Chapter 409: Fire Gun vs. Fire Gun
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Zuo Liangyu's bravery, it is indeed a bit unexpected by Song Qing, the other party is a historical celebrity, but the reputation is very bad, I don't know much about history, I only know that the biggest traitor in this era is Wu Sangui, but I don't know that if from the perspective of Weihai, the biggest traitor is actually Zuo Mengeng, who was beaten by Song Qing, after Zuo Liangyu died, he led 200,000 Ming troops to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty, causing even greater harm than Wu Sangui opened the Shanhaiguan, Because he dragged down the forces that almost led to the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty to a large extent, which directly led to the Hongguang Dynasty being killed by the Manchu Qing, and made an almost indelible contribution to the Manchu Qing's southward journey.
As for this Zuo Liangyu, it is also not a good thing, among the generals who killed good and risked their merits in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, he is a very outstanding figure, the reason why he stands out is because he has done everything perfectly, others have done everything well, and others have done it well and covered it up, and when he did it, he also tried to do it with hidden actions, only he, the Zuo army, did not shy away from doing this kind of thing, and sometimes even went directly to the outskirts of the county town with good public security to slaughter the village, the county order was slightly disobedient, and he even dared to pretend to be a thief to slaughter the county order, If you rob the county seat again, the boldness is almost the crown of generals in the late Ming Dynasty, and to a certain extent, it is also a strange character created by the times.
Of course, that is all after Chongzhen's suicide, although he is also very arrogant at present, but he is not so bold, the slaughter of the village has happened, but after all, the behavior is relatively secretive, so this person has not completely deteriorated, and some of the demeanor of the Ming army general has been retained, but this style is sometimes not used in a very good place.
For example, now, the momentum he exudes makes him feel afraid, but it is not on the battlefield against Hou Jin, or even to exterminate the peasant army, but to merge with his comrade Song Qinghuo. It's just to grab some prisoners, so Song Qing won't be polite to him at all, this kind of person has cleaned up early, although he can't kill them all, but he also has to hit the other party and become Wu Lao Er in the village, and he trembled when he saw him, and tried his best not to let Zuo Liangyu drag himself back in the future.
The firecrackers fired again, but this time the effect was not as good as before, and even less than the time against Zhang Xianzhong, because the left army had all seen it. Knowing what this thing was, and how to avoid this weapon, after the devastating blow to the forward horse team, they immediately scattered their formations without a division, and many people even began to prostrate themselves and use cross-step methods to march, and it didn't take long for the fire of the left army to start firing back.
That's right, Zuo Liangyu's department is very important as the imperial court. An army with great hopes is naturally equipped with firecrackers, but the quality of firecrackers is not very good, even if the officers and soldiers who use firearms themselves. They are more willing to charge and kill the enemy with a knife, rather than use those three-eyed guns, Lumi guns and the like, but today I saw Song Qing's elation over there. And it looks pretty good, and he subconsciously took out his own firearm to attack, within the shooting distance. They lined up in three horizontal columns and fired at the firecrackers in Xuzhou on the opposite side, and large white smoke rose in front of the two armies, and the casualties of the Xuzhou soldiers began to appear.
After all, the use of firearms in the Ming Dynasty in these years is the officers and soldiers, and they have to be relatively wealthy officers and soldiers, Houjin is equipped with some artillery, but there is absolutely no firearms, not to mention the Liukou, and even the relatively poor officers and soldiers do not have this thing, don't look at the Ming Dynasty's firearms are not so easy to use, the price is really not cheap, not the troops that the imperial court focuses on, don't expect to use this at all.
Seeing a fire gun army of about 1,000 people flashing out of the opponent's army, the Xuzhou fire gun team was suddenly excited, after all, in the past, they were just playing with their lives to beat others, and the other party was either completely beaten to collapse during the charge, or they were killed to experience the assault of spears and hedgehogs, and there has never been a role that can fight with them with a fire gun, and now this role has finally appeared, how can they not be excited, everyone's speed has invisibly accelerated a few points, according to a very mechanical pace, take turns to fire at each otherOn the way, many unlucky eggs were also hit by the opponent's firearms, some were killed, and some were injured and carried down by their companions.
Song Qing rode on a tall horse, looking at all this expressionlessly, this is also a rare opportunity for him, the first time the firecrackers met the opponent, he naturally met the opponent for the first time, he is determined to be the world, there will be many opponents in the future, and it is very likely that they will have firearms, so getting exercised early in this regard is definitely a good thing, and he was still thinking about when he would be able to meet, who knew that Lu Dao would usher in the challenge of a thousand-person firecrackle team today.
He is definitely not worried about the victory or defeat, no one in the Ming army can compare to him now, and the Shenji Battalion must be more than him in terms of quantity, but there is absolutely no comparison in terms of quality and training, as for the fire team under Zuo Liangyu, it looks like that, but as soon as the two sides fight, it can be seen that Song Qing is only a few unlucky people who were injured or killed, and Zuo Liangyu's side is a piece of dead people, and they made one of the biggest mistakes, which seriously slowed down the speed of the charge.
In all fairness, Zuo Liangyu's department is quite kind, of course, there are many factors stimulated by money, but the army that can think that the silver is still in the system of daring to play with life, so when they charged, they still showed very strong courage and rushed over with the lead bullets flying in the sky.
But all this was blocked by their own firecracker troops, because when they encountered the firecracker team in Xuzhou, they also appeared in a similar class, for a time let them pin all their hopes on their firecracker team, the charging speed immediately plummeted, and after the worst, many people simply did not leave, just watched the firecrackers on both sides shoot at each other, until the firecracker team of the left army was basically beaten clean, they found themselves in a very dangerous position, that is, within the range of the Xuzhou firecracker team.
Immediately after, the artillery moved to the back also began to show its existence, twelve cannons were forcibly pressed and bombarded, plus four thousand firecrackers and a thousand archers, the left army within the range of fire was beaten violently, when Zuo Liangyu arrived with his troops, he found that his side had suffered great losses, and this loss almost made the rest of the troops completely unable to fight, because the morale of the entire team was beaten to the bottom by Song Qing's side in an instant, this is a very dangerous moment, if he is Song Qing, Next, as long as he immediately launches a charge, his side will definitely collapse, as long as Song Qing's brain is fine, he will definitely do it, because it is too easy to take advantage.
Of course, Song Qing's mind is fine, what Zuo Liangyu suddenly found was something he had been thinking about for a long time, seeing that the other party had stopped, it was time to not know how to advance and retreat, the opportunity was fleeting, and he immediately began to put all the soldiers and horses into it, and he began to charge with a few generals, and the Xuzhou Corps, which had just put on an old turtle frame, became like a leopard that had been hungry for several days, and pounced with the fastest speed and the most violent posture, and quickly broke down the formation of the left army.
Zuo Liangyu is also a general, seeing Song Qing suddenly charged, he knew that the situation was not good, regardless of the teams in front of him who fell into the enemy formation, he immediately turned his horse head and fled with his son and cronies, and those core teams who had been following him also turned around and withdrew without hesitation, these people also knew that Lu Dao protected Zuo Liangyu, after all, General Zuo defeated and fled for his life, and he didn't forget to take them, their position in the left army is very unique, so it has become their responsibility to protect the main general.
There are about 2,000 such people, including not only senior officers and generals, but also Zuo Liangyu's family members and officers' family members, and some are veterans who have fought several battles and have not died, these people are the core team of the left army, to some extent similar to the old brothers of the Liukou, as long as they are not dead, expanding the army is a matter of an eye, grab a few villages and pull some strong men, everything will come back, they themselves know where the mission of the road is, they do not hesitate to urge the horse to flee quickly.
This is somewhat out of Song Qing's expectations, in his opinion, this group of people are fighting fiercely in front, and the back is so good that they should resist to the death for a while, and they will retreat after the last is really not good, who knows that the front of Lu Dao was swallowed by the Xuzhou soldiers, and those people in the back, including Zuo Liangyu, left immediately, without the slightest hesitation at all, it seems that it is not once or twice to do this, if the fast speed is removed, it is simply a leisurely stroll as skillful, and it is this kind of strong man's choice like breaking his wrist that made Song Qing lose a chance.
The so-called opportunity is to arrest Zuo Liangyu, and then extort him a large amount of money, Song Qing really didn't want to kill this general, at least not for now, but it's definitely a good idea to get more money out, but this time he really didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to be so open-minded, thousands of soldiers and horses said no, don't want it, so that he didn't have time to send people to chase after him, so he could only watch General Zuo lead more than 2,000 people to quickly leave the battlefield, fortunately, this time it was not in vain, These thousands of soldiers and horses can also be brought back to Xuzhou to do coolies, anyway, there are many mines under his command now, and the labor needed is not ordinary, and they can be brought back to arrange.
Half an hour later, all the left troops who did not die surrendered and joined the ranks of the displaced people, becoming a new batch of prisoners of the Xuzhou soldiers. (To be continued......)