Looking at the retreating Qing infantry, Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.
This battle was won.
Twelve thousand people defeated nearly 30,000 Tatars. Although only 10,000 Tatars were soldiers of the Eight Banners Manchuria, and the rest were soldiers of the Eight Banners Mongolia and auxiliary troops, this battle was still a great victory that shined brightly in the world.
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May I ask which army the Ming Dynasty had that could defeat nearly 30,000 Qing troops in one battle?
The next step is to chase the deserters!
The thousand artillerymen of the Selected Front Regiment did not let go of the fleeing Qing infantry. They loaded shotgun shells and continued to shoot at the infantry. Although the infantry were scattered in formation when they fled, they were bombarded by shotguns at close range and were still left behind.
Hundreds of corpses.
Not only that, the soldiers of the bandit group and the vanguard group were still shooting. These soldiers obviously had not killed enough Tatars. They stood in the front row one by one and shot at the fleeing infantrymen, shouting "Kill the slaves".
If A's men wanted to escape beyond the range of the Tiger Division, they would have to leave behind at least a thousand corpses.
The five hundred pendulum soldiers not far away turned their horses and fled to the north. Li Zhi raised his telescope and looked at the fallen enemy's central military flag in the distance, various military flags and the eye-catching gold-woven dragon banner.
He was thrown to the ground without hesitation. The Tatar generals Yue Tuo and Baiya La, who were wearing gilt armor, got together and rode their horses to escape to the north.
Want to escape?
Not that easy!
Li Zhi shouted loudly: "Mount the vanguard team and hunt down the enemy generals!"
The trumpets of the Chinese army were blasting and flags were waving. The vanguard regiment no longer shot at the fleeing infantry, but returned to the center of the phalanx to find their own horses and chased the Tatar general Yue Tuo.
The Selection Regiment was the elite of the Tiger Division. Each man was equipped with two horses and rode very fast. Li Zhi also rode a horse and led a horse, and personally led two thousand soldiers of the Selection Regiment towards the escaping soldiers.
Yue Tuo chased after him.
The Tatar's Baiya La soldiers also had one man and two horses. When they saw Li Zhi chasing after him, the Tatars whipped up their horses and ran very fast. The two armies chased north of Fanjiazhuang and ran ten miles to the north in a short time.
All the horses in the selection group were captured in previous wars. Li Zhi captured more than 10,000 horses in these wars, and selected the best 4,000 horses for the selection group.
It’s not an exaggeration to choose one. Compared with the Tatars’ war horses with snarling teeth, the war horses of the selected vanguard group are more elite and have more horsepower.
Moreover, Yue Tuo was in a panic and was eager to get rid of Li Zhi behind him. He urged the horse too quickly at first. After running for more than ten miles, although Yue Tuo had thrown Li Zhi away for more than two miles, his horse power was exhausted.
Li Zhi chased after him steadily, using his horsepower sparingly. After chasing for more than ten miles, he began to close the distance with Yue Tuo and bit him.
Yue Tuo was riding, his face was pale, but his eyes were blood red, and he was getting more and more panicked. He kept shouting at the tooth-rats around him, but he still couldn't make them run faster.
The horsemen have already changed horses twice. Even if they change horses again, they can only run at this speed. They are about to be overtaken by Li Zhi's selection team.
In order to increase their horse speed, the horse riders began to take off their armor, throwing away their bulky cotton armor and chain armor, hoping to be lighter and faster. But even after taking off their armor, the selection team a mile away was still there.
Get closer.
Yue Tuo's face turned pale, and he secretly thought that he was going to die here today?
Du Du, the deputy general next to Yue Tuo, said loudly: "General Yangwu, let's go and stop Li Zhi with two hundred Yala!"
Yue Tuo looked at the tooth-pulling horns around him, and his face twitched. These tooth-pulling horns are the elite among the elite with red flags. If one dies, one will be missing. Yue Tuo is never willing to use them until the critical moment. Unexpectedly, he would have to use them now.
He was used as a dead soldier, using his life to stop the pursuers behind him.
Yue Tuo's lips trembled and he said nothing.
Du Du said loudly: "General, give the order, if this continues, we will be overtaken!"
Yue Tuo nodded and said, "Okay, let two hundred Bai Yala go and stop Li Zhi!"
Du Du turned his horse's head and rode to the palace of Zhangzhang, and loudly passed on Yue Tuo's order.
Two hundred Baiyala were selected and left the team as dead soldiers to stop the Ming army that was chasing after them.
The two hundred Bai Ya La knew that they would die if they went there, but they did not dare to disobey General Yang Wu's order. As the saying goes, raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a short period of time, the Bai Ya La were usually pampered and respected, and now they were serving the Qing Dynasty.
It was time. They left the team on horseback and rushed towards the Ming army behind them.
Li Zhi was chasing Yue Tuo, and he felt he was about to catch up, but he saw two hundred people with big and powerful Bai Ya La rushing over. Obviously, Yue Tuo wanted to use Bai Ya La as a dead soldier to delay his pursuit.
Li Zhi snorted coldly and shouted loudly: "Xue Sanku led a thousand people to fight against Bai Yala, and the remaining thousand people followed me around and continued to pursue Yue Tuo!"
"Today, Yue Tuo will be killed in Fanjiazhuang!"
Deputy commander Xue Sanku led a thousand cavalrymen of the Selected Front Regiment, drew their muskets, and rushed towards the two hundred Baiya La.
The distance was getting closer and closer, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters. Both sides were approaching at the speed of galloping horses, and the distance was getting closer very quickly. At a distance of seventy meters, the warrior Bai Yala raised his horn bow and fired.
A round of arrows. About 20 of the two hundred bows and arrows hit the soldiers of the Choosing Regiment, and several of them penetrated the chainmail armor of the Choosing Regiment, causing damage.
After Bai Yala finished shooting the horn bow, he quickly raised his ax and broadsword and galloped over to prepare for a hand-to-hand fight with the soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment.
"Kill the slaves!"
At a distance of twenty meters, four hundred soldiers from the front row of the Selection Regiment fired their muskets at the soldiers. Only a crackling sound was heard, and a dazzling light shot out from the muskets. One hundred brave and good warriors
Bloody flowers appeared on the body of the Bai Ya La, and he fell under the horse after being shot. The Bai Ya La did not expect that the Ming army had such a melee weapon. A hundred warriors were killed in an instant, and chaos broke out.
The soldiers in the front row of the Selective Regiment turned around and rode to the left and right after firing their muskets. The four hundred cavalrymen behind them rushed up again holding muskets.
"Kill the slaves!"
"Kill the slaves!!"
Another fire broke out, and the remaining one hundred pendulums were shot to death one by one and fell under their horses.
Two hundred people were shot to death in one fell swoop.
Xue Sanku, who commanded these thousand soldiers, looked at the bleeding corpse of Baiyala on the ground, then looked up at the division commander Li Zhi who had already chased him away. He smiled and said, "Brothers, dismount! Cut off your heads!"
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Li Zhi led another thousand people and chased for another ten miles, gradually catching up with Yue Tuo in front.
Li Zhi was riding on a horse, holding a loaded rifle during the bumps. He aimed at the back of Yue Tuo, who was two hundred meters in front, and fired a shot.
"Snapped!"
The bullet flew away and did not hit Yue Tuo, but it frightened the Ya Tuo who were running for their lives in front of them. Seeing that they had already fired, they knew that running away with Yue Tuo would be a dead end. Moreover, they
Afraid that Yue Tuo would treat his three hundred men as dead soldiers in the rear to intercept the vanguard group, everyone no longer followed Yue Tuo to flee north, but fled east and west.
Even Yue Tuo's lieutenant, Du Du, rode away from Yue Tuo. Obviously, Li Zhi's target was Yue Tuo. As long as he left Yue Tuo and fled elsewhere, he would have a chance of survival.
Yue Tuo, who was escaping on his war horse, was at the front. At first he didn't realize that all his subordinates had dispersed. When he thought the surroundings had become quiet, he looked back and was surprised to find that all the soldiers around him had dispersed.
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One hundred soldiers from the Selective Regiment riding the best horses had already caught up to one hundred meters behind him.
