Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 262 Bloody Battle

The heavy armored infantry of the Yongwei Battalion, like the Eight Banners soldiers, are also armed with heavy weapons such as maces. This type of weapon does not need to pay attention to the tight formation and is most suitable for melee combat.

The heavy armored infantry who arrived first attacked the advancing Eight Banners soldiers from both sides.

A heavily armored infantry swung a three-foot-long mace round with his waist and arms, and smashed it on the head of an Eight Banners soldier.

Due to the crowd, the Eight Banners soldier couldn't jump to dodge, so he tried to block it with the long-handled pick knife in his hand. The smashed mace deviated slightly and then fell heavily. With the sound of bones breaking, the Eight Banners soldier's left shoulder was smashed and collapsed.

The Eight Banners soldier held back the severe pain, took advantage of the gap before the opponent retracted his weapon, swung the knife horizontally with one hand, and slashed at the left rib of the heavily armored infantry with the knife.The infantryman of the Warrior Guards Battalion was wearing chain mail and a cotton armor inside. In addition, the opponent's strength weakened due to serious injuries, so the sharp blade did not split the armor he was wearing, but only shook his ribs. A few were broken.

Under the pain, the soldier of the Yongwei Battalion quickly retracted the iron rod, and swung the stick again to kill the Eight Banners soldier under the stick. Suddenly, a sharp ring-headed knife slashed diagonally, and the light of the knife flashed right in the middle of the Eight Banners soldier. Blood splashed like a fountain on the neck of the soldier, and the Eight Banners soldier whose neck was almost cut off fell to the ground without a sound.

Before the Ming saber player had finished chopping the knife, he retracted his ring-sword, and a tiger-tooth spear pierced from one side penetrated deeply into his ribs, and the sword player slowly fell to the ground trembling all over, with The knife card fell to the ground, and large blood clots and minced meat spit out from his mouth. This shot directly smashed his internal organs.

The soldier with the mace let out a muffled roar and swung his stick violently. The Eight Banners soldier who had just retracted the tiger-toothed gun couldn't dodge, and was knocked to the ground by a stick. After a crisp sound, the head of the Eight Banners soldier wearing an iron helmet was smashed to pieces, white brains and bright red blood flowed all over the floor.

With the participation of heavily armored infantry and sword players, the Eight Banners soldiers who were chasing the gunners had to give up their pursuit and turned around to fight the Ming army. Most of the gunners were able to withdraw smoothly.

The coats who were fighting with the pikemen finally collapsed after suffering heavy casualties. Most of the living people threw away their weapons and fled to the city gate, while a small number of them knelt down and begged for surrender.

After seeing that the gunners were massacred by the Jiannu infantry because of the desperate interception of these coats, the pikemen hated these coats who were Han people.Those who knelt down to surrender were mercilessly slaughtered by the pikemen. Regardless of the scattered formation, some pikemen began to chase and kill Baoyi who was about to flee into the city, while the living women all fled close to the base of the city wall.

Tang Gudai knew that he would die today, but he secretly made up his mind to inflict heavy damage on the Ming army before he died, so as to reduce the damage of this group of elite Ming troops to the Qing Dynasty and its masters.Seeing that the Ming army's heavy armored soldiers and sword players gradually took advantage of the field, looking up, there is often a Eight Banners soldier around who has to face the siege of several Ming troops. No matter how brave the Eight Banners soldiers are, they cannot withstand the combined attack Killing, his subordinates were dying under the swords and guns of the Ming army one by one, Tang Gudai, who was heartbroken like a knife, shouted: "Let's die here today!"

Gathered around him were more than a dozen Eight Banners soldiers, including two White Armored soldiers: Dehun'a and Shengchuan.The White Armored Soldiers are the top military force in the Eight Banners. There are often only a few White Armored Soldiers in each Niu Lu, and all of them are elite fighters with outstanding personal martial arts skills and hundreds of lives in their hands.

Because the Ming army was coming from behind and on both sides, it was impossible to continue chasing and killing the musketeers, and the remaining nearly a hundred Eight Banners soldiers could only fight with the Ming army.

The long knife in Tang Gudai's hand was slashed horizontally like lightning, and a Ming saber player who rushed over hurriedly raised his shield to block. The long knife with a gap in his hand slashed on the iron shield and broke into two pieces immediately. Tang Gudai kicked on the shield with his right foot , the sword player was kicked and flew out, Tang Gudai rushed forward quickly, reached out and grabbed the flail of a heavy armored soldier and pulled it vigorously into his arms. And pulled it over, Dehun'a pierced the heavy armored soldier's throat with a spear, and then quickly withdrew the tiger tooth gun. The heavy armored soldier fell to the ground and died, and the flail also fell into Tang Gudai's hands.

Tang Gudai took a few steps forward with a flail in hand, jumped out of the circle of Eight Banners soldiers, and swept the flail horizontally in his hand. Several Ming soldiers were either hit in the chest or arms.

When the soldiers of the Ming army saw how brave he was, many of them showed fear on their faces.Dehun'a and others took advantage of the trend and moved forward to get closer to Tang Gudai. The team of more than ten people killed the Eight Banners soldiers who were besieged by the Ming army. Killed dozens of Ming troops.For a while, the heavy armored soldiers and sword and shield fighters of the Ming army felt helpless against Tang Gudai and others.

A team of spearmen rushed over under the leadership of the captain. After loudly ordering the sword and shield fighters and the heavy armored soldiers to get out of the way, more than a hundred spearmen lined up in two rows, holding their spears more than ten feet long and facing Tang Gudai. Come on, the gun heads made of fine steel shone with a frightening cold light, and some of the gun heads were still dripping with blood.

The white-armored soldier Sheng Chuan shortly picked up a shield from the ground, shrank his body and hid his upper body behind the shield, holding an iron rod in one hand, staring at the ground and rushed forward, followed by several Eight Banners soldiers.

"prick!"

Following the command of the captain, several spears in front of Sheng Chuan stabbed at him head-on, except for a few that were blocked by shields, a Ming army spearman stabbed at Sheng Chuan's unshielded calf, "chi" With a soft sound, the sharp spear blade pierced through the iron net skirt and hit the face bone of Sheng Chuan's calf, and immediately blood flowed down his calf.

Katsukawa threw the shield forward under the pain, and then rushed forward enduring the severe pain.

A spearman couldn't dodge the flying shield. Before he could react, Sheng Chuan had rushed over and knocked him to the ground with a stick. Just as Sheng Chuan was about to swing his stick across, several spears slanted When stabbed obliquely, Sheng Chuan was stabbed in the ribs, lower abdomen, and chest. As a large amount of blood flowed out, all the strength in his body dissipated instantly, and he slowly fell to the ground and died with an expression of unwillingness on his face.

Several Eight Banners soldiers following him took the opportunity to lower their bodies and move forward, with their knives and guns out, and several pikemen were thrown to the ground. In the blink of an eye, several soldiers of the Eight Banners were also hit by the slanting spears, and they fell to the ground one after another.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers were all killed and injured on the battlefield, only Tang Gudai and a dozen others were still struggling.Tang Gudai looked up and saw several thick smokes rising from the city, and he immediately knew that the Ming army had entered the city. The smoke was formed by the Eight Banners soldiers guarding the warehouses when he ordered the city to burn supplies and set fire to it.

Sheng Chuan and others failed to break through the pike formation and were killed. The pikemen continued to press on the remaining Tang Gudai and others, and the surrounding Ming army quickly rushed forward.

Tang Gudai swung the flail and beat the head of a heavy armored soldier of the Ming army to pieces, and two spears also took the opportunity to pierce his lower abdomen and ribs; Tang Gudai threw the flail and hit the chest of a Ming soldier. Spitting out blood, he fell to the ground, a long spear pierced into Tang Gudai's right ear like lightning, and then shot out from the left side of his head, Tang Gudai smashed his bloody eyes straight on the ground like a log to die and died.

After killing four Ming soldiers, Dehun A was stabbed in the thigh with a long spear, staggered a few times, and was pierced through the chest by several long spears, and died. .

While the fierce battle was raging at the south gate, the officers and troops from the east and west gates had already broken into the city.Since Tang Gudai concentrated most of the only thousand troops in the city at the south gate, the resistance encountered by the officers and troops at the east and west gates was not as fierce as that at the south gate. Leading the soldiers into Yizhou, after being led by a few captured coats, the officers and soldiers soon arrived at the area where the warehouse was located. The generals of the battalion quickly organized a guard to put out the fire, and sent people to report to the outside of the city.

He led [-] cavalry along the east bank of the Daling River to Wu Sangui outside the north gate of Yizhou. After hearing the sound of siege guns, he immediately led a team to attack the hundreds of slaves guarding the stone arch bridge outside the north gate. , Under the cover of several rounds of bows and arrows, more than half of the more than a hundred Jiannu were killed or injured, and then the cavalry charged and wiped out the remaining Jiannu.However, because the north gate was closed from the inside, Wu Sangui could only arrange for the manpower to guard the stone arch bridge, and sent his troops to wait outside the north gate until Hong Chengchou entered the city and ordered the north gate to be opened. , This flanking Ming army was able to enter the city.

After the Yongwei Camp cleaned up the battlefield, wiped out the remaining Jian slaves in the city, and detained all the men and women who were wrapped in clothes, Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou and others entered the undamaged city of Yizhou.

Zu Kuan and Zu Zerun led the cavalry to drive and besiege the [-] Jiannu cavalry outside the city to ensure that the artillery entered the city to rest. Either enter the city, or camp outside the city.As for whether the Yongwei Battalion will stay here or return to the capital, it must follow the specific will of the Emperor Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao.

In the second hall of the former Yizhou Garrison Office, civil and military officials headed by Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou gathered together to celebrate the Ming Dynasty's successful capture of Yizhou.

The people who saw the big victory couldn't be happier, because after all, this is the most important victory of Ming Dynasty over Jianzhou in more than ten years. It not only regained the lost land, but also wiped out thousands of genuine elite slaves, including a Jia Lazhang Beijing and several white armored soldiers, the heads of these slaves will be chopped off, treated with lime and sent to the capital.

Although the Yongwei Battalion also lost a lot in this battle, for Hong Chengchou and the others, the lives of some soldiers are not worth it, and the big victory is the most important thing.

　Fighting is not very good at writing, so everyone can watch it together.

　　
　
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