Nanming Engineer

Chapter 199 Against
Liu Jinzhong had a small calculation in his mind, but in order to save face and at the same time to test the true intentions of the Ming army squatting on Longquan Mountain, he led his army to Shehong on the second day without waiting for the arrival of Li Dingguo's army. People rushed to the foot of the mountain to call for formation.

His troops, not including Zhang Daqi's more than a thousand people in the Shehong Garrison Mansion, are actually 1 people, of which 2000 are veterans, all of whom were officers and soldiers who followed him when he was in Henan, and have been supporting him with full wages. , everyone has iron armor and sharp weapons, standard combat equipment, and most of the gains from robbery and plunder were given to them. They are the main combat force of Liu Jinzhong's troops; while the other 8000 people are all miscellaneous soldiers, or they are all kinds of people from the market who took the initiative to take refuge. , or they are captured strong men, or co-wrapped refugees, who wear all kinds of clothes, and what they hold in their hands is even more strange. , a peasant with a hoe.

Liu Jinzhong lined up more than 1 people in a noisy line at the foot of Longquan Mountain, and formed a three-fold formation. Dozens of small square formations formed a large square formation. , the momentum was full, and the black heads occupied a large area of ​​the ground.

On the stone city on Longquan Mountain, some soldiers in white robes stood sparsely, lazily looking at the military formations shouting and cursing at the bottom of the city. No one scolded them back, and no one said a word. It was like watching a circus. Like a monkey, he looked at it indifferently, without feeling nervous.

Liu Jinzhong was riding on a horse, and he was looking at the city with the awning in his hand. He had no intention of attacking the city, but just wanted to see the details of the Ming army. Let Su Weijun be the dead ghost who sieges the city, and save his own strength for the future.

However, the reaction of the Ming army was beyond his expectations. According to the general procedure, at this time, the city should be crowded with people and densely guarded, as if preparing for a battle against a big enemy.As long as one's own people get closer, all arrows will be fired from the city immediately, and lime bottles will rain down, shouting loudly and murderous.

But at this moment, not to mention the murderous intent, they are not even popular. The few soldiers who are lazy and scattered on the top of the city look like they don't pay attention to their 1 people. A feeling of being underestimated comes from Liu Jinzhong's heart. Spread to the limbs, straight to the top of the head.

"Zhang Daqi, how many Ming troops are there in the city? Tell me the truth!" Liu Jinzhong was a little angry, and burst out at Zhang Daqi beside him.

Zhang Daqi also looked at the top of the city in surprise, and replied in surprise: "General, there are indeed nearly ten thousand Ming troops on the city. wrong."

Hearing the sound, several lieutenant generals of Liu Jinzhong's army gathered around also laughed, and said: "Zhang Shoubei, you may be delusional. Open your eyes and see that the total number of arrow stacks on the top of the city does not exceed One thousand, where did nearly ten thousand horses come from?"

"I wonder if the Ming army who came out to grab food lost their way and went to the top of the mountain by mistake. Zhang's guards hadn't seen the Ming army for a long time. They turned around and ran away in surprise. They even saw people's faces."

"Hahaha, Zhang's defense is so brave and unparalleled, how could it be as you said? I think the Ming army must have attacked the mountain city. Yesterday, we saw our Liu Dudu's banner coming, and fled back, leaving a few remnants of soldiers to bluff. "

A few people talked and talked about Zhang Daqi until their ears were red and their faces were red, but they couldn't answer back. The white-robed Ming army standing on the top of the city was only so few people, and anyone with long eyes could see it. How could they justify it?

Liu Jinzhong let these people make fun of Zhang Daqi without saying a word, but he was thinking in his heart that if the Ming army on Longquan Mountain really didn't have many people, it would be unreasonable not to attack. Otherwise, how would Li Dingguo explain when he came? The city ordnance took back the pass of Longquan Mountain.

Several lieutenants were still booing, just at this moment, a trumpet sounded on Longquan Mountain, and with a "bang", a cloud of smoke exploded.

Everyone's eyes were attracted, and they saw the closed gate of the city wall in the distance slammed open, and teams of white-robed soldiers came out one after another, spreading like a tide in the open space in front of the closed gate, and quickly formed a queue Line up in battle formation.

At this moment, all the people were stunned. On the top of the city, where there were only a few scattered soldiers, many people appeared like a magic trick, and several big drums were erected. The sound of neat footsteps is breathtaking.

"General, general, look quickly, the Ming army really has nearly ten thousand people!" Among the group of shocked generals, only Zhang Daqi was extremely excited, and shouted joyfully like a woman who had been cleared of her grievances: "Little You are right, the Ming army is here!"

"Where the hell are you from? Believe it or not, I will chop off your head!" Liu Jinzhong shouted angrily: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Go to the head of each camp quickly to prevent the Ming army from charging into battle!"

The lieutenants woke up like a dream, and immediately beat their horses to disperse like birds and beasts.

And Liu Jinzhong's face was cloudy and cloudy, and he frowned when he saw the white-robed soldiers rushing out like ants, secretly surprised.

Too fast, the opposite Kuizhou army moved too fast.

As the former commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty in Henan, Liu Jinzhong is very familiar with the Ming army. Whenever the two armies face each other, no matter which one is in the world, he has never seen white-robed soldiers so well-trained and orderly, just like fighting on the school field. Every soldier and every general knows their exact position, they run out of the city gate and go directly to the point, there are many but not chaotic, chaotic but not mixed, a large number of generals under the green and blue flags Automatically set up, just relying on the speed of this formation, the Kuizhou army is much stronger than the Ming army that Liu Jinzhong has seen, at least much more elite than his Henan town.

"There are pacesetters in place, and the rest line up with the pacesetters." Liu Jinzhong is also worthy of being a veteran, after watching for a while, he saw the mystery of it, and said to himself: "The general who leads the team is experienced, and the enemy is also strong!"

Seeing the Kuizhou Army going into battle, there was a commotion in Liu Jinzhong's team. The white uniforms on the opposite side were uniform, and their momentum overwhelmed the variegated uniforms here. Military discipline in the Daxi Army was not strict, and many people were There were whispers and buzzing in the formation.

The Kuizhou army formed two large formations, and each large formation was divided into three small formations, all of which were arranged in a triangle, with their pointed ends pointing forward. Each soldier held a long spear with the point facing the sky, forming a shining forest of spear blades, shining a dazzling cold light under the rows of banners.

Fifty steps away from the front of the formation, there is a horizontal row of Niaotongshou. The position of the Niaotongshou is three hundred steps away from the Daxi Army. Hit the ground and start reloading.

Liu Jinzhong frowned even deeper. It was very common to have bird commanders in the Ming army, but this was the first time I saw a bird commander equipped with an axe. It was a bit strange.

He has excellent eyesight, and from a distance, he could see a young general in a white robe, pointing at his position, and commenting on the people around him, under the banner of the Kuizhou soldiers with the cyan word "King" on the opposite side. Looking at that appearance, it is very contemptuous.

That young general was naturally Wang Huan.

Wang Huan was riding on a horse, and was explaining the battle strategy to the Deputy Ancestor of Fengzi Yingying.

The strategy is very simple, just one sentence.

"Did you see that? The one wearing the Silver Mountain Armor and the red cloak must be Liu Jinzhong." Wang Huan said flatly, "Go straight over and bring his head up to see me!"

Zu Bian had a ferocious face, straightened the iron helmet on his head, and replied with a grinning smile: "Don't worry, my lord, you won't need a stick of incense, and you will be able to come back in the end."

Wang Huan nodded, he has absolute confidence, Zu Bian has this ability.

Zu Bian rode out more and more people, came to the front of the triangular army formation, and glanced to his right.

On the right under the green flag of Lin Ziying, Li Tingyu also stepped out slowly on his horse, and came to the same level as his ancestors.

The two were far apart, but as if they could see each other's faces, they nodded to each other, and at the same time held up the spear in their hands, the sharp blade of the spear was raised towards the sky, which was extremely dazzling in the sun.

Two roars in unison rang through the sky: "Attack!"

The sound of drums on the top of the city suddenly accelerated, and the sound of "dong dong dong" cowhide drums was like rain gathering and falling stones, and then dozens of big drums in the triangular array echoed, beating the same drumbeat to echo, and the entire battlefield There are drums, filling every corner.

On the left and right sides of each small triangular formation, there is a horn player. Accompanied by the sound of drums, the trumpeter with amazing lung capacity puffed up his cheeks and blew the horn. The murderous aura among the spears and banners was sprayed out, straight into the sky.

Zu Bian and Li Tingyu put down their spears, pointed forward obliquely, and drove their horses forward slowly.

Behind the two of them, several centurions lined up in a triangular formation also leveled their spears, shouted: "Attack!" and stepped out with a bang.

Thousands of white-robed soldiers followed the steps of their respective centurions, and moved forward slowly like a white wall.

The bird commander at the front, following the drumbeat, held an ax in his left hand and a gun in his right hand. The bird commander rested on the crescent ax in his left hand, staring at the Daxi Army five hundred steps away, and pushed forward step by step.

The turmoil of the Daxi army on the opposite side became more obvious, and the noise became louder, cursing the generals and suppressing the unstable morale of the army. In fact, they were also a little surprised that the Ming army actually attacked first!

Liu Jinzhong already felt that something was wrong. Since he joined Zhang Xianzhong, he fought against the Ming army. Except for some generals such as Zuo Liangyu, he rarely encountered Ming troops who dared to go out to fight in the city. , is even rarer, and has hardly been encountered in the past year.

But the development of the situation was out of his control, the white-robed soldiers were hundreds of paces away, so they couldn't just turn around and run away.

Liu Jinzhong gritted his teeth, straightened up immediately, and yelled loudly: "Ming Gou is just a bluff, boys and girls! Please cheer me up, whoever dares to embarrass me, I will kill him alive!"

A group of personal guards and generals behind him suddenly agreed, and shouted: "I am willing to fight to the death with the governor!"

Liu Jinzhong glared and looked angry, and said in a vibrating voice: "Send the order, beat the drums! The front army moves forward, first breaks his bird commander, and then confronts the enemy head-on!"

"The two armies on the left and right guard the center army. When the front army defeats the enemy, move forward together with the governor to kill Ming Gou together!"

"The cavalry battalion stayed in the rear and stood still. When the Chinese army moved forward, they charged from the right wing, defeated Minggou's left wing, and opened the way for the whole army to break through the enemy!"

After the orders were repeated, several messengers with red flags on their backs led their horses and galloped, carrying orders one after another to the camps, and the dozens of big drums in the Chinese army were also used by a group of naked men. The rough wood was knocked, and there was a tit-for-tat sound.

With the rumble of drums and the sound of horns, under the bleak winter day, the dozen or so square formations at the front of the Great Western Army's triad formation, also driven by their respective generals, slowly moved forward against the formation of the Kuizhou Army.

The distance of five hundred steps is slowly getting closer.

Four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps...

The commander of the Kuizhou Military Birds at the forefront could already clearly see the faces of the Daxi Army soldiers who were crowded together on the opposite side with crazy expressions on their faces. The roaring mouths and chaotic shouts were as loud as their ears.

Yan Mingde, who was walking on the far right side of the line, tried his best to suppress the tension in his heart and estimated the distance between them. When the two armies were 150 steps apart, he stood still.

"Stop!" Yan Mingde roared loudly, raising the crescent axe.

The entire bird commander line stopped at the same time. They couldn't hear Yan Mingde's shout, but they could see the centurion beside him. The centurion had been keeping a close eye on Yan Mingde's direction. , they all stopped.

"According to the rules!"

The ornithologists stabbed the sharp thorns under the sharp axes into the ground, erected them firmly, put the orniths on the axe, blew on the matchlock wrapped around their wrists, and lit the beak clip.

The former commander of the Great Western Army had already seen the sparks on the bird commander, and dismissed it in his heart. According to the routine, the bird commander of the Ming army would either shoot the lead into the air, or because the charge was insufficient, the lead would be within 150 meters. Even if the unlucky guy is unlucky and hit by the flying lead, it will still be a single-digit casualty, which is harmless.

"Come on! Cut down those bastards!" The commander yelled loudly, swinging the long knife in the air.

"Ah!" The miscellaneous soldiers contorted their faces and screamed wildly, changing their slow walk to rush forward. The former army of nearly 3000 people, which was originally a neat phalanx, turned into a chaotic flow of people, shouting and charging forward.

"Don't be afraid, if they can't hit them, they will be rewarded if they rush over and chop off their heads! Let's stand shoulder to shoulder!" In the crowd, dodging the incoming bullet rain.

"Come on!"

"Kill!"

Stimulated by rewarding silver and death, the miscellaneous soldiers had already forgotten their fear, their bloodshot eyes fixed on the hands of the standing white-robed bird commander, and there was only one thought in their heads: rush!kill!

"boom!"

Yan Mingde fired, and the lead bullet left the gate screaming, leaped a hundred steps, and accurately hit a Daxi Army soldier wielding a broadsword on the forehead.

A blood hole the size of a small wine glass appeared on the soldier's forehead, and a cloud of blood sprayed out from the back of his head. He shook his forward body, ran forward a few steps, and fell headfirst to the ground, dead.

The muffled gunfire was not very ear-piercing in the background of the battlefield, and the soldiers following behind did not stop. Countless footsteps stepped over the corpse of the dead soldier, trampling him into a ball of fleshy mud.

Yan Mingde's first shot was a signal. The continuous gunshots were like firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. Puffs of black gunpowder smoke suddenly rose, and nearly two thousand birds were fired almost simultaneously, forming a wall of smoke that lay across the white sky. Between the Kuizhou Army and the motley Daxi Army.

The turbulent crowd seemed to have hit an invisible barrage, and they were beaten to a violent stop. The first few rows of people running in the front staggered and screamed and fell to the ground. In the face of flying lead bullets, it is as fragile as paper.

The blood mist rises, and the corpses lie horizontally.

The soldiers of the Great Western Army were stunned, and their sprinting pace slowed down.

Everyone is afraid of death, especially when the people around you are dying right in front of your eyes, the fear of death is extremely exciting.

No matter how crazy people are, they will cool down before death, or panic.

"Their guns can only be placed in one row, charge again! Their bird commanders are out of gunpowder, rush over to avenge the brothers!" The commander who ran behind roared again.

He shouted, but his heart was dripping with blood. Those who died were all combat power. The Ming army knocked out at least 1000 of them with a row of guns, but they were still so far away, and the archers on their side ran at the end. On the other hand, it is impossible to accurately projectile at a distance of more than 100 steps. If you miss the shot, you will not be able to kill it.

However, his yelling made a lot of sense. All the miscellaneous soldiers know that it takes a lot of effort to reload the bird commander. As long as the speed is fast enough, and he rushes over before the second round of shooting by the bird commander, he can kill the gang with pleasure. grandson.

Sure enough, the bird commanders standing in a horizontal line had no intention of firing a second shot at all. They all retracted their guns and turned around, scattered to both sides, and ran with their backs.

The Great Western Army's courage immediately became stronger, and the pace that slowed down was accelerated a little bit. The Ming Army was just like this. After putting down the firearms, they turned around and ran away. When it came to close combat, the Western Army was not afraid of the cowardly Ming Army.

The one who rushed to the front wiped the blood splattered on his face, bared his teeth and rushed to the front. He was strong and strong, holding a long-handled simple knife with black and purple spots on the rusty blade. The old blood stains showed his bravery, his big bloodshot eyes revealed fierce cruelty, and he stared at the back of Bird Commander exuding murderous aura.

But in the next moment, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his forward steps stopped suddenly.

Because he saw it, and with the bird's hand spreading away to both sides, it revealed countless white-robed soldiers lined up behind them, forming a formation of pointed spears, pressing towards him step by step.

(End of this chapter)