Chapter Eighty-Six: Fighting Local Tyrants

The sudden change made Zhuyanghua completely stupid.

He froze where he was, not even remembering to tell the Warseer to stop the deserters.

The sharpest man he had ever seen had to take thirty or forty breaths to complete a reload of ammunition, and just now the Ming army was clearly a salvo of the whole army, why was it only less than ten breaths before it could be fired?!

The two henchmen next to him saw him standing in a daze, and quickly picked him up and ran wildly, "My lord, run!" ”

"Run?" Zhu Yanghua smiled miserably and looked around. Where can you run away, this is the terrain carefully selected by Lord Ke, with slopes on both sides, just to prevent the Ming army from escaping, but at this time it has become his own cage.

"Kill!" The Dragon Guard infantry array let out another neat roar, and thousands of people swept in behind the routs like a raging wind.

They didn't need to shoot at all, and more than half of the Qing soldiers trampled on each other and died, and those who ran in the rear were pierced to the ground with bayonets.

Ke Yongsheng looked at his artillery position with the last glimmer of hope, although the infantry was defeated, as long as his artillery began to fire, it was still possible to block the pursuit of the Ming army. At that time, the remnants of the army will be collected, and maybe they will be able to fight for a situation where they are inferior.

It seems that several cannons have been fixed to the gun mounts, and are being raised and aimed.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw hundreds of heavy cavalry shining with silver light appear in the distance on the edge of the riverbank.

Before the infantry of the two armies began to exchange fire, Zhao Shichao had already bypassed the Qing army phalanx with his heavy cavalry company. But limited to the orders of the commander, he could only linger from a distance and watch.

But seeing the rout of the Qing infantry, he immediately commanded all the men and horses to rush into the Qing artillery position as fast as possible.

When they saw the rout of their own forces, these artillerymen had no more fighting spirit. At this time, they saw hundreds of cavalry in steel armor rolling in, and they immediately howled and fled for their lives.

It's just that no matter how fast the legs run, it is impossible to cross the four hooves of the Hetao healthy horse.

In a moment, the cavalry of the Dragon Guard pursued closer, and every time the cavalry sword with cold light was waved, it would neatly take the life of a Qing artilleryman.

After only one charge, there were only hundreds of corpses left on Ke Yongsheng's artillery position, as well as dozens of prisoners who were surrounded by heavy cavalry and kneeling with their heads in the middle.

Ke Yongsheng suddenly understood why the Ming army's infantry would choose to take the initiative to attack - their goal was far more than winning, they didn't want to give the Qing army a chance to open fire at all!

So they let the infantry rush forward to engage the battle, quickly crushing the Qing army with extremely strong firepower, and then the cavalry could attack the artillery position before his artillery was ready.

They simply don't want to be shot by a cannon to kill even a single person!

That means that my phalanx of foot soldiers didn't hold up even half a quarter of an hour? He looked up to the sky and sighed, he tried his best to search for the method of firearms battle formations all over the world, thinking that the sophistication of firearms and the sharpness of battle formations are unparalleled in the world.

Looking at it now, the strength of this Ming army's firearms is far a hundred times stronger than him! I actually wanted to fight him with firearms, wasn't he looking for death from the beginning?

The remnants of the Qing infantry had not gone far when they saw a group of cavalry stop more than 300 paces in front of them, and then these men turned over and dismounted, lined up in a line, took off the firearms behind them and raised them.

It was the two dragoon companies led by Xia Fuxian.

After the Qing army broke and fled to a position of about seventy paces, Xia Fuxian immediately ordered the dragoons to fire a volley.

These routs were shocked, and after a pause, the dragon guard infantry behind them had already surrounded them.

Except for a few stubborn ones who were killed immediately, the remaining nearly 1,000 Qing soldiers threw their weapons and knelt on the ground, pointed at by dense bayonets, and their bodies were like chaff, and there were many of them who were so frightened that they were spitting and urine.

On the other side, Zhao Ju's more than 100 Qing cavalry were chased even more miserably.

The hundreds of Ming troops behind him were equipped with a new type of short gun, which was far more lethal than the three-eyed gun used by the Ming cavalry, not only could it be fired without a fire starter, but it could be killed with a single blow at a distance of thirty steps.

There was a constant sound of guns, and these Ming soldiers never shot at the people behind them, but chose to aim at the Qing army running in front of them, and once they hit, the overturned centaurs would block the people behind him.

And as long as it was slightly blocked, the Ming army immediately caught up and swung its sword to kill him.

Before they could run five or six miles, there were only more than 40 cavalry left in the Qing army.

An obscene-looking Qing soldier beside Zhao Ju looked back at the nearly 300 pursuers behind him, and he didn't know how many of them still had ammunition in their guns, and he didn't know if the next lead bullet would fall on him.

In the end, he made a heart, quietly drew his saber, approached Zhao Ju and slashed him off the horse, and then threw the knife and shouted: "The thief is dead, and the heavenly army spares his life!" ”

The Zhu family sent dozens of people to guard the prisoners, and he led more than 200 hussars straight to Shangrao City. Since Ke Yongsheng left this empty city as bait, he didn't eat it for nothing.

The battle on the main battlefield is over.

Ke Yongsheng didn't run, because he couldn't run away at all.

If it was an ordinary terrain, it was very likely that the good Persian horse he bought at a high price under his crotch would escape, but he knew best the battlefield he chose, and he had no chance at all.

Ke Yongsheng was tied up by Wuhua and marched towards Shangrao under the escort of a team of Ming troops. Along the way, he was repeatedly thinking about whether the Helan people deceived him, or whether there was a problem with the records of "Soldiers" and "Fire Attack".

He wanted to ask the commander of the Ming army in this battle, but no one paid attention to him at all.

The flag of the Dragon Guard has been changed on Shangrao City. There were indeed no Qing troops in the city, Ke Yongsheng did a thorough job, and after the Zhu family arrived, they occupied the city without any fighting.

With the record of 15,000 people in the warehouse last time, the entire Long Wei army did not show excessive excitement about this victory.

However, the losses were relatively small, with only 30 killed and 64 wounded. The result was that more than 2,400 enemies were annihilated and more than 1,300 were captured.

In the afternoon of the next day, the main force of the Dragon Guard arrived in Shangrao City, preparing to make a slight repair here.

According to the prisoner's confession, Yu Xin quickly led people to find the grain and grass hidden by the Qing army in the city, which was more than 5,000 stone of military food!

"Ke Yongsheng is really rich enough." After listening to Yu Xin's report, Su Chengyu couldn't help but smile and said, "Then we will laugh at these military rations." By the way, leave some food for the people in the city to help them return to normal life as soon as possible. ”

"In addition, the spoils of war captured in this battle have been counted, please take a look." Yu Xin said and handed over a booklet.

Su Chengyu only read the first two pages and smiled, "Sure enough, it's a rich man!" ”