Chapter 41: The Battle of Neiqiu 2

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Du Du looked at the war horses that fell on both sides of the formation, and the warriors under his command who were screaming miserably and were killed and wounded, and his heart twitched, how could this battle be like this? Dealing with the Ming army in peacetime can be said to be a tried and tested method, but today I met this torture thief army, why didn't it work? And why are the firearms of this thief army so sharp, aren't they just some tattered birds? Why did you hit so far and so hard?

Seeing that the cavalry attack on the two wings was ineffective, and more cavalry would die under the guns of the Xingtian Army, Du Du reluctantly ordered the cavalry on both wings to withdraw and rely on the infantry to attack the formation, to see if they could repel this thief army, after all, their Qing soldiers were much braver than the Han people, and they fought in an upright battle, and they didn't believe that they couldn't defeat this thief army. ()

But soon Du Du found that his idea fell to naught again, when his infantry soldiers began to enter the distance of seventy steps from the enemy, these fire soldiers of the Heavenly Punishment Army began to breathe fire again, just a short time, the front row of shield-raising infantry soldiers fell to the ground one after another, Du Du was completely shocked this time, he didn't expect that at such a distance, the shield could not stop the thief's gun, this time it surpassed his cognition of bird guns, You must know that he himself fought against the Ming army in the first two years, and he was hit by two Ming army bird guns, and that time the Ming army fired at a distance of about 30 steps, and he was wearing two layers of armor at the time, and after being shot, he didn't have any, and led his troops to kill the Ming army, and personally killed several Ming army's firecrackers, but today it seems that the firearms of this thief army are too sharp! This is a distance of sixty or seventy paces, and the skinned wooden shield can't stop the thieves' bullets, which is a bad thing.

Everyone had to admit the fierceness of the Tartar soldiers and the military discipline of the Tartar army, before receiving the order to retreat, although a large number of Tartar infantry soldiers saw that the people in front of them were knocked over by the guns of the Xingtian army, but they did not stop advancing or turned to flee, but continued to howl and charge forward, picking up the shields of their killed companions from the ground, covering their bodies and continuing to charge.

A group of people were knocked down, and another group of people rushed up to take their tattered shields and continued to charge, the archers desperately released arrows at the Xingtian Army behind the shield bearers, trying to suppress the fire shots of the Xingtian Army, but the distance of fifty paces was still a bit too far for their bows, even if they could reach the Xingtian Army's formation, the arrows basically lost much power, and this Xingtian Army soldiers were also wearing armor, as long as the arrows hit them, they couldn't put them down, such a result was desperate, Batches of Tartar infantry soldiers also entered the fifty-step death ground, and batch after batch were knocked to the ground.

And at this time, the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army can no longer do careful aiming and launching, because the continuous firing makes the gunsmoke in front of them filled, which seriously affects their aiming, although the wind is not too small, constantly blowing away these white smokes, but it is still shrouded in more white smoke rising from the mouth, the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army can only rely on instinct, to fire a salvo ahead, as for whether they can stop and defeat the enemy, it is no longer a matter of concern to them, as long as the officers do not give the order to stop shooting, They would continue to fire in this rotation until the paper shells on their bodies were fired.

During this period, there were also very few guns that exploded in the barrel accident, and there would be a few firecrackers who were blown up and their faces were black and covered with blood, but no one cared about it at this time, just the mechanical forward launch, backward reloading, because this batch of Tartar soldiers for the generals of the Xingtian Army, it is also rare and tenacious, so they refuse to retreat, they still rush forward one after another, listening to their shouts and screams, it makes people feel a little creepy, so the generals of the Xingtian Army also began to be nervous.

The two sides threw their guns and arrows at each other on the battlefield, and clusters of arrows were scattered around and inside the Xingtian Army Formation, while rows of guns flew into the Tartar Formation, knocking the rows of Tartar soldiers to the ground, and finally the Tartar soldiers poured in front of the Xingtian Army Formation at a huge price.

At this time, Du Du's heart was about to bleed, he watched hundreds of warriors under his command, just killed between the two armies in vain, but he didn't dare to order the collection of troops, several times he couldn't help but want to collect the troops, but he was restrained, his bannermen watched their companions being killed one by one, crying and begging Du Du to collect the troops, but he was also drunk back by Du Du, Du Du is a veteran, he knows that if he orders the collection of troops, then this battle is equivalent to defeat, And the horse armor soldiers and foot soldiers who died in front of him are equivalent to dying in vain, he must insist on defeating this terrible enemy, otherwise the many captured slaves and property behind them may be taken away by this terrible thief army, he can't afford such a loss, he has to fight.

And at this time, Luo Li and Li Xin's faces were also solemn, they were also shocked by the fierceness of the Tartars, no wonder the Ming officers and troops fought with the Tartars and lost repeatedly, not to mention the gap in equipment training, just this alone, the Ming army has no reason to be undefeated.

Seeing that a large number of Tartar soldiers rushed to the front of the Xingtian Army, Luo Li roared wildly and said, "The bayonet in the hand of the fire gun!" ”

His military orders were immediately passed down by the officers one by one, and the musketeers were now full of smoke and fire marks, each of which became leopard faces, and after listening to the order, they immediately stopped shooting, and immediately pulled out the short blades from their waists, and began to snap these three-edged or double-edged short blades on the front end of the barrel that had begun to become hot, and firmly stuck on the pipe, and then grabbed the rear of the barrel with their right hand, and supported the handguard under the barrel with their left hand. One by one, their eyes widened and they looked ahead.

At this time, one by one, the Tartar soldiers roared wildly and rushed into the thick smoke, appearing in front of the Xingtian generals, and both sides almost roared in unison and shouted to kill, struggling to raise the spears in their hands or hanging short-bladed firearms, and stabbed each other.

The most tragic hand-to-hand battle began, and the place where the two armies met instantly rose up with a bloody light, and at the same time, the tragic howls of countless people dying sounded.

Li Xiaosan held a shield in his left arm, squatted under the spear with a steel knife in his right hand, and in front of him was the short legs of the Tartar soldiers like a forest, squeezing in front of him, roaring, howling, waving their weapons, slashing the spears of the Torture Army stabbing at them in front of them, some of the spears were cut off by the Tartar soldiers, and the pikemen immediately dropped their guns and retreated, and another pikeman took his place, and continued to stab forward with his spear, and the Tartar soldiers were stabbed to the ground by the spears. Some of the Tartars threw their knives and spears in despair before they were dying, and slashed at the faces and bodies of the pikemen on the opposite side, and the pikemen fell down one by one, and then another pikemen would take their place.

The pikemen have always been shrouded in the aura of the musketeers, many times they have no chance to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, they can only watch the musketeers knock the enemy to the ground from a distance, smelling the pungent smell of gunpowder in the air but helpless, for this the pikemen feel a little unfair, they want to turn into the musketeers, but today they have a place to use, the tartars finally braved the rain of bullets of the musketeers today, rushed to their front, then it is time for them to show their bravery.

One by one, the pikemen roared and struggled forward to carry out the stabbing action, they practiced every day is not the queue change, or the same stabbing action, at most, it is the action of stabbing in the run, thousands of times a day to complete such a simple action, has made them form a conditioned reflex, one by one the assassination action is extremely fierce and accurate, they choose the enemy's deadliest and weakest protection of the neck or facial stab, as long as a shot passes, Lightning-like movements do not give the enemy a chance to dodge at all, and they pierce into the enemy's vital point, and their action of pulling out their guns is also extremely fast, a little bit of collection, coming and going like lightning, although the Tartars' individual combat skills absolutely surpass any soldier of the Xingtian Army, but in such a collective battle, they can not display their super combat effectiveness, they can only fight with the spearmen of the Xingtian Army, but they fall behind, and the spears of the Xingtian Army are a little longer than the spears used by other armies, But it's so long, it makes the Xingtian Army take a big advantage, many pretentious Tartar generals, to death can't figure it out, why the opponent is just such a simple assassination action, they can't dodge, if you put a single order, they have more than a hundred ways to kill the Xingtian thief who stabbed them in front of them, but there is no if in this world, when they think of this, they often have a blood hole in their necks or eye sockets and chest and abdomen, The severe pain had made them lose all ability to resist, and they could only scream helplessly and fall in a pool of blood.

Some Tartar soldiers tried to squat down and burrow into the spear forest of the Xingtian Army, and attack these pikemen of the Xingtian Army from below, but after squatting, they found that the sword players of the Xingtian Army who had already squatted under these spear forests were staring at them with extremely cold eyes, and often a Tartar soldier drilled into the spear forest, and a few of the sword players of the Xingtian Army squatted and pounced, stabbing them to death or cutting them down under the spear forest, even if the Tartars were strong and incomparable, they were invincible with two fists. They often could only scream and fall over with the knife, although they also killed and injured some of the sword players of the Heavenly Army, but in the end, they still couldn't cut the legs of those pikemen, and were blocked under the spear forest......