Chapter 18: The Battle of Niuzhuang IV

Dorgon said, "It's useless to talk about this now, I'll leave it to Starling." It doesn't matter if you can't attack it, you can't let Zheng Chenggong free up your hands. ”

Azig said, "I know, leave it to me." You can do your thing with peace of mind. ”

Dorgon said, "Good. ”

Then Dorgon departed.

He still has his own things to do, in fact, if the general opposite the cattle village is someone else, Dolgon only needs an order, but Dolgon is not in front of someone else, but Azig, so he has to come and give advice.

Azig then launched an attack on the cattle farm.

It's just an unexpected thing, the first wave of Azig's attack came from the water.

Although the Qing army's naval division was wiped out, it does not mean that the Qing army did not have a little water power. The large and small ships on the Liao River could be used by the Qing army, and the large ships of the Xia army were all stranded, so Azig used large and small ships to load flammable materials, and went straight down the river to these ships.

These big ships simply can't dodge.

Even though Liu Guoxuan tried his best to resist, there were still many big ships that were burned, and all kinds of heavy gunpowder on them turned into flying ashes, especially the sound of gunpowder explosions, which could be heard almost dozens of miles away, and I saw a column of smoke rising into the sky above the river.

The sound was like thunder, sweeping for miles and could not be calmed down for a long time.

As soon as this voice fell, the sound of the Qing army's shouting and killing sounded earth-shatteringly, and then dozens of doors were fired together, and countless red iron bullets smashed into the camp of the Xia army across the sky.

Immediately, the Xia army began to counterattack.

All kinds of artillery were fired one after another, and the two sides did not meet each other, but the artillery battle was extremely hot.

Immediately, the Qing army rushed over like a tide.

However, the Qing army looked at a lot, but it was very orderly, a large number of shield carts, pushed over, and all the soldiers were hidden behind the shield carts. This shield car is not big, at least it is aimed at with the Hongyi cannon, but it is very difficult, it is not small, except for the Hongyi cannon and the big Buddha cannon, other cannons are difficult to penetrate nearly one or two inches of wood.

The Qing army ordered the people to push the cart, and the soldiers hid behind the shield cart.

There were even firearms behind the shield cart.

When the shield cart came to the Xia army's camp, the Qing soldiers were behind the shield cart and began to shoot at the Xia soldiers.

Most of the Xia army are firecrackers, and Xia Jun's standard firecrackers are bird guns, although Zhang Xuan is ready to replace bird guns, but mass production is a problem.

Bird guns have been introduced to China since the time of Qi Jiguang, and it is not a new technology for a long time, and it can be said that it can no longer be mature in terms of technology. There is no need to worry about it at all, and the problem of mass production is solved, but Xia Jun's new fire gun has too many new ideas for Zhang Xuan.

It requires power, weight, easy to carry, and is conducive to fighting.

Under the requirements of others, although the firearm sample came out, it was created by skilled craftsmen and could be seen as a work of art, but if you want to mass produce more than one million rods within a few years, you don't even think about it.

However, the archers of the Qing army took a lot of advantage when they shot at the Xia army behind the shield car, and there were many archers in the Qing army. Now that there is a shield car as a cover, the casualties on both sides are almost the same for a while.

However, Xia Jun still has a way.

Lift a few small cannons similar to Linying cannons, and the distance of dozens of paces is accurate one by one. After all, wood is wood and not steel, and one cannon can't be opened, two can't be solved, and two can't be three can't.

And sometimes the shield cart can still be used, but the person hiding behind the shield cart can't, because he has already been shaken to death.

"Kill." The Qing army would not shoot for a long time, and seeing that the people gathered were about the same, hundreds of people jumped out and rushed over.

Although there is a layer of fence, but it can not stop the offensive of the Qing army, many hand-grenades smashed out, even if the fence can not be blown out of the gap, but this wooden wall can not stop the Qing army's offensive.

In a few moments, there were several fires on the wooden walls.

Although the wooden wall on the periphery of this camp was burned into charcoal underneath to prevent corrosion, the outside was pasted with yellow mud and set on fire. But the Qing army already had a way to ignite it.

Immediately, on top of several gaps, the Xia army and the Qing army launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat.

The Qing army even once entered the camp of the Xia army, but the Xia soldiers were not vegetarians, in hand-to-hand combat, although they were not as good as the Qing army, nor were they fish belly, under the resistance of the previous servants and successive servants, finally Azig saw that it was too late, and Mingjin withdrew his troops.

After a fierce battle for the whole day, the curtain came to an end.

Overall, it is still Xia Jun who has the advantage.

If not, the back road was cut off, the gunpowder exploded, and other bad news, which made the morale of the army turbulent, and the Qing army probably did not even have the ability to attack the Xia army camp.

It's just that reality is reality, and it must always be faced.

In addition to the fierce battle on the first day, Zheng Chenggong also sent the first batch of soldiers to go back, and all the small boats of the generals were gathered to withdraw the wounded, artillery, and medical soldiers first.

The reason is very simple, Zheng Chenggong knows that no matter how to save the situation today, there is one thing that will not be wrong, that is, a large number of artillery pieces will fall in the Qing army. But artillery is easy to build, but really good gunners are rare.

Therefore, the elite men and horses of these armies were withdrawn first.

Under such circumstances, the people in the army have long been panicked.

Don't expect the army of this era to have a high morale under this situation, it can be said that the people below have a lot of cranky thoughts, but they can still keep it

Maintaining combat effectiveness is already the role of a large number of martial arts officers.

Otherwise, in many cases, the army in this situation will be scattered without fighting.

It's just that blessings and misfortunes don't go alone.

Bad things and bad things are all connected.

Liu Guoxuan's subordinates didn't expect that they went down the river and did not return to Yingkou, because Yingkou was no longer the Xia army's, but the Qing army's.

The Xia army sailors at sea immediately fought back desperately, wanting to capture Yingkou.

The battle of Yingkou was no more tragic than the battle of Niuzhuang.

However, the defenders of this battle were the Qing army, Zhou Quanbin, the governor of the land and water army, attacked Yingkou, and fought in this area Yingkou for a few days, they even faced the naval artillery fire, but Dolgon also had a lot of artillery this time, it seems that Dolgon took out all the artillery made by the Beijing Artillery Factory in the past few years.

The artillery of the Qing army was not at all less than that of the Xia army.

If Yingkou does not fall for a day, the Xia army should not take a raft, give up all heavy equipment, and then withdraw from the Liao River.

Even if they can leave, they can only leave at night.

There is an even more unexpected thing, that is, the Qing army actually has a sailor who has come out, just above the Liao River.

Now the Liao River has been dammed in several places, and the water has overflowed, as if to restore the lower reaches of the Liao River to the former marshland landform. In the course of the Liaohe River, although there is still water, the water is not deep. The so-called sailors of the Qing army cannot be called specialized sailors, but. Temporarily recruit some civilian ships with shallow drafts, load a few small cannons, and send the Han army's green battalion on board.

If Liu Guoxuan can use a big ship, they never have to worry about sweeping them up.

But now almost all the big ships have run aground. The remaining small boats do not have much advantage over these ships of the Qing army, and the rest are fought on the water, although Liu Guoxuan's generals are all veterans of naval warfare and are much more experienced than the Qing army.

It's just that there are many Qing soldiers.

I don't know how much preparation Dolgon made in advance, the temporary sailors of the Qing army are almost endless.

After all, this is Liaodong, the base camp of the Qing court. It was Dongyu's hometown, and he was very familiar with Dolgon here, and it was too easy for him to do something without being known by Xia Jun. Now a killing move has been made, which is to put Zheng Chenggong to death.

Zheng Chenggong listened to the downstream news that Liu Guoxuan said, and his face suddenly turned blue, and then his throat surged. A rust-smelling liquid rushed out and was swallowed hard by Zheng Chenggong. In such a situation, Zheng Chenggong is not even qualified to spit blood.

The people in the army were already panicking, and they were all suppressed by Zheng Chenggong's prestige. Once it is reported that he vomited blood, I don't know what it will become.