Win the Ding 1617

After the feast, all the people satiated and dispersed to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Only Duo Duo stayed in front of the second brother Duo ErGun.

"Brother, how will we fight tomorrow's battle? You have to make up your mind!"

The three brothers, Azige, Dorgon, and Duoduo, should act as one when they encounter problems.But it would be a lie to say that there is no conflict between the three people. In order to compete for the position of the banner owner of the Zhengbai Banner, Azig and Dorgon left some grievances. Feelings are the best.When encountering such a major event that concerns one's future and destiny, it is natural for the resourceful second brother to come up with a plan.

Duoduo was originally famous for his bravery and strength among the Eight Banners, but after hearing Abatai's introduction and seeing the fate of the two old nephews, he couldn't help being a little afraid.If he compromised too much his military strength in order to vent his anger on the two red flags, he might not only get no rewards but someone would take the opportunity to make trouble when he returned to Shengjing.

"Second brother, will my two white flag troops really want to fight to the death with the Nanzhong army tomorrow?"

There was no one in the tent, and the two brothers happened to have a secret discussion.

Dorgon took the wooden box from the side and took out Yue Tuo's gold-plated helmet, "A fight to the death? If we lose, you and my brother will be with Yue Tuo and Du Du as companions."

"However, according to detailed reports, the Zhongnan Zhongjun in Changqing City has no more than [-] soldiers, and at most thousands of soldiers can fight!"

"It was these thousands of soldiers who defeated more than [-] people from the two red flags!"

Dorgon suddenly stood up, and walked quickly in the tent.

"If we suppress all these troops, even if we annihilate the South Central Army. What else can we gain besides the numerous casualties? You and my brother rely on the population of tens of thousands of flags in these two white flags to survive in the Qing Dynasty. Standing on our feet, that fat man will tolerate us! If we lose too many soldiers and horses, and return to Shengjing, it will be the end of Mangurtai and Amin!"

Huang Taiji was ungrateful and merciless, and his seniority, strength, and prestige were all greatly insufficient when he first ascended the throne.The situation is very embarrassing.Ming is a profuse sweat, but in fact he is no more than Baylor under one banner.Among the four great Baylors, Dai Shan relies on the old to sell the old, and Amin is rebellious.Manggurtai became more and more arrogant.For the sake of power, he did not hesitate to kill his own brothers and uncles one after another.After this series of actions, his position and power were stabilized.Even ascended the throne as the emperor.After entering the customs several times, they were captured.Prestige is in full swing.For this incident, Doduo also shudders every time he thinks about it.

"That?"

"Tomorrow's battle, I will use the firecrackers I collected after entering the customs against the South Central Army. In the future, we will use the firecrackers to fight the firecrackers."

"This is the best! Those Nikan savages are the ones who hurt the horses! Ours are not damaged at all!"

For those Nikan firearms who gathered around after the second brother entered the customs.Duoduo didn't count them in his own strength. Although there were a few Niulu's coated firecrackers who fought with white flags, he still didn't regard these soldiers as his foundation in his heart.

On the 12th of the first month of the 24th year of Chongzhen, in the morning.

Getting up early in the morning, the camps of both sides were full of horns, and the brigades kept rolling out, preparing for the battle in front of their own camps.

It can be said that the elites of both sides came out in full force, and the South Central Army dispatched 5000 troops, with many artillery in front of the formation.As for Dorgon, [-] troops were dispatched.There are more than ten thousand people serving as the reserve team in the battalion, as long as they spy on the slightest weakness of the Nanzhong Army, the whole army will rush forward like a hurricane.

The soaring murderous intent of the two sides caused a few snowflakes to float from the sky, and they fell to the ground and melted in a blink of an eye.

Waking up early in the morning, horns sounded one after another in the camps of both sides. Most of the troops left their camps like a torrent, and lined up in front of the camps.Both sides in this battle came out in full strength, and the South Central Army dispatched 5000 troops, leaving only a small number of troops and those lightly wounded to guard the county with the Changqing official army.On the other hand, Dorgon dispatched [-] horses, and the rest were peeping in the camp, and if there was an opportunity, the whole army would immediately press up.

On the South China Army's side, the old method was still used. More than [-] firecrackers lined up in three long rows, from south to north, blocking the roads leading to Changqing County and Tai'an.In front of the blunderbuss lineup, more than a hundred cannons were lined up in a show of power, and the gunners stood behind the cannon carriages with their heads held high and their hands holding matchlocks.A scout had already come to report that in order to pursue the marching speed, this Jiannu did not carry too many artillery pieces.

On both sides of the entire queue, nearly a thousand cavalry were responsible for guarding and supporting guerrillas.

The dense artillery, galloping horses, and the fiery red armor and banners in the standing crowd seemed to be beyond sight.

"This Nanzhong Army is really not comparable to the Xianming Army!"

On his horse, with the help of binoculars, Dorgon had a panoramic view of the formation of the South China Army.He couldn't help but let out an admiration.

In Dorgon's memory, no matter whether his father Khan was fighting, Huang Taiji led the army, or he himself led the army and horses, if the Ming army encountered such an array, it would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Qing soldiers and iron cavalry.Why can the Nanzhong Army repeatedly defeat soldiers and horses of various banners?

"Rao Yu Baylor, take a look, is this formation commonly used by the South China Army?"

After applauding, Dorgon focused his attention on Abatai.

"I was ordered by the general to be in this formation. General Yangwu and Anping Baylor fell into the sand in front of this formation the day before yesterday, and suffered a great loss! The southern barbarians have always bombarded our army formation with artillery first, and when our army entered the fire After the range of the blunderbuss, they fired back and forth with blunderbusses, and then they used the cavalry to attack and trample on them."

"It's just these three axes! Seventh brother, today the general of Japan will use his own way to deal with his own body! Break through the Nanman formation with firecrackers!"

Amid the sound of the horn, 3000 gunners carefully collected by Dorgon stepped out slowly.

They didn't have the neat pace of the Nanzhong Army, they just walked on foot. After walking a long distance, the formation twisted and twisted.

"In today's battle, if there is one person who dares to retreat and give up his weapons, the whole team will be killed!"

This most cruel and ruthless military discipline, commonly known as "drawing out the team and beheading", was initiated by the Emperor Zhu Wen of the Later Liang Dynasty.

The team of 3000 people is like a long python, slowly marching westward.The queue consisted of 50 people, and they lined up. In front of each team, apart from the team officer and the leader Niu Luguan Banner, there were rattan players and spearmen.

Thirty firearms players from each team trotted all the way to the front of the South China Army formation closely following the rattan players and pikemen.

"This group of thieves! You are so cunning!"

Mai Tiansheng observed carefully with the artillery mirror for a while, and found that it was difficult to use artillery fire to strike such a marching column. Such artillery bombardment required too high a technical level of the artillery, and the killing effect of solid bullets was considered to be the same as that of shells falling. It is also difficult to cause the ideal killing effect when joining the team.

"Strange! What kind of formation is this Dorgon in?"

It can be seen clearly through the telescope.This army also uses firecrackers as the main weapon.Shou Han was very confident that the group of Erdazi would know what musket tactics were, but this incomprehensible formation made Shou Han sweat a little in his hand holding the binoculars.

"Father. Could it be our phalanx tactics?"

Li Huabao, who was closely following Li Shouhan, blinked his eyes and looked at the slowly approaching team in the distance to put forward his own opinions to his father.

soon.The musketeers who measured that they had already passed the optimal killing distance of those cannons.Morale boosted.Following the orders of the leaders of each brigade, like Avalokitesvara with thousands of hands and eyes, the entire marching column changed from a large brigade to three horizontal brigades.These three horizontal formations immediately stretched out to the two wings, like a pair of huge arms, stretched out to the two wings of the South Central Army.

"A wild goose formation? Or a crane formation?" Hua Bao, who had read a lot of military books, searched his mind where he had seen such a formation.

Each team is covered by rattan players in front, buying time for the gunners behind them to line up.The entire formation gradually unfolded. Looking from the direction of the South China Army, the formation of the two white flag gunners formed a huge inner horoscope.

"Strange! Thirty musketeers are still arranged in five rows, and each row has no more than six people. What role can it play!?"

The child's eyes were sharp, and Hua Bao immediately saw the layout of the musketeers in the two teams at the top of the horoscope facing him.

"Dry mother!"

Shou Han was awakened by his son's words. This seems to be the blunderbuss tactics of the Manchus from the beginning of the entry of the customs to the period of the Opium War.

Damn!Today, let me try which of the two tactics is more powerful, queuing up and shooting vs. crouching with the tiger!

Shou Han gritted his teeth, "Send the order, the firecrackers step forward! The artillery team is ready to suppress!"

Hearing the sound of the horn, Wu Biao, who was the commander of the former enemy today, couldn't help but smile: "Finally, it's time to fight! This damn weather is so cold that my balls are about to fall!"

"Boys! It's a great opportunity for the slave chief Dorgon to come here! Anyone who doesn't want to get promoted and get rich, just hide behind and wait to see others count the money! Today, I will let the general who is ordered by this slave be my guard." The captive under the knife of the soldiers of the brigade! Let him have a good taste of the majesty of the soldiers of our South China Army!"

He shouted: "All of them have guns!"

"Guns!"

Amidst the shouting orders of the officers one after another, there was an orderly sound of "cracking", and no matter whether the gunfire soldiers or the sword and shield soldiers in the army, they all held their weapons firmly in their hands, and a neat forest of gunfire immediately appeared.

"go ahead!"

The marching drums of each regiment and battalion in the queue sounded, and along with the drumbeats, three rows of musketeers began to move forward slowly with their guns in hand.Three rows of firecrackers, more than a thousand people in each row, formed an array like a forest like a wall and came towards the east.

Looking west from the east, a red sea hits head-on.Iron helmets, breastplates, red robes, and flags, following people's footsteps, layers of undulating and flickering red light scales dazzled the eyes of the generals with two white flags.

Thousands of them came in neatly, and they didn't need to form a team when they moved forward.Invisibly, there is a lot of pressure on people. The closer the team is, the stronger this pressure will be.There are only three thousand people in the area, and there seems to be an infiltration momentum of thousands of troops.

"The general was ordered to express his gratitude to General Li for his gift of wine and meat. Today, he will be the supervisor and lead the athletes to fight with all his strength to make the general smile!"

In front of the broad front of Fuhu Kaishan, an officer held a white flag and shouted Dorgon's greetings to Li Shouhan at the oncoming South Central Army officers and soldiers.

"The general has an order! Those who capture and kill the puppet Qing are ordered by the general Dorgon and his younger brother Duoduo to be rewarded with [-] gold coins. The official will be promoted to four ranks!"

As the officers of the South Central Army read out the price of rewards offered by Shouhan to Dorgon and Duoduo one after another, the two armies got closer.

"The gunner, check the powder, light the match..."

"Fireballer, check the sub-drugs, open the tap!"

The commanders of the two armies greeted their subordinates to prepare for shooting.

"Fire!"

When the nearest teams were less than forty steps away, Wu Biao gave the order to fire, preparing to use bullets as fast as a storm to knock out the forward parts and push them one by one.

The firecrackers sounded like popping beans, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose.On the opposite side, more than twenty gunfire soldiers with two white flags fell down.

With the help of the cover of the rattan player.The first round of firecracker strikes did not achieve the brilliant results as before.In addition to the shielding effect of the rattan badge, the front and rear arrangement of the two white flag gunners reduced the lethality of the gunners.

"Second brother, this method really works! Nanman's firecrackers are no longer so easy to use!"

Duoduo clearly saw the situation in the distance with the help of a telescope.Can't help but dance with excitement.

"Don't worry. Let's see how effective our firecrackers are!"

After the Nanzhong Army made its first salvo.The firecrackers of the two white flags also started firing.

Unlike the Nanzhong Army's line-up salvo, they were several teams closest to the Nanzhong Army firing at the same time.And according to the queue, under the cover of the guards of the rattan players in front of the team.Five rows of firecrackers fired uninterruptedly one after another.After the five rows of musketeers finished shooting, regardless of the shooting effect, they immediately retreated rapidly and retreated a hundred steps away to reload.

At the same time, several adjacent phalanxes immediately stepped forward to shoot the same.

The firecrackers of the two white flags were like a machine, advancing and retreating one after another, cyclically, firing at the troops of the South Central Army not far away.

For a while, people in the formation on both sides kept making muffled sounds, being hit by flying projectiles, or simply a projectile hit the iron helmet, causing their brains to burst.

"Bang bang bang" and "porphy porphyr" the firecrackers kept ringing, and brilliant flames spewed out from the muzzle, accompanied by a large amount of dense gunpowder smoke, which condensed into a thick layer of smoke over the two armies .

Accompanied by the sound of the volley of firecrackers, bloody arrows sprayed out from both sides of the gunmen on both sides, and they fell down in pieces.

The firecrackers of the Nanzhong Army are all flintlocks. Compared with wrought iron barrels, the barrels made of ductile iron can withstand stronger pressure and more charge, and at the same time have stronger Lethality and armor-piercing power.At forty or fifty steps, which is the distance between the two armies now, the cotton armor on the two white flag gunners can be penetrated.Moreover, the ammunition of the South China Army is all fixed ammunition, which minimizes the charging process.Compared with the arquebus or Lumi gun in the hands of the two white flags, the effect is not the same.

The gunners of the two white flags used the crouching tiger to open the mountain formation to effectively widen the shooting distance with the South China Army. The chances of gunners surviving on this battlefield full of bullets.Although there are not many gunners in each row, the five rows of gunners ensured the continuity of the gunners' firing. Within a period of time, the gunners of the Nanzhong Army who fired the gunners and then had no time to turn around and retreat, and loaded the ammunition were deadly. blow.

In a blink of an eye, hundreds of people from both sides fell in front of the gunfire formation.

Both sides are gritting their teeth and persevering, expecting the other side to collapse first in the process of shooting each other.The soldiers of the Nanzhong Army knew that if they were defeated, they would die of cold and starvation waiting for them in Shandong.Rather than letting the family suffer from their own troubles, it is better to die bravely in battle.And those two-white-flag coaters thought about the cruel discipline that if anyone dared to retreat, the whole team would be killed. Even though their faces were as gray as tiles, they had to mechanically load ammunition, raise their guns, and shoot.

At the rear of the military formations of both sides, their respective generals watched this scene stunned and sweating profusely.

"Damn it! Who said that the Manchus only knew how to shoot with swords and guns? Isn't this firecracker much better than the officers and soldiers?" Shou Han jumped off his horse and yelled at the Chinese army.In just ten minutes, the South Central Army suffered at least two hundred casualties.Such a large number of casualties in such a short period of time is the first time this has been encountered since the Shou Han raised troops.Moreover, it was the firecracker tactics that the Nanzhong Army was always proud of that caused such casualties!

"Mai Tiansheng! Those cannons of yours, let me fire from both wings, suppressing the enemy from the rear and preventing them from approaching!"

"Send a signal to Wu Biao, don't get entangled with the Jiannu firecracker any longer, put on the bayonet, and charge up!"

"Huang Yishan, Yanlong, let me lead the cavalry to rush up from the two wings! Let me mess up the flanks and rear of the Jiannu firecracker team!"

In the army formation of the two white flags, a group of Jialazhangjing and Meilezhangjing also had pale faces and cold hands and feet.How much courage does it take for both sides to stand and shoot like this?In the future, I dare not say that Nanman is cowardly!Even the brothers Duduo and Dorgon didn't dare to say a word, as if they were afraid of disturbing the soldiers in front of them.

"Second brother! Your hard work these days is not in vain! This group of slaves really fought well! If they hadn't gone up first, you and I might lose a lot of people in the two banners today!"

"Prince Yu! Wait a minute, those Nanban artillery and cavalry seem to have moved!" Abate, who had been staring at the progress of the battle ahead with a telescope in his hand, nervously reported the latest progress to the fourteenth and fifteenth brothers.

Amidst the loud noise of the artillery, the shells of the eight-pound guns placed on the two wings roared and flew out of the muzzle.

The right arm of the team officer of the frontmost team on the right wing of Fuhu Kaishan Formation was directly smashed by the shell, and his whole body was also limp on the ground.Then the iron ball rushed into the phalanx of firecrackers wrapped in flesh and blood, making toothache crackling sounds incessantly, the seven-jin iron ball swept off the arms, legs and feet of several people.In the end, it also tore open the abdomen of a gunner, causing liver and intestines to flow all over the ground, and only then did the last few bounces stop.

There was a hissing and crying, and several wounded sergeants lay on the ground rolling and howling.Looking at their miserable appearance, the lucky ones beside them all looked pale.

The sound of crying father and mother continued, and hot iron balls roared into the formation of the two white-flag firecrackers, causing flesh and blood, hands and feet to fly in the formation, screaming and wailing together.

The farthest distance between the two armies is only more than 200 steps, and all kinds of artillery equipped by the South China Army can easily penetrate. Less than shooting essentials.In desperation, Mai Tiansheng ordered that every five cannons be a small cannon group, designate an observer, report the distance and azimuth, etc., and then carry out subcontracted shooting, and the five cannons will deal with one or two square teams.In this way, the effect will be much stronger.

This shooting method is most suitable for the large scattered and small dense military formations like the crouching tiger formation. A shell rushing into the square formation is a flesh and blood alley.No matter how big Luo Jinxian you are, it's hard to resist.

After only a dozen guns fired, there was a violent commotion in the two white flag firecrackers.Seeing that his own army was in chaos, Dorgon was about to come down and order the army to withdraw, but before he could speak, the artillery team of the South China Army on the opposite side heard another row of thunderbolts, dozens of cannonballs, big and small, smashed their heads and covered their faces. Dozens of firecrackers came crashing down.

Suddenly there was shouting in front of them, and with a bang, the entire firecracker team collapsed.The musketeers receded like a tide shouting.

Behind them, two rows of cavalrymen from the Southern Chinese Army drove the defeated soldiers with long spears like tigers entering a flock of sheep.

On the front, countless Nanzhong soldiers rushed forward with firecrackers with thorns in their hands.

"Heavy armored soldiers stepped forward to stop the Nanzhong Army's pursuit. The Ba Yala soldiers suppressed the formation, and those who dared to attack the large formation would be killed immediately. Send two thousand cavalry forward to block these Southern barbarian cavalry."

"The rest of the people are ready to go!"

The soldiers and horses of the two sides immediately stuck together.

"Catch Dorgon alive, a reward of [-]!

"The general has an order to capture Li Shouhan alive and reward half of his future!" (To be continued...)