Chapter 328: Go all the way, don't send it far
Countless Tartar iron horsemen rushed towards the Ming army like an overwhelming man.
At this time, Lin Yi lined up the musket battalion to the front, and the soldiers of the musket battalion stood straight like a benchmark, raising their guns to aim at the surging Tartars.
"Fire!"
When they were two or three hundred meters away, Dongsheng gave an order, and the muskets of the Ming army rang out.
This time the musket battalion was divided into three platoons, the first platoon finished firing, crouched down and began to reload ammunition, the second platoon pulled the trigger to shoot, then the second platoon crouched down, and the third platoon fired.
After the third row finished shooting, he crouched down to load his ammunition, but at this time the first row was loaded with ammunition, and he stood up and continued shooting.
In this way, the musket battalions of thousands of Ming troops formed a continuous firepower, and for a time the gunfire sounded like bursting beans.
The Tartars who rushed in front were shot and fell off their horses, some of them were beaten into a sieve, some were injured, the horses were injured, the screams, the neighing of the horses, the sound of running, the sound of trampling on each other, the team of the Tartars charging suddenly became a little confused.
But the Eighth Cavalry was a well-trained team, and they had a set of defensive measures against the firearms of the Ming army.
The generals of the Qing army were not confused, nor did they retreat, and quickly waved the command flag in their hands, and these Tartar cavalry dispersed, and continued to charge forward in an irregular S-shaped curve, and some even moved back.
These Manchu Tartars naively thought that they could approach the Ming army in this way, and as long as they could break through the Ming army's musket defense, they would have a chance to break up this musket battalion and defeat it.
Who knew that they were wrong this time, and now the Ming army they are facing is not the old Ming army, but the new Ming army trained by Lin Yi himself.
The musket battalion in front of us, with advanced weapons and a unified self-generated flintlock gun, was equipped with the army more than 200 years later according to the original historical development.
In other words, Lin Yi has brought this firearm forward for more than 200 years.
On the one hand, the advanced firearms are the same, but on the other hand, these musketeers are well-trained, and they are quick to shoot wherever they are.
Therefore, although these Tartars scattered and changed the way of charging, moving left and right, and advancing in a roundabout way, they were still the targets of the Ming army, and they still could not escape the fate of shooting down their horses.
The soldiers of the musket battalion of the Ming army worked in a flowing stream, and the Tartars were already suffering casualties everywhere, but under the personal command of Dolgon and others, they still rushed forward without dying, but the speed of the charge slowed down significantly.
Now the two sides are about 100 meters apart, and they are already within the fence of bow and arrow shooting.
These Tartars, of course, could not be a target, and now they began to use their strengths, drawing their bows and shooting arrows as they charged.
For a while, the arrows flowed like rain.
In addition to the musket battalion, the archers of the Ming army, of course, were not idle, they stood in place and shot arrows at the Tartars who rushed over.
The sky rained down with arrows, and soldiers on both sides were knocked down by bows and arrows from time to time.
This continued for a few more minutes, and the bows and arrows and muskets on both sides were almost as powerful as they were exerted, and the Tartars, who were known as brave and invincible, finally rushed to the front of the Ming army, and the two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
The standard battalion of the Ming army, the invincible battalion, has been waiting for a long time and can't wait. Lin Yi still put these two teams with the strongest combat effectiveness at the forefront, don't look at them they have been fighting for a long time just now, and they are still powerful, because Lin Yi has trained their endurance to the extreme through the training of ordinary long-distance running, which means that these two battalions are particularly capable of fighting and enduring hardships.
In addition, the musket battalion should not look at the musket as incapable of power, but they can use bayonets, and the length of the barrel plus the length of the bayonet is a long knife longer than a single knife, and the barrel of the gun can be used as an iron rod if you are not used to the bayonet.
This kind of bayonet is aimed at the tartar, even men and horses, can stab, can slash, this kind of iron rod is picked up and smashed on the head of the tartar, the head immediately leaks, and the helmet can not be avoided.
If it is smashed on the horse's head, the brain will also be broken, and if it hits the horse's leg, it is a comminuted fracture, and it will not be cured in the third-class hospitals of later generations.
The war horse overturned, and the tartar on the war horse could not sit still.
At this time, the strongest battalions of 10,000 or 20,000 horses have already killed these 20,000 Tartars all over the field, Lin Yi is not only these 20,000 people, 100,000 troops except for the guard battalion, artillery battalion and logistics support battalion that did not participate in the battle, now there are 70,000 or 80,000 horses, and the remaining tens of thousands of horses have all gone up.
Behind the standard camp, the musket battalion, the invincible battalion, they cleaned up the fallen tartars, and those who did not die were given a knife.
Therefore, this melee did not come out for an hour, and of the 20,000 elite of the Qing army, there were only a few thousand left.
Dolgon, Sihan, and Sonny fought desperately, and although they were extremely brave, it was difficult to save the defeat with just a few of them.
In the end, Dolgon saw that it was really impossible to continue fighting, and the whole army had to be annihilated. It seems that the Field Eight Banners Army is not the opponent of the Ming Army, and if it is surrounded by them for a while, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Thinking of this, Dorgon immediately ordered: "Withdraw!" Evacuate! ”
The surviving Tartars could be considered to have heard such an order, they had already wanted to retreat, and some had already withdrawn, but it was not called retreat, because there was no order, or they simply called it to flee.
After all, a Tartar is a Tartar, and the nation on horseback is as fast as the wind, which is not acceptable, the Han people can't compare, the attack is fast, and the retreat or escape is even faster.
In the blink of an eye, Dorgon had run as far as they could. But none of the Ming troops in the back chased after them, so they reined in their horses and looked back.
At this time, Lin Yi's shouts sounded behind him.
"Dolgon goes all the way, forgive Lin for not sending it!"
Lin Yi's shouts were collectively amplified by his subordinates, and thousands of people held swords and guns, waving and shouting.
"Dolgon's good journey, forgive us for not sending ......"
Thousands of people were furious, and the sound of the sky shook the mountains opposite.
But these Tartars were so angry, especially Dolgon's nose was crooked, covered in blood, and his face was a mixture of sweat, blood and mud, and his face was almost like a grocery store.
He rushed over with 20,000 horses and horses, and saw that he could not win these Ming soldiers and suffered such heavy casualties, so he decided to retreat to lure the enemy.
But the Ming army is strange today, that is, it does not chase. Usually they like to win battles and then chase and kill, now they are so embarrassed to lose, but the Ming army watched them run today, and there was no one chasing, and they also shouted at them, let them go all the way, don't send it, it's too annoying!
"Lord Wang, let your subordinates lure the enemy again." Sonny panted.
"It's useless, the ghost surnamed Lin, he has already seen our intentions." Dorgon shook his head.
"What should we do, Lord Wang, we have lost so many soldiers and horses?" Xihan, whose face was covered in blood, had been slashed in the arm, and now he moved slightly, grinning in pain.
When Dolgon saw Lin Yi's men and horses, he was still shouting at him, and his face turned blue with anger, but he couldn't do anything about it.
Sonny said: "Lord Wang, if they don't chase and withdraw their troops, we can move the artillery camp position forward for seven or eight miles, and we will be able to get these Ming troops and bombard these Nanban with red-clothed cannons."
Dolgon still shook his head, it was obvious that the artillery battalion of the Ming army had not arrived, in this case, they moved the cannon forward, the Ming army would not wait there as cannon fodder, and the Ming army would definitely retreat at that time, and they had to move forward, otherwise it would still be in vain.
But the speed at which they advanced could never catch up with the speed of the retreat of the Ming army, because the Ming army advanced lightly, and they were heavy troops. In the end, it was in vain.
At this time, Dorgon, Sonny and the others all shook their heads, unable to do anything, and Sihan frowned even more, and the pain on his body made him grin even more painfully.
In the end, Dolgon gritted his teeth, went back with the remnants of the defeated army, and after running for nearly ten miles, he stopped at the bottom of the mountain and asked his men to reorganize their troops and horses.
He sat in front of the artillery camp position at the bottom of the mountain and waited for the fighters.
But Dorgon is not stupid, and it is definitely not empty at this time. Because Dolgon had already released two partial divisions in advance, that is, 20,000 horses led by Prince Su Haoge and Ao Bai, the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the commander of the protector army. If they succeed and attack the Ming army from behind, they will still be able to make the Ming army suffer from the enemy on their backs, so it seems that this battle still has a chance to turn over.