A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 371

On November 13, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, in Ruzhou.

"It seems that the bandits intend to set up an ambush in Xiaotun and other places."

"Well, the infantry army is set up on this side of the river, and the horse army is set up in the mountains on the other side of the river. Grandma, the treachery of these thieves will not be worse than those Tartars."

At this time, the person who is talking is the "bench" of the team officer of the Shunxiang Army who does not accept nights. After the 11th year of the Chongzhen War, Jie Yifengrong, who was originally an ordinary army who did not accept nights, was promoted to an officer. Has become the total.But this time he did not accompany the extermination of the bandits, but was sent to Liaodong by the intelligence department a few months ago.

When the Shun Township Army didn't pick up their sentries at night, they never went alone, at least there were one or five people.At this time, besides Jie Yifeng, there are also four other people.They were all dressed in the same way as Jie Yifeng, with white felt hats and shabby sheep robes outside, no different from the locals.

Of course, if you look carefully, you will find the cold light of iron helmets looming under their felt hats. Under their clothes, there is also a fine iron leaf breastplate and a pair of chain mail inside. They are fully equipped.Each person also has three tall war horses. On top of the horses, all kinds of dry food and supplies are sufficient, so that these nights can be spent outside for a month without supplies.

After Jie Yifeng sent out under Wen Daxing's order, his team had already dispersed in all directions, reaching as far as Luoyang area. At this time, Jie Yifeng was surrounded by these four people.What is lurking is on the mountain on the south bank of Rushui in Ruzhou.

The hundred miles from Jiaxian County to Ruzhou, there is a river in the middle, sandwiched in the narrow strip between Funiu Mountain and Shenwu Mountain.It is not very far from the mountains on both sides to the Liuhe official road, especially because the local small village is closer to the official road. The surrounding mountains are undulating, and it is convenient to set up ambushes.

As early as a few days ago, when Jie Yifeng was active in the Ruzhou area, he discovered the strange movement of Ruzhou rogues, hundreds of thousands of them entered the mountains on both sides of the river.Think of the Shun Township Army's upcoming attack on the enemies of Ruzhou, and what the rogues have in mind, they will clearly reveal it.

However, Jie Yifeng was also surprised. At that time, the Shunxiang army had not yet arrived in Jia County, so they were preparing to ambush early?This way of playing the thieves is really uncomfortable.

While Jie Yifeng was talking to himself, he used binoculars to carefully observe the movement below the mountain.It is good to have binoculars, standing high and seeing far away, the large group of rogues ambushing on the other side of the mountain did not notice Jie Yifeng and the others here, and Jie Yifeng and the others could observe the rogues leisurely movement.

But binoculars are precious, and Wen Daxing's Ye Bu Shou Qian is considered a lot of money, and it is only one set for a team.

"What's the plan of the thief, what's in his mind, he should catch a few alive and ask."

Jie Yifeng thought to himself, cast the binoculars to the plain below the mountain, and looked around the banks of the river, there were no people, only ruined houses and broken walls everywhere, and the surrounding fields were desolate.If you want to catch them, it is best to catch them in the east of Ruzhou. The closer you are to Ruzhou, the more rogues there will be.

Moreover, it is best to catch some sentry riders of rogues, those sentry riders know more than some officers.

Jie Yifeng looked at it for a long time, different from the burly outside, he was extremely calm during the sentinel, the four of them have been lurking on this mountain for three days.For three days, they kept an eye on the movements of the mountains on both sides of the river, and did not leave the surrounding area.

Suddenly, there was movement at the bottom of the mountain, about ten riders rushed out from the hills and headed towards Jiaxian County. Judging from their appearance, they must be sentry riders among the rogues.

All night, he said in a low voice: "Master Feng, do you want to follow and catch a few people alive?"

Jie Yifeng gave a strange laugh, and said: "The sentinel cavalry of these thieves went well, just caught a few alive and asked for information."

For several nights beside him, he showed an excited expression. Although there were ten people on the other side and only five on his own side, no one showed a nervous and fearful expression.They are the most elite units in the Shunxiang Army, especially after the 11-year brutal war in Chongzhen, each of them has reached the pinnacle in terms of skill and psychological quality.

However, Jie Yifeng's nickname of "bench" is no longer used in the team, except Wu Nei and Jia Nei's original brothers, and now the members of the team who are not accepted at night respect Jie Yifeng as Master Feng.

Jie Yifeng looked around at his subordinates, his eyes flashed sharply, and he said in a low voice: "Brothers, follow up with those bandits, let them see how powerful our Shun Township Army heroes are!"

A few nights later, Jie Yifeng waved his hand: "Get on the horse."

A few of them jumped on the horses nimbly, and they immediately carried all kinds of weapons on their backs, both long and short.Among the five people, there are several different weapons, two archers, two hand gunners, and one Lumi gunner.

The powerful bow and crossbow are convenient for silently attacking the enemy and killing the enemy without a shadow.But the current Shunxiang army's hand guns are all flintlock style, easy to fire, large caliber, and immediately step down to fight, within a few steps, within a dozen steps, they are powerful, better than the horse bow.

As for the Lumi gun, it is a very good long-range shooting weapon.Jie Yifeng's Lumi gun is also flintlock.

The Shunxiang Army has already determined the timing of the battle with the fusiliers, and they don't use them when they are in formation, so as not to affect the battle situation due to the high rate of misfires.However, flintlock guns are good for skirmishers, but the misfire rate is high, and the sergeants have enough time to pull the trigger again.

However, because of the strong recoil of bird guns or Lumi guns, shooting immediately will cause the gunners to fall off the horse, so these Lumi gunners do not shoot right away.

Jie Yifeng and the others rode their horses and galloped among the hills, stopping from time to time to use binoculars to see what was going on below the mountain.They hung far behind those rogue sentinels, but they were not noticed by anyone.

Several people ran for more than ten miles. In the severe cold weather, the horses under everyone's crotches kept emitting thick white gas.

Jie Yifeng raised his hand suddenly, and immediately the horses behind them stopped at the same time, Jie Yifeng took out the binoculars to look, he could see clearly, the ten rogue sentry riders had stopped by the river, a little Rest and let the horse drink some water.

In the binoculars, Jie Yifeng also saw clearly the outfits of those rogues, some of them were wearing red turbans, crotches, or worn sheep robes.

Only one of the rogues caught Jie Yifeng's attention. He was tall and tall, with a beard and a white felt hat on his head, and a hood, which was shoulder-length padded armor, like the armor of a small army officer in the Central Plains. .

The rest of the bandit sentry cavalry only had waist knives and bows and arrows. The bows and arrows were still step bows and no horn bows. Obviously these people did not have the ability to shoot arrows on horseback, and their horses were not very good.This rogue has a walking bow and a horse bow, and besides a waist knife, he also has a spear immediately.

His demeanor is very sturdy, and there are two war horses beside him, and the quality of the horses is not bad.

"Could it be that this person is a bandit army in the old bandit camp?"

Jie Yifeng secretly thought.

These sentry riders stopped by the river, and their guards were not very good. It was a good opportunity for a sneak attack.

Jie Yifeng chuckled and said, "Okay, let's do it here. Damn it."

A few nights around him became excited, and bloodthirsty light flashed in everyone's eyes.

Jie Yifeng ordered: "Everyone get ready, Da Ya, Er Ya, opera singer, check your guns and fire guns, and change horses!"

The two "Da Ya, Er Ya" are brothers, because of their handsome looks, they got this feminine nickname in the team.Each of them is equipped with two flintlock pistols, which are inserted into the leather sheath of the saddle bridge. The ammunition in the guns has already been loaded and plugged with wooden corks.At this time, the two skillfully pulled out the hand guns, pulled out the cork inside, took out the cleaning rod and rammed it a few times into the inside.

The projectiles in the gun had been wrapped in linen cloth and stuffed tightly into the gun, so that the gunpowder would not leak out due to the downward movement of the muzzle or the bumping of the horse.However, because of this use, the flintlock pistols in the Shunxiang Army did not use fixed paper tube ammunition.

"Actor" was the one who used the Lumi blunderbuss that Ye Bushuo. He carried the Lumi blunderbuss on his back. When "Da Ya, Erya" was checking the hand blunderbuss, he also took off the Lumi blunderbuss and pulled out the inner wood. He used a cleaning rod to tamp the inside three times. His Lumi blunderbuss also used fixed-loaded paper tube ammunition.

Seeing that everyone changed horses again, and everything was ready, Jie Yifeng took the horned bow hanging from the saddle in his hand, straightened the round shield on his left arm, looked around at his four subordinates, and said in a low voice: " Brothers, kill thieves and catch raw people."

"Kill the thief!"

After a few nights of not accepting it, he let out a low growl with arrogance and arrogance.

"Kill the thief!"

Jie Yifeng urged the horses, one horse rushed out first, and the rest stayed behind for four nights.

Even if they rushed suddenly, they still kept the queue.Jie Yifeng and one of the archers attacked from the right side, "Daya, Erya" attacked from the left side, and "Actor" came from the rear, with a gleaming saber in his hand, but he opened the blade.

In fact, whether the saber is sharpened or not is up to each person. If the skill is not enough, it is better to use a saber without a sharpened edge.If the elite veterans among the cavalry use sharpened sabers, they will be like a tiger with wings added.

There was a sound of horseshoes and billowing smoke and dust. Seeing a few cavalry rushing out from behind the hill suddenly, the sentry cavalry of the peasant army resting by the river were all taken aback.Judging by the attire of those people, they may be sentry officers and soldiers, or they may be horse thieves trying to blackmail others.

It is less than three hundred steps from the hill to the river. Seeing them rolling in, they will rush to them soon.What's more, the five of them have fifteen horses, which is very powerful.The incident happened suddenly, and these sentry riders were in a panic.

Shouts with a Shaanxi accent sounded, but it was the burly man with beard and white felt hat who roared a few times, and these peasant army sentries hurriedly mounted their horses and took out their weapons to meet them.

Taking advantage of the momentum of their horses, Jie Yifeng and others quickly rushed to the front of these peasant army sentry cavalry. Although these peasant army came up to meet them, they all hurriedly pulled out their horses when they saw the people on the opposite side rushing towards them.How could their bad horse dare to confront Jie Yifeng and others?
It is the horses under their crotch. Seeing the tall and strong horses on the opposite side, they are all afraid, how dare they charge forward?If you don't wait for the master's order, you will get out of the way yourself.

The sound of bowstrings sounded, and Jie Yifeng and an archer who didn't accept the night passed the sentries a few steps away from the right. With the sound of arrows piercing the air, the two peasant soldiers screamed and fell off their horses.

Jie Yifeng's arrow hit the face of a Peasant Army sentry cavalry, and the other bow and arrow, which was not received overnight, hit a Peasant army sentry cavalry in the chest.The sentinel was wearing a crotch, it was just a cotton vest, even a horn bow couldn't defend against it, he was hit by an arrow in his chest, and immediately rolled into the dust.

With a loud bang of gunfire, a peasant sentry cavalry screamed and fell off his horse. A big hole was made in his chest, and blood gushed out of it.As he tumbled to the ground, a large amount of blood spilled all over the ground.

The two brothers "Da Ya" and "Er Ya" rushed past a few steps to the left of these sentinel cavalry, both of them holding guns in their hands.Da Ya fired first, killing one person.This kind of large-caliber flintlock handgun is powerful. Maybe it can survive if it is hit by a horn bow arrow, but it will definitely not survive if it is hit by a bullet.

"Erya" followed his brother and rushed past. He held a pistol and aimed a few steps to the right. A sentry rode pulled the trigger, and the man brandished a waist knife and roared wildly.In his terrified gaze, the "Erya" gun rang, and with the gunpowder smoke coming out of the muzzle, the opposite side was filled with blood mist, and the head wrapped in the turban exploded like that.

The two brothers galloped past, knocking down one person each, pulled out their horses and galloped away, inserted the empty flintlock pistol into the holster of the saddle bridge, and then drew out another pistol with gunpowder.

Jie Yifeng shot down two people in succession, he urged the horse to come back, "Swoosh!" There were a few tense sounds of the bowstring, but it was a few consecutive arrows coming towards them.

These few arrows were swift and fierce, the round shield on Jie Yifeng's left arm only blocked one arrow, the other two arrows hit his chest.Jie Yifeng was wearing a breastplate made of fine iron, and there was a chain mail inside. With the power of a horse bow, it was impossible to shoot through his iron armor, and both arrows rolled into the dust.

However, these two arrows still hit Jie Yifeng with a faint pain in his chest. Jie Yifeng was furious. He looked forward, but saw that the ruffian sentinel wearing a white felt hat threw his horn bow and took it off his horse. His long spear roared and galloped forward.

Jie Yifeng also threw his own bow and arrow, took off his huge bow from the horse, urged the horse, and desperately went up to it.

The two confronted each other screaming wildly, and when the wrong horses crossed, Jie Yifeng's iron hammer slammed into the long spear stabbed by the white felt hat, breaking his tiger's jaw and shaking his horse several times.Almost unsteady on horseback.However, this person was very strong, he pulled his horse back, drew out his waist knife, and charged fiercely again.

A flash of fire burst out, and with the sound of firecrackers, the white felt hat spurted blood mist on its chest, and rolled off the horse just like that. When it fell off the horse, its eyes were still full of incredulous expressions.The armor he was wearing couldn't protect him at all.

It was the "big girl" who rode over and fired a gun at him, causing him to die before his ambition was fulfilled.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the ten Peasant Army Sentinels were killed or injured, while the other party was still intact. Looking at the powerful enemies riding horses around, one of them screamed wildly and rode his horse away.The rest of the Peasant Army sentry riders stopped their horses, screamed in horror, and knelt down on the ground to surrender.

Looking at the fleeing man, Jie Yifeng yelled, "Actor!"

"Look at me!"

"Actor!" Jumping off the horse, he took out his Lumi gun from his back, and aimed his long gun at the fleeing man.

With a bang, the fleeing sentry cavalry fell straight from the horse.

(End of this chapter)