Chapter 114: Butterflies (Part II) (Page 1/1)

Just like the last battle of Jiangdong Bridge, the Ming army's camp was only simple, because Zheng Chenggong never intended to rely on the camp to defend to the death, but to reduce losses and increase the difficulty of the Qing army's attack.

Every time the Qing army consumes a little more of its vigor, the Ming army's hope of victory will be greater. Huangshan was promoted to the commander by Zheng Chenggong, and he had two direct troops of a thousand-person town, and he was one of the highest-level generals, so he naturally had the most understanding of Zheng Chenggong's tactics.

The Qing army was advancing step by step, and the firearms on the side of the Ming army had already been prepared. Guns, artillery, rockets, behind the sparse wooden walls, looking through the gaps between the woods, as time went by and the movement in the distance became louder and louder, and even the breathing gradually became heavy.

"Without an order, you must not release the gun, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

The officer shouted loudly, hearing this, the gunner subconsciously kept the gun away from the fuse, the archer was not in a hurry to light the arrow, and the gunners did not dare to open the fire door, lest the firerope splash down some sparks and cause the firebolt to accidentally go off.

The Ming army maintained the necessary restraint on the side, and on the Qing side, the cavalry galloped, and the smoke and dust covered the infantry, until they shouted in unison when they were about a hundred paces, and the shouts of killing resounded when they landed. The tension of the Ming army inevitably deepened, but after a long period of drills, the strictness of the military law of the headquarters, and the sound of the officer's order just now, they just looked at the Qing army in the distance, and did not react in the slightest.

Chen Kai had earlier told Zheng Chenggong about some of the records he had seen in later generations, some records of the Qing army deceiving the Ming army to fire with firearms outside the firing range. For this reason, with the corresponding cognition, Zheng Chenggong also emphasized in the army early on, and in training, he also insisted that the officers should not fire without giving orders, otherwise even if he killed the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, there would only be one capital crime.

In the battle of Pantuoling that year, when the Ke brothers faced the dense fog of invisible people a few meters away, the Ming army was already able to resist this psychological pressure, even if it was facing the Eight Banners Army of the Han Army Banner, it was also not fluctuating.

The Qing army was still advancing step by step, and the cavalry deceived several times, but found that it was still useless, so they simply retreated to the rear of the formation. The futility of the cavalry did not hinder the infantry to continue to advance, with heavy steps, Jiangxi was raised in front, Hangzhou garrisoned eight banners in the back, approaching step by step from two miles away, dull and depressed to the extreme space, the air seemed to be slowly solidifying, one and a half miles, one and a half miles, within a hundred steps, the artillery of the Ming army finally launched a sound.

The cannonballs roared up from the outskirts of the camp, whistling and falling, and slammed heavily on the ground, and the huge kinetic energy splashed large swaths of mortar as the cannonballs penetrated deep into the earth. Occasionally, some black tracks flashed into the crowd, stirring up large areas of red, and at the same time bringing long or short screams.

From the beginning of the first artillery bombardment, the artillery fire of the Ming army has not stopped. The number of artillery in the camp of the Ming army made Jin Li sweat a little, not much more than the Han army flag, but a Ming army with only half of the territory before the Lian War could have such a scale, and the huge profits of the sea trade really made him seem to have an expectation that he was about to be buried alive by the Ming army's silver. And this kind of thought, he also saw it clearly in the eyes of his deputy Liu Zhiyuan.

"If you win this battle, you should have made a lot more money than when you fought Zhoushan."

Such thoughts emerged, and the two also looked at each other and smiled. The shelling continued, but they didn't care. Not to mention, at least at this stage, the people who were bombarded by the Ming army were those green battalion soldiers - green battalion soldiers, and if they died, they would die, so there was nothing to be sorry for.

The large array of the Qing army continued to advance, and the Ming army's bronze gongs, foot bows, franc machines, and fire guns also sounded one after another as the distance continued to close.

Cannonballs, arrows, and buckshot baptized the formation of the Qing army, which undoubtedly caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army. The Jiangxi Banner in front of them seemed to be a little unbearable in the midst of the continuous casualties, but the Eighth Banner Army in the back seemed to give them courage, supporting them to continue to move forward.

After a distance of fifty paces, the Ming army relied on the Franc cannon to shoot a round of rapid fire, and the casualties of the raised standard increased sharply, but at this moment, the war drums behind the rumbling sounded, and in an instant, the artillery fire in front of it was overwhelming. The iron law of the battlefield when the drum is beaten, the Qing army, of course, understands that even under the leadership of the grassroots officers, they rush in the direction of the forward barracks.

The Qing army accelerated suddenly, and the officers of the Ming army also experienced many years of battle, when even the gun carriage that had not yet been loaded was withdrawn and replaced with the tiger squat cannon that had been filled with gunpowder, and then an order was given, and the loaders stuffed the iron sand and stones that had been prepared for a long time.

There was a roar, and the Qing army, which had rushed into twenty or thirty paces, was knocked down in this storm of iron, sand and stones. The pace of the follow-up Qing army couldn't help but pause, but the Eight Banners Army was behind them, holding their spears almost on their backs, how could they dare to hesitate any longer?

There was a mad shout of killing, an outlaw-like impact, as if this was the only way to release the fear that almost burst in the chest!

The impact broke out, the Qing army savagely rushed into the wooden fence of the barracks, and after the Ming army's artillery bombardment, they were directly replaced by pikemen, and stabbed the Qing troops who tried to push it down from the gap in the wooden fence that was not very strong. And the Qing army, too, blocked with swords and shields, chopped and stabbed with spears, just hoping to take the opportunity to knock down this wooden fence while killing and injuring the Ming army, so as to go straight into the camp.

Around this unstable wooden fence, the two sides launched a desperate battle. Especially for the Qing army, the Ming army, including the Ming army, already has a favorable geographical position, and it has never been able to knock down the wooden fence, so the casualties will always be more for them.

The battle was raging here, and Jin Li, the commander of the Qing army, received an urgent report and turned to look at the left flank of the Ming army. There, the Ming army had already toppled the wooden fence, and the Ming army under the banner of the Central Admiral, Qinding Town, Aid Zuozhen, Qianfeng Town, and Guarding Zuozhen had already opened a position outside the camp, and pressed towards Shi Fu and Ma Jinbao in a daze. And behind them, the Ming army's reinforcement and protection of Zhongzhen also followed, and it seems that there is even the figure of Rongqi Town, the ace army under Zheng Chenggong.

How long Shi Fu and Ma Jinbao can hold out under such a strong army, no one can guarantee this. Seeing this, Jin Li waved his hand, the handsome flag waved, and soon, the lifting of the standard broke out into earth-shattering cheers. At the same time, the formation of the standard was gradually separated to the two wings from the back to the front, and the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, which was always ready to go behind the upgrade, were like Weishui entering Jing, and at the same time quickly filling the gap in the standard, the army was replaced from back to front.

The cheers resounded on the battlefield, which was caused by the accumulation of prestige for decades since the Liao incident. Although it is not really Manchuria, the Eight Banners of the Han Army are also the Eight Banner Army, and they are arrogant and arrogant to change to the front of the formation, and they have always been powerful and superior in Hangzhou, and they do not live up to their prestige in the next year.

With these foot soldiers, there are a large number of artillery, the auxiliaries tried their best to carry them forward, the gunner in front of the Ming army to load the cannon, and then without an order, directly pressed the torch on the fuse, just after a round of bombardment, the Han flag soldiers behind the artillery shouted and rushed up. And those dilapidated wooden fences obviously could no longer do anything to stop the rushing turbidity.

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