Qiming 1158

Chapter 1086 He won't let Li Xianzhong go
Wang Chong's luck is not too bad, but he can't run as fast as the cavalry after all, so he is caught up by Pei Le and Su Jianian.

In line with the attitude of not letting go even if they come, the Ming army's iron cavalry surrounded the Song army.

This Song army also had 3000 people, but before they could form an formation, the Ming army broke through the formation, and then they were divided and surrounded by Ming army cavalry, killing more than [-] people, and all the rest surrendered, so they were not killed.

Wang Chong also surrendered. There was no deadly battle. After surrendering in despair, he reported his identity and position. Pei Le and Su Jianian were very happy when they found out that they had captured a general of the forbidden army of the Southern Song Dynasty. Go to Zhang Yuejing's place.

Wang Chong didn't run away.

On the other side, Li Xianzhong also had the will to kill the thief and was unable to return to heaven.

He was first misled by Wang Chong's false news and trapped by his own people. Then, when he learned from the spies that the Ming army had begun to move north, he was very happy and immediately led the main army to move towards Zaoyang.

He was basically sure that Wang Chong's operation was successful, and he had mobilized a large force of the Ming army to come back.

He knows that the Ming army is good at fighting, and also knows that the Ming army has a large number of people. If he leads the troops directly, the effect may not be very good. Therefore, after transferring some of the main Ming army, and then cooperate with the Xiangfan Song army, the fighting effect may be better. .

With such thoughts in mind, Li Xianzhong wanted to apologize to Wang Chong.

Because he really hadn't considered whether Wang Chong could go back after entering Henan.

These 1 people, including Wang Chong, the commander of the Guards and Horse Army Division, and the senior generals of the Forbidden Army, are all cannon fodder in Li Xianzhong's eyes, the kind of cannon fodder that must be sacrificed in order to win.

As long as they can mobilize enough Ming soldiers to return to the rescue, it is enough.

Of course, he knew that the Ming cavalry was strong and Wang Chong had no cavalry. He was basically dead in Henan and could not escape at all.

But what then?

unimportant.

As long as you can win.

Paying 1 people for victory is simply too much money, okay?

After many years of fighting, Li Xianzhong has long been cold-hearted and doesn't care about human life at all, but in the face of the bloody reality, he has to admit that he seems to have made a big mistake.

When he led his army to Zaoyang, everything was normal. The Ming army of Zaoyang closed the city and defended it. Li Xianzhong commanded the army to surround Zaoyang while launching a fierce attack, trying to take down Zaoyang in a short time and eliminate the obstacles to Xiangyang.

However, when he further besieged Zaoyang, he unexpectedly learned that a large group of Ming troops was approaching from the north, and had reached the Tongbai Mountain area, blocking their way back north.

At the same time, there is another Ming army galloping towards Zaoyang from the direction of Cabinet Gate Pass, which is also very close to them and can be reached in half a day.

At the same time, Suizhou on the south side was not under his control.

Li Xianzhong looked at the map, his brows furrowed, and his face was full of disbelief.

"The south and west are normal. Where did the Ming army in the north come from? The Ming army has sent more troops to Henan? But I just arrived in Zaoyang! Why did they come?"

Li Xianzhong didn't understand what happened to the Ming army in the north, but he faintly felt that his action plan seemed to have been known by the Ming army, and everything was leaked. If he did not lead the army to leave, he might be in danger.

In addition to glory and scars, the decades of fighting in the battlefield brought him a strong sixth sense.

Li Xianzhong immediately made a decision to personally lead the army to attack the north, and then continue the task of attacking Zaoyang.

He handed over the remaining 2 imperial troops to his generals, and asked him to continue attacking Zaoyang and deal with the Ming army from the Kuimenguan. Xinyang.

I have to say that Li Xianzhong's decision is quite meaningful, because even Ma Hongxing, who led the army to block his retreat, did not expect Li Xianzhong to lead his troops to attack so quickly. arrive.

But this time, Ma Hongxing will not let Li Xianzhong go.

He lined up and sent [-] troops to face Li Xianzhong's [-] vanguards on the vast battlefield.

The strength of the two sides is evenly matched, but the problem is that there are [-] firearms troops in the army led by Ma Hongxing.

They did not carry the general artillery, but only brought the cavalry general artillery and the musketeers. When confronted, they began to shoot the Song army at a relatively close position.

The thunder-like roar and the terrifying penetrating power and lethality of the cannonballs caused a huge panic to the Song Army, which was still relatively tight.

When they found that it was impossible for them to withstand a scorching iron bullet, Song Jun's army began to collapse.

Dozens of chariots and cavalry generals roared continuously, and the Song army's dense formation was severely hit by artillery shells.

But in all fairness, the number of Song troops who died directly under the shells was really small.

An iron bomb will not explode, and there are not many people who are directly killed or shocked, and the lethality cannot increase explosively, and it is impossible to have the lethality of modern artillery.

The problem is that the shock and fear of unknown weapons brought by a complete dense army formation after being hit by an iron bullet will directly destroy Song Jun's will to fight.

Originally, they were not powerful elites, nor were they an iron army that did not retreat until the last soldier. Basically, if they lost [-] to [-] percent, they should collapse.

A stronger feudal iron army is estimated to be able to withstand a casualty rate of 20.00% to [-], and then it will collapse.

Fighting to the last soldier is not so simple. Just watching the comrades die one by one, the huge sense of fear can completely swallow people, and it can be considered strong if they are not scared to death on the spot.

If you want to fight to the last soldier, simply for money, for promotion, and without the blessing of faith, it is simply impossible.

Obviously, this Song army has no strong beliefs. The battle is for money, for a better life, and for themselves, so that's what it is.

After several salvos from the chariot and cavalry generals, the Song army's will to fight was destroyed, the army collapsed, and the soldiers fled one after another.

Some officers simply ran with them, running faster than the soldiers.

The Ming army's infantry and cavalry took advantage of the situation to cover and kill, so that the musketeers in the army were of no use. Ten thousand Song army collapsed, and suffered heavy losses under the cover and killing of the Ming army.

"My dear, this firearm is incredible. With this, I can directly take them to Lin'an."

Ma Hongxing was majestic, and immediately led the Ming army to chase the Song army southwards, and did not intend to give the Song army the slightest chance to breathe.

So that the main force led by Li Xianzhong was not yet ready for battle, and the Ming army had already arrived, and they pushed the artillery cart and opened fire.

The artillery shells smashed pits one after another in the Song Army's dense army formation, blasting out groups of blood flowers, blasting the Song Army's formation into pieces, blood spattered everywhere, and stumps and broken arms flying around.

The hellish terrifying scene destroyed many Song soldiers' will to fight on the spot. They were quickly frightened and desperately tried to escape.

Among the troops led by Li Xianzhong, there are 3 elites from the headquarters, well-trained, and the cost of food and clothing is better than that of the general Song army. Under the heavy artillery fire of the Ming army, some parallel troops collapsed directly, but the elites of Li Xianzhong's headquarters still persisted. for a while.

Of course, Li Xianzhong also made a lot of efforts to pull out the personal guards in time to act as a supervisory team, and slashed and slashed fiercely at the fleeing soldiers.

At least he succeeded in stabilizing the main force of the Song army that was about to collapse under the artillery.

Then he quickly passed the military order, and divided the 1 elite main force into four army formations, neatly arranged and advanced to the forefront, as the forward of the whole army.

Let the lieutenant rectify the rout troops in the rear that have lost order and reorganize them.

The deafening sound of gunpowder exploding was a firearm, Li Xianzhong could confirm.

But he didn't know what improvements were made to the firearms of the Ming army. They could actually launch such terrifying iron bullets and directly penetrate the front line of defense of an army formation. None of the above will survive.

The power of this kind of firearm is far greater than that of a crossbow, and at the same time, it does not look like a fireball that is thrown out. What is it?
Li Xianzhong couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he could only send the elite forward to resist the Ming army's offensive and buy time for the rear to reorganize.

The four army formations of the former army were all trained by him. They stood up to the artillery fire of the Ming army and used crossbows to shoot at the distant Ming army. However, because of the long distance, the Ming army's firearms phalanx was not threatened.

However, the artillery can't continue to shoot for a long time. After one round of shooting, after all the four sub-guns are used up, they must be watered with warm water, and the inner chamber should be cleaned by the way. Therefore, after four rounds of shooting, Song Jun has an opportunity.

Ma Hongxing did not order the firearms phalanx to move forward, but planned to continue to use the advantages of artillery to give Song Jun a few more hits.

Although the Song army on the front line didn't know why the Ming army stopped the artillery bombardment, the fact that the Ming army stopped the artillery bombardment at this moment of panic was tantamount to saving their lives for the Song army.

Li Xianzhong discovered this gap. Although he didn't know what was going on, he felt that the opportunity for Che to shorten the distance with the Ming army and enter into hand-to-hand combat was meaningful.

So he ordered the front-line commanding officers to advance and shoot, and ordered the bowmen to shoot arrows.

The Song army continued to move forward, and the arrows were fired without interruption. Ma Hongxing realized that this Song army was not weak, but rather elite, and the idea of ​​a good battle rose in his heart.

However, the Ming army gunners are still relatively powerful.

When the Song army formation had not yet reached a suitable position, the Ming army gunners were ready for the second round of firing. With the transmission of the firing order, the second round of firing began.

The extremely fast artillery shells smashed into the Song army formations wrapped in a scorching and strong airflow.

Anyone who hits this dense army formation will be able to splatter the blood of the people in the army formation with broken limbs and broken arms, and basically no corpses are hit, and those who are lucky enough not to die are half dead.

The people around were either knocked down or bloodied, and they didn't know if it was their own or their comrades-in-arms.

The artillery's blow to the Song army formation was still very huge.

When Li Xianzhong finally realized that his army was likely to be completely destroyed by Ming artillery before hand-to-hand combat, he couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately ordered the only [-] horses to attack the Ming artillery in a roundabout way, using the speed advantage to avoid the artillery. bombardment.

Although he didn't know what an artillery was, it was not difficult to analyze that this kind of artillery was of little significance for a high-speed-moving warhorse.

Obviously, this is the correct answer.

The Song army cavalrymen detoured from left and right to the Ming army position in two ways, trying to destroy the strange firearms of the Ming army.

But the problem is that the cavalry of the Ming army will only be more and stronger than the Song army.

Zhang Yuejing dispatched [-] cavalry to Ma Hongxing. After seeing the Song army cavalry dispatched, Ma Hongxing immediately ordered the Ming army iron cavalry to meet them and launch a countercharge. .

At that time, the only way for this Song army to collapse is to go.

Five thousand Ming army cavalry against two thousand Song army cavalry, who wins and who loses, does not seem to be an unsolvable problem.

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PS: The new crown has been diagnosed in my hometown, and the whole city is nervous. I have to prepare for a nucleic acid test, and I have to prepare for the closure of the community at any time, crying.

PPS: I have been recruited in this small third-tier place. It seems that this wave of epidemics is coming...

PPPS: The new crown of God!
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