Chapter 199: Hunting the Jurchen 19

Call!

As soon as the cloak was flicked, Nuer Hachi got up in good spirits and walked outside to check the situation. The Liaoxi Corridor was very platformed, with only a few occasional mounds, and most of the land had been reclaimed as farmland or roads, and there was nothing to obstruct it, so he could see at a glance a dense black dot slowly wriggling towards this side.

"Humph! The Ming Kingdom is so big and fights with me, God really helps me. Nuer Hachi's tone sounded angry, but there was a light of surprise in his eyes, if the Yulin army did not come out of the position, then they really had no good way, under the roar of artillery, the cavalry could not rush over at all, but it was different when they got out of there.

The opponent's cannon is so powerful, it must be very heavy, and it must not be carried with the army at this moment, so there is no need to be afraid. As for the opponent's sharp firearms, there are not many in total, and the launch is slow, as long as you are willing to suffer casualties, you can definitely resist rushing over and engage in close combat. For the melee ability of the Jurchen warriors, Nuer Hachi has absolute confidence, and the infantry of the Ming Dynasty cannot stop it.

Moreover, the terrain here is open and flat, almost half wider than Ningyuan, and without the opponent's camp and the shelter of Ningyuan's acropolis, the cavalry's mobility ability can be maximized, and there are far more than the opponent's numbers on their side, and they are all cavalry, once they run away, they can definitely disrupt the opponent's formation and attack by taking advantage of the gap.

"All-arms war!" Nuerha Chi commanded with high spirits, and he now had the courage and demeanor to regain the battle of Sarhu.

Soon, under the excited command of Nuer Hachi, all the Jurchen troops were fully assembled, and they rode their horses one after another, assembled in formation, and prepared to launch against the slowly approaching Yulin army. As for the plan to cross the mountains and enter Mongolia just now, he completely gave up, it was too risky, even if he could pass, I don't know how many people would die, it was better to seize the flaws of the Ming army and attack by taking advantage of the gap, so the success rate was greater.

Moreover, Nuer Hachi's pride made him absolutely not bow to the Ming people again, if it weren't for the fact that there was really no other way just now, he would not agree to the strategy of going over the mountains and mountains to Mongolia.

Looking at the slave Hachi who strode away, Huang Taiji wanted to speak and stopped, thought about it, and finally swallowed the words of persuasion into his stomach, he really knew his father too well, if it wasn't for the fact that there was no way, he couldn't see the hope of defeating the Ming army, and was facing a crisis of food and grass, he would never agree to the plan just now.

Huang Taiji also vaguely heard about his father's early experience, it was really an unbearable past, especially after Nuer Hachi unified the Jurchens and ascended to the throne of Khan. He was bent on cavalry to resist the Ming, but he didn't want to bow to the Ming State anymore, and going to Mongolia was obviously contrary to his will.

If it is in a desperate situation, but now that the Ming army is advancing lightly, there is obviously a glimmer of hope, then Nuer Hachi will definitely not retreat easily.

"Hey!" Huang Taiji sighed helplessly, and had to follow, but he still kept an eye on it, and when arranging the troops, he put his men and horses and his cronies in the back position, so that if something was wrong, he could turn around and run.

Time pushes forward an hour.

After Li Tu retreated, %2C the entire Yulin army began to eat lunch, and the scene of the whole 30,000 people eating was quite spectacular, although it was only boiling water and eating dry food, but it was also a grand scene. At this time, he was still on the battlefield, and he could only nibble on cold dry food with hot water, and the same was true for Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Majesty....... General!" Li Yuyu paused, and then said, "My subordinates will give you two game, although there is no salt, but the hot food is better than dry food!" ”

"No need." Glancing at him, Zhu Youxiao took another bite of the hot and soft flatbread baked in his hand, "At this moment, in the army, everything is done by military law, and we will eat whatever the soldiers eat, have you forgotten what the drill code says, we must share weal and woe in wartime." ”

The people in the army were all upright men, and when they heard the emperor say this, no one spoke out to persuade them. And after finishing the meal, after a little rest, the assembly call of the Yulin army sounded, and under the sound of the whining horn, all the soldiers packed up their things neatly and set off in formation.

Although the Tartars were defeated just now, their combat power still exists, and no one can guarantee where they are at the moment, in case the horses that were scattered out to cover the enemy did not find the enemy, and were rushed by a charge from the other side, and the infantry without formation could not block the impact of the cavalry.

Soon, the three finished glyph-shaped phalanxes were quickly assembled, Li Yuyu led the first phalanx to set off first, and then the left and right phalanxes, Zhu Youxiao and Li Tu each led two thousand cavalry to cover the two wings, and the remaining less than 1,000 were scattered out to explore intelligence, and the baggage and artillery were at the end, and the first half of the baggage vehicles were in the middle of the two phalanxes.

Maintaining this formation, the Yulin Army advanced slowly and neatly, without a trace of impatience or impatience, they were just walking quietly.

The Liaoxi Corridor leads from the beginning to the end, as long as the other party does not enter the old forest, they will definitely be able to meet it. Sure enough, about half an hour after they set off, there was a report from the Malays, saying that they had discovered the Jurchen camp, and the other side was neighing, apparently they had also discovered this side, and they were preparing for battle.

It's so flat that all the trees in this narrow corridor have been cut down and all the land has been turned into farmland and roads, so you can see far away from a slightly higher place. And this minimizes the masking effect of the cavalry probing horses.

When the two sides were two kilometers apart, they almost found each other.

Nuer Hachi's whole army launched and rushed over with a bang, the Jurchens were almost naked at this time, except for the things that the soldiers were carrying on their horses, everything else was lost, which made them embarrassed, but it also made their whole army much faster, and they rushed out almost within a few minutes after receiving the report from Zhu Youxiao's side.

The rumbling sound was very obvious in this open field, and you didn't need to look at Zhu Youxiao to know that the other party was approaching quickly.

"Stop!" Zhu Youxiao ordered, and then the staff officers beside him blew the horn and waved the flag, passing his orders to various other parts.

"Iron Wall Formation." Another order was given, and the entire Yulin army moved in an orderly manner, and the phalanxes were close and level with each other, but they were separated by a little distance, and they were not close -- in an instant, the entire zigzag formation became an iron wall. And the musketeers who were originally inside the phalanx also came out of it one after another, forming a battle line in front of the iron wall.

This is a formation in which the phalanx of spear infantry and the musket cooperate with each other during the battle of the large corps, and the long iron wall allows the phalanx to shrink backwards even if the opponent wraps around from both flanks, forming a new large phalanx.

Li Tu on the other side also brought two thousand cavalry over, and those expatriate exploration horses also continued to integrate and return like tired birds returning to the forest, becoming a member of the iron array.

While the infantry was moving, the artillerymen were not idle, they wrote the reins directly from the dragged horses, and then turned the muzzle, tested the distance, and adjusted the elevation angle. With sports cars, they hardly had to set up artillery positions, they only had to pile dirt on the front and back of the sunken wheels of the gun carriage.

The movements of the Yulin Army were fast and skillful, after the battle in the morning, they basically faded the cyan and nervousness of the first battle formation, and at the moment they were busy but not chaotic, and their stable mentality brought out all their daily training.

"The musketeers are complete!"

"The spearmen are ready!"

"The gunners are in formation, ready to fire." This is Xu Wen, what he meant in his words was to say let me fire the first shot first!

At this time, the Jurchens had already rushed through nearly half of the distance, and there was still about a kilometer away from the Yulin Army, and the black crushing cavalry all over the mountains looked extremely impactful, which was a large-scale charge of nearly 50,000 cavalry.

Rao is a soldier of the Yulin Army, who had gone through the battle in the morning and had some combat experience, couldn't help but tighten the muskets and spears in their hands when they saw this scene, they were a little hesitant, not knowing if they could resist such a powerful charge.

Zhu Youxiao's eyesight is amazing, and he is riding on a tall horse, he can see the expressions of the soldiers clearly, he understands very well at the moment, he needs to do something to boost morale, and shelling is the best way, seeing that the weapons on his side are powerful, and the other party is powerless to fight back, he can only bear it silently, and anyone will cheer.

"Permission to shell!" Zhu Youxiao ordered indifferently, he looked at the large-scale cavalry charge with an expressionless face, only he could achieve this level of calmness present, not even Li Yuyu, and only he who deeply understood the power of the weapons and formations in his hands knew that the cavalry charge that seemed to have an amazing momentum was just a paper tiger, and it would break if it was poked.

Soon, the staff officer passed Zhu Youxiao's order over, and after the order, Xu Wen's eyes instantly lit up, and he was so excited that he immediately began to put his thumb in the middle of the visual distance of his eyes and began to visually measure the distance.

"Forty-five degrees in elevation, rapid fire, three shots!" After a few seconds, he put down his thumb and loudly burst out the data, and the staff officer accompanying him quickly put the order on.

The artillerymen who had been ordered quickly began to move the gun mounts, and in the blink of an eye, the elevation angle was adjusted, and then they set the arquebus on fire, ignited and fired. Before, they had already loaded their shells, and everything was just waiting for the order and the shooting of the elements.

Rumble!

Hundreds of guns of various calibers and sizes flashed in unison, and shells of different weights swept high above the heads of spearmen and musketeers, drawing a graceful parabola, and fell heavily on the charging Jurchen cavalry.

Li Yuyu in the spear phalanx and Li Tao in the musketeer battle line raised his head, looking at the countless lead bullets, his eyes flashed with different lights, intoxicated, proud, bloodthirsty, all kinds of meanings, and so on.