Chapter 648: Night Attack (3)

When the 50,000 horses met, Zu Dashou had already looked at the map and firmly remembered the place where the Houjin sergeant was stationed.

The attack is not so easy, the place where the Houjin sergeant chooses to be stationed belongs to the place where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the front of the position is a slope, there is no obstacle, the attacking sergeant will directly face the Houjin sergeant's bow and arrows and firearms, there are high mountains on the left and right, there is no offensive route, there is a valley behind it, in case it can't be resisted, the Houjin sergeant can evacuate along the valley.

Zu Dashou didn't say much.

"Zu Dale, Zu Dabi, Yin Shi launched the attack on time, the Jiangning battalion has drawn a map for us, and we have done our best, and then it depends on us, we must attack it, and after the total annihilation of the Golden Tartars, no matter how great the difficulties encountered, we must not allow us to retreat, we must rush forward in one go, I will lead the sergeants, outflank from the valley behind, and not let go of a single person."

A murderous aura appeared on Zu Dashou's face.

"We don't want a single live mouth, we still have to attack Dalinghe City, and we don't have the time and energy to deal with these live mouths."

Zu Dale did not hesitate at all, patted his chest and made a statement, Zu Dabi, who was attacking in the follow-up, was much calmer, just nodded silently and did not say too many words.

Zu Dashou took 30,000 sergeants and left quickly, thinking about relying on 30,000 sergeants to surround the entire Songshan, that is a joke, and it is impossible to do, what he thought of was also blocking several ways in and out of Songshan, as for saying that the Houjin sergeant can fly the eaves and walk the wall and open the road from the cliff, this is not something that Zu Dashou can guard against.

Yin time.

The attack began, and with the lighting of the torches, Zu Dashou led the sergeants and charged towards the top of the hillside.

After the brigade arrived at its destination, it was impossible to keep it a secret, and the Houjin sergeant stationed there. The action has already begun, but this attack seems to be very sudden, and Sergeant Houjin has not received any early warning information, and the dark post arranged has long been cleared. Despite this, Sergeant Houjin still seemed to be methodical and not so flustered.

These Houjin sergeants, in fact, are all Han soldiers, and their previous identities were also Ming troops, and they followed Kong Youde to join Houjin, and their concepts have changed over time. Everyone knows that it is impossible to return to the Ming Dynasty, and he has been put on the hat of a traitor, and there is no other way out.

After taking refuge in Houjin, although they were discriminated against in terms of treatment, from the perspective of conquest, these Han troops were still trained. At least they have become much braver, and they have followed the Eight Banners to fight. People's fearlessness of death is also a great stimulus to them.

The Han army focuses on firearms, so countless arquebuses have been prepared for a long time, but unfortunately in the dark night. It is not so convenient to use, but it can also cause great damage to the Ming army, and the combat effectiveness of the Han army for the Ming army is basically clear. As long as the previous round of attacks is repulsed, the Ming army is very likely to collapse.

Zu Dale brandished a steel knife and led the sergeant to rush towards the Houjin position.

The charging team formed a square team, each team of a thousand people, the front slope was a little narrow, there were too many people to cast, and they could only delay the speed of the charge, but the square team was one after another, and there was almost no gap in the middle.

Crackling gunshots rang out.

Zu Dale watched the sergeants around him continue to fall, but in a few minutes, many people in the first square team fell, because of the escort of his own soldiers, Zu Dale was safe for the time being.

The first team was not able to make any progress, and even did not see the shadow of the Houjin sergeant, many people fell, which seemed to indicate that the attack would not go very smoothly, and the Houjin sergeant stationed in the station was also quite numerous.

Zu Dale's eyes began to redden, such an attack was very cowardly, seeing that he had been slaughtered by the other party, but he couldn't get close to the other party, but one thing he knew was that the firing speed of the arquebus was limited, and it was impossible to launch it for a long time, besides, at this point, it was impossible to stop the attack, even if there were huge casualties, he had to rush forward.

Zu Dale began to roar angrily, asking the team to continue to charge forward, although his roar, in the sound of gunfire, seemed very faint, but it also estimated the sergeant.

In the second round, the team suffered bow and arrow fire, and the casualties were even more heavy.

The third team began to hesitate, and the surviving sergeants of the first and second teams were ready to retreat.

Zu Dale found that the situation was wrong, and he decisively issued an order to attack the soldiers around him, at this time, he resolutely could not retreat, and he must attack the station of the Houjin sergeant.

The soldiers began to charge forward, and the surviving sergeants of the first and second teams followed suit, and the third team followed.

After paying a huge number of casualties, the sergeant finally rushed to the front of the rear sergeant's station, and then the problem arose.

Sergeant Houjin dug out a ditch more than one person deep, with a width of more than one meter, and if the charging sergeant fell into this ditch, it was basically impossible to climb out.

Zu Dale, who rushed to the forefront, looked at all this, and his heart was dripping blood.

The charge has begun, it is impossible to retreat, if the Houjin sergeant is given time to change the buffer, the casualties paid in the back will be even more heavy, Zu Dashou, who was in a hurry, couldn't take care of so much, and ordered the sergeant in front to pounce on the ditch, and the sergeant in the back rushed over these sergeants.

Time passed quietly, and the border army finally fought head-on with the sergeant of the rear army.

It's just that the number of border soldiers who rushed to the Liukou position is still not much, and the sergeants who rushed to the front, one by one, faced several Han troops, and after a fight, they fell down screaming.

How many casualties were paid was no longer a question that Zu Dale needed to think about.

More than half an hour passed, and Zu Dale found that the number of Houjin sergeants stationed in Songshan could not be very large, which could be seen from the rhythm of their attack, if there were more people stationed, the sergeants who rushed to the forward position could not hold out for so long, and they would have all been cut down to the ground long ago.

The border army continued to rush towards the station of the Houjin sergeant, and the sergeant also understood that it was useless to dodge, and rushed forward with his head stuffy, maybe he would be able to survive, if he retreated at this time, he would save his life on the battlefield, and after the battle, he might also be cut off his head.

At the front of the position of the Houjin sergeants, a stalemate situation slowly appeared, and the sergeants on both sides fought to the death.

The appearance of the turning point was also very sudden, in the direction of the valley, a fire suddenly appeared, and a huge shouting and killing sound came, very clearly, and it was heard clearly, it was the shouts of the border army.

Suddenly, the retreat route was blocked, and the Houjin sergeant stationed in the garrison immediately panicked.

The terrain they chose was very good, with high mountains on the left and right, and a valley behind it, so that when the army was attacked and could not support it, it would be able to evacuate from the valley and preserve its vitality, and in front of it was a slope, and the speed of the attacking army would inevitably be slow, which was conducive to blocking.

But they didn't expect that the back road was cut off.

This indicates that they have no way out, no place to escape, and the valley in the rear is much more gentle, and with about 2,000 garrison sergeants, it is basically impossible to resist the attack of the Ming army.

The commander of Houjin had already noticed the abnormality, the offensive had started for such a long time, and the scouts scattered around the periphery had not sent back any news, and if the Ming army's ranks had been detected earlier, the current situation would not have been formed.

The commander of Houjin showed his determination to fight to the death.

To a large extent, this encouraged the fighting spirit of the sergeants, but this fighting spirit did not last long.

The Ming army, which attacked head-on, suffered heavy losses, but there were still people who charged forward and started a face-to-face fight with the Houjin sergeant, and the voices in the valley behind them were getting closer and closer.

With the arrival of the Ming army in the valley, the tide of battle quickly reversed.

The Houjin sergeants, who were attacked from the front and back, basically lost their fighting spirit.

The commander found that there were too many Ming troops involved in the attack, dense, and unpredictable, but the sergeants led by himself were only 2,000 people, and with 2,000 people, it was almost impossible to stop the large-scale Ming army, plus both sides were familiar with it, the Han army used to be the Ming army, and the overall combat effectiveness was not small compared with the Manchurian Eight Banners.

After the sergeants led by Hong Chengchou rushed to the top of the position, the battle became more and more intense.

Zu Dabi also launched an attack, and his arrangement was even more daring than Zu Dale, and a square team composed of two thousand sergeants rushed towards the position.

The post-Jin sergeant, who couldn't take care of the whole thing, finally began to show signs of collapse.

Zu Dashou, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi, at this time, led the sergeants and charged at the forefront.

The Han army stationed in Songshan still has some defects, relying too much on firearms, and there is a gap in their own combat effectiveness, and it is impossible for them to hold out for too long against the Ming army, which is dozens of times their own.

An hour later, the Battle of Matsuyama turned into a massacre.

Zu Dashou said that there is no need for prisoners, so the fight is particularly tragic.

Sergeant Houjin knew that it would be useless to put down his weapon, it was better to fight to the death, and he would not be able to survive anyway.

In this case, the casualties of the border troops increased sharply.

When Zu Dashou began to regret it, it was too late, the rabbit was in a hurry and had to bite, not to mention the Han army with a certain combat effectiveness, but the formation was spread, and both sides were killed.

Zu Dashou gritted his teeth and insisted, charging in front to kill the enemy.

He hadn't been at the forefront for a long time, if it weren't for the humiliation of Chongzhen's four-year battle of the Great Linghe, he wouldn't have done it, but as the commander-in-chief, with such a move, it was a great encouragement to the sergeants below.

Wave after wave of attacks finally completely broke the defense line of Sergeant Houjin.

The scales of victory began to tilt, and there were fewer and fewer Houjin sergeants who continued to resist...... (To be continued......)