Chapter 193 Death Speed
"What should I do if this continues!"
"No, the new Ming army is about to rush into the city, and we have to find ways to survive and run the school."
The guards, located in the upper and lower areas of the Xichengmen wall, were about 10,000 people, and some of them were even fantasizing that if they had a chance to escape, they would avoid these new Ming army killing gods from far away in the future.
Huang Chengyong, the leader of the Han army's blue flag, had this idea.
At this time, this hardcore traitor knew that he must make a choice.
He had to make a choice that would allow himself to survive before the soldiers of the Ming New Army captured him or killed him.
It is very difficult to do this.
He knew that he was a guy who was full of evil and had too many charges on his back.
The act of treason alone is enough to confiscate his family and exterminate his clan, not to mention that after he surrendered to the Tartars, he never had good things but did all the bad things.
Huang Chengyong shook his body a little while lightning flashed in his mind.
Although he was quite scared now, he subconsciously looked at the mangurtai, Ebilon and others who had just stood up under the city wall and rushed towards the north gate.
If you want to survive or die more decently, you can only make a decision on Mangourtai and Ebilong.
There is no doubt that there is no suspense in this battle between the two sides and the victory of the Ming New Army.
The key is that Mangurtai and Ebilong will definitely not let them live in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming New Army, and will not be captured alive in front of the commander of the Ming New Army Lu Xiangsheng.
The only hope for Huang Chengyong who is greedy for life and fear of death is to follow Mangourtai and Ebilong and escape from this hell-like Lonely Mountain Fort.
Of course, it is better to be alive than to die, not to mention that I don’t want to die at all!
Thinking of this, a sharp light flashed in Huang Chengyong's eyes and he instantly made up his mind.
"Su Bin, take our team and retreat immediately!"
He shouted to Su Bin, the captain of the musket team, who was squatting not far from him, "This Gushan Fort is completely finished. If you don't run away now, you will never have a chance to run away again."
He shouted, and turned over and jumped out of a ragged fort where he was hiding and ran towards the barracks not far away.
He knew that he could escape now, but he had to find a war horse school
The horse house with his own blue flag inlaid is located in the temporary barracks not far away, where more than 3,000 war horses with the Han army's blue flag are stored.
This time, when the remaining soldiers were upset when they saw his banner owner Huang Chengyong take the lead in running away!
"run!"
"Yes! Even the Tartar masters and the chief generals have run away. Are we still staying here as cannon fodder waiting to die?"
"Hmph! Whoever likes to be cannon fodder will do it? I'm quit anyway!"...
After a while, a group of chaotic troops formed by Tartars and those cannon fodder slaves immediately scattered and ran away desperately towards the east gate and north gate!
As Lu Xiangsheng and Xiong Ba predicted, the Gushan Fort City had just been captured and the enemy had lost their fighting spirit and had completely collapsed.
Xiong Ba just rushed into the city with his soldiers when he saw that the enemy had collapsed. He immediately ordered the soldiers to chase after him, and ignored all the surrenders along the way, and asked them to kneel on the ground and wait for the subsequent army to come and take them away.
It's really good. Seeing that these people were not killed after surrender, they stopped running away and knelt on the ground and waited honestly.
The traitor slave soldier who was not physically strong had experienced two major battles, and although it was just two crushing battles, he was a little exhausted.
They were exhausted and had no strength anymore. A large number of soldiers of the Han army's blue flag saw that their companions were fine, and they also left their swords and guns and knelt on the side of the road.
These Ming New Army pursuing troops who had just entered the city had already had a lot of tricks to deal with the prisoners.
They did not ignore the coated slaves who surrendered on the ground and the Han army's blue flag. They ordered them to put down their weapons, kneel down and wait, and then pursued them for a while.
Now the main enemy is the brutal Tartars, so how can they have time to mess with these traitors?
If you don't shoot them immediately, even if you are merciless, it is still important to chase and kill the Tartars who have run away from the city if they are desperate.
At this time, if Huang Chengyong, the leader of the Han army's blue flag, had some courage, turned the infantry into a team of two thousand cavalry just following him into the military camp, pulled it away to avoid the crowds that were running away, and perhaps there was a chance to fight back.
But this guy is now scared and wants to escape from Gushan Castle as soon as possible. Where can he have the courage to come to fight against the enemy and fight to fight to fight desperately?
The prisoners of war captured too many, and in a short while, a large number of prisoners gathered in this area. Xiong Ba was worried about some trouble, but the people were very honest and had no intention of running away.
He didn't have the time to serve them, so he left a battalion soldiers, guarding these coat slaves, and then selected some prisoners of war who seemed more well-behaved to temporarily manage these accomplices.
Xiong Ba quickly sent someone to report to Lu Xiangsheng. At this time, he found that the Gushan Fort was basically an empty city, and most of the Tartars ran out to the north city and fled to the northwest.
Unexpectedly, he was the first to attack the city, but he captured about five or six thousand prisoners one after another, but was run away by Mangourtai and Ebilon.
Although he was so angry that he jumped on the spot, he was useless.
Because their Third Division is a vanguard unit, the two brigades are now infantry, and there is no good way.
The main reason is that the battle was really too short.
I never thought that the former Zhenglan Banner Tartar troops were also a powerful army with great reputation. Before the war, everyone expected that it would be a tragic and bloody battle.
As a result, the two sides fought. What's even more ridiculous is that these Tartar soldiers with the Zhenglan Banner could not withstand a few rounds of attacks and were defeated.
It was such a large group of Tartars who had been struggling in the Northeast of the Ming Empire for decades and defeated the Ming army many times until they fought the Ming border troops in a mess, almost all of which were lost.
At the north gate of Gushan Fort, about two thousand cavalry and cavalry rolled in. Before, Manguertai led the Tatar army out of the city, but the open gate did not have time to close.
Huang Chengyong, the leader of the Han army's blue flag, immediately led two thousand soldiers of the Han army's blue flag to rush out quickly and soon disappeared without a trace.
These guys had just escaped and disappeared, and another 10,000 cavalry in black-clad black armor rolled in. This was Huang Weiguo, the commander of the Cavalry Brigade of the Third Division, who was arranged by the ambush, and led 10,000 cavalry soldiers to arrive.
As a result, it was found that these Tartar troops had never thought of defending the city and fighting to the death, and naturally they had never thought of defending Gushan Fort. There were less than a thousand Baoyi slaves who were still left in the city.
Huang Weiguo led the soldiers to rush into the city without much effort, holding back the aura of wanting to slash and kill, but had nowhere to vent.
Ten thousand cavalry rushed into the city in a moment, and the four city gates were soon obtained. Huang Weiguo met with Xiong Ba, the commander of his third division, and discussed briefly.
"Weiguo, you will lead the soldiers out of the north gate immediately and follow the traces of the passing of the Tatar army to pursue the enemy."
Xiong Ba is now anxious and depressed. Of course, he is very happy to see the arrival of his division's cavalry brigade.
He quickly told the brigade commander Huang Weiguo, "Governor Lu, he had long expected this scene to happen. When the artillery brigade was sieging the city, he took two cavalry brigades to the north city of Gushan Fort and chose a place to intercept the Tatar army.
Later, when Xiong Ba was relieved when he saw Huang Weiguo and his soldiers from the cavalry brigade rushing out of the northern gate of Gushan Fort quickly and disappearing.
Fortunately, although the battle was successful in the first battle, it seemed like a joke and a farce.
Fortunately, the soldiers of his cavalry brigade arrived in time, not only helped him control the whole city in time, but now he pursued the Tatar army and could not make a great contribution.
He was not worried that his cavalry brigade would not be able to catch up with the large Tartar troops.
After all, Lu Xiangsheng, a guy who was in the forefront, had already led two cavalry brigades to the place where the Tartars must pass in front, and ambushed and blocked the other party.
I had no intention of doing anything else for the time being, so I quickly ordered a team of thousands to clear the city and identify the prisoners, so as to completely control the Gushan Fort City.
Although the Tatar cavalry army was hesitant when they attacked before, when they fled, Mangourtai, Ebilong and others were not slow. The cavalry team of about 20,000 people quickly got rid of all the figures behind them.
While running away, Manguertai took a special look and found that almost all the generals of Zhenglan Banner were by his side, and felt a little relieved.
The five thousand warriors who disappeared must have died gloriously in the previous bombing of the Ming New Army.
Now that you want to run away as quickly as possible, after running out of Gushan Fort North City, you must cross this river that has passed through Gushan Fort City, flows to the west and then turns north.
The two wooden bridges northwest of Gushan Fort cannot be quickly crossed by the cavalry. We have to find a section of the river suitable for the cavalry to cross the river.
The river channel in this section is only about twenty miles ahead, and the very open bend of the river channel is most suitable for the army to cross the river.
This year it is spring drought again, and the river water is not deep. At the bend of that section of the river, it is a vast gravel area. The army does not need to stay at all. As long as the speed is slowed down, you can easily cross the river and then go flat towards Shengjing City.
Thinking of this, Manguertai immediately discussed it with Ebilong and others for a little time and reached a consensus.
Then several scouts led the cavalry brigade, which had just slowed down, recovered again, and the "rumbling" sound of horse hooves headed straight towards the destination.
They didn't know that the scheming Lu Xiangsheng had already led two soldiers from the cavalry brigade of 10,000 people to ambush there first.
In history, the most feared thing that a large army crossed the river was to attack halfway through.
And this is what Lu Xiasheng made.
After all, the Tatars' cavalry is too powerful. Once the two cavalry army charges against each other, even if they have 20,000 cavalry soldiers, they will not be able to stop them, and will cause major casualties to the soldiers.
Chapter completed!