Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 161 Artillery Positions
It was precisely because of this that Huang Taiji found it too unbelievable. There were no Ming army cities or strongholds to the south of the Santun camp. Where did the hundreds of artillery come from? Could it be that the Ming army had the cannons hidden in the wilderness? Bombard Santun Camp?

It has to be said that Huang Taiji's analysis is still very accurate. At this time, five miles south of the Santun camp, a total of two hundred steel cannons have been set up overnight. Under the command of Sun Yuanhua, they are firing at the three cannons. The camp was shooting and bombing wildly, and it looked like it was about to raze the three camps to the ground.

Now that the situation in Santun Camp was critical, Huang Taiji could no longer think too much. He made a prompt decision and ordered all the troops to mount their horses, quickly rush out from the south gate of Santun Camp and attack the Ming army's artillery positions!

Huang Taiji had already discovered through the battle to capture the Santun camp that although the new artillery of the Ming army was powerful and could hit farther than the Hongyi artillery, it was powerless against close targets.

In other words, if the Ming army really set up cannons in the wilderness to attack itself, then the best way is to lead the army to quickly attack the Ming army's position. As long as it is close enough to the Ming army's cannons, it can get out of the range of the Ming army. range, and then the Ming army's position can be easily defeated.

At this time, we must not make the mistake we made yesterday when we attacked Zunhua City. If we just run away blindly, we will only be passively beaten. Before we escape from the range of the Ming army, we will only be massacred by the Ming army's artillery fire. It's extremely stupid behavior.

On the contrary, taking the initiative to attack the Ming army is the best way to defeat the Ming army's artillery attack. Our own side is dominated by cavalry. The advantage is that the army's mobility is strong enough. According to the calculation of the range of the Ming army's artillery, the Ming army's position should be far away from Santun. The camp is no more than five or six miles away, and our own cavalry can kill them by clapping their horses!
The Ming army used artillery to attack, and it was extremely inconvenient to transport the artillery. The only thing they could do in the face of their own attack was to abandon the artillery and run away. The next step was to chase the Ming army themselves!

Thinking that he could finally win the game, a proud smile suddenly appeared on Huang Taiji's face.

Sun Yuanhua looked towards the direction of Santun camp with his military binoculars and saw tens of thousands of Jiannu cavalry rushing towards his own position. However, he did not feel panic because of this. Instead, he snorted coldly and murmured to himself: "How dare you come!"

Sun Yuanhua raised his hand, and all the giant steel cannons stopped firing instantly. He immediately ordered: "All the squatting tiger cannons will start firing immediately, and the riflemen will prepare in formation!"

More than 600 light artillerymen had already set up more than 300 squatting tiger cannons. As soon as Sun Yuanhua finished speaking, he began to fire wildly at the Jiannu army!

Huang Taiji suddenly stopped when he heard the Ming army's artillery fire, and felt that his analysis and decision were correct and wise. He excitedly drew out his long knife, and at the same time gave his mount a whip on his crotch, and was about to rush forward. Go, plan to kill a wave of Ming troops with your own hands, to vent the resentment held in your heart!

However, the Ming army's artillery sound only stopped for a moment, and then there was a more dense, but much smaller sound of artillery fire. Then the soldiers charging in the front row fell down in a row, and the sky Dense "iron rain" began again, and any Jiannu cavalry that entered the coverage area of ​​​​the "iron rain" was either killed or injured.

Huang Taiji hurriedly tightened the reins, but saw Mang Gurtai and Daishan flying past him, roaring: "Don't stop, charge forward and kill the Guangming Army!"

At this time, Jiannu's soldiers were all red-eyed. Without the urging of Mang Gurtai, Daishan and the others, they all rushed towards the Ming army's position with all their might.

Due to the system of the Eight Banners Army that established slaves, almost everyone is of the same race and clan. Everyone is related to each other to some extent, and there are more fathers, sons, and brothers in the army. Now that you are watching your relatives fall in front of you, can you not be anxious?Can you not fight the Ming army to the death?
However, when they finally broke out of the shelling range of the Ming Army's Crouching Tiger Artillery, they could clearly see the Ming Army's position. Each one of them couldn't help but show excited and bloodthirsty expressions. Some of them held their weapons high. With knives and spears, some draw bows and shoot with arrows, get ready to enjoy the pleasure of killing and revenge!
However, the small formation of a few thousand people in front of them did not show a trace of panic, and the Ming army did not flee in panic, abandoning their armor.

At the front of the Ming army's position, a thousand infantry gunners lined up in two groups, front and rear. They held fireguns in both hands and aimed at the Jiannu cavalry that was charging towards the position.

The moment the Jiannu cavalry entered the range of the fire cannons, five hundred fire cannons were fired in unison. As the sound of fire cannons sounded, a sheet of white smoke floated in front of the Ming army's position. Hundreds of Jiannu cavalrymen He fell down.

However, this is not the end, just the beginning. After the five hundred riflemen in the front row finished shooting, they immediately squatted down to load gunpowder and bullets. At the same time, the five hundred riflemen in the rear fired the trigger, and then squatted down. The lower body was loaded with ammunition, and the riflemen in the first row who had finished loading stood up to shoot...

The Ming army's muskets fired at Jiannu almost without any space, and the bullets came in rows. Jiannu's cavalry could not even close the distance to within the range of bows and arrows, so they could only be incompetent and furious. .

Seeing that the situation was not good for his own side, Daishan shouted to Dorgon: "Let's lead people to attack the two sides of the Ming army's position. With firepower, our people can kill them!"

Dorgon nodded immediately, and led more than 7000 people with white flags to circle towards the east gate of the Ming army's position, while Dai Shan led the Zhenghong flag and the bordered red flag to the west side of the Ming army's position.

When Huang Taiji saw Daishan and Dorgon leading two groups of people towards the east and west sides respectively, he immediately thought of their plan and quickly caught up with Mang Gurtai and told him: "Mang Gu Ertai, Daishan and Dorgon have already led people to attack the two wings of the Ming army's position. When the Ming army is in chaos later, you will lead the Zhenglan Banner and flatten this place!"

Mang Gurtai nodded immediately: "Don't worry, Khan, I will make sure that the Ming army pays for it with blood!"

Huang Taiji then looked towards the battle formation ahead. Seeing that Dorgon and Daishan had run far away and gradually disappeared from his sight, Huang Taiji suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of tension. This was He had never felt anything like this in any previous battle.

Then the tension turned into a strong uneasiness. He suddenly thought, would the Ming army have other ambushes?The Ming army should not only send such a firearms battalion of several thousand people to fight against itself. Even if they have a large number of excellent firearms, they cannot let such a team of several thousand people hang here alone.

The more Huang Taiji thought about it, the more frightened he became, until finally, he slapped his thigh and shouted: "Oops!"

Upon hearing the sound, Mang Gurtai turned around and looked at Huang Taiji, "Khan, what's wrong?"

Huang Taiji did not answer, but looked to the southeast with a solemn face. Mang Gurtai followed Huang Taiji's line of sight, and Dorgon was leading his soldiers with white flags to run away in a hurry, and he Behind him were billowing smoke and dark figures covering the horizon.Looking at the billowing smoke and black figures behind Dorgon, I knew that it was not the size of the seven or eight thousand people with white flags. It was obvious that there were pursuers behind them, and even if it was a rough estimate, there must be at least such pursuers. There are as many as 8000 to 6 people.

Dorgon was a fierce general among the Jiannu. Although he was young, he had outstanding military exploits and was very valued and loved by Huang Taiji. The white flag he led could be regarded as a battle-hardened army. It is an elite soldier who can fight against ten.

Moreover, according to Dorgon's temperament, he is not a timid person. Instead, he is young and energetic. A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. Even if he encounters an enemy several times his own, he dares to fight against it.

So why was he so frightened this time that he turned around and ran back as soon as he met the Ming army?Obviously, what he encountered was not an ordinary Ming army, but the Guan Ning cavalry whose combat power was no weaker than that of the Eight Banners soldiers. If he didn't run away, it wouldn't just be a matter of tiger or tiger, he would be simply stupid!
The inlaid white flag under Dorgon only has a strength of 8000 troops, and they may not have an absolute chance of winning against the Guanning cavalry of the same strength, let alone facing [-] Guanning cavalry plus tens of thousands of Ming troops. If you match up, you will only be wiped out by the group.

So as soon as Dorgon saw the Ming army attacking him from the east, he immediately turned his horse and withdrew, and hurriedly came to report to Huang Taiji that tens of thousands of Guan Ning cavalry and Ming troops were coming from the east. Attack and let Huang Taiji lead his troops to evacuate this place as soon as possible.

Upon seeing this, Mang Gurtai was about to lead his people forward to meet Dorgon. Huang Taiji hurriedly stopped him: "Mang Gurtai, don't go. The Ming army is powerful. Even if you go, it will be difficult to resist."

Huang Taiji already had the idea of ​​withdrawing his troops, but now that Dorgon has withdrawn, there is still no movement from Daishan.

Dorgon naturally encountered the armies of Mangui and Zu Dashou, while Daishan's side happened to run into Ma Dengyun, the Datong general who came out of Zunhua City. Ma Dengyun had a total of [-] troops, but because of him They have the mission of guarding Zunhua City, so they only have [-] soldiers and horses with them.

Daishan led two banners, the Zhenghong Banner and the Xianghong Banner, with a total strength of 5000 troops. With the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers, it was more than enough to deal with Ma Dengyun's [-] troops. Therefore, Daishan naturally would not be like Dole Gun turned around and ran away, but led his men directly to charge towards Ma Dengyun's team.

The confrontation between the two armies lasted only a quarter of an hour, and Madengyun's troops showed a great disadvantage. Daishan took the lead and attacked Madengyun.

Madengyun and Daishan fought for only thirty or fifty rounds before they could no longer hold on, so they had to flee with their troops and retreat towards Zunhua City.

Although Dai Shan wanted to kill Madeng Yun's troops in one go, but considering that his mission was to defeat the Ming army's artillery positions, and that he had to pursue Madeng Yun, it would be easy for the Ming army to ambush him if he went deep alone, so he had to let it go. Madeng Yun turned around and headed towards the west side of the Ming army's artillery position to kill.

At this moment, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses came up from the south. The tens of thousands of dark troops instantly filled Daishan's sight. However, neither Daishan nor the Eight Banners soldiers under him showed any fear at this time.

Because they had just defeated Madeng Yun's troops very easily, and the Ming army's vulnerability made them regain their confidence. Even if they faced the Ming army that was several times their own, they just felt excited!
Hou Shilu, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, who came from Yutian, and You Shiwei, the commander-in-chief of Changping, who came from Fengrun, had already joined forces, with a total of [-] troops attacking Daishan's army. However, they arrived too late and had not yet been able to fight with the army. When Madengyun joined forces, Madengyun had been defeated by Daishan and retreated to Zunhua City.

When Hou Shilu and You Shiwei saw Jiannu's troops from a distance, they quickly advanced to attack them. Unexpectedly, when faced with the attack of tens of thousands of their own troops, this army of Jiannu not only did not retreat, but instead charged head-on. , seems to want to confront himself head-on!

Although Daishan led his more than 1 soldiers and horses to kill the Ming army head-on, they did not kill the [-] Ming army head-on with a force of [-]. He first attacked the Ming army head-on. He launched a wave of charges, then stabbed diagonally at the right wing of the Ming army and killed them to the east.

Hou Shilu and You Shiwei were caught off guard, and they couldn't figure out the way to establish slaves. They followed Daishan's troops and chased them. As a result, Daishan's cavalry turned around and fired a volley, and Hou Shilu and You Shiwei then Thousands of soldiers and horses were lost.

Hou Shilu and You Shiwei could see that this army of Jiannu only had more than [-] people, and it should not be the main force of Jiannu. Although this army was brave and good at fighting, it was too small in number, and our own army had several times the enemy's strength. , as long as it is surrounded, it can be annihilated.

It's easy to surround Jiannu's troops. You just need to mobilize your troops eastward and cut off the retreat of Jiannu's troops. By then, even if they give them wings, they won't be able to escape!

Therefore, Hou Shilu and You Shiwei clung to the tail of Daishan's army, and at the same time the entire army spread out to the east, blocking Daishan's retreat.

Naturally, Daishan could see Mingjun's thoughts, so he simply turned to head south.

Originally, Daishan planned to sneak the Ming army to the east while eating away at the Ming army's strength. Should he turn around and fire arrows, kill with carbine, etc. If he could find an opportunity to defeat this Ming army, it would be best. If he couldn't, Then they detoured from the south of the Ming army's artillery position, then detoured from the east to the north, and went back to join the main army.

However, it now seems that the Ming Army is not planning to let him leave. If this is the case, then the Ming Army must suffer a lot!
Daishan led his army all the way south, and sometimes turned around to launch attacks on the Ming army behind him, causing the Ming army to lose a lot of troops. However, this small loss of troops was not considered a loss for the Ming army, which numbered 7 people. Nothing.

Hou Shilu and You Shiwei were unmoved at all, still following behind Dai Shanjun and desperately chasing after them.

At this moment, You Shiwei suddenly thought of something very scary. He was suddenly startled, reined in his horse and stood there. Hou Shilu was startled by his sudden abnormal behavior and hurriedly reined in his horse. Stopping the horse's head, he turned around and asked him: "What's wrong? Why did you stop suddenly?"

You Shiwei had a look of horror on his face, and even his voice was trembling: "We can't chase south anymore, the emperor's camp is in front of us!"

(End of this chapter)