Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 144
Since they had firearms, some officers and soldiers began to rely heavily on firearms, and it became common to use carts and other formations to snipe the enemy. However, the firearms equipped by the Ming army were not enough to offset the speed advantage of the cavalry. At the same time, Europe only installed some muskets to replace bows and arrows. On the battlefield, it mainly relied on spears and European long swords as the real weapons of victory.

The peasant army has cavalry, and even the cavalry ratio of the peasant army is higher than that of the official army. The reason is all in the horse administration of the Ming Dynasty. In order to save the cost of raising horses, the imperial court passed the responsibility of raising horses to the farmers, and there were special horse households in charge. Raising horses originally had corresponding tax cuts and subsidies from the imperial court, but with further political corruption, heavy and miscellaneous taxes have increased, and even if the horses die, they have to compensate the government's big money, and more and more horse households have gone bankrupt. Take the horse and go straight up the mountain to become a bandit or join the peasant army.

For example, the Ansai horse thief, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, is a horse dealer team composed of rebel horse households.

Song Qingshu also had cavalry. At the beginning, he won more than 100 good horses from the killers of Prince Qin's mansion, and fifty or sixty of them died after continuous tossing. However, when he came from Qingyang Mansion, the hungry people recruited along the way kept the cavalry at around 100. , and this cavalry also made the name of the red lady more and more famous in Shaanxi.

Seeing the rebel army at the front cut off the connection between the head and tail of the officers and soldiers, they were beaten by the firecrackers guarding the baggage behind, and more than a hundred cavalry rushed into the ranks of the Ming army from behind, waving a red-tasseled spear in their hands. Like the death red lotus, the red person, the red gun tassel flew by at a high speed, and the officers and soldiers who turned back were caught off guard by the spear's edge, or their throat was cut, tragic fell to the ground.

The ranks of officers and soldiers were rushed to pieces at once. The officers and soldiers at the front, who were still using grain carts as protection, threw down their blunderbusses in horror, drew their knives and turned to face these cavalrymen. Taking advantage of this gap, Song Qingshu once again Take the lead and lead the troops into the car formation.

It’s really a bit of a cowboy taste. With a knife in his right hand and a revolver in his left, he strode into the car formation, and as soon as he entered, facing the crowd, Song Qingshu hugged the fire first. Although the range was short but dense, the revolver bullets immediately knocked down three or four Guan Jun, who had never seen this thing before, suddenly panicked, and someone called the monster to turn around and run away.

Then Song Qingshu was impolite. After leaving the gun, he turned the saber with both hands, and cut down two of them from behind. At this time, Scarface also organized people to rush in, and the already chaotic army team was even more dispersed. Everywhere, someone has started to crumble.

Behind him, Chief Qian of the officer's army was still desperately drawing his knife and commanding the officer's army to counterattack. Suddenly, this bearded military officer was aimed straight at Hongniang Xing, and shot down a Ming soldier who was attacking beside him with a diagonal stab. Xing The matchmaker yelled coquettishly, and galloped forward while pumping the bay red horse's ass.

"Officer Wuna, take your life!"

Unexpectedly, Song Qingshu's eyes almost popped out after watching this scene.

At the place where Xing Hongniang's back was facing, Song Qingshu saw two officers and soldiers smashing the gunpowder desperately with their cleaning sticks, aiming at Xing Hongniang's back.

The knife in his hand came out, and was directly thrown by Song Qingshu to the first firearms player five meters away. His knife was specially made by Liu Zongmin to imitate the Nepalese machete, and the dog-leg shaped knife flew out like a boomerang. In desperation, the man had a bit of brute strength, and the knife just hit the back of the gunner outside, causing the man to lie on the ground with a scream.

The other musketball player obviously had a poor mental quality. Hearing the screams of his companions, he was so frightened that he dropped his cleaning rod.But he didn't dare to let these musketeers continue to aim, even ignoring to pull out their knives, Song Qingshu flew on him, and rushed at the man with his bare hands.

Really tangled, throwing the firecracker and drawing the knife to fight, or continue to snipe and kill the red-clothed female bandit?Just when the firecracker was hesitating, the guy who was stabbed in the back actually got up, strangled Song Qingshu's arm from behind, and shouted loudly: "I will deal with this man, quickly shoot that red lady, protect him!" grown ups!"

With a jerk, the gunner picked up the cleaning rod in a panic again, and then hammered the gunpowder.

The guy behind him was really strong. Song Qingshu's face was red from being strangled, and his tongue was almost strangled by him. The most anxious thing was that the guy was going to shoot again. In desperation, Song Qingshu slammed his boots towards him. After a chop.

This looks a bit like a girl fighting, but it's absolutely easy to use. With a groan, the man staggered back, turned around, and fought as an apprentice taught by Scarface. Song Qingshu smashed his fists on both sides. It all hit the man's weakness, and after hitting him again, he screamed, grabbed the man's neck and pressed him to the ground hard.

Seeing his companion knocked to the ground, the second musketeer finally lost his hair. He threw the blunderbuss, drew his knife and slashed at Song Qingshu's back. Hearing the clang of the blunderbuss falling to the ground, Song Qingshu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other side, I used the kung fu of playing rope skills at the beginning, and when I came out, Qianhu wanted to command his soldiers to resist, but Xing Hongniang caught him with a noose through the crowd, and immediately dragged away with the horse, also worried about her safety , Liu Dazhu slapped the horse and followed closely behind. This guy was actually good at equestrian skills. He bent over and grabbed the noose to lift Mr. Qian up, and immediately threw him into the crowd. A dozen peasant soldiers rushed forward, bundled with thick ropes, Immediately shouted.

"Seize the official dog's head!"

Most of them shouted Hongniang Xing's name excitedly.

"Red lady! Red lady!"

Originally, no salary was paid this year, and the morale of most of the officers and soldiers was not high. Now the officers were arrested, and the officers and soldiers who were still guarding the delivery cart threw away their helmets and armor, and fled. The main general was alive, seeing that his head was captured, even thirty or so soldiers dared not run away, so they put down their weapons and surrendered in desperation.At this end, Hongniang Xing was holding the dejected Qianhu with a noose, like a heroine, waving her hands high in the crowd.

"Red lady! Red lady!"

That heroic appearance caused the soldiers of the peasant army to cheer even more fervently. On the other end, Song Qingshu was sitting tiredly beside the two gunners, watching Hongniang Xing showing off there, shaking his head in distress. , and immediately turned around and patted the helmet of the living bird gunner who was beaten by him with a bruised nose and face, and asked helplessly.

"I always feel like you're missing something?"

Just now, the back of the first firecracker who was beaten by Song Qingshu was directly pressed in by Song Qingshu's knife. Unable to pull out the armor, he lost the knife and was pushed down by Song Qingshu to the ground. He was beaten by a big electric cannon, and he was exhausted from the beating.

"If I have a knife on my gun, I will stab you directly!"

After saying this, Song Qingshu's eyes lit up when he heard it.

…………

At this end, the entire rear army guarding the supplies was defeated, with boulders constantly falling on their heads, and the peasant army fighting in front of them was incomparably crazy. In the front, the main force of the official army led by the Ganquan County garrison finally couldn't bear it anymore. Knowing who yelled, Qianduo shouted at the officers and soldiers and lost him, and retreated to Yan'an Mansion with all their flags and flags silent.

The peasant army did not go after and killed the Ming army, and Feng Shuangli's subordinates sat down on the ground exhausted. Regardless of the ferocity of the fight just now, less than 60 officers and soldiers died, and his subordinates were killed or injured. There are more than 200. After all, regardless of equipment or training, the peasant army is far from the opponent of these officers and soldiers, and all battles are based on enthusiasm.

The fermented bean curd, the old and the weak, hiding on the high loess slope and throwing stones began to come down in an organized way. The old men were busy looking for dried cow dung and dry wood to start a fire, and the women scalded the woven cotton cloth in hot water and began to make fires. His own soldiers sterilize and eliminate inflammation.

"elder brother!"

Holding a white towel, Caiwei frantically searched among the crowd. It has been five months and she has fought more than a dozen battles, big and small, but whenever Song Qingshu goes into battle, her heart is always tugging, Once the battle is over, he will always be the first to rush to the battlefield and find Song Qingshu, so he is relieved.

In fact, Caiwei is not the only one. I don’t know how many parents, wives and children in Funiushan feel this way. Unfortunately, a large number of people are heartbroken every time, but there is nothing they can do. This is an era of cannibalism.

"I'm here!" He was so tired that he didn't even want to stand up, Song Qingshu waved his hand weakly, Caiwei was relieved, but immediately rushed to his side like a deer.

"Brother, are you hurt? Why are you covered in blood? Let me see!"

"Don't worry, I'll take care of him, he's absolutely fine!" Before Song Qingshu could reply, Xing Hongniang strolled over triumphantly, holding Mr. Qian by the hand, seeing that the girl really didn't have much blood on her body, Song Qingshu She couldn't help but rolled her eyes a lot, and let Caiwei wipe up and down with the towel, but her eyes looked into the distance.

Next, it's up to Brother Zhang!

In Yan'an Mansion, the towering and majestic earth-yellow city wall stood there like a giant in the whistling wind and sand, piercing like a nail in the heart of the peasant army's activities. On it, full of soldiers were patrolling back and forth, suddenly Suddenly, there was a lot of yellow sand below the city, and hundreds of Ming army officers and soldiers fled to the city in a panic.

This situation has been happening for many days. Several reinforcements from nearby states and counties have been defeated one after another. The city guards seem to have become numb. After a few notifications, the gate made of thick wood at the south gate of the city suddenly opened and closed. The defeated soldiers will go in.

It has been like this for several days, and nothing unusual has been seen. Even the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate are yawning, but at this moment, less than a hundred meters away from the city gate, a cavalry on the flat ground moved in an incredible way. All of a sudden, a cloud of dust popped out, the banner of the Eight Great Kings fluttered in the wind, and hundreds of cavalry rode the fierce wind, roaring and rushing towards the south gate.

After watching for a few seconds, they were even stunned. After a while, the hundreds of households on the city gate let out an incomparably shrill roar.

"Close the gate!"

Beside the gate, more than a dozen city gate guards used all their energy, but there were too many defeated soldiers fleeing in. The cavalry caused natural fear. Everyone was afraid of being locked out and being slaughtered by the cavalry. Hundreds of defeated soldiers of the Ming army were crying and pushing in. For a moment, the city gate was actually blocked.

For the cavalry, 100 meters is within seconds!
(End of this chapter)