Two of the three Annan front armies have been defeated.
After another round of shotgun blast, the third one also began to flee.
All the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty came to the field ridge and turned into six or seven long snakes and chased them forward. The defeated soldiers could not run fast in the mud. The crossbowmen stopped from time to time to shoot arrows, while the fire gun soldiers kept charging and moved forward.
Unfortunately, the defeated troops could not escape quickly and could not effectively attack the supporting troops. The retreat was quickly stabilized by the supervising team.
Annan's supervising team killed the most fiercely in several field ridges, and the soldiers were so frightened that they jumped into the fields.
Du Yingwu's Chinese army kept waving the command flag, and except for three elite troops, all the rest went into battle. Many troops followed the field ridges and ran a long way around to both sides. It seemed that they were about to surround the Ming army, but in fact they wanted to take over.
The battle is extremely difficult.
This is a fertile alluvial plain, and the paddy fields are all the property of nobles or gentry.
The area of a field is relatively large, and it is not divided into small pieces. If you want to outflank the field from the side, you have to cross a large muddy paddy field.
The Ming Dynasty elites no longer went to the fields, and some Yuanyang squads stood on the field ridges, shooting at the enemies coming from the side. Some Yuanyang squads were still rushing forward, charging towards the Annan fresh troops coming up from the top.
There are wide and narrow field ridges. The wide ones can accommodate two people standing side by side, while the narrow ones can only occupy one person.
Regardless of width or width, only one person can stand when fighting!
Ruan Xing led his troops to stand on the ridge of the fields. He had driven the fleeing friendly troops into the fields, but he had driven the soldiers in the fields into chaos.
The Ming army had already rushed forward. Ruan Xing shouted happily: "Attack the enemy troops on the ridge from both sides of the field. Quick, quick, quick!"
If it were on flat ground, with the formation of the Ming army, no matter how elite they were, they would still be defeated.
Now it's just the opposite. Some of the enemy troops coming through the mud are fast, some are slow, and some even fall. The Ming army standing on the ridge of the field with a long snake is shooting diagonally forward, surrounding the enemy.
The entire army is a living target.
The Ming army at the front was still charging. The musketeers rushed in front, fired at close range, jumped into the field, and immediately stepped on the mud to reload their ammunition.
The squad leader shot an arrow, hung up his bow and arrow, and charged with a spear in hand.
The two sides fought on the ridge of the field, with one man on each side poking at each other with a gun. Several soldiers behind them jumped into the field and started fighting.
Three people from the Ming army can form a formation, with one person from Tianqiao as the main attacker and two from Tianzhong as assistants.
The Annan soldiers were at a loss, and they only knew how to fight on their own, poking forward randomly with their spears.
The Annan soldiers couldn't hold on any longer at the moment of the battle. Although they had more people, they always attacked three of them. The man in front was stabbed to death, and the second man was forced to go up. He was injured before he got into the state.
The Ming army just moved forward and the auxiliary soldiers on both sides couldn't keep up because of the mud. Some soldiers immediately jumped down again and cooperated with the soldiers on the field to kill the enemy, always maintaining the state of the Xiaosancai formation.
When we reached the back, the Ming troops who fought together were no longer from the same squad.
Relying on their daily training habits, they automatically formed a three-person combat team regardless of whether they knew each other well or not.
Killing and killing, Annan's soldiers became more and more panicked.
The Annan soldier on the field ridge in front was dead. The first reaction of the soldiers behind him was not to fight, but to jump into the field in fear to avoid the soldiers.
Annan general Ruan Xing was commanding from the rear. He suddenly realized that there were fewer and fewer soldiers in the front row on the field ridge, and his troops were about to be killed from the middle. Some soldiers in the fields on both sides had already surrounded them, but they had no formation.
It can be said that they are completely out of touch with their friendly forces. Most of the Ming army stood on the ridge of the fields, while a small number jumped into the fields to fight, forming small formations wherever they were.
The seemingly fragile Ming army turned into a snake, and as many Annan soldiers died as they did!
At this point in the battle, not even a single person in the Ming army died. Although there were hundreds of wounded soldiers, they were all wounded by arrows, and no one was stabbed in close combat.
"General, retreat quickly!"
The soldiers dragged Ruan Xing away.
Ruan Xing's brain was a bit weak now. He didn't know how it could be like this, so he abandoned his troops and ran away in confusion.
Annan general Li Hui on the other side was also about to be killed.
Li Hui was much braver. He did not choose to escape, but went up to it himself.
Then I understood why the soldiers couldn't withstand it. On the field ridge and in the fields on both sides, three spears came at the same time, and they stabbed at different parts. The three Ming soldiers cooperated with each other in a tacit understanding. And his own soldiers also jumped in
Tanaka on both sides assisted him in fighting, but was unable to form effective coordination at all.
Li Hui relied on his excellent armor and was still fighting after being stabbed by a spear.
A musketeer jumped into the field, stepped on the mud with one foot, bent his leg on the field ridge, and fired from the gap left by the friendly troops in front.
"boom!"
Li Hui was shot in the chest and finally fell down unwillingly.
The two Annan armies that were approaching the enemy fled one after another. The outermost troops circled around to outflank them. Some of them fought their way through the mud, and some were still circling back along the field ridge.
The Ming army's small artillery on the field ridge was loading cannons at a leisurely pace, and took turns firing at the outflanking enemy.
Crouching tiger cannons and similar small cannons can only fire a few dozen meters away. Their power is so small that they will not shake the fields, but they can cause huge damage to the enemy.
The more than 10,000 Annan troops who had entered the battle were so chaotic that Du Yingwu didn't know how to command them.
Some have been killed and are struggling to escape in the mud.
Many of the outflanking troops did not lose a single soldier, but they were scattered everywhere indiscriminately, unable to form effective coordination.
Du Yingwu said to the messenger: "Tell all the soldiers that the enemy camp is on fire, and the Ming army's camp will be burned down by us!"
More than a dozen messengers went along the field ridge to inform them of the "victory" news.
Du Yingwu's Chinese army immediately shouted: "Big victory, big victory!"
However, the Ming army whose camp was burned did not care what was happening behind them and rushed faster and faster along the field ridges. There were still a large number of Annan defeated troops in the paddy fields between the field ridges, but as long as the defeated troops did not come over,
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty didn't bother to pay attention.
Head straight towards Du Yingwu's Chinese army!
Du Yingwu became more and more panicked: "Elephant soldiers, elephant soldiers attack!"
More than thirty elephants came into battle, and behind each elephant was a small group of Annan soldiers. The battle formation had a bit of a synergy between infantry and tanks. The elephants were tanks.
The war elephants made big holes in the mud, but it did not affect the movement at all. Instead, the formations of the soldiers who cooperated with the elephants were uneven.
"Aim for the elephant!"
There was no need for Han Jing to give orders, the musketeers had already seen that thing.
The musketeers stopped one after another to take aim, and jumped directly into the field at a bad angle.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
From time to time, bullets hit the elephant.
However, war elephants are all covered in a mixture of leather and iron armor. The muskets can penetrate the armor and even continue to injure the flesh, but are blocked by the muscle tissue.
If you want to kill a war elephant with a flintlock gun, you must hit a key part, or make the war elephant bleed and weaken.
Of course, the injured war elephant also became violent due to pain.
"Bring the cannon over and use large iron bullets!"
The Ming army's small artillery was dealing with the outflanking enemy and did not follow the front army to charge. After receiving the order, it quickly moved forward.
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Some of the Annan soldiers who fled saw their war elephants dispatched, and were suppressed by the supervising team to regroup.
"hold head high!"
A war elephant was hit by more than 20 bullets. Finally, it couldn't stand the pain all over its body. It flicked its nose and roared, turned around and ran away.
The rear soldiers who cooperated with the war elephants were trampled to death on the spot. Three people were knocked over and several others were knocked over. The rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they ran away. However, due to the difficulty of walking in the mud, the Annan soldiers were unable to escape, and dozens of people were trampled to death and injured one after another.
The Ming troops on the field ridge jumped into the field to make way for the artillerymen carrying cannons and shells.
The caliber of this kind of gun is about 5 centimeters, and the largest iron bullet is smaller than a tennis ball.
In order to rush for time, the gunner was running alone carrying the cannonballs at the moment, but two people were required to carry the baskets.
The charge of Annan's war elephants did not go smoothly. One of them had already escaped, and a few others were restless. The riders were carefully calming them down, while the archers on the elephants' backs kept firing arrows from a high position.
"Boom boom boom!"
The three small cannons fired first, but unfortunately they all hit empty targets.
It was not considered a miss, but it did not hit the war elephant, but it killed and wounded several Annan soldiers.
At the same time, the sound of cannons dozens of meters away frightened these war elephants. They were already hurt by the bullets and were disturbed by the sound of gunfire. Now there was another cannon fire, and they no longer obeyed the command very much.
Elephants are so smart that they don't want to die.
If you can barely use it after long-term training, but suddenly faced with a firearm, it is impossible to turn a blind eye.
The fire in the Ming army camp became more and more intense, and the Annan navy who had taken refuge with Zhu Kang was shocked. Although they did not surrender directly, they were so frightened that they kept retreating, even ignoring the Ming officials.
Du Yingwu's navy surrounded him, and everyone was in a panic.
Xie Hong, who fled from the camp to the grain ship, took the initiative to lead the local officials to the bow of the ship. Facing the surrounding enemy navy, he said, "I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the envoy sent by Queen Mother Annandu!"
Chen Kai quickly shouted in Annan dialect: "The envoys of the Ming Dynasty and Empress Dowager Du are here. Do you want to help the rebels murder the angels?"
Annan Baoning Marquis Li Changlu immediately ordered: "No arrows are allowed."
The officials, doctors, craftsmen, and naval gunners brought by Zhu Kang were all dealt with in this way.
Xie Hong was happy and undaunted. He was taken to see Li Changlu and asked: "Do you know who is commanding the battle at the front?"
After Chen Kai translated, Li Changlu shook his head blankly.
Xie Hong said: "That is the eldest son of Emperor Ming, His Royal Highness Prince Yu!"
Li Changlu looked shocked.
Xie Hong asked: "If something happens to King Yu, the Ming Dynasty will definitely launch a crusade. Will Annan be able to hold off a hundred thousand troops?"
Li Changlu became hesitant.
Xie Hong added: "Du Yingwu murdered the king and the prince, deposed the queen, and defiled the palace. You are from the Annan clan, and you allow a foreigner to behave like this? Surrender quickly and listen to my command!"
Historically, it took about ten years for Li Changlu to conspire with civil servants to eliminate Du Yingwu. In the end, Du Yingwu stripped him of his title, and he could no longer command the army and became an idle official who could only receive a salary.
Seeing that Li Changlu was silent, Xie Hong continued: "You have made great achievements by joining His Highness the King of Yu at this time. Why don't you help me eradicate the Du thieves? Do you still want Empress Dowager Du to come in person and Ming Dynasty send 100,000 troops to kill again? When the time comes,
You are a traitor, and it is easy to kill everyone in your family!"
Li Changlu suddenly knelt down and said: "I am willing to help the angels to eradicate the rebellious ministers and get rid of the national traitors!"
"Very good, come and fight with me." Xie Hong smiled and nodded.
In this way, Xie Hong, who had just been captured, suddenly became the commander of the Annan Navy.
Soon, the defeated naval force was called back, and the two naval forces joined forces to kill Du Yingwu.
"Boom boom boom!"
More than twenty small cannons fired iron bullets slightly smaller than tennis balls.
Four of the iron bullets hit the war elephants, causing the war elephants to run wild and run rampant, causing a large number of casualties to Annan's army.
The war elephants roared "arrogantly" incessantly, causing the war elephants that were not hit by the cannons to become restless and start to lose control.
The muskets were still crackling, and the Ming army was fighting with the charging enemies.
The Annan troops who had burned down the Ming army's camp had already rushed over to besiege them.
As the war elephants lost control, the Ming army, which was surrounded on three sides, launched another attack before the enemy could complete the encirclement.
Du Yingwu was going crazy: "Surround us, everyone!"
Annan troops were already surrounding them, but they could not break the Yuanyang Formation at all. Instead, they were defeated one after another.
"General, Marquis Baoning has rebelled and is leading the navy to attack Beijiang Road City!"
Du Yingwu was shocked when he heard this.
More and more war elephants were fleeing in panic, and more and more Annan troops were disintegrating. The Ming army was rushing towards its own central army, and its own navy actually surrendered to the enemy again.
Although the Ming army seems to be in danger, only one person has been killed so far, and more than 200 people have been injured by arrows.
Fighting in paddy fields is the home ground of the Yuanyang Formation!
"Follow me to kill the traitors!"
Du Yi, the commanding eunuch on the flank of the Chinese army, suddenly turned against him with his troops.
This Du Yi was Du Yingwu's confidant, even a domestic slave raised by his father. Du Yi played a huge role in Du Yingwu's successful coup.
Historically, it was Du Yi who rebelled with the civil servants that allowed Du Yingwu to completely break the defense and from then on prohibited the king from having private contact with eunuchs.
Du Yi also had a tragic ending, being tortured to death by a wooden horse.
Anal fissure and intestinal rupture!
At this moment, Du Yi led a part of the Chinese army to rebel, which shocked Du Yingwu to death. He really couldn't figure out why his confidant eunuch, who was a slave, rebelled?
In fact, it is very simple. Du Yi is not only Du Yingwu's confidant, but also the confidant of Empress Dowager Du. He also single-handedly brought up King Li Yanghuan and regarded the king as his own son.
King Li Yanghuan was indeed critically ill at first, but he showed signs of improvement after taking medicine.
Du Yi couldn't bear to take action, but he was isolated. Du Yingwu refused to let him see the king. When he received the news again, it was the news of the king's death. Du Yi blamed himself and was extremely resentful towards Du Yingwu.
All the officers in his army are eunuchs!
Eunuchs in charge of the army belong to the old tradition of Vietnam's Li Dynasty.
Du Yingwu personally led the troops to fight with the rebel troops, but for a while he was unable to annihilate them quickly.
Long Kan, the general at the front, fled back with his defeated troops. He saw the internal strife in Du Yingwu's army and saw the Ming army chasing them, so he shouted: "Come with me to eliminate the traitors. Capture and kill Du Ying, the warrior.
There is a reward! Long live the Ming Dynasty, and long live Empress Dowager Du!"
In the blink of an eye, Du Yingwu was attacked from both sides.
His foundation in Annan was too shallow. The coup took less than a year and there was no time to consolidate power. He could only bribe the army with benefits.
It's okay to win all the time, but if you lose in battle, your generals will defect!
Seeing the defeated troops attacking him, followed by the Ming army, Du Yingwu was so frightened that he fled with his own soldiers.