Chapter 12 Sending Troops

The horn whimpered, and the Ming army began to send troops from the urn cities at various city gates.

This was to gather some of the troops before leaving the city, and at the same time to avoid the enemy directly taking the city gates.

As the chief soldier of Changping, You Shiwei has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his jurisdiction, and his main task is to protect the imperial tomb of the Ming Dynasty.

Although it is a mausoleum guard, the strength of this unit is not bad. Later, Ning Nanbo Zuo Liangyu, who was in power all over the world, was a family that made a fortune by participating in the suppression of bandits with the capital of Changping soldiers.

This is also why after Man Gui left, he gave the command of the Qin Wangjun to You Shiwei, instead of Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu. Although Hou Shilu originally had a stronger army, he was tossed by the military department before and suffered a defeat, and now he is only 3,000 men.

In the military system of the late Ming Dynasty, the family background of the general soldier determined the combat ability of the troops, so You Shiwei was also the most capable general in the capital.

When the army went out of the city, the Jianzhou army did not stop it, but just gathered the formation and waited for it.

You Shiwei led a total of 8,000 elite soldiers to fight this time.

Although the number of people is small, Jianzhou did not go out to attack the city, and the siege troops located under the city are actually about 10,000 people, and the Ming army has more fire support from the city.

The Ming army out of the city seized the time and first threw portable deer firewood and rejecting horses to the front of the military formation to resist the possible charge of the Jianzhou army and create space for the expansion of their own formation.

If the Jianzhou cavalry took advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold at this time and destroyed the Ming army's fortifications, it should be able to cause considerable losses to the Ming army.

However, the Jianzhou army did not do this, but withdrew the bulky chariots that had been used to defend against the fire at the head of the city from the front of the battle.

In the Ming army array, You Shiwei looked at the abnormal Jianzhou army formation, and his expression was a little dignified.

This is not the first time he has played against Jianzhou.

During the Apocalypse, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the central part of Shanhaiguan, followed the marshal Mangui to aid Ningyuan, and fought with Jianzhou outside the city, and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Changping for his merits.

In his impression, the Jianzhou soldiers were like cunning big feline beasts, and they would spend a lot of time patrolling and confronting each other before the war.

Once you find a weak point, be sure to take a large chunk of flesh from the enemy.

Sensing the abnormality, You Shiwei quickly ordered his subordinates to give orders and form a formation as soon as possible.

When the Ming army was fighting, it always liked to put artillery and projection fire in front of the battle. The Changping soldiers launched more than a dozen tiger squat cannons, relying on the rejection of horses, and fired at the Jianzhou soldiers.

However, as a traditional artillery, the power and range of the Tiger Squat Cannon were still limited, and I saw that the Jianzhou army formation retreated quickly like a wave, retreating to 300 steps away from the Ming gunners.

This round of shotgun salvos did not achieve any decent results except for a few corpses.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and the Ming army had already fired its cannons. The armored knights in the Jianzhou army quickly dismounted and charged against the rejecting horses arranged by the Ming army.

Seeing this, You Shiwei hurriedly ordered a change of formation, moved the gunners to the rear of the line, and ordered the spearmen to resist the enemy, and the sword and shield soldiers to guard his side.

From an outsider's point of view, the Changping army has a rejection of horses outside, spears and shields inside, and a tight defense like an iron bucket.

However, when the dismounted knights of the Jianzhou army rushed to the Ming army's military formation, blood splashed in an instant.

One of the knights took the lead, leaping between the two spears.

A long knife in the oblique stab cut through the weak spot of his armor, but the man in turn clamped the blade hard, and then grabbed the spear with both hands and stirred it, knocking down three or four people in one fell swoop.

The Jianzhou army behind him caught a glimpse of the loophole here, as if they smelled a fishy smell, and poured in from this breach one after another, beheading the Ming army who were still lying on the ground.

Although the rest of the Ming army was nominally elite, they also stopped at following orders on the battlefield and just following the crowd.

In the face of this sudden situation, whether it is an ordinary soldier or a team leader, they are a little confused, and they don't know how to make up for this gap.

On the other hand, the Jianzhou soldiers flocked to the knight who broke the formation like a banner, and under his command, they efficiently killed the pikemen around them, constantly expanding this gap.

For a while, the Ming Dynasty military array, which was originally tightly knit, seemed to have been drilled a crack at this point, and there was a vague tendency to crumble.

Seeing this, You Shiwei frowned, and shouted that the family members around him followed, holding a spear in his hand, and rushed here surrounded by his own soldiers.

The Jianzhou knight who took the lead in breaking the formation just now seemed to be still a commander, and he was also protected by the Jianzhou soldiers who entered the formation together at this moment.

Seeing You Shiwei coming, this person suddenly let out a strange scream, brushed aside his subordinates, and stepped forward to confront You Shiwei.

With a full beard, he used a cloth to stick a cloth into the wound on his right flank that was still bleeding, and he didn't care at all, and picked up the long knife in his left hand and pointed it straight at You Shiwei.

The meaning of the challenge is unmistakable.

You Shiwei secretly thought to himself, this person is very brave, with a white tassel gun on his helmet, and there are such soldiers guarding him, he is obviously a character.

So he also held the iron gun in his hand and slowly paced forward.

Count silently, fifteen steps away from this person.

In the midst of lightning, You Shiwei suddenly took out the iron hammer pinned to his waist, and shot this person in the head.

It's a pity that the power of the Ming Dynasty's handle iron gun is average, and You Shiwei also lost his head when he was nervous, and this shot just grazed the man's cheek and broke his helmet.

Although this man's face was dripping with blood and screaming in pain, he did not hurt his life, and he still rushed up with his teeth and claws to fight against this treacherous Ming Dynasty military attaché.

But You Shiwei didn't feel that he had used the wrong means.

The knights who drove the people under the city before were these white tasseled kings.

Cried out in his heart for pity, You Shiwei clenched the spear in his hand and prepared to meet the enemy.

Who knew that at this time, these family members around him had also followed him for a long time, and they took out their handcuffs in a similar way.

Suddenly, there was a loud gunshot, the fog and white gunpowder smoke dispersed, and five or six Jianzhou warriors on the opposite side fell, if it weren't for two Jianzhou soldiers rushing in front of the Jianzhou military attache who was wounded in the cheek, I am afraid that this person would also die on the spot.

Perhaps it was the sound of gunfire that calmed this person down a bit, and he no longer entangled with You Shiwei, but turned around and climbed on the rejection horse with the support of the people around him, and was about to return.

And the Jianzhou soldiers on the opposite side of the rejection horse no longer seemed to have the will to attack, but just surrounded this person and escorted him to retreat slowly.

Seeing that the enemy was repulsed, the surrounding Ming troops suddenly burst into momentum, and stabbed and slashed at the Jianzhou soldiers who had no time to retreat.

Cutting melons and vegetables, there were more than a dozen corpses of Jianzhou soldiers on the battlefield, which were chopped into meat puree.

You Shiwei didn't have time to be happy, so he instructed his subordinates to remember to behead, and rushed to various fronts with his family members to reorganize the formation.

It's just that the Jianzhou military attache who was injured by him just now seems to be a big fish, and the Jianzhou army, which was originally not afraid of death, suddenly began to retreat as a whole.

After a while, even the main formation of the Jianzhou army began to collect its troops, and the horns sounded everywhere, and one after another of knights galloped towards their camps with their backs to the artillery fire at the head of the city.

What the hell is that man? You Shiwei looked at the retreating Jianzhou soldiers like a tide, half luck and half frustration in his heart.

The field battle of the Ming Dynasty against Jianzhou can be regarded as a big victory if the first level exceeds 100, and his harvest of twenty or thirty levels in half a day is already a commendable small victory.

What's more, this battle is still at the feet of the Son of Heaven, proving that I am a political color that cannot be humiliated.

It's just that if his hand is a little more stable just now and the big fish is left, it may make You Shiwei's record even more brilliant.

At this moment, the smoke and dust raised by the movement of the Jianzhou army gradually dissipated. You Shiwei was about to withdraw his troops, but he was surprised to find that the Jianzhou soldiers had left more than 200 cavalry and did not evacuate.

The first person was the Jianzhou officer who had been injured in the cheek by a handcuff just now, and the two hundred horsemen under his command were all wearing white tassels.

You Shiwei stood behind the rejection horse, squinted, and the other party held a long knife, pointing at him from afar!