In Amul's mind, the current Ming army has been frightened by the Qing Dynasty for many years. Although there are occasionally some spies who dare to compete with the Qing Dynasty at night, but now he has two thousand soldiers and horses under his command. In his opinion,
These two thousand soldiers and horses were enough to fight against ten thousand Ming troops without losing any of them. Therefore, although he knew that there must be Ming troops in Shandong to the southeast, he did not think that he would be in any danger.
February 28, Jishi
There was silence in Sitong Town. There was only the sound of Qing patrols walking from time to time. In a large room, Amul was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. Next to him lay two naked women.
The somewhat pretty woman was looking at Amul with fear in her eyes that were red from crying.
Last night, Amul tried his best to vent his animal desires on the two robbed women. He fell asleep in the middle of the night, and now he is sleeping soundly.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside the door, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, "Sir, sir, I have an urgent military report!"
Amul, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by the noise outside the door. Being disturbed from his sweet dream, Amul sat up with his upper body exposed, revealing the thick chest hair on his upper body. He threw on a small robe in an annoyed manner.
Walking to the door with bare feet, he cursed angrily: "You damn slaves, what a trivial matter it is if I let the master hear about it. I wonder if I won't skin you."
After walking to the door, Amul saw a spy kneeling in front of the door. He was still worried that someone had disturbed his sweet dream. Amul stretched out his big furry foot and kicked the spy and asked impatiently: "Say it."
, what on earth is going on?”
The spy reported in an anxious voice: "Master Qi, I have just discovered a large group of Ming army troops twenty miles away from Sitong Town. They are now heading towards Sitong Town."
"What!" Amul was shocked. He reached out and grabbed the collar of the spy, pulled him up and shouted loudly: "Seriously, how many people do they have, and do they have any cavalry?"
"Returning to the adults, what the villain said is true. Just now when the villain was looking in the southeast direction, he encountered a large group of Ming troops. Those Ming troops were all infantry. There were about three thousand people, and there were countless others.
The baggage was at the back, but there were very few cavalry, only about a hundred cavalry. When the villain and others were checking, they were noticed by Ye Bushou of the Ming army and surrounded them. Because the villain was outnumbered, all his men and horses were lost, and only the villain was left.
People escaped."
"Okay, I didn't look for bad luck with those Han dogs, but I didn't expect them to come knocking on my door." Amul thought this was a provocation from the Ming army to him, and a surge of anger surged into his heart, "It seems that we have a lot of trouble.
The reputation of the Qing cavalry has not spread to Shandong yet, so much so that even cats and dogs now dare to bare their teeth at me."
"Send the order for everyone to assemble and prepare to follow me and destroy the Ming army that dares to come and die!"
"Scum!"
Amul gave the order, and soon a deep horn sound sounded in the town. Groups of Qing soldiers quickly assembled, and under the leadership of their respective Niu Lu, they headed out of Sitong Town. A fierce battle was about to begin.
At this time, more than ten miles outside Sitong Town, Pang Gang was leading the army forward steadily. After Wang Zhilai reported that the whereabouts of the troops had been discovered by the Tatars, Pang Gang knew that if the Tatars heard that the Ming army was coming to attack, they would always
Being arrogant, they will definitely attack with all their strength. Therefore, Pang Gang immediately put the team into a battle formation, moved the baggage battalion that was originally at the end to the middle of the marching team, and also prepared the thorn chariot.
The so-called thorn chariot is a cart with iron plates full of iron spikes inserted on the outside. These chariots are used to transport food on weekdays, and can also be used as shields to protect infantry in wartime. This was also the case in the late Ming Dynasty.
One of the effective weapons used by the Ming army to deal with the Qing army.
When Pang Gang's team reached an open terrain less than ten miles away from Sitong Town, a panting man riding a fast horse ran up and reported loudly: "Sir, there is a large group of Tatar soldiers in front of us.
Come to our army."
"Sure enough, they are here!" Pang Gang said with a cold snort: "The Tatars are indeed as arrogant as the rumors. I sent my order and immediately asked all the ministries to pull up their chariots and form formations to prepare to meet the enemy."
"yes"
After giving the order, the seven hundred heavy troops quickly divided the hundreds of carts into two layers to form a large circle, and protected all the soldiers. The nearly one hundred soldiers who had not gathered up at night roared and dispersed in all directions and began to march in the cart.
Started wandering outside the formation.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Pang Gang divided a thousand gunmen into five rows and stood behind the car formation. A thousand sword and shield men guarded the two wings, while the pikemen were in the center ready to respond at any time. Ear Gang was also surrounded by hundreds of pro soldiers.
With the support of the soldiers, he stood in the center of the car formation, and Ye Bushou also took turns reporting to Pang Gang the distance between the Qing soldiers and his own troops.
After a while, in a burst of billowing smoke, hundreds of Tatar cavalry appeared in front of everyone. Not far away, the spies of the Qing army were constantly fighting with the Ming army's Ye Bushou, and both sides were victorious.
Negative. Looking at Ye Buzuo who was engaged in a fierce battle, Pang Gang sighed at the scarcity of horses in the army. If he had a thousand cavalry in his hands, why would he let the elite Ye Buzuo do such an overqualified job?
Logically speaking, the Qianhu gunmen in front should be commanded by a Qianhu, but Pang Gang's army was super-staffed, and he was the only one Qianhu in the entire army of more than 4,000 people, so Pang Gang had to order Li Yuan to temporarily replace him.
command.
Among the Tatar cavalry that came first, the leader of the group was Niulu, whose name was Saharian. He was a famous warrior in the Blue Banner. This time, he was ordered by Amul to bring his own troops to test this group.
The reality of the army.
Seeing that the Ming army on the opposite side had formed a car formation, Saharian, who was riding on his horse, sneered in his heart with disdain. He thought that these Ming troops were no different from the Ming troops they had encountered before.
The warriors of the Qing Dynasty would only shrink back and act like a turtle. But they forgot that even the solid city walls could not stop the iron hooves of their Qing warriors, so how could the small car array withstand it?
Saharian turned to a white-armored soldier beside him and said: "Bo Zhongguo, you immediately bring a hundred warriors with bows and arrows to tell those southern barbarians that our Qing cavalry cannot be blocked by a mere car formation.
."
"Scum!"
Saharian is a veteran soldier. He has dealt with the Ming army for many years. He knows very well the combat power of the Ming army during this period. His plan is very simple, that is, to use a hundred Qing soldiers to demonstrate to these Ming troops.
It would be best if he could make the Ming army unable to withstand their strength and retreat, so that he could calmly take his Niu Lu and slaughter these Ming soldiers who could only walk on two legs. If the Ming army did not retreat, they could
It's also good to scare them and make them timid.
Logically speaking, Saharian's plan was right, and there was nothing wrong with it. He usually used this method when encountering resistance from the Ming army, and it worked repeatedly. But what he didn't expect was today.
What he encountered was not the Ming army he usually encountered.
Bor Zhongguo led a hundred cavalry without any hesitation, and rushed straight towards the Ming army's vehicle formation. While charging, they made strange screams of "wow". In past battles, they relied on
Such strange calls made the Ming army tremble.
Li Yuan had already drawn his sword and stood behind the car formation, watching with cold eyes the Tatar cavalry in front of him rushing towards his own position. When he saw that some of the soldiers around him were a little nervous because they were going into battle for the first time, their faces began to change.
, shouted loudly, "Don't panic, everyone, follow the usual training. Each platoon listens to my order and prepares to take turns firing volleys!"
Amidst the rumblings, a hundred Tatar cavalry rushed towards the Ming army's vehicle formation. The distance was getting closer and closer. Soon they had seen the appearance of the Ming army on the opposite side. When the Tatar soldiers saw the Ming army on the opposite side, they suddenly
Many Tatars couldn't help but grin when they were holding bird cannons. In their impression, the Ming army's cannons were actually synonymous with waste. They were afraid of both wind and rain. In bad weather, even ten shots may not be effective.
Once, those Ming soldiers now used blunderbuss instead of bows and arrows. Borzhong really didn't know whether to praise them for being brave or calling them stupid.
The Qing soldiers, who were overjoyed, galloped faster on their horses, and soon approached a hundred paces away. Many Qing soldiers had already taken out their bows and arrows and were preparing to fire arrows at the chariot formation.
At this moment, the Qing soldiers who were galloping on their horses heard a burst of gunshots in front, accompanied by a burst of thick white smoke. The dozens of cavalry running at the front felt as if they had been punched in the face by a giant.
They seemed to fall off their horses one after another, and then there were bursts of mournful cries from horses, which were the cries of war horses that had been hit by lead bullets.
"Those Nanman firearms have been fired once, let's rush over and eliminate them all!" Seeing that his subordinates lost dozens of horses under a volley of fire from the Ming army, Bor Zhongguo felt a burst of heartache in his heart.
, he knew very well that those warriors who fell off their horses had a very slim chance of survival. Under the trampling of the horses' hooves behind them, it would be good if they had intact corpses.
"Keep charging!" Bor Zhongguo shouted with red eyes, waving the tiger head gun in his hand, "Get ready to shoot..."
Before Bor Zhongguo finished speaking, another burst of gunfire sounded like fried beans from the front. Bor Zhongguo, who was waving a tiger-headed gun and cheering up his subordinates, only felt a sharp pain in his chest.
As soon as he lowered his head, he saw a small hole the size of a little finger appeared on the cotton armor on his chest. Then he felt that all the strength in his body seemed to have left him. Unable to hold the reins anymore, he fell down.
He fell heavily to the ground, and at the same time, the Qing soldiers following him also fell to the ground one after another.
A cavalry team of a hundred people was destroyed in this way...