Huang Taiji also thought that the muskets of the Liaodong army were bird guns, and they also captured some of them, which were much more troublesome to use than bows and arrows, and the power was not much stronger than bows and arrows, and they couldn't even penetrate light armor at a slightly distance, so they rarely used them, and they also disdained these Liaodong troops who used bird guns.

As for artillery, what is there to be afraid of if one cannon kills a person's artillery, even if the Liaodong Army has 200 artillery pieces, at a distance of one mile, they will fire two artillery at most, three or four hundred people, and he will still die, as long as he rushes up, 20,000 Liaodong foot soldiers are not as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

With such an idea, he did not hesitate to lead the army to launch a charge, he thought that his side could rush in with a maximum of one or two thousand casualties and take care of the 20,000 foot soldiers of the Ming army, and then outflank it from behind, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry would not last long.

He had a good plan, would Yuan Chonghuan follow his ideas?

At the beginning, Yuan Chonghuan was indeed very cooperative, everything was like dealing with the Mengyuan cavalry, until the Houjin Iron Cavalry approached about a mile in front of the grain and grass cart before he ordered the artillerymen to open fire, this tiger squat cannon on both sides of the point, there are a hundred left, a hundred fist-sized cannonballs can kill a hundred people, for nearly 30,000 Jin Tie Cavalry, it is nothing at all.

Huang Taiji found that everything was indeed as he imagined, when approaching the Ming army for about a mile, there was a roar of artillery, and the hundreds of people fell in response, and the others had nothing to do, and when they approached a hundred steps, a rain of arrows struck, and the forward raised his shield to block, and it did not cause many casualties.

It's just that this rocket is indeed a bit annoying, although it didn't kill a few people, but the entire forward team was smoky, and it was impossible to see the situation of the Ming army on the opposite side at all.

Just as he was triumphantly about to rush into the Ming army's array and kill, Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand and said coldly: "Musketeers, shoot in turns, archers, all throw, don't stop." ”

"Papapapa", a puff of bullets struck, and the light armored cavalry in the front row suddenly screamed again and again, at least four or five hundred people fell off their horses in response, and hundreds of people also bared their teeth in pain and were about to crumble.

Huang Taiji was taken aback, what was going on!

Before he could figure it out, "pop papa", another round of bullets struck, this time with the five or six hundred people who had just been injured and fell down, even if their light armor had a certain defensive effect, the bullets were blocked, otherwise, their casualties would have at least doubled.

"Papapa" another puff of bullets flew over, this time, the three rows of cavalry in front of him fell more than half, a bullet just hit his armor, "ding" a muffled sound, the bullet hit the armor, the bullet disappeared, he looked down, the armor was smashed out of a small pit,, what kind of gun is this!

This is troublesome, the Ming army's musket is at least twice as powerful as the bird's gun, and the light armor can't stop it at all.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the vanguard with the white flag is only about fifty paces away from the grain and grass cart of the Ming army, and it can rush past in the blink of an eye.

However, in the blink of an eye, a dark cloud of arrows in the sky was covered with black pressure, which were arrows and bullets, and where could the army of white flags in front of him carry it, and before they could go further, they would all fall a large piece.

This is just the beginning, Yuan Chonghuan saw that Jin Tie was less than fifty steps away from the grain and grass cart, and immediately ordered: "Order, all sword and shield hands, throw guns!" ”

Seeing the waving flag, the sword and shield hand behind the grain and grass cart quickly thrust the saber into his waist, picked up the throwing gun placed on the car, and threw it outward.

With a suffocation, more than 2,000 throwing spears of about half a zhang flew out from behind the grain and grass cart and went straight to the Houjin Iron Cavalry in front.

At this time, most of the people and horses with white flags in front of them fell, and even the yellow flags in the back were affected to a large area.

"Boom, boom", just at this moment, the roar of artillery rang out again, and hundreds of people were smashed into the blue flag behind.

At this time, the front of the Ming army's grain and grass cart was really a rain of bullets, Yuan Chonghuan proudly looked at the people in front of him on the back of the golden iron horse, and shouted in his heart: "Come on, come again, there are still good things waiting for you!" ”

Huang Taiji is so angry, this has not rushed to the front of the Ming army, the left wing of the four banners have lost thousands of men and horses, he saw that the front is less than twenty steps away from the enemy's grain and grass cart, and he can't help yelling: "Rush, rush up and kill them all, avenge the dead soldiers." ”

Yuan Chonghuan seemed to hear Huang Taiji's roar, he sneered, and ordered again: "Order, the sword and shield hand throws the thunder." ”

When the sword and shield bearers in the front row saw the flag waving, they immediately threw the throwing guns in their hands back into the car, took out fist-sized thunderbolts from the wooden boxes on the car, put them on the torches that had already been lit, and then waved them to the front of the formation.

Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment, and countless fist-sized iron bumps flew out from behind the grain and grass cart of the Ming army, which were about the same size as the cannonballs of the tiger squat cannon, but the speed was very slow, and at most it would be smashed out of a bag when it smashed people.

What does it mean to be embarrassed with cannonballs?

Before he could figure out what was going on, the shells suddenly exploded, and the soldiers with white flags who rushed in front suddenly howled, and the people turned on their backs.

Boom! Huang Taiji suddenly appeared such a term in his mind, they actually belonged to the Ming army sequence before, and naturally heard of the thunder, but the Ming army has not used the thunder for decades, and it is estimated that it will not be built, why did so many thunderbolts suddenly appear at this time?

Arrows, bullets, throwing guns, thunder flew over like rain, the casualties of the Eight Banners became more and more serious, finally, the white flag forward crossed the distance of the last twenty steps, rushed to the front of the Ming army's grain and grass cart, many people stretched out their spears, and wanted to pick up the grain and grass cart in front of them, as a result, "click" There was a chaotic sound, I don't know how many spears were broken, but the grain and grass cart did not move.

What the hell is going on, a commander with a yellow flag curiously pulled out his saber, split the "grain bag" and looked, lying in the trough, what kind of sun-dried grain was inside, it was all black soil, this kind of soil, a sack is afraid of hundreds of catties, a car of more than ten bags is thousands of catties, even if more than ten people work together, they can't pick it!

Seeing this, Huang Taiji's eyes were about to crack, how to fight this, if he couldn't break through the barrier of the grain and grass cart, he could only be attacked by arrows, bullets, throwing guns, and thunder outside, which was simply sent to death!

Yuan Chonghuan held the telescope and looked at Jiannu's surprised expression in the array, and almost looked up to the sky and laughed, Jiannu would pick up grain and grass carts, he naturally thought of this a long time ago, so he specially found some soft and heavy black mud sacks in burlap bags, a bag of at least more than 300 catties, a cart is nearly 5,000 catties, let you pick, guns will be broken for you!

At this time, Huang Taiji already knew that he was given yin by Yuan Chonghuan, and people did not come to help in a hurry, but had been preparing for a long time, and came to Yin him.

It's a pity that the heavy infantry was sent by him to the front line of the southeast coast of Liaodong to guard against Mao Wenlong, and he couldn't come at all for a while, so he could only roar unwillingly: "Withdraw, withdraw quickly." ”

With a bang, the Houjin Iron Horse, who had already been killed, retreated backwards like a tide, leaving only corpses all over the ground.

By this time, the battle on the other two sides had long since ended.

The Mengyuan cavalry had not yet engaged with the Guanning Iron Cavalry and ate a round of throwing guns, tens of thousands of throwing spears flew over like raindrops, thousands of people in the front row were suddenly pierced into hedgehogs, and the people who followed in the back row were also knocked over on their backs, and they were chaotic in an instant, Zu Dashou led the army to rush up and slash, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the Mengyuan cavalry collapsed, leaving a corpse and fleeing north.

Dolgon's side is not much better, he is behind Huang Taiji, but he runs faster than Huang Taiji, when a piece of throwing guns flew out behind the grain and grass cart, he understood, this is completely a battle without any chance of winning, starting from entering the range of the Ming army's artillery attack, the Ming army is almost step by step, if the grain and grass cart in front of him has no tricks, he doesn't believe it, so he didn't let people rush to the grain and grass cart, and directly ordered to retreat!

Yuan Chonghuan looked at the figure of the Houjin cavalry going north in a hurry, with a sneer on his face, the Houjin Iron Cavalry, known as invincible in the field, is nothing more than that, in front of the layers of gunpowder weapons, they are just an ornament, he has found the trick to defeat Jiannu, that is, to develop gunpowder weapons, not one, but many kinds, from far to near, it is best to make Jiannu difficult to move an inch, in this way, no matter how many iron horses they have, it is useless.

Of course, this is not the time to think about this, this battle is not over, this field encounter can only be regarded as a beginning, the Houjin coalition army is still surrounding Xining Fort, and the key to the final decision is still Xining Fort, only by defeating the Houjin coalition army and lifting their siege of Xining Fort, this battle can be regarded as a victory.

If you stop there, let Houjin occupy Xining Fort, capture or even annihilate the 20,000 foot soldiers led by He Kegang, then this battle will be a failure, a complete failure!

So, how many enemy troops did you kill in this encounter?

Yuan Chonghuan really didn't know this, around them, there were corpses everywhere, and if they didn't count them well, they didn't know how many enemy soldiers they had killed.

There are always thirty or forty thousand corpses all over the ground, Yuan Chonghuan roughly estimated it, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Order, order all foot soldiers to set off as a team immediately and rush to Xining Fort." Ordered Ancestor Dashou to lead Guan Ning Iron Cavalry to inspect the battlefield, kill all the Jiannu who were not dead, and then followed. ”

The herald ordered the guards to disperse, and soon, the foot soldiers gathered together and slowly headed north, while the Guanning Iron Cavalry scattered in all directions and spread to the entire battlefield, but whenever he saw Jiannu who was still panting, he did not hesitate to go up to make up for it.

At this time, Huang Taiji can be said to be extremely annoyed, he really didn't expect that the Liaodong Army would suddenly become so powerful, he was indeed defeated by Yuan Chonghuan in the battle of Ningjin, but it was someone who defended him and attacked, this time it was someone who attacked him to defend, why is the result still the same?

Is it because he has no city to defend?

This doesn't seem to be the key, the Houjin Iron Cavalry is invincible in the field, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry guarding the city is not yet powerful in the wild!

Thinking about it, the biggest reason seems to be on firearms, originally he really didn't like firearms, the battle of Salhu, the battle of Shenyang, the battle of Liaoyang, the Ming army all had firearms, and it was not the same as being beaten by them.

However, this defeat completely turned his view of firearms upside down, and he finally realized that as long as the power of firearms is increased a little, or the number of firearms is a little larger, it can also determine the victory or defeat of a battle.

The development of history is often because of the ideas of some key figures.

For example, in history, the Later Jin and Mites Qing did not pay attention to the development of gunpowder weapons, because they defeated the Ming Dynasty with gunpowder weapons with cold weapons, so, in their opinion, gunpowder weapons are dispensable, so they have not paid attention to the development of gunpowder weapons, so they were beaten by the powers with advanced gunpowder weapons and had no power to fight back.

At this time, Huang Taiji seems to have realized the importance of gunpowder weapons, but the trajectory of historical development has changed, since the Ming army can defeat them with gunpowder weapons, then they still have a chance to replace the Ming Dynasty and dominate the world?

Of course, these are all later words, the battle of the Liaohe River is not over yet, and it is still early for Daming and Houjin or Mites Qing to distinguish the winner and loser.

Huang Taiji led the rout army all the way to the north, and returned to the camp outside Xining Fort in less than half an hour, at this time, the foot soldiers of Meng Baqi and Han Baqi were building wooden bridges under the leadership of Dorobel Abatai, filling in the trenches, although Xining Fort was roaring artillery, but could not stop the pace of the Houjin coalition army, when Huang Taiji came to the front of the formation, there was only one trench left to block the advance of the Houjin army!

Huang Taiji looked at Xining Fort in the distance, sighed helplessly, and ordered: "Order, let Abatai stop the attack, immediately return to the camp to pack up the camp tent, and prepare to retreat." ”

He also has no choice, the reconnaissance cavalry came to report, Yuan Chonghuan is leading 20,000 foot soldiers to slowly advance to this side, although the Guanning Iron Cavalry is still cleaning up the battlefield, it is only a matter of time before they catch up, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry and Mengyuan Cavalry under his command have been defeated for the first time, their morale is low, and they have long lost their heyday of combat power.

What's even more terrifying is that in this battle, he lost more than 20,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry, and Mengyuan Cavalry didn't even fight 20,000, that is to say, the total number of cavalry under his command was only more than 50,000, which was about the same as the number of Guanning Iron Cavalry, and besides, Guanning Iron Cavalry was not much worse than Houjin Iron Cavalry.

As for the foot soldiers, the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Meng and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are cannon fodder, compared with the Liaodong Army, even if there are 100,000 of them, it is for nothing, just the 20,000 foot soldiers led by Yuan Chonghuan can fight, and they can't find the north.

That is to say, whether it is a cavalry or a foot soldier, now he is at a disadvantage, if he really wants to fight, he has no chance of winning at all, if he does not retreat at this time, let alone when!

He Kegang in Xining Fort was naturally ecstatic when he saw the hasty retreat of the Houjin Coalition Army, but he didn't dare to make any moves, because he only had 20,000 foot soldiers under him, and he was not anyone's opponent at all.

Is this a victory?

Yuan Chonghuan couldn't believe it, how hard it was to fight with Jiannu before, but this time, he won so easily!

In fact, this is not surprising at all, because the advantage in weapons, especially the advantage of gunpowder weapons, is irreversible, just like when the Qi family army faced the Japanese Invaders, the superiority in weapons made them face the Japanese Invaders as if they were chopping melons and vegetables, annihilating more than 100,000 Japanese Invaders, but their own casualties were only more than 1,000 people.

Such a myth seems to have been continued here in Yuan Chonghuan, this battle, the Liaodong Army of 100,000 people advanced into the Liao River, facing the 200,000 army of Jiannu, and successively annihilated more than 60,000 enemies, but their own casualties were less than 10,000!

This battle, known as the Liaohe Victory in history, Yuan Chonghuan has achieved a brilliant victory again since the victory of Ning Yuan and the victory of Ning Jin, and the prestige is not the same for a while, but this is not necessarily a good thing for him, because the heroes of the late Ming Dynasty generally ended badly, and the more they made great achievements, the more they will attract the attention of the remnants of the eunuch party, and the loyal and good people who were brutalized by the eunuch party are not one or two.

The Apocalypse Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty are so strange, for loyal ministers and good generals, a great victory often means a catastrophe, because the eunuchs cannot tolerate these meritorious ministers to "compete for power and profit" with them in the court!

Yuan Chonghuan escaped the catastrophe last time with the help of Zhang Bin, can he still be so lucky this time?

At the end of this volume, let's see the next volume break down.