The seven or eight thousand Tangtong tribe were divided into eight formations, each formation was a battalion. Facing the Ming army coming out of Tianjin Weibeicheng, they stood in a straight line, waiting to be shot...
About a hundred of them in each battalion were veterans who were supervising the battle and were behind the formation, while the rest were cannon fodder who had been forcibly recruited. When they first came here, many people still had the ambition to get rich. But after several days of hard fighting, no one was dead or injured, and even the intact people were so tired that they had shed layers of their skin. How could they still have the strength to fight? Now when I see the armored cavalry of the Ming Army coming out of the city, their calves are all trembling. Some of them are crying and trying to run away before they take over.
However, these deserters could not be dealt with by Tang Laosi's troops, who had formed a large horizontal formation alone. The veterans of each battalion supervising the battle had to deal with them.
The tactics Tang Tong is adopting now are actually typical rogue bandit tactics. Use the elite of the old camp to control the Wuhe. The Wuhe is in front, the old camp is behind, and in the end, there are still soldiers and servants. One level kills the other, and one level suppresses the other.
Tang Laosi's first battalion of veterans was in the middle of the "war supervision chain". In front of it were veterans from each battalion and cannon fodder from each battalion. Behind Lao Si, there were four to five hundred of Tang Tong's servants.
Under normal circumstances, Tang Laosi's battalion of veterans would not engage in attrition operations. They are the seeds of another expansion! As long as Tang Tong keeps them, he can quickly expand his troops as long as he recruits strong men in the future.
However, today's situation is special. Li Guo has issued strict orders to contain the Ming army in Beicheng, Tianjin at all costs.
So Tang Tong had already given an order to Tang Laosi - when he couldn't bear it any longer, he retreated to the fortress made of straw bags filled with soil, and everyone stayed together to wait for help.
As long as they carry it to Nancheng and finish the battle, Li Guo and Li Yan will bring troops to support them. By that time, no matter whether the Zhu Thief Prince escapes or not, the Tang family's army will have hard work.
As for defeating the battle, that is impossible. Tang Tong and Tang Laosi don't believe it... The Ming Dynasty's general trend has gone, and there is no way.
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"Damn it, it's been so long, why are you still using this trick?"
Hao Yaoqi, who was marching huffing and puffing while holding a large wooden pole, saw the Dashun army in front of them with different colors and chaotic formations, and couldn't help but cursed.
He and his more than 200 brothers were forced to the battlefield by the Ming army, and they were not given weapons. Instead, they were given a large wooden box. Zhu Cixiang was quite reasonable. He gave the wooden box to keep his promise and not to let go. They went head-to-head with their former brothers.
Now there are only wooden rafts and no swords and guns... This shows that Prince Zhu is true to his word and is worthy of trust throughout his life.
Of course Hao Yaoqi was dissatisfied with Zhu Cixiang's remarks. However, the dissatisfaction can only be expressed in the heart, and the face must be pretended to be convinced - he is pretending to surrender, of course he must be treacherous, and Zhu Cixiang cannot see through it.
But when Hao Yaoqi went to the battlefield and saw the chaotic formation of Dashun Army on the opposite side, he felt depressed. Dashun is the common master of the world, so why are they still using rogue tactics? These common people who were forced onto the battlefield must have been captured around Tianjin Acropolis. After this battle, Tianjin Wei will still be defeated!
Dong dong dong...
A burst of war drums sounded in Hao Yaoqi's ears. He turned around and saw that a battalion of gun soldiers had already formed up behind him, forming two horizontal lines. Among them, the fire guns held by the fire gun soldiers in the front row were all equipped with spikes!
The three-foot-long sleeve and awl are made of high-quality iron and glow with a cold light! The ones holding these blazing guns were all beardless eunuch soldiers, but they all had prominent chests and protruding bellies, and fierce eyes. They looked more arrogant than Li Zicheng's imperial soldiers...
"Damn it, you can't even call anyone alive..." Hao Yaoqi cursed in a low voice and put away his thoughts of defecting on the battlefield.
With two hundred and dozens of awls pressed against their backs, who would dare to defect? Moreover, Hao Yaoqi's men didn't even have a pedicure knife, just a big, heavy wooden frame. This thing can protect against arrows, but it cannot be used in hand-to-hand combat.
"Fire gun soldier, load the powder, load the bullet, light the match rope, raise the muzzle of the gun upward..."
"A five-step team, listen to my command and move forward! One, two, three, four..."
Chen Shifang, the battalion general of the Fire Gun Battalion directly under the right division of the New Army in Kenan who was shouting the command, was a eunuch in his thirties and came from the Jing Army. After Pan Shuchen became the Royal Horse Supervisor and Eunuch, he filled the vacancy of Eunuch Pan and came to work for Zhu Cixiang energetically.
Not only is he full of energy, but the other eunuchs and fire gun soldiers in his right division's fire gun camp are also in high morale - they are not ordinary eunuchs. When they arrive in Jiangnan, they are all the palm prints, admirals, and commanders of the twenty-four eunuchs. Bingbi waited. Everyone is a great eunuch, a meritorious eunuch who overcomes difficulties from the dragon! Can the energy be insufficient now?
The eunuchs with high morale were pressing forward, and Hao Yaoqi had no choice but to shout at the top of his lungs: "Fuck you, follow me, five steps in a row, one, two, three, four..." "
He learned very quickly. He shouted commands and directed more than 200 people under his command. They lined up in a crooked line and went up.
Behind Hao Yaoqi's shield soldiers and Chen Shifang's fire gun soldiers were the cavalry commanded by Wu Sanfu himself! Still flying the banner of Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Ping Xibo, less than 2,000 cavalry were divided into forty or fifty square formations of forty cavalry. A large area spread out on the battlefield, all of them were armored cavalry, wearing long body armor, some of which were gold armor. There is a dazzling light under the sun, and just looking at it makes people scared - these people are not very good at fighting, but they look very powerful, and they all look like heavenly soldiers and generals.
Not to mention the young man who was brought here by force, even the old soldiers under Tang Tong's command were frightened when they saw him. If Dashun had not swept the world, they would have wanted to run away.
However, the veterans still expected to be the founding heroes, but the rabble in front couldn't bear it anymore and retreated in chaos. After taking a few steps back, he was blocked by the veterans supervising the battle.
"No retreat!"
"withstand!"
"Back and chop..."
"ah……"
But it’s really murderous! Tang Tong's group of veterans could not kill the Tatars or the rogue bandits, and now even Zhu Cihong's Ming army could not defeat them. But the soldiers who came to kill and conscript were not merciless at all. In the blink of an eye, dozens of bloody heads were picked up by the tip of a spear and displayed to the public.
These people in the countryside of Tianjinwei are also pitiful. I want to be the king, I hope to be the king, but when the king comes, I become cannon fodder.
I couldn't run away, so I could only huddle in a ball on the spot, crying and shouting while thinking about Emperor Chongzhen again. Think about it, Emperor Chongzhen is better!
It's a pity that the person in power in the Ming Dynasty is not Chongzhen, but Zhu Cixiang, the cruel and cunning unfilial prince.
He was riding a war horse in high spirits at the moment, personally leading the team and supervising the battle behind Wu Sanfu's cavalry!
In front of him, a formation composed of large soldiers, gun soldiers and cavalry were slowly approaching the chaotic enemy.
The queuing and shooting battle begins!
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"Eat him, eat him, eat him, there will be King Chuang..."
Outside the Tianjin Acropolis, the common people who had their families destroyed by the Dashun soldiers all missed the Ming Dynasty. However, Emperor Chongzhen inside the Tianjin Acropolis was so angry that he almost exploded due to a group of booing and unruly people.
I saw him clenching his fists, his whole body trembling, gritting his teeth, and repeating one sentence word for word: "Why are there always unscrupulous people trying to harm me?"
If he can still speak now, it means he hasn't been killed yet! But I was really pissed off.
It turns out that the battle outside the Tianjin governor's office attracted many onlookers, all of whom were unscrupulous Tianjin guards who were eager to conquer the king. They had faced King Chuang a few days ago, but were suppressed. But Zhu Cixiang didn't have time to go on a killing spree in the Tianjin Acropolis, so many unscrupulous people who loyally supported Li Zicheng were still there.
At this time, I heard that King Chuang's army had entered the city and was fighting fiercely with the Zhu thieves outside the governor's office, so I spontaneously came to watch.
Now the streets near the governor's office were crowded with people cheering for King Chuang's army. On the rooftops of the houses on both sides of the street were people watching the excitement. Many people even took out firecrackers and set them off there.
The people who did not set off firecrackers spontaneously sang songs to welcome King Chuang!
At the same time, due to sudden changes in the city, the defeated troops defending the city were also in disarray. They were taken advantage of by the incoming Dashun army and rushed to the south wall of Weinan City in Tianjin... Emperor Chongzhen was really in danger. Got it!
