Chongzhen Undergraduates

Wandering around the mountains in Huguang, Qinling, and eastern Sichuan every day, what do you need cavalry for? The Daxi Army needs mules and horses for carrying things.

As for boys, that was the basis for Zhang Xianzhong's foresight. If Li Zicheng relied on the old frontier army, he would rely on the boy army to win the battle.During the march, as long as he met a suitable boy, Zhang Xianzhong would kill his parents, and then put the boy into the boy army, and trained him year after year, day after day, and finally became the most elite division in the Daxi Army.

With the above points, it can be said that the elite of the Great Western Army is a mountain combat force similar to white soldiers.

It is precisely because of this foundation that Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo later gave up fighting the Eight Banners head-on in the Chengdu Plain, and turned to be invincible in the Southwest.They are the mountain combat troops!

If Zhang Kewang hadn't surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and took away half of his strength, how could Wu Sangui have been able to occupy Yunnan and force Zhu Youlang to death.

When the Sichuan Army met the Boyer Army, the battle entered a fierce stage from the very beginning.

Zhang Kewang organized every 500 people into a commando, focusing on attacking a point in Hechuan City.The Daxi Army dispatched a total of [-] elites to attack ten weak points in Hechuan City.

The Ninth Army also fought tit-for-tat. Each battalion defended a point, and ten battalions were dispatched.In addition, five battalions were prepared as reserves.

"Kill!" Hai'erjun didn't make a sound at first, until he moved to the foot of Hechuan City, and then burst into a roaring cry.

Liu Tichun followed the light of the fire in the night, and saw that most of these children were in their twenties, and they rushed over naked and wearing armor.Many people's armor is vest-style, showing bare arms.

"Fight back." Liu Tichun did not hesitate, and the semaphore issued by the torch ordered to fight back directly.

This time was different from the daytime, and the Ninth Army did not keep its family fortune.The muskets and cannons were all greeted at the beginning.A burst of bullets shot out, and Haierjun rushed to the front, killing and injuring a large number of people immediately.

But this group of brave young people rushed to the bottom of the city anyway. They set up ladders and climbed towards the city wall one by one risking their lives.Many archers and arquebuses stood under the city wall to fight back against the city wall.

The Cub Army climbing the ladder is so tough, it often takes several shots to knock him off the ladder.They seem to be a group of people who don't know pain and only care about attacking forward.

"Artillery fire blocked the enemy's rear, and the front army put up bayonets." A regiment commander was stationed at the most dangerous point to directly command.Seeing that the soldiers of the Child Army were about to charge up, he ordered to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

"Wow!" The musketeer drew back his bayonet, the white soldiers stepped forward, and a long row of spear stabs pointed coldly at the outside of the city wall.

A child soldier had just climbed up the city wall, full of joy, thinking that he could be hacked and killed. Before he could stand still, a long string of spears stabbed him.The child soldier showed a disappointed expression, then leaned back and fell to the ground.

Another boy soldier popped up right after him. He hid in the forest of spears and was about to jump up, but he fell down like his companion in front of him amidst a series of gunshots.

The most fierce attack was at the north city gate, and Zhang Kewang dispatched three commandos to attack the city gate.There are dozens of climbing ladders on the city wall, and leech-like baby soldiers are crawling on them.

When the Sichuan troops on both sides slowly gathered towards the gate tower, Zhang Kewang laughed.With a wave of his hand, the thirty child soldiers divided into two teams, carrying two coffins and wearing armor, they ran quickly under the city walls on both sides.

There are very few people defending the two city walls, and almost no one pays attention to the people below the city.

Taking advantage of the night, the child army began to dig the root of the wall frantically.

After a meal, two dull explosions sounded from the ground, and the two sections of the city wall bulged slightly towards the ground, and then collapsed instantly.Before the defenders on the city gate understood what was going on, the child army who attacked the city retreated like a tide, and all rushed towards the collapsed gap.

The defenders became a lone army, standing alone on the gate of the city, unable to go up or down, and could only watch the enemy rush into the city.

"Reserve team, come on." Liu Tichun's face was dark and ugly, and he was broken by the opponent so quickly, this battle was a bit ugly.

Although the troops in the city are still affluent, the most taboo in war is self-disruption.Send troops as you want, and don't come indiscriminately.

When the five prepared battalions rushed towards the gap like a tide, child soldiers also rushed in like a tide.The two sides began to fight around the city gate.

The white soldiers are in front, and the bayonets are beside them.A white soldier led two musketeers with bayonets to form a three-three formation.The spear swayed, and the tip of the spear stabbed out, and the opponent immediately blocked it. The boy soldier stepped forward and wanted to get close to the white soldier. Before he could stand still, a bayonet stabbed him from the left.

The child soldier obviously didn't expect that the enemy holding the gun had a bayonet, and the bayonet was narrow and long, making it difficult to deal with.But he still held the bayonet and wanted to wait for his companions behind him to help him out.

"Crack!" The musketeer on the right shamelessly shot him in the chest.The boy soldier's chest was dripping with blood, and he gave up his resistance weakly, and looked at his chest in disbelief.

The three-three team immediately began to attack the enemies who rushed up from behind.

The white soldiers rushing to the front are purely "tanks" that attract firepower. They are full of armor and do not move fast, but they can often make the enemy's first hit miss, followed by the ultimate move.

The child soldiers were obviously not used to this tactic. They blocked the first stab and the second stab, but they couldn't block the third shot.

What the Sichuan army didn't pay much attention to was that after killing two opponents, they actually replaced the two musketeers behind them, and sent two loaded musketeers to replace them.

Chapter 3 Fourteen: The Battle of Hechuan

The three-stage strike is not suitable for charging, and it is difficult to maintain the formation during the charge.Chinese-style battle formations are different from Western-style battle formations. Many people are obsessed with platooning and shooting. In fact, Chinese-style battles do not lack courage and blood.

Zhang Kewang never thought that the defenders would launch a counter charge, especially when the opponent's charge was completed with the cooperation of the musketeers on the gate tower.

A large number of musketeers gathered on the city wall continued to shoot, disrupting the reinforcements of the child soldiers, causing the soldiers who charged to the gap to be attacked on their backs, and finally were killed alive in the gap.

"Retreat!" Zhang Kewang's face turned purple with anger, but he had to withdraw his troops.Baby soldiers are very precious, if they are wasted like this, how can he fight Diaoyucheng.

Zhang Kewang wanted to withdraw his troops, but the Ming army didn't want to give him this chance. Before his order was passed on, the camp behind him suddenly burst into flames, and shouts resounded all around.

Not to mention that, the defenders in Hechuan City actually countercharged, and a large number of defenders rushed out from the gap, biting his baby soldiers.

"The archers are ready, release." Zhang Kewang looked at the front with cold eyes, and the general who commanded the battle naturally knew how to break the rear.

"Boom boom boom..." A rain of arrows directly covered the gap, and more than 20 Sichuan soldiers were shot and fell to the ground on the spot, lying on the ground screaming again and again.Fortunately, the people behind reacted quickly, the shield hand immediately stepped forward to set up the shield wall, and the people behind started to rescue the wounded.

The sneak attack on the camp of the Great Western Army was originally a response to the battle in Hechuan City.In the middle of the night, it was impossible for Diaoyu City to send too many soldiers across the river to attack the Great Western Army.

After the boy soldiers withdrew to the camp of the Great Western Army, the sneak attacking Sichuan Army withdrew long ago, but burned some tents and fodder of the Great Western Army, and shocked some mules and horses.

At dawn, among the ruined walls of Hechuan City, there were many corpses, most of them were child soldiers of the Great Western Army.These young people died like this, and death was worthless.

The sun had just risen, and the morning mist [-] paces away cleared away. Nearly [-] Daxi troops had lined up and were striding towards the two gaps in Hechuan City.

Zhang Kewang didn't give the Sichuan army a chance to breathe. He wanted to use the two gaps last night to storm Hechuan City.

"Damn, I don't want to show you some color, you don't even know how many eyes Lord Ma has." Liu Tichun looked at the arrogant Daxi Army, and spat on the ground, he felt a little disdainful of Zhang Kewang.This kid is really arrogant, he never takes others seriously, he is just like Zhang Xianzhong.

"Second Battalion Commander, where's your fucking cannon?" The commander of the artillery regiment stood in front of the gap and roared.The Sichuan army played the real game this time. They blocked the two artillery regiments in the gap and prepared to shoot straight.

At first, the attacking Daxi army only saw a row of shields and did not know what was behind the wall.When the Great Western Army rushed fifty steps away from the gap, the shields immediately retreated, and the semicircular black hole of the muzzle was exposed.

"My mother!" The second fool rushed the fastest and saw the most clearly. He was so frightened that his heel slipped and he fell to the ground.

"Boom boom boom..." The cannons rang one after another from left to right. The smoke released by the cannons directly covered the gap. The soldiers on both sides were coughing and unable to open their eyes due to the smoke.

It happened that a gust of south wind blew past, and the gunpowder smoke dissipated, and the two gaps were surprisingly quiet.There are only blood stains all over the floor and countless broken arms and legs.

Zhang Kewang was frightened by the scene in front of him, even though he had seen too many tragic scenes, he could still smell the fishy smell in the air.

Er Lengzi raised his head, looked around, stood up staggeringly, turned around and fled back like crazy with his head in his arms, his yelling sounded like it came from hell.

The second battalion commander held down the musket ready to shoot, and let the second fool go.

"Listen, people in front, I am Liu Tichun, a subordinate of King Chuang, and I am now the commander of the Ninth Army of the Sichuan Army. The emperor thought that we were all civilians of the Ming Dynasty, so we can make a special decree. As long as you surrender, the court will forget the past. Grant you fields. Please put down the weapons in your hands and live a good life again."

Liu Tichun held a big iron horn and roared with the loudest voice.In terms of Zhu Youjian's attitude towards Chuangjun this year, he sincerely hoped that the Daxi Army on the opposite side would surrender.

Zhang Kewang stared at the gap coldly, without saying a word, turned around and led the Great Western Army back to the camp.