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Chapter 979 For the Eight Banners
The first to launch a group attack was Dahaqi, one of the four major deputy capitals outside the pass, Xiong Yue's deputy capital Dahaqi, whose ancestor was Tan Tai, the founding general of the country.

It stands to reason that as a descendant of Tan Tai, Dahaqi should unconditionally support Aixinjueluo Shikai, who inherited the mantle of Emperor Cheng Zongyi Dorgon, and raise his troops to respond to the reform, because Tan Tai was Dorgon's most important person back then. The general, who was later executed by Shunzhi.

Therefore, Tan Tai's descendants should of course stand on the side of Dorgon's descendants.

However, Dahaqi did not go through fire and water for Prince Xinrui like his ancestors, but chose to respond to the call of Shengjing General Hongshang to raise troops to rebel.

There is no reason, just follow Hongshang.

Mostly, the same as the Restoration Emperor in the pass, he regarded his ancestors as nothing.

The Eight Banners under Dahaqi's command were garrison soldiers in Fuzhou, Fenghuangcheng, Xiuyan, Lushun and other places, with a total of more than 2300 soldiers.

Among them, there are more than 1400 armored soldiers, more than 600 coated soldiers, and more than 200 cavalry.

Among the four deputy capitals controlled by General Yu Shengjing, the strength is the weakest, but the fighting spirit is the most enthusiastic one of the four deputy capitals.

The task of Xiongyue Eight Banners soldiers is to break through the Paoergou on the easternmost side of Shisan Mountain. There used to be a hundred households here in the Ming Dynasty, but it has been abandoned until now.If Paoergou can be captured, the Manchu-Mongolian coalition forces will be able to enter the Jinniu Cave where the core of the Restoration Army is located from here, and divide the Restoration Army into two from south to north.

We must know that in addition to the advantage of the Manchu-Mongolian Allied Forces having more troops than the Restoration Army, the advantage of its cavalry is even more difficult for the Restoration Army, which is dominated by infantry.

Once the Restoration Army is broken through by the central government, it will collapse across the board. Will two legs be able to run faster than four?
"The true soul of the Eight Banners is outside the pass, in the white mountains and black waters!"

In order to prove that his argument is true, Dahaqi took the initiative to ask Ying to capture Paoergou. After arriving with his troops, he found that the entrance and exit of the post road had been occupied by the Restoration Army. .

The puppet army did not dig trenches in sight, because the cold weather had already frozen the ground hard, and it would be exhausting to dig a standard trench on the frozen soil with manpower alone.

"The most important thing for a general is to know the enemy's reality, and then avoid the reality and attack the reality. The reality of the enemy today is the enemy's reality!"

After lifting the pointed helmet on his head, Dahazi gave the order to attack.

Although the puppet troops from inside the pass occupy the commanding heights on both sides and have a lot of firearms, the fighting will of the puppet troops will never be higher than that of the real Eight Banners warriors outside the pass. The Lord's puppet army was defeated.

In order to boost morale, Dahazi raised the battle cry of "For the Eight Banners" before the war.

At the same time, he clearly told the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command that if the Eight Banners outside the pass were won in this battle, they would enter the pass in a mighty manner and become the Eight Banners forbidden travel.

The vernacular is to win the battle, and the whole family, old and young, enter the customs together to enjoy the flowers and rivers and mountains of the Han people.

This made the soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in various places under the command of Dahaqi very excited. The so-called not worrying about the few but the unevenness, the ancestors of the Eight Banners outside the pass followed Taizu and Taizong to fight the world. Suffering from the cold outside this pass.

Now the pass is broken by those guys who only know how to enjoy but don't pay, and they should be free to reorganize Daqing Rivers and Mountains.

After the offensive horn sounded, Dahaqi's troops spared no effort to attack the Restoration Army's position.

Of course, Baoyi charged forward, followed by the Eight Banners main soldiers, and the cavalry stood ready to charge and kill the puppet army's position once the armored infantry broke through.

"Enemy attack!"

"Raise the beacon fire warning!"

"The gunner is in place!"

Following the order after order, the reforming army in Pao'ergou quickly entered the fighting state. When a group of enemy troops rushed close to the firing range of the artillery, the sound of rumbling cannons resounded over Pao'ergou, and the black smoke filled it and was deafening at the same time.

The troops guarding Paoergou were a regiment from the Fourth Town under the jurisdiction of the Second Army. The regiment was led by Jianghua, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. He did not organize soldiers to attack to prevent the approaching Tartars from demolishing the fortifications deployed outside, but only asked for support. The artillery fired continuously at the enemy.

With the sound of "whistling", solid iron bullets fell one by one among the charging Xiongyue Eight Banners soldiers. Many of the coated soldiers who rushed in front were split into corpses in an instant. Some had big holes, some had their arms taken away by shells, some had their thighs cut off at the root, and some had their intestines "cracked" out of their stomachs.
There were many casualties and screams one after another.

Regardless of whether it was the coated soldiers in front or the Eight Banners soldiers in the back, they all made a mess. In order to avoid the cannons of the Restoration Army, some lay down on the spot, some lay under the corpses of their dead comrades, and some ran around. One stagnates.

"Go up, go up!"

"Don't be afraid, the more you are afraid, the more the cannon will hit you!"

"Everyone has an order, and those who retreat will be cut off!"

Many of the Zuoling and Xiaoqi schools who led the charge had participated in the war against Junggar and Huibu, and had experienced big scenes. The enemy's artillery fire deters them from advancing, and what awaits them will be more artillery.

Dahaqi, who was supervising the formation in the rear, was already mentally prepared to lose hundreds of dollars, so he waved his hand expressionlessly, and the guards immediately stepped forward to enforce the law.

"Come on! The Han people are as timid as a mouse. If you get close to them, they will run away!"

An assistant leader struggled to pick up the military flag and rushed towards the post road first. He was wearing double armor and was as tall as an iron tower, and immediately drove the surrounding Eight Banners soldiers roaring forward.

Seeing the situation in front of him, the chaotic Coat couldn't help thinking, and got up from the ground one after another to launch a shouting charge.

Cannons kept falling around, and the charging Eight Banners soldiers and the coated soldiers fell to the ground. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere on the muddy ground, and some areas were like slaughterhouses.

Finally, after paying more than [-] casualties, the Eight Banners soldiers finally rushed to the fortifications deployed by the Restoration Army on the outskirts, tore a hole in it, and immediately swarmed in.

Dahaqi was overjoyed when he saw this, and ordered the cavalry to prepare to attack, but instead of killing the puppet troops on the opposite side, he drove them back like a flock of sheep, which would make the reformation army more chaotic until the whole line collapsed.

This move was tried and tested repeatedly against the Ming army.

Often a few Eight Banners soldiers can drive dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of Ming troops to the point of crying and howling.

It was just the sound of the guns coming from the front that made Dahaqi realize that it was still too early to win.

"put!"

The gunmen of the Restoration Army lined up behind the half-person-high wooden wall, and fired their guns in turn at the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed up from outside the pass.

The firecrackers at the front quickly released their firecrackers under the cover of the wooden wall, retreated hastily to load ammunition, and the second row then stepped forward to bombard.

In the tense battle and the piercing sound of gunshots, the gunners could no longer hear the officers' orders, but relied on their instincts and the usual strict training to keep shooting, stepping back, and then stepped forward to shoot again.

The firearms equipped by the Second Army are old-style matchlock guns and new-style flintlock guns. The regiment stationed in Paoergou has 360 flintlock guns, which are faster and more powerful than matchlock guns in terms of rate of fire and power. Strong, so the regiment took all Jiang Hua's equipment into one battalion.

The dense sound of gunshots made the Xiongyue Eight Banners soldiers who broke through the outer defense miserable. Because the post road behind the breakthrough was too narrow, they not only had to bear the gunshots from the frontal reformation army, but also suffered firepower from the hillsides on both sides.

The Eight Banners soldiers and the packers who had just escaped the guns had to use their bodies to bear the blows from all directions. Although the shields were so high, many soldiers were ruthlessly knocked down by the guns.

Those who are attacking in the front are useless even if they are wearing double armor.

What's more terrible is that the reformation army ignited square pieces of medicine packs and threw them down from the slope. Suddenly, there was an explosion on the mountain pass that was more deafening than artillery firing.

Compared with the dense gunshots of the Restoration Army, the "swish" arrows of the Eight Banners soldiers sounded very weak.

After the time lasted for half a stick of incense, whether it was the Eight Banners soldiers or the wrapped soldiers who rushed in, they all turned around and ran back subconsciously.

They couldn't stand it.

The Deputy Commander Dahaqi, who was watching the battle from the rear, frowned, finally realizing that he had underestimated the Han puppet troops from the pass, no matter in terms of equipment or fighting will, they were no weaker than his Eight Banners.

If the fight continues like this, it will have no meaning other than making the warriors sacrifice needlessly.

Resolutely sent orders to withdraw the troops, while carefully observing the positions of the Restoration Army, and at the same time sent people to ask for help from General Shengjing Hongshang.

(End of this chapter)