Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 565 Unlucky Old Gao 5
Tongues of fire continued to burst out from behind the parapet, gunshots rang out like exploding beans, and the charging cavalry fell one by one.

Gao Yingxiang stared at the small Qingfeng shop, which was as tough as an iron walnut, his eyes were so red that he was about to spurt blood.Damn Tianxiong Army, is it possible that their entire army is equipped with muskets, and all other weapons are not used? There are so many musketeers!
He guessed right, for this battle, the Tianxiong army took out all the money they had accumulated in the past few years, matchlock guns, flintlock guns, Francois machine guns, one counts as one, and one counts as another , A total of 160 musketeers and 3000 large and small Frang machine guns were assembled.Fifteen thousand musketeers were divided into three rows, hiding behind the [-]-meter-long parapet and barbed wire, and fired at the rushing bandits. The density of their firepower was desperate.Occasionally, some rogues broke through the barbed wire and the barriers of the Luzhai, and were immediately smashed to pieces by the shotguns fired by Fran's machine guns. None of them could rush to the front of Tianxiong's army alive.

Behind Gao Yingxiang, the Mongolian cavalry did not launch an attack as Gao Yingxiang expected after sweeping up the junction of the main force of the rogue bandits.Under Gao Yingxiang's puzzled eyes, a large number of carriages were driven over. The carriages were connected by iron cables, and a wall lay behind Gao Yingxiang.Those Mongolian cavalrymen got off their horses and pulled out the pulley compound bows behind the carriage... They fought cavalry against infantry, and they just pulled their skins to make a concrete defense!The rogues dispatched infantry to attack several times, and each time they were shot back by the rain of arrows.

They've been surrounded!

Of course, the encirclement has not yet closed, and the left and right wings are open, leaving two escape routes, but Gao Yingxiang dares to bet with his head that if he really leads the troops to escape through this narrow escape route, those who are hiding The Mongolian cavalry behind the carriage immediately got on their horses and chased them down, killing them all!

What a poisonous style of play!
The rogues dispatched infantry to attack again, this time throwing down more than 1000 lives, and finally rushed to the front of the parapet, and they were about to jump into the defense line of the Tianxiong Army and start killing. The iron bump with a long wooden handle was followed by a continuous burst of loud explosions. A large group of flames burst out in front of the rogues, and sharp shrapnel shot towards them, tearing their flesh and releasing a large amount of dirty blood. The sound of screaming was earth-shattering.The people behind were all frightened by the bloody scene, their faces turned pale, and they fled back screaming desperately.This is the power of the grenade. It was obtained from Nanyang, and it was used in large quantities for the first time. It achieved extraordinary results and blew up Liuguan.

Gao Yingxiang's face turned pale when he saw it. It was a musket and a grenade. How could they fight? Even if they all pressed up, they still couldn't break through the defense line.The troops were no longer able to attack again. He rode angrily to the front of the formation and roared: "Marquis Suyi, I have heard for a long time that although you are a scholar, you are powerful, brave and invincible. Gao thought you were a soldier. Damn it, I didn’t expect that when the two armies were facing each other, you used all these dirty tricks and you didn’t dare to compete with Gao with real swords and guns!” He hissed and roared: “Gao doesn’t accept it!”

Lu Xiangsheng stood behind the parapet with a calm expression, looked at the bandit leader who made the entire Ming Dynasty turbulent, and said calmly: "General Gao, you have experienced many battles, and tactics such as ambushes, night raids, siege for reinforcements, and false surrenders How can you be so naive as to think that Lu must fight you with real swords and guns in order to convince you? How can war be used to convince people?"

Gao Yingxiang's face was distorted, and his voice sounded like a beast's roar: "You led the strongest army in Ming Dynasty, and you never dared to fight against Gao from the beginning to the end, but Gao just refused to accept it! What kind of ability are you using such indecent means? Those who have the guts to stand up and fight with us with real swords and guns!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "I will not do this, because it is not easy for each of my soldiers to be trained. Their lives are very precious. I must do everything possible to make them sacrifice less, so as to be worthy of their parents and brothers. Gao General, you have no hope of winning this battle, you should surrender! Enough people have died today, and it is a merit to save a little blood."

Gao Yingxiang said sternly: "I don't accept it! I would rather die than surrender!"

Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "Then we have no choice but to wipe out all of you."

Just as Gao Yingxiang was about to speak, the sound of hooves exploded like thunder in the distance, and a large number of cavalry came galloping. His heart sank again, and he looked away, hoping to see the banners of Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng.

It turned out that what he saw was their bloody heads that were picked up on the point of a gun.

Two thousand lancers and two thousand Mongolian light cavalry poured in. The lancers running in the front used their horses to lift up the heads of the generals of the rogues, so that all the rogues could see clearly .As expected, these heads caused catastrophic panic among the rogues, and everyone looked at each other in amazement, their faces turning pale.This is also a major weakness of the rogues. To a large extent, they rely on personality worship to maintain their morale.Gao Yingxiang looked at Li Zicheng's wide-eyed head firmly, and let out a long wail.This is one of his favorite generals that he relied on the most. Even his death can only mean that the [-] cavalry are gone.The cavalry he put together with great difficulty was finished, and he himself was caught between the infantry and cavalry of the Tianxiong Army, unable to fly, it was over, this time it was really over!

The arrival of these four thousand cavalry completely blocked the way for the rogues to escape.Now the Tianxiong Army no longer needs to play around with three ques and one, 30 infantry, 30 cavalry, no matter which force it is, it is enough to make Gao Yingxiang die without a place to bury him!This is not the most frightening thing, the most frightening thing is that a group of rogues, under the escort of the Tianxiong cavalry, dragged over the [-] or so cannons that the Tianxiong army had abandoned earlier. This scene made Gao Yingxiang almost vomit blood!This scene told him an extremely cruel fact: the [-] hungry soldiers he left behind had surrendered!
The 30 hungry soldiers did surrender, and those who defeated the 30 horses were a small number of light cavalry, as well as carts of steamed buns and pancakes brought by local officials of Zhending Prefecture.When one person distributed two steamed buns or one piece of cake, Gao Yingxiang's 30 "army" knelt down on the spot, pushed and dragged the cannon over, and pointed the black muzzle at King Chuang in the encirclement.

What could be more blood-vomiting than this?No more?

Tian Jianxiu cried out in despair: "King Chuang, this battle is over, let's surrender!"

Gao Yingxiang looked gloomy, gritted his teeth and said, "You think you'll be fine if you surrender?"

Tian Jianxiu said: "Surrender first, if the government can't give us a good resettlement, then turn against the mother, have we always been like this all these years?"

Gao Yingxiang said loudly: "That's because the officers and soldiers don't have enough strength to forcibly disband us and collect our weapons. That's why we surrender when we want and rebel when we want!" Pointing to the airtight iron fence, he shouted sternly Said: "But now, look, will they give us such a chance? If they surrender, we will never have a chance!"

The leaders were quite disapproving, and they would not rebel if they had no chance, and everyone should return to ordinary people. As long as they survived, the devil would be willing to be this rogue, with his head tied to his trouser belt, rushing to the state and going to the government, and being shocked overnight.

This is the difference between Gao Yingxiang and the gang of leaders under him. Those leaders are not as famous as him. Even if they surrender, they will be fine. Disbanding the troops, there is only one dead end!He said loudly: "Rush again! It's getting dark, as long as we can rush out, we will have a chance to escape. It's pitch black, officers and soldiers dare not chase after us!"

All the leaders looked at me and I looked at you without making a sound.Is it fun to take one or two thousand lives every time you rush?Although they have fought many battles and seen many dead people, it does not mean that they like to be killed by someone lying behind the parapet and flipping the trigger casually!No matter how they fought this battle, the Tianxiong army killed and wounded them all with a single finger, and even if they tried their best, they couldn't rush to the Tianxiong army, how could they play!

Gao Yingxiang couldn't help being furious when he saw that these guys were still motionless: "Why, what do you think——"

Howl!
Tian Jianxiu yelled wildly: "King Chuang, be careful!"

The four howitzers that had been aiming for a long time opened fire at the same time, and four 85mm howitzer shells flew down from the sky, hitting Gao Yingxiang nearby, throwing him and his horse off the ground.Not only him, Tian Jianxiu and the leaders who gathered around him were also blown to pieces, and there were very few who could leave a whole body!
Seeing Gao Yingxiang's banner crashing down amidst the violent explosions, the rogues who had already been terrified were shattered. Lu Xiangsheng saw the right moment, and the horn blew. The Tianxiong army collectively bayoneted, jumped out from behind the parapet, and lined up. The orderly queue moved towards the rogues, followed by a phalanx of spears, more than 1 bayonets, and more than 6000 spears, forming an endless and fast-moving steel jungle. There was a crackling sound, as if a boundless sea of ​​blood was coming backwards. This kind of momentum made the hands and feet of the rogues cold, and their minds went pale. Let alone fleeing, they didn't even have the courage to shout. With the bayonet shining coldly, they all made the smartest decisions in their lives: throwing away their weapons and kneeling down.

On November 30, the sixth year of Chongzhen, all the elite Tianxiong troops came out and set up an ambush in the Qingfengdian area of ​​Zhending Prefecture to ambush Gao Yingxiang's army of more than 11 men. They won a complete victory. Gao Yingxiang, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Zongmin, Li Zicheng, Almost all of the more than [-] leaders, including Lao Huihui, were killed. The rogue infantry and cavalry suffered more than [-] casualties, and the rest all surrendered.In addition to the [-] people wiped out by the Heluo New Army, the main force of the northwest bandits was basically wiped out. Since they did not enter the Central Plains, the remaining bandits who were lucky enough not to run into the two new armies and saved their lives were all terrified and regarded the Central Plains as such. Afraid of the road——They would rather go back to Shanxi and Shaanxi to fight with Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting and other ruthless people than go to the Central Plains and get into trouble.History took a big turn here. The rogue bandits that originally rocked the Ming Dynasty were basically put down, and the Ming Dynasty ushered in a rare respite.

It's just that Chongzhen should have a headache again about how to reward those two masters who have made great achievements in the world.

(End of this chapter)