Chapter 33: Shi Lang (Part II)
After the heavy casualties, Shi Lang finally let the soldiers form a car formation, and after the group retreated from the car formation, the Qing army saw that Shi Lang was very tightly arranged, and if he attacked it, he would lose a lot, so he changed to harass, trying to use the tired military strategy to let Shi Lang and his party show their flaws, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.
At night, the cavalry spies of the Qing army were still wandering outside the car formation, and Shi Lang, Huang Ting, Cheng Sheng and others gathered around the fire to keep warm and discuss countermeasures.
From the military flag in the enemy army, Shi Lang and his group already understood. Li Chengdong, the governor of Guangdong, already knew that his gang had stolen his armaments and went to seek refuge with Zheng Chenggong, so he sent his henchman Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, to lead the cavalry to chase and kill him.
When Huang Ting retreated, the arrow for the Qing soldiers was fiercely ordered on his buttocks, and now he could only lie on the ground and eat.
Lying on the ground, Huang Ting hammered the ground with his hand fiercely, and scolded, "Damn Hao Manzi, if he meets this bastard again in the future, Lao Tzu will definitely twist his head with his own hands." “
Blocked here, Shi Lang, who was already proud, was not in the mood to enjoy dinner, but just ate a few bites of marching food cakes indiscriminately. Now when he heard Huang Ting's words, he said even more unceremoniously, "This sentence will be said when you have your life in the future, don't forget that we are still in danger now, it is better to think about how to break out of Hao Shangjiu's encirclement." “
"You're ......!" Huang Ting wanted to be angry at Shi Lang when he heard this, but he thought that he still had to rely on him now, so he changed his words, "Then what do you say?" “
Shi Lang's face was very complicated, a little expectant, and then a little disappointed, "Now I have to hold on and wait for Zheng Chenggong's response." It's just that with Zheng Chenggong's soldiers and horses, I don't have much hope! “
When Huang Ting heard this, he responded with silence.
This night, in order to guard against Hao Shangjiu's sudden attack. Shi Lang had no choice but to divide the soldiers and horses into two teams and take turns to replace the vigil. During this period, Hao Shangjiu organized several tentative attacks, but Shi Lang dealt with them properly and blocked them.
In the daytime, Shi Lang's group, who was even more tired, almost collapsed under the harassment of Hao Shangjiu's cavalry, but fortunately, the veteran Huang Ting was experienced, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately killed thirty or forty people in a row to stabilize the whole army.
At the end of the day, not only the soldiers were tired, but even the generals such as Shi Lang and Huang Ting were very tired. Huang Ting said, "Shi Lang, you can't keep it like this anymore. Otherwise, if we can't wait for the rescue of the eldest prince, our army will definitely be dragged down by Hao Shangjiu's cavalry. You have to find a way to break out. “
Shi Lang was silent for a while, and then said, "If you want to break through, I have an idea, but it's just a little vicious. “
Huang Ting heard that Shi Lang had an idea, and immediately said, "When is it now, there is still a pinch of dry birds." Say it quickly, everyone refer to it! ”
Shi Lang then told his idea, and everyone listened to this plan and was silent.
In the end, it was Huang Ting who decided, "No poison, no husband." Do it, or everyone will be doomed together, but don't tell the soldiers about it. Got it? “
"Hmm!"
Four o'clock in the morning is the time when a person sleeps the most deeply, while most of the Qing army is still asleep. After the group quietly cleaned up, Shi Lang asked people to move the car formation, and then sent the remaining cavalry to rush out and entangle the cavalry of the Qing army who were still carrying out the tired plan at night.
In order to entangle the Qing army for a longer time, Shi Lang, Huang Ting and others sent out their own personal soldiers, and formed hundreds of cavalry to entangle the Qing cavalry.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when Qingqi was blocked, Shi Lang and the others set up a carriage and hurriedly fled towards the grove not far away.
Although their own cavalry was very hard, when most of Hao Shangjiu's Qing soldiers woke up and joined the pursuit team, these cavalry were quickly crushed, and all but a few were able to escape, the rest were killed.
Defeating these blocking cavalry, Hao Shangjiu led the cavalry to rush directly into the woods in order to chase and kill Shi Lang and others.
When entering the woods, his lieutenant reminded, "General, the art of war is cloudy." Why don't we take a detour to catch up with them! ”
When Hao Shangjiu heard this, he immediately scolded: "You are afraid of a bird, when you come to this forest to catch birds and fight tooth sacrifices during the day, don't you also come over." Where can you hide the ambush soldiers? Catch up quickly, or if you let these things escape, then the Admiral will blame you, and you can bear it. Don't talk nonsense, chase it! ”
The lieutenant shuddered at the thought of Butcher Li's murderous name, and no longer thought about what Lin Mo said, and quickly chased after him.
With horsepower, Hao Shangjiu quickly caught up with Shi Lang's group who were moving slowly.
Seeing that the Qing army had caught up, Shi Lang immediately asked more than 500 people to escort those carriages to retreat first, and he personally led the remaining more than 1,000 infantry to block the Qing soldiers on the spot, so that those carriages could escape from the woods smoothly.
Hao Shangjiu also cared a lot when he saw it, and after killing all these people, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to catch up with those carriages!
Look at these people in front of you. Hao Shangjiu shouted proudly from afar, "Now it depends on where you are still running, hurry up and arrest it, maybe Lao Tzu will be happy for a while, and he will help you intercede in front of Lord Admiral, and spare your dog's life." ”
Shi Lang didn't reply, but just scolded his subordinates to form a dense formation to resist the onslaught of the cavalry.
Seeing that Shi Lang and his group refused to surrender, Hao Shangjiu immediately let the Qing army start to sprint.
Fortunately, in the woods, the cavalry of the Qing army could only charge in small cavalry formations, which somewhat limited the power of the cavalry, so that Shi Lang and his group barely stopped the advance of Hao Shangjiu's cavalry. It was only when more and more of Hao Shangjiu's cavalry rushed into the woods and began to attack from the flank, that Shi Lang's infantry regiment inevitably began to loosen.
Shi Lang pulled his throat and shouted, "Resist me, as long as I block it for a while, Lao Tzu can escape with you." Kill me now, whoever dares to escape, Lao Tzu will cut whomever he wants. As he spoke, Shi Lang didn't forget to cut off the heads of a few soldiers who wanted to escape to warn others.
About half a pillar of incense later, Shi Lang saw that his carriage finally ran out of the woods, and all the Qing soldiers rushed into the woods.
Shi Lang immediately shouted, "It's now, set fire quickly!" ”
After saying that, Shi Lang, Huang Ting and the others rode around and ran desperately, and the fire suddenly burned from behind them.
During the spring rainy season, even if there is a fire in the woods, it is more difficult to turn into a fire in wet weather.
But the fire that Shi Lang set out burned extremely quickly, and the fire spread rapidly, and soon turned the forest into a sea of fire.
When Hao Shangjiu heard the explosions from time to time in the fire, he yelled, "These dog thieves have planted gunpowder in the woods, damn it, brother quickly retreat and rush out for me." ”
It turned out that Shi Lang knew that he couldn't use ambush tactics in this wood, and he couldn't stop the Qing army for long. So after they retreated into the woods, they sent soldiers to place gunpowder on the wagons everywhere, and when the Qing cavalry entered the woods, they set fire to them.
When the Qing army saw the fire, they turned their horses and scrambled to rush out of the fire. Hao Shangjiu, who rushed into the woods first, didn't care about anything else at this time, and directly ordered his own soldiers to open the way, hacked all the Qing soldiers who blocked his way to death, and fought his way out of the woods when his hair was burned.
Escaping from the sea of fire, Hao Shangjiu counted a little, but there were only one hundred and ninety-two cavalry left of more than 1,600 cavalry at the moment. Enraged, Hao Shangjiu led the remaining cavalry to chase Shi Lang around the road on the spot, vowing to break them into pieces.
More than a dozen soldiers of Shi Lang were able to pull out the sea of fire with their horsepower, and the more than 1,000 infantry who were left to resist the Qing army were not so lucky, and all of them were buried in the sea of fire.
At this time, Shi Lang and his group were only the five hundred people who had escorted the carriage first.
Listening to the heart-rending and painful cries in the sea of fire, and smelling the smell of burnt meat in the air, many soldiers who knew that the plan was proposed by Shi Lang looked at Shi Lang who escaped on horseback, and their eyes were full of fear and deep discipline, fearing that he would treat himself as a victim in the future.
The thoughts of the soldiers were completely out of Shi Lang's consideration.
After escaping from the sea of fire, Shi Lang seemed to have nothing to do, and said, "Take advantage of the Qing army not catching up, go quickly!" ”
Hearing Shi Lang's order, the soldiers didn't dare to say anything at all, and drove the carriage and hurried.
Along the way, no matter how hard they worked and how tired they were, these soldiers didn't dare to complain anymore, gritted their teeth and insisted on hurrying.
I was afraid that Shi Lang would leave him behind to resist the Qing army in order to escape.
Because of the fear of the soldiers, the march was a few points faster, and seven days later they arrived at Huanggang Town, Raoping County, on the border of Fujian and Guangdong. As long as you work hard for half a day, you can arrive in Fujian.
Once he enters Fujian, presumably the soldiers and horses of Guangdong Admiral Li Chengdong will not rashly enter the territory of Zhao Guo, the governor of Fujian, who is not right with him!
The group wanted to strike while the iron was hot, and rushed to Zhao'an County, Fujian Province without stopping in Huanggang Town.
It's just that before they got out of Huanggang Town, Shi Lang and his group were forced to stop advancing.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Shi Lang felt deeply hopeless. With his many years of experience in the army, he clearly knows that the current situation of the war is absolutely irreversible.
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