Chapter 417: Counterattack
The huge casualties made many peasant army leaders feel that they are not calm anymore, they have not fought with officers and soldiers, in fact, Cheng Hao, who has the least combat experience here, has also fought two battles with officers and soldiers seriously, but they found today that the tricks used to deal with officers and soldiers in the past are not used, and they have never heard of this way of fighting Xuzhou soldiers, they have never seen it, and they will not come out to fight with you at all, just like a big turtle coiled in the formation, let you go over and give away your life, and he will not give you a good face.
Luo Ru is the most calculating, he has long been unable to see it, you must know that there are his men and horses here, if they are all gone, the loss is not small, and immediately came to Gao Yingxiang's side and whispered: "King Chuang, if you don't let the brothers withdraw, anyway, this Song Qing has more than 10,000 horses, we can't beat him, but as long as he leaves Tangyin, he will definitely not be able to beat us, even if it is to avoid this turtle formation, go back to Beizhili and Shanxi directly, it's better than consuming the brothers here, right?" ”
Gao Yingxiang actually agreed with this idea in his heart, but he couldn't do it, because he saw something deeper, and when he saw that many leaders had come over, he had to smile bitterly and said, "Don't you want to withdraw when I do?" Even if we come quickly, there is no such dead person, but now not only can we not withdraw, but we have to continue to send troops inside, it is like this, if we don't rush the formation on Song Qing's side, we will have to hide when we see him in the future, now we can run to Beizhili, but after running to Beizhili, which of you can guarantee that he will not chase us to bite? If we meet Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao over there, and then follow Song Qing behind our buttocks, we will be almost finished, as long as we rush out of his formation, even if it is only the front, fight with him a little, kill him hundreds or thousands of people, and then withdraw at that time! ”
Seems to make a lot of sense. The leaders of the peasant army have not been soldiers, but they are driven out to rebel, and they must have been good at fighting back then, and they have actually done a lot of this kind of thing, and if anyone is not pleasing to the eye, they will directly beat that person until they are afraid, and they will tremble when they see him, and then that person will not dare to offend himself at all, and he will run away when he sees it from afar.
In fact, this is also the case in war, just like what Gao Yingxiang just said. If you can't fight with Song Qing this time, but throw away 20,000 lives and flee directly, they will be okay in the future, those people at the bottom are only afraid that they will have no bottom when they see Song Qing's banner, and this battle basically does not have to be fought, although it is said that the casualties will definitely be more heavy if they continue to fight, but I am afraid that they can really only continue to fight, so they can rush to the front of the Xuzhou soldiers' military formation, and compare with the opponent's real swords and guns. At that time, if you withdraw from the city, everyone has also fought with each other, so that even if you are still nervous next time, you will not have the frustration of not daring to fight.
No way. Everyone could only continue to send troops, but this time Gao Yingxiang continued to take the lead, gathered a full 50,000 horses, and killed the opposite side in a mighty way. It's just that with the previous lesson, everyone is also much more cautious, and some of the more refined leaders. He also deliberately dispersed the team to reduce the damage caused by the opponent's artillery, which can be regarded as a model for learning war in war, anyway, Song Qing looked at it on the other side, and he still admired these peasant army leaders, and he was indeed very quick to learn things.
It's just that this good idea can't play much role at all when the 50,000 army is activated at the same time, their team is still dense, and as long as the artillery on Song Qing's side is fired, it is still the rhythm of bullets, and it can take away a lot of lives every time, and it is the most powerful god of death on the entire battlefield.
But Song Qing didn't dare to be careless now, he dispatched 50,000 people to rush into battle at one time, such a large scale is when the imperial court and Houjin can afford to fight, although the opponent's combat effectiveness is low, but so many people rushed over at one time, I am afraid that the firearms troops on his side will not be able to withstand it, not only is the number of problems a problem, but also the guns and artillery have been fighting for a long time, the heat of the barrel and barrel can not stand it, if it continues to fight, I am afraid that there will be damage, and it is estimated that it will be hand-to-hand combat after the worst.
He is not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, he is very strong in hand-to-hand combat, except for the gold after the fight, he is not afraid of anyone's soldiers and horses, what he is afraid of is that the other party is really desperate, in hand-to-hand combat to see the cheap, all the strength is thrown in, and he will do his best to fight his difficult opponent first, then he is afraid that there is only one way to retreat, otherwise it is easy to be entangled by others, and he does not have the habit of losing his subordinates to flee for his life first, and the reality does not allow him to do this, and even his life will be lost here if he can't get it in the end.
"Lao Ding, go and let Kong Youde and them come up, and then transfer all the archers to me, replace the fire gun team first, seize all the time to clean up the equipment, and the spear array will also come up, so that the opposite side can taste the feeling of skewers!" Song Qing gave the order without hesitation, and Ding Kui also quickly called someone to convey it to the various departments, and after a while, the firecrackers withdrew in the fastest time, and after two more rounds of artillery, they were also dragged behind, and began to cool down and clean up as quickly as possible.
Subsequently, the 1,000 archers of the beggar army came to the forefront, and Huerha also came up with bows and arrows with his horses, including the little wolf dog, and the more than 100 crossbowmen also stood in the front position, and began to shoot in the position of the firecrackers, although the number was less than half, and there was no explosive lethality of the firecrackers at close range, but the archers' rate of fire was fast enough, and it was alleviated to a certain extent, but even so, they could not stop the charge of more than 50,000 people, and they were slowly pressed down by the opposite side.
"General, let's go into battle with the cavalry, so let's stop them first!" Kong Youde was holding a big knife, looking hungry, followed by more than a thousand cavalry of the beggar army and Xuzhou Wei, everyone looked serious, just waiting for the other party to approach, and he was about to rush up and pick up the saber and cut people.
Song Qing shook his head slightly, licked his lips and said: "Don't worry about it first, let the pikemen block them, and when they run out of strength, your cavalry will go up and chase and cut again, I know that you want to make meritorious contributions, but this cavalry is a treasure, and it is more expensive to raise a firecracker than to raise a firecracker, if this kind of battle is really hard fighting, how many people do you think will die?" ”
Kong Youde has no words, as a general from Liaodong, he likes to fight cavalry battles the most, but he also knows what the consequences will be if the cavalry of Ludao falls into the infantry pile, if he has 5,000 cavalry, now dare to rush out of the Lu without hesitation, but he does not have so many people, only a cavalry in the early 1,000s, it is not impossible to rush out of the Lu, the problem is that as long as the other party resists his offensive a little, he and more than a thousand cavalry will immediately fall into the vast sea of the people's war, and it is estimated that it will be very difficult to come up.
Although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, how many years of military literacy still made Kong Youde endure it, not to mention that Song Qing did not give him a chance to fight, but when the other party was resisted by the pikemen and his strength was gradually exhausted, he could only temporarily put the broadsword across the saddle and stared at the spear formation behind the archers.
Not long after, the archers retreated, except for Huerha and the probes who were still firing arrows, the rest were in the rear, and the spear formation also came up, and almost at the same time, the first batch of wandering troops who had rushed through many dangers finally arrived at the place of the official confrontation, and everyone had a sense of excitement in their hearts for the rest of their lives, and at the same time a strong desire to give each other a little bit of power, until the guy in the front row of them was poked to death by a spear, and everyone calmed down.
The pikemen are as sharp as ever, just like dealing with Zhang Xianzhong's troops, with the spears in their hands to poke at the homeless people who have almost no cover, every time they stab a shot, they have to take a life, not that no one breaks through this layer of guns, but they will soon be poked to death by the layer below, and the luckiest ones will die in the bows and arrows of Huerha and other horses, because under the pressure of the layers of guns, they have nothing to dodge, and they are almost a target that can only barely move their position.
The most excessive thing is that these spear formations are different from the previous firecracker teams and archers, they do not stand still and fight, but after a short pause, they begin to march forward, accompanied by the sound of drums, constantly pressing the homeless team backwards, and then launch a counterattack, and the homeless team finds that they have no way to organize each other to advance, the length of the weapons on both sides is too far apart, the knives in their hands can not cut people at all, and they will be pierced into a transparent hole when they rush up.
Gao Yingxiang was really a little panicked, because he found that even if his team rushed in and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the other party, he still couldn't win against others, and he was still blocked by others, and wanted to wrap it up from both sides, but the archers could shoot back the arrows of those who tried to wrap it up, and they didn't succeed at all after trying a few times, but they lost a lot of lives, and the frontal brigade kept retreating in the suppression of the spear array on the opposite side, and those who ran slowly were directly poked to death by the spears.
At this time, it seems that there is really no need to fight anymore, although withdrawing at this time will leave a shadow, but if you continue to stay and fight, the shadow will only get bigger and bigger, he has found that the faces of the displaced people who did not fight are full of happiness, if the losses of these people in front continue to expand, I am afraid that when they see Song Qing's troops appearing in the future, they will subconsciously choose to escape, there will be no use in fighting at all, and there will be no point in fighting again, Gao Yingxiang's lips moved, and he was about to order someone to go to the front to give the order, Suddenly, he saw that the spear array on the opposite side was all standing still, and then quickly separated to both sides under the command, and then saw the firecrackers who had disappeared for a while suddenly appeared behind.
After the thunderous noise, Gao Yingxiang couldn't care about anything else, and immediately shouted loudly: "Withdraw the troops immediately, Hongji will stay behind, and the others will follow me!" ”
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