1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 444 Going to Beijing and Encountering Bandits ([-])
"Landing Tiger" Luo Guangfu used to be a cavalry soldier in Jizhou Town. After Songjin was defeated, he fled all the way to Shanhaiguan with the defeated army.But here, not only did they not get comfort and supplement, but they were also squeezed out by Liao soldiers.In addition to Songshan's disastrous defeat, he was already frightened by Jiannu's ferocity, so he didn't want to be incorporated into Shanhai Town, set up some kind of vanguard battalion, and stay in Liaodong to die.Then he took several defeated troops, escaped from the pass, and came to Hebei.

Along the way, with some force, several defeated troops looted more than a dozen single households, avoided the camps of several military towns, and fled to the vicinity of Wuqing County.Because they belonged to fugitives, they still ran out from the pass, so naturally they could no longer return to the ranks of the army.Therefore, several of them planned to flee to Henan and join the refugee team to make a living.

But in a mountain in Wuqing County, a few defeated soldiers met bandits who had fallen into the grass here, and after a little discussion, they joined the gang.And just a month ago, Luo Guangfu and others annihilated the former bandit leader and seized this cottage, and then called himself "Landing Tiger" and temporarily lived here.

With a few troops, "Landing Tiger" and others became somewhat ambitious, thinking that they should recruit troops and buy horses, and do some business without capital first.If things go wrong, it will not be too late to escape to the Henan refugee team when encountering a brigade of officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them.But if the imperial court doesn't ask, then a few people may take advantage of the chaos in the world to gather a crowd to form an army, and with the convenience of the vicinity of the capital, maybe they will accomplish a big event.

For more than a month, bandits such as "Landing Tiger" successively gathered nearly a thousand refugees in the mountains more than a dozen miles southwest of Wuqing County, and looted the villagers in nearby towns.After Wuqing County heard the news, it immediately sent a letter to Wenshuntian Mansion, requesting soldiers to come to suppress the thieves and restore peace to the Gyeonggi area.But unfortunately, the court of the capital was arguing endlessly about Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, humiliating the country with private funds, and Yi of Shuntian Prefecture was also involved in it, so he put the matter on hold for the time being.

More than 500 guards officers and soldiers escorted the envoys of the State of Qi from Tianjin all the way to the capital. If it was just an ordinary envoy team, the bandits such as "Landing Tiger" would not provoke them at will. Although the combat effectiveness of more than 500 guards officers and soldiers is not high, they are After all, they are serious officers and soldiers of the imperial court. They are a group of mobs, they may not be able to gnaw at them, but they will compromise their own strength.

But two days ago, another group of bandits not far from the "Floating Tiger" and other thieves sent representatives to invite them to go down the mountain to intercept the mission convoy. A large amount of food and ordnance, if they can be seized, will definitely strengthen the strength of each other's two families.

food!

ordnance!

"Landing Tiger" waited for the bandit's eyes to brighten up.In other words, although they have gathered a team of nearly a thousand people, and their momentum has grown on the surface, but at the same time they are also facing tremendous pressure. The daily food of their subordinates has made several heroic leaders gray their hair anxiously.Almost all the surrounding villages were plundered by them, but how much savings can the poor people who are also miserable have to feed the heroes.

They couldn't attack some of the slightly larger towns and landlord villas. Therefore, the heroes who gathered in the mountains and forests actually had a very poor life, and it was not even as good as they could eat on the Liaodong battlefield.

Now I heard that there is a convoy carrying a large amount of food, how can we not make the "Landing Tiger" and others jealous, not to mention that there are a lot of ordnance in the convoy, if it is robbed, it will make the brothers even more powerful!
It's done!

"Landing Tiger" and others and their partners who came to make an appointment to go down the mountain to plunder determined the proportion of spoils after the event, and then began to prepare intensively to go down the mountain.

The two groups of thieves almost mobilized, gathering more than 500 people, thinking of the ratio of three against one, and ambushing halfway, they would surely defeat the guards guards.They gathered all the pack horses, mules, and donkeys in the cottage, assembled a "cavalry unit" of more than 30 people, and planned to use the most rapid offensive to crush the guards at the first moment of the attack.

Before noon, when the convoy was exhausted and about to rest, bandits such as "Landing Tiger" immediately launched an attack on the mission convoy, but the planned surprise attack did not come true. , Actually know how to send outposts to detect horses and guards to guard.Before joining the battle, they were discovered by the opponent in advance, and began to organize civilians to gather all the vehicles in the outer circle, preparing to defend against their attacks.

"Landing Tiger" Luo Guangfu rode a rough horse, hiding behind the charge of "cavalry", his eyes were fixed on the opposite convoy.The civilian husbands who drove the cars were already in chaos. Some civilian husbands, driven by the officers and soldiers of the guards, struggled to drive the vehicles to the middle, trying to form a circular car formation.Some peasants threw down their vehicles in a panic and fled to the left field where there were no bandits attacking.

Luo Guangfu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw several bullock carts crashing into each other out of panic, making the road even more chaotic.With a whistle in his mouth, he shouted loudly: "Rush over and kill them all! Grab their food, and everyone will be full!"

The charging thieves had blood in their eyes, holding knives, forks, spears and other various weapons in their hands, shouted, and swarmed forward.

"Don't panic, keep your hands steady." Bai Haihai stood in the first row, holding his musket in both hands, aiming straight at the "cavalry" charging forward, "Listen to my password, and hit their cavalry first.  … Damn it, what the hell is this called a cavalry?"

Huang Zijia and other representatives of the envoys of the Qi State and the black-clothed guards were also holding muskets and lined up in the third row, listening to the orders of the Marine Corps platoon leader in the first row with a calm expression.At this time, a few feathered arrows flew out from the vehicle team, but due to lack of strength, they fell in front of the charging thieves.Not far from him, an officer from a thousand households was shouting at the top of his lungs for the soldiers of the guard to organize a gun formation behind several carriages.However, there were still some quick-witted soldiers who, taking advantage of the Shangguan's inattention, dropped their knives and guns, and fled to the field on the left side of the team after the scattered peasants.

Cheng Huaili, the Shaoqing of Honghe Temple, and Bo Xue Hengchun, the master, were already pale. It is not known whether they were afraid of the attack of bandits, or angry at the chaos of the officers and soldiers of the guard, their mouths were open, and they were saying something.In the land of Gyeonggi, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, bandits unexpectedly attacked the pilgrimage envoys from the Fanbang. This shocked several court officials, but also felt a little sad.

"preparation!"

"put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Bai Haihai ordered loudly, and then, with a snap of his fingers, he fired the flintlock gun in his hand, then lowered his body, and moved to the right, but he did not retreat behind with the first row of soldiers, but held the With bayonet-tipped muskets, he stood on the right side of the thin army formation.

"The second row is ready!" Bai Haihai ordered again loudly.

"Get ready!... Let it go!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The second row of muskets fired, and Bai Dahai stared at the rushing "cavalry" team, seeing that the opponent had been knocked down at least seven or eight cavalry, and the remaining "cavalry" obviously stagnated, showing a trace of confusion.

"The third row is ready!"

"Get ready! Let go!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

"Falling Tiger" Luo Guangfu didn't take it seriously when he heard the sound of firecrackers. When they were in Jizhou Town, the army also had firecrackers, but those things were mostly scary. As for hurting people, it all depended on luck.On the Liaodong battlefield, Hong Dushuai only relied on numerous artillery to stalemate with Jiannu for a period of time.Once Jiannu broke through the formation of the Ming army, the firearms were completely useless, and they could only wait for Jiannu to hack and kill.

Well, what's the situation?After Luo Guangfu heard the sound of the second firecracker, he found that the "cavalry" who charged into the formation had been knocked down seven or eight cavalry, and the front line of the formation began to scatter, and even a donkey, roaring, led a "cavalry" Running towards the left side of the team, the hero on the donkey was thrown to the side, his body was crooked, and he was about to fall to the ground.

There was another sound of musket shooting in front of him. "Falling Tiger" Luo Guangfu felt the horse under his crotch tremble, then neighed, and fell to his front hooves on the ground. His whole body took advantage of the momentum and flew forward.

"The cavalry has broken up, turn to the right!" Bai Haihai, the platoon leader of the Marine Corps, saw that the more than 20 so-called cavalry had been scattered by the platoon guns, and many bandits began to turn around and run back. ahead.There was a team of officers and soldiers of the guard station, who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with more than a hundred thieves and bandits, and saw that they were about to advance the battle line to the ranks of mission vehicles.

With the side and rear support of Qi musketeers, the guards at the front of the convoy took advantage of the situation to attack, beheading more than ten thieves on the spot, and defeated hundreds of enemies in front of them in one fell swoop.

In this raid battle, the officers and soldiers of Daming Guards performed very poorly. The long-range attack weapons did not play a corresponding blocking role, and the defensive formation was not deployed. The officers and soldiers almost seemed a little panicked.

But the performance of the attacking bandits was worse than that of the officers and soldiers of the guard. Except for the so-called cavalry in the middle of the attacking vehicle team, which was a little threatening, the attacking team had no offensive formation at all, and their equipment was even worse. It was just seeing the civilian husbands driving the car and a small number of guard officers and soldiers running away in a panic after being suddenly attacked, which aroused their blood for a moment, and then rushed over with great excitement.

However, after being resisted by the guards' organized defense forces, it gradually became unsustainable. Just temporarily relying on the superiority in numbers, under the leadership of a dozen leading bandits, they surrounded the officers and troops, shouting loudly.

But from time to time, there were bursts of musket fire in the formation, and there were thieves clutching blood holes on their bodies in pain and falling in front of the formation. The thieves who were clamoring behind felt that something was wrong, and slowly began to retreat.

Wang Qing, the commander of the Tianjin right guard who led the team, also came back to his senses at this time, seeing that the bandits on the opposite side seemed a little helpless under the continuous shooting of Qi's musketeers, and he immediately regained his spirits.

"Make meritorious deeds today! Brothers, kill the thieves!" Wang Qingyou brandished a goose-wing knife, and rushed out towards the gap in the chariot formation with a few trusted soldiers.

(End of this chapter)