Chapter 526: Bitter Battle in the Valley

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Mu Zhiqing saw that she had stabilized her mind, and she was also secretly relieved, looked around again, and pondered: "The general's command and the guards I brought have a total of 23,400 people, and in terms of head-to-head confrontation, these more than 3,000 thieves are by no means our opponents.

"Our disadvantage is that we are forced into a narrow valley......"

She suddenly stared, as if she had made a lot of determination, and pointed to Taniguchi and said, "Let's try to seize the open space at Taniguchi first, which is a mile wide, and we can barely line up and fight the thieves." ”

"I'm afraid it won't work." Adjutant General Zhen Zhen immediately said, "The thieves have surrounded the valley mouth, and if our army forms there, the two wings will definitely be hit hard by the thieves." ”

"I have a way." Mu Zhiqing immediately said, "You take some people and climb the eastern slope of the mountain, and there are fires burning all over the mountain." The thieves are held back by the fire, and they cannot attack my left flank. And my guards," she said, looking at Yale and the others, "are very good at attacking the enemy in the mountains and forests, and can hold back the enemy on the western slopes. My main force is safe on both sides in a short period of time, and it is concentrated on the front to break the enemy! ”

"Set fire?!" The officers of the broken battalion on the side were shocked when they heard this, "But our army is in the valley, wouldn't it be self-immol......ation to set fire to the mountain?"

Without waiting for Mu Zhiqing to explain, Zhen Zhen's eyes lit up, and he said first: "This method is feasible!" There was still a process before the fire spread from the hillside, and we formed a formation close to the west side of the valley mouth, just in time to fight the enemy! ”

"That's right!" Mu Zhiqing said, "The key now is the word 'fast'!" As long as they break through the thieves' defenses before the wildfires burn, the army will be able to escape. ”

Zhen Zhen nodded vigorously, and waved his hand behind him, "Liu Xian, Ma Chongen, lead the troops to come with me!" ”

Mu Zhiqing was afraid that she would be impulsive, so she hurriedly reached out and said, "General Zhen......"

"Don't worry," Zhen Zhen raised his swift sword without looking back, "I have my own measure!" ”

Immediately, with her 200 personal guards as the vanguard, she led the hussars of two rounds to quickly rush towards Taniguchi. It's just that they are limited to the terrain in the valley, and they all abandon their horses and fight on foot.

The Qing army, which was forming a formation outside the mountain pass, was able to complete the encirclement, obviously not expecting the Ming army to attack so quickly, and suddenly panicked. When Zhen Zhen led his troops almost to the open place at the mouth of the valley, the command flag began to dance in the captive army's array, and the bowstring began to hum from all directions.

The hussars of the Broken Camp are now equipped with the same equipment as the Dragon Guards - cavalry swords and two reed wheel short guns, which are very easy to fight on horseback, but because the range of the spring wheel guns is too close, they can only withstand the rain of arrows of the Qing army to attack the enemy at close range.

Fortunately, due to the use of Zhu Linmiao's inferior spring steel, Jianyu did not have a firearm available at this time, and cotton armor was also the standard configuration of hussars, so except for a few people in the Ming army who were shot at the vital point, the casualties were also very large.

Zhen Zhen soon discovered that the junction of the two phalanxes on the left flank of Jianyu should be due to the fact that the enemy army was surrounded in a hurry, not only was the strength of the troops relatively thin, but not even the horses were placed in front of the formation.

She took the lead and attacked the weak points of the enemy line. At this moment, thick smoke rose from the eastern hillside, and the soldiers on the right wing of the Qing army retreated anxiously, immediately causing chaos in their own battle formations.

Seeing this, the morale of the soldiers of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and they gathered into a familiar cavalry wedge-shaped charging formation, shouted loudly, and rushed to more than 30 steps in front of the enemy formation under the arrows in the sky.

As the hundreds of sword and shield hands in the front row bounced to the ground, the Qing army's battle formation instantly retreated backwards, and the open space near the valley mouth immediately widened a lot.

Other officers and men of the Ming army had a foothold and quickly made up for it from the back row, and nearly 1,000 people had spread out in front of the Ming army. In particular, the Dragon Guard's personal soldiers joined the battle formation, and the more than 140 rifled guns they were equipped with were strong, making the speed of the captives retreat a little faster.

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"It's all rubbish!" E Shuo saw that the Ming army was under the inferior terrain, but the Qing army in a semi-encircled state was forced to retreat one after another, and his round eyes were almost dripping blood.

He was very aware of the importance of today's battle - after the defeat of Jurong, Bei Le Ye led his personal guards and Li Zhongxing's cavalry to retreat eastward, but the Southern Barbarian Tie Dake always tried to intercept them in front of them.

In desperation, Lord Belle could only keep walking south, but halfway through, the Ming army with the banner of the word "Zhen" came after him. Fortunately, these two groups of Ming troops do not seem to be under the command, but under the front and rear attacks, the army is miserable.

After that, Lord Belle thought hard about it, and ordered Li Zhongxing to take more than 500 horsemen to pretend to be a Jingying horseman to lead Tie Dake to the north, and then he used himself as bait to lure the Ming army into this Cishan Valley.

As a confidant of Luckedhun, Eshuo was ordered to lead the main force to encircle the Ming army here. He originally thought that with 2,400 green battalions and 400 bayalas, it would be a sure thing to block the southerners in the valley, but he didn't expect that this green battalion would be so unbearable that it would be robbed of a large gap by the Ming army.

This group of southerners must be surrounded and killed today, so that the army can get a chance to breathe!

He gritted his teeth and pulled out his waist knife, and shouted to the flag officer beside him: "Order, those who take a step back without permission will be killed!" Then he personally led more than 100 Bayala to rush to the gap in the main attack of the Ming army.

He had just run a few steps when he saw an officer of the Green Battalion hurriedly come and say, "General, those three cannons are still behind the formation, can you ......?"

"Cannons? Didn't you drag it to the eastern slopes?! ”

The officer bowed his head and said, "The soldiers moved slowly, and before they could go up the hill, they saw a fire." ”

"Good!" E Shuo was overjoyed, pointing at Ming Jun and excitedly said, "Boom me!" ”

The officer was stunned when he heard this, "General, the two armies are fighting fiercely, how can the artillery be dragged to the front of the battle?" ”

"Drag a fart! Shoot right here! ”

"Here? Rear formation?! It's going to hurt our people very easily......"

"I can't care so much, in the dense valley of the southerners, a single shot can knock down a large area! It doesn't matter if you kill a few green battalion soldiers! E Shuo glared, "Go!" ”

"Yes, the last will obey......"

E Shuo immediately led Bayala soldiers to slash and kill hundreds of soldiers behind the retreating Qing army battle formation on the west side, and then concentrated all 400 Bayala to rush to the front to fight to the death, and finally stopped the trend of the Green Battalion's defeat and retreat.

Zhen Zhen's hussars only had two short guns each, and they could quickly retreat from the enemy when they first rushed up, but the reed wheel guns were very troublesome to load, and they could only draw their swords to engage after shooting.

At this moment, hundreds of Qing soldiers howled and waved their swords to meet them.

The cavalry of the Ming army was not good at foot combat, and in the face of these elite captives who were skilled in swordsmanship, they suddenly fell behind, but fortunately, there were more than 100 rifled guns to support behind, so the battle barely became a draw.

Zhen Zhen fought side by side with the soldiers, and a swift sword was extremely dexterous and lightning fast, stabbing down several captives one after another. She was about to beckon everyone forward, but suddenly heard bursts of artillery on the west side, and her heart couldn't help but be shocked......

(End of chapter)

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