Chapter 671: Fight to the Death
After all, four legs ran faster than two legs, and as soon as the marines who attacked the Qing army in Jinjiatun finished sweeping the battlefield, Hauge arrived with thousands of troops.
In the frightened eyes of the people of Jinjiatun, Haoge rode his horse with a gloomy face, looked at these people with the eyes of the dead, and asked coldly: "Tell this king, in which direction did those Ming troops go?" ”
Just now he was rescued by others, and when he turned around and betrayed others, the people of Jinjiatun couldn't get over this hurdle on their conscience, and they chattered for a long time, but no one stood up to reply.
The sound of "Qiang, Qiang, Qiang" continued, and several strong Bayalas around Haoge drew their swords, staring fiercely at these people, and the blade reflected the cold light in the sunlight.
"Answer Prince Su's words!"
The timid people were so frightened that they sat on the ground, and several of them pointed to the west with pale faces, and replied tremblingly: "Go ...... Walked to the west......"
A Bayala dismounted and carefully examined the footprints on the ground, walked dozens of steps to the west, then turned around and nodded to Hauge: "These Nikans are not lying, they are indeed going west. ”
Hauge pulled out his knife and gritted his teeth and said: "The vests that escaped from this village are the last batch, so these Ming troops are the last to withdraw, and they are infantry troops, so they will definitely not be able to go far." Get on your horse and chase me! ”
Thousands of people shouted and tightened their reins, and ran to the west with a whistle.
When passing by this group of trembling people, Hauge confessed without looking back: "All these Nikans have been cut down, and the village has been burned to the ground!" ”
The people who thought that they could survive by betraying their life-saving benefactor were panicked, crying and screaming, and the Qing army had no mercy, so they ran quickly on horseback, holding the knife in their backhand, and the blade was forward, using the speed of the horse and the sharpness of the saber, they easily cut off the heads of the people, and a puff of blood rose to the sky, staining the land red.
The sound of hooves shook the sky, and the Qing army left the village, and flames rose from the sky behind them.
After attacking the small detachment of the Qing army to collect grain, the scattered marines moved to the place where they landed and landed, preparing to concentrate their forces for the next round of operations. According to Bolhu's understanding, the Qing army would definitely be provoked by himself, and then go out of the city to take revenge, but he didn't expect that the arrogant Haoge reacted far more intensely than he imagined, and there was almost no delay of a quarter of an hour, so the Qing army dispatched a large group of men and horses much faster than he imagined, and it was Haoge himself who led the troops.
The first operation in southern Liaoning, with the cooperation of the warships, went unusually smoothly, and the marines had some sense of superiority and extraordinary self-confidence, so the reaction speed of the Qing army was underestimated and lacked a sense of urgency.
The mobility of the cavalry was beyond the reach of the infantry, and seeing that the enemy was chasing after them, they could not shake it off, and more than 100 marines reluctantly formed a formation on the spot to resist the opponent's large group of cavalry.
A miniature hollow phalanx quickly took shape, and the soldiers loaded their lead bullets, picked up their guns and aimed them in the direction that the Qing army was chasing, ready to fight to the death.
Taktan is also in the chasing brigade. He suffered a crushing defeat and wanted to regain face, so he brought his subordinates with him. Seeing that the opponent was not numerous, and in order to prevent the cavalry from attacking from all directions, he also put on a formation, and he was a little worried, but he wanted to take the opportunity to atone for his crimes, so he gritted his teeth, patted his horse and asked Haoge for instructions: "Master, the slave has planted a heel in the hands of these Ming troops, and wants to make up for it, please give the master a chance." ”
Hauge waved his hand: "Go ahead, as long as you can crush these people, you will not be to blame for the past." He had never seen a bird gun that could fight more than 300 steps, and he also wanted to learn about it by watching the battle.
After getting the promise of the master, Tak Tan was in good spirits, straightened his waist like a chicken blood, came to the rear, and shouted: "Follow me if you want to find the Ming army for revenge!" ”
The vests that had suffered a lot under the rifled guns came out one after another, gathered behind Taktan, and stared ahead with bitter hatred on their faces.
Tak Tan knew that the opponent's musket was shooting far away, so he didn't plan to fight slowly and leisurely, and wanted to punch the old master to death, so he raised his knife and shouted: "The firearms of the Ming army are powerful, they can fight three hundred steps, don't use the previous set to deal with it, rush up directly!" ”
After eating a trench and growing wise, Tak Tan quickly found a better way to deal with the other party after suffering a loss. In the past, the method of wasting the opponent's bird guns and ammunition with a feint attack was not very effective, and before you could wait for the feint troops to go up, they would be disabled, so it was better to be simple and rude and charge directly.
Hundreds of cavalrymen shouted and rode their horses and ran up, and at a distance of more than 400 meters, the marines leveled their guns and aimed at their opponents.
The detachment leader who led this team was a lieutenant surnamed Lu, who looked at the huge number of cavalry opposite, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said to the soldiers: "Brothers, there are many Tartars, we have few people, and it is two legs against four legs, the situation is very bad, are you afraid?" ”
The soldiers responded: "Don't be afraid, fight with the Tartars." ”
"Okay, fight with the Tartars, killing one is enough, killing two is earning. Even if we die, the pension is enough for our wives and children to live. Lieutenant Lu smiled and raised his handcuff, "Listen to my orders, prepare to fire, and shoot freely until all these Tartars fall, or we fall." ”
Taktan led hundreds of cavalry to rush closer and closer, and at a distance of more than three hundred paces, it suddenly split in two, forming a pincer and sandwiching towards the hollow phalanx.
Lieutenant Lu silently estimated the distance, felt that he had reached the firing range of the rifled gun, and ordered loudly: "Fire!" Then he took the lead in pulling the trigger and firing the handcuffs.
With the terrible neighing of war horses and the screams of people, people and horses rolled on the ground, rolling up the dust, and the cavalry in the rear could not avoid it, stepped on their own people, lost their balance, and also tripped and fell off their horses.
Hauge gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, and was a little shocked in his heart: is there really a fire gun in this world that can shoot more than 300 steps?
There was no way back for Taktan, he could only choose to move forward, and the whistling bullets could not stop him. He clung to his horse, bowed his head and rushed forward, hoping only that the stray bullet would not hit him.
If the opponent of the Marine with rifled guns was the infantry, then the outcome of this warm-up battle would have been predestined long ago, and the winner would have been the Marine Corps with long-range firepower. It's a pity that their opponent was the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners. After withstanding the first wave of blows, the rest of the people bypassed the obstacles such as the corpses of the horses on the ground and continued to gallop forward at high speed, while the soldiers who were nervously reloading obviously only had one chance to shoot, and the situation slowly became unfavorable to them.