Outside the west gate of Jinzhou City, thousands of Tartars charged in the rain of bullets, their horses were as fast as flying, coming and going like the wind.

But no matter how fast the Tartar is, it is not as fast as the bullet at this time. But they were not specifically there to block bullets, they charged while shooting arrows at the Ming army, these Tartars played the nomadic habit of riding and archery to the fullest.

However, the bow and arrow are equivalent to the musket as the ox cart compared to the locomotive, and its disadvantages are self-evident.

The effective range of the bow and arrow, regardless of the wind speed, is generally within 100 meters, and the range of most ordinary archers is about 80 meters, especially the powerful generals such as Lin Yizhi, with that kind of strong bow, its range is not more than 150 meters.

It is recorded that a crossbow in the Middle Ages could reach an effective range of 220 meters, but this was only an isolated case and was not used on a large scale in military warfare, and the range of the bow and crossbow was generally believed to be within 120 meters.

This is basically within the strength of a person's arm, if theoretically, the range of the bow and arrow can be infinite, as long as the material is good, but the bow that is too strong cannot be pulled. If a bow is drawn by several people, or fired with the help of other tools, it will inevitably affect its efficiency and mobility.

Several people pull or fire with the help of other tools, which is called a crossbow.

Strictly speaking, there is a difference between a crossbow and a bow, the former does not need to be pulled by a person, it is a mechanical force. The range of a crossbow is probably more than twice that of a regular bow and arrow.

But everything in the world has strengths and weaknesses. From the point of view of dialectics, it is the contradiction between opposition and unity.

Although it is said that as early as the Tang and Song dynasties, the effective range of the crossbow can sometimes reach 500 meters or even one kilometer, and this behemoth is no longer an ordinary arrow, and can even fire javelins and spears, and some are fired with a sledgehammer, and its power can pierce several people hundreds of meters away, like a sugar gourd.

However, such a powerful killing weapon has not been effectively promoted, and it still cannot replace the hand-drawn bow and arrow.

In the era of cold weapons, the two armies used the most hand-drawn bows and arrows.

In ancient times, the generals were good at shooting, and there was a kind of mastery called a hundred steps through the Yang, and this distance was about 100 meters.

And this distance is also more than 100 meters for the three-eyed gun of the fire gun bird gun at the end of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the new self-generated flintlock pistol that Lin Yi's army is now equipped with on a large scale, and its effective range is more than 200 meters.

The difference in the range of these two weapons has been checked by a full two times, and the results can be imagined.

It is often the Tartars who shoot like a rain of arrows, and the soldiers of the Ming army raise their guns and do not move, and after the shooting, they crackle, and the Tartars fall off their horses one after another.

As soon as the Tartars raised their bows and arrows, they were shot, threw their swords, guns, bows and arrows and fell off their horses, or the bows and arrows they shot became the end of a strong crossbow and fell on the ground within dozens of meters in front of the Ming musketeers.

It can be said that although their bows and arrows were powerful, they had no impact on the Ming army.

The Ming army in front of the line fired an average of three bullets per musketeer, that is, after the completion of the three rounds of shooting, the Qing troops who charged over were already in chaos.

The main general of the Ming army saw that the power of the musket was almost exerted, it was time for their iron cavalry to charge, and under an order, the main general outside the west gate was He Renlong, who was nicknamed He Renlong, and he did not want to die in battle, and he took thousands of cavalry under his command to rush to the past, rushed into the chaos of the Tartars, picked up the three pavilion machetes such as chopping melons and vegetables, and killed the Manchu Tartars' heads rolling, blood flowed like a river, and no one was invincible wherever the people and horses went.

The team behind He Renlong is the Qin army cultivated by Sun Chuanting that year, that is, Lin Yi's invincible battalion, the strength of the battle head ranked one of the three major armies in the late Ming Dynasty, at this time, 4,000 invincible battalion soldiers followed the main general He Renlong to kill Tartar like slaughtering pigs and dogs, and the 10,000 Qing troops were attacked head-on and scattered.

But the main general of this team is very awesome, this Tartar is the British prince of the Qing Dynasty Azig, mentioning this person, in the early Qing Dynasty can be described as a powerful situation, he is also from a good background, is the half-brother of Huang Taiji, the brother of the regent Dolgon, among the many princes of the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi, he is also a more promising one, in terms of force is not inferior to Huang Taiji and Dolgon, but in terms of IQ and the two are far behind.

In history, this person conquered the dynasty, after entering the customs with Dolgon, he and his brother Yu Prince Duoduo were the vanguard of the Qing army, and on the Han people who conquered the Ming Dynasty, the three brothers were more brilliant than one another, Azig was brave and good at fighting, repeatedly defeated Li Zicheng, captured Liu Zongmin, and captured Song Xiance, and no one could compare with these three military exploits.

Later, as the great commander of the expedition to the west, he rehabilitated Jiang Yu's rebellion in Datong, and asked to be crowned the king of uncles, but was rejected by his brother regent Dolgon, and died of depression.

Now Azig was a little stunned when he saw that his army had just left the city and was killed by the Ming army's musket and charge.

Didn't the Ming army come from afar, a tired division, why is its combat power still so strong?

Then he was furious, and he cut down several defeated Qing soldiers one after another, and the others did not dare to retreat, and followed him to sacrifice their lives to kill, so outside the West Gate, Azig led the invincible camp of Tartar and Lin Yi, and the two sides launched a melee, until the sky was dark, and the sun and moon were dark.

Aside from firearms and bows and arrows, the two armies slashed each other, Lin Yi's invincible battalion and the Qing army's elite combat strength of the Eight Banners was half a catty against eight taels, which had been repeatedly verified in the Shanhaiguan battlefield and the battle of Huanggutun.

Today's disadvantage for the invincible battalion was that they did not sleep well after a hurried march, but the musketeers blocked for them for a while, and first killed the Tartars back, and the morale was in me, so that after the advantages and disadvantages of both sides offset each other, the two teams fought to the death and met each other.

In the process of the melee, the two main generals finally encountered, He Renlong vs. Azig, the two people were also needle-pointed, the two big knives were mixed together, the two war horses were like marquees, and the two killed the number and it was difficult to tell the winner.

At this time, outside the east gate of Jinzhou City, the battle was even more intense.

This is the Qing Dynasty Su Prince Hao Ge personally led the 10,000 men and horses with blue flags, out of the city encountered Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan led by the standard battalion team, and the strategic model outside the east gate, first of all, two thousand new musketeers fired a volley at the Tartars who rushed over, and the Manchu Tartars fell one after another, making a mess.

Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan took the lead in the charge, and the soldiers of the standard battalion didn't look at the saddle horse tired all night, and the fighting spirit at this time made them forget everything, and Lin Yi's usual endurance training for them gave them the ability to endure hardships and combat power, that is, to have the strength of this kind of continuous combat.

Therefore, the soldiers of the standard battalion followed their main general, roaring like a tiger, killing the chaotic army of the Tartars, the difference between the situation here and the western foreign war is that the soldiers of the standard battalion are all one horse and three weapons or four weapons, and the Qing army is not an opponent at all, which has been repeatedly confirmed in several previous wars and small battles.

Today, as soon as the soldiers of the standard battalion fired their might, the Tartars could not hold on, like the Grim Reaper harvesting their lives, although Hauge personally charged and fought desperately, it was difficult to reverse the defeat. The Qing army could not stop the charge of the Ming army at all, and the ground was full of Qing army casualties. In the end, Hauge was hit by three knives and two arrows, his blood-stained robe, cut under the horse, and was trampled by the soldiers of the standard battalion, thousands of horses, and thousands of troops, and the horse was like mud.

He was defeated in disgrace after less than two hours, but as soon as they had broken the moat, Hong Chengchou sent a reinforcement of 5,000 men and horses for them.

Because the Qing army in Jinzhou City attacked in four ways, Hong Chengchou was not idle at this time, he stood on the head of the city to watch the battle, he only had a pair of eyes, he could only see the battle situation on one side, the other three sides of the battlefield must be reported by someone, he could know the battle situation in time, he saw that Haoge was killed outside the east gate, the soldiers and horses could not hold on, and quickly sent reinforcements.

The reinforcements of the 5,000 Qing army, plus the remnants of the defeated generals, a total of 6 or 7,000 people fought out again and planned to turn defeat into victory, but as a result, the soldiers of the standard battalion came to eat all the black and white, and the six or seven thousand men and horses suffered another heavy defeat, and finally half of them fled back to the city.

Hong Chengchou was also a little dumbfounded, the Ming army came from afar, it was a tired division, the Qing army's Eight Banners were fierce, according to the explanation, the army should be defeated with one blow, and there should be no suspense in this battle, however, ......

It was too unexpected for Hong Chengchou, seeing that this Ming army was too powerful, Prince Su Haoge took his life first, is this worth it? The Qing army is not an opponent at all, no matter how much troops and horses are sent, it will be in vain, and it is too late, hurry up and order someone to close the city, otherwise the Ming army will kill in.

At the sound of an order, the drawbridge was pulled up, the jack gate fell to death, and the big iron gate in the city was locked. The standard battalion soldiers of the Ming army were blocked out of the moat, and at this time there were nearly a thousand Tartars who did not have time to retreat to the suspension bridge, and these Tartars only scolded their mothers, of course, scolded Hong Chengchou and other generals who defended the city, regardless of their life or death, they closed the city.

But they didn't scold for long, and they were all killed by the Ming army on the bank of the moat, and the blood stained the moat.

Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan were carrying an iron pole and the other was wielding a big shovel, the two of them were covered in blood, they didn't know how many people they had killed, and the smell of blood had stimulated their fighting spirit.

At this time, these two peasant warriors had long forgotten the fatigue of marching more than 200 miles without sleeping all night, like a tireless robot that was stimulated with super combat power, after killing the Qing army here, they felt that it was not enough, and took the soldiers of the dart battalion to kill around the city, because they heard the sound of killing from the north.

Outside the north gate, the first warrior of Manchuria, Aobai, led 10,000 horses of the Yellow Banner to fight fiercely with the Ming army.

He was greeted here by Liu Zhaoji's men, which was the new training camp given to him by Yongping Bing and Lin Yi.

Needless to say, Yongping soldiers are all admirers of Lin Yi, the so-called new training camp is all prisoners adapted by Lin Yi, these have the old Ming army, as well as Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng, Guo Tianxing and other old thieves, these thieves have been screened, and the training after reorganization is the current new barracks.

But they are not new recruits, and some of them are very strong in combat.

This contact between the two sides was another musket, and the Zhenghuang flag of Aobai was beaten into a mess.

Now Aobai's ambition came up again, he took off his bare arms again, his helmet was thrown away, the money rattail was bitten into his mouth again, his big bald head was shining, and his body was full of scars, either arrow marks or knife wounds, he rushed forward with a big knife and cut down more than 20 commanders of the Ming army in one go.

When he was worshipping and wielding, a general of the Ming army galloped over, it was Liu Zhaoji, who took Aobai directly.

Liu Zhaoji was brave and good at fighting, but he couldn't deal with Aobai, and after a while, he was killed by Aobai so that he only had the ability to parry, and he had no power to fight back.

At this time, there was a great chaos in the Manchu Tartars, and the reinforcements of the Ming army arrived, and Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan rushed up with the soldiers of the standard battalion.

The soldiers of the standard battalion walked past the Manchu Tartars, and the corpses were all over the ground.

The men and horses of Ao Bai retreated again.

The unique Ao worship force does not retreat, Liu Zhaoji, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan three battles Ao Bai.

This time Ao Bai was a little in a hurry, as soon as he blocked Liu Zhaoji's weapon, Gan Bao's iron flat burden arrived, and as soon as he dodged this flat burden, Jiang Xingyuan's big shovel slapped down on his big bald head.

In this way, after a few faces, Ao Bai's head was sweating. Look at the Ming army more and more, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers around him.

Ao Bai didn't pay attention, Gan Bao's iron flat shoulder was pumping on his buttocks, and with a snap, his pelvis may have been cracked, and he fell to the ground in one fell swoop.

But I didn't expect this to save a life.

However, this life was not picked up in vain, because he felt that at the same time as he fell, the big bald head was hit, and with a click, the head seemed to be broken, and then a stream of heat flowed down the scalp, and in front of him was the blood-red world......