Chapter 144: The "normal" battle under the city of Luanzhou

Song Yi didn't persuade him anymore, and he didn't have that face, so he ran back over his head. After a brief lunch, the troops were cleaned up, leaving a platoon to watch the camp, and the main force began to hit the road.

As soon as Chen Xie left the camp gate, he saw a crowd at the intersection ahead. Surprised, he stepped forward, but when he saw Song Yi and Xianghe's father setting up wine on the side of the road, they bowed their hands from afar.

Striding forward, Chen Xie said movingly: "How dare Lao County respect and all the fathers and elders here." ”

Song Yi picked up a bowl of wine and said solemnly: "Sihua, don't say anything, do Zhuangxing wine, and kill a few more Jiannu for us." ”

Chen Xie didn't say much, dried the wine in the bowl in one go, and said with a slight arch: "Thank you!" ”

Turning over on the horse, there was a neighing of the horse, and the sound of the horse's hooves shattered.

In the spring light, the back is far away, but the remaining avenue is winding. The send-off person dispersed for a long time, and Song Yi, who turned around, faltered, but his eyes were foggy. After many years of Huan Hai, a heart is as hard as a stone, and today I can't help but be sad about it.

"Come on, take pen and ink."

The pen walked the dragon and snake, an urgent report was written, and the messenger quickly entered Beijing. By night, the report of the Xianghe County Order had been placed on Zhu Youzhen's desk. A pair of eyes were round, fists were clenched, and the green tendons on the neck were clearly visible. Zhu Youzhen's thin chest rose and fell, and his nails sank into his palms without pain.

"I can't afford to wait." "The country has reached such a point that my generation has no choice but to die for it." These vernacular words are all copied from the original language, and Song Yi does not add any embellishments. But not a word was in Zhu Youzhen's heart.

Wang Chengen also saw it clearly from the side. I couldn't help but turn my head and wipe my tears several times. The report is not long, and I shed tears once I read it. I can't help it! Bang, a tear fell on the paper, Zhu Youzhen didn't wipe it, but stood up on his back. His left hand held on to the pillars in the hall, and his right hand slapped on the pillars one by one. It seems that only in this way can the sourness in my heart be calmed.

Who is Chen Xie, Zhu Youzhen thinks that he has checked very clearly. An overseas wanderer, doing some maritime business. The Ming Dynasty's forbidden sea is a virtual thing, doesn't Zhu Youzhen really know? Joke. How can it be? It's nothing more than too much at stake. Don't dare to touch it lightly. In that case, the entire civilian-bureaucratic clique will jump up and down like a monkey with its ass lit.

Chen Xie, who didn't take a tael of silver from the imperial court, was willing to die for the Ming Dynasty. The Guangning army, which was raised with three million taels of silver every year, ran away in fear because the emperor took Yuan Chonghuan. The division of the king of diligence everywhere. are all on the sidelines. All three rivers have fallen. are still waiting. For the sake of a Chen Xie, or a white body, he said that he wanted to die for Daming!

"Wang Chengen. Tell me, what's wrong with all my ministers and generals? Zhu Youzhen came up with such a sentence, Wang Chengen trembled, subconsciously looked around, and then stepped forward and whispered: "Long live Lord, it's not early, you might as well rest." Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen's panicked face, his face turned pale, and he couldn't bear to sigh.

What the answer is, it is not difficult for him to think. It is precisely because of clarity that Wenchen is so harsh.

"Let people keep an eye on it, and as soon as there is news, report it immediately." Zhu Youzhen can only do this, with just a few cards in his hand.

Five days later.

Wang Qinian, whose eyes were red, used a telescope to observe Luanzhou. The city gate was actually opened, and Wang Qinian couldn't believe his eyes, and Hou Jin Bing was too arrogant, right? According to investigation, Luanzhou has two armor soldiers with gold and blue flags, which is at least 3,000 people. Of course, Wang Qinian would not fight recklessly, in fact, Chen Xie's request to him was to march slowly and wait for the brigade.

Wang Qinian is the pioneer of opening the way, and he did not let him go to Luanzhou by himself.

"Go back!" After a general look, Wang Qinian got up and returned. The large military camp was set up twenty miles away from Luanzhou, and he was just here to investigate. In his position, he was still five miles away from the city.

In a village ten miles away from Luanzhou, the main force of the Dengzhou regiment training camp plus 4,000 white pole soldiers gathered together, which can be described as a strong army. After Qin Yiming learned that Chen Xie led his troops eastward, he immediately sent a fast horse to catch up with Chen Xie and asked him to wait.

Chen Xie was very face-saving, and he didn't move when he arrived in Kaiping, if it weren't for the banner of the Ming Dynasty, he almost scared the Ming army of Kaiping Wei to death. I thought that Houjin was calling, and after waiting for a day, I finally waited for Qin Yiming. The two armies got together, and Chen Xie felt more confident in his heart. The scouts kept bringing back news, and Chen Xie finally affirmed that the Houjin army had retreated. I don't understand why the Ming army didn't fight back until May because Huang Taiji withdrew in February.

The Qing army did not have much to do to fight Luanzhou, the garrison Li Jichun surrendered, and Zhizhou Yang committed suicide. From this information, Chen Xie's judgment was once again verified, and the siege ability of the Houjin army during this period was simply a pain in the ass.

The three heads looked at the map together, and when Wang Qinian came in, they looked up together.

"As the lord expected, the city gate is open." Wang Qinian came in and reported, Chen Xie nodded when he heard it, took out a cigarette and lit it, looked at Qin Yiming and Ma Xianglin and said, "Tell me how to fight?" ”

"How else can you fight, everyone's city gate is open, just drive over, I don't think they will come out first when we get to the city." Ma Xianglin took over with a smile, Chen Xie looked at Qin Yiming, and the goods also nodded and said, "I think it's the same." ”

"That's okay, it's getting dark, hurry up and rest tonight, and early tomorrow morning, set up a formation to kill it." Chen Xie made a decision, and everyone dispersed, seizing the time to rest. Of course, Chen Xie can't sleep yet, he has to choose a good battlefield. Luckily, Beizhili is a large plain, a flat river, which is very suitable for Chen Xie's queuing shooting and artillery tactics.

On the morning of the 10th day of the first lunar month, the war drums rumbled, and the Dengzhou regimental training camp with a clear banner drove to Luanzhou with a swagger.

After Chengnei, the Jin army was really not afraid, and with more than 1,000 people under the command of General Li Jichun, they went out of the city to meet the battle. Ma Xianglin took the initiative to ask for help, and led a thousand white pole soldiers to line up in front of the battle, followed by the Dengzhou regiment training camp, and it was Qin Yiming's three thousand white pole soldiers who pressed the formation, because they were not equipped with plate armor, and were placed last. At this point, Qin Yiming didn't have a temper at all. The war in this period is like this, not to say that it will be fought, there are many people on both sides, they are all in formation, tossing for a while, Chen Xie, who has the heart to wait for the Jin army to come out of the city and fight again, is really helpless, and can only silently watch the opponent go out of the city and line up.

The white pole soldier equipped with plate armor is like a blood ox in the game, with two phalanxes in front. This formation created an illusion for the Houjin army on the opposite side, that is, the cavalry could be used to go up from both flanks and crush the artillery and bird soldiers on the opposite side.

The battle officially began at 10:30 a.m., and the Houjin soldiers, who were slightly weaker, took the initiative to attack with the most familiar tactics. There were 500 cavalry on each side, and Li Jichun's more than 1,500 people drove more than 1,000 people in the middle as the front, trying to break the opposite formation, and then break it in one fell swoop.

You really don't expect those Houjin generals who take the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the art of war to see how many tactics they know. The fact that the Ming army could not defeat Houjin was not a tactical problem, but a problem of the army's corruption to the extreme. In many heavy battles, there were officers who ran away first, and the rout of the battle was led. Just ran and ran, the last big battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Battle of Songshan, ran a Wang Pu and a Wu Sangui, and led the defeat of the last bit of field troops in the entire Ming Dynasty. That's it, Wu Sangui still has nothing to do.

In today's battle, of course, no one will run. Chen Xie's routine is very simple, it doesn't matter who you are to charge the battle, you don't have to discuss it with a cannon first. In order to avoid the formation being disrupted, at a distance of 1,500 meters, Chen Xie ordered the cannon to be fired.

The beating projectiles danced in the crowd, and the people who did not dare to resist to impact the formation were originally slow, and even if they ran, they could not run fast. After four rounds of shelling, more than 1,000 people died, and the casualties caused by the shelling were actually not very large, they were just terrifying. The real casualties were the Ming Dynasty soldiers who attacked secretly, who unceremoniously raised their swords and guns to their compatriots, walked a little slower, and forced the people to run.

The back is slashed with knives and guns, the front is bombarded by artillery, and the front and back are dead, so it is better to run in both directions. It's probably human instinct.

When facing the artillery fire, the surrendered Ming army still wore the uniforms of the Ming army, and under the pressure of the Houjin master, they used their strength to rush forward. As long as you kill your compatriots, you can have a way to live and future glory and wealth. Why would the surrendered Ming army be even more brutal to their own compatriots? Quite simply, they have no way back.

But when he rushed 200 paces away under artillery fire, the gunfire rang out. This distance is unimaginable to anyone, and a volley of guns has brought a lot of casualties to these puppet troops who rushed forward on foot. The mandarin duck battle jacket is okay with the bow and arrow, and the Minnie bullet is really miserable.

The bullets like raindrops hit the more than 1,500 Ming troops in an uproar, and they didn't dare to run, and if they dared to turn back, they would have to be hacked to death by their masters. The turning point of the battle occurred when the puppet army was attacking the spear formation, and a bullet opened a hole in Li Jichun's chest, and the puppet army collapsed. The Houjin army even slashed and killed, but it failed to stop the momentum of the rout. What's even worse is that more than half of the desperate puppet army has defected on the battlefield.

The left and right are dead, it seems that this will make the Ming army more ferocious, so they simply cut at the Houjin soldiers who were still shouting their masters just now.

Before the head-on battle collapsed first, the battle on both sides was also raging. Qin Yiming, who was delayed, commanded the white pole soldiers against the cavalry of the Qing army. Without plate armor, the casualties of the white pole soldiers were not small, but with the assistance of the two teams of Dengzhou battalion riflemen, Qin Yiming still easily repelled the Houjin army that was attacking on both wings, and caused nearly 200 casualties to the Houjin cavalry.

The Houjin army, who has not tried the taste of Mini bullets, is still very brave, but the more brave it is, the faster it will die.

When the Houjin army reacted wrongly, it was shelling again, and under the attack of the platoon guns, the Houjin army lost more than 500 people. Large-caliber buckshot, as long as it hits your body, the medical level of this era is basically a dead word.

A battle that should have been "normal" ended with an abnormal result. As soon as the Houjin army, which could not support it, was about to retreat, the white pole soldiers with spears launched a counter-charge. Behind him was the Dengzhou regimental training with a rifle, and the rifle with a bayonet was loaded, and the effect of stabbing people was not bad at all. Not to mention, there is still a bullet in the rifle. (To be continued......)