Suddenly, a sharp and piercing whistle sounded in front of the phalanx of the three Ming infantry battalions that were about to usher in the cavalry attack of the Qing army's cowardly Xue battalion.

This is the signal to order a salvo of arquebuses!

The whistle was still echoing, and at the front of the three battalion-level phalanxes, rows of large and small fires suddenly flashed! The Mongol cavalry, who had already rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty paces, was like a meteor suddenly hitting their bodies, bursting out a large area of flesh and blood, and then fell violently from their horses. Some of the horses were also hit by the projectiles of the powerful Hongxing three-year arquebus, and with a terrible neigh, they fell to the ground, throwing the knight on horseback violently. The screams of men and horses rang out uncontrollably, and the battlefield was full of dying or dead men and horses. If it had been an ordinary Mongol cavalry with such a blow, it would have almost been routed. But Emperor Shunzhi's cowardly Xue battalion is not an ordinary Mongolian cavalry after all, all of them have been carried into the two yellow flags, it is the dignified Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Qing Dynasty has their share!

Moreover, Bambur Shanzheng commanded the cavalry of the forward battalion to press behind them, and if he dared to retreat without an order, he would wait to be poked to death by the spears of the cavalry of the forward battalion!

There was another sharp and piercing whistle, and the Hongxing three-year arquebus of the musketeers in the second row fired randomly, and another salvo of nearly 250 muskets!

After firing the bullets, the Ming musketeers did not reload in place, but turned around and walked away, running to the spear formation in the rear.

It is difficult for musketeers with arquebuses to discharge a dense array of shoulder-to-shoulder formations (not necessarily not, but easy to misfire), so the musketeers of the Ming army also used a sparse formation, and a row of musketeers after firing could pass through the gap between the soldiers in the back row. Retreat into the same array of spears, then load your bayonets and prepare for melee combat.

The three rows of muskets were quickly fired, and seven hundred and dozens of bullets were fired, and with such a density of firepower, there was no way to block the Mongolian cavalry who were fighting to the death!

However, the tactics of the Maurice phalanx were not to rely on arquebuses against cavalry, otherwise what would half of the soldiers with spears more than a foot long do?

At the same time that the musketeers finished firing a salvo and retreated into the gun formation, the pikemen put down their spears one after another, and the tips of their spears were not pointed in one direction, but partly pointed to the front of the phalanx, and partly pointed to the left and right and rear of the phalanx, turning the phalanx into a huge "hedgehog".

If the cavalry rushes forward, it will be miserable!

However, the Eight Banners of Mongolia under Shunzhi will not rush hard, they are not shock cavalry that rely on group charges to survive, but the traditional "all-round cavalry". Impact, archery, hand-to-hand combat are all proficient, immediately off the horse as good as the hand.

So after approaching the "hedgehog array" of the Ming army, the Mongolian cavalry began to circle - because the 8 battalions of the Ming army needed to defend a large area, there was still a relatively large space between the phalanxes, enough for the enemy's cavalry to pass.

The Mongols began to shoot arrows while circling in circles, while some of the Mongol dead men got off their horses and rushed to the Ming army's hedgehog array with round shields and scimitars, and went to engage the Ming army's pikemen and musketeers in hand-to-hand combat.

On the side of the Ming army, the pikemen tried to shake the long and heavy spears in their hands to block the Qing army's dead soldiers from approaching and at the same time holding the formation. The musketeers killed and wounded the Mongol cavalry and dead soldiers with indiscriminate shots, and they were now retracted into the gun formation, so naturally they could not shoot the guns, but fortunately, the cowardly soldiers of the Qing army did not go too far from the Ming army in order to shoot arrows and dismount the formation, which was equipped with cuirasses and helmets, and some also equipped with arm armor (they could have some equipment of their own), and also placed some low wooden shields around the phalanx to prevent arrows. So if it's too far away, the lethality of the arrow can be ignored.

On the one hand, there was mounted archery and hand-to-hand combat, and on the other hand, spears and muskets, and the two sides killed you and me, and it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while, but more and more people and horses died or were wounded and fell to the ground.

Around the three Ming army arrays, there were dead corpses or dying people and horses, and many people in the phalanx were shot by sharp arrows, or fell to the ground and groaned, or were dying. There were also some Mongolian dead soldiers who rushed to the front of the Ming pikemen at the risk of being pierced through the chest by the shaking spears, wielding scimitars to slash left and right, causing a lot of chaos at once. However, no matter how brave these people are, they can't stop the bullets of the Ming army, and they won't be crazy for too long before they will be finished by a small lead bullet.

Just when the three Ming army formations and the Qing army besieging them were in a group, the forward battalion cavalry following the Qing army's cowardly Xue cavalry was already in place. However, they did not follow the group, but dismounted and lined up less than 100 paces away from the three groups.

These forward battalion cavalry were also "black pikemen", except that they did not have flintlock pistols, and they were not divided into spearmen, archers, and musketeers, but were armed with three weapons together.

Now the cavalry of the forward battalion of these Qing troops did not carry carbines and bows and arrows, but only arquebuses, round shields, and waist knives. After dismounting, a nine-in-ten shooting formation was listed.

Seeing that the cavalry of the forward battalion had finished arraying, Bai Yintu ordered Ming Jin to let the Mongolian cavalry, who were fighting hard with the Ming army's phalanx, retreat to make room for the dismounted cavalry of the forward battalion.

Due to the previous engagement, the three Ming army formations were already in disarray, and the musketeers had also retracted into the spear formation, and there was no time to regroup in a short time.

In the rear of the Ming army was commanding Qi Yuanbi, who stood on a lookout car, holding a telescope, and had already taken in every move of the Qing army's forward battalion, of course he knew what the other party wanted to do.

"Order the sixth, eighth, and tenth battalions of musketeers to form on the spot, and the pikemen will attack!" Qi Yuanbi ordered loudly, "All the musketeers are ready to attack!" ”

His order was quickly transmitted to the front of the battle by military trumpets and war drums, and the seven hundred pikemen of the three battalions were less than the whole team, and they directly followed the retreating Qing army and launched an attack!

Now it was the pikemen of the Ming army who charged against the bullets of the Qing army......

The musketeers of the Qing army's forward battalion had already lost some in previous engagements, and some were scattered throughout the battlefield to be on guard. So now there are only 17,800 people who can be put out.

After placing a nine-in-ten chain, each row is one hundred and seventy or eighty people, and the rows of rows fire in turn, either in a loop, or in a loop, the firepower is not too fierce, but the continuity is not bad. With the onslaught of more than 700 pikemen, of course, they could not be defeated. However, it could buy time for the Ming army's musketeers to form a team and reload...... Then, continue the battle with heavy casualties!

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Kannondo battlefield.

The sound of shouts and gunfire came one after another, and the temple of Nuoda had been shattered. On both sides of the low wall fortifications that the Qing army once guarded, corpses were piled up. There were Qing troops in yellow cotton armor, and there were also Ming officers and soldiers in red and black (red robes and black armor), and even if they were killed in battle, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides were twisted together. Some of the soldiers still maintained a fighting posture, and the spears and muskets in their hands had already sunk into the corpses of the enemy, and they themselves were exhausted......

The Qing army that defended Guanyin Hall fought very tenaciously, and also kept up with the pace of the times, becoming a new army that perfectly integrated hot and cold weapons.

However, it is unlikely that a contest between two armies that have mastered the tactics of hot and cold weapons will result in a disparity in the proportion of casualties, unless one side is holding the fortress.

Therefore, the winner of the Guanyin Hall battlefield ultimately belongs to the side with an absolute advantage in numbers!

Nearly 8,000 soldiers from the four regiments invested by Huang Degong have now broken down the Qing army's defenses, and the two sides have launched a final battle in the Guanyin Hall.

Zhuo Butai, the commander of the Qing army's firearms battalion, also personally participated in the battle, and there were fewer and fewer personal soldiers around him, but there were more and more enemies around him.

With the sound of a gunshot, the Manchurian warrior only felt that his chest and back were slammed by something unknown a few times, and then there was a severe pain, and his strength suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't even stand!

The fall of Zhuo Butai also means that the battle on the battlefield of Guanyin Hall is about to end!

Once the Ming army seized Guanyin Hall and annihilated the elite firearms battalion of the Qing army's new army, then the victory or defeat of this battle was basically divided.

Although the Qing army was still able to rely on the superiority of cavalry to barely encircle Huang Degong, they were powerless to defeat Huang Degong, nor were they able to stop Shi Kefa and Gao Jie's free movement.

Emperor Shunzhi is about to fall into a siege!