Chapter 700: Fierce Battle
As soon as Getjevic gave the order, the other more than 100,000 Ottoman troops attacked.
"Kill"
40,000 elite Iron Shield Regiments in front, 5,000 musket battalions in the middle, and 80,000 Emperor ** regiments in the rear, for their own safety, Gatyivich left 5,000 people alone in the rear army to protect themselves.
On the Manchu side, Dorgon also ordered his own army to meet the Ottoman army, which was slowly approaching in a vast formation.
"The people will listen to the command! 60,000 cavalry against the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion, the remaining 37,000 cavalry and 5,000 Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners, and 12,000 Dragon Breakers against the 80,000 Ottoman Legion and 5,000 Ottoman Musket Battalion! Dolgon calmly and quickly made arrangements.
"Wow!" The generals of the Qing army received their own orders.
"Kill" the war horse charged, and the Qing army also rushed out in accordance with Dolgon's order.
As the Qing army rushed to kill, only 3,000 White Banner cavalry and 3,000 Dragon Breakers were left with only 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 Dragon Breakers operating the artillery battalion.
As the commander of the army, before the most critical moment, Dorgon did not need to take the lead in the charge.
The armies of the two sides will soon collide, and the first to come into contact will be the Qing servant cavalry and the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion. Before making contact, the Qing cavalry fired a round of arrows at the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion.
"Xiu Xiu Xiu" thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows, and the sound was terrifying.
However, at the moment when the rain of arrows fell, the soldiers of the Ottoman Iron Shield Regiment raised their iron shields in unison, which was dense enough to cover almost all gaps.
The arrows clanged against the iron shield, but not a single Ottoman soldier could be killed.
"Bang!"
"Bang! Boom! "The war horses crashed into the iron shield one after another, but something terrible happened, I don't know how the Ottomans did it, the war horses with a strong impact, they couldn't even knock the iron shield away.
"Poof! Burst! Poof" The iron shield suddenly stabbed out a steel spear to kill the approaching war horse and the cavalry on horseback, the sound of dense piercing**, the corpse of the entire row of Qing cavalry fell in front of the iron shield, and the blood stained the earth, so frightened that the Qing cavalry behind hurriedly reined in the war horse, and did not dare to continue to take their lives to impact the iron shield of the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion.
Taking advantage of this time, the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion suddenly withdrew, and thousands of arrows were fired from it.
A rain of arrows fell on the heads of the Qing cavalry.
"Poof! Burst! Poof: "A large number of Qing cavalry were shot and fell from their horses, and blood stained the yellow sand.
I have to say that the Ottoman Iron Shield Army deserves to be a trump card, just this hand, immediately shocked the Qing army, and instantly restored the morale of the Eight Banners, and the original strong morale of the Qing army was also beaten.
In the rear, Getjevic smiled, although his cavalry was not as good as the Manchurian Eight Banners, but he had more than the cavalry in his hands, the Iron Shield Legion was the trump card of the trump cards, as long as the military formation was not dispersed, it was invincible.
In the rear of the Qing army, Dolgon's brows furrowed.
"Order, according to the original arrangement, the cavalry and the Dragon Breaker Army in the back bypassed the engagement of the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion and directly engaged the army behind the Ottomans!" Dorgon ordered calmly.
Although the performance of the Ottoman Iron Shield Army also surprised him slightly, he did not change the original battle arrangement because of this, and still let 60,000 servant cavalry face the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion, and the remaining 37,000 servant cavalry and 5,000 Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners and 12,000 Dragon Breakers faced the 80,000 Ottoman Legion and 5,000 Ottoman Musket Battalion behind!
It is true that the 40,000 Ottoman Iron Shield Legion is a turtle shell, but he is not without a way to deal with it.
"It's a pity that I can't find the specific position of the Ottoman commander, otherwise I can deal with him like I did with Kgreid under the city of Murkara!" Dorgon sighed inwardly.
The thirty-nine cannons that he brought had already been prepared in the time of the confrontation between the Eight Banners and the 40,000 Ottoman cavalry just now, and they were hidden in the 3,000 Dragon Breaker Army left, Dolgon originally planned to capture the thief and capture the king first, and find the specific location of the Ottoman marshal, but unfortunately he looked at it with a telescope, but he was never sure, maybe the Ottoman commander had already taken precautions.
As Dolgon had thought, the Ottoman commander Ghetewicz had been prepared for the Qing artillery.
Getjevic is a famous Ottoman general, who has been named after Kgreid for many years, and even after the battle in Baghdad six years ago, his fame has surpassed Kleft's, he has experienced a lot of battles, and any possible accidents are in his consideration.
At the beginning, the next battle of Murkala City directly buried the last hundred thousand elite troops of the Persian Empire, which had a great impact, and the Ottoman Empire, which had been vainly trying to annex the Persian Empire, naturally could not have been unaware, and Ghetyvich carefully analyzed the characteristics of the entire battle and the Qing army's artillery.
The Qing army's artillery is light in weight, its power is not weaker than that of Europe's advanced redcoat artillery, and it can also be transported quickly has long been analyzed by Gatyivich.
Although Gitjevic was not sure whether the Qing artillery had followed the Qing cavalry here in just one day at this moment, he would be prepared for any possible accident, so in view of the fate of Kegreid, he tried his best to hide himself, so that the Qing army could not find his exact location, and naturally it was impossible to calculate him as he did with Kegreid.
"I can't wait any longer, since I can't find the position of the Ottoman commander, I used a cannon to break the turtle shell of the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion!" Dorgon made up his mind.
"Order, all artillery immediately open fire, bombard the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion, and open a gap for the cavalry!" Dorgon ordered in a deep voice.
The "Boom Boom" order was transmitted to the artillery battalion, and thirty-nine cannons immediately opened fire, firing thirty-nine shells and falling in the formation of the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion!
The cannonballs exploded in the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion, and the blazing air waves and shrapnel immediately lifted a large number of Ottoman Iron Shield soldiers into the sky, along with the iron shields in their hands.
Because the Iron Shield Legion had to form an Iron Shield Defense, the soldiers were relatively dense with each other, and basically every shell of the Qing Army could kill or injure seven or eight soldiers of the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion, tearing apart the formations of the various military formations of the Iron Shield Legion.
The Ottoman Iron Shield Army had 4,000 people in a military formation, a total of ten military formations, and now the defense of one military formation has been torn apart by Qing artillery.
"Kill" The war horse neighed, and the 60,000 Qing army servant cavalry who fought against the 40,000 Ottoman Iron Shield Legion immediately took the opportunity to smash into the formation of the Iron Shield Legion from the gap that was blown up, and fought with the soldiers inside.
The Qing artillery battalion continued to adjust its muzzle bombardment to the next Ottoman Iron Shield Corps' military formation.
After a while, another Ottoman Iron Shield Legion's military formation was blown up, and the Ottoman Iron Shield Legion soldiers inside suffered heavy casualties, and another group of Qing cavalry took the opportunity to rush in.