Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 104 Collapse at the first touch!

While dramatic changes were taking place in the imperial city, fierce fighting was raging outside Tianjin.

"put!"

The densely packed musketeers held their flintlock rifles, pulled the triggers, and then quickly retreated to make room for the soldiers in the back row.

Thousands of muskets fired at the same time, the sound was no less powerful than the artillery fire just now.

"Bang bang bang~~"

Before this, the musketeers had been practicing target practice every day, and even when they returned to Beijing to rest, they had no free time, so this attack was like the wrath of thunder.

They fell into the Tatar cavalry like dense rain, reaping another harvest.

At a distance of a hundred steps, for the Ming army's musketeers, the enemy's bows and arrows could not reach them at all, and there was no danger or pressure at all, so their movements did not change at all.

"Put it back!"

"..."

As they were rushing forward, hundreds of Manchu Tartars in front of them suddenly fell to the ground in chaos.

Some people roared and some people screamed.

Gushan Ezhen Erhe was dead, and the command was taken over by Jiala Zhangjing under him.

But looking at this tragic scene, I couldn't help but tremble with my heart and shiver all over.

One hundred steps, these last one hundred steps, but the casualties were too heavy.

Several Manchu warriors were about to rush to the Ming army, but suddenly found several bloody holes on their bodies and their horses. It was as if all the strength in their bodies had been sucked away by the Eternal Heaven. They fell off their horses and died with their eyes open.

After their last experience, the Yongwei Battalion, the Beijing Battalion, and the White Spear Soldiers were not at all panicked.

The white-pole soldiers were in front of the artillery, the cavalry were ready on both wings, and the musketeers in the front continued to load and fire.

"put!"

"..."

"Put it back!"

"..."

The flag bearer of the Ming Dynasty waved the flag: "Fifty steps!"

"The musketeers retreat, the cavalry attack!"

The movement state of the cavalry is the movement state of the horse, and the horse needs a certain distance to run.

Rumble~
The Ming cavalry began to move like a flood.

They stabbed straight into the enemy's "ribs" from both wings like two sharp knives.

The Qing cavalry's formation was completely disrupted.

They fought with the Qing troops, but after only two charges, the Ming cavalry retreated, and the Ming's musketeers advanced again.

……

As we all know, the level of equipment determines the way of combat.

There has been a rule since the beginning of cold weapons, that is, when offensive weapons are dominant, the war will easily develop into long-range combat.

When defensive equipment is dominant, it is easy to turn into close combat, that is, contact combat, close-range armor-piercing combat.

Now that the Ming Dynasty was using firearms to fight the Manchu Tartars, it was at a critical juncture of alternating between long-range and close combat.

The Qing Dynasty thought that the Ming Dynasty would still mainly rely on field battles and contact warfare in the form of cavalry and infantry, but they did not expect that the Ming Dynasty's offensive means had already far surpassed those of the Qing Tartars.

Cavalry and contact combat were only used to keep the Manchu Tartars at bay; the real power came from artillery and muskets.

Cao Huachun, Li Banghua, Qin Liangyu and others had already transformed their equipment advantages into combat advantages and established a set of combat tactics.

Minimize your weak melee disadvantage and maximize the advantages of ranged equipment.

However, the Manchu Tartars had never experienced this kind of fighting style, so they were stunned the moment of contact.

This is a bit like the Mongol whip sweeping across Europe.

After only two battles, the Ming army was well aware of the characteristics of long-range combat. As long as I can touch you but you can't reach me, I can fight you the way I want.

If you want to get into your range, you will have to pay an unimaginable price.

And when you think you are within my firing range, my melee cavalry will start charging, breaking up your formation and making it impossible for you to get close to the artillery and musketeers.

This was very difficult for the Manchu Tartars, because it meant that all their previous battle plans and deployments against the Ming army had become invalid.

What else can they do to be so aggressive?

……

"We can't get through!" murmured Jiala Zhangjing, who was in charge of the command.

He issued the order to charge twice in succession, but still failed to break into the Ming army.

Because in addition to the artillery and musketeers, there are also tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty spearmen.

Even though more than a dozen Qing soldiers rushed to the front of the Ming army, they were quickly overwhelmed and crushed into a mass of flesh and blood.

Seeing that the Qing army's casualties were further increasing, he finally realized that it was impossible for them to defeat the Ming army in front of them.

"Om~"

Jiala Zhangjing suddenly lowered his body, but a Tartar next to him was hit by a flying cannonball, which broke half of his body and his intestines and internal organs were scattered all over the ground.

"withdraw!"

"Retreat!" The Jiala Zhangjing was so frightened that his scalp went numb. He no longer cared about charging at the Ming army. He howled at his guards, turned his horse around and ran away. "Toot...toot..."

As he ran and the horn sounded, the Qing soldiers following him also fled.

They fled, leaving behind thousands of corpses and horses.

……

"Cavalry, charge!" The Ming army's flag-bearer waved the flag.

The Ming cavalry, which had rested, went out again and chased after them, but they only chased for five miles. Huang Degong had been waiting for this moment.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

"Brothers, it's time to make achievements and earn money." Sun Yingyuan shouted, holding a silver spear in his hand and patting the horse's butt hard.

The same is true for the Yongwei Camp, the Jing Camp, and the Baigan Soldiers.

In their eyes, these people are just walking fifty taels of silver!
Although His Majesty said that a reward of fifty taels of silver would be given for killing a Manchu Tartar, Commander Cao made a rule that the number of people killed by artillery and muskets could not be counted, and for each Tartar killed, the artillery and musket soldiers would be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and the other types of soldiers would be rewarded with five taels.

The remaining silver was added to the public accounts of the three major camps.

They will use the money to buy more cannons and muskets.

As for the cavalry, if they could kill the Tartars directly, that would be a real reward of fifty taels.

Moreover, after the previous two battles and this one, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all full of fighting spirit and their eyes were bloodshot.

I wish I could rush to the Tartar immediately and hack him to death on his horse.

Not to mention chasing the defeated soldiers.

"Ahhh..." The Ming army slapped their horses' buttocks hard, roaring and shouting like crazy, and rushed towards the Tartars.

I just hope I can run faster so I can catch up with the enemy. Even if I can only chop off one head, I will win the battle.

Especially the veterans who had participated in the previous two battles, their knives were extremely sharp and they could knock down an enemy with one strike.

Although the new recruits were a little panicked, they fought bravely and killed the Tatars crazily in this excitement.

As for the Tartar heads that rolled on the ground, we will harvest them when they come back.

Because they can only chase for ten miles!

Sure enough, not long after, the Ming army rode back again.

A soldier jumped off his horse, cut off the head of the Tartar and stuffed it into the bag behind him.

in Apple pie order.

There were very few cases of fighting over heads or military merits.

Because everyone knew who had killed how many people and where they were killed along the way, and the people around them also witnessed it.

If there was a dispute, the leading general would come out to preside over it and it would be over because there would be a big battle to come.

Huang Degong returned to the camp with a dozen heads on his back, and happened to meet Sun Yingyuan.

"These Tartars are getting more and more slippery. They run really fast!"

"I'm afraid that after they have tasted our artillery, they will not dare to fight again." Sun Yingyuan said this time with some lingering feeling.

Military orders are as firm as mountains. In order to prevent the cavalry from being ambushed by the Tartars, Cao Huachun only allowed the pursuit to last ten miles.

Anyone who violates this rule will be executed immediately for violating military orders.

The three camps have a total of 30,000 cavalrymen, and these 30,000 cavalrymen are an indispensable part of the tactics. According to the orders of the emperor and the Grand Council: once more than half of the cavalrymen are lost, it means that the three camps will face great risks and must return to Beijing immediately.

In a distance of ten miles, even if the cavalry was surrounded, Cao Huachun's central army could arrive quickly and avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.

Following them back was Ma Xianglin. He only killed six people. Ma was also shot by the Tartars and had a look of anger on his face.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Shize came back covered in blood. He grinned and said, "Neither of you two can beat me this time, right?"

Behind him was a pile of severed heads, and judging from the size, there must be at least twenty of them.

"You killed them all by yourself?"

"Of course not. I was luckier than you. I was chasing a group of Qing soldiers, but they ran to a river... How could I let them run away again?" Zhang Shize smiled from ear to ear, and he didn't even notice that there was a cut on his stomach.

After handing over the heads, several people walked towards the central military camp together.

……

The central camp of the Ming army.

"Commander-in-chief, we killed 1,600 enemies this time, captured 800 war horses, gold and silver..."

Cao Huachun, Li Banghua, Qin Liangyu, Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong and others were discussing the gains and losses of this battle, as well as the arrangements for the next war.

The Jinyiwei were responsible for recording and sending the information to the capital along with the battle reports.

"Report!" The messenger from the Embroidered Uniform Guard rode forward.

"The troops from Xuanda led by Lu Xiangsheng and the troops from Jiliao have already arrived thirty miles north of Tianjin City."

Cao Huachun nodded, "Okay!"

Prior to this, the Embroidered Uniform Guard had already reported the location of the troops on the southern front.

That is, the troops from Shandong, Baoding, Leiden and other places are still more than eighty miles away from here.

He then gave orders to his personal soldiers, "Order the three battalions to rest for half an hour before setting out and advancing forward."

"The cavalry blocked all exits to the west from Tianjin. We will also teach the Manchu Tartars a lesson on what it means to give someone a taste of their own medicine."

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