Chapter Fourteen: Breakthrough Tragedy
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Those thousands of cavalry were subordinates of King Taiping. After breaking through Hanzhong in the seventh year, King Taiping turned to Gansu and stole a lot of horses from the ethnic minorities in the west.
The King of Taiping immediately formed his own elite cavalry unit. This time he attacked Fengyang, he was not very interested in cutting off the dragon veins. As soon as he entered Fengyang, he sent some of his backbones to bring the people he was carrying to burn the robbery.
Due to the huge army of thieves and the chaotic management, people often get lost or run away. In order to ensure that these elite cavalry will not get lost, the Taiping King restrained them collectively.
Although they were not allowed to plunder everywhere, they also had a share of the plundered things. As soon as they entered Fengyang, they asked people to snatch hundreds of ladies and maids from the wealthy families and took them here to give them the elite riders and horses Bai Xuanyin.
But before he could carry his gun into battle, a noise broke out outside. Hearing the report that the official army was coming, the soldiers under the King of Taiping were not panicked.
It was just a few thousand officials, and they were flooded by their spits in just a few seconds!
In addition, hundreds of delicate little ladies have been brought here, and these thieves, a sperm, do not care about the official army that entered Zhongdu.
Just when he was about to take turns to enjoy these little ladies, he suddenly came to report that the official army was coming. This scared the King of Taiping, and quickly left the beauty he had just captured and rushed out of the pavilion with his people.
The open space outside was where his elite rider was. As soon as he rushed out of the pavilion, King Taiping felt a sudden heart, and he saw that they had been rushed over by the government army.
The thieves rode on horses in a panic, but the horses were not good at equestrianism. In addition, the horses had not undergone special training and were frightened by the sound of cannons. For a moment, thousands of people and horses were in a mess.
"Kneel down and don't kill..."
"Kneel down and don't kill..."
The spear soldier, holding a spear and shouting slogans, rushed up, like a hedgehog, slamming the thieves who were about to get on the horse and flee to the ground.
In order to hurt the horses, spearmen, artillery, and longbowmen were all silent.
Seeing the horses frightened and ran wildly, King Taiping had no choice but to gather his subordinates and retreated into the pavilion.
The pavilion was covered with walls everywhere, with only two exits in front and behind. It was immediately blocked by the soldiers of the Second Battalion, and then someone asked to gather the horses.
"No less than three thousand horses." Liu Heng rode his horse to Zhao Yan and said, "It's a pity that there are not many horses that can be used for war, and most of them can only be used for transportation."
"Haha! That's not bad. Sometimes you can't buy horses even if you want to." Zhao Yan smiled, then turned his head and shouted, "Wang Wenyue."
"Here." Wang Wenyue hurriedly rode his horse over.
"Leave a long-company-level combat unit, and you will take other people to pursue it in scatteredly." Zhao Yan ordered Wang Wenyue.
"As for the order." Wang Wenyue took the order and left, and soon left a company's combat unit. The combat unit of one company was 250 spearmen. After the enrollment was expanded, there were 6 companies of spearmen. Each company had 50 people in a row, totaling 5 platoons. When it was dismantled into company-level combat units, the 250 people were dismantled into two rows and one horizontal line, and the remaining row was used as a reserve team. There were also 100 musketeers, 80 longbowmen, 25 artillery pieces, and 5 rocket soldiers.
This way of splitting was determined when suppressing bandits. After all, many bandits are small in scale, so it is unnecessary to send so many people to suppress them.
At the same time, in order to improve efficiency, splitting it into small-scale combat units is conducive to improving combat efficiency.
A company-level combat unit was left, and the other troops were divided into five combat units. They began to pursue the thief army in Zhongdu. It was said that it was chasing, but it was more like driving away, and chasing it slowly.
Since Zhao Yan launched an attack from the east, the hungry people who were previously enslaved took the lead in running westwards. The bandits who were burning to the city heard the official army coming and saw so many people running away, they also ran away.
Most of them were fleeing westward, and many bandits fled southward, and some fled northward. When they fled northward to the bank of Beifeishui River, they sadly discovered that there were actually elite cavalry on the other side.
Although there are not many people, they seem to be only more than 200 people, but they are cruising back and forth on the other side, and any crossing the river will be cut down to the ground by them.
When the bandits who were unable to escape were surrounded by most of the soldiers of the cavalry battalions, blocking the road they fled south. When the bandits saw that there were still people in the south, they quickly changed their direction.
There were officials in the south, north and east, and the bandits were driven into the passage between Beifeishui and Xifeishui. There were rivers on both sides. The ships crossing the river had long been controlled by the cavalry battalion, so they could only escape to Guide Mansion along this thirty or forty-mile passage.
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When the Taiping King saw that the government troops surrounded outside suddenly decreased by most, leaving only a few hundred people, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. As long as he rushed out, he would still have hope of escaping.
At this time, the official army outside the pavilion walked out of an officer and soldier wearing iron armor, holding a spear and shield, and came to the wall outside the pavilion to shout: "Listen, listen, the people inside, surrender quickly, and there is only one way to die for resistance. We will only punish the evil people. We will put down our weapons and surrender within a quarter of an hour. If we are still obsessed with it, we will definitely punish it heavily."
The thief inside couldn't help but get moved. The Taiping King reacted quickly and shouted quickly: "Don't listen to him nonsense. Have you forgotten the brothers who surrendered to the government and were killed?"
It was naturally Hong Chengchou who did the task of killing and surrendering, Yang He was the master of support, and Hong Chengchou was the master of suppression. The two disagree with each other, and in the end, Yang He was finished and Hong Chengchou took office.
Then, Yang He's son Yang Shichang took office, resulting in severe grudges.
At that time, Yang He also had the difficulties of being the master of the tutor. Two years later, the Jin invaded, and most of the Shaanxi border troops went to the capital to serve the king. Yang He had no soldiers available, so the master of the tutor was forced to do so.
Hong Chengchou's main suppression was to see that if the thief had a backbone, he could quickly pull up the army to cause chaos, so he directed several large-scale killing and surrendering incidents.
It’s hard to say who is right or wrong, but these thieves were all careful when surrendering.
The King of Taiping quickly assessed the chaos and led people to climb the wall of the pavilion. The pavilion was magnificent, and the walls were like city walls that could be used to people.
Several thieves either held bows and arrows or muskets, shooting at the pikeman below.
The spearman quickly raised the shield in his hand to cover his face and quickly retreated back. A bow and arrow hit the front chest of the spearman, but unfortunately it was bounced away before it was shot in, and only a recess appeared on the plate armor.
The bandits inside were disappointed when they saw that the official army was safe and sound.
Everyone was wondering, this group of official troops was so strange. Where did ordinary official troops get such good armor? Moreover, the steps were not messy during the operation, and even fools could see that it was an elite army.
"kill!"
Suddenly, the King of Taiping, who was surrounded by it, could no longer hold back and organized troops to rush out from the exit.
As soon as I rushed out, I was hit ruthlessly.
"A row of shooting!"
"Bang bang bang..."
"Shots in the second row..."
"Swish...boom..."
"Swish swish..."
Muskets, shells, longbows, and rockets all went together to attack the thieves who broke through in segments. The number of musketeers and longbow soldiers was not large, and they did not cause much damage to them.
But the 25 grenades and the rockets that had been set up long ago became death talismans, with more than ten of them hitting the crowd, and the first round of artillery attacks caused at least five or six hundred casualties.
"Run! There is no way out." King Taiping shouted loudly. The thieves had no choice but to fight bravely.
“Retreat.”
The musketeers quickly retreated, and then as the practice of "Justice", part of them entered the horizontal line with their waist knives, part of them took the fire slit from behind, stood in the second row with a few grenades, and part of them set up rockets at the back.
Under the continuous attack of the longbow soldiers, the bandits finally fought with two rows of spearmen in a horizontal line. As soon as they came into contact, the bandits in front were immediately stabbed to a row.
Then the thief saw more than 30 or twenty centimeters of wooden sticks thrown from behind and thrown to them from behind. Before they could realize what it was, "Boom boom boom..." An explosion rang out from them, and a large area fell down.
The terrifying rain of arrows was still shooting continuously. After each rain of arrows, there would always be a place full of arrows, and many thieves were nailed to the ground and wailed constantly.
The musketeers who retreated to the formation set up the rockets quickly placed one rocket after another into the launch frame, and then ignited the fuses on the rockets under the adjustment of the rockets...
A rapid "swish" sound rang out again, flew over the head of the spearman and directly crashed into the dense formation of the thief.
Boom boom boom boom...
The shrapnel that was shot from the rocket when it exploded immediately swept the surrounding thieves to the ground. The long-range strike seemed to be endless. The thieves were already terrible on the road of charge. The thieves behind were bombed so scattered that they were lying on the ground. The deaths and injuries were everywhere. At this moment, the second wave of shelling attacks...
With the sound of cannons, shells flew in one after another...
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