Chapter 263: An Unexpected Battle

Song Che really didn't expect that the opponent would take advantage of the dark night to ambush on the Takasaka land on his side, although he had already dealt with it, but Song Che obviously felt that this momentum did not look like Nanjing's Beijing troops at all.

However, now that the opponent has rushed over, it is estimated that it will be a catastrophe if it is delayed.

"Turn the head of the gun, go forward to meet the enemy, and prepare for the tiger squat."

The unique independent structure of the south of the Yangtze River makes the war horse have no way to play a role, that is, the war horse of the Dingwu army itself is only used to replace the marching footsteps, but the woodland south of the high bridge is a rare flat land, and the rice field is washed down from the high saka land, and it is after the spring ploughing at this moment, there is not much water in the field, and the war horse gallops down, even like a flood pouring down, giving the opponent a great opportunity.

Song Che was suddenly horrified in his heart, and he didn't know if he could withstand the first wave of impact.

"Raise your gun..."

"Put..."

"Ignition..."

"Tiger squat cannon ignition..."

At that time, the guns and cannons were fired one after another, and the cavalry that rushed to the front was hit by a series of bullets and scattered bullets from the tiger squat cannon, and they fell from their horses and died violently.

However, although the firepower of the Dingwu Army is strong, but from behind the cavalry there are countless arrow rains, after the new army is restructured, the Dingwu Army wearing new military uniforms has taken off the heavy chest armor, and in the face of the arrow rain of flying locusts, it can only be resisted with the human body.

At that time, there were hundreds of people who were hit by arrows, and they were all dripping blood in Song Che's eyes.

The soldiers of the 1st Division are the foundation of the old Dingwu Army, there is no new army, and it is also the most capable unit, Chen Cao transferred the 1st Division to Song Che to let him come back, which is to take a fancy to the experience of the first division.

"Grenades, throw them out."

The explosion sounded, and the cavalry that had rushed to the front of the Dingwu army was blown up, but it was followed by countless foot soldiers, shouting and killing Song Che.

It was getting darker, and the flintlock fire could clearly reflect where the opponent was.

For a while, arrows and throwing spears struck again, and the number was only a little more.

"General Song, we were ambushed, and the last general suggested that we withdraw first..."

It's not that Han Xianchu is afraid of death, but they are now in a disadvantageous position, the place is empty, the opponent doesn't know how many cavalry are ambushed, and there is no trench and sandbag cover to engage the enemy at close range, this kind of battle has only been fought once in Xiping Fort back then, even if it was with the opponent of Jiannu, it was a hasty retreat, leaving a lot of people behind.

The abolition of the chest armor did increase the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, but with it came the opponent's arrows could not be guarded against, and once encountering a large-scale cavalry, there was no way to avoid it, and only death was faced.

Song Che also knew very well in his heart, that was because the opponent lacked cavalry in the Wa Kingdom, and he didn't know the power of the flintlock pistol, even if he could shoot freely under heavy rain, the firing distance of one hundred and fifty steps made it impossible for the Wa soldiers to get close to the position.

However, the current situation is not optimistic at all, and if you think about it carefully, it seems that the Dingwu army really has no experience in taking the initiative to attack, and all of them are mainly defensive.

Thinking of this, Song Che hurriedly nodded: "Deputy Division Commander Han is reasonable, and he ordered that all departments take cover alternately and retreat ten miles." ”

You Shiwei didn't want to pursue, although he had heard a lot about the power of the firearms of the Dingwu army, but he also thought that the combat effectiveness of the Weisuo army was low, but now he also had some heartache, the three thousand cavalry brought from Yulin lost nearly 1,000 in a battle, and the infantry also suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

After getting the battle report, You Shiwei was also shocked in his heart, his own side used cavalry to condescend at close range, and the corpses left by the opponent were only 800 people, but he didn't even see a living prisoner, and he was also a lot of anger under the shock.

However, fortunately, Chen Degong, who lured the enemy in Gaoqiao Town as bait, gained a lot, not to mention the defeat of the rebels from the north, and also captured a lot of flintlock pistols and grenades, and captured a battalion commander, and the results were also rich, and more than 1,000 enemies were killed.

However, I think it was also the firearms sent by Wei Guogong who helped a lot, and the two sides fought a bloody battle inside Gaoqiao, and the ambush fire thunder and flying thunder god in advance gave the Dingwu army a heavy blow.

"I wonder what's going on over there in Shilu?"

You Shiwei is not worried about You Shilu, mainly worried about Zuo Liangyu, but the big problem in front of him now is that the Dingwu army has retreated ten miles: "The rebels have retreated about ten miles, it is reported that there are many canals and paddy fields over there, and the roads are narrow, which is not conducive to cavalry attacks, and the opponents are full of firearms, now is not a good time to attack." ”

It was already dark, You Shiwei took a flintlock pistol from his command and looked at it carefully for a while, then sighed: "How can you say that the rebels can capture Suzhou in one day, such firearms, even within the border army, Chen Cao is a capable person." ”

'Bang...'

You Shiwei pulled the trigger, he had already heard of the new flintlock pistol of the Dingwu Army, and he had seen this thing from Xu Hongji, plus the arquebus was often used in Yulin, and this kind of firearm could still be fired freely.

"How many of these guns were seized?"

Chen Degong was personally responsible for the seizure of the flintlock pistol, and placed the gun and the finished ammunition in Gaoqiao Town: "Nearly 2,000 people, I have to admire the rebels, who actually put lead bullets and gunpowder in paper shells, and only need to bite and open them to shoot, even in heavy rain, they can be used as usual;

If the officers and soldiers are equipped with this gun in large quantities, why worry about the injustice of the people in Shaanxi? ”

After all, You Shiwei is a veteran of the battlefield, and after carefully observing the route of the defeat and retreat of the Dingwu army, he came to a conclusion, they are afraid of cavalry, and Gaoqiao is a rare flat land in the south of the Yangtze River, and even water canals are rare around, and between Gaoqiao and Wuxi County, there are canals and rivers converging.

Under such speculation, You Shiwei decided to use Gaoqiao as a base to block the Dingwu army on this plain, and dug a lot of traps and the remaining fire mines, so that Chen Degong could defend Gaoqiao, and he himself rushed to Wuxi with the captured flintlock pistols and ammunition.

The sky has just dawned, You Shigong has ordered the fifth attack on Wuxi County, seeing that this wave of impact failed again, You Shigong was very angry, and he had already ripped off his arms and was ready to take people to rush to the city in person.

The reputation of the three brothers of the You family in Yulin is not small, all of them are brave and good at fighting, especially the second brother You Shiwei is the most wise and brave, which is also the reason why Chongzhen transferred You Shiwei to Nanzhili to kill Chen Cao.

"General, the general soldier has arrived..."

You Shiwei's army came slowly, and he didn't sleep at all last night, but these Yulin border troops were full of energy, and although they lost a lot of people, they did win a big battle.

"Big brother, gather the firearms battalion under your command, I defeated the rebels' attack last night, won a complete victory, and also got nearly 2,000 rebels' new firearms, which can be used to fight."

In addition to the cavalry, any foot soldier in the Yulin border army has practiced firearms, the simplest is the arquebus, but there is also a firearms battalion under You Shiwei, which is commanded under the name of You Shigong, and the firearms used are not arquebuses and three-eyed guns, but the turtledove foot guns issued by Xu Hongji, whose shooting distance is no different from flintlock pistols, and the power is even more than flintlock pistols.

It's just that You Shiwei kept these 500 people as a killing move, and now he has these two thousand flintlock pistols, so he plans to distribute all these flintlock pistols to You Shigong's command, so that his soldiers can change their guns.

You Shiwei looked at Wuxi City not far away, and then asked, "But defeated?" ”

You Shigong's face was solemn: "The rebels' firearms are definitely good at defending the city, our bows and arrows were killed before they reached the distance, no, rough statistics at least more than 700 people stayed in the city." ”

You Shigong means that they are all dead, but for them who command tens of thousands of people, these more than 700 people are just a small number, and they are far from touching the foundation of the old army in Yulin.

You Shiwei exhaled and said: "The rebel army was blocked in Gaoqiao, Wuxi must break the city, otherwise once the rebels break through Gaoqiao, our situation is worrying, after all, it is deep behind the enemy, I heard that the Longjiang River is already full of rebel water divisions, and the Longjiang water division was wiped out in a battle." ”

This is the secret agent news I got in the morning, You Shigong They have been on the three sides for a long time, and they have no concept of the water division, but he is not worried about the waterway problem at all, so he looked at the Wuxi city wall and said: "This city wall is only two zhang, you can climb the city by standing on a war horse, but it is exposed to the firearms of the rebels, and many soldiers died like this." ”

He could see clearly in the previous battle, and the soldiers rushed over with ladders, and were hit by lead bullets fired from enemy towers around the horse's mouth, and their bows and arrows were not cheap at all under the alternating fire.

"I don't know when General Qin's white pole soldiers will arrive?"

After hearing this, You Shigong said: "It stands to reason that the white pole soldiers should have arrived a long time ago from the Beijing Division, but according to Wei Guogong's plan, it should be the wolf soldiers of Guangxi Tusi and the reinforcements of Mufu, if we can't hold it here...

Second brother, are you going to retreat to Huguang? ”

You Shiwei straightened up when he talked about this, and then shook his head slowly: "If Gaoqiao is lost, we must go to Suzhou..."

"Suzhou?"

You Shiwei clearly learned of Xu Hongji's plan in the conversation with Xu Hongji before leaving, but it was not exactly Xu Hongji's strategy, mainly to cooperate with the instructions of the imperial court, this time the emperor was ready to take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate with Jiannu to complete his work in one battle, and completely end Chen Cao's old nest Songjiang, and Suzhou and Songjiang are close to each other, as long as Song Che's first division is repelled here, and Chen Cao's department is cut off from the back road in Wujin, everything is easy to talk about.

If it doesn't work, retreat to Suzhou, attack Suzhou with a backhand and then go south, and cooperate with the Guangxi wolf soldiers who arrived and the reinforcements from Mufu to attack Songjiang together, but it is also a matter of twice the result with half the effort.

And You Shiwei's experience has long thought of a way to retreat, even if the whole plan fails, you can calmly retreat from Songjiang to Zhejiang, and slowly deal with Chen Cao's rebels, the means of attack and harassment are their Yulin border army's forte, how many four or five hundred thousand troops are in the southern guard, and the siege of Su Song is not easy to capture?

But this kind of thought can only be known to him, but he can't say it.

"Prepare for the siege..."