Win the Ding 1617

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"Your brother-in-law's Li Zicheng Li Blind! Here we go again!"

Seeing the two-foot-tall flag surrounded by hundreds of elite cavalry flying in the strong wind in the middle of the array that stretched for miles, Wang Yuncheng was so angry that he cursed!

He had already learned from the interrogation of the prisoners that the main force in this battle was the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Huige Battalion, but the commander of the battle was the battalion general Liu Zongmin, and Li Zicheng himself did not come.

The reason why he cursed loudly was because the banner of the Dragon and Tiger Camp was taken out again to deceive people!

Last time in Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu's elite troops were severely injured by the Longhu Battalion, and all the elite soldiers and horses were lost.He was even chased and killed by Longhuying from Kaifeng all the way to Nanyang!The generals in the Zuo camp have been thinking all the time, why does the Dragon and Tiger Camp stick to us like a leather plaster?Chasing and killing them day and night, chasing them for hundreds of miles without sleep, are they really formidable?

As a result, when escaping from the border of Henan, he was in charge of the sentry cavalry under Xiao Qin Wang who was in charge of the rear, and captured a department chief who broke into the camp, and the truth came to light!It turned out that it was Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi, Liu Fangliang and others who chased and killed the Zuo army for hundreds of miles.Each person is responsible for chasing for a day, under the banner of the Dragon and Tiger Camp. After chasing and killing for a day, they immediately stop, rest in place, and hand over the pursuit mission and the battle flag of the Dragon and Tiger Camp to the next squad, and then the troops and horses in the troops slowly The others marched and rested behind.

Such three soldiers and horses pursued in turn.Brutely beat the 20 people in Zuoying down to only [-] people.If Zuo Liangyu hadn't been operating in Xiangyang for many years, he would have a foothold.After returning to Xiangyang, they even caught the strong men, and then barely restored the army to its original state.

Today, here, I saw the battle flag of the Dragon and Tiger Camp again. How could this not annoy Wang Yuncheng, Hui Deng and others?What kind of trick, no matter how easy it is to use, can't be used over and over again, right? !

"Li Chuang and Cao Cao are not here, and the Dragon and Tiger Camp is the most powerful of the gangsters, so we won't be too far away from the two gangsters!"

"Yes! Go up! Defeat this group of thieves who pull up banners as tiger skins! Let them know. We Zuoying are not so easy to bully!"

Several generals cheered each other up and discussed for a while, and immediately drew up tactics.

"Come forward wave after wave!"

"The thieves' guns are not well aimed, so they may not be able to hit them!"

"Go on!"

The elite soldiers and servants of several generals.Driving and threatening those miscellaneous troops swarmed forward, trying to use the corpses of these miscellaneous soldiers to break the myth of the Dragon and Tiger Camp.

"Here we come!" Through the binoculars, Wang Long looked at the soldiers and horses from the left battalion and the outer battalion swarming in.In all fairness, these soldiers and horses are not that strong compared to the infantry and hungry soldiers of the peasant army, which they call the thieves.

The howling and howling sounded one after another.The spear in his hand was raised like a forest, and under the sunlight, waves of human heads undulated like the waves of the sea.

"Push the cannon up! Let the cannon teach these people a lesson first! Let them know that when they see our flag in the future, they should run far away as soon as possible!" Wang Long had a relaxed smile on his face. In terms of appearance and momentum, he knew that the army on the opposite side was a typical mob.Pure scum with combat power values ​​below five!

But the number of opponents is too many, and the firecrackers can't hit a few shots before they have to fight with bayonets.To be on the safe side, it is safer to use cannons to bombard the enemy's formation first to make them more scattered, and then to fire in volley.

"Gunners forward! Gunners ready."

"The battalions get out of the way!"

"The gunner, check the powder, light the match..."

As Wang Long's deputy, Niu Xizi, who commanded the battle, was a little excited to pass down the order, and the cavalry communication team will quickly convey the order one by one.The officers of the battalions and outposts responded immediately and moved the passage of the artillery out of the way.Let the mules and horses pull the cannon carts forward and put them in line.Then the soldiers responded in unison, and there was a sound of firecrackers and the sound of firecrackers lighting the matchlock.

"Cannon test firing, let it go!"

"put!"

Then the shooter of a six-pound gun in front of Wang Longshuai's flag closed one eye, and took aim from the barrel of the gun barrel towards the direction of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion.He signaled his companions to lower the barrel of the gun further.With the sharp wave of the shooter's right hand, the matchlock on the gunner's long pole ignited the priming powder, and there was a loud noise.A shell whizzed towards Wang Yuncheng's army formation four hundred steps away.

Before the loud sound of the cannon's firing had subsided in everyone's ears, the cannonball had already smashed into the crowd with a sharp whistling sound.

Like a stone being thrown into a pond, there will be waves of ripples, and a tidal commotion erupts immediately among the crowd, staring at the shell and trying to dodge it.But in the formation, where to hide?

The arm of a general banner in front of the formation was broken at the shoulder level, and the whole person was carried by huge kinetic energy and fell to one side.Then the iron ball was wrapped in clouds of blood mist, and rushed into the formation of soldiers and horses in the outer camp.There was a crackling sound, and the iron ball broke the arms, legs and feet of several people.Fortunately, it is summer now, and the land is relatively humid. If we fight in the north in winter, this big iron ball will definitely bounce on the ground that is frozen as hard as steel, and I don't know how many lives and flesh and blood it will take away.

There was a hissing and crying, and several wounded sergeants lay on the ground rolling and howling.Looking at their miserable appearance, the lucky ones beside them all looked pale.

This single shot caused a violent commotion among Wang Yuncheng's motley crew, but it didn't affect the overall situation.Because there are too many people!The small commotion in front couldn't affect the brigade that continued to swarm in behind.

What's more, Wang Yuncheng's direct relatives and soldiers kept yelling and urging these soldiers and horses to just move forward?

But what happened next was a tragedy!

The difference between the two armies was only more than [-] steps, and Lao Huihui, He Jin and others who were holding Wang Long's ground on the right almost shouted to order their subordinates to move.The formation of these outer battalion soldiers in the left battalion became denser and more chaotic.The people behind kept trying to rush to the front, and those in front were also speeding up, trying to rush to the gun positions before the artillery fired again.

"fire!"

Niu Xizi used all his strength to wave the command flag in his hand downwards fiercely. While he was yelling that he almost split his vocal cords, the artillery team of Feilongying fired unevenly!Amidst the continuous, deafening cannon fire, two twelve-pounders, six eight-pounders, eight Grand Francois, twelve six-pounders. The 27 Franco medium-sized artillery pieces fired at the same time.

Because of the technical level of the gunner, the artillery failed to fire a beautiful salvo and maximize the power of the shells.However, dense flames and smoke rose one after the other.But it has become an eternal haze in the hearts of the soldiers and horses of the Zuoying and Huige Fifth Battalions!

In front of the area where the artillery teams were lined up, the area with a depth of two to three hundred paces at most five hundred paces was covered by the cannonballs fired by these more than [-] large and small cannons.

The thumb-thick projectile, slightly smaller than a chestnut, was wrapped in cotton cloth and stuffed into the barrel, and was pushed out of the barrel by the tremendous force generated by the gunpowder.The shotgun projectiles ejected by these more than [-] various types of artillery are nothing less than astronomical figures on such a small battlefield. The dense projectiles covered the entire assault array of the Zuoying in a short moment.

Like a strong wind on the sea.Like hailstones fell in the sky, the charging people almost had no time to let out screams, and were knocked down by the dense rain of bullets, and blood flowers kept appearing on the ground, swiftly, the masters of these blood It was trampled into a meat paste by countless pairs of big feet. .

Those shotguns, which are slightly smaller than chestnuts, often pass through a body with the help of gunpowder, and still feel unsatisfied, and then viciously rush forward along the ballistic trajectory modified by the human body, looking for the next victim.

The projectiles between this radius can be described as dense as rain.

Pity the soldiers and horses from the left battalion and the outer battalion who rushed forward.In front of the shotgun, all living beings are truly equal, no matter if they are swept away by people or horses, especially if they are crowded together, they are even better targets.

After this round of artillery fire, the Zuoying forward lost at least thousands of people!

Looking at the comrades in front of them being beaten into a sieve, the soldiers and horses of the outer battalion could no longer be controlled.

Immediately someone turned around and ran away, but in a blink of an eye, his head was chopped off by the war supervisor behind him!

"Who dares to run?!"

"Hey! It's still a bit of a rush, otherwise, the artillery fire will be deployed on the flanks. It can kill more soldiers in the left battalion!" Wang Long said regretfully to He Jin who came on horseback, pointing to the artillery deployed on the front line, but in In the ears of King Zuojin, He Jin, this mother of yours is simply getting a huge advantage and acting like a good boy!Obviously, the opponent's striker was killed in one shot, and they lost their spirit.But here you are frowning and saying that the expected effect has not been achieved?Who is your mother fooling around with? !

"Uncle He, I won't say too much. When my soldiers charge in a while, your cavalry just press on the wings."

Wang Long was very clear about the current situation of the Ming army on the opposite side.This kind of tactic, together with Luo Hu and the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, was used more than once by Abatai's Eight Banners soldiers in Shandong.The combat effectiveness of those Han army banners newly attached to Abatai is considered good compared to the Ming army in Shandong, but it is far from being comparable to the banners of the Eight Banners Manchuria and Eight Banners Mongolia.Even they couldn't bear the pain after the artillery fire, let alone the miscellaneous soldiers that Zuo Liangyu was taking care of.

"Fire gunners, step forward!"

Taking advantage of the chaos of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion, the firecrackers of the Feilong battalion began to slowly move forward. The long queue passed their own artillery team, and some people kept giving thumbs up to the brothers of the artillery team. , expressing admiration for their combat power and achievements.

"The general said, the big white steamed buns are enough to eat at night! There is still meat!"

"We can't be sorry for Master Jiang's steamed bun stew, can we?"

From time to time, similar conversations flew into the air amidst the team laughing and laughing.

This means that Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, and Zhang Xianzhong's Xi Ying in Huguang, Taihu, Qianshan, and Anqing can laugh and talk in the battle formation, but who dares to be in the marching ranks instead of Chuang Ying and Li Shouhan's Southern Guangdong Army? Loud and laughing, immediately served by military law!

Looking at the Feilongying queue slowly coming up from the opposite side, Wang Yuncheng almost regretted it!Although the troops on the opposite side were not from the Dragon and Tiger Camp, they were half of the Dragon and Tiger Camp that day!After Zhuxian Town, I don't know how many excellent firearms Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai collected from various places to equip them, making them so fierce in battle.

Suddenly, he remembered that his subordinates also had firecrackers!

"Turn the gunner to the front! Fire the gun! Stop these thieves!"

The messy sound of firecrackers began to resound in the formation of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion. Occasionally, one or two Feilong battalion firecrackers groaned in the middle of the march, and were hit by flying projectiles and fell to the ground.The people on the left didn't even look at him, they just walked as usual, naturally the auxiliary soldiers from behind came quickly and carried him away.

"Fire the arrow! Fire the gun!"

Wang Yuncheng's order has not stopped.

Under the continuous blow of bows, arrows and firecrackers from the Zuoying soldiers, Feilongying lost hundreds of people in this short period of more than a hundred steps.

"Stop!"

The platoons of the two armies stopped at a distance of less than ten steps.

The Chinese army's drumbeat, which was used to adjust the pace, stopped, less than a hundred paces away from the soldiers and horses of the left battalion.Wang Lung ordered to stop the advance and rectify the team.Immediately, many gunners hurriedly followed the team and returned to their respective establishments.

"The gunner. Check the sub-drugs!"

As early as when they were in formation, these firecrackers had already loaded their fixed paper tube ammunition.At this time, amidst the shouting orders of the officers one after another, the more than 1 firecrackers pulled off the caps of the muzzles of the muzzles one after another, and carefully checked the condition of the gunpowder of their own firecrackers again.

"Check the matchlock!"

There was another sound of Siri checking the matchlock.

"First column ready. Step forward! Ready to shoot!"

The densely packed firecrackers turned down, and the first row of nearly 4000 firecrackers all aimed their black muzzles at the miscellaneous soldiers from the left battalion outside the battalion who had already panicked not far away.

A suona soared into the sky, conveying Wang Long's command to every officer.

"Fire!"

The bannermen and captains of each battalion, the post chiefs and department chiefs of all ministries, when they heard this long-awaited voice, they all pointed their long knives forward in unison and shouted in unison: "Shoot!"

The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded, and four thousand firecrackers fired in salvo, on the front that stretched for several miles.A long and dense smoke zone was vacated.

In the dense formation in front of Zuoying, streaks of blood mist were sprayed out immediately, and a large area fell down in an instant.After many people were shot, their expressions seemed to be stunned, and then they woke up, rolling to the ground and screaming.

After the gunners in the front row finished shooting, they quickly changed their formation from shoulder to shoulder to a dense formation, making way for the brothers in the second and third rows that came up later, and stood in place to the third row. The back of the row of gunners took out the stick to clean the barrel, and reloaded the gunpowder and lead bullets.Get ready for the next round of shooting.

Under the terrified eyes of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion, the more than 3000 firecrackers in the second row stepped forward again.They raised their guns, and the black muzzles were aimed at the opposite Ming army like a bull-headed horse-faced ecstasy card.

"put!"

Large strands of gunpowder smoke rose into the sky.A wall of smoke condensed above the heads of the musketeers, and not far away were the corpses of soldiers from the Left Battalion and the wounded screaming.

The sound of the firecrackers was continuous, and the matchlocks of the firecrackers ignited the priming medicine in their own fire gates, and flashes of bright fire burst out, and then turned into violent fireworks from the mouth of the gun.In the end, it merged into a deafening volley of firecrackers.

After two volleys of firecrackers, the firecrackers in the first two rows retreated to the third row and reloaded.Although the ignition method is different.But they also used fixed-loaded ammunition in paper tubes, so it was only a short time for the two rows of firecrackers to fire a volley, and the two rows of firecrackers had already loaded their own paper tube ammunition.

The first row of firecrackers walked to the front again, raised the firecrackers in their hands, and aimed at the soldiers and horses of the left battalion who had turned their backs to themselves.

"put!"

There was a loud shout, and there was another deafening burst of intensive firing of firecrackers.

Suddenly, someone in the left battalion made a wail similar to that of a dying beast. Then, like a severe infectious disease, the wail resounded through the entire army from left to right, from front to back. .

"Brothers, run away!"

Tens of thousands of people rushed towards the road in unison.

Wang Yuncheng, Hui Dengxiang, Xiao Qin Wang, Ma Jinzhong, Ma Shixiu and others were swept up by their respective waves of defeat and fled towards Fancheng.

An army like the Zuoying is not much stronger than the bandits and poles.When slaughtering people and looting counties and counties, everyone is like a wolf like a tiger. When fighting with the wind, they can travel thousands of miles. Once they encounter tough stubble, they lose their courage.If it is defeated, it will be finished. (Huh? How does it feel to be in the Black Army again?)

Even if Prime Minister Hui Deng tried to reorganize the army a little bit with Bai Gui's support, and took the opportunity to annex some other battalion leaders, he couldn't do it.As long as there is a slight intention to stop, a large group of defeated soldiers will turn red and draw their swords.

I had no choice but to flee forward.

"Haha! You Zuo Liangyu, you still have today!"

Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, Li You, Hao Yaoqi, Lao Huihui, He Yilong, He Jin, Lin Chengcheng, Liu Xiyao and others gathered under Wang Long's handsome banner.

Hao Yaoqi grinned his mouth wide and couldn't stop being ecstatic, while He Yilong watched Zuoying's retreat with binoculars, and his mouth was also ecstatic.There were tens of miles of rout troops, and corpses lying everywhere.There were also those wounded soldiers who were injured and survived for a while, howling in the pool of blood, only breathing in excitedly.It was Li You's deputy Bai Wang who said excitedly: "The king is really powerful!"

"Uncle Jiexuan! Lao Zuo, the rabbit master, can't do any tricks now. His soldiers and horses have already collapsed. Please show me how to eliminate them!"

"What else are you showing! Mingyuan, Ziyi, Baiwang, Baiminghe, you four just divide into four teams from the right to take over the pursuit, take the prisoners, and check the luggage!" Turn your head. "Shuai Ma, Shuai He, the elite cavalry of your five families will attack from the left side, and they will alternately cover and support them. They will clean up the defeated soldiers in the left battalion. Those horses, armor, knives and guns, as well as the gold and silver belongings of the left battalion, all belong to your department. all."

Old Hui yelled strangely: "Hitting rabbits. That's what our old horse likes to do most! Boys, come with me!"

The left and right wings were each led by thousands of cavalry, and tens of thousands of cavalry formed two streams of iron and rolled away.

Wang Long just led his Feilong Battalion, and slowly laid down behind the large group of people to take in the prisoners sent in front. When those prisoners saw the soldiers of Feilong Battalion, they were very honest, and let them kneel on the ground. On the ground, let the assembly line up and line up.

But it was because of the broken guts!

The various cavalry chasing ahead.But it's like a pack of wolves holding sheep, they just chase after the defeated soldiers, and those who can't run will rush up and surround them.Make the defeated soldiers kneel down on the spot, waiting for the infantry behind to come up and take them in.

The captured soldiers, captured flags, tents, food, horses, weapons, and armor were transported down from the front in an endless stream, and Hao Yaoqi, who had itchy hands and feet idle beside Liu Zongmin, scratched his ears and cheeks with joy.

"Master Liu. Master Liu, you also let me go forward and chop off a few heads, so that I can enjoy myself by capturing something!"

Liu Zongmin ordered Wu Ruyi, the commander of the Chinese army who accompanied him, to sort and record the seized materials and goods one by one, so that they could be distributed according to the method discussed by the generalissimo with Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and others.It is specifically stated that half of the captured firecrackers will be sent to the Feilong Camp, and Wang Longwang will be asked to take them away.

"Tell the doctor that the soldiers of each battalion who are dying must be healed."

After explaining these things, Liu Zongmin looked at Hao Yaoqi's impatient black face with a smile that was not a smile, "Going to the front to kill Ming thieves and make meritorious deeds? I dare not send you forward, Yaoqi! You go up What if I rob others of their horses again?"

"Good to my Master Liu, good to my Brother Jiexuan! Don't always make fun of me for such useless things! Our old Hao will definitely not cause trouble this time! We must make sure that Zuo Liangyu's rabbit grandpa Get the head back for you!"

After hearing this, Liu Zongmin nodded in satisfaction.

"I don't want the head. The marshal said that Zuo Liangyu's spine was broken by our two battles. From now on, if he hears about our rebel army, he will be scared to pee his pants! He can be a pioneer for us! However, this Xiangyang City is going to fall on your head, Hao Yaoqi, to take it!"

"Don't worry, Brother Jiexuan! If you can't take Xiangyang City, this old Hao's head is hanging on the tower!"

"Remember! Don't chase too hard, don't chase too fast! Han Ju's troops may not have taken down Chengtian! If you chase too fast, Old Suntou will hide in Tongguan and can't come out! "Looking at the back of Hao Yaoqi, who was urging his horse out and preparing to take his soldiers and horses away, Liu Zongmin exhorted loudly.

"It's a battle. Liangyu's 30 soldiers and horses will fight with the bandits Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and other troops with millions of cavalry on the front line of Xinye and Fancheng. Liangyu's tens of thousands of cavalry battled. Another 20 musketeers and hundreds of cannons stormed Liangyu's troops. Liangyu's troops collapsed. Fortunately, thanks to the bond of kindness and righteousness on weekdays, even though the soldiers were defeated, they all returned. Therefore, there is not much loss of soldiers and horses in the camp."

This is the description of the Battle of Xinye Fancheng in Zuo Liangyu's letter to Hou Fangyu, but what about the facts?

He led less than [-] internal soldiers from Fancheng across the Han River along the pontoon bridge, and fled to Xiangyang. He immediately ordered people to cut the ropes of the pontoon bridge, and threw tens of thousands of defeated soldiers on the north bank of the Han River.Then the soldiers plundered the city of Xiangyang, preparing to flee from Xiangyang to Wuchang.

However, they were told that the dozens of ships built to escape were set on fire, and that the Chengtian Mansion in the east had already fallen, and Yuan Zongdi, one of Li Zicheng's mighty generals, was leading [-] elite troops to sweep De'an, The prefectures and counties of Chengtian are looking at Jingzhou as well!

Beside him, only Zuo Menggeng and Hui Deng and others led hundreds of Ding's soldiers to flee back in embarrassment. Bai Gui, who was also a general of Fang Jun's Ninth Battalion, did not know whether he would live or die in the chaos. not enough.

To the north, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the outer camp and inner camp of the left camp, which were thrown on the north bank of the Han River, rushed for more than a hundred miles. They were already exhausted, hungry and cold. of Hanshui.It can be said that it has reached a dead end.

"Surrender! We have steamed buns and military pay here!" The voice of surrender came from behind.

Right at the head of Xiangyang City, Zuo Liangyu watched helplessly as the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that he had painstakingly recruited, recruited, or forcefully recruited from all over the place came to him on the edge of the Han River. The thieves who were at odds with him surrendered.

"Father handsome! Father handsome!" Zuo Menggeng, however, made trouble for his father again at this time. "A sentry came to report, and the thief's hero Hao Yaoqi, under the guidance of Huguang traitors, set up a pontoon bridge from the entrance of the Baima Cave in the upper reaches of the Han River. After crossing the Han River, we are heading to Xiangyang!"

"Wow!" Zuo Liangyu could only feel a mouthful of blood in his throat, bringing bursts of fishy and sweet taste, but he forced himself to hold back.

"Quick! Go to the riverside and seal the ship! No matter what kind of ship it is, put on our soldiers and horses, and hurry up!"

The next day, Zuo Liangyu led more than [-] defeated soldiers to plunder the city of Xiangyang, set fire to the city, and boarded a ship to the east.There are sounds of knives and fire in the city, and people are chaotic and birds are flying.Outside the city, mast sails cover the river, and the sound of sour weeping is connected ten miles away. (~^~)