Chapter 652: Intimidating the Qing Army (2)
Of course, Wu Sangui and the others also knew Azig's thoughts, but the next day, he still had to lead his 10,000-strong army to set off towards Jingcheng Pass.
Wu Sangui's command is all his old department in the Guanning Army, which can also be called the Guanning Iron Cavalry.
At this time, this army was already like their master Wu Sangui, all of them were shaved into the shape of a money rat's tail.
This condition was put forward by Dolgon when Wu Sangui was begging for the Manchu Dynasty, so it can be seen that the so-called "revenge for the monarch's father" and other banners are just self-deception.
When Wu Sangui entered the customs, he had 30,000 horses under his command, but after entering the customs, through the banner of "avenging the monarch's father", he recruited many defeated troops under the chief military officer Tang Tong, with a total of about 50,000 soldiers and horses.
However, in order to curb Wu Sangui's power, the Manchu court directly divided his subordinates into several departments, followed Azig all the way to fight, and the others were assigned to Duoduo to listen to them.
People are swords, I am fish and meat, and Wu Sangui has to swallow the bitter fruit.
This 10,000-strong Guan Ning Tie rode out of the Qing army formation, and carefully moved all the way towards the pass, but something surprising to Wu Sangui and the others happened.
The pass of Jingcheng Pass was wide open, and a team of about 12,000 people rushed out of the gate.
"Are they trying to surrender?"
Wu Zhimao, the senior general of Wu Sangui's army, couldn't help but mutter, causing a group of Guanning iron horsemen to laugh loudly.
In everyone's eyes, knowing that tens of thousands of their own troops are approaching the city and still dare to go out of the city, it is not that they want to surrender.
Contrary to the perception of the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was actually composed of most of the Mongols, who valued money more and were not fundamentally different from mercenaries.
This is also the reason why Wu Sangui, who has a large army, has never dared to rebel, and he did not dare to raise the flag until he took root in Yunnan and developed for decades.
However, to the surprise of Wu Sangui and the others, this group of Ming officers and soldiers who came out of Jingcheng Pass marched fast, and they had already completed the battle in front of the gate in less than a quarter of an hour.
Different from Wu Sangui's cognition, the Ming army from Jingcheng Pass did not form a very dense large phalanx, but divided into a small phalanx of 1,000 people, and there was still a certain gap between each phalanx.
There were only about 6,000 people in total, and another 6,000 troops were still near the Chinese army.
As soon as he saw this situation, the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry in Wu Sangui's formation suddenly became excited.
"Which officer and army led by a mallet can't even line up, marshal, give the order to attack, we can defeat them with a charge!"
Wu Sangui looked back at the Qing army camp behind him, and finally nodded solemnly.
"Roar, roar"
Nearly 10,000 Guan Ning iron cavalry roared like a storm, urging the horses under him to rush towards the Ming army led by Li Jinghong.
Under Jingcheng Pass, Li Jinghong looked at the Eight Banners Han Army with a calm face, and shouted loudly:
"Check Firearms"
"Check Firearms"
The phalanx commanders in each phalanx kept repeating Li Jinghong's orders, and the columns of Ming soldiers with guns seemed to be ignoring the cavalry a few miles ahead of them, and they all picked up their guns to examine them carefully.
"Check Ammunition"
"One Shot"
In front of the Ming army's position, there was an instantaneous and crisp sound of fiddling with the bolt.
At this time, the vibration of the cavalry galloping and stepping on the earth came from far and near, as if the thunder on the horizon gradually moved to the front of the Ming army.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry had already entered the firing range of a hundred paces of his side, slogans continued to sound in the phalanx.
"Raise your gun, shoot!"
"Bang", "Bang"
"Raise your gun, shoot!"
"Bang", "Bang"
……
Just after four consecutive rows of firing, the Ming array, which had quickly completed reloading, raised its muskets again.
"Bang", "Bang"
Wu Sangui charged in the middle of the large army formation, and the left and right were protected by his own soldiers, but from his angle, he could still clearly see that the Ming army began to raise their guns and shoot at the age of 100 steps.
Wu Sangui, who had never experienced a battle with Liu Ximing, was overjoyed that this Ming army was so stupid.
Any Ming general outside the Shanhai Pass knew that in order to exert the power of the musket, he had to shoot at least thirty paces.
Wu Sangui, who was riding on a horse, immediately shook his head with a smile, if this group of Ming troops were really smart, they would not have specially formed a team with all muskets.
Sure enough, only I, Daqing, is the real destiny.
"Ahh
"Poof", "Poof"
Suddenly, with the white eyes rising in front of the Ming army's position, the forward cavalry of Wu Sangui's army, which was still moving at high speed, continued to erupt in pain as if they had been hit hard.
Hundreds of forward horses fell in unison, and the battlefield was full of neighing horses.
Wu Sangui saw with his own eyes that his forward general Wu Zhimao's helmet Tianling cover was directly lifted by an unknown thing, spilling a pool of red and white unknown liquid and splashing on the surrounding cavalry.
At this time, the cavalry around Wu Zhimao had no time to care, and the whistling bullets continued to make a sound of entering the flesh like a talisman.
The hard armor was useless, and one by one, the Guan Ning Iron Horsemen who were hit and killed fell off their horses like walking corpses, and many of them were still stepping on their stirrups and were dragged directly.
"Zhimao!" , In the cavalry formation, Wu Sangui roared out with red eyes.
This is his most effective forward general, but he didn't expect to die on the way between Ning Yuan and Tartar, but he lost his life here.
"Charge Lao Tzu and kill them all!"
Wu Sangui, who was extremely angry, raised his saber and roared, and the opposite position answered him with a string of non-stop bullets.
"Impossible", looking at the continuous shooting of the opposite position, Wu Sangui was stunned.
"How could they shoot so quickly, how could it be?"
A miserable howl sounded in Wu Sangui's army, and nearly 1,000 people fell in the rain of bullets.
The horses fell and the personnel fell to the ground, which directly affected the speed of the follow-up cavalry, and the entire Guanning Iron Cavalry was slowed down.
In the Ming army, Li Jinghong held a pocket watch and accurately calculated the time on the battlefield.
Immediately after two rounds of firing at the entire phalanx, he gave a loud order:
"Form a hollow phalanx!"
On the battlefield, the Ming army suddenly changed formations, and the large phalanxes originally arranged in four rows were cut into dozens of small hollow phalanxes under the command of grassroots officers at all levels.
Each hollow phalanx again produces a phalanx leader, who commands in the center of the phalanx.
The three rows of musketeers on the periphery of the phalanx rushed out one after another with the Longxiang three-style bayonets in their hands, forming an iron wall, and a row of soldiers inside turned to take out grenades from their ammunition bags and stared at the front.
Because the Ming army's ammunition firing speed was too fast, Wu Sangui's army still had a distance of 80 steps when the formation changed, and under the obstruction of the corpse of the forward, the speed of the entire cavalry team dropped significantly, and the Ming army successfully completed the formation.
In the Guanning Iron Cavalry Army, Wu Sangui was not surprised when he saw the changes in the Ming army opposite.
Although the musket shot just now was really unexpected, at least causing more than 2,000 casualties on its own side, but at the moment the Ming army is seeking its own death.
In the face of the cavalry, they did not form in groups, but divided into small units, which was simply to complete the division and interspersing action for themselves.
Wu Sangui, who was overjoyed, immediately stepped on the stirrups and roared: "Charge, kill them all!" ”
The surging cavalry roared in, and the excited Guanning iron cavalry clenched the spears in their hands, eager to drink the blood of the Ming army immediately.
"Bomb Dropping"
"Boom", "Boom"
In front of the Ming army's position, small black bumps were perfectly drawn along the parabola, and they exploded directly in the Guanning iron cavalry team that was about to charge to the phalanx.
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The violent roar, accompanied by the musket fire in the Ming army's formation, was in chaos when the Guanning Iron Cavalry boarded.
Horses are inherently afraid of fire and spikes, so whenever cavalry charges, most of them will blindfold the horses so that they can move forward fearlessly.
But now on the battlefield, this approach suddenly shows its disadvantages.
The horses, which had lost their sense of direction, panicked by the roar of the bombs, scattered one by one.
Because there was still a distance between the Ming army's arrays, under the pressure of muskets and bayonets, the entire Guanning iron cavalry poured into the Ming army's large array along the gap between the squares.
"Shoot!"
The crisp slogans sounded continuously, and Wu Sangui of the Chinese army was full of despair.
"No!"