Chapter 461: Killing Li Shutai
The Qing soldiers who had just fallen asleep did not expect that there would be a second attack on the camp by the Ming army, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in this attack was far better than the first one. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Liu Zhaoji led 3,000 Chongming soldiers to rush into the Qing army camp, and just one impact defeated the more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers who were responsible for vigilance. Then the three thousand soldiers divided into three teams and rampaged through the entire Qing camp.
Countless torches were thrown onto the grass hut where the Qing army was sheltered from the rain, and the flames suddenly burst into flames.
The Qing soldiers who had just experienced an attack on the camp rushed out of the shed exhausted, and saw that the entire camp was full of red light.
Confusion, chaos, the entire Qing camp was completely chaotic.
The combat effectiveness of the Chongming army is far from being comparable to that of the Jiangyin township soldiers, and its entourage carries a large number of arsons, gunpowder bullets, divine fire flying crows, and flying dragons.
Countless fire points swayed in the air, flying in all directions, and when they fell to the ground, they ignited one after another.
The Qing soldiers who ran out of the grass hut naked, had no idea where the enemy was coming from, and only heard shouts of killing everywhere in the camp.
Li Shutai had just fallen asleep in bed when he was awakened by the sound of shouts outside. hurriedly put on his armor and left the camp tent, and saw a fire dragon rushing towards him, but it was Liu Zhaoji who led a battalion of men and horses to commit suicide.
The subordinate Eight Banners soldiers hurriedly lined up, but they were very tired after just experiencing an attack on the camp, and the speed of the formation was obviously not as good as the last time.
Before the array was fixed, a thousand Chongming soldiers had already killed.
The spears were like a forest, the cold light was shining, and rows and rows of Eight Banner soldiers fell in pools of blood. How were they, hurrying up and not wearing armor, to be the opponents of the pikemen in a neat line?
But to say that the Eight Banners are worthy of being the most powerful army in this era, even if the situation is unfavorable, they are still naked, waving their weapons, roaring loudly, desperately not retreating. Even if there are a few transparent holes in his body, he is clutching the enemy's gun.
Relying on the sacrifice of hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers, a team of Eight Banner soldiers finally put on their armor and formed a queue to block in front of Li Shutai.
Seeing the hundreds of Eight Banner warriors standing in front of him, Li Shutai was relieved! He had a total of 3,000 soldiers under his command, but 2,000 had been sent to other battalions to prevent the riots of the Green Battalion. Now there are only more than 500 people standing in front of him. But five hundred Eight Banner warriors with neat armor are enough to resist ten times the Ming army!
When Li Shutai was full of confidence and was about to give the order to defeat the enemy in front of him, suddenly, gunshots like bursting beans rang out continuously, and one after another Eight Banner warriors fell to the ground without saying a word.
A quarter of Liu Zhaoji's 1,000 soldiers were musketeers, and the distance between the guns and the guns shot more than 200 Qing soldiers in just one shot.
Seeing that half of their colleagues died under the guns of the Ming army, the other Eight Banner soldiers were suddenly in chaos. No matter how heroic the Eight Banners are, they are not afraid of death, and they can't withstand such losses!
Seeing this, Li Shutai sighed and knew that he was not lucky tonight. In front of him, he also had to fight to the death. Rather than losing his teacher and fleeing and being dealt with by military law, it is better to die a heroic battle and fight for some compensation for his family!
Li Shutai gritted his teeth and took the lead in rushing towards the Ming army with a Zhangba spear. The soldiers of the Ming army were in front of him, and by the light of the fire in the camp, he could clearly see the eyebrows and eyes of the Ming soldiers in front of him. At that moment, there was a flash of fire, followed by gunshots like bursting beans. Li Shutai felt a pain in his chest, and the strength in his body disappeared all at once.
Holding on to the barrel of the gun, Li Shutai tried his best to stand up straight, and saw the Eight Banners behind him fall under the guns of the Ming army one after another.
A fierce Ming army general walked over, smiling and brandishing a steel knife, Li Shutai felt a pain in his neck, and the whole world fell into darkness.
"Lord Totong died in battle!" Seeing Li Shutai's head cut off, the other Eight Banners soldiers were stunned, followed by endless fear, so they threw down the weapons in their hands one by one, turned around and fled.
"Li Shutai is dead, those who descend will not die!" At Liu Zhaoji's behest, the Chongming soldiers shouted loudly.
"Li Sotai is dead!" The sound resounded throughout the camp of the Qing army.
The Qing soldiers and generals who were organizing resistance were stunned and all died? A lot of people can't believe this fact. However, no more orders came from the Chinese military tent, which was already in a sea of fire, and they had to believe this fact.
As a result, the organized soldiers were suddenly in chaos, and the unorganized soldiers were even more chaotic, and the entire camp of the Qing army became a pot of porridge.
Many Qing soldiers threw down their weapons and turned and fled into the darkness of the night, and more fell to their knees and surrendered to the Ming army.
The Han Green Battalion soldiers could surrender, and the Eight Banners would not surrender anyway, but the Eight Banners generals who led the team knew that they could not do anything, and if they insisted on resisting, they were afraid that the whole army would be wiped out, so they led their men and fled the battlefield.
In fact, the Qing army did not know that the Ming soldiers who came to attack the camp were only 3,000, and the number was less than one-tenth of them. But the camp was full of shouts and killings, as if thousands of troops and horses were coming, and the commander Li Shuitai was killed, how could they dare to resist?
At dawn, groups of Chongming soldiers patrolled the battlefield with weapons in their hands, and although they fought all night, they were still elated and tireless.
With 3,000 troops, they broke through the camp of tens of thousands of Qing troops and beheaded the commanders of the Qing army, so it is no wonder that they are arrogant.
The surrendered green battalion soldiers sat on the ground dejectedly, and the number of surrendered soldiers in the camp was still as high as 20,000 at this moment, but looking at the Ming army with sharp blades in their hands, they couldn't afford to resist.
Maybe in the hearts of many green battalion soldiers, the Ming army on the opposite side is their own people, after all, only a few are willing to turn their backs on their ancestors.
In order to prevent the resistance of the green battalion villagers, Liu Zhaoji ordered all the officers above the general level to be taken into custody, so that there was no leader, and although the remaining green battalion soldiers were large, they were scattered.
After dawn, Jiangyin City received the news that the Chongming army had broken through the Qing army's camp. Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and others were overjoyed, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened and came out.
With the help of the township army in Jiangyin, it was much easier to escort the prisoners and organize the battlefield.
Yan Yingyuan stepped forward to congratulate Liu Zhaoji and congratulate the Chongming army on its defeat of the Qing army.
The news that Liu Zhaoji had beheaded Li Shutai and defeated the 40,000 Qing army spread rapidly, and the entire Jiangnan region was boiling.
Duoduo, who had just arrived in Changzhou, was furious when he heard the letter, and ordered the army to speed up, and he wanted to rush to Jiangyin to avenge Li Shutai, and at the same time ordered Belebolo to lead the army to hurry to the city of Jiangyin.
On August 10, the 100,000-strong army of Duoduo and Bolo arrived in Jiangyin and surrounded the city.