"Prince An, the general of Dingyuan Pingkou, has an order. Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy! Kill without mercy!"
"The disciples of the Eight Banners all follow my official to kill thieves and make meritorious deeds."
"Young and old men, don't embarrass your ancestors!"
When the bamboo spear cavalry commanded by Ma Bao finished another assault and returned to re-equip the bamboo spears, Fei Yangu's unusually loud voice finally rang out in the wilderness northwest of Daguan Town.
With the last glow of dusk, people saw this sturdy man riding a war horse, holding his vice-capital flag in one hand, leading a group of men with white flags, galloping around the battlefield, trying to defeat the Wu army. The Eight Banners soldiers dispersed by the Bamboo Lancers reorganized.
Yue Le sent a total of 4,800 cavalry before and after, and the Wu Army's bamboo spear cavalry who faced them only had 1,500 people. It was not easy for 1,500 people to eliminate 4,800 people.
Although the "two walls" of the Bamboo Lancers are very powerful, their number is too small after all, and the quality of the Bamboo Lancers' horses is relatively poor, and the charging speed is not fast. They only rely on the length of the bamboo spears and the formation of thrusts. Only with the power of a group charge can the Eight Banners soldiers be defeated repeatedly.
But the Eight Banners soldiers of the Kangxi period were not the Eight Banners soldiers of Daoguang and Xianfeng. They were not so easy to kill.
Except for some honest "silly flags" at the beginning who followed the methods they learned during military training to hedge against the bamboo spear cavalry, and ended up being stabbed to death, the other slick ones were not easy to kill. When they saw something was wrong, they fled first to show respect. How could they wait for the Bamboo Lancers to come and stab them?
Moreover, the horses of the Eight Banners soldiers were fast. When they fled, they dispersed their formation. Of course, they ran faster than the opponents who rode in groups to pursue them on inferior horses. Therefore, after several rounds of confrontation, although this group of Eight Banners cavalry had to run every time, We lost, but the casualties were not particularly heavy. The number of casualties so far is only four to five hundred.
Moreover, these Eight Banners soldiers who had been defeated many times were not completely defeated. They did not dare to run back to Daguan Town. Yue Le was of the same generation as their "evil Ama". If they were caught by this unreasonable old guy, If you become a typical person, your head will have to move.
As for running elsewhere, there seems to be no place to run. There seems to be Wu Sangui to the southwest and southeast, and Wu Yingqi to the northwest. It's not possible to go west into the mountains. There are ferocious beasts, black and white bears, in the mountains in this area! As for heading northeast, there is the Tuojiang River blocking the road!
So this group of Eight Banners cavalry can only bite the bullet and wander around on the battlefield northwest of Daguan Town. It's getting dark now anyway. If they persist until night, they have to go back to camp to sleep, right?
Fei Yanggu, who was on the battlefield for the first time, also showed his military talent for fighting in repeated battles - without this "talented" general, his subordinates would be completely helpless if they were scattered. But he was able to rely on his personal charm and unwillingness to admit defeat to reorganize part of the defeated troops to meet new defeats.
However, no matter how hard he tried, the Eight Banners cavalry on the battlefield were still forced to the edge of the forest by Ma Bao's lancers, but they still maintained their last bit of stubbornness and were not forced out of the battlefield.
Fei Yanggu shouted at the top of his lungs for a long time, and finally collected more than two thousand Eight Banners disciples. All flags had cloth armors of various colors mixed together. The organization was completely chaotic, and it felt a bit like a "mixed Eight Banners" .
That old man from Naqin was also among the "Miscellaneous Eight Banners". Although that old man was quite naughty when he was really working hard, he still worked very hard when he needed to show off. Otherwise, he would not have become the adopted brother of the "enhanced version" Yehenala Lan'er, let alone give Yue Le a black and white bear skin and a small black and white bear. And now he cleverly follows Feiyanggu and there is no need to think about meritorious service in this battle, but losing the battle does not prevent him from meeting noble people!
Moreover, this Fei Yanggu looked like a strong man from heaven. If you follow him when the three armies are defeated, your chances of breaking out of the siege will be much higher.
Just when Naqin was thinking about how to follow "Fei Guiren" in Tengda in the future, the slogan that made him tremble with fear came up again.
"The Qing Dynasty is dead, the Zhou Dynasty will be established, the land will be equalized, and the world will be at peace."
This time, Wu Bing's slogans were shouted loudly, and they kept coming one after another. They were everywhere in the wilderness northwest of Daguan Town. It sounded like tens of thousands of people were shouting!
The kisser quickly turned to look at the place where the slogans were heard. It was almost dark now, and Wu Bing lit the torch at some point. The wilderness was dotted with stars, as if all the stars in the sky had fallen to the ground at this moment. He turned into a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general who restored the Han family's general mountain.
"Deputy Commander Fei. The rebel army has set up its formation and is about to attack them!" Naqin's voice was trembling a bit when he spoke this time.
Feiyanggu had reined in his horses, and the "Miscellaneous Eight Banners" who were following him also stood and watched, watching the dots of firelight in the wilderness slowly approaching him. The Wu army formed a total of five large formations, marching together, shouting With slogans and oppression coming, the Qing troops who witnessed this scene on the battlefield were all frightened.
At this moment, someone shouted in horror: "The bamboo pole cavalry is here again!"
Before the voice fell, the pro could vaguely see groups of cavalry emerging from the gaps between the five infantry formations, and then quickly expanded into two-row horizontal formations.
They did not launch an attack immediately, but stopped two to three hundred paces away opposite Feiyanggu's cavalry, and continued to shout the slogan "Qingtian is dead, Zhoutian will stand".
Fei Yanggu also held the flag high and shouted loudly: "After hearing this, the Eight Banners disciples followed me and fought against the rebels. Even if we die today, we must die in a big way. We must never let our ancestors be wronged!"
"Master Fei said it well!"
"Let's fight the rebels!"
"You can't be sorry to your ancestors"
The soldiers of the Eight Banners below were also excited. They all stood up with their guns drawn, shouted loudly, and stood still. And Fei Yanggu was just like them. He was so big that he stood there like an immovable mountain, never moving forward even half a step. .
If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move. It will get dark in a while!
"Boom boom boom"
Just when Fei Yanggu and his Eight Banners disciples were holding back impassionedly, waiting for darkness, suddenly there was a roar somewhere behind them. Before they could figure out the situation, there was a sound in the sky above their heads. Eleven or twelve huge fireballs exploded!
This is the bomb fired by more than a dozen Weiyuan general cannons commanded by Dai Zi, which exploded!
Because Wang Zhongxiao asked Dai Zi to fire in the direction of the Wu army's pressing force and to drive the explosive shells as far away as possible, Dai Zi asked his men to set the firing angle and fill the gunpowder according to the extreme range. However, the fuses of those explosive shells seemed to be a bit short, so more than half of the shells exploded into blustery-looking fireballs over Feiyanggu and the Eight Banners soldiers before they even hit the ground!
Those explosive bombs were filled with a lot of high-quality black powder. When they exploded in the dark sky, the scene was very spectacular. There were also some unburned gunpowder that turned into countless sparks, burning and falling, as if there was something in the sky. An angry god rained down destructive fire.
Of course, whether it is a spectacular explosion or falling sky fire, it actually does not cause any physical damage to the target on the ground, but the psychological damage is very powerful.
The Eight Banners soldiers who could originally "stand still" with Fei Yanggu began to flee in an instant - they were all burned by the sky fire, could they still not retreat? If we don’t retreat, we will become the Eight Banners Barbecue.
At this time, someone suddenly yelled: "Run!"
Immediately afterwards, the more than 2,000 cavalrymen that Fei Yanggu had managed to pack up collapsed, and they all turned around and fled!
The Wu Jun Bamboo Lancers on the opposite side, whose morale was high, were actually startled by the fireballs in the sky - it was hard to say whether those fireballs exploded on the Qing army's heads or on their heads.
But the same "sky fire" has completely different meanings in the eyes of soldiers with different mentality.
In the eyes of the demoralized Eight Banners soldiers, this "sky fire" is here to burn them, so they must run away!
In the eyes of Wu Jun, whose morale was high, this "sky fire" was used to burn down the Qing army - they had the same opinion! So we have to attack immediately! So these Bamboo Lancers all got up and shouted slogans of "Kill!", "Kill!", and once again launched a Lancer assault!
And at the same time that Wu Jun's Bamboo Lancers launched an assault, a dozen more bright fireballs exploded in the dark sky!
The unburned gunpowder turned into strings of brilliant sparks and fell from the sky.
On the ground, the "Two Walls" formation of fifteen bamboo spear cavalry didn't care about the "sparks" falling from the sky. They still roared and launched an assault, chasing the collapsed Eight Banners soldiers, stabbing another one or two hundred to death, and also killed All the remaining Eight Banners soldiers drove into the Qing army's infantry formation at the foot of the mountain not far away. Subsequently, the highly motivated Bamboo Lancers also attempted to directly attack the Qing infantry formation. It was not until the muskets and cannons in the Qing formation were fired that they had to retreat.
But then these bamboo spear cavalry had the opportunity to drive the Eight Banners cavalry from the battlefield, and the five Wu army infantry phalanxes finally completed their deployment. They were forced to be more than 200 steps in front of the Qing army's infantry formation before they stopped advancing—— This means that the official road from Yibin to Fushun is already under their control! Wu Yingqi, who was fighting a fierce battle with the Qing army on the Rongxi Bridge battlefield, could get ammunition and reinforcements sent from Yibin County!
In addition, the Wu troops in these five formations all carried "red cannons". The number was not large, that is, one formation (standard) was equipped with four guns, and the five formations totaled twenty.
After these artillery pieces were set up, they aimed at the Qing troops arrayed against the mountains and forests, and began to bombard them fiercely!
At the same time as the artillery fired, Wu Guogui, who commanded the Wu army, sent a small team of shotgun soldiers to rush dozens of steps in front of the Qing army's formation, and began to fire harassing shots at the Qing army's position with shotguns.
As for the guns and artillery of the Qing army, after those Weiyuan generals took the lead in firing explosive shells, they also started firing one after another. The first choice to fire is of course those Weiyuan general cannons, followed by multi-cell cannons and shotguns.
It was already dark at this time, but neither side had any intention of "clocking out". Instead, they fired at each other with muskets and artillery. The battlefield was soon filled with smoke, and the visibility was already very low. Now nothing could be seen at all. Already?
But if you can’t see it, you can’t help but fire! The Qing troops on the battlefield all saw that their own arrogant Eight Banners cavalry were defeated by Wu Jun's Bamboo Lancers who were far smaller in number than themselves - this incident had a serious impact on the morale of the Qing army!
Because among the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army, those who served as cavalry were usually "real barbarians", that is, Manchu and Mongolian flags, while the infantry and artillery were generally served by Han troops and Baoyi soldiers.
Generally speaking, as long as the "True Barbarians" are undefeated, the backbone of the "Er Barbarians" and the Green Camp soldiers will be there!
Once the "True Barbarians" are defeated, the "Er Barbarians" and the Green Camp soldiers will panic!
They are all panicking, why don't you let them use guns and artillery to build up their courage?
But the problem is that Yue Le's troops did not carry too much ammunition to the battlefield - Yue Le thought this was a quick and decisive ambush battle, and never expected that his troops would be forced to fight in the field and lose their logistics. , to the point where limited ammunition reserves must be consumed to maintain the front.
However, Yue Le was a veteran of the Qing Dynasty. At this time, instead of falling into panic, he acted very calmly. I saw him neatly dressed, leading his guards and Goshihars, patrolling back and forth in various positions to boost morale and stabilize the morale of the army.
He also kept telling the officers below: Just hold on! Because there are still 20,000 soldiers in Leerjin, and the Eight Banners slaves left in his place are not that many. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the King of Shuncheng County breaks through the Rongxi Bridge. When King Shuncheng's army arrives, victory can be expected!
Of course, he would not tell his men that once the 15,000 Wu troops coming from Nanxi broke through the obstruction of the 5,000 Green Battalion New Army commanded by Ma Siwen and arrived at the Daguan Town battlefield before Leerjin, the consequences would be Disastrous!
On the plain southeast of this hilly area composed of a series of hills such as Tazi Mountain and Mojiafeng Mountain, two armies were approaching quickly on a night when the sky was full of stars.
Both armies set off torches and continued marching under the darkness of night. If you compare the number of torches on both sides, there will be a huge difference. On Wu Jun's side, there were six mighty fire dragons, marching together with great momentum. Looking at this momentum, there were at least 15,000 to 20,000 people!
On the Qing army's side, the scene was much smaller, with only four to five thousand people standing in front of the sky.
The Qing soldiers who were marching were not fools. They saw the mighty enemy "torch team" from a distance, and they all felt timid.
But Ma Siwen, who is leading the army today, is a "second generation traitor" who is extremely loyal to the Qing Dynasty!
He is the nephew of Ma Guangyuan, the general in Jianchang of the Ming Dynasty. Guangyuan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the fourth year of Tiancong's reign when the Jin army entered the pass to plunder. From then on, Siwen and his uncle shaved their heads and paid gold. It has been almost forty years since he was transferred to the Qing Dynasty as a young man, and he has been a slave of Dajin (Qing Dynasty) for almost his whole life.
Compared with him, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Kong Youde, and Geng Zhongming are all considered "juniors among slaves."
It's a pity that although he is a high-ranking servant, his foundation is weak. His uncle is only a first-class general. It is not easy to pass on a first-class son to him. And he has fought hard to make this first-class son a third-class uncle. It is really difficult. Loyalty is commendable!
He is such a loyal slave, and of course he will live and die with the Qing Dynasty. But the Qing Dynasty is not about to fall yet, so why does he have to become a loyal martyr?
Seeing the "torch army" getting closer and closer to him, Ma Siwen had a strong urge to escape.
But impulse does not mean action. Because he has no place to escape! He could only bite the bullet and block the Wu army coming from Nanxi for Yue Le, hoping that the ones coming were not elites.
Seeing that the positions on both sides were very close, Ma Siwen did not dare to move forward any further. Instead, he shouted: "Stop!" Then he paused and then said: "The whole army of the square formation will stand firm!"
"嗻!"
The square formation he wanted to set up was the hollow square formation - he planned to set up a hollow square formation on the plain. If the Wu army from Nanxi did not attack him and went around, then he had no objection.
If the enemy must fight against him, then the 5,000 Eight Banners New Army under his command will not be a vegetarian. The Eight Banners New Army under his command has the foundation of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion led by Zhang Yong, and its combat effectiveness is still considerable.
Just as the Green Camp New Army formed a large formation below and surrounded Ma Siwen to protect him, a song that was very familiar to him and had been sung on both sides of the Yellow River was suddenly sung loudly by at least thousands of people; "Chao Qiu" Sheng, twilight seeks unity. It is difficult for Han children to survive these days. Open the door early to pay homage to King Ming. King Ming will come to divide the fields."
"Breaking in, trespassing?"
Ma Siwen murmured in a low voice: "Why is this an intruder?"
When he was confused, there was another rush of horse hoofbeats ahead, and several Wu Jun knights holding torches rushed to Ma Siwen's formation. Ma Siwen took a look and found that those people were all dressed in yellow robes and red scarves. They were not intruders, but red scarf thieves.
"The Green Flag Soldiers in front (the Green Banner Soldiers are also called Green Flag Soldiers in this era) heard this. We are the envoys of His Highness the King of the West, President of the Restoration of the Ming Dynasty. His Highness the King of the West's 20,000 troops are about to arrive. He is willing to give You have a chance to surrender, if you refuse to surrender, you will be seeking your own death!"
"King of the West?" Ma Siwen's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: Isn't this King of the West the King of the West?
Thinking of this, he asked: "Who is the King of the West?"
In the darkness in the distance, a loud voice suddenly sounded, loudly replying: "It's me, Wu Sangui! I, Wu Sangui, am the President of the Revived Ming Dynasty, Xi Wang Ma Siwen. Are you willing to abandon the darkness and join the light?"
(End of chapter)
