Chapter 50: The Dilemma
When Chen Ying fought with the generals of the Qing army, perhaps there was a battle between the generals of the two armies in the dark, and Su Yan also met Tong Guoqi, who was separated from his own soldiers.
Even though the two had never met at close range before, Tong Guoqi still recognized the young man in front of him at the first glance when he saw Su Yan, who was Su Yan who had defeated him several times.
"Su Yi, accept your life!"
There was no nonsense, the enemies were very red when they saw each other, Tong Guoqi raised his saber, slapped the horse and killed Su Yan, Su Yan was not afraid, he held a gun in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, and took the initiative to face Tong Guoqi.
The two were only ten meters apart, and when they were about to fight, Su Yan suddenly raised the handcuff in his left hand and shouted: "The era of adults has changed!" ”
Before Tong Guoqi understood this sentence, he pulled the trigger, and the handcuff accurately hit Tong Guoqi within five meters, making a small hole in his chest, Tong Guoqi's figure shook a little, and the momentum of the charge was stagnant!
Su Yan also took advantage of this opportunity to shorten the distance between him and Tong Guoqi, he regretted in his heart that the handcuff did not penetrate the armor At the same time, his right hand did not hesitate to cut down on Tong Guoqi's unprotected neck, but this blow was not fatal, but he dodged it, slashed it in his chest, and was cut open with a large hole, revealing the iron piece inside.
"Despicable villain, dare to let go of the cold gun!"
The two passed by, Tong Guoqi covered the place where he was still faintly painful, and scolded, Su Yan sneered, did not answer, and put the useless handcuff back on his waist with regret.
Seeing that Su Yan didn't take himself in his eyes like this, Tong Guoqi was furious, and drove his horse towards Su Yan again, Su Yan knew that he was not good at martial arts, and he was definitely not the opponent of Tong Guoqi behind the gate, so he did not hesitate to use his ultimate skill-
Great Summoning!
"Up! Kill Tong Guoqi! ”
Su Yan waved his hand, and immediately two cavalry guards stepped forward from both sides, entangled with Tong Guoqi, and Su Yan then rushed up, and the three of them surrounded Tong Guoqi together.
Even if he was wearing two layers of cotton armor on his body, he was still invincible with two fists and four hands, and after only a few rounds of fighting, Tong Guoqi's body was cut in many places, and the outermost layer of cotton clothes was tattered, revealing the iron armor with many scratches inside, which looked extremely embarrassing.
At this moment, a burst of cheers suddenly sounded on the battlefield in front of them, and everyone's attention was attracted by those sounds.
The rout of the Qing army in Anxi seemed to have become a fuse, and soon another Qing army also scattered and fled under the attack of the Tengpai battalion and the Zhongwu battalion, and the guerrilla Wuzhong was killed by Lin Xingzhu with a flintlock rifle.
After the defeat of the other two Qing armies, the Tengpai Battalion and the Zhongwu Battalion did not rest, and directly attacked the Qing army's main formation on the frontal battlefield, and the balance of victory on the battlefield gradually tilted to the side of the righteous army.
Seeing the defeat of the Qing army on both sides, Tong Guoqi was directly distracted in the battle, and was almost beheaded by Su Yan, he hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, but his helmet was hit by Su Yan and flew to the side, revealing his ugly bald head.
The helmet was knocked off, Tong Guoqi panicked for a while, and wanted to withdraw from the battle, but how could Su Yan give him a chance to quit, he chased after him relentlessly, forcing Tong Guoqi to hug his head and run away, and at this time, Tong Guoqi's personal soldiers finally killed back, blocking the way of Su Yan and others, so that Tong Guoqi could get out of the battle.
After breaking away from the battle, Tong Guoqi knew that there was no possibility of his side turning defeat into victory in this battle, and in order to reduce losses, he immediately ordered the army to withdraw to the reinforced Xianjia Village, trying to rely on Xianjia Village to hold on, and then wait for reinforcements to arrive.
With Tong Guoqi's order, the Qing soldiers who were already not high in morale began to retreat slowly, but the rebels did not intend to let them withdraw smoothly, and pursued and fought all the way, coupled with the addition of the rattan battalion and the Zhongwu battalion, the retreat gradually evolved into an orderly rout, and a large number of Qing soldiers took advantage of the chaos to take off their heavy armor and fled in all directions, fleeing into the surrounding mountains and forests.
Seeing that the infantry began to rout, and the cavalry of the Qing army, which had already gained the upper hand, had no fighting spirit, they took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, leaned towards the handsome banner of "Fujian Governor Tong", and covered Tong Guoqi to take the lead in retreating into Xianjia Village.
In this chaotic situation, Tong Guoqi can no longer control the troops other than the Qing cavalry around him, but he is also unwilling to abandon the army and flee back to Quanzhou Mansion in embarrassment, he knows very well in his heart that if he escapes back like this, let alone the position of governor of Fujian, it is very likely that the identity of the banner man will not be able to keep him.
Therefore, after retreating into Xianjia Village, he began to collect the rout troops who fled in, organized defense, and at the same time sent a few personal soldiers who fled back with him to Quanzhou Mansion to tell the Quanzhou prefect about the matter here, and then the Quanzhou prefect reported to Chen Jin, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Not long after the soldiers fled, the rebels bypassed Xianjia Village and surrounded the entire village.
Su Yan also had no intention of taking advantage of the chaos to kill into the village, and after chasing and killing outside the range of the Qing army in the village, he ordered to stop the pursuit, gather the troops to count the losses, and collect the routs to count the number of people.
The besieged Tong Guoqi also issued the same order as Su Yan, and after the people under his command counted the losses and reported it, Tong Guoqi almost fainted, there were more than 4,000 soldiers before the war, and until now, there are only less than 2,000 people left in the village, and there are even many people who are empty in these less than 2,000 people, and they don't know where to throw their weapons.
What's more, the nearly 2,000 people were besieged in the small village of Xianjia, which was extremely congested, and the food stored in the village was not enough for them to hold out until reinforcements arrived, and even the most optimistic estimates could only hold out for less than seven days.
The lack of food is not too serious, but the problem of water shortage is even more serious, and there is a small well in the center of the village, which is more than enough to supply the villagers on weekdays, but it is very cold to put it on nearly 2,000 people.
The reason why Su Yan would let the Qing army retreat was because of this, the Qing army that Quanzhou Mansion could mobilize was basically trapped here by him, so he didn't have to worry about the Qing army's reinforcements coming over, he wanted to slowly trap these Qing troops and let them feel what it meant to be desperate.
Just as Su Yan wanted to see, the Qing army, which had just been surrounded and realized the problem of food and water, fell into despair, at this time they were completely in a situation of running out of ammunition and food, food and water were scarce, and they could not even have a weapon in their hands.
The morale of the Qing army was low, and many people began to think about waiting for night to fall, and then secretly went out to surrender to the rebels outside.