Chapter 53: The Encirclement

It was just the hour of Shen, the sky was cloudy, and the weather was quite cool. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Zunhua Mafang Lingxi under the cover of clouds is a battlefield with tens of thousands of people.

Shang Kexi suffered a setback in the first battle, and was caught off guard by Bao Guo, who was flexible and powerful, and retreated towards the eastern mountains.

"Prince Yu has an order! Reinforcements will come, and those who dare to withdraw without permission will be dealt with by military law! A messenger with a money rat tail ran to Shang Kexi's side: "King Pingnan, fight like this, be careful of your head after you go back!" ”

Hearing this, Shang Kexi's face turned pale. He didn't look at the Jurchen herald, carefully looked at the slope in front of him, gritted his teeth, and said, "Where is the Heavenly Helper?" ”

This day is not synonymous with the Eight Banners of the Han Army under Shang Kexi, but refers specifically to the elite veterans under Shang Kexi. When Chongzhen was six years old, Shang Kexi defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Huang Taiji, who was extremely excited, gave the name Shang Kexi to return to Shun as a heavenly helper.

Although the Han army under Shang Kexi has been expanded several times, the number of troops has long been much larger than before. But not everyone in Shang Kexi's army can be called a heavenly helper.

Now that ten years have passed, Shang Kexi's Tianzhu army is naturally experienced and quite powerful.

At this moment, Shang Kexi gave an order, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses with training equipment very different from ordinary people lined up to deal with it. The leading general is Shang Kexi's eldest son, Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin has a beard, is tall, and is very brave. He also heard the military order of the herald, and understood that the Qing army was extremely disciplined, so he responded loudly: "The last general will lead the heavenly aid soldiers to obey the order!" ”

"Block the Ming army, kill one person in this battle and reward five taels of silver, if you win this battle, everyone in the army will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" Shang Kexi gritted his teeth and was generous. This one is the main force of his descendants, and it will be distressing to lose one more.

Shang Zhixin took the order and went away, shouting and attacking. It just so happens that this Mafang Ridge is a sloping land, and the elevation increases from west to east. Naturally, running from west to east is also a bit slow. Shang Kexi ran all the way to the back of the hillside, and Shang Zhixin, who took advantage of the terrain to launch a counter-charge, finally slowed down the situation of Baoguo's advance.

At this time, in some of the Loess Hills to the north, Geng Zhongming's army also engaged Yang Jia. Yang Jiayi, who occupied the loess hill, did not rush into battle, and Yang Jiayi, who had less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, set up a position to hold this hill and block the passage for Geng Zhongming to break through in the north.

In particular, this place is quite close to the Guzishan Fort in the north, and after the battle of Luzhen turned the tide of the battle, the Flying Bear Regiment paid special attention to the fort position.

Loess Gang is more than a thousand steps away, assuming that the battery position on the hill is enough to cover the battlefield on the north road. With the help of artillery, no matter how many times Geng Zhongming tended to attack, the offensive was easily disintegrated.

There were hundreds of artillery pieces, and under the salvo, although there were no flowering shells, it was enough to plow the dense Eight Banners Army of Geng Zhongming's Han Army in the vast battlefield like ploughing a field.

With such an offensive, no matter how brave the army is, it is inevitable that it will be discouraged.

The offensive came to a halt.

In the middle lane, Kong Youdebu began to advance.

He did not rush to attack, and Twenty cautiously approached all the way.

This time, Xu Yanqi sensed danger.

Kong Youde is a big man with a rough face, with a delicate heart that does not match his appearance. In later generations, some people commented that the Ming Dynasty rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and listed Kong Youde as the first evil among the three. This is not to say that Kong Youde has the most unbearable temperament, but that this person is extremely ruthless and very capable.

Among the three Eight Banners Han Army, Kong Youde had the smallest number of people, but the least chaos.

They fought all the way, holding the fire gun in their hands steadily, and lined up to fight.

"Something is wrong...... Xu Yanqi muttered.

The two armies have been in contact.

The two of them lined up and took aim with their guns in unison.

The north and south sides have already started fighting, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded as an accompaniment to both sides. But whether it was Kong Youde's Han army or the Flying Bear Regiment, they were all holding their breath.

There was an eerie silence on the battlefield at this moment, and Kong Youde stared nervously at the soldiers under his hands. As a general of the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing army, he knew better than anyone what the consequences would be if he lost this battle. Later generations said that he was the head of the three thieves, because this person was the most powerful, not only ruthless, but also capable enough.

The better the ability of a good person, the more beneficial it is to the country. But if a bad guy, a traitor is capable enough, then obviously......

This is a disaster for Daming.

Kong Youde only hopes that no matter how difficult it is, he can do more. He looked at the situation on the battlefield, squinted his eyes, and estimated the distance between the two sides.

At this time, the two armies at the forefront had reached seventy paces, but there was no order from the Flying Bear Regiment to open fire. Both sides are still advancing, guns pointing at each other.

Kong Youde calmed down, and he thought back to the range of this batch of birds.

"Anyone who dares to shoot in advance will be killed!" Among the Eight Banners Han Army, a Qing army **** with the appearance of a law enforcement team was wearing an upper body, holding a ghost-headed knife in his hand and a head in the other hand. On the ground, an arcore burned slowly.

"Keep going!" Kong Youde suddenly felt nervous.

The distance has broken through fifty paces.

"Fire!" It was the Flying Bears who fired first.

With the advantage of a flintlock pistol, as soon as the military ordered, countless lead pellets suddenly burst out in front of him and flew away.

Suddenly, the Eight Banners Han Army in front of him fell. In order to be able to inflict maximum damage, the Flying Bear Regiment that held back was able to inflict maximum damage, and the crisp sound of countless ZTE rifle shots continued to sound under the three-stage blow.

Rounds of smoke rose and shrouded the entire battlefield, as if it were a prelude to silence and shattering,

But soon, Kong Youde's madness flashed: "All the guards immediately stepped forward for me, and if you dare to retreat, the latter will be killed immediately!" Tell the whole army that if the battle is won, all the people will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver, and one person will flee, not to mention the silver, Lao Tzu will send him to Huangquan now! ”

Thousands of virtuous guards pounced. The battle formation of the Qing army, which had just been a little shaken, suddenly stabilized, and under the heads of the military law team, they still advanced, did not dare to retreat, and raised the bird gun in their hands tremblingly.

Finally, the distance had reached thirty paces.

"Fire!" Kong Youde's order came.

As if he was amnesty, the Eight Banners Han Army lit the fire rope in his hand, and raised the bird gun in his hand to aim at the enemy behind the smoke in front of him.

The guns of the Qing army rang out one after another, and countless green smoke came out of the thumping bird guns. The fiery air of the gunpowder booster propelled the projectile, cutting through the short distance of thirty paces, and rushing into the same smoky Ming army.

At this moment, the screams in the battle array behind the smoke up and down the Flying Bear Regiment resounded in an instant.

Some hit the arm, passing by, just scratching the epidermis. Some hit the abdomen, and the intestines were pulled to leave a place. Some hit the cheek, shattered the heart, and fell to the ground. The projectile pierced through the uniform, burrowed into the skin, and gradually became bloody.

Countless soldiers fell at this moment.

But in an instant, countless nurses and nurses in white medical uniforms rushed forward and took the dead and wounded soldiers from the hands of the soldiers in the rear.

Then, in the rising gunsmoke, one person after another was still standing, and the battle formation was not chaotic.

Compared with the Eight Banners Han Army, the soldiers of the Flying Bear Regiment have no law enforcement team and no silver rewards. The screaming and falling robes around them were as if they didn't exist, and they were still calmly reloading their ammunition, waiting to shoot in rows.

The smoke of gunpowder continued to rise, and in the unclear vision, the soldiers of the Flying Bear Regiment were not panicked.

Kong Youde looked at all this, as if he was watching a miracle: "Why don't they have any mess at all?" This platoon of guns came down, and at least hundreds of people were shot! ”

The shooting of the Eight Banners Han Army continued to begin, and they had already come close to a distance of thirty or forty paces. At this distance, the lethality of the slightly less powerful bird gun shot is particularly guaranteed.

But the Flying Bears are still advancing, still attacking.

Faced with the densely woven net of fire, the soldiers of the Flying Bear Regiment seemed to be made of steel tubes of brain nerves, and the projectiles shot in their eyes had no effect at all.

Only Xu Yanqi watched all this silently, and the corners of his eyes suddenly moistened.

"We are by no means indifferent...... Rather, war tells us that only the victors are qualified to think about those sad things. We are soldiers, and it is worth crying when we embrace the cheers of victory. The sacrifice of our comrades-in-arms is for us to defeat the enemy. The cry of a coward on the battlefield will only disgrace the sacrifice of his comrades! He recalled the words of His Majesty the Emperor in the military academy back then, and looked at all this in front of him, and realized every word in it like never before.

The soldiers of the Flying Bear Regiment are no longer purely executing the phalanx, on the vast battlefield, after the battle, the soldiers of the Flying Bear Regiment arranged in three rows under the leadership of hundreds of households in each department lined up into a small battle formation.

They were armed with ZTE rifles, loading and firing in silence and order. Under the rounds of attacks, the enemies in front of him continued to fall, and the robes around him gradually became scarce.

And the enemy, the distance is already only ten paces away.

At this distance, a dense sound of footsteps sounded.

"I dare to come!" The eight-foot-tall stone dares to step on the ground, and the cowhide boots step on the ground, dullly as if beating on the heartstrings of people.

Of course, this obviously refers to the hearts of the Eight Banners Han Army.

I saw a group of people suddenly coming from the rear of the Flying Bear Regiment, and this group of people did not follow a strict military formation, and ran scattered everywhere. If it was just like this, it wouldn't make the Eight Banners Han Army panic, what made them uneasy was that these big men were tall, with long hands and long feet. If it is in the Qing army, it must be a first-class marksman.

But instead of carrying longbows, they wore light and beautiful military uniforms, and each carried a basket in which a black and inconspicuous thing was placed.

Many people are just at a loss when they see this thing, but when Kong Youde sees it, his heart has changed greatly.

"Gather the archers!" Kong Youdeden shouted.

Before the archers were mobilized, Shi Dangdang was already in position and set off. In an instant, hundreds of small black iron-clad fist-sized things were thrown into the formation of the Eight Banners Han Army.

Immediately, a rumbling sound sounded.

"It's a thunderstorm!" Countless Eight Banners Han soldiers cried and shouted for their mothers, and the powerful earth-shattering thunder fell on the ground with more than 100 exploded flowering bombs, which brought hundreds of casualties to the Eight Banners Han Army at the moment.

Shi Dangdang had just lost the first one, and when he saw the extraordinary results, he was so happy that he jumped up. It's just that before she could continue to move, she saw Xia Chen beside her.

Xia Chen said anxiously: "Don't worry about it here, go to the north road for reinforcements!" ”

"North Road?" Shi Dangdang was a little dazed. He knows a little bit about the situation on the north road, where Yang Jiayi is leading the team to guard. There are artillery reinforcements, and it has only been half an hour, how can it not be held?

You must know that no matter which part of the Flying Bear Regiment is against these soldiers of the Three Shun Kings, they have enough strength to ignore the opponent's strength advantage and kill them. What is afraid is only the main force of the Qing army, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners.

Isn't it......

Thinking of this, Shi Gandang suddenly thought of something.

Xia Chen rarely explained patiently this time: "Jiannu's cavalry feint and attracted away the independent cavalry battalion Liu Zhensuo's department, and as a result, they attacked the fort...... Liu Zhen is now so annoyed that he wants to commit suicide, and has returned to help, desperately trying to regain his position. But the artillery battalion may not be able to resume fire support for a while, and besides, this is a fatal time...... Dordor also sent reinforcements. ”

Shi Gandang nodded fiercely suddenly, knowing all this: "I'm going to increase the number one lieutenant Yang Jia." It's just that...... I'm gone, what should I do here? Since Jiannu has come to reinforce and raided the artillery battalion, there will definitely be additional troops to the middle lane......"

"I'm here with the corps and regimental headquarters! There is also a reserve battalion...... You don't have to worry about it......" Xia Chen smiled reluctantly, and behind him, more than two hundred people came up alone. Here, many Shi Dangdang's familiar faces also came.

Shi Dangdang looked at it, and suddenly his heart was sour. In this, not only the civilian divisions of the regimental headquarters went into battle, but even the horsemen and cooks and the engineer auxiliaries of the baggage battalion also came up.

As for the reserves, Shi Kang also understood when he joined the army that he would never waver until a critical moment. You know, the big boss Duoduo hasn't done it yet!

"This is a military order! Guard the loess hill, if it is broken, my flying bear regiment will be buried here! Xia Chen still had a paragraph to say.

Defend the loess hill, and the flying bear regiment can still leave a seed to return to the city. But if you hold the middle road and can't hold the north road, the Flying Bear Regiment that is outflanked by the back road will be wiped out.

As for what will happen to the soldiers of the two Flying Bear Regiment in Ma Fangling after the elite reserve team goes to Loess Gang......

Xia Chen's expression was calm and he didn't think much about it.

At this time, Xu Yanqi exhaled softly: "Only fight to the last person......

Not far away, the white flag Gushan Ezhen Ying Ordai smiled fiercely: "Jue Luo Langqiu did a good job this time, and this damn cannon has finally stopped." Without this artillery, how can this Ming man stop it? My warriors of the Qing Dynasty, this Ming army has also begun to run out. Back then, a thief Li Zicheng was able to force this famous Flying Bear Regiment to a dead end, and today my invincible Qing warriors came, and they destroyed this so-called Flying Bear Regiment! (To be continued.) )