Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 483 The war that came to an abrupt end

After Shanxi Town, Gansu Town and other roadside towns pressed forward to make room, General Huang Zhen of the Yongwei Battalion led 4000 people forward from the rear right wing, and then turned to the west, heading towards the fierce battle with Xuan Dabing. The left-wing middle army of the Qing army marched forward.

In order to ensure the final victory of this battle outside the pass, the Ministry of War, in accordance with Zhu Youjian's decree, transferred most of the brave guard battalion Zhang Kui and Huang Zhen stationed in Shanhaiguan out of the pass, leaving only 500 people guarding the pass.

Huang Zhen, who was riding on a horse, turned around and headed westward for a short distance. He saw the flags of the Qing army fluttering in the distance and smoke and dust everywhere. Not long after, a large number of Qing troops left the middle brigade and turned to face the Ming army led by him. Coming, the specific number should be no less than his group of people, the distance is two miles away, and there is no cavalry.

"Stop! The whole team!"

Huang Zhen shouted orders, and the soldiers around him blew their horns. As the soldiers in the front row stopped, the entire brigade also stopped forming.

"Check the ammo! Light the match!"

There was a rustling sound, and the soldiers completed the content of the daily drill step by step in a very short period of time.

"Enter!"

After Huang Zhen gave a loud order, he jumped off the horse.

He had heard about the strength of the Qing army's archers. Once the two sides joined forces, he would be the best target on horseback.

The distance of two miles was short for the two armies facing each other. After dozens of breaths, the two sides stopped at a distance of about one mile, and began to form their own teams, preparing to launch an attack.

The Yongwei Battalion was the first to attack. The 400 musketeers in the middle formed a five-story phalanx with [-] people in a row. The bombers and tiger crouching gunners followed closely behind the phalanx of gunners.

The [-] Qing troops who came to intercept them still adopted the same formation: more than [-] shield chariots in front, a few heavily armored infantry followed behind [-] archers, followed by a large group of infantry in cotton armor. Pawns follow.

The main reason why the Qing army has not used the cavalry until now is that the more than 1 Guanning cavalry put tremendous pressure on them.

When they followed Yue Tuo, Dorgon and others to the south, the Mongolian Eight Banners suffered heavy damage from continuous battles, and the number of cavalry was greatly reduced. Facing the threat of the Guanning cavalry on both wings of the army, the Qing army all Banner had to dispatch their respective cavalry to the two wings to confront the Guanning cavalry, so that basically all the frontal main battlefields became infantry. Even so, the number of cavalry was still thousands of cavalry behind the Guanning cavalry.

Seeing the Qing army's coats and shield carts rushing forward, Huang Zhen gave an order, and 20 of the fifty grenadiers came out, and walked quickly along the passage between the pikemen and gunmen, each The thunderbolt and the matchlock in the hands of the people are all ready.

When the shield chariot pushed by the coaters moved forward about fifty steps away from the Ming army and was about to put down the car and run back, twenty grenadiers rushed out holding the already ignited Thunderbolt. The following Qing army archers reacted, and these grenadiers had rushed forward to twenty or thirty steps away from the shield chariot, and then each of them leaned back, exerting force on their waists and arms, and at the same time, their leaning bodies suddenly bent forward, Iron bumps emitting sparks and blue smoke flew towards Bao Yi and the Qing army who hadn't reacted yet.

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for the first wave of thunder to land, twenty grenadiers swiftly took another thunder from their waists, and threw it out again amidst the explosion of the first wave of thunder, and then Turning around, Sa Yazi ran back to the main formation.

The Ming army completed all this in more than ten breaths. Before the coaters and the bow-wielding archers of the Qing army had figured it out, two waves of forty thunderbolts had already exploded in the crowd and the shield chariot. Dust and gunpowder smoke covered it within a few tens of feet, with limbs and arms flying across the area, and flesh and blood flying across the area. Shield chariots were also blown to pieces and tilted to one side, losing their function of covering the Qing army's archers.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Qing army and the obstruction of sight, the phalanx of Ming army gunners quickly moved forward twenty steps. The front row of gunners fired their guns upright and retreated to both sides. The back row followed up and quickly moved forward. Firing, all five rows of musketeers fired within [-] breaths.

Except for a few muffled firecrackers, nearly [-] blunderbusses baptized the targets within seventy paces like a torrential rain. A gust of wind blew and the smoke cleared. Inside, there are no longer any standing creatures, only a few intact shield vehicles standing alone.

The archers of the Qing army who followed closely behind the coated shield cart suffered a devastating blow. Not one of the five hundred archers survived, and none of the coated carts were spared. This sudden attack died on the spot.

The heavy armored infantry of the Qing army not far behind the archer looked at the scene in front of him and suddenly became at a loss.

Losing the suppression and support of the Ming army by the archers, coupled with the corpses and wreckage of the shield car on the path ahead, they had no way to launch an attack for a while.

At this time, the Qin Army and the Jingying Brigade on the left wing of the Ming Army also gained a considerable advantage in the battle against the two red flags.

Although the large array of archers of the two red flags brought a lot of casualties to the Qin army, the tenacious Qin army's musketeers braved the rain of arrows and launched a confrontation with the Qing army. A barrage of bullets was set up in the area, and under rounds of three-stage strikes, more than 1000 Qing army infantry were shot to the ground until the Qing army stopped attacking in fear.

The progress of the car camp in the middle road was hindered.

The three-layer artillery array piled up by the Qing army effectively blocked the direction of the Cheying. The damaged two yellow flags were able to retreat a few miles back calmly.

The frontier troops in Shanxi Town and other ministries still used the traditional style of fighting after meeting the enemy. They mobilized archers from all towns to shoot at the Qing army, and then used shields to resist the advance of the Qing army's armored soldiers with large shields, and the pikemen stabbed behind the shields.

Due to the spread of the battle formation, hundreds of cavalry Ding's soldiers under the commander-in-chief of each town could not gallop back and forth.

As for the cavalry of the two armies at the farthest sides of the battlefield, because they had their own scruples about each other, although the horses gathered, both sides sent small groups of cavalry to fight, and did not launch that kind of large-scale hedging.

The cavalry of the Qing army was smaller than the cavalry of Guanning because they were afraid of losing the protection of the main battlefield due to excessive casualties after the hedge, while Zu Dashou was not willing to let the hard-trained men suffer too many casualties. A short-lived peace was maintained in this state of mind.

As the battle between the two sides gradually unfolded, the sky gradually darkened, and before one knew it, the time had reached [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

At this moment, the Qing army suddenly sounded a long horn, and the riders sent from the two yellow flags in the middle road galloped to both sides while blowing the horn in their hands.

After hearing the sound of the horn, all the Qing troops retreated one after another taking advantage of the sufficient distance between them and the Ming army.

Sun Chuanting, who observed this situation on the building car, immediately issued an order: the whole army suspends the attack, not to advance to chase the retreating Qing army, and let the opponent retreat.

Although all the generals who received the order were greatly surprised, none of them dared to disobey the order. It didn't take long for the battlefield that was still full of gunpowder and smoke just now to return to a calm state.

　Thanks to Governor Feng Ye for the reward, and thanks again to Jiangzuo Meilang 1 for the generous reward. At the same time, I also thank all relatives who supported this book in various ways such as subscribing and voting. I am grateful for your support.

　　
　
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