Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 136 Savior Zhu Cihong

They knew that they might stay there forever, but out of the dignity of men and the concept of the rise and fall of their family and country, they turned around resolutely.

Even if the Eight Banners soldiers' steel knives are fast and sharp, it will not take half a stick of effort to kill a hundred more people, and even if they pass by, it is just a reward for others.

But these people always feel that that is better than returning to their hometown and being called a deserter, a coward, and a coward by others, so it would be better to kill them at the neck.

"It's really strange, those two-legged sheep have come back again?" Some Eight Banners soldiers found that the village warriors who had been chased all over the world by them just turned back.

This made them very strange. The Eight Banners soldiers couldn't think of any reason for the hometown warriors to come back and continue fighting.

Is it an official position?Is it gold, silver and jewelry?Or the butcher's knife of the Supervisory Team?

These Tartars who have just entered the feudal society from the tribal era can’t understand, especially some of them are born Jurchen who were taken captive from a place that was more bitter and cold than Liaodong. These almost primitive people can’t understand what a home country is. , what is a nation.

They are nothing more than ignorant people bound together by the military nobles of the Qing Dynasty.

They started fighting from Nurhachi until Fulin proclaimed the emperor. Their biggest motivation was not to make the Jurchens live a better life, let alone to restore the glory of the Great Jin Kingdom. As for the Aixinjueluo family, that is even more impossible up.

Loot, money, food, slaves, this is the reason why they have followed the Aixinjueluo family for decades.

Because the border defense system of the Ming Dynasty was fragile, the Eight Banners often climbed over the gaps in the Great Wall to plunder people and property from the Han region, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was very weak. The Eight Banners and the Ming army almost never lost large-scale battles.

Occasionally encountering hard nails like Lu Xiangsheng, Zu Dashou, and Qin Liangyu would get the opportunity to remove them because of the internal command chaos of the Ming court and the lack of cooperation of various ministries.

The Eight Banners Army, which seldom encounters major defeats, has been able to maintain high morale in this way. The higher the morale, the higher the combat effectiveness of the army. The higher the combat effectiveness, the easier it is to win battles. If you win a battle, you will get a lot of spoils , The spoils of war will boost the morale of the soldiers.

Through such a virtuous circle, they were able to enter the Central Plains one day.

The number of villagers who turned back was quite large, one to two hundred, which was more than twice the number of the Eight Banners soldiers. Their courage was commendable, and their fighting spirit broke out in a desperate situation.

It's a pity that the overwhelming equipment advantages, combat experience, and military quality cannot be defeated by this kind of mental strength of stragglers.

The village braves and Mrs. Wang totaled nearly [-] people, and they fought with the Eight Banners soldiers for half a stick of incense.

After the Eight Banners soldiers reacted, the balance of the battlefield showed a one-sided trend. Many people's weapons and farm tools were of poor quality and would be cut off if they touched the Eight Banners soldiers' steel knives.

The crowd who fought back with great difficulty gradually showed signs of defeat.

But their savior was coming soon. After receiving the letter, Zhu Cihong immediately assembled the army and set out on the road. The Mabu army did not stop for a moment, and now the tail of Tong Mengchun's team could be seen.

"It's the soldiers of the Eight Banners, Your Majesty." Zhang Chao excitedly said to Zhu Cihong when he saw the endless soldiers of the Eight Banners standing still on the road ahead.

"They are dismounting from their horses. There must be a battle nearby. Let the plate armor knights pick up their lances, and let the thirteen thousand cavalry battalion put two waves of arrows on the wings before charging in."

Seeing the Eight Banners soldiers in front of them dismounting their horses and putting on their armor, Zhu Cihong felt that there must be a battle in front of their team, otherwise there would be no brainless commander who would consume the soldiers' physical strength for no reason.

The Eight Banners soldiers in front of Zhu Cihong who were busy putting on their armors were Ergen's subordinates sent by Tong Mengchun just now.

Because the army was marching on the official road, the road was not very spacious, so the queue was very long, and it took Ergen a while to convey the order to every soldier's ears.

Until Zhu Cihong came, he failed to complete the preparation of the soldiers and gathered to support Tong Mengchun who was at the forefront of the team. Instead, he dawdled on the spot.

On the left and right sides of the official road, there are [-] battalions of [-] horsemen who look like Mongols. I saw them galloping in the farmland, sometimes far and near, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, shooting a wave of arrows from time to time, just like the Mongols. same tactics.

"Raise the shield quickly, the arrows are coming!" Ergen saw the rain of arrows scattered by the [-] battalion cavalry, and ordered the soldiers to defend quickly in a panic.

Originally, he wasn't worried about the arrows shot by these short bows. The double defense of cotton armor and chain mail could not be pierced by soft short bows.

But now some of the Eight Banners soldiers are still not wearing their armor. Because they are afraid of the heat, almost all of them have not put on their helmets, so the soft and weak arrows of the [-] battalion of cavalry have become very difficult for them at this moment. fatal.

"Hide under the horse, don't go get the shield, it's too late." Ergen was quick to think, thinking that the best armor is around the soldiers, and that is their mounts.

Although the mounts of these soldiers who use horses as mobility tools are not comparable to the Eight Banners Xiaoqi, they are neither tall nor strong.

Compared with humans, as big animals weighing hundreds of catties, their muscles and fat are the best armor. For humans, these arrow rains may be very deadly, so I will directly explain here if they are unlucky.

But for them, at most, it is a minor injury, as long as they don't hit the horse's neck and head, but the chances of this are not high.

A thousand arrows were thrown into the air by three thousand cavalry battalions in the form of projectiles, and after a period of flight, they finally landed on the heads of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Hundreds of arrows deviated from the direction and shot straight into the gully, and they were all inserted into the loess. It was as if a sapling had been planted in the gully.

Only four to five hundred arrows hit the official road without any bias, but because of the obstruction of mules and horses, only a few dozen arrows were lucky enough to hit the Eight Banners soldiers.

"Plate armor knights lead the charge, Zhang Chao, follow behind with [-] battalions of cavalry." After seeing that the cavalry scattered and did not cause any serious casualties to the Eight Banners soldiers, Zhu Cihong decided to charge immediately.

Now that Ergen has not yet organized the soldiers into formation, now is their most vulnerable time, as long as Zhu Cihong's cavalry breaks into their ranks and divides them into two, no matter how strong these Eight Banners soldiers are, they can only be slaughtered up.

(End of this chapter)