Chapter 943: Warm Up

Seeing that the Qing army was still pretending to be crazy and stupid to delay time, Zhou Yuji guessed that Chang Yu would finally order the fight after reading the letter, and now that the crowd was excited, a group of people were ready to kill and couldn't hold it anymore, so they decided to warm up first, so they ordered the army to move forward, Tu Yuan led the Black Tiger Battalion to lead the Jin Wuwei to go to the west wing, Hao Shaoqi led the Teng Xiang Wei to divide the troops to the west wing, and he and Huang Degong led the main force to push straight forward and go straight to the Beiyang River to press.

However, it is said that when Dolgon and his subordinates were pondering how the Ming army would reply in the commander's tent, they broke through the siege and reported urgently, and the Ming army advanced. Everyone was frightened and hurriedly ran out of the tent to look at the opposite bank, the sky was full of black clouds, the top was cloudy, and the black oppressive soldiers and horses below were connected together, and the momentum was monstrous.

What's going on here, Dolgon was angry and frightened, after the first reply, the Ming army sent troops to approach, and the second reply was pushed directly to him, and the other party rebounded once, what the hell does this mean to talk about peace!

"Prepare for war!" Dolgon shouted and ordered the soldiers and horses of the riverside defense line to prepare for battle, no matter whether the Ming army was pretentious or really wanted to fight him, he must do his best, not to mention that the Ming army is not a good thing at all now.

The most basic principle of marching and camping is to rely on the mountain and water, the Qing army's camp is located on the north bank of the Beiyang River riverside can be attacked and defended, and for the safety of the camp, the Qing army deliberately found a deep river section to block the camp, at this time the Qing army laid thousands of archers on the river bank in front of the camp, not to mention that the army could not wade into the deep water to attack directly, that is, these thousands of hard bows will cause heavy losses to the Ming army.

Shang Kexi fled back to the camp in a panic and went straight to Dolgon's tent and shouted: "Regent, the Ming army is coming!" ”

Dolgon was not angry, and yelled at him: "Why did you provoke that dog eunuch...... Shang Kexi suddenly had three black lines on his face, I didn't even say a word, no one saw one, I was angry...... Holding back his grievances, he quickly explained to Dorgon.

"Dog's day eunuch, what to say about peace, there is no room for us at all, it is clear that he said it!" Duoduo grinned hatefully, and smashed it with a bang: "Fuck fight with them, otherwise I really think we won't dare to fight."

"yes, fight them!" The generals were indignant, and the Ming army was simply too deceitful.

Dolgon was a little entangled, pacing back and forth, rubbing his hands constantly, his eyes swept over the camp for a while, and stared at the Ming army soldiers and horses who were still slowly advancing due south, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot!

"Lord Wang, the Ming army is too pressing, unless we camp their conditions, we will start fighting sooner or later, it is better to take advantage of this time to show him the bottom and let them know our bottom line and determination! Besides, it's hard to say who will kill the deer in a real fight! The Qing general and Tuo proposed, although he was young, but the head of the analysis was the Tao, and everyone agreed.

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, you want to fight but not now, you can delay it for a while now, and it will be more safe" Dolgon gritted his teeth and said word by word, the ministers sighed in a low voice, and Duoduo exhaled: "What I said was" Looking at the approaching Ming army in the distance: "The water comes to cover the earth, the soldiers will block, if they want to talk, we will talk, if we fight, we can't help but fight back, and let's see."

Tens of thousands of Ming troops have been fully fed and drunk in the morning, and it has been several hours since they started from Qingzhou City in the middle of the morning, and the so-called one drum is exhausted and then three times exhausted, and the spirit is a little wilted for too long, and there is already no momentum like a tiger, so Zhou Yuji wants to warm them up first, and the soldiers are divided into three ways to move forward into horns.

Sure enough, when Tu Yuan and Hao Yongzhong's two wings moved, the Qing army on the opposite bank immediately deployed troops to deal with it in case the Ming army suddenly crossed the river, while the Qing army on the opposite side was waiting with a bow on the opposite bank.

Zhou Yuji and Huang De's main force advanced to the Beiyang River and stopped, and then observed the opposite bank and smiled at each other, and fired two cannons?

So he immediately sent people to the rear of the battle to order the Shenji battalion to come.

It is said that after the Qing army entered the customs and ran into a wall in the capital, it went south to plunder, and Chang Yu was ordered to chase after the enemy's supervising army, several troops and horses, nearly 100,000 soldiers, including two general soldiers, four emperors' personal guards, Li Yan's righteous army and the Shenji battalion.

Among them, the Shenji Battalion has the least soldiers and horses, but its commander has the highest rank, which is the Gongshun Hou of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Chang Yu bowed down and called Hou Ye when he saw the capital.

This Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying was originally the governor of Beijing, and in the past, he was also an arrogant lord and a virtue of those nobles in Beijing who were idle every day.

However, close to Zhu Zhechi, Wu Weiying, who was originally just a mess, followed Chang Yu's southern expedition to the north and the mood gradually changed, according to his past thoughts, these generals are desperate to earn fame, it is impossible for them to be crowned as an equal to him, and he is already a marquis, why work so hard, although he just relies on his ancestors to be blessed.

It can be seen that the little eunuch was born and died to suppress the bandits, and Yuqing led a group of generals to sacrifice their lives and forget to die, and he realized another meaning of life, family and country feelings!

and the Shenji Battalion, which has always been regarded by him as a drag oil bottle, has become a sharp weapon of the Ming army, which is not used in ordinary times, but it must be miraculous at every critical moment!

So the lazy and above-eyed Gongshun Hou's horizons suddenly became broader, and he became more and more low-key, so low-key that he almost had no sense of existence, such as he was present at military meetings every time, but he almost never expressed opinions and suggestions, because he knew that he had almost no military talent, and he would listen less and learn more.

This time, the Ming army pulled out the camp and advanced, Wu Weiying led the Shenji Battalion to the back of the palace is leisurely lowering his body and chatting with the soldiers, you must know that this time the thousands of miles of chasing the enemy and fighting countless battles, all the soldiers and horses of each department have suffered serious losses, but the formation of the Shenji Battalion of 5,000 people has few injuries.

"Marquis Wu, General Zhou has ordered the Divine Machine Battalion to fight!" As for the herald in the rear, Wu Weiying was slightly excited, clenched his fists and said: "There is life, all troops and horses are ready for war."

In the camp of the Qing army, Dolgon stared intently at the Ming army camp with a clairvoyant mirror, seeing that it was standing still outside the inside, he was puzzled in his heart, and he was pretending again?

"The Ming army will not attack head-on without a boat crossing the river, and if you want to attack, you have to send troops from both wings" Duoduo muttered beside him: "Look at this scene, it's not ......" Before the words fell, he suddenly saw that the Ming army was disrupted in front of the formation, and several groups of cavalry in the front row scattered towards the two wings!

Isn't it......

As soon as Dolgon and the generals had their minds moved, they heard the sound of artillery shaking the sky, and hundreds of shells were roaring in the direction of the camp!

Everyone was frightened and hurriedly fled due west, and then the shells fell into the Qing army's position and part of the camp on the riverbank, and the screams were endless.

Zhou Yuji is here to warm up, not to work hard, and he will not be stupid enough to attack head-on, but when he sees the archery position of the Qing army on the other side, his heart itches! So I arranged the easiest job for the Shenji Battalion since leaving Beijing: just fire artillery bombardment on the opposite side!

Although the range of the Tiger Zun cannon is not too far, but it is far better than the range of ordinary bows and arrows, the Shenji Battalion has 400 artillery and nearly 200 Tiger Zun cannons, the archers of the Qing army have no power to fight back under the bombardment across the river, and in the blink of an eye, the riverside position in front of the big camp is covered by artillery, and the bullets rain down the dead and wounded.

Artillery, artillery again! Dolgon and the others were really angry, and they almost spewed out a mouthful of old blood, and they were not afraid of you when they fought and fought in a group fight, but you TMD carried artillery everywhere you went, and you were crazy!

I have to say that in the era of cold weapons, firearms are used as auxiliaries and substitutes in many cases, even if the current firearms technology of the Ming Dynasty is the world's leading, but it has not yet been fully utilized, only when attacking the city will there be a little home feeling, other times is still the world of long knives and spears.

Even if Qi Jiguang invented this kind of field artillery, it was only used when he went into the mountains to suppress bandits, until Chang Yu took it out and used it to make the best use of the materials, but it made the Qing army feel extremely angry but helpless.

You must know that the Qing army didn't even have a decent artillery at first, and knowing that after the rebellion of King Sanshun, he brought a lot of firearms craftsmen, and the artillery technology of the Qing army was improved by leaps and bounds, and the artillery made was not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty.

However, its utilization rate of firearms is lower than that of Daming, because in their opinion, the accuracy of firearms is not good, and the ammunition is slow, how can there be a strong bow and a fast knife with high efficiency.

But after a few trips along the way, Dorgon decided to take a closer look at the issue when he returned.

In this way, the Ming army did not move a soldier or a soldier to send a knife or arrow, just like this, watching the fire from the other side, watching the artillery fire destroy the withered and decaying harvest of the lives of the Qing army, and watching the Qing army flee in terror.

This is the price of your failure to face up to the problem, and this is the punishment for you to pretend to be stupid and delay time!