Chapter 276: Excellent Prince Zheng
Ignoring the fact that the Tianwu army did not collect the battle and taunted behind at night, Zilharang continued to order the retreat of the troops, and then sent cavalry to harass him.
Imagination and planning are always beautiful, but the reality is cruel, the Qing army retreated twenty miles in a row, not only harassing and sending hundreds of heads each time, but also their own formation became more and more chaotic.
However, the harassment of the Qing army is still the starting point, for example, the various units of the Tianwu Army are about to move, and they want to pursue and make meritorious contributions, so that the speed of progress is getting faster and faster, and the battle formation is getting longer and longer.
If it weren't for the strict discipline of the Tianwu Army, it is estimated that many soldiers would have rushed up to beat the Qing army.
After giving the seventh order to retreat for three miles, Zilharang suddenly ordered the whole army to turn around and prepare for battle.
At this time, a large number of Qing troops suddenly sprang out from the low slopes on both sides, surrounded the Tianwu army on three sides, and the Qing army rushed out of the low slopes.
Seeing that his ambush was successful, Zilharang laughed three times, and a sense of intellectual superiority arose.
Zilharang knew the truth of the speed of the soldiers, and did not listen to the praise of the generals of the Eight Banners, he directly ordered the ambush troops to quickly raid, dividing the Tianwu Army into two, and he led the main force to break it from the front.
The Qing army was still extremely organized, and after the ambush launched a surprise attack, it unsurprisingly broke the Tianwu army into two.
Seeing this, Zilharang was even more excited, feeling that victory was in sight, but what happened next was completely unexpected for him.
Jierharang was surprised to find that although the Tianwu Army was surrounded, there was no panic on their faces, and they even took the initiative to divide into two parts to cooperate with the division and truncation of the Eight Banners Army.......
Zhu Cihong's military sense is extremely keen, and from the moment Zilharang retreated from the army, he realized that this grandson was going to play tricks.
However, in order not to lose the face of Prince Zheng, Zhu Cihong was also very cooperative.
Seeing the ambush on both wings, Zhu Cihong sneered, just his 30,000 horses, and he still wanted to surround the 20,000 Tianwu army? Where did he get his self-confidence?
At this time, Zhu Cihong even wondered if Jilharang's brain was a little abnormal.
In fact, Zilharang used a trick to be particularly clever, put on most of the Ming army, it is very effective, once the Ming army is ambushed, the army will be in turmoil, without a fight, self-defeating, after being hit several times, it is all kinds of escape.
However, this move is ineffective against the Tianwu Army, not to mention that the difference in strength between the two sides is not large, even if it is several times, so what? You have guns and cannons in your hands, and you're afraid that your big knife and spear won't work? Joke!
In the eyes of the Tianwu Army, the so-called ambush is nothing more than a partial location, and the time is a little sudden, and the Tianwu Army is divided into two sections, and it is not wrong, what is the difference?
The Tianwu army began a counterattack, the two musket formations turned to the two wings and began to fire a salvo, and the dense and continuous sound of gunfire also sounded in the battlefield, pouring bullets like raindrops into the ambush of the Qing army.
Several artillery arrays on the front, hundreds of artillery pieces, all replaced with shotguns, and bombarded the main force of the Qing army led by Zilharang.
In the deafening sound of artillery, Zilharang was frightened, he had fought for more than 20 years and could be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, and he had seen a lot of artillery, but it was really the first time he had seen such a fierce and dense Tianwu army, and Jierharang even suspected that the Ming army had transferred the artillery of the entire Beizhili.
Under the strong blow of the Tianwu Army, countless Qing soldiers screamed and fell, and died on the spot, and in just a quarter of an hour, the Qing army was killed by the fierce fire of the Tianwu Army.
Fifty or sixty steps away from the Tianwu Army's array, the dry ground was completely covered with the corpses of the Qing army, and the blood stained the earth a reddish-brown color, constantly soaking into the earth.
Many Qing soldiers didn't understand what was going on at all, but they felt a sharp stinging pain suddenly coming from one or more parts of their body, and then they fell to the ground.
Some Qing soldiers who did not die immediately could only lie on the ground and roll and wail, and then wait for their vitality to slowly drain away.
After a purgatory-like shelling, the remaining Qing soldiers reacted, and the enemy in front of them was not a difficult bone, but an indestructible steel plate! It's not like you can match it at all!
The combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners was not as high as imagined, and when they encountered the Ming army in the past, they saw that they were weak and timid, so they vigorously went up, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.
But when encountering the Tianwu Army, the Qing army's personality of bullying the weak and fearing the hard was exposed, and where did they dare to continue to support, they threw away their knives and guns, turned their heads and ran.
Zilharang was also dumbfounded in the formation, and he never dreamed that the firepower of the Tianwu Army would be so fierce, and such a battle mode was completely beyond Jilharang's understanding of war, and now he only had one thought in his heart, who could withstand such a firepower blow?
At this moment, suddenly a Baya soldier shouted: "Lord Wang, they have launched an attack on us!" ”
Zilharang also sobered up from his contemplation, and when he looked around, he saw that the formation of the Tianwu Army was not chaotic, and he pushed it sideways in his direction in a horizontal formation.
Ji'er Harang looked at the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the left and right, and saw that they were all frightened by the battle in front of them, and when the generals of the Eight Banners saw the commander looking at them, they all involuntarily retreated, for fear of being favored by Ji'er Harang, and sent themselves to lead their men and horses to attack the Tianwu Army.
Looking at the group of cowards around him, Jilharang's head suddenly became bigger, he knew very well what kind of people these people were, and what they didn't listen to was a typical bullying of the soft and afraid of the hard.
Zilharang only felt a heart-piercing pain in his brain, what should he do now? If you retreat at this time, it will be a rout, instead of the previous retreat Sanli still maintains a formation, once defeated, the cavalry of the Tianwu Army will never be vegetarian.
Although he had tens of thousands of cavalry on his side, he quickly dispelled the idea of charging with cavalry after seeing the firepower of the Tianwu Army.
Just when Zilharang was still hesitating, the main formation of the Tianwu Army had advanced fifty or sixty steps as a whole, although the Tianwu Army was advancing very slowly, but it invisibly brought another heavy pressure to the Qing army.
The Qing army watched this group of invincible enemies approaching them step by step, and their little hearts couldn't help but increase their beating rhythm.
Especially the Eight Banners Han Army, which existed as cannon fodder in the front row, only felt that they were completely exposed to the opponent's guns, as if they might become the opponent's target at any time, and they instinctively moved their feet backwards, wanting to hide behind the Qing soldiers in the back row.
The Qing soldiers in the back row are not stupid, naturally they will not let themselves become the front row, and they all retreat one after another, and some clever Qing soldiers directly blocked the gap between the Qing soldiers in front of them, and pushed forward unkindly........