Chapter 154: Bombarding the Blue Flag
Haoge, the prince of Dongqing, led seven thousand blue flags and came to Liaoyang City with great momentum.
I saw that the Ming army had already been in strict formation, and two phalanxes were in front of them.
Hauge was very familiar with the phalanx in front of him, which was the car battalion and firearms battalion of the Ming army.
In the past, he often fought with the firearms battalion of the Daming Che Battalion, and at that time, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was a mess except for the Qi family's army.
Don't look at them one by one holding Vulcan spears, they seem to be majestic and high-spirited.
In fact, as long as the Eight Banners of the Eastern Capture made a fierce charge, the firearms in the hands of the Ming army only had time for one salvo.
Both the car battalion and the firearms battalion will collapse in a very short time, and they will not have time to reload ammunition at all, and they will begin to rout.
Hauge raised his sword in the air, and the entire Zhenglan Banner immediately stopped advancing.
Don't think that the Eastern Cavalry rushed when they saw the Ming army, they all understood that no matter how bad firearms were, they were still firearms.
They would usually start with a round of fire, suppress the Ming firepower with bows and arrows, and then start charging.
It stands to reason that the use of bows and arrows to suppress firearms is a joke.
But in the face of the Ming army's poor combat effectiveness, they can often turn this impossible into reality.
"Positive blue flag, strong bow ready"
"Chirp"
The Eastern Cavalry dismounted, then took off their bows and prepared to shoot.
The very famous cavalry archery in the Eastern Capture was not archery on horseback, under normal circumstances, they rode horses to kill and dismounted to shoot arrows.
Since they were a fishing and hunting people, the quality of the bow and arrow and the materials of the production were relatively good, and the limited range was also farther than that of the Ming army.
The Eastern Captivity Bow can shoot 200 meters, but of course the really limited range is about 120 paces.
This ability to draw a bow and shoot arrows by manpower alone is far stronger than that of the Ming army.
Don't look at their limited range, only 120 meters, but this is a battlefield, a salvo of thousands of people is almost ten thousand arrows.
It's a completely covered blow, so it doesn't need to be too accurate.
Qi Jiguang looked coldly at the operation of the Eastern Cavalry.
He knew that the limited range of the flintlock pistol was about the same as that of the Eastern Capture Bow and Arrow.
However, the distance of the Tiger Squatting Artillery is much larger than that of the Eastern Cavalry.
Qi Jiguang waved the command flag in his hand:
"The two wings of the firearms battalion are scattered, the tiger squats the cannon, loads the flower shells, and prepares for the shelling!"
The soldiers of the firearms battalion in the front row quickly spread out to the two wings, revealing the muzzles of two hundred black holes in the middle.
"Open the gun"
"Boom ......"
The cavalry had just put their arrows on the bowstring, but they had not had time to pull the bowstring.
Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling bang, and a hundred tiger squat cannons erupted huge fire snakes.
Flowering shells smashed like a huge hail at the Eastern Troopers.
"Boom ......"
A hundred flowering shells exploded above the blue flag in an instant, and thousands of iron beads and gravel flew towards the Eastern Cavalry.
No matter how ferocious the Eastern Cavalry were, they were also human, and the Eastern Cavalry in front of them fell in an instant.
The Eastern Cavalry behind them suddenly panicked and shot out the arrows in their hands one after another.
These arrows were fired in their panic, and the distance was far away, although there were also a small number of Ming artillery arrows.
However, these arrows have limited strength, and they do not wear opaque army armor at all.
"Boom ......"
Another hundred Tiger squatted cannons and began to bombard again.
In this way, two hundred tiger squatting artillery attacked in turn, and only the eastern cavalry who were bombed turned on their backs.
"Hold steady, don't panic, and as soon as their cannons stop, the cavalry will immediately charge."
As soon as Hauge saw it, his eyes immediately widened, and he shouted loudly to his subordinates not to panic.
At the same time, there are also some Eastern cavalry who are not afraid of death, and they still insist on archery.
"Whoosh ......"
But in the dense shelling, the bow and arrow did not work at all.
Many arrows happened to encounter shells in the air, and they were all shot down by shells.
Hauge is also a famous general who has been in a hundred battles, and he doesn't feel right at first glance.
Today's Ming army far surpasses any opponent he has encountered before, both in terms of combat effectiveness and combat quality.
Even if the gunners were hit by arrows, they still insisted on firing their guns, and they couldn't see the slightest panic at all.
When fighting with the Ming army in the past, if this situation had been encountered, the Ming army would have been in turmoil.
You can't passively use bows and arrows to attack the Ming artillery in this way, otherwise the losses will be great.
"Soto, Duozhu, you immediately each led four Niu Lu to charge from both wings."
"Chirp"
He immediately called the two Jiala Ezhen and asked them to attack the Ming army from both flanks.
One Niu Lu has 300 people, and eight Niu Lu has 2,400 talented people, and the division of troops into two roads should be able to disrupt the deployment of the Ming army.
The two Jia Lae really agreed, led 1200 blue flag cavalry, and quickly scattered and rushed towards the two wings of the Ming army.
Qi Jiguang did not place artillery on the two flanks, but there were flintlock pistols and car battalions.
Seeing the Eastern Cavalry dividing their troops to attack the two flanks of the Ming army, he smiled coldly, turned back to Li Cunxiao and said:
"General Li, you see that the Eastern Capture Tartars are going to attack the two wings of our army, and you order the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to prepare for battle.
As soon as the flintlock muskets inflicted damage on them, they attacked from both flanks and tried to wipe out all the two thousand cavalry. ”
"Yes, don't worry, you can't run away from them."
Seeing the fierce bombardment of the artillery and the heavy casualties of the Eastern Cavalry, Li Cunxiao had long wanted to attack.
With his and the combat power of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, no matter who he faced, he could quickly wipe them out.
But after coming to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Cunxiao sadly discovered the thing of firearms.
Every time he fights, he is bombarded with artillery fire, and then the cavalry is dispatched, which always makes him feel that he can't use his strength.
As soon as Li Cunxiao gave the order, 4,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry immediately stood by in place, ready to attack the Eastern Cavalry at any time.
Hauge's intention was to tear apart the two wings of the Ming army first, and when the middle road was empty, he personally led the remaining cavalry to only attack the command center of the Ming army's middle road.
But how did he know that as soon as his side moved, Qi Jiguang found a way to deal with it.
"Rush"
"Kill"
"Kill the bright dog and recover the ...... Liaoyang"
The 4,000 Eastern Cavalry divided into two routes, shouting to recover Liaoyang, and quickly killed the two wings of the Ming army.
Liaoyang is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is to be recovered, it should be recovered by the Ming army, and they are actually screaming shamelessly.
Seeing the Eastern Capture cavalry rushing like crazy, Huang Ming raised the command flag in his hand.
The flintlock muskets on both flanks of the Ming army also aimed their guns at the Eastern Cavalry.
When the Eastern Cavalry saw the Ming army raising their flintlock guns, they laughed:
"Look, my lord, there's no artillery here, it's all Vulcan guns, haha......"
The leader of the leader, Ala, also saw the situation on the other side.
They were a little afraid of artillery, but when it came to sharpshooters, the captives just laughed.
"That's right, when we get close to them, these dogs will run away and kill ...... if they put two shots in a panic."
Huang Ming's eyes were firmly fixed on the Eastern Cavalry, and he calculated the distance between them and himself in his heart.
Seeing that the Eastern Cavalry had entered the effective firing range of the flintlock pistol, he snorted coldly and waved the command flag in his hand suddenly.
"See how long you can be arrogant.
"Fire"
"Hit me hard......"
"Bang Bang ......"