Chapter 129: The First Battle (6)
"It's all rubbish! It's clear that you can break through in one breath, but what is the result?! One by one, they boasted in front of Marshal Grasshopper that they were incomparable warriors, and in my opinion, they were all incomparably incomparably wretched! Minggou is only half of our people, we have the intention to fight unintentionally, and we actually asked others to kill and retreat! Guan Lao Er's head bloomed with a boss's green tendons, and he pointed at the Yi people dressed as more than a dozen leaders standing in front of him and scolded: "A worm, aren't you boasting about Haikou and going to the head of Minggou to dedicate to King Liang?" Where is the head? And the Tuha chieftain, didn't you have eyes on the top of your head before? Why is there no silence now? ”
If he was scolded like this by a Guan Lao Er not long ago, most of these arrogant Yi people would give him a good look, but they couldn't attack at night, and they couldn't take a temporary camp with twice the strength of the Ming army, not to mention Guan Lao Er, even they themselves were difficult to accept. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info especially Tuha, he is a number of warriors under the cowardly of the grasshopper, and he is still his clan nephew, and he is extremely arrogant on weekdays, but just now, if it weren't for his slave loyalty, who snatched him out from under the spears of the Ming army, he would have been mostly dead in front of the camp in the middle of the mountain.
After scolding for a long time, Guan Lao Er was also tired, he sat down on a piece of bluestone, and asked everyone to sit down with a straight face, turned his head angrily and spit on the ground, and then said coldly: "We said before, we want to attack the Ming army all the way, so that they can't eat well, sleep well, and can't hold on until they reach Chishui. But look at it now, such a half battalion of Ming dogs can't be taken down, all the leaders, in the future, in front of the marshal and King Liang, I'm afraid it's not easy to speak? ”
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the leaders were not very good. It is true that they are not very convinced by this Han man, but they did lose face in today's battle. Tuha buried his head in the chimney and smoked for a while, spit out a few smoke rings and urns, and said sullenly: "There's nothing to say this time, if we lose, just listen to the second brother." ”
Several other leaders also spoke: "Tuha is right! "Second brother, don't say anything, let's listen to you!" "I don't believe it, we have more people than Minggou, and we can still be beaten by others! We have also been recruited and transferred by the Ming Court before, and the officers and soldiers are all dog-like goods, when can they fight like this? ”
They also hid their unconvinced, they were still a little timid, but they were aroused to be competitive, and they talked nonsense: "It's just that Minggou has a defense, but we have contempt!" If it's really a real knife and a real gun, the children are fighting hard, how long can Ming Gou resist?! "That's right! It's just that we're too anxious! How many people can the dog fight again? We're just piling up, and heaps are dead! ”
Guan Lao Er impatiently interrupted the leaders' gradually uncontrollable boasting, and shouted: "Okay! What's the use of talking about mouths now! It is said that the flowers bloom, it still depends on the hard work under the hands! It's going to be dawn in a while, let's pack up this guy's officers and soldiers as soon as possible, and leave the hellish place of Aluomi as soon as possible! There are fewer of them, and there are more of us, and after a while, a team of 300 people will fight up, and if they can't beat, they will retreat and change to another team! He gritted his teeth and lashed fiercely: "Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, just take a few hundred people on top, and we can exhaust them even if we are fighting wheels!" ”
Before camping last night, the Ming army found that there was a small spring on the mountainside, and while they were resting at this time, Feng Baoqun sent people to fill the gourds of the whole army with water for emergencies. In the battle of less than two incense sticks, several teams counted, and it was his Geng team that suffered the smallest losses. However, it is no wonder that Feng Baoqun's Geng team was in the middle of the camp, surrounded by the other three teams in the center, and in last night's night attack, except for a few unlucky ghosts who ran around sprained their ankles and called the officers to beat them with their heads and faces, there was no loss of a single soldier.
Team D relied on the advantages of the armor, and few died, most of them were flesh wounds, but seven or eight seriously wounded were injured on the bamboo spears of the barbarians, and now there is a shortage of medical treatment in the wilderness, and whether they can survive or not depends on themselves; The casualties in Zhou Qian's team were not small, and a total of seventeen or eighteen people could not go into battle again. In addition, there are also seven or eight lying down in Zheng Guocai's team. The four team officers got together and counted the number of troops that could still be used, and the faces of several people were solemn.
"We won't lose money this time." Feng Baoqun coughed and said slowly: "The sons and daughters have cut off the heads of the barbarians in front of them, and there are more than thirty of them just by looking at each other, not counting those blood gourds that can't be seen clearly." Turning back to report military merits, it is a big reward. ”
"What's this? When were you still in the early years of the apocalypse? Now the head of Southwest Yi is not worth much, or the head of Jianzhou Tartar is worth money, and it is said that the head of a real Tartar can be replaced! Zhou Qian smiled and joked, he didn't carefully ask a barbarian to slash on his arm in the previous combat effectiveness, but the flesh was very shallow, and now it was just a hasty bandage.
"Don't go too far." Zheng Guocai's face is not good-looking, Team B almost blew up the camp in the previous night attack, losing his face, if it weren't for Feng Baoqun's quick opportunity, he immediately sent someone over to suppress it when he saw that the situation was not good, maybe he didn't need a barbarian, and the Ming army would be able to mess up by himself! Because of this, Team B, which did not participate in the battle, could not even catch a single hair of military exploits.
Li Yongzhong sat on the horse with his arms crossed, pursed his lips with a calm face, and did not speak. The Fang Cai Ding team resisted the attack of the barbarians head-on, and did not retreat in a desperate battle, if it weren't for the good guns and fast guns, it is estimated that ordinary people would have to be thrown here! The three team officers also knew this, if they had a little bit of a weird taste of yang and yin and yang against Li Yongzhong's various decisions before, they had already tasted it powerful, and they were honest.
If it can be defeated this time, it is no exaggeration to say that even if they return to the Xianzi battalion, the Ming troops of these three teams will resolutely stand on the side of Team D. Once the four teams with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Xianzi battalion all speak with Li Yongzhong in one voice, Chen Xianda of the thousand households will probably be able to "beg for bones" with peace of mind, and as long as Li Yongzhong is given a period of time, it will not take too long for him to bring out a battalion head that is not weaker than the Ding team, and in terms of the increasingly chaotic military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a thousand-person battalion with superior combat effectiveness can already attract a lot of coveting, but if it is operated properly, it can also break free from the shackles of the chess pieces and become a chess player on the chessboard.
The three team officers talked for a while, and seeing that Li Yongzhong was still expressionless, they couldn't help but look at each other with a smile. Although Zheng Guocai was a little cautious, he was quite upright in temperament, and walked in front of Li Yongzhong in a few steps, bowed and bowed, straightened up and said sincerely: "Team Officer Li, this time we can escape with our lives, thanks to the thoughtfulness of the brothers of Team D." I won't say much else, Team B is really not competitive this time, but we are not soft guys after all, and the next thing to look at is Team B! ”
When Zheng Guocai said this, Li Yongzhong sighed half-truthfully, eased his tone, and said firmly: "A few people who count their ages are all younger brothers' brothers and elders, but since we are in the army, the first thing we need to look at is strength. Don't complain that I speak badly, and don't think that we can take it lightly if we won just now, we can't stand it with Team D alone! ”
Although these words were a bit choking, they were really clear, and the three team officers all nodded solemnly. Indeed, if you only count on Team D, those teams don't have to think about leaving alive. Zheng Guocai was the first to speak: "That's the truth. He is also an old soldier who has accumulated years, and his eyes are even more vicious: "Those barbarians, I don't think they are ordinary, but they have a bit of the demeanor of a toast wolf soldier!" Besides, they have a lot of us, and the leader has a little bit of knowledge, but I am afraid that the wheel war will come later! ”
Several people's hearts were tight, and they couldn't help but look at Li Yongzhong, this youngest and youngest young man with the least qualifications had become the support of everyone. Li Yongzhong saw that the three team officers didn't say anything, but there was a bit of pity in their sights, and his heart moved, but his face was still indifferent, and he only said: "Wheel warfare is not something that can be made good by a large number of people!" It's just that we're not so tired, as long as we can persist better than the barbarians, the barbarians themselves will be dragged down! ”
There was confidence on both sides, and the last darkness before dawn slowly receded. In the east, the belly of the fish was white, and the glow burned through the tumbling stratus clouds, and the sky overhead gradually turned from a thick deep daisy to a shallow and clear blue. The humidity in the air gradually disappeared, and the sunlight warmed up little by little, from the initial warmth to the blanching, and it didn't take long in between.
As early as when the sky was clear, the Ming army extinguished the bonfires one by one, and urgently made a few rejection horses to put them out. He also put up stones as a cover, and in short, except for the wounded soldiers, everyone was busy. Feng Baoqun's Geng team and Zheng Guocai's B team had suffered almost no losses in the previous night attack, and they were now deployed. Zheng Guocai was especially careful, and repeatedly ordered it over and over again: "If there are any more chaotic soldiers, you must guard against my sword and not recognize people!" He gritted his back molars and said word by word: "You are not ashamed, but I still want this face!" ”
Due to the great efforts made in the previous battle and the heavy losses, both the D and C teams were withdrawn for reserve use. Zhou Qian was originally going to go into battle, but he was held down by several team officers, and Feng Baoqun persuaded him bitterly: "You were not lightly injured last time!" How long has it been? Now it's hurt again! Don't rely on your youth to be inappropriate! There are still a few of us now, and we don't need you yet, so you can take a break and watch the brothers kill the enemy! ”
Li Yongzhong also persuaded him: "Team Zhou's officers are brave, but they are too hard!" These are just barbarians, do you want us to fold a brother here? Not to mention Team Officer Zhou, even the two sentry officers in my team, I don't plan to call them into battle again, I have worked hard to raise soldiers, do I have to pay in this place? ”
Liu Xiaoqi and Chen Mingjiang were dumbfounded, they thought that what Li Yongzhong said before was just polite, and they still wanted to be on top of Team D for a while, who knew that he had actually made up his mind, if it was not necessary, Team D would use fire guns to support at most, but it would not be easy to fight with white blades. Liu Xiaoqi was confused, but he didn't dare to bother the team officer, so he had to secretly ask Cao Jinliang, who was lazy on the side: "Didn't we keep saying that only those who dare to fight and dare to rush are good soldiers?" Why not now? ”
Cao Jinliang glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and snorted hatefully: "Fool! Dare to rush and dare to fight, that is a strong soldier, but everything must be fought for, that is stupid! Now it's not just us who is the only team, we have done everything, what are the other three teams doing? Specially cut off our heads? This is a friendly army, not an uncle! If we can do it, why can't they do it? If we can kill people, they can't die? ”
After calling the adjutant to criticize him harshly, Liu Xiaoqi came back with a disgraced face and talked to Chen Mingjiang, Chen Mingjiang looked at him sympathetically after hearing this, stretched out his hand to pat Liu Xiaoqi on the shoulder, and said softly: "Brother Xiaoqi is not very familiar with things in the army, Deputy Cao said well, although we have to compete for the first, we can't compete for the first place in everything, we must always leave a line for others." Besides, there are not too many people in our D team now, and the brothers are too tired to fight for a while, and the two teams are now in battle, which can also let the sons and daughters take a break. ”
Of course, Li Yongzhong didn't know about the discussion of the two sentinels. He was now standing on a sack-made earthen platform, condescendingly watching the barbarians at the foot of the mountain disorderly form a formation, barely forming a formation, and then cautiously walked up slowly towards the Ming army camp under the scolding of several people with feathers on their heads.
Team C and Team G were in a commotion. Because of the inconvenience of carrying, this time they did not bring out the infantry long card that could cover the whole body, only the small round shield of the sword and shield hand was available, and the two teams of Geng and Bing simply gave up the shield, directly let the pikemen stand in the front, and arranged the sword and shield men to ambush on both sides, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity of the barbarian's negligence to teach them a profound lesson.
Zheng Guocai found Li Yongzhong again and solemnly asked the Ding team to support him with a fire gun for a while. He was extremely impressed by Team D's firecracker, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have much friendship with Li Yongzhong, he would have asked Team D for a good student to study and see! This Ming army officer's confidence in the fire gun is even more than that of the soldiers of the Ding team.
All the arrangements stopped, and all the Ming army could do in the end was to wait for the barbarians to attack. And the native soldiers, who could barely hold the queue at the time of departure, were already in disarray after thirty paces. The leader of the team didn't bother to adjust, he turned around and scolded something in the local dialect, and the local soldiers rushed towards the camp of the Ming army!
The archers had stopped fifty steps in front of the Ming army formation and lined up in two teams, bent their bows and arrows, raised their backs one after another, and pulled into the shape of a full moon, and then under the order of the leader, "Zheng" sounded, the bowstring made a "buzzing" sound, and dozens of arrows drew a perfect parabola in mid-air, and shot towards the camp of the Ming army! (To be continued.) )