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Volume One, Songjiang Mansion, Chapter 349: Marching Eastward into North Korea

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    The scene was in chaos. Li Zicheng originally thought that he could stay comfortably in his tent and leave Zhang Lei's soldiers to deal with the fighting outside. However, there were chaotic sounds outside, which made him feel a little uneasy.  , although he is still some distance away from the battle line.

    He called outside: "Here comes someone."

    A personal soldier came in from outside and said, "King Chuang."

    Li Zicheng asked: "What happened outside?"

    The soldier said: "The Qing army's war horses rushed into our team. The three-eyed gun team was scattered. The Qing army's cannons from the opposite side hit our team. Now the brothers outside  We are trying to find a way to destroy those war horses, but this is not an easy task."

    "What's going on? I've never encountered anything like this before. Is it because of poor command?" Li Zicheng said while getting dressed, then he picked up his weapon and went out.  At this time, he was in no mood to stay here and enjoy the happiness.

    The situation in front was indeed very chaotic. The war horses were barking and charging wildly. No soldier could resist their attacks. Instead, they were trampled under their feet and lost their lives.

    When Li Zicheng saw this scene, he immediately felt that something was wrong. He rushed forward, and the soldiers around him followed him and persuaded him: "King Chuang, you can't go to the front. It's not safe in front." How could Li Zicheng know this?  No matter what, I walked and watched, and finally found Rodman.

    "What's going on? Tell me, why did such a problem suddenly arise?" Li Zicheng came to Rodman and asked loudly.

    Before Rodman had time to speak, a shell landed not far behind him. The debris from the explosion hit his back, knocking him forward and throwing him forward.  Deman hurried over and helped him up.

    "We didn't expect such a situation at the time. They used people to block these war horses, and we couldn't see them at the time. By the time we saw them, these war horses were already rushing towards us. And those cannons could already hit us.  It's obvious that this was all planned by someone in advance, link by link, and it was all designed for our formation, which caught us off guard." Rodman said with some annoyance, "  We should be ready to switch tactics at any time, but I always thought that with a formation like ours, we could ignore any conspiracy of any opponent. So it has always been like this, but I didn't expect that we would suffer a big loss now."

    "Come on, now is not the time to say these words. If you don't want to be killed by your Mr. Zhang, then quickly find a way to kill all these nasty war horses. Only by killing these horses can we continue.  Fighting against the Manchu and Qing Tatars. Do you understand?" Li Zicheng said.

    Rodman also thought so. He took out his pistol. At that moment, a mad war horse rushed towards him. He pushed Li Zicheng away and shot the horse blind in one eye, and then  Another shot hit the horse's left front hoof joint.  The whole body of the war horse rose into the air and came towards Rodman.  At this time, Li Zicheng suddenly rushed over and knocked Rodman away. Then both of them fell to the ground. The war horse flew over them, fell to the ground and got stuck in his neck. The powerful force  He directly broke the neck of the war horse.

    Li Zicheng stood up and patted the dirt on his body, then reached out and pulled Rodman up.  A shocked Rodman smiled at him.  Said: "Thank you. Strictly speaking, we may still be enemies, but I didn't expect you to come to save me. It seems that your nature is not bad."

    "Nature? Haha, what you said is really funny, but I don't think I am a bad person. Now you have to remember. You owe me Li Zicheng a life. As for me, I have clear grudges."  Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing when he heard Rodman say such words as kindness.

    Why Li Zicheng suddenly laughed.  Rodman felt baffled. After all, he was a foreigner. Even after staying in China for such a long time, he still didn't fully understand some of the ideas of the Chinese people, because this thing required him to accumulate, discover and think about it himself.  People can teach him.  But now that the situation was so urgent, there was no time for him to think about these things. He could only suppress this thought and concentrate on dealing with the still running horses.

    "Haha, let's see how long they can continue to be arrogant. Today I will avenge the Qing Dynasty. I want them to know that on the grassland, our Qing Dynasty is the absolute king." The Qing general saw this scene and was proud.  Extraordinary, if he can wipe out all of them, then he will really have made great achievements in battle. He will probably be promoted three times in a row.There are no problems at all levels.  Thinking that promotion and wealth were within easy reach, he couldn't help but get excited and ordered the entire army to move forward, making sure to kill as many Ming troops as possible.

    After several hours of hard fighting, all these war horses were killed. Only then did Rodman secretly breathe a sigh of relief. No matter how hard he fought with his opponent, he would not feel any psychological pressure. But for these things, it was not  He really has a headache when it comes to human things.

    At this moment, the Qing army's bronze cannons have taken advantage of this time to advance a long distance forward, and it will be easy to attack Zhang Lei's army.

    "Everyone, let's fight on our own. Did you hear that, you guys with three-eyed guns? Fight on your own. The purpose of everything is to kill the Qing soldiers. Don't worry about anything else. Don't charge without my order. The rest will not matter.  Don't worry about it." Rodman gave the order. Now there is no way to organize the team to arrange a volley. In desperation, they can only let them fight separately. Although the efficiency will be much lower, the damage caused is still considerable.

    Then he began to ask the soldiers to retreat with the Ares No. 1 and resettle in a place where the Tatar copper cannon could not hit. They had to ensure their own safety in order to maintain maximum lethality.

    The two sides fought for a long time. Based on the previous foundation, in general, the Manchu and Qing Tatars had a certain advantage. Rodman thought that if those Ares Ones were allowed to continue attacking, in order to avoid accidental damage  When his own team was reached, he could not rush forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing soldiers. In this situation, he believed that hand-to-hand combat could give full play to his numerical advantage, so he ordered all Ares No. 1 to stop attacking and retreat to the back of the team.  Go get ready.  In case the situation changes, it can still come in handy.

    Then, he ordered the soldiers to blow the attack horn, and hundreds of thousands of troops rushed towards the Qing army like a tide.  The flying artillery shells of the Qing army still fell in the middle of their team, causing the death of several people, but no one would care about this. They continued to rush forward, and in just a short time they had rushed to the opposite side.  Looking at the bronze cannons close at hand, everyone took out the grenades

    At such a close distance, it is not difficult to throw a grenade into the barrel, as long as all these copper cannons can be destroyed.

    The Qing general did not expect that at this time the Ming army chose to attack instead of retreating, so he was naturally very angry.  This feeling is as if the child dares to resist when an adult is spanking a child.

    The two sides started a melee, and the Qing army used a large number of red tassel spears.  Zhang Lei's army uses more knives. The purpose of using long spears is to increase the combat radius when fighting at least. It is specially designed for cavalry.  But Zhang Lei didn't have cavalry, so he naturally wouldn't think about this.

    Now that the two sides are fighting, this difference comes out. As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong.  An inch is short, an inch is dangerous. This is the saying. If you think about it, I can stab you with a gun from a long distance away, but you with a knife have to walk in front of me to hit me.  Which one is more convenient?  Naturally, it's a gun. If it's not a person with strong martial arts skills, it will usually end like this.

    ¡°But that¡¯s how war is, there is no fairness or unfairness. For any soldier, there is only one goal, and that is to kill the enemy in front of him.  Protect your own life.

    There are no skills in melee combat, as long as you have sharp eyesight and quick hands, martial arts experts will not be able to exert much power at this time.

    I don¡¯t know how long the fight lasted, I just know it was getting dark.  Winter nights come early and quickly.

    Both sides are so red-eyed that they don¡¯t care about anything. This plain is vast enough for their hundreds of thousands of troops to rush to kill each other.

    It was completely dark, and it was almost impossible to see. Fighting at this time was definitely not a wise choice. However, the Qing army finally fought like this for the first time with the Ming army today. Naturally, they would not give up. They still wanted to fight.  If you want to work harder, if you withdraw your troops now, there is no doubt that the opponent will organize that terrifying three-eyed gun team again.

    After persisting for more than an hour, there was really no way to fight. The Qing army had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops and stationed two miles away from Mingjun's camp.

    Rodman actually didn¡¯t want to fight for a long time. Their advantage is firearms. If they can¡¯t use their own advantages and use their own disadvantages to fight other people¡¯s advantages, then the general¡¯s head must be rusty.  Rodman just had no choice but to make this move. He just needed time to rest.

    He led the team back to his camp and saw that the place was in a mess. He couldn't help but feel a little sad. At the same time, he was afraid that Zhang Lei would be held accountable, but now things have ended.After all, there is no use regretting. The only thing that can be done is to perform well in the next time.

    He ordered the people below to count all the casualties. After a while, he realized that he had lost more than 40,000 people today. This was a large number. It only took half a day of fighting. After such a long time  , after more than half a year of fighting and losses with the Qing army, the number was already less than 200,000.

    "Today's battle was really useless. We must regain face tomorrow." Rodman said to Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng saved Rodman's life today, the relationship between the two seems to have improved a lot.  After coming back, they both stayed in the same tent.

    The people below had been fighting for a day and had nothing to eat. Rodman ordered them to bury all the brothers who had died here. The corpses of the Qing soldiers were all piled together and burned. Then he ordered them to be buried.  The horses were all killed and roasted, which gave everyone a good meal.

    By the next morning, Rodman naturally did not dare to relax. With yesterday's lesson, he became very cautious today, for fear of an accident.

    The Qing army also did not dare to act rashly like yesterday. They could not think of any good strategies this night and could only fight a tough battle.

    The two sides set up their battle formations, just like this. But because the Qing army achieved its biggest victory over the Ming army yesterday, they all seemed very excited and their morale was high. Look at the Ming army soldiers, they were all the way  No battle has been lost in the past, but yesterday it was like that. Naturally, he was dejected, and his fighting spirit seemed to have been shattered.

    But after less than half a day, their self-confidence had returned, and the Qing army was retreating steadily. Of course, in addition to the reasons for weapons and formations, there was another very important reason, that is, Zhang Lei led  A group of troops appeared in their sight.

    Zhang Lei came directly from the land, followed the footsteps of the army on the snow, and finally met the Qing army here. When he saw that his army was fighting with the Qing army, Zhang Lei immediately sent someone to contact Rhodes.  Man, the two sides discussed the strategy and launched a flanking attack on the Qing army.  After more than a day, the Qing army finally could not withstand the attacks from both sides and began to flee. Ninety percent of their number had been reduced, but only some main personnel were left and fled in a hurry.

    Zhang Lei and the others ignored them and joined forces with Rodman and the others. Zhang Lei regained command of the entire army.  And Li Zicheng's team is now running out. He knows that if he goes back south now, he will probably be wiped out soon, but by following Zhang Lei, he might still have a chance to save his life.

    In this way, the rogue bandits that had been rampant in the Central Plains for more than ten years were wiped out, and it caused such a big trouble to the troubled enemy Manchu Qing Dynasty. This magical handling method made the whole court stunned.  Emperor Chongzhen didn't know how to comment, and Zhou Yanru and others who had been trying to deal with Zhang Lei shut up. Instead, they began to worry that Li Zicheng would join forces with the Manchus and increase their strength and pressure. In short, Zhang Lei was wrong!

    Zhang Lei was too lazy to talk to them. He led the main force to retreat, and then took a boat from Dengzhou, Shandong to land in North Korea with the Marine Corps.  (To be continued. If you like this work, (.) vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.
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