Chapter 370: The Decisive Battle
Around Fuzhen Fort, the war drums were beating, countless Ming troops poured out of the camp, and the noisy tide was like a storm crashing on the shore.
More than ten miles away, a large number of Eight Banner troops also gathered in front of the Qing army camp, hurriedly coming to meet the enemy, and the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion on the north bank of the Hunhe River was also hurriedly mobilized, and the artillerymen struggled to pull thousands of pounds of artillery.
Kong Youde was depressed, so the perfect artillery array was arranged in vain, and the emperor asked the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion to rearrange the artillery array before the Ming army crossed the river, which was really too difficult.
As the distance between the two sides continues to closer, from God's point of view, this land is a sea of people, with all kinds of bells and whistles.
The two sides stopped when they were three or four miles apart, and the long great array crossed the east and west on the plains of the Flat River, as far as the eye could see, and dense flags fluttered in the wind.
In the position of the Chinese army, Zhu Cihong stood on the four-story chariot and looked ahead, only to see four Yellow Dragon umbrellas erected in front of the Qing army in the distance, and countless Qing troops were cheering.
Zhu Cihong snorted coldly and said, "Put up the flag!" ”
On a huge chariot, a wide red dragon flag three feet high was hung high, and the wind waved and hunted.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The war drums of the Chinese army were beating, countless flags were dancing around, and a majestic tsunami was sent out from the Tianwu army's military array: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
On the right flank of the Tianwu Army was the Qin soldier formation, they echoed each other from afar, and everyone shouted in unison, "Huh! Ooh! Ooh! ”
The Liaodong Army on the left flank was not willing to be lonely, and collectively shouted: "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”
The officers and men of the three armies shouted three times and marched three times, and the sound of shouting and shouting collapsed and cracked, rolling like thunder, one after another, spreading in all directions and breaking through the sky.
The Qing army was not to be outdone, and was also desperately cheering for itself, and the war was about to break out.
The Qing army's military formation was in the front position, Cui Xiangzheng looked at the Ming army on the opposite side with a panicked face, this was the first time he went to the battlefield, and he encountered such a big scene, the momentum of the Ming army on the opposite side made his legs tremble.
Some of the teenage Baoyi Aha around him were basically the same, and some of them even cried in fright on the spot, and were dragged down by the Manchurian overseers and cut off their heads.
The followers of Manchuria are no better, especially the young bannermen who went to the battlefield for the first time, all of which show that the army is incompetent and will collapse at the first touch......
Contrary to the Qing army, in the large array of the Ming army, tens of thousands of Tianwu troops were waiting for them, and their expressions were firm and not afraid.
Although some of the baggage soldiers had only been in the army for a year, they spent more time on the battlefield than they had in the first exercise, and the real battlefield sharpened them.
As a baggage soldier, the reserve of the Tianwu Army, they have experienced several battles when they went north to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the battle of Liaodong is even more courageous, no different from the regular soldiers, after this battle, they can become a real regular soldier.
Zhu Cihong pointed at the sword obliquely and shouted: "Beat the drum and advance!" ”
The drums of war in the army became rapid, and the sound of passionate rhythms resounded in the sky.
"Forward!"
The generals of the various departments of the Tianwu Army drew their swords one after another, roaring and shouting: "Kill them all!" ”
In the passionate drums, tens of thousands of Tianwu troops strode forward in formation, everyone raised their heads and guns, their faces were indifferent, and in the majestic footsteps, a momentum rose to the sky, as if to crush all the Eight Banner Army in front!
On the bank of the Hunhe River, a tall woven gold dragon fluttered in the wind, and flags of different colors were also waving around it.
Huang Taiji faintly heard the sound of drums coming from the opposite side, he raised his binoculars, and saw a sea of people slowly moving towards this side in the distance.
Huang Taiji was wearing gilded armor, rode his horse, and suddenly waved his thick fist and shouted: "God bless the Qing Dynasty, this battle will be won!" ”
Ao Bai and the Yellow Banner Bayala Battalion shouted in unison, and then the surrounding Eight Banner Army also let out bursts of cheers.
After shouting, Huang Taiji only felt a kind of pain in his brain, dizzy for a while, and with the panicked support of Ao Bai and others, he did not fall off the horse, he endured and cheered up and continued to command the battle.
One after another orders came out from under the dragon of Huang Taiji, and the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners Army also moved forward in formation, and Kong Youde's artillery battalion was being rearranged on the north bank of the battlefield river, becoming the last line of defense against the Ming army crossing the river.
Under the dragon banner of the Tianwu Army, Zhu Cihong looked at the Qing army's military array, only to see a sea of flags in front of him, and the dense shield cart vanguard army slowly advanced.
He snorted coldly, the Eight Banners Army's style of play was still the same, with the shield cart in front, followed by the firecrackers and archers, and then the infantry army.
In the face of the firearms of the Tianwu Army, the Qing army no longer dared to send cavalry to send them, Zhu Cihong has always persuaded people with reason, and the range of the firearms of the Tianwu Army is the truth!
The military formation of the Tianwu Army is still the artillery battalion in front, the musket array follows closely, and the two wings are escorted by thunder chariots and pikemen.
In the sound of whining horns, the shield cart of the Eight Banners Army slowly approached, and when it was close to three hundred paces, suddenly the Ming army and the Chinese army let out a heaven-shattering cannon sound.
Immediately after a loud bang, a large number of shield cars in front of the Qing army exploded, and the hot iron balls directly pierced the body of the Qing army hiding behind the shield car, and instantly overturned a piece, and the blood mist of broken flesh was splashed all over the ground, and some Qing soldiers who were not dead were lying on the ground and rolling in pain.
Cui Xiang looked at the clothed Ahabs of the Han Army Banner who were in a miserable state of death beside him, his scalp was numb for a while, the weapon in his hand slipped off, and his legs couldn't help but tremble strongly, and he couldn't move anymore.
"Smack!"
A hard leather whip slammed into his back, causing his whole body to tremble.
"Dog minion, go up on top!"
A Manchurian soldier who supervised the formation pointed at him with a whip in his hand and said fiercely, Cui Xiang did not dare to resist, so he had to pick up his weapon and hurriedly hide behind an intact shield cart, and continue to move forward with the brigade.
These Han army bannermen, who were used as cannon fodder to fill in, were only wearing simple military uniforms, and their defensive power was extremely low, and the shield carts that were concentrated in the shells could pierce their bodies with sharp debris.
Under the blow of the heavy artillery brigade of the Tianwu Army, the Qing army took down the shield car covered with a thick quilt, and was blown out of a big hole by countless iron balls weighing several pounds, which were incomplete and debris splashed, and the Qing army behind the shield car was either dead or wounded, and it was a mess.
As the Qing army's shield vehicles continued to advance, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and they had entered the firing range of the firearms.
Geng Zhongming, the solid mountain of the Han Army Banner, waved his sword and shouted wildly: "Fire guns, press them up and kill them!" ”
Bursts of shouts erupted from the military formation of the Han army flag, and rows of musketeers carrying arquebuses stepped forward and rushed towards the Tianwu army formation.
Like the Tianwu Army, they used four rows of round-robin shooting, and the formation was good, apparently Geng Zhongming had learned a lesson and learned something after paying the tuition last time.