Chapter 383: A Rebel Army Aided by God
"Generalissimo~"
"Retreat~!"
The flying cannons hit the crowd heavily, bursting apart, and there were soldiers who were hit by iron nail fragments everywhere, and the cries rang out, but to the dumbness of the rebels, their generalissimo Li Jiucheng was also within the range of being hit by the cannons.
At this moment, the nearby soldiers were angry, and they all rushed forward desperately, because the Liaodong rebels were different from other troops, and most of these military horses had been enjoying special treatment since the time of Mao Wenlong.
Smuggling and looting were common things back then, otherwise with the annual appropriation of tens of thousands of taels of silver from the imperial court, how could they develop into a big town with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, almost in the heyday, the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town stationed on Phi Island could almost be compared with Liaodong Town.
It's a pity that as soon as Mao Wenlong died, Dongjiang Town was no longer as brave as it was back then, and the generals under his command died and fled, and as a result, the treatment of the remaining soldiers also plummeted.
Therefore, to a certain extent, the reason why the rebels in Dongjiang Town rebelled on the march was also due to the pressure of survival, and Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, who led them, in fact, in order to achieve the goal of controlling the army, also distributed a large amount of gold, silver and grain seized from Denglai and other places to the army.
Li Jiucheng also actually became the leader of the entire Dongjiang Town rebel army at this time, his survival is a banner for the rebels, almost everyone will unite around him, and in the case of Kong Youde running away and Chen sometimes dying in battle, once something goes wrong with him, the entire Dongjiang Town rebel army will be finished. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Generalissimo. Let's go~"
Only at the moment when the cannon was covered, the guards around him knew that the situation was going to suffer, and the officers and soldiers were aiming at it, so everyone was in the middle of it. Some people wanted to dodge uncontrollably, but in the same way, the personal guards who were deeply favored by Li Jiucheng rushed up selflessly and pushed Li Jiucheng away. Then a few loyal guards even blocked Li Jiucheng with their bodies,
After this round of artillery was fired, the flying iron nail fragments cleared the area in a moment, and more than a dozen of them were almost killed immediately, and the rest of the injured were several times as many as those who wailed in place, and the three personal guards pressed on Li Jiucheng's body were also beaten into a sieve.
"The generalissimo is fine, the generalissimo is fine. Keep killing! ”
Thanks to Li Jiucheng's good luck, the main parts of his body and head were not traumatized, but his exposed left and right legs were hit by two fragments, bleeding nonstop, and I don't know what the Ming army added to the cannon, and the blood stains that flowed out were faintly black blood.
"This is a thing that stains du, quickly cut it off with my knife."
Just as Li Jiucheng gritted his teeth and was about to stand up, he suddenly saw the black blood. Immediately gritted his teeth and said, once this kind of filth penetrates into the internal organs, it will inevitably die. He was in a hurry, so he picked up his saber from the ground, and fought almost in front of everyone.
"Ah~!"
"The Generalissimo of the Guards retreats!"
Those guards around him, where are they willing to follow, seeing the officers and troops approaching. So he fought bravely and managed to protect his thoughtfulness, but although Li Jiucheng was already dripping with huge drops of sweat on his head, he held on to it, and pointed at the Ming army's earthen wall and shouted,
"If this artillery is not removed, I will not rest for a moment if I am 100,000 Liao people in Dengzhou, if you still think of the women and children in your family, you will rush up with me, do not remove the threat, and vow not to stop the army!"
The more seriously Li Jiucheng was injured, the more sober his mind became, he knew that now whether it was the Ming army or his own soldiers and horses, they were all the end of the crossbow, whoever could hold on to the last breath, who could win the victory, but there was one, the Ming army had a large general cannon, the range was about 1,000 steps away, they only needed to change the siege to defend the city, and they would consume the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town, so if they didn't get rid of these artillery, there was only a dead end waiting for them.
"Fight."
"The generalissimo has an order, the women and children in the family, you must not save them, defend the land and protect the family, in one fell swoop, brothers, kill it~!"
Li Jiucheng is like a Dinghai god needle at the moment, he is there, the spirit of the Liaodong soldiers and horses in Dongjiang Town is there, he is like a banner, sticking to the forward position, the already exhausted soldiers and horses behind him, I don't know where a wave of courage came from, it broke out directly on the battlefield, and the Ming army in front of him retreated again and again, after all, not all commanders have this courage.
"Kill~ Kill them all."
The rebels of the Dongjiang River in Liaodong became more and more courageous, on the other hand, the Ming army, except for a certain advantage on the earthen wall, in the rest of the place, were all killed in embarrassment, and the main cavalry led by Zu Kuan was still waiting, it was such a tragic fight, even if they were put in, they could not win easily, and the best result was that both sides were defeated.
And as the descendant of the Liaodong Guanning Army, Zu Kuan will never be easy to move, because he not only represents himself, so when he saw Huanglong's Dongjiang soldiers and horses retreating one after another, he even felt that this was already crazy!
"Inform General Wu and withdraw the troops quickly, Nancheng can't be saved, we don't need to sell our lives for the imperial court!"
At the critical moment, Zu Kuan had his own choice, not to protect the imperial court, but to fight for the small abacus of the Guan Ning army, after all, the five hundred soldiers he arranged to block the gate in front of him were also defeated, and Wu Sangui, who went up to the earthen wall and protected the artillery, also fought hard, and no one could blame him, as for choosing to fight the main decisive battle with the rebels here, then he would not be accompanied.
"General, General Zu has an order, retreat quickly!"
Wu Sangui, who was fighting with the soldiers and horses under Mao Chenglu, saw that his rear army sounded the order to retreat, and was stunned for a moment, he had an advantage on the earthen wall, and it only took a moment of effort to completely drive Mao Chenglu's soldiers and horses out of the wall, but the military order was difficult to disobey.
The Ming army was a complete defeat at the south gate.
"General Zu, why did you watch our troops and horses retreat without sending a single soldier to rescue?"
Huang Long and Deng Xi, who had retreated, fled into the formation of the Guanning Army in embarrassment, but what annoyed them was that the four or five thousand iron cavalry of the Guanning Army, which was still fully formed, did not send any soldiers to rescue them at this time, which was simply sitting back and watching them perish.
Especially Huanglong, he is even more angry, in today's battle, he commanded 3,000 Dongjiang soldiers and horses, not to mention the loss of 800 people, this is the foundation of his life, he lost so much at one time, who doesn't feel pain in his heart.
"Why should the general army be angry, just call it to gather the rout, the defeat of the southern city, to blame, not to blame a certain head, you see, my soldiers and horses, entering the gate, are guarded by the Dongjiang and Sichuan armies in front, and they can't engage in battle at all, and your troops are retreating too fast, I don't even have the time and location to support, this defeat, An can blame it on my head?"
Zu Kuan sneered and glanced at Huang Long, but he pointed in the direction of the defeated and retreating soldiers and horses, what are you kidding, you still want to take responsibility for yourself? Do you really think you're a bully? What's more, although the chief soldier of Liaodong, Zu Dashou, has not arrived, but Wu Pai in front of Ningqian has already crossed the Yellow River and will arrive in Shandong in a few days, and the Guanning army is definitely not easy to bully.
"You, shameless man, I will go to the Holy One to play a copy of you."
Huang Long suppressed the anger in his heart, this loss was all his son-in-law, plus as soon as the rebels in Dongjiang Town came out, the Dongjiang people under his command who originally had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the group that could compete with the Guanning Army in Liaodong in the past has collapsed, and now even a deputy general of the Guanning Army dares to talk to him like this, which is really infuriating.
Deng Xi was also angry in his heart, his soldiers and horses bore the brunt, and the rebels under the command of Li Jiucheng broke through several lines of defense, with losses of more than 1,000 people, and now he has to bear the responsibility for the loss of artillery, where can he still sit still, but whether it is the Guanning Army or Dongjiang Town, it is not something he can offend, so he can only push Huanglong, make his eyes, and then go down in a huff.
"The stupid thing that lost the soldiers and horses dared to pull me into the water, who do you really think you are?"
Zu Kuan sneered and glanced at these people, did not continue to say more, but glanced at the earthen wall from afar, and saw that the rebels were chasing and killing the Ming army everywhere, and the defeat was decided, so he also beckoned people and horses to the side, preparing to attack and harass them tentatively, as long as the rebels did not drag the general cannon back to the city.
However, there were more and more rebel cavalry rushing out from the left flank of the earthen wall, and it was obvious that Li Jiucheng had made up his mind to drag the artillery back to the city, and even among them specially selected eight sturdy horses, holding the ropes left by the Ming army, and bringing the only remaining general cannon, and preparing to retreat all the way.
The Ming army blocked from the west gate and the east, at this moment, the various departments gathered no less than 20,000 main forces, but each did not dare to come up to attack, so they could only let the rebels in front of them, push the south wall to the wall, and pull the artillery into the city, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, what a joke.
Since ancient times, those who besiege the city have become defenders, and can also be won by the inferior enemy out of the city and attack the city in the field, I am afraid it is also used sparingly.
"What, the general's cannon was dragged into the city by the rebels? What do you all eat? ”
Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian was simply not angry, the eight general cannons dragged from the capital and Nanjing Yingtianfu, it took a month to barely get in place, and now in a war, one was destroyed, and one was taken by the thief army, which is enough to make people feel angry, you must know that this can hit a thousand steps away from the artillery, and the entire court can not find 30 guns.
What's more critical is that this kind of artillery siege can fire outside the range of the rebels' artillery, which is a decisive blow to the morale of the rebels, and now the rebels also have it, what to do?! (To be continued.) )