Chapter 269: The Beggars' Army was annihilated
Chapter 269: Beggar Zijun was destroyed
In the salt farm, Shi Yi also saw the thick smoke emitting from the village outside. Unexpectedly, the Tartars were so cruel. It seemed that if he didn't agree to their conditions, he wouldn't give up.
It seems that they haven't figured out how many taels of dry rice they can eat.
"Caval team, prepare." Shiyi said.
Mo Tianyou had been furious for a long time. The Tartars outside actually dared to bully the people. As an army protecting the safety of one side, Mo Tianyou hoped to kill all these puppies.
"After going out, each person fired only three shots and then retreated." Shiyi said.
Retreat? Mo Tianyou was puzzled. As a thousand households in the cavalry team, Mo Tianyou wanted to kill all the Tartars.
Shi Yi was not blinded yet. His cavalry team was not good at horseback. If he was surrounded by the opponent's cavalry, after all, there were tens of thousands of people on the other side and only one thousand people were separated to guard other places. There were only six hundred people left in Dingxi. And his cavalry only had to stop the horse and aim.
These six hundred people are actually just bait to test the other party's reaction. If the other party reacts violently, retreat quickly. Before the enemy rushes to his position, all the muskets and scattered fire can be fired, which will definitely be devastating to the Tartars.
Shi Yi did not expect that without waiting for all the muskets to fire, he drove away tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers by his hundreds of people. These were just a group of beggar soldiers. It was okay to pretend to be in the store, but when they really fought, they had no combat power at all.
The cavalry gathered quickly, and the soldiers carried the Tianque gun, ready to teach the Tartars a lesson that they would never forget for life.
The left-behind soldiers also entered the position and prepared to give a head-on blow once the other party came.
"Sir, it's not good. All the people we sent out have fallen out." Ye Xianbushuan was in the camp and suddenly heard such news.
The hundred-man team sent out fell? Ye Xianbuhua was shocked. The opponent was obviously surrounded by him, so what force could he do to kill his hundred-man team? Could it be that this is a trap?
"Who did it?"
"I don't know, the other party did not show his flag, but, listening to the sound, there were countless muskets, all of them were cavalry. They surrounded the village and none of them escaped."
"Send two, no, five hundred men to see who did it? Kill them all." Ye Xianbuhua said.
Being surrounded by a village is likely to be careless and not spend any decisions before sending someone to investigate the situation.
"Sir, sir, it's not good." Another sentry ran in panic: "A team of cavalry rushed from the rear camp and attacked our camp fiercely. Brothers can't stand it!"
The back camp? Ye Xianbuhua surrounded the salt field. Most of the troops were deployed at the front. The back camp's strength was very empty. Someone actually attacked his back camp? It was impossible, absolutely impossible. He had already investigated it. With a radius of dozens of miles, there were no other troops at all.
"Sir, sir, it's not good. There are probably thousands of cavalry rushing out of the salt field. What should we do?" The messenger from the front battalion hurried to report the message.
Two-way attack? Don’t be treacherous at first. It’s definitely a trap, a trap that has been planned!
For the beggars, they had never fought any wars in Huaixi and had very poor military qualities. If Yuque's elite troops would not be panic at all. There were only a few hundred people rushing out from the front, but in their eyes, they had already become thousands. They only needed a charge head-on to squeeze the other party back. However, they were already panicked, and what was thirty-six strategies were poured into their minds.
Not to mention the people from the rear camp, it was just Tang He's two hundred-man teams. Although the Tartars had few people in the rear camp, there were still thousands of people. As long as they avoided the shooting of the Tianque gun and entered hand-to-hand combat, they could drive the other side back. However, the beggars in the rear camp were even more dismal and did not dare to stop them. They had already begun to disperse to the main camp.
"Bang, bang bang." The cavalry rushing in front had already grabbed the horse's head and started shooting.
Hearing the sound of muskets, the front 100-man team immediately turned around and ran back.
Shi Yi was stunned when he saw this. These bastards are still so careless? Or is there a conspiracy?
Before Shi Yi could speak, Mo Tianyou had already rushed up, and had long forgotten the fact that he had returned after three shots. Now, seeing the Tartars collapsed at the touch, Mo Tianyou felt like a fire was ignited, and rushed up and beat these guys hard.
Mo Tianyou led the team to rush forward, riding a horse and setting fire guns.
A strange scene appeared on the battlefield. Hundreds of cavalry rushed up and fired a few shots. Tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry on the opposite side were in a panic and dared not resist. They turned their horses and ran away!
Hundreds of people drove the Tartars away like sheep.
Ye Xianbuhua heard the reward of the messenger. Before he could even make an order, he heard countless sounds of horse hooves coming from afar. Looking around, he saw that his soldiers were running wildly as if they had encountered ghosts.
The front camp was running back, and the back camp was also running back. Before the war was fought, the army had already collapsed.
"Hurry up, pack up your things and retreat northward!" Yesenbuhua said.
The defeated soldiers could not control them at all. They had never fought any wars at all. Now they were starting to lose their positions. Ye Wuhua was even more incompetent. They were all thinking about how to make money, and they had no real ability. If he observed carefully, he only needed to concentrate a few powerful vanguards and a counterattack, and he could knock the opponent back to his original form. The opponent was already very close to his camp. Even if he did not contact, even if he fired a bow and arrow, he could cause greater casualties to the opponent.
Unfortunately, Ye Xianbuhua said that pursuing the rebels was under certain pressure. The other party would give him some money and ask him to let him go. He had never fought with real swords and guns, and he was intimidated. This time, he didn't expect that the other party would not buy it. He was about to put some pressure on him, but the other party was already serious. At this moment, the army that Ye Xianbuhua immediately broke up.
"Master Tang, let's be careful." On the west side, Tang He led his team to kill all the Tartars who robbed the village, and when they saw the dead and injured villagers, they couldn't help but get angry. These Tartars did not dare to fight with the rebels and bully the people, but they were so cruel that there were few living people in the village.
After packing up the Tartars, Tang He immediately rushed to the Tatars' back camp with his soldiers. The cautious Baihu persuaded Tang He, but Tang He did not listen at all.
Tang He also had his own idea. Now the salt farm is surrounded by the Tartars. The eldest brother wanted to check the situation in the salt farm. There was only one way: rush through the Tartars' barracks and rushed to the opposite side.
Now that the Tartars have been eliminated, their own strength has been exposed. Only before the Tartars react, can they quickly break out of the middle of the Tartars and enter the salt field.
But Tang He forgot that he didn't have to rush to the Tatar camp at all. Although the Tatars surrounded the salt field, they only surrounded the west side. On the east side, it was a river, and the Tatars could do nothing. As long as they took a boat from the east, they could enter the salt field. Most of the Tatars could not water.
Tang He played another role in this way. At this moment, the cavalry led by Shi Yi rushed out of the salt field. Under the attack between them from both sides, the Tartars were already scared.
The teams in the back battalion rushed to the central army, and the teams in the front battalion also retreated to the central army. As soon as the two armies collided, they immediately became even more chaotic. They thought they were surrounded.
Some of them pulled their horses to the south, some turned their heads to the north, and they divided into two tides and fled in the north and south directions.
At this moment, Ye Xianbuhua, who was in the central army camp, had already fled north with his personal guards.
Here, although we walked south closer to Yangzhou Road, if we went south, we would first enter the territory of Taizhou. Ye Xianbuhua had already received news that the troops of Wanzhetu, who besieged Taizhou, had been wiped out, and Ye Xianbuhua did not want to be treated the same way. However, although we were further from Huaixi, we had left Zhang Shicheng's sphere of influence.
"Bang, bang," the sound of muskets kept ringing. Almost every musket sound, a Tartar would turn off the horse. The Tartars rushed to the front, as if there was a god of death chasing them. In order to escape, they did not hesitate to draw their swords to cut down the people in front of them.
Shiyi rushed into the central army with his soldiers. Suddenly, he heard the sound of muskets coming from the opposite side.
"Sir, it seems that our people are ahead." Mo Tianyou and Shi Yi said.
Shi Yi also heard it. Which reinforcements were there in the familiar sound of the Tianque gun? Did it be from Baijuchang in the north?
Soon, Tang He led the team to rush over. The two groups of people gathered together.
"Can the army in front be the defenders of the salt field? I am the one sent by my elder brother to assist you." Tang He shouted loudly.
"Dingchen, I am Shiyi." Shiyi heard that it was Tang He's voice and said.
The two of them stepped forward and met each other, and a joy arose.
"Dingchen, did you send you to help us? Why did you bring such a few people?"
"Don't look at the few people, my people are the most elite troops, and they can all ride and shoot." Tang He said confidently: "The salt field has never replied. My brother is a little worried, so he sent me to take a look."
"I let a carrier pigeon go, why didn't my brother receive the information?" Shi Yi was a little surprised.
Actually, it is not surprising that the carrier pigeons are not very safe except for being fast. The carrier pigeons sent by Shiyi were captured and eaten by beggar Zijun before they could fly out a few miles. Fortunately, only a few soldiers took the carrier pigeons, and they did not look at the bamboo tubes tied to the pigeon's legs at all.
"Let's talk less," Tang He said: "Now we are divided into two groups. Since the Tartars have been broken up, we have to send them."
"Yes, Dingchen, go south, and I go to the Tartars being chased." Shi Xin said.
"Okay, no problem." Tang He replied.
There is Baijuchang in the north, and Shiyi's army is stationed. Shiyi chases north, which is more convenient. Taizhou is in the south, which is Tang He's territory. Tang He can also chase the Tartars to death.
The two hadn't met for a long time, but the military situation was urgent, so they separated again after only a few words. Tang He's mission was to check the situation of Shiyi. Now Shiyi has also dispersed the army besieged the salt field, and his mission was completed. He chased the Tartars back to Taizhou and replied to his elder brother. More importantly, the Tartars are now like a stray dog, and they take advantage of this opportunity to kill the Tartars, and no one wants to miss this opportunity.
Seeing a victory outside, the troops in the salt field rushed out, but the Tartars had already run away. The only ones who could catch up with the Tartars were the cavalry troops, and they had to work to clean the battlefield.
Ye Xianbuhua felt that the ghost was still lingering behind him. Whenever he wanted to stop, there would always be a sound of muskets behind him. The horse was about to run away from his strength, but he still couldn't get rid of the pursuers. At this moment, he regretted it to death. If he had known this, he would not have blackmailed him and shouldn't have come here at all. Anyway, this is a matter of the province of Jiangbei in Huainan and Jiangbei, and it has nothing to do with him. He didn't eat the meat and hurt all his front teeth.
The Tartars fled to the south, there were about four or five thousand, and Tang He had only two hundred men. He also divided the soldiers into four teams, each with fifty people. With fifty muskets, he "guided" the Tartars to "guid" a road and drove them to the last grave: Wanghailou, on the banks of the Fengcheng River in the east of Taizhou.
Wanghai Tower was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and is the tallest building in Fengcheng River east of Taizhou. Fengcheng River goes east to the sea and divides Taizhou into two halves. When the Taurus cavalry arrives here, there is no way to escape and they cannot cross the river. At the commanding height of Wanghai Tower, Tang He has sent people back to mobilize the remaining cavalry, and all rushed to Wanghai Tower, setting up an ambush here, and destroying all the Tartars.
The advantage of cavalry mobility is very huge here. In this era, the maneuverability of cavalry is unparalleled.
The soldiers were divided so scattered, and Tang He created a miracle. The Tartars were already scared. As long as they heard the sound of muskets in the distance, they would run in another place. Tang He divided the cavalry into four teams, two teams rested, and the two teams participated in the sheep driving operation, allowing the cavalry to be scattered several miles away from the left and right sides of the Tartars. As soon as they found that the Tartars had gone off, they would call out guns to warn them. The Tartars obediently walked back to the right path, step by step, approaching Fengcheng River.
In the distance, the tall buildings of Wanghai Tower have already appeared and disappeared.
The defeated Tatars ran here and suddenly found a big river in front of them blocking the way. The river flowed openly, freely but restrainedly. The Tatars knew something was wrong and began to escape to both sides.
However, everything was too late. The Tartars just fled into the ferry on both sides of Wanghailou. However, there were no boats on the ferry, and there were black muzzles on both sides of the ferry.
"Bang, bang." The sounds of countless Tianque guns sounded, and countless fire tongues were spit out from the high buildings on both sides. Suddenly, a large area of Tartars fell.
There is a big river in front and high buildings on both sides, so they can only retreat.
Xu Yi had already prepared a team to close down. Two hundred-man teams were arranged on the high buildings on both sides. The remaining four hundred-man teams had already reached the rear of the Tartars' defeated soldiers and surrounded the Tartars' defeated soldiers.
After joining Tang He, Tang He only gave one order: "Beat! Drive all these Tartars into the river!"
Although the weather is suitable for swimming, none of the 100 Tartars can be watered. If the Tartars enter the river, they can only seek death. However, staying on the shore is even more waiting to die.
The defeated Tartar soldiers were desperate to death. The sound of muskets behind them was the most intense, indicating that the road behind them had been blocked. The tall buildings on both sides were firing wildly out of the deathly lead bullets. In front was a wide river, but there was no boat at the ferry.
A few Tartars chose to escape from both sides, but they did not run far away and were all hit by bullets fired from both sides. The sound of muskets behind them was getting closer and closer, and they were simply coming to harvest their lives. The Tartars became more and more anxious. Every moment, countless people died. They had long lost the courage to resist, some chose to dive, and some chose to surrender.
However, Tang He had already determined his heart and looked at the surrendered Tartars, but he was not moved at all. He hated the Tartars, otherwise he would not have followed Zhu Chongba to rebel, especially these Tartars. In terms of behavior, they should have killed them. The innocent villagers in the village died tragically, which made Tang He make up his mind to slaughter all of these Tartars.
The soldiers' muskets never stopped, and as time passed, more and more Tartars fell.
Seeing that surrendered was hopeless, all the surviving Tartars rushed to jump into the river.
When all the Tartars jumped in, Tang He ordered his men to stop the fire.
Only a few of them can swim, most of the Tartars are struggling and struggling in the water. In the end, a beautiful vortex is left, which sinks. When it floats up again, it will turn into a huge corpse.
Tang He stepped up to Wanghai Tower and saw that many corpses had floated on the surface of Fengcheng River, and he was speechless for a long time.
"Let's go back to Taizhou and report to my elder brother."
Shiyi led the cavalry to chase the Tatars north. Shiyi had hundreds of men under his command, and his firepower was much greater than that of Tang He. He kept chasing the Tatars behind and kept firing cold guns.
The road to the north of the Tartars was a bloody road, and every inch of land, the Tartars fell down.
Even the Tartars who fled to other directions had no good ending. Although they escaped Shiyi's pursuit by chance, the villagers everywhere were no longer afraid of the Tartars, and they would not show mercy to the lonely Tartars. It was quite pleasant to die in the hands of Shiyi's army, but when they fell into the hands of the villagers, the Tartars' greatest wish was to die one minute earlier.
I don't call him lucky, if he hadn't escaped quickly, he would have died on the spot.
When I escaped to Yancheng on Huaian Road, I had less than 100 men, and the rest fell on the road, especially when I passed by other salt fields, I encountered two sieges and blocked them. When I broke through the opponent's ***, I paid a huge price. Those who could escape were all very lucky.
Fushou, who besieged Xinghua, learned that the entire line was defeated, Taizhou, Gaoyou Mansion, and salt fields had been defeated, so he did not dare to stay in Xinghua anymore and ran back to Yangzhou overnight.
Chapter completed!