Chapter 144 Jinwu's First Battle to Slaughter Eight Banners
Dozens of mounted Qing troops galloped forward, holding on to the fleeing Ming troops in front of them.
With a hiss, a Ming soldier who fell behind had an arrow in his heart and fell to the ground screaming. The Qing cavalry rode over the corpse and continued the pursuit.
Thousands of defeated soldiers in the front scrambled to escape. Although there were only a few dozen riders behind them, no one dared to look back. They ran as hard as they could and just remembered to run.
But after all, two legs could not outrun four legs, and more and more people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
The Tatars rushed into the rear group, slashing with their swords, and the screams became more and more loud.
Soon, the driven group of defeated soldiers fled to the lake. They jumped into the lake desperately. Many people knew that they would not die, but fear still made them jump into the lake. The Tatars chased them and jumped on the shore.
Chop randomly, and then shoot arrows into the lake.
In despair, the defeated soldiers had no choice but to swim into the deeper lake water. Many who could not swim quickly struggled in the deep lake water.
If you go forward, you will be drowned by the water; if you retreat, you will be killed by the Tatars.
There is no way to go.
The Tatars laughed wildly, as if in a game.
Soon, the lake shore was stained red with blood, and the thousands of defeated soldiers soon fell silent. Except for two or three hundred who had good water quality and swam to the depths, out of the range of the Tatars' bows and arrows, the rest were either hacked to death on the shore or shot to death in the lake.
Or drowned.
The Tatar soldiers began to clean the battlefield, carrying knives to chop off heads. Many of the knives were cut with gaps. Bloody heads were hung on the saddles. Countless headless corpses were left abandoned in the wilderness. They also cut the heads on the corpses.
The armor, swords and guns were taken away, and then the corpses were scattered all over the ground.
It's like a slaughterhouse.
In the distance, Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and quietly retreated away.
"There are about fifty cavalry in front of us. They should all be true barbarians. They have just slaughtered thousands of Wu Zhikui's defeated troops. Corpses are scattered all over the ground, and the lake is stained with blood."
When Yuan Zongdi heard Zhou Yuan's words, he frowned, "Only fifty riders can kill like this, this Wu tribe is too..." He couldn't say the next words. Zhou Yuan was once his servant, from Huguang
The old brother who came also said with great disdain, "Aren't the officers and soldiers always like this?"
"We are now also the Ming army." Yuan Zongdi reminded Zhou Yuan.
"Well, then we are different from them." Zhou Yuan was very disdainful of those people.
"Admiral, should we go around?" asked a cavalry general from Jinwu Town. This man was originally a former general of the dynasty. Although there is a shortage of horses in Sichuan, there is no shortage of cavalrymen. Sichuan and Yunnan ponies, in fact, mountain cavalry are also very good.
awesome.
"Go around? Why go around? Since we have encountered each other, we naturally can't let them go. We should surround them and make sure no one escapes."
"Admiral, our mission is to go to Suzhou City. If we miss one or two and run back to report the news, won't we miss the plan to supervise the country?"
Yuan Zongdi said, "There are only fifty riders, how can we let them miss it?"
"Are we, King Wu's cavalry army, with three thousand cavalry, all living on dry food? We all receive first-class pay. This is the first battle we will fight after forming an army. Are we going to show off?"
Fan Chuan, the Sichuanese garrison officer, was naturally unconvinced. He patted his chest and said, "We Shu men never show off their bowels. In the end, the general is willing to lead his battalion to lead the battle."
Yuan Zongdi, as the general who had long been responsible for the independent control of the Chuang army, attacked fifty cavalry. This was really a killing of chickens with a sledgehammer, and he made a simple deployment.
"Zhou Chuan, you lead the bidding battalion to go behind the Tatars. Fan Shoubei, you lead the left battalion to go around the left wing. Zhao Shoubei, you lead the right battalion to go around the right wing. After the other three battalions are in place, we charge forward. Three
Thousands against fifty, this is simply killing a chicken with a sledgehammer, but we must not let one horse escape. If anyone lets someone escape, I will ask the king to order the flag monk Fang Baojian to execute him on the spot. Such an incompetent guy
, I don’t want it.”
Several cavalry officers immediately responded to the order.
When several horns sounded in the distance, Yuan Zongdi waved his sword and rode his horse to lead the charge.
Three thousand cavalry surrounded them on all sides, and the sound of galloping horses shattered the tranquility by the lakeside. The Tatar cavalry, who were cooking meat and eating on the battlefield littered with corpses, were caught off guard.
They looked up and saw green flags fluttering in the wind.
It looks a little strange.
"Where did the Green Camp soldiers come from to dare to be so arrogant in front of us?"
"Looking at the large number of cavalry troops, why don't you think Admiral Wu Shengzhao has sent back reinforcements?"
"It shouldn't be. Didn't he go to fight Chongming?"
"Could it be that General Li Chengdong is back? He has an elite cavalry army under his command."
They looked at the familiar green flag, still commenting leisurely, and gradually relaxed. Although the opponent was approaching with thousands of troops, they did not pay attention at all.
Would the majestic Eight Banners horse cavalry take a green battalion seriously?
"Damn it, read their book later, how dare you be so arrogant."
"What part are you from?"
"Damn it, the ashes have covered my flesh!"
"Stop it quickly!"
"call out!"
Yuan Zongdi raised his bow and fired an arrow on his horse, and he shot it in one go. The arrow was like a shooting star chasing the moon. It was fast, strong, accurate and hard, and hit the Tatar. It entered from his open mouth and came out from the back of his head.
The Tatar fell to the ground before he even had time to scream.
The other Tatars were startled and shouted, "Reverse!"
Then they all went to fetch their horses with their swords and weapons, but how could Yuan Zongdi give them a chance to escape.
The horse accelerated, and in a flash, he came with a big knife, and chopped off half of the Tatar's head with one blow. Then he rode up to catch up with another person, and chopped off the Tatar's head again with one knife.
Jinwu's cavalry rolled in, screaming, some firing arrows, some firing three-eyed muskets, some still holding axes, some throwing javelins, some slashing with knives, some stabbing with spears.
Those Tatars who were preparing to eat stew did not even have time to get on their horses. Although they did not take off their armor, they were faced with the galloping cavalry, which was dozens of times larger. Within a moment, they were chopped into pieces.
Zhou Yuan led people to chop off his head.
"One, two, three... fifty people!"
"If you report to the army gate, fifty Tatars' heads will be chopped off, and not a single one will escape."
Yuan Zongdi looked at the bloody battlefield, his face not moving at all. This small scene is really not worth mentioning. I think back then, when the cavalry that broke through the three walls of the king was at its peak, there were tens of thousands of elite cavalry lined up in three.
Wall charge.
"What to do with the heads of those officers and soldiers?" Zhou Yuan pointed to the piles of Ming army heads. There must have been seven or eight hundred of them, piled up into a hill.
There are also many swords, guns, armor, gold, silver, copper coins, etc. gathered together.
Yuan Zongdi touched the braids on the back of his head and said, "Qi Guoliang, take your troops to strip off all the armor from these Tatars and replace them with armor."
"This is the military gate?"
"The mission remains unchanged, let's continue to Suzhou."
"Take the heads of the officers and soldiers that the Tatars chopped off, as well as the weapons and armor, etc."
"Take it with you?"
Yuan Zongdi looked at the Fan Chuan generals who had rushed back. They had just outflanked them in a roundabout way, but in the end they were surrounded by a lonely enemy, and not even a single horse hair was caught.
"Don't forget our current identity, we are the Tatar Green Camp. If we bring these heads and equipment, won't they be more able to confirm our identity?"
Bi Congyi, who was born in the Zhejiang army, felt something was wrong, "These are our officers and soldiers from the Ming Dynasty. They died tragically, how could they destroy the bodies?"
Yuan Zongdi had no sympathy for the Wu soldiers who died in the defeat. He couldn't sympathize with the thousands of people who were killed by dozens of cavalry. "Bringing their corpses to help us defeat the enemy and kill the captives is not a meritorious service," he said.
?Besides, we can also let them see with their own eyes the revenge for them!"
"When Suzhou is captured, I will personally ask a mage to do something for them and save their souls."
"Now, Wu Zhikui has been defeated in executing the military order. We have to hurry up and see if there is still a chance to save it. Let's not argue about this anymore."