Chapter 140 The cavalry of the Guanning Army was still fifty or sixty steps away from the artillery at this time, and the swords in their hands were simply out of reach.Of course, they can pick up a bow and shoot artillery with a bow and arrow.It's just a pity that these guns have long been loaded with gunpowder, filled with iron sand and lead, and the torches have already lit the fuse."
No......"
Zu Dabi roared angrily, at this time, Zu Kuan beside Zu Dabi reacted faster, he swung his knife and directly cut off Zu Dabi's war horse, the war horse neighed and fell to his body, and at the same time, Zu Dabi also fell to the ground.Zu Kuan pounced on Zu Dabi's body and pressed Zu Dabi to the ground."
Boom ......" fell directly to the ground.The sound of artillery rang out, and the barrels of each cannon shot out huge fireballs, which swept away the fastest cavalry of the Guanning Army.Hundreds of cavalrymen fell from their horses one by one screaming like dumplings.At the same time as the sound of artillery, Ding Bingzhi pulled out his war knife and pointed at the cavalry of the Guanning Army: "Get up!"
”When more than 3,000 pikemen heard the order, they immediately got up, raised their spears, and pointed at the cavalry of the Guanning army."
Kill!"
At this time, the pikemen were naturally not passively defensive, after the consumption of tens of thousands of horses and horses of the White Lotus Sect rebels, the charging momentum of the Guanning cavalry was old, and they were bombarded by artillery.At this time, they turned on their backs and made a mess.The pikemen directly crossed the artillery formation and stabbed at the cavalry of the Guanning army.The sound of "fluttering ......" spears into the flesh came and went, and the screams, insults, and roars of the cavalry of the Guanning Army were endless.Zu Kuan saw that Zu Dabi was covered in blood, and he didn't have time to check his injuries, so he directly grabbed Zu Dabi and carried it on his back, while commanding the cavalry of the Guanning Army: "Retreat, retreat!"
”Without Zu Kuan's order, the cavalry of the Guanning Army retreated one after another.It's just that at this time, there are a lot of war horses that fell to the ground, as well as the corpses of the dead soldiers on both sides, like a roadblock, preventing the retreat of the cavalry of the Guanning army.There was no need for Quan Xu to give an order at all, and the experienced Qin Chengzu ordered the two-winged horse army to start attacking.Block the retreat of the cavalry of the Guanning Army.The cavalry troops under Qin Chengzu, with Xiangma as the main force, were not stronger than the Guanning army in field combat, and even much weaker.As the saying goes, the ruler is short, and the inch is long.Shandong Xiangma is not good at the large-scale cavalry combat of the regular army, but they are good at small-scale, cavalry random battles.At this time, the Guanning army was blocked by the attack, and the formation was completely chaotic, but at this time, the horses who had been recuperating for nearly two hours saw the infantry and artillery building meritorious deeds, but they did not have an inch of merit.The Shandong Xiangma, who had already held back the fire in their bellies, saw the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and they were even more red when they saw the enemies.Pick up the knife and slash at Guan Ningjun, that is really ruthless.At this time, the Guan Ning army was frightened, and there were pikemen attacking behind them, and there were Shandong Xiangma rushing and slashing on the left and right wings.The performance of the Shandong Xiangma was very amateurish, and sometimes, a dozen Xiangma chased hundreds or thousands of cavalry with knives.However, at this time, the Guanning army had no intention of fighting and retreated desperately.If it weren't for the desperate rescue of Guan Ningjun's Zu Dale and Wu Sangui's subordinates, I'm afraid that Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan would have collapsed in the formation.After nearly half an hour of chaotic fighting, it was getting late, and the two sides finally stopped fighting.Qin Chengzu's command repelled three attacks by the Guanning army, won a great victory, and the morale was high.Quan Xu saw more clearly through the drone, due to the poor training of the troops, the cooperation was not in place, in fact, the casualties under Qin Chengzu were not light.Especially the rebels of the White Lotus Sect, although they claimed to be 50,000 or 60,000 horses, in fact they could only fight seven or eight thousand, and in this battle they suffered more than 10,000 casualties and more than 4,000 casualties.Qin Chengzu also wiped out two and a half battalions of infantry, of which more than 2,300 were killed or wounded, of which more than 800 were killed and more than 500 were seriously wounded.According to the number of heavy deaths, Qin Chengzu actually suffered a loss.A total of more than 5,300 people were killed under his command, and with the wounded soldiers, at least tens of thousands of soldiers were unable to fight again.However, his casualties were concentrated in the White Lotus Sect rebels, which were only nominal troops, infantry and pikemen, artillery only a dozen soldiers were wounded, cavalry killed more than 200 people, wounded more than 500 people, all of which were generated in the course of pursuit.In fact, Qin Chengzu's troops still have combat effectiveness, and the nineteen infantry battalions (ten battalions of the White Lotus Sect Army), three battalions of the Ma Army, and two artillery battalions participating in the battle today basically still have combat effectiveness.Some people are happy, some people are worried, Zu Dale and Wu Sangui are trembling with anger when they see the results of the battle.The cavalry of the Guanning army fought three battles before and after, with a total of more than 9,000 troops, but all three battles were defeated, with more than 5,000 casualties, of which more than 2,800 were killed, including Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, three generals were painted, and two guerrillas were killed.This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the Guanning army lost more than 3,000 war horses, these war horses are worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, no matter what the result of this battle is, the loss of the Guanning army is too great.So far, except for the more than 500 heads that were cut off before, the others have no chance at all, which means that there is none.A deep sense of frustration enveloped the Guanning army."
What should I do?"
Wu Sangui had a hysterical feeling, he looked at Zu Dale and said, "Why can't you fight, what should I do now?"
”"What should I do?"
Zu Dale sighed and said with a wry smile: "Uncle, you can only gnaw layer by layer!"
”"Layer by layer?"
Wu Sanfeng said indignantly: "Today, we will lose more than 2,500 people, and when we gnaw away the rebels' front, I'm afraid there will be few people in the Guanning Army!"
”Zu Dale stared at Qin Chengzu's Daxu in the distance, and his eyes seemed to erupt with fire.In fact, today's decisive battle was not as good as it could have been.Yuan Chonghuan was actually not happy, he didn't take it to heart: "Don't worry, uncle, this governor has already seen the reality of this rebel army, in fact, they are already at the end of the crossbow, and if we fight again tomorrow, we must annihilate this rebel army in one go!"
”Hearing this, Wu Sangui breathed a sigh of relief."
But, Supervisor, the Guanning Army has lost ......"
"Tomorrow at the latest, Zhao (Leading) General Soldiers, Manchu (Gui) General Soldiers, and Hou (Shilu) General Soldiers should arrive, and when the time comes, we will have more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, and we will be able to capture them in one fell swoop!"
The soldiers under Qin Chengzu were excitedly cleaning up the battlefield, and everyone was extremely excited.Of the 3,000 war horses lost by the Guanning army, they only got five or six hundred, and the rest were skinned and gutted, and then stewed horse meat in a cauldron.Just when Quan Xu took back the drone, he suddenly found that on the official road in the northeast direction, a large number of troops appeared densely, everyone was carrying torches, and there was no end in sight.Quan Xu was about to call Qin Chengzu, but at this time, Qin Chengzu's walkie-talkie ran out of power.In desperation, Quan Xu had no choice but to put away the drone and replace it with a drone that had just been fully charged, but he hung another counter-entry machine and operated the drone to fly to Qin Chengzu's camp.Qin Chengzu heard a slight buzzing sound in the air, and knew that Quan Xu's divine bird was coming."
Welcome to the Divine Bird under the Great Immortal Constellation!"
The drone flew into Qin Chengzu's big tent, Qin Chengzu looked at the walkie-talkie hanging on the drone, and he was a little puzzled, so he took it down.Quan Xu's voice came: "I have lost the mana of that magic weapon, and I need to supplement the magic weapon!"
”"Yes!"
Qin Chengzu came to the tent, took out the walkie-talkie, and hung it on the drone again.The drone quickly flew out of the big tent.Only then did Quan Xu say: "Qin Chengzu, order the troops to retreat overnight!"
”"We just won!"
Quan Xu also wanted to take the opportunity to kill Yuan Chonghuan, but it was a pity, "The imperial court reinforcements have arrived, and there are too many of them, you can't win!"
”"Yes!""
Evacuate the orderly to Huang County, and after arriving in Huang County, empty all the people in the city.The original plan was to hand over Huang County to the White Lotus Sect Army, and you would retreat to the mountains!
In the mountains, I will prepare food for you, and you will train in the mountains and wait in ambush. ”"Yes!"
After Quan Xu finished speaking, he operated the drone and directly monitored it at high altitude.Qin Chengzu commanded fifty or sixty thousand people, and it was basically impossible to retreat silently.Not long after Qin Chengzu's order, the nearby Guan Ning army, who was monitoring the periphery, discovered the rebels' anomaly at night.Yuan Chonghuan thought that the rebels had won a big victory and wanted to attack at night, so he proudly ordered: "Order the troops, loose on the outside and tight on the inside, as long as they dare to come, they will be taught that there is no return!"
”However, I waited for more than an hour.Ye Bushu reported again: "Tell the superintendent, the rebels are retreating to Huangxian!"
”"Oops!"
Wu Sangui was surprised: "They found out that our reinforcements were coming!"
”"It's not strange!"
Yuan Chonghuan said: "Tens of thousands of horses, if you want to be silent, it is simply impossible, and then explore and report!"
”Soon after the night was not closed, I saw that the army under Qin Chengzu was originally retreating normally, and then as the army of the White Lotus Sect also joined the retreat, it was completely herding.Wu Sangui, Zu Dale, Yuan Chonghuan and others personally arrived to reconnoiter and found that on the official road to Huangxian, the rebels were carrying torches and shouting.Even if Yuan Chonghuan is ignorant, he knows that this is not a trick of the rebels, if anyone dares to use such a trick to lure the enemy in, his head will be squeezed by the door!
For Yuan Chonghuan, Guan Ningjun had a closer relationship with him, and at least half of his annual salary of several million taels of silver went into his pocket.Guan Ningjun didn't fight well in three battles, and his face was a little unbearable.Now seeing that the rebels have turned from retreat to retreat, I didn't say it, this kind of good thing must not be cheapened by outsiders, and it must be left for my own son.Although they both belong to him, Guan Ningjun is his own son, and Zhao led the mountain navy and Mangui's Xuanda army are barely regarded as unpopular biological sons.As for the Dongjiang Army under Yuan Chonghuan, it was raised by a proper stepmother."
Wu Sangui, Zu Dale!""
The last general!""
The whole army presses up, pursue!""
Yes!".