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Chapter 920 Ambush He Tengjiao (2)

On the official road leading from Lianshan to Guangzhou, a team was moving towards Guangzhou. The armor of this army was relatively messy, including red mandarin duck battle jackets, green mandarin duck battle jackets, civilian clothes, some were wearing strong clothes that bandits liked by bandits, some were wearing clothes of yamen runners, white servants, and minor officials. There were even a few people wearing blue arrow clothes of the tide of the army or the dark blue number clothes of the Qing army. In short, from the costumes, this was a mob.

This mob is He Tengjiao's He family army. Judging from the clothes, some of them are former Ming military households, some are temporarily recruited by the yamen, some are temporarily recruited peasants, some are bandits, some are surrendered rebels or surrendered Qing soldiers.

In fact, there were quite a few surrendered soldiers in Li Guodong's Huai Army, but the Huai Army had already uniformly dressed, and the surrendered soldiers were also wearing uniformly dressed in the Huai Army. It was impossible for them to look as messy as the He family army.

In front of the official road, a team of about fifty-man He family troops rode their horses and rode their horses in the evening, exploring the way forward.

"There are thieves in front of you!" A He family army called out suddenly.

When the officer heard the sound, he turned around and looked forward. He saw that there were indeed more than a dozen strong men riding horses on the official road ahead, looking at him.

"Catch up and kill them all, we have a lot of people!" the officer shouted.

The He family's army's Yebusuo immediately drove the war horses and rushed up. Seeing that the situation was not good, the dozen strong men in front quickly turned their heads and fled to Furong Ridge. The He family's army's army followed Yebusuo and chased them closely.

When the Huai Army passed through a small wood, more than a dozen guns suddenly sounded in the woods, and white smoke rose from the woods a hundred steps away. The He family army, who was chasing him closely behind, was dismissed one by one. The Huai Army scattered soldiers were ambushed in the woods. Although there were only more than ten people, at least eight He family soldiers were shot dead in this round of shooting.

"What kind of musket is so accurate?" The officer of the He family army was shocked. "If there is an ambush, retreat quickly!"

Nearly a hundred cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods and rushed towards He's army at night.

The He family army turned their horses heads around and fled back desperately. The Huai army behind them chased after Yebusu for a while, and shot more than ten He family army with powerful crossbows and rifled rifles. Until they almost saw the main force of the He family army, the Huai army turned their horses around and retreated.

The Huai Army attacked everywhere at night without restraining the night, luring the enemy with light cavalry in front, and scattered soldiers were ambushing the enemy halfway, and then destroyed the He family army by pursuing the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the night without restraining the He family army attacked. The team of tyrants picked up a telescope to observe the hillside and found that there was a vague harvest of figures in the bushes.

Another team of He family troops were not taken away at night and found it in the Hemudong area, and there seemed to be someone lying in ambush.

"Report! There was an ambush in Santaishi."

"Report! There is an ambush found in Hemu Cave!"

"Report! Ambushes were found in Tianping Ridge!"

The news of the Huai Army ambush was constantly coming, which made Zhang Kuang, Li Zao and others very worried.

"He Tuchen, it is obvious that Li thieves have set up a plan to doubt the soldiers for us. They must have set up an ambush somewhere in front, so they arranged a questioning soldiers everywhere with the plan to make us give up those roads and lead us into their ambush circle. He Tuchen, we can't move forward anymore!" Li Zao advised each other hard.

"Jianming, you are too worried. The reason why Li Bishop arranged a suspicious plan was to stop our army from reinforcement of Guangzhou! Humph! He was afraid that I would reinforce Guangzhou, so I wanted to go! What ambush? He wanted to attack Guangzhou and also arranged ambush. How many troops did Li Bishop have at hand?" He Tengjiao did not listen to the advice at all and insisted on his own.

"He Duchen, the official thinks that it is reasonable to understand the words, so you should listen to his opinions." Zhang Kuang also advised.

"Eshan, you are too indecisive. How can you hesitate when marching and fighting? If you go forward, you will advance. If you miss the opportunity, you may fall in Guangzhou and Li thieves will target us! This is the only good opportunity to defeat the thief!" He Tengjiao sneered.

Li Zao and Zhang Kuang and others were right at all. Li Guodong did arrange a plan for suspicious soldiers based on He Tengjiao's personality. Those suspicious soldiers were arranged by night. Tie Hammer and his soldiers arranged countless scarecrows in the mountains, and then sent people to drive away birds in the forest, causing birds to startle, so that the He family army would be ambushed when they didn't collect at night.

However, in the real ambush circle, the soldiers were covered with grass leaves and branches, hiding in the bushes, and integrated with the surrounding environment. Even if the birds were by the people, they would not be alarmed.

In addition, Li Guodong also trained an animal army. The animal army released mature birds near the ambush. The birds could even be stopped on the soldiers so that the opponent would not be suspicious. In addition to birds, carrier pigeons, Haidongqing and other birds, the animal army also had hunting dogs, domesticated foxes, leopards and other animals, and even tigers, while the navy raised dolphins.

Logically speaking, deploying doubtful soldiers everywhere will make the enemy not dare to advance rashly. However, Li Guodong, He Tengjiao's personality, is very familiar with him. This person has no talent, is stubborn and will do his own thing, and he cannot listen to other people's advice at all.

When it was almost evening, the He family army entered the Tianlong Pin and walked along the official road between Tianlong Pin and Dashioka.

"The enemy is coming! Without my orders, no one is allowed to act rashly." Liu Tichun sent the order.

In the Dongkeng area, protective nets are covered on the ground, and birds fall on the protective net from time to time. However, under the protective net, there are pits that are deep in the mouth and people, and various artillery are placed in the pit. Zhang Shiwen's gunners are ambushed under the protective net, and all the cannons are loaded with shells in advance. The gunners hide in the pit, dare not speak or breathe loudly, so as not to alarm the birds.

All the He family troops entered the ambush circle. At this moment, He Tengjiao suddenly saw a group of birds suddenly startled from the hills on both sides. They were large groups of birds flying up, as if they were disturbed.

"Not good! There is really an ambush. Hurry up, the front army will be the back army, and the back army will be the front army, retreat!" He Tengjiao screamed in shock.

It was too late. Liu Tichun's 10,000 old camp archers of the Zhongzhen Camp had jumped up from the grass in the ambush, and more than 10,000 light arrows rose into the air, drawing arcs and falling into the formation of the He family army, one hundred and fifty steps away.

These archers of the Zhongzhen Camp are all veterans who have experienced many battles. They can draw strong bows and shoot light arrows out 150 steps. If they use heavy arrows, they can also shoot eighty steps away. The veterans of the Zhongzhen Camp who had just shot a round of arrows tapped the bow and shot another round of arrows.

The arrows in front woven into a dense net in the air, covering the He family army's head, and the arrows behind rose into the air again, woven into an airtight net again, covering the official road in the middle, and then the third round of arrows took off.

Arrows fell into the formation of the He family army like raining. Most of the soldiers had only a thin cloth coat on them without any armor protection. As a result, every light arrow fell and pierced into the He family army's crowd, and they all pierced directly into the crowd. The crowd screamed and blood splashed, and the soldiers of the He family fell down a large area.

The second round of arrows fell, and another large number of soldiers from the He family fell down screaming.

Arrows were like rain, and the grass was full of arrows on the ground. Many people had been shot into hedgehogs, but the arrows shot from the Zhongzheng Camp were still falling, and more and more people fell down.

Each veteran of the Zhongzhen Camp carried five heavy arrows and fifteen light arrows. According to Liu Tichun's request, they shot all the light arrows and waited for the ambushing infantry to attack. Then they followed the iron armored soldiers and musket soldiers and shot the enemy directly with heavy arrows.

However, in a blink of an eye, every veteran of Zhongzhen Camp shot fifteen light arrows, which was already the limit of their rapid-firing bows and arrows. Every archer of Zhongzhen Camp had his arms sore and could no longer shoot arrows again in a short period of time. However, the 150,000 light arrows they shot had already caused casualties to at least 10,000 soldiers of the He family.

"Kill!" Hao Yaoqi's five thousand troops rushed out from the east pit.

"Boom boom boom" There was a roaring cannon sound in the east pit, and white smoke rose from the slope, and the cannonballs roared over the heads of their infantry formations and fell into the He family's army crowd.
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