Chapter 944: Destroy the Homecoming Group
As soon as the rifled gunman opened fire, a deafening shout came from the jungle. Countless figures rushed out of the jungle. When they rushed about a hundred steps away from the return group, the people raised their crossbows and heard only a row of bowstrings. The overwhelming crossbow arrows woven into an airtight net in the air, covering the return group's head.
The soldiers of the Returning Regiment had almost no armor protection. They were shot by powerful crossbows and fell down in a large number of them screamed.
The reason why Li Guodong's mountain army did not need to produce muskets or bird guns is that the range of crossbow arrows is much further than those of smoothbore guns, and the opponent does not have armor protection. If the arrows reach the flesh, the opponent will not even think about entering the range of the firearm, and he will be shot halfway down!
A round of crossbow arrows shot overturned more than 100 returnee soldiers. The remaining half of the returnee soldiers still charged forward before they could react. The bird gun in their hands made a roar, and white smoke rose up. The gun sounded roaring, fire light sprayed, and white smoke filled it, looking very lively, but at a distance of 100 steps, the bird gun had no effect at all.
After shooting a round of crossbow arrows, the crossbow machine was placed on the ground, pedaled the crossbow bow with his feet, pulled the bow string with both hands, hung the bow string on the hook above the hanging knife, and then took out a crossbow arrow from the quiver and installed it in the groove on the crossbow arm, and then completed the loading. The crossbow machine who completed the loading raised the crossbow machine and shot freely at the return group.
Although the reloading speed of crossbow arrows is much slower than that of bows and arrows, it is still much faster than a messile gun like bird guns. When the second round of crossbow arrows are shot, there are not many soldiers who can still stand on the return home regiment.
At this time, the more than ten remaining soldiers of the Returning Reunion Army realized what was going on. They turned around and ran away. The machetes, spears, bird guns, and shields in their hands were all discarded like garbage, just to be able to run faster.
However, the return group did not escape in the end. Cao Bianjiao's 300-biting player came out from behind, cutting off their retreat.
There was a blockage in front and pursuers behind. On the left was a bottomless cliff, and on the right was a steep wall towering into the sky. The desperate soldiers of the Returning Reunion Order knelt down and surrendered. However, Cao Bianjiao did not let them go. The three hundred sword players swallowed up more than a dozen remaining Returning Reunion Order soldiers like a flood that broke the dam. When the sword player passed, all the Returning Reunion Order soldiers were chopped into meat paste.
Li Guodong had long ordered that he would never leave prisoners when dealing with the returnee group! These returnee groups did all the bad things and used all kinds of cruel means to kill innocent people, which was even worse than the Qing army.
The return group that annihilated Tian Juren's return home, and the Huai Army avenged the people of more than ten mountain villages around.
Three days later, Li Guodong received another information. A team of about 1,000 returning groups set out from Xinye County and wanted to enter the mountainous area where they were active.
"A thousand fake Jiannu, it's a good thing! They were wiped out in one fell swoop!" Li Guodong laughed. In his eyes, these thousand returning groups were simply delivering vegetables, and they just happened to eat them all.
It is actually not difficult to annihilate this return group. Both sides have equal strengths, but the combat effectiveness of the Huai Army's mountain army is far greater than that of the return group, and its weapons and equipment are better than the return group. Moreover, they are waiting for their leisure and ambushing in the mountains, and they can completely wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.
This largest return group entered the mountains and walked on the mountain road. In the nearby forest, two figures covered with branches and leaves emerged from a dense grass, and a colorful canvas was covered with the canvas. Under the canvas, a figure picked up a telescope to observe the movements on the mountain road and found the return group entering the mountain.
I saw that this returnee group wore a red tassel hat and a blue-gray robe dressed like a Qing army in the Green Camp. There was a large circle in front and back of the robe, and the word "门" was written in it, not the word "门". The flying flag of the army also wrote the word "门", which means that this army is a robe, not the green camp.
Even in the original time and space, after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it began to organize group training to deal with the rebellious people. After the Eight Banners Army entered the pass, it began to degenerate at an astonishing speed. When it came to quelling the Three Feudal Rebellion and expedition to Galdan in the west, it relied entirely on the Green Camp in war. When it was suppressed the White Lotus Uprising and the Miao people's uprising, even the Green Camp soldiers were no longer worthy of use. The main force that suppressed these people's uprisings was the League Training.
In addition to pretending to hide in the mountains and forests, he also pretended to be a Qing army in the Green Camp, or even a soldier in the Eight Banners soldiers, he also took on the task of monitoring the return group.
The Returning Homecoming Group walked on the mountain road. More than a dozen Eight Banners masters wearing Eight Banners uniforms appeared in front of them, riding tall horses, and following more than a hundred Green Camp Qing soldiers, walking over the mountain road.
When they met the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the officers and soldiers of the returning regiment were greeted with respect.
Whether it was the Eight Banners Master or the Green Camp soldiers, they always held their heads high and looked arrogant when they passed by the regiment training, showing that they looked down on these regiment training at all. Ye Bushang did a very good job of imitating the Qing army and imitating them vividly, so that the return group could not see any flaws at all. If they returned the tribute or replied, they would not be like it. In fact, the regular army of the Qing Dynasty looked down on the regiment training formed by the landlords and gentry at this time.
The marching route of the Returning Homes regiment was completely under the control of the Ming army's Ye Busui. Based on the information that the Returning Homes did not accept the nights, Li Guodong arranged an ambush circle in one place on both sides of the dangerous terrain of a road passing through the middle valley. Li Guodong arranged the crossbowmen on the hills on both sides. Five hundred knives were divided into two groups, half of whom blocked the road in front, and the other half were ambushing the mountains behind. When the Returning Homes regiment all entered the ambush circle, they rushed out and tied their pockets tightly and blocked the Returning Homes regiment in the valley.
There is a village near this valley. The first goal of returning home is to loot the village.
"Friends, run away, the return group is coming!" Ye Bucheng, who disguised as a militiaman from Zhongzhen Camp, ran into the village and sent an alarm signal to the villagers.
All evil is done. The reputation of the murderous returning home group in the mountains has been stinking for ten miles. It can stop children from crying at night. All the people are hating and afraid of the returning home group. When they heard that the returning home group is coming, the villagers even left the farm work at hand, ran home and shouted that their families would pack their luggage and prepare to run for life.
"Friends, the return group comes from the east, you can walk this road!" Ye Bushu directed the villagers and guided them to escape to the valley where the Huai Army arranged an ambush.
"Hurry up, the villagers are all quick, the return group is coming after me!" Tie Hammer shouted anxiously. The actions of the people were really anxious. When they fled, they had to bring bottles and jars. Needless to mention the more valuable iron pots, the shabby furniture at home was loaded with ox carts, carrying buckets and pickled vegetables in their hands, filled with broken bowls and baskets of moldy chopsticks. These worthless rags are their property in the eyes of the people, and the hammer is not easy for them to discard.
The people retreated very slowly. They walked less than three miles away, and the shadow of the Qing army training could be seen not far behind.
"Go quickly. After passing this valley, you will be safe, fellow villagers!" Tiehammer anxiously urged the people.
Ye Bushang and the militia supported the old man, helped the women to hold their children, and some helped the people push carts. The fugitives accelerated a little, entered the valley, and walked forward along the roads in the valley. But their speed was still very slow. According to the hammer's estimate, the people might not have time to cross the valley, and the people behind would be caught up by the Qing army.
"We stay and stop Jiannu!" Tiema shouted to his more than ten brothers and the militias in the loyal camp.
More than 20 soldiers stayed behind and stood in front of the Qing army's pursuit.
At this time, the Qing army was very close to the Iron Hammer and the others. When more than a thousand Qing soldiers were about to devour the Iron Hammer and the others, the Iron Hammer roared: "Battle!"
Chapter completed!