Chapter 243: Fierce Battle for Petty Guantun

Minghuang's sword body entered without ground, shaking the fleeing rebels. The people in front instinctively stopped and looked at each other, while the people behind kept squeezing forward, and there was chaos. Behind the most, it is the voice of crying father and mother.

The rebel general who commanded the 3,000 foot soldiers, Li Zhongfu, the former garrison of the Dengzhou artillery battalion, was furious and squeezed out of the crowd with a few cronies, pointing at Geng Zhongyi and shouting angrily: "The surname Geng, what do you mean!" Are you going to slaughter me with my brothers? ”

"Li Zhongfu, you are also a fucking man, so many people are embarrassed to retreat! Tell you, Lao Tzu was ordered by Du Shuai, in today's battle, whoever dares to run back, Lao Tzu will kill him! Geng Zhongyi didn't give Li Zhongfu any affection, he looked at him coldly, and didn't miss the friendship of his comrades in Dongjiang at all. He is iron-hearted, no one wants to beat himself in front of him today!

"You bastard! Brothers, ignore him and withdraw from Lao Tzu! ”

Li Zhongfu was furious, Geng Zhongyi deceived people too much, his brother Geng Zhongming saw that he gave back his face, why the hell do you dare to shout at yourself, and kill yourself, is it really scared to be Lao Tzu!

With a wave of his hand, take the lead and rush forward.

"Ready!"

The Liao soldiers in the front row raised the firecracker, and the caliber of the gun was directed at Li Zhongfu and his party.

Seeing this, Li Zhongfu raised his head and looked at Geng Zhongyi, and his tone softened a little, "Geng Zhongyi, you have the ability to bring people up and stop Lao Tzu from doing anything!" ”

"Death to those who escape!"

Geng Zhongyi coldly stacked the next sentence, no longer paid attention to Li Zhongfu, suddenly hit the horse and jumped forward two steps, then raised his arm and pointed forward, and shouted: "Enter!" ”

"Enter! Enter! Enter! ”

The three thousand Dongjiang Liao soldiers suddenly pressed forward with neat steps. The dense queue overwhelmed the routers.

Li Zhongfu and the others were also frightened in their hearts, and instinctively retreated.

"Death to those who retreat! Death to those who retreat! Death to those who retreat! ”

After three shouts, the five hundred Liao soldiers at the front suddenly stopped, flat-ended their firearms, and began to aim at the rout.

"Li Zhongfu, let's get up with Du Shuai, we all tie our heads to the waistband of our trousers, this battle can't be soft at all, we have to be soft, our brothers in Dongjiang are not guaranteed to be headed, and they want to exterminate the clan! Lao Tzu, I will tell you again, immediately bring someone up to resist the Ming army for me, otherwise, Lao Tzu's soldiers will not recognize people! Geng Zhongyi's face was blue, and he slowly raised his hand, he didn't say anything threatening, as long as Li Zhongfu dared to say half a word, he would immediately order to shoot him.

"Geng Zhongyi, even if you are ruthless, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!"

Li Zhongfu knew that Geng Zhongyi was not scaring himself, his eyes were clearly about to kill! On the other side, there are 3,000 guns against him, and he Geng Zhongyi has Geng Zhongming as a backer, and if he really kills himself, no one can make the decision for himself.

The left and right are dead, it's better to fight with the Ming army! If you win, I'll go back and settle accounts with you Geng Zhongyi! Damn, Lao Tzu is also an outlaw!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongfu turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth at his officers and shouted: "If you don't want to die, fucking kill Lao Tzu!" ”

Officers, you look at me, I look at you, but no one moves. The cavalry of the Ming army was powerful, and its own horse team was defeated and could not be defeated, and it was impossible to withstand it by relying on this rabble. If you go back, you will definitely die.

Seeing that they didn't move, Li Zhongfu was so anxious that he slapped an officer who was close to him and scolded: "Don't you fucking have any eggs!" Go back fucking! Then he suddenly rushed towards the two routs, and before the two of them could react, he swung his knife and slashed, "grunting" twice, and the two good heads rolled to the ground inexplicably.

Wielding a blood-stained long knife, Li Zhongfu shouted at the defeated soldiers with a hideous face: "Those who retreat will end up like them!" ”

The officers also came to their senses and hurriedly rushed forward to order the defeated soldiers to go back immediately. Seeing this, Geng Zhongyi also raised his hand again, and the Liao soldiers suddenly pressed forward five steps.

The routs were frightened by the arrogance of the officers and the Liao soldiers, knowing that these Liao soldiers who killed people without blinking an eye were not to scare people, they would really open their guns, so they began to slowly retreat.

Li Zhongfu also led the officers to begin to gather the troops, preparing to go back to block the Ming cavalry. But the team of 3,000 people broke up together in a noisy, and it would be impossible to hold it for a while. Fortunately, there are many people, and the cavalry of the Ming army can't crush the team at once, so they finally gave Li Zhongfu some time, and finally gathered thousands of people and began to panic in the formation.

In the distance, after seeing the rout from the clairvoyant mirror and turning around, Li Jiucheng couldn't help but say to the people beside him: "Geng Zhongyi has the style of a famous general, and like his brother Geng Zhongming, he is a good man of my Dongjiang Army, with him, we can't lose today's battle!" ”

After driving the defeated soldiers back, Geng Zhongyi was also relieved, he didn't take Li Zhongfu in his eyes. He only cares if this battle can be won, and if he wins, everything is easy to say. If you lose, then nothing happens.

When the subordinate officers saw that the defeated soldiers had returned, they hurriedly asked, "General, when are we going to go?" ”

"On what?" Geng Zhongyi glanced at him angrily, pointed at the chaotic battlefield in front of him, and said in a muffled voice: "The Ming army seems to be such a cavalry, but they are heavily armored and powerful in breaking the formation, but they can't last long, it's not cost-effective for us to go up now, and we won't be able to damage some old brothers." Before the Western Expedition, my eldest brother and Vice Marshal Kong repeatedly explained that no matter how much those cannon fodder died, it didn't matter, but our old brothers in Dongjiang couldn't fold too much, otherwise, we would have no vitality, no bones, no capital, and the court would continue to do Zhilu Dao? “

"You show me something, hold this gang of waste for a while, and when the Ming army loses its spirit, let's go up and clean them up!" After speaking, a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

When the officer heard this, he also thought deeply: "Yes, yes, our old brother is important, our old brother is important."

The wolf cavalry crushed all the way and was unstoppable. Even in the face of a small counterattack by the rebels, the wolf cavalry soldiers and horses were protected by heavy armor, and the spears and swords of the rebels could not penetrate or hurt them at all, so they were unscathed and advanced all the way forward. However, the corpses of those men and horses affected the speed of the wolf horseman's advance, and forced the wolf rider to turn to attack twice in a row, otherwise he might trip over the piled up of human corpses and horse corpses.

The two turns also seriously consumed the physical strength of the war horse, and Shi Dayong now has a kind of pain in riding a tiger, on the one hand, he must keep attacking, otherwise the whole army will be annihilated; On the other hand, the sheer strength of the rebels made it difficult for him to digest. But no matter what, as long as he has a breath, he will fight to the end.

Either he dies, or the rebels retreat, there is no other way!

The battlefield in more than three miles was full of rebels running for their lives. The sudden appearance of the Ming army's heavy cavalry caused confusion among the rebels on the battlefield, and many foot soldiers did not die under the Ming army's guns, but were trampled to death by their own horse teams.

Li Yingyuan luckily picked up a life, and hurriedly fled to the big array with more than 100 horsemen. But after discovering that Geng Zhongyi led the Liao soldiers up, he decisively turned to the east, gathered more than 300 horsemen all the way, and relied on the heavy armor of the Ming army to catch up and leave the battlefield, and handed over the next battle to the infantry.

A group of more than 300 rebel foot soldiers broke away from the brigade in the rout, and the rebel officers who led the team were in shock, and found that another cavalry of the Ming army was killing them, and hurriedly exclaimed: "Array, array!" ”

These more than 300 rebels also had a lot of firearms, and many of them were not under the command of the officer, but as soon as the officer shouted, they immediately gave them the backbone, and they all surrounded them, hurriedly loading the guns.

But they soon found that it was not the heavy cavalry of the Ming army that rushed at them, but a light horse, which was extremely fast. As soon as the forty rebels had filled the medicine, the light cavalry of the Ming army rushed up.

After a burst of slashing and slashing, this group of rebels was exhausted of casualties, most of them were knocked over and trampled to death by war horses, and very few died directly from swords and spears. The rebel officer who roared and resisted was directly cut off half of his body by Jiang Wanli, and his death was extremely terrifying.

Jiang Wanli originally wanted to take these two hundred and fifty light cavalry to act with the wolf cavalry, but soon found that if they went to chase and kill those routs, the effect would be greater, because their speed was far superior to the wolf cavalry, but they couldn't directly rush the large array of routs, and they couldn't do anything behind the wolf cavalry. Therefore, after a short period of power and pros and cons, Jiang Wanli led his troops to begin to chase and kill the rout troops who broke away from the brigade.

However, after charging for a while, Jiang Wanli found that the move was worth the loss, because most of the two hundred and fifty light cavalry were not skilled in equestrianism, and many of them fell from their horses because their horses were running too fast, so that there were fewer and fewer people who could follow behind. By the time he realized that something was wrong, there were only a hundred light horsemen behind him.

Jiang Wanli immediately made a decision and abandoned his horse to fight!

"Dismount, take the gun, and join forces with the second battalion of the infantry army, quickly, quickly!"

Hearing the order, the light cavalry hurriedly jumped off their horses, and many of them had their thighs blurred with flesh and blood due to the fierce braking, and endured the great pain, the soldiers took out their fire guns and began to form a small team under the leadership of the officer, all the way to collect the light cavalry who had fallen from their horses, and leaned towards the remnants of the infantry battalion.

When the Jinzhou army went south, the gunpowder and lead bullets carried were not abundant, but in the first battle of Shahe, they captured a lot, and each person carried five catties of medicine, so there was no danger of running out of ammunition and food.

On the way to the rendezvous of the infantry camp, dozens of rebel cavalry were encountered, and under a round of blows, the knights fell from their horses, and more than a dozen military horses that were shot and fell to the ground also kept screaming there. Dozens of other rebel foot soldiers threw down their weapons and knelt there in surrender, but no one paid any attention to them.

The dead, the undead, were all piled up on the ground, and the head was not cut, and no one was to mend the knife, leaving the wounded soldiers who did not die to wail.

The Ming army is based on the first level of military merit, but in order to prevent the soldiers on the battlefield from cutting the head and affecting the war, so Shi Dayong set a military order when he was in Jinzhou, not allowed to cut the head in wartime, and all military merits were reported after the war to be counted in detail, and to the greatest extent the implementation of the unified distribution system of military merits, in order to encourage the soldiers to hate the same enemy, increase the cooperation and cohesion of the team. The suitability of this system remains to be tested.

The rebel horse team besieging Li Dashan and Shao Wubu had already fled, but Li Shao's remnants had only more than 70 people left, half of them were wounded, and they could not pursue, and they were busy treating the wounded at this time, and they could no longer participate in the battle.

Jiang Wanli gathered his soldiers all the way and joined Li Shao's troops, in addition to the 200 light cavalry under his department, there were also more than 200 infantry battalion soldiers who had fled before. Many of the people in it were lying on the ground and pretending to be dead when the rebel horse team caught up, thinking that if the rebels won, they would surrender directly, and it would be regarded as returning to the establishment. Later, seeing the sudden rout of the rebels, the officers and soldiers gained the upper hand, and hurriedly got up from the ground and returned to the team.

After the two armies met, Shao Wu saw that the rebel brigade turned around and came back, and there were new soldiers and horses from the rebels behind them, with a large number of them, and the general and Xiao Cao led the wolf cavalry to rush left and right, although the rebels were disrupted, but the heavy armor could not last, and they would fall into the encirclement of the rebels at any time. Worried about the safety of the general, Shao Wu suggested that he immediately lean up and cover the wolf cavalry to retreat.

Jiang Wanli and Li Dashan naturally agreed, and after leaving the wounded soldiers and asking them to retreat from the battlefield immediately, the three battalion officers of Jiang, Li, and Shao advanced forward with 400 firearms

Li Yingyuan led the remnants to take a few breaths, and found that there was a Ming infantry to lean towards the cavalry, and immediately realized that the opportunity had come, he couldn't beat the heavy armored cavalry of the Ming army, but it was a piece of cake to deal with these infantry.

"Brothers, if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, follow Lao Tzu!"

Hearing the order of the little marshal, the rebels also saw the foot soldiers of the Ming army, and their hearts that had been frightened suddenly warmed up, and they turned their horses and rushed towards the battlefield with their strength.

In the distance, seeing his son killed again, Li Jiucheng was not worried this time, he had already seen that the ability of the Ming army was like this, no matter how powerful the heavy armored cavalry was, but there were only a few hundred horsemen, there were thousands of cannon fodder of Li Zhongfu in front, and three thousand elites of Geng Zhongyi in the back, and his Ming army's heavy armor was three heads and six arms, and this time he couldn't escape!

It is really Zhuge Liang who sits firmly on the Diaoyutai and wins steadily!

The result of the battle shocked Li Yingyuan, these hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army and those soldiers and horses who seemed to be not a family before, were able to block one of their own charges with guns, and their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of those Ming army generals.

Seeing the heavy losses of the horse team he had painstakingly assembled, Li Yingyuan was in great pain. His father and son did not have much status when they were in Dongjiang, so they did not have their own team. Therefore, after the incident, the father and son wanted to form a team of their own soldiers and horses, and in the end, under the efforts of Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde agreed that Li Yingyuan would use the military horses in Dengzhou City to form their cavalry.

In other words, this thousand-horse team is the only descendant of the Li family father and son who can directly command the rebels, and it is also the biggest capital of his father and son in the rebels. But now that the battle has ended, most of it has been lost, how not to make Li Yingyuan feel pain. Pain to pain, this battle always has to be fought, all to this one, fight all the way, and also gnaw down this difficult piece of hard bones of the Ming army, otherwise, it is not a matter of the horse team, but that his father and son still have no face in the army!

How could the old Jinzhou soldiers who had competed with the elite of the Jiannu Eight Banners take the rebels' horse teams seriously, in the final analysis, these rebels' horse teams cannot really be called cavalry. Compared to the Mantars outside the gates, they are like toddlers. And except for those horse thieves, even those Liao soldiers are just cavalry who drive ducks to the shelves, and their riding skills are all half-hanging, and they are all horse infantry like them, and they are not cavalry.

Although the rebels' horse team was formed, they had several battles with the Ming army in Denglai and Shandong, and they all won great victories and defeated the Ming army, but in their bones they still could not be used as cavalry. Once you encounter a hard hand, your own disadvantages will soon become apparent. There is no problem at all in fighting a smooth battle, but the desperate style of play makes them frightened, especially since half of the people have been killed by the Ming army, and the rest of the people can't help but weigh how hard their lives are when they are thinking about being promoted and making a fortune.

The gun has no eyes, even if you are the emperor Laozi, you will still be beaten to death.

After two fruitless attacks and more than 100 corpses were dropped, Li Yingyuan could no longer urge his subordinates to attack, so angry that Li Yingyuan scolded, but he had no choice but to turn around and retreat.