Lei San waved his sword and directed the third platoon to complete the shooting. Blood flowers bloomed on the body of Guan Ningjun in front of him, and he let out a heart-rending scream and fell into a pool of blood.
The Tiger Division, which uses nitrocellulose as propellant, fires extremely fast. The rifleman can complete a shot every fifteen seconds. The three-row firing formation fires out a volley every five seconds.
The soldiers in front of Guan Ning's army were like cannon fodder and were knocked down without hesitation by rifles. The cone-shaped bullets fired into the human body were extremely destructive, and these injured soldiers were basically hopeless.
Unless tens of thousands of people died, Guan Ning's army would not be able to touch the corners of Huben's army.
The Guan Ning Army is known as the strongest frontier army in the Ming Dynasty, but it cannot withstand the firepower of the Tiger Army. After the third row of riflemen finished shooting, Lei San was about to command the first row of riflemen to stand up and fire, but he saw
With a bang, the infantrymen of the Guan Ning Army in front of him dropped their weapons and fled behind them.
The Guan Ning army on the front was defeated.
Guan Ning's army could not withstand the firepower of the Tiger and Ben army. The reason why the Tatars were able to rush into Li Zhi's queue and fight hand-to-hand with Li Zhi's riflemen was because the Tatars were all cavalry and wore two layers of clothing.
Iron armor. However, Guan Ning's army, who only wore a thin layer of cotton armor or shuttle armor, was knocked down at 200 meters. He was no match for the Huben army.
Six circular formations of the Huben Army were spread out on the battlefield, stretching for eight or nine miles. At this time, all the Ming troops on the front line collapsed. Regardless of the shouts of the servants guarding the formation, all the Ming soldiers fled to the back.
After all, the servant only has one knife, and the weapons of the Tiger Army in front are rifles and cannons that kill people like mowing grass. It is self-evident which one is stronger and which one is weaker.
The Ming army in front of Huben's army broke into a rout, running wildly on the plain south of Shanhaiguan, and all fled to Shanhaiguan. Guan Ning's army subconsciously wanted to flee to western Liaoning, although western Liaoning has now become the land of the Tatars.
Beside Lei San, a platoon commander looked at the fleeing Ming troops with joy and said with a smile: "Company commander, is this a victory?"
Lei San looked into the distance and said: "There are still Ming troops who have not joined the battle. I wonder how the other Ming troops will react?"
When the platoon leader heard Lei San's words, he raised his head and looked into the distance, looking at the Ming troops who had not yet entered the battlefield to fight the Huben army.
The formation of the Huben army is very dense, and the width of the battlefield is limited. The Ming army's front is much longer, and half of the Ming army has not yet entered the battlefield. Logically speaking, these Ming troops will rush in next and continue to attack the Huben army.
Lei San raised his telescope and observed the flags of the Ming Army in the distance. There were flags with the word "ancestor", flags with the word "Wu", flags with the word "king" and "horse", all of which were the commander-in-chief of the Guan Ning Army.
Soldier flags. There are many cavalrymen under those flags, and they are still capable of fighting.
However, what surprised Lei San was that after the defeat of Guan Ning's army in the front, the banner with the word "ancestor" in the distance suddenly fell down. Occasionally, there were a few flags with the word "ancestor" still held up, but they did not go to Huben.
Instead of attacking from the direction of the army, they fled far away.
Lei San knew that the flag with the ancestral symbol was the flag of Zu Dashou.
Zu Dashou fled without a fight?
Zu Dashou's escape soon led to other Ming troops. After a while, the flags of other Ming troops all fell crookedly. Guan Ning's army, which had not yet been defeated, chased Zu Dashou and fled to Shanhaiguan. Seventy thousand pass
Ning's army left nearly 10,000 dead and injured soldiers behind, and no longer dared to face the Tiger and Ben army directly, and fled towards the northeast.
Lei San saw the 5,000 cavalrymen of the Selected Front Division rushing out of the queue and began to chase the fleeing Guan Ning army.
Winning! Now there will definitely be another silver reward.
Lei San glanced at his soldiers excitedly and couldn't help grinning!
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Li Zhi looked at the defeated Guan Ning Army in the distance and said calmly: "This time the Guan Ning Army was defeated. I'm afraid the Ning Army will no longer be relevant in the world."
Li Xing nodded and said: "Li Zicheng is making a lot of trouble in Henan now. Since Guan Ning's army has abandoned western Liaoning and has no home, I'm afraid the emperor will transfer it to Henan to suppress the bandits."
Li Laosi held his chin and said: "Guan Ning's army has never listened to the emperor's orders. The emperor attaches great importance to the new army and has always intended to reduce the number of Guan Ning's troops. After this war, the emperor will probably eliminate the old and weak in Guan Ning's army and will not
All the soldiers and horses have stayed. We have killed so many of the 70,000 people in Guan Ning's army. If we eliminate half of them, we will probably only have 30,000 to 40,000 people left in the future."
Li Zhi nodded and said nothing.
These days, the gentry in Shandong mobilized local troops from Shandong and committed evil in the Dengzhou area, trying to attack the capital city of Dengzhou. Since Li Zhi defeated Guan Ning's army in Luanzhou, he stopped staying and quickly led his army back to Shandong to suppress the rebellious gentry.
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The gentry in Shandong raised funds to bribe important officials in the court, and finally mobilized Guan Ning's army to attack them. Li Zhi has basically figured out the ins and outs of this matter.
He only forbade the gentry to evade taxes, but these gentry were as desperate as if they wanted to dig up their ancestral graves. Li Zhi was very angry. After defeating Guan Ning's army this time, Li Zhi wanted to ruthlessly kill a group of Shandong gentry who caused rebellion.
Li Zhi rode slowly toward Tianjin on his horse, thinking about what was happening in Shandong, and a murderous aura gradually filled his body.
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In the evening, Li Zhi entered Luanzhou City to rest.
When Zhizhou of Luanzhou City saw Li Zhi coming, he was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled. I wonder if he also supported Guan Ning's army's crusade against Li Zhi. Zhizhou ran away, and Li Zhi simply moved into Zhizhou Yamen and found a room.
Clean main room for rest.
At midnight in the evening, Li Zhi was about to go to bed when he heard a report from his personal guard: "Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of the Guan Ning Army forward, is asking for an audience."
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Let him in!"
After a while, Zu Dashou walked in. His armor was stripped off by his bodyguards, and he walked in wearing only a middle coat. Obviously, the guards were still worried, and four guards followed Zu Dashou.
He was almost escorted in.
In today's battle, Zu Dashou's troops fled without a fight. Li Zhi thought about Zu Dashou's thoughts and said with a smile, "Zu Shaobao, are you safe?"
Zu Dashou glanced at Li Zhi who was sitting on the bed, knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed and said: "Duke Jin, Zu Dashou is desperate, please take him in!"
Li Zhi looked at Zu Dashou and said with a smile: "General Zu was ordered by the emperor to attack Tianjin. Although the defeat was glorious, how could he be cornered?"
Zu Dashou gave a bitter smile and said: "Dong Jin, Zu Dashou has never listened to the emperor's orders in Jinzhou. The emperor has tried to get rid of Zu Dashou several times. Now that Guan Ning's army has lost Liaoxi, and after this great defeat, the emperor will definitely kill Zu Dashou.
Birthday flag!"
While Zu Dashou was talking, he burst into tears.
"Zu Dashou has 20,000 people under his command, and they are willing to join the service of the Duke of Jin and become the eagle dogs of the Duke of Jin!"
