Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

"Boom~boom~boom~"

The moment he heard the marching drum, the left commander Yu Dahai was distracted. He was a general of Zeng Ying, a Ming Dynasty general who was feared in eastern Sichuan. Zeng Ying always charged in front of the enemy in every battle and was invincible. Because of his beautiful beard, the enemy was shocked and thought he was a god. When the Dashi Army entered Sichuan, Zeng Ying fought with them many times, fought to the death and died heroically. Yu Dahai wanted to follow Zeng Ying's example and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Because of his bravery in battle, he was named "Tiger" and was named Duke of Zheng by Emperor Yongli. However, the orthodox Ming Dynasty generals and the generals from the Dashi Army could not pee in the same pot after all. In the fifth year of Yongli (1651), he saw his good friend Li Zhanchun was defeated by Liu Wenxiu in Fuzhou, so he left Sichuan and went to Chu to avoid the Dashi Army. When the Qing court threatened his old mother's life, he had no choice but to surrender to the Qing. I thought it was just a temporary solution, but once I put on the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, I could never take it off. In the past few years, I have been promoted to a higher position and became the Left Governor of the Qing Dynasty. It is good, but after a hundred years, how can I face my ancestors with this rat tail?
"Boom~boom~boom~"

After the second drum sounded, Yu Dahai calmed himself down, shook off his reverie, and shouted to his subordinates: "Forward!" Two thousand heavily armored infantrymen slowly moved forward following the military order. Most of them were veterans who had fought with him for many years. No matter whether he was Duke of Zheng or the Left General, they would always stick with him through thick and thin.

"Shoot!" With a command from the western brother Xili Batur, arrows flew like locusts, covering the army.

"Ping ping pong pong", sharp arrows hit the heavy armor of the Qing army and fell one after another like scratching an itch. Except for the occasional arrow that shot through the gaps in the neck or mask and injured people, most of them were safe and sound.

"Boom~boom~boom~"

The drumbeats became more and more urgent, and the Qing army was getting closer and closer. One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred steps, eighty steps... No matter how hard they shot, the archers of the Wei army were helpless against the enemy.

"Discard bows and replace with muskets," the elder brother Xili Batur suddenly ordered. Seter, Ayuqi and other generals immediately ordered their subordinates to discard bows and arrows and replace them with three-barreled muskets.

There were still fifty steps away from the guards, "Cymbals~" Yu Dahai drew out his broadsword. This sword had killed countless people and earned him the name "Tiger".

"Shoot!" At the same time, Xidi Xilibaatur roared.

"Bang~bang~bang~" The guards lined up in six rows, with more than 300 people in each row, and began to fire in unison. The flintlock rifles fired very quickly, and after three consecutive shots, they passed the three-barreled guns to the back row one by one, and the back row also passed the three-barreled guns loaded with ammunition in their hands to the front row one by one. The last row reloaded the guns that had been emptied of ammunition.

"Bang~bang~bang~" "Bang~bang~bang~" The dull gunshots were continuous like frying beans.

Yu Dahai was not concerned. He had fought for many years and knew that the power of the three-barreled gun was not as good as that of the bird gun. It was not easy to shoot through heavy armor, and at best it would only cause some injuries to the soldiers. However, the three-barreled gun used by the guards had a longer barrel, a larger amount of gunpowder, and a greater speed and impact force of the projectile, which could actually shoot through double-layer armor within fifty steps.

"Plop~Plop~Plop~" Heavy armored soldiers were shot and fell to the ground one after another.

Looking at his fallen comrades around him, Yu Dahai's eyes turned red and he shouted, "Brothers, charge forward, charge forward and their guns will not fire!" Hearing the commander's call, his subordinates quickened their pace, but they were wearing heavy armor and could not run fast in the deep snow no matter how hard they tried. Instead, they became targets of the guards and fell one after another.

"Ah~ah~ah~"

Yu Dahai went crazy, wielding a broadsword and leaping high. His martial arts were far beyond the reach of his subordinates, and he could leap in the snow. But it was difficult to defend against the dense bullets, and after a while, several bullets penetrated his heavy armor.

"Ugh~" Yu Dahai groaned with difficulty, spat out large mouthfuls of blood, and fell to the ground dejectedly.

"Left Commander", "Duke" ... accompanied by the exclamations of the guards around them, the morale of the heavy infantry was lost. They were originally ready to die but became panicked. Some of them stayed where they were and were shot down one by one by the guards. Some turned around and ran back desperately to escape the range of the guards' muskets. Yu Dahai's general flag also fell. The retreat of the heavy infantry disrupted the military formation of Dong Yongfan, Dong Yongai and other troops in the rear, and the Qing army was in chaos.

"The opportunity for war is coming!" Chu Wang Baoyin, who saw it clearly, laughed loudly and made a decisive decision: "All troops attack!"

"Woo~wu~wu~"

Hearing the loud charge, the guards' thousand-household chief Seter and the chief of the army Ayuqi led their troops to run out. They had suffered a great loss at the Wuchong River last time, and this time they wanted to avenge their previous defeat. "Good boy!" Seeing that his two lieutenants were charging ahead of him, Xili Batur, his younger brother, said nothing and rushed forward with his sword in his hand. How could the commander lag behind the lieutenants? The generals were the courage of the soldiers, and the generals at all levels fought bravely, making the entire guards' vanguard boil with excitement and fiercely charged towards the Qing army.

"Ho~ho~ho~" Chu Wang Baoyin suddenly let out a howl from his throat, and ran forward with his spear in hand like a hungry wolf. "Your Highness is the commander-in-chief, how can you easily put yourself in danger? Let me charge first!" Chechen Hou Babu, who was supposed to be the rear guard, ran to the center of the army at some point, and seeing Baoyin charging in person, he spread his big feet and left His Highness the King of Chu behind.

"Damn you! How dare you steal my military credit!" Baoyin stamped his feet in anger, but Babu could not stop running so fast that he was ahead of him in the blink of an eye.

"Kill~ Kill~ Kill~" "Haorui~Haorui~Haorui~" The shouts and cheers of the guards were everywhere. The David warriors, who were originally a little tired after the long journey, burst out with extraordinary fighting power under the encouragement of victory, killing the Qing army in pieces and making them flee in all directions.

Lieutenant General Dong Yongfan, the eldest son of Huguang Admiral Dong Xueli, ran a little slower and was caught up by Setel, who swung his sword and cut him in half with one stroke.

"Brother!" Seeing his eldest brother's flag fall, Dong Xueli's second son, the guerrilla Dong Yongai, cried out in grief and led his troops to rescue him. He was surrounded by the guards and could not get out no matter how hard he tried. Just as he was panicking, a stray arrow shot at him and hit him in the right eye. The arrow was so powerful that it penetrated deep into his brain and killed him instantly.

Chai Yaoxian, a Han army commander on the left wing of the Qing army, rode a warhorse, thinking that he could run faster on horseback. Little did he know that the horse's hooves were stuck in the snow, and it was not much faster than a human, but instead attracted the enemy's attention. Babai, a fierce general of the Wei army and the head of the Southern Desert, saw him and knew that he was an enemy general. He leaped up and ran to Chai Yaoxian in a few steps, and before he could react, he chopped him down with an axe. "Puff~" The axe cut off his head, and the head with eyes open rolled in the snow. Huang Guozhong, a lieutenant general of the Huguang Green Camp on the right wing, was smarter than Chai Yaoxian. Seeing that the situation was not good, he simply ordered his subordinates to raise the flag of surrender, kneel on the ground, and surrender.

The defeat was like a landslide. Looking at the devastation on the battlefield, despair appeared in Lai Tuku's eyes.

"Marshal, please lead the troops to retreat quickly. I will cover your rear." When the general flags of his two sons fell one after another, the Huguang governor Dong Xueli became disheartened and thought of dying.

"If you want to retreat, let's retreat together. How could I be a coward?" Lai Tuku was furious.

"Jin Zhong, quickly escort the commander away." Dong Xueli did not answer, but directly gave orders to Jin Zhong, the commander of the Red Banner of the Han army.

Seeing this, Jin Zhong didn't say anything and ran to the back carrying Lai Tuku.

Dong Xueli ordered the flag officers to blow the trumpet to gather the troops. The defeated Huguang Green Camp gathered around his flag, which also attracted the attention of the guards. Seeing that there was still a Qing army resisting stubbornly, Baoyin issued an order to encircle the army. Wangchuk and Babai led the army to encircle the two wings, and Baoyin led the army to press forward from the front. Soon, Dong Xueli was surrounded and could not escape. He did not want to escape, and led more than a thousand men around him to form a battle array to resist.

"Hmph! Shoot!" Seeing that the enemy had been surrounded, Baoyin did not order his subordinates to fight forward, but instead ordered them to shoot.

The guards lined up in an orderly manner and began to shoot arrows. It seemed as if there were endless arrows in their quivers, and they shot down wave after wave of Qing soldiers.

"Brothers, follow me to kill the enemy!" Dong Xueli's eyes were flushed with blood, and he roared as he led his remaining subordinates to charge towards Baoyin's royal flag.

"Swoosh~swoosh~swoosh~" Arrows flew like locusts. A heavy arrow pierced Dong Xueli's chest fiercely. It was an armor-piercing arrow.

The Huguang governor died, but the rain of arrows from the guards continued. When there were only a hundred or so men left, Baoyin mercifully raised her hand and stopped the massacre.

"Whoever surrenders will avoid death!"

At the command, the battlefield was littered with armor and weapons discarded by the Qing army.

(End of this chapter)