On July 30, the Qing army fell into Dingxing, and Xiong Jiazhi of Luozhou was ordered to die as a martyr.
On the third day of August, the Qing army fell into Ansu, and the county magistrate of Linqing, Zheng Yanren, died together with his wife. Geng Sanlin, the spiritual edict, also died.
On the fifth day of August, the Qing army entered the boundaries of Fanjiazhuang.
The soldiers of the first and third squads of the first company of the second battalion of the Selection Regiment are all veterans. They all participated in the Battle of Ru0zhou in the eighth year of Chongzhen. They all killed thieves and saw blood. Li Zhi gave these two
The squad was equipped with telescopes and war horses, and was ordered to be deployed thirty miles north of Fanjiazhuang to always be on guard for Tatars entering the country.
On the fifth day of August, the first and third squads were patrolling north of Fanjiazhuang and encountered the Qing army.
They encountered not only the Qing army, but also a group of civilians captured by the Qing army. Before they could see the Qing army clearly, they were startled by the loud crying and howling. The soldiers stood on high ground on horseback and watched.
It was an outrageous scene.
More than 20 Qing troops, wielding machetes and whips, drove away a group of ragged Ming people on the plains and drove them to the west. There were three to four hundred people there, and it was unknown which state or county they were residents of.
It may be that the prefecture and county where they lived was invaded by the Tatars, and they encountered the Tatars during their flight, so they fell into the hands of this group of Tatars.
The Tatars often attack cities endlessly, and they will massacre the city once they encounter fierce resistance. The people of the conquered city can only save their lives by fleeing.
Unfortunately, this group of people still encountered Tatars on their way to escape.
There were both men and women among the people. Some women and children were still holding their children, crying and running. The old people who couldn't run fell down from time to time. Some struggled on the ground for a few times and could stand up and continue running. Some fell to the ground and never stopped running.
Unable to get up, he lay on the ground forever.
The children who lacked physical strength gradually could no longer run, and one of them fell behind. When a Tatar saw this lagging child, he came up and stabbed him.
Blood splattered everywhere, and the child was slashed on the neck with a knife. Blood spurted more than one meter high, and he fell into a pool of blood.
The Tatar who killed the man burst into laughter, raised his blood-stained saber, and shouted loudly.
When a woman in the crowd of refugees saw this scene, she cried loudly. She staggered and ran behind the crowd to go to the child's body.
The Tatar next to him whipped the woman in the face. The woman's face was ripped open and her flesh was torn, and she fell to the ground.
A man in the crowd couldn't stand such a scene anymore and howled loudly. He passed through the fleeing crowd and rushed towards the murderous Tatar regardless, wanting to avenge his child.
But before he took two steps, a Tatar wearing heavy armor rushed over from beside him. The Tatar brandished a long saber and slashed at the man's back. The man let out a scream, like a sandbag.
He fell to the ground and never got up again.
The Tatars killed two people and became even more excited. They shouted and drove the people to the west. However, the scene of the Tatars killing two people frightened the fleeing people. The people did not know that this group of Tatars wanted to kill them all.
We still wanted to drive them away, but fearing that they would be killed by the Tatars if they went further west, they scattered and fled south.
When the Tatars saw the fleeing Ming people dispersed, they shouted and rode horses to the far south, slashing at the people running in front.
A shirtless man was overtaken by an unarmored Tatar and stabbed into the back of his heart with a knife. He vomited blood and fell to the ground screaming.
A woman holding a child was chased by a Tatar wearing cotton armor. She was slashed on the back with a knife and fell to the ground with a thud. The one and a half year old child in her arms was hit hard.
He fell to the ground, probably injured, and let out a shrill cry.
The Tatar in cotton armor drove the horses with a ferocious smile, causing the horses to trample the crying baby on the ground. The heavy hooves of the war horses hit the baby hard, until the child was bruised and bloody, and could not cry.
until.
More than 20 Tatars killed more than a dozen people in a row before frightening the people who were fleeing to the south. They reunited the panicked people and drove them to the west.
Seeing such a tragic scene, the eyes of the soldiers from the two squads of the Selection Regiment were bloodshot.
It is said that in troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, but when have Chinese people suffered such massacres?
The soldier shouted: "Squad leader, let's go up and fight these Tatars!"
"Squad leader Yao, let's go and kill these damned Tatars!"
"Squad Leader Yao, let's save these people!"
The commander of these two classes was the squad leader of the first class, Yao Changle. He put down the telescope and pondered for a while, then looked at the squad leader of the third class. Seeing that the squad leader of the third class also had an angry look on his face, Yao Changle nodded.
Said: "Catch one or two alive and take them back. Our patrol mission will be considered a meritorious service. Let's go!"
The sixteen soldiers made up their mind, loaded their rifles with bullets, and rode towards the Tatars.
The scouts rode a hundred meters and slowed down when they were 350 meters away from the Tatars. They walked slowly closer to the Tatars. When the Tatars saw Yao Changle's team, they started shouting. Dozens of people started shouting.
The Tatars communicated with each other by howling loudly in Manchu. In the end, five Tatars were left to guard the people, and twenty-four people were sent to kill the scouts.
Those Tatars are used to killing Ming soldiers, and they are very trustworthy. Usually even hundreds of Ming soldiers will be overwhelmed by the rush when they encounter these Tatars. How can they take this small group of sixteen soldiers in their eyes? They show their teeth and claws.
He waved his sword and increased his horse speed little by little to cover him up.
Seeing the Tatars approaching, the scouts jumped off their horses and squatted on the ground to take aim at the enemies.
The distance is three hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters.
Yao Changle shouted loudly: "We are all aiming! Let them go a hundred steps before shooting!"
One hundred steps equals one hundred and fifty meters. It would be more accurate to shoot the enemy at one hundred and fifty meters. The scouts held their breath and held their muskets firmly at the approaching Tatars, preparing to shoot.
One hundred and eighty meters, one hundred sixty meters, one hundred and fifty meters!
Yao Changle shouted: "Fire!"
Sixteen rifles spit out tongues of flame, sprayed conical mini bullets out of the barrel, and rushed towards the Tatars a hundred steps away. In the first salvo, thirteen high-speed rotating sharp bullets hit the target.
enemy.
Ten of those Tatars were "infantry armor" in the Qing army, wearing cotton armor with iron plates embedded in them. But how could these cotton armors stop the high-speed rotating Mini bullets? The iron plates embedded in the cotton armor could
The bullet was penetrated by the mini bullet. The mini bullet punched a hole in the cotton armor, plunged into the body under the armor, rotated and shattered the organs under the skin.
The five infantrymen were hit by bullets. They screamed and fell down from their horses. They fell hard to the ground and died soon.
There were five Tatars who were "followers" who did not wear armor or only wore cotton armor without iron plates. They had no ability to resist the Mini bullets. Three "Followers" were hit in the body by Mini bullets.
His internal organs were shattered by bullets, and he immediately lost his fighting ability and fell from his horse.
Nine of the twenty-four Tatars were elite "vests" of the Tatars, wearing heavy armor. Three of the vests were hit in the body by Mini rifles. However, these vests wore two layers of armor, with iron plates embedded in them.
There was also a layer of chain mail underneath the cotton armor. At a distance of 150 meters, the kinetic energy of the Mini bullet weakened after passing through the two layers of armor. It was not able to kill the three vests immediately, but only caused slight damage to the three vests.
hurt.
The three vests were injured, their faces became more ferocious, and they howled loudly.
Two bullets did not hit the people, but the war horses. One of the war horses fell to the ground and twitched after being shot, and a vest on its back was pressed under the horse. The other war horse stood up after being injured and threw the
One of his armors fell behind the horse.
The fallen horses and personnel in front caused chaos among the Tatars behind. A horse with cavalry had no time to turn its head and tripped over the corpse in front. The horse stumbled and fell to the ground, knocking off the vest on its back.
Half dead.
The Tatars who were thrown off their horses also temporarily lost their fighting ability.
The Tatars, who had been so arrogant just now, were half maimed by the riflemen.
