Chapter 674: The Battle of Tongguan (7)
The Mongol cavalry's attack, or the momentum of plundering, was like a torrent, hitting a solid and thick embankment head-on, and the original fierce attack suddenly turned into a sky full of jewels. After dropping countless garbage bubbles, the torrent reluctantly retreated.
This embankment is the front of the earthquake camp.
In front of the battle line of the Zhenshan camp, the corpses of the Mongolian cavalry were used to draw a long and faintly visible arc.
The Zhenshan Battalion is the only child of the Shun army. In the article "Jiashen Re-sacrifice", which was written by a certain general citing the most successful fantasy historical masterpiece "History of the Ming Dynasty", the scale reached 600,000 cavalry and 400,000 infantry, although the number of this Zhenshan battalion was less than 30,000, it was the top of Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Yan and others. Not to mention that all the troops were firearms, the marching army was also made of mules and horses. Although there were many baggage and artillery, the speed of the march was not inferior to that of the horse team in the Shun army.
(To be honest, the "Jiashen Re-sacrifice" that was boasted to the sky back then, after the unkind author got it, after reading it hastily, the first feeling in my mind was, could it be that this author also mixed up?) I don't know if I've signed a contract or if I've put it on the shelves? )
Right now, facing the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Jiang Pai and others, Luo Hu still looks light. He put down the monocular in his hand and sneered: "But that's it! ”
Indeed it is. The soldiers and horses of the Qing army, who were still galloping on the land of the Guanzhong Plain at a speed of thousands of miles a day, were like impotence patients who had bought fake and shoddy blue pills from street swindlers at this time, and they cowered and did not dare to move forward.
This is also a misunderstanding of the Qing army. In their consciousness, firearms can only be fired in place, and they are best used for defense and fortification, but if they are used in field battles, they are not enough. Therefore, Jiang Jian and the others opened up at what they thought was a safe distance and prepared to fight against Luo Hu. Let's see who can't hold it first and retreat the troops and horses.
However, they didn't know that Luo Hu was a person who had been with Li Huayu for a long time. If Abatai learned in Shandong that Jiang Pai and the others had encountered this tiger cub and dared to fight against him, he was afraid that he would be so angry that this Rao Yu Baylor would go thousands of miles again and run from Shandong to Shaanxi to teach Jiang Pai a lesson.
"Who said that artillery guns can't be used in field offensives?"
Luo Hu sorted out the large and small firearms such as the double-barreled horseguns and short firearms hanging on the horseback, and pulled the long lance from the ground, "Little Si'er, the old rules." I went out with the firecrackers, and you commanded the artillery team in this formation, and held down the position for me, patrolling the wind and sentry. ”
Wang Si'er is his deputy, and he is also from the Boy Scout Army. Now, Luo Hu has been named an earl, an official and a general, and he commands tens of thousands of elites in the Zhenshan Battalion. And Wang Si'er was also made a viscount, and the official worshiped General Sanpin Guoyi. Over the years, the two have fought together in the north and south, and they have cooperated with each other very tacitly.
"Please rest assured, General. I'll leave the artillery team to me! ”
"Then I'll leave the team to me?" Li Laiheng, who was on the side, was eager to try. He had heard his uncles mention more than once that the cavalry tactics of the Zhenshan battalion were different from all the horse teams in the Shun army. Dozens of horses can break through hundreds of opposing cavalry. The more cavalry, the better the odds of victory. Now that I finally have such an opportunity, of course, I have to learn a thing or two.
"Little Hengzi! Don't mess around! You've got something else to do! For this adopted son of Li Guo, Luo Hu also has a headache.
Luo Hu snorted, walked out of his flag array, and nodded over a group of people who were waiting around.
"You all know what the Tartar soldiers are doing in northern Shaanxi, right?"
"Back to Uncle's words, I know."
"General Luo, we are all the party of Northern Shaanxi Township, and the blood feud of the Tartars is going to be avenged today!"
These people are the old men of the peasant army who are too old in the Shun army to fight in the middle of the year, and because their bodies have been fighting in the north and south for many years, they are somewhat disabled and are not suitable for fighting in the army, and after the Dashun army pacified Guanzhong, they served as defense envoys in various prefectures and counties. Luo Hu today used the general's military order to transfer the defense envoys of various prefectures and counties in Guanzhong to lead the local people to help in the war.
"Little Hengzi, these uncles are under your leadership. When you go back, tell them that once the Tartars enter the hinterland of Guanzhong, then, northern Shaanxi, there are still these," Luo Hu stretched out his hand and pointed to the villages that were still smoking in the distance, "and this is the fate of their own homes." ”
"Obey!" Li Laiheng clasped his hands into fists, knelt down with his right leg, and solemnly performed a Dashun military salute.
"Pass the order! The mules, donkeys, knives, guns, armor, and money seized by the people of the various tribes belonged to his own department. You don't have to turn it in! Carts, horses, camels, artillery, guns, etc., turned in! ”
These dozens of defense envoys each brought a number of people, or hundreds, or more than a thousand people. The establishment of a system of people's strong or watchmen responsible for local security and arresting bandits in various prefectures and counties was also implemented by Wu Xing from Shandong Shanzhai in that year, and then implemented by Li Yan's hands in Guanzhong, Huguang and other places. Didn't want to come in handy today.
It's just that Luo Hu knows very well that if those people who farm on weekdays and only receive some training in their spare time, and maintain law and order in the countryside, they must have enough interest stimulation to go into battle and kill the enemy. Only then did the military order that the seized property of mules, donkeys and other livestock should not be handed over, in order to give these people full motivation!
On the flat land of the Guanzhong Plain, smoke and dust were everywhere, and the infantry of the Qing army, numbering as many as 50,000 or 60,000, was scolded by their respective commanders and lined up on the front of the mile-long front, preparing to deal with the elite soldiers and horses of the Shun army on the opposite side. Although they knew that firearms were good for defense and not conducive to attack, after all, the Zhenshan Battalion was notorious, and they all looked at the long formation lined up on the ground in the distance with blank faces.
At this time, this formation was divided into two large groups in the front and rear, several layers of men and horses, and slowly marched.
On the east and west flanks, there were more than 10,000 cavalry, which pressed up on the two wings of the Qing army with a thunderous and unstoppable momentum.
"Quick! Firecrackers, rush up and firecracker! Jiang Jian never dreamed that in his impression, those firearms that could only be cast when the enemy rushed up to block the enemy's horse team could also be used as a sharp weapon for attack! Suddenly, I remembered that there were also firecrackers in my team! Since you have rushed up, I will greet you with a firecracker! Even if you can't kill a few of you, at least you can be like the Tartar soldiers of the year, phew! Like a Qing soldier, I will tease you to open your guns and consume your ammunition, and then my soldiers will rush up and talk to you with spears and knives!
In a moment, in front of the military formation of Jiang Ping and others, hundreds of firecrackers chaotically cast firecrackers at the soldiers and horses of the Zhenshan battalion that pressed up, and the white smoke and orange flashed flames, forming a strange and terrifying defense line in front of the army formation of Jiang Pingshan and others.
"In the early years of Dongnu, I also used firearms, often luring me with false guns, and after our real guns, the thieves and slaves took the opportunity to rush up. However, the soldiers and birds have already fired, and they will be reloaded again, and they will inevitably be in a hurry and will be taken advantage of by the enemy. This is Jiang Jian's experience from many years of experience in dealing with the Qing army, and today, it is used on the head of the Dashun army.
It's just that these soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion may have been stupid, and in the face of the Qing army's firecracker attack and blockade, they didn't know to take the firearm from their shoulders to shoot at themselves!
The cavalry of the Zhenshan Battalion on both wings began to run in small steps, and after dozens of steps, the war horses began to speed up, and tens of thousands of iron hooves from carefully selected war horses from Hequ, Gansu, Qinghai and other places hit the hard ground. The sound of raindrops knocking on the Mongolian princes panicked in their hearts.
The Mongolian cavalry of this era was no longer the iron cavalry that followed Temujin's father and son from the plains of the three rivers of the Gen River, the Ergun River, and the Haur River to the Danube Plain and the Nile Plain, and even the landlord armies of Wang Baobao, Li Siqi and others more than 200 years ago were not comparable, and they had long been completely degraded. If their ancestor Temujin had seen the Mongols he had forged with iron, blood and fire in the underground, he might have come back to life from the ground and would have picked up the Sulu ingots and taught these unworthy descendants a lesson.
Under the tremendous pressure brought by the cavalry of the Zhenshan Battalion, which was advancing like a wall, the Mongol cavalry deployed on the east and west flanks were the first to make a commotion. Then, they found that these Han cavalry galloping still maintained a tight formation during the run, so that the psychological defense line of the Mongolian cavalry completely collapsed. The cavalry on the east and west flanks were the first to disperse!
The Mongol cavalry of the brigade rushed towards the core position of their own army!
In this way, the large array of the Qing army, which was already very densely arranged, that is, the infantry brigade of Jiang Zhu and others, became more and more narrow. At the same time, the Mongol cavalry that continued to rush on both flanks also turned the Qing army's Chinese army into a broken ship in the wind and waves, swaying left and right in the wind and waves, and could be overturned by the huge waves at any time.
Such a situation has long been expected by Luo Hu. He sneered and waved the command flag: "Change formation!" ”
With Luo Hu's military order, the extremely skilled Zhenshan Camp Fire Soldiers, who had already used this set of tactical drills, were extremely familiar with the formation that was originally somewhat evacuated, and suddenly became tight, turning one horizontal team into two horizontal teams during the march, and then the second team became four teams, and the horizontal team became a phalanx.
This dazzling set of tactical moves suddenly saw Jiang Jian and the others so shocked that their jaws were about to fall under the horse's hooves. I had long heard that the Zhenshan Camp was the most elite new division among the thieves, but I never thought that it would be so elite. "Back then, Qi Shaobao's Zhejiang soldiers, compared to this team of thieves, probably looked like us in their eyes, right? It is no wonder that Zuo Kunshan has always been known for its strong soldiers and horses, but it fled for hundreds of miles in front of this thief. "I know my own affairs, and Jiang Jian is still very self-aware. I couldn't help but let out a burst of admiration in my heart.
However, when he looked at the gaps in the phalanx, the dozens of artillery pieces that had been placed in the row, the admiration just now suddenly turned into a cry of bitterness and cursing.
Originally, in order to cope with the impact of the soldiers and horses of the Zhenshan battalion and prevent their own rabble from collapsing, the formation of the Jiang Pins was very dense, and the Mongolian soldiers on the east and west flanks enthusiastically returned to the arms of their own team, which made the Chinese army of the Qing army even more crowded. In such a formation, I am afraid that just one shell will come over, and there will be a dozen or even dozens of casualties!
As the devil's dictionary describes, when something goes bad, it will go in a worse direction. Just when Jiang Ping's angry herald ordered the evacuation of the formation, and ordered the archers on both wings to open their bows and arrows, trying to drive away those Mongolian cavalry, the artillery team of the Zhenshan battalion, under the order of Wang Si'er, opened fire.
The ensuing battle, like the Red and Blue Army exercises that began in the eighties and continued until the beginning of this century, was carried out exactly according to the set script. There was no suspense in the battle of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion, which was on the side of the Red Army.
In the first round of shelling, dozens of shells ranging from six to eight pounds landed, and on the frozen hard ground, they gave full play to their kinetic energy, smashed and jumped, and smashed dozens of flesh and blood alleys in the dense ranks of the Qing army.
Seeing their comrades being smashed to a blur of flesh and blood under the fire of thieves, rolling and wailing on the ground with stumps and broken bones, the morale of the Qing army, which had originally relied on looting to improve morale, suddenly fell to the bottom.
Immediately after that, the second and third rounds of artillery fire came.
Three rounds of artillery fire brought the Qing infantry to the brink of collapse.
With the help of artillery fire to suppress the time and space that the Qing army had won for themselves, the fire guns of the Zhenshan battalion had already marched to a distance of less than 100 steps from the Qing army. With the sound of a trombone, the fire soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, who were originally marching in a camp phalanx, quickly changed into a battalion horizontal team, and more than a dozen battalion captains opened the two fire gun lines.
"Fire!"
In the face of these Qing troops who were on the verge of collapse, Luo Hu naturally didn't bother to shoot in three sections, just use the shortest time to fire the most ammunition out, and use the fastest speed to break the Qing army's will to resist, and then, the infantry used the spurs in their hands, and the cavalry used sabers and spears to teach this group of guys a good lesson on how to behave.
The two armies were fifty paces apart.
The guns of the Qing army have resounded uncontrollably.
Forty steps.
"Fire!" The musketeers of the Quake Mountain Battalion pulled the trigger.
A deafening sound of a gun rang out.
Jiang Mosa, who was closely guarded by the soldiers and soldiers with shields under his own command, could swear to all the gods, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas with the spirit of his ancestors in the sky that he had never felt such a loud and dense sound at close range, crackling like a firecracker during the New Year. Even the flame of the gun seems to be connected into a piece of fire. In the corner of his eye, he seemed to burst out of a fiery red color, and then a thick white smoke rose up.
What's even more terrifying is that the firecrackers of the Zhenshan Battalion are firing in a column and advancing in a column. Adopt the tactics of Xu Jin shooting and kill the Qing army.
Thirty steps.
The deafening fire burst again, and a piece of fire rose in front of him, billowing smoke into the air, and two pieces of fire also rose from the two wings, choking the smell of smoke and gunsmoke, and came to the nose again.
The soldiers of the first and second platoons of the gun formation opened fire almost face to face at the Qing officers and soldiers in front of them, and they fired a volley in two rows, and dense flames erupted from under the spurs.
With such a large target and such a close distance, two rows of soldiers opened fire at the same time, and these Qing officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, almost half of them were hit by lead bullets, especially the rows of men and horses in front, and they were swept away.
"Stab and kill!"
Luo Hu raised the lance in his hand and roared.
"Run!"
"Can't fight! Run! ”
"Defeated! Defeated! ”
"Run!"
The formation of the Qing army completely collapsed in the face of the spurs of the Zhenshan camp after two rounds of close firing, and the defeated soldiers were wrapped around Jiang Pai and other generals, like a turbid wave rolling garbage in the direction from which they came.
The textbook pursuit began.
The Zhenshan battalion dispatched several battalions of 1,000 people and handed them over to Li Laiheng for command, and he commanded dozens of Minzhuang township soldiers brought by the defense envoys to pursue the defeated soldiers of the Qing army.
In this battle, more than 100,000 horses and horses of Jiang Pai and other troops were killed in one day, and dozens of generals below the general army of the Qing army were killed, dozens of princes of various banners and departments of Mongolia were killed, and the heavy horses were captured, and tens of thousands of troops were collected.
Jiang Pin, in the chaos of the army, was desperately guarded by hundreds of pro-soldiers, and he didn't know where to go.
However, the garrison Daniel Zhang, because he told a few truths, made Jiang Ji and others unhappy, and as a result, Jiang Ji was sent to serve as a reserve in the rear army, guarding the grain platform, carrying grain, grass and ammunition, but the result was a blessing in disguise. At the time of the rout of the Qing army, he took the opportunity to contain the defeated soldiers on a large scale, and conspired that more than 1,000 officers in the defeated army had taken away a lot of grain, grass, and horses from the rear grain platform, which was regarded as a windfall. By the time he withdrew to Tongchuan County with his headquarters, his troops had swelled from more than 1,000 to as many as seven or eight thousand. Become the largest force of the Qing army in northern Shaanxi!
The Northern Route Army of the Qing Army was once pinned on by Duoduo, but Duoduo never expected that such a huge military force would disappear in one day.
"General! What shall we do? Is it taking advantage of the situation to recover the hometown in northern Shaanxi?! Li Laiheng, who experienced a big scene for the first time, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he checked the fruitful results. He was gearing up to drive the heels of the Qing army north, fight back to northern Shaanxi, recover Yulin Mansion, recover Yan'an Mansion, recover Mizhi and other places, and drove the Tartars to the outside of the Great Wall to drink the wind and gnaw sand!
"Si'er, you and Xiao Laiheng are cleaning up the battlefield here, and I will enter Chang'an City to ask the queen mother for the next step." After all, Luo Hu is battle-hardened, he is not as excited as Li Laiheng, but he just ordered his deputy general Wang Si'er to clean up the battlefield. Then, leading his own personal army to Chang'an City, he wanted to meet Gao Guiying, the Empress of Dashun who was staying in Chang'an City at the moment and dealing with daily affairs.