23Battle of Wanglongpo (Medium)

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Anyway, when the time comes, when the White Dragon Army is wiped out, it is estimated that a lot of real money and silver can be seized from the lair of the White Dragon Army, which can just be rewarded to his officers and soldiers, but it will definitely not be so much.

Stimulated by the rich rewards, this group of miscellaneous officers and soldiers also broke out with high morale, and soon rushed to the White Dragon Army, less than a hundred paces away, under the cover of two shield vehicles.

At this time, only listening to Wei Hong's loud roar, the guns and tiger squatting cannons that had been ambushed on both sides of the road opened fire almost at the same time, and a roar sounded.

I saw that the two shield carts that had just been pushed up by the officers and soldiers were immediately hit by the projectiles of the tiger squat cannon, turned into two crumbs, and fell crookedly in scattered ways.

The countless small projectiles fired by the tiger squat cannon and the projectiles fired by the raised gun hit the bodies of many officers and soldiers, and a roar of angry scolding and screams of officers and soldiers sounded.

But this time, the officers and soldiers were no longer powerless, and they didn't wait for the gunners on the side of the White Dragon Army to cheer and celebrate.

The officers and soldiers hurriedly set up a few tiger squat cannons and small furlong machines that were removed from the chariots, and roared towards the White Dragon Army.

As a result, Wei Hong had a Furlong cannon on his side, which was immediately hit by a cannon and was overturned behind the mound, and the two gunners were also encountered and fell in a pool of blood.

Several guns of the officers and soldiers opened fire together, and the sides of the road suddenly crackled, like a torrential rain.

A projectile even hit Wei Hong's right arm, fortunately, it was more than a hundred steps away from the official army's tiger squat cannon, and when this lead bullet flew here, it had already lost its strength.

In addition, Wei Hong was wearing a set of old-style iron armor, and this lead bullet only dented a piece of iron armor, although it did not hurt Wei Hong, but it also shocked his arm numb.

But this still frightened Wei Hong's side, and several white dragon soldiers were jumped.

"Captain of the guard, it's too dangerous here, you better go up and hide in the back." A soldier walked over and said to Wei Hong.

"As a general, how can you leave the soldiers without authorization, just for your own safety, what are you afraid of, Lao Tzu will not go down, just watch you fire here, and kill these officers and gunners for Lao Tzu."

Wei Hong shook his numb arm, didn't mean to back down at all, and said to his white dragon sergeant.

"Yes, Captain of the Guard, you can see that we will definitely kill their gunners."

Those gunners and gunners of the White Dragon Army were also infected by Wei Hong's spirit one by one, and they were full of fighting spirit and shouted loudly.

"The firearms of the imperial court, whether they are artillery, bird guns or three-eyed guns, are actually very sharp, but the Ming Dynasty just can't beat a group of wild boar skins that shoot arrows on horseback, it's really unbelievable."

Li Zixiao was on a mound more than three hundred steps away, looking at the power of the official army's firearms in front of him, which was not inferior to the White Dragon Army at all, and couldn't help but sigh.

On the one hand, he was surprised by the number of firearms of the Ming army, and on the other hand, he was sad about the level of training of the Ming army at this time.

The Ming army, with such advanced firearms, was bound to lose in every battle with the Tartars outside the Guanwai, and the problem could only lie in the training of the officers and soldiers.

Li Zixiao couldn't help but think of how powerful the Qi family army that Qi Jiguang organized and trained back then was, if the Qi family army was still there, how could it be allowed to run wild boar skins outside the pass.

As a result, as soon as Qi Dashuai died, the Qi family army, which was finally formed, quickly disappeared in the long river of history.

Even his way of training troops was not inherited by later Ming army generals.

If the current Ming official army can have the strength of the Qi family army in the past, it is estimated that the so-called righteous armies such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will be vulnerable at all, and even the Guanwai Tartars are not without the strength to fight.

The officers and troops on the opposite side obviously had the advantage of troops, but Wu Laiyun still did not dare to press the whole army, and captured the White Dragon Army's army in one go.

What is he afraid of, of course he is afraid that officers and soldiers like Lin Dafu will lose their chains in the decisive battle.

It is really like Xu Wei's subordinates, there are too few elite officers and soldiers, so Wu Laiyun can only use this tactic, while preserving the elite of the official army, consuming the White Dragon Army, while waiting for the opportunity to launch a general attack.

Taking advantage of the moment when the White Dragon Army was suppressed, the official army cleaned up the broken shield cart, and began to push the shield cart step by step, continuing along the official road.

However, because the official road was covered with corpses left by the officers and soldiers in the previous war, they had to clean up the corpses as they advanced, and the advance became a little slower.

When Li Zixiao was thinking about how to deal with this group of officers and soldiers, a war horse quickly rushed from the west, with a small flag planted behind it, which was a scout sent back by Han Tong.

As soon as they arrived in front of Li Zixiao, the scout rolled off his horse and rushed to Li Zixiao's face.

reported to Li Zixiao: "Qi Yu is a big boss, we found a thousand-strong cavalry team of officers and soldiers three miles southwest of the western wilderness.

They seem to have deliberately avoided the ravine to the west, and had gone around to the rear of our flank, and were pressing towards the rear of our right flank, and the captain had sent us back to report to the great master for a decision. ”

After listening to the scout's words, Li Zixiao and several of his generals immediately became nervous.

"Sure enough, as expected, the officers and soldiers are playing with us to repair the plank road and darken Chen Cang." Li Zixiao said with a gloomy face.

Fortunately, he let Han Tong scatter the scout team farther away, otherwise it would have been really easy for this cavalry to be confused, and he did not hesitate to go around in such a big circle and go around the rear of the White Dragon Army to attack.

Li Zixiao nervously thought about the current situation, and several generals also nervously turned their eyes to Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao relaxed the expression on his face as much as possible, and then said to a herald beside him: "Send the order to Luo Chao and Qi Wei, and let them take their respective subordinates to the west for me to block this official cavalry."

I have only one request for them, that we will never allow this cavalry of the officers and soldiers to appear behind our army's flanks, and that they will take care of the rest by themselves. ”

"Yes." The herald took the order and galloped away.

At this time, Li Zixiao suddenly found that he seemed to have made a low-level mistake.

That is, he relied too much on the power of firearms this time, and in order to reduce casualties, he has always refused to engage the officers and soldiers in close combat.

In fact, the real strong army in this era should actually be an army that dares to meet the enemy's bayonets.

Why can't the Ming army in this era defeat the Tartars outside the gates? In fact, Li Zixiao has thought about this question countless times.

The conclusion was that because the Ming army lacked training and relied too much on the advantage of firearms, they did not dare to engage with the soldiers and horses of wild boar skin.

So much so that often the Ming army and the soldiers and horses of the wild boar skin clashed, and the 'ping pong' firearms were fought indiscriminately, which could also cause some casualties to the wild boar skin.

Once these three axes were finished, as soon as the Tartars outside the gate approached the Ming army, the Ming army was frightened by the courage of the other party, and they didn't even dare to fight, they just wanted to escape.

In their consciousness, they already thought that they would never be able to defeat the Tartars in close combat, so they were rushed by the Tartars outside the gate, and finally collapsed for thousands of miles, and the corpses that were killed were all over the field.

It is precisely because of this that the wild boar skins will find time every year, go around the pass, and loot on a large scale, and no one dares to stop them.

Li Zixiao originally attached great importance to the field combat capability of the White Dragon Army, and paid more attention to the training of the White Dragon Army in coordinated operations.

But now, in order to reduce the casualties of his men, he has always been reluctant to fight the enemy in close quarters, and blindly relies on firearms.

As everyone knows, only when the army experiences the baptism of blood and fire can it hone veterans of a hundred battles, and only then can an army give birth to a true immortal soul and become an invincible army.

And in order to do this, casualties are inevitable, and Li Zixiao's concept as a modern person has not been completely cleared up to this day, and it is still affecting him.

At this time, Li Zixiao, who suddenly turned the corner, knew that it was time to make himself more iron-blooded and indifferent.

If he wants to end this troubled world as soon as possible, he may see more life and death in the future, he has to get used to these and use these.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it seems that we are probably going to fight a tough battle with the official army today, and for a long time, our White Dragon Army has been waiting for each other and practicing every day.

Now it's just an army of officers, how can we be afraid of them? Since they want to come, let them come! We're waiting for them right here.

I want to see how capable these officers and soldiers are, and compared with our brothers in the White Dragon Army, are they strong or weak? ”

As soon as Li Zixiao thought about this, his spirit immediately relaxed, and he said to his subordinate generals.

"Big boss, what nonsense, rush up and slaughter this group of cowards, it's over, chirp and grind to death.

If you are in charge, you can send me up, give me a stick of incense, and I promise to kill this group of officers and soldiers without leaving a single piece of armor. ”

Li Tianba was the first to shout, this guy is a master of art and boldness, and his nerves can be said to be the biggest one in the White Dragon Army, as if he never knew what it meant to be afraid.

Before, he had been clamoring to go into battle to kill the enemy, complaining that Li Zixiao sent Zhou Dazhu into battle, but he didn't let him lead his troops up.

"Okay, you are ready to take your soldiers into battle, cooperate with Zhou Dazhu, and defeat this group of officers and soldiers, but you can't pursue them." Li Zixiao said to Li Tianba.

"Yes, big boss, you can just see."

After Li Tianba finished speaking excitedly, he beckoned more than 100 veterans under his command, and instead of lining up in a neat line, he crossed the simple trench in the form of stragglers, and arrived at the right side of Zhou Dazhu in front to stand by.

Originally, Li Zixiao was the third infantry army that asked Li Tianba to replace Luo Chao, but this guy was really not suitable for the White Dragon Army's neat combat method.

When he fights, he likes to lead his subordinates to take the lead in the charge, rush to the front line, fight regardless of it, give full play to his super combat power, and it is difficult to command the soldiers to fight in formation.

In the end, Li Zixiao also decided that he should let his subordinates have such a team that dares to rush and dare to die, so as to make up for the shortcomings of the White Dragon Army's military formation.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also knew that it was too much of a waste of his martial arts to let Li Tianba line up to command the battle.

So, Li Zixiao ordered the disbandment of the fourth infantry army and scattered it to the other three infantry teams.

At the same time, from the four teams of infantry troops, select some veterans, as well as some recruits with good martial arts, to form a new fourth team of infantry troops, and no longer practice the phalanx combat unique to the White Dragon Army.

Instead, like the Ming army in the past, they will practice individual combat capabilities, and when the time comes, they will be used as a battlefield support force to make up for the shortcomings of the White Dragon Army's phalanx and lack of mobility.

The officers and soldiers on the official road were pushing two shield carts slowly forward, and they were also cleaning up the corpses of their colleagues.

The officers and soldiers used the shield car as a cover, and constantly fired artillery at the White Dragon Dragon Defense, and bombarded Sun Cannon's artillery.

Sun Dazhuang bent down and exposed half of his head from the cover, but as soon as he stretched out his head, there was a bang on the helmet, and a piece of lead hit him, which shocked him and quickly shrank his head.

He took off the iron helmet on his head and saw that it was dented by lead, but fortunately it was far away and protected by an iron helmet, otherwise, it was estimated that he would have burped today.

"Damn, fortunately, the big boss gave Lao Tzu a pair of iron helmets, otherwise he would have been heroic and righteous today, and his mother's will be listened to by Lao Tzu, and he will be reloaded with scattered bullets and bombed by Lao Tzu!"

Sun Dazhuang put the iron helmet on his head again, turned his head and shouted to the gunners behind him.

Several gunners quickly took out the empty sub-gun from the big belly behind the female gun.

Immediately, a sub-gun loaded with a pound of scattered bullets was filled into the belly of the Furlong cannon, and the iron wedge was used to struck the sub-gun, and the primer was poured into the fire door of the sub-gun.

Gunpowder smoke once again spit out from the muzzle of the cannon, and dozens of five-dollar cannons were immediately swept out like brooms.

Several cannons concentrated on attacking the shield carts of the officers and soldiers, and the flying cannons were like whips, and they were drawn on the officers and men and the shield carts that were slowly advancing.

The skin on the shield cart was like a sieve, and the sawdust below was splashed everywhere, while the shields in the hands of the officers and soldiers could provide some protection.

But in front of the flying cannons, there was still a human skin wooden shield, which was immediately pierced, and the soldiers hiding behind the big shield were also shot and knocked to the ground.

However, because the White Dragon Army used scattered bullets this time, although the killing area was relatively large, it failed to defeat the shield car of the official army.

The officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield cart were still slowly pushing the shield cart forward, and finally got closer and closer to the White Dragon Army.

Walking on the bloody road, some officers and men could not bear this bloody scene, and they were all smoked and vomited by the strong smell of blood, but they were immediately squeezed aside by the people behind.

A group of officers and soldiers, who had been thoroughly enraged, rushed out from behind the shield cart with shields in their hands, and rushed forward like wild beasts.

The officers and soldiers rushed up without fear of death, and the white dragon army led by Zhou Dazhu on the opposite side was killed by a team of white dragon troops at the forefront.

The remaining officers and soldiers in the back followed. Instead of rushing forward in a chaotic manner, they raised their shields at the bridgehead in an orderly manner to spread out, covering the rapid advance of the officers and soldiers behind.

The coordinated actions of these officers and men in the attack were not tacit enough and were a little rusty, but this time the officers and soldiers were definitely much stronger than the two motley soldiers who attacked before.

It is no wonder, after all, this army of more than 500 officers and soldiers, most of them are composed of Lin Dafu and his generals, the family members around him, and some brave veterans.

Wu Laiyun really saw that the officers and soldiers under Lin Dafu were overwhelmed, so he had to fight Lin Dafu and the family members led by his generals.

These guys all have a lot of family members, and their equipment is much better than that of the officers and soldiers, and at the same time, they are much more elite than the officers and soldiers under Lin Dafu.

So, Wu Laiyun ordered Lin Dafu to send their respective families to launch this round of attack.

These generals are really not disappointed, and the fighting quality they show is much stronger than those officers and soldiers before.

The commander of this attack was a general under Lin Dafu, named Wu Yue, who commanded well and knew the art of war.

At this time, after paying the price of less than thirty casualties, Wu Yue finally led people to rush to the front of the White Dragon Army.