Chapter 221: Night Attack 4

The numerically inferior Ming army gradually lost its strength and began to retreat into the city.

"My lord, it's not good, the Ming people have attacked from the rear, and they have already been killed outside the Zhongying Gate."

Ruan Youjing was supervising the battle in front, and a cavalryman rode up to him and said loudly.

"What, it's impossible for the Ming people to sneak attack our army's camp." Ruan Youjing naturally didn't believe it after hearing it, but the billowing smoke and fire from the camp in the rear made him have to believe it.

"The strength of the Ming people outside the city is only about one or two hundred people in a camp, and it is difficult to protect themselves, how can they attack the big camp." A general was also shocked when he looked at the fire in the direction of the camp.

"How many troops do the Ming people have?" Ruan Youjing asked.

"I saw that there were no less than a thousand people in the Ming people, but there were only about fifty people who attacked the Chinese army's camp." The cavalryman hurriedly said.

"My lord, the main force of the Fan army has returned." A co-organizer shouted at Li Shi.

"Lord Hidden Wu hopes that the general will return to the army immediately." After listening to the cavalry's report, several generals' faces changed.

"There are 800 defenders in the middle battalion, and it is difficult to stop the Ming people with the strength of the rear battalion." A Quang Nam general said angrily.

Under the city, the army defeated the Ming people with superior forces,

It was not easy for the Ming people in the turtle retreat city to come out, if the army was withdrawn because of this, wouldn't it be a way for the Ming army to survive.

"General, our army's heavy grain and grass are all in the back camp, if the Ming people set fire to the camp and our army's rescue is unfavorable and the army's heavy grain and grass are lost, then even if the Ming army is annihilated under the city, it is useless." A real Lapan general said.

For a time, the generals present were arguing.

The generals of Guangnan naturally wanted to take down the Ming army under the city in one go.

And the real general hopes to go back to the camp to fight the fire, after all, the commander is still in the middle camp, and the heavy grain and grass in the rear camp is related to the whole army.

In desperation, Ruan Youjing had to order the withdrawal of troops back to the camp.

He had to do this, because the generals of the left and right battalions had already privately ordered the recall of the two wings.

For a while, the pressure on the Ming people was greatly reduced, and they began to retreat calmly to the city.

The artillery on the Ming city wall also continued to bombard, supporting the Ming army below.

After Ruan Youjing ordered the withdrawal of the army, a large number of soldiers began to withdraw from the battlefield one after another, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they were non-stop towards the camp.

"My lord, the main force of the Fan people is returning to the camp." Ahead, several scouts reported.

"Oh, the army of Fanren is back, okay!" Li Shi smiled.

This meant that General Chen Shangchuan's army could withdraw to the city.

"Order the whole army to retreat immediately, and don't worry about the heavy grain and grass that hasn't been burned, and withdraw quickly." Li Shidao.

But Li Liu was not happy, on the one hand, Lin Xu had not yet withdrawn, and there were still a few places in the back camp that had not yet been burned down.

Seeing Ruan Youjing's cavalry, he was rushing towards the camp. Li Shi was already anxious at the moment, and hurriedly persuaded, "Sixth Brother Li, the army of Fanren has been killed, if we don't leave, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave." ”

Li Liu smiled and said: "General Li, wait a minute, you see, the camp of the Fan people is already in chaos, and it is too late to even put out the fire, I'm afraid they won't be able to take care of us." Hurry, let's quickly order the first few middle camp tents. ”

Hearing that Li Liu wanted to kill directly in the middle camp, Li Shi almost didn't lose his breath.

"The Fanren army has returned to the camp, Lord Chen's army has returned to the city, and now our army has set fire to the entire Fanren back camp, if you don't hurry up and take advantage of the chaos to kill out, it will be too late for the main force of Fanren to arrive." Li Shi was already impatient, and hurriedly ordered the Ming officers and soldiers to withdraw from the camp immediately.

Fortunately, in addition to dealing with the sneak attack of the Ming people, the Fanda army is still desperately fighting fires.

Seeing the rapid withdrawal of the Ming army, Mosin breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Ming people continue to stay in the camp and set fire to it and attack, I am afraid that the rear camp will really be over, but fortunately, Ruan Youjing led the army to arrive in time.

At this time, Lin Xu carried Zhao Shen behind his back and joined Li Liu and others, and everyone immediately fled from the Fanren camp.

"Damn, these Ming people are so cunning that they ran away." Ruan Youjing had just led the army back to the middle camp, but he heard that the Ming people had withdrawn.

This made Ruan Youjing furious, and immediately ordered a pursuit.

Hundreds of cavalry immediately pursued in the direction of the Ming people's escape.

The speed of the Ming army's running on foot was naturally not as fast as the speed pursued by Ruan Youjing's cavalry.

It didn't take long for the Fanren cavalry to catch up with the Ming people's infantry.

Since the Ming people were in a hurry to travel at night, they all carried torches, which was very clear at night.

Hundreds of horsemen hurriedly took bows and shot at the infantry in the rear of the Ming army.

The Ming army ran ahead, and naturally it was caught off guard.

In addition, the number of wooden cards in the Ming army is small, and even if it is blocked, it can only protect a few people on the side.

The Ming officers and soldiers in the rear were directly exposed to the rain of arrows.

A rain of arrows struck, and the Ming officers and soldiers in the rear fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing that the cavalry in the rear was chasing after him, Li Liu was furious and directly led the officers and soldiers of Huben Town to stop behind.

Dozens of firearms were aimed at the cavalry in pursuit.

Twenty wooden players used wooden cards to protect the firecrackers to prevent the arrows of the fanqi from hurting the Mingren.

"Bang... Bang bang"

Seeing the fire light from the fire gun in front of him, he smiled at the front fanqi, confident that the rattan armor on his body could prevent it.

After all, there are still more than twenty steps away from the Mingren Fire Gun, and even if you hit it, you can't break the rattan armor.

Suddenly, a sharp pain came from the front chest of one of the cavalrymen, and when he looked closely, there was a hole the size of a finger in his chest.

I touched my chest again, and there was a burst of dampness and heat in my hands.

Before he could react, he fell headlong to the ground.

After a salvo, before the horsemen could react, another round of bullets soon came.

The more than ten cavalry who rushed to the front were knocked off their horses in a moment.

You must know that they are still twenty paces away from the Ming people.

Ruan Youjing hadn't seen firearms, but this time he found that the Ming army he met tonight was a bit fierce.

For a while, he slowed down and didn't dare to continue to rush forward.

When the Ming people saw that it was good, they took it, and when they saw that the cavalry of the Fan people no longer rushed forward, they immediately fled.

Ruan Youjing didn't dare to take the liberty of pursuing, and kept following behind and shooting towards the rear of the Ming army with bows and arrows.

Li Liu only has more than 100 people in his hands, and his two legs are naturally not as fast as a horse's four legs.

"Brother Lin, are you ready?" Looking at the rain of arrows in front of him, the angry Li Liu shouted.

The Ming army outside the camp was not unprepared.

On the hill, the Ming people arranged the Franc cannon and the Thunder Flying Cannon.

Seeing that Fanqi had already entered the range of the Franc machine, Lin Xu hurriedly ordered to fire.

The gunners on the side couldn't hold it anymore, and when they saw the fan cavalry entering the firing range, they hurriedly lit the fire rope.

"Bang!"

"Bang... Bang bang"

Six Franc cannons, thunder cannons slammed into the chasing fancai.

A bright light like lightning instantly emitted, and several white fires exploded on the huge hill, and several pounds of lead bullets shot out and smashed into the cavalry of Fanren.

Ruan Youjing secretly screamed badly, but he didn't expect that the Ming people would even set up an ambush.

Several buckshots smashed over, and one of them directly smashed half of a warhorse.

The most fierce thing is that the two thunder cannons shoot out and shoot flowering shells, this thing is simply a group killing weapon.

A flowering bullet exploded directly in the cavalry group, and directly overturned seven or eight cavalrymen and war horses around them to the ground.

The iron sand swept in, and everywhere it went, it turned out that people and horses were overturned, and rivers of blood flowed.