He Baoxin was overjoyed when he saw several rounds of arrows raining down from his subordinates. They were all arrows down the slope. He didn't care whether the arrows were from Shu Mulu's Zhenghong Banner Soldiers or not. As long as he could wipe out these rebels in one fell swoop. [] Those miscreants.
The life and death of soldiers is not what he should care about.
You dared to set up an ambush here after eating the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's. Now I want you Wu Ni to know what a strong army is! A group of rabble-rousers want to defeat our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. No matter what you do, it's just a fool's dream!
Do you think this narrow mountain road can stop the elite troops of Zhenghuang Banner? Hum, yes, we are all cavalry and cannot rush into the valley, but you Wu Ni have forgotten how you lost to us!
Our mounted archery is unparalleled in the world! We are warriors on horseback, but we are the best archers on horseback!
He Bao held back his temper and waited outside the valley just for this moment. He knew that if he pressed forward from the beginning, he would be attacked from a high position like those men and horses holding the red flag. He could only wait for the opponent to rush down the hillside and meet the red flag.
When the infantry are fighting together, it is the best time for him to lead the army.
He Bao's idea was completely different from what Zhao Qiang thought. Zhao Qiang only thought that once his own troops and horses from the Zhenghong Banner were entangled, the cavalry from the Zhenghuang Banner would not dare to come easily. Firstly, the mountain road was narrow and not suitable for cavalry charge. Secondly, the two sides were entangled.
The soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner had to throw rat weapons when they came. They could only engage in close combat and give up the advantage of charging on horseback and shooting with bows and arrows from a distance. Otherwise, if they fired arrows from a distance, they would also kill the soldiers and horses of the Zhenghong Banner. But he did not
I thought that these Zhenghuang Banner cavalry did not care about the lives of the Zhenghong Banner infantry at all. They did not follow Zhao Qiang's idea.
But more arrows fell from the infantry of the guarding camp and the gunners who came down from their respective hiding places thinking that victory was in sight.
Looking at the small flag gunner who was crippled by a hail of arrows, and the guard camp below that was shot without any resistance, Zhao Qiang felt heartbroken. He knew that the guard camp could be said to be finished, and the remaining
Although there were still one or two hundred people, they had no ability to fight back when faced with the distant bow and arrow attacks of the Zhenghuang Banner Qing troops. The corpses of the Qing troops and their companions who fell on the mountain road became an insurmountable obstacle for them, and they often had to cross a
Human corpses, they will fall one person.
Everyone knew that if they rushed forward, the Qing troops armed only with bows and arrows would be chopped down like melons, but no one could rush forward.
Zhao Qiang witnessed more than 20 strong men, led by the Han army's small flag, trying to rush in front of the Qing troops who were shooting arrows, but they were shot into hedgehogs when they were not in the way. The Oroqen people who were equipped with bows also shot arrows back, but their
The arrows could not hit those Qing troops at all, and fell down in mid-air before they could reach them, only causing ridicule from those Qing troops.
Hu Wang reluctantly relied on the remaining Han soldiers to hold down the strong men who were so frightened that their legs were weak, and strode back. However, every time they took a step back, the Qing army took a step forward. It was like a cat teasing a mouse, so be slow.
Slowly kill the opponent, make them afraid, make them fearful, make them completely lose confidence in fighting, let them know that they will definitely die!
Under the bows and arrows of the Qing army, there were fewer and fewer people around Hu Wang...
The guard camp is over! Completely over!
Zhao Qiang had the urge to cry. Why is this happening? Why is this happening? God, why the hell did you do this to me!
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Shu Mulu, you idiot, you deserve to die, so as not to embarrass my Eight Banners soldiers!
When they were at the bottom of the slope, He Bao was so far away that Shu Mulu was beheaded by someone, but he felt indescribably happy. Seeing that no one stood up within a hundred meters, He Bao felt very happy and shouted loudly.
: "Asutai!"
Asutai, who was directing his subordinates' vests to move forward, hurriedly ran over after hearing the order, knelt down on one knee and said, "The general is here!"
He Bao pointed to the front: "Lead your troops to defeat the stubborn enemy troops, and don't allow anyone to escape! Regardless of whether it's up the slope or down the slope, I don't want to see a living traitor!"
"twitter!"
Asutai responded loudly, stood up and walked quickly towards his headquarters.
"Hnusu!"
Henusu was in the command post with his vest and the escaped red-banner infantry fighting against Asutai. Hearing the order, he responded: "The general is here!"
"Lead your troops and the red flag troops to suppress the enemy gunmen and prevent them from interfering with the Asutai tribe!"
He Bao glanced around and saw that the Han gunmen were retreating towards the mountain. He sneered and said: "Divide four teams of the Riding School into chasing those gunmen. I want them to know that the firearms in their hands are far from the bows and arrows of our bannermen."
opponent!"
"twitter!"
Henusu nodded solemnly and quickly took the order and left.
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"Hundred households, we can't retreat any longer. If we retreat any further, our brothers will not even have a chance to fight!"
There were less than a hundred soldiers in the guard camp following Hu Wang, and there were only more than 20 Han soldiers in the camp. Xiao Qilin saw three times that if this situation continued, all of these more than a hundred people would be shot to death by the Qing army. He couldn't help but feel extremely sad and angry.
He waved his sword and ran forward: "Tatars, I will fight with you!"
Hu Wang couldn't stop him, so he stamped his feet heavily to stop the Han army who was about to follow Lin Yousan: "Back off, back off, don't die in vain, Master Qianhu is on the slope, he will save us!"
"shoot!"
Lin Yousan roared at the Qing army like a beast with red eyes and killed him. However, when he was more than ten meters away from the Qing army, he was shot into a honeycomb by several oncoming arrows. After the arrows, Lin Yousan was unwilling to give in.
Looking at the Qing soldiers, he stood firm and took two more steps forward before his knees gave out and he fell to the ground.
"well!"
Hu Wang looked at the fallen Lin Yousan and couldn't help but shed a tear. He also wanted to rush to fight with the Qing army, but reason told him that he couldn't. Even if he retreated slowly, he would only be slowly shot away by the Qing army's bows and arrows.
, but he must lead his people to retreat, otherwise they will all die at once.
Zhao Qiang, Zhao Qianhu, where are you? Why haven't you moved yet?
Hu Wang looked worriedly at the hillside. He thought that Zhao Qiang could quickly bring down the gun battalion and beat those damn Zhenghuang Banner Qing troops into a hornet's nest. But he didn't know that Zhao Qiang also had the willpower now. The Qing army's longbows had too far range.
, was beyond the shooting range of the fire cannons, and because victory was in sight just now, most of the gunners left their hiding spots and went down the slope. As a result, they were shot dead by the Qing army, and the loss was seventy or eighty if not a hundred.
Because there was no queue, the remaining people were fighting independently and could no longer form an effective fire attack. Now that Qing troops were on the hillside, they could no longer get closer to the valley.
Zhao Qiang only had four small flag gunmen beside him, and one of the flags had been destroyed. Wu Si tried to use the three small flag gunmen to fire fire cannons at the Qing army in the valley, but before they showed up, they were suppressed by the opponent's long bows.
Wait, seven or eight people were injured, but there was no way to fire the fire cannon. The fire cannon must be fired at the enemy, and you could not hit the gun randomly. Being pressed tightly by the Qing army archers, Wu Si was so anxious that he smashed his fists, but
There is nothing that can be done about it.
Yan Qian and the others and the guard battalion following Po only had more than a dozen soldiers. With such a small number of people, there was no way they could attack the Qing army's arrow array. In the current situation, Zhao Qiang was at his wits' end and could only attack the hundreds of people down the valley.
The Huangqi Qing army stared blankly. There was nothing they could do against them.
After all the calculations, he never expected that these Zhenghuang Banner cavalry would abandon their horses and go into the valley to fight solely with bows and arrows. Zhao Qiang regretted it so much that he really wanted to kill himself with a knife. He took it for granted. He thought the Qing generals would think the same as him, but he didn't expect it.
But people don't follow his routine at all.
Regret, guilt, and self-blame made Zhao Qiang want to die. He had never imagined that the battle would end like this.
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"Maleji, what should we do!"
"Those Eight Banners are too powerful, we can't defeat them at all!"
"They use long bows, our short bows can't shoot them!"
"Maleji, let's run!"
"run?!"
Malji, whose face was covered in blood, looked at the tribesman who said he wanted to run: "Where to run?"
"Go back to our village!"
Hearing what he said, Malji grabbed him and shouted: "Don't you want your clan members anymore? Don't want your wife and children anymore!"
"If we run away, the Han people in Shouyi City will kill all our people!"
Malji tried to calm himself down. The situation in front of him was already a dead end. He knew that he and his tribe would all die on this mountain road in less than half a stick of incense. But he could not run or lead his tribe to run, because
The old, weak, women and children of that tribe will definitely be killed by the Han people in Shouyi City!
"We can only fight to the death. There are not many Qing troops. They only have two to three hundred people. We have no hope of winning!"
"Hope of winning?"
The tribesman seemed to have heard something very funny. He pointed at the corpses lying on the ground in front of him: "Everyone is almost dead, how can we defeat those Qing troops? You are here too, and the guns of those Han people can't suppress the Qing army at all."
Army, they have no time to protect themselves now, how can they save us! Win? Dream!"
"Are you happy that your wife and children were killed by the Han people?"
"We have no other way to go. Our braids have been cut. If we don't defeat these Qing troops, they will kill your wives and children after killing us, so we must stay here, even if we die, we will die here!"
"
Malji almost roared at his tribesmen. Daur and other tribesmen nearby could not understand what they were saying, and Hu Wang could not understand either, but he knew that this young Oroqen man would not run away.
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"Qianhu, those sons of bitches Ewenki have escaped!"
"The Daur people are running too!"
"Hu Baihu couldn't suppress it, and the Mongols ran away!"
"General Zhao's subordinates were shot and disabled!"
"Qianhu, retreat, if you don't retreat, all the brothers will be doomed!"