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"Get out!"

The search team on the mountain, and the main force of the Datong army in the mountain, immediately withdrew towards the open area behind.

It was a large bamboo forest. A certain girl in a certain time and space once caught pandas here.

"Toot, toot, toot, toot..."

The sound of suona sounded at the edge of the bamboo forest, and the Datong army, who had fled a little scattered, heard the sound of the trumpet one after another and came to gather.

An Kun led hundreds of mountain cavalry and ordered the whole army to kill the enemy.

Guizhou war horses and Yunnan war horses are also one of the sources of Ming war horses.The Shuixi horse is particularly outstanding, and it was also a tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon horse (it is said that it is four meters long and three meters high, which is actually a genetic mutation). Yanglongkeng and Longchangyi are all related to that dragon horse.Song Lian wrote a special article "Praise of the Heavenly Horse" for this purpose, and Zhu Yuanzhang named the dragon horse "Fei Yue Feng", which means that it can fly over the mountain when riding on it.

This dilapidated place cannot hold tens of thousands of troops, and [-]% of the Shuixi native soldiers are climbing the mountain and detours, trying to go around the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain to encircle the Datong army.

Shen Tianliang raised his gun and ordered: "The whole team, continue to retreat!"

Shen Tianliang joined the army in the [-]th year of Chongzhen. Sichuan fought and expanded its army and was promoted rapidly. He didn't take these soldiers seriously.

Yishui'er's bows, arrows and spears don't even have a few pairs of iron armor. If he can wear leather armor, he is considered an elite soldier. Can this kind of army be called an army?

Seeing that the Datong army was retreating to the depths of the bamboo forest, An Kun hesitated instead, and quickly sent an order not to chase.

Will there be an ambush inside?

"My lord, do you want to set fire to the bamboo forest?"

"The enemy is not a wild boar, how can they be burned to death? However, setting fire to the forest can force the enemy's ambushes out."

Before Guiyang got its name, it was once called Guizhu, and the surrounding area was covered with bamboo seas for dozens of miles. The bamboo ware and bamboo paper here are very famous.

This place is a sea of ​​bamboo, from the valley to the forest, densely covered with bamboo, An Kun dared not enter with an army of [-].

It is not easy to burn down the bamboo forest, because the forest is too big.

An Kun ordered the troops above and below the mountain to gather to avoid being attacked by the enemy, and sent hundreds of soldiers to the edge of the bamboo forest to ignite the bamboo leaves on the ground with flint.

Under the cover of the bamboo forest, Shen Tianliang led the army to climb the mountain on the east side.

The mountains are not steep, but there are too many thorns and bushes, making it very difficult to walk along the way, and the matchlock of the matchlock gun is easily caught by the thorns.In this kind of terrain, 3000 people are easy to command, but 18000 people seem bloated.

"Han soldiers, there are Han soldiers here!"

The Shuixi native soldiers on the east side of the mountain were slowly gathering down the mountain when they suddenly saw the Datong army emerging from the bamboo forest.

When An Kun got the exact news, the Datong Army had already approached the enemy 300 meters.

"Siege up the mountain!" An Kun roared.

There is no way to form an array, and the soldiers don't pay much attention to the formation, and rush up the mountain in all directions.

There were about 5000 native soldiers in the mountains on the east side, a bunch in the east and a bunch in the west, carrying knives, guns and spears to kill the Datong army.

The Datong army was also unable to form an array, and formed many small teams to meet the enemy with Shi as a unit.

They are all arquebus soldiers, and the matchlocks are specially rolled up to prevent them from being caught by branches when marching.

"Light it up, light it up!"

When the distance between the two sides was 100 meters, all the matchlocks of the 3000 Datong Army were lit.

The command of the specific operations is completely entrusted to the chiefs.

After rushing to a distance of forty or fifty steps, some soldiers began to shoot arrows.Due to the obstruction of the thorn bushes, the soldiers could only throw random shots, and the hit rate was very impressive.

Even if it hits the target, it will be blocked by the cotton armor.

"One team raises the gun, and the second team prepares." The chief who was closest to the enemy shouted at the top of his voice.

"Bang bang bang!"

Shooting at forty steps away, although the hit rate is not high, but it can be reloaded a second time, because this broken place is not fast, and the enemy rushes to the front very early.

Crackling gunshots sounded, and soldiers continued to be shot and fell to the ground.

This is a new method of warfare summed up by the Datong Army in Sichuan and Guangxi in mountain warfare.In mountain battles, it is often impossible to form an array, and the enemy's formation is also messy, so team battles are carried out as units.

Moreover, he can fight while retreating, and no one can rush in this broken place.

In a blink of an eye, each combat team of the Datong Army fired 1.5 shots per capita, and the thousands of enemy troops who rushed in scattered were beaten by the firecrackers so that they dared not move forward.

These local soldiers were afraid of the firecrackers, but they were not defeated and scattered. They just lay on the spot, waiting for the friendly army to come up and surround them.

"Retreat up the mountain!" Shen Tianliang said.

The messenger immediately blew the trumpet, and the Datong army slowly retreated to the upper part of the mountain with Shi as a unit.

The two sides combined already exceeded 2 people, but due to the terrain, they fought a guerrilla war.

Withdrawing to a relatively gentle hillside, the Datong Army stopped to quickly reload their bombs, and there were enemies climbing and attacking in front of them and on the left and right sides.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots rang out again, and soldiers continued to be shot sporadically.

After firing a few shots, the Datong army continued to retreat to the top of the mountain, while the native soldiers rushing ahead deliberately slowed down.They didn't want to be shot, they all waited for others to go first, and followed the army to besiege and kill them.

This kind of thought spread rapidly, causing the soldiers to go up the mountain very slowly.

An Kun stood at the foot of the mountain and roared angrily, "Fast attack, fast attack!"

The relatives around him blew the trumpet vigorously, and several generals personally climbed the mountain to supervise the battle, urging the soldiers to attack the mountain quickly.

Most of these native soldiers are people of different races, and there are also a few Zhuang and Miao nationalities.

They fought with the chieftain, and they brought their own weapons, and the chieftain was only in charge of eating.

Military pay?

Don't be ridiculous, there is no military pay for the master chieftain to fight, at most he won't be so urgent when collecting food.

These native soldiers are suitable for fighting with the wind, because they can take the opportunity to enter the city to rob if they break through the city.Or chase down the rout, you can rob the enemy's property.At that time, they were extremely brave, but when they were in balance or against the wind, they had no motivation to fight hard at all.

The battle has lasted for an hour. After the Datong army retreated to the dangerous terrain, it has repelled the enemy's attacks several times.

An Kun climbed to the middle of the mountain himself, and said to a small chieftain: "You lead people to attack the mountain!"

This little chieftain was called Shewang, and he bravely summoned the local soldiers and led more than 2000 people to attack from the front.

An Kun said to another leader: "Your men, attack from the left side. It's not easy to climb over there, so you can go farther away."

Then he continued to order: "You lead people around to the right side... You lead people around to the back of the mountain... Attack from all sides, and pile them up to kill them!"

Li Waizui is a mountain dweller in northern Sichuan, or a hunter to be precise.

Before the age of 25, he had never touched a firecracker, but he was very accurate at shooting rabbits with a bow and arrow.

Today, the Datong Army is expanding its troops in Sichuan, and Li Waizui has been promoted to Corporal Commander.Only half a month after he got the firecracker, he has already practiced his marksmanship like a god, and the smoothbore gun has the effect of a rifled gun.

Li Waizui raised his gun to aim, and when he closed his left eye, his mouth became even more crooked.

"boom!"

Shewang was leading his troops to climb, when a gunshot sounded, he felt a pain in his chest, and rolled down the mountain on the spot.

"Old Li is so good at shooting guns!" Yang Fu, the chief secretary, praised him.

When the soldiers under Shewang's command saw that the general had fallen to death, they all retreated in fright.

"Blow the charge!"

When Shen Tianliang suddenly issued an order, not only the enemy did not expect it, but even the officers and men of the Datong Army were surprised.

It's very simple, more than 1 Shuixi native soldiers were dispatched to surround them with a large number of troops, and there were only seven or eight thousand left on the front.At present, a total of [-] enemy troops are fleeing, why not take the opportunity to rush down the mountain and directly capture the enemy's chief general, An Kun?

"Doo doo da da doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo~~~~"

The charge sounded, and the 3000 Datong Army swooped down the mountain.The 2000 native soldiers under Shewang's command were frightened and ran for their lives when they heard the shouts of killing behind them.

A unit of native soldiers below, about 1000 people, also fled inexplicably.

An Kun said to his confidants: "Lead troops to block up!" Then he shouted, "Send the order, the troops on both sides will besiege and kill, and those who escaped will be beheaded!"

The military law team of the native soldiers killed more than 20 people in a row, finally stopped the rout, and turned to meet the Datong army rushing down.

The two sides approached twenty or thirty steps, and Shen Tianliang personally blew the whistle.

The Datong army slowed down when they heard the whistle, squatted down and shot freely at close range, and immediately charged with bayonets after firing the bullets.

This is a mountain charge routine that has been trained for a long time, and they have long been handy.

Tubang, who was killed by the law enforcement team, was shot at close range, and hundreds of them fell down in an instant.Morale really collapsed this time, and the law enforcement team couldn't stop them. Some even threw away their weapons and turned to run for their lives.

An Kun was dumbfounded when he saw this, and ran down the mountain. If he didn't run, he would die, because his law enforcement team was also collapsing.

A group of chicken tile dogs.

In the frontal direction, the whole army fled and collapsed in a confused way, causing the soldiers on both sides to be confused about the situation, thinking that their main general had died in battle.These native soldiers belonged to different small chieftains, and they did not belong to each other. After fleeing head-on, they also fled.

1000 native soldiers, with about [-] casualties, were killed and completely scattered in this way.

An Kun almost rolled to the bottom of the mountain, hit his head on a tree trunk, and sprained his ankle when he got up.He was supported on the horse by his own soldiers, and he didn't care about gathering the army. He fled the battlefield on his beloved horse, taking only a few hundred of his own guard cavalry.

As for the other native soldiers, they were scattered all over the mountains and plains, and there was no way to catch them. Most of them would flee back to their hometowns by themselves.

Chapter 505 [Chain Reaction]

An Rupan was sitting in the Song's Beiya, and could vaguely hear crackling gunshots.

He was a little restless, thinking that his son had been ambushed.

But he was lucky, because the Datong army was encircling the two chain villages, so it was impossible to allocate too many troops to ambush them.

At night, he ordered his soldiers and horses in advance, waiting for the news of his son's night attack, and planned to have a good show of attacking back and forth.

I waited and waited, but there was no fart movement, something must have happened to my son.

The next day, morning.

There was a commotion outside the village, and a soldier rushed over in panic: "My lord, my... my son is defeated!"

An Rupan walked out quickly, but saw thousands of captives brought outside, all dressed as An's soldiers.

A horse rushed out, approached the gate of the village, and shouted: "An Rupan, your reinforcements have been defeated, and the entire army has been wiped out. Surrender quickly, and you will not die!"

The Yi people and Miao people around Guiyang already have a high level of Chinese and can fully understand this sentence. At this moment, they are all terrified.

An Rupan was filled with remorse, he shouldn't have come to Shuidongsi, the Song family would have surrendered if they wanted to, and he should have stuck to Guiyang City.Even if they are also besieged, the walls of Guiyang City are tall, it is better than being trapped in this dilapidated place.

After careful identification, it was found that the son had not been captured, and the Datong army had not obtained the son's head.

Fortunately, his son did not die, and he probably fled back to Guiyang with his troops, so he still has bargaining chips on his side.

An Rupan wore full body armor, approached the gate of the village cautiously, and shouted at the top of his voice, "The commander of your army stepped forward to speak!"

Fei Yinggong rode forward slowly, and said unhappily: "If you have a fart, let it go quickly, if you want to throw it, hurry up."

An Rupan knew that it was impossible to continue to be a chieftain, so he offered a price and said: "Shuixi 64 Village is willing to surrender, and I don't expect to continue to be a chieftain. , all the slaves of the An family can be released, but the land of the An family will not be divided. How?"

Fei Yinggong smiled and said, "You have inquired about our military affairs very clearly."

An Rupan continued: "The two armies are fighting, and the casualties will only increase. Why don't you take a step back? As long as you agree to my conditions, not only the land in the west and east of the water will be owned by the Datong army, but I will also help you to pacify Guizhou." !"

Give up the position of chieftain, release all serfs, just want to keep the land, and by the way, become a hereditary Tutong magistrate.

An Rupan felt that he was very sincere in this kind of negotiation conditions, no matter which emperor he changed to, he would agree.Settling down and surrendering is equivalent to surrendering most of Guizhou.

Didn’t the Manchus in history agree?And let Anjia continue to make toast.

"Stubborn!"

Fei Yinggong retreated on horseback and said to the messenger: "Continue to shell!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Immediately there was a loud sound of artillery, and the morale of the soldiers guarding the village became low.

Most of them were not regular soldiers, and they usually farmed at home. They were besieged and shelled for half a month, and the reinforcements were defeated by the Datong Army. There was no hope of victory.

"My lord, Song Siding is clamoring to see you."

"It's still restless, bring him here!"

An Rupan was disturbed by the sound of the cannons, he had suffered a great loss before, and dared not lead his troops to fight again, now he could only listen to the cannons every day.

Song Siding was a young man in his 20s. He was dragged in front of An Rupan, and said with a mournful face, "Uncle, you should surrender, otherwise the An and Song families may be wiped out."