Back to the end of the Ming Dynasty when the emperor

Chapter 262

As a traverser, Zhu Yousong certainly knew the fighting power of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the fighting power of this team was absolutely top-notch. Compared with them, the three major armies in the late Ming Dynasty could only rank behind them.You must know that this is a division of dynasty replacement, and it is difficult to complete this historical mission with a weak combat power.

However, Zhu Yousong is not studying history with a materialistic view of history, and he will not actively follow the trend of history. Now he wants to help the building of the late Ming Dynasty and save hundreds of millions of Han people from being slaughtered and enslaved by barbarians. How high his consciousness is, but fate has forced him to this point, he has no choice but to do so.

Zhu Yousong had to personally supervise the warlords who supported their troops, but now he had to wield his sword and kill the thieves against the Tartars who wanted to conquer the Han people. reason.

Zhu Yousong took 600 armored personal guards under the escort of Li Quan and Zheng Damu. As soon as he left the city, he encountered the imperial battalion led by Liu Zhaoji who had come to capture the king. The other battalions had a total of 4000 men and horses, and the soldiers from both sides joined together to make another 5000 men, and rushed to the battlefield.

After walking forward for less than two miles, the men who met Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong retreated head-on. Zhu Yousong frowned. Children are not easy to deal with.Just let the imperial camp go up to try and see who will win the battle between the elite Liu Aiqing's meticulously trained team and the Tartars.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong ignored these retreating generals and ordered the cannons to be fired, and the imperial camp led by Liu Zhaoji blocked the way of the Tartars, while Zhu Yousong led Li Quan and Zheng Damu together. Under the protection of Qianjia Weiyi, Timothy went to a small high slope to watch the battle. He wanted to see with his own eyes which army was stronger.

Zhu Yousong still has this kind of mood now, instead of all charging into the battlefield to kill the enemy, he has to play a game first, just like playing a game, of course, others don't know what he thinks in his heart.

However, this kind of PK is basically fair. Although the Tartars charged and killed for a while, there were five thousand elite Tartars, and five or six thousand traitor teams were behind them to cheer. Although Zhu Yousong's imperial camp had just arrived, it was only four thousand There are many people, and there is no artillery battalion and engineer battalion. This compromise between the two sides can be regarded as a fair duel.

Under the command of Liu Zhaoji, the five hundred light firearms battalion and five hundred crossbowmen from the imperial battalion rushed into battle first. In an instant, the firecrackers and crossbowmen of the 1000 troops fired at the Tartars together. Like popping beans, like raining arrows, like countless poisonous snakes in the night sky, scurrying wildly.

The Tartars, men and horses fell down in rows and groups, and the horses neighed. Some were shot and fell into a pool of blood, and some were shot into hedgehogs on the spot.

But the Tartars are all cavalry, and they are very mobile when blocked. They either turn around and outflank, or rush back and forth, and disperse and gather in an instant, like unpredictable wind and clouds. Then they also charged forward with bows and arrows, because Each of them carried a bow and arrow on their backs, and one arc was thirty. They used part of the charge just now, and now they still have a lot of arrows on their backs. These Tartar arrows have all been fired. Where the bowstrings sound, there are light firearms battalion and horse battalion battalion. All the generals fell from their horses one after another.

Shooting and killing the enemy's vital force during the charge is the usual method of the Tartars. While shooting the opponent into chaos, they rush into the enemy's formation and start fighting, and then they win.The same is true in front of the eyes, and soon the iron cavalry of the Tartars broke through the defense line of 1000 men and horses.

Liu Zhaoji saw that these Tartars were too difficult to deal with. He had dealt with these Tartars on the battlefield in Liaodong. Lead three thousand cavalry to charge, and one battle can be won.

However, the Light Firearms Battalion and the Mabu Battalion are not rivals at all. A fierce battle did not disrupt the Tartars' formation but allowed the Tartars to rush into the formation. This kind of close-range hand-to-hand combat, these two battalions are not Tartars. Son's opponent.

Fortunately, they were well-trained and calm in the face of danger. Liu Zhaoji gave an order and the 1000 troops withdrew in an orderly manner.The stability and orderly advance and retreat in the face of danger depend entirely on military orders. If Liu Zhaoji did not give the order, all the 1000 troops would die in battle and they would not retreat half a step. This is the difference between Liu Zhaoji’s imperial camp and other troops. , Regardless of the situation on the battlefield, even if there is a sea of ​​​​fire and knives in front of you, wherever you order, you can charge.

This can be found in microcosm in real history.On the [-]th day of Yangzhou, Prince Yu Duoduo led his troops into Yangzhou City. Only Liu Zhaoji led hundreds of people from all walks of life to capture the king. There was a fierce street battle with the Tartars. The enemy was outnumbered, but Liu Zhaoji The troops did not retreat, and in the end Liu Zhaoji died heroically together with them.

Liu Zhaoji's character is as strong as steel, and so are the men and horses he trained, which is why Zhu Yousong entrusted him with the imperial camp for training.

After the Light Firearms Battalion and the Horse Bu Battalion retreated, Liu Zhaoji now ordered the [-] Cavalry Battalion to charge.

Three thousand iron cavalry is the last weight of the imperial camp, and it is also the trump card for charging.Under the night, where the iron hooves passed, the shadow hunters drove the wind to pass over the strong grass, roaring like a giant chariot.

Three thousand iron cavalry also had two weapons. In this regard, Liu Zhaoji absorbed the strengths of the Tartars. The Eight Banners Army had two or three weapons. The three thousand cavalry trained by Liu Zhaoji all had two weapons, which were unified into bows and long spears.

The three thousand iron cavalry first used bows and arrows. In the era of cold weapons, bows and arrows were the most conventional and most difficult weapon of war. Relatively speaking, the cost was low and the lethality was great. step away.

Liu Zhaoji worked hard on these three thousand cavalry. He fought against the Tartars on the Liaodong battlefield, and he knew that these Tartars were the most difficult to deal with. Therefore, the training standards were very strict, so their riding and shooting skills were by no means inferior to those outside the customs. Jian slaves.

The bowstring sounded, the arrows whistled, and the arrows in the night sky covered the Tartars on the opposite side like a storm.

From the middle of the river to the landing, these Tartars broke up one team after another and moved forward smoothly. There were cheerleaders behind them, and their morale was high. But from this burst of arrows, fate began to reverse.

The Tartars who were charging for a while were shot off their horses one after another, some were shot into hedgehogs, some were shot down and cut off from their horses, and were trampled into meat by chaotic horses, but they still remained calm and adopted the tactics just now, Either split or join, or turn around or turn back, the speed of the formation is changing, and they also start to charge with bows and arrows.

The two sides shot at each other for a while, causing casualties to each other, and then rushed together, fighting hand to hand.

The three thousand cavalry in the imperial camp put away their bows and arrows, and replaced them with long spears.And the Eight Banners of the Tartars also put away their bows and arrows, replaced them with long knives and spears, and started stabbing and slashing.

If the battle just now can be regarded as a foreplay or a warm-up, now the contest between these two powerhouses can be regarded as the official start.

(End of this chapter)