Bai Chaozai lay on the ground and ate a mouth full of sand.
He was a farmer's son in northern Shaanxi and was of the same clan as Bai Guang'en. In these years, he had no choice but to do what he wanted. In the third year of Chongzhen, Bai Guang'en was defeated and returned to his hometown to recruit troops. He, his two elder brothers and three younger brothers carried hoes in order to eat food.
Tu became a thief, and later became an official with Bai Guangen in Xilihu.
This name was also given after I became an official. When I was recruited, there were only three of the six brothers left. They were small people. No one knew their real names. The nicknames were too random. They were Three Harriers, Five Harriers and Six Harriers.
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The kite is a ferocious little bird. It often flutters its wings and glides through the air. When it finds its prey, it can kill it with a single blow.
There are only two types of people who use kites as nicknames. One type is an enemy who is good at riding. They ride a war horse and hold a long soldier and gallop around. In front of them, everyone is just a little chicken to be hunted; the other type is
He had no skills, so he could only hunt chickens smaller than them. He survived by fighting hard and became a kite.
Another characteristic of a kite is that it only takes twenty days after hatching to become a ferocious predator hunting alone.
They are the latter. Working hard has never been a ancestral skill for farm children, but it is indeed a skill for people who have nothing. By being able to work hard, the six brothers of the Bai family are left with three kites that are famous for their bravery.
After the recruitment, the hundreds of households with official status and wives could no longer be called by such names, so the three brothers asked the husband to rename themselves Bai Chaozai, Bai Chaoxiang and Bai Chaochen.
He sounds like a distinguished hero.
Now Bai Chaozai is the commander-in-chief of Hong Chengchou's supervising battalion, commanding 440 horses and infantry. His two younger brothers, the chancellor and the court officials, serve as commander-in-chief under him. After the four-year war in Shaanxi, he is used to fighting and fighting.
Even though it is disabled, it can be considered battle-hardened.
But Dang Bai Chaozai had never seen such momentum before, it was earth-shattering.
A moment ago, he was leading a strict military formation forward, and his troops marched forward in horizontal formation. The soldiers wore black hat helmets with feathers on their heads, and earthen brass nails and cotton armor, and hung a circle of preloaded pill cartridges around their waists.
, straddling the tin turtle diagonally, holding the electric gun tightly, high-spirited.
This is all brand new equipment issued to the Governor's Biao Camp, and the smell of oil on the electric gun has not dissipated yet.
At that moment, Bai Chaozai clearly saw the majestic general Bai Guangen of his own race, riding a large horse and leaning on the official sword of the Ministry of Industry. He suddenly turned back and looked in their direction, showing a horrified look.
He also heard the wailing screams of hundreds of ghosts behind him, and six hundred large Liu Guoneng roared from the sky.
The next moment, the ground shook and the mountains shook. The tightly guarded front line was smashed to pieces by iron pillars filled with gunpowder. The explosions from all directions were deafening. Fragments of arrow shells and cast-iron bullets tore through the armor's stomach and shattered the bones. Clouds of blood mist bloomed in the gunpowder smoke.
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Bai Chaozai finally came to his senses, spat out the blood-smelling sand in his mouth, stumbled and pushed away the oncoming hurried subordinates, walked among the squirming wounded soldiers, turned over the corpses one after another, and opened his mouth without even noticing the sound of his voice.
Trembling: "Prime Minister...courtier?"
No one could answer his call. When the wind passing through the Gobi dispersed the gunpowder smoke, the entire sandy land was dyed red, as if it had been plowed by veterans who were not good at farming. The 700-step-wide front was evenly covered with rain and dew, and the forty-five-hour battle line was covered with rain and dew.
Forty members of the horizontal team were destroyed by the blast, and countless wails of pain merged into a huge sound that penetrated the sky.
Hell is here.
More and more soldiers with disheveled armor got up from the ground. Regardless of whether they were injured or not, as long as they could still move, they broke away from the battle line and fled northward.
Everyone's ears were ringing from the continuous explosions, but most people's eyes could still see, and they could see the figure of the general at the front of the battle line.
Bai Guangen was galloping past the formation with his battle flag high. People didn't know what he was shouting with a ferocious face, but they knew that the direction his flag was pointing was north, which was the direction of Ganzhou.
Bai Guangen was so regretful that his intestines were green. He knew that the reinforcements from the Marshal's Office were on the way, but he still did not deploy Tangqi in the south because he did not believe that the Marshal's Office could transport heavy artillery across the Qilian Mountains.
In his mind, without heavy artillery, he would not have the ability to launch an attack from a distance of one or two miles. Even if it was a cavalry assault, his army would have enough time to turn into formation.
It was too late to think about anything at this moment, and Bai Guangen only had one word in his mind: run.
He watched those iron-shelled rockets falling from the sky and crashed into the military formation, and estimated the casualties of the infantry formation under his command. Although it looked tragic, the casualties in the military formation were not ridiculously large, with at most 20% of the soldiers dead. If it were a hand-to-hand battle in a majestic formation, Bai Guangen believed that his soldiers could withstand such casualties. After all, when he was a bandit in the early days, they often collapsed and tried to escape after having four or five casualties per centurion, and only ran out after half of them were killed.
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Death is too normal for their officers and soldiers. In theory, every officer under his command can fight until the last soldier dies.
But this kind of fucking attack is unreasonable. Several squadrons were repeatedly bombed by rockets several times, leaving no one alive. Five other squadrons were unscathed by the undulating explosions, not even a hair was lost.
More than two hundred people stood on a battlefield littered with corpses like fools, not even understanding what was happening.
As for the vast majority of the remaining squadrons, the officers have been unlucky for eight lifetimes... In every small squadron of more than fifty people, there are officers such as captain and deputy, as well as flag bearers, flag assistants, drums, trumpets, and commanders.
Bing, Sicang and other non-commissioned officers were standing together. When a rocket hit them, the backbone of the entire team was lost.
Coupled with the chaos caused by several officers like Bai Chaozai, the kinship ties that originally strengthened the soldiers' fighting spirit, such as fellow villagers, clansmen, fathers and sons, and brothers, became a stumbling block in maintaining the organization amid indiscriminate casualties. Bai Guangen knew very well that this
The war is fucking unwinnable.
If you can't fight, run away.
When facing the robbers and the marshal's mansion who had transformed from robbers, Bai Guangen's desire to escape was much stronger than that of any Ming army officer. He would fight if he could, and run if he couldn't. He would recruit again when the soldiers were gone, and he would ask for more armor if he was gone.
Anyway, he must not be captured alive.
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Living is everything.
After all, Bai Guangen had already seen that on the sand dunes on the other side of the battlefield, the marshal's cavalry who were gearing up had already galloped in with their spears and bows and arrows on their backs.
Zhang Tianlin was laughing, she was laughing so wantonly, her knees were straight, she was leaning forward on the horse, and the yellow straight knife in her hand was swinging out above her head, and then she was turning her wrist outwards.
Point the blade forward.
Behind him, the 600-horse cavalry swept through the dust and galloped forward. They were divided into ten teams and rolled down the sand dunes with dragons, charging and trampling on the chaotic infantry formation.
Like a new wind blowing over the ground, like a raging fire burning the wasteland, the cavalry that crashed into the enemy's line chopped down and stabbed and overturned everything that moved in front of them. They rushed out of the formation without stopping and continued to attack north until they entered the cavalry formation used by the king.
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How could those cavalry dare to fight with them? Their horses were already foaming at the mouth from exhaustion in the pursuit, and now they were following Bai Guangen and fleeing in embarrassment.
Zhang Tianlin did not intend to chase Bai Guangen's more than 2,000 men to death. After all, he was also followed by more than 2,000 infantrymen who lacked soldiers and short armor.
So they just chased them five or six miles away, whistled to stop the pursuit, and released the scout cavalry to hang on the back of Bai Guangen. They turned around and prepared to collect the weapons and trophies, but they were pleasantly surprised to find a group of cuties on the battlefield.
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That is the second formation of Bai Guangen's three formations of soldiers. The remaining infantry originally belonged to the guerrilla general Li Yun, but is now led by General Liu Can.
Liu Can is a hereditary military attache of the Ganzhou Guard. His father, Liu Guodong, was a general in the late Wanli period. However, he returned to the Wei to recuperate for a few years due to a serious illness and is still a general today.
During the Chongzhen period, Gansu was a relatively peaceful place in the north, and Liu Can had not fought many battles. Not only was he a little panicked after his commander was killed, but all the more than a thousand people were shrouded in fear of the commander's death.
Originally, they came rushing over with their chariots to complete the encirclement, but in the blink of an eye, Wang Ziyong led his cavalry into the position.
After a brief fight, Wang Zhi came and went as fast as he could. Bai Guangen chased him to the north, and they pushed the cart and chased him north.
Before I could catch up, there was a constant bang behind me like the Chinese New Year. I turned around and saw Liu Guoneng smashing his friendly troops over and blowing them to death. Looking further ahead, I saw that the heroic General Bai Guangen had been scared to death.
Zhang Tianlin's galloping cavalry passed by them and paid no attention to them; the infantrymen who were packing up the launchers behind them were only focused on packing up ordnance on the battlefield that had been blasted by rockets, and no one paid them any attention either.
Liu Can didn't dare to move. There were four to five hundred cavalry around him who were watching eagerly, and he didn't dare to withdraw from the vehicle formation; but if he didn't withdraw from the vehicle formation, it seemed like those big rockets were designed to hit the vehicle formation.
With no other choice, Liu Can led the army like a frightened little rabbit, shivering in the middle of the battlefield while pushing a cart, unable to run or stay, which was extremely embarrassing.
If you push the cart and run, you won't be able to outrun the horse; if you run without pushing the cart, you'll get beaten if you run back; if you don't run, if you look at Mr. Bai's smooth running style, you'll still be able to come back to save them.
Liu Can didn't have much time to hesitate, because Zhang Tianlin came back quickly with the cavalry team.
Liu Can glanced at the car camp and felt that half of his life was gone. Grandma, Zhang Tianlin clearly went out with 600 riders. Why did he come back with nearly 2,000 riders?
He was very clever, holding a telescope in the carriage city to measure the strength of the enemy and ourselves. To the north, two thousand enemy cavalry were returning hand in hand, surrounded by four to five hundred cavalry, and not far away there were two to three thousand infantry wearing armor.
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Liu Can really wants to give it a try.
If it were a normal bandit, with a scale of four to five thousand, he believed that his own force of more than a thousand infantry would be able to fight. After all, the bandits were only elite cavalry.
But it was okay without the telescope. When he took a closer look, he found that the enemy's infantry behind was very unusual. They were wearing armor and carrying weapons. Even cleaning the battlefield was in military formation, and they were very effective against armor.
He did not snatch up such a high-value trophy as his stomach, which made him doubt his own strength again.
At this moment, one of his subordinates, General Bai, reported: "Master Liu, the leader of the thieves has entered the artillery range."
Liu Can looked at it and found out that there were two leaders. One was the guy who led the cavalry into their position earlier, and the other was the cavalry general who just led the cavalry to drive away Bai Guangen like a rabbit. The two were fighting horses and were protected by more than ten cavalry.
He got within a mile of their traffic.
And it seemed that the two of them were quarreling, and they pointed in this direction from time to time, wondering what they were talking about.
President Bai asked: "How about... how many cannons are deployed to kill them?"
Liu Can glanced at Mr. Bai and thought that it was easy for you to make this happen: "What should I do if I'm not sure?"
There is no cannon in this world that can accurately hit a person one mile away. If it is accurate, it is easy to say that if it is a fight with four or five thousand troops without command, it may be possible to win; if it is not accurate, there will definitely be no chance of more than a thousand of them.
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He handed the telescope to Mr. Bai and pointed towards the south: "Look, those wooden shelves and iron pipes are not accurate. If those things fall down and hit us, we will be killed."
The infantry in the south has laid hundreds of launchers on the ground.
"Then...do you mean to surrender?"
Liu Can shook his head and said: "I think they want to invite surrender. Let's pretend to surrender. They want to attack Ganzhou. If we go back and switch sides, I will confess to Guang En at all costs. This thief is like a fucking war. I have betrayed my two sons."
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He never expected that they would be the source of the quarrel between Zhang Tianlin and Wang Ziyong.
Wang Ziyong said that these people are good soldiers, and they will be of great use if they surrender. There will be 30,000 people in the three tribulations. As long as veterans join, the army can be raised immediately.
Zhang Tianlin didn't believe a word of this: "Don't tell me so much. With your style of play, giving you 30,000 veterans is useless. It's like you can afford to support more than a thousand people." After that, he waved to call someone, pointed at the car formation and said: "Go and ask them if they will surrender. If they want to surrender, I will remove all the weapons, armor and stomach, take them aside and stand."
Of course Liu Can was willing to surrender. It didn't take long for more than 1,200 soldiers to take off their armor, put down their weapons, and be taken aside. But what happened next was different from what they imagined.
Zhang Tianlin's men took away all the weapons and equipment, and then asked them to carry the wounded soldiers to the chariot.
Liu Can was elated, thinking that these thieves really lacked soldiers, even wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs. To be honest, even he himself wanted to surrender at this moment.
After all, these troops from the Marshal's Mansion seemed to be very kind to the soldiers. They not only treated the wounded soldiers and bandaged them, but even cooked porridge in a big pot for them to eat. The porridge was still very thick, and they looked very silly and generous.
But Liu Can never expected that after dinner, Zhang Tianlin rode up to their formation, called all the officers over, raised her hand and waved: "You have eaten and your injuries have been treated. You can go back.
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"Ah?"
"Ah, what are you going to and from where? Push the car away and go back to Ganzhou."
Zhang Tianlin looked a little apologetic: "I am Zhang Tianlin, a general in the Generalissimo's Mansion. According to the rules of our general, I should give you a few coins for travel expenses, but my grandfather is short of money, so he can only give you some food rations."
,Go back."
Liu Can was very panicked and said quickly: "We really surrender. General, please take us to attack Ganzhou."
"No one said you were pretending to surrender."
Zhang Tianlin looked suspicious, looked at Liu Can again and again, and finally waved her hand. Anyway, it doesn't matter if she surrenders or fakes. He can't afford to feed the two or three thousand surrendered soldiers and wounded soldiers with mouths. If he puts them back, he can still occupy Ganzhou.
Good soldiers take care of the wounded.
He consoled him: "It's okay. We have a long time to come. Maybe the next time we see you will be at the Liangzhou Guard. Grandpa may have plenty of money by then, and he can get money if he surrenders."
Zhang Tianlin waved her hand, and Liu Can, along with the suspicious soldiers, pushed the wounded soldiers away slowly in a cart and disappeared at the end of the Gobi.
Wang Ziyong asked: "What, take a rest and fight against Liangzhou Wei?"
"Look, believe whatever you say, even tens of thousands of elite soldiers are not enough to kill you."
Zhang Tianlin smiled happily and gave an order to Sakon, her rough voice like the sand in the desert: "Instruct all the troops to move out. The target is Suzhou!"