1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 541 Stalemate ([-])

"It would be great if there were a few cannons here!" Li Fade pointed to a banner of the Jiannu army on the other side of the river, "If you blast there, you can definitely kill a few Jiannu generals."

"If we brought cannons, how would we run?" Xu Chuanxing shook his head and said, "Could it be thrown to Jiannu in the end?"

"If you kill a few important Jiannu generals, you will lose a few cannons." Li Fade said with a smile: "We were in Shandong for a year, and the largest Jiannu general we captured was just one. Participate in the leadership. If you can kill a Baylor or a prince here, wouldn't it be famous all over the world!"

"Didn't we also capture Shi Tingzhu? He is the Eight Banners Han Army of the Jiannu Army with a red flag, Gushan Ezhen (that is, Dutong), and he is already a senior military officer of the Jiannu."

"A traitor slave, how can he be regarded as a senior military officer of Jiannu!" Li Fade said contemptuously: "I want to kill a real senior general of Jiannu, at least he must have a title."

"Don't underestimate the Eight Banners Han army." Niu Hu walked over and said with a smile: "We have interrogated many Jiannu prisoners, and we also know that in the Eight Banners army, the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Han Army Eight Banners actually have little difference in status. , can be counted as the elite lineage of Jiannu."

"But I feel that the Han Army of the Eight Banners is a little worse than the Eight Banners of Manchuria." Li Fade said: "I wondered if more of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were killed, and there were fewer of them, would they not be able to suppress the Han Army of the Eight Banners?" And many Ming troops have surrendered. Maybe when the time comes, they themselves will be in chaos."

"How can it be so easy!" Niu Hu shook his head and said, "We only have a few soldiers, and we can kill a few Manchurian Eight Banners. Now, we have made such a big commotion in Shandong that we are delaying the establishment of slaves and going south to attack Jianghuai, so that the Hongguang court in Nanjing More time to integrate the army and deploy defenses. Now, according to our cavalry investigation, Jiannu is chasing after the Eight Banners Manchurian cavalry and Eight Banners Mongolian cavalry, with a strength of about seven or eight thousand."

"Looking at the darkness, I thought there were more than 1!" Li Fade said nonchalantly, "Then they didn't bring infantry, so they couldn't attack the city.... Jianu has already made a detour to the lower reaches of the river. Let's kill from behind. Should we retreat?"

"Well, it's time to retreat." Niu Hu nodded, and then ordered: "Later, you will take the [-]st Marine Battalion and the Self-Rescue Army to the south first, retreat into the mountains, and then retreat to Qingzhou. I will take the rest of the people to defend An hour is a waste of time with Jiannu."

"Okay, I'll go get ready now." Li Fade said, turning around and walking towards the formation of the First Marine Battalion.

Watching the formation of the Qi army on the other side of the river begin to change, even in the confrontation with our thousands of Qing cavalry, half of the army retreated towards the mountains to the south, completely ignoring the threat of our Qing army.

My aunt can bear it, but my uncle can't bear it either!

Abatai immediately sent out several teams of cavalry to cross the river in several shallow river sections, and ordered thousands of cavalry to dismount, draw bows and arrows by the river and throw feather arrows towards the other side of the river to cover the cavalry crossing the river.

The Qi Marine Corps retreated a few tens of meters and re-arranged at a distance of more than 50 meters from the river bank. When the Jiannu cavalry crossed the river, they did not shoot.But when the opposing cavalry stepped onto the beach and hadn't picked up their horse speed, they started shooting with their guns in a leisurely manner.

With the continuous shooting of muskets, teams of Jiannu cavalry who had just landed were knocked down on the beach in an instant. The screams of Jiannu dying, the neighing of horses, the angry roar of Jiannu on the other side, and the sound of firecrackers into one piece.

Seeing the cavalry crossing the Zi River in vain, they were shot to death one by one on the tidal flat by the black-clothed army on the other side, but their own bows and arrows could not hurt the opponent at all.

As a gust of wind blew by, Abate sat on his horse, looking at the awe-inspiring black-clothed army on the other side of the river, he felt a chill in his heart.They won a big victory before the battle, but there was no joyful talk or noise, and they were still holding muskets, facing them from a distance across a narrow Zi River.

This army is a strong enemy!No wonder Bahana, Hauge and others were defeated in Denglai successively, lost their troops and land, lost their troops and lost their generals.Moreover, this kind of strong army actually protects and supports the prince of Ming Dynasty, and is based in Denglai, just on the flank of Beijing. The threat is so great, I am afraid that after defeating the Shun army and the southern puppet Ming Dynasty, it should belong to this place.

The battlefield was quiet for about two quarters of an hour. While Abatai was anxiously waiting for Handai's troops to quickly go around behind the opposite black-clothed army, he found that the black-clothed army had split up half of their troops and had to organize their luggage a bit. Then run towards the mountains to the south.

Oh, the black-clothed troops on the other side of the river are withdrawing into the mountains in batches. They are preparing to run away before my Qing Jiaqi detours!

However, the opponent's position is only less than two miles away from the mountain, and they can hide in the mountain and successfully break away from our Qing army.Although there were only four hundred black-clothed soldiers on the opposite side, the opponents still lined up in a neat shooting formation, staring at the river bank.

Abatai hesitated for less than a quarter of an hour, then drew out his waist knife, and ordered loudly that all the cavalry dispersed along the river and all crossed the river.

Seeing the entire Jiannu army on the opposite bank along the side of the river, the Qi Marine Corps began to urge their horses to cross the river without any delay. They dispatched dozens of grenadiers, and the few generals threw bombs and ignited them, and threw them all into the river. The rest, under the leadership of officers at all levels, quickly turned left and ran towards the mountains to the south.

Dozens of bombs caused confusion among the Jiannu cavalry who were crossing the river, and more than a hundred cavalry were killed or injured. However, under the urging of the Manchurian Eight Banners Jiaqi, the Mongolian cavalry still struggled to board the other side of the river.After gathering two or three hundred cavalry, a leader of the Eight Banners was unable to catch up with the follow-up cavalry, and directly led his men to chase in the direction where the black-clothed army was fleeing.

Chasing and killing fleeing infantry is what the Eight Banners cavalry like to do most.They were blocked by this black-clothed army just now by the river, causing hundreds of casualties, and they were already full of evil fire.Now that they lost the geographical advantage of the river, they tried to escape into the mountains to avoid the cavalry.Do you really think that your two short legs can outrun our four horse legs?
Seeing that the distance is gradually shortening, and they can catch up with the enemy in a few breaths, the Jiannu cavalry can't help tapping the horse's belly with both legs, holding the horse's mane tightly with one hand, and the short knife with the other hand, preparing to attack the enemy with the help of The horse ran at a high speed, and gently cut the enemy's neck with the sharp blade in his hand.

Some excited Mongolian cavalrymen made playful whistling sounds and bloodthirsty rays of light in their eyes. The next moment, they could reap the heads of the enemy army as much as they wanted, crush their bones with iron hooves, and pay for the dead just now. companion revenge.

Yue Zhongwu felt that there was no more air in his lungs, he opened his mouth wide, panted heavily, and ran with all his might.There was already the sound of rumbling horseshoes behind them, and the Jiannu cavalry was very close to them. Maybe in the next moment, there might be a long knife slashing at the back of his head.

However, when he saw a row of wooden repelling horses more than ten meters ahead, as well as the military formations lined up in several rows of shooting arrays, he was faintly relieved.Just know that those companions who retreated early will not abandon them, and have already made all preparations for the response.

"Quick! Quick! Quick!...Don't stop, stop the horse at the back and rest! Don't stop, pass quickly!...Fuck, get out of the way!" Li Fade stood behind the horse and shouted roared.

Hearing this, Yue Zhongwu picked up his slowed pace, quickly passed through the passage left by the shooting array, and continued to run backwards.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." There was the sound of the Marine Corps' musket salvo from behind, short and intense, followed by the faint neighing of horses, and the crash of men and horses hitting the ground after falling to the ground.

"These damned Jiannu, thought they could find a bargain when they saw us retreat?" Yue Zhongwu twitched the corners of his mouth, and continued to run while taking a deep breath, trying to adjust his running rhythm.Hearing the hooves of Jiannu cavalry chasing horses just now, he was afraid for a moment in his heart, which caused him to run a little bit exhausted at the moment.

Abatai sat on the horse, watching the black-clothed army in front of him slowly disappearing into the mountains, with a gloomy expression, and he didn't speak for a while.Relying on three consecutive horse-repelling formations, the opponent responded back and forth and withdrew into the mountains one after another.He didn't need to send cavalry to investigate. He also knew that although there were roads in the mountains, they were definitely not suitable for cavalry to pass.

If the cavalry dismounts and pursues, the terrain in the mountains is narrow and the road is rough, they will definitely be taken advantage of by the opponent and killed by muskets.

"...My lord, why don't we go to Qingzhou." Han Dai suggested cautiously: "Maybe we can also attach the convoy of the Ming army to transport supplies."

"Can the supplies we carry last to Qingzhou?" Abate said coldly, "Let's go, we will go to Binzhou!"

(End of this chapter)