Chapter 37 The popular will is available
Kong Youde's intestines were all repentant, if he was given a chance to choose, he would definitely not wear this Mingguang armor that cost his life. But it was too late to say anything, at this time, the Tartar had already decided that this general wearing shiny armor was the chief general of the Ming army, and the rank of the general who could wear Mingguang armor must not be low, and cutting off his head to receive a reward was far better than the heads of those small shrimps and crabs.
The Tartar armor soldiers rushed to the direction where Kong Youde was, while the musketeers on the right team desperately moved closer to Li Xin's side. But there is a larger group of rebels who are fleeing in all directions, and it is difficult to climb to the sky who wants to move forward half a step under the congestion.
Kong Youde originally wanted to follow the musketeers of the right team to move closer to Li Xin's direction, but he didn't move a few steps after squeezing for a long time, and he was hit by a few Tartar cold arrows. Looking left and right, Kong Youde suddenly found that at the same time that most people were crowded in the direction of Li Xin, a few gaps were flashed behind him, and it was important to save his life, so he used his strength to pull the horse over, and whipped it down fiercely, the war horse was in pain, and with a long neigh, the four hooves rushed out.
Just as a Tartar armor soldier circled behind him and was about to attack him, and the armor soldier should be unlucky, Kong Youde's war horse jumped up with its front hooves and kicked him in the chest when he landed. Blood spurted from the mouth and nose of the tartar, and the whole person flew out like tattered cotton wool, and fell on a refugee who was desperate to escape. The unfortunate refugee was smashed by the sudden flying corpse, fell to the ground, was drenched in blood, and was so frightened that he slashed his hands and feet, and fled with a crawl.
This terrifying scene helped Kong Youde a lot, and the refugees who stood in front of his war horse all consciously dodged a way, for fear that they would follow in the footsteps of the Tartar armor soldiers. In this way, Kong Youde clamped the horse's belly fiercely, and the war horse kicked open its four hooves and ran out in a puff of smoke.
How could the Tartar armor soldiers let go of the Ming army commander so lightly, and the fat in his mouth must not let him fly away, most of the Tartar armor soldiers gave up entanglement with the musketeers of the right team, and went to chase Kong Youde.
Li Xin was not far away, and when he saw this scene, he suddenly felt extremely funny, Kong Youde thought that Mingguang armor was thick and strong, but he didn't expect that he almost caused him to be killed. The Tartar forces are scattered, it is difficult to get together in a short time, the threat to him is not very large, and there is a lot of room for choice in battle or go.
"Teach and learn, let's hurry up and withdraw while the Tartars are in chaos, the Tartars on the hillside at a later time have chased down, and it's hard to leave!"
You don't have to look at it, Li Xin knows that it is Zhang Shi who speaks, and he also feels a little funny when he thinks of Zhang Shi, how can Zhang Shi still have the slightest thorny appearance at the beginning, and he is a timid and fearless ghost.
Of course, this is just a joke that Li Xin teased in his heart, Zhang Shi has become so cautious for his reasons, in fact, having such a general in a team is not necessarily a bad thing. But Li Xin couldn't listen to him, if he withdrew now, wouldn't this battle be meaningless? So many Ming people, let the Tartars take them away?
Although the Tartars are brave, it is obvious that this escort team is more than brave and not flexible enough, and the two battalions on the left and right of themselves are the first to appear, until now they are full of loopholes to impact this huge team of people, animals and goods, not only did they not respond effectively and in a timely manner, but chased after Kong Youde. It's ridiculous, and they should be unlucky.
Li Xin immediately called out to all the musketeers gathered around him.
"Everyone shoots, the muzzles of the guns are in the sky, and the arquebuses are ignited!"
The huddled musketeers were reflexively reflexive when they heard the order, and they followed the command, and they were extremely skillful, but in the blink of an eye, hundreds of muskets were pointed at the sky in unison.
"Fire!"
In an instant, the sound of hundreds of muskets bursting together converged, accompanied by the sudden rise of white smoke, everyone was stunned, and the entire battlefield was instantly quiet.
"Fathers and fellow villagers, please listen to the next words, I am Li Xin, the general of the Ming Gaoyang Army's Xuanfeng Battalion, the army is less than a hundred miles away, please don't panic, obey the command, I guarantee that everyone can get out of danger safely!"
Everyone looked at each other, and after a short silence, someone suddenly shouted: "The imperial court has reactivated Sun Ge Lao?" ”
Gaoyang has an important minister of the three dynasties, Sun Chengzong, everyone knows it within a radius of 100 miles, Li Xin calls himself the general of the Gaoyang army, and the people naturally think of him. Li Xin nodded yes, he raised an unwarranted official identity like this, and lied that Sun Chengzong had paid in order to stabilize people's hearts.
Sure enough, the excited voice turned to excitement, and it was a little incoherent.
"The emperor is shengming, Sun Ge is coming back, the court is hopeful, we are hopeful......"
actually cried with joy, Li Xin saw this person from the crowd, but he was about twenty years old, although he was in rags, he couldn't hide the bookish atmosphere all over his body, he should be a person who reads. If Li Xin is an outsider, his status as an official family has played a pacifying role. The trust that this young man had spawned from being exiled with these people and facing hardships together magnified the effect of Li Xin's appassuring medicine several times.
"Everyone calm down and listen to General Li's arrangement."
After that, the young man solemnly bowed his hand to Li Xin.
"I dare to do it, please show the general!"
With Zeng Dare's cooperation, more and more liberated people gathered around Li Xin, and their eyes were full of hot expectations.
Li Xin was greatly impressed by the people's hearts, and with a wave of his right hand, the Yanling knife was raised high, and he shouted: "Do you want to use the Tartar in your hand?" ”
"Who wouldn't want to? The Tartars burned, killed and looted, all kinds of evil, how many people died, but with the general's words, lead me to kill the Tartars! ”
This Zeng Dare is really a lovely person, with his words, he has to waste a lot of tongue, Li Xin is preparing to organize these bare-handed people to fight against the Tartars who are less than a thousand people.
"Please dodge a way first, let Li Xin's soldiers pass, everyone just need to follow behind and shout and cheer!"
"General Li also underestimates us and others, hiding behind like this, everyone will, what kind of Tartar do you kill?"
Zeng dared to argue in a loud voice.
Of course, Li Xin can't say that you follow me Li Xin to rush together and kill the Tartars together. The people are all timid, and I am afraid that they don't have the courage to let them fight against the Tartars, but let them follow behind and wave the flag and shout and cheer, the effect is different.
You don't have to rush to the front to die, you can also follow behind to watch the Ming official army attack the Tartars, and if you win, there will be a help, and you can count it in one fell swoop, why not.
Li Xin shook his hand on his horse.
"You are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xin is a soldier, and it is my duty to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty. With the cheers of the people of the Ming Dynasty, dare to fight to the death? ”
With that, he waved his hand again.
"The shape is urgent, please get out of the way and let Li Xin pass!"
The young man named Zeng Dare was still arguing, and someone immediately said: "Zeng Gongzi, General Li has said everything about this, don't you still understand what he means?" Don't be held back. ”
Zeng dared to look back and see that the person who spoke was a monk, his robe was dirty and he could no longer see his true colors, his face was scruffy, and his half-inch-long hair stubble arched out like weeds because he had not cleaned up for a long time. He transported half of the weather, but after all, he flashed to both sides with the team.
Li Xin rushed out with the musket team, and listed three horizontal columns in the open space vacated by the people, and at the same time, according to the orders of the sentinels, the chambers of the guns were cleared and the charges were ...... Coherent.
The people who watched it were dumbfounded, especially that Zeng Dare, who had never seen such a well-trained Ming official army, which was simply too different from the impression. The people were very cooperative, and under the word of mouth, everyone dodged the front of the musketeers, and rushed to the rear of the musketeers from both sides. In this way, the people behind Li Xin's musket team gathered more and more, and in the blink of an eye, no less than a few thousand people were gathered, and the momentum was terrifying.
Suddenly, a sharp-eyed musket team pointed ahead, "Look, the Tartars are here, it seems that he is still an official!" ”
"Shoot him!"
The people pointed to an officer on horseback, but saw that he was covered in armor. The young man named Zeng Dare knew that this armor was called Mingguang Armor, and ordinary people couldn't afford to wear it. Li Xin looked fixedly, and the person who took the lead was none other than Kong Youde, the former Qing Dynasty Gongshun Wang.
Kong Youde urged the horse and roared hoarsely: "Leader Li, don't fire, it's me, save me!" ”
Li Xin naturally would not order to shoot, the living Kong Youde is far more useful than a dead Kong Youde, if it weren't for the sake of this goods club manipulating firearms, with him being a traitor, aiding and abetting abuse, etc., killing him a hundred times is not too much, and all the musket projectiles deserve to shoot him into a sieve. Looking behind Kong Youde again, it was the cavalry that was entangled with the left team that was closely pursued, but he didn't know where Lu Jiu went? Those infantry armor soldiers should not be far away!
The soldier waved the command flag in his hand and signaled Kong Youde to dodge the range, but this guy didn't understand the flag language of the Gaoyang military order flag at all, and still rushed forward without a life. Li Xin had an idea and shouted to everyone: "Everyone shouts with me!" ”
"Get out of the way!"
The musketeers and civilians of the right team were stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted to why Li Xin was like this.
"Get out of the way!"
"Get out of the way!"
Thousands of mouths in unison, Kong Youde woke up like a dream, and the horse rushed to the side, and the more than 100 cavalry refused to turn, and rushed towards Li Xin's musket squad and the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Lu Jiu only felt that his throat was tight, Li Xin had told him that the cavalry was naturally the nemesis of the musket team, and when encountering cavalry on the battlefield, he had to try his best to avoid it, and if he wanted to win, he had to form another team or improve his weapons. But they are all general, and they don't say exactly how to do it.
But the crisis was imminent, and since Li Xin did not order a retreat, he had no choice but to make preparations to resist the charge of the Tartar cavalry.