Chapter 14: The Breakout Tragedy

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Those thousands of elite horsemen were the subordinates of the Taiping King, and after breaking through from Hanzhong in seven years, the Taiping King turned to attack Gansu and snatched a lot of horses from the ethnic minorities in the west.

The Taiping King immediately formed his own elite cavalry troops, this time attacking Fengyang, he was not very interested in breaking the dragon vein, as soon as he entered Fengyang, he sent some of his backbones to burn the people who were coerced.

Due to the large army of thieves and the chaotic management, people often got lost or escaped, and in order to ensure that these elite horsemen would not get lost, the Taiping King restrained them collectively.

Although they were not allowed to loot everywhere, they also had a share in the looted things, and as soon as they entered Fengyang, they let people rob hundreds of young ladies and maids from those rich families, and pulled them here to give those elite horsemen and horses a white Xuanyin.

But before he could raise his gun, there was a noise outside. Hearing that the report was that the official army had been killed, the soldiers and horses under the Taiping King were not alarmed.

It's just a few thousand officers and soldiers, and they haven't been drowned by their spittle!

In addition, hundreds of delicate little ladies have been brought, and these thieves have a sperm worm on their brains, and they don't care about the officials and soldiers who have entered the central capital.

When I was about to take turns to enjoy these little ladies, I suddenly came to report that the officials and soldiers had been killed. This frightened the Taiping King, and he hurriedly left the beauty he had just captured and rushed out of the pavilion with people.

The open space outside was where his elite horsemen and horses were, and as soon as he rushed out of the pavilion, King Taiping's heart was groaning, only to see that they had already been rushed by the official army.

The thieves mounted their horses in a panic, but their horsemanship was not perfect, and the horses were not specially trained, so they were frightened by the sound of the cannons, and for a time thousands of people and horses were in a mess.

"Kneel and don't kill ......"

"Kneel and don't kill ......"

The pikemen, with their spears in their hands and shouting slogans, rushed forward like a hedgehog, stabbing the thieves who were about to get on their horses and flee.

In order to wound the horses, the pikemen, artillerymen, and longbowmen were dumbfounded.

Seeing that the horses were frightened, the Taiping King hurriedly gathered his thieves and retreated into the pavilion.

The pavilion was surrounded by walls, with only two exits in front and rear, and was immediately blocked by the soldiers of the second battalion, who then asked people to gather the horses.

"No less than three thousand." Liu Heng rode a horse to Zhao Yan's side and said, "It's a pity that there are not many combat horses, and most of them can only be used for transportation." ”

"Huh! That's not bad, horses are sometimes something you can't buy. Zhao Yan smiled, and then shouted sideways: "Wang Wenyue." ”

"Yes." Wang Wenyue hurriedly rode his horse and ran over.

"Leave a long company combat unit, and you take the rest of the horses to disperse the pursuit." Zhao Yan ordered Wang Wenyue.

"Yes." Wang Wenyue took the order and left, and soon left behind a company of combat units, a company of 250 pikemen, after the expansion, there were 6 companies of pikemen. Each company has a platoon of 50 people, a total of 5 platoons. When dismantled into a company-level combat unit, the 250 men were split into two rows and one horizontal team, and the remaining row was used as a reserve. There were also 100 musketeers, 80 longbowmen, as well as 25 artillery pieces and 5 rocketeers.

This method of splitting was determined when suppressing bandits, after all, many bandits are small in scale, and it is not necessary to send so many people to suppress them.

At the same time, in order to improve efficiency, splitting into small-scale combat units is conducive to improving combat efficiency.

Leaving a company-level combat unit, the other soldiers and horses were divided into five combat units, and began to pursue the thief army in Zhongdu, saying that it was a pursuit, but it was more like a drive, and the chase was unhurried.

Since Zhao Yan launched an attack from the east, the hungry people who had been coerced before instinctively took the lead in fleeing westward, and the thieves who were burning and looting in the central capital heard that the official army was coming, and when they saw so many people running away, they also fled.

Most of them are fleeing westward, and many thieves are fleeing south, and some are fleeing north. When he fled north to the bank of the Beifeishui River, he sadly found that there were officers and soldiers on the other bank.

Although there were not many of them, they seemed to be only about two hundred people, but they were cruising back and forth on the opposite bank, and anyone who crossed the river would be cut down to the ground.

The thieves who could not escape were surrounded by most of the cavalry battalion soldiers, blocking their way to the south, and the thieves saw that there were still people in the south, and quickly turned around.

There were officials and troops in the south, north, and east, and the thieves were driven into the passage between the north and west of Feishui. There were rivers on both sides, and the boats crossing the river had long been controlled by the cavalry battalion, so they could only flee along this thirty or forty-mile passage to Guide Fu.

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When King Taiping saw that most of the officers and troops surrounded outside were suddenly reduced, leaving only a few hundred people, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, as long as he rushed out, there was still hope of escape.

At this time, the officers and soldiers outside the pavilion walked out of an officer and soldier wearing iron armor, holding spears and shields, and came to the wall outside the pavilion and shouted: "Listen to the people inside, come out and surrender quickly, and there is only one way to resist and die." We will only punish the evildoers, and we will put down our weapons and surrender within a quarter of an hour, and if we still do not come to our senses, we will be severely punished. ”

The thieves inside couldn't help but scratch for a while, and King Taiping reacted quickly, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't listen to his nonsense, have you forgotten those brothers who were killed in the Chengcheng Mansion?" ”

It was naturally Hong Chengchou who did the killing and surrendering thing, Yang He was the main caretaker, Hong Chengchou was the main suppressor, the two disagreed, and finally Yang He was finished, and Hong Chengchou took the position.

Then, Yang He's son Yang Shichang ascended to the throne, which led to a lot of resentment.

At the beginning, Yang He also had the hardships of the main fu, two years later, Jin entered the Kou, most of the Shaanxi border army went to Beijing to Qinwang, Yang He had no soldiers available, and the main fu was also a last resort.

Hong Chengchou's main suppression was to see that if there was a backbone of the thieves, they could quickly pull up a large army to cause chaos, so he directed several large-scale killing and surrendering incidents.

It's hard to say who is right and who is wrong, but these thieves have a careful eye when they surrender.

The king of the Taiping quickly assessed the disturbance, and led people to climb the wall of the pavilion, which was built to be splendid, and the wall was like a city wall.

Several thieves, armed with bows and arrows or firearms, fired at the pikeman below.

I saw that the pikeman quickly raised the shield in his hand to cover his face, and quickly stepped back. A bow and arrow struck the pikeman in the chest, but it didn't even go into it before it bounced off, leaving only a dimple in the plate armor.

The thieves inside couldn't help but feel a sense of loss when they saw that the official army was safe and sound.

Everyone is wondering that this group of officers and soldiers is so strange. Where did the average officer and army get such a good iron armor? And the action is not chaotic, even fools can see that it is an elite army.

"Kill!"

Suddenly, there was a shout, and the Taiping King, who was surrounded inside, couldn't sink anymore, and organized people and horses to rush out of the exit.

As soon as he rushed out, he received a merciless blow.

"Shoot in a row!"

"Bang ......"

"Second Platoon Shooting ......"

"Whew...... Boom ......"

"Woo Woo ......"

Muskets, shells, longbows, and rockets are fired at the thieves who break through in sections. There weren't many musketeers and longbowmen, and they didn't do much damage.

But the 25 grenades and the rockets that had been erected long ago became a talisman, and more than a dozen of them hit the crowd, causing at least five or six hundred dead and wounded under the first round of shelling.

"Rush! There is no turning back. The King of Taiping shouted loudly, those thieves had no choice but to rush and kill.

"Retreat."

The musketeers quickly retreated, and then, as is usually done, some entered the line with swords in hand, some took the fire folds from behind, stood in the second row with a few grenades, and some went to the back to set up rockets.

Under the constant blows of the longbowmen, the thieves finally started a white-knuckle battle with two rows of pikemen. As soon as they made contact, the thieves in front of them were immediately stabbed in a row.

Then the thieves saw more than 30 wooden sticks of more than 20 centimeters emitting white smoke and threw them from behind. Before they could realize what it was, an ......explosion rang out from around them, and a large area fell down.

The terrible rain of arrows continued to shoot, and after each rain of arrows there was always a place full of arrows, and many thieves were nailed to the ground and wailed.

I saw that the musketeers who retreated to the rear of the formation to set up rockets quickly put the rockets into the launcher, and then under the adjustment of the rocketeers, they ignited the fuses on the rockets......

A rapid 'boom' sound sounded again, flying over the pikemen's heads, crashing directly into the thieves' dense formation.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The shrapnel that shot at the rocket exploded immediately swept the surrounding thieves to the ground, and the long-range strikes seemed to be endless, and the road on which the thieves charged was already miserable, and the thieves behind were blown up to pieces, and there were dead and wounded lying on the ground everywhere, and at this moment the second wave of artillery bombardment arrived......

With the sound of cannonballs, shells flew one after another......

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