Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Tartar Who Was Slapped in the Face
During the march, Long Xiang in front did not report to Zhu Cihong that the Qing soldiers who captured Shunyi were not Azig's men and horses with white flags, but Abatai's men and horses with blue flags.
Ye Bushu has already found out that this Qing army only has 3,000 troops, with a Jiala's Manchurian Zhenglan Banner and a Jiala's Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers, which can be regarded as the strength of the Eight Banners Army.
Originally, there were four Jiala's 6,000 men and horses, and the other two Jiala's Eight Banner Han troops were crippled by Zhou Yuji's Zhou Zi battalion during the last attack on Shunyi City, and they took Shunyi City with the reinforcement of the Huairou Qing army.
After listening to the report that was not collected at night, Zhu Cihong nodded, the three thousand Tartar soldiers should be an appetizer for the Yongwei battalion.
Zhu Cihong is not worried about the rescue of the Qing army on the Huairou side, Huairou is in the northeast of Shunyi, and his Yongwei battalion is in the southwest of Shunyi.
The only thing he has to worry about now is that the Qing army will be stationed in Shunyi City without fighting, and the losses in the siege battle are too great, and the Yongwei battalion will not be able to withstand this loss.
However, Zhu Cihong guessed that the Qing army should go out of the city to fight, the Tartars have always been known for field warfare, and they are extremely bad at defending the city, and with the arrogance of the Tartars, passive defending the city is very inconsistent with their combat style.
Zhu Cihong believes that in any respect, he is quite sure of retaking Shunyi.
After repairing for half an hour five miles outside Shunyi City, Zhu Cihong immediately set off with his whole army and went straight to Shunyi City.
At present, the Yongwei battalion is too close to Shunyi City, only four miles away, and the Qing soldiers who wandered around Shunyi City finally discovered the whereabouts of the Yongwei Battalion, and quickly returned to the city to report that there was a Ming army outside the city preparing to attack Shunyi.
The main general who captured Shunyi City was called Bu Zhan, a Meile Zhangjing of the Zhenglan Banner, and he almost laughed when he heard that Tanma had reported that a Ming army that did not know whether to live or die dared to take the initiative to attack his department.
"I hope this Ming army can have a good fight, otherwise this trip will be too boring." Buzhan said happily.
Since entering the customs at the end of June, their Qing soldiers have always been invincible, and the Ming army along the way fled when they saw the wind, and only encountered a few stubborn resistances, such as Shunyi City, for this kind of stubborn resistance of the Ming people, they have always been slaughtered after breaking the city.
With such a smooth march, Buzhan felt a little bored, and he liked the feeling of galloping and fighting on the battlefield, and the feeling of stabbing a spear into the enemy's body was wonderful.
It's a pity that the surrounding Ming army didn't dare to fight with the Qing army at all, and it was even more boring to kill those ordinary people who had no ability to fight back.
He even hoped that the combat effectiveness of this Ming army would be stronger, and he would be able to fight with him happily, not like that Miyun general Li Chongzhen, who ran away as soon as he fought.
With this mentality, Bu Zhan rushed out with the three thousand Eight Banner soldiers in Shunyi City and killed them in the direction of the Yongwei Battalion.
After Zhu Cihong received the news, he was also very happy, the Qing army's immediate attack prevented the Yongwei battalion from fighting a siege battle, and he immediately ordered the Yongwei battalion to line up and prepare to meet the Qing army.
In an open field four miles away from Shunyi City, the Yongwei battalion had already lined up, and it was still in a line formation.
The only difference from the previous one was that at the forefront of the Yongwei battalion, dozens of artillery pieces were lined up, Hongyi cannons and various types of Furlong machine guns were available, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion stood in front of their respective guns in a row to cover the artillery.
When the Yongwei battalion was lined up, the men and horses of the Qing army had already been killed, and the first was a thousand Manchurian Zhenglan Banner cavalry and a thousand Mongolian cavalry, they rode their horses and brandished their sabers and roared loudly, which was very wild.
The momentum of the charge of the two thousand cavalry was very strong, and a chaotic sound of horse hooves sounded on the battlefield, and they lined up in a conical formation, advancing wildly towards the battle formation of the Yongwei battalion, wanting to use the momentum of the war horses to deal a fatal blow to the Ming army on the opposite side.
When the cavalry of the Qing army was three hundred steps away from the battle formation of the Yongwei battalion, he saw that the front row of soldiers of the Ming army suddenly retreated as a whole.
The next moment, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he saw that after the Ming army retreated, a row of black things was immediately revealed in front of the formation.
"It's artillery!!" Bu Zhan only felt that his brain was "buzzing", and he was a little confused for a while.
"So many artillery, what to do?" Buzhan wanted to withdraw his troops, but the cavalry charge was too fierce to contain it.
He was just about to give the order for the cavalry to scatter their flanks and charge from the flanks to avoid the artillery, only to hear that the artillery on the opposite side had already spewed tongues of fire and let out an earth-shattering roar.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......."
A series of loud noises came, and even after a distance of three hundred paces, the Eight Banners could still feel the earth tremble.
Twenty Hongyi cannons, spitting out a large number of solid bullets, smashed into the cavalry array of the Qing army with a trajectory that was difficult to catch with the naked eye.
A series of screams came from the dense charging formation of the Qing army, and all the men and horses who were hit by the iron balls of solid bullets would be smashed through their bodies and cut into several pieces.
Some shells even hit several people one after another, leaving behind a tragic scene of blurred flesh and blood, stumps and broken arms.
After the first salvo of the Hongyi cannon, the cavalry of the Qing army instantly lost more than 100 people, and the artillerymen of the Yongwei battalion did not care to appreciate this bloody picture, so they immediately cleaned the chamber, reloaded the shells, and continued the next round of firing.
The fifty large and medium-sized Francophone cannons next to the twenty Hongyi cannons did not move at all, and the gunners just watched the play quietly, waiting for orders.
The cavalry of the Qing army took advantage of the opportunity of the artillery of the Yongwei battalion to load the shells, and whipped their horses one after another, trying to break through the artillery position of the Yongwei battalion as quickly as possible and disperse the military formation.
The second salvo of twenty Hongyi cannons began, and the Qing cavalry was again a handful, followed by a third round......
"Report the distance!"
"The enemy is two hundred and ten paces away!"
"The enemy is two hundred paces away!"
"The enemy is one hundred and eighty paces away!"
"Fire!"
When the cavalry of the Qing army broke through to about 180 paces, the artillery commander waved the command flag in his hand, and 50 Fran machine guns suddenly opened fire at the same time, making an earth-shattering sound.
The fifty Fran cannons were loaded with shotguns, and they were fired at the same time, and in the entire battlefield in front of the Yongwei battalion, the projectiles flew like raindrops towards the Qing cavalry.
The Qing cavalry that came from the front suddenly seemed to be blown by a hurricane, and in the hundred-meter-wide battlefield, all the men and horses were swept away and smashed into minced meat.
The shotgun emitted by the smallest medium-sized Franc cannon can cover a range of 30 meters wide, and the artillery of the Yongwei Battalion has 50 Franc cannons, half of which are large Franc cannons.
Looking at the Qing warriors in front, they instantly lay on the ground, and Bu Zhan, who was still charging at the back of the formation, was suddenly stunned, and the cruelty in front of him was far beyond the scope of Bu Zhan's understanding.
Where did this Ming army come from, how could there be so many and such cruel artillery, and in such a short period of time, it was possible to cripple the invincible Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry......
Just now, I still hoped that this Ming army could be stronger, so that I could fight happily, but now that I think about it, it is a big joke, Bu Zhan felt that his face was hot and painful.