Chapter 921 Ambush He Tengjiao (2)
Two ambushers came out at the same time. How could the He family army, who had been shot by the arrows of Zhongzhen Camp, resisted? The formation of the He family army was in chaos. He Tengjiao shouted anxiously: "Don't be messed up, form a formation to defend the enemy!"
Although He Tengjiao did not know how to fight, he also knew that if he turned around and ran away at this time, he would only let his opponents cover up from behind, which would lead to greater losses. If he formed a formation to resist, he might be able to withstand for a while and retreated steadily, so that he would not be defeated.
Officers at all levels desperately suppressed the riots and asked them to form a formation to resist the coming Huai Army. After the officers' personal soldiers cut off hundreds of heads, the He family army barely maintained the formation. They used swords and card players in front, spearmen immediately followed, and archers and bird gunners in the back to resist the rushing Huai Army.
"Shoot the arrow!" shouted Qin Yuchun, general of the He family army.
The archers of the He family army set their bows and arrows, and rows of light arrows flew into the sky, drawing arcs and landing in the Huai Army formation. However, the arrows were stuck on the Huai Army soldiers, either blocked by armor or bounced away by helmets. Except for a few unlucky soldiers who were shot into the hands, feet and faces, the rest of the soldiers were unscathed.
During the charge, more than a thousand prisoners of the Eight Banners of Manchus took down their bows and arrows, slapped their bows and arrows, and shot light arrows at the formation of the He family army. Round after round of arrows fell, and many soldiers of the He family army were caught and fell down.
The heavy armored infantry of the Huai Army and the captive soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria braved the arrows of the He family and charged more than 100 steps. When they arrived fifty steps away from the formation of the He family, the captive soldiers of the Eight Banners of Xiketeng took out heavy arrows from the quiver pot and shot straight at the formation of the He family.
The captive soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were shot without any arrows. Every heavy arrow was shot, a soldier of the He family fell down screaming. To deal with the He family army without any armor, these captive soldiers did not need to deliberately aim at the face. They just need to shoot arrows through the gap between the shield and the shield.
When Hao Yaoqi's iron-armored soldiers rushed to the point where there were only fifty steps left from the He family army, the three thousand self-produced musketeers behind stopped moving forward. The iron-armored soldiers in front squatted down one after another, and the musketeers behind exposed black gun barrels and aimed at the enemy formation in front. Only when Hao Yaoqi's order was heard, flames spewed, white smoke filled, and three thousand projectiles shot towards the He family army's formation like rain.
"Boom boom boom" Three thousand self-generated muskets fired scattered, and the roar was comparable to the red cannon!
Blood was splattered in the He family's crowd, and a large number of soldiers in front, whether they were sword players or spearmen, fell down in piles. Even their shields could not stop the powerful Taixi self-generated musket.
"Det the gun quickly!" Qin Yuchun shouted anxiously.
However, few bird gunners of the He family were able to fire out the projectiles, because when the Huai Army infantry charged just now, most of the bird gunners of the He family could not wait to pull the trigger and fire out their bird gun bullets, but they had not been loaded yet. Even the projectiles produced by a few bird gunners were blocked by the shields of the Huai Army.
The standard bird guns equipped with the Ming army were only about one qian to charge the charge, and the weight of the projectile was two qian, and the shield could not be penetrated outside thirty steps. The self-generated musket of the Huai Army was an imported European flintlock rifle, with a weight of four qian to charge the charge of three qian, which could easily penetrate the shield of He Jiajun within fifty steps.
After firing the projectile, the Huai Army's self-produced musketman did not load it again, but quickly inserted a bayonet into the musket, followed behind the iron-armored soldiers, and launched a final charge towards the formation of the He family army.
"Submit!" Hao Yaoqi ordered.
Two thousand iron-armored soldiers pulled out grenades from their waists, pulled the strings, and threw them into the middle of the enemy formation ahead.
The grenade fell into the He family's crowd. Amid the roaring explosion, flames splashed, white smoke rose, and countless pieces swept across the crowd. The He family's soldiers fell down screaming and screamed. Some were tied into hornet's nests by the fragments on the spot, while others had broken arms and legs, lying in a pool of blood. The soldiers who were not killed and injured by the bomb were in chaos, and even the personal soldiers who were in the back were in chaos.
"Kill!" Hao Yaoqi was the first to rush into the enemy formation. He was tall and looked like a god of killing. Wherever the axe in his hand went, flesh and blood were flying everywhere. The enemy soldiers he hit were either different from their heads or broken into two pieces in the waist.
Two thousand invulnerable iron armored soldiers were extremely fierce. They rushed into the enemy group and rushed forward. There was no enemy in front of them. The sabers that could break the war horses fell down, and the enemies they faced turned into a pool of minced meat. The self-generated musketeers behind them were not to be outdone. The flintlock rifle with bayonets was like short spears, rushing left and right among the enemy crowd.
The 1,000 captive soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchus and the 2,000 self-produced musketeers of Wang Fuchen also broke into the enemy group. The 1,000 captive soldiers were actually heavy armored infantry. These people were extremely fierce, with tiger-toothed swords and tiger spears successively taking the lives of the soldiers of the He family army. The self-produced musketeers behind them finished a round of ammunition, and rushed forward with bayonets and rushed back and forth in the enemy group.
"We are defeated." Looking at the soldiers who were driven away by the Huai Army like a lamb, He Tengjiao burst into tears.
The Huai Army that ambushed He Tengjiao and the Zhongzhen Camp had only 25,000 people at most, but it defeated the He family army with more than 100,000 people all over the ground. Although Li Guodong's ambush plan was successful, he could still ambush the enemy with less than one-quarter of the troops and win a big victory, which also shows that the Huai Army is strong in combat.
The He family army began to flee, and the Huai army infantry followed closely, chasing and hiding from behind. Along the way, the He family soldiers were either killed or kneeled on the ground to surrender.
"Cabin! Cavalry!" someone shouted in horror.
Cavalry appeared in the woods on both wings, and the light cavalry rushed straight into the chaotic He family army. After approaching, the cavalry's cavalry made a sound of stinging bowstrings, and the rain of arrows pierced into the He family's crowd and shot countless times. Then the light cavalry put away the bows and arrows, drew out the sabers, and rushed into the enemy group again and again. Every charge, the sabers could harvest the lives of a group of He family soldiers.
Cao Bianjiao rushed into the enemy group again and again, and rushed back and forth among the enemy group with a white wax spear in his hand. More than a dozen elite soldiers were guarding him. Every time he rushed, a flesh-and-blood alley would break out of the enemy group.
Suddenly he found that there was a large flag of the central army with "He" written on it not far from him. Cao Bianjiao pointed at the direction of the central army's flag with "He" in his hand: "Brothers, follow me and capture the old thief He Tengjiao alive!"
Cao Bianjiao led his army to kill He Tengjiao's central army banner. Seeing a fierce general rushing towards him with a group of cavalry, Zhang Kuang beside He Tengjiao, Li Zao and others shouted anxiously: "Hurry up, stop the thief general and protect He Tuan!"
The soldiers of the He family army went up in batches and blocked Cao Bianjiao's light cavalry. After forcing Cao Bianjiao to charge once, they had to ride their horses and withdraw again. As a result, the bodies in front piled up higher and higher, blocking the attack path of Cao Bianjiao and his light cavalry, and the light cavalry also suffered certain casualties.
Seeing the "He" flag go away, Cao Bianjiao saw a general flag with the word "man". He realized that it must be the general flag of Mandazhuang, the general of the He family army, so Cao Bianjiao shouted: "If you can't catch the old thief He Tengjiao, you will catch the Man's surname first!"
"Kill!" Three thousand light cavalrymen rushed towards Mandazhuang.
Mandazhuang was called by Zhang Kuang and others to stop the use of the Huai Army light cavalry. Seeing the "Cao" flag approaching him, Mandazhuang was not afraid at all, but instead ordered his soldiers to rush forward to stop Cao Bianjiao and protect He Tengjiao from retreating.
The light cavalry was extremely fast. In a blink of an eye, Cao Bianjiao had already knocked away more than a dozen soldiers of the He family and rushed to Mandazhuang. The white wax spear in his hand pointed directly at the door of Mandazhuang.
Mandazhuang is also a good general. When he saw Cao Bianjiao coming, he raised his spear and resisted Cao Bianjiao's fatal blow. Unfortunately, Mandazhuang's martial arts skills were not as good as humans after all. When Cao Bianjiao rode his horse past him, he turned around and pulled Mandazhuang off the horse with a gun.
"Tie!" Cao Bianjiao ordered.
Several personal soldiers turned over and dismounted, tied the Manda Village into rice dumplings, and then took them away.
Chapter completed!