Chapter Twenty-Three: The Pursuit Fails
The armored car marched all the way, and it was not until he heard Wang Qiang shouting on the roof of the car that there were people with guns in front of him, and Liu Weimin released the accelerator.
Luo Jian looked up and looked ahead, there was a row of shields erected in unison more than two hundred meters from the front, this shield looked a little different from the shield held by the Qing soldiers yesterday, and it was much thicker at a glance. Behind the shield stood in the middle of a few rows of Qing soldiers, these Qing soldiers were holding all firearms in their hands, similar to the style of shotguns that Luo Jian had seen in his rural hometown before, flanked by archers, and the longbows in their hands were much longer than the cavalry of the Qing army yesterday, and the range was obviously much farther.
When he was about a hundred meters away, Luo Jian shouted to Xiao Liu to stop the car. Although this firearm can't penetrate the armor of the armored car, it is so close that it is always unpleasant to hit the body full of potholes. And this distance of 100 meters is the best range for rifles, and this group of Qing soldiers looks like there must be five or six hundred people, and Luo Jian decided to destroy these firecrackers at this distance.
Kong Youde stretched out his head from behind the shields erected by a row of pro-soldiers and looked forward, and when he saw that the strange car had stopped, he was overjoyed, thinking that the strange car was afraid of his firecrackers. It's just that this distance has not yet reached the range of the firebolt, and when he was about to give the order to the whole team to move forward, he saw the machine gun on the roof of the strange car in front of him spewing out tongues of fire again, and he was so frightened that he retracted his head again.
Shooting straight ahead in the car made Luo Jian feel a little awkward, looked up to the side, and saw that the Qing soldiers had already run away, so he simply pushed the car door, grabbed two full magazines in his hand, and jumped out of the car. He put the magazine on the hood of the armored car, knelt on one leg, and fired at the Qing soldiers in front of him.
Wang Zecheng was in the back seat of the car, shooting forward was even more awkward, seeing that Luo Jian had already opened the car when he got out of the car, he was so anxious that he pushed the car door and wanted to get out of the car, but he couldn't push it open no matter what. Liu Weimin heard the sound of the cart door, looked back, and saw that Wang Zecheng was in a hurry, so he quickly turned around and helped him open the car door.
As soon as Wang Qiang's machine gun rang out, he saw that the shield bearers in the front row fell to the ground one after another, and as soon as the gunners behind heard the gunshot, many people put the fire fold in their hands towards the rope point, and a crackling sound also sounded from the Qing soldiers' position, but this sound was much duller than the sound of the machine gun.
Luo Jian heard a few crisp sounds from the body of the car, and knew that it was the bullet of the fire gun hitting the car, but at this distance, it was obviously not very strong, and it was estimated that even the clothes could not penetrate the body, so he didn't care.
Although the Qing soldiers on the opposite side suffered many casualties, they did not turn around and run, obviously the general gave a strict order before this, and seeing these soldiers dragging rat tails behind their heads, Luo Jian estimated that they belonged to the soldiers of Kong Youde's Han military banner, these people followed Kong Youde to join the Qing army a long time ago, and their discipline and tenacity were far greater than the Ming army that had just surrendered.
Wang Zecheng was lying on the side of the car on the left side of the car, gritting his teeth and shooting forward, and after a while, he heard a click, and it turned out that the magazine had been empty. He didn't get out of the car with two magazines like Luo Jian, he didn't know how to open the car door with an empty gun, so he was so anxious that he raised the rifle in his hand and knocked on Liu Weimin's car window.
The sound of gunfire on both sides sounded like a shootout between the two sides, but the reality was a one-sided massacre. In less than thirty seconds, there were no shields in front of them, and the standing musketeers and archers began to fall in pieces, and the archers did not even shoot a single arrow.
Suddenly, a firebolt threw the firebolt in his hand, turned around and ran backwards. With the beginning, the tenacious Qing soldiers could no longer hold on, and ran towards the rear one after another, some of them had no more guys in their hands, and some of them still carried the fire gun in their hands.
The Qing soldiers scattered and ran away, Luo Jian suddenly saw Kong Youde protected by a bunch of shields more than 300 meters in front of him, and at first glance he was a Qing soldier official, stood up and patted the car, and shouted, "Xiao Wang, pay attention to fight there!" With his hand, he pointed in the direction where Kong Youde was.
Wang Qiang, who was chasing the fleeing Qing soldiers and beating them, also saw this group of people, and immediately turned his gun and shot at this group of people at a long point.
Kong Youde reacted very quickly, at least much faster than Geng Zhongming, as soon as he saw the pro-soldiers holding the shield in front of him, he was knocked over several at once, beckoned the rest of the pro-soldiers to surround him and turn around and run, Wang Qiang chased and swept for a while, and finally Kong Youde fled to the back and ran away on horseback.
Luo Jian saw that he had many soldiers, and knew that he must be a Qing soldier official, and he regretted that he had parked the car in place and did not move, and then wanted to get in the car to chase after him, but he saw that he had already run away on horseback, and felt very sorry in his heart. Looking around at the firecrackers and archers in front of them, it was estimated that more than 200 people had been killed and wounded, and the rest had already run away.
Just as he was about to get into the car and pursue in the direction where Duoduo was, Liu Zhaoji's anxious shout came from the walkie-talkie, only to know that the Qing cavalry had bypassed from behind, wanting to outflank and annihilate the two people behind.
Luo Jian was worried that the two teams behind him were all foot soldiers, and he was afraid that the cavalry would suffer heavy casualties, so he hurriedly got into the car and beckoned Xiao Liu to turn around towards the rear, preparing to return to the two groups of men and horses.
Liu Weimin was about to turn around in the direction, when he saw Wang Zecheng patting the door outside the car, remembering that this guy was still outside the car, he quickly pulled the car door and let him get into the car, turned around and drove towards the rear.
Luo Jian was still regretting in the car, thinking in his heart that the infantry was following behind, and the speed was always difficult to keep up with the armored car, once it was far away, it would definitely give the Qing cavalry an opportunity to take advantage of, if there were enough cavalry in the city to follow the armored car to attack, the effect would be very good. I hope that Ma and B can use grenades well and wait for their help.
As soon as he told Wang Zecheng about the situation in the car, this kid was also anxious enough, and asked Xiao Liu if he could hurry up. Liu Weimin pursed his lips and said, "Do you think this is a highway?" ”
"What is a highway?" Wang Zecheng was puzzled, but Liu Weimin didn't explain, he just stepped on the accelerator tighter, and the speed of the car was raised a lot, Luo Jian grabbed the handle in the front row and felt that it was choking enough, Xiao Wang was even more thrown left and right, Luo Jian stretched out his head to look at the speedometer, and it was already sixty-five yards.
Although it was extremely enjoyable to rush and kill all the way, Ma Yingkui's eyes scanned the entire battlefield from time to time, and suddenly found that the dust in the right rear was heavy, and he was shocked, and he looked closely, knowing that a cavalry was coming, and hurriedly ordered the troops to gather the formation.
In ancient times, infantry was not completely passive against cavalry, and infantry also had a special defensive formation against cavalry. At this moment, Ma Yingkui put out a circular defensive formation, the outermost is the shield hand and the spearman, the middle is the waist knife shield hand, and now with the bombardier, dozens of shields have been transferred from the periphery to protect these dozens of treasures.
As soon as the formation was set up, the Qing cavalry had already accelerated and rushed over. Ma Yingkui saw that all the white-armored soldiers were in the array, and he was secretly shocked in his heart, and he thought that the Tartars wanted to annihilate all the 2,000 people who went out of the city, otherwise this white-armored soldier would not be dispatched easily.
Ma Yingkui got off the horse, took out a grenade from his arms and held it in his hand, gritted his teeth and pulled off the pull ring while walking towards the formation, and saw that the Qing cavalry was less than fifty meters away from the round formation, and according to the posture of Wang Qiangjiao yesterday, he bent sideways and threw it towards the middle of the cavalry.
Ma Yingkui is strong, this time is not as good as a horse, the posture is used correctly, this time the throw is more than 70 meters, in the middle of a group of cavalry, only to hear a loud noise, three or four cavalry planted from the horse.
Seeing that the generals had already begun to throw grenades, the bombardiers in the formation also took out the grenades from their arms, pulled the ring, and walked to the edge of the formation under the cover of the shield hand and threw them at the Qing cavalry.
After a series of explosions, I saw that the cavalry in front of me seemed to be blown by a strong wind, and in an instant people turned on their backs. It didn't count the explosion of dozens of horsemen, but the war horses behind heard a loud noise, and most of them were suddenly frightened, and no matter how good the rider's riding skills were, they couldn't control it.
Ma Yingkui was overjoyed when he saw it, knowing that with grenade defense, his own army could be regarded as being saved, and he was really grateful to Luo Jian in his heart. Quickly turned back to the bombardier, "You save all the guys in your hands, don't use them all." ”
Although the cavalry in front was blown up and people jumped on their backs, the cavalry who arrived behind was still unwilling to give up, and began to circle around the circle, and the riders on the horse picked up the bows and arrows in their hands and began to shoot at the circle
Someone began to fall down with arrows in the circle array, Ma Yingkui was helpless when he saw this, the bombardier did not have special training, the throwing distance was always limited, most people could only throw up to 40 meters, the cavalry was far away, and the throwing out could not be effective in addition to being startled, so he had to grit his teeth and stand up, his own strength, and he had to throw a few grenades again, and the cavalry began to disperse, and a few grenades only blew up two or three cavalrymen.
The situation on the left was similar, but his reaction was a little slower, and when the formation formed a circle, there were still many soldiers who did not enter the formation, and were slashed by the roaring cavalry from their horses.
By the time Ebang beckoned the bombardier to start throwing grenades, the cavalry was already less than thirty meters away, but because of the closeness, a round of grenades was thrown, but there were about twenty horsemen. After that, the cavalry began to shoot arrows from a distance around the circle, as if they waited for the grenade in the formation to be thrown before they came up to break the formation and attack, and Yibang couldn't, so he had to grit his teeth and insist.
Fortunately, although the cavalry on both sides surrounded the two groups of men and horses, they did not dare to get too close to the circle formation because of the grenades, and the long-range bow and arrow throwing damage was limited after all, and Ma and B both looked forward to Luo Jian and their reinforcements as soon as possible.
was anxiously waiting, Ma Yingkui heard a heart-stopping machine gun sound, and saw that the cavalry behind began to fall in pieces, and then the armored car roared out from the front, and the machine gun chased the cavalry that began to flee.
Seeing that the Tartar cavalry had fled, Luo Jian asked Xiao Liu to drive the car to the edge of the circle and stopped, and shouted to Ma Yingkui, "Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, bring the team to the left, and bring all the wounded back, no matter how light or serious." Then he pointed to the scattered horses on the periphery and shouted, "Send people to get these horses back as much as possible." ”
The men and horses on both sides were two miles apart, and Luo Jian was worried that Yi Bangcai's men and horses would lose too much, so regardless of the bumps, he let the armored car gallop with all his strength and drove towards that side.
Yi Bangcai had already heard the sound of machine guns on the right flank, and knew that Luo Jian and the others had returned, and his heart was relieved.
Luo Jian rushed to the circle formation of Yi Bangcai on the left, and saw that the Qing cavalry was still circling around the circle array, and did not dare to rush forward to kill, knowing that it was the grenade that played a role, this thing didn't care about the people and horses, it was a piece of explosion, and the Tartar cavalry couldn't help but be afraid.
The cavalry on the left side is more tenacious than the one on the right, seeing that the machine gun of the armored car has sounded, but still refuses to retreat, a few horses want to come around from the back of the armored car, but Wang Zecheng saw it, raised the gun and shot at these horses, the cavalry dispersed, Wang Zecheng finished a magazine, but only shot down two horses, so annoyed that he slapped his head, but saw that the other horses were frightened back, and quickly changed a magazine to load.
Seeing that Luo Jian raised the gun, it was not fired continuously, but only a few short shots, and almost a horse fell down every time, and he was very envious in his heart, thinking about the same thing, but he didn't use it well, wasting a lot of bullets.
The enemy cavalry is tenacious, but it is in the arms of Luo Jian and Wang Qiang, both of them are short shots, seeing the enemy cavalry fall one by one, both of them feel that this kind of unilateral slaughter is a bit boring.
Finally, the enemy Qing cavalry couldn't stand this kind of casualties and began to retreat, Luo Jian beckoned Liu Weimin to drive and chase for a while, and when he saw that the cavalry finally ran away, he stopped chasing.
Looking back at Yi Bangcai's team, the casualties were indeed not small, and many people were injured by the cavalry with bows and arrows in the round formation, but fortunately the injuries were not serious. Luo Jian thought to himself, he didn't know if the medicines of the whole regiment had been teleported, and he was still counting on these medicines to treat these wounded soldiers.
As soon as the gunfire stopped, the battlefield fell silent. Hurriedly got out of the car and beckoned Yi Bang to lead people to clean up the battlefield, and asked Liu Weimin to drive the car to the front to guard, and wait for the arrival of Ma Yingkui's men and horses on the right wing to retreat to the city together.
Ma and B cleaned the battlefield very carefully, in addition to not cutting off the head, many killed horses and horses and legs were cut off, and the soldiers rarely ate meat, although the horse meat tasted bad, after all, it was also meat, and the armor on these cavalry was very fine, so it had to be peeled off.
Luo Jian waited for about half an hour before he saw Ma Yingkui arrive with someone. The two sides converged, and the armored vehicles pressed in the rear, happily carrying the booty and carrying the wounded to retreat.
When he arrived at the city gate, Luo Jian stopped the men and horses on both sides, and he wanted to count the casualties.
Seeing that the car stopped, Wang Zecheng jumped out of the car, he had learned how to open the door. When everyone saw him get out of the car, they were all looking at him with envy, even Ma and General B.
Wang Zecheng didn't care, and hurriedly went to find his subordinate soldiers in the two teams. When the guards saw him coming, they ran from the group. Wang Zecheng was a little headed, and when he saw that there was no one missing, he was happy, so he no longer got on the bus, and only stood with his subordinates.
According to the statistics of the two parties, Luo Jian felt that it was okay, Ma Yingkui's side suffered more than 200 casualties, of which more than 80 were killed in battle, and Yibangcai's side was not too much, with more than 180 casualties and more than 70 people killed in battle.
As for the results of the battle, Luo Jian estimated that the armored vehicles rushed all the way over, and the Qing soldiers killed and wounded were not less than 600 if there were not 800, and among the two people, according to Ma Yingkui, he estimated that there were more than 1,500 Qing soldiers killed and wounded on his side, and Yibang estimated that there were more than 1,400 on his side.