Chapter Eleven: The First Confrontation with the Tartars
On the loess road, a group of a thousand troops with long braids behind their heads was advancing. They were also pushing two cannons, and there were more than a hundred cavalry in front of the group.
Zhao Rende was riding on a tall horse. He didn't take this mission seriously. It was just a cottage composed of a few bandits and refugees. How powerful was it? They also used artillery. I heard there were 200,000 people, but
Those were 200,000 refugees. The thousand troops he brought were all elite Han Eight Banners soldiers brought from outside the Pass. Although they were not as good as the Man Eight Banners, they were much more powerful than the Dashun Army. He once wiped out and routed two thousand soldiers.
Although many of the soldiers of the Dashun Army are strong men who have never seen combat or received training, there are still 500 veterans of the Dashun Army, so their combat effectiveness is still very strong.
Zhao Rende thought of Shanqi who brought two thousand Zhengbai Banner Manchu soldiers, and scolded him so much. He also called himself a loser for not killing the bandit of the Chinese Army nearby, so that even the British King Azig knew where it was.
There was a cottage with 200,000 refugees, but the man was a Manchu and had a higher military rank than himself, so he had no choice but to endure his anger and obediently destroy that cottage with a large number of refugees.
As he was walking, he suddenly saw a large amount of black smoke rising into the sky to the right of the mountain stronghold known as the Chinese Army. He looked at the strange sight. He had also seen fires before, but it didn't seem like it. A deputy general next to him
After seeing it, he asked: "Did those bandits know the letter we are coming to report?" Zhao Rende glared at him and said: "You reported the message and let me see the scene. At first glance, it doesn't look like a man-made scene.
No matter what, let’s get down to business first.”
As soon as he finished speaking, several colored fireworks soared into the sky a few miles away from them to the left. When he saw it, he shouted: "This is the enemy's signal. Everyone, hurry up, the bandits are already prepared."
." After saying that, he immediately asked the troops to quickly develop and rush to China City.
After receiving the signal of the observation post in Zhonghua City, the two soldiers on the observation post on the tower hurried back to report to the company commander in charge of the guard today, who took them to see Zhang Huahan.
Zhang Huahan was discussing with Zhang Chao how to open an opening in the mountain behind the current China City and connect it with the area behind the valley to expand China City. Suddenly Wang Hao walked in and said to Zhang Huahan: "Chairman Zhang, there is enemy situation, observe
The soldiers at the station discovered the signal sent by the scouts. They are waiting outside."
Zhang Huahan hurriedly asked the soldiers from the observation station to come in and asked about the situation. He learned that the army coming was the Braid Army, with about a thousand people, more than a hundred cavalry, and two cannons. Zhang Huahan asked them to go down and continue to observe.
He said to Zhang Chao: "There are a thousand Manchus, but there is no problem if we defend the city." Zhang Chao said: "They are not Manchus, they are people from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. Currently, the army composed of Manchus is fighting abroad at most.
Two hundred thousand people, with at least one horse, and if they are Manchus, at least most of them are cavalry, so what is coming now must be the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and what is coming is an army. The Manchus will not be mixed with the Han people.
In the army, I guess there are no Manchus. Although the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are also very strong, they only have a thousand soldiers. I think we should let the new soldiers and veterans join together and let the three regiments fight each other to practice their troops.
We have more people, so we can sacrifice less while ensuring victory."
Zhang Huahan nodded after hearing this and immediately summoned his troops to prepare for the battle. At this time, several factory directors came to Zhang Chao and told Zhang Chao that there was a problem with the experimental gun barrel, and Zhang Chao immediately went to solve it.
Since each regiment has some veterans stationed in the three villages, they are not all full, but the new recruits are all here, so it is good to give the new recruits some experience.
Zhang Huahan placed the first regiment in the front and the second and third regiments in ambush on the wings. When the thousand men arrived, he would close his pockets and annihilate all the enemies.
Zhao Rende didn't know that there were ten times as many people waiting for him. He urged the troops to move forward. From a distance, he saw a tall city wall made of unknown things in the middle of the mountains on both sides. He took a breath of air-conditioning.
, the city wall that is much taller than the highest section of the city wall in Beijing cannot be attacked with just a thousand people and two cannons. Even if there are only a hundred people defending it, as long as there are enough long-range weapons, I can't attack this wall.
A thousand people all have to be reimbursed here. It seems that the leaders here are very powerful, but where are the materials for construction on the high loess slopes? It is difficult to find stones here.
When he was worried, he saw about 3,000 troops in green trousers in front of him. He thought happily: These bandits are bandits after all. They don't know how powerful we are. They even abandoned the tall city wall to fight with us in the field.
After we kill them, the troops who followed them can rush in, and we will win, haha. Let that Shanqi see what he is capable of.
After thinking about it, he was just about to order the troops to move forward when suddenly a loud and exciting sound of an unknown musical instrument came from the front, back, left, right, and from all directions.
Then the shouts of "Charge!" and "Kill!" came from countless people from all directions, and countless soldiers wearing green uniforms rushed over from all directions.
The long blue strip was swallowed up by the green ocean. Although Zhao Rende's soldiers fought desperately, but one of them was dealing with three or four at the same time, and there was a steady stream of enemies joining them. Except for a few unusually brave Han Eight Banners generals, all of them were
They were killed quickly, but they were indeed strong, and only more than fifty surrendered. Later, the few Han Eight Banners generals who were extremely brave were exhausted, and after encountering several powerful masters of the Chinese army, they all
He was killed. Zhao Rende, who had killed countless Han people, also fell under Zhang Liang's sword.
Zhang Huahan, who was on a hillside outside the battlefield, saw a signal coming from a distance, and two thousand braided soldiers, all cavalry, came quickly. But when he saw that there was still fighting on the battlefield, he wanted to annihilate all the enemies, and
In his heart, he had a fluke that the other party might be the Han Eight Banners.
He commanded more than 200 veterans from the second and third regiments, all equipped with breech-loading guns, and six reserve companies holding shields, spears, knives and other weapons to prepare to block the enemy, and prepare for the large troops to support after the enemy was eliminated.
. He did not believe that two thousand cavalry could defeat his more than nine thousand soldiers.
When the regular vibration of horseshoes appeared under his feet, Zhang Huahan knew that the opponent was not only two thousand Manchu cavalry, but also definitely the best of the best. He began to regret not retreating.
Although the Manchu strong bow has a longer range than most muskets dating back to 1600 AD, the cheating breech-loading gun has twice the range of the Manchu strong bow. Soon more than 200 of them were equipped with breech-loaders.
The veterans of the gun repeated the actions of firing - loading - firing, etc. They had practiced countless times. The rumble of the fast horses stimulated Zhang Huahan's heart, and also stimulated the hearts of all the Chinese soldiers who faced the enemy.
Only then did they realize that all they had seen before were soldiers on horses. When the real cavalry came, they lay tightly on their horses and skillfully controlled their horses, jumping left and right, doing all kinds of messy maneuvers to avoid bullets.
In this action, more than two hundred soldiers shot ten times before hitting less than a hundred targets. There were only a dozen bullets left, but the Manchu cavalry saw that the opponent had begun to reach the range of their strong bows.
Immediately he began to draw the bow and draw the arrows. Zhang Huahan asked the musketeers to aim and fire slowly, and commanded the shield bearers to protect the musketeers first. A dense burst of arrows accurately shot towards the Chinese army, followed by a scream,
There were ten musketeers and shield bearers and hundreds of pikemen, and the swordsmen were all hit by arrows.
Zhang Huahan shouted: "The pike soldiers hide behind the shield musketeers, stick their spears diagonally on the ground, and hold them firmly for me. The sword soldiers behind me will wait for the enemy to come and chop off the horse's legs for me. Don't be afraid. They are also human beings. They are for our sake."
Family, for our future happiness, destroy these enemies who destroy our beautiful life!"
The soldiers did what Zhang Huahan said. After getting closer, the musketeers' shooting accuracy became higher. Hundreds more Manchu cavalry fell, and the Manchu cavalry rushed to the Chinese army's formation with the sound of the earth shaking.
After the musketeers fired the last shot, they dropped their muskets, drew their sabers, and retreated behind the spear and shield soldiers.
The two torrents collided hard. Many Manchu cavalry, men or horses, inserted their spears, and more Manchu cavalry broke through the Chinese army's gun and shield defense line, slashing and killing the Chinese army soldiers. The Chinese army soldiers
Most of them were swordsmen, those who cut down horses, and those who jumped on the horses to pull down the enemy, causing the Manchu cavalry to suffer heavy losses. The Manchu general Shanqi watched the powerful Zhengbai Banner soldiers die in battle one by one. He felt very painful in his heart.
There were only more than 20,000 white flag warriors, and every one who died was one missing. He immediately commanded his troops to rush out of the group of Chinese troops blocking his troops, and used the powerful impact of his cavalry troops to attack the large group of troops besieging Zhao Rende's troops. He could not
Knowing that the battle was almost over, he tried to save this good-for-nothing. Although he looked down on this Han Chinese, he was still a colleague and a member of his own clan. He should save him if he could.
When preparing to leave, Shanqi saw that Zhang Huahan was the commander here. He didn't know that this was the overall leader here. Otherwise, he would have killed Zhang Huahan first even if he didn't save Zhao Rende. Shanqi shot Zhang Huahan with all his strength.
Five Arrows, turned around and led the team to rush out of the Chinese Army's blocking force, and rushed into the Chinese Army's brigade that had just finished the battle and had not yet formed a team.
Wang Hao, who was beside Zhang Huahan, had already rushed forward with his guards to stop the Manchu army from breaking through the defense line and threatening Zhang Huahan. There was only Wang Hong beside Zhang Huahan. Suddenly, an arrow flew towards Zhang Huahan. Zhang Huahan saw that there was no arrow at all.
In reaction, Wang Hong blocked two arrows with his left and right hands, and kicked away one arrow with one leg. Seeing that the other two arrows were about to hit Zhang Huahan, he twisted his body in a movement that normal people could not do, and used his shoulder to push one arrow away.
Blocked, another arrow was touched by his shoulder but was not blocked. The arrow was touched and missed Zhang Huahan's vital part. It hit his left shoulder. He only felt a pain before he had time to react.
Suddenly a force came over his body and he pulled out the arrow feathers, and a stream of blood spurted out from the wound. He felt a little dizzy, held up the big knife and shouted: "Kill!" before his eyes darkened and he passed out.