Chapter 480: Beheading

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The Qing army had more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and in addition to the front military headquarters, the troops of the Chinese army and the rear army were constantly driving out of the city. Just at this point in the battle, the large forces of the Chinese army followed again, and most of the Qing army had more than 20,000 people on this battlefield, and for the Mawei army, the pressure increased sharply. But the soldiers of the Mawei Army did not panic, after all, this war, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, is not like the north, there can be such a large area for tens of thousands of horses to gather together to fight, and 30,000 or 50,000 people have spread an area of several kilometers.

Just like the previous battle of the Mawei Army in Jiashan County, it was also the queue that opened up and divided into several regional wars. At this time, although most of the more than 3,000 people in the front of the Qing army were wiped out, the follow-up troops were about to be replenished. When the follow-up troops of the Qing army are not replenished, it is best to eliminate the front part of the Qing army first, so that the pressure on the Mawei army will be reduced a lot.

On the side of the Mawei military formation, Luo Cheng hid behind a heavy shield and held a telescope, and when he looked over, he could see two shield carts parked more than 80 meters away from him in front. A man who looked like a Qing army general was hiding behind and brandishing a long knife pointing at him, and around him stood six or seven guards and a few ordinary Qing soldiers with wooden shields, and it was obvious that this person must be the commander of the Qing army.

Luo Cheng stretched out his hand and beckoned the guards beside him and said to him, "Heizi, did you see the Qing army officer in front?" He must be the commander of this part of the Qing army, can you kill him? ā€

The guard, Kuroko, was dark-skinned and short, lean. But the whole person looks very energetic. He stared ahead for a moment and nodded, "Brigade commander." You can try. But there is no guarantee that he will be hit, after all, there are still many enemies around him to protect him. ā€

Luo Cheng stared into his eyes and said, "Then how about transferring a few more people to you?" ā€

Kuroko nodded: "Then there should be five or six points of certainty!" ā€

"If you're five or six points sure, you can try." Luo Cheng clenched his right hand into a fist and struck it on his left palm, and then with a wave of his hand, he summoned five fighters. These people are also soldiers of the guard squadron directly under the brigade headquarters, and their shooting results are quite good during training on weekdays.

After Kuroko spoke to them, the five warriors each found a place to set up their rifles and began to aim at the enemy. The lean Kuroko, a Hokkien native and a devout Buddhist, has not yet shot at the moment. He touched his beloved rifle and said something in his mouth: "Life in the world is like being in the midst of thorns, the heart does not move, people do not move, and if they do not move, they will not be hurt; If the heart is moved, people will move recklessly. Hurt his body and hurt his bones, so he experienced all kinds of pain in the world......"

At this time, Ounai, who was originally out of heavy protection, suddenly leaned out from the several shields that protected him, and pointed at the Mawei Army, as if to say something. "This is the time!" Kuroko shouted: "Fire!" ā€

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Six gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, and six flames erupted at the same time, about eighty meters away from them. The two wooden shields on Ernei's side were hit by two buckshots at the same time. The huge kinetic energy knocked the two shield-wielding soldiers back again and again, and the head of the Ernei on the side suddenly exploded like a watermelon. A Mini bullet swept off half of his head with tremendous kinetic energy. Anai fell to the left side and fell to the ground. The whole person fell to the ground. He was already out of breath before his body hit the ground, and he lay on the ground with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, and his eyes were full of incredulity.

"Good!"

Luo Cheng, who had already seen this scene from the telescope, patted his thigh excitedly, and he said loudly to the side: "Kuroko, good job." A few of you will work harder, kill a few more of those enemy officers, and this officer will ask the Metropolitan Governor for you! ā€

Kuroko turned around, walked behind the heavy shield, took out the medicine bag and lead bullet from his waist bag and put it into the chamber, and then extended the rifle again. This time, he was aiming at a Qing army leader wearing heavy armor and carrying black cherry blossoms on his head. Looking at the leader who was still shooting arrows at himself with a longbow, Kuroko's mouth kept chanting: "The ten causes and six effects of hell are all created by the delusion of sentient beings. If all sentient beings create bad karma together, they will go to the Hell, suffer immeasurable suffering, and go through immeasurable eons. ā€

"Bang"

With a crisp sound, Kuroko pulled the trigger again, the fire and smoke flashed, and the neck of the leader who was holding a big bow and was about to shoot with a heavy arrow suddenly had a blood hole the size of a baby's fist, and the fountain of blood immediately spurted out, and the leaf armor of the leader's neck guard was pierced by lead bullets, and then the esophagus was also broken on the spot, and Ha, who couldn't make any sound, could only lie on the ground and roll uncontrollably, his hand unconsciously covered his throat, and his mouth made a purring sound like when killing a chicken, and he couldn't live.

Looking at the struggling leader who fell to the ground, Kuroko stretched out her tongue and licked her dry lips, only to feel a sense of relief welling up in her heart. "Maybe I was born to live to kill, and my previous life must have been the angry-eyed King Kong beside the Buddha!" Kuroko muttered, and at the same time, the emotion surging in his heart was excitement, as a guard, the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy was really too few, after all, his first priority was to protect the safety of the chief. At this moment, he took the lead in killing two officers of the Qing army, one of whom was also the leading general of the Qing army, which is a real great achievement!

The news of the death of Enai soon collapsed the front of the Qing army, which had been struggling to support. When the battle came to this, the original more than 3,000 enemy soldiers had been killed and wounded to less than 500 people, and the elite troops that had always been known as brave and invincible in the Jingzhou area and could not retreat finally collapsed.

The scene of the rout in front stunned the two brothers Guniyinbu and Bhaktan in the back. Guni Yinbu closed his eyes in pain, he wanted to personally command the remaining two thousand cavalry to charge towards the Mawei Army, and kill all those hateful Mawei Army. But reason sues him. If he does this, the end result is likely to be a heavy blow to the other party. But his 2,000 men will be wiped out.

Guni Yinbu sighed: "Third brother. Let's retreat, we lost this battle! ā€

"Big brother!" Bactan, who was about to be stunned, stared at his red eyes, and his hand holding the whip was bruised, showing his master's unwillingness.

Bactan pointed ahead and said unwillingly: "Big brother, are we going back like this?" But there are still the corpses of many of our warriors in front of us, shall we let them run into the wilderness? ā€

Guni Yinbu took a breath and said, "No, the general will lead the Chinese army to catch up, and the army will pounce on it when the time comes." There will be a chance to collect the bones of the warriors! ā€

The Qing army in the front of the army had rushed to the position of the original front army, and the Qing army in the front of the original Chinese army wanted to rush up to help the front army, but things changed too quickly, and they were still separated by a few hundred meters, and the front army headquarters was wiped out, and the remaining three or four hundred people also fled back.

At this moment, most of the Chinese army of the Qing army was neatly lined up, in the center of the formation, the big fluttering, many black, red, and white flags fluttering in the wind, and many Qing soldiers with fierce faces were patrolling on horseback.

This time. A group of dejected Qing cavalry was running into the Chinese army headquarters Leerjin in despair. Along the way, the sergeants of the Qing army looked at this cavalry team with some surprise. Naturally, they recognized it. This team was the cavalry that Guniyinbu and Bactan had brought out in the morning, but now all of them were in crooked armor, and many of them were covered in blood, and many of them were carrying the corpses of their companions on their horses, so that people could tell at a glance that this army must have gone through a hard battle just now.

These Qing soldiers are also people who are used to fighting on the battlefield, and injuries or deaths are commonplace for them, but it is rare to see a whole army so wolf-like, in the past two years, they have never encountered such a thing in the fight against the Wu army, but they did not expect to see it today.

In the large array of the Chinese army, after seeing this scene, some Qing soldiers kept asking their comrades next to them in surprise: "Aren't those people the men and horses brought out by Guniyinbu and Bactan this morning?" How did this happen? ā€

In fact, the Qing army they asked was also dumbfounded: "Out...... Something is wrong...... Something must have happened! You see, so many corpses have been brought back, and none of the people and horses of Lord Onei have returned, this time the sky is going to change! ā€

"Yes, although the vanguard of the former army is less than four thousand, they are all the most elite warriors, and they haven't seen any of them." In fact, what the Qing army in the middle of this array saw and thought, and the Qing army, which was at the forefront of the Chinese army's big array, was still spreading another topic: "Look, the corpses all over the ground in front of you, looking at the style of dress, are all the vanguard troops of the front army, and they are all killed in battle!" How many of them came back? I'm afraid that there will be at most one cow record! ā€

Just as the Qing army was speaking, they saw several generals, staff leaders, and some of the leading officers in the army hurrying to Leerjin's position. Yes, it is indeed going to change the sky for the Qing army. When the news of the annihilation of the entire army in Inner reached Le Erjin's ears, the central area of the entire Chinese army's large array immediately became a sensation, and Le Erjin couldn't even believe his ears when he received the news.

"What? Are you saying that Enai and his more than 3,000 horses were all killed? "Le Erjin grew up in the military camp when he was a child, and he is still very general after growing up, and he is rarely seen angry or panicked, but today Le Erjin lost his temper in front of everyone.

"Yes general, his subordinates are guilty, please punish the general!" Guni Yinbu and Bhaktan lowered their heads and did not dare to look up at Le Erjin.

"You...... You are really good, with 2,000 Qing warriors, you let your allies be annihilated in front of you, you ...... You still have the face to come to me! Le Erjin's roar resounded hundreds of meters around, if he hadn't remembered that the two people in front of him were his henchmen, and they were cultivated and promoted by himself, and they were also related to him, I am afraid that he would have ordered someone to come in and drag these two people out and behead them. And the officers standing on the side, such as generals and staff leaders, were even more silent, and they didn't even dare to come out.

Guni Yinbu took the lead in kneeling down, kowtowed twice and said in shame: "General, your subordinates are useless. It's okay to punish your subordinates as you punish, but it's not too late to punish them after listening to their words. ā€

"Good. You say......" Le Erjin's cold voice came out from between his teeth. He struggled to contain his anger. Nearly 4,000 elites were wiped out. This is a fiasco that he has never had in the past two years, even if it is the elite who have fought against the Wu army, including the Guanning Iron Cavalry, they have not suffered such heavy casualties in the entire battle, if Yue Le, who is fighting with Wu Sangui in Jingzhou, knows it, I don't know how he will be punished.

Gunnyimbu and Bhaktan looked at each other, and both saw bitterness and horror in each other's eyes.

Gu Niyinbu immediately explained the battle situation just now, especially when he focused on describing the power of the cannons and guns equipped by Geng Jingzhong, and then said: "General. The sharpness of the cannons and guns equipped by those horsetail soldiers is the only thing to see in the lives of their subordinates. They can shoot through the armor of our Qing warriors at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, which also makes it difficult for our army to quickly advance to the front of the Mawei army formation to attack them even if they use shield vehicles, resulting in heavy losses for our army. ā€

"Yes, General!" Bhaktan followed suit: "Our warriors can only inflict damage on the enemy with heavy bows at a distance of sixty or seventy paces. And those horsetail soldiers can calmly shoot us in one hundred and fifty steps, so that our warriors' bravery has no room for display at all, and when we pile up our lives in front of the enemy's formation, they can also shoot at us with firearms, and many of our warriors are killed in the confrontation with the other party. The most powerful thing is their cannons, there are at least hundreds of cannons in the Mawei army, and the non-stop firing has caused heavy losses to our shield cars, and the warriors behind them are also constantly dying tragically. Checkmate. This battle is not due to the incompetence of his subordinates, but the firearms held by the Mawei Army are too powerful! ā€

Bucktan said. Tears fell, and the generals listened to each other. They weren't worried about the veracity of what the two colleagues said, after all, thousands of people had seen this battle, and they just had to ask someone to ask. It's just that what makes them wonder is that this horsetail army's firearms are really so sharp? Could it be that the previous information is completely true? Before they were sent by Yue Le, they had heard that the firearms of the Mawei Army were extremely sharp, and the Qing troops in Jiangxi and Jiangnan had suffered great losses, and even their mortal enemy Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses had been defeated under the firearms of the Mawei Army, but they had never taken it seriously, they had seen firearms, and only the power of the cannon was powerful.

"Smack!" Leerjin whipped Bactan on his body and shouted angrily: "You two wastes, you have lost the battle and pushed the enemy's firearms, how can I tolerate you!" Someone's coming."

"Wow!" With Le Erjin's angry shout, two sturdy guards strode over, knelt down on one knee at Le Erjin and said loudly: "What does the general command?" ā€

Le Erjin shouted: "Drag these two useless fools out and give me ......"

"Think twice, general!" Before Le Erjin finished speaking, the surrounding generals knelt down and pleaded for the two. "General, Bhaktan and Guniyinbu are right, this battle is not a crime of war, but the firearms of the Mawei Army are too sharp, and our army has never been in contact with it, so it is not surprising that there is such a defeat, and the defeat of this battle cannot be blamed on the two of them, and Onei is also responsible!"

"Yes, General, you can spare the two of them!"

Seeing that the surrounding generals knelt down in a large area, Le Erjin also secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. In fact, how could he be willing to severely punish two henchmen because of a defeat, but as a commander in chief, and then his henchmen made a mistake, if he was not punished, how could he convince the public, so he had to make a gesture. Now seeing that the generals were pleading for them, they glared at Bhaktan and Guni Yinbu and shouted: "I will bypass you this time, and if I commit it again next time, I will punish you for both crimes, understand?" ā€

"General Xie's grace not to kill!"

"Hmph, it's cheap, you two, get up!"

Guni Yinbu and Bhaktan both stood up with a sigh of relief at the same time, and it seemed that today's level was finally in danger. After passing this level, the two brothers were relieved. Guni Yinbu knelt down again and said in a deep voice: "General, my subordinates still have something to say!" ā€

Seeing Guni Yinbu kneeling down again, Leer Jin's thick brows furrowed, and he asked unhappily: "Guni Yinbu, what's the matter with you?" ā€

"General, what my subordinates want to say is that although most of the reason for the defeat of our army this time is because the Ming army's firearms are too sharp, it is also related to our army's carelessness. Before this battle, although our army knew that the horsetail weapons were sharp, they didn't take it seriously, so they prepared shield cars but the array was not even, and the shield cars were not solid enough! At this time, it was too late for the army to prepare the shield car again, so the subordinates built yƬ, our army could not give the Mawei army a chance to shoot calmly, but should be the army on all sides, and the heavy shield approached quickly in front, so that our army would be able to crush the Mawei army strongly! ā€

"Hmm...... I agree. ā€

"What do you agree with, the terrain around here is not flat, and the army can't be used at all, how can you pounce on it? At most, there are only 10,000 people who go up at one time, and the enemy army is said to have more than 10,000 people, so we don't have an advantage! ā€

"That seems to make sense!"

The surrounding generals and leaders began to talk one after another, but this time they all expressed their opinions and had very different opinions. And Le Erjin also closed his eyes and pondered for a while, but there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

He said in a deep voice, "I'm glad you can say that, Guni Yinbu. There is a good saying among the Han people, it takes all the strength to call the lion to fight the rabbit. It is most undesirable to despise the opponent, judging from this battle, this Mawei army is very different from the Wu army we have encountered in the past, they are not only more disciplined, but also better equipped. Therefore, we can no longer despise this horsetail army in the future, and it is definitely not a fluke to be able to defeat Hilgen and Rab one after another! Just now, Guni Yinbu was right, the enemy army is in front of you, and their firearms are sharp, but we do have the advantage of being outnumbered. The prince has already given a death order, asking us to destroy the Mawei Army in the shortest possible time to recapture Jinling, and today we will rely on the crowd to eliminate the Mawei Army in front of us! ā€

"Wow!"

After Le Erjin's words fell, the surrounding generals all knelt down on one knee to show their obedience. (To be continued......)