Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 168 I like killing monsters, I can’t stop it
Liu Zeqing led 4,000 troops from the northwest of Yanzhou and had previously received news that "militants" were crossing the border at night.

But he just thought of them as refugees passing through the border and didn't think of checking or asking any questions.

Now that I heard about the "Qufu Incident," I already had a premonition of trouble.

If someone investigates carefully, he may be pushed as one of the scapegoats for the fall of Qufu.

During the Zhengde period, the "Liu Liu Liu Qi Rebellion" broke out. The rebel soldiers captured Qufu and looted the entire city's wealth, but most of the Kong family's descendants fled. Kong Wenshao, the Duke of Yansheng who inherited the title since the Hongzhi period, lived well and died of old age during the Jiajing period.

When Qufu fell, the descendants of the Kong family were killed, and the family of Duke Yansheng and the descendants of the Kong family were exterminated.

These are three crises of increasing severity, and now all three have erupted at the same time!
Liu Zeqing secretly cursed how stupid this Duke Yansheng was, unable to even escape for his life, and even after his death he wanted to bring disaster to others and take the blame and punishment.

Liu Zeqing was originally not afraid of the court's questioning.

In this day and age, soldiers are the boss, and even high-ranking officials in the court dare not ask too many questions.

The soldiers under his command had long become his personal private army, supported by looting rural people and merchants. The trade along the Grand Canal was also very developed, enough for him to "eat" for several years.

But the bad thing was that the Black Flag Battalion of foreign troops was stationed in Jinan.

It is said that the Jiannu were brave and good at fighting, and one Jun was worth five Han. However, the Black Flag Battalion was even more ferocious and violent. The number of real Tartar heads captured in consecutive battles was more than that of other generals in their entire lives.

The people in the Central Plains all spread the rumor that one soldier of the Black Flag Camp could fight five enemy soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers could also fight the Jiannu one-on-one.

The Black Flag Battalion has several thousand auxiliary troops, so doesn’t that mean it has nearly ten thousand Jiannu combat forces?
Liu Zeqing thought to himself, if the Black Flag Battalion was ordered to attack him out of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism", would he still have a chance of survival?

As a result, he hurriedly restored his "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" and gathered thousands of soldiers and horses to march eastward to fight the bandits.

He wanted to defeat the bandits and collect the wealth of Duke Yansheng, but he also wanted to quell the bandits and make meritorious deeds as soon as possible to prevent the Governor of Shandong from finding an excuse to transfer the Black Flag Battalion to him and kill him.

However, now that he had seen the scale of the bandit army with his own eyes, his anxiety about suppressing them had largely dissipated.

The mere two thousand bandits were barely half of his troops.

According to the Ming Dynasty's combat effectiveness formula, one soldier is worth five bandits.

Four thousand officers and soldiers are equivalent to twenty thousand bandits, and these are bandits who have fought a few actual battles.

If it were the two thousand bandits who called themselves the Red Turban Army, the four thousand government troops would probably be able to wipe them out in half a day.

Of course Liu Zeqing has the ability, but he is not in a hurry to take action.

While ordering his soldiers to form a battle formation, he also instructed his personal guards to set up a rest camp for him.

Tables and chairs, tea, cakes, chess, and soldiers playing chess...

He would drink tea and play chess while waiting for the situation to change.

He is waiting.

He waited for the friendly forces to fight the bandits to the death, and then rushed out as a "savior" to wipe out the bandits.

However, Ni Chong also had the same idea of ​​avoiding war, and just waited for Liu Zeqing and the bandits to be defeated.

So the two generals who were in a hurry to lead their troops to suppress the bandits tacitly maintained unity after arriving at the battlefield.

There was neither active attack nor unity and coordination, and the three parties of enemy, us and friends formed a strange confrontation and balance.

This gave the Red Turban Army an opportunity to take advantage of.

"Commander, which side should we attack first?" Everyone looked at the new commander.

The fun guy "Bai Lan" was elected as the legion commander just before the battle began.

The reason players recommend you is that since you can come up with the idea of ​​a surprise attack on Duke Yansheng, you should have the fun of being a commander.

However, Bai Ran knows nothing about tactical command. His brain will freeze if he controls more than ten units in the game, let alone commanding two thousand people in battle.

Besides, there are thousands of ways for players to have fun, and being a commander is not one of them.

Fortunately, the lucky boy always has adventures. Suddenly, a captain's prompt sounded in Bailan's mind, as if Duan Yanqing was using his inner force to transmit sound and instruct Xu Zhu on how to play chess.

"No matter how many directions they come from, I'll only attack from one direction. The enemy doesn't intend to attack from both sides, so we can defeat them one by one!"

In the center of the field of vision, the pronunciation symbol of a temporary team appeared to help the commander know which team was reporting military intelligence.

Bai Lan immediately realized that it was Su La who spoke, "So which route should we attack first?"

"The enemy soldiers on both sides have their own strengths and weaknesses. It's hard for me to judge. You can decide for yourself."

"Oh my god, who would give advice without speaking halfway? You're the kind of ruthless person who can cut off the shit when encountering trouble and then do the work, right?"

Without the support of the big boss behind the scenes, Bailan's mind was blank.

Forget it, Bai Lanxin said that he was a fun-loving person and didn’t care what they thought.

Since his brothers chose him as the commander, he had to bear the "consequences" of choosing him.

Bai Lan made up his mind and decided to make all his brothers "fun".

So he raised his hand and chanted in his heart towards the two Ming armies in the distance, "Call the troops and generals...it's you..."

In the end, Bai Lan chose Liu Zeqing's troops on the right.

He drew the greatsword from behind, walked to the front of the formation alone, freed one hand to open the system backpack, and clicked to use the team music playback coupon.

He selected some soul-stirring music for himself, and the first one played after a thirty-second delay. He looked back at his brothers and said, "Since you chose me as the commander, I will have fun in my own style.

I don't understand tactics or military strategy, I just keep charging forward, and now I've decided to attack the Ming army on the right—"

As soon as Bai Lan finished speaking, he used all his strength to throw the sword forward. The tip of the sword pierced into the ground like mud, and the sword body with a metallic luster on the ground continued to sway.

A gift of a thistle
The heart-touching music sounded at the right time and reached the ears of every player, as if everyone had returned to the vast Scottish land and followed Wallace to fight against the English invaders.

"It's rotten! It's rotten! It's rotten!"

The brothers shouted his stinky name, but Bai Lan was so embarrassed that his whole body was itching, as if ants were crawling on him.

He wondered if this was a stupid name.

However, Bai Lan quickly put aside all distracting thoughts and pointed his right arm straight forward at the enemy soldiers, "Buffalo Charge! Brothers, follow me and kill them!"

"kill!"

The brothers roared to the sky, and regardless of formation or tactics, they rushed towards the enemy soldiers.

Bai Lan was walking in the front, ready to handsomely draw out the greatsword stuck in the ground, but his pace was disrupted by his teammates who came from behind.

Before he could stand firmly, he was hit on the head by a pointed war hammer and fell down, as if he had hit an iron wall.

Although his teammates behind him tried their best to move away, "Bai Ran" still unfortunately became the first non-combat casualty in this battle.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to..."

"You were being careless on purpose, weren't you?" Before Bai Lan died, he raised his finger and pointed at the teammate who kept apologizing, "I curse that you will never have toilet paper in your life!"

The legion leader died in battle, but the team music was still playing, and "Horus", who was favored by Hammer, took the throne again.

He Lusi kept pace with his teammates. "Think back to your breakthrough tactics in the Jinan ambush. Do you see the Ming army's general's flag? Charge forward and take the enemy general's head!"

"Take down the enemy general's head!"

The brothers in front of him roared in unison and trotted in several irregular formations.

The crazy brothers were spitting everywhere, and their arms were waving wildly like monsters. Some of them tilted their heads and rolled their eyes, like elite monsters who were infected with the zombie virus and were about to turn into zombies.

Seeing the Red Turban bandits rushing towards him recklessly, Liu Zeqing suddenly panicked.

Damn, these bandits are crazy!

I have 4,000 troops, and they dare to attack with only 2,000 people?
Why do they dare to be so arrogant!

The teacup in his hand slammed to the ground, and Liu Zeqing shouted hurriedly, "Artillery! Artillery! Fire!"

However, the commander's leisurely state had already infected his subordinates. The infantry and cavalry were slack, more than half of them had not yet taken their positions, and the artillerymen had not even taken the ammunition boxes off the carriages.

"Go and call Ni Chong for help!" Liu Zeqing sent three personal soldiers on horseback to call for help.

"Damn it! Block them!" Liu Zeqing was so anxious that he whipped his horse whip around without any tactical considerations. He shouted out all the strategies he could think of at the moment, "Cavalry! Cavalry, charge! Kill the bandits!"

The commander gave the order and the soldiers dared not disobey. The infantry continued to adjust the battle formation, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out like dogs released from an iron cage to eat.

Seeing the cavalry gradually approaching the loose formation of the bandits, Liu Zeqing's panic just emerging disappeared, and the ease with which the government troops could suppress the bandits filled his heart again.

Just two thousand bandits think they can break through my "iron wall"? Forget it!

However, just as the cavalry attacking from both sides began to speed up their charge, Liu Zeqing suddenly saw two thousand loose bandits, who quickly shrank like mimosa under external stimulation and skillfully formed a hollow square formation.

Liu Zeqing was immediately shocked.

He thought he was hallucinating and had misunderstood, so he rubbed his eyes and looked into the distance again.

The Red Turban bandits appeared out of nowhere and were more swift in changing formation than the government troops. Two thousand of them lined up neatly as one man.

Could this guy be just an ordinary bandit?

Liu Zeqing secretly comforted himself and told himself not to be anxious and to take a closer look at the details of the bandits.

Maybe the bandits were just country boys, used to forming a battle line in ordinary village fights.

But the bandit's subsequent behavior really slapped him in the face.

Hundreds of cavalrymen attacked from both sides, but were unable to break through the hollow square formation at all.

The tight "phalanx" is like a huge hedgehog, and any smart warhorse will follow its instinct to avoid sharp objects.

However, the archers and musketeers inside the phalanx could shoot arrows from time to time to take the lives of the cavalry.

A cavalryman who has lost his speed is like a wolf with its teeth pulled out and its nails clipped, and can only rely on his horse's instinctive kicks to attack the enemy.

Even if the cavalry charged forward and tried their best to kill the bandits, they would lose speed and be dragged off their horses by the bandits in the inner circle, and then be hacked to death.

What is even more terrifying is that these bandits are fearless and even if they are injured and bleeding, they will grab the enemy soldiers on horseback and pull them down, then hit the enemy soldiers in the face with hammers again and again.

These hundreds of cavalrymen had no will to fight tenaciously, and they retreated howling after losing 10% of their manpower.

Without the cavalry to hold them back, the bandits instantly changed their formation, from several hollow "ellipses" to several intermittently connected horizontal columns, and rushed straight towards Liu Zeqing's main camp.

Brave! So brave!
Liu Zeqing seemed to see the shadow of the legendary bravery of a certain government army in these bandits.

How could these be bandits? They are clearly a top-notch army!
(End of this chapter)