Chapter 904: Third-rate Army
"My lord, isn't that from the Guogong Mansion?"
"Where?"
Zhu Guozhi was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes wide, looked and looked, and confirmed that the group of soldiers gathered on the opposite side was really the gang of soldiers from the Duke of Wei's mansion, because the leader Xu Guang was his cousin-in-law's third aunt, and the two had gambled together during the Chinese New Year.
"What do they want to do? Do you want to fight for the tiger! ”
Fengcheng Houqi's cheeks are bulging, this matter is the head of Wei Guogong, and now the people in his house are selling their lives to Eunuch Wei, what is this!
"My lord, my brother-in-law is on the other side, what should I do?"
An officer in the Shenwu Battalion had a big head, and his brother-in-law was holding a knife and wearing a cotton armor, looking around this way.
Obviously, the brother-in-law is also looking for his brother-in-law.
Not only did this officer have a headache, but half of the officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion didn't know what to do now.
The southern capital is such a big place, the three battalions of garrisons are hereditary, and the soldiers are also hereditary, and most of the soldiers and generals in the lords' mansions are also from the three major battalions.
In the previous fight with Eunuch Wei, the big guy would not show mercy to his subordinates in order to protect himself, but now he is someone he knows, and there are even close relatives in it, how can he fight!
Do you really want relatives to kill each other, and neighbors can't turn against each other?
Fengcheng Hou and Zhu Guozhi obviously realized this, but Hou Ye didn't say anything, because he was about to run away, as long as he could drag it out for a while, it didn't matter if he won or lost.
But Zhu Guozhi couldn't help but speak, and he also pointed to these subordinates to drag Eunuch Wei's soldiers for him.
"Don't make any noise, listen to me!"
Zhu Guozhi had a gloomy face, "It's your father on the other side, you have to fight too!" If you don't hit him, he'll hit you! If you don't kill him, he will kill you! ”
“……”
When the officers heard this, they knew that what the general said was true, and the Wei eunuch drove the people of the Wei Mansion to rush at them, but it was not just to kill them.
It's just that his own father is really on the other side, who dares to fight.
The Ming Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and Emperor Chengzu didn't even dare to play his father's tablet.
Thinking so, after all, there is no father, and the officers can only fight if they want to survive. If you really meet someone you know, you have multiple hearts. It's really not possible, and there's no way to do it.
"What are you still doing! Wait for someone to kill you! Zhu Guozhi saw that his subordinates were still standing here stupidly, and shouted angrily.
The officers woke up and hurried back to their respective defense areas to supervise the battle.
After his subordinates left, General Zhu Shen gently pulled the Marquis of Fengcheng and said in a low voice: "Master Hou, hurry up, you can't leave if it's too late!" ”
"Huh?"
Fengcheng Hou was still in a daze, he wanted to see if the Shenji Battalion was also playing for the tiger. After reacting, he looked up at the sky, hurriedly closed his mouth, looked around, and followed Zhu Guozhi to the back as if he was a thief.
More than a dozen soldiers from the Hou Mansion, together with Zhu Guozhi's own soldiers, stood outside with swords, nervously looking at the soldiers around them who were preparing for battle.
………..
"Listen to me, give me an order, and everyone will rush forward for me, this gun is powerful, but the more you are afraid of it, the easier it is to call it to fight! If you want to live, there is only one way, rush forward for me! ”
Xu Guang's heart beat no slower than the soldiers, the palms of the hands holding the knife were full of sweat, and his eyes were motionless as he looked at the Jiangnan Town Guard Wei Gonggong who was surrounded and protected by hundreds of brocade guards not far away.
Finally, in his sight, a soldier of Gonggong Wei with three small flags on his back ran a few steps forward, and then took out two small flags and waved them in the direction where Xu Guang was.
"Whew!"
Xu Guang let out a long breath, knowing that it was time, he gritted his teeth and pulled out the waist knife, and shouted, "Kill!" ”
"Brothers, rush!"
Xu Xing also shouted "wow", it seemed that he was not so, and he could not show his courage.
The rest of the generals also drew their swords and rushed forward.
"Cover!"
Oda dropped his command knife, and the officers and men of the two standard guards battalions immediately lined up and took turns firing their guns in the direction of the enemy soldiers who might exist in front of them.
Smoke instantly filled the hill, and the hammer made a muffled sound against the mound.
"Kill!"
In the dense sound of guns, more than two hundred soldiers of the Wei State Mansion, who had no way out, held all kinds of weapons, shouted and rushed to the defense line of the Shenwu Battalion.
After about a dozen breaths of silence, the sound of guns finally sounded on the defense line of the Shenwu Battalion.
One after another, it soon became dense.
Accompanied by arrows, the officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion appeared in the place where there were no people.
Or a gun, or an arrow.
From time to time, some of the soldiers of the Wei Mansion who charged were hit by arrows and fell to the ground with a scream, and their companions behind could only step on their bodies.
"Rush, rush, don't look back!"
Xu Guang waved his knife and shouted, but he didn't know where he got the courage.
He had just been hit in the chest by the gun, but the gun had not pierced the solid iron armor, otherwise he would have died.
Seeing that there was a team of Shenwu Battalion gunners more than ten zhang away in front of him who were hurriedly loading medicine, Xu Guang rushed towards the team of gunners without hesitation.
"Rush up and slaughter them!"
Xu Xing followed Xu Guang closely, and under the leadership of Er Xu, the remaining soldiers of the Duke of Wei flocked up.
The faces of those Shenwu Battalion gunners who were loading the medicine were a little panicked, and some of them hurriedly put their guns forward, but the soldiers who fell to the ground did not make the rest of the people feel scared at all, but rushed forward even more roaringly.
Dozens of sword-wielding officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion rushed up from the flank, trying to buy time for the gunners. But he didn't want these soldiers of the Duke of Wei to kill red-eyed, so he slashed and killed them with a knife.
The general who led the team saw his men being cut to the ground one by one, and knew that it was not good, so he hurriedly ran back, but after running a few steps, he was shot by an arrow flying from his own direction, and his death was not unjust.
After Xu Guang cut off the arm of the soldier in the Shenwu camp on the opposite side with a knife, he found that there was no one in front of him to stop him, and hurriedly shouted to his subordinates to rush forward to the team.
"Bang bang" was dozens of explosions, and more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground and wailed. The rest didn't look at it, so they rushed forward under the leadership of the general.
"Withdraw, withdraw!"
The officer of the Shenwu Battalion who commanded this team of gunners was frightened and quickly ordered to retreat.
The gunners knew that they had to run without the officer's order, but it was too late, the people from the Wei Mansion had already rushed up, and the firearms in their hands that could not be filled with medicine were powerless in the face of the broadsword and spear.
The two sides fought together, and soon dozens of Shenwu Battalion gunners were cut down to the ground, and the rest either threw the fire gun and ran away, or used a fire gun as a stick, and then were cut to the ground.
The retreating Shenwu Battalion Gunners invisibly disrupted their own defense line again, and the remnants of the Wei State Mansion stabbed into the heart of the Shenwu Battalion's defense line like a sharp knife.
In the back, hundreds of pig warriors with fire guns and "swords" poured in along the gap torn by the soldiers of the Wei State Mansion under the guidance of the military banner of the "Wind Forest Volcano".
The battle situation, there are no variables.
Father-in-law Wei estimated that Xu Guang broke through the defense line of the Shenwu camp with more than 100 casualties, if it weren't for these cannon fodder, then he Gonggong Wei would have to bear this casualty figure.
"Father-in-law, rush in!"
Cao Wenyao was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that this gang of wretched people in Wei Guofu really got things done.
Father-in-law Wei was not as happy as Cao Wenyao, and in his opinion, this was a matter of course.
The combat effectiveness of the three major battalions of the Southern Capital, a third-rate army of the Ming Dynasty, has never been overestimated by his old man.
"Have you taken a closer look? This is a typical battle to break through the firearms defense line, in the absence of artillery bombardment, it is necessary to concentrate on selecting one place of the enemy to tear the gap, and then the army will follow up and expand the results... You should observe these carefully, ponder them carefully, and study and summarize them after the war. ”
The father-in-law said this to the officers above the small flag of the left and right battalions of the infantry army who were ordered to watch the battle.
Although most of these people were illiterate, they had already formed the rudiments of the officer corps under his father-in-law.