The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 510
Seeing that she had stabilized her mood, Mu Zhiqing breathed a sigh of relief, looked around again, and said in thought: "The general and the guards I brought have a total of 400 troops. In terms of direct confrontation, the 3000 troops The many thieves are by no means our opponents.

"Our disadvantage is that we are forced into a narrow valley..."

She suddenly fixed her gaze, as if she had made a lot of determination, she pointed to Taniguchi and said, "Let's try our best to seize the open space at Taniguchi, it's about one mile wide, and we can barely form an array to fight the captives."

"I'm afraid it won't work." Lieutenant General Zhen Zhen immediately said, "The captives have surrounded Taniguchi. If our army forms an formation there, the two wings will definitely be hit hard by the bandits."

"I have a solution." Mu Zhiqing immediately said, "Take some people, go up to the east side of the hill, and burn the mountain fire there. If the captives are blocked by the fire, they will not be able to attack my left wing. And my guards, " She looked at Yale and the others, "I am very good at attacking the enemy in the mountains and forests, and I can hold the enemy with the western hillside. My main force will be safe on both sides in a short time, and we will concentrate on defeating the enemy from the front!"

"Set fire?!" The officers of the Polu camp on the side were shocked when they heard the words, "But our army is in the valley, so setting fire on the mountain is not self-immolation..."

Before Mu Zhiqing could explain, Zhen Zhen's eyes lit up, and he said first: "This method is feasible! There is still a process for the fire to spread from the hillside, we formed an formation close to the west side of the Taniguchi, and we are ready to fight the enemy! "

"That's right!" Mu Zhiqing said, "The most important thing right now is the word 'quick'! As long as we break through the captives' line of defense before the mountain fire burns over, the army can escape."

Zhen Zhen nodded vigorously, then waved his hand behind him, "Liu Xian, Ma Chongen, lead your troops to follow me!"

Mu Zhiqing was afraid that she would be impulsive, so she quickly reached out to hold her hand and said, "General Zhen..."

"Don't worry," Zhen Zhen raised his swift sword without looking back, "I have my own measure!"

Immediately, with her two hundred personal guards as the vanguard, she led two rounds of hussars to rush towards Taniguchi.Only limited to the terrain in the valley, they all abandoned their horses and fought on foot.

The Qing army, which was forming an formation outside the mountain pass, could barely complete the encirclement. Obviously, they did not expect the Ming army to attack so quickly, and they were a little flustered.When Zhen Zhen led his troops almost to the open place of the valley entrance, the flags of the captive army began to dance, and the bowstrings began to hum around.

The hussars of the Polu camp are now equipped with the same equipment as the Dragon Guards—cavalry swords and two short-wheeled guns, which are very handy for fighting on horseback. The Qing army's arrows rained down on the enemy.

Fortunately, due to the use of inferior spring steel made by Zhu Linmi, Jianlu had no firearms to use at this time, and cotton armor was also standard equipment for the hussars, so the Ming army suffered only a few people who were shot at vital points, but the casualties were not too great.

Zhen Zhen soon discovered that the junction of the two phalanxes on Jianlu's left wing should be the reason why the enemy surrounded them in a hurry.

She took the lead and attacked the weak point of the enemy's formation.Just at this time, thick smoke billowed from the eastern hillside, and the soldiers on the right wing of the Qing army retreated anxiously, immediately causing chaos in their own battle formation.

Seeing this, the Ming army's morale was greatly boosted, and they gathered into a familiar wedge-shaped charge formation of cavalry, shouting loudly, rushing to more than 30 steps in front of the enemy's line, and raised their spring wheel guns to shoot a volley .

As hundreds of swords and shields in the front row fell to the ground, the Qing army retreated a lot in an instant, and the open space near the mouth of the valley immediately widened a lot.

The other soldiers of the Ming army gained a foothold and quickly filled up from the back row. Nearly a thousand people of the Ming army had already deployed in front.In particular, the Dragon Guard's personal soldiers joined the battle. They were equipped with more than 140 rifled guns with strong firepower, which made the captive soldiers retreat a little faster.

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"They're all rubbish!" E Shuo saw that the Ming army was under the disadvantaged terrain, but forced the half-surrounded Qing army to retreat one after another, his round eyes almost dripped blood.

He is very aware of the importance of today's battle - after Jurong's defeat, Lord Baylor led his personal guards and Li Zhongxing's cavalry to retreat to the east, but Nanman Tie Dake was always trying to intercept them in front of them.

In desperation, Lord Belle had no choice but to keep walking southwards. Unexpectedly, on the way, another Ming army with the banner of "Zhen" came after him.Fortunately, the two Ming armies did not seem to be under any control, but under the attack from both front and back, the army suffered unspeakably.

Afterwards, Lord Belle thought hard and ordered Li Zhongxing to take more than [-] cavalry to pretend to be the brave cavalry of the Beijing camp to lead the iron army to the north, and then used himself as a bait to lure the Ming army into the Cishan valley.

As Luck Dehun's confidant, E Shuo was ordered to lead the main force to encircle the Ming army.He originally thought that with [-] green battalions and [-] baya la, it would be a sure thing to block the southerners in the valley, but he didn't expect that the southerners broke the boat and set fire on the hillside to cover the flanks. Unbearable to fight, a large gap was robbed by the Ming army.

Today, this group of southerners must be surrounded to death, so that the army can get a chance to breathe!
He gritted his teeth and pulled out his waist knife, and shouted to the flag officer beside him: "Head the order, anyone who takes a step back without permission will be killed!" Then he personally led more than a hundred Bayalas and rushed towards the gap where the Ming army was attacking.

He had just run a few steps when he saw an officer from the Green Battalion rushing over to report, "General, those three cannons are still behind the formation, can you..."

"Cannon? Didn't I ask you to drag it to the east hillside?!"

The officer bowed his head and said: "The soldiers moved a little slower, and the fire broke out before they could go up the mountain."

"Okay!" E Shuo was overjoyed, pointing at the Ming army and said excitedly, "Boom!"

The officer was taken aback when he heard the words, "General, the two armies are fighting fiercely, how can the cannon be dragged to the front?"

"Damn it! Just fire right here!"

"Here? Back line?! This will easily hurt our people..."

"I can't control that much anymore. In the valley where the southerners are densely populated, a single shot can knock down a large area! It doesn't matter if a few green battalion soldiers die!" E Shuo glared, "Go!"

"Yes, the general will obey..."

Immediately, E Shuo led the Ba Yala soldiers behind the retreating Qing army on the west side, hacked and killed hundreds of soldiers in a row, and gathered all [-] Ba Yala soldiers to rush to the front to fight to the death, and finally stopped the retreat of the green battalion. .

The hussars under Zhen Zhen's command only had two short blunderbusses each, and when they first rushed up, they could quickly fire the blunderbuss to defeat the enemy, but it was very troublesome to load the spring wheel blunderbuss.

At this moment, hundreds of Qing army Ba Yala came up to him, howling and brandishing their knives.

These cavalrymen of the Ming army were not good at infantry combat, and they were at a disadvantage when facing the elite captive soldiers who were skilled in swordsmanship. Fortunately, there were more than a hundred rifled guns behind them to support them, and the battle was barely a draw.

Zhen Zhen fought side by side with the soldiers, a swift sword was extremely dexterous and fast as lightning, stabbing down several captive soldiers one after another.She was about to call everyone forward, but suddenly heard the sound of gunfire from the west side, and she couldn't help being shocked...

(End of this chapter)