Chapter 948: Bloody Battle of Meng Jindu (3)

Xu Yifan really has such a ability, if Zhu Jie's actions are the kind of imagination that makes it impossible to guess, then Xu Yifan is an extremely meticulous instrument, extremely sophisticated, it is too difficult to find Xu Yifan's flaws on the battlefield, but once Xu Yifan finds the loophole, the end will be miserable.

Now Zu Dashou is facing such a situation, he underestimated the combat power of the Tianwei army's elite cavalry, although he has been estimated at a high place, but he still underestimated, so Xu Yifan caught the flaw, a hard beating, completely and the Zu Dashou's defense line was crushed, let Zu Dashou have a strong army, at this time it is already the opportunity to lose, once the Tianwei army on the other side of the river completes the crossing, it is the end of the 30,000 or 40,000 Qing army!

Now Zu Dashou is already powerless to return to the sky, and if he doesn't drive the elite cavalry of the Tianwei Army out of the artillery position, then he will definitely not be able to stop the advance of the Tianwei Army!

Sure enough, the five-mile-wide Yellow River crossing, for the Tianwei army who forcibly crossed, it didn't take long, even if the water was turbulent, in just half an hour, the civilian ships in front were already less than 500 steps away from the north bank.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows, release the arrows of the whole army!"

Dong Guoqiang, the general of the left wing, shouted loudly, and rows of archers stood up and began to shoot at the distant warships on the river embankment, trying to use bows and arrows, especially rockets, to stop the attack of the Tianwei army, but the rockets of the Qing army were only tied to a barrel filled with gunpowder on the arrows, and the role that such rockets could play was to ignite the flammable materials on the ships, and the lethality was too small. And because of the increase in weight, it also limited the range of the rocket, unless it was Manchuria's elite cavalry again, no one could shoot the rocket to a hundred paces away, even if it was condescending, it was only a hundred paces away.

However, the Tianwei army on the river was different, Li Dingguo deployed most of the musketeers on the front-end warships, and a full thousand musketeers occupied the ships, with a range of up to 300 paces, making the musketeers take advantage of long-range attacks!

As soon as they entered the distance of 400 paces, the musketeers had already begun to quickly reload their bullets, and within 300 paces, the musketeers began to fire intensively at the archers on the river embankment!

Bang bang bang......

A thousand musketeers, shooting in turns, suppressing the archers in front of them, no matter how many troops there are, it is useless, because, from between three hundred steps and two hundred steps, it is precisely the blind spot of the range of the bow and arrow of the green battalion soldiers, seeing that the musketeers of the Tianwei Army are constantly shooting, the archers can only be beaten passively, and the feather arrows shot out fall into the river in waves, and even the cold hair of the Tianwei Army can not be hurt! Instead, one by one, the archers were shot one after another, planted off the river embankment, and fell into the water of the Yellow River, with an astonishing howl coming out of their mouths.

Although it is already spring, the water of the Yellow River is still very cold, and the water is turbulent, it is difficult to survive, even if you are lucky enough to escape to the shore, I am afraid that you will have to throw away half your life.

The distance of two or three hundred paces is enough for the musketeers to complete six or seven waves of shooting, and the dense rifle fire covers the entire river embankment, beating the archers to the bitterness, one by one they nest on the river embankment, and they don't dare to raise their heads at all, once they are concentrated by bullets, it is difficult not to die......

The civilian ships quickly approached and soon arrived at the area of the river beach, docked on the river beach, and the Tianwei soldiers kept throwing down the deck prepared on the ship, and then jumped on the sampan and began to charge towards the river embankment!

"Rush up, rush up!"

The Green Battalion soldiers roared in fear.

Dong Guoqiang's anger jumped like thunder, this group of wastes, rushed up, you are fighting back, now is not the time to be three hundred steps away, it has entered a distance of less than a hundred steps from his position, and even the nearest is only forty or fifty steps away, even a girl can shoot a bow and arrow into the formation of the Tianwei Army!

"Damn bastards, shoot arrows, shoot arrows! Don't let the Tianwei Army rush up! ”

Dong Guoqiang roared angrily and continued to command the green battalion soldiers to launch an attack to prevent the Tianwei army from approaching, but at this time, obviously, it was already too late.

The five towns of the Tianwei Army plus Tongzhou Town are Li Dingguo's fourth town with the most prosperous troops, and its backbone is composed of 50,000 or 60,000 descendants brought out when Li Dingguo supported Li Zicheng to attack Henan, 50,000 or 60,000 people, nearly 10,000 casualties in the war, and the remaining 40,000 people were the survival of the fittest, and more than half of them were directly eliminated, leaving only 20,000 people, plus the replenishment of the new army, the fourth town has no less than 30,000 troops, And the combat power is extremely good.

At present, the soldiers who have successfully landed are the soldiers of the forward battalion in the Tianwei Army of the Fourth Town, and the most elite force, almost four or five thousand people, is coming with great momentum.

This momentum alone has already deterred the green battalion soldiers, and the unlucky Dong Guoqiang patronized and shouted to block the attack, forgetting that he was in a dangerous situation, the embankment was originally a cut above the river beach, Dong Guoqiang was dressed as a general, tall, and extremely conspicuous in the crowd, and the unlucky Dong Guoqiang was directly locked by the Tianwei army.

Deng Xiao had already commanded the forward battalion to rush up, and seeing that the generals of the Qing army were still directing the blockade, he raised the musket in his hand and raised his hand to shoot!

Bang!

Dong Guoqiang fell down in response, a shot hit the center of the eyebrows, even the head shell was opened, and he died, as soon as Dong Guoqiang died, the five thousand archers were even more chaotic, and they were routed to the rear.

From landing to attack, to Dong Guoqiang's death, to the rout of the archers, it only took three or two minutes, and even the Tianwei army had not yet boarded the river embankment, the archers were finished, the defense of the entire river embankment collapsed instantly, Zu Dashou didn't even have time to react, when he saw the scene of the archer rout, his heart was cold, what a thing, Dong Guoqiang was a waste, he was beaten down so quickly! Rubbish, rubbish!

However, now that I am thinking about the Zeng soldiers on the river embankment, it is too late, and the Tianwei army has climbed the river embankment in the blink of an eye, and the large number of people and horses behind it is countless, and the Mengjin ferry has fallen!

"Lord Zu, Lord Zu, the general trend has gone, the general trend has gone, the Mengjin ferry can't be defended, we must retreat immediately, retreat to the north immediately, otherwise, we will be besieged by the fourth town of the Tianwei Army and the elite cavalry of the Tianwei Army, we are afraid that no one will be able to escape......"

Shi Tingzhu, the chief soldier on the side, shouted urgently.

(End of chapter)