After the feast, everyone dispersed to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Only Dodor remained in front of his second brother, Dorgon.

"Brother, how will this battle be fought tomorrow? You've got to come up with an idea! ”

The three brothers, Azig, Dolgon, and Dordor, should be united in their own affairs. But it would be nonsense to say that there is no contradiction between the three people, in order to compete for the position of the banner owner of the white flag, Azig and Dorgon left some mustard, only this Dordor has the best relationship with his second brother Dorgon. encountered such a major event related to his future and fate, so he naturally had to come up with a strategy for the resourceful second brother.

Duoduo was originally known for his bravery and strength in the Eight Banners, but after listening to Abatai's introduction and seeing the fate of his two old nephews, he couldn't help but be a little afraid. If you lose too much of your strength in order to vent the two red flags, I am afraid that when you return to Shengjing, not only will you not be rewarded, but someone will take the opportunity to fall into the ground.

"Second brother, will my two white flag armies really fight to the death with the Nanzhong Army tomorrow?"

There was no one in the tent, and the two brothers happened to have a secret discussion.

Dolgon took the wooden box from the side and took out Yue Tuo's gilded helmet from it, "Fight to the death?" After the defeat of the war, you and my brother went to be companions with Yue Tuo and Du Du. ”

"But in detail, there are no more than 10,000 people in the central and southern Chinese army in Changqing City, and there are at most thousands of soldiers who can fight!"

"It was these thousands of soldiers who defeated more than 30,000 people in the two red flags!"

Dorgon stood up and hurried through his tent.

"If we press all these horses, even if we annihilate the Nanzhong army. What can we gain beyond the reap of dead and wounded? You and my brother rely on these two white flags and tens of thousands of people to gain a foothold in the Qing Dynasty, and that fat man will tolerate us! If there are too many losses and horses, returning to Shengjing will be the end of Mang Gurtai and Amin! ”

Huang Taiji was unkind and unkind, and when he first ascended the throne, his seniority, strength, and prestige were greatly insufficient. The situation is very awkward. is clearly a great khan, but it is really just a banner of Baylor. Among the four major Baylors, Dai Shan relies on the old and sells the old, and Amin is unruly. Mang Gurtai is becoming more and more arrogant. For the sake of power, he did not hesitate to kill each other, and killed several of his brothers and uncles one after another. After this series of actions, his position and power stabilized. He ascended the throne as emperor. It was also captured several times through customs entry. Prestige is skyrocketing. For this incident, Duoduo shuddered every time he thought about it.

"That?"

"In the battle of tomorrow, I will use those firearms that I collected after entering the customs against the Nanzhong army. In the future, we will use firearms against firearms. ”

"That's the best! Hurt the centaurs, and it's those Nikan barbarians! Ours is not hurt at all! ”

For those Nikan fire soldiers who gathered everywhere after the second brother entered the customs. Duoduo didn't count them in his own strength, and although there were a few of Niu Lu's coated firecrackers who were white-flagped, he didn't consider these soldiers and horses to be his foundation in his heart.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, in the morning.

Early in the morning, there were horns in the camps of both sides, and the brigade kept rolling out, preparing for the battle in front of their own camps.

The two sides can be described as the elite poured out, and the Nanzhong army dispatched 5,000 men and horses, and lined up many artillery pieces in front of the battle. Dolgon, on the other hand, sent an army of 20,000. There are more than 10,000 people in the battalion as reserves, and as long as they see the slightest flaw in the Nanzhong Army, the whole army will immediately rush forward like a flaw.

The murderous aura of both sides caused a few snowflakes to float in the sky, and in a blink of an eye, they fell to the ground and melted.

Early in the morning, the sound of trumpets in the camps of both sides came and went, and most of the men and horses came out of their camps like a torrent and lined up in front of the camp. In this battle, both sides were elites, and the Nanzhong army dispatched 5,000 men and horses, leaving only a small number of men and horses and those lightly wounded to defend the county seat with the Changqing official army. On the other hand, Dolgon, on the other hand, dispatched 20,000 horses, and the rest peeped in the camp, and once there was an opportunity, the whole army immediately pressed on it.

On the side of the Southern Chinese Army, it is still the old way, and more than 3,000 firecrackers are lined up in three long horizontal columns, from south to north, blocking the road leading to Changqing County and Tai'an. In front of the queue of musketeers, more than 100 guns were lined up with their martial arts and might, and the gunners stood behind the artillery carriage with their heads held high and their hands holding the fire rope. There have already been scouts who have reported that this group of Jiannu did not carry too many artillery pieces in order to pursue the speed of the march.

On both sides of the entire ranks, nearly 1,000 cavalry took on the duty of vigilance and guerrilla response.

The dense artillery, the galloping horses, and the flaming armor and banners in the immovable crowd seemed to be out of sight.

"This Nanzhong army is really not comparable to the same Xianming army!"

On his horse, with the help of his telescope, Dorgon had a full view of the formation of the Southern Central Army. I couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration.

In Dolgon's memory, whether it was the battle of his father Khan, or the leadership of Huang Taiji, or the leading horses of his own army, if the Ming army encountered was in such a formation, it would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Qing army's iron cavalry. Why can the South Central Army repeatedly break through the banners and horses?

"Rao Yu Baylor, take a look, this formation is a common technique used by the Southern Chinese Army?"

With a thumbs up, Dorgon focused his attention on Abatai.

"Ordered to the general, it is this formation, the day before yesterday, General Yangwu and Anping Baylor fell in front of this formation, and suffered a big loss! The southern barbarians of this unit have always bombarded our army's array with artillery first, and after our army entered the range of the firearms, they fired a volley with the firearms, and then trampled on them with cavalry charges. ”

"It's just these three axes! Seventh brother, today this general will govern his body in the way of others! Break through the Southern Barbarian Formation with the Firecracker Combat Method! ”

At the sound of the trumpet, the three thousand musketeers carefully collected by Dorgon slowly stepped out of the battle.

They did not have the neat pace of the Southern Chinese Army, they walked on foot, and after walking a short distance, the queue was bent and twisted, and the officers and Niu Lu Zhangjing in each team shouted and scolded to sort out the formation.

"In today's battle, if one person dares to retreat from the battle, and those who give up their weapons will be killed by the whole team!"

This most cruel and ruthless military discipline, commonly known as "pulling out the team and beheading", was the first initiative of the Later Liang Emperor Zhu Wen, "All generals have lost the war." The soldiers of the department are all beheaded, and it is called pulling out the team and beheading".

The procession of 3,000 people was like a long python, slowly moving westward. The queue is a team of fifty people, and in front of each team, in addition to the team officer and the leading Niu Lu official Qiqi, there are rattan players and pikemen.

The thirty musketeers from each team followed closely behind the rattan players and pikemen, and trotted all the way in front of the Nanzhong army.

"These dog thieves! Treacherous! ”

Mai Tiansheng carefully observed for a long time with the artillery team mirror, and found that it was difficult to use artillery fire to strike at such a marching column, such artillery bombardment required too high the technical level of artillery, and it was difficult to cause ideal killing effect even if the shells fell into the ranks.

"Strange! What kind of position is this Dolgon? ”

See clearly through the binoculars. This unit also uses firearms as its main weapon. Shouhan was very confident that this group of Erdazi would know what musket tactics were, but this incomprehensible formation made Shouhan's hand holding the telescope sweat slightly.

"Daddy. It's not going to be our phalanx tactics, is it? ”

Li Huabao, who followed closely beside Li Shouhan, blinked his eyes and looked at the slowly approaching team in the distance and proposed his opinion to his father.

Soon. The musketeers who measured themselves past the optimal killing distance of those cannons. Morale was boosted. With the orders of the leaders of each brigade, like a thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Guanyin, the entire marching column changed from one brigade to three horizontal formations. The three horizontal teams immediately poked out to the two wings, like a pair of huge arms, and stretched out to the two wings of the Southern Central Army.

"Goose-shaped formation? Or is it a crane-shaped formation? Hua Bao, who had read a lot of military books, tried his best to search in his mind for where he had seen such a formation.

Each squad has a rattan player in front of them, buying time for the firecrackers behind them to line up in formation. The entire formation gradually unfolded, and from the direction of the Southern Central Army, the formation of the two white flag firecrackers formed a huge inner figure.

"Strange! Thirty musketeers are still in five columns, each column is no more than six people, what can it do!? ”

The child's eyes were sharp, and Huabao immediately saw the layout of the musketeers in the two squads at the top of the figure eight facing him.

"Gan Yi Niang!"

Shouhan was woken up by his son's words, this seems to be the Manchu Qing Dynasty's firearm tactics that continued from the beginning of entering the customs to the Opium War, and the tiger opened the mountain formation!

Damn! Today, let me try which of the two tactics of queuing up to shoot and shoot against Fuhu Kaishan is more powerful!

Shouhan gritted his teeth, "Order, fire soldiers come forward!" The artillery team is ready to suppress! ”

Hearing the sound of the horn, Wu Biao, who served as the former enemy commander today, couldn't help but smile: "It's finally going to be fought!" The ghost weather of this straight thief is so frozen that Lao Tzu's eggs are about to fall! ”

"Sons! The arrival of the slave chief Dolgon is a great opportunity! Who doesn't want to be promoted and get rich, just hide behind and wait to watch others count the money! Today, let the general of this slave thief become a prisoner under the sword of the soldiers of our garrison brigade! Let him appreciate the majesty of my Nanzhong soldiers! ”

He shouted, "All of them, guns!" ”

"Guns!"

In the shouting of the officers one after another, the sound of "whoosh" sounded neatly, and both the firecrackers and swords and shields in the army firmly held their weapons in their hands, and immediately a neat forest of guns appeared.

"Forward!"

The marching drums of each regiment and battalion in the queue were beaten, and with the beat of the drums, the three columns of musketeers began to move slowly forward with their guns. Three columns of firearms, each with more than 1,000 people, formed a formation like a forest and a wall to the east.

Looking from east to west, a sea of red is bumped into it. Iron helmets, cuirasses, red robes, flags, with the footsteps of the people, the layers of undulating and flickering red light scales dazzled the eyes of the two white flag generals.

Thousands of them came in order, and when they moved forward, they didn't even need to form a whole team, and they marched all the way to the military formation to always keep it tightly organized. There is a lot of pressure on people, and the closer the team gets, the stronger this pressure becomes. There are only 3,000 people, as if there is an overwhelming momentum of thousands of troops.

"I was ordered to thank General Li for giving him wine and meat, and today I will be the governor of the athletes, fight with all my might, and fight with a smile!"

In front of the wide front of Fuhu Kaishan, a general officer held a white flag and shouted loudly at the oncoming officers and soldiers of the Nanzhong Army, and Dolgon's words of greeting Li Shouhan.

"The Great General has an order! Capture and behead the puppet Qing who ordered the general Dolgon and his brother Duoduo, and the bounty is 100,000 coins. Promoted to the fourth level! ”

As the officers of the Southern Chinese Army read out the bounty prices offered by Shouhan to Dorgon and Duoduo, the two armies were getting closer and closer.

"Gunner, check the gunpowder, light the arquebus......"

"Fire Hammer Hand, check the sub-medicine, turn on the faucet!"

The commanders of the two armies each beckoned their men to prepare for the shooting.

"Fire!"

When he was less than forty paces away from the nearest squad, Wu Biao ordered to open fire, preparing to use a projectile as rapid as a storm to knock out the parts that came out of the front and push them one by one.

A bean-like firearm rang out, and a cloud of gunpowder rose. On the opposite side, more than 20 musketeers with two white flags fell.

With the help of the vein player's cover. The first round of firearms did not produce the same brilliant results as before. In addition to the blocking effect of the rattan card, the staggered arrangement of the front and back of the two white flag firecrackers reduces the lethality of the firecrackers.

"Second brother, this method really works! Nanban's firecracker is not so easy to use!"

With the help of his telescope, Dodor could clearly see in the distance. I couldn't help but dance excitedly.

"Don't worry. See how our firecrackers work! ”

After the first salvo of the South Central Army. The muskets of the two white flags also began to fire.

Unlike the lined salvo of the South Central Army, they were several squads closest to the South Central Army firing at the same time. And according to the queue, under the cover of the guards of the vine players in front of the team. Five columns of musketeers fired non-stop one after another. After the five columns of musketeers finished fighting, regardless of the effectiveness of the shot, they immediately retreated sharply backwards, retreating to a distance of 100 paces to reload.

At the same time, several subsequent neighboring teams immediately stepped forward to fire the same shot.

The fire team of the two white flags was like a machine, advancing and retreating, repeating the cycle, firing at the ranks of the Nanzhong Army not far away.

For a while, there were people in the arrays on both sides who made muffled noises, and were hit by flying projectiles, or simply hit the iron helmet with a projectile, and their brains burst out.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang" and "porphyry" firecrackers rang out non-stop, and brilliant firelight erupted from the mouths of the guns, accompanied by a large amount of dense gunsmoke, which condensed into a thick layer of smoke over the two armies.

With the sound of this volley of firearms, blood arrows continued to spray out from the bodies of the firecrackers on both sides, and they fell in pieces.

Compared with the wrought iron barrel, the barrel made of ductile iron can withstand stronger pressure, withstand more charges, and also have stronger lethality and armor-piercing power. At forty or fifty paces, that is, the distance between the two armies now, the cotton armor on the hands of the two white flags can be pierced. Moreover, the ammunition of the South China Army is all fixed ammunition, which minimizes the charging link. Compared to the arquebus or the Rummy gun in the hands of the two white flags, the effect is not the same.

The firecrackers of the two white flags used the Fuhu Mountain Formation to effectively open the firing distance with the Nanzhong Army, and at the same time used the rattan card to block the oncoming projectiles as much as possible to cover the firecrackers and improve the survival chances of the firecrackers in this bullet rain battlefield. Although there are not many of the five columns of musketeers, they ensure the continuity of the firing of the muskets, and deal a fatal blow to the gunners of the Southern Central Army who have not been able to turn around and retreat after firing the muskets and reload their ammunition in a period of time.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of people fell in front of the firearms array.

Both sides are gritting their teeth and holding on, expecting the other party to collapse first in this rain of bullets. The soldiers of the Nanzhong Army knew that if they were defeated, they were afraid that what awaited them in this Shandong was the fate of freezing and starvation, and if they were lucky enough to return to Nanzhong, they would also face the fate of taking away the land and being expelled from the country. It's not so much about letting your family suffer from your own burden, it's better to die heroically. And those who were dressed in two white flags, thinking about the cruel discipline that if someone dared to retreat, the whole team would be killed, although their faces were as gray as tiles, they had to mechanically reload ammunition, raise guns, and shoot.

In the rear of the two armies, the respective commanders were stunned and sweating when they saw this scene.

"Damn! Which one said that the Manchus only knew how to shoot with knives and guns? Isn't this firearm much stronger than the official army? Shouhan jumped off the horse and scolded when the Chinese army jumped off. In just over 10 minutes, the South China Army suffered at least 200 casualties. With such a large number of casualties in such a short period of time, this was the first time that the Han had been encountered since the uprising. Moreover, it is the firearm tactics that the South Central Army has always been proud of that caused such casualties!

"Mai was born! Those cannons of yours, give Lao Tzu fire from both flanks, suppress the enemy forces in the rear and can't get close! ”

"Send a signal to Wu Biao, don't entangle with the Jiannu fire gun anymore, get on the bayonet, rush up!"

"Huang Yishan, Yanlong, you two lead the cavalry to Lao Tzu and rush up from both wings! Mess up the flanks and rear of the Jiannu Fire Gun Team to Lao Tzu! ”

In the military formation of the two white flags, a group of Jia Lazhangjing and Mel Zhangjing also had blue and gray faces, cold hands and feet. How much courage does it take for both sides to shoot at each other while standing like this? In the future, I don't dare to say that Nanban is cowardly! Even the brothers Duoduo and Dolgon, who didn't dare to take a sip of the atmosphere, for fear of disturbing the soldiers in front of them.

"Second brother! It's not in vain for your hard work these days! These minions are really fighting well! If they hadn't gone up first, I would have been afraid that the people and horses in the two flags of you and me would have suffered a big loss today! ”

"Lord Yu! Wait, those Nanban artillery and cavalry seem to move! Abatai, who had been holding a telescope in his hand and staring at the progress of the battle ahead, nervously informed the fourteenth and fifteenth brothers of the latest developments.

Amid the loud sound of the artillery, the eight-pounder shells lined up on both flanks were already whizzing out of the muzzles.

The right arm of the officer of the front team on the right wing of the Fuhu Kaishan Formation was directly smashed off by the cannonball, and the whole person was paralyzed to the ground. Then the iron ball rushed into the phalanx of firecrackers with flesh and blood, and the tooth-aching crackling sound continued, and the iron ball weighing seven catties swept off the arms, legs and feet of several people. The last one also broke open the abdomen of a fire gun, causing the liver and intestines to flow to the ground, and only then did the last few bounce and couldn't move.

Heart-rending cries were heard, and several disabled sergeants lay on the ground rolling and howling. Looking at their miserable appearance, the lucky ones beside them were all colorless.

The sound of crying father and mother continued, and one after another hot iron balls roared into the two white flags and firearms formations, causing the flesh and blood in the formation to fly together, screaming and wailing together.

The distance between the two armies is only more than 200 steps at most, and all kinds of artillery equipped by the South and Central Army can easily penetrate it. In a hurry, Mai Tiansheng ordered that every five guns be a small artillery group, and an observer should be appointed to report the distance and direction and so on, and then implement sliced contracted shooting, and the five guns would deal with one or two square teams. In this way, the effect is much stronger.

This method of shooting is the most appropriate for a large evacuation and small dense military formation such as the Fuhu Kaishan Formation, and a shell rushing into the phalanx is a flesh and blood alley. Even if you Da Luo Jin Immortal is hard to resist.

After only a dozen artillery shots, there was a violent commotion in the two white-flag firearms. Seeing the chaos in his own military formation, Dolgon was about to come down and order the army to withdraw, but before he could open his mouth to give the order, the artillery team of the South Central Army on the opposite side was a row of thunderbolts, and dozens of cannon pellets of various sizes smashed towards dozens of fire guns.

Suddenly, there was a shout in front of them, and with a bang, the entire firecracker team collapsed. The firecrackers shouted and the tide receded.

Behind them, two columns of cavalry of the Southern Central Army drove the defeated soldiers with spears like tigers entering a flock of sheep.

On the front, countless Nanzhong troops swooped down with firearms with spurs in their hands.

The heavy armor soldiers stepped forward and stopped the pursuing soldiers of the Southern Central Army. The Baya soldiers suppressed the formation, and those who dared to impact the big formation were immediately killed. Send 2,000 cavalry to step forward and block these southern barbarian cavalry. ”

"The rest of the men are ready to go!"

The horses of both sides were immediately glued together.

"Capture Dorgon alive, a reward of 100,000!

"The general has an order, capture Li Shouhan alive, and reward half a future!" (To be continued......)