Chapter Forty-Three: Victory in the First Battle
Because it was very time-consuming and laborious to fill the elixir and correct the large Franc machine, and because of the angle, if the distance was too close, it was easy to hurt one's own people, so after two rounds, the No. 1 artillery quickly retreated to make room for the medium guns behind him.
"Gun No. 2, three hundred and fifty meters, aim, fire!" The artillery captain calmly gave the order to open fire.
For a time, thirty medium-sized Franc planes also opened fire, these were all explosive bombs, dozens of shells roared into the Han infantry formation, and set off a bloody storm, and the solid bullet of the straight strike is different, the explosive bomb is full coverage, the effective killing range reaches three zhang. Therefore, no matter how the opponent adjusts the formation, casualties cannot be avoided.
Gun No. 2 was reloaded twice as fast as Gun No. 1, and at a distance of two hundred meters at a time, Gun No. 2 fired four rounds, and more than a hundred explosive shells fell into the enemy's troops.
Of course, the power of the Ming Dynasty's explosive bombs could not be compared with that of later generations, but the Qing army's charge was limited to a range of a few hundred meters, and under the dense firepower, the Han army suffered heavy casualties, and there were mutilated corpses and wounded people with missing arms and legs.
The power of artillery is so domineering. After a few rounds of shelling, the Han cavalry was almost completely annihilated, only a few dozen cavalry fled back, and the infantry also suffered nearly half of the casualties, but they did not even see the enemy's face clearly.
The rest of the Han infantry was frightened, and regardless of the shouts of the Mongolian cavalry behind them, they turned around and fled.
Seeing that the soldiers had rushed to the front of the Ming army but fell short, he exploded his lungs, and cut down several Han army routs one after another, shouting: "The artillery of the Ming army has stopped, Kawang, immediately rush up with the cavalry of the headquarters and crush the artillery of the Southern Barbarians!" ”
"Warriors, it's time to show us the power of our Mongolian iron cavalry, let these Han cowards see how powerful we are, and rush with me!"
Seeing that the Ming artillerymen were busy sorting out the artillery, he hurriedly urged the men and horses of the headquarters to charge, he was much smarter than the cavalry of the Han army, and ordered his men and horses to spread out horizontally as much as possible, and charged in a shallow and deep queue. This change of formation really worked, and the Ming army was another round of artillery fire, but only a few dozen people were killed and wounded.
"Warriors of Manchuria, attack the Ming army on the right flank!" Seeing that Kawang's charge had an effect, Ao Erduo decisively chose Xiao Maoce, the seemingly weakest right wing of the Ming army, which was a small number of people and could avoid the bombardment of the Ming army, which seemed to be a good choice.
Zhu Hao sneered, he put on a half-moon formation that was common in later generations, with two lines of defense in depth in each position, giving full play to the dense formation of the musket team.
The last round of artillery bombardment just now was also deliberately arranged by him, and with the combat skills of the current artillery, it would not be difficult to defeat the cavalry charging horizontally, but if the bombardment was too strong, it would scare the Qing army away, and the musket team would not be able to kill and damage the enemy to the greatest extent.
The enemy rushed to one hundred and fifty meters!
"The artillery withdraws from the battle, the infantry is ready to shoot!" Zhu Hao decisively gave the order.
"Papapa" A row of dense gunfire rang out, white smoke rose up, and the charging Mongolian cavalry immediately fell a large area, and the Qing troops didn't know what was happening, and the huge inertia made them still rush forward at high speed.
At this time, the three-stage shooting of the Ming army exerted great power, and continuous musket volleys rained down on the Mongolian soldiers, and countless cavalry companies with men and horses were beaten into a sieve!
In the usual training, Zhu Hao emphasized many times that when shooting cavalry, don't only target the knight, if necessary, even shoot people and horses together, so the musketeers are not precisely aiming, anyway, the cavalry target is too big, and one shot can be hit, and some cavalry even hit dozens of shots, and the angry Zhu Hao scolded these boys for being a loser, and the bullets don't need money?
Kawang's self-inflicted cleverness also dug a grave for himself, if he still continued to charge in depth, he would not be fatally hit in a short time, but now the horizontal formation discharged is to push all his own people under the guns of the Ming army, and he can't escape if he wants to.
There was no suspense, all of the 500 Mongolian cavalry were shot after charging for only sixty or seventy meters, and none of them fled for their lives.
The situation of Ao Erduo is similar, his opponent Xiao Maoce played with firearms earlier than Luo Yunqu, and he is more skilled in commanding. Although the armor of the Eight Banners was extremely elite, it could not stop the dense rain of bullets. Ao Erduo did not dare to rush again after losing a Niu Lu's troops, and saw that Zhao Yuansheng's troops on Zhu Hao's right flank were waiting for him, and he did not dare to run around, shouting and retreating the same way.
It must be said that the mobility of the Eight Banners is indeed outstanding, the cavalry rushes fast and escapes quickly, and the two-legged infantry cannot be compared. Xiao Maoce watched the rest of the Qing army march away, and stomped his feet angrily.
"Order, the cavalry team to attack!" Zhu Hao saw that Ao Erduo wanted to slip away, and decisively ordered the cavalry to attack.
"It's all there, rush with me, you can't let them run!" Beat up the water dogs, as long as you are not an idiot, you will do it. Zhou Da held a short spear, brandished a saber, and chased away with the cavalry with a roar on his face full of excitement.
"Send a signal to Wang Boda, listen to my orders, form an encirclement formation, blow the trumpet of the charge, and the whole army will attack." Zhu Hao gave the order for a general attack.
The herald immediately picked up the flare gun he had just invented and fired three shots into the sky, and three fiery flares shot into the distance.
"Dudu Dudu" remembered for a while, and the Ming army launched a general attack.
"Kill, kill all the Jurchen Tartars" and "Avenge the dead people", thousands of soldiers shouted and chased after the defeated Qing army.
Zhu Hao led the army roaring away, not paying attention to the Lu King Zhu Yipai, Liu Wenchang, Tengxian County Commander and others at the head of the city behind him!
However, it is said that Ao Erduo led the remnants of the army to flee desperately to the north for more than ten miles, leaving only more than 200 cavalry and a few fast Han infantry, and the rest of the infantry were fierce and lucky.
He didn't dare to delay, turned a corner along the road, and was frightened when he didn't possess his body, only to see that not far away, a group of Ming troops was waiting for him, and hundreds of black holes were pointed at his gang, which was Wang Boda's department.
Chong must not be able to rush through, hearing the sound of shouting and killing and the rumbling hooves of the cavalry from behind, Ao Erduo scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, turned his heart sideways, and shouted in Manchu: "Everyone take off their armor and break through in all directions!" ”
This trick was quite useful, and after a while, a large group of cavalrymen in gray clothes and gray pants whistled and fled, and no one noticed the figure of Aoerdo in the chaos.
Wang Boda had long felt that something was wrong, but he didn't expect the enemy to come out like this, so he immediately ordered all the troops to press and shoot the fleeing enemy.
Zhou Da's cavalry and Zhu Hao's large army also caught up, surrounded the remnants of the Qing army, and began to slowly slaughter.
After a short time, there was no enemy to resist in the encirclement, and Zhu Hao ordered people to clean up the battlefield.
After the war, the Qing army suffered more than 2,600 casualties and more than 300 prisoners, most of them were Han troops, only a dozen horsemen took advantage of the chaos to escape, seized more than 50,000 taels of silver, 800 taels of gold, and captured countless enemy grain and grass, which can be described as a complete victory.
And his side only suffered more than a dozen casualties in the encirclement and suppression war, the loss was very small, Rao is so, Zhu Hao is also very dissatisfied, after the battle began, Zhu Hao thought that it could reach zero casualties, and this battle also exposed some small problems, but now it is not convenient to study, after all, just won the battle, the officers and soldiers are in high spirits.
"General, the incompetence of his subordinates made the enemy general run away." Wang Boda checked the results of the battle and came to ask Zhu Hao for his guilt.
"It's okay, it's more in my way to run away, if I kill Aoerdo, the other Qing soldiers don't know, who will send them to death? General Ben is not satisfied with these small fish and shrimp. Zhu Hao didn't care, a Ao Erduo is a fart.
"General Takami." Seeing that Zhu Hao didn't care, Wang Boda happily gave a sycophant.
"Don't shoot Lao Tzu's sycophants, organize the team immediately, and go back to the city." Zhu Hao scolded with a smile.