Nanming Engineer

Chapter 201
Six spear formations, like six sharp knives, cut Liu Jinzhong's Daxi Army to pieces. Four thousand soldiers fled to death, and the rest were still lingering. The army and the rear army are still alive, and the six spear formations are surrounded by three on the left and right, and they have become a pincer attack.

The Chinese army is Liu Jinzhong's armored army, with 2000 people, and the rear army is cavalry, with 1000 people. These 3000 people are the capital Liu Jinzhong relies on. The soldiers are basically the backbone of the original Ming army, and their combat effectiveness is better than that of miscellaneous soldiers. Be a head taller.

But at this moment, these veterans were no longer calm, and even panicked. The formation began to become disorganized.

Anyone with a discerning eye can understand at a glance that the Kuizhou Army is definitely not an ordinary Ming army. The thunderous tactics that defeated the Daxi Army's front army and left and right armies were even more ferocious than the Daxi Su Guards. It is impossible for Liu Jinzhong's men to withstand it. .

Liu Jinzhong's face turned pale and he kept looking left and right. There were cyan flags on the left and green flags on the right. The cone-shaped gun formations under the two flags were messing up his left and right armies.

"What is the rear army doing? Why didn't they attack the Ming army's left wing!?" He roared, almost standing up on his horse: "Are you waiting to collect my body?"

The people on the left and right looked at each other, and no one dared to answer. Liu Jinzhong looked back with a livid face, but saw the messenger who had just been sent to the rear army came back on horseback, and shouted loudly: "Captain, General Liu Can of the rear army reported that , the Ming army and our people are mixed together, so we can't attack, otherwise we will hurt our own people."

When everyone heard this, they stared to their right, and they saw that the cavalry of the rear army were circling around the right army, and in the middle of the circle, the three spear formations of the Ming army were rampaging, and the people of the right army fell down in rows. down, has collapsed.

Liu Jinzhong was furious: "Have you hurt your own people? Is Liu Zhong stupid? Let him open his eyes and see that the Youjun and his own people have become dead ghosts! Send an order quickly, if he doesn't go to the battle, wait If I free my hand, I will definitely chop off his head!"

The orderly agreed loudly, and went to beat the horse again.

Before Liu Jinzhong recovered from his rage, he heard screams around him again, and a guard shouted in a panic: "Captain, the left army is gone, the left army is gone!"

Liu Jinzhong was startled again, and hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see the battlefield on the left side of the Chinese army, where the sound of fighting just now had become the Kuizhou army chasing and killing the fleeing Daxi army stragglers. There was no organized resistance, and all The soldiers of the left army were all running away in a hurry, and the few horsemen who ran in the front were the leaders and generals of the left army.

The Kuizhou Army with the green flag did not pursue far. The three gun arrays were accompanied by a blast of horns. At the same time, they stopped on the spot and began to turn in an incredible way, pointing the tip of the triangular cone towards the central army of the Great Western Army.

Liu Jinzhong's eyelids twitched, his whole body trembled, and he shouted urgently: "Order the entire army to move to the left and prepare to meet the enemy!"

The lieutenant generals on the left and right saw the movements of the Kuizhou army, and they were equally panic-stricken. They roared together in a mess, conveyed Liu Jinzhong's order, and the generals desperately drove the soldiers to turn the army formation to face the left.

The Kuizhou army moved very quickly, and the three spear formations turned in just a few breaths. Two spear formations were at the back and one spear formation was at the front, forming a large formation in the shape of "pin" again.

Then it stopped.

Li Tingyu, who was in the formation, rode his horse and stood in the middle of the three spear formations, shouting loudly: "Adjust your breathing, adjust your breathing, boys, don't get tired and get down on the ground, you will be busy later!"

The white-robed soldiers stood quietly on the spot, wiping the sweat off their faces, shaking off the blood on the tip of their guns, and gasping for breath. You will feel tired, stand and rest, and you can breathe slowly.

On the other hand, the Central Army of the Great West Army was screaming and panicking for a while. If the army is not a well-trained and strong army, the most taboo is to change the formation before the battle. A change in the formation will inevitably cause chaos in the army. If there is no intensive practice at ordinary times, it is easy to become collapsed.

Liu Jinzhong's officers tried their best, yelling, whipping and kicking, and finally changed the direction of the central army in a short time, facing the three gun arrays with the blue flag of the Kuizhou army, and the green flag gun array on the right , I believe the cavalry will clean them up.

The Chinese army is all servants, and their armor and weapons are relatively well-equipped. Everyone wears half-armor, a wide-brimmed iron helmet on their head, cowhide Miles boots, and holds a red-tasseled iron gun or a long-handled sword. The sharpness is much better than the broken copper and iron in the hands of miscellaneous soldiers. It is precisely because of this sharply equipped team that Liu Jinzhong did not turn around and run away.

"There are still 3000 people. Although there are a little less, they are all elite, especially the cavalry of the rear army. Although the Ming army is fierce, they are all infantry. It is difficult to escape defeat under the impact of cavalry. The attack of the Ming army with the blue flag on the left, after the cavalry has eliminated the Ming army on the right, the overall situation will be settled.” Liu Jinzhong was thinking about it, and he hated it in his heart. , but fought a big battle for no apparent reason. You explained why the army was so stubborn and stayed on the mountain for so many days without coming down. Why did they rush out when they saw their army of ten thousand people coming?Isn't this stupid?

But it happened that he lost so many of his own people. Although the miscellaneous soldiers were worthless, they were still powerful. It would cost a lot of money to organize another [-]-strong team. It's too damn unlucky!
Liu Jinzhong cursed secretly, but he heard another uproar from the people standing in front of the Chinese army. He was upset and furious. Just as he was about to reprimand him, he heard countless men shouting: "Quickly seize the shield." ! The Ming Army Bird Commander is here!"

Hearing this shout, Liu Jinzhong's heart tightened, and he immediately sat up straight and stared at it. Sure enough, before the Ming army's gun formation, at some point, there was a row of bird commanders lined up horizontally. On the top of the bird on the big ax entering the ground, the light of the matchlock is dotted.

The three cone-shaped gun formations were only a hundred steps away from Liu Jinzhong's central army, while the bird commander's platoon stood closer, only sixty steps away, and even their fingers pulling the trigger could be clearly seen.

In the next second, there was a muffled thunder that rolled across the sky, and puffs of black smoke rose from the front of the bird's hand.

"Fire!" The officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army screamed, and then turned into screams. The people standing in the front instinctively wanted to hide, but wherever they could hide, there were people on the left and right behind them. There is no other way.

The flying lead bullets did not embarrass them too much, and the iron leaves of the half-body armor did not bring a sense of security at such a short distance. Even after penetrating the human body, it penetrates the nail lobe on the back and injects into the second human body.

Amidst the blood splatter, the people in the front row fell down covering the bullet holes, exposing the people behind. Seeing the tragic situation of the people killed by the birds, the formation of the Chinese army that had just stabilized became a bit chaotic again.

And the platoon of bird commanders didn't turn around and run away after the shot. Instead, they stood there carelessly, took out their cleaning rods and started reloading.

This is so bullying!

Veins popped out of the forehead of the general in the Chinese army, and he shouted loudly: "Archer, archer, where did the archer die? Come up and shoot those grandsons to death!"

The archers haven't come up yet, but the crossbowmen have come up.

Just as Bird Commander opened fire, the three pointed spears had enough rest, stepped forward, stopped next to the platoon of Bird Commander, put down their spears again, and raised the mountain-destroying crossbow.

They changed an arrow box, and the two thousand spearmen and sword players became two thousand crossbowmen, and twenty thousand eight-inch crossbow arrows once again formed a sea of ​​arrows and flew over.

The densely packed crossbow arrows smashed into the square of the Chinese army. The arrows of the crossbow arrows were all heavy arrows. When they fell from the sky, with the help of potential energy, they could break through the protection of the half body armor at a distance of sixty steps, causing damage and death.

Liu Jinzhong was almost shot by an arrow, and at the very moment, a personal guard rushed over and raised his round shield to cover him, otherwise he would at least have to suffer from the mountain armor he was wearing. hurt.

Liu Jinzhong hid in the shadow of the shield, and he did not forget to give an order when he was furious. At this time, there was only one order to give: "Rush over, rush over! Don't stand and wait to die!"

All [-] arrows were shot in just a few breaths. As soon as the rain of arrows stopped, the surviving Daxi Army soldiers roared angrily. Without waiting for the officers to drive them away, they automatically rushed straight towards the Kuizhou Army, because everyone understood , that rain of arrows will come again, maybe he can still stand.

The Kuizhou army was not in a panic, they hung the Mountain Destroying Crossbow on their waists slowly, picked up the long spears on the ground, and resumed the hedgehog cone array.

They were not in a hurry at all, as if they had nothing to do with the oncoming Daxi army. It wasn't because the Kuizhou army was so courageous, it was just that there was a group of bird commanders standing in front of them.

The bird commanders had already reloaded their ammunition, and they seemed to be getting impatient. The black hole of the bird commander mounted on the crescent ax had already accurately aimed at the figures that swooped over one by one.

A huge muffled sound rolled over again, like the death talisman of King Yama, it stopped the flood of people, and several rows of people fell down.

Liu Jinzhong's eyes would bulge out from watching this battle. From the beginning to the present, his own people seem to have never taken advantage of it, and they have been killed by others like haystacks. Army, there are less than 2000 people left, these are his old background.

But he didn't have time to regret it, the victory or defeat is already obvious now, the Kuizhou army with the blue flag on the left has nearly 3000 people, no matter how he fights, his side is defeated, the only hope is that the cavalry on the right can quickly Click to the rescue.

Liu Jinzhong pushed aside the shield, emerged from under the shield, and looked to the right hastily. Hundreds of catties of black powder exploded around him.

There are guns!

A thought flashed into Liu Jinzhong's head, the Ming army fired at the top of the city!

The Ming army likes to use all kinds of firearms in combat. It is not surprising that there are cannons. When Liu Jinzhong was the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, there were all kinds of iron cannons and bronze cannons in the army. Otherwise, it would be impossible to fight here, and the red cannon is heavy, and the Ming army would not bring it.

Liu Jinzhong was a little puzzled. He looked at the top of the city first, but he didn't see the gunpowder smoke from the cannons. He turned his head to look to the right, but saw a large puff of black smoke rising.

In the black smoke, his cavalry were galloping and galloping forward, but they were not rushing to chop melons and vegetables, but fleeing for their lives.

The cavalry of a thousand riders, those who can run seem to be no more than three or four hundred riders, are desperately running to the side, and behind them, the three green flag spear formations of the Kuizhou Army stand firmly on the ground. There, some crossbow arrows flew out of the formation, roaring and chasing after the cavalry to shoot.

Liu Jinzhong was dumbfounded, what's going on?How did the cavalry lose?

"Captain, it's an enemy of ten thousand people! The Ming army threw ten thousand enemies away!" A cavalryman rushed towards his horse with a sad face, his face was black and black, and was smoked into black charcoal: "General Liu was killed by the bombing. scattered!"

"[-] enemies?" Liu Jinzhong repeated, and exclaimed in disbelief: "[-] enemies? Damn, are you delusional? How could they use Ten Thousand Enemies here?"

"It's true, Commander, the Ming army's ten-thousand-thousand enemy is very small, but it was blown up so fiercely that no one was killed." The cavalry shouted in tears, with a scarf on his right shoulder. There was a nail, blood was flowing, and he almost bared his teeth in pain.

Liu Jinzhong was really in a mess at the moment, and he didn't understand how the cavalry was blown away by thousands of enemies without breaking his head.

He was in a daze, but the people on the left and right couldn't hold back. They looked at each other and said together: "Captain, you can't do anything important, let's retreat first."

They said this many times when they were in the Ming army. Whether they were facing Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, or other peasant troops, they often used it.

Liu Jinzhong nodded, looked back at the collapsed Chinese army, turned his head and whipped his whip, and galloped away like an arrow, his first-class riding skills were undoubtedly revealed.

There was no applause on the left and right, and all the guards just followed behind him and left without a trace.

Not far after he ran out, Liu Jinzhong was surprised to find that on his way, a group of dozens of white-robed soldiers on horseback were already waiting there. The leader was a sturdy man with a red face, holding a bird weapon and holding it flat. Aim this way.

There are nearly 50 people around Liu Jinzhong, all of whom are cavalry, which are only a lot more than the white-robed soldiers blocking the road. He looked behind him. He couldn't catch up with his two legs in a short time, and the white-robed soldiers with green flags on the right were far away on the other side. With the people around them, as long as they broke through the white-robed soldiers blocking the way, they could escape.

And with so many of his subordinates dead, these dozens of white-robed soldiers could just be used to vent their anger.

As soon as the thought came up, Liu Jinzhong became angry with gangsters. With a fierce look in his eyes, he drew a long-handled straight-edged saber from the saddle, raised it above his head, and opened his throat to shout.

Before he could say the word "kill", he saw gunpowder smoke rising from the hands of the red-faced man thirty steps away, and then felt a pain in his forehead, as if a sledgehammer had been hit on his head heavily, and his whole body He flew upside down from his horse and fell to the ground like a fallen leaf.

Liu Jinzhong's eyes were wide open, staring straight at the sky, still thinking in his mind: no, no, I haven't seen Prince Su, I haven't seen the regent, I haven't got the glory and wealth in this life, Can't die here, can't...

His consciousness passed quickly, his black pupils shrank sharply, turning into a dead gray, and the blood hole on his forehead and the tear on his head made his life disappear in an instant.

Wang Huan rode his horse and stood behind his ancestors, sighed softly, and said to himself: "Liu Jinzhong is dead, history has changed, without Liu Jinzhong, how will Zhang Xianzhong die?"

(End of this chapter)