it is difficult to parry the nearly 100,000 twist bandits and the Taiping army, not to mention, the twist bandits are mainly cavalry, and their whereabouts are erratic, and it is very difficult to annihilate them.
Monk Greenqin worked hard to fight two beautiful battles and eliminate two twist bandits, and his heart was a little more comfortable. But I didn't know that I had gradually fallen into the trap of the Twist Army and the Taiping Army.
Lai Wenguang and Zhang Luoxing are both veteran generals who have experienced a hundred battles, and while luring the enemy into depth, they arranged a huge ambush circle on the periphery, determined to annihilate Seng Lingqin near Qixian County.
Although Monk Greenqin is a battlefield veteran with rich experience, he also has a huge flaw, that is, he is jealous and hateful, and has a short temper, Zhang Luoxing led the cavalry to lure the enemy in person, and made a lot of trouble in Qixian County, and the people suffered heavy casualties!
Monk Greenqin got the report, so angry that he couldn't sit still anymore, ordered the cavalry to attack on all fronts, and the troops were divided into three ways to urgently twist the army, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in Qixian County, as a result, the battle on the left and right roads was fierce, Monk Greenqin did not encounter any decent opponent in the middle road, and the twisted army was almost a touch of collapse, and it was vulnerable.
The rise of Seng Lingqin's killing, only led 3,000 people, and even He Qimou's elite cavalry did not bring it, so he pursued it into the distance, and in more than two days and one night, Seng Greenqin's cavalry pursued more than 300 miles, and completely stepped into the trap arranged by Lai Wenguang.
By the time Seng Greenqin felt that something was wrong, it was too late, and more than 10,000 Taiping troops led by Lai Wenguang surrounded the Wild Bear Mountain where Monk Greenqin was located, and launched a siege towards Monk Greenqin!
At this time, Monk Lingqin fully understood, this is simply a trap, more than 10,000 Taiping troops, if they were not deployed in advance, where would so many Taiping troops appear here?
Although the Taiping army is not a bandit and has no cavalry, its combat power is not bad, and Lai Wenguang himself is a fierce general, quite prestigious, commanding more than 10,000 troops and began to attack the Mongolian cavalry again and again!
Monk Lingqin regretted it, he knew this, so he didn't come with these 3,000 cavalry, but replaced it with He Qimou's troops, He Qimou's cavalry is the elite of his subordinates, and it is equipped with a large number of muskets, and the combat power is strong, he is just trying to attack in a hurry, and he is not willing to wait for He Qimou to catch up, now it is okay, he is caught in the siege of the head of the people, but life and death are unpredictable!
Monk Lingqin led the cavalry to launch four or five attacks in succession, trying to break through, but this was in the mountains, the ground was uneven, and the roads were rugged, which was not conducive to the cavalry's assault.
However, this place is far away from the county seat of Qixian, and the Mongolian cavalry is fighting fiercely with the bandits, and no one will come to answer it in a short time, which is troublesome!
However, relying on their own strong soldiers and strong horses, it is not easy for the Taiping army to eat their own 3,000 cavalry in one go, and Seng Lingqin is still very confident in the combat power of his cavalry, at least it should not be a problem to hold on for a few days!
But the monk Grinqin ignored a problem, that is, food, the monk led the Mongolian cavalry in pursuit, and in a hurry only carried three days of dry food, now two days have passed, and one more day, the cavalry will have nothing to eat!
"Lord Wang, we must break through, even if we pay a big price, we must break out, otherwise we will starve to death......"
General Krikra said urgently.
Monk Greenqin frowned and replied, "Break through? Now let's talk about how easy it is for you to break through? Long hair is surrounded on all sides, we are surrounded by airtight, we can't rush out at all, and now we can only try to hold on, waiting for He Qimou and others to come to help, as for the food, tell everyone to save some money, put together the dry food of the martyred brothers, as well as dead horses, wounded horses, will be on the stomach, can always survive seven or eight days, I think it won't take seven or eight days as long, they will definitely find our danger, rush to help! ”
Krikra hurriedly nodded and agreed, however, Monk Greenqin solved the food problem, but also left the Taiping army with a chance, that is, to hold on for a few days, the Taiping army would not wait stupidly, and would naturally find a way to encircle and annihilate.
In two days, Lai Wenguang launched several attacks, trying to encircle and suppress the Mongolian cavalry, the two sides fought fiercely repeatedly, each suffered a lot of casualties, on the third day, Lai Wenguang brought his ultimate killer - artillery, the artillery march speed was too slow, at the beginning, did not rush over, but, after two days, Lai Wenguang actually pulled six artillery, although these artillery are some old-fashioned guys, the power is not particularly great, but the artillery is still artillery after all, the gods are difficult to dodge a smoke!
Lai Wenguang directly commanded the artillery to launch an artillery bombardment on the Mongolian cavalry, and in just half an hour, nearly 100 shells of the Taiping army reached the Wild Bear Mountain, and the unsuspecting Mongolian cavalry was bombed in a mess and suffered heavy casualties!
At this time, Seng Lingqin was completely panicked, without an artillery attack, the cavalry could barely support it, and now that people are attacking with artillery, where can the cavalry still withstand it? Break out, now there is only one way to break through, stay here, I'm afraid that it won't last for seven or eight days, and in two more days, the old ones will be cleaned up!
"Krikra, order, the whole army rests, an hour later, launch a surprise attack on the Taiping army, this is our last resort, rush out, we will escape from the sky, if we can't rush out, then we can only die here!"
Monk Greenqin said in a deep voice.
Krikra nodded hurriedly and began to reorganize the soldiers and horses, and an hour later, launched the most ferocious assault on the Taiping army!
(To be continued.) )