Chapter 123: The whole army attacked
The night's attack made the entire Qing army camp miserable, and during the day, Abatai and Yanguli had swollen panda eyes, and their faces were gloomy and wide-eyed.
In the end, the two decided to rest the whole army for a day today, recover their state and then withdraw, otherwise they would withdraw in a daze, and the march on a hot day would be more likely to be sleepy, and if the Ming army sent cavalry to pursue it, it would inevitably suffer great losses.
Want to take a break? But Zhu Cihong didn't let it, just as the Qing army was preparing to rest in shifts in the camp, there was a report from the Malays, and a large number of Ming infantry appeared two miles away from the camp.
The Ming army is out of the city!
Abatai was startled and hurriedly ordered the drumming to prepare everyone for battle.
However, when the Qing army was in formation, Tanma came to report again that the Ming army had withdrawn to the city.
Abatai sneered, the disparity in numbers was huge, and the Ming army did not dare to have a field battle with him after all, and then he ordered the battalions to repair with confidence.
After a little half an hour, Tanma came to report again, a large number of Ming troops appeared two miles away from the camp, and the shouts of the Ming army could be heard from all walks of life in each battalion of the Qing army.
Abbatey and harassed the cavalry, forcing them back to the city.
The cavalry of the Qing army was tossed all night, people were sleepy and tired, and there was still a spirit to attack, and not long after they went out, they were bombarded back by the Yongwei battalion with a shotgun tiger from the Francophone gun.
Abatai had no choice but to order the whole battalion to line up again and prepare for battle.
Again, after the Qing army finished the formation, the Ming army withdrew to the city again.
Yanguli had black panda eyes, gritted his teeth and asked: "Rao Yu Belle, this general is willing to lead the troops into battle!" ”
Abatai granted his request and ordered him to lead an army of 5,000 to guard the south gate of the new city, and if the Ming army left the city, he would meet the head-on attack, and his army would also gather and press on it, and enter the city in a wave, beheading the prince of the Ming Kingdom.
The ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, and the result is that Yanguli led the army to stand there for a long time, and there was no movement at the south gate of the new city.
Zhu Cihong played like this, just like the attack at night, one was to harass them to rest badly, and the other was to give the new battalion the courage to adapt to the battlefield, and found that the effect was not bad!
At noon, the temperature was as high as more than 30 degrees, especially under the sun, the Qing army blocking in front of the south gate of the new city was hot and sweaty, and felt that they were going to be steamed.
Just as Yanguli was impatient and led the army to turn back, the south gate of the new city was opened, and more than 10,000 infantry of the Yongwei Battalion and the new battalion were all dispatched to kill Yanguli's 5,000 men and horses.
Under the opening of the way by the rows of musketeers of the Yongwei battalion, the 5,000 Tartar soldiers who had already switched formations and returned to the camp were completely stunned, and for a time the Yanguli army was completely scattered, and they were chased and shot, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, and even Yanguli was killed by a thousand commanders of the Yongwei battalion.
When the news reached the Qing army camp, Abatai was so angry that a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and for the third time ordered the whole battalion to line up and prepare for battle.
However, by the time Abatai had sorted out the army to kill, the Ming army had already patted their butts and returned to the city after defeating the Yanguli tribe.
After returning to the new city, Zhu Cihong ordered only 2,000 people to be left to defend the city, and the rest of the men and horses all took a lunch break for half an hour.
At more than two o'clock in the afternoon, this point in summer is the most likely to make people sleepy, especially the Qing army, who were tossed all night and half a day, and were even more drowsy at this time.
At this time, Abatai received a return from the horse again, and the Ming army reappeared two miles away from the camp.
Abatai was a little speechless, already numb, he hated and said: "Lao Tzu has brushed "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" three times and has never seen this kind of play, what do these Nanban want to do!" ”
Although complaining, Abatai finally honestly ordered the whole battalion to line up and prepare for battle.
The story of the wolf came was staged in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing soldiers didn't believe it at all, and many people couldn't get out of bed there.
If this kind of thing had happened in normal times, it would have been killed by the people of the Overseer to boost the morale of the army, but this time, even the people of the Overseer were unwilling to get up.
Many people shouted: "your Enie, Lao Tzu is about to be tossed to death!" Then he fell asleep.
Just when there was a shouting and scolding in the Qing army camp, a large black iron ball suddenly came out of the air and shot into the Qing army camp.
"It's the artillery of the Ming army!" Someone exclaimed.
There was a ghost crying wolf howl in the camp of the Qing army, and it was only at this time that the Tartars knew that the wolf was really coming!
Two miles away from the Qing army's camp, twenty Shenwei generals and dozens of twelve-pounder Hongyi cannons lined up, bombarding the Qing army's camp, especially in the Qing army's cavalry barracks.
"Fire!"
The artillery commander shouted with all his might.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......"
The deafening sound of artillery made the whole earth tremble, and all the large-caliber long-range artillery guns of the Shenji battalion greeted the Qing army battalion.
A large number of iron balls smashed heavily into the various camps of the Qing army, and the big iron balls weighing more than ten catties or even more than twenty catties shot on the hard ground with a bang, and then bounced up vigorously and rushed straight away, beating the Qing army's tents into a mess, and many of the Tartars who were still in their dreams could never wake up again.
There are also some iron balls rolling and jumping at high speed, and some of the Qing soldiers who have been lined up directly broke their legs, and for a time the terrible screams of the Qing army camp continued to sound, and the Qing soldiers who were busy gathering in the camp were constantly carried down by the shells, and they fled everywhere screaming.
At the same time, a large number of stables were smashed by iron bullets, horses were killed and wounded, horses neighed, and many horses were frightened and dragged stakes around.
For a time, there was a magnificent landscape of thousands of galloping horses in the camp of the Qing army, and countless Qing soldiers were knocked over and trampled to death by war horses.
"Damn!" Abatai cursed a sentence in Chinese, and then gritted his teeth and ordered the whole battalion to gather urgently, not to panic, and to prepare to fight back.
More than 20,000 people from the four battalions, including the Yongwei Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, the Shenshu Battalion, and the Xinying Battalion, sent troops from the three city gates at the same time and went straight to the Qing army camp outside the city.
The Yongwei battalion was in the middle of the army, the artillery of the Shenji battalion was the front position, the infantry of the new battalion was the rear army, and all the cavalry divisions were on the two wings, pressing up against the Qing army battalion.
"The artillery charge continues to advance! Press it up! ”
Under Zhu Cihong's order, except for the general cannon and the Hongyi cannon with a firing range of two miles, the rest of the Hongyi cannon and the Franc machine gun with a short range of several poks of Hongyi cannon and Franc machine gun all continued to advance with the army.
After advancing to a mile from the Qing camp, the Qing army lost thousands of men in panic, and soon completed the assembly and began a counterattack against the Ming army.
The cavalry of the Qing army got on their horses and began to charge at the artillery position of the Shenji battalion, but after the chaos just now, only half of the cavalry that could be organized was before.
There were more than 200 Fran cannons in the artillery array of the Shenji Battalion, plus more than 300 Hongyi cannons, all of which spewed fierce fire at the galloping Qing cavalry.
In order to cause large-scale casualties, the artillery of the Shenji Battalion loaded these guns with thumb-thick lead and iron sand, as well as some round pebbles, and nearly 300 artillery pieces fired in a salvo, and the iron pellets flying all over the sky covered the front of the entire car formation.
The dense projectiles came with their heads covered their faces, and the people and horses swept by the rain of bullets were all covered with dense thick blood holes.
A miserable neighing of men and horses sounded among the Qing cavalry, and then it was like a typhoon sweeping across the wheat field, especially the Qing cavalry in the first few rows, which were swept away.
More than 300 artillery pieces fired a salvo, and the scene was comparable to hell, and my scalp was numb to watch.
The swept Qing army war horses rolled on the ground in a blur of flesh and blood, and some were running around and neighing fiercely, causing a lot of confusion among the Qing cavalry.
"Fire!"
Wang Wannian's eyelids jumped, and he endured his nausea and continued to command the attack of the Shenji Battalion, and another large piece of iron pills flew by, and all the shouts in the cavalry of the Qing army were instantly drowned out.
"Fire!"
The fire in the middle was too fierce, and a large group of Qing cavalry rushed towards the two wings of the artillery array of the Shenji battalion, and the hundreds of tiger squatting guns on both wings of the artillery array sprayed a large number of fierce shotguns at them.
"Fire!"
Round after round of shotgun, the cavalry of the Qing army rushed forward with difficulty in the rain of bullets, and the casualties were extremely heavy, and a large number of war horses fell, the scene was shocking.