Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 271
"The Ming army on the opposite side is not like Zu Dashou's subordinates. The Jinzhou Ming army doesn't have so many firearms, and they dare not go out of the city to fight with us. Could it be that they were dispatched from the pass?"

Shang Kexi, who was tall and slender, with shining triangular eyes, looked at the neatly arrayed Yongwei Battalion two miles away and said in doubt.

The deputy general Lu Sanchun beside him replied: "That's true. This Ming army is well-armored and closely formed. It looks very imposing. Seeing our Eight Banners army is not flustered. It is very different from the previous Ming army. The young general I feel that this gang of Ming troops is difficult to deal with, my lord, what should we do?"

Although it has been several years since Shang Kexi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Lu Sanchun is still not used to the word "slave", so he always calls himself a young general in front of his old boss.

"What's the use of just looking at the formation? It might be a silver pewter gun head—it's not good for a fancy! It's just that there seem to be a lot of cannons in the opposite city. Our red barbarian cannons were taken to Songshan by King Gongsun. If you forcefully charge forward, you may suffer a lot of casualties! My lord, do you want to tell the masters of the Eight Banners to let them charge the flank of the Ming army with cavalry, and then we will attack from the front and attack from both sides!"

Another Shang Kexi's old subordinate, lieutenant general Jiang Yongzhong, took up the conversation.

Jiang Yongzhong's proposal was echoed by Lu Sanchun: "Little Jiang is right, my lord, we are about the same number as the opponent, if Zu Dashou's subordinates, we are not afraid, but now we are not sure where the opponent is coming from. It’s best to let the cavalry charge, and let’s find out the truth!”

Shang Kexi groaned for a while and ordered: "Alright! You wait and hold back, and wait for this king to go over and discuss it in person!"

After saying that, Shang Kexi led a few guards and galloped towards the Eight Banners cavalry on the left.

Duo Bi, who was watching the formation of the Ming army with Bayan A, saw Shang Kexi arriving, and immediately rode up to meet him: "King Zhishun, what are you doing here? Why didn't you lead the army to the formation?"

Shang Kexi reined in his horse and said with a smile: "Two generals, Xiao Wang is here to ask for help; the Ming army on the opposite side is a little weird, Xiao Wang is afraid that the whole army will lose too much morale if he rashly presses up, so he wants to ask the soldiers of the Eight Banners to go first. Let's charge for a while, and after Ming's formation loosens and reveals his flaws, Xiao Wang will lead his troops to charge again!"

Duobi and Bayan'a who rushed over looked at each other and said with a smile: "King Zhishun, please go back. In the eyes of my Eight Banners, Ming people are all the same. Wait for me to break the ground for you, and you can lead your troops to do your best." Hurry up and get in!"

After Shang Kexi smiled and cupped his hands, he returned to the Han army flag position with his guards on horseback.

Duobi and Bayan'a drove their horses back to the front of the formation, Duobi said: "Tang Gudai and more than a thousand people from Xiangbaiqi should have died in the hands of this group of Ming soldiers. We must avenge this revenge! I'll wait for a while One hundred cavalry lead the charge, as soon as you see me break through the formation of enlightened people, you lead the second charge! If you can't break through, you take the rest of the troops and walk away!"

Bayan'a heard the decisive meaning in Duobi's words, so he hurriedly persuaded: "If you can't make a rush, you can come back. You don't have to rush! Don't rush for revenge. If it doesn't work, I'll take the lead!"

Duo Bi didn't say a word, but shouted loudly: "Sheng Kehun, bring your team and follow me!"

Duobi, who was deeply engrossed in the death of his cousin Tang Gudai and a thousand people, was full of hatred. He wished he could kill Nikan who was facing him, even if he paid his life for it.

Duobi pulled the reins and turned his horse's head towards the left wing of the Yongwei Camp, followed closely by the Hundred Eight Banners cavalry.Under Shang Kexi's command, the formation of the Han army flag on the front has also moved forward slowly, preparing to wait for the Eight Banners soldiers to break the formation of the Ming army and take the opportunity to cover up and kill them.

The formation of the Brave Guard Battalion is centered on the Gunslinger Battalion, the left and right wings are covered by a mixed square formation of the Sword and Shield Battalion and the Long Spear Battalion, and Feng Jun and the trumpeter who conveys the general order stand behind the formation on a simple platform built by an ox cart On the road, dozens of personal soldiers were distributed around the ox cart to guard.

When Feng Jun saw a team of Eight Banners cavalry heading straight for the left flank, he immediately gave an order. With the sound of two long and one short horns, the three rows of spearmen and one row of shieldmen on the far left under the command of the battalion officer Turning to the left, the soldiers in the front row stood next to each other, stuck the tail of the gun into the ground and stepped on it with their feet, supported the body of the gun with both hands, and pointed the long guns shining with cold light diagonally upwards.The shieldmen hold huge shields and are ready to step forward to cover at any time.

The ten French machine guns on the left side of the city have also been loaded. When they saw enemy cavalry moving on the left wing from a distance, the sentinel gave an order, and the muzzles of the ten guns turned to the left. The handle of the poker was burning red, ready to be pressed on the fire door to light the fuse at any time.

Less than two miles away from the left flank of the Ming army, the Eight Banners cavalry began to consciously narrow the distance between each other, forming a conical formation and gradually began to accelerate.Dozens of riders in the front row had already held short javelins, throwing axes, and broad-leaved knives in their hands, and were about to throw them when they rushed to the front of the Ming army about twenty steps away.

Duo Bi, who was in charge of the arrow, put his legs on his legs and his feet tightly on the stirrups, and lowered his body in a half-squat, holding a tiger-tooth gun in one hand and a hatchet in the other. He lay prone on the horse. Slowly start picking up speed.

At a distance of about [-] steps from the left wing of the Yongwei Camp, the horse speed of the Eight Banners Cavalry has reached the fastest.

Duo Bi, who was wearing a white double-breasted mail armor, only felt the whistling wind in his ears, and he was calculating the distance in his heart. After about ten breaths, he would rush to the front of the Ming army, and then he would throw the hatchet out , Then he raised the reins and jumped over the heads of the Ming soldiers in the front row, directly into the back row.The hundreds of catties of war horses and the weight of nearly two hundred catties of armor and weapons will cause several casualties of the Ming army in the back row, so that even if you die, the formation of the Ming army will be disrupted, and the tribes behind will be able to move There was a gap in the formation of the Ming army, and under the continuous impact of the second and third waves, the Ming army would only be defeated and hunted down.

Although he also found Ming army cannons on the fort wall, Duo Bi, who has fought against the Ming army for many years, knows that the cannons can only be fired once, and the accuracy is extremely poor. It's long over.

There are only a hundred steps left and twenty breaths to go before the Ming army. Although it has been a battle for a long time, this exciting feeling still makes Duo Bi's heart excited.

At this moment, as if a god of thunder had descended in the sky, earth-shattering explosions sounded one after another. Before Duobi could figure out why Mingren had so many cannons, a one-jin-heavy cannonball whizzed down from the sky with a crisp crackling sound. With a loud sound, Dobi's head was smashed to pieces like a rotten watermelon. Afterwards, his power remained undiminished, and he directly smashed his horse's tailbone.A war horse following him happened to step on the fallen horse's body, its front hooves had no way to rely on it, and then it went soft. The horse suddenly fell forward, and the Eight Banners soldiers on it were thrown out at once. When he reacted, the galloping horses behind him trampled his body into a pile of mud.

Each of the Frang machine guns with nine sub-guns was reloaded extremely fast. In a series of roars, the ten Frang machine guns basically fired three rounds, and nearly thirty projectiles weighing one catty were about to charge towards the left flank. The one hundred Eight Banners cavalrymen who came beat up their backs, and there were fallen horses and corpses everywhere on the ground. More than thirty Eight Banners cavalrymen were either dead or injured. side, but there were still more than ten cavalry in front of them escaped the impact of the bullets, and rushed to the front of the Ming army's spear formation.

When rushing to a distance of more than ten steps from the Ming army, more than a dozen short knives and flying axes flew from the hands of the Eight Banners soldiers to the spearman, and there was a scream and muffled sound. None of these thrown weapons missed, and all of them hit The dense formation of the Ming army.More than a dozen soldiers of the Ming army were either killed or injured, and the originally tight formation became slightly chaotic.

After the dozen or so soldiers of the Eight Banners had thrown the short soldiers in their hands, some of them pulled the reins and drew an arc from the spearman and ran to both sides, while most of the Eight Banners soldiers who were not afraid of death rode straight He slammed into the densely packed, flashing gun array in front of him.

When the war horse saw the sharp blade in front of him, it instinctively wanted to dodge aside, but it still bumped into it under inertia.The huge sound was accompanied by a group of people turning their backs on their backs. While stabbing the horses, dozens of spears were also broken by an overwhelming impact. Some soldiers with guns vomited blood and fell to the ground. The sliding horse crashed into the air.

The Eight Banners soldiers on the horse were directly pierced by spears with their men and horses, or were crushed by the fallen horses and could not move.

Several Eight Banners soldiers with excellent riding skills rolled off their horses before they fell to the ground, and charged at the Ming army in front of them with long spears and broadswords.

Before they got close, dozens of spears more than ten feet long stabbed from both sides or from the front. These Eight Banners soldiers were all stabbed by several spears from different positions, and they all died without screaming.

As the Eight Banners soldiers who were pressed down by the horses were stabbed to death one after another, the first wave of the Eight Banners' cavalry charge ended in failure.

Bayan Ale, who was following the first wave and controlled the horse to move forward in small steps, stopped the horse and raised one hand, and the hundred riders behind him also stopped.The Eight Banners soldiers who had no choice but to circle back after the first wave were blocked by artillery fire also came in circles.

Bayan'a looked at the scene in the distance with a gloomy expression.The Ming army was transporting the casualties to the rear, and no one cared about Jiannu's body.The spearmen in the back row stepped forward to fill in the gap left by the casualties, and the entire formation suddenly became tight again.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was too dense, and the cavalry that was facing the formation was a great threat.The second wave of Eight Banners soldiers originally wanted to get off their horses and kill them with heavy arrows when they were fifty steps ahead of the Ming army's formation. Covered by artillery fire.

"Send someone to call King Zhishun here! One hundred riders stand guard, and the rest get off their horses and rest!"

Bayan'a ordered with a cold face.

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