Chapter 139: Steady
"Knock knock!"
"Knock knock!"
With the appearance of the "Ming" word flag, a team of thousands of people stepped on the drum to appear in front of the two armies, this Ming army wore a red mandarin duck jacket and a highly defensive chain mail, feet wore thick-soled combat boots, wore a domed iron helmet, and walked in the outermost outermost bird gun holding a bird gun and a sword and shield hand, they lined up in a neat quadripartite battle formation is walking towards the center of the battlefield, and there are hundreds of night guards riding war horses around them around them to patrol non-stop!
This team was almost all foot soldiers, although they had already walked to the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, but all the soldiers still walked to the center of the battlefield with their heads held high and did not squint to listen to the officers' orders, and still marched forward with firm steps as if they did not see the two sides in front of them.
"Bastard, where did this Ming army come from!" Looking at the Ming army, which was walking towards the battlefield with neat steps, Azig was so angry that he jumped like thunder. He grabbed the collar of a Qing soldier scout who had just fled back to his camp and asked viciously: "Tell me, where did this Ming soldier come from, are all you spies dead?" Why not report to Ben King in advance! ”
The spy said tremblingly: "My lord, the minions don't know, when the servants were on routine patrols, they suddenly rushed out from the southeast and several Ming soldiers did not collect at night, and they shot several of our brothers at once with bows and crossbows. ”
"Revenge, report!" Azig looked at the embarrassed spy and didn't fight anymore, "Okay, you come and tell me where this Ming army came from and who their leader is?" You say, you say! ”
Pity this spy was shaken by Azig and almost fell apart, where else could he speak.
"Come on, push this useless minion out and behead it!" Enraged, Azig became murderous and immediately called the guards to push the spy out and behead him.
Soon two guards strode up and grabbed the spy who had collapsed to the ground and was about to drag him away, when a long sigh came from the side, and a voice came: "Forget the twelfth brother, you still spare the life of this minion, I know the origin of this Ming army." ”
"Hmm!" Azig was stunned and said, "Seventh brother, how do you know the origin of this Ming army?" Did you fight them? ”
It turned out that the person who spoke for this spy was Rao Yu Bel Abatai, and I saw him say faintly: "Yes, I did fight with this Ming army, and I also suffered a little loss from them, the leader of this Ming army is named Pang Gang, and they are the Ming army from the Lingshan Guard Station in Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong." ”
As soon as Abatai's words fell, Yanguli said with some consternation: "Rao Yu Belle, you suffered a loss at the hands of this Ming army a few days ago?" That's too."
Although Yanguli's words were not finished, the meaning behind it was needless to say that everyone could understand it, and all the generals with blue flags, including Abatai, had hot faces, and only Amur muttered in a low voice behind him: "When you fight them, you will know how powerful they are." ”
Although Abatai's face was a little red, he still said with a straight face: "Twelfth brother, although you may not like to hear it, I still have to say that this Ming army is different from the ordinary Ming army we have seen in the past, if you don't deal with it seriously, you will suffer." ”
Azig looked at Abatai for a long time and suddenly laughed, he shook his head and said: "Big brother, are you scared of those southern barbarians, how powerful can this Ming army that supports the death of only 4,000 people be, you look at it, Durer will deal with him." ”
While they were talking, the Ming army was also shocked by the arrival of this friendly army that suddenly appeared, and Lu Xiangsheng asked the generals next to him with some surprise, "Do you know which general this Ming army is, why did you arrive now?" ”
In fact, the news that Pang Gang and Abatai fought and won in the Dezhou Mansion has not yet reached the capital, so it is normal for Lu Xiangsheng not to know this army and horses, and besides, according to his identity, there is no need to pay attention to the soldiers and horses of King Qin, which was shot by a small guard.
All the generals shook their heads in unison, this army of 4,000 people must be led by generals above the rank of general, but although they have seen the banner of the word "Pang" fluttering in the column of the Ming army, everyone racked their brains and couldn't remember which general or deputy general surnamed Pang they knew.
Although he was a little dissatisfied with the late Qinwang soldiers and horses, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't watch the Qing soldiers eat the Qinwang soldiers who had just entered the battlefield by the Tartars, he turned his head to the Suzhou Town Ma Rulong on the side and said: "Mr. Li, I'm sorry for you to work hard to bring the soldiers and horses back, we can't watch them being eaten by the Tartars." ”
"Yes, the last general obeys!"
Ma Rulong hugged his fists and was about to take the order, but he heard Liu Zeqing on the side sigh: "No need to go, the Tartars are already eyeing them!" ”
Everyone looked at it, but no, the Qing army that was fighting with Li Chongzhen and them had already divided more than 1,000 foot soldiers and forced towards the Ming army that was moving towards the Ming army, and the distance between the two sides at this time was less than 300 steps.
At this time, on the city wall of Xibianmen and in the large array of the Ming and Qing armies, everyone's eyes were looking at the Ming army that was preparing to make contact with the Qing army.
The reaction speed of this Ming army was very fast, and after seeing the infantry of the Qing army coming over, the order was immediately issued under the order of the general, only to hear a rapid drum sound in their formation, and the square formation with a narrow front and a long back immediately became wide in the front and narrow in the back, and the hundreds of carts that were originally protected in the middle were also pulled behind them by hundreds of baggage soldiers, which was obviously to guard against the attack of the Qing army from behind.
The drums of this Ming army suddenly became more and more urgent, the original dense formation suddenly dispersed, more than a thousand soldiers under the command of their respective generals trotted according to the command of the drum banner quickly dispersed to the right, when the drum sounded to the third time, each of them was standing according to their own position, fire command, spear, sword and shield each fighting situation! Thousands of officers and men suddenly shouted in unison: "Protect, protect, protect" The sound was deafening, and they shouted three times in a row before standing still.
At the same time, more than 1,000 other soldiers also dispersed to the left, and more than 1,000 soldiers also dispersed according to their respective classes, and then shouted in unison: "War, war, war!" "And then it stands!
And when they set up their formation, hundreds of baggage soldiers also stood at the rear of the car formation to guard against the possible enemy situation behind, and after the formation was set up, everyone shouted in unison: "Battle, battle, battle!" As soon as these thousands of soldiers took up their positions, the more than 1,000 Qing soldiers who were approaching only felt a murderous momentum rushing towards them.
Pang Gang's team had no cavalry, and could not protect the two wings and the rear, and it was impossible for the only less than 100 men to go out and fight with the Qing soldiers, so they put up this offensive formation to fight against the Tartars.
Looking at the phalanx of this Ming army, Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and muttered: "Who trained this Ming army, it looks majestic and majestic, this soldier is very well trained." It's just that which of his generals is, how can he put up a phalanx to fight with the Tartars? Didn't he know that this formation would be a rout once it was defeated? ”
Just when Lu Xiangsheng was muttering to himself, Pang Gang was also staring at the enemy army in front of him, looking at the more than a thousand Qing soldiers who were swaggering over, and he sneered in his heart, "These Qing soldiers are really arrogant, only more than a thousand foot soldiers dare to attack themselves, it seems that the generals of this group of Qing soldiers have not suffered hardships, and they still dare to divide their troops to attack themselves in the case of fighting with the enemy, are they really muddy?" ”
Seeing that the armor of these Qing soldiers was red armor with white edges, Pang Gang knew that these were soldiers and horses with white flags of Qing soldiers, and saw that after they approached a distance of more than 100 steps, Niu Lu, who was wearing three layers of heavy armor and carrying three small red flags on his back, raised the tiger head gun in his hand and shouted: "The warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom, all rush with me!" ”
With the shouts of this Niu Lu, thousands of Qing soldiers roared wildly and rushed towards the Ming army who were waiting in front of them with their weapons.
Looking at the Qing soldiers who were roaring and rushing in front, Pang Gang, who could see it clearly, smiled coldly and ordered: "Prepare for the birds!" ”
"Whoa!"
As the order was given, the gunners began to put the guns upright, took out the gunpowder packets, poured the gunpowder packs and lead bullet packets into the barrels, then pulled out the sticks and pressed them in the barrels a few times, then put some gunpowder in the fire doors, and finally checked the flint again before picking up the gunners and aiming them forward. It's a long time to say, but it's less than thirty seconds.
In front of these bird soldiers, the sword and shield soldiers formed a waist-high cover with shields in front of them, and the bird soldiers hid behind these shields, and there was a shield on top of them that covered their upper part, looking at the Qing soldiers in front of them, Da Zhuang in the front row took a deep breath, he looked around at the bird soldiers in front of him, and just looked at the bird soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Steady, steady, don't shoot without an order!" ”
Soon these Qing soldiers with white flags had rushed to a distance of eighty paces, and the Ming army in front of the formation still did not fire, which made Azig, who was observing the movement of the Ming army behind, also couldn't help but be surprised, and said to Abatai beside him: "These Ming troops are really calm, and they haven't fired at this distance!" ”
Abatai didn't answer, just looked at the front with a solemn expression, and suddenly a sharp whistle sounded from the camp of the Ming army in front, and Azig quickly heard it, the unique whistle equipped in the Ming army!
As the whistle fell, a deafening sound like fried beans sounded in the Ming army......
(To be continued)