Chapter 685: Escaped Slave

In the second half of the night, the temperature in the northern desert grassland at the end of October was extremely low.

There were some dewdrops in the middle of the night, and the frost formed in the middle of the night, which was slippery and difficult to move. A small riverside was overturned everywhere, burning carriages, ox carriages, and corpses everywhere were worn.

The Ming army had big red cotton armor, and there were also flag soldiers wearing variegated rivet armor, and more were armorless. There were only hunting bows and light arrows in their hands. The Han army and Mongolian army, and a large number of miscellaneous soldiers died in the tragic night.

During the battle of attacking the camp.

A large number of grain trucks overturned to one side, and the grains and brown rice turned into ashes in the fire.

A large number of Ming army light cavalry looked down on this little food, and approached the fire with muskets. Rockets intensively fired, which triggered a large fire and stood not far away, waiting patiently for the enemy soldiers to flee in all directions, and in the dark, they were all panicked.

Flag soldiers, coated clothes, and slave soldiers killed the guns. The bodies meandered several miles along the river. The fire was burning until the middle of the night before gradually extinguishing.

In the dark night, most of the Ming army roared away and camped for rest.

A small number of elite Ming army dismounted, searching for its own wounded soldiers along the river, and they would make up for the attack when they saw the enemy soldiers. In this kind of weather and in this environment, there was no difference between the wounded soldiers and the dead. The Ming army would not give up their own photos.

It is very humane to think that the enemy's wounded soldiers will die with a knife.

Ma Can held the gun and walked carefully on the frost, with sharp soldiers with slight hands and feet on the front, back and left and right.

Those who can undertake such battlefield search tasks are mostly elite surprise troops in the Ming army. The newly-formed surprise troops of each army are an extremely special combat unit. This combat unit bears the heavy responsibility of battlefield reconnaissance and search, and the casualty rate.

It is extremely high, but everyone wants to squeeze in. The reason is very simple and clear, with a high casualty rate and many opportunities to make meritorious contributions. Therefore, the sharp soldiers of the surprise troops were promoted very quickly.

As a result, the organization of the Ming army and the surprise troops became larger and larger, from the guard level to the battalion level, and soon became the sentry level, and soon replaced the function of the reconnaissance cavalry and became the planning of the Macheng City.

Elite combat units such as reconnaissance battalion and reconnaissance company. Ma Can manages this surprise battalion, with a number of people ranging from 500 sharp soldiers, and soon expanded to more than 1,000. His direct superior was Qiao Yiqi, deputy general of the Taiwan Town Army, and his direct superior was the commander camp.

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Naturally, in more than ten days of pursuit, the organization of various Ming troops had long been broken up.

Ma Can only whistle his own soldiers, and the rest were all scattered light cavalry. At this time, the strict organization of Kaiyuan's military system was fully demonstrated. In the long battle of siege and interception, the starting point was extremely high.

The key role. When the light cavalry of each unit ran away, they were broken up, and they were reorganized on the spot, forming a very resilient and tough army like ketchup, which made Huang Taiji and the brave Eight Banners generals helpless.

In the dark night, dull and short humming sounds came from the front from time to time.

The Ming army searching along the river was extremely fierce. There was a bright moon looming in the sky. The Ming army on the ground was also very smart. They painted kraft paper black and made into lanterns to illuminate it without revealing their whereabouts. In a hurry, they could also be used as arson.

The tool is extremely convenient. Under the dim candlelight, two night crows suddenly sounded in front of him. More than ten sharp soldiers beside Ma Can squatted down, knelt on one knee, and each handed a rifled musket.

The sharpshooting of the excellent rifled guns around Ma Can has increased by twelve people, and everyone is a sharpshooting of thousands of choices in the army.

The number of sharpshooters in the army is very large, but it is very difficult to build this exquisite rifled rifle. The best Indian iron is made by hand and can't make a few rifle pieces a month. However, this kind of loading is very inconvenient and cost-effective.

Expensive rifled muskets have become quietly popular in the army. Who can use this kind of gun? You can tell at first that they are mostly nobles with officers and wealthy families.

So much so that when later generations mentioned the descendants of the Ming Dynasty who were revived and restored during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, their first impression was that everyone was good at shooting, and they were almost synonymous with sharpshooters. The crows were silent, and after a few crows cried, a intensive burst suddenly broke out on the front line.

The guns were sounded, the fire flashed, and the smoke filled the Ming army. The front line was fighting against the enemy, but more than a hundred soldiers in the back team still knelt on one knee, maintaining a warning state, and the well-trained elite soldiers were fully visible.

Not long after, two soldiers ran up in front of him and squatted down and said, "Report to the Chief, I've come out of the camp to pursue the fugitive slaves."

Ma Cheng said calmly: "How many?"

The soldiers said respectfully: "I can't see clearly, I guess there is a leader who is the leader of the camp. Should we fight or withdraw."

The Ming army has encountered such incidents countless times. At night, the enemy army set up camp, and the young and strong Han people were fled. When the Han people fled, the bannermen would naturally send troops to chase them. The fate of the escaped slaves depends on the Ming army.

When the general was in a good mood, he went up to respond. He broke up the flag soldiers with a scattered gun, and most of the flag soldiers retreated. When the Ming army was unwilling to respond, he could only be chased by the fierce flag soldiers one by one.

Kill or kill, it is extremely difficult to escape.

Ma Can said sternly without thinking, "Fight, let's break up!"

With a command, more than a hundred elite soldiers stood up, holding guns, holding swords and shields, and quickly unfolded on the grassland. In an instant, they expanded from the marching state to form a dense line of scattered soldiers.

Ma Can lowered his head and opened the fire door cover, looked at it, and said softly: "Shuizi, look, it has dispersed. This group of tares have a bad life. If you meet our man, you will be defeated!"

Zhang Shuizi jumped out without saying a word, and more than ten Ming army's sharp shootings quickly dispersed under the night sky. Each of them was a selection of elite troops in the army. Naturally, they were extremely confident and no one wanted to fall in.

Behind the man.

The front line, where the fierce battle started, a fire broke out.

The Ming army, which gathered more and more, was lined up in a row, across an unknown river, and shot against the flag soldiers who used strong bows on the other side. Suddenly, the two sides who encountered were gradually angry, and no one was willing to give in. The shallow river channel was two.

The side was not in the river water that had not reached the knee, like hell on earth, arrows and projectiles shot, hundreds of escape slaves stepped on the cold river water, rolled and crawled, desperately fled from the opposite bank, and fled to the side where the Ming army responded.

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Night battle, swords and guns were blind, and escaped slaves were shot from time to time, and they were shot and howled and fell down. The body sank and quickly floated on the water. When Ma Can arrived, he saw such a tragedy.

, No miracle happened, the river was not deep, and hundreds of Han people fugitive slaves who were struggling in the cold river, crying and died soon tragically under the dense crossfire of both sides, and it was extremely difficult to survive. Some flag soldiers still targeted the fugitive slaves.

The arrows shot behind the back were extremely vicious.

The Ming army made some mistakes. They thought that a row of guns would most likely give in to the flag soldiers on the other side, but they did not expect that the enemy soldiers would become fierce and they would not retreat even if they fought to the death, which led to such a tragedy.

Seeing more and more corpses floating in the river and fewer and fewer escaped slaves who could struggle, the nameless fire rose in my heart, and I could not blame the frontline soldiers. In this case, the frontline soldiers were completely unable to control the accidental injury.

Looking at the long row of torches on the other side and the flag soldiers who were pulling bows and shooting arrows, the Ming army was also angry.

With a whistle, Ma Can was also fired and said gloomy: "Shuizi, take people across the river and take the way out!"
Chapter completed!