Chapter 398: The Border Army Enters the City (I)
On the battlefield, one cannon after another roared back and forth, and the Tang Tong Division, the Gao Di Division, and the Baoding Army guarding under the Guangqu Gate who were ordered to attack first paid a certain amount of casualties.
Tang Tong and Gao Erren are also battle-hardened generals, and after two rounds of artillery bombardment, they quickly judged the specific location and direction of the artillery deployment on the Ming army city wall.
"Quickly raise the flag, inform the teams to disperse, and press up from the junction of the Dongbian Gate and the Guangqu Gate."
Looking at the soldiers who kept falling, Gao Di and Tang Tong's hearts were dripping blood, these soldiers were veterans who had followed them for a long time, and they were also the foundation for them to maintain their rights in this troubled era, but they had to order them to continue to attack.
To surrender the army, you must have the consciousness of surrendering the army, and only by carrying out military orders can you gain a sufficient position in the Jingbei military system.
In the rumbling cannonball, the battle lines of the Baoding Army and the Jingbei Army were getting closer and closer, and they soon collided together.
"Puff, puff, puff......!"
The sound of spears entering the flesh sounded, and the soldiers on both sides who were in the lead fell to the ground, and countless spears and broadswords on the battlefield were mixed together, and the shouts of killing became one.
The severed arms and legs cut by the big knife were everywhere, like Shura's hell. There are not a few people who have been stabbed through the chest with spears, and some soldiers are still rushing forward to kill when their stomachs are broken, and the organs hanging from their chests are dripping everywhere.
Huang Wenchang wanted to show himself in front of the officials of the Beijing Division, and Gao Di and Tang Tong had to deal with Li Xingzhi's military orders and confuse the officials and troops on the city wall, so both sides worked hard.
One side is a veteran soldier who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and the other side is a new recruit who has practiced the white pole soldiers and the mandarin duck soldiers.
On the battlefield, more and more soldiers were killed and wounded on both sides, and the soldiers who had been replenished to the front fell one by one.
It's just that the Baoding soldiers know that they will win, and the ordinary soldiers of the Miyun soldiers and the Guanning army don't know that this is acting, but after all, they are newly surrendered soldiers, and their morale is naturally different from that of the Baoding army.
"Spread out, spread out, let the artillery team go up!"
Under Huang Wenchang's strict orders, the artillery team of the Baoding Army was pushed to the front.
"Hurry up, fire fire!"
Xu Zhijian, who commanded the Baoding guerrilla of the artillery team, gave a loud order.
Nearly 30 600-pound small cannons were ignited by the gunners in turn, and dense scattered bullets were blasted at the flanks of the Miyun soldiers and the Guanning army, and the Miyun soldiers and the Guanning army, who were fighting with the Baoding soldiers, fell again.
"Retreat, retreat!"
As soon as the battle began, the soldiers under his command suffered five or six hundred casualties, which made Tang Tong and Gao Di heartbroken, and now Huang Wenchang of this dog day has made another dead hand, and he has been bombarded by the opponent's artillery team for a few rounds, and his own military horses are not going to die.
Tang Tong and Gao Di, who undertook the task of deception, took the lead in retreating back with their own soldiers.
"Defeated, defeated......!"
The unknown Miyun soldiers and Guan Ning Jun suddenly lost their backbone, threw down the swords and spears in their hands one by one, and fled frantically in the direction of Tang Tong and the others' general banners.
"Sons, kill the enemy with Ben Shuai! Ben Shuai is going to tear Tang Tong this traitor with his own hands. ”
Huang Wenchang was in high spirits, and the green dragon broadsword in his hand pointed directly at Tang Tong's general flag.
Zhang Da and Xu Zhijian also roared angrily, and the horses and knives followed the direction of Miyun soldiers and Guan Ningjun's escape, and the two of them led their own soldiers to rush forward desperately.
At this time, Tang Tong and Gao Di could not hold the military horses in their hands, hundreds of soldiers were cut down to the ground by the Baoding army that caught up, and more soldiers squatted on the ground with their heads in fright, looking at the surging Baoding soldiers in fear.
"Okay, Huang Shuai is really as brave as Guan Zhang, and three thousand soldiers actually defeated the same number of rebels in one hour."
Looking at the Baoding Soldier Beijing Battalion Commander Li Guozhen, who was like a tiger under the city, his fist slammed heavily on the pillar at the city gate tower.
"Uncle Xiangcheng, Huang Shuai's troops are insufficient, even if he wins, I am afraid that he will not be able to overcome all his achievements, and the last general will ask to lead the Yongwei battalion out of the city to break the thieves."
Huang Degong, the chief soldier of the Yongwei Battalion, was also excited, he was also a battle-hardened general, so he naturally knew that the current situation was very favorable to him.
"This ...... This, Ben Bo sees that there are still more than 10,000 military horses in the rear of the rebel army, and a large number of cavalry, let's take a look at it again, if Huang Shuai can urge the rout army to roll back into the rebel army's big array, wouldn't it be better for General Huang to lead his troops down to the city to help the battle. ”
The Beijing camp is the last force guarding the Beijing division, Li Guozhen thought about it for a long time and still didn't dare to attack rashly, after all, the city of Beijing is too big, and this little military horse in the Beijing camp can't tolerate any losses.
"That's?"
Zhou Yuji, the general of the Beijing camp, pointed to the cavalry of the Jingbei Army who was forming a formation in confusion.
Just when Li Guozhen rejected Huang Degong's request for battle, there was another change in the military formation of the Jingbei Army in the distance, and nearly 2,000 people with green flags came out of the Jingbei Army formation and integrated into three dense cavalry formations.
"It's Manchurian soldiers, how can they play the green flag?"
Huang Degong was shocked, Chongzhen broke through the pass in the eleventh year of Dongyu, he also fought with the army and the Qing army, and he was naturally very familiar with the dragon banner of the Manchurian soldiers.
"Kuaimingjin, Kuaimingjin, Huang Shuai's hands are all infantry, and now there is no formation, where can I withstand the assault of so many cavalry."
Li Guozhen was shocked, and the prestige of the Manchurian soldiers in the Central Plains made him panic.
"Woo, woo, woo......!"
In the desolate sound of the horn, more than 2,000 cavalry of the Jingbei Army began to move forward slowly.
The scattered Miyun soldiers and the Guanning army were all veterans who had been fighting against the Dongyu for a long time, although the officers and soldiers behind them made them afraid, but the Manchurian soldiers in front of them were even more terrifying existences.
"Li Xingzhi, you are really beating this dog! actually used Manchurian soldiers, quickly raise the flag, let's withdraw, Zhang Da, you lead two infantry teams of white pole soldiers to line up to resist the enemy! ”
Huang Wenchang, who was showing off his might, was also angry looking at the officers and soldiers who were frantically fleeing towards the two wings in front of him and the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry that appeared on the horizon, he knew that if he didn't retreat, once he was caught up by this group of cavalry, even if it was a fake battle, this loss would not be something he could bear.
"Whoa!"
Zhang Da and Li Xingzhi are old acquaintances, although he knows that the current Fang Fang is fighting with the Jingbei Army is just doing, it is completely to deceive the trust of Li Guozhen and Emperor Chongzhen, so as to allow the Baoding army to enter the city.
"Listen to Lao Tzu, our task is to intercept Li Dashuai's cavalry, you can rest assured, anyone who is killed or injured in battle, Huang Shuai will double the compensation, provided that we must drag the main force back to Dazhai."
Even if the more than 2,000 cavalry were divided into three teams, each row of 800, and spread out in a relatively dense formation, it was still a mile wide.
The green flag is running wildly together, just like the waves crashing on the shore, the devastating momentum, the deafening roar, which is thrilling.
The artillery of the Baoding soldiers roared first, and the dense barrage swept down the cavalry that rushed within two hundred paces, and the fallen war horse rolled out more than ten steps away with the huge inertia.
Immediately afterwards, the musketeers also began to shoot in formation, and the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and one after another with the roar of death kept penetrating the bodies of the Manchurian cavalry.
Antigua endured huge casualties and rushed to Zhang Dabu's interception position with great ferocity. The galloping war horses were like meteorites flying by, and the two-zhang long horse pistols filled the whole body with great strength, violently breaking through the gun forest shield wall in front of the white pole soldiers.