Shortly after the battle began, Jin Gongyu, the commander-in-chief of Huzhou Town, felt something was not right.
There were no more than a thousand Tatars in this group, and they had fled all the way here. It was when people and horses were exhausted, so they ambush here in advance to wait for work. They also specially chose such a lakeside place, where cavalry would be difficult to use.
But when they suddenly launched an attack from the reed swamps, the Tatars not only did not flee in panic as expected, but instead gathered very quickly.
The two armies fought together, and the Tatars were extremely tough and strong in their armor.
The Tatars did not go looking for horses, but wore armor and fought on foot.
The Tatars, who were clad in cotton armor, were not afraid of death and kept a very compact formation to attack. As soon as they fought, the Huzhou camp was suppressed and quickly fell into a disadvantage.
The Huzhou Battalion was a Zhejiang garrison reorganized by the rebel army and fought more than ten battles. However, it was formed by rural volunteers after all, and its approval rate was less than 10%. Although there were many brave and fierce officers, most of the soldiers had little combat experience.
Quite rich.
Almost immediately, the two armies collided, and the town of Huzhou was suppressed. One after another, the brave soldiers of the Huzhou camp were cut down by the Tatars.
The Tartars' spears, axes, bones, etc. are extremely cruel.
In particular, almost all of these people were wearing armor, which made them even more powerful. The Tatars' bows and arrows were even sharper, and the soldiers of the Huzhou Town camp continued to fall.
The Tatars cooperated very well. If the Huzhou soldiers knocked down one of them, they would have to pay a price of seven or eight. This made Jin Gongyu unable to believe the scene in front of him.
Jin Gongyu has never seen such a ferocious enemy since he started his army. He has fought many battles with the Qing army before, but it was not as powerful as this. What's more, he thought he had been reorganized by the prison country, replenished a lot of ordnance, and after rest and training
Afterwards, the morale of the Huzhou battalion is now high and they should not be afraid of the Tatars.
But who would have expected that he would be suppressed as soon as they fought.
Jin Gongyu gritted his teeth, fully drew the bow string, aimed at a Tatar officer, and shot, thinking that he would hit one arrow, but was knocked away by the Tatar's knife. He fired two more arrows in succession, but only one hit, and it was blocked by armor.
, it could only barely stick to it and wobble.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Bai Xiangfu came over with a sword in hand, "These Tatars are stabbing your hands, retreat."
Jin Gongyu hesitated for a moment.
"Attack Brother Yu, the governor's plan is for us to lure the enemy and act according to the plan."
When Jin Gongyu came, he thought that with just these thousand men and the thousands of people in Huzhou Town, he could ambush and annihilate them, but now he had to admit that he still underestimated the enemy.
"Withdraw!" He ordered helplessly.
The Tatars were still pressing forward, and their bows and arrows kept shooting like they had eyes. Their arrows were fast and accurate, and soldiers in the camp were constantly being shot and fell.
The Tatar soldiers in the front row were wearing cotton armor and carrying swords and guns to attack all the way.
"withdraw!"
Meng Xian pulled Jin Gongyu and retreated, "These Tatars are not ordinary ferocious. Headquarters, leave quickly. I will come to the rear."
The original plan was to ambush first and then fake defeat to lure the enemy, but now the fake defeat turned out to be a real defeat.
When the bugle sounded, Jin Gongyu wanted to stay behind and go to the rear in person, but Meng Xian, a guerrilla from the General Military Base Battalion, pushed him away and stayed behind to cover the retreat.
Zhang Cunren got on his horse, and behind him were about three hundred mounted cavalry.
He looked coldly at the defeated Ming army, gritted his teeth with hatred, raised his spear, "Don't let anyone go, crush them!"
The Eight Banners who mounted their horses all had fierce looks in their eyes. They lightly kicked the horse's belly, followed by Zhang Cunren and began to accelerate.
The horses ran faster and faster, and they quickly passed the Eight Banners soldiers who were still chasing them in front, and ran wildly in pursuit.
Zhang Cunren caught up with him on horseback and drove away a Ming army with one shot.
Pick with a spear, chop with a knife.
Three hundred cavalrymen were ruthlessly harvesting.
Later, more Eight Banners began to lead their horses, got on their horses, and joined the pursuit.
Meng Xian was the nephew of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Bai Xiangfu. He was extremely powerful and brave.
At the critical moment, lead a battalion of brothers to stay behind.
Seeing the pursuing Tatars, Meng Xian led his troops to retreat to the ferry and fight with their backs against the water.
He stood tall with his sword drawn and did not retreat any longer.
At the ferry, countless battalions were retreating in panic, and there were only limited ferries, making it very chaotic.
At this time, the Huzhou Battalion showed its shortcomings. Many soldiers were frightened by the ferocity of the Tatars. For a while, they forgot about other things and only focused on fleeing.
Some people ignored the orders of their superiors and burrowed into the reed swamps.
Some people broke away from the team and jumped into the lake to swim to escape, while others tried to get on boats.
But Meng Xian stood tall with his sword drawn, showing no fear in the face of the pursuing Tartar cavalry.
"Brothers from Zhenbiao Camp, give him a good fight!"
Zhang Cunren seems to have returned to the Guanning Defense Line, charging into bloody battles, but his identity has been reversed. Back then, he was a Ming frontier army under the Sun and Moon banner, fighting the Jurchen Tatars of Jianzhou, but now he has become a rat with a money head and a tail.
The Qing army faced Ming soldiers.
He was in a daze for a moment, then gritted his teeth and regained his composure.
The cavalry rushed forward, and the two groups of men and horses began to kill fiercely at the ferry. As soon as they met, more than a hundred of Meng Xian's Biaoying brothers fell.
Meng Xian chopped down the legs of a Tatar who was sitting on a horse, causing the man to flip over. He then stabbed the Tatar to death, then raised his sword again and said, "Come again!"
The more than 300 remaining brothers behind them also leaned closer together to fill the gaps left by the dead brothers, and shouted together, "Come again!"
Jin Gongyu was pulled onto the boat by Bai Xiangfu and crossed to the other side. Looking back, he saw that of the 500 brothers from the Biaoying camp behind the palace led by Meng Xian, only a few dozen were left.
But they still stood firmly in front of the ferry, buying time for the brothers.
Jin Gongyu's eyes turned black and he was about to get off the boat and fight again. Bai Xiangfu stopped him and said, "We have already made a big mistake by underestimating the enemy. We can't add more mistakes to each other."
Jin Gongyu beat his chest with his hands. He was the one who chose this place to ambush. He was the one who thought that the Huzhou Camp was enough to annihilate the Tatars. If it weren't for his conceitedness, their mission was just to lure the enemy. He should have been elected to a higher position.
A suitable location, not such a dead area.
"Leave quickly, don't let Meng Xian and the others die in vain."
Bai Xiangfu cried in his heart for his nephew Meng Xian, but he could only hold it back.
On the battlefield, one mistake can cost countless lives.
Now their task is to lure the Tatars into the ambush circle in Yongwei Town, instead of being annihilated by the Tatars here.
ferry.
There were only about thirty people left behind Meng Xian.
The military camp in the 500 Town Biaozhong, this is the elite of Huzhou Town. Although they are not cavalry, they still faced the Tatars' horseback attack. Even if they fell one after another, they still did not turn around and become deserters.
Now, most of those comrades were lying in confusion in front of the ferry.
"Can you leave your name for the general who is coming?" Zhang Cunren shouted loudly, holding a spear in his hand.
Although the fighting ability of these people on the opposite side was not strong, he admired their bravery and courage to fight.
"Meng Xian was the guerrilla leader in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province during the Ming Dynasty!"
Meng Xian now had more than a dozen arrows stuck in his armor, but he was still holding on.
"Meng Xian, I remember your name. You are a good man. Why don't you surrender to me? I would like to recommend you to the imperial court with the title of general."
"Pooh!"
Meng Xian just spat blood on the ground in response.
Zhang Cunren raised his spear and said, "You are a tough guy. I will chop off your head in a while and stick it on my spear."
Meng Xian also raised his knife. He turned back and looked at the brothers behind him, "Are you still willing to fight with me again?"
"General, there is no man in Huzhou who is afraid of death, kill him."
More than thirty people rushed forward without hesitation towards the Tatars who were dozens of times their size.
In the end, the entire army was wiped out.
Zhang Cunren was very disappointed when he did not find Meng Xian who was full of courage on the battlefield.
"Maybe it fell into the lake and sank to the bottom."
"Budang, those damn Ming troops have already fled far away. We can't get through without a boat. Are we still chasing them?"
Zhang Cunren narrowed his eyes for a while and snorted coldly, "You have provoked me and you still want to run away? Chase them along the river. There is always a place to cross the river. They don't have horses and can't run far. Chase them and kill them all."
They killed thousands of Ming troops here, but they also suffered a small number of casualties. Zhang Cunren himself received a cut on his face and was very angry.
When I ran away from the city of Hangzhou after being bombarded by Lu Jianguo's artillery, I kept simmering in my heart. Now, a group of gangsters appeared out of nowhere and dared to stir up trouble and seek death.
The Tatars followed on horseback along the river.
Bodies were left on the ground by the river.
In the reed marsh, Meng Xian woke up in the water. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was still lying on the back of a dead horse. This white horse was full of arrows and was as miserable as him.
Meng Xian's whole body was in severe pain, and his body was covered with arrows. There was a big hole in his abdomen. Even when he moved, his internal organs were so painful that he couldn't breathe. He tried his best to climb down from the horse, but he didn't have the strength to stand up again.
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After a few efforts, his vision went dark again and he fainted, falling on the dead horse.
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Zhang Cunren's mind was filled with murderous intent.
But when he chased and chased halfway, he suddenly raised the spear in his hand.
"stop!"
"Budo?"
The Ming army that angered him was not far ahead, and they could catch up with them with a quick charge.
But Zhang Cunren ordered the entire army to stop.
"Not quite right."
"These people clearly had a chance to escape just now. They could have fled in all directions, but they kept running along the river..."
"And look at the terrain ahead. Is it similar to the terrain we were attacked just now?"
Zhang Cunren saw that it was getting late and already dark, "There is a scam here, and there is an ambush ahead."
"No way. If there is an ambush, why not ambush in the front place? Instead, ambush in two places?"
"Look at that reed marsh. It's evening now, the time when tired birds return to their nests. But do you see that that reed marsh is abnormal? Those birds are circling and singing in the sky, do they mean it's hard to return home?"
Zhang Cunren shook his head.
"Walk!"
After saying that, he gave up on the prey that was so close and headed north without getting out of his way.
In the reed marsh separated by a river.
Zhang Quan, the commander-in-chief of Yongwei Town, and Shen Wenzhong, the governor of the city, were waiting in ambush with many troops. Seeing that the Tatars were about to enter the ambush circle, they turned around and ran away in the distance.
This sudden change caught people off guard.
Zhang Quan saw the duck flying away, and he beat his thigh with his fist angrily.
Jin Gongyu led his troops to arrive, very embarrassed. After some questioning, Zhang Quan's lips were trembling, "I asked you to fake an ambush in front of me, but this is actually to lure the enemy, in order to induce the Tatar team to pull away."
Scatter, divide and encircle them, gather them and annihilate them. How can you make your own decisions but want to annihilate them alone? Those are the Manchu and Han Eight Banners from Hangzhou. They are all elites among the Tatars. How can they be so easy to annihilate?"
Zhang Quan did not dare to say that a direct attack could annihilate them, so he came up with the strategy of letting the Huzhou battalion ambush and lure the enemy first, which was to disperse the Tatars so that they could be divided and annihilated. However, Jin Gongyu messed up.
Stealing the chicken failed but lost the rice, not to mention the loss of thousands of men and horses, but this also frightened the snakes and scared them away.
"If I had known, I would have ambushed him directly. What the hell is this?"
"At the end of the day, I have neglected my duty. I am willing to lead my troops in pursuit and make amends for my sins." Jin Gongyu was ashamed.
"Forget it, why chase? It's just a frightened bird. It can run faster than a rabbit. We have no chance. Let's clean the battlefield and treat the wounded soldiers." Zhang Quan sighed, "It's not too late yet, so why not tonight?"
Attack the county town of Deqing and take away the green camp inside, so let’s vent your anger!”
"I will personally sneak into Deqing County and contact the city." Jin Gongyu was so ashamed that he gritted his teeth and asked for help again!
