Chapter 52: A Pyrrhic Victory

At the east entrance of the village, He Jin touched the blood stains on his forehead, and his heart palpitated, these firecrackers are really powerful, they can fight so accurately in the dark.

But I didn't know that the firecracker would aim one by one, and the firecracker would fire a volley, and the enemy would immediately fire a salvo, and each round could knock down several enemies.

Outside the village, Hu Kui's cavalry was struggling to fight with He Jin's cavalry, more than 70 cavalry and He Jin's more than 30 cavalry were fighting, but they could not suppress the enemy, and suffered heavy casualties, after all, He Jin's cavalry was transferred to the north and south, thousands of miles of battlefield, and countless old rogues who killed countless people, which can be compared with their novice cavalry.

Although Hu Kui's cavalry team also included rogue cavalry and elite cavalry of the Ming army, there were too many novices to form a suppressive posture.

The more than 170 infantry led by He Jin are also old men, they have rich combat experience, and they are very good at taking advantage of the natural bug of the night, and they also know how to use the reload time after the firecracker fires, and use the cover of the night and terrain to secretly shoot arrows and shoot the firecrackers.

For a while, the firecrackers retreated step by step, and some had to fight with the rogues in close combat, which was a loss, Zhang Qiang could not equip the gunners with bayonets, and the gunners used cold weapons that they were not good at, and the Ming army's waist knives fought with the rogues, and they were not as good as the rogue old thieves.

Zhang Qiang hurried over, he brought a hundred musketeers, these were newly trained musketeers, the last batch of musketeers who had just been trained for a week.

On the other side, he left behind more than a hundred musketeers, all of whom were experienced veterans and musketeers who had fought several battles.

As soon as Zhang Qiang saw it, he knew the problem, "The firecrackers retreated and lined up, and the double column was horizontal,"

When He Jin heard Zhang Qiang's shout, he was shocked and disheartened, during the day, he had seen how Zhang Qiang's firecrackers defeated more than 3,000 Chen Jia's infantry troops.

", the wind is tight," he stood up and shouted hurriedly.

Zhang Qiang turned his head and saw a big man, quickly jumping on the war horse next to him, running away quickly, and shouting in his mouth.

Reaching out and taking a fire gun from one of the guards who followed him, he aimed it for a few seconds, and when He Jin was about to turn a corner and disappear from his sight, he fired a sharp shot.

He Jin felt someone push him behind him, and the armor on his body made a crisp cracking sound, and then his back was cold, his consciousness became blurred, he felt his body fly, and then he heard what seemed to be something hitting something heavily on it.

Seeing He Jin being knocked away, Zhang Qiang threw away the firecracker, took another firecracker, and continued to shoot, the old men turned around at the moment and ran away without their lives, he just shot them by name.

The firecracker burst out with a shout, rushed forward together, chasing the enemy and firing, Zhang Qiang was no exception, beating the horse to keep up, after shooting, he took another one from the hand of the guard, sometimes he would split his head and lean down to snatch the loaded firearm from the firecracker's hand and shoot.

He felt that his musket skills were improving by leaps and bounds.

Just as he was silent in the midst of the killing, an icy mechanical voice sounded, "Congratulations, your Domination Skill has been upgraded to Level 4, and you can command two hundred personal guard soldiers." ”

Zhang Qiang grabbed the war horse and stopped in place.

He understood that the law of the system was that he had to kill the enemy to gain experience before he could upgrade his Domination skills, and that each level could only get a quota of fifty commanders.

And by far the biggest benefit of his Domination skill is that it can help the instructor train the soldiers.

Of course, he can't bring only 200 soldiers with a garrison, and a hundred households can't bring more than so many soldiers.

The advantage of coaching skills is that you can quickly train a group of rabble, a group of people with wrong hands into a qualified militia.

Two weeks can retrain the rebel militia into rebel recruits, three weeks, the rebel skilled soldiers, four weeks, one month, the veteran soldiers of the rebels.

The combat effectiveness of these soldiers is of course one level higher than that of the Ming army trained by others.

Coaching skills can be improved by training soldiers. However, whether it is the Domination skill or the coaching skill, he can't see the specific experience and values, and is completely reminded by the system.

This is the difference with the game.

"My lord, my lord, the Qing army at the northwest entrance of the village is too powerful, Lord Zhou Congee and Lord Xuanyuan Longfei ask for reinforcements." A cavalryman galloped in and brought news of Zhou Congee and them.

"The cavalry will go to support Lord Wei Wuji, and the musketeers will come with me." Zhang stressed the turn of his horse, and the cavalry around him followed him and galloped towards the west entrance of the village.

Lin Yang's subordinate general is a smart man, and he is also very slippery, as a restraining force, he didn't try his best to do it, seeing that Wei Wuji's soldiers were very fierce, he took He Jin's old camp Liukou just rushed casually, and then turned around and went in the other direction, which made Wei Wuji very annoyed, the entire west of the village, and even to the south of the village, was full of enemies, and he had to separate his forces and scatter the pursuit, but in the end he found that the troops were still not enough.

Hearing the sound of fighting at the northwest entrance of the village getting closer and closer, he was worried about the safety of Zhou Congee and Xuanyuan Longfei, but he couldn't get out, those old Kou were very cunning, slippery, and opened a guerrilla war with him, he just retreated with people and pursued the other group, and the Liukou here rushed over again.

He couldn't get out.

Zhang Qiang ran back to the northwest of the village with a hundred musketeers, only to see the spearmen of Xuanyuan Longfei in the northwest of the village scattered and fled, and were pursued by the Qing soldiers.

Accidental injuries are inevitable, but they can shoot at the enemies and comrades who are glued together, they can't do it, so the fire guns also fell into hand-to-hand combat, which turned their advantages into disadvantages, and the Qing army, whether it was archery or hand-to-hand combat, until now, in today's Ming Dynasty, it is almost invincible, the archers were continuously shot down by the Qing army, turned off the roof, and then hacked to death by the superior Ming army.

Zhang Qiang saw the current situation, he rushed over and must have fallen into the quagmire of hand-to-hand combat, he stayed in place for a while with a hundred firecrackers, and immediately detoured out of the village, and when the Qing army reacted, he had already blocked the entrance of the village with a hundred firecrackers, and found that the back road was blocked, and the Ming army surrendered for a while, and the Qing soldiers turned back and rushed back.

However, the terrain at the entrance of the village was open, and the musketeers gave full play to their advantages, with a hundred people, standing in three rows, shooting in turns, the Qing soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and the Ming army surrendered into chaos.

Zhang Qiang rode on a war horse, continuously opened fire with a fire gun, and constantly killed and wounded the Ming army and the Qing soldiers who resisted stubbornly, and the battle ended at dawn.

"Hu Kui, with cavalry and a hundred musketeers, and a hundred archers, went to raid the enemy's camp, and did not allow an enemy to be spared." Zhang Qiang viciously treated Hu Kui as a teacher.

In the early morning, the sun had just risen from the top of the mountain, and the battlefield had been cleaned.

Zhou Congee ran back tiredly, "My lord, in this battle, we lost a total of seventy-five musketeers, one hundred and thirty-five pikemen, ninety archers, seventy-five sword players, and fifty cavalry players, a total of four hundred and twenty-five people were killed, and the total number of wounded in each branch of the army was three hundred and twenty. ”

Zhang Qiang's face darkened, "Has the enemy's main general been caught?" ”

Zhou Congee said in a low voice: "No, let him escape, after interrogation and capture, this is He Jinbu, and the enemy also has a group of 2,000 people in Wuyi County, which is Liu Guangbi's department." ”

"Enemy losses?"

Zhou Congee opened the account book, "The enemy has a total of 2,070 people, and in the first battle last night, the enemy was killed by our army 760 people, killed and wounded 540 people, we captured 782 enemies, and 200 people escaped. ”

After glancing at Zhang Qiang, Zhou Congee whispered again: "My lord, last night there were a total of seventy-five Tartars who participated in the attack on us, including thirty-five pure Tartars, thirty Tartars in armor, and ten Tartars in armor, we killed a total of twenty Tartars, twenty-five Tartars in armor, ten in armor, and fifteen Tartars, ten Tartars were wounded in armor and captured by us; In addition, after interrogation, He Jin's 500 old battalion was the most tenacious and cunning, and caused the most damage to us, these old men were killed 350 people and 150 were captured. ”

Zhang Qiang stood up, "Take both Tartar and Lao Kou to the threshing floor in the village, and let the rebel recruits who have just experienced a battle go to kill, everyone must be killed, and if they are not killed, let the firecrackers execute them." ”

Zhou Congee said cautiously: "My lord, this is a little too cruel. ”

Zhang Qiang glanced back at him, and Zhou Congee immediately stopped speaking carefully.

Zhang Qiang added, "Let the Ming army surrender troops and other captives to watch the execution, and go to execution." ”