Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 220 Three Cities in One Day
The battle in Neixiang and the city was particularly fierce. The doubts of the four generals Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong, and Tian Jianxiu were also felt by Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi at this time.

According to the strategy set by Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng, at this time, Lin Yi's army should be attacked from three sides, Neixiang, Xichuan, and Xinye, with six generals and 9000 troops. If you entangle them, and then Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin from Nanyang City lead people to kill them, then this army will be unable to fly.

But it seems that it is not what they expected. This time, the officers and soldiers are not in chaos at all, and they don't look like they are facing the enemy from three sides.Didn't Li Guo and his son from Xichuan, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu from Xinye bring people to kill them?Why did the shouting and killing sound gradually fade away, and finally there was no movement?

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi organized three consecutive charges, but they failed to disperse the opposing army, but now they were dispersed by the opposing army because the army launched a counterattack.

Now the two of them knew they had been fooled, because they were not idiots, they were Li Zicheng's well-known generals, and of course they had a certain level of strategy.

The officer army in front of them was bluffing and shouting, but they didn't charge forward.When they rushed out of the city, the officers and soldiers wiped their heads and ran away.But running is running, not scattered at all, and after running for a while, now he stops to fight them to death.Now it has launched a fierce counterattack.

From the experiences before and after the contact, it is not difficult for the two generals to think that there is fraud in it.

In addition, they found that the fighting power of this team was not something their 3000 troops could resist.There are only a lot more troops than them, and all of them are firecrackers.Well-trained, whether it is retreating or attacking, it is in formation.It's not something their untrained peasant army organization can resist.

Although they charged there desperately, Liu Fangliang had a bright silver gun, and he himself could not count the officers and soldiers who died under his gun.Yuan Zong's first pair of leopard-tailed double whips has now become a meat whip.

But even so, it is difficult to restore this passive beating situation.After these three charges.More than half of the 3000 men and horses under his command have been killed or injured, and now the official army collectively launched a countercharge against them.It made their situation worse, the men and horses under them were already in chaos, they couldn't shout anymore, they were routed, and all the corpses of their soldiers were lying on the ground.

Now there are no more than a hundred people gathered around these two generals.It shows that it is necessary to retreat to the city and stick to the city to see the effect.If the fight continues, the entire army will definitely be wiped out, not to mention making dumplings for this army, they themselves will lose everything.

Therefore, the two generals hurriedly issued an order to retreat. Rather than saying that the two of them ordered to retreat, it would be better to say that the two of them ran together.Because most of the soldiers under him now don't listen to the two of them, they have to run if they are told to run, and they have to run if they are not allowed to run.

Dongsheng led a battalion of musketeers, and rushed to the city in one charge.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi retreated to the city with the remnants of the defeated generals, pulled up the suspension bridge, and held on to the city.Their bows and arrows, rolling logs and thunder stones have no effect on these musketeers at all, because the Ming army is out of range for them, but they are within the range of the Ming army's firecrackers.

The muskets of the Ming army fired again on the other side of the river, and the men and horses on the city were shot down from time to time.

Seeing that the time was right, Dong Sheng ordered someone to swim across the moat with a ladder, then climbed to the other side of the river, rushed under the city wall, and began to attack the city.

When the thieves on the top of the city raised their heads again, the Ming army had already climbed up the ladder.There was another fierce hand-to-hand fight, and as more and more soldiers of the Ming army climbed to the top of the city, the thieves on the city were killed and scattered, and fled in all directions.

To kill the bandits guarding the city gate, someone lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate.Dongsheng rushed in with the rest of the team.

At this time, the firecrackers of the Ming army had stopped ringing, because they had run out of ammunition.But these firecrackers are not fire sticks, they are also their weapons.On this point, Ji Dong had already trained them specially, and they could still wipe out the enemy without bullets.

Because their firecrackers have been improved and fitted with a foot-long bayonet.Close the bayonet when not in use, and open the bayonet when in use.

It's like the [-]th cover of later generations, so the Ming army picked up the remaining thieves with these things, and it was heartbreaking to go down with a bayonet.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi fought desperately, and the two were very anxious.Didn't it mean that the Ming army would be attacked on several sides?It's been such a long time, where have all those people gone?King Chuang and Liu Zongmin should have rushed over from Nanyang too?

The two people fought more and more, and the more they killed, the more urgent they were. In the end, because they were outnumbered, the last two were also injured in many places, and they fled through another city gate with only more than 200 disabled soldiers left.

Dongsheng's Musketeer Battalion, after more than an hour of fighting, took Neixiang City.

Look inside and outside the city, above and below the city.The banks of the moat and in the moat were full of dead bodies, and blood flowed like a river.

Dongsheng rectified his troops, and his first battalion also suffered thousands of casualties in this bloody battle.But no matter what, the first battle was won, and the battlefield was placed outside the city, achieving the strategic goal of winning the inner city in one fell swoop.

But this is not the end of the calculation, because the task that Ji Dong gave them was to immediately rectify the soldiers and horses and send them to Nanyang City after they took the city.

After a short rest, the ammunition was replenished, and 500 people, including some wounded, were left behind. A general in the army was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield this time and maintaining order in the city.

Dong Sheng personally led the remaining [-] soldiers from the Musketeer Battalion out of the North Gate and headed towards Nanyang City...

When Li Guo and his son and Yuan Zongdi Liu Fangliang were defeated, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu also ran away with the defeated generals.

Gan Bao followed closely with the Biao battalion.The people in the standard battalion are all cavalry.Shoot arrows while chasing, and shoot guns while chasing.

Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu's men and horses fell down while running, and ran for dozens of miles in one breath. When they ran outside Xinye City, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu looked behind. It was too miserable, except for them Apart from the two brothers, there were only a handful of soldiers who followed, at most a hundred or so.

When they left the city two hours ago, there were a full 3000 people. Now there are only more than 100 people left. Fortunately, the entire army was not wiped out.What about Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, and Yuan Zongdi?What about King Chuang and President Liu of Nanyang City?
Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu couldn't figure it out, now is not the time to think about it, a hundred of them ran into the city, the drawbridge was pulled up, the city gate was closed, and they planned to stick to the city.

But these more than 100 people are too few. Although Xinye County is a small county, it is too ridiculous to have more than 100 people to guard it. More than 100 people are estimated to be able to guard at least one home.

Only then did Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi realize that they almost came out in full force, because at that time they only wanted to wipe out this army, and of course all the troops who could be taken out were taken out.What I thought was that the officers and soldiers must be fooled. Now it seems that the officers and soldiers were not fooled, but they were fooled!
At this time, apart from the more than 100 remnants and defeated generals who returned by luck, it is not true to say that there is not a single general in the city. All the soldiers were sent to the city to guard the city, and the common people were almost sent to the city. In this way, there were only three to four hundred people.

At this time, the troops of the Biaoying camp chased outside the city. After Gan Bao rested for a while, he launched a fierce attack on the small town of Xinye.

More than 3000 standard battalion soldiers all followed the tigers on the mountain.Although the moat has been widened and deepened, and the city walls have been thickened and raised, they cannot stop this tiger and wolf army at all.The point is that there are too few generals in the city, and three or four hundred people are still the same generals. No matter how brave Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi are, they can't cover the sky with their hands.

As a result, within an hour, this impregnable small county town was breached by the government army.Gan Bao led more than 3000 people into the city like a tide, rushing and killing.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi fought desperately, and in the end only dozens of people around them escaped outside the city.

So far, the Ming army has completely occupied the small town. Gan Bao ordered his subordinates to strictly enforce military discipline and not disturb the people.Otherwise, if Master Lin blames them, none of them can bear it.

Counting the number of people, Lin Yi's standard battalion has a total of 3500 soldiers, and the casualties have not exceeded 300 so far. That is to say, more than 200 people have been reduced in this war, including the dead and injured, but the 3000 troops of Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi were wiped out. Also captured Xinye County.

Gan Bao picked out a trustworthy general, and left him a total of 500 people including those who were injured to guard Xinye, take care of the wounded, and maintain order in the city.

According to Lin Yi's prior agreement, Gan Bao took the remaining 2700 soldiers of the standard battalion out of Xinye and headed straight for Nanyang City...

(End of this chapter)