Daming kill

Chapter 248

Standing behind the slowly advancing infantry, the Mongolian rider was also the company commander Gamba with a relaxed expression on his face.

There was nothing wrong with him at all about outnumbering the crowd.

The comparison of fighting is not that there are many people and few people. He feels that the peasant army on the opposite side is also a former friendly army. If he is smart, he should run away immediately.

No matter how large a mob is, it is impossible to compete with a well-equipped and well-trained army, especially if this army is extremely well-trained even a fool can see it.

But to Gamba's surprise, the peasant army on the opposite side actually launched an attack hastily instead of running after a brief panic.

Just like that, they rushed up here and there without order.

Soon, the Gamba on the horse could clearly see the blunderbuss soldiers who had stopped at the front and started firing flexibly in company units according to the different distances of the enemy regiments approaching under the order of the whistle.

Although he has undergone some training, Gamba's horse is still not quite used to the close-range roar of firearms, especially the continuous roar, and he is a little restless.

Gamba had no choice but to lean down and comfort his partner first.

After all, he is also a veteran of the battlefield. After a few touches, Gamba's partner stabilized.

But in this short moment, when Gamba raised his head, he found that the blunderbuss soldiers had stopped shooting.

Through the thin gunpowder smoke, the peasant army who was basically unarmored and was still yelling a moment ago was crying and retreating one after another, and because the retreat was too hasty, they were not clear with their companions who were still moving forward They were violently crowded and trampled.

Gamba and the many cavalry who went to appease the horse with him just now were all dumbfounded.

Stretching his neck and widening his eyes to take a closer look, Gamba quickly discovered that the company of the blunderbuss troops that fought the most seemed to have only fired from the second to third rows of blunderbuss, and even two companies seemed to have not fired yet. There were only about twenty or thirty peasant troops lying on the ground in the distance.

Then when the peasant army completely retreated, there were at least a hundred unlucky eggs that died due to trampling.

What's up with this?
Gamba doesn't even know what to say!
But as Luo Rucai's former subordinate, Gamba also knew that Li Zicheng's troops could not give up so easily, even if they should be the most inferior of Li Zicheng's troops.

Li Zicheng's military law is still there, and it is very strict.

As expected, the retreating peasant army immediately captured some people and beheaded them in front of the army, and then some people who were probably leaders started to walk back and forth in front of the army and shouted at their own people.

Gamba Guess should probably be some words of threat, encouragement and promise.

He was very familiar with this.

Sure enough, soon, the peasant army began to shout and became agitated again.

The attack was then relaunched.

This time, instead of rushing like a swarm of bees, they walked forward behind the dozens of people in simple armor who lined up in front of the entire attacking team.

Most of these people wearing simple armor came from the only line in the center of the Peasant Army. They walked, stopped and yelled at the front to try to control the speed of the entire attacking team, keeping the attacking crowd dense. Keep the entire striker roughly straight.

At the same time, there were not many archers among the crowd.

This kind of offensive method made Gamba realize that the general of the Peasant Army on the opposite side was not an incompetent person.

And this time, the attacking troops of the Peasant Army stopped at an absolute safe distance of about 200 meters from the blunderbuss soldiers, and then started shouting violently led by those wearing simple armor.

Immediately afterwards, as those wearing simple armor waved their arms forward one after another, the peasant army howled and started running forward in unison.

The sound of the bugle order to fire quickly sounded, followed by the neat sound of the blunderbuss.

This time, the bugle bears the unified command of the bird gun troops.

Thick smoke began to rise rapidly and enveloped the earth.

Although the 5-platoon system of the blunderbuss can roughly guarantee that the blunderbuss can fire five rows continuously, but considering the enemy's attack method, Gamba still feels that he should witness hand-to-hand combat soon.

But just when he was still thinking, the continuous sound of the whistle stopped the shooting again.

Gamba couldn't remember whether the bird gun soldiers had fired eight or nine rows or more than ten rows, anyway, it was not much different.

Surprised, he tried his best to lean forward and blinked his eyes trying to figure out the situation.

As the smoke drifted away and faded, there were only corpses all over the ground, the howling and rolling wounded, and the backs of the peasant army receding like a tide.

The retreat should have happened long ago.

The last few rows of the bird gun soldiers may have fired at the enemy's back.

Some dazed Gamba tried their best to identify the corpses on the ground, but there were still not many corpses, and the nearest corpses to the blunderbuss were still five to sixty meters away.

But farther away, there are more corpses beyond the range of the bird guns. It is estimated that some of them are the results of the Peasant Army Supervising Team, but the killing of the Peasant Army Supervising Team obviously failed to prevent the mass retreat.

Gamba shook his head mockingly.

He still thinks highly of these former allies and their courage.

If you think about it, the peasant army with the largest number of people who can't even stand up was still a few days ago or more than ten days ago. How could they have the courage and ability to fight without fear of casualties.

And this can't be solved simply by supervising the killing and intimidation of the battle team.

Taking a closer look at the blunderbusses who were still quiet, Gamba found that there seemed to be no casualties among the blunderbusses, and the enemy's archers hadn't played their role.

It is estimated that the archers of the enemy army are also very bad, and the bows they use are also very bad, and the range may not be as good as the bird gun.

Gamba shook his head speechlessly again.

Although the casualties were still not large, the peasant army was probably greatly shocked. The defeated peasant army caused serious chaos in its army formation, and even retreated in some places.

"Notify the cavalry to prepare to attack, the battle is coming to an end." Li Ping gave an order calmly.

At present, the peasant army does not have cavalry except for a few officers who have horses, and even if there are cavalry, they are hiding in some unknown place, and it is too late.

"The battle is over!"

Han Jiu muttered melancholy, this field battle is really meaningless.

But Zhang Kuang was stunned, and he murmured, "Is this going to end?"

"There will be no suspense." Li Ping replied firmly.

But at this moment, a larger-scale public killing of their own people took place on the side of the peasant army than before.

They don't seem to plan to retreat, but to organize another attack.

Li Ping was stunned, Gangba was stunned, everyone was stunned.

No one wanted to take advantage of the confusion of the enemy to rush up and directly destroy them, but they were all wondering if the enemy could really organize an attack.

But soon, the peasant army's offensive really started again.

They stabilized and reorganized much faster than anyone expected.

The mentality of the peasant army has not collapsed, nor will their will. They still maintain their confidence and belief.

Li Zicheng's army's continuous brilliant victories and no major losses in the past two years obviously endowed them with strong arrogance and confidence that they will not be easily destroyed.

And because they have not suffered major losses in the past two years, they have been able to retain a large number of combat backbones who have been baptized by the fire of war, and they have far surpassed the general peasant army, especially Zhang Xianzhong's troops, in terms of battle damage tolerance and combat resilience.

This time, they changed their routine again.

The largest number of loose newly recruited peasant troops on the two wings were guided and driven to run in circles on both sides, as if they were planning to bypass the Li Ping army's bird gun troops in front of the formation and attack from the flanks.

And the peasant army in the middle, who will stand in line and not many have armors, lined up and started to advance slowly. It seemed that they planned to end the field in person and take on the heavy responsibility of launching an attack from the center.

The peasant army is betting on the whole army and is preparing to put all their eggs in one basket.

Although this was a stupid move, Li Ping simply organized the change accordingly.

The blunderbuss and spearmen quickly extended to the two wings and established a defensive line on the side. The five rows of the blunderbuss became two rows during the stretching and expansion, a hollow three-way defensive formation Builds quickly.

The battle soon began again.

The enemies who just attacked from the direction of the sparse forest on the right, outside the range of the bird gun, were the first to approach and attack because they were not blocked by small river branches and ditches and pools.

Immediately afterwards, the regular troops of the Peasant Army on the front also began to charge immediately.

This time, they withstood the only intermittent three-row blitzkrieg blows from the blunderbuss, and then began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the pikemen who had passed the blunderbuss.

The entire battlefield was soon filled with human screams.

Gamba in the hollow formation unhurriedly followed the order to greet the enemies in the outer circle with bows and arrows, while constantly looking around to see where support was needed.

He hadn't received an order to strike yet.

But soon, he found that the caution of himself and his superiors was completely unnecessary, and the result of hand-to-hand combat was that they were still overwhelmingly killing.

Unlike the blunderbussmen who were completely unarmored and light, the pikemen not only had spears with excellent spearheads, but also wore helmets and at least short armor.

Although those helmets ranged from bright iron helmets to bowl helmets to iron pointed helmets, at least they were all iron helmets.

Although the short armor is mostly cloth armor and cotton armor of various styles, only a small part is iron armor, but no matter what style of cloth armor and cotton armor, the quality is basically guaranteed, and it is always have.

These protective equipment, which are unified by company or platoon and are not lacking for everyone, finally ensure that each spearman has far superior protection capabilities than the opponent.

Coupled with their training, willpower, generally possessed combat experience, and super-high-quality spearheads, the result of hand-to-hand combat naturally became a one-sided massacre.

Even the regular troops of the Peasant Army with many armors on the front of the central government are not opponents at all.

The bloody and fear of hand-to-hand combat is undoubtedly a test of human will, and it can also destroy human will.

The peasant army looked at the huge crowd and seemed to be besieging, but Gamba keenly discovered that the peasant army after entering the hand-to-hand combat was actually sliding more quickly towards a complete collapse.

After only a few rows of people fell down in the mutual stabbing, the peasant army in many places began to only yell and stop moving forward.They were obviously frightened, and they had obviously lost their courage and confidence rapidly.

Moreover, at this time, most of the peasant army attacking from the left failed to enter the hand-to-hand combat mode due to terrain problems. Those small rivers and ditches and pools caused great interference to the peasant army's actions, and made them almost become the blunderbuss soldiers. live target.

Some of the peasant troops who were within the range of the blunderbuss soldiers were neither advancing nor retreating, and even broke down and cried because of this.

The order to attack was finally issued.

The already itchy cavalry rushed out from the right rear side in a hive. They passed behind the peasant army attacking on the right side, and left behind a rain of arrows. Some circled behind the regular peasant army troops, and some Then he rushed directly to where the general flag of the Peasant Army was.

The peasant army that was attacking on the right collapsed instantly when Li Ping's cavalry shot arrows from behind them, and then the entire peasant army began to collapse rapidly and completely like a wave of water.

They fled like headless chickens.

Gamba's prediction finally did not go wrong and was very accurate.

At this time, the bugle for counterattack also sounded, and all Li Ping's troops began to switch to attack and pursuit mode.

Zhang Kuang was still incredulous about the battle until he watched a group of cavalry come back to claim credit with their heads tied on the horse's buttocks.

This victory is too easy!The enemy is too weak!
He still wants to observe and study well, why is the battle over?

This made him have a strong sense of unreality about how he was driven out of Mianyang by the peasant army in the first place, and it also made him dry-mouthed to the cavalry officers who were on the side of Li Ping to explain the military achievements and the cutting of the head. It's strange that the relationship is not big.

Because the strings of heads tied to the horse's buttocks gave him a great shock and made him feel the sturdy strength, he still liked it a lot.

However, Li Ping felt very speechless about Gamba's inexplicable behavior of cutting off the enemy's head and asking for credit.

In fact, those cavalry had already learned their military merit evaluation standards, but I don't know who started it out of uncertainty and fear of not admitting it, and then these newly joined cavalry came again and again like an infection Follow their old traditions.

As for Zhang Kuang's feelings, Li Ping didn't care, nor was he interested.

Li Ping didn't know that he actually took away the honor that originally belonged to Zhang Kuang.

In history, when Zhang Kuang organized the recovery of Mianyang a few months later, the peasant army in Mianyang went out of the city to fight. The two sides fought three times. The peasant army was all defeated, and finally the peasant army abandoned the city and left.

But history is also a bit of a coincidence!
Although Li Ping almost wiped out the peasant army in Mianyang in one battle, the battle lasted three rounds.

The next day, Li Ping's soldiers entered Mianyang Prefecture to govern Miancheng without bloodshed, and Mianyang was recovered in such a crooked way!
(End of this chapter)