When two armies are fighting, the most important thing is to take advantage of the opportunity
Pre-emptive strike, Shi Dayong gave an order, and two hundred wolf cavalry, led by Cao Bianjiao, immediately went down the mountain and charged towards the rebels.
Two hundred Changping soldiers, led by Jiang Wanli, followed behind. Their only task was to use their horses as fast as possible to disperse the rebels and prevent them from forming a formation.
After the Jinzhou Army charged, Peng Dachui hesitated for a few seconds, then whipped his horse whip and rushed out. When the thieves saw the boss, they rushed forward and followed suit.
The rebels were stunned by this sudden change. [
No one expected that the officers and soldiers would dare to come to Shahe, let alone the cavalry.
The rebels, who were completely unprepared and unsuspecting, were all confused. Looking at the menacing officers and cavalry, the timid ones even cried out in fright.
"The officers and soldiers are here, run away!"
In addition to the 300 Dongjiang and Liao soldiers, the five thousand rebels under Chen You were all Zhuangdong brought from various places in Northern Zhili and some opportunistic bandits and green forest thieves.
These rabble-rousers, fighting against the wind, waving flags and shouting that they are fine, are vulnerable to an attack by officers and soldiers who can fight, let alone cavalry.
The sound of hoofbeats on the snow was so dull that it made people's hearts drop.
If they had met the officers and soldiers elsewhere, I am afraid that the rebels would not have collapsed so quickly. At least they could have stayed behind the Liao soldiers for a while. But here was the Shahe River, their home base, and officers and soldiers suddenly appeared from the home nest.
, could not help but give the rebels the illusion that Shahe had been breached by officers and soldiers!
As a result, like adding insult to injury, the rebels' psychological defense was suddenly broken. They didn't even have the courage to resist, and they collapsed almost instantly.
The strong men were so frightened that they dropped their weapons, spread their legs and ran towards the team behind them. The bandits and green forest bandits also began to seek self-protection. Some brave and cruel people saw that there were still Liao soldiers blocking the front, and the official cavalry was momentarily blocked.
I couldn't rush over for a while, but I went to grab the belongings behind the team.
The entire rebel team was more than four miles long, jammed with people and vehicles, and behind it were hundreds of women kidnapped from Yanxing County.
On the road, there were crowds of people and cars. The rebels who were eager to escape even trampled on each other. The rebels who were trampled by their own people could not help but scream in pain.
Escaping, stealing property, screaming woman
Everything was in such chaos that Shi Dayong couldn't believe that the rebels who had restrained the Beijing camp and the Ming army in Beizhili were such idiots!
The rebel general in front is running for his life. In sight, the rebels have not yet formed a defense line.
Don't miss this opportunity, it won't come back again!
Shi Dayong lost no time in issuing instructions to the Wolf Cavalry and rushed towards the rebels who had not yet responded!
When encountering danger, the difference between the well-trained elites and the improvised rabble will be immediately apparent.
The two hundred Dongjiang Liao soldiers guarding the formation had indeed fought against the Donglu Jiannu before, and there were many desperadoes among them. Seeing that the newly attached Hebei soldiers were so frightened that they panicked, and immediately drew their swords and started to suppress them [
"Don't run, don't run!"
"Formation, formation!"
"Fire the gun, fire the gun quickly!"
The two Qianzong who led the team were Chen You's old subordinates who were on guard at the left battalion of the infantry. While they were frightening the soldiers who wanted to run away, they anxiously ordered the old battalion to form a formation as soon as possible.
Two hundred Dongjiang veteran soldiers armed with four medium-sized cannons and a hundred large muskets were powerful enough to withstand the charge of hundreds of cavalry. However, the appearance of the Jinzhou Army was so surprising, and the charging speed was even faster.
It was so dizzying to watch, and with the strong men they had brought running around like flies, it was difficult for them to form a defense line in the shortest possible time.
The sound of hoofbeats in my ears was getting closer and closer, so close that these murderous Liao soldiers were also frightened. The hand holding the gun kept shaking, and the medicine could not be poured into the barrel of the gun.
"Fire the gun quickly, fire the gun quickly!"
Seeing the officers and soldiers, the cavalry was about to rush forward. General Qian became worried, and regardless of the fact that Chen was right in front of the gun's mouth, he anxiously ordered the soldiers to fire the gun immediately.
When the other General Manager Qian heard this order, he hurriedly shouted: "You can't let go, the general hasn't come back yet!"
"How long has it been? How can we still care about him! If we don't fire the cannon, the officers and soldiers will come and kill us!" Mr. Qian, who was about to fire the cannon, had his eyes red with anxiety.
"This" Mr. Qian, who was not allowed to fire the gun, hesitated for a moment, quickly made the right decision, and shouted viciously: "Fire the gun!"
After hearing the order, the Liao soldiers hurriedly set up the big pole muskets, took out the fire sticks and prepared to light them. However, it was already too late. The Jinzhou Army's three-eyed muskets fired a second earlier than them.
"Bang bang bang bang"
A burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and before the black smoke dissipated in front of me, a dark shadow appeared in front of me at high speed.
Collision and smashing, the Liao soldiers were scattered to pieces by the wolf cavalry coming at high speed, leaving dead and wounded everywhere.
There is nothing remarkable about the ensuing battle. It is a demonstration of cavalry - a one-sided massacre.
The rebel general Chen Shichang had the same fate as him. He was trampled to death by the Jinzhou army that followed because his mount was hit by a bullet and fell from his horse.
After charging again and again, and convinced that the rebels could no longer form any resistance, Shi Dayong ordered to shout to the rebels who were still fleeing, asking them to squat down and surrender on the spot, otherwise they would be beaten with a knife.
In this open wilderness, it is impossible for two legs to outrun a four-legged war horse.
Most of the rebels chose to surrender, so the scene of two or three wolf cavalry escorting dozens or even hundreds of rebels back was played out in front of Shi Dayong. This scene made him think of the scene in Nanjing in later generations.
——A few Japanese soldiers led thousands of Chinese soldiers towards the river, but no one resisted
There were also a small number of rebels, most of whom were bandits who could ride horses. They took advantage of the chaos to grab some horses pulling carts and ran north.
Shi Dayong did not order the pursuit of these escaped rebels. In his eyes, these were just small fish and shrimps, and no matter how much they ran away, it would not have any impact [
After interrogating two officers, it was learned that they were rebels from Shahe and their leader was Chen Shi.
Hearing the news, Shi Dayong was overjoyed and immediately ordered people to search Chen Youyou out of the prisoners. But then the news came that Chen Youyou was dead.
After being identified by several rebels, Chen Shi's body was carried to Shi Dayong
The corpse had been twisted, and almost all the bones had been trampled to pieces. Only the facial bones were still holding on to a layer of skin and flesh, and the blood and flesh were vaguely visible. There was an unbelievable look in his eyes. It seems that Chen sometimes didn't understand these things when he was dying.
Where did the army come from and how did it come to Shahe?
People were dying. Even though he was a rebel general, there was no reason not to bury them. He waved his hands and dug a hole in the snow to bury Chen You. After Shi Dayong ordered the casualties and results of the battle to be counted,
The battle was no different from killing a chicken with a knife. The Jinzhou Army suffered three casualties - one dead and two wounded.
The one who died was killed by the frightened rebels after his horse stumbled and fell. The two injured were injured by muskets, and their injuries were not serious.
More than 3,600 rebels were captured, and more than 400 rebels were killed and wounded.
One-tenth of the casualties would wipe out the entire army. This casualty ratio and result made Shi Dayong despise the combat effectiveness of Kong Youde's rebels, and also made him more confident in his own army.
At this time, the rebels who were gathered together found that the attacking officers and soldiers were only a few hundred people, and the number was not even a fraction of their current number.
Some people began to regret that they should not surrender, especially the more than thirty Dongjiang Liao soldiers. They threatened the people around them, saying that the officers and soldiers would not let them go and might massacre them immediately.
But most people chose to surrender sincerely. Among them, the strong men from Hebei were mainly civilians who were brought here. They had no identification with the rebels, but after being forced to join the rebels, they more or less participated.
The actions of the rebels were also caused by tigers. Therefore, under the intimidation of the Dongjiang Liao soldiers and the bandits who were unwilling to be captured, the strong men began to feel uneasy, fearing that the government troops would liquidate them.
There began to be an uneasy atmosphere in the prisoner team.
All the rescued women were kidnapped from Nuclear County. There were more than 500 of them. They were still so frightened and uneasy when they saw the Jinzhou Army appearing. Because the uniforms of the Jinzhou Army were just like the rebels. After repeated declarations and comforts, these women just stopped.
Crying, believing that he was really saved by the army
It was difficult to count the property quickly because it was scattered everywhere. Shi Dayong asked Jiang Wanli to send fifty people to select 200 more honest-looking prisoners to collect and count the property.
This one-sided battle lasted for half an hour because there were too many rebels, and there was quite a lot of movement. It was impossible for the rebels in Shahe Town not to hear the movement, but they never saw any rebels coming out of the town. This was unexpected.
This makes Shi Dayong a little strange
After asking the captured officers, Shi Dayong found out that there were only 500 rebels in the town. It seems that those rebels saw that the official army was cavalry and knew that they could not defeat them, so they hid in the town and did not dare to come out.
It was already dark. With so many prisoners and women in custody, and no bridge across the river, Shi Dayong was in a dilemma whether to continue attacking Shahe or retreat with these captives, women and property.
At three o'clock in the hour, Shao Wu and Li Dashan finally arrived with another 300 Changping soldiers. When they saw that the general had won a victory and killed the rebel general Chen Youchang, the soldiers immediately cheered excitedly.
Amidst the cheers, Shahe Town, which had been silent until now, suddenly started to make noises. Under the watchful eyes of the Jinzhou Army, a team of more than a hundred people was walking towards the river bank.
There was no bridge on the river. Shi Dayong didn't know whether these people were shouting across the sea or trying to cross the river, so he watched calmly.
Unexpectedly, those people actually walked directly onto the river and walked along the ice to the river!
The ice in Shahe River is thick enough for people to walk on!
"Xiao Cao, wait until they come and take action!"
Seeing that there seemed to be soldiers in the crowd, Shi Dayong whispered to Cao Bianjiao and his men to get ready. As soon as those people came to this side of the river, they would be dealt with.
But what surprised Shi Dayong again was that when the group of people reached the middle of the river, they suddenly stopped walking. Instead, they lit up torches and shouted in this direction: "Young ones are the people of Shahe Town. I heard that the imperial officers and soldiers