Chapter 1158 The edge is revealed

In this way, Qiao Youhua and the four of them were incorporated into the pioneer battalion of the old black and became a pikeman.

The four of them each received an ash gun, this kind of gun, using ash trees as the barrel, is extremely tough, and it is the best wooden material that can be found in the weapons made by humans in this era.

However, unlike the other pikemen, the four Qiao Youhua brothers, as recruits who joined halfway, did not have an additional waist knife, probably, the black general's subordinates just treated them as four cannon fodder, and there was no need to waste a waist knife.

The four of them were armed with ash guns and followed the army to Jinzhou City quickly.

At this time, there were 8,000 defenders in Jinzhou City, and then the Jin Tatars wanted to recapture the Liaodong Peninsula and other places recovered by Yuan Keli and other Ming army generals, and gathered a full 40,000 Jiannu elites and 20,000 Manchurian Eight Banner cavalry, a total of 80,000 troops, and came in a big way.

The 80,000-strong army made Jinzhou City impassable, and 20,000 Manchu Eight Banners as the main attack force were storming Jinzhou City.

Tens of thousands of Houjin cavalry swarmed up like a tide and launched waves of onslaught towards the city.

The Ming defenders of Jinzhou City mobilized tens of thousands of people in the city to help defend the city, for a time, the arrows rained down, and the rolling stones and logs continued to pour down, and the attacking Houjin Tartars fell to the ground with arrows one after another, or were hit by the rolling stones, and fell from the siege ladder screaming.

The Houjin crossbowmen outside the city also shot arrows with all their might, providing cover for their own attacking army.

For a time, the shouting of killing shook the heavens and the earth, both the attackers and the defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the entire Jinzhou City was full of dead corpses, rivers of blood flowed, and corpses were piled up into mountains.

Shen Yourong led a 10,000 naval division, plus 20,000 land soldiers stationed in Lushun, including 8,000 cavalry and more than 120,000 foot soldiers, totaling 30,000 water and land troops rushing to help.

Qiao Youhua's pioneer battalion, under the leadership of General Hei, marched all the way and rushed to the front of the whole army.

Through the conversation of other soldiers, Qiao Youhua learned that the black general's name was Zhang Pan, as far as Qiao Youhua knew, in history, this Zhang Pan was also one of the brave generals in the late Ming Dynasty on the battlefield of Liaodong, and had made great achievements on the battlefield of Liao.

Zhang Pan is a brave and resolute person, fierce and resolute, and must go forward in every battle, so he rode a horse and a horizontal sword in front, and led the vanguard battalion of 5,000 soldiers to rush towards Jinzhou City.

Halfway through, the terrain on both sides gradually became steeper, Jiang Haidong came to Qiao Youhua's side and whispered: "Dragon King, the terrain here is steep, and the military situation in Jinzhou City is like fire, I am worried that the Houjin Tartar will expect the Ming army to rush to the aid urgently, so as to set up an ambush on the way!" Do you want to remind the black general? ”

Qiao Youhua looked up at Zhang Pan, who was leading the army in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Pan has been on the battlefield for a long time, I don't think he will not understand such a simple truth, but Jinzhou City is in danger, and it is imperative to rush to help, which means that he knows that there are tigers in the mountains, and he prefers to go to Tiger Mountain!" We remind him now that not only will he not appreciate it, but he may treat us with a great crime of disturbing the morale of the army and fearing us in battle! has become his cannon fodder to lift the morale of the army! ”

Jiang Haidong nodded and felt that it made sense, and Qiao Youhua continued: "Tell Ma Biao and Wu Ming to be smart!" Improvise. ”

"Hmm." Jiang Haidong responded, deliberately took two steps behind, and told Ma Biao and Wu Ming of Qiao Youhua's instructions.

After moving forward for about five or six miles, a piercing sound suddenly sounded in the sky, and Zhang Pan, who led the army in front, was taken aback, he fought with the Houjin Tartar no less than a hundred times, and he was very familiar with this sound, and the Mingdi was the sound of the Houjin cavalry's arrows.

Shoot an arrow with a hollow slot into the sky, and the arrow will make a piercing whistling sound in flight.

It is usually used to warn and give orders.

Zhang Pan immediately stopped his horse and raised the coiling dragon long knife in his hand horizontally to signal the army to stop advancing.

I saw a large number of Houjin Tartar soldiers wearing armor and holding hard bows and crossbows suddenly sprung out from the mountains and woods on both sides, and they opened their bows and arrows, aiming at Zhang Pan and the entire vanguard battalion, with the order of a Qing army general.

The Tartar soldiers who set up an ambush released arrows one after another, and in an instant, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the arrows were as dense as locusts, and they came through the air and poured towards the army of Zhang Pansuo.

Zhang Pan's pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurriedly shouted: "There is an enemy attack, the whole army is arrayed, the shield soldiers come forward, the pikemen are behind, the sword and axe hands are second, and the crossbowmen and the Shenji battalion immediately return fire!" ”

Although Zhang Pansuo's division was an elite division that had experienced a hundred battles, if it was ambushed, it could not help but be a little panicked, and the arrows of the Tartars poured down like rain, so fast and fast, that it was too late to line up before it was shot over.

The soldiers howled miserably, one after another.

Zhang Pan, who was in front of the formation, was the first to bear the brunt, but this guy was extremely brave, and a coiling dragon knife weighing dozens of catties was impenetrable by him wielding, and the arrows that shot at him were shot down one after another.

Soon, there will be his own soldiers who will risk death to carry a shield forward, come to him to cover the rain of arrows for him, protect him into the whole army formation, the army fights, he Zhang Pan is the supreme commander of the whole army, naturally there can be no mistakes, otherwise this Ming army will lose its backbone, and it will be easy to rout.

Only when Zhang Pan is in a safe state can he give orders and command the army to respond, after all, this is a battle in an ambush, not a head-to-head battle between the two armies, and he cannot act on his own courage alone.

Moreover, he is not the kind of peerless fierce general who pulls out the mountains and covers the world.

The terrain of the ambush site selected by the Tartars was steep and the roads were narrow, which was not conducive to deployment, so even if they entered the formation, they would not be able to command the forward battalion to form an effective defensive formation for a while, and the casualties of the Ming army increased sharply under the continuous pouring of Tartar arrows.

At this moment, the four Qiao Youhua brothers divided into two paths, jumped respectively, stepped on the shoulders of the other Ming soldiers, crossed the formation, and rushed towards the Tartar ambush army in the woods on the hills on both sides of the road.

When they went out of the battle, they either rolled on the spot or picked up their spears on the ground, holding a shield abandoned by the fallen Ming soldiers in their hands, holding a gun in one hand and a shield in the other, and quickly rushed towards the Tartar ambush.

Zhang Pan and all the soldiers of the Ming army under his command were taken aback.

"What are the four of them doing here?"

"What a skill, just the agility they showed when they came out of the battle is enough to be praised."

Zhang Pan saw Qiao Youhua and the four of them, and rushed to the ambush position of Jiannu Tartars without fear of death, although the arrows were dense, they could not hurt them at all.

I couldn't help but applaud loudly, and said in my heart, I didn't expect these four homeless people to be so brave, it is really a blessing for our army!

I saw that the Tartars found that the arrows shot at Qiao Youhua and the four of them were either blocked by shields or dropped by them with guns, and they couldn't help but be furious.

They respectively sent a Niu Lu horse and a sword to rush out of the dense forest on the mountain, intending to kill Qiao Youhua and the four people. One Niulu has about 300 people, which is equivalent to the strength of about two squadrons of the Japanese army invading China.

More than 600 slave soldiers wielded scimitars and spears swarmed in.

Qiao Youhua and Jiang Haidong, who followed him to charge, were fearless, and threw out their shields vigorously, they are all strong men in the realm of soldiers, if they change their military strength into strength, they can reach thousands of catties, and they are the absolute top fierce generals in this era!

Two shields full of feather arrows were poured into the soldiers and thrown out, smashed into the crowd of Jiannu cavalry, and immediately smashed several Jiannu cavalry from the horses and flew upside down, knocking down several people behind, and the Jiannu cavalry who was hit first was broken all over his body, and vomited blood and died when he was still in mid-air.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Jiannu cavalry was trampled on each other and were stagnant, the momentum was sharply reduced, Qiao Youhua and Jiang Haidong shouted at the same time, and rushed into the enemy group with ash guns in hand, a spear became extremely powerful in their hands, and swept out, and the Jiannu cavalry was knocked to the ground with men and horses, and they were invincible.

The two brandished spears, rushed left and right in the crowd of Jiannu cavalry, there was no enemy in a round, they all died, and the ash spear with excellent toughness became an indestructible and powerful iron rod in their hands, and everywhere they went, the Jiannu cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and their bones were broken and blood was splashed.

On the other hand, Ma Biao and Wu Ming are also like tigers entering the flock, especially Ma Biao also took advantage of the situation to seize a group of war horses, holding guns on horses, galloping in the enemy group, and the spears are invincible, and there is no enemy at all!

Seeing this, Zhang Pan was greatly encouraged, and immediately brandished the Panlong Sword and shouted angrily: "Erlang, the eldest husband should be like this, rush!" ”

The five thousand forward battalion soldiers were also inspired by Qiao Youhua's martial arts and bravery, this kind of force, even their general Zhang Pan was beyond the reach of the dust, with the strength of four people, they rushed into the enemy formation, and the hundreds of Jiannu cavalry who fought had no power to fight back, and they were all invincible.

This is simply the god of war in the world!

As a result, the soldiers of the Ming army in the vanguard battalion gave up their defenses one after another, and followed Zhang Pan and several lieutenants with a roar, and launched a charge against the Jiannu ambush army on both sides of the road.