serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 38 It's Time

The fierce fight never started at [-]:[-], and it has been an entire hour. Henan Wei's central army and left wing have fought four times, and the offensive of the Han army camp has become weaker and weaker.

"Sprint!" shouted the officers.

"kill!"

Under the command of the officers, the pikemen shouted chant and stabbed continuously, causing the Han barracks to retreat steadily.

Suddenly, the Han army camp collapsed, retreating like a tide. The suppression of the Tartar armored soldiers was meaningless.

Looking at the two Tartars fleeing in embarrassment, the city wall was boiling. After the first victory in the battle, Emperor Jianwu looked up to the sky and laughed.

King Zhongshun: "Long live my emperor!"

Dai Quan: "Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor, long live!"

All civil and military officials roared in unison.

Niu Jizong frowned. He could see very clearly that the central army of the Han army camp showed signs of retreating, but there was no problem with the two wings. It all happened so suddenly. He raised his clairvoyance to see clearly behind the green camp. Something was hidden there, but the battlefield was filled with gunpowder and it was hard to see.

The Henan General Soldier also felt this way, and he also held up his clairvoyance. At this time, there was a commotion in the army formation of the Green Battalion, and they scattered to both sides, revealing the artillery behind them!

artillery?

The hand of Henan General Soldier holding clairvoyance trembled, and a chill came to his heart, where did the Tartars get the artillery? !

Niu Jizong was stunned. There were no less than a hundred cannons hidden behind the Green Battalion. A small part of them were mother-in-law cannons and tiger squatting cannons. Disassembled and transported from other places.

Horns sounded again in the formation of the Eight Banners Army, and thousands of North Koreans, driven by the Tazi cavalry, pushed the artillery forward. At this moment, Niu Jizong saw clearly that there were actually five Shenwei General Cannons behind them that could hit more than one mile.

"What should we do?" Emperor Jianwu couldn't help but glance at Niu Jizong.

"Mingjin retreat!" This was Song Chengliang's voice.

"It's too late!" Niu Jizong put down his clairvoyance, pointed to the distance and said, "The Tartar cavalry has moved to the right flank of Henan Wei."

Shi Ding: "Let the Shenji Battalion adjust the artillery positions and destroy the artillery of the Tartars."

Niu Jizong: "No, as long as we adjust the artillery, the Eight Banners armored soldiers on the other side will rush up. Their goal is the Beijing camp."

King Beijing was surprised: "Can we just watch Henan Wei get bombed?"

King Zhongshun: "If Henan Wei is defeated, the Beijing camp will also be hit by the rout, and the defeat will still be unavoidable."

Emperor Jianwu took a deep breath, and ordered: "They are all the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are all my people. There is no distinction between high and low. Let the Shenji Battalion adjust the artillery positions and quickly destroy the artillery of the Tartars."

Shi Ding was astonished and turned his head to look at the emperor.

All the officials were stunned.

King Zhongshun: "You didn't hear what the emperor said!"

Shi Ding couldn't help but glanced at Niu Jizong, turned around and walked down the tower.

Niu Jizong silently took a step back and lowered his head.

E Bi's information was still inaccurate. The Shenji Battalion only had less than fifty three-round imitation Xiyi field artillery that could fire for more than two miles.

"Adjust the artillery position and destroy the Tartar's artillery."

With an order, the gunners began to pull the cannon and constantly adjusted the angle of the muzzle. Just when the Tartar gunners lit the fuse, a Xiyi field cannon fired first, and a five-jin iron cannonball carried dense smoke. It hit the Tartar artillery position, and a Tartar gunner was directly headed off, and then the rest of the artillery fired one after another, and dozens of shells flew towards the Tartar artillery position.

This round only knocked out seven or eight Tartar artillery pieces, but overturned the five Shenwei General Cannons directly, and the nearby Tartar gunners were all bloody and bloody from the shards of the fired gun mounts, and fell to the ground and howled. stand up.

Sometimes it is not a good thing to be big, and it is easy to be set on fire.

As the artillery shells from the Shenji Battalion continued to fall, the Tartars also began to bombard Henan Wei. At least two shots can be fired, and even skilled gunners can fire three shots. The tiger squatting gun is loaded with 100 small lead weights of 5 yuan each time, and a large lead bullet of 30 taels is used to press the top. When fired, the large and small projectiles fly out together. , The killing range is very large.

The fierce shelling by the Tartars caused heavy casualties to the Henan Guard, and even caused panic among the soldiers, especially the soldiers of the right-wing Baoding Sanfu Patrol Battalion. If there were no officers to suppress them, they would probably desert.

Every shelling of the Shenji Battalion can overturn more than ten Tartar artillery pieces, but as the Tartar cannons became more and more accurate, the Henan Commander-in-Chief panicked a little. The cavalry was always solid as a rock, but now they can only be beaten passively, losing their lives in vain.

Amidst the whistling sound, lead fell into the right wing like raindrops, and blood holes were punched out of the soldiers of the three prefectures of Baoding. Courage, collapsed, someone yelled, threw away the spear in his hand and fled backwards.

A knife was thrown on the ground, and another long gun was thrown on the ground. The soldiers of the patrol battalion fled backward like a tide. The generals of Henan Wei were shocked. The personal soldiers galloped to the front of the disintegrated patrol battalion, and shouted loudly: "Don't retreat! Everyone go back and stabilize the formation."

Seeing that no one listened to the order, he drew out his waist knife and beheaded more than a dozen rout soldiers in a row, and finally stopped the rout soldiers. At this moment, the artillery positions of the Tartars were full of flames again, and the patrol battalion was filled with smoke and dust. He jumped up, and there was a rain of blood, the gunpowder smoke cleared, and the Henan Chief Soldier and his soldiers shot bloody arrows one after another, and fell backwards.

Another cannon was hit.
E Bi took a deep breath: "It's really accurate!"

Yong Qi sneered: "Henan soldiers collapsed!" She raised her hand.

Apparently it was planned long ago, the low-pitched ox horn blew again, and ten thousand Zhenglan Banner armored soldiers suddenly mobilized, galloping their horses and charging forward with swords raised.

"kill!"

The Jinzhou guard took the lead and shouted loudly: "Kill all the Han thieves, leave no one behind!"

"Tartar, it's a Tartar!"

The fleeing patrol battalion exploded immediately. They screamed and fled in all directions. Driven by the Zhenglan Banner, they crushed the Henan Wei Central Army and the left wing. The army collapsed, and the field was full of broken soldiers.

Liu Fang's face was livid, he could see the situation on the Henan Wei side clearly, and he understood that they had done their best, the five rounds of shelling were over, and the Tartar gunners who survived by chance were taking advantage of the gap to change their gun positions, and the Eight Banners armored soldiers on the other side also After starting the movement, Liu Fang drew out her sword and ordered: "The whole army goes out!"

The lieutenant immediately understood and responded loudly, "Yes!"

The drums were loud.

"go ahead!"

Following the officer's order, the soldiers lined up and moved forward, with sword and shield soldiers in front, gunfire soldiers in the middle, and spearmen in heavy armor guarding the wings and behind.

Amidst the sound of orderly footsteps, they strode forward. The indomitable and unstoppable momentum brought great psychological pressure to the green battalion soldiers.

Seeing Zhou Jun getting closer, there was a commotion in the formation of the green battalion soldiers.

Seven hundred steps. Five hundred steps. Three hundred and fifty steps. Finally, the sword and shield soldiers stopped at a distance of 350 steps and lined up in front.

"The first row comes forward, ready to release!"

A thousand gunners from the first row of the Shenji camp fire gunners took a collective step forward. Their muzzles pointed at the green battalion soldiers in front of them. There was a dense sound of gunfire guns, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose. With screams, hundreds of people fell to the ground and struggled in pain.

Looking at the passively beaten Green Battalion soldiers, the Tazi officer cursed secretly, "Idiot!", and ordered, "Go up!"

The general of the Green Battalion was stunned, and it took him a long time to say: "The shell has no eyes, it will hurt your own people."

The Tartar officer snorted coldly and said, "I will make up for you as many people are missing."

The general swallowed his saliva, and replied: "Hey!" He shouted to the messenger: "The whole army is dispatched!"

Tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers rushed forward with shouts.

"Let the second team go!"

"The third team is ready!"

"Aim and shoot!"

Accompanied by the sound of firecracker salvos, the Green Battalion soldiers fell down in pieces, and the Tartar gunners on the side also rebuilt their artillery positions and began to shell the Beijing Battalion.

boom!
There was a loud bang, and the Tarzi artillery positions were filled with flames again, thick smoke billowed from the army formation, hundreds of soldiers with swords and shields rolled back and forth on the ground mournfully, and huge blood holes appeared on many of them.

Liu Fang ordered: "Go forward!"

The drums sounded, and the army marched forward again in neat steps. Thousands of sword and shield fighters burst into shouts, and they waved their weapons and swept towards the green battalion soldiers.

Seeing the two armies fighting together, the gunners of the Tartars stopped their shelling, but soon launched a more violent shelling. With a loud noise, many Zhou soldiers and green battalion soldiers fell to the ground. At this time, the artillery on the city wall fired. Roaring, dozens of seven-jin iron bullets smashed into the formation of the Eight Banners armored soldiers, and the gunners of the Shenji Battalion also finished cleaning and cooling the gun bores, and started shelling the Tartar artillery positions again.

Under the command of the officer, the gunfire soldiers of the Shenji camp lined up in an orderly formation and slowly advanced to shoot, causing heavy casualties to the green battalion soldiers.

The Eight Banners armored soldiers who moved to the left wing of the Beijing camp rushed over against the Guang'anmen artillery fire. The heavy armored pikemen had already lined up, and rows of long spears were erected. The bows and arrows failed to bring much results. The ferocious Eight Banners soldiers chose to charge directly into the pikemen's positions. The pikes stabbed straight at the horses, and the horses screamed. Flying out, the eight-layer spear array was directly penetrated through the fifth layer, which stopped the impact of the eight-banner soldiers. Under the command of the officer, the remaining pikemen changed their tactics, and became the first row holding up, and the second row. The first row is slightly upward, and the third row is obliquely upward.

Under the command of the officer, they stabbed continuously, and the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed up were stabbed by several long spears in a blink of an eye, and the horses hissed back, beating the Eight Banners soldiers back steadily.

There was chaos on the battlefield. Seeing the rout soldiers fleeing towards Guang'anmen, the Jinzhou guard shouted loudly: "Kill, annihilate the Beijing camp!" He reined in his horse and galloped away first.

The Zhenglan Banner armored soldiers slammed into the right wing fiercely.

The Beijing camp, which was attacked from the front and back, was as motionless as a boulder in a heavy rain. However, everyone knew that without the support of reinforcements, the defeat of the Beijing camp was only a matter of time.

At this moment, a low-pitched trumpet sounded from the southeast, followed by the earth-shattering sound of horseshoes. In the distance, a large group of cavalry was heading towards the battlefield!
Yong Qi also found a large group of sturdy cavalry behind her.

E Bi's face became serious, and he shouted loudly: "Array!"

All the White Armored Soldiers and Sauron Soldiers lined up quickly and orderly!
(End of this chapter)