serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 40

"put!"

Amid the volley of firecrackers, the Zhengbai Banner armored soldiers fell one by one, and the two hundred steps became an insurmountable gap for them. The heavy arrows thrown by the eight-power bow did not cause too many casualties to the Zhou army. A layer of cotton armor was worn inside the iron armor.

"Second row, step forward and release!"

"Third row, step forward and let go!"

Amid the shouting of orders, the third row of firecrackers took a step forward in a neat formation, and raised [-] firecrackers. The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded again, and the nearly kilometer-long battle line was filled with thick gunpowder smoke. .

The frontmost cavalry fell like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, and the frightened horses let out a burst of mourning. Some Tartars could no longer bear the fear in their hearts, and they reined in their horses and fled backwards.

Without the advantage of charging, the cavalry and the musketeers would be at a disadvantage. At this moment, the bloody courage was directly wiped out, leaving only fear. A new round of shelling began again. Meaningless, the surviving Zhengbai Banner armored soldiers receded like a tide.

Under the banner, Yong Qi sat on his big white horse with a frosty face.

The Green Battalion was in chaos. The Shenji Battalion had turned its artillery around and started shelling the Green Battalion. Iron bullets weighing three catties roared and smashed into the crowd. Bloody furrows were plowed in the middle.

The general cannon on the city roared again, but this time the target was the Chinese army of the Green Battalion. Dozens of seven-jin iron bullets hit the ground so hard that the whole ground trembled, leaving behind There were bloody grooves one or two feet deep, surrounded by broken limbs.

Such fierce artillery fire made many green battalion soldiers terrified and kept retreating. The Zhou army fired one wave after another, and the ground kept trembling. Countless green battalion soldiers fled everywhere covering their ears. Howling with cracking lungs, they fled in all directions, followed by the Han army camp that was fighting fiercely with the Zhou army, and then the Mongolian Eight Banners on the left and right wings, and they collapsed in an instant.

No one would have thought that only three rounds of shelling would destroy tens of thousands of Mongol and Han Green Battalion soldiers. You must know that the Eight Banners of Mongolia were all fresh troops who had not engaged in the battle, so they collapsed directly.

In the end, the two banners of Zhenglan and Xianghuang continued to besiege Liufang.

Seeing the collapse of the land and the fleeing Green Battalion soldiers, Emperor Jianwu laughed, "Good fight!"

Song Chengliang: "Your Majesty, let's send troops out of the city to meet the Yongwei Battalion!"

Emperor Jianwu was stunned. The Yongwei Battalion was at least ten miles away from the city wall, so he could only send cavalry out of the city. There were [-] cavalry in the city, of which [-] cavalry were led by General Feng Tang. The [-] cavalry were King Zhongshun's infantry battalion, and it took a long time before he said, "You lead all the cavalry to take Jia Hu into the city."

King Zhongshun: "This"

Niu Jizong's face sank: "Do you want to resist the edict?"

Song Chengliang's face also sank: "Lord Zhongshun, if you still claim to be the descendant of Emperor Taizu, you will immediately go out of the city to meet Uncle Jia!"

King Zhongshun's face turned livid: "Abiding by the order!" Then he said to his soldiers: "Follow me out of the city!" After speaking, he turned and walked down the city wall.

Emperor Jianwu shook his head: "This evil obstacle!"

Dai Quan, who was standing aside, spoke: "Look, Your Majesty!"

Everyone was shocked and looked around.

In the distance, cavalrymen rushed over from the direction of Yongdingmen, they were the Imperial Army.

Emperor Jianwu's eyes flashed coldly: "Go back to the palace!" After speaking, he turned around and strode down the city wall.

Everyone's expression changed accordingly.

Chief Assistant Song Chengliang looked at the figure of Emperor Jianwu, shook his head, and said in his heart: "This is my royal family of Great Zhou!"

"waste!"

Seeing the fleeing Zhengbai Banner rushing towards him, Yong Qi was dumbfounded, she couldn't believe that the brave Eight Banners soldiers were defeated, and they were still defeated by the Han infantry!

When did the Han firearms become so sharp? !
Suddenly, E Bi's face changed drastically, and he said tremblingly, "Defeated, defeated. The green battalion is defeated."

In a blink of an eye, a tidal wave of rout soldiers had rushed in, and the huge flow of people overwhelmed the loose formation that Zhengbai Qi had just formed. Yong Qi's face was ashen, how long has it been?As soon as I got out of my mind, tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers were defeated?

A cold light flashed in Yongqi's eyes, he looked at the Yongwei camp in the distance, and said to E Bi: "Order the Zhenglan and Xianghuang banners to retreat, and I will completely wipe out this group of Zhou troops." More white, asked: "What's wrong?"

E Bi: "Cavalry, cavalry. Han Chinese cavalry, we have been tricked, let's retreat!"

Yong Qi turned around abruptly, and countless Zhou army cavalry rushed into the rout, and the howls and screams resounded across the field. Under the fear, the rout panicked and rushed towards the Xianghuang Banner formation driven by the imperial cavalry. , and at this time, Xianghuang Qi also noticed it, and began to retreat continuously, trying to join forces with Zhenglan Qi, but was stuck tightly by the heavy armored spearmen.

At this moment, the cavalry from the infantry battalion rushed from behind them and dispersed their formation in an instant. Frightened, the Xianghuang Banner had to flee away.

In the formation of the Zhenglan Banner Army, the guard of Jinzhou saw clearly and understood that the situation was over, he shouted: "Retreat, protect the young master!"

Everything happened so suddenly that the Qing army completely collapsed. Whether it was the Green Battalion soldiers or the Eight Banners soldiers, they all rushed to escape.

The imperial army chased and killed all the way, and the Eight Banners soldiers began to flee in all directions, but the Green Battalion soldiers could not escape the pursuit. The vast plain outside Guang'an Gate was full of corpses. These dead bodies belonged to the Eight Banners soldiers, but more of them belonged to the Green Battalion soldiers. .

"Happy, happy!"

Looking at the Eight Banners soldiers fleeing in all directions, Feng Tang said to Liu Fang: "Old General, do you want to continue the pursuit?"

Liu Fang shook her head: "The Zhenglan Banner army formation is well organized, so let's accept it as soon as it's done."

"Feng Tang!" A shout came from afar.

Feng Tang looked closely, Xie Qiong came with a team of cavalry.

Running in front of Feng Tang, Xie Qiong shook her head and shouted, "It's his grandma! You've let me out of the limelight!"

Feng Tang shook his head and said, "If you hadn't disrupted the Tatar's plan, my [-] cavalry would not have been able to leave Yongding Gate." After finishing speaking, he gave Liu Fang a look.

Liu Fang looked up to the sky and let out a long breath.

Xie Qiong was in a daze.

After being stunned for a while, Liu Fang smiled and said, "Let's go, welcome our great hero. No, it's the old man's great benefactor!"

Feng Tang nodded: "Yes. He is also a great benefactor of our honorable line."

Finally, Jia Hu came with the Yongwei Battalion.

Liu Fang got off her horse and said, "Let's go!" Leading Feng Tang and his trusted generals towards Jia Hu.

Seeing this old general, who was older than Jia Jing, come to greet him in person, Jia Hu got off his horse, walked out with a smile on his face, bowed his hands to Liu Fang, and said, "Junior, see you uncle!"

Liu Fang stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "That's right, don't imitate your father, who is prudish all day long, we are old relatives, we don't need to avoid suspicion. Let's go!" Pulling Jia Hu to the big battalion to go.

Hearing that the battle was a complete victory, more than ten thousand soldiers of the Eight Banners were killed in battle. The people of the whole city rejoiced, and every family decorated with lanterns and festoons, burned incense and prayed.

The sound of cannons outside the city was loud, so Mother Jia invited all the women from the two mansions to sit in the Rongqing Hall. She heard that the imperial court had won the battle and was preparing to hold a banquet to celebrate.

Mother Jia rushed to bring people in, except Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Youshi and Aunt Xue, Wang Xifeng and Li Wan led the girls into the inner room.

After a while, Lai Sheng's family brought the boy over.

The young man didn't dare to raise his head, he quickly knelt down on the ground to say hello, and then told the story of the past half-hour.

When Jia Mu heard this, she hurriedly asked, "Where is your second master? Did you say when you will return home?"

The boy said, "Going back to the old lady, the younger one didn't see our second master. Mrs. Jiao ordered the younger one to come back and report. I heard that the second master has gone to the camp and has not entered the city."

Jia Mu nodded and said to Lai Sheng's family: "That's what I said, you take it down to rest, and reward him with five taels of silver."

Lai Shengjia: "Yes."

The young servant was overjoyed and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, old lady, for the reward!"

A kind smile appeared on Jia Mu's face again: "Go."

The servant kowtowed again, then stood up, bowed and retreated.

Jia's mother said to Lai Sheng's family again: "Send someone to wait outside the camp and find out when your second master will enter the city!"

Lai Shengjia: "Yes."

When Wang Xifeng, Li Wan, Qin Keqing and Daiyu saw the young servant going out, they hurried out of the room and kowtowed to Jia Mu together.

Jia's mother was happy. While having people prepare a banquet to celebrate, she ordered Wang Xifeng and Youshi to give rewards to the servants of the two houses.

(End of this chapter)