Daming Military Empire

Chapter 285

November 30th is a very popular festival in later generations, "Singles' Day". Of course, Huang Taiji didn't know about this festival, but on November [-]th of the tenth year of Chongzheng, he led the Manchurian The [-] coalition troops lined up in formation and blocked directly in front of the Daming East Road army that had just entered Chahar.

His meaning is obvious, that is: Come on, little emperor, let's fight it out!
Of course Zhu Cijiong knew about Singles’ Day, but on the eve of the great battle, at the moment when the winner was about to be decided, he didn’t have the heart to think about an irrelevant festival for future generations. However, when he received the report from the spies, he was also very single Leading the 25 troops under his command, he ran straight to Huang Taiji's 30 troops.

Of course, both of them have a very bad side, like Huang Taiji, who hides thousands of field howitzers directly behind the formation, while Zhu Cijiong hides [-] elite cavalry behind the formation. The two are comparable, but Huang Taiji has planned for a long time, while Zhu Cijiong is just a temporary idea.

I don't know when it started, the sky began to snow heavily. After nearly half an hour of rapid march, Zhu Cijiong finally arrived at a place more than ten miles away from the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces. This place is already deep in the Chahar Grassland. The terrain is flat and boundless. In the binoculars, I could faintly see densely packed black spots in front of me, lying there horizontally, more than ten miles wide!
The reason why Huang Taiji chose such a flat terrain was to tell Zhu Cijiong, look, I'm a bachelor, and I have no intention of ambush at all, come on, let's fight with dignity.

Of course Zhu Cijiong would not tell Huang Taiji that I ambushed [-] fine cavalry, and I followed closely behind more than ten miles away. As long as a telegram is sent, they will rush up madly, and I will give you a big surprise!

He was thinking all the way why Huang Taiji was so bold and dared to confront him head-on. You must know that the power of the Ming army's muskets and cannons is already terrifying. Even if it is 25 against 30, it is crushing, absolutely crushing Well, it's not that Huang Taiji doesn't know how powerful the Ming army's muskets and artillery are. He has suffered a lot in Liaodong, why doesn't he seem to be afraid at all now?
This time he thought about it for a long time, but in the end he still thought of it. It is very possible that Huang Taiji had already learned Daming's skills secretly, and his equipment was already comparable to that of Daming. Otherwise, how could he have the guts to confront him head-on!
It is actually very simple to determine the equipment of the Qing army. You can see it with a telescope if you are within six miles. Now you can see clearly within six miles with Daming’s military telescope, and even if Huang Taiji is equipped with six-two The Zero howitzer can hit three or four miles at the farthest, and the distance of six miles is still very safe.

Some people may want to say why the scouts didn't see other people's equipment when they went to investigate. This ancient war is not like modern times. Hundreds of thousands of troops march forward, and the scouts are densely covered within a radius of ten miles. If you look closely, you can only see the approximate number of people and the marching direction from a distance. If you really dare to approach, you will definitely be instantly killed.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong saw that there was no movement in the Qing army, so he ordered decisively: "The whole army stops advancing, and all artillerymen are ordered to pull the artillery to one mile from the front of the army. The [-]-type howitzers line up in four rows. The Type [-] howitzers are then arranged in three rows, the Type [-] howitzers are then arranged in two rows, and the Type [-] howitzers are arranged in the last row."

Following Zhu Cijiong's order, the Ming army stopped advancing, and 2000 artillerymen drove their horses and pulled more than [-] howitzers out of the main force, and quickly lined up row after row in front.

Huang Taiji seemed to want to be single to the end today, the Ming army had begun to form formations under his nose, but he still didn't move at all.

With the cannon formations, Zhu Cijiong was not afraid of the Qing army rushing up to make a surprise attack. He already calmly ordered: "Let Qin Gongming lead the [-] elite cavalry of the First Army of the Imperial Guards to the left, and Zu Dabi lead the Qin army [-] elite cavalry." The cavalry is on the right, the rest of the infantry is in the center, and the standard battle formation is in front of the artillery formation."

Following his order, the Ming army dispersed in all directions, with two groups of cavalry dividing left and right. The infantry of the three armies passed through the artillery phalanx, and soon lined up in front of the artillery formation.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than seven miles, and Zhu Cijiong gave a stunned order: "Bring the dragon chariot to the front of the formation!"

A row of loyal marquis Qin Liangyu, who was accompanying him on horseback, hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, no!"

Zhu Cijiong smiled calmly and said: "It's okay, I'll just go up and have a look, let's go."

When everyone saw Qin Liangyu, they couldn't persuade them, so they had to accompany him to the front of the battle.

As soon as Long Nian came to the front of the formation, Zhu Cijiong reached out to take the binoculars handed over by Cao Huachun, and looked at the large formation of the Qing army.

Sure enough, the infantry phalanx in the middle of the Qing army was armed with muskets, which were clearly Type [-] or [-] flintlock guns, but the cavalry on the two wings were not equipped with revolver rifles, but still held swords, guns, swords and halberds. The revolver rifle was developed.

Type [-] and [-] flintlock guns can be imitated, and field howitzers must have been made. Although he was mentally prepared, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but frown. If you have an absolute advantage, you can definitely win, but the casualties may be huge.

Just at this time, Huang Taiji was standing in front of the formation and looking towards this side. Seeing that he was holding a military telescope made by Daming, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but raised his right hand, stretched out his index finger, and pointed with the gesture of firing a gun. Hit him a few times.

Huang Taiji had seen this movement when he was in Liaodong. At that time, he didn't know that there was a pistol, so he didn't know what this movement meant. Now he certainly understood, so he raised his right hand without hesitation, and did it. A traditional throat slit in return!

Seeing this, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but sneered contemptuously, and said in his heart: "Hmph, if you dare to fight with me with hot weapons, you're courting death!"

If it is commanding cold weapons to fight, Zhu Cijiong may not be as good as Zu Dabizu, let alone the cunning Fox Emperor Taiji who has experienced many battles. However, when it comes to fighting with hot weapons, there is no one in this world With his rich experience, he not only has countless experiences in his previous life for reference, he has also commanded several battles since he traveled, all of which were battles with hot weapons, and the Ming army won big victories.

On the other hand, on Huang Taiji's side, even the practice of hot weapons was carried out in secret, and it was the first time for a young girl to be on the sedan chair to command hot weapons. How amazing is it!
Judging from his formation, Zhu Cijiong estimated that this guy may have even stolen the "Infantry Exercise Code", but it doesn't matter, just give him some tactics that are not in the "Infantry Exercise Code", and see how he responds !

What tactics will Zhu Cijiong use?After this chapter, please see the next chapter.

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