After the breakout team broke out of the city gate, they fought all the way south. Upon seeing this, the surrounding Tatar soldiers and horses surrounded and intercepted them. Amidst the roar of firearms, the Tatars in front fell to the ground one after another. The Ming army's breakout team headed south all the way, like a broken bamboo.
Taking advantage of the power of their firearms, the Tatar soldiers did not dare to block them from the front. They only fired arrows from the rear and sides while shouting to catch up.
Most of the Tatar soldiers and horses attacked the city wall after giving up defense at the top of the city. Therefore, there were not many Tatar troops outside the city. They did not dare to block them head-on, so they could only delay and harass, but could not stop them.
The Ming army broke through and advanced. However, the arrows they fired from both sides still caused trouble to the Ming army's breakout troops.
If there is no interference from bows and arrows, the breakout soldiers and horses can speed up and break through to the south. However, when a large number of bows and arrows are fired from the sides and rear, they have to maintain their formation and use shields to protect the safety of everyone who breaks through. The people on the side and rear also have to rush forward at any time.
The incoming Tatars fought, which greatly slowed down the speed of action.
When they rushed into the Tatar camp in the southern city, more than 300 Tatar logistics soldiers who were left behind in the Tatar camp blocked them head-on without knowing where they were. Everyone had to fight with them. By the time the firearms were fired, dozens of them were killed.
When Zhang Yin led more than a hundred people to disperse the Tatars in front, torches were already swaying in the rear, and a large number of Tatar soldiers and horses were already chasing them.
"Speed up and rush down the slope." Zhang Yanling shouted loudly.
Everyone rushed south quickly, and soon reached the slope leading down to the Dushi River and rushed towards the river. The pursuers in the rear were getting closer and closer, and were already dozens of steps away.
"Master Hou, why don't we go into the forest. Maybe we can escape." Liu Jin shouted.
Zhang Yanling shouted: "Absolutely not. If you enter the forest, you are seeking death. Not only can you not concentrate your troops, but you have trapped yourself. Once the Tatars block the upper and lower river banks, we will not be able to escape. The only way is to cross the river. But
I hope the river has receded and I can wade across it."
Liu Jin shut up. He knew that Zhang Yanling's words were right. Going into the forest at this moment might give him a moment of respite, but that would be equivalent to getting into his own pocket and waiting for others to catch turtles in the jar. Crossing the river was probably the only option.
"Zhang Yin and Chen Shiyi led two hundred people to stay behind to block the Tatars. Brother Yuan Cheng, all the cannon teams stayed behind to stop the enemy. You must block the enemy and cover the emperor's crossing of the river." Zhang Yanling ordered in a deep voice.
Zhang Yin, Chen Shiyi and Zhao Yuancheng promised loudly and quickly organized their troops to stop the enemy.
"I'll stay too." Zhao Yongsheng shouted...
"Zhao Shoubei is injured, there is no need to stay." Zhang Yanling shouted.
When Zhao Yongsheng was defending the city, he was hit by an arrow in his arm. The wound was deep and he bled a lot. Zhang Yanling applied first-aid powder to him and bandaged the wound.
"It doesn't matter, Lord Marquis's medicine is very effective. I won't be in the way. We must buy time for the emperor to cross the river. We must block the Tatars." Zhao Yongsheng said loudly.
Zhang Yanling thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, you can stay too."
Zhao Yongsheng said with great joy: "Thank you so much, Mr. Hou."
Zhang Yanling nodded, turned around and shouted: "The rest of you, wait, rush to the river immediately."
The remaining more than a hundred people protected Zhu Houzhao and rushed towards the Dushi River. After only a few dozen steps, shouts of death and the roar of gunshots were heard from behind. Zhang Yin and others who were left behind were already fighting with the Tatars.
The chasing soldiers and horses took over.
Turning a bend ahead, a hundred steps away was the Dushi River. The roar of the water became louder and louder.
Zhang Yanling felt a little cold in her heart when she heard the sound of the water flowing. Listening to the roar of the water, it seemed that the water flow of the Dushi River had not subsided. It had been two days since the heavy rain. Zhang Yanling thought that the mountain flood had receded and she could wade.
Crossing the river. But it seems that I made a miscalculation.
Zhang Yanling still held on to her last glimmer of hope, hoping that although the water was loud, the river had receded. But when she arrived at the river bank, under the dim starlight, she could see with the naked eye that the water in the Dushi River was rushing and the water level had not receded much.
.The river water has reached the rocky beach under the embankment.
"Let's check the depth of the water. Can we cross the river?" Zhang Yanling refused to give up.
Someone quickly went into the river to test it, and after only walking five or six feet, the water was as deep as a person. Everyone was busy pulling the rope to pull the person back.
"It's over, we can't get through it. This is a dead end." Liu Jin said with a sad face.
"It would have been better if the bridge had not been demolished. I would have cut off my own escape route." Gu Dayong smacked his lips.
"Shut up, if the bridge is not demolished, how can we resist the enemy that day?" Zhu Houzhao scolded.
Gu Dayong hurriedly claimed that it was.
Zhang Yanling had no time to follow the yin and yang guys to argue, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, it seems that we can only build a raft to cross the river immediately. But we need to stop the enemy to have enough time. Your Majesty, I will go back to stop the enemy and give it to Your Majesty.
Create opportunities to cut down trees and build rafts.”
Zhu Houzhao said: "Uncle, I will go with you to kill the enemy."
Zhang Yanling hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Your Majesty, you must not do it. Now the Tatars' target is the Emperor. As long as the Emperor can escape, I will feel at ease."
Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said: "I can't go alone. Let's do this. Liu Jin will stay and bring the artificial rafts, and I and Jianchang Hou will bring some people to stop the enemy from behind. Liu Jin, build more rafts. I want everyone to follow me."
Cross the river and leave. I have already abandoned the people and wounded soldiers in the city, and I can no longer abandon you all in front of me."
Liu Jin shouted: "Your Majesty, you can't do that."
Zhu Houzhao said: "I have decided. Wu Qian, take thirty people with me and the Marquis of Jianchang to reinforce. The rest will immediately cut down the wood and build rafts."
Zhang Yanling originally wanted to give some advice, but seeing Zhu Houzhao's resolute attitude, he nodded and said: "That's okay. The Emperor is benevolent and righteous, and I cannot dissuade him. Then just listen to the Emperor."
Zhang Yanling, Zhu Houzhao and more than 30 people turned back and arrived at the place where Zhang Yin and others blocked the enemy. The battle there had reached a fever pitch.
Although Dahar, who was chasing closely, only had more than 300 men, during the pursuit, the Tatar skirmishers who had previously harassed Zhang Yanling and others gathered together, and their number reached 500 or 600.
Dahal was eager to make a contribution and pursued him to the forest road down the slope, where the two sides started fighting on the forest road.
Of course, Dahar understood the intention of the Ming army. The purpose of the Ming army's blockade on the forest road must be to cover the Ming Dynasty's little emperor crossing the river, so he couldn't waste time with them. Anyway, he had many troops, so there was no need to be cautious. So Dahar
Directly ordered to rush forward and fight hand to hand with the Ming army.
Amidst the roar of the muskets, the charging Tatars fell in rows. However, after all, there were only thirty muskets. The crossbow arrows had long been exhausted, so when the enemy came, they could only rely on the muskets to kill the Tatars.
Under the coercion of Dahal, the soldiers rushed forward desperately, and after being bombarded with more than a hundred people, they finally arrived.
Although the numbers of both sides were small, there were only more than 200 people on the Ming army's side, and only about 500 people led by Dahal rushed up on the other side. However, the hand-to-hand combat in this situation was even more brutal. The dimly lit forest road
In an instant, swords flashed, flesh and blood flew everywhere.
There were many Tatars, and almost all of them were fresh troops. Dahar also issued a death order, so they attacked fiercely like wolves. The Ming army was inferior in numbers and was tired, but its advantage was that it had excellent armor and weapons.
An individual soldier's combat effectiveness is stronger than that of his opponent. Both sides are evenly matched.
But it was precisely because they were evenly matched that it was particularly tragic. Soldiers from both sides continued to fall, and their swords were pointed at each other's vital points mercilessly. As long as the fallen soldiers did not die, they would continue to hold the opponent's thigh with their teeth.
He bites and butts his head with all his strength. Therefore, the opponent will not show mercy. Often, when the opponent falls with a knife, he will be stabbed a few times to make up for it, giving them no chance to survive.
In less than one meal, more than half of the Ming army was killed and wounded, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded on the Tatar side. In this short period of time, so many casualties were caused, which shows how tragic this battle was.
The ground was full of corpses and broken limbs, and the air was filled with a foul stench and the smell of blood. Blood flowed into a gurgling stream on the ground.
When Zhang Yanling and Zhu Houzhao arrived with more than 30 men, the battle between the two sides was at a fever pitch. Zhang Yin and others had been forced to fight and retreat, because after more than half of the casualties, the force was already at an absolute disadvantage. Zhang Yin hoped to pull away.
Distance is a weapon
He could have room to shoot his opponent. But Dahal refused to give this opportunity and pressed forward step by step. Instead, he retreated, resulting in a disadvantage in the battle. The Tatars penetrated the Ming army with their numerical advantage, forming a
A situation of division and encirclement with more enemies and fewer enemies.
When Zhang Yin and more than a hundred soldiers heard the order, they immediately acted like a conditioned reflex. The mandarin duck formation was a combat formation that Zhang Yanling taught the school lieutenants on weekdays. Not only were Zhang Yin and Chen's style familiar to them, but even the formation was familiar to them.
Zhu Houzhao is also very familiar with it. For a while, he was obsessed with this formation and practiced it for a long time.
In an extremely fast time, more than a hundred captains quickly formed a formation of nine mandarin ducks with eleven people as the base. Of course, without the bamboo wolf and rake in the formation, the formation was incomplete. But there were spears and blunderbuss.
Now, it can form a new kind of
Change of formation. The most important thing is that the formation of the formation separates the enemy from ourselves, resolving the danger of being divided and surrounded by the opponent. Eleven people formed a battle formation, advancing and retreating, rushing left and right, forming a combined force. The Tatar soldiers
No way to start.
After the formation of the nine mandarin duck formations, as the battle commands continued to be issued, the situation of the battle immediately reversed. The Tatar soldiers with a larger number turned into stragglers and were quickly killed under the activation of the formation.
As the mandarin duck formation of more than 30 people formed by Zhang Yanling, Zhu Houzhao and others rushed in, with the roar of the double-barreled muskets in Zhu Houzhao's hands, nearly a hundred Tatar soldiers and horses were quickly killed, leaving less than 100 soldiers and horses.
Two hundred people.
In this situation, what advantage does the Tatar have? If the battle continues, no one will survive. Someone shouted, and two hundred Tatars turned around and fled. Behind them, Dahal led seventy or eighty Tatars holding up
The scimitars roared and they were not allowed to retreat. The Ming army's muskets began to kill again from behind. The remaining Tatar soldiers simply plunged into the woods on the roadside and disappeared without a trace.
Dahal was going crazy. He was not angry at the defeat of the battle in front. He was angry at the indifference of the more than 800 soldiers and horses led by Jeddah behind him. They were more than a hundred steps away from the rear, but they refused to step forward to join the battle.
Dahal shouted at them for a long time, but Jida didn't respond at all.
Dahal had only one thought in his mind at the moment, which was to report today's situation to the Great Khan in front of the Great Khan. Asbas was nowhere to be seen, and his son stood still. When they attacked the city before, the father and son looked like each other.
The fact that they were not working hard was enough for Khan to take action against them.
"Jeda, you bitch, the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty is right in front, but you turn a blind eye, stand still and just watch. What do you mean?"
Dahal led seventy or eighty of his men and turned around and retreated in the direction of Jeddah and his troops, shouting and questioning.