Chapter 200 Defeat the Yanzhou Green Camp
Zhao Peng's Seven Hundred Jinyiwei was not equipped with firearms, and the Green Camps in Yanzhou and Jining only had firearms such as bird guns and three-eyed guns, and were not equipped with cannons, even if they didn't even have the lightest tiger squat cannons. There was no need to be afraid of them. The combat effectiveness of the Qing army in these green camps in these places was similar to that of the Ming army of this era. They set off firearms from afar and could not hit the target at all.
The role of bird guns in the hands of these garbage soldiers is to make a sound, listen to it, to give yourself courage, and to scare your opponents. Apart from this, it will not play any role at all.
"Kill! It takes time to load the fake slave bird gun. As long as we kill them, they will collapse!" Zhao Peng pulled out his knife and roared, and rushed forward with seven hundred Jinyiwei shouting.
At the same time, Wang Quan led 36 Yebugu's whistleblower cavalry to kill the formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp. Due to the capture of war horses, the number of Yebugu's whistleblower cavalry had expanded to nearly 40 people.
The cavalry of Ye Bugu was used as a light cavalry. First, he dismounted his horse and shot light arrows from a distance with his stair bow, tricked the opponent's firearms into firing, and then rode on the horse and approached quickly, and used his stair bow to harasse the formation of the Qing army. When the opponent's stair bow counterattack, the cavalry immediately left and fled the effective range of the Qing army's infant bow.
The cavalry will not shoot against the opponent's stomp, just as the light cavalry will not cut against the opposite infantry formation with a sabre and the opposite infantry formation. The cavalry is a clutch, using mobility to harass and delay the opponent. There is also the saying that the cavalry's attack is often not a frontal impact, but a roundabout side attack, just like the horse in Chinese chess is walking on the Japanese.
Ma Xingri, missed one blow, quickly escaped, and then hit the side again, harassing again and again, disrupting the opponent's formation.
With the cooperation of the cavalry, the infantry advanced step by step. When the distance between the two sides was almost fifty steps, in order to avoid the infantry formation being killed and injured by the Qing army's bird guns, Wang Quan and thirty-six Yebu cavalry and the Yebu cavalry launched another attack on the Qing army's formation. During the impact, each Yebu cavalry took off the cavalry bow and shot rows of light arrows at the Qing army.
Seeing the arrow rain covering the face, the Qing army's bird gunners were indeed deceived. They pulled the trigger in panic, pressed the fuse into the medicine pool, and ignited the bird gun.
Several bird gunners lit the bird guns. When they heard the sound of the guns, all the Qing army bird gunners pulled the trigger and fired the projectiles.
"Boom boom boom" The sound of the guns roared, and the white smoke filled the air, and the bird guns sprayed out slender tongues of flames. It seemed very spectacular, but in fact, because the Ming cavalry was still seventy steps away from the Qing army's bird gunners, the Qing army's bird gun shooting had no effect.
Except for two Ye Bushang who accidentally got hit by the projectile, the rest of Ye Bushang were unscathed. If it were another army, the soldiers injured by the bird gun would have to wait for death. The wounds were infected and the projectiles were invaded by the lead poison. In this era, Zhao Peng was basically rescued and seriously injured. However, after Zhao Peng was there, the cavalry who had been hit by the bird gun projectile returned, as long as the wound was treated in time, the projectile was dug out, and bandaged and treated, the wounded would not take long to recover from the injury.
Then the Qing army's infantry archers shot a row of light arrows. Ye Bushu's cavalry had already galloped away. Most of the arrows fell behind Wang Quan and his horse's butts. Only a few arrows hit Ye Bushu's cavalry, but they had close-fitting chain mail protection, and the light arrows shot were almost no lethal to them.
Wang Quan's night-free cavalry successfully attracted the firepower of the Qing army, making it impossible for the bird gun, which pose the greatest threat to its infantry, to be loaded. The infantry led by Zhao Peng had already reached within thirty steps.
"Shoot the arrow!" Zhao Peng drew his knife and pointed forward.
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The archers of the Jinyiwei guards behind the infantry formation set off their bows and arrows. One hundred archers released their fingers at the same time. Rows of light arrows flew into the sky with howling sounds, covering the sky and falling towards the head of the Qing army formation. Just as a row of arrow rain passed, another row of arrow rain flew into the sky and fell towards the head of the Qing army.
These green camp soldiers only had a thin piece of leather armor on their bodies, but they could still withstand the attack of light arrows. Although the arrows of light arrows could pierce into the leather armor, they did not cause much damage to people. The arrows that shot through the leather armor no longer had much energy, and could only cause minor injuries to the green camp soldiers. Some arrows hit the Qing soldiers' limbs without leather armor protection, and the injured Qing soldiers screamed and fell down.
The archers of the Jinyiwei Guards had two consecutive rounds of arrow rain. Although they caused little damage to the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp, they caused great destructive effects on their formation. These Yanzhou Green Camp soldiers, which had a trash combat power, were almost shot out of orders by two rounds of arrows.
The bird gunners behind the Qing army were loading in a hurry, but they didn't have time to load them. The sword player in the front row of the Ming army's Jinyiwei had already thrown a deafening thunder and landed accurately in the crowd of Qing sabre players. Deafening explosions came one after another, shrapnel, shield fragments and weapon fragments flew everywhere, and the broken legs of the Qing soldiers flew into the air, and the Qing sabre players in the front row immediately fell down a large area.
Before the Qing army could come back to their senses, the Jinyiwei sword player collided with the front row of the Qing army. At the same time, the spearmen also rushed forward, and rows of spears pierced from the back of the sword player. The Jinyiwei sword player in front squatted down quickly, allowing the spearmen behind to output damage.
Rows of spears stabbed up and pierced into the Qing army formation. Only a scream was heard, and the green camp soldiers who were shot fell one after another. As the spear was drawn, blood mist rose up from the Qing army crowd. Then the spear continued to stab forward, and another row of Qing soldiers fell down.
The Qing sabre player, who had been blown upside down by the thunder, could not organize effective defense at all. As a result, every time the Ming army's spearmen stabbed, they accurately stabbed a Qing soldier.
At the same time, the sword player ignited the thunder again and threw his head into the crowd of spearmen and archers in the back row of the Qing army.
"Boom boom boom" a series of explosions sounded among the Qing soldiers. Deafening explosions came from the crowd of spearmen, archers and bird gunners in the back row of Qing soldiers in the Green Camp. Fire flashed and smoke filled the smoke. The Qing soldiers' flesh and blood were flying everywhere, and they were blown up in a pool of blood.
Two rows of thunderstorms in succession completely destroyed the morale of the Qing army. The spearmen took advantage of the situation and rushed in. Only a terrifying shout came from the Qing army crowd: "Our army is defeated, leave quickly!"
This time, the Yanzhou Green Camp completely collapsed and could no longer organize effective resistance. Everyone turned their heads and ran desperately, without looking back at their own lives.
Zhao Peng led the infantry to chase after him, and chased after one. As long as he did not kneel down and surrender, he would cut off his head with a knife or stab him in a cold heart. As for the surrendered Qing soldiers, they tied them with ropes and threw them on the side of the road for the time being. The Jinyiwei guards chased for a while, and Zhao Peng blew a whistle. After receiving the order, the Jinyiwei infantry stopped chasing the Qing army and returned to their own camp and handed over the defeated Yanzhou Green Camp to Wang Quan and others who did not stop whistle at night to deal with it.
Thirty-four Ye Bushang chased after him all the way. The Qing soldiers who were chasing him either were knocked out by a war horse or were cut off with a knife. However, the thirty-four horses caught up along the way, and none of the more than 500 Qing soldiers dared to turn back and resist, and were all running desperately. At this time, even if someone turned back to resist, the Qing army's losses would be reduced a lot.
But no one turned around to resist, they were all concerned about escaping their own lives. Although resistance could win more people's chances of survival, those who turned back to resist would undoubtedly die. No Qing soldier was willing to sacrifice himself to exchange for the chance of his comrades' survival. They all had the attitude of dying fellow Taoists, but they could only be constantly caught up by Ye Bushou Cavalry, killed with one knife, or were knocked away by war horses, or trampled into meat paste by horse hooves.
Chapter completed!