Chapter 0337: Matchup
If you can't fight, you have to fight, and Li Rubai was also forced into a desperate situation.
After another night of repairs on the battlefield, the 'revolutionary army' could not hold out, and it was determined that it was to defend and counterattack conservatively. The Ming army raised its tent early the next morning, and all the soldiers had a hearty meal. Li Rubai shouted in the military tent: "Wu Gongtian." ”
A general stood up and replied, "Mark it down." ”
"You lead 500 people to attack the East Mountain of Muchangyi, and you must annihilate all the thieves."
"Order."
"Yu Shouzhi."
Another general stood up and replied in a loud voice, "Mark it in." ”
"You lead 500 men to attack the West Mountain of Muchangyi, and you must not let one go."
"Order."
"Zheng Zhifan."
"The lower official is here."
"You stay in the camp, and you must not make a mistake."
"The lower officials will definitely live up to the trust of adults."
"The rest of the people will follow me out of the camp and go to find the Zhou clan's anti-thieves to fight to the death."
Li Rubai looked around in the military tent, and everyone in the tent was solemn and full of fighting spirit. With his official position as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, the generals present did not dare to disagree. Even Luo Lie and Ouyang Jun, who came with them, also responded loudly, always fighting bravely in their faces, not to be left behind.
Leaving the camp to blow the trumpet, a group of soldiers lined up from the camp with the sound of the whining trumpet. In the past few days, the sentry of the 'revolutionary army' has been constantly harassing the army at night, either burning the barracks with rockets or beating gongs and drums. The Ming troops who rushed to Kiba Station were all emaciated, and their spirits were not good.
Li Rubai's more than 300 soldiers were the first to go out of the camp, with more than 100 cavalry and more than 200 infantry troops. This is the only elite in the entire Ming army. The other miscellaneous fish soldiers were all dressed in tatters, and they bowed their heads and drooped as they walked, listless.
However, the Ming army was not without advantages, and the generals, including Li Rubai, all had good cultivation, and they had the advantage of numbers and cultivation in their personal forces. Especially Li Rubai himself, in addition to his muscles and bones, qi and blood, his cultivation of the fourth layer of his soul can completely command a large number of soldiers to form a military formation. Although the beggar-like military household completely ignored him, the more than 300 Ding Ding appeared aggressive under his integration.
The ravines in front of the Kiba Post were used to stop the cavalry from attacking quickly, and Zhou Qingfeng stood on a watchtower behind the ravines and raised his binoculars, and the first thing he paid attention to was Li Rubai, who was surrounded by the generals - the latter would never have imagined that Zhou Qingfeng would be able to see him out of the camp five miles away.
"When the enemy comes, let the combat sappers bury the mines and install the pull fuse."
"Inform Gao Daniu and Li Yanxi that the enemy has divided two forces and headed towards them. Although they all look like miscellaneous fish, don't take them lightly. ”
"Let Han Shi be on standby and recuperate."
Zhou Qingfeng gave orders at the watchtower, and Qiao Xuenian, who was with him, was born as a communications soldier, and waved two flags in his hand to send orders into the distance. Flags during the day, signal lights at night. Although it is complicated, as long as it is mastered, it is more efficient and easy to use than a communication soldier.
After the flag was heard, Sang Wenlai, who was on the front position, ordered his men to lay mines in front of the Kiba post position. In fact, it was a five-kilogram explosive package with a fuse that was pulled out, and it was arranged 30 meters outside the position before the battle.
The combat sappers jumped out of the trench and trotted to the pre-dug pit with explosives bags on their backs. The explosives bag was thrown into the pit, the fuse was gently hooked, and he turned and ran. The explosives were purchased from the Ming army in the two states of Haigai and were deliberately granulated by the wet method. The craftsmen of the 'revolutionary army' also broke through the technology of copper wire fuse.
The ground outside Kiba Station is open. But on the five-mile road, Li Rubai's men walked for an hour. When they arrived 500 meters away from the Kiba Post position, more than 100 of them began to speed up and run over, deliberately running back and forth outside the range of bows and arrows of 100 meters, shouting and shouting to boost their own prestige and suppress the enemy's morale.
"It's a pity that Lao Tzu doesn't have a cannon." Zhou Qingfeng was also helpless, "Otherwise, a grenade shotgun will be cool." ”
Qiao Xuenian stood behind Zhou Qingfeng, also observing the battlefield. He shouted loudly: "Young marshal, our east and west mountains are surrounded by the enemy. ”
The east and west mountains are just small slopes dozens of meters above the ground, and a group of Ming soldiers called Huazi are scribbling around the mountains. The general who led the team was not low, at least a guerrilla, and shouted in front of the ring fortifications on the hill, shouting and inviting to fight. But they only scolded but did not attack, surrounded but did not fight.
Li Rubai, who was on the front, took more than 200 infantry soldiers and 1,000 soldiers to press the formation, advanced to about 200 meters, and stopped again to line up. His cavalry immediately rushed forward, killing Zhou Qingfeng's rear from the left flank. They began to accelerate at a distance of fifty meters from the trench on the ground, attempting to leap over.
Zhou Qingfeng only glanced at it, and Sang Wenlai, who was in charge of frontal defense, also looked in the direction of the enemy's cavalry assault. At the breakthrough point chosen by the enemy, a sapper platoon commander shouted from his command point: "Pull eighteen and nineteen." ”
The engineer squad leader below immediately repeated the platoon commander's order and shouted angrily: "Pull the eighteenth and nineteenth." ”
The two sappers holding the rope in the ravine hurriedly looked up, and when they saw that the enemy was coming towards them, they hurriedly pulled the hemp rope wrapped around their hands. The already taut rope was violently twitched, and the copper wire in the fuse was rapidly rubbed and heated in the ignition powder, igniting the gunpowder in an instant.
More than 100 Ming cavalry were speeding over the explosives pack, and the five-kilogram explosives bag under the horse's hooves exploded violently. Waves of air erupted within ten meters of the explosion point, and the strong high-temperature air flow was like a spreading wall, slamming into the galloping enemy.
The horses flew up, and the riders fell.
At the moment of the explosion, Zhou Qingfeng's heart returned to his chest. In the training of the chessboard, the infantry who faced the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry often had great psychological fear. Many people did not dare to raise their heads when they heard the rumbling horses' hooves, and even jumped out of the trench and turned around to run, or pulled the fuse in advance, and all kinds of bad conditions occurred in repeated drills.
And after dozens or hundreds of exercises, today's sappers performed excellently. Two explosive packets spaced twenty meters apart just broke the enemy's cavalry ranks. No less than a dozen people were killed and injured on the spot, and the enemy's cavalry was even intercepted into two parts, the front and rear, and fell into great psychological fear.
Horses are very timid animals, and the explosion makes them extremely panicked. Most of the cavalry that survived near the explosion point were overturned by the irascible horses, and even the cavalry farther away from the explosion point had to stop their horses and flee in horror.
Under Zhou Qingfeng's watchtower, Sang Wenlai jumped out. He shouted excitedly at the smoke and dust of the explosion, beating his chest, "I am a combat engineer, mighty!" ”
All the combat sappers were extremely excited, and the two sappers who personally pulled the fuse were even more screaming like tigers. Hearing Sang Wenlai's shout, there was an immediate echo on the battlefield - I am a combat engineer, mighty!
Isn't it mighty to be able to easily blow people up to the sky!
The morale of the sappers was overwhelming, and many of them jumped out with small axes they had been distributed, shouting and cheering.
Zhou Qingfeng stood on the watchtower and ordered: "Cavalry company, attack!" Sweep away the cavalry of the Ming army. ”
Qiao Xuenian waved the signal flag in his hand continuously, and the combat sappers on the ground hurriedly laid a batch of thick planks prepared on the trench. Han Shi, who was waiting in Kiba Post City, immediately jumped off the wall, stepped on his demon pig, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, the enemy's cavalry has been blown up by those diggers. Take advantage of his illness and ask for his life. Follow me! ”
The cavalry company consisted of 120 men, and only 90 cavalrymen were removed from the service branches. Han Shi, the company commander, took the lead in the attack, led his men out of the east gate of the post city, turned and crossed the trench through the planks laid by the sappers, and accelerated towards the Ming cavalry.
Li Rubai was pressing the formation in the infantry ranks, directing his subordinates to fight through the sound of the trumpet. He ordered his cavalrymen to raid around the left flank, with the aim of entering the opponent's flank and disrupting the position of the 'revolutionary army' and disrupting its morale. He knew that two violent explosions on the other side had destroyed his imagination. When he heard the rumbling sound, he stood up on his mount, "Are these thieves still can't be cannon?" ”
If you look at it clearly, it's worse than having a cannon.
More than a hundred cavalrymen assaulted, and the result was as if they had rushed into a strange cloud of smoke. At first, a large number of stumps and broken arms flew out, and then panicked horses scurried out of the fog, and the cavalry on horseback often disappeared, or hung on stirrups to mop the floor - the money for one cavalryman was enough to support ten infantrymen, how much was scrapped at this time?
Li Rubai has been at home for 20 years, and it takes a lot of effort to maintain this family. Seeing that this heart and soul had entered the ghost gate set by the enemy, Li Rubai's heart suddenly ached, and he almost cried blood.
The Jinzhou generals who followed Li Rubai were even more shocked, and no one expected that a group of anti-thieves would make such a battle. Ouyang Jun, who was mixed with the generals, immediately felt the threat to his life, and quietly pulled Luo Lie's sleeve and whispered, "Brother Luo, go quickly." Safety first. ”
"Let's go?" Luo Lie was also in a daze by the explosion, and when he looked back, Ouyang Jun was not joking, but really wanted to evacuate. He also lowered his voice and shouted, "You dare to go? The army retreated back and forth, aren't you afraid that you will be taken down by Master Li on the spot and correct the law on the spot? ”
Ouyang Jun shook his head, "My father had the foresight to let me practice peerless light skills. You can pick flowers and jade, and you can live in peace when you retreat. My dad was so nice to me. Leave! ”
After saying that, Ouyang Jun really ran away.
As soon as the generals were trembling, they saw the gates of Kiba Station wide open, and a team of fierce cavalry quickly slaughtered. One of the generals who led the team actually rode a wild boar with a fat head and a strong body.
The boar snorted all the way, and crashed into the smoke of the explosion outside the position. Han Shi, who was riding a pig to assault, rushed to the front with a scimitar in his hand, and slashed the Ming cavalry who were scurrying like headless flies off their horses one by one.
Ninety cavalry members of the cavalry company followed, like a violent wind, sweeping past at an interval of about five meters. It's like a big broom that empties the remnants of the enemy on the battlefield in one go.
Li Rubai screamed for this angry wow, and his heart was bitter. He shouted, "Who can kill this for me?" This official is rewarded. ”
One saw that Han Shi invaded like a raging fire, sweeping across the battlefield. Luo Lie, who was in the crowd of generals, was eager to try. It's just that before him, the Jurchen barbarian Borzi, who was following Li Rubai, was the first to attack. As soon as he whistled, he led more than a dozen of his men to rush out, and scolded loudly: "What's so great about a Han cavalry general? I don't know how to ride a horse, but I can ride a pig, and watch me take other people's heads. ”