Li Zhi equipped 1,500 cavalrymen with chainmail armor.
After the last battle with Zhenghuang Banner, Li Zhi captured a large amount of Tatar armor. Although these armors were pierced by Mini rifles, the damage area was not large, and the blacksmith could continue to use them with a little repair. Among these armors, they were made of Qing army white
The chainmail armor worn by penyaras and vests was the finest, so Li Zhi repaired these chainmails and equipped them to the cavalry of the Selected Front Regiment.
The cavalry has the need to fight in close combat on horseback and needs the protection of armor.
The blacksmiths spent half a month repairing these chainmails.
In the past half month, Li Zhi also recruited and trained a thousand people as carriage drivers and cooks. Although the bandits were marching in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, they could buy military rations on the spot, but they still had to bring some rations with the army as backup.
A thousand carriages were prepared to load grain and grass, and a month's worth of rations and beans were carried with the army.
These people not only manage the carriages loading grain, but also make pots for cooking every day.
After being prepared, Li Zhi set out on the fifth day of June and led eight thousand soldiers to Nanyang. As before, Li Zhi left his younger brother Li Xing to take charge of Fanjiazhuang to deal with emergencies.
It was midsummer at this time, and the weather was hot. After walking a few miles, I was covered in sweat. Over time, there was a danger of heat stroke. Li Zhi asked the troops to march in the early morning and dusk, and only walked 40 miles a day. After a month of walking, the messenger came on horseback.
The newspaper reported that the bandits had gathered in Anqing, Xiong Wencan went to Anqing, and asked Li Zhi to go to Anqing to meet him.
Li Zhi then abandoned Nanyang and went to Anqing.
After walking for another month and a half, we reached the boundary of An Oqing.
The area in An0qing was crowded with bandits and was plundered repeatedly, making it very depressed. Li Zhi looked all the way and saw that the villages were dilapidated and deserted. The houses were dilapidated, and it was unclear whether the things in the house had been stolen by thieves or stolen.
The owner of the house moved away, leaving it empty. The fields were even more deserted, and the crops sown in the past few months were like weeds and had no one to take care of them.
Li Zhi marched through several large cities in prefectures and counties in the north of Anqing Prefecture. He saw refugees who had been robbed gathered outside the city. They were densely packed, huddled on the red earth under the city wall like beggars. As soon as the refugees saw decently dressed people,
So he kept kowtowing and asked for a bowl of porridge. The price of rice in the city was so high that it cost eight taels of silver per stone, but it was still very expensive.
There is an apocalyptic scene everywhere.
The sentinel cavalry of wandering thieves appeared and disappeared. Li Zhi asked the soldiers to put on armor, shoulder their rifles, and march in full gear. After walking for another day, Li Zhi walked to Huai 0N County and encountered an army of bandits and horses.
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There were about 2,000 people in the Rogue Horse Army, which was probably the outpost force on the outskirts of the Rogue Bandit. Seeing that Li Zhi's troops were in large numbers, they did not dare to come up to harass them, so they stayed three miles away and sent a large number of sentry cavalry to investigate the Huben Division.
situation. Li Zhi was forced by this cavalry army to maintain a state of combat readiness, always marching in three lines. After a few days, he still didn’t know which family this cavalry army belonged to, but Li Zhi had already been killed over there.
The troops have a clear understanding of the situation.
Li Zhi was a little annoyed and determined to eat this cavalry army.
Nowadays, 1,500 soldiers of the Selection Regiment have been converted into cavalry, led by deputy commander Xue Sanku. Xue Sanku was Li Zhi's childhood playmate and the first member of Li Zhi's servant team. Because he is a servant
As a veteran of the team, and with outstanding performance in combat bravery, he gradually rose to the position of deputy commander.
Li Zhi summoned Xue Sanku and said, "Xue Sanku, I want to kill this cavalry army. Do you have confidence in your three battalions?"
Xue Sanku sat up straight on his horse and said loudly: "Commander, I am confident! We will defeat this horse army and drive it away!"
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Then go ahead."
After Xue Sanku left, the flag of the Chinese army waved and the order was given to the three cavalry battalions of the Selected Front Regiment. Xue Sanku led 1,500 cavalrymen to leave the main force and ride towards the rogue cavalry army three miles away.
Seeing that Xue Sanku was outnumbered, the rogue horse army did not evade. They all drove their horses to face Xue Sanku directly and rushed forward to prepare for a fight.
However, Li Zhi's precious cavalry are not for fighting with swords. These cavalry are armed to the teeth with two guns and can kill enemies from a distance.
The two armies gradually came closer, with a distance of 400 meters, then 300 meters, and finally when they were 200 meters away, Li Zhi's cavalry stopped, sat on their horses and fired.
There was a crackle of gunfire, white smoke sprayed out from the barrel, and the three hundred cavalrymen on the front line fired bullets. The high-speed flying bullets fiercely penetrated the bodies of the rogue horse soldiers in the front row, and the rogues' team
Suddenly there was a scream. Blood burst out from the wounds made by the bullets. One or two hundred thieves and cavalry soldiers fell off their horses and fell on the red earth in August.
The bandit's horse army was stunned for a moment, and they were a little frightened while riding on their horses.
Where do these officers and soldiers come from? How come they are so powerful that they can kill people with firearms at more than a hundred steps? How to fight this battle?
However, the horses under their crotches did not stop advancing, and they rushed forward another twenty meters.
The first row of cavalrymen who finished shooting in the front row of the vanguard regiment rode their horses and walked a few steps to the side, leaving the shooting position for the rear row of cavalry to step up and shoot.
The cavalry in the rear row rode up to the shooting position, took aim, and fired. There was another gunshot, and another 170 or 80 thieves and cavalry soldiers fell under their horses, and their blood mixed with the red soil.
Although the bandits have become stronger over the years with more wars, they have been able to protest against the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers. But they are still bandits after all, and their morale is limited. They are afraid of being beaten at once. The army's firepower is continuous, and this battle
There was no way to fight. They howled loudly and turned around to run away.
However, they turned around and fled, but they were still within the range of the minion rifles. The second row of cavalry moved away, and the third row of cavalry opened fire, spewing out another puff of smoke, making the white smoke in front of the vanguard formation even more intense.
More than a hundred thieves and horsemen were hit and fell to the ground with screams.
When the soldiers of the fourth platoon of the Selective Regiment were shooting, the rogue horse soldiers had already run more than 200 meters away. However, the soldiers did not let them go, and continued to hold their breath and fired. Three hundred bullets shot down another hundred rogue horses.
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When it was the turn of the fifth row of soldiers, the bandits had already fled to 250 or 60 meters. The distance was very far, and it was difficult to aim at the people on the horses, but it was still possible to aim at the horses with larger targets. Three hundred people were selected.
The soldiers of the Feng Regiment took careful aim and attacked row by row, knocking down more than sixty frightened bandits.
The surviving bandits fled in all directions and were completely defeated.
After defeating the rogue horse army, Li Zhi ordered the cavalry to disperse to conduct reconnaissance and investigate intelligence within a forty-mile radius. The infantry went up to clean the battlefield, cut off the heads, tortured the wounded, captured the horses, and killed the injured horses for meat.
In a small battle, Li Zhi's cavalry killed and wounded more than 600 bandits, and captured 490 army horses. Among these horses were war horses and pack horses. Obviously, these two thousand horse troops were not the elite among the bandits.
, just the outer sentry.
In addition to the living horses, more than a hundred horses were shot, and the thieves on the horses were injured. These injured horses became the source of horse meat for the Huben Division.
Li Zhi tortured the injured bandits and found out that they belonged to Zhang Xianzhong's men.
