Chapter 18 Landing (Part 2)
After receiving the order from the Shandong Governor's Office, Qingzhou Prefecture sent a team of green camps from Changle to clear out the bandits at the post station.
When dealing with heroes from the world who mainly use sticks, even if the number of opponents is twice that of their own, the Green Camp is not afraid of head-on combat. Instead, they are worried that they will flee when they hear the news and come to make trouble after the officers and soldiers leave. Therefore, the prefect gave Qian Zong Yang Qiu the order that dozens of people would be left behind after the post station was recovered, and the other Green Camp soldiers would continue to advance until they encountered the post station with a backlog of documents.
This errand seemed easy to Yang Qiu. The main things to be careful are two points. First, the rebel army may have destroyed two or three post stations, and then concentrated its forces to retreat to the last one, giving up the front, so as to disperse the forces of the officers and soldiers and paralyze the officers and soldiers. After the officers and soldiers recovered the two post stations without bloodshed, they might think that the bandits had escaped and were careless, and they were ambushed by the rebel army hiding on the roadside; second, some people in the rebel army would use bows and arrows, and compared with their sticks and big swords that were played in the world, this weapon poses a greater threat to the green camp.
"If we all have a full set of armor, then the bow and arrow are not afraid of it." Yang Qiu was still thinking about how to deal with the threat of bow and arrow when he was walking on the road. Although the camp soldiers are also called piercing, they are completely different from the armor of the Biao Battalion. There are very few iron pieces in the cotton armor on their bodies, and it will be very dangerous if they encounter crossbow arrows. Fortunately, the rebel army does not have excellent equipment. The bow and arrow in their hands are all hunting bows, which are very soft. As long as they are not shot into the front door, it should be fine. As an officer, Yang Qiu not only has horses but also has good quality cotton armor. The ones who have to worry about the bow and arrow are the green camp soldiers at the bottom. The protection of their limbs is very bad, and the hunting bow can also cause damage at close range.
So Yang Qiu asked the soldiers under his command to walk in the front row and the outer edge, protect the poorly equipped companions in the back and in the middle, and also allowed them to carry some rattan cards. After this arrangement, Yang Qiu thought that even if they were ambushed, there was nothing scary.
The troops must be dispersed. If the Qing soldiers left for the front foot and the heroes immediately came back, causing the post road to continue to be blocked, and the prefect would definitely get angry. Therefore, it was a wise decision to send 300 armored soldiers to the Governor's Office and the prefect to send 300 armored soldiers. Even if dozens of people were left at the first two post stations, the remaining 200 people were enough to defeat the heroes. Yang Qiu felt that the heroes could not capture more than three post stations, because the post station itself was a small fortress and there were guards of the green camp. To be honest, Yang Qiu was surprised when he heard that the heroes could quickly conquer the post station and even did not let the post station escape for help.
"I don't know what Laizhou Prefecture is doing?" After crossing the border between Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture, Yang Qiu began to complain about the slow reaction of Laizhou Prefecture. Such an important place in the post station has fallen into the opponent for several days, and Laizhou Prefecture has not sent troops to clear it. Even if the city is far away, the nearby Weixian can always send 200 green camps to do their jobs.
The vast Qing army went east along the post road, and the people along the way had already escaped, and there was no one on the way, so Yang Qiu did not expect that they had fallen into the sight of their opponents.
"Twenty cavalry, three hundred infantry." The Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry reported to Tongzhi, the commander of the assault squad, who was leading the team.
"Well, I finally came to buy and sell, and I was upset when I waited." Song Weishen said with excitement on his face and he was ready to rub his hands.
As early as in the training camp in Chengdu, Song Weishen had systematically learned the raid war, but there was very little information for reference, only Deng Ming's Dongchuan Prefecture War. This attack on Shandong Post Road was the first time they had learned what they had learned. The officers were all novices, and they were inevitably stiff in their actions. After all, those who participated in the raid war in Dongchuan are now senior officers of the Sichuan Army and will no longer lead the team to take action. They also have to command the army in Jiangnan. However, although the seventeen cavalry of Dongchuan were not there, the commander-in-chief of this operation was the first person in the Sichuan Army to take advantage of the troubled waters. With his words and deeds, the Ming army won the first post station without any effort.
After summarizing the experience, the commando no longer needed the commander-in-chief to do it himself. They wore the Qing army uniforms to sweep one post after another. When they saw the brilliant armor on their bodies, the guards from each post came to ask for their needs without any defense, guessing in their minds whether they were the officers who supervised the bid or the officers who raised the bid. Some even suspected that they were the Manchu Taijun. They did not expect that these guys would start to slash and kill when they entered the gate of the post.
While ordering preparations for the war, Song Weishen politely asked Gao Yunxuan, who was traveling with him, about his opinion. Deng Ming had instructed to pay attention to Shandong's allies and not to make them feel despised.
"We can give up two post stations first." Gao Yunxuan replied without thinking: "The Eagle's minions are definitely afraid that we will return. They will leave troops to defend each post station, so that they can disperse their troops and make them take more detours. When they see that each post station is empty, they will become even more arrogant. We can lie on the edge of the road and catch them off guard."
Speaking of this, Gao Yunxuan felt a little regretful, that is, these Sichuan troops did not carry any long-range weapons, otherwise they would have shot and injured a few before they started to chop people, and their chances of winning would naturally be higher.
Wu Yueer also came with Gao Yunxuan. She was from Laizhou Prefecture. In the past two days, she had found a small village and pulled dozens of Shandong heroes out of it. When she saw a group of soldiers wearing clothes coming to the gate of the village, the heroes inside thought that at the last moment, when Gao Daxia and Wu Nuxia entered the village to explain the situation, these heroes really felt happy from the sky.
These dozens of heroes also agreed with Gao Yunxuan's opinion, saying that they still had three hunting bows in their hands, which could surprise the Qing soldiers. However, Wu Yue'er did not join them. She observed Song Weishen's expression and felt that he seemed to disagree with Gao Yunxuan's plan: "What are the opinions of Captain Song?"
"You guys have a good opinion," Deng's name was ordered to die. Even if he wanted to express his objection, he should add this sentence to the beginning. Song Weishen strictly implemented the order: "But our army has issued a manifesto, saying that Duke Baoguo led a 100,000 army to capture Shandong, gave up two empty post stations to give three hundred Qing soldiers, and then ambushed in the grass on the side of the road. Is this the momentum of a 100,000 army?"
Of course not, so Song Weishen expressed his desire to strike backwards: "I have a hundred cavalry, and it's no problem to deal with this Qing army."
"We have to participate, too," Wu Yue'er suddenly said: "This is our land in Shandong, and we have to participate in the battle."
"This..." Song Weishen smiled slightly: "The Duke of the State said that he should protect you, especially the female hero Wu. How can a man not let a woman go to war?"
"We want to see Wu Yong, the subordinates of the Duke of Baoguo," Wu Yue'er said loudly: "We are watching you rushing to the battlefield, right?"
Song Weishen thought about it and nodded: "Yes."
"But as soon as you appear, the eagle's minions may run away. So we will arrange the array first, and when the Qing soldiers have also arranged the array, we will send you a signal."
Although I don’t know why Wu Yueer insisted so much, Song Weishen felt it didn’t matter, and Deng Ming had instructed to take care of the Allied forces’ feelings.
When dozens of Shandong heroes went to fight against the Qing army, Wu Yue'er secretly called Gao Yunxuan: "Senior Brother Gao, we must do this, otherwise our people will not be able to practice."
Although these dozens of heroes were pulled out of the mountain village by Wu Yue'er and Gao Yunxuan, they began to feel nervous since they left the mountain village and embarked on the road. I just heard that the Qing soldiers came, many people began to tremble their legs. In the past few months, the brothers in the Jianghu have been beaten by the Qing army. When Gao Yunxuan proposed to set up an ambush on the roadside, Wu Yue'er noticed that many heroes had their faces turned blue, and some people couldn't help but tremble - this was also unreproachable. The Jianghu people and the Green Camp fought on the plains, which was basically a life-threatening death.
"We must at least set up a formation to let the senior brothers face the eagle's minions, and then see with their own eyes how the eagle's minions defeated." Wu Yue'er looked firm.
"If we don't win in a while, we won't be able to help, and you will be in danger." At this time, Gao Yunxuan couldn't help but feel nervous: "The Eagle's minions are three times the number of Sichuan soldiers."
"These Sichuan Army are the personal guards of the Baoguogong who are stronger than Li Guoying Biao Battalion." Wu Yue'er replied: "We heard that the Baoguogong talk about their wars. I think it is true. He is just powerful and didn't brag."
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Looking at the dozens of heroes on the opposite side blocking their way, Yang Qiu thought his eyes were useless: "Is this the sun coming out from the west?"
The heroes on the opposite side held common weapons of the rebel army, most of which were sticks, and the iron guys were short weapons, with only a heavy long sword.
"I'm sent to death." Yang Qiu immediately came to the conclusion. His eyes stayed on Gao Yunxuan for a moment, feeling that this guy might have some ability, but on the battle formation, Gao Yunxuan, who was holding a short weapon, could not perform his martial arts. As for the guy holding a powerful sword, Yang Qiu didn't care about it at all. This kind of thing was only used by street performers, and it could not dance at all when the formation was tight. If the formation was loose, the user would be dismembered by the dense sword formation of the Qing army in the blink of an eye.
Then Yang Qiu's eyes moved to Wu Yue'er. He stared at the girl of seventeen or eighteen and smiled and said, "Even the wife is here, okay, brothers, this one is going to catch the living."
Seeing the Qing army opposite set up a formation, Wu Yue'er heard the sound of teeth fighting, and muttered in a low voice: "Where are Sichuan people? They can't run away, right?"
"Send a signal, send a signal quickly." Someone urged anxiously.
Dongdong, the Qing army suddenly beat the war drum.
A noise suddenly broke out behind Wu Yue'er, and then he heard a stern shout: "What are you afraid of? I've stood up, are you still a man?"
"Send a signal." Wu Yue'er said to the person beside her.
The archer, who had been ready to go, nodded, pointed his hunting bow diagonally into the sky, and shot a sound arrow.
"Bluff." Yang Qiu sneered disdainfully.
With Mr. Qian's order, the Qing army shouted in unison and walked forward slowly without panic. The Shandong rebel army opposite began to retreat, but did not flee, but remained facing the Qing army head-on and retreated step by step.
Twenty Qing cavalry rode their horses forward on both sides of the army and were ready to start chasing. Yang Qiu felt that if he hadn't been wary of ambushing on both sides, the battle would be over as long as the cavalry rushed.
The Shandong hero retreated for another period and suddenly scattered to the left and right, revealing the road behind him.
Rows of soldiers in black appeared behind the Shandong people, and they all walked over neatly with their horses.
Then Yang Qiu saw a man in black wave his hand, and the enemy on the opposite side immediately stopped collectively and turned over the horse with almost the same movement. He said that at that time, after all the men in black boarded the horse, a flag was also raised. This was a square rectangular flag. Yang Qiu had never seen the pattern on it before. It looked like three strange-shaped feather arrows.
The sunlight shot from behind the enemy soldiers, and the men in black seemed to be glowing all over. Only then did Yang Qiu confirm that the other party was wearing not black clothes but black armor. The officer who had just waved his hand and raised his hand again. Yang Qiu saw that the other party's raised high also shining - the other party was actually wearing iron gloves.
The raised iron fist pulled down with force, and the knights immediately pulled out the saber at the waist at the same time, and suddenly there was a dazzling forest of swords.
"I met a ghost!" Yang Qiu shouted. The formation of the black-clothed warrior was unprecedented in his sight. The enemy cavalry were tightly attached to each other, as if the distance between the infantry of the Qing army was smaller than that of the Qing army, and there was a murderous aura.
Chapter completed!