595Battle of Zhuxian Town (2)

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The boundary of the new city, the camp of Song Xiance.

"Kill!"

On January 25, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, before the sky was completely bright, Song Xiance's camp was attacked by the Ming army.

Caught off guard, Song Xiance's camp was really broken by Fang Guoan in one fell swoop.

More than 50,000 Ming soldiers, under the leadership of Fang Guoan and Yang Dezheng, two Ming army generals, entered Song Xiance's camp, and their morale was high.

This time, most of Fang Guoan's men were his men, and some of Yang Dezheng's men and horses.

Fang Guoan is also a very capable general, so the soldiers under him are also the strongest Ming army team except for the Ming soldiers and horses led by Hu Dawei.

And this time, Fang Guoan received Ding Qirui's death order, which was to attack Song Xiance's department desperately, not only to cripple him, but also to resist the reinforcements that the Chuang army might send.

Ding Qirui just wanted to give Li Zicheng an illusion, that is, they really had no food, and they were desperate to kill Kaifeng.

Ding Qirui believes that Li Zicheng will never let go of such an excellent opportunity, and will definitely try his best to prevent them from moving closer to Kaifeng.

Because of Ding Qirui's order, this time Fang Guoan was really moved, and he did not hesitate to send out all his elite troops at the bottom of the box.

Just because, Ding Qirui assured Fang Guoan that when this battle was agreed, he would want Chongzhen to apply for Fang Guoan as the general of the expedition to the north and lead the chief military officer of Henan.

It is precisely because Ding Qirui offered such a high price that Fang Guoan is really desperate in this battle, without the slightest intention of retaining his strength.

In addition, before setting out on the expedition, Ding Qirui took out the only 300,000 taels of silver he got from Chongzhen, and all of them were distributed to the soldiers who went out to boost their morale.

In this battle, Fang Guoan's side is the most important link, and he must fight fiercely enough in front of him to make Li Zicheng believe it.

As soon as he came up, he personally led the most elite 3,000 men and horses under his command to break into Song Xiance's camp.

Song Xiance, who was caught off guard, was dispersed by Fang Guoan before he could mobilize people.

At this time, in Song Xiance's camp, a scuffle was going on, even if Fang Guoan successfully raided and entered the camp, Song Xiance did not order a retreat.

He couldn't retreat, he got Li Zicheng's death order, that is, to stick to the new city and block the way for the Ming army to retreat north.

"Kill!"

Fang Guoan personally went into battle, carrying a knife, and frantically slaughtered those soldiers and soldiers.

Behind him were teams of Ming soldiers, who were highly motivated and murderous at this time, constantly slaughtering the soldiers.

Due to the continuous fighting with the Ming army for more than a month, the 80,000 co-operative troops under Song Xiance also lost more than 20,000 people, but fortunately, his 5,000 elite soldiers did not suffer much loss.

At this time, because Fang Guoan took advantage of the darkness to come in, causing great chaos to the intruding army, Song Xiance at this time could not fully command the team.

Fang Guoan had already planned it, and after they broke into the camp of the Chuang army, they immediately divided several arrows with the backbone elite soldiers under his command, and frantically strangled the defeated Chuang soldiers towards the front.

Poof!

Fang Guoan slashed a soldier to death with a knife, raised his knife and roared, his bravery greatly inspired the soldiers of the Ming army around him, and they all screamed and chased after the soldier Chuang.

"Resist, resist, don't withdraw, don't withdraw."

One of the invading generals shouted frantically, trying to stop the rout of the surrounding intruding soldiers.

Sou!

As a result, an arrow flew and pierced directly into his neck, causing him to fall to the ground in despair as he held the neck in which blood spurted out.

"General, no, I can't stand it, the offensive of the Ming army in front is too fierce, and the brothers can't stand it anymore."

In front of Song Xiance's big tent behind, a general ran over and shouted with a panicked face.

"What's the panic, we're not defeated yet!" Song Xiance was still calm at this time, and scolded the panicked general.

"The Ming army really launched a night attack, but I didn't expect them to launch a night attack so late, and the sky was about to dawn.

Looks like I'm still careless! Song Xiance muttered to himself in a low voice.

In fact, Song Xiance has been guarding against the night attack of the Ming army, and according to the information that Li Zicheng told Song Xiance, Song Xiance knew that the Ming army would definitely attack their side.

Therefore, he had already made preparations with both hands to guard against the sudden attack of the Ming army.

However, under normal circumstances, the most suitable time to launch a night attack should be at two or three o'clock in the evening, when people sleep heaviestly.

However, because Fang Guoan did not play his cards according to common sense this time, he waited until it was dark before launching an attack on Song Xiance's camp.

In fact, this is not to say that Fang Guoan planned in advance, Song Xiance may have been prepared, and it is estimated that the time of the night attack will be carried out so late.

The real reason is that several major generals of the Ming army in Zhuxian Town have disagreements about who will carry out this attack mission.

According to Ding Qirui's original plan, he planned to send all the men and horses under Zuo Liangyu, exactly nearly 60,000 people, to carry out this mission in Northern Turkistan.

In that way, Ding Qirui would be able to keep Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei and Fang Guoan in his hands.

If these three elite teams can be left, they will be more sure of victory when the time comes, for Li Zicheng, who has counterattacked them and fallen into the trap.

As a result, Zuo Liangyu did not accept Ding Qirui's order.

Zuo Liangyu is not stupid, he knows that this mission is completely hard work, and he may fight in the end, and his 60,000 horses will have to be hit.

Although Ding Qirui's general for the expedition to the north, plus the price of a chief military officer, also made Zuo Liangyu excited, but in the end he still chose to disobey.

On the one hand, he didn't want his subordinates to lose too much, and Zuo Liangyu also saw very clearly that having soldiers in his hands was the king of grass in these years.

As long as he has soldiers and horses in his hands, even if he does not make much credit, in a few years, he believes that he can also get a higher official position from the imperial court.

Moreover, Zuo Liangyu really didn't have much confidence in his soldiers, he was worried that his men and horses would not be able to take on this heavy task.

These tasks are very dangerous, if one is not done well, they will be easily besieged by the intruding army, and even Zuo Liangyu, a leading general, will be in danger of dying at that time.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu chose not to accept this order, but he hoped to stay at the end, and wait until Li Zicheng fell into Ding Qirui's trap and entered the ambush circle, and then they went to be a reaper.

Ding Qirui was very angry about Zuo Liangyu's disobedience, and even threatened to report to Chongzhen and treat Zuo Liangyu's crimes.

However, Zuo Liang looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and he didn't pay any attention to Ding Qirui's threat.

In the end, Ding Qirui couldn't help it, his threat to Zuo Liangyu, that is to say, it was impossible for him to cure Zuo Liangyu's crime at this time.

In that case, all the arrangements in front of him will be wasted, and they will really enter a desperate situation.

Therefore, in the end, Ding Qirui could only hand over this important task to Fang Guoan.

It is precisely because of their internal disputes that too much time has been delayed.

It wasn't until the second half of the night that Fang Guoan really gathered his men, and by the time they arrived at Song Xiance's camp, it was already about to dawn.

It can be said that this is a complete coincidence, a mistake, and it can even be said that it is the luck of the Ming army.

At the same time, because of Zuo Liangyu's disobedience this time, there was a huge trust rift between him and Ding Qirui and other generals, which would be fatal at a critical moment.

It was precisely because the sky was about to dawn that Song Xiance relaxed his vigilance, and he did not think that the Ming army would launch an attack when the sky was about to dawn.

"Li Laiheng listens to orders!"

At this time, Song Xiance shouted to a young general in front of him.

"The subordinates are here."

This Li Laiheng is not small, he is Li Guo's righteous son, he rebelled with Li Zicheng when he was a teenager, and he was still the leader of Li Zicheng's children's soldiers at that time.

Don't look at his age at this time, but among Li Zicheng's generals, he is already considered an old qualification.

At this time, he followed Song Xiance, and Song Xiance only had 5,000 elite soldiers in his hands, half of which were in the hands of Li Laiheng.

"I order to lead three thousand elites to the front to block the Ming army's offensive, and I will intercept all the routs here and stabilize the position.

You have to hold on to me for at least half an hour, in this half an hour, I don't want to see the Ming army kill here, you can do it? ”

Song Xiance looked at Li Laiheng and said solemnly.

"Yes, my subordinates received the order, within half an hour, I will never let the Ming army kill here." Li Laiheng said solemnly.

"Okay."

Song Xiance walked up to Li Laiheng, hugged him, and whispered, "Nephew Li, be careful here, you must survive."

I will let Zhang Shijie lead another two thousand elites to kill from the side and rear after half an hour.

At that time, my side should also be able to stabilize the front, and at the same time, I will also lead the troops to counterattack, whether this battle can resist the offensive of the Ming army, it is up to you.

As long as we resist until noon, King Chuang's support should arrive. ”

"The general can rest assured, his subordinates will definitely live up to expectations."

Immediately, Li Laiheng led 3,000 elite soldiers to kill the Ming army in front.

The 3,000 elite soldiers of the Chuang Army led by Li Laiheng, although the armor on their bodies is varied, is not a unified system, after all, these armors were all snatched by Li Zicheng from different places.

Some of these elite soldiers are wearing leather armor inside, cotton armor outside, some leather armor inside, a layer of cotton armor on the outside, and a cotton jacket on the inside to protect against the cold.

In general, these elite soldiers of the invading army generally wear at least two layers of armor, and all of them have sharp spears or long knives in their hands.

And Li Laiheng himself was wearing three layers of armor, the innermost leather armor, then the cotton armor and the outermost iron armor, and the treatment was not bad at all for Fang Guoan, the generals of the Ming army.

After all, Li Zicheng searched out a large number of armors from the mansion of King Fu of Luoyang, among which there were many iron armors like fine ones.

The sturdy iron armor that Li Laiheng wore at this time was among the ancient Chinese armor, after all, the sturdy mountain pattern armor, unless it was a general of the Ming army, few people could equip this kind of armor.

Like mountain pattern armor, Mingguang armor, or black hammer armor, chain armor, light armor, etc., are all strong armor after all, and it is not only difficult to build, but also expensive.

Don't look at the current Guanwai Tartars are far ahead of the Ming army in terms of armor, but their armor is simply rubbish compared to these fine armor.

It's a pity that the Ming army really didn't have the financial resources, so it replaced the equipment for the Ming army, and with the appearance of firearms, the Ming army had already replaced it with cotton armor with the soldiers.

After all, cotton armor is more effective in protecting against enemy firearms.

However, now the White Dragon Army, like Tartar and Li Zixiao, is the real elite, they are all wearing three layers of armor, cotton armor and iron armor.

Obviously, even the elite soldiers under Li Zicheng at this time could not achieve all three layers of armor.

Whoever let Li Zicheng not produce, the armor in his hand is all robbed, unlike Li Zixiao and Tartar, who can produce it by himself.

But at this time, the Tartars can only produce ordinary iron armor, and the elite armor such as Mingguang armor and mountain pattern armor can only be built by the Ming Dynasty in the manufacturing bureau in the capital and Jinling at this time.

On Li Zixiao's side, after Li Zixiao helped his 'arsenal' last year to solve the problem of stamping and cold forging, they were able to manufacture Mingguang armor on a large scale.

Even, after Li Zixiao learned that they could build Mingguang armor, he ordered the arsenal to start working in full swing and work overtime to build these Mingguang armor.

Li Zixiao pointed to using these bright light armor to build a heavily armored cavalry for himself, and recreate the grand occasion of the Tang Dynasty's heavy-armored iron cavalry 'Xuanjia Army'.

Heavy armored iron cavalry like the Tang Dynasty's 'Xuanjia Army', if it is a wheel field battle, they are completely invincible.

Like the light cavalry of the Tartars, the arrows shot could not hurt these heavily armored iron cavalry at all.

And the heavy armored iron cavalry in this era is equivalent to the tanks of later generations, and it is impossible for them to stop the cavalry of the Tartars.

Of course, with the advent of firearms, it is possible to break through these heavy armors at ultra-close range, but Tartars don't use firearms much!

Even if it was used, it was a backward arquebus, and the threat to the heavy cavalry was much smaller.

Therefore, after a while, when Li Zixiao saves up a heavy armored iron cavalry equipped with Mingguang armor, that is also what Li Zixiao carefully prepared in order to deal with the Tartar cavalry.

At that time, Li Zixiao held a flintlock pistol and a heavily armored iron cavalry in his hand, and he would not be passive at all when he faced the Tatar cavalry.

I think that back then, the Tang army used this kind of equipment to equip heavy armored iron horses, as well as the famous Modao team, which killed Hu people and ghosts crying wolves in the Western Regions, which was unbearable.

At this time, among Li Ziheng's 3,000 elites, only the 300 personal guards under his personal command were wearing three layers of armor.

At the same time, these 300 guards are even more sword-wielding shields, and they are the most elite sword and shield soldiers, and their combat power is very fierce.

Li Ziheng once brought these 300 guards under his command, and killed the Ming army of 3,000 people, which shows how strong its combat power is.

At this time, Song Xiance only had the hope that Li Laiheng would lead these three thousand elites to resist Fang Guoan's too fierce charge at this time, rub off the sharpness of the Ming army, and leave him time.

Let him gather his men in the back, regain his footing, and launch a counterattack.

(End of chapter)