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Chapter 281: The Road Never Envisioned (6)

In the era of combroach guns, as long as the officers who had no brains were not broken, they knew that three-stage strikes were much more effective than single-row shooting. Qing army officers also knew that. Especially since they had fought so many battles with Huo Chong, even the Qing army, which was extremely difficult to change, strengthened the technology of multi-row continuous shooting.

Since the Eight Banners Army who came from the capital decided to join the eighth camp, it was naturally clear that Basai must be completely annihilated in Luanzhou. There were more than 3,000 musketeers among the more than 10,000 people. Seeing that Basai was surrounded, he actually led his personal army to launch a surprise attack on the Eight Banners Army who were blocking the road back to the capital. At the command of the commander, more than 1,000 musketeers had been mobilized to form a multi-section shooting array.

The third row of muskets was finished quickly, and the commander of the Eight Banners Army from the capital put down a little bit of attention. The first two rows of muskets were relatively far apart, and they did not kill and injured too many people. The last row of muskets was only 14 or 50 steps away from the people in the Basai (about 20 meters), and they knocked down forty or fifty people in an instant. The Qing army was only 1,000, and even the most powerful team would have to collapse!

The fourteenth and five steps are not far away. The so-called one-step means that the left foot moves forward and lands forward, using the left foot as the fulcrum, and then the right foot moves forward and lands forward. At this time, the distance between the two positions of the right foot.

The team sent by General Basai not only did not pause, but also stepped over the bodies of the casualties who fell to the ground, waved the swords and guns in his hands, and slashed at the musketeers in front of him.

When the melee soldiers approached, some clever ones had already begun to retreat continuously, but the two sides were too close and had been killed in front of melee soldiers. The musketeers began to flee almost at the same time. Those who had escaped slightly slower had already been killed or injured. Screams one after another, shocking the commander from the capital.

This is no wonder that the Qing musketeers were the old-fashioned melee guns. This weapon was designed without any consideration for participating in melee combat.

Almost a moment, the musketeers' front was killed to collapse. The fleeing Qing army squeezed desperately into their own array, and suddenly the queue of their own array fell into chaos.

The commando of the General of Basai was his most trusted man, and it was also a rare man in the Qing army who could last for more than ten days after a bloody battle with the Shandong Han army.

The person who led the team was Banlong. Banlong was in the front row, waving his weapons to kill the Eight Banners Army opposite, while also commanding his subordinates to rush forward.

In the eyes of the commander of the capital, the three-stage attack composed of more than a thousand musketeers was fierce enough, and the result of defeating dozens of Qing troops once occurred.

In Banlong's eyes, the bullets fired by these muskets were like a breeze blowing on their faces. A row of guns killed and injured dozens of people, which was so weak that Banlong wanted to laugh. Three hundred people from the Shandong Han army did not need to strike three stages, and a single soldier automatically loaded and fired. A row of guns came down, and at least hundreds of Qing army died. Thousands of Qing army in desperate situations also launched a desperate breakthrough. When the Qing army began to realize that they were in a desperate situation, thousands of Qing army had been killed and injured in two or three thousand.

Crashing to the other side? Even if there are only three hundred people on the other side, the charge of thousands of Qing troops is just a death sentence.

Having seen such a sea of ​​corpses and blood, the combs that can be resisted with shields and cotton armor can no longer make Banlong feel any fear.

Holding a single sword, Banlong slashed and killed the Eight Banners Army on the front line. Not only did he defeat all the opponents in front of him, but he also guided his subordinates to cut in the enemy array. Finally, the enemy could no longer bear such an impact and ran away to both sides in exclamation.

With just one charge like this, the road leading to the capital was revealed in Banlong's sight.

General Basai knew that the opportunity should not be missed and would not come again. He ignored the Shengjing rebels behind him who were still able to chase him, and commanded all the people who could still command to rush towards the gap.

Banlong wanted to rush out first, but when he saw the fleeing Eight Banners Army, his heart was filled with anger.

These people are also Manchu, but they are no longer Banlong's companions. When these people choose the Shengjing rebels, it means that both sides will never die.

After greeting his troops, Banlong chased the Qing army who fled to the left. Killing the enemy was not that important at this time. The important thing was to drive these people away and not let them form a queue again.

Seeing the most trusted subordinates opening a wider road, General Basai commanded his men to retreat from the gap while commanding his own personal troops to pursue and drive away the enemy on the right. At the same time, he sent someone to greet Banlong, asking him to be ready to retreat at any time.

Although his strength is not as strong as Ortai and Yue Zhongqi, Basai is an old army after all. He has fought many more battles than this guy in Beijing. The main force of the large team broke out of the encirclement, and Banlong's troops and Basai's personal troops gathered back and became the back team.

The two commanded the troops to stop the troops alternately. Although both of them had no trust in the Qing army's muskets, the opposite side was not the Shandong Han army, but the Manchu Eight Banners. The muskets were of effect on them.

Just fighting and retreating, the two of them struggled to support themselves, hoping that the enemy who was pursuing like a hungry wolf could stop chasing due to fatigue.

At this moment, a group of people rushed back in front of him. Basai looked closely and saw that the person in the middle was tied up by ropes, which turned out to be the people of the Han Eight Banners.

After a moment of inquiry, General Basai already understood what was going on when the deputy barracks officer of the Han army had no idea what was going on because he was still stuttering.

Facing the deputy battalion officer of the Han Eight Banners, General Basai shouted: "Listen to me. Now, you are no longer the Han Eight Banners. I will raise them to the Manchu Eight Banners for you!"

The officials of the Eight Banners of Han were stunned and could not believe what they heard.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army are one of the three main components of the Eight Banners. The reason why it is mistakenly called the "Eight Banners of the Han Army" is the Eight Banners built by Nurhaci.

The vast majority of its members were Manchus, also known as the Eight Banners, which only included Manchus at the beginning, and there were also a few Mongolians and Han people in each banner.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he actively engaged in expansion policies on the one hand, and on the other hand, he still paid attention to easing ethnic and social conflicts. He ordered his subordinates to do a good job in "raising people", especially for the newly plundered Mongolians and Han people who came to surrender.

The number of Mongols and Han soldiers who surrendered to Huang Taiji increased, so that the Eight Banners could not accommodate them. Therefore, Huang Taiji established the Eight Banners Mongolia (25,000 people) in the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), and then established the Eight Banners Han Army (33,000 people) in the seventh year of Chongde (1642). In addition, the original Manchu flag was combined with the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Ba ​​Banners. This made the Eight Banners system complete and the armed forces continued to expand.

But no matter what you say about this, the Manchus' guard against the Han people never weakened at all. Therefore, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are a level.

What Basai said about making these Han Eight Banners become Manchu Eight Banners is to modify their banners. As long as they are enrolled in the native place of Manchu Eight Banners, the treatment they enjoy is the treatment of Manchu Eight Banners. It is almost the difference between sleeping with a girl and becoming a concubine.

No wonder the officials of the Eight Banners of Han were shocked and could not believe it.

But Basai didn't have time to explain too much. He shouted: "The pursuers are all rebels in Shengjing. Please follow me to fight and fight them back!"

After saying that, Basai stared at several Han Eight Banners camp officials. Seeing that the officials were hesitant, Basai shouted angrily: "You are the bannermen, and you are the ones who are killing the enemy for the emperor, why are you so hesitant!"

I thought the battalion officer quickly said, "General, are those people... all rebels?"

Basai was so angry that he wanted to use a horse whip to slap people. Finally, he suppressed his anger and shouted: "Don't worry about what they did before! They are traitors now! Do you want to fight the traitors to the death? After winning the promotion, I am a member of the Ai Xin Jueluo family. If I say it, I will not lie to you!"

Hearing the four words "Aisin Gioro", the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty suddenly had the courage and were immediately ordered.

Originally, they were ordered to stop ten miles away from the battlefield and had been resting for a while. At this time, they were ordered to take action and set up a formation. First, let the general of the Basai from the gaps in the various battalions of the Han Eight Banners to the rear reorganization of the team. Seeing the pursuit soldiers approaching, the Han Eight Banners, led by the battalion officer, bravely moving forward, facing the Man Eight Banners, who had been fighting for nearly two hours.

The battle was fierce but short. The physical strength of the two sides was too different. The Man Eight Banners did not expect that the troops in front of them were very brave to fight. After a brief battle, they couldn't help but lose some money.

The leaders of the Manchu Eight Banners also knew that their troops were at the end of their power at this time. They simply called out the gold and stopped the troops and commanded the army to retreat.

On this side, General Basai found that his camp had not been taken away by the Shengjing rebels, so he quickly ordered his troops to retreat into the camp.

After counting the number of people, out of the initial 40,000 people, 10,000 Eight Banners Army rebelled on the side of the Shengjing rebels. Under the fierce attack of the rebels, the troops suffered heavy casualties. Only less than 20,000 were left to retreat.

Only more than 7,000 reinforcements from the capital were added to the Basai General. The total force was less than 30,000, only about 25,000.

Recalling that he had an army of 40,000 before the war, General Basai was angry and scared. If there were no thousands of people he had brought back from Shandong, if there were no seven thousand Han Eight Banners who were still loyal to the court, General Basai would have to escape all the way back to the capital.

There was a little progress in reorganizing the team, and the camp reported, "General, reinforcements have arrived!"

When he heard the word reinforcements, General Basai immediately panicked. The reinforcements were already comparable to the evil spirits of General Basai.

After asking clearly, I realized that the reinforcements were 20,000 reinforcements from the south. They were expected to arrive in the afternoon and did arrive at about the same time. However, the reinforcements' probes had already found that things had changed and did not dare to go around Luanzhou as planned and launch an attack, so they could only go straight to the camp.

"How many Eight Banners are there in the reinforcements?" General Barcelona finally didn't ask how many Eight Banners there were.

Here he immediately replied: "There are more than 18,000 Eight Banners of Han Dynasty."

When he heard that there was no Eight Banners, the Barcelona General finally felt relieved. After a little statistics, he understood the general situation. Now, the camp has 45,000 reinforcements. Among them, eight or nine thousand are the Eight Banners Army, and the other about 36,000 are all Han troops.
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