Win the Ding 1617

During the autumn and winter of the 13th year of Chongzhen, the war situation in Sichuan changed so quickly that it surpassed the changing face of Sichuan Opera. Whether it was the Ming army or the peasant army, they kept going back and forth between victory, defeat, victory, and defeat. The titang officials who were stationed in the capital and were responsible for passing various books and titles to the ministry and the cabinet did not know whether they should report victory or failure, whether they should ask for credit or should ask for reinforcements and payment of food and salaries.

First, Zhang Xianzhong shot and killed the old general Zhang Ling, who was known as the god crossbow general, in Zhujunping, defeated his troops, and captured the camp.But before the snatched Luzhou Laojiao drank three cups, Qin Liangyu gave the Eight Great Kings a blow.

Shao Jiechun asked Qin Liangyu for his credit, and just after the inscription draft for Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's inscription was prepared, Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers were defeated by Zhang Xianzhong's cannons.

Immediately afterwards, Governor Shao Jiechun mobilized 2 Sichuan troops to Liangshan County in order to stop Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai who were rushing toward Chongqing like a torrent, and by the way, to meet Qin Liangyu who was retreating. Unexpectedly, These [-] people were also like sheep entering the tiger's mouth. They were annihilated by Zhang Xianzhong at the Gaoliang Mountain Pass in Liangshan County (today's Liangping County).

Just when Shao Jiechun ordered his confidants to prepare several fast boats for him at Chaotianmen Wharf, as well as Confucian clothes, a new news spread to his governor's yamen.

"What!? Wu Biao's model brigade arrived in Liangshan County? Joined the remnants of Qin Zongbing?! Damn it! This, this..."

In Jinji Town, tens of miles away from Liangshan County, Wu Biao's model brigade received hundreds of remnants of Qin Liangyu.These standard battalion soldiers who used to be majestic and majestic have become extremely emaciated after running around for days and being frightened.Even if these young and strong men were like this, it was even more conceivable that Qin Liangyu was an old woman who was over seventy years old.

When she saw the banner of the Model Brigade erected by the army on the opposite side, and the officers with an eastern Cantonese accent shouted in blunt official language, she couldn't help feeling relieved for a while, and then her eyes went dark, and she almost fell off her horse.

"The governor and the officers and men of your department, please come to the camp to rest for a while. Wait for our army to defeat the thieves before paying a visit."

Although Wu Biao is a very important figure in the eyes of Yang Sichang and Chongzhen at this time.Military salaries and weapons are the most prioritized supplies, but his official position is only a deputy general of the Beijing camp. Compared with Qin Liangyu's official position, there is still a gap, and it can only be a few polite words.

"The thief is powerful. And our army has been defeated again. It is the time of arrogance. General Wu might as well avoid the edge for now. It will not be too late to attack the thief after a little fatigue!"

After hearing Qin Liangyu's persuasion with lingering fears, Wu Biao's subordinates curled their lips, "The governor is too careful! There are tens of thousands of Shaanxi thieves in this area. They are just some mobs! The number of soldiers they can fight is no more than [-], compared with those in the past. What about the tens of thousands of Liaodong rebels in Shandong?!"

Hearing such arrogant and arrogant words from the officers of the model brigade, and looking at the miserable appearance of his group of remnants and defeated generals, Qin Liangyu couldn't help sighing secretly, another guy who was so arrogant that he didn't know the heights of heaven and earth!If Zhang Ling was able to hold on that day, and when his soldiers arrived, he might not necessarily lose his troops and lose his ground. Not to mention his life lost in vain, he would even lose his fame for a lifetime.

"General Bu Lao is worried. Most of our officers and soldiers are wounded. General Wu Wu asked Ying Lang to examine the wounds and bandage some medicine. The old lady had to rush back to Shizhu to rectify the troops to take revenge."

Qin Liangyu has also become a frightened bird. He rested hastily in Wubiaoying for a while, fed some forage beans to the horses, and the people simply ate some food, and took these hundreds of people across the river to Zhongzhou. From Zhongzhou Rolled back to the stone pillar.

"Stand up! Prepare to meet the enemy!"

If Wu Biao was still in the Southern Guangdong Army, then he would definitely line up in three or four horizontal lines, with artillery between them to deal with the peasant army on the attack.The cannon blasted the firecrackers, and after three rounds of shooting, the bayonet charged, and then the enemy was dealt with.

However, today is different.He is already a rebellious boy of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Not to mention cannons, but the flintlock muskets that the Southern Guangdong Army is now commonly equipped with. Among the more than a thousand men under his command, only a thousand old brothers have them, and there are only a few hundred bayonets.These people and things are Wu Biao's housekeeping capital. He specially compiled a guard battalion, using these old brothers and flintlock guns as his biggest bargaining chip.

He didn't have a flintlock gun, so he could only use a matchlock gun instead. Fortunately, with the double care of the Li Supervisor and Yang Sichang, the firearms given to him by the Ministry of War were all top-quality items, and there was absolutely no reason to explode them.

Of the 2000 recruits recruited in Sichuan, [-] of them used the Sangmen gun that the Eight Great Kings couldn't put it down. Although Wu Biao was regarded as a rebellious traitor by the Southern Guangdong Army, the Southern businessmen who traveled to and from Huguang, Sichuan, etc. were indispensable. Still have some incense with him.He is also willing to provide some protection and help for these folks. The two sides maintain exchanges in this extremely violent situation. A large number of Wu Biaojun's equipment, such as the armor of the pikemen and the spearheads of the funeral spears, are all purchased in this way. , Now these pikemen are going to play a role instead of bayonets.

According to the terrain, Wu Biao's headquarters formed a formation. At first glance, it looks like a triad formation with a phalanx of muskets.

Musketeers lined up in five rows on the front, with about [-] matchlock guns.On the two wings of the firecrackers, there are two thousand pikemen serving as guards on the flanks. In front of the pikemen, there are hundreds of sword and shield soldiers as rangers, ready to rush to the front at any time to start a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy and cover the fireblank soldiers.

Behind the army formation formed by the firecrackers and pikemen, Wu Biao's army, nearly 2000 cavalry and firecrackers, guarded food, grass and other things.

The gunpowder soldiers skillfully took out the gunpowder from the gunpowder tank at the command of the officer, and after estimating the amount, put the gunpowder into the gunpowder and poked it firmly with a cleaning rod.Then another piece of lead was taken out, and it was still fed in with a cleaning rod.Then open the fire door behind the blunderbuss, pour some gunpowder into it, and finally take out the matchlock and put it in the faucet, and light the matchlock.

Because of the use of matchlock guns, the firecrackers had to stand relatively sparsely to prevent each other from igniting the matchlocks.However, this also has an advantage, that is, the sparse formation reduces the lethality of the shells a lot.

"Biao brother! Here we come!"

A battalion officer was a little excited when he pointed to the smoke and dust appearing from far to near on the mountain road in the distance, and the bursts of fire emerging from the direction of Liangshan County.This was the first big battle they broke away from the Southern Guangdong Army, and it was conducted under the premise that all the troops were defeated. How could the officers not be excited?

But the smoke and dust approached from far away, and everyone looked over calmly, feeling a little discouraged, but it was the Sichuan Army who had escaped from Liangshan County.

A row of firecrackers hit them, and they woke up the rout of the Sichuan army who had fled crying and howling all the way.They bypassed the army formation one after another.Under the guidance of the officers and soldiers of the model brigade, they will hand over their weapons, go to the rear to eat and drink honestly, and after a short rest, they will be responsible for serving as auxiliary soldiers or coolies of the model brigade.Carrying ammunition.Lift the wounded.

Matchlock guns are better than flintlock guns.Its shooting steps are much more complicated. There are about a few steps such as pouring powder, charging powder, pressing fire, loading ammunition, loading matchlock, etc. Skilled shooters usually only shoot once a minute.Some musketball players with poor psychological quality are in a hurry when they arrive on the battlefield, and it is fine if they can shoot once in 1 minutes.The officers of the firecrackers in the front row ordered the firecrackers to finish loading the medicine by kicking and beating. Just after the filling was completed, dust heads rose in the distance, and the smoke and dust were mixed with the sound of killing and crying.

It was the forwards of the peasant army in Xiying and Caoying who arrived.

The matchmade made of hemp rope soaked in yellow wax burns slowly, giving off a slight smell of sulfur. The musketeers nervously watched the bandits galloping on horseback in the distance. Beads of sweat burst out involuntarily.The first row of firecrackers raised their firecrackers and stared at the bandits on the opposite side, while the four rows of firecrackers stood behind holding their firecrackers, waiting for the firing order from the officers.They watched the match carefully in their hands, lest it burn out or go out.

The vanguard of the Peasant Army, who had come all the way, was also quite strange to the team in front of him. The battle was defeated to such an extent. When all the officers and soldiers saw their banners of Xiying and Caoying, they all fled and retreated, but now they are so unafraid The army of the dead is blocking the intersection, what is it if this is not seeking death?

After a short pause, a leader in a red robe yelled in an Ansai accent, and more than a thousand cavalrymen of the Peasant Army urged their horses to rush towards the formation of the Model Brigade.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the shouts of the soldiers of the West Camp resounded through the sky. Seeing that the cavalry rushing in front had already charged within seventy steps, the hands of the gunfire soldiers were covered with sweat in this early winter weather, almost Throwing away the pistol, turning around and fleeing, at this moment, the army behind him sounded a sharp and piercing brass horn.

"Fire!"

For a time, the sound of the firecrackers was like thousands of thunderbolts exploding in people's ears.More than [-] firecracker soldiers standing in the front row pulled the trigger, the faucet fell, the matchlock ignited the primer, and a large amount of fire and smoke were ejected from the muzzle of the firecracker.

A dozen cavalrymen of the Peasant Army rushed forward, preparing to teach this group of short-sighted guys a lesson with long knives and short guns. They were instantly hit by the densely flying bullets, causing more than a dozen bloody arrows to burst out of their bodies. Immediately fell off the horse.Those who were also knocked off their horses were dozens of riders who followed them. They were a little bit more lucky, but were hit by bullets or hit the horses in their crotches. Unfortunately, after the horses fell to the ground, they were swarmed behind The trampling horseshoes turned into a mass of blood and flesh, and it was impossible to tell which one it was.

The body of the horse lying on the ground became an obstacle that hindered the galloping horse, preventing the horse and rider behind from increasing their speed.It is necessary to make minor adjustments within the scope of these steps.

Such an opportunity, the officers of the model brigade must not let it go!

"Fire!"

Immediately, the gunners on the first level retreated, quickly reloaded their matchlock guns, and prepared for the next round of firing.

The second row of musketeers stepped forward and aimed at the Xiying cavalry who were caught between seventy paces and ten paces by dead men and dead horses.

It was another round of volley, except for a few firecrackers that misfired, more than three hundred firecrackers fired projectiles at the Xiying cavalry who were rushing forward.

There was a horrific scream from behind the white smoke. The result of this battle was much greater than before!

After two rows of firecrackers were fired, the eyes of the people were filled with white smoke, and their sight was completely blocked by the smoke. The swordsmen and pikemen quickly lined up in front of the firecrackers at the sound of officers' shouts, ready to meet them at any time. enemy.

The firecrackers of each team stopped at the sound of their officers' passwords.Putting the emptied gun on his shoulder, he quietly waited to see the result of the battle.

The choking smell of gunpowder smoke was gradually blown away by the cold wind, flying around, and the wind carried a sweet smell of blood, an indescribably weird smell under the rare sunshine in the eastern Sichuan region in winter.

Finally, I saw clearly that 250 of the Xiying cavalry who rode their horses into the gunfire fifty steps away were knocked to the ground by two rounds of intensive bullet rain, and some riders were thrown off the back of the horse that stumbled. His body was bloody.Just rolled on the ground and screamed loudly.

"The pikemen cover the sword and shield soldiers and step forward! Cut off the head! Take the horse!"

Seeing that the people in Xiying tended to flee.Wu Biao put down the binoculars in his hand, and coldly issued the new military order.

Two sentry spearmen cheered and shouted to cover a sentry of sword and shield soldiers, and slowly pressed towards the battlefield just now. The seven or eight hundred cavalry from the Western Battalion who were still hesitating on the battlefield should advance or retreat. come over.He hesitated a little.Immediately shouted.Turn the horse's head back and forth and escape on the road!

"My lord, the results of the battle have been counted."

A battalion officer galloped back on his horse and reported the results of the battle to Wu Biao.

"Beheaded 120 and four levels. Captured one hundred and two bandits. Captured 22 horses, wounded and killed [-] horses. Captured a batch of swords, guns and armor."

"Tell the kitchen to stew the horse meat, and let everyone open it for a meal. Put away the knives, guns and armor. The prisoners are well supervised, and if there is any change, they will be beheaded immediately!"

It was almost noon at this time, and the directors of the battalions led a group of Sichuan Army officers and soldiers who served as auxiliary soldiers and coolies to carry back the seventeen horses that had been killed or wounded. Immediately, bursts of cooking smoke rose from the cooking cart, and the scent of meals and meat wafted in with the wind.

There were bursts of laughter everywhere in the camp from time to time, and Cantonese and Sichuan dialect were mixed together.Dozens of Sichuan army officers and soldiers served as coolie auxiliary soldiers picked up the hot meals, looked at the bowl of delicious broth and large pieces of horse meat, many people couldn't help secretly envious, "No wonder they can be treated so well. Fight!"

In the big tent of the brigade headquarters, Wu Biao and several regiment leaders and battalion officers sat around the tent. No one spoke, they just gorged, and there was a loud chewing sound from inside the tent.

People either hold the fat and huge pieces of meat in their hands, and just open their bloody mouths to chew vigorously, hating themselves for eating too slowly.

When everyone was eating happily, they suddenly saw soup splashing slightly from the dishes and bowls on the table. At first, everyone thought it was because the soldiers had not arranged the tableware properly, so they didn't bother to pay attention.Unexpectedly, the cups and plates trembled slightly, and the chopsticks fell to the ground following the rhythm.At this time, suddenly hearing the sound of alarms outside the tent, a leader of the soldiers rushed into the big tent with a slightly panicked expression and reported to Wu Biao: "Brigade Commander! There are a large number of thieves riding in the direction of Liangshan County in the north. Come galloping towards our military camp."

Wu Biao didn't say much, and led his men to the temporary lookout tower. With the help of binoculars, people could easily see that there was a large cloud of smoke faintly along the official road leading to the county from the north. Come galloping here.

"See if the brothers in each battalion have finished eating?"

"Brigade Commander, brothers are all ready to eat!"

"Then tell the brothers, prepare for the event when you are full, someone will deliver the food for dinner!"

Wu Biao's words made the officers of the model brigade feel more relaxed, right?In front of us, no matter how many teams of thieves come, they are here to deliver food!

Amidst the tremors from the ground, the smoke and dust got closer and closer, and finally everyone saw a large group of flags flying towards them.Under the banner, there were all Xiying knights in bright armor, and the fiery red peaks of their helmets could be faintly seen fluttering.A sea of ​​flags of various colors, and an extraordinarily huge handsome flag was pulled flat by the strong and bitter cold wind, and one of the big characters in the yellow moonlight was as eye-catching as standing out from the crowd.

It was Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King of Xiying, who came in person!

Accompanying Zhang Xianzhong were all elites from his old camp from the west camp. Four generals including Si Yang and Ma Yuanli Baixuan were halfway there. Only Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Xiu and Feng Shuangli had never seen the flags, and they presumably stayed behind in the old camp.

From a distance of two or three hundred steps, Wu Biao could clearly see the appearance and attire of the Xiying soldiers, from their arrogant and murderous expressions, to the red tassels on their helmets that were blown away by the wind, and even the Nanjia soldiers. The scratches and dents caused by the upper weapons, and the copper and iron foam nails on the cotton armor can be clearly seen.In the wet and cold weather, after running for tens of miles, they and the horses under their crotches spit out thick white gas from time to time.

Some elite soldiers from the old battalion began to appear around the camp of the Model Brigade. These men were all stout and skilled in horsemanship. They laughed wildly, galloped around the camp dozens of steps away, and shot arrows into the camp from time to time.

"Release our horse team and drive these thieves away!"

Hundreds of cavalry from the model brigade rushed out of the camp gate and fought with the group of rangers in the west camp.

Most of these cavalry's horses are Sichuan horses produced in Sichuan, and they are short in stature. Compared with the horses accumulated by the Xiying cavalry over the years, they are naturally at a disadvantage.Moreover, the skill of the cavalry is much worse than that of Xiying Jingqi.However, the victory lies in tactics.The cavalry tactics of the Model Brigade were born out of the Southern Guangdong Army, and they used several to deal with one. In this way, the dozens of old battalion cavalry who were still showing off their power outside the gate of the Model Brigade just now were cut off in front of Zhang Xianzhong. (To be continued..)