Chapter 116: Hauge Comes Out of the Second Watch
After a night's rest, Lin Yi's more than 1,500 people were like tigers, Marseille dragons. Early in the morning, they ran for nearly an hour and 30 miles, and when Lin Yi and others appeared behind Huang Taiji, the Tartars still didn't notice.
The team stopped for a moment and switched horses, as each of them was a double horse and had been running for nearly an hour, at this time changing horses to maintain sufficient charging power.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Yi took Xiao Ying and the others to a high place, taking a breather while observing the enemy's situation.
Due to the exceptionally sunny weather today, the visibility is very high, and Lin Yi's eyes are very good, the eyesight of the special soldier before the crossing plus the fusion of force after the crossing, his eyesight is definitely more than 2.0 at present.
Therefore, the situation in the north of the capital in the distance, the situation of the Tartars outside the city is in full view, at this time the emperor Taiji is in the north of the capital to show off his might, the Tartars are drinking horses and slaughtering on the side of the moat, and the Ming government group headed by Emperor Chongzhen is helpless, except for grief and indignation.
At that time, Lin Yi felt that the Ming Dynasty was really coming to an end, and the great power of the Celestial Empire once upon a time reigned over the world, and all nations came to the dynasty, but now the emperor with tens of thousands of civil and military ministers could not save his people, and could only watch his people being slaughtered like cattle with bloody butcher knives raised by foreign races, and he was indifferent and helpless.
The emperor, a hundred civil and military officials, and a general of the Celestial Empire, can only be a spectator. Can such a dynasty last? Does it still make sense to last long?
"My lord, the Tartars are so cruel that they attack the defenseless people, not even the children!"
"You can't blame the Tartars for being brutal, this is Huang Taiji's means, but it's a pity that my Celestial Empire is a big country, and it has fallen to this ......" Lin Yi looked at the clamor of Huang Taiji under the umbrella of Huang Luo and the corpses of the messy people on the ground, and the duties of the soldiers made him ignite a raging fighting spirit: "Adjust the formation, kill!"
Lin Yi finally gave the battle order, and the more than 1,500 cavalry were roughly divided into three battle sequences, and the 300 people who rushed to the front were firearms soldiers, who were armed with arquebuses and flintlock pistols, and raised their guns to aim at the galloping horses.
Immediately next to the fire cavalry were 300 archers, each with two pots of arrows behind him, or 60 arrows. Of course, after the arrows are fired, they cannot be slaughtered, and they still wear waist knives.
This is the 600 cavalry that rushed to the front, and the leader of these 600 cavalry is, of course, Zu Keyong, a fierce general who was born in Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Immediately following the 600 cavalry charge were nearly a thousand iron cavalry, which was mainly Lin Yi's more than 100 guards and the remaining Guanning iron cavalry.
Thousands of horses galloped, and the ground smashed trembled.
After Huang Taiji's men discovered this team, it was a little late.
As the Tartars adjusted their formation, 300 musketeers rushed into range.
These well-trained musketeers ...... 300 musketeers take turns firing on the galloping horses, and after a shot, they reload the charge on the galloping horses without affecting the speed of the charge.
Suddenly the smoke was filled, and under the random shooting, the Tartars who were shot fell off their horses one after another.
Charging alongside these 300 firearms were 300 archers, and although the range of the bow and arrow was not as good as that of the firearms, it was not small.
These archers on their galloping horses draw their bows and shoot arrows continuously, faster than the musketeers to reload their ammunition, and the fastest can shoot a dozen arrows in a row before rushing into the ranks of the Tartars, at which point the bows and arrows will lose their effectiveness.
Therefore, these 300 archers, in just one minute, shot more than 2,000 sharp arrows in a row. Arrows rained down in the sky, and countless Tartars, including men and horses, were shot into hedgehogs.
The musketeers and archers attacked violently, and the Tartars' ranks were in disarray. There were dead and wounded on the ground, and people were shouting and neighing, and they were rushing and bumping.
In the blink of an eye, the 600 Guan Ning Iron Horsemen who rushed to the front entered Huang Taiji's team, and this was the link of hand-to-hand melee.
Commander Zu Keyong picked up the cart and rolled a big axe, chopping and chopping, slashing left and sweeping, several axes went down, several Tartars fell off their horses, and they were killed and wounded everywhere.
When they trained, firearms and archers had overcome their shortcomings, that is, both firearms and bows and arrows had a certain combat distance, beyond which they would not be able to play a role. By exceeding this distance, we mean that the distance is too far away or too close. In the case of too close a distance, they can still fight, which is the characteristic of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.
This is not the credit of Lin Yi and Zu Keyong, as early as when Yuan Chonghuan was supervising Liaodong, the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Zu Dashou had already formed such a combat force.
Therefore, when the two sides fought in close combat, although firearms and bows and arrows could not play a role, the muskets in their hands were not ornaments at this time, and they were still very powerful when they took turns to use the big iron rods. The archers took their bows, drew their swords, and engaged the Tartars in hand-to-hand combat.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was no less powerful than the Eight Banners warriors outside the Guan. This combat power refers to the ability to fight in the field, that is, to remove the influence of firearms and fortified positions, in terms of the force of bows and arrows and white-knuckle combat alone.
This has been proven in several battles between the Ning Yuan army led by Yuan Chonghuan and the Manchurian iron cavalry.
And the Guan Iron Cavalry in front of him, after Lin Yi's intensive training for them for more than half a year, the ability to fight individually and collectively has improved, that is to say, the Guanning Iron Cavalry in front of him, in terms of combat effectiveness, compared with the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the traditional sense, Lin Yi's team needs to be described as "Guanning Iron Cavalry +".
The firearms soldier picked up the large iron rod in his hand and smashed the heads of the Tartars one after another, and the archers abandoned their bows and arrows, drew their waist knives, and cut the Tartars off their horses.
These 600 Guanning iron horsemen, with one charge, rushed the tens of thousands of Chinese main forces of Huang Taiji into a mess, killing and wounding them.
"Where is this army? How many people are quickly found out? Huang Taiji under the Huang Luo umbrella frowned when he saw such a powerful team.
"Huang Ama, don't care where he is in the army, no matter how many he comes, let the retainers kill them, these Ming dogs are not a big deal!" Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hao Ge, intervened in the salute and pouted as if he couldn't help it.
Among the royal nobles of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Haoge was so remarkable that he was three years older than his uncle Dorgon.
This is not just a matter of eating for three more years, in terms of bravery and strategy, Hauge is not inferior to Dorgon. In terms of personal bravery and military exploits, Dolgon and Uncle Hauge can only be half a catty to eight taels, and in fairness, even Huang Taiji can't tell the difference between the two.
Both of them were young men, and they were in the war against various tribes in Mongolia, the war against the dynasty, and the use of troops against the Ming Dynasty many times, both of them were very successful. The 28-year-old Hauge has been named Prince Heshuosu, and the 25-year-old Dolgon is now Prince Heshuorui, and the two men have roughly the same amount of troops. Hauge is the owner of the blue flag, and Dorgon is the owner of the white flag.
The banner owner of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not simple, roughly equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the Combat Security Department in later generations, with tens of thousands of handkerchiefs and heavy soldiers, which is very important.
Huang Taiji regards these two people as his right-hand men, one is the eldest son, and the other is a half-brother, which are also the two pillars of the Huang Taiji Group. This time, Huang Taiji personally drove and brought them both.
Suddenly attacked by an unknown Ming army, of course, the high-ranking Tartars would not panic because of this matter, and now Hauge took the initiative to ask for help.
Huang Taiji nodded, and Haoge, who was majestic in silver armor and silver armor, carried a horse slashing knife in his hand, and rushed over with 10,000 iron horsemen.
The 600 Guanning Iron Horsemen who rushed to the front were killing the Tartars, and when they were handy, they met their fierce rival nemesis, Haoge's elite Blue Banner.
If you talk about the Tartars, they were busy and hurried by a sudden attack just now, and suffered a big loss. The battle has not existed until now, and the elite of the Eight Banners, who have been tempered by the war, have now adapted to it.
Now the two sides are inseparable, and in the melee, Zu Keyong and Hauge have fought each other.
Zu Ke is brave and mighty, the big axe is strong and heavy, Hauge is not good at stubble, his horse chopping knife has a special shape, similar to the Pu knife in the Northern Song Dynasty, this kind of knife is longer than the knife shaft, the bright white blade is more than a palm wide, five or six feet long, and the cold light looks at the mad man. In a short period of time, it was difficult for the two to distinguish between the winners and losers.
But after all, there were many Tartars, and in the blink of an eye, an encirclement of the Ming army was formed.
At this moment, Lin Yi led nearly a thousand iron horsemen to rush up. The jujube red horse is like a charcoal of fire, which is particularly conspicuous in the sun, and its four hooves are kicked open, like clouds driving the fog.
The most conspicuous thing is his Qinglong Yanyue Knife, with an iron helmet and iron armor, his robe flying, Lin Yi dragging the big knife upside down, looking like Guan Gong being reborn at first glance.
The soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city were stunned, and the flaming red satin banner behind Lin Yi reminded Emperor Chongzhen and Yang Sichang and others......
Lin Yi's horse was fast, and he rushed to the Tartars' team in the blink of an eye like an arrow, the Qinglong Yanyue Knife poured down like a heavenly river, and an arc-shaped knife light flashed, and the four Tartars who tried to block it in front of him disintegrated directly with people and horses.
The war horse rushed forward, trampling on the blood and corpses of the Tartars, Lin Yi danced the Qinglong Yanyue Knife away, and the arc knife light and the cross light in the air appeared alternately, the Tartars fell off their horses one after another, the corpses rolled, and the knives and guns flew wildly. Where the sword and horse pass, it is like a tiger entering a flock.
On Lin Yi's left and right and flanks, first of all, his more than 100 guards, Xiao Ying, Zhang Hua, Erhu, He Tao, Wang Qi, Dong Sheng, Gan Bao, and Jiang Xingyuan did not leave Lin Yi's left and right. Behind them were 800 Guanning iron horsemen, charging collectively, and no one could stop them.
At this time, Zu Keyong was already defeated by Hauge, because now it was no longer two people who were alone, and the Tartars won by the number of people, and more than a dozen Tartars, including Hauge, trapped Zu Keyong and the four of them.
Because Zu Keyong also has a personal guard, these are his three personal bodyguards, Yang Fang, Zhao Sheng, Zhao Tingshou, Zu Keyong, and other personal guards died one after another.
Haoge and they were about to make dumplings for Zu Keyong and others, when there was a pleasant sound of knives, and the Dazi beside Haoge fell off their horses one after another.
Haoge was furious, and the black horse, the horse chopping knife, came straight to Lin Yi.