Chapter 579: The Lion Fights the Rabbit
After the cavalry who had been tired for more than ten days rested well in Juyong Pass for two days, Huang Han personally led the men and horses to rush out of the city, and Gao Youmou, a civil official, and Li Ruolian were left behind.
At the same time, there were more than 300 brocade guards left, and although Li Ruolian was unhappy, he had no choice but to obey orders.
Juyongguan was the way out, arrested the former chief military officer Chen Hongfan, and re-checked the men and horses the next day, dismissed half of the impostors, and issued the military salary of the Juyongguan garrison for two months according to the actual number of soldiers.
Although the practice of distributing silver to every soldier and military attache at the grassroots level one by one greatly boosted the morale of the original Yongguan garrison, in order to prevent accidents, there must be a senior officer with absolute authority left here.
Fang Zhenghua held back enough energy to go to the battlefield to kill Jiannu in person, and refused to leave anything behind, he named Li Ruolian and some Jinyi Guards.
Because Jin Yiwei arrested Chen Hongfan's family and more than 100 slaves, the interrogation and cleaning up the property could not be completed in three or five days.
It is an iron law to handle endlessly, and it is just a little different! Gao Youzhi is happy to be stationed in Juyongguan to make money, anyway, the credit for his family team participating in the war will not be less than his own.
Li Ruolian was depressed to death, but he didn't expect that in order to make a fortune for everyone, Jin Yiwei hit Chen Hongfan, a big corrupt official, so that he couldn't get out, and he could only hope that Lou Yun and Zhang Chao, who participated in the attack, would get a lot of money.
The cavalry of the original Yongguan people was also used intensively, and the number reached 1,500, and more than half of them belonged to Chen Hongfan's main barracks.
Chen Hongfan's family was disarmed, with a total of three or four hundred horsemen, and these people were well-equipped and should have a stronger force value than ordinary battalion soldiers.
It is known that the head of the family has fallen into the hands of Jinyiwei and confessed a crime that is enough to kill the head like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and the vast majority of the family members know that they must make a new choice.
They learned that the Marquis of Dongping was about to go out of the customs to fight against Jiannu, and more than eighty percent of them took the initiative to ask to participate in the battle to make meritorious contributions.
In the end, 360 people were assigned to the Jinyi Guard under the command of Lou Yun and Zhang Chao, and these people were enough to make up for the Jinyi Guard who was absent from the battle because he stayed at Juyong Pass.
How new it is to fight with Jinyiwei, presumably those Chen Hongfan's family members will have the intention of currying favor with Jinyiwei, and they will also try their best to express themselves on the battlefield.
The encirclement and annihilation of Wu Xiang made the Houjin army lose the best opportunity to capture Baozhou, and at this time, Zhizhou Yan Shengdou had already ushered in the reinforcement of 460 cavalry led by Ma Fulin seven or eight days ago, and his strength increased greatly.
In the past few days, there has been a lot of noise in Baozhou City, more than 100 suspected Jiannu Xiaozuo were killed, and more than 300 men who were not with their families were taken under centralized custody.
There were more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians hiding in the city, and Ma Fulin and Shen Sixiao cooperated with the officials, soldiers, and officials of Baoan Prefecture to select more than 10,000 people.
When Shuotuo, Sakhalian and other two red banner Jiannu generals came to Baoanzhou, they had already coerced 30,000 or 40,000 Han people, making their men and horses look vast and boundless.
According to the law of the Liukou, the number of soldiers and horses of the Biaohou Jin Army who is ready to seize the city of Baoan Zhou is as many as 50,000.
After the Jin army coerced the captured Han craftsmen to make some simple siege equipment overnight, they drove the coerced people to attack the next morning.
In fact, they were just a temptation, who knew that the result was very unsatisfactory, many clothed minions and Yu Ding were mixed among the Han people, and when they approached within 200 steps of the city wall of Baoanzhou, there were always people who were shot dead inexplicably.
The range of the raised gun was known to many Houjin troops, but they did not know that the "Red Banner Army" had a Mini gun with an effective range of more than 200 paces, and they thought that those Yu Ding and Bao Yi were hit by the raised gun.
Shuoto, Sakhalian, Wakda, and other generals of the Later Jin Army were puzzled as to why the guns in the city of Baoan Zhou were so accurate that they were able to distinguish Han Min from Yu Ding and Baoyi minions in the crowd.
Of course, the "Red Banner Army" knows how to distinguish between the enemy, and they will fight when they see those who are brandishing their swords, and nine times out of ten these people are hardcore traitors, and those with armor cannot be let go, at least they are also Jiannu Yuding, and those who ride horses must be killed......
The Ming defenders in the city of Baoan Zhou were very bad, and they selected dozens of men with loud voices to shout at the head of the city to tell the Han people who were coerced and had to come to attack the city.
They were advised not to advance after approaching the city wall for twenty paces, and to throw down the ladder and the shield cart and lie down on the spot.
Due to the continuous killing of Yu Ding and Baoyi minions who drove away the Han people, too many Han people were directly out of control.
Some Han Chinese approached the city wall and simply put their shield carts across the road, and then blocked the ladder between the shield carts, and then lay down and waited for Jiannu to retreat.
In order to prevent tens of thousands of Han people from counterattacking, the Houjin army must massacre those Han people who have gone out of control, but their archers must be close to a distance of fifty or sixty paces to shoot the lying Han people.
The Han people all knew that they had to face the feathered arrows of the Houjin army, not only lying down but also finding cover as much as possible, and some even chose to use shield vehicles to cover and dig a pit on the spot.
Among the men and horses brought by Ma Fulin, there were more than 40 Mini gunners, and more than a dozen of the guards of the "Sifang Qianzhuang" also had Mini guns, and with the accurate shooting of 50 or 60 Mini guns, they better curbed the killing of the Houjin army.
Next, it was no longer possible for the Houjin army to drive away the Han people who were coerced to be cannon fodder.
The Han people are not stupid, they saw with their own eyes that Jiannu ran to the city and lay down his companions, of course, they would follow suit, without the Han people pushing shield carts and carrying ladders to assist in the siege of the city, Jiannu could not afford the huge casualties of the offensive and defensive battles.
Moreover, all the generals of the Eight Banners received the supreme instructions of their master, Honggang, when they entered the Ming Dynasty, and they could not shake the strong city and walk around without being able to do it with a drum.
Sakhalian, Shuotuo and other Jiannu generals spent half a day trying to attack Baoan Prefecture to no avail, and they could only choose to plunder around the state city.
Shuo was not angry, and led more than 1,000 Zhenghongqi Jiannu and 1,000 less Tartars to rob all the way in the direction of Juyong Pass.
Huang Han soldiers like lions to fight rabbits, even Juyongguan cavalry, Jinyi Guard, Beijing cavalry, Gaojia horses, the total number of cavalry out of the pass reached more than 12,000, the quality of these horses is good, including more than 7,000 knights of the "Red Banner Army".
Juyong Pass is less than 180 miles away from the city of Baozhou, and the cavalry of the Ming army went on the road in the fourth watch, and after noon, they found two or three thousand Houjin troops who were robbing fifty miles south of Baoanzhou.
There were no tactics in the encounter, and the defenseless Houjin army was not in array, not because their military discipline was too poor, but because there were too many good things in their hands, and some people even tied up the Han women with ploughing oxen.
At this time, Jiannu did not look like a regular army at all, and they were almost inseparable from the rogues.