Iron Age

Outside the south gate of the iron factory, under the light of torches that stretched for several miles, there were cavalry with a strict military appearance, and a big flag with Ming characters was held high at the head of the team.

"Reinforcements, it's the imperial court's reinforcements." The defenders at the south gate shouted excitedly, and the news of the reinforcements' arrival quickly spread throughout the city.Morale was aroused at once, cheers shook the sky, and the Qing army was baffled, thinking that some destructive weapon had come out again, and it actually slowed down the pace of attack for a while.

The city of the iron factory is sandwiched between two mountains. The east and west sides are mountains that are difficult to climb, and there is a moat across the city, so it is not easy to attack. It will take a long time to attack around the south gate.

The reinforcements were the Imperial Army stationed in Xuzhou Prefecture. The leading general, Niu Yong, and the officers and soldiers who had fled back in a hurry spread the news of the Qing army's southern expedition. Niu Yong was shocked. Could it be that the frontline army was wiped out? It was soon confirmed that the Qing army had arrived at the Liguo Iron Factory. Niu Yong set off with [-] cavalry first. The army's weapons and equipment will be greatly improved, and Xuzhou Mansion will not be able to keep it.

The train track was damaged by the people of the Qing Dynasty Military Aircraft Office on the way, and the track at the back had to be dismantled and laid in the front. The time was delayed by going back and forth, and the capacity of the train was limited. All the wagons could be forcibly confiscated, but there were still most of the soldiers. They could only run along the roadbed of the railway, and the cavalry also found that caltrops had been scattered along the way. After finally clearing all obstacles, it was already night when they arrived at the iron factory.

The south gate was wide open, and the cavalry of the Imperial Army filed in. The second south gate was also opened, and the train slowly slid along the rails into the city.

Suddenly countless banners were erected on the city wall.Numerous men wearing bowls and iron helmets of the Imperial Army poked their heads from behind the crenel.

"The barbarians of the Ming Dynasty came to help." The Qing soldiers knew the reason for the cheers of the iron factory people, and their morale was greatly depressed.The sound of gold ringing sounded in the rear of the Qing army, and the soldiers retreated relieved.They had lost their vigor at first, but once they knew that they could retreat, they rushed to run backwards, fearing that they would be killed by the iron javelins shot by them, and the formation gradually became chaotic in the frantic retreat.

The coach of the Xuzhou Daying Camp, the commander of the northern Jiangsu capital and the commander of the capital, Yuan Chonghuan, took the soft box of the train directly into the Tiechang Railway Station. Ascending the city, a group of generals and lieutenants Guerrilla and Zuoji surrounded him on the left and right. Liu Ziguang followed behind the factory owner Peng and watched curiously. Yuan Chonghuan, celebrity, I finally saw a celebrity in this different time and space.

Yuan Chonghuan really has the demeanor of a general. He picked up the binoculars and observed it, and said confidently: "The Tartars' rear camp caught fire, and most of the siege equipment was destroyed. The infantry suffered heavy casualties. Let’s attack again.” The official Mandarin with a Fujian accent was pure.

"Commander, what is the current strategy?" asked the factory owner.

"Send troops to hide and kill! When the Tartars regain their strength, tomorrow they will cut down trees and make engineering equipment. Now, taking advantage of their new defeat and their formation in disarray, surprise soldiers are sent to pursue them, causing them even greater chaos. In the dark night, It's enough for them to trample on each other."

"The last general is willing to go." Niu Yong took the initiative to ask for a fight.

"Okay, I order you to lead the troops of the headquarters to attack the retreat of the Qing army and go quickly." Yuan Chonghuan stroked his beard in satisfaction.

"Our factory also produced two armored vehicles and a thousand cavalry." Factory owner Peng couldn't be a coward at this time, he came to save the iron factory.

Relying on his good kung fu, Liu Ziguang cupped his hands in a strange way, "Someone is willing to go."

Liu Ziguang went out as the vanguard of the iron factory cavalry, quickly put on new armor with the help of several guards, picked up a long-handled sword, jumped on the horse, and led the iron guard cavalry to rush out of the city first.

Armored chariots fired machine guns to open the way ahead. Cavalrymen of the imperial army and iron guards tied two crossed white cloths on their bodies for identification, and some of them held torches. A total of [-] cavalry rushed out of the city gate. The retreating Qing soldiers saw There were cavalry chasing them, and they ran faster. Originally, these infantry were cannon fodder, and they had only received a short period of training. Their courage and discipline were not high. Few people.

The armored chariot was not as fast as the cavalry, and was soon overtaken by the cavalry. Liu Ziguang took the lead and chased the Qing soldiers. They didn't deliberately kill these infantry, they just tried their best to create chaos and panic. The steam cannons on the top of the city It was also repaired, and started to fire again. This time, instead of hitting the return cannon, it directly fired long-range incendiary bombs to attack the Qing army camp.

The camp of the Qing army did not have complete defensive facilities, because it was not expected that the Ming army would launch a counterattack. Originally, they wanted to spend the night in the city. There were no trenches or horses. The archers shot and shot random arrows, and a large area of ​​the rout soldiers were shot down. There were bows and arrows in front, and pursuers behind them. Seven thousand rout soldiers were pinched twice, causing heavy casualties.

Liu Ziguang galloped wildly on his horse, and stepped on any rout soldiers standing in front of him. He had no experience in leading troops in battle, so he knew how to keep rushing forward, and he was about to rush to the Qing army camp. , Immediately drew out the bow and arrow, raised the arrow to the sky, and shot across the Qing army in the camp.

Liu Ziguang was the first to approach the camp in the chaos. When the Qing soldiers saw an enemy approaching, they hurriedly shot him with arrows. The random arrows pierced Liu Ziguang's horse like a hedgehog. He got out from under the horse's belly and rushed in like lightning. After entering the camp, he slashed wildly and scattered the archers and fled in all directions. The defeated soldiers took the opportunity to rush into the camp, and the Qing emperor was furious.

The Imperial Forest Army next to the emperor was ordered to go up, and killed the rout soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, and immediately stopped the rout. The fence was easily crossed by war horses, and the elite army of the emperor could not stop the cavalry's impact. The battle line gradually moved northward. Liu Ziguang chased the archers, running, and found that he was alone. He turned over, Get into the nearby tent.

There was no one in the tent, Liu Ziguang tore off the two white cloth strips on his body, and peeked out secretly. The brigade of imperial forest soldiers were running. He pulled one of the imperial forest soldiers in, easily broke the soldier's neck, and then put the bright yellow cloth on his body. The cotton armor with copper nails was stripped off and put on hastily.

I can also play the martial arts team behind the enemy.

Peeking outside again, the Imperial Forest Army had almost run away. Liu Ziguang took out a match, lit a corner of the tent with it, and then swaggered out. Of course, the weapon was replaced by the Imperial Forest Army's iron, silver, and yellow flag saber.

He got out of the tent, and while avoiding the arrows, he pretended to be a messenger and ran under the commander's flag. Liu Ziguang was wearing a hundred-household armor, and he pretended to yell "Report" in a drawn-out voice. No one actually stopped him.

It was only a hundred steps away from the emperor that Lan Ling's guards came to stop him, and the two guards held swords to block Liu Ziguang's way. "What's the matter?"

"There is an important military situation that needs to be reported to the emperor face to face." Liu Ziguang nonsense.

A guard standing next to him took a look at Liu Ziguang, and suddenly stabbed him with a sword, "Bold assassin, look at the sword." It turned out that the careful guard found that there was no braid on the back of this hundred households.

The other guards followed closely with straight swords. These are all masters with extraordinary martial arts. With several long swords combined, even Liu Ziguang's reaction is quick, but he can only parry.

The Ming army has hit under their noses, which is not bad!Regardless of the persuasion of the ministers around him, the emperor just didn't want to move his nest. Everyone was trying to persuade him, when a cannonball flew in, the streamlined long-range bullet hit a place four miles away from the city wall, and the canopy of Huangluo was blown away. Shrapnel hit the emperor's surroundings. Fortunately, the strength was insufficient, but it also shocked the ministers. They couldn't help saying that they lifted the young emperor, stuffed them into the carriage next to him, and left. After successive defeats, the guards didn't dare to fight, and they fought and retreated. Finally, they left Liu Ziguang and went straight to chase the emperor's car. Copy it up, haha, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty even ran away with his shoes.

The canopy of Huang Luo was broken, the emperor retreated, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted. The remaining Imperial Forest Army retreated and resisted desperately for the sake of Duanhou.

At this moment, the reorganized serial horse troop rushed over from the rear of the Qing army, but they did not form a battle group, but fought alone. The cavalry fought in a melee. The horses are strong, the morale of the Ming army is high, they are eager to win merits, the iron guards are well-trained, and they have hatred in their hearts. Everyone fights together, swords and guns, but they are evenly matched, but the iron armored chariots that arrive later immediately break this situation. Balanced, machine guns fired lead bullets in circles. Although it was not as effective as hitting infantry on heavy armored cavalry, the psychological pressure caused was huge. Many cavalry fell off their horses after being hit, or directly Being overturned by a chariot, another chariot spewed out fire dragons from time to time. Wherever it went, the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty were all covered with fire.

Sometimes a large number of people is not necessarily a good thing. The Qing army has 10 horses, and it is difficult to convey orders and returns in the dark. In addition, the emperor’s sudden retreat caused fires to break out in the barracks. Luan fled, Liu Ziguang pinned the emperor's boots on his belt, and ran north with the rebellious army, setting fires while running, and shouting from time to time, "Run, the Qing army is defeated, the emperor has escaped."

After running for a certain distance, he was stopped by troops in white armor like an iron wall. "Those who retreat without permission, behead" gave the order, and the rout soldiers who were frantically fleeing were cut down, and the rout soldiers in front were crowded by the people behind and continued to charge forward, like a scorpion hitting a rock, Liu Ziguang rushed to the front He is not at the mercy of others like the rout of the Han army. The soldiers of the white flag were surprised to see a Yulin army dressed in yellow flags beheading and killing their compatriots. The gap was opened, and the roar and strafing of the armored chariots were also approaching. The panicked rout widened the gap and continued to flee.

Suddenly a pile of tall objects next to it attracted Liu Ziguang's attention. It was hay. The forage field of the army arrived.

Liu Ziguang repeated his old tricks, but this time he learned a little smarter. He cut off a dead man's long braid, stuffed one end in his helmet, and hung the other on his shoulders in a showy manner. Let's go.

"The emperor said, call your generals to come out to receive the order!" Liu Ziguang swaggered to the door formed by the two erected shafts, and shouted in a serious manner. The soldiers guarding the door were not as arrogant as the imperial guards. In response to the decree, he hurriedly reported to the forage farm management camp, and a thousand households hurried over.

"The emperor said that the Ming army is powerful, and he ordered you to pull out the camp and retreat fifty miles. The army rations were taken away in trucks, and the fodder was burned on the spot to stop the Ming army." Afraid they would not believe it, Liu Ziguang also put the suede panlong on his back He took out the boots and showed them off, "This is a token that the emperor handed over to the subordinate officials in a hurry. The emperor confessed: Seeing this thing is like coming in person."

When Guan Ying saw that the emperor's boots had been taken out as tokens, he couldn't help but not believe it. In addition, he had just witnessed the retreat of the royal family. This order was also very appropriate. The forage field must not fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Immediately ordered the camp to be dismantled, the grain was loaded into trucks and taken away, the fodder was burned on the spot, the dry grass as high as a mountain was ignited, and the fiery red flame lit up half of the night sky.Not knowing why, the Qing soldiers were even more panicked and retreated overwhelmingly.Countless people trampled on each other to death.

Seeing all this from the window of the imperial car, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted. The little eunuch who accompanied him was frightened and shouted, "Quickly send the imperial doctor!" escape.

The Qing army was defeated.