Chapter Eighty-Five: True Martial Arts
Relying on firearms, the Huguang Green Battalion, which repelled the Ming army's attack three times with the Meihua pile defense line, lost its advantage in firearms in front of Wang Wu's "golden finger" and completely collapsed under the desperate killing of the Ming soldiers.
Many of the fleeing battalions even thought of the tragic scene of being severely damaged by the Ming army two years ago.
At that time, more than 30,000 Qing troops were driven all over the mountains by thousands of Ming troops, like sheep.
The one who commanded this battle was Li Zicheng's successor, "Tiger Marshal" Li Laiheng.
That is, after this battle, the Huguang Green Battalion no longer dared to fight a large-scale field battle with the Ming army, nor did it dare to launch an active attack, so it used a blockade and trapping strategy to prevent Li Laiheng's troops from rushing out, and at the same time prevented the Ming army from retreating from the direction of Wushan from joining forces with Li Laiheng.
To this end, more than 100,000 people were mobilized to build a 150-mile-long pile defense line!
There are countless dead people, and countless material resources are consumed.
However, the yellow lawn is nothing more than the outer defense line deployed by the Huguang Green Battalion against Li Laiheng.
The further you go, the harder it gets.
Because, there is artillery.
Wang Wu didn't know about this, it was useless to know, he had no way back now, he could only risk his life and keep moving forward, forward!
"Blind, Tian Wen, I'll leave it to you!"
Seeing the retreat of the Qing army, Wang Wu immediately took the lead in jumping down from the stake passage with a big axe.
But he didn't personally lead people to chase and kill the fleeing Qing army, and he couldn't run anymore.
The continuous slashing made him weak, and his two arms hurt terribly.
Even a few more steps may cause your legs to go limp and fall to the ground.
"Good!"
Tian Wen and the blind man were leading people to rush over from the wooden stake, and after listening to Wang Wu's words, they led the troops to chase and kill the Qing soldiers.
"Chenjiabao's battalion is coming, be careful!"
Wang Wu snorted again and told the two subordinates who had followed him all the way from Wujiayuanzi that the green battalion soldiers stationed at Chenjiabao on the left flank had arrived to reinforce them, and the two of them had to block this Qing army, no matter what the cost was.
"Head, rest assured!"
The blind man raised the long knife in his hand, and led the soldiers of his department to chase after the Qing army in front.
Tian Wen didn't say anything, just stood at the end of the passage and picked up the soldiers who came up one after another, and after a group of people, he led them to catch up with the blind man's sentry.
Seeing that the fleeing Qing army had abandoned several wooden bases built along the mountainside, Wang Wu asked Zhao Jinzhong to quickly lead archers and gunners to seize those wooden fortresses.
In case Tian Wen and the blind man could not stop the Qing army's counterattack, the Ming army could also use the wooden barrier to condescendingly block the Qing army, and buy time for the follow-up men and horses to "rush to cross".
The more people who come, the greater the power!
The two sentinels, Dumb and Xu Lin, were always on the front line in the battle just now, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, so it was difficult to undertake the follow-up combat mission, so they continued to bury their heads in destroying the Qing army's Meihua pile defense line.
The dense plum blossom pile must be pulled out!
Although the Ming army could continuously transport personnel to the inner side of the defense line through the passages on wooden piles, this method of passing people was extremely inefficient, and the vehicles that hauled the wounded soldiers and supplies could not pass through at all, and the families and elderly and children of the accompanying troops were even more troublesome.
In a day or two, tens of thousands of people will definitely not be able to get by.
In the next two days, I am afraid that tens of thousands of Qing troops will be able to arrive.
Therefore, in addition to blocking the counterattack of the Qing army, Wang Wu still needs to destroy the stake defense line and open a big opening for the team to pass quickly.
Rush ahead of the Qing army brigade to stand out.
By this time the east had turned white, and the dawn had come.
There are corpses everywhere on the plum blossom pile, and countless people are stuck in the gaps between the piles.
There was the Qing army, and there was also the Ming army.
In addition to the smell of blood, the air was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder and the burning smell of burning wood.
Jiang Tiancheng was leading people to treat the wounded.
Some of the Ming wounded were stuck in the stakes and could not move, and they had to be carefully pulled out to get them out.
The warrior of the Ming army who had allowed his companion to step on his body had died.
When the corpse was carried out and passed in front of Wang Wu, Wang Wu specially asked the soldiers who carried the transport to stop, looking at the man who had closed his eyes and lost his life, and his nose couldn't help but feel sour.
He didn't even know what this warrior was called.
In the eighteenth year of Yongli, how many unknown warriors are there in Kuidong!
After the hero was carried away, Wang Wuyi sat down on the ground.
He was really tired.
The iron armor on his body is as heavy as Mount Tai.
The right hand holding the axe trembled slightly.
After a dozen breaths of gasp, he ordered someone to blow the trumpet.
"Woo!"
The muffled sound of a horn echoed through the valley.
The Qing soldiers who were fleeing heard it, and the Ming army in the distance also heard it.
"Big brother, blow the trumpet!"
Hearing the sound of the horn in front of him, Zhang Tianfang, who had been sitting on the ground and waiting, jumped up excitedly.
"yes, the trumpet."
Zhang Tianwang, who was fighting against the Qing Dynasty, had a tense face, soothed, and at the same time, he breathed a sigh.
The sound of the trumpet is the signal agreed upon before - "The enemy has been broken, come quickly!" ”
"Let's go, it's our turn!"
The Zhang brothers did not dare to delay, and immediately commanded the officers and men of the right battalion of the post headquarters to rush to the front camp.
"Let's go!"
Outside the east side of the right battalion, Ma Changyuan, the chief soldier of the original Ta Tianbao Department, also commanded a thousand soldiers of the left battalion, rushing towards the battlefield where the shouting and killing had stopped.
"It's broken, it's broken!"
Before the horn sounded, Yuan Zongdi, the Duke of Yasukuni, saw from the clairvoyant mirror that the Qing army on the other side of the defense line was fleeing.
Needless to say, it was Yaowu's kid who broke through the Qing army's defense line!
The good news quickly spread throughout the army.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians who had been waiting anxiously immediately cheered.
"What a show of power!"
King Anton laughed, carrying the package and moving forward with the two guards sent to him by Hao Shaoqi.
There was no emotional fluctuation on King Han's face, but he was secretly relieved in his heart, and his eyes looked at his relatives in the distance with a little more hope.
"Lao Hong, did you hear that? Our people have broken through the defense line of the clear dog! ”
The overseer Pan Gonggong excitedly held the right hand of Hong Buyuan on the stretcher, and almost cried with joy.
The last time I was so excited, I heard that Hu Shuai broke the Huguang Qing army on the Eastern Front.
It's been two years.
"Okay."
Hong Yuao, who was getting weaker and weaker, looked at the eunuch Bingbi who had been with him in Kuidong for more than ten years with a smile, and raised his hand to say something.
But was stopped by Pan Gonggong, "Don't say, if you have anything to say, go out and talk about it." ”
Raise your head and order everyone to escort the Hong Ministry to set off.
lest the Hong Ministry say something unlucky to his body.
"I can't imagine that Brother Yaowu's method is really useful, with this method, we won't have to worry about the Qing army's firearms in the future!"
On the back camp side, Zhang En's first thought was not that the army could break through the blockade of the Qing army to join the Hu Shuai, but that he thought of the "soil tank" that he rushed to make on the order of the little grandfather.
Liu Heng nodded and ordered the camp to set off immediately, and sent Wang Liu to inform his sister Liu Yun to go with him.
Soon after the team set off, they joined Yuan Shuai and them, and rushed towards the Qing defense line like a torrent.
Looking down from above, the line is more than ten miles long.
The sky in the east is no longer white, but red.