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"Those who escape from battle, behead!"

Li Ruolian personally led the law enforcement team, who stood behind and killed the fleeing soldiers.

After hacking and killing more than ten people one after another, these rout soldiers yelled, turned around and rushed towards the rebels.

Huang Shun and Li Zheng on both sides charged immediately after receiving the military order, and Li Maofang quickly sent out four outposts to fight.This is equivalent to saying that Huang Shun and Li Zheng, who each led 500 flanks, had to face four times as many officers and soldiers as themselves.

Zhao Han carefully observed the enemy's situation, and said to Zhang Tieniu: "The officer's Wang Ziqi whistle, after a few steps, it will be chaotic. You will kill through and go straight to the enemy's central army."

"Nu Erjun, follow me to kill!"

Zhang Tieniu rushed out with hundreds of slave troops, two axes in hand.

Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe, with the rest of the soldiers, formed formations and charged into the frontal battlefield to assist Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang.There were only two of them in total, and they were almost half surrounded by officers and soldiers, forming a circular formation to resist more than 6000 officers and soldiers.

There was no reserve team anymore, and Zhao Han himself went into the battle himself.

Don't look at the lively fight, in fact, the battle is not intense.

The wolf soldiers were in front, holding moso bamboos with branches, and iron branches were tied to the branches of the moso bamboos.Just stabbing randomly with the wolf's whisk made it difficult for the enemies three meters away to get close. The few who could rush in were blocked by the rattan hand holding up the shield, and the spearman behind took the opportunity to poke out.

Just like facing a tortoise, you can't find where to put your mouth.

More than 6000 officers and soldiers surrounded and killed [-] rebels.After fighting for half an hour, only three rebels died, but dozens of officers and soldiers were stabbed to death.

The main reason was that the officers and soldiers of the mob were cowering in the face of the wolf trap, and they didn't dare to risk their lives to charge in.Most officers and soldiers, like sleepwalking on the battlefield, have no idea what they should do.

Fei Yinggong waited for a thousand archers, retreated to the back and kept shooting arrows, straight into the crowd of officers and soldiers, causing people to flee behind the officers and soldiers.

Li Maofang waved the command flag and sent a reserve team to go around and attack the archers.But I saw Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu, leading Zhao Han's own soldiers and slaves, smashing through the "Wang" flag all the way, the general surnamed Wang was so frightened that he turned around and fled.

Zhang Tieniu's left arm was slashed, and his right leg was scratched by the spear, but this guy charged forward bravely and knocked down the boss with an axe.

This general is a thousand households recruited by Li Ruolian. He has never fought a war, and his subordinates are all weak military households who have put down their hoes.They even lined up crookedly, how could they withstand Zhang Tieniu's desperate attack?

However, Zhang Tieniu was very strange, no matter whether it was a big battle or a small battle, he would be injured in many places, and it was surprising which time he was not injured.

Looking at Liu Zhu next to him, he also rushed to the front, and his clothes were not even torn.

"kill!"

Seeing Zhang Tieniu rushing towards the central army, Li Maofang urgently dispatched the reserve team sent to kill the archers to fill the gap on the battlefield.In addition, he added another whistle, wanting to surround Zhang Tieniu to death.

The two sides were completely confused, and the archers couldn't shoot at all.

"Kill with me!"

Fei Yinggong threw down his bow and arrow, drew out his saber, and led the centurions into close combat.

The nearly 6000 soldiers centered on Zhao Han have been completely surrounded by more than [-] officers and soldiers.

But there is a clear boundary in the middle, which is the wolf trap area with a length of more than three meters. Most of the officers and soldiers are blocked from the wolf trap and dare not rush.

These formed three concentric circles on the battlefield, and the inner circles were two thousand rebels led by Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe.There is a circle in the middle, composed of wolf whisks and spears.The outermost ring is more than 6000 officers and soldiers who are sleepwalking.

More than 6000 officers and soldiers have been besieged and killed until now, but the casualties of the rebel army are still in single digits.

Fei Yinggong rushed forward with a team of hundreds. After abandoning their bows, these archers all fought with daggers.But the combined impact of the inside and the outside directly caused thousands of officers and soldiers to collapse.

Except for a small number of reserve teams, Li Maofang and Li Ruolian had completely lost control over the army.

They kept asking the trumpeter and the flag commander to convey the military order to divide the troops to attack the rebel archers.But the [-] officers and soldiers in front of them only knew how to besiege the enemy's central army, and stayed outside if they couldn't attack. Among the ten officers and soldiers, only one or two could actually meet the enemy.

"The mob, the mob!"

Li Maofang was so angry that she stomped her feet, but if he was given another year to train thousands of truly elite soldiers, he wouldn't be able to become what he is now.

Seeing that Fei Yinggong's surprise attack worked, the other archers also threw away their bows and arrows, pulled out their daggers and ran to fight.

On the left flank, Li Zheng led [-] soldiers, and suddenly defeated the officers and soldiers four times his own.Moreover, these officers and soldiers collapsed without warning, and it was too late for Li Maofang to send a reserve team to rescue them.

Because most of these two thousand officers and soldiers are village braves recruited by the prefect of Linjiang, and a small part are young and strong selected from civilian husbands, their combat power can bully the peasants.

They first besieged Li Zheng's [-] soldiers with an absolute advantage, and fought for a long time to no avail. Instead, Li Zheng stabbed dozens of them to death.After nearly a hundred casualties, the two thousand miscellaneous fish collapsed in an instant, and they were afraid of being served by a military judge, so they did not dare to flee back to the direction of the commander, and collapsed directly towards the Ganjiang River.

Li Zheng immediately led his troops towards the enemy commander, and Zhang Tieniu also rushed through. The rebels, who had less than 1000 men, went straight to the large formation of the rebels' central army, which had a superior force.

Seeing this, Li Maofang got on his horse and ran away. How could he care about his own army?

Li Ruolian was stunned, and the 69-year-old Jiangxi general also hurried away on his horse.

Although the horses of the officers and soldiers are rare, the two generals must have horses.

As soon as they fled, the formation of officers and soldiers of the Chinese army immediately collapsed, because there were not many officers and soldiers left in the Chinese army because of the continuous dispatch of reserves.

"kill!"

At this time Zhang Tieniu had been injured in five places, and led the Nuer army in pursuit.

Li Zheng did not continue to chase, but led his troops back to meet Huang Shun on the right.Huang Shun was facing a hard bone, and he was still stalemate in the fight.

As for the besieged Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe, there was no need for Li Zheng to rescue them.

Six thousand officers and soldiers were unable to attack, and were attacked from behind by a thousand archers, which was equivalent to being surrounded by counterattacks.Before Li Maofang and Li Ruolian escaped, the six thousand officers and soldiers began to collapse, and at this time the whole line collapsed.

The whole battle lasted about 25 minutes if counting from the archers shooting each other.

The next step is to chase the enemy and take the prisoners.

According to statistics after the war, 41 people were killed on Zhao Han's side, 18 people were seriously injured, and more than [-] people were slightly injured.

Moreover, the most casualties were not the Chinese army that was besieged by [-] officers and soldiers, nor the casualties caused by mutual shooting of archers, but the slave army led by Zhang Tieniu who charged.

This guy gave up defense completely, just kept going forward to kill, so that the reserve team sent by Li Maofang didn't dare to go forward to fight.

As for the officers and soldiers, including civilian husbands, a total of more than 6000 people went to the battlefield.However, the number of officers and soldiers who were shot to death or killed head-on was actually less than 700.

Very outrageous data, the two sides had a total of more than 2 people fighting, and the total number of people who died in the actual battle was less than [-], and then the winner was quickly determined.

It was not even clear whether the two main generals, Li Maofang and Li Ruolian, fled first, or the main force of the officers and soldiers on the frontal battlefield collapsed first.

On the contrary, during the pursuit, hundreds of officers and soldiers were stabbed to death, thousands of people jumped into the river and drowned, and the casualties were more than twice that of the frontal battle.

Neither Zhao Han nor Fei Ruhe had the chance to use force. They were directing the defensive battle throughout the entire process.

After a long time, Zhang Tieniu came back leading a war horse with a head in his hand.The guy was covered in blood, and said with a smile: "It's unlucky for him to be chopped off, and he broke his leg while riding a horse."

Zhao Han was speechless: "How many places were injured this time?"

"I don't know," Zhang Tieniu was still laughing, "Don't worry, brother, I'm not stupid, and I can still hurt someone's vitals?"

Zhao Han looked at the captives being taken back one after another, there were thousands of them, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

These captives selected some of them who did not do much evil to join the army, and all the rest were thrown into the mines. The newly occupied iron mines were in urgent need of miners.

Li Maofang, the governor of Jiangxi, and Li Ruolian, the commander-in-chief of Jiangxi, were accompanied by only two or three soldiers.Because there are too many rivers in Jiangxi, I can't run even on horseback. I often run, walk, and circle around the river.

After a journey of more than 200 miles, the two rode for nearly ten days, and finally returned to the other side of the river in Nanchang City.

When I asked across the river, I found out that Wang Siren's navy was defeated!

Chapter 164 [You can shake the pot]

The corpse of Mr. Qian was quickly carried back by the soldiers.

Zhao Han glanced at it, and said to Zhang Tieniu: "After you go back, you will be rewarded for your merits, and you will be rewarded with the iron armor on this man."

"That's good." Zhang Tieniu's eyes lit up, wishing he could take off the armor immediately.

Zhao Han is still too poor. He didn't even have a pair of iron armor until now during the rebellion, and the generals under his command can only wear leather armor.

The Ming Dynasty did not strictly control weapons. As long as they were not firearms, even strong bows and crossbows were allowed to be owned by civilians.However, whoever dares to make and collect armor privately is tantamount to rebellion!

The deceased in front of him should have been a hereditary military general, and his armor is also an antique, perhaps 200 years old.

With the iron factories in Xinyu and Fenyi counties, the weapons station will soon be open for operation.

The first thing to build is not a firearm, but thousands of waist knives.At least all the daggers on the archers should be replaced with war knives, which are not daggers at all, but iron spear heads with short handles.

The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, Zhao Han paced over to comfort the wounded, seeing Wu Yong was dressing his wound, he couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Did you catch the high official this time?"

Wu Yong said dejectedly: "This time the real high officials are all riding horses, and they really can't catch up. The officers and soldiers have so many horses, there must be... at least twenty of them."

Wu Yong belonged to the Nuer Army, and he charged with Zhang Tieniu before, and his shoulder was cut with a big cut.

This kind of battle is the most intense.

On the contrary, it was a defensive battle commanded by Zhao Han himself. Regardless of the tens of thousands of people from the two armies fighting each other, in fact, the casualties would not be very large for half a day.Even if the opponent is not a mob, but replaced by real elite soldiers of the imperial court, the process of fighting is similar.

The two armies stabbed each other, killing more than half of each other, which definitely belongs to the legendary level.

It may be possible to achieve such an intensity by letting the Yue family's army fight against the Sichuan white-armed soldiers.As for other armies, it is normal for a casualty rate to reach 5% to collapse, and a casualty rate of 10% to collapse can be called an elite soldier.

For an army that can withstand 20% casualties, only 5000 troops are enough for Zhao Han, and he can sweep several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Even the Houjin army at this time, if it suffers 20% casualties, it will definitely retreat. The Tartars are more desperate than you think.

Hou Jin's ability to continue to grow does not rely on bravery and fearlessness, but on rapid progress in strategy and tactics.

At the beginning of Nurhachi's army, he fought without any rules, and it was only after the establishment of the Eight Banners system that he truly became an army.

Even when it came to the Battle of Saerhu, the Tartars were not as powerful as the Ming Frontier Army.Every time, they exploited the loopholes in the inability of the Ming army to coordinate, and suddenly attacked one of the Ming troops, winning with two to three times the superior force, and then caused the other troops of the Ming army to flee.

What is truly terrifying is the speed at which the tartars' tactics progress!

Due to the dark losses suffered in the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi immediately adopted the shield chariot.The shield chariots were driven by heavy infantry, and the two shield chariots combined could cover the advance of twenty or thirty infantrymen, completely blinding the firearms of the frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, the tactics of the Ming army remained unchanged, and they still adopted the chariot firearms tactics against the Mongolian cavalry.

So this kind of battle scene appeared--

The Ming army set up chariots, the soldiers hid behind the chariots, the archers shot arrows, the blunderbuss shot guns, the melee infantry protected them, the cavalry hid in the formation as a reserve team, or the cavalry cruised to the flanks to wait for an opportunity to fight.This method of warfare has suppressed the Mongolian cavalry for hundreds of years.

The Tartars, with heavy infantry in front, pushed shield chariots to cover the advance of the large troops.Most of the bows, arrows and bullets of the Ming army were blocked by shield vehicles.The Tartar archers hiding behind the shield chariot zoomed in and shot at the Ming army.When the infantry pushed away the obstacles along the way, the Tazi cavalry rushed out suddenly, mounted and shot at the Ming army, and immediately chased and killed them after they were routed.

This was the case in the Battle of Daling River. The Tartar cavalry fired two rounds in a row. With the archers' volley, the Ming army collapsed directly (the morale of the Ming army was actually good. After the first round of shooting by the Tartar cavalry, the second The second round was really overwhelmed and then retreated).

At that time, the main force of the Tartars was equipped with: 20% armored infantry, 30% mail archers, 40% light cavalry, and 10% armored cavalry.

And up to now, the Tartars have deployed firearms troops, which are even more difficult to deal with than in the Dalinghe battle!

It was completely tactical crushing. The Tartars continued to improve their tactics, but the Ming army remained unchanged. How could the Ming army survive?

By the way, heavy artillery can break through the Tartars' shield formations, but ordinary Franco cannons and Huzun cannons can't.

With Zhao Han's current scumbag army, even if the soldiers can withstand 50% casualties, more than half of the soldiers will not retreat, and they will suffer a disastrous defeat when they encounter the main force of the Tartars.

It's the same with white soldiers, because the Tartars of today are no longer the Tartars of the past.

These guys learn so fast, the technology tree is all about the military!

……

Zhao Han waited on the battlefield for a long time, and Gu Jianshan finally led the navy back.

The casualties of the sailors were actually higher than those of the army, and more than 30 people were missing.Because the water flow was too fast after it rained and the water swelled, the sailors fell into the river and were quickly swept away by the river. It is unknown how many people could get ashore safely.

However, there are more warships!

Gu Jianshan came over to salute the army happily, and reported: "General Town, our army has won a great victory in Bailuozhou. Burned six large enemy ships, captured two large enemy ships, seven small ships, and two other large enemy ships , A small ship surrendered. There are also three large enemy ships that are stranded and need to be dredged and dragged out."

"Good job," Zhao Han said happily, "Did the enemy escape by ship?"

Gu Jianshan replied: "Wang Siren ran away by boat, and he couldn't catch up. Please punish him."

Zhao Han laughed loudly: "You won a battle, why should I punish you?"

More than 100 officers, soldiers and sailors who surrendered were brought over by Gu Jianshan to meet them. They used to be Poyang Lake water bandits.

Gu Jianshan introduced: "This is Fan Chao, bandit name Fan Er, my good brother in Poyang Lake."

"Greetings, Commander!" Fan Chao kowtowed quickly.

"Please get up quickly," Zhao Han helped the man up, looked at him for a while and said, "He is indeed a good man, and he will stay in my navy as an officer."

Of course, it is a low-level military officer, and the missionaries will do ideological work. If they can't do it, they can only be dismissed. It is impossible to get promoted as soon as they come.

Fei Yinggong, on the other hand, performed very well this time, allowing him to command 500 people.

The next day, Zhao Han led his troops across the river and surrounded Linjiang Fucheng.

This is the city with the strongest defense that Zhao Han has encountered so far, and it is impossible to attack by force.

However, the gates of the city are wide open.

The prefect of Linjiang led many officials out of the city and knelt down to greet him: "Sinner He Tianqu, pay homage to Zhao Tianwang!"