Chapter 618: Huang Ama is distressed

The dense roar of firearms drew Dolgon's attention from the large Ming army that was heading towards Niujiazhuang to the battlefield in front of him. He turned his head and saw that two phalanxes of infantry firing at each other had already appeared in the left front of his artillery position!

With the sound of guns, white smoke rose from both infantry phalanxes. Dolgon hurriedly raised his binoculars to take a closer look, and many of the soldiers in both phalanxes had fallen, apparently being hit by bullets.

Suddenly, a muffled thunderous sound sounded on the right flank of the Ming army's vehicle formation, and white smoke also came out. This is the artillery of the Ming army shooting! The black projectile rushed into the Qing infantry phalanx at a speed visible to the naked eye, and suddenly several rows of large living people fell down one after another!

Dolgon's heart throbbed, and many of the people who were killed were old Eight Banners, and they were all white banners...... In the battle of Turtle Mountain, of course, Dolgon was sure of victory. But he also knew that if this battle was a victory in which 10,000 enemies were killed and 3,000 were lost, then a few more such "victories" would happen, and the Great Qing Kingdom would be victoriously destroyed.

That is, he was invincible, and in the end he lost his country somehow, and he had to cry when he thought about it!

Therefore, Dolgon's wishful thinking is to fight a battle that can make Zhu Cihong feel heart-wrenching, and then he can happily make peace.

If this battle can't make Zhu Cihong die of pain, this guy has to keep fighting, even if he is defeated repeatedly, he can "defeat" the Great Qing Kingdom......

But knowing that the situation was not good, Dolgon couldn't stop halfway! He also had to bite the bullet and send reinforcements to Azignikan, and at the same time he ordered his left flank, that is, placed in Xiaowangzhuang, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses mainly inlaid with blue flags, to outflank the right flank of the Ming army.

"Blessed by Sage Kong...... Invulnerable! ”

Dolgon's side had just finished giving the order, and the front was blowing up again. The Ming army, who rushed out of the car formation to counterattack, shouted slogans and launched a spear charge!

It turned out that when the firecrackers on both sides opened fire on each other, they were pushing forward - the firecrackers of the Qufu army would also shoot in turn, although a little chaotic, but they were still able to aim and fire at the right distance.

And the Qing army's firecrackers will also know this hand, which is called nine into ten links. That is, the firecrackers are divided into ten rows, and after the front row is beaten, the back row is up, and after all ten rows are beaten, they advance nine times.

Now that the platoon guns on both sides are finished, it's time for the pikemen and knife players to go up and fight!

The battlefield shouted and shook the sky, and the sound of artillery became more and more sparse. Although the 3-pounder guns on both sides are made of bronze, theoretically there is no need for a special cooling time, and cleaning the gun chamber with wet mop, dry mop and other objects, plus the time for reset and aiming, is basically enough to cool the gun body. However, after an hour of continuous firing, the artillerymen on both sides, who suffered from "bore phobia", became extremely cautious, and the rate of fire was reduced to about five minutes per shot.

At the same time, the infantry formations of the two sides started a bloody battle!

The number of the two sides involved in the battle was about the same, and the individual combat power of the Qing army was strong, but the impact of the Ming army's gun array should not be underestimated. Therefore, after the collision between the two sides began, the Ming army once had the upper hand, and the soldiers of the old Eight Banners retreated. However, after the gun charge, the brave and good Eight Banners quickly reversed the situation, and soon rushed the Qufu military formation, which was not very strict, and the two armies fell into a melee.

And the melee paid special attention to personal bravery, and the Qufu army was soon at a disadvantage. However, it is not easy for the Eight Banners to eat more than 2,000 people, because their protection is very good, a small number of them are equipped with long-body iron armor, and most of them have cloth iron armor. Ordinary swords don't hurt them easily, so they have to be struck with a blunt object. And the blunt weapon strike is not very efficient, so the battle between the two sides can easily get into a scorching situation.

In addition, there are some archers on both sides who are still firing. They are all close-range shots, aiming at the unarmored parts of the opponent's body to shoot arrows. The archery skills of the Eight Banners are much stronger than those of the Qufu Army! Therefore, most of the people who were shot by the arrows were the warriors of the Qufu army.

As the battle continued, the situation became more and more unfavorable for Qufu's training army, and in the end, Shi Kefa had to withdraw his troops and let them retreat to the car formation to rest. The battalion numbered more than 3,000 when it sorted, and when it finally retreated, there were less than 2,300 left, and almost 800 men died in less than an hour......

However, their sacrifice was not worthless, and they bought time for the regrouping of the formation!

At the moment of the fierce battle between the two armies, Shi Kefa drew some big shields and chariots from the other three directions to fill in front of him, and also asked people to repair the car wall that was damaged by the Qing army's artillery with human and animal corpses.

In addition, the Qing army was not intact in this exchange of firearms and hand-to-hand combat.

They lost nearly 400 men, including more than 200 regular soldiers with white flags!

Dolgon didn't have time to feel sorry for his losses in the front, and the offensive and defensive battle of Niujiazhuang on the right flank began with the roar of artillery.

What was firing was the Ming army's 3-pounder gun and the Qing army's one-pound gun.

Because the number of 3-pounder regimental cannons was insufficient, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties cast many one-pound general cannons. However, the power of a pound cannon is insufficient, and because it is a cast iron cannon, it is easy to explode.

Therefore, the role of one-pound artillery on the battlefield is mainly to provide fire support for the troops holding their positions, and now the Qing army in Niujiazhuang has been supported by 6 one-pound cannons. Durley placed these guns at the north entrance to Niujiazhuang to block the road into Niujiazhuang.

However, the attacking Ming army had 8 3-pounder guns, which clearly had an advantage in firepower - this was not 8 to 6, and the 3-pounder guns were not only larger in caliber, but also much higher in rate of fire. Because the Ming army had at least several times the superiority in artillery firepower.

With the support of these 8 cannons, the infantry under Huang Degong soon attacked Niujiazhuang.

However, the defense of Dulei's Red Banner Soldiers and the lovely Green Banner Soldiers was also extremely resolute, and the two sides fought a bloody battle inside and outside Niujiazhuang!

After completing the deployment, more than 9,000 Ming troops launched an attack from three directions, and they were all "Morris battalions", equipped with a large number of firearms. Although it was only a bird gun and a Japanese gun, it could not hold a large amount, and it was also supported by artillery. So as soon as he came up, he suppressed the more than 4,000 people who were lovely with Monk Dulei.

However, the Qing army had Niujiazhuang's house barriers to rely on, and although the firepower was much weaker, it could barely maintain its undefeated.

The sound of drums, cannons, guns and shouts of killing on the battlefield of Niujiazhuang was like waves, and waves reached Dorgon's ears, and Dorgon's heart was like a knife!

The fierce fighting means that the casualties of the Eight Banners are inevitable!

Once upon a time, the Ming army, which could be beaten several times by four or five thousand eight banner soldiers, had no power to fight back. But now, Dolgon is going to triple the Nine Banners to inflict heavy damage on the once vulnerable Ming army......

"Huang Ama, it's almost, isn't it?"

Shang Kexi, who was standing with Dolgon, was very distressed, and the green flag soldiers in Niujiazhuang were all his men!

After the first battle, I don't know how many people will die......

Dolgon gritted his back molars and said, "Wait...... Wait another half hour! ”

He was waiting for the Ming army to run out, and he was also waiting for the Ming army to attack Niujiazhuang. Only then will the two sides be completely melee, and the Ming army will neither be able to retreat nor form a formation.

It's just that the more than 4,000 Nine Banners heroes guarding Niujiazhuang are going to suffer heavy losses!

Monk Dorey didn't know what Dolgon was up to, they didn't even know that Dolgon had ambushed 20,000 people in and behind the woods less than five miles from Niujiazhuang—they knew there were ambushes, but they didn't know that there were many.

So both of them are already anxious, and they are even mentally prepared for death!

The six general guns they placed at the north entrance of Niujiazhuang (which is the main road) were already dumb, one of them was blown up, one was damaged by the Ming army's 3-pounder guns, and the other four were too hot to use them.

And the Ming army also seized this opportunity, pushed 6 3-pounder guns to the gate of Niujiazhuang, directly loaded shotguns and bombarded inside, killing the Qing troops blocking the mouth piece by piece......