Chapter 699: Directly Defeat the Enemy Chieftain
Gan Hui took advantage of the situation and followed Kitat's men to the front, and led his troops to use bayonets to force back the scattered captives who dared to resist, and soon joined forces with Yu Xin's main force.
"Reinforcements! It's our reinforcements! β
"It's General Gan, now it's saved!"
"Brother, have you gathered around you?"
"The reinforcements arrived, everyone resisted, and the Mo Jiao thief ran away halfway!"
Although only seven hundred dragoons arrived, it was like a stimulant for Yu Xin's subordinates, who were struggling to support, and his arms, which were barely able to lift at the moment, were full of strength.
On the other hand, Gong Adai's soldiers and horses, in the case of numerical superiority, have not been able to defeat the Dragon Guard Army for a long time, and have begun to be anxious on a large scale.
In addition, the rout of the Chitat Department was so disturbed, and there was confusion in many places in the Zhenghuang Banner formation, which eased the pressure on the east side of the Ming army's infantry line.
Shi Lin led the dragoon battalion to the north side, and was observing which side to return to Zhu Linmiao's side to protect him, but saw two red signal flares rising from the Ming army's position on the northwest side.
It turned out that Yu Xin was already difficult to support on the right flank of the infantry line, and when he learned that reinforcements had arrived, he was busy sending signal flares to make people urgent.
Shi Lin glanced at the direction where the Son of Heaven was, his brows were tightened, he had been following Zhu Linmiao, how could he not know the importance of the battle of Xi Mingshan. If the thieves could not be intercepted here, the main force of Duoduo would be able to escape northward, and the great plan of the Holy Lord's painstaking efforts to encircle him would be wasted.
Although there was a second direction for the Zhejiang army and the Jiangxi army further north, he knew very well that he must not put his hope on the garrisons in these places. If he ignores the warning and only returns to escort him, the Holy One will definitely blame himself......
"General," said the lieutenant general of the Imperial Forest, "where are we going?" β
Shi Lin gritted his teeth and ordered: "You first bring two hundred people and lancers back to escort you, and I will go to the west for reinforcements!" β
"Yes!"
In fact, Shi Lin also thought about it carefully, there are more than 4,000 people in Dengshan on the Son of Heaven's side, and even if the thieves know that the Son of Heaven is here, they will not be able to divide the troops to attack for a while. Moreover, the Ming army in the direction of Mashan and Darenshan will soon be able to arrive, and it should be safe.
He immediately waved his sword and shouted: "One, second, third, fifth companies, follow me to help General Yu!" Then he clamped the horse's belly with all his might, and led his troops westward.
Duoduo originally planned to take the Bayala Protector to attack Yu Xin's right flank, but he was shocked to hear a thunderous sound of fire behind him, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that Han Daxun's three thousand Guan Ning soldiers in the rear team were constantly shrinking back, and it seemed that they would be defeated in a moment.
"Could it be that the southerners are reinforcing troops, how did they come so quickly?!" His eyelids jumped, and he secretly thought, after I left tens of thousands of horses everywhere, I didn't even block it for half a day?!
He looked at the place where the previous Ming army's battle formation had been broken, and although the gap was barely blocked by the southerners, the queue was very messy, which was its weakest point.
The Ming army on the north side must be repelled immediately, otherwise when Han Daxun is defeated, the enemy army from the south will swarm in, and his army will be surrounded and killed here!
He said anxiously to the officers on the side: "Order Zu Runze to reinforce the rear army!" Then he pointed at the right flank of the Ming army with his horsewhip and shouted: "The guards are all coming with me!" β
The seven hundred Baya soldiers were just about to leave, but they heard the rumbling of horses' hooves on the east side, and the two Xiao cavalry came to report in panic, "General, the enemy attack on the east side, at least six or seven hundred horsemen!" β
"Why are there Confederate troops everywhere?" Duoduo was so miserable that he had to give another order, "Fight the enemy to the east!" β
Shi Lin had just galloped out of the 600 imperial battalion army for less than a mile, but there was a flash of fire in the dust on the west side, and even a dozen or so soldiers were hit by the firecrackers.
The enemy and us were already mixed together, Shi Lin immediately bent down and raised his sword, shouting: "Hurry forward!" Get ready to take on the enemy! β
The adjutant beside him suddenly pointed to a large pole not far away, "General, it seems to be the general banner of the chief Duoduo!" β
Shi Lin squinted and saw a very high white embroidered dragon flag, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "If you can clean up this guy, the crisis in Xi Mingshan will be solved immediately!" β
Thinking of this, he turned the reins of his horse, swept in front of the Duoduo array, turned around and ran for more than three hundred steps, raised his hand, and said, "The soldiers of the imperial camp dismount and form an infantry line!" β
If you want to reinforce Yu Xin, then it is naturally most suitable to rush through the enemy formation on horseback, but it is difficult for cavalry swords to quickly kill and injure the enemy. Arrange in a line and fire a volley with rifled guns to eliminate the guards around Duoduo as quickly as possible, waiting for the opportunity to kill the enemy chieftain.
Duoduo saw a group of Ming cavalry flash by, and did not appear again for a while, thinking that it was his new flintlock that scared it away.
He was about to take someone to attack Yu Xin again, but when he heard the herald beside him exclaimed: "General, look! β
He turned his head to look at the man, and saw a group of men and horses faintly in the dust and smoke on the east side, and then heard a chorus of voices from there, "Aim! β
"Put!"
The Bayala Protector in the front row was immediately ejected by Mini and knocked over thirty or forty people, and Duoduo hurriedly shouted, "Hair!" Call me! β
His guards immediately raised their guns to fight back, but when the number of people was similar, how could the flintlock guns of the Qing army be the opponent of rifled guns?
The Ming army released three shots from the imperial camp, and the ammunition for the second fire of the Duoduo headquarters had not yet been loadedβthe heavy guns were too heavy, and it took a lot of time to set up the brackets before firing. This is still the elite Baya soldiers with white flags, and if they are replaced by other Qing troops, the speed will be even slower.
In addition, the shooting accuracy of both sides was several notches worse, and the rifled guns could kill more than 30 people per fire. Jianyu's side is completely fateful, if you are lucky, you can shoot more than ten people, and when you are unlucky, you can hit two or three.
So after seven or eight rounds of firing, the guards under Duoduo showed signs that they could no longer hold on, and several gaps were shot out of the phalanx, and the soldiers behind hesitated and did not dare to step forward.
Shi Lin ordered in a loud voice, "Ten steps forward!" β
The Ming soldiers followed and repeated the Ming army, stopping in Duoduo's ears, but they felt that death was getting closer. He knew that if he died, he would inevitably lose everything, so he hurriedly dragged the herald beside him and said hurriedly: "Let Gong Adai divide his troops to help me!" β
"Huh!"
The herald led people to find Gong Adai, and along the way, he encountered hundreds of Rakshasa soldiers who were attacking more than a dozen cannons with iron shields. He didn't care much, and hurriedly shouted to the interpreter: "Hurry up and reinforce the Chinese army!" The general is attacked! β
Vlakik was about to break through the defensive line of these difficult Ming artillery, but he had no choice but to call the remaining 400 mercenaries to turn south.
Chen Xiongfei took the last of more than 140 artillery pieces, surrounded the thirteen Franc machine guns, and used the only 25 guns to shoot outward for defense. Thirty or forty soldiers had picked up the axes of the Rakshasa and were chopping the enemy soldiers who were about to cross the "wall" of artillery shields.
But to great surprise, the Rakshasa suddenly knocked on the hammer for a while, and then hurriedly retreated.
Chen Xiongfei waited for a while, and when he saw that it was not the enemy's deception, he couldn't help laughing, "It must be reinforcements from all walks of life!" Brothers, set out the cannon and avenge the dead robes! β
The artillerymen were all overjoyed, gathered the scattered ammunition from all around, adjusted the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and as the matching knife of the curly blade in Cheng Xiongfei's hand fell, all the artillery commanders shouted together, "Put!" β
Thirteen cannonballs burrowed into the battle formation of Gong Adai's headquarters with a sharp whistle. The captives who were approaching step by step were struck by an invisible man at such a close distance, as if they had been struck with a left hook by an invisible lifter, and more than forty people on the flanks were killed on the spot, and flesh and blood spurted out far away. More than a dozen people were seriously injured and rolled on the ground.
The soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner all looked sideways in horror, and the blades in their hands suddenly slowed down.