Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 292 0287 [Great victory]

Deng Chun led fifty cavalrymen, and they had already crossed the upper reaches of the small river to meet Guan Sheng's infantry back, or to look for opportunities to cover up and kill them.

These Xiang army cavalry, armor looks quite bluffing, they all imitate the style of generals.

In fact, they are all cloth armor, with coarse cloth as the surface and fine cloth as the lining, and the pattern of nails is drawn on the surface.It can defend against bows and arrows that are not very powerful, and has a little defense against slashing.

The horses I ride are all Southwest pony. They climb hills very well and have good stamina, but their load bearing and explosive power are not good enough.

A few meters wide river surface, quickly swam over.

Guan Sheng had already led his infantry to hunt down the barbarians three miles away from the village.From time to time, barbarians were chased and hacked to death. The bandit leader A Teng was almost dragged away by two elite barbarians due to excessive bleeding.

The gang soldiers who stayed in the forest also carried the corpses of two comrades on their backs, helped the wounded who had lost their mobility, and also searched for some enemy armor, and hurried down the mountain to move towards the river.

Seeing that there was no enemy behind the soldiers, Deng Chun ran towards Guan Sheng at full speed.

"Kandutou, come back!" Deng Chun shouted.

"woooooooo~~~"

The messenger blew the horn and waved the flag at the same time to signal Guan Sheng not to pursue.

Guan Sheng was unwilling, because he was about to catch up with the leader of the bandits.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

Drums sounded in the barbarian village, Busu's eldest son, Suge, led hundreds of barbarians out of the village to meet his younger brother A Teng.

Seeing this, Guan Sheng had no choice but to retreat, watching helplessly as the thief leader fled.

After this round of pursuit, the formation of mandarin ducks has long been in disarray.Especially the wolf master, dragging a long bamboo pole, walking slowly in the mountains and forests, already lagging behind by nearly a hundred meters.

Just when Guan Sheng withdrew the entire team, Su Ge personally led more than a hundred barbarian cavalry, bypassing A Teng's rout, and rushed towards Guan Sheng.

"Array, array!" Guan Sheng shouted.

The messengers also blew their bamboo whistles, and the squad leaders gathered their troops with long spears, with small triangular flags on the ends of the guns.

Both sides are on fire.

Ju Ming saw clearly with the binoculars, and without waiting for all the leveling cannons to be assembled, he ordered to fire towards the low wall on the other side of the river.

Lizhou civilian husbands and soldiers, as well as more than 500 barbarians recruited and surrendered along the way, crossed the river at five river sections.They carried upside-down boats to defend against bows and arrows, and turned the boats over when they reached the river. In fact, most of them were feints.It's nothing more than attracting the attention of the enemy so that the friendly troops on the other side can return safely.

In Zhu Ming's hands, there are only a hundred or so soldiers left as a reserve team.

"Ahhhh!"

More than 20 leveling cannons that have been assembled concentrate on projecting stone bullets towards a low wall.

Where have the barbarians seen this?They were so frightened that they hid behind the low wall, and the timid ones ran away.

The cavalry of the two sides had already started shooting at each other. Deng Chun was not good at archery, so he was too lazy to use bows and arrows, so he rushed over with his mace.

The mandarin duck array was also re-arranged, and Guan Sheng and the team leaders began to shoot arrows.

There were only more than 100 barbarian cavalry under Suge. Facing the pincer attack of the Yuanyang formation and the Han cavalry, he immediately chose to retreat temporarily because the infantry under his command had not yet reached the battlefield.

"kill!"

Deng Chun did not go after the barbarian cavalry, but led the cavalry around the flanks and charged towards hundreds of barbarian infantry.

The hundreds of barbarians were only here to support the friendly army, and Su Ge led the cavalry to chase the enemy, so they could only follow along.During the running, the formation was chaotic, and the brute leading the team couldn't stop at all.

Deng Chun led fifty cavalry, and had already charged thirty paces away, hundreds of barbarians stopped one after another, and a few barbarians commanded to deal with the cavalry charge.

Hundreds of barbarians were still in formation, and Deng Chun had already rushed in front of him.

With a mace, the brutal general's head was smashed in an instant.

Like cutting tofu with a knife, fifty Han cavalry charged into hundreds of barbarians, dividing these scattered barbarians.

Seeing this, Su Ge could only be anxious. He led more than a hundred barbarians and retreated to the side of the mountain, originally planning to cooperate with the infantry to fight.But Deng Chun was on the side of the river, frantically attacking his infantry, and it was too late to intercept them.

Guan Sheng also led the Han soldiers to charge in a formation of mandarin ducks.They chased down from the middle of the mountain, and they were extremely tired at the moment, but their morale was very high, because they had been winning battles.

Hundreds of barbarians encountered fifty Han cavalry, and they were defeated in one encounter.

Even if it is an elite infantry, the formation is unstable and the cavalry is attacked, and the cavalry rushes into the team, no matter how well trained they are, they will be defeated.

"withdraw!"

Seeing that it was difficult to recover from the defeat, Su Ge decisively led the cavalry back to the village.He couldn't care less about those hundreds of barbarians, and how much he could escape was all due to luck.

Busu asked his youngest son to lead the troops to meet the cavalry, while he commanded the troops to prevent the main force of the Han soldiers from crossing the river.

Hundreds of barbarians were killed and fled in all directions. They rushed to the mountains wisely, and more than 200 people fled into the mountains like this.Those who lose their minds only know how to turn around and flee, not only to face the pursuers behind them, but also to face the bows and arrows of the friendly troops supporting the troops.

Zhu Ming originally planned to attack again tomorrow, but this sudden unexpected situation allowed him to grasp the opportunity keenly: "Beat the drums, let the whole army cross the river!"

"Dong dong dong dong!"

The drums were beating loudly, and the shouts of killing were loud, and the Lizhou army, pretending to cross the river, rowed a small boat and really started to attack.

Deng Chun retreated after chasing for a while, and there was a large group of barbarians in front to respond, and there were low walls and ditches, so the cavalry could easily get trapped in it.

Guan Sheng also gathered the infantry and rested in formation. They were extremely tired and had to slow down before continuing to fight.

The combined forces of the two were less than 1000, but they mobilized more than [-] enemy troops, so the front of the bandit village exposed a gap in defense.

Su Ge led the cavalry back to the stronghold, and was immediately scolded by his father: "You were asked to meet my brother, why did you lead the troops to chase them out? It's fine to chase them out, why are the cavalry and infantry divided into two parts? Your cavalry is even worse. How do you hide at the foot of the mountain, so that the Han cavalry can find a chance to attack the infantry warriors?"

Su Ge was speechless, unable to find a reason to quibble.

He was only in his early 20s, and he had no chance to participate in the battle against the two forests before.In recent years, he just followed the army to attack the remnants of the Lianglin Department in the north, and the infantry often defeated the enemy after a few rushes, and the rest was just him leading the cavalry to chase and kill.

In real combat now, Suge's brains are not enough.

When it was time to calm down, he dropped the infantry and rushed out.When it was time to be brave, he avoided the front of the Han cavalry and chose to hide between the infantry and the hillside.

After scolding his son for a while, Busu began to blame his nephew Piaoli again.

That bastard left with [-] barbarians, saying that he was going to cross the river from the upper reaches and go around to the rear of the Han soldiers to rob the camp at night. God knows where he went now.

The eight hundred barbarians who were taken away were the elite among the elite, and they were the personal soldiers of the great ghost master of the hundred barbarians!
Elite defense is needed right now, but the elite is no longer on the battlefield.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Dozens of leveling cannons have all been assembled. In order to avoid accidentally injuring the friendly troops crossing the river, they are all projected towards the center of the barbarian village.

Since they are all light return guns, they did not cause much damage. They were projected for a long time before, and even the low wall did not collapse.But the psychological pressure brought to the barbarians was enormous, and it had already caused widespread panic.

The previous alienation and persuasion worked. The enemy troops from the two forests were usually oppressed by the Sichuan barbarians in Qiongbu.

At this moment, seeing Han soldiers crossing the river, and there were stone bullets flying over their heads, and their own ghost master was not by their side, these two barbarian soldiers from the forest department directly picked up the pick.They abandoned their positions, some even dropped their weapons, and more and more people turned and fled.

Li Bao crouched on the boat, holding up his shield to block the scattered arrows, while the civilian husband behind him was rowing desperately.

The river channel a few meters wide reaches the shore in a blink of an eye.

Li Bao threw away his shield, raised his spear and rushed forward, crossed the narrow ditch, and jumped beyond the low wall.The soldiers of the two forests defending here have already fled, and the Sichuan barbarians of Qiongbu are urgently transferred to fill their positions.

Li Bao turned over and climbed up the low wall, and was hit by two arrows in an instant.

Regardless of the pain, he stabbed one person to death with a gun.Then he went to kill the defenders on the nearby low wall, and even killed a gap alone, allowing the soldiers under his command to climb the low wall calmly.

More and more soldiers crossed the river, and even the barbarians who surrendered along the way fought hard under the leadership of the ghost master.

For example, Qu Mang, the great ghost master who surrendered first, is the nephew of Jumeng, the great ghost master of Baimandu, and also the nephew of Busu, the great ghost master of this village.He originally planned to play by ear, and he could turn against the water again at critical times, but now he leads the troops to charge forward, because he feels that the Han soldiers will definitely win.

That kind of machine that can throw stones is terrible, and there are [-] Han soldiers coming behind, and the Chuanman of Qiongbu cannot stop it.

"Minimize the formation of three talents and attack the stronghold!"

Guan Sheng only rested for a few minutes, and when he heard the lively battle on the frontal battlefield, he also began to organize an attack from the side.

"Qumang, why did you vote for the Han people?" A little ghost master shouted.

Qu Mang had already led his troops to kill the low wall, and the people who met head-on were actually acquaintances, and the soldiers on both sides also knew each other, so they stopped fighting with a tacit understanding.

Qu Mang said: "The Han soldiers still have [-] troops. If you surrender quickly, you will definitely be rewarded! You are just a little ghost lord now, and you can become a big ghost lord by helping the Han people fight."

The little ghost lord didn't think much, he turned his spear and headed towards the friendly soldiers in the nearby position, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Kill Busu, kill Busu!"

The friendly army defected, and the nearby barbarians were instantly defeated.

Li Bao also took advantage of the gap in defense and had already led his troops across the low wall.

Busu personally led the elite reserve team to come to the rescue. A stone bullet fell and killed one person on the spot, and the stone bullet rolled and injured two more.

In the center of the village, stones kept falling to the ground, and most of them hit the buildings.Few of the barbarians died, but a large area of ​​houses were destroyed.

The barbarians are in awe of ghosts and gods, and they must sacrifice to ghosts for divination when encountering important events.

Facing the incomprehensible phenomenon at this moment, they thought that the ghosts and gods were angry, and the Han people were blessed by ghosts and gods.Everyone was terrified, but hesitant to move forward when he was ordered.Even Busu's personal soldiers began to flee sporadically after one of them was stoned to death.

The ghost master who was born in Lianglin was forced to separate from his followers.

At this moment, they searched for an opportunity to leave the battlefield, gathered the troops who had already fled, and after gathering hundreds of people, they suddenly ran to attack the bunker in the center of the village.

This is their chance. They were forced to surrender to Qiongbu Chuanman for several years, and they have always been discriminated against.Now that the Han soldiers are coming, they only need to fight back to be truly independent and free.

Busu was already at a loss, many low walls in the front were breached, the sides were also facing attacks, and the empty bunker behind him was attacked by Er Wuzi again.

There were hundreds of elite reserve troops beside Busu, who panicked and ordered: "Evacuate to the mountains!"

Hundreds of the most elite barbarians just ran away like this.Livestock, food, women and children...all neglected, and ran into the mountains in a swarm.

Those rebellious Lianglin barbarians didn't dare to intercept them, for they were afraid of fighting desperately with Busu's elite.

Busu took his son and ran away at full speed. He planned to hide in the mountains and gather the warriors from the small tribes in the mountains. He could gather another thousand or two thousand troops.When the fierce and fierce troops come, they can join forces to counterattack.

Even if they fail, they can still look for opportunities to escape and take the elite to the southeast to seize the territory and population of those small tribes.

The barbarians of all tribes respect strength, as long as they have elite soldiers, they will have a chance to make a comeback.

Busu's elite main force fled, causing an immediate collapse across the board.

Deng Chun led the cavalry into the village, ignoring those who kneeled and surrendered, and only chased those who were still running away, and when they caught up, they smashed down with a mace.

"The battle is settled!" Yu Wenchang smiled with his hands behind his back.

Zhu Ming said: "There are too many barbarians who turned against us, and this battle was too easy."

Clear the battlefield, calculate the battle damage and gains.

The Xiang army and the township soldiers killed 8 people, seriously injured 4 people, and slightly injured nearly 100 people.

22 civilian husbands were killed, 1 was seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.

Among the barbarians who joined along the way, 9 people were killed, 3 were seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.

The main casualties came from the enemy's bows and arrows. The armor of the Han soldiers is really bad enough.

In this battle, 552 barbarians were beheaded, more than 800 barbarians defected, and more than 4000 barbarians (including old and weak women and children) were captured, and many barbarians fled into the mountains.

The intensity of the battle was actually not high. Most of the brutal soldiers who were killed were hacked to death while escaping.

Several bunkers in the village are stacked with a large amount of grain, and this is the biggest harvest.

"The prefect, the county magistrate, caught a bandit chieftain, I heard he is Busu's son." Xiang Jun commanded Yu Dian, escorting A Teng who was covered in blood.

Yu Dian is a native of Lizhou. He is over 40 years old. He was seconded to other places to fight the rebellion before, and he fought extremely bravely in this battle.

Yu Wenchang nodded in approval: "The general fought bravely. I heard that he also made great achievements in the suppression of Lunanyi. After this battle, I will definitely ask for credit for the general."

"Thank you prefect!" Yu Dian rejoiced in his heart.

He was first transferred to Luzhou to suppress the rebellion, and then transferred to Maozhou. He made many meritorious deeds, but he didn't get anything.

There is no reason to go, who made him have no background?
Zhu Ming said: "Brother Quan Ke arranged for the civilians to carry the luggage and move all the military resources of the camp to the village. I went into the village to receive the prisoners, selected some young and strong barbarians, and let the rebellious ghost masters lead the troops. greatly increase."

"Then we will divide the work and cooperate." Yu Wenchang said with a smile.

Piaoli, the son of Jumeng, led eight hundred elites and was still detouring.

Fearing that he would be discovered by the Han army, he crossed the river a few miles upstream and had to go around the mountains until nightfall to reach the back of the Han army camp.

Biaoli would never have guessed in his wildest dreams that Busu's village was actually breached with the effort he took to detour.

Even if you don't do anything, send the old and weak, women and children into the mountains, and only let the elite garrison the bunker, you can stick to it for several days!

(End of this chapter)