Chapter 246: Annan Auxiliaries

Collide! Fifty lance cavalry slammed into the Eight Banners cavalry rushing from the opposite side. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The lance cavalry does not have the same strong and heavy armor as the heavy cavalry, and the impact force is naturally not as strong as the heavy cavalry, but the lance cavalry is equal to the pikemen on horseback! The pikemen in formation can make the cavalry dare not charge into battle, you can imagine what it would be like for a pikeman charging quickly on horseback to collide with a cavalry!

The eight-foot-long lance can knock the opponent off the horse before the weapon in the opponent's cavalry can not touch him at all.

Sturdy, will not break, excellent toughness of the horse lance slammed into the body of the opposite Eight Banners cavalry, the Eight Banners cavalry that was hit flew out from the horseback one after another, the war horse that lost its master is also spiritual, without the master to whip the horse quickly, the war horse saw the war horse that collided on the opposite side, and subconsciously dodged to both sides.

The distance was so close, most of the war horses didn't have time to dodge, they were either stabbed in a pool of blood by the horse lance, or they were directly hit by the Ming army's war horses, and only a few war horses drilled through the gaps between the Ming army's lance horses.

After the horse lance flew over the Eight Banners cavalry, the horse lance, which was extremely tough, bent into almost a circle. The galloping war horse crashed into the ownerless Qing army war horse, and trampled directly on the wounded soldiers and horses of the Qing army, and the corpses and horses of the Qing army.

The curved horse lance had no target in front of it, and it bounced straight again, hitting the Qing cavalry behind who were lucky enough not to be bumped into, and bouncing them off the horse.

In fact, the lance cavalry not only needs a good horse, a good war horse, good armor, and the most important thing is that every cavalry is a brave person with strong body and strong martial arts. Don't underestimate this control of the horse lance, the horse lance bends after hitting a person, to control the horse lance to bounce straight and not hurt yourself, that is a technical job. Once it is not well controlled, the horse lance will either rebound to itself, or the impact will be too great, and his arm will be broken!

Therefore, the lance cavalry not only needs to have strict discipline and be able to form a tight formation to charge, but also have very strong personal force to keep themselves and their horses from being lost. It is precisely because of the high price and the particularly high requirements for weapons and people that this kind of thing is always a luxury, and it is impossible to equip more.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty Iron Cavalry, which was strong and attached great importance to force, Xue Rengui also rode with a thousand Xuanjia lances. Followed by two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry, if the command is good, you can easily break the enemy by 3 to 40,000. There are history books that say that 3,000 Xuanjia cavalry broke the enemy by 200,000, which is a bit exaggerated, in fact, many ancient data are exaggerated.

Later, Li Quan, Yang Miaozhen and his wife, had five hundred lances on hand. Yang Miaozhen is the prototype of a certain hero's extermination master.

Therefore, the lance cavalry is a noble class, which is expensive and difficult to cultivate. Now it has entered the era of semi-firearms, and the future trend is to be fully firearmed, and dragoons are the trend of cavalry development, so it is impossible for Wang Xinyu to spend a lot of money and spend a lot of energy to train more horse lance cavalry.

Fifty lance cavalry is enough with the cooperation of other arms.

When the two sides hedged, he saw that the situation was not good, and he used the stunt of hiding in the stirrup, before the opponent's horse lance collided with himself, Le Erjin bent down and bent over, flexibly hiding under the horse's belly, and the horse lance stabbed by the other party stabbed into the air. However, before Leerjin could turn over and slash, the second war horse of the Ming army collided again, and the cavalry of the Ming army on the horseback stabbed Leerjin's war horse!

Only a mournful neighing sound of a war horse was heard, and Leerjin's war horse was stabbed by the horse's lance, and its front hooves were raised high, making a heart-rending neighing sound, which lifted Leerjin off the horse.

No matter how high Le Erjin's personal strength is, he can't avoid the horse's hooves trampled like raindrops.

The rolling iron cavalry galloped past, leaving a ground full of mutilated corpses, and the once high and majestic Shuncheng County King Leerjin also turned into a puddle of flesh and blood like the most ordinary Eight Banner cavalry.

"Le Erjin is dead!" The king's ministers reined in their horses, raised their spears and shouted.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! The cavalry of the Fifty Ming Army let out a thunderous cheer.

The Xinhui War was all over, 35,000 Qing soldiers, 50,000 Qing army auxiliaries, and 60,000 Minzhuang were almost completely wiped out, and countless people were killed, and countless people fell into the river and drowned, and nearly 100,000 people were captured, including more than 600 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, and more than 3,000 Han and Eight Banners were also taken prisoner. The rest of the captives were Green Battalion soldiers, auxiliaries, and Minzhuang.

In addition, the Qing army captured more than 100,000 women and children who were used as cannon fodder, and also suffered heavy casualties, excluding the tens of thousands of women and children who were killed and injured during the siege of the city, and the remaining more than 80,000 women and children were trampled to death in the chaos, drowned in the river, and killed countless by the rebels.

"More than 100,000 innocent people died in Xinhui City like this! This account must be counted on the head of the Tartar puppet court! After hearing the reported data, Wang Xinyu said angrily.

More than 100,000 women and children died for no reason, this is simply a massacre!

On the open field, countless corpses of women, children, old and weak were scattered across the fields, crisscrossing with the corpses of the Qing army scattered among the fields. When the Ming army attacked, these women, children, old and weak who were concentrated in the baggage camps of the Qing army bore the brunt of the victims on the battlefield.

After all, they are not formally trained soldiers, not even auxiliaries and people's strongest! Soldiers, auxiliaries and civilians know how to flee when they are in chaos, and they know how to kneel on the ground and surrender when they can't escape, which avoids the fate of being killed.

However, these women and children, old and weak, were originally left behind by the Qing army and used as meat shields. At the beginning of the Ming army's attack, these women, children, old and weak were in chaos, and they didn't even know where to flee for their lives. The living people don't know where to run, they don't know how to surrender on their knees, and the women, children, old and weak who are scurrying around block the way to escape from the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers are unceremoniously a knife; blocked the road for the Ming army to pursue the Qing soldiers, the Ming army was not polite, it was not clear in the darkness in the early morning, and the Ming army pursuing the Qing army saw someone blocking the road, and it was also a knife.

There were also some women, children, old and weak who heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them in the confusion, after all, they were not trained, and they did not know that they should kneel on the ground and surrender at this time, but ran wildly, and were trampled to death by the horses' hooves and knocked into a lot of flights.

It is in itself immoral for the enemy to use women, children, old and weak as meat shields. And if the Ming army had the kindness of a woman at this time, then there would be no need to fight.

However, Leerjin was trampled into pulp, and the Ming army also avenged the innocent people who died.

"Dashuai!" Shang Zhixiao walked up and knelt down on one knee and arched his hand, "The last general is not talented, and he failed to catch Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling!" Please also ask the marshal to punish the crime! ”

Wang Xinyu made a gesture of please: "Get up!" Kong Sizhen was originally the leader of the Qing court, this person is extremely cunning, it is not easy to catch her, they ran away, the blame is not you! ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!" Shang Zhixiao stood up.

Shang Zhixin over there also came to accuse: "Dashuai, Ma Xiong also ran away." ”

Wang Xinyu smiled: "Where can they run to?" When they run to Guangxi, I'm afraid that Guangxi has been taken by Bai Wenxuan! After our army captured Guangzhou, Bai Wenxuan invaded Guangxi! I don't know if Lian Guoan has the ability to defend Guilin! As long as Guilin is in our hands, Kong Sizhen can only run north! Our army is just preparing for the Northern Expedition to Huguang! ”

Shang Zhixin arched his hand and said: "Bai Wenxuan attacks Guangxi, and the national security will definitely not be able to hold it!" According to Xiao Wang's knowledge, Lian Guoan is old and sick, and has been bedridden for more than a year, and his son does not have much ability, and it is impossible for Lian Guoan's army to listen to Ma Xiongzhen and Xu Hong's words, and the Tartars can't hold Guilin at all! ”

Wang Xinyu nodded and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, this domain will also rest assured!" However, for the sake of insurance, this domain still sent mountain soldiers to help Bai Wenxuan, after all, Bai Wenxuan's siege ability is not as good as that of this domain. ”

At this time, Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling had already escaped from the search range of the Ming army, and fled all the way to Guangxi. But the couple had no idea that Guangxi was facing Bai Wenxuan's attack.

Under the city of Nanning, Bai Wenxuan's army of more than 10,000 was attacking the city.

At this time, there were not many Qing troops in Nanning City, only more than 200 green battalions, and more than 1,000 local troops of a brave nature. The prefect of Nanning urgently recruited the people to defend the city, but there was not much population in the city, and the local population of Nanning was not as large as Guilin.

It took a lot of effort for the prefect to barely recruit 5,000 people.

The main force of Bai Wenxuan's department was cavalry, but after defeating Burma, after having the Ba Mo base, his infantry also changed their equipment, and the Western muskets captured from the Burmese army were equipped with Bai Wenxuan, and a powerful artillery was formed, and the artillery used was originally imported from England.

When the Ming army arrived at the city of Nanning, they dug trenches, arranged artillery positions, and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers recruited from Annam cut down wood to build siege tools.

After only three days of preparation, Bai Wenxuan ordered the siege of the city.

"Fire!" With Bai Wenxuan's order, six British-made six-pounder field guns, twelve four-pounder field guns, thirty three-pounder guns, and four thirty-two-pounder mortars let out a deafening roar, and the shells whistled and smashed onto the city wall of Nanning.

Dozens of cannons bombarded the city in turn, and the artillery officer of the British East India Company hired by Bai Wenxuan personally instructed the gunners to aim and adjust, and the Ming gunners who used rulers and various measuring instruments were very accurate, and one shell after another smashed into the city as accurately as if they had eyes.

The cannon roared, the mountain collapsed, and within a minute, more than sixty shells hit the tower. The brick and wood tower was like an invisible hammer struck, and the brick and stone tiles suddenly splashed, the roof was smashed through, the walls were smashed, the windows were directly smashed through, and the smoke and dust in the tower were billowing and thick smoke. Two minutes later, the corrected mortar fired flowering shells, and two 32-pound flowering shells landed accurately on the tower.

The sound of a violent explosion sounded on the city tower, the brick and wood structure of the city tower collapsed violently, hiding in the arrow tower, and dozens of Qing archers who had no time to escape were buried under the rubble.

The artillery of the Ming army suppressed the defenders at the head of the city, and then the auxiliary troops composed of Annanites pushed the shield cart and slowly approached the city of Nanning. Under the pressure of the broadswords of the Ming soldiers, the Annan auxiliaries braved the projectile arrows fired from the city and advanced to the foot of the city wall. Because the Ming army came too suddenly, there were no obstacles such as wooden stakes and deer barricades under the city of Nanning, and the shield cart easily arrived at the moat.

Originally, the focus of the Qing army's defense was in Guilin, and the city of Nanning was not high or strong.

At the foot of the unprotected wall, the auxiliaries could block the fire from the city head with a shield cart, advance to the moat, and begin to throw the sandbags carried by the carts into the moat.

The Qing army and Minzhuang at the head of the city were under the pressure of the bullets of the supervising team, braving the dense artillery fire of the Ming army to defend desperately, constantly poking their heads out, shooting feather arrows, shooting projectiles, and dropping lime bottles. However, the firepower under the city was too fierce, Bai Wenxuan pressed all the musketeers, protected the musketeers with shields, and suppressed them against the muskets at the head of the city, which was full of holes.

Dense projectiles rained down on the city, and the Qing army at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties. The living Qing soldiers and Minzhuang no longer dared to poke their heads out to attack the city, and the warlords cut down dozens of Minzhuang, and they could not risk probing to counterattack.

The siege progressed very well, and in just one day, the Annamites filled in the moat in three sections.

Next, the siege battle is the most tragic ant-attached siege cut-off. A large number of Annan auxiliaries put on simple paper armor and wooden armor, carried simple ladders, shouted Annan dialect that the Qing army could not hear, and rushed towards the city with a shout.

"It's the Annam barbarians! Kill! Kill all these Annamite dog barbarians! "The prefect of Nanning personally stood at the head of the city to supervise the battle.

A simple ladder was erected at the head of the city, and the Annan auxiliaries, dressed in rudimentary armor, had rough short knives made of pig iron in their mouths, held wooden signs, climbed the stairs, and launched an attack on the city.

On the city wall, rolling wood and stones, wolf's tooth slaps, yaksha beatings, grinding stones, lime bottles, oil cans, and feather arrow projectiles were smashed down into the city like a torrential rain. The Annamite who were climbing the ladder screamed and fell from the improvised ladder. A large stone smashed on a simple ladder, the ladder broke, and the Annan soldiers on it fell to the bottom of the city.

The oil tank "Ping Pong" smashed into the city, and a row of rockets shot out from the city, and suddenly a sky-high fire ignited at the foot of the city wall, and the Annan soldiers who were on fire let out heart-rending screams and jumped into the moat one after another.

One ladder broke and fell, and another ladder came up to the city.

The Annan soldiers went forward one after another, desperately attacking the city. At the foot of the city walls, the corpses were piled up more than a foot high. The Annan soldiers who were climbing the city fell down again one by one.

Finally, an Annan soldier climbed up to the top of the city, brandished a rudimentary blade, and slashed at the Qing army. (To be continued.) )