Chapter 333: Human Shield
The sky gradually brightened, the Ming army camp was full of smoke, the firefighters of each battalion had prepared meals, and the soldiers of each battalion got up and had a full meal after they all consciously began to prepare, and entered the preset defense line one after another under the orders of their respective officers.
Soon, a desolate horn sounded in front of them, and countless Qing troops lined up in a neat formation and slowly surrounded the Ming army, and white, red and white armor appeared densely in front of everyone's eyes.
The Qing army was either on foot or on horseback, but the rigor of the formation was amazing, as if yesterday's defeat was not in their eyes at all.
Pang Gang and Lu Xiangsheng stood on a large cart at the highest point of the camp, and a layer of iron plates was inlaid around this cart to prevent accidental injuries from the crossbows.
Seeing the Qing army swarming over, Pang Gang sneered: "Are the Tartars going to come out of the nest today?" It seems that they still don't give up. ”
Pang Gang is still very confident in his army and firearms, even if the Qing army goes out to attack the camp, they don't want to take advantage of it if they don't pay the price of 30,000 or 40,000 people at a time.
Lu Xiangsheng also smiled: "The old man knows that Chaodong is brave and good at fighting, but you still have to be careful, after all, Tartar is not good at stubble." As they spoke, the two of them didn't seem to look at the Qing soldiers advancing layer by layer.
The Qing army began to advance layer by layer from two miles away, but when they advanced to one mile, they stopped, and just when the Ming army felt strange, a large opening suddenly parted in the center of the Qing army in front, and a large group of people poured out from it.
"What, how can this be?"
Lu Xiangsheng and Pang Gang, who could see clearly from the clairvoyant mirror, couldn't help but be shocked, those people were clearly the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Immediately, there was a commotion and shouting in the Qing army, and then a large group of Daming people were whipped and driven forward, numbering four or five thousand. They were men and women, old and young, all of them in ragged clothes, and some of them carried dirt burdens on their shoulders, and they staggered against mud bags and other objects. After a little slowness, the Qing soldiers behind them whipped wildly, knocking them to the ground.
Watching them gradually come, the soldiers of the Ming army were dumbfounded one by one, they really didn't expect the Qing army to be so shameless and use the trick of expelling the people and attacking the camp.
"Shameless, it's really shameless, I think that Yue Tuo and Dolgon are also generals of the Qing army, and they would do this." Seeing this scene, Lu Xiangsheng's lungs were about to explode.
Pang Gang didn't scold Lu Xiangsheng and the other generals like that, but frowned, and said to Lu Xiangsheng with an anxious face: "Lu Dudu, the Tartars' move is very vicious, if they are allowed to expel the people to our army's formation, our soldiers will definitely not be able to let go and shoot the enemy, and even the trenches dug by our army may be filled by them, and there is even a danger of annihilation." Lu Dudu, the last general is willing to take 5,000 soldiers out of the camp to rescue the people and thwart the enemy's spirit! ”
"Out of the camp and fighting the Tartars?" Lu Xiangsheng hesitated for a moment and hesitated: "The Tartars are now outnumbered, and our troops are at a disadvantage!" Are you sure? ”
Pang Gang said resolutely, "It's better to be unsure than to wait here for death, Dudu, you hurry up and give the order!" ”
"Okay, then Chaodong, you have to be careful." Lu Xiang was promoted to the rank of secretary of the military department of the governor of Xuanda, so he naturally knew that hesitation when he was in battle was a taboo in the army, and now that he had reached a crisis point, he couldn't take care of it so much.
"Yes!"
Pang Gang took the order, and after getting off the cart, he immediately came to the army, and he immediately called Li Yuan and ordered: "General Li, you immediately lead the men and horses of the headquarters to go out of the camp with the officials, defeat the Tartars and rescue the people in front." ”
"Yes!" Li Yuan puffed up his chest and answered loudly, and then quickly asked suspiciously.
"My lord, do you want to go with the last general?"
"What, can't you?" Pang Gang sank his face.
"No......" Li Yuan was anxious, he said anxiously: "My lord, you are the backbone of our Qingzhou Army, this kind of thing is better to go." ”
"Yes, my lord, you can leave this matter to the last general and General Li, so you don't have to go there yourself." Da Zhuang on the side also persuaded him.
"Less nonsense, carry out the order!" Pang Gang didn't have time to grind his teeth with the two of them, so he turned his head and ordered Hei Tiedao, who was standing aside: "Hei Qianhu, you lead your cavalry to meet the enemy with your own officer, remember, you will capture more Tartars later, and if you don't come to be rude, let's surprise them too!" ”
Black Iron smiled and said, "My lord, just look at it, I promise that I won't let those dog tartars have a good time!" ”
Time was urgent, Pang Gang didn't talk nonsense, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's all go and prepare." ”
Soon, the heavy gate in the Ming army camp made a "creaking" sound, first a team of more than 1,000 Ming cavalry quickly ran out of the passage, and then a group of Ming soldiers wearing chain mail walked out of the camp with neat steps.
In a short time, 5,000 foot soldiers formed five rows in a rectangle in the open space north of Jiazhuang, and then slowly advanced under the orders of the officers, flanked by more than 1,000 cavalry escorts.
Seeing that the Ming army had abandoned its strong bunkers and instead fought a field battle with itself, all the Qing generals, including Dolgon and Yue Tuo, couldn't help but be ecstatic.
Even a calm person like Yue Tuo couldn't help laughing: "Prince Rui is worthy of being the pillar of my Qing Dynasty, and as soon as the clever plan came out, the Ming army gave up its position and obediently came to fight a decisive battle with our army, which is really unparalleled in wisdom and bravery." ”
Dolgon listened to it in his heart, but his face pretended to be indifferent, "The general has won the award, and Dolgon is ashamed, but since the Ming army has the courage to come out and fight our army, we can't miss such a good opportunity!" ”
"Exactly!" Speaking of this, Yue Tuo's spirit was lifted, and he hurriedly asked: "Since the Ming army has come out to die, who of the generals will go out to fight with it?" ”
"General, let me go!" As soon as Yueto's words came out, a man stood up behind Dolgon.
Seeing the comer, the generals who were originally eager to try also swallowed what they had to say, and quietly stood back in place, and the person who stood up first was Dorgon's half-mother's brother, the owner of the white flag, Dordor!
Duoduo has always been dissatisfied with Yue Tuo, who is desperate to follow Huang Taiji, and now that he finally has an opportunity to make great contributions in front of him, how can he let it go.
A general behind Yue Tuo said with some dissatisfaction: "Duoduo Belle, although the Ming army abandoned the camp, it is still not careless, can you rely on your white flag alone to annihilate those Ming troops?" ”
This general was about twenty-six or seventeen years old, wearing red and white armor, with a fierce face, this person was Yue Tuo's eldest son Luo Luohun, he saw that the two brothers Dorgon and Duoduo were so blatantly robbing military merit, he couldn't help but feel on fire in his heart, and mocked coldly on the side.
The two brothers naturally heard the meaning of Luo Luohun's words, and the meaning was nothing more than that eating alone was not a good habit, and it was better to let it out.
But what kind of person is Dorgon, but he is a person who dares to wrestle with Huang Taiji secretly, and it is naturally impossible for him to give up his plan with just two words, and then he just smiled and said nothing.
Duoduo glanced at Luo Luohun proudly, and said to Yue Tuo: "General, then I'll go, you just wait for my good news!" ”
Then he urged his horse, galloped to the army with white flags, and shouted loudly: "The warriors of the Qing Dynasty, have you seen it?" Those cowardly Ming troops finally left their hard turtle shells and had the courage to come out and fight our Qing Dynasty, do you think we can let this opportunity go? ”
"Can't, can't!"
A thunderous roar suddenly sounded in the array inlaid with white flags, and a scorching light shot out in the eyes of the Ming army who looked at the Ming army slowly moving in the distance.
"Okay, then let's go and decorate our glory with the sabers and longbows in our hands and the heads of those Ming soldiers! Now the whole army advances! ”
With the voice of Duoduo, more than 10,000 troops with white flags slowly pushed forward......
Just as the army with white flags was slowly advancing, the army led by Pang Gang was also less than three hundred steps away from the Ming army camp who were forced forward by the thousands of people who were threatened by the Qing army.
When Pang Gang saw this, he immediately shouted: "The whole army stops!" ”
"Whoa!" With an order, all the Ming army foot soldiers stopped!
"Keep your distance, all foot soldiers, check your bullets!"
A command was transmitted to the ears of each commander through the sound of drums, and each commander in turn transmitted the order to the ears of every soldier.
The foot soldiers, who had experienced several major battles in the past, began to methodically check the situation of bullets, bayonets, and cloth bags with ammunition on their bodies, and then all the riflemen began to reload.
Soon the riflemen in the first row, having loaded their ammunition, crouched down with the butt on the ground and the muzzle facing up, ready to fire at any moment.
At this time, those people cowered under the drive of the Qing army, and the distance of more than two hundred steps was completely within their range for the riflemen of the Qingzhou army.
At this time, Pang Gang saw a woman carrying a burden walking at the front of the line, followed by a young child about seven or eight years old, even the young child was struggling to carry a small bag of dirt in his arms.
They looked numb, staggering forward, suddenly, the young child's feet were unstable and suddenly fell to the ground, and a Qing soldier immediately rushed out behind them, and the side of his hand immediately slashed behind the young child, seeing Pang Gang and the soldiers of the Ming army were stunned......
(To be continued)