Chapter 107: Chen Yue, who couldn't keep his mouth shut
Just as the order to retreat was given, several black objects were thrown from the wall, and before they could hit the ground, they let out an earth-shattering explosion, and a ball of fire exploded, turning into countless fire points and swaying around.
The fire fell on the clothes of the Eight Banners soldiers, fell on the body of the war horse, and began to burn violently, and the pain in the heart hit, and the people and horses let out a violent scream. The Eight Banners are better, after all, people's patience will be much better, but the war horses are not good, these battle-hardened beast artillery can't make it frightened, but the burning flames on their bodies make them jump up and down, and no longer ignore the knight's orders on horseback, and gallop away on their own.
But here and there are crooked ditches everywhere, and the ground between the ditches has many pitfalls with the thickness of cups, so from time to time a horse falls into the ditch, or is caught in the pit and breaks the horse's hooves!
"Ten thousand enemies!" Abule's eyes glowed with despair, this kind of sharp weapon of the Ming army to defend the city, I didn't expect this small inspection department to have it, and now it can be regarded as hitting the iron plate!
Ignoring the burning flames on his robes, Abul turned his horse and left, and stayed until the Ming army's artillery was reloaded, waiting for his own only greater casualties!
"The Mantars have retreated!" The soldiers on the wall shouted loudly and let out bursts of cheers.
"Open the door, pursue!" The time has come to reap the fruits of victory, and in this case, it is natural that the Mantars cannot be allowed to retreat easily. Chen Yue gave an order, and the wooden sticks holding the gate were taken away one by one, the gate was opened, and Chen Yue personally commanded the two general flags of his subordinates to kill out of the gate.
Outside the city, the Manchu Tartars were fleeing in a hurry, but they were limited to the blockage of the ditch, and could only run along the planks of the ditch, and there were many Mantars whose eyes were fascinated by lime, and their eyes were painfully tearful, and they couldn't see the escape path at all, and they fell into the ditch in a hurry, but they couldn't climb up.
The other Eight Banners also fled on their own, and no one was willing to stop to help their accomplices. The so-called catastrophe is coming, and they fly separately, as strong as the invincible Eight Banner soldiers, once they are defeated and fled, they will not be able to form an army.
"Kill!" Seeing this situation, the morale of the Ming soldiers was greatly boosted, and they chased after the generals one by one with their weapons, and waved their swords and guns at the fleeing enemy.
The Manchu cavalry, who fled on horseback, naturally could not catch up, and they dealt with those Tartar soldiers who were wounded by the tiger squat cannon and did not die, or were blinded by lime, or fell into the ditch in a hurry, and such Manchu Tartars numbered in the dozens.
The spears were like a forest, stabbing towards the full tartars, bursts of screams rang out one after another, and the Ming army launched an attack on the eight banners on the remaining battlefield with small flags as a unit.
A red-armored Eight Bannermen with fascinated eyes howled and waved his steel knife indiscriminately, and launched a frantic attack in all directions, but he couldn't see where the enemy was, and how could he slash it?
Five or six Ming soldiers surrounded him in the middle with a grin, and while he was tired, the steel knife dance slowed down a little, and several spears stabbed out in unison.
"Ahh The red-armored soldier let out a terrible scream, and several spears penetrated through his chest and abdomen, and he was not a white-armored soldier with only a layer of armor on his body, which could not resist the spear's thrust at all.
Chen Yue led more than a dozen firecrackers to the front of the ditch, and the firecrackers pointed in front of the firecracker, preventing the fleeing Mantars from killing and releasing the arrows, but looking at their hasty escape, it was really unlikely that they would have the courage to come back.
The remaining Eight Banners on the battlefield were quickly cleared, and in this small area outside the walled gate, there were dozens of corpses of men and horses, and there were war horses neighing in pain, which were the mounts of the dead Eight Banners.
The sword and shield soldiers walked on the battlefield with frowns one by one, and they had to cut off the heads of the dead Eight Banner soldiers, which was an important evidence of meritorious service.
For these sword and shield soldiers, most of them are auxiliary soldiers with third-class gun skill assessment, and they can only be used as defensive auxiliaries on the battlefield. As auxiliaries, the matter of cleaning up the battlefield and cutting off the head fell to them. However, these people are honest peasants, and it is very difficult for them to cut off people's heads alive if they have never killed anyone.
Looking at the bloody human head, many sword and shield soldiers couldn't help but crouch on the ground and vomit in pain, but after vomiting, they had to raise their knives and cut off the enemy's head.
Pieces of armor were stripped off, heads were cut off by auxiliaries, and headless corpses were carried to ditches and buried on the spot. The war horses left behind on the battlefield were pulled back to Sicheng, and the seriously injured war horses were also divided on the spot, and the horse meat would be used as food for the meritorious soldiers to be sacrificed.
The swords, guns, bows and arrows left on the battlefield were collected one by one and taken back to Sicheng respectively.
Due to the haste of the escape, the Eight Banners soldiers left too many things on the battlefield, just carrying more than 30 war horses, food, tents, weapons, and all kinds of marching things on horseback.
The battle happened very suddenly, and it ended quickly. Man Tatar suddenly came to Xishan Town in the morning, and the sun was just west when he was defeated.
The defeat of the formidable enemy made the whole city beam, and the soldiers joked excitedly, completely forgetting how they were in a hurry when the Tartars attacked the wall.
Liu Neng was surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers, boasting triumphantly about his feat, and it was undeniable that his sudden lime offensive was very meritorious, and at least twenty or thirty Manchu Tartar soldiers were fascinated by lime.
The people who fled into Sicheng were also overjoyed, and the officers and soldiers took away the hateful Tartar soldiers to save them from poison.
The soldiers and the people could easily rest and chat, but Chen Yue, Shan Minglei and others were very busy.
Seizures need to be counted, war exploits need to be counted, and there are too many things to do after the war.
A lot of battles were captured, the head of the Manchu Tartar alone was cut down forty-eight ranks, there were thirty-five intact war horses captured, and more than ten horse carcasses were dragged back, many Manchu Tartars had two horses, one horse rode by himself, and the other was carrying heavy baggage.
The Mantars who died on the battlefield, each of them had at least one set of armor, and some had two sets of armor, and there were fifty-eight sets of captured armor alone, and these armors could be put on the outside of the mandarin duck battle jacket.
In addition, more than 30 pairs of strong bows, more than 40 pots of feather arrows, more than 20 spears, more than 10 steel knives, 15 one-eyed firearms, and 10 three-eyed firearms were also seized. In addition, there are many weapons such as sickles, iron axes, riding spears, and flags. This alone is enough to arm another general flag.
Looking at the list of seizures, Chen Yue couldn't help but close his mouth with joy. If you get the 48 heads, if you get to Beijing, the merit is enough to make you rise to several levels, and there is no problem at all in becoming a guerrilla general. And the capture of weapons such as firecrackers makes their own weapon configuration more complete. Thirty-five horses are a huge fortune, with which it is completely possible to form a cavalry banner. It was that the seized silver taels were so small that not much silver was found from the dead corpses of the Mantars. But think that the Mantars are here to kill and plunder, and it is normal to not bring silver.