Under the urging of Duduo and a group of Eight Banners uncles, some Green Camp traitors braved the rain of arrows and constant javelins and rushed to the car fort!
I have to say that the Green Battalion soldiers still have fighting ability! You can eat well, you can get full military pay, the weapons are not too bad, and there are Eight Banners uncles and wrapped slaves to supervise the battle - that is really life-threatening!
Therefore, when these green soldiers were in the Ming army in the early days, if they encountered the chariot fortress where the Shandong regiment was training and defending, they would not be able to defeat it anyway - if they were replaced by the Qin army directly under Guan Ning's army and Sun Chuanting, they might be able to defeat it. , but the ordinary Ming army would not even think about it... But now, who dares not to fight hard?
Didn’t you see that Mr. Xu Dingguo and his two sons were fighting tooth and nail?
It's really pitiful to say that you can't live a good life, so what kind of traitor do you have to be? That Liu Zeqing is now relying on Zhu Cixiang. He spends all day in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion on both sides of the Qinhuai River, drinking and drinking, spending money like water, and living an extremely comfortable life...Zhu Cixiang can't do anything to him! He is a good example of a "warlord going down to the countryside"! If his crime is punished, who will be willing to leave the country in the future?
But even though the father and son of the old Xu family risked their lives, the green battalion soldiers under their command were still pinned down by the defenders.
Because the training regiments they encountered under Gao Hongtu were not normal Ming troops - although he did not support Zhu Cixiang's usurpation of the throne, Zhu Cixiang wanted him to be cannon fodder, so he, Shi Kefa, and Zuo Maodi were still given the highest authority! Such authority was something that Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng could not even imagine in the past. Gao Hongtu was not the governor of Shandong at all, but a military governor!
With the military and political power in hand, there are no eunuchs or officials holding him back, and there are no censors who are not doing business to impeach him all day long.
In short, he can do whatever he wants, as long as he is not a traitor... If the subordinate officials under him cannot do what they want, it is up to him to kill or spare them!
In addition to having extremely high authority, Gao Hongtu also received some money and food from Zhu Cixiang. Although he was not as "rich" as Shi Kefa, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai, Zhu Cihong still gave him half of the money and food obtained by Enke's "sell-out" (the other half was given to Zuo Maodi). So he still had some money at his disposal to pay his regiment for training. Although the salary is not much, no one dares to deduct it, and no one takes up the shortfall, but it is actually used for practical purposes.
While the Xu family's green battalion soldiers were climbing up the carriage fort, the spearmen and swordsmen from the Shandong regiment had already pounced on them. The pikemen lined up in rows, holding up the spears in their hands and stabbing upwards. The swordsmen first threw javelins, and after throwing two javelins, they rushed to the chariot and fort to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing soldiers. In the blink of an eye, the two sides were fighting on the top and bottom of the car fort. From time to time, someone screamed and fell from the seven or eight foot high car fort!
Xu Dingguo, his father and his son, also became fierce. They all rushed through the ditch and got close to the chariot fort. Together with their soldiers, they took their bows and arrows and started shooting upwards.
They are all professional soldiers who have been in the army for many years. They are still capable of archery. Moreover, each of them has a Kaiyuan bow, and the arrows he shoots are fast and accurate. They quickly knocked down the regiment members who rushed to the chariot and fought with the Qing army. Quite a few.
But the remaining members of the group still fight to the death! I don’t dare to retreat, the King of Hell is watching from behind with my lofty ambitions! Not only will you die if you retreat, your family will be harmed too!
However, the situation gradually became favorable to the Qing army, because the casualties suffered by the Ming army during the training were eventually increasing. At this moment, the Ming army suddenly let out an earth-shattering cry: "Kill the traitors! Kill the Tatars! Kill the traitors! Kill the Tatars..."
Immediately afterwards, I saw a large group of cloth-covered armored warriors, followed by a strong man wearing long armor, holding a sword and shield and charging forward.
This group of people are also servant-level warriors, and Li Chengdong personally leads the team to fight! Li Chengdong, like Xu Dingguo, had to fight hard. Because Gao Hongtu is supervising the battle from behind! Now Gao Hongtu only invested more than 10,000 regiment members, and half of them were left behind, which was used to scare Li Chengdong.
In addition, Gao Hongtu also strangled the salaries of the two warlords Li Chengdong and Ma Degong - the Ministry of War did not directly send money to them, but to Gao Hongtu!
Gao Hongtu had the salary of Li Chengdong and Ma Degong, and he also had 40,000 regiment members who were not afraid of death or hardship, so Li Chengdong and Ma Degong had to sacrifice their lives at the critical moment...
And as soon as Li Chengdong gave up his life, Xu Dingguo had to run away with his head in his arms!
Li Chengdong was the main force under Gao Jie, and Gao Jie's troops were the two main forces of the Ming Army - Guan Ning Army and Qin Army, one of the Qin Army. If they really launched a fierce attack, Xu Dingguo's Henan soldiers could not stop them at all. Either they were chopped into pieces, or they rolled down from the car and fort while crying.
Xu Dingguo and his two sons also became ruthless. They sent their own soldiers to capture several frustrated and defeated young officers, pinned them to the ground and beheaded them. Even so, the defeat could not be stopped. The Xu family's green battalion soldiers rolled and fell into the trench outside the car fort like a flood ebbing. The trench was neither deep nor wide, so it could have been rolled over. But the green soldiers who fell in couldn't get out, because the coated slaves who were more powerful than them were guarding the other side of the trench. When they saw someone trying to exit, they would kill them to force them to go back.
However, Shandong regiment training and Li Chengdong's servants were also hit by a round of feather arrows fired by the Eight Banners soldiers on the top of the chariot. Many of them were shot over. The rest quickly retreated, leaning on the chariot and holding up their shields. , protect your head and face.
But the archers in the regiment training were still shooting arrows, and waves of arrows fell into the ditch, making the traitorous green camp soldiers cry for their fathers and mothers.
"Master Xu! Brothers really can't stand it anymore..."
"Master Xu, okay, let us step back!"
"You go talk to the Eight Banners men and spare our lives! If we are all dead, who will charge into the battle for them?"
What can Xu Dingguo do? He himself couldn't get out of the trench. One of his sons was hit in the face by an arrowhead, with a penetrating wound. His head and face were covered in blood. He didn't know if he could survive? Hearing the cries of the people under his hands, he could only close his eyes and remain silent.
At this moment, there was a sound of metal knocking!
It turned out that Duduo ordered the withdrawal of troops... He had been supervising the battle from behind. Of course, he also saw how hard the Xu family's green battalion soldiers were working. This time there were at least a thousand and hundreds of casualties! Now that they have collapsed, there is no point in forcing them. We can only let them retreat and reorganize before fighting the next wave.
Hearing the sound of ringing gold, the Xu family's green camp and the coated slaves guarding the edge of the trench all retreated as if they had been granted amnesty. There is no need to retreat very far. Just take a few dozen steps back and reach the back of the "shield vehicle line".
Seeing that the Green Camp and Baoyi soldiers in front had retreated, and the Ming army was not pursuing them, Duduo let out a breath and said to He Luohui beside him: "Gather all the Baoyi slaves and Green Camp soldiers. Let them dig trenches and build parapets along the shield line.
In addition, ask someone to urge Cao Zhenyan to quickly bring up the Hongyi cannon. "
He Luohui was stunned for a moment: "My lord, you want to use the Hongyi cannon to bombard their car array? Is this a killing of chicken with a sledgehammer?"
Duduo snorted: "What else can we use if we don't use the Hongyi cannon? Let our warriors sacrifice their lives to fill it? How about those Nikans? You have also seen them. They are not so easy to deal with... This time just now Test it out, if it’s easy to deal with, there’s no need to spend any effort to surround it.”
"Your Majesty, our warrior..."
Duduo waved his hand: "Our Eight Banners strong team cannot be used like this! It's just some group training. How can we fill it with three to two thousand people? How many people can we fill?"
This prince could see clearly that if the Qing Dynasty wanted to conquer the world, it would have to rely on traitors to fight for it!
"Your Majesty," He Luohui frowned, "but we don't have many Green Camp and Baoyi slaves on hand who can die..."
Duduo smiled: "As long as Gao Hongtu and Zuo Maodi are defeated, people will naturally join us! Don't forget, those who win the Central Plains win the world since ancient times! Isn't the Central Plains just Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Beizhili? "
