Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 121 Jialaerzhen Ergen

"Your Excellency, they are here." A messenger came to Yue Qijie's big tent and reported.

"Why so fast!" Yue Qijie was shocked.

He didn't expect the speed of the Qing army to be so fast. He only received news from the scouts more than an hour ago that they had just arrived at the border of Fengqiu County, and they arrived at Chenqiao an hour later.

"Even if you want to go the official way, you have to walk non-stop for an hour." Yue Qijie was puzzled.

He didn't know that Tong Mengchun used the Han armed forces like the Green Camp to consume the troops of Ji Guangxiu and others, and that all the Eight Banners soldiers under Tong Mengchun, regardless of horse or infantry, had cavalry.

The only difference is that the horses ridden by infantry are mostly pack horses and mules, while the Eight Banners vests are mounted on special riding horses. A pack horse is used to carry such things as dry food, food, and spirits.

As for their war horses, they don't carry anything on their backs, even the saddles are removed and placed on the backs of the pack horses, just to preserve the physical strength of the war horses to the maximum extent.

The infantry has one person and one horse, and the vest has four horses per person. With so many horses to travel, the marching speed of the Eight Banners is of course faster.

Yue Qijie had only commanded infantry to wipe out bandits in North China, so of course he couldn't imagine the speed of the Eight Banners.

"Serve me in armor, and wait until I go out to personally command the battle." After saying this, Yue Qijie ordered his servants to serve him and put on a gorgeous mountain armor, which was given to him by a messenger sent by Zhu Cixi.

As a general who leads troops and a high-status civil servant, he deserves such gorgeous armor.

Armor is a close-fitting armor, and it is very difficult for one person to wear it alone, especially the Chinese Zhajia requires at least one person to assist, otherwise you can at most wear the phoenix wings on your head.

With the help of three or four people, Yue Qijie put on the armor quickly. Within a few minutes, he put on the mountain armor, walked out of the private house that served as the Chinese army's tent, and came to the village outside Chenqiao Town. In the military formation.

Tong Mengchun had already arrived at this time, but because of the excessive pursuit of speed, a large number of soldiers fell behind, especially the green camp Han army, except for those green camp horse soldiers, almost no one could keep up.

He saw that Yue Qijie had already set up a tight formation outside Chenqiao Town at this time, and knew that this was waiting for them to attack and prepared for them.

However, Tong Mengchun didn't attack with the whole army as soon as he came up, but first sent a Jiala infantry to fight, to test whether Yue Qijie had any trump cards, and at the same time test the combat effectiveness of Yue Qijie's troops.

After all, Yue Qijie is a governor of the second rank, and Tong Mengchun believes that the combat effectiveness of his troops will be much stronger than those he encountered before.

The system of the Eight Banners is that one Jiala has five Niulu under its jurisdiction, and each Niulu has 300 people, so this Jiala Ezhen, who was sent out by Tong Mengchun, arranged his five Niulu separately.

The five Niulu formed five square formations outside Chenqiao. The formation and the open space in between were a full one or two hundred feet long.

Seeing that Tong Mengchun only sent out one armored infantry to fight, Yue Qijie did not dare to take it lightly. As soon as those Eight Banners infantry came within the shooting range of Tong Mengchun's crossbowmen, he immediately ordered them to shoot arrows.

"Fire the arrow, fire the arrow quickly." Yue Qijie ordered.

As soon as he gave an order, the regiment trainers who used hunting crossbows, hunting bows, continuous crossbows, and war bows kept drawing their bows and releasing arrows, sending streams of arrows into the chests of the Eight Banners soldiers.

"Raise the shield." Jialaerzhen Ergen saw the Han army shooting arrows, so he ordered his soldiers to raise their shields.

He Ergen is a veteran of the Eight Banners Army. Although he is less than thirty years old, he has been fighting for more than ten years like Tong Mengchun.

Just because of his poor family background, he was not valued by the Eight Banners nobles, but even so, Ergen, like Tong Mengchun, achieved the position of Jia La E Zhen.

In fact, even if they don't raise their shields and use the cotton armor they wear, the chain mail they wear inside, and the bowl helmets on their heads to defend, as long as they are not too lucky, if the arrows hit their faces directly, they will not cause any casualties.

However, the Eight Banners had a small manpower and every person was precious. They could not afford unnecessary casualties.

"Sir, stop shooting arrows. We don't have many arrows left. Moreover, those Eight Banners soldiers are holding shields and wearing cotton armor. We can't shoot through them at all." A general beside Yue Qijie said to him upon seeing this. .

"No, let me let it go, even if you can't kill those Eight Banners soldiers, at least you can slow down their footsteps."

Yue Qijie's idea was good, but he didn't understand that it would have no effect except wasting his soldiers' physical strength and arrows.

Those Eight Banners infantry just stared at Yue Qijie's arrow rain, and walked step by step to a place twenty feet away from Yue Qijie's military formation.

Because the horse traps dug in front of Yue Qijie were not covered with straw or soil, they could at best cause the charging cavalry to fall into them. However, as long as the infantrymen who were walking slowly were careful, they would not fall into these horse traps. And fell.

"Brothers, kill all these weak Han people, and arrest those high-ranking Han people with me." At a distance of more than ten feet, Jiala Erzhen Ergen finally put down his shield and personally led the Eight Banners soldiers to Yue Qijie charged in the direction.

The ferocious Eight Banners soldiers raised their steel knives and yelled, blabbering, incomprehensible words.

The group trainers holding spears were very nervous. This was their first battle since becoming a group trainer. The first battle was against the powerful Eight Banners force, which was really difficult for them.

Fortunately, relying on the huge number of people, they can still resist.

When the Eight Banners soldiers killed one person, they were immediately replaced by others from behind.

But gradually, people found that more and more of their comrades were dying, but the number of those Eight Banners soldiers did not seem to decrease at all. At this time, many people panicked.

Although they are mud-legged and come from peasant backgrounds, this does not mean that they are fools.

Of course they would try their best in a battle that had a chance of winning, to give themselves a chance to get promoted to a higher position and become a wife.

But if there is no chance of winning, no matter how hard you try, you will only end up killing the enemy, even those who desire official titles will clearly realize that they can no longer fight hard.

"Don't retreat. Your number is ten times theirs. As long as you work harder, you can kill them all." Seeing the soldiers being forced back step by step by the Eight Banners soldiers, Yue Qijie quickly stood up to encourage them.

But no one is a fool, they are still retreating, every time the Eight Banners soldiers take a step forward, they take a step back.

Looking at this scene and the terrified expressions of the trainees, Yue Qijie guessed that apart from the choppy Yellow River, there was no body that could stop them from retreating.

(End of this chapter)