Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 1067

A regiment of 600 people, and a half regiment of 800 people. To deal with the nearly [-] private soldiers of this salt lord, everyone in Sichuan felt that the imperial army was too entrusted.

"Even if the Duke of Liao's bid is here, it is still risky to do so. General Sun is young and vigorous. If he suffers setbacks, it will be detrimental to future conquests!"

What Li Hualong said directly to the staff, the staff also understood very well, and immediately sent someone to pass the message to Sun Xin.

"If there are 800 rebels, General Sun and [-] people can fight at will, but this salt owl is a thief who sits on the ground, and the [-] rebels are mostly relatives, so it's very difficult."

These words make people laugh and cry. If there are [-] officers and soldiers, they can fight casually, but the [-] bandit soldiers have to think carefully, because the combat effectiveness is not bad. In fact, this is also the truth. They didn't fight, but the private soldiers of this salt lord were different.

Being able to transport the salt from Zigong to Bozhou for profit, such a salt lord is also extremely powerful. It is impossible for a person in the green forest and underworld to do this. The relationship on the surface is also extremely solid, and it is said that greetings can reach the level of the governor.

However, the crime of the Bozhou Rebellion was too great. After Sichuan Jinyiwei found out the matter, the strong men up and down quickly cut off their wrists and separated the relationship.

The local tycoon salt lord, the reason why there are so many private soldiers is because salt is transported to the native villages in the mountains, and someone may come to rob them. The fire of the gun went away, and these young men, firstly, had blood and family ties, secondly, they were fed with money and food, and thirdly, they had fought with Miao people and Yao people more or less, and they also had experience. His team is almost equivalent to the level of the governor's pacesetter, and it must be very difficult to fight.

Sun Xin didn't pay attention to other people's persuasion at all, and the young and mature Eunuch Zhao didn't listen either. Everyone sighed and mobilized troops.

If you have to fight three thousand with eight hundred, wouldn't it be enough to appease such a private soldier of the salt lord?No matter how bad it is, the Sichuan General Soldier will pull tens of thousands of people over, why can't they eat it.

The battle progressed very quickly and easily. Eight hundred imperial troops fired three hundred firecrackers for two rounds, and swept away the opponent's people holding bows and arrows. Then the imperial army formed a small square team and rushed into the opponent's formation. In the middle of the game, he pierced through the opponent's team in a straight line, and then penetrated back and forth twice.

Yan Xiao's private soldiers couldn't hold on at all, and collapsed all of a sudden. The end of the battle made people dumbfounded, but seeing the forbidden army up and down as it should be, only the people who came to watch the battle knew that the forbidden army had already made a prediction.

That salt owl originally wanted to resist for a while and let the government suffer, and then negotiated a relatively good recruiting condition. He knew how bad the officers and soldiers in Sichuan were, and he also thought that the government wanted to deal with the Yang family. He wanted his own people to contribute, but he never expected that the imperial army would come so fast and their fighting power was so strong, so he had no choice but to surrender himself, begging for the lives of women and children to be saved.

The imperial army beat this salt owl for the sake of establishing prestige, and everyone understood this truth, but they did not expect the imperial army to establish their prestige so successfully and so simply.

Such a big salt lord was wiped out in an instant, and others dared to mess around. Li Hualong and the governor of Sichuan imposed strict orders for two years, but there were still people doing business with Bozhou.

The Yang family in Bozhou had accumulated enough supplies before the rebellion, which was also the reason why they were able to attract a large number of copycats, but having enough supplies did not mean that there was no need to import them.

Everyone understands this truth. If there is no supplement of foreign materials, it will be a dead end in the terrain of Bozhou. Now there are not many places to fight, and they are trapped and surrounded. The end is to slowly consume clean materials, and then Crashes are waiting to die.

The Yang family also understood this truth. On the fifth day after the import of salt was cut off, the Yang family gathered nearly 5000 of their main force and vassal troops, and launched a fierce attack on Hejiang County. Chengdu is a smooth road, and it is convenient to get any supplies in this area, the richest area in Sichuan.

Six thousand imperial troops and [-] officers and soldiers from Sichuan blocked them. The officers and soldiers in Sichuan were only prepared as a supply battalion, and they had to rely on the imperial army for field battles.

This battle didn't even make Sun Xin feel complacent. In the field battle, the enemy's position was a little unstable when the artillery bombarded him for two rounds. Seeing that the enemy was about to collapse, because the distraction caused the enemy to collapse too hard to be wiped out, he simply stopped. Stop the artillery and let the enemy charge up.

As a result, the firecrackers fired less than five rounds, and the enemy could no longer organize any effective attack, so Sun Xin ordered to charge rather helplessly.

The cavalry directly defeated the enemy's team. The Yang family also had cavalry, but the Dian and Sichuan horses were short and had little impact, while the cavalry and horses in the northwest were very tall. The difference between armor and weapons, the southwest cavalry is not so much cavalry, it is better to say that they make up numbers, the northwest cavalry is on horseback every day.

The cavalry of Bozhou was directly defeated and then driven back. The cavalry of the Yang family as the core force rushed back and trampled on their own team. The already panicked team collapsed completely.

This kind of situation is what the cavalry like to see the most. Chasing and defeating soldiers, letting them trample on each other and kill themselves can continuously expand the results of the battle. strength.

It's still because Sichuan doesn't have a vast plain, otherwise, if the cavalry were to spread out to wash, the results would be even greater. This is where Sun Xin was dissatisfied.

But he was dissatisfied because he was dissatisfied. Li Hualong and the officials in Sichuan and Guizhou were very happy.

Now the civil and military people in the Sichuan, Guizhou and Chu areas finally know how powerful the Imperial Army is. They used to think it was exaggerated when they heard it. In the past, beheading and defeating the Tartars was a great victory. You, Wang Tong, are lucky. You will be rewarded with tens of thousands of heads at once, which is too much. It was a bit shameless, after the battle of Hejiang County, they realized that they were not exaggerating, the imperial army could easily kill thousands of enemy troops, and defeated the opponent like cutting melons and vegetables.

The next step is to march and chase. After all, the Yang family of Bozhou has been in charge here for 800 years. If they failed to probe outward, they decided to defend themselves. The terrain here is so complicated. He pleaded guilty, and then threw a nephew who was close to him to take the blame, and the matter might be over.

Compared with Wang Tong who didn't have any letters before the war, and the victory was confirmed, Wang Tong sent a few more letters and said a little more.

It mentioned that we must not leave future troubles, and we must let more local soldiers and horses help. The meaning of not leaving future troubles is that we must chase down the poor, and let more local soldiers and horses help this. Wang Tong also explained that if you speak three points Well, the correspondence between Songjiang Mansion and Sichuan is so troublesome, it will definitely delay things.

The local officers and soldiers are suppressing bandits, but they are also bandits. The crossing seems to be windy, which causes great damage to the local area, but this damage is what they want. The home is the native emperor of this place. Those natives and those cottages only know that there is the Yang family but not the imperial court. Let the local officers and soldiers go over and "sort out" them, and then immigrate in, that is the imperial court's stronghold.

Sun Xin is a veteran in marching and fighting, so he doesn't have his own judgment on this matter. Naturally, Wang Tong is the main one. After Li Hualong saw it, although he felt a little awkward, the corruption of officers and soldiers was actually an advantage at this time, but he couldn't deny it. However, Wang Tong's considerations were all for the sake of the overall situation of the court, so he couldn't say anything.

For local generals in Sichuan, although the imperial army can fight, they really know how to behave. Knowing that everyone shares the military merits, and the way for everyone to make a fortune together, Bozhou is not as good as it is in Chengdu. There are many, and there are many opportunities to be happy.

All the generals have been fully motivated, and they have ordered the orders from the top and bottom, first to ensure the provision of food and fodder for the imperial army, let them win the battle, and then we will be happy.

The real bitter battle was on the third day before entering the core area of ​​Bozhou. The barracks of the forbidden army were tightly packed, and there were brigades of local officers and soldiers behind them, and even those local natives who did not deal with the Yang family came to help. It was him who hit his head and bled, but seeing that the foundation of his family was threatened, the Yang family had no choice but to spend a lot of money.

The opportunity was on the third day. There was heavy rain on the marching road. Sichuan in June was already muggy, and such heavy rain was not uncommon. It is very difficult to fire a matchlock gun. For the Yang family who have been waiting for an opportunity, this is a rare opportunity.

After all, Bozhou is a mountainous area. The soldiers of the Yang family are more adaptable than others in the mountains. The same is true for fighting in rainy days. More importantly, the pressing force of the imperial army makes everyone in Bozhou feel a sense of urgency and determination to fight to the death. The Bozhou army, who had already judged the rainy day in advance, was following nearby, and killed them this time.

Fighting in rainy weather, firearms cannot be fired, but bows and arrows can still kill. In rainy weather, soldiers from the north are more likely to be unable to support and panic mentally.

The shock effect this time was not small. The officers and soldiers in the brigade behind had already begun to retreat, and the imperial army had only formed a formation. The more than [-] pacesetters in Ningxia and Shaanxi could only form a team, and they couldn't even form a formation.

Neither the artillery nor the firecrackers fired, and indeed there was no way to fire them. The firecrackers either picked up their wooden forks, or drew out their sabers.

The pacesetters from Ningxia and Shaanxi were quickly killed and scattered. They were not used to being drenched in the heavy rain, let alone fighting hard against each other in the muddy terrain. Besieged two regiments of the Custodian.

Without firearms, the imperial army still has discipline, armor, and knives and guns. Sun Xin himself is in front of the formation, wearing armor and holding a spear, shouting orders, and even Zhao Jinliang is holding a short knife and leading the guards in the formation. .

The coach is like this, and the confidence cultivated by the long-term invincibility is maintained. The two regiments of the Forbidden Army stood still in the heavy rain and the repeated impact of the Bozhou Army. The Banzhou Army fought repeatedly.

In the heavy rain, the bows and arrows were not accurate at all. What troubled the Bozhou army was that the opponent's protective gear was so sophisticated that their own weapons could not hurt the opponent, but the opponent's weapons were unambiguous.

This situation didn't last long. Although those from the north were not used to fighting in the rain and mud, it was extremely exhausting for these Bozhou troops. It was expected that these officers and soldiers would collapse soon, but they couldn't attack for a long time. , The casualties on my side are getting bigger and bigger, and the morale of the Bozhou Army is floating.

The pacesetters from Ningxia and Shaanxi are all elite forces under the local governor general, and they are also preserved from the reform of the border towns. They are the capital of each family and can fight well. What a debilitating loss, the two infantry regiments of the imperial army held on, and they also stabilized, but they came back after killing.
With the joint efforts of the two sides, the Bozhou Army could no longer hold on. After several hours of tug-of-war in the rain, even elite soldiers like the Imperial Army felt exhausted, let alone the demoralized Bozhou Army.

It's just that the battle in the rain is terribly exhausting. It's impossible to retreat as smoothly as in Hejiang County. Before dark, the rain became lighter and the fighting stopped. The Sichuan officers and soldiers who had left returned and checked the corpses.

The number of enemy casualties in the muddy land around is almost the same as that in the battle in Hejiang County. This loss is huge, because the enemy invested less force in this battle than Hejiang County, and this ratio is also amazing. up.

More importantly, after this battle, the Yang family could no longer muster any strength for a fight, and the hearts of the people in Bozhou should be completely dissipated.

In this battle, 150 soldiers were killed and [-] were injured. This is a very heavy loss for the forbidden army. In the final analysis, they are still not suitable for fighting in an environment like the South, so this is the case. Sun Xin is extremely angry, but The military supervisor who accompanied the army was very experienced, and immediately said that these soldiers were killed and injured for the safety of the Southwest, and the local generals will provide generous compensation. Of course, when the Sichuan and Huguang officers and soldiers retreated, there were more casualties.
At this point in the battle, it was already coming to an end. The Yang family wanted to rely on the fortress in Bozhou to hold on to see if they could survive this desperate situation.

The fortress is very strong, the terrain is very dangerous, and the troops and material reserves inside are sufficient. However, after the artillery was mounted, the hearts of the people immediately collapsed.
(End of this chapter)