Chapter 230: Bombardment of the Qing Army's Camp (3)

"Killing" In order to block the offensive of Ying Long's army, Dolgon even used his own white flag.

As the most descendant of Dolgon's personal commanders, Zhengbai Banner not only fought bravely and feared death, but also had the largest number of soldiers among the eight banners, with 21,000 people.

The 21,000 soldiers and horses of the white flag chose the Third Army, which was located in the center of the five major army formations of the Yinglong Army, as a breakthrough point and stormed the Third Army.

"Fire!" As the white flag entered the firing range, Huang Degong shouted and ordered.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The white flag was instantly overturned, but they did not retreat because of this, and they still charged fearlessly.

Soon, after paying more than 400 casualties, Zhengbai Banner successfully broke through to a distance of 120 meters from the Third Army, and the Zhengbai Banner archers began to shoot arrows.

With the tension of bows and arrows and the momentum of war horses, thousands of arrows swept through the sky at a distance of more than 130 meters and shot into the military formation of the Third Army.

"Shh The Third Army suffered more than 100 casualties.

"Fire!"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Ying Long's army continued to fire, although the white flag was not afraid of death, and launched a charge against the third army with wounds in exchange for wounds, and returned fire with bows and arrows, but in the face of the guns of nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army of the Third Army, they could not rush to the front of the Third Army in any case, and only dozens of people rushed to a distance of more than 40 meters from the Third Army recently, but they would soon be beaten 100 meters away.

Zhengbai Banner almost exchanged the casualties of three soldiers for one dead and wounded of the Third Army of the Ying Long Army.

Such a disparity in the proportion of casualties is absolutely a great shame for the Zhengbai Banner, which is known as the first flag of the Eight Banners, but the lead bullets of the Ying Long Army are cold, no matter how fierce they are not afraid of death, they are not enough flesh and blood, and it is difficult to stop them at all.

Soon, the casualties of Zhengbai Banner exceeded 3,000, and the casualties of the Third Army they attacked were even less than 1,000.

As the white flag was, the other Qing troops were even more difficult, and soon the Qing army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, nearly half of which were the most elite soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, and Dolgon's heart was dripping blood.

The five armies of Yinglong's army continued to attack and advance, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated.

"Boom, boom, boom" Twenty super Weiyuan cannons in Xuzhou City are still bombarding the Qing army camp.

"Boom" a few Qing army flowering shells exploded in the position of Xiao Weiyuan's artillery outside the city.

At this time, the battle had been nearly half an hour, and forty Xiao Wei Yuan cannons and more than 300 Qing army cannons had been firing at each other for a while, although nearly 100 Qing army cannons were destroyed, but 40 Xiao Wei Yuan cannons were almost lost.

The Qing army originally had more than 400 cannons of various types, including 300 red-coated cannons, but in the face of the bombardment of 20 super Weiyuan cannons far away in Xuzhou City and 40 Xiaowei Yuan cannons outside the city, it lost more than 180 cannons in nearly half an hour, and suffered heavy losses!

After a while, all the forty Xiao Weiyuan cannons outside the city were lost, but the twenty Super Weiyuan cannons far away in Xuzhou City were still bombarding.

"Order the First and Second Armies to attack the artillery positions of the Qing army!" Huang Degong asked the herald to give the order.

Huang Degong is the oldest of the six commanders of the Yinglong Army, has experienced many major battles, and is the commander of the knighthood, before leaving the city, Zhu Cihong accepted Huang Degong as the temporary front-line commander, so Huang Degong can directly give orders to Ji Feng, Yan Yingyuan and other four army commanders, Ji Feng and others are not dissatisfied.

Immediately, the 1st and 2nd armies adjusted the direction of attack and advanced towards the artillery position of the Qing army.

"Hold the gun steady, the formation is neat, don't mess up, calm down! Stabilization! Ji Feng was yelling.

Because Ji Feng's first army suffered heavy casualties all the way to Jining, although the 17,000 new recruits were the remaining veterans of a hundred battles all the way to Jining, and their quality was excellent, they were pulled onto the battlefield before they had time to touch the guns for a few days.

Originally, Zhu Cihong also took this into account and did not plan to let Ji Feng's First Army also go to war, but Ji Feng personally asked for his life, and said that only on the battlefield can soldiers be truly trained, a big war is comparable to a month's training, the First Army must mature as soon as possible, he is willing to make a military order, and he will definitely be able to bring the First Army back completely, Zhu Cihong saw Ji Feng's courage, and finally agreed to Ji Feng's request.

A soldier of the Ying Long Army of the First Army was in a hurry when he loaded the bullet, and his hands were shaking all the time, but when he heard Ji Feng's shouting, he unconsciously calmed down, and quickly loaded the ammunition and opened fire at the Qing army who were rushing to kill.

Training on the battlefield, a little more dangerous when it is dangerous, but it is indeed very effective, the 17,000 people who newly joined the first army are the elites who survived a hundred battles, after this half an hour of fighting, the flintlock pistols in the opponent and the battle formation of the Ying Long Army are familiar with a lot at once, almost comparable to ten days of training, and as the war continues, they will become more and more proficient, and finally transform into a real Ying Long Army soldiers.

"Qiqi Regent, the two armies of the Ying Long Army are attacking towards the location where the red-clothed cannon is!"

"Keep the Red Cannon!" Dolgon's face was gloomy, and the Great Qing Dynasty obviously suffered a loss when the war was fought to this extent.

Although the Qing Dynasty did not necessarily rely on red-coated cannons to take Xuzhou, the Ming Dynasty was not just a city in Xuzhou, and when it dominated the world after the war, it was still necessary to rely on red-coated cannons to attack some fortified cities in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Qing army transferred the remaining dozens of giant crossbows and a large number of shields, and set up horses to block the attack of the Ying Long army on the red-coated artillery position.

"The Lord Regent has an order! All the red-coated cannons, all retreat! ”

"Boom, boom, boom" Twenty super Weiyuan cannons in Xuzhou City are still bombarding.

In order to keep the remaining more than 160 red-coated cannons, the Qing army gave up dozens of other old-style general's cannons, the war horses were dragged, the soldiers pushed behind, and the Qing army withdrew the red-coated cannons all the lines back.

Half an hour later, the only remaining 160 red-coated cannons of the Qing army withdrew to a distance of 3,000 meters from Xuzhou City.

Although Ying Long's army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, the Qing army suffered more than 60,000 casualties, nearly half of which were the most elite Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.

"Regent, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and they can't fight hard with the Ying Long Army anymore!" A white-flaged general pleaded with Dolgon.

In just one hour of the battle, the Zhengbai Banner suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and the other eight banners also lost more than 27,000 casualties, and the Mongols and Han Banner troops together also lost more than 34,000 people.

In just one hour, the Qing Dynasty faced such heavy losses, which was unprecedented, and many Qing generals lost confidence in continuing to meet the Ying Long army.

"Withdraw!" Dorgon's heart was bleeding when he knew about the casualties of the White Flag, and his face was black with anger and grievance.

Dolgon's heart was full of unwillingness, but he knew that the loss was too great to fight against Ying Long's army on such a sunny day.

With Dolgon's order, the Qing army began to retreat on all fronts!

"Order, stop the shelling, Mingjin retreat!" On the tower of the north gate of Xuzhou, Zhu Cihong saw that the Qing army had compromised and retreated, and immediately ordered.

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