Chapter 377: Blocking

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There are no immortals in war, and almost every victory is paved with blood. Thirteen people against thirty-six people, it seems that there is a huge difference, but this is also a confrontation between cold weapons and hot weapons. Although the Wu army had already learned that the firearms of the Mawei Army were very sharp before they entered Jiangxi, these scouts did not expect such sharpness.

In Wu Jun's view, the sharpness of the firearms of the Mawei Army is nothing more than the number of artillery, which their Wu Army has already obtained a large number of them from Fujian in advance, and they are all purchased from Westerners anyway, so you have nothing to worry about with me. It's just that what Wu Sangui didn't expect was that these artillery pieces were not purchased from the West at all, but from the Mawei Army's own production, and the ones sold to them were all defective goods.

The Wu army has been using these artillery pieces for some time, and this batch of artillery can participate in a maximum of ten artillery battles, then this batch of artillery can also be declared scrapped. If you want to use this artillery against the Mawei Army, I'm afraid it will fail. As for muskets, they have also increased their investment in the supervision of their own weapons in Yunnan and strengthened their requirements, and created a lot of muskets with good performance, but at this moment, these scouts really realized the gap between the two sides.

The first formation of thirty-six men was wiped out, twenty were severely wounded, and the sixteen men who were pursuing were already lying on the ground. The worst thing was that the ten Wu soldiers who pursued on foot were put in front of the eyes by the remaining nine scouts who were not injured, and all the bullets in the handcuffs were poured on their bodies, and none of them fell. Not only that, Zhou Kuiyuan led the brothers who were not injured to make up for each of the sixteen Wu soldiers who were in pursuit. It was even more of a knife to the six people who pursued to the front on horseback. Corpse.

The next step is to clean up the last tail. The site of the original ambush. In addition to the dead bodies in one place, the remaining were five dying Wu soldiers who were seriously wounded and three lightly wounded who were slightly injured. Just now, after hearing the sound of popping beans again, the three lightly injured people wanted to escape on horseback, but they were shot and fell under the horse hard, and they couldn't get on the horse with leg and foot injuries, and they didn't know what was going on in front of them, so they waited anxiously in place. It's just that the last thing waiting for is not their people, but the horsetail scout soldiers, Zhou Kuiyuan was full of anger when he saw the two soldiers under his command die tragically by arrows, and he was about to shoot after surrounding the remaining few people.

"Surrender, we surrender!" One of them, Wu Jun, looked at the muzzle of the black hole and immediately knelt down and shouted loudly. Immediately, several other Wu soldiers also understood the shape in front of them, and knelt down together to surrender.

"Head, these people can't be killed." The squad leader next to him, Hu Bing, pressed Zhou Kuiyuan's muzzle with one hand. "We have to send these captives back for interrogation as soon as possible, the general needs this information too!"

Zhou Kuiyuan was just impulsive just now, and he reacted when Hu Bing spoke. "Quickly pack up, let's rush back, tie these three, and give them a good time, they can't be saved!"

Two of the five seriously injured Wu Army scouts had relieved expressions at this time, and the other three looked very frightened. After all, they just broke their arms and legs, and they will be left with a lifelong disability in the future. But it's not fatal, and it's really scary to let them die now. But a few scouts didn't care about this, and went up with a shot, which straightforwardly solved the burden. This is war, and war has no mercy.

During the day the next day, the sun had just come out for less than an hour, the temperature was still very refreshing, and the dew on the grass had not yet dried. However, the number of troops in the front army of the Wu army was 5,000, while the Mawei army only had a cavalry battalion of 1,000 people. There were 2,000 cavalry in the vanguard of the Wu army, but the Mawei army was full of infantry troops. However, the large force of the Mawei Army was also moving in this direction, and although the two sides discovered each other a few miles away, neither of them was the first to attack at this time.

Last night, when Zhou Kuiyuan and the others returned to the camp, they immediately reported the information they had obtained to their superiors, and based on the information of other reconnaissance teams, Jiang Yuanxun had a general understanding of the current situation of the Wu army. Coincidentally, just as the sun was setting, he got the latest news from the direction of Ganzhou in the south, and the soldiers of the first division of the 4,000 Mawei Army in the direction of Ganzhou had also arrived thirty miles away, and they could arrive at the third watch by continuing the rapid march.

With these 4,000 fresh troops, plus the 3,000 horsetail cavalry division soldiers in his hands, he will be sure to deal with the 20,000 Wu army. As for the nearly 10,000 Qing troops in the city, hehe, the military heart in the city has long been chaotic at this moment, and there are already generals who have secretly taken refuge in the Mawei Army, as long as Hilgen has a slight change, the Mawei Army Jiang Yuanxun can get the news as soon as possible, and when the time comes, they don't need to send many troops, and the Qing army that has taken refuge in the city can completely disrupt the city of Ji'an, so that Hilgen has no time to take care of the outside of the city, and the Mawei Army also has enough time to deal with the Wu army, and turn around and free up his hands to take Ji'an Mansion in one fell swoop.

The soldiers of the 1st Division of the Mawei Army in the rear rested too late at night, but at this time they were all reorganized, and after receiving the news, they were also rushing towards the northwest non-stop, but it would take at least half an hour to catch up.

"Battalion commander, this is for us to do the work of the army, so are we the army or the cavalry!" Han Baohu, who is a big celebrity in the cavalry division, complained loudly to his immediate boss, battalion commander Zhu Hu, that the work of placing horse rejection stakes should have been done by the army, especially the army's baggage soldiers, but now that the matter is urgent, they can only be the ones who take it first.

"Okay, don't complain, if you don't want to, I can approve you to go to the second battalion to defend the Qing army, and you don't have to work there, how about it? Would you like to go? Zhu Hu said with a displeased look, and then continued to bury the horse rejection stake with the other soldiers.

Han Baohu suddenly smiled and said flatteringly: "How can it be, battalion commander, this looks like a war is about to start, don't you let our old Han be a deserter, I'll do it, I'll do it, I'm not doing it!" As he spoke, he once again stepped on the end of the pointed stick with the thick mouth of the bowl that had just been buried, and the horse-rejecting stake was a simple round log, which was staggered and buried in five rows. The upper end was cut into a spike by an axe. The bottom is buried in the earth. The entire road was completely blocked by this horse rejection pile. It extends to the top of the slope on the left and into the dense forest on the right.

Originally, they had already walked through this area, but after meeting Wu Jun, they retreated here, because this place was the only place that was most suitable for burying piles to block Wu Jun's footsteps. Zhu Hu was not worried that Wu Jun would not take this road, because if it was a detour, he would have to walk nearly thirty miles more east than this side to reach the outside of Ji'an Prefecture, and the other road was not as wide as this road, so it was not convenient to march. Besides, Wu Jun knew that they were here, and he wouldn't make a detour. They are also afraid that the Mawei Army will sneak attack them, so instead of this, it is better to go directly to the main road and start fighting directly.

"Damn, I'm tired too! When they first arrived in Yongxin County, the division commander sent someone to inform them that this Ji'an Mansion City was already food in our mouths, so they still had to come to rob it, and they still had to come to rob it, and they were ordered by the Son of Heaven. What does that doll know? That's not Wu Sangui's own order? Grab the territory with us, you have to break his front teeth well! Zhu Hu continued to bury the wooden stake in his hand. At the same time, the number of mouths fell, it can be said that this Wu army has offended the cavalry division ruthlessly, and whoever comes to snatch the meat from their mouths will have to fight with them from top to bottom.

"Don't worry, battalion commander, let's not cut off the head of the leader of the Wu army and give it to you as a ball!" Han Baohu's hands were too dirty, so he shook his head to shake off the sweat, and then raised his arm to wipe it, and then said.

"Report to the battalion commander, the Wu army brigade is coming soon! A rough estimate is that there were two thousand men, all cavalry! At this moment, it is already three miles away from us, and it is here in an instant! As the two were talking, a loud report from the soldiers came from their ears, and the scouts in front of them may not have returned, but the soldiers around them were also cavalry, and it was not difficult to hear the sound of the cavalry from a few miles away.

"The horse rejection stake is almost buried, and now this is our position. The whole battalion quickly prepared and arranged according to the original plan, just with these rows of horse rejection stakes, we must fight a beautiful blocking battle this time! Zhu Hu shouted loudly, and the guards around him immediately scattered on the left and right sides and began to give orders.

The undulating terrain here is not like a large plain for thousands of meters, but soon, the soldiers of the Mawei Army saw a piece of smoke and dust rising from directly in front of them, which also means that the Wu Army Brigade has really arrived! Three miles is only 1,500 meters, and the speed of the war horse only needs more than a minute to run in front of you. The leading general of the former army of the Wu army is Wu Yingqi himself, and the two thousand cavalry around him are also the most elite cavalry under his command.

When Wu Yingqi and others came to the position set up by the Mawei Army, they saw that in the middle of this long row of horse-rejecting piles, that is, in the middle of the main road, there was a big tiger banner, and behind the horse-rejecting stakes were three rows of soldiers lined up neatly. Although this horsetail army is almost all foot soldiers, it is neatly groomed, and people can know at a glance that it is an elite division. But Wu Yingzhi is still a little strange, didn't the former army scout report say that there are former horsetail cavalry here? What about the horsetail cavalry people, why are they just former foot soldiers?

At this time, if you don't fight, you have to fight, and if you don't fight with 2,000 cavalry against 1,000 foot soldiers, if you don't fight yet, then even any pawn under your subordinates will laugh at him, and he will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the Wu army in the future. "You have all seen it, this horsetail army is very arrogant, a thousand foot soldiers rely on a few rows of shallow wooden stakes to block our way, now who of you is willing to destroy the arrogant horsetail army in front? Ben will be rewarded! ”

"General, the last general is willing to go! The last general must cut off the head of the general of the horsetail army on the opposite side and dedicate it to the general! As soon as Wu Yingqi's words were finished, a partial general jumped out to ask for battle.

Wu Yingzhi glanced at him slowly, but did not agree at once, but asked, "Liu Xing, are you sure that this horsetail army will be completely annihilated?" ”

The partial general named Liu Xing said proudly: "General rest assured, if the last general can't let this Mawei army slip through the net, it will not be considered a success!" ”

Wu Yingqi looked at the horsetail army standing behind the horsetail stake like a wood carving and nodded slowly: "Then you go, if you can completely annihilate this horsetail army, I will give you the first credit!"

"Thank you, General!" Liu Xing was overjoyed, and immediately summoned the people of the headquarters after giving Wu Yingzhi a salute. After a while, he personally led more than 500 elite horsemen to rush towards the Mawei army. At this moment, the other generals around Wu Yingqi were all regretting why their movements were so slow just now, otherwise this head would be counted on their heads!

These 500 elite cavalry can be regarded as the most elite force in the Wu army, and Wu Yingzhi let Liu Xing attack first because he knew this. In particular, Liu Xing himself is also very confident in this action. Five hundred of the most elite elite cavalry will definitely be able to tear these thousand horsetail soldiers who have no protection in the wilderness to pieces, although these horsetail soldiers have erected a defense line first, but in Liu Xing's opinion, this defense line is purely paper paste and will not pose any threat to him.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves resounded in the wilderness, and five hundred knights wearing mandarin duck coats rushed towards the horsetail position in front, and the horsetail warriors who were two meters away behind the horseback stake also clenched the weapons in their hands, and looked coldly at the cavalry rushing ahead, this kind of scene they experienced for the first time, they were on horses in the last battle, and they did not wait for the enemy to attack. However, they have experienced the wars and battles in these days, and the soldiers of the Mawei Cavalry Division have already transformed into elite divisions that have experienced the war.

The distance of five hundred meters is not long for the cavalry who have already entered the state of sprinting, and soon they rushed into the distance of three hundred meters, Zhu Hu looked at the cavalry rushing and sneered and said: "Start preparing!" After hearing the order, the flag commander next to him immediately raised the flag in his hand and waved it twice, and then Han Baohu, who was in the front row, immediately shouted: "All of them, the first row raises guns!" ”

"Whoa!" All the soldiers in the first row immediately raised their spears in their hands and leveled them up, aiming their guns at the front of the black hole. Seeing that the cavalry had entered a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters, Han Baohu immediately shouted: "Release!" ”

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The two hundred soldiers of the first row pulled the trigger on the cavalry rushing in front of them, and after the shooting, the soldiers took the initiative to retreat to the back without thinking about the results of the battle, and the second row immediately followed forward and began to fire, such a formation seemed to have been rehearsed thousands of times. In fact, all the horsetail soldiers in this simple three-column style have indeed practiced thousands of times, and every movement has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, as if they were innate, and they are more skilled than eating and drinking. (To be continued......)