Chapter 307: Take it when you see it
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After the sound of guns, hundreds of Taiping troops rushed out on both sides of the road, but only more than 100 people were holding guns, and the rest were holding swords and spears.
Shao Chengguo of the cavalry battalion led more than 100 cavalry under his command to rush out of the forest, lined up on the left side of the infantry, and rode in a row of three horses.
"Your Excellency, Taiping Kou really set up an ambush!"
Seeing that there was really an ambush for the Taiping Kou here, Suna was taken aback but was relieved, no wonder he always felt that something was wrong before, it turned out that the Taiping Army really set up an ambush in front. If you look closely, the Taiping army in ambush is only about six or seven hundred people, and the troop configuration is complete, including gunners, sword soldiers, spearmen, and one hundred and ten cavalry.
The Taiping army is so ambushed?
There's something strange about Suna.
Gangtaa galloped back from the front, shook his head at Tayinbu, and said, "None of the guards have run back. ”
"Go back and ask the flag to give them a heavier care for their women and children."
Tayinbu waved his hand with a calm face and asked Gangtaa to reorganize his flag soldiers and prepare for battle.
After the Taiping army appeared, they slowly pressed towards the Qing army more than a mile away, their speed was neither fast nor slow, and the cavalry did not have the slightest intention of attacking the Qing army, but slowly controlled the speed of the horse and advanced forward.
The three Niu Lu Han troops all heard from the people who came back from the defeat of Xinhui with the same banner and talked about the strength of the Taiping army, and they also knew that a Niu Lu cavalry in Tong Erhan, which was inlaid with a blue flag, was completely annihilated by the Taiping army, so although there were Manchurian soldiers pressing the formation. However, there were still some riots in the Han army.
"Pass the order, and those who dare to make a noise will be killed!"
Seeing the riot of the Han army in front, Tayinbu ordered his own soldiers to pass on the strict order. Under the bullet pressure of the officers of the Han army. The Han soldiers calmed down, raised their firearms, and opened the fire crackers to prepare to fight the Taiping army.
Xiang Guoqing had suffered a big loss from the Taiping army, and he was afraid that the Taiping army in ambush was not only these people, so he straightened up immediately and looked back and forth, left and right, and after confirming that the Taiping army in ambush was the hundreds of people on the opposite side, his fear suddenly disappeared. The heart of meritorious service was hot, and his eyebrows were raised happily, and he secretly said that he was owed to His Royal Highness the Second Highness to fight for this errand for himself. Otherwise, where will the credit go? When his own family makes a meritorious contribution and goes back, His Royal Highness will definitely have a heavy reward, and the prince will not treat him badly, and this assistant leader may be able to become an assistant leader.
Well. When I go back, I have to tell my sister. Let her serve His Royal Highness the Second Highness well, women, isn't it for men to poke, His Royal Highness is happy to poke it, so that she can see that her brother-in-law is pleasing to the eye, and she will think about her own family when there are good things in the future.
Xiang Guoqing was so excited about the Taiping Army, but Du Shude didn't have as many dirty thoughts as him, and he couldn't stop asking his officers to gather the team. Cheer up your subordinates, and then cut down all the Taiping troops one by one. With the nest of the clan for more than half a year, the prestige of the prince of Pingnan was revived.
Xiang Guoqing's sister is just serving in Shang Zhixiao's room, and he doesn't even have a name, he dares to call himself the brother-in-law of His Royal Highness, but Wang Shude over there is the brother-in-law of King Jingnan, and his sister is King Jingnan's concubine Fujin, and he is also King Jingnan's favorite Fujin. The so-called love house and Wu, like my sister, I naturally have a special blue eye for my younger brother.
This trip with Tayinbu to suppress the Taiping Army, it was originally not Wang Shude's turn to lead the army, and there were so many generals under the Jingnan Domain who were qualified to fight, and it was not the turn of Wang Shude, a newcomer who had only been a leader for less than two years. But who made King Jingnan like this brother-in-law, knowing that this trip the Manchurian soldiers had 2 Niu Lu, and Shang Kexi also had 2 Niu Lu Han Army, not to fight the tragic battle of Xinhui, but to detour to the rear of the Taiping Army to block the other party's retreat, basically there is no danger, as long as you arrive at the rolling stone slope on time, this great achievement will be counted. With such an easy military feat, who else can King Jingnan give to his brother-in-law if he doesn't give it to his brother-in-law.
However, although Wang Shude flattered the Manchurians very well, he was not an incompetent person, and only in terms of the performance of the flag soldiers under him, he was not weaker than the flag soldiers under Xiang Guoqing and Du Shutai.
Wang Shude did not have any thoughts of fearing the Taiping Army, and he kept taking a whip to draw two slow-moving flag soldiers with whips in the deployment and assignment there, and shouted a few times, so that Ta Yinbu was even more appreciative when he saw it from afar.
Suna saw that the Taiping army was about to press over, and before Tayinbu gave the order to attack, he rode over and asked, "My lord, how will this battle be fought?" ”
Ta Yin Bu raised his whip and said to him: "Taiping Kou's troops are not many, I don't think they are the main force of thieves and talents, and when they come up and connect with the Han army, you and Gang Ta'a will take people to rush them." When he finished, he added, "This road is too narrow, you let Gangtaa go first, so as not to block the road." ”
"The last general understands!"
Although Suna has had an unbearable performance of fleeing without a fight, he is not really afraid of the Taiping army, let alone a stupid person, this official road is indeed narrow, more than a thousand Qing troops are two or three miles long before and after, and the front is the Han army infantry. It's best for the two to go one after the other.
However, Taiping Kou is such a small number of people, and the Han army is worthy of firearms, I am afraid that if I don't need my own Manchurian soldiers, Taiping Kou can be wiped out by the Han army.
At present, the situation is basically clear, and the Taiping army is really these hundreds of ambush soldiers, so Suna also went to worry, beat his horse and went back to prepare for battle.
"Wait for me to cut down those Taipingkou, don't ask Suna's people to take the lead."
"Don't worry, Lord Zuoling, Suna himself is a coward, so that the southern barbarians are so frightened that they flee without a fight, who doesn't know about this matter, there is a soldier in the flag, and there will be a nest of bears, adults will wait and see, the third Zuo Ling, those guys must be very timid."
"They have no eggs. Son, we have the first leader! ”
Gangta'a was fanatical about war, and with his order, a group of Manchurian soldiers skillfully controlled the horses to line up in formation, took arrows and drew knives, and all took out a handful of beans and stuffed them into the mouth of the war horse, so that the war horse could maintain enough physical strength.
The leader of this Taiping Kou is not stupid, he knows how to use the terrain to set up ambushes, but unfortunately we found out, hum. A few hundred people dared to have the courage to rush to the brigade led by this participant, and they really ate the gall of the leopard!
The Taiping Army of several hundred people, Ta Yinbu, did not pay attention to it at all, even if there was no Han army of those 3 Niu Lu. He was also 100% sure that he would annihilate them in one fell swoop. He believed in his Manchurian sons, because the Eight Banners were the most elite soldiers and horses in the world. The Han people can't fight, if they really want to fight hard, the Ming Dynasty will not be driven out of Liaodong, let alone fall to such a small territory as only a few southwestern provinces. The only trouble that Tayinbu found was that the official road was not spacious, which restricted the movement of the Manchurian soldiers and prevented the cavalry from giving full play to their mobile advantages. Otherwise, the Manchurian soldiers could rush over now, and it wouldn't take a pillar of incense to spare, and the Taiping Kou would have to be finished.
"Blow the trumpet. The Han army is attacking! ”
After observing the deployment of the Taiping army on the opposite side, Tayinbu ordered the Han army to attack and break up the thieves with firearms, and then Gangtaa and Suna brought Manchurian Erlang over to drive the sheep. It's best to drive them all to the Deer Head River to feed the fish.
Tayinbu's own soldiers blew the horn of the attack. After hearing the sound of the trumpet, Du Shutai was in high spirits, and his flag soldiers were at the front of the team, and he was naturally the one who took the lead.
"Fight across the Taipingkou, everyone has a reward!"
"Brothers, follow me!"
Under the command of Du Shutai, more than 300 Han army banner soldiers armed with firearms greeted the Taiping army in front. Xiang Guoqing and Wang Shude's flag horses were dozens of zhang away.
"Release!"
When the two sides were a hundred paces away, Du Shude couldn't wait to give the order to let go. After the guns of the banner soldiers of the Han army were fired, the Taiping army on the opposite side did not fire.
It's too far away, in white smoke. The Taiping army had only about 40 infantry hits, and the cavalry battalion on the left side of the road also fell by more than 10 people. The Taiping army, which did not have a hit, did not stop there, but continued to press forward in the sound of the suona.
"Charge, quick!"
A salvo only killed fifty or sixty Taipingkou, and the other side did not stop advancing because of the casualties of these people, which made Du Shutai very annoyed, and he was very dissatisfied with the flag soldiers under his hand, and shouted loudly for the flag soldiers to hurry up and reload. However, before the bannermen could pack the medicine, the Taiping army, which had advanced to ninety paces on the opposite side, opened up.
There were only more than 60 soldiers left in the Taiping army, and they did not take turns shooting as they did in the Lutou River before, but also fired the guns in their hands together. The surviving cavalry battalion also had more than a dozen three-eyed guns fired at the Qing army.
This time, the Han flag soldiers were shot at more than fifty.
Du Shude thought that the Taiping army would also charge after the gun, but he didn't want those Taiping gunners to suddenly run to the sides after the gunners, and then the Taiping army with knives and spears behind them rushed forward. Dozens of cavalry on the left also began to accelerate towards the Qing army.
"Brothers, follow me to kill the demons!"
Shao Chengguo took the lead and rushed towards the Qing army with his sword.
As the cavalry battalion charged, hundreds of soldiers from the left battalion of the infantry also roared and rushed forward.
"Release, release, quick!"
Du Shude shouted in a hurry, the distance between the two armies was too close, and the road was too narrow, if the Taiping army rushed up, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After the hurried Han army banner soldiers loaded the medicine, there was a burst of guns, and dozens of Taiping troops who rushed to the front fell, and more than a dozen cavalry fell, but the rest rushed to the Qing army.
At the beginning of the melee, the fire gun without medicine was like a burning stick, facing the impact of the Taiping army with swords and spears and those cavalry, the banner soldiers under Du Shude could not stop it at all, and they were killed and wounded in an instant, and the rest kept retreating.
Xiang Guoqing and Wang Shude found that Du Shude's banner soldiers in front of them were scattered by the Taiping army and ran back, so they hurriedly ordered to prepare to shoot the pursuing Taiping army.
But the Taiping army did not rush over, but stopped the pursuit after slashing and killing hundreds of Qing troops, and turned around and ran back one by one.
"Taiping Kou withdrew, Taiping Kou withdrew!"
Xiang Guoqing and Wang Shude's flag soldiers found that the Taiping army had retreated, and immediately burst into cheers.
"Why did Taiping Kou retreat?"
Du Shude didn't understand what was going on at first, but when he found out that the Taiping army had really retreated, he didn't realize why they were running.
Xiang Guoqing shouted: "Du Zuoling, there are few Taiping Kou, they can't eat us, they know that our firearms are powerful, and there are Manchurian soldiers behind them!" ”
As soon as Xiang Guoqing called this, Du Shude immediately understood that the number of the Taiping Army was already small, and he had killed hundreds of people by himself just now, although he also rushed his own flag soldiers, but after all, the number was too small, and this official road was not conducive to the Qing Army and was also not conducive to the Taiping Army. In the face of the 2 Niu Lu soldiers gathered in the rear and the Manchu cavalry who had not yet started 2 Niu Lu, the generals of the Taiping Army would rush in desperately when their brains were broken. He'll take it when he sees it!
"He. . . Mother. Yes, run fast, brothers chase me! ”
Du Shude scolded, looked down on the people leading the Taiping army on the other side, and shouted at the running subordinates with knives and hurriedly turned around to chase and kill those Taiping troops.
"If you want to make meritorious contributions, follow me!"
Xiang Guoqing and Wang Shude also ordered their subordinates to chase forward, if the Taiping Army continues to fight this side, they still have to be cautious, but the other party is now running back, then there is no need to be a dish, it can really be said that if you want to make meritorious service as soon as possible, what are you waiting for if you don't beat the water dogs.
"Lord Zuoling, why do you think that Taiping Kou is so wrong, should we wait?"
There was an older officer under Wang Shude who saw that the Taiping army came suddenly and went quickly, although there were many casualties, but there were still hundreds of people, and he beat the people with the blue flag straight back, and there was no reason not to take advantage of the victory to pursue but turn around and run. He intuitively felt that the Taiping army was playing some tricks again, so he wanted to dissuade Wang Shude from sending troops to pursue.
Wang Shude was right when he heard this, the Taiping Army made this too inexplicable, and he was about to give an order and wait, but he saw that the people who were going to the National Day had already gone to chase the Taiping Army. In order to run faster, the fleeing Taiping soldiers also threw down a lot of weapons. Some of them ran to the side of the Lutou River, and some of them ran directly into the forests on both sides, and it didn't look like they were running away.
"Don't care if it's right or not, if you don't chase it anymore, all the meat will be eaten up by the people under the Pingnan Domain, and we won't even have soup to drink!"
Wang Shude didn't want to ask them for the National Day to catch up with them on the National Day, but he couldn't catch anything, and saw that Tayinbu behind him did not stop the Han army from chasing, so he ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates and ordered to immediately chase the Taiping army.
As soon as the Han military flag chased after him, a lively scene of chasing me immediately formed on the official road. Thousands of Han troops chased after hundreds of Taiping troops, either to the Lutou River, or to the forests on both sides.
"Lord Counselor, the Taiping Kou is in chaos, the Han army is on the line, let us Manchurian sons and daughters go up! The sons and daughters have been waiting for so long, and their bodies are already itchy! ”
Seeing that the Han army was chasing and killing the Taiping army, but Tayinbu did not order the Manchurian soldiers to dispatch, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, it was too late, and the Taiping Kou Ke called the Han army to kill them all.
Tayinbu ignored Gangtaa, just frowned and looked ahead, not knowing what he was thinking. (To be continued.) )