Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 144

Dozens of Qing soldiers galloped on their horses, clung to the fleeing Ming army in front of them, and did not let go.

With a bang, a soldier of the Ming army who fell behind was shot in the back of his heart, and fell to the ground screaming. The cavalry of the Qing army stepped on the corpse and continued to pursue.

Thousands of defeated soldiers in front rushed to escape. Although there were only a few dozen riders behind, none of them dared to turn back. They ran desperately, only remembering to run.

But after all, two legs could not run with four legs, and more and more people fell to the ground with arrows.

The Tartars rushed into the rear, slashing wildly with their knives, and the screams became more and more loud.

Soon, this group of driven and desperate soldiers fled to the lake. They jumped into the lake desperately. Many of them knew that they would not die, but their fear still made them jump down the lake. Hack and shoot arrows into the lake.

The desperate rout had to dive deeper into the lake, and many who could not swim quickly struggled in the deep lake.

Go forward, drown in the water, retreat, and be killed by the Tartars.

No way out.

The Tartars laughed wantonly, like a game.

Soon, the shores of the lake were stained red with blood, and thousands of rout soldiers quickly fell silent. Except for two or three hundred who had good water skills and swam deep, out of the range of the Tartars' bows and arrows, the rest were either hacked to death on the shore or shot to death in the lake. Or be drowned.

The Tartar soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, cutting off their heads with knives, and the many knives were cut off. The saddles were covered with bloody heads, and countless headless corpses were left in the wilderness. The armor, knives and guns were taken away, and then the corpses were dumped all over the ground.

It's like a slaughterhouse.

In the distance, Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and quietly backed away.

"About fifty riders ahead, they should all be real barbarians. They just massacred thousands of Wu Zhikui's broken soldiers. The corpses are all over the ground, blood staining the surface of the lake."

Yuan Zongdi frowned when he heard Zhou Yuan's words, "Just fifty riders can kill like this, this Wu tribe is too..." He couldn't go on with the rest, Zhou Yuan used to be his servant, and he came from Huguang. The old brother who came also said very disdainfully, "Isn't the official army always like this?"

"We are also the Ming Dynasty's army now." Yuan Zongdi reminded Zhou Yuan.

"Well, then we are also different from them." Zhou Yuan was very disdainful of those people.

"Admiral, shall we go around?" A cavalry general from Jinwu Town asked. This man was originally a general of the dynasty. awesome.

"Detour? Why detour, since we met, naturally we can't let it go, outflank it, don't let one go."

"Admiral, our mission is to go to the city of Suzhou. If we miss one or two and report back, wouldn't we miss the plan of supervising the country?"

Yuan Zongdi said, "It's only fifty riders, how can we let them miss it?"

"Our Jinwu horse army has [-] riders, are they all for food? The pay is first-class. This is the first battle after becoming an army. Is it necessary to show off your belt?"

Naturally, Fan Chuan, the garrison officer from Sichuan, was not convinced. He patted his chest and said, "We Sichuan men never show off our belts. In the end, the general is willing to lead the battalion to take the lead."

Yuan Zongdi, as a general who has been standing alone for a long time and commanding the army alone, fights fifty cavalry.

"Zhou Chuan, take the Tibiao battalion to go around behind the Tartars. Fan Shoubei, take the left battalion to go around the left flank. Zhao Shoubei, take the right battalion to go around the right flank. After the other three battalions are in place, let's charge forward. Three Fifty thousand beats, this is like killing chickens with a sledgehammer, but you must never let Yiqi escape. If anyone lets go, I will ask Wang Mingqi and Fang Baojian to execute him on the spot. Such an incompetent guy , I don’t want it.”

Several cavalry generals responded immediately.

When several horns sounded in the distance, Yuan Zongdi swung his sword and rode his horse to lead the charge.

Surrounded by three thousand cavalry, the sound of galloping horseshoes shattered the tranquility of the lake, and the Tartar cavalry, who were burning fire and cooking meat on the battlefield strewn with corpses, were caught off guard.

They looked up and saw green flags fluttering in the wind.

It looked a little inexplicable.

"Where did the green camp soldiers dare to be so arrogant in front of us?"

"Seeing that there are quite a lot of horse troops here, isn't Admiral Wu Shengzhao coming back to help?"

"It shouldn't be, isn't he going to fight Chongming?"

"Could it be that Li Chengdong, the general soldier, is back, he has an elite horse army under his command."

Looking at the familiar green flag, they were still commenting leisurely, and gradually relaxed. Although the opponent was coming with thousands of troops, they didn't pay attention to it at all.

The majestic Eight Banners vest cavalry will put a green battalion in their eyes?

"Damn it, read their book later, how dare you be so arrogant."

"Which part are you from?"

"Damn it, Yang's ashes have drowned the men's flesh!"

"Stop it now!"

"call out!"

Yuan Zongdi raised his bow and released his arrows immediately, all in one go.The arrow was like a shooting star chasing the moon, it was fast and strong, it hit the tartar accurately and viciously, it entered from his open mouth and came out from the back of his head.

The tartar didn't even have time to scream, and fell to the ground.

The other Tartars were startled and shouted, "It's the other way around!"

Then one after another brought their swords and soldiers to lead the horses, but how could Yuan Zongdi give them a chance to escape.

The horse sped up and arrived in no time, put on a big knife, chopped off half of the head of the tartar in front of him with one knife, and then caught up with another person, and chopped off the man's head again.

The Jinwu cavalry came rolling in, howling, those who threw arrows, those who threw three-eyed guns, those who still threw axes, those who threw javelins, those who chopped with knives and stabbed with spears.

Those Tartars who were about to eat the stew didn't even have time to get on their horses. Although their armor was still on, they were already chopped into pieces in a short while in the face of the galloping cavalry, especially dozens of times larger than themselves.

Zhou Yuan led someone to behead his head.

"One, two, three... 50 people!"

"Reported to the army, the heads of fifty Tartars were all beheaded, and none of them escaped."

Looking at the bloody battlefield, Yuan Zongdi didn't move at all. This small scene is really not worth mentioning. Back then, when the cavalry of Chuangwang's Three Walls was at its peak, there were tens of thousands of elite cavalry lined up in three rows. Charge against the wall.

"How to deal with the heads of those officers and soldiers?" Zhou Yuan pointed to the piles of heads of the Ming army. There must be seven or eight hundred of them, piled up into a hill.

There are also many swords, guns, armors, gold, silver and copper coins gathered together.

Yuan Zongdi touched the braids on the back of his head, "Qi Guoliang, you lead the Ding team to strip off the armor on these Tartars and replace them."

"This is the military gate?"

"The task remains the same, we will continue to go to Suzhou."

"Take the heads of the officers and soldiers, weapons and armor cut off by the Tartars, too."

"Take it?"

Yuan Zongdi looked at the generals of Fan Chuan who rushed back, they made a roundabout outflank just now, but they outflanked them so lonely that they didn't catch even a horse hair.

"Don't forget our current identities. We are the Green Battalion Tartars. If we bring these headgear, won't we be able to prove our identities?"

Bi Congyi, who was born in a Zhejiang army, felt a little inappropriate, "These are soldiers from our Ming Dynasty army, and they died tragically. How can they waste their bodies?"

Yuan Zongdi had no sympathy for those Wu soldiers who died in defeat. Thousands of people were hacked and killed by dozens of cavalry, and they could not even sympathize. ? Besides, we can also let them see with their own eyes to avenge them!"

"When Suzhou is taken down, I will definitely ask the mage to do it for them and save their souls."

"Right now, Wu Zhikui has been defeated by the execution of the military order. We have to hurry up and see if there is any chance to save him, so stop arguing about it."

(End of this chapter)