There is no such thing as the Kangxi and Qianlong eras

Chapter 83 The entire army was wiped out
The Han army launched a general charge and the Qing army was defeated!
Chen Younian personally led his troops and charged forward. Bai Nan and Xu Sanlang behind him were not willing to lag behind and followed suit to charge at the defeated Qing soldiers.

Although there were still nearly 2,000 Qing soldiers, the main force, the Zhenxiang soldiers, had been defeated, and the militiamen behind them were just extras. They were hit by the Han army's artillery fire before they even encountered the Han army. They were defeated before the Zhenxiang soldiers in the front army were defeated.

The retreating Qing army wanted to escape, whether it was the previously fearless Zhenxiang soldiers or the chaotic militia, they all tried frantically to find a way to escape.

Chen Younian led his personal soldiers to catch up. The Han infantry had no horses and could only chase them on foot. However, the fleeing Qing soldiers also had no horses and were even wearing armor. They had been fighting for a long time and were already exhausted.

Chen Younian had a grim smile on his face. He ran up to a Qing soldier in two steps and then swung his knife at him.

That’s right, when it was swung down, a strong wind was created.

Even though the Qing soldier was wearing armor, he had no chance to dodge the powerful blow, and his neck and torso were cut diagonally.

"Hahaha! So happy!"

The blood gushed out, covering half of Chen Younian's body. He even stuck out his tongue to lick the corner of his mouth.

Such an image that looked like an evil ghost in the human world frightened the fleeing soldiers around and made them react with stress.

Several defeated soldiers had fear on their faces, and they wanted to draw their swords and kill the hideous evil ghost in front of them.

The guards, left behind by Chen Younian, finally caught up with Commander Chen and thrust their rattan shields forward, blocking a wave of attacks. The spearmen behind them launched a barrage of stabbings at the Qing soldiers on the periphery.

The soldiers with rattan shields also took the opportunity to swing their swords and chop.

After a coordinated attack, the surrounding Qing soldiers were quickly killed without a single one left.

On both wings of the battlefield, Bai Nan and Xu Sanlang had to do a lot. On the one hand, they were chasing the Qing soldiers, and on the other hand, they split their troops into two groups to bypass the blockade.

In just half an hour, looking down from the sky, a huge bowl-shaped encirclement quickly formed, and then it opened up to encircle the Qing soldiers running around inside.

"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"

"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"

The Qing cavalry and the Han cavalry were still chasing each other.

The Han soldiers in the rear shot arrows at the backs of the Qing soldiers from time to time. With the experience of the previous few shots, their accuracy became better and better, and their arrow-shooting speed became much faster.

"Shhhhhhh!"

Every arrow shot out could almost take away a Qing soldier.

Those Green Camp cavalrymen had all fallen off their horses after being chased continuously.

They all belong to the Hunan local green camp, and their combat effectiveness is negligible, just like those of the local militia. At most, they just have horses and armor.

A short chase was fine because the Han soldiers were fewer in number and dared not pursue too closely. But if the chase lasted too long, the Green Camp cavalry, whose riding skills were even worse, would be no match for them.

If you fall behind, you will be rewarded with an arrow.

Later, the Han soldiers realized that using arrows was too wasteful, so they simply attacked with swords. If they killed the enemy, it would be fine. If they didn't die, their horses would kick them off their horses and break their bones, and they would be trampled to death.

This is not a pleasant way to die!
Without the Green Camp to "cover the rear", some of the Manchu cavalry infantrymen with better riding skills soon fell behind.

Their treatment was much better, as they were all shot through the heart by an arrow. No cotton armor could stop a crossbow with a power comparable to that of a modern pistol at close range.

"not good!"

Fuzhina's horse was running in the front, and he soon looked up and found something wrong. The Han army was actually launching an encirclement.

He had been chased by the Han cavalry and was forced to flee in circles, so he naturally had no time to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield. Until he saw the Han army surrounding him, he didn't understand that his army had been defeated.

Although he had a premonition that his chances of winning were slim, he still used the firepower of bird guns and the charge of Zhenxian infantry as a gamble. Even if he couldn't turn defeat into victory, he could at least draw!

How could we lose so quickly?

Fu Zhina was horrified, but his hands did not slow down. He immediately pulled the reins, turned his horse around and ran towards the gap in the encirclement of the Han soldiers.

Reorganize the defeated troops and break out?

Needless to say, the defeated Qing army was already in disarray, and the Han army's encirclement was too large, almost four or five times the strength of the Qing army.

If you still want to break out with your entire army, then you don't have to leave. Just stay with us!

"I am Fu Beile's personal general, and I am still a 30-year-old general. I can't die here, I want to go back alive!"

Fu Zhina muttered something to himself, and whipped the horse's butt again to force it to speed up, directly shaking off his own personal soldiers and not even caring about the Manchu cavalry.

Seeing Fu Zhina turn around and break out, the Manchu cavalry were stunned. They could understand abandoning the Han Qing soldiers, the Miao Qing soldiers, and the Han militia.

But as they were all Manchus, they were also left behind, even Fu Zhina's personal soldiers were left behind. One man and one horse relied on the horse's strong power and directly left these Manchu soldiers far behind.

The Manchu soldiers could not catch up with him. Several of them were close to him and simply greeted the women in Fuzhina's family loudly in Manchu.

Unfortunately, swearing was of no use. Once the commander ran away, the remaining hundreds of Manchu soldiers could never get together again.

They dispersed, ignoring any orders, and all fled to the gaps in the encirclement, trying to find a way to survive.

But this actually made things easier for the more than one hundred Han soldiers chasing behind. Originally, the Qing soldiers were numerous and powerful, so the Han soldiers only dared to keep a distance and catch them, and had to make detours from time to time.

Now there is no need for that. You can just bite and chase it. If you can't catch up, shoot arrows at it. When the arrows are used up, draw your sword and chase it.

Kill one, then move on to the next.

As the chase continued, the Han soldiers began to flee and the Manchu soldiers began to chase them.

These Manchu cavalrymen were frantic. Their leader, Fu Zhina, had abandoned them and fled, and they couldn't escape either. The Han soldiers were chasing them, occasionally shooting arrows at them. They couldn't escape, and they couldn't survive either, so they decided to give it their all, even taking a Han soldier with them before they died.

What are you taking the blame for?

The riding skills of this group of Manchu soldiers were only slightly better than those of the Han soldiers. The war horses they rode were all of the same quality. After a long chase, they were almost exhausted. Many of the horses were foaming at the mouths. How could they chase the Han soldiers?

"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"

The Han soldiers fled in a roundabout way, and their horses' physical strength was depleted much faster than that of the Manchu soldiers who were chasing them madly.

Among the Han soldiers, those who had extra arrows would suddenly shoot arrows, and the Manchu soldiers had no way to deal with it.

Going crazy would at most make them fearless, but it wouldn't teach them to shoot arrows. They all seemed to be carrying bows, but they were just for show. They could be used to fool the high-ranking officials who came to inspect them, as well as the Eight Banners generals who supervised them. They could be used, but the power was not small, it was almost non-existent.

If they could not be lazy while riding, they would have lost their riding skills.

"Let's go! Bring them into the circle (encirclement)."

The cavalry captain of the Han army was called Xu Fu. He was born as the son of a tenant farmer. After the Han army distributed the land, he joined the army and became a Han soldier.

After the Han soldiers got their war horses, they began to train with them. Their riding talent wasn't particularly high, but it was still passable.

Xu Fu was very purposeful. He led the pursuing Manchu soldiers directly into the encirclement of friendly forces.

The next thing is simple. Cavalry has strong mobility and is indeed difficult to fight, but once you are surrounded, there is no way you can escape.

The Manchu soldiers, trapped in the encirclement, finally realized that something was wrong, but they had no chance to escape. The Han infantry's crossbows fired a volley of hundreds of arrows, but because of the distance, the power was insufficient, but the arrows still pierced the horses.

"Shhhhhhh!"

The horses did not die, but due to the severe pain, they had a severe stress reaction and most of the Manchu soldiers were thrown off.

If there are Manchu soldiers who are lucky enough not to fall off their horses, then we will shoot them with another arrow.

The Manchu soldiers who fell off their horses were either trampled to death by their own horses or those of friendly forces, or their heads were cut off by the Han soldiers who rushed over.

In a short while, these Manchu cavalrymen, who had fallen into their final frenzy, were completely wiped out by the Han army.

However, on the front battlefield, the Han soldiers' encirclement had already been completed, like two dumpling wrappers, completely closed.

Fu Zhi and his horse were not stopped because they ran too fast and the infantry could not catch up with them on foot.

But it doesn’t matter, he was the only one who ran away, there were thousands of people who didn’t run away.

"Kill the clear dog!"

"Dudududu da da da..."

The Han army's bugler blew the bugle and then shouted to the entire army to charge.

The Zhenxiang soldiers in the Qing army still wanted to fight to the death, but they were faced with four or five Han soldiers against one Qing soldier, and it was a completely one-sided massacre.

In the rear, grenadiers took out hand grenades and threw them indiscriminately into the Qing army.

"Bang bang bang!"

Due to insufficient charge, each hand grenade is filled with less than a few dozen grams of sugar gunpowder, but even so, its power is still amazing.

Throwing down more than a hundred hand grenades can kill or blow up at least two or three hundred Qing soldiers.

The Qing soldiers, who had finally mustered up the courage and were ready to fight again, were once again devastated by the explosion.

There was no point in collapsing, as the Han soldiers' encirclement had already been closed. All that remained was to slowly shrink it and squeeze the Qing soldiers inside and strangle them.

The defeated soldiers had nowhere to escape and could not fight to the death. Finally, some Qing soldiers put down their weapons and wanted to kneel down to surrender.

The hand-held fire grenades and crossbows were too terrifying, and the Han soldiers' cannons and their invulnerability to swords and spears had completely destroyed their morale.

The comrade who was beheaded before was right. The Han soldiers were all monsters. It was not a rumor. The monster Han soldiers were not something that ordinary people could defeat!
Seeing this, Bai Nan stopped swinging his sword and shouted to the battlefield, "Put down your weapons. Those lying on the ground will not be killed!"

"Put down your weapons, those lying on the ground will not be killed!" Xu Sanlang shouted.

The two men's personal guards also shouted loudly, spreading the commander's orders.

"Put down your weapons, and those who lie prone will not be killed!"

"Put down your weapons, and those who lie prone will not be killed!"

"..."

After shouting for a while and killing more than a hundred chaotic soldiers, he finally managed to control the remaining fleeing soldiers.

The surviving Qing army soldiers had all fallen to the ground, their weapons scattered all over the floor. Some had even taken off their clothes and armor. None of them were clean, as they were all covered in blood, and no one knew whether it was their own or someone else's.

Chen Younian did not participate in the encirclement, but only led his troops to chase and drive away the defeated Qing soldiers, driving them into the encirclement.

"Hahaha! It feels so good! It feels so good!"

This time, Chen Younian really enjoyed killing. Even though he was doing something with his personal soldiers, he personally chopped off the heads of more than a dozen Qing soldiers, including a captain.

The general died with his eyes open, his head held in his hand, along with the rat tail.

Chen Younian looked at the surrendered soldiers lying on the ground, raised his hand and threw the heads away: "Identify them, all the officers, pull them out and chop them off, including the Manchus!"

(End of this chapter)