Volume 11 Chapter 37 A fierce battle in the snow set the northern frontier

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, the sky and the earth are vast, and everything in the battlefield is gradually blurred, as if God can't bear to see the tragic battle between the living beings, so he has to cover his eyes with pure snowflakes.

However, this battle must be won or lost, between the Ming and Manchu two old enemies must have a fall to this ancient land in order to return to peace again, perhaps the infantry of the Ming army just happened to be in place, or perhaps the general who commanded the battle seized the opportunity, just when the snowflakes blurred the vision, the infantry of the Ming army finally began to charge.

How to say the charge of the Ming army, one word, chaos, no rules, no formation, chaos without a little law, just like a straggler.

At this moment, Huang Taiji's heart has sunk to the bottom, once the Ming army rushes up, he is basically finished, but giving up is not his habit, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will fight for it, as long as he insists, persists, and persists, maybe a miracle will appear!

Seeing that the Ming army began to charge, he did not hesitate to order, all artillery began to bombard non-stop, no need to aim, no need to adjust the position, anyway, it was not accurate, just use scattered bullets to bombard the front!

There is no accurate number of how big the range of the scattered bomb attack is, but most of the scattered bullets of a gun will fall within a radius of about ten zhang, which is the conclusion reached by the joint test of the Ming Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War countless times, that is, as long as the artillery does not adjust its position, even if it is a scattered bullet, its landing point is roughly fixed.

This how to avoid all kinds of artillery shells The Ming army officers and soldiers often practiced, so, except for the first round of artillery of the Qing army, which caused more serious casualties, each round of bombardment in the back almost did not hit anyone, and the Ming army actually twisted around when charging, and just avoided most of the attack area of scattered bullets!

As long as you observe carefully, of course, you can avoid it, and you can see that the snow in front of you is all bombarded within a radius of ten zhang like a pockmarked face, and you still step on it, looking for death!

When Huang Taiji reacted and wanted to order the artillery to slightly adjust the angle of each shot, it was already too late, the Ming army had already rushed to within two hundred steps, and unless the artillery was erected and bombarded into the sky, the shells would not fall so close.

The Ming army suddenly had a rule again, and I saw them quickly lined up in rows and rows, one after another, rushing over like waves, and the bullets did not stop like water, and they were denser than the snowflakes in the air!

What kind of platoon guns, segmented shooting, stacking waves these Huang Taiji will naturally be, Daming's "Infantry Drill Code" is written in detail, as the defending side naturally chooses sectional shooting, he immediately organized the remnants of the infantry, stood in rows and rows, and began to shoot in sections.

At this time, there is nothing fancy to play with, the large-scale shootout in the black powder period is like this, you come in a row and I am in a row, you come with a shot, and even if you are shot, you will not necessarily die, it depends on who can hold out to the end.

This is the so-called queue shooting, both sides are lining up to send each other to shoot, if you are lucky, then congratulations, you are acting as the executioner who executes the shot, if you are unlucky, then you can only deduce the death row prisoner who was shot.

The total number of infantry on the side of the Ming army is about 140,000, and it was shelled by the Qing army, and there were about 10,000 casualties, which means that there are more than 130,000 infantry of the Ming army who rushed to Huang Taiji, and the infantry of the Qing army originally had 100,000, but nearly half of them were killed by Zhu Cijiong's unconventional artillery charge, and now there are only more than 50,000 people left.

130,000 against 50,000, and a small half of the Ming army is equipped with a revolver rifle that can be fired continuously, and occupies an absolute advantage in firepower, it stands to reason that Huang Taiji should admit it at this time, but he is still insisting, but those who have great achievements are extremely tenacious in their hearts, and they will never give up until the last moment, and Huang Taiji's achievements in history are still very large, so he is not the kind of person who gives up lightly.

Like the last time in Liaodong, what a desperate situation, first by the little emperor Zhu Cijiong defeated and lost, and then the old king and eight grandsons Chengzong built the fortress to his doorstep, almost everyone thought that he was afraid that it was going to be finished, but he did not give up, but took all the clansmen to a big move, crossed the mountains and mountains to the Mongolian steppe, and it didn't take a few years to recover to the heyday!

This time, the reason why he is still insisting is naturally to expect a miracle on the cavalry side, so what about the situation on the cavalry side?

If he can see the tragic situation of the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry with his own eyes, it is estimated that he will not insist anymore, purely in terms of the number of cavalry, it is indeed the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition army that occupies a certain advantage, because the Ming army plus two supports has a total of only 180,000 cavalry, while the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry add up to 200,000, but the gap in weapons and equipment is so large that it cannot be made up by 20,000 people.

The cavalry of the Ming army are equipped with revolver rifles, and before they rushed to the front, the bullets were like rain, and the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition soldiers turned over on their backs, of course, the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces were not without the power to fight back, their riding skills were very good, they knew that they were attached to the back of the horse or even the horse's belly to avoid the bullets, and they also had bows and arrows, and they could use bows and arrows to fight back after a burst of bullets, which could indeed cause a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

However, the rain of bullets is just an appetizer, and the waves of grenades after the Ming army approached are the real killer features, that grenade is a range attack, it's useless for you to hide anywhere, and even the war horses have to suffer from the torrential rain with them!

Therefore, before the two sides collided together, the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces had basically suffered more than half of the casualties, of course, this casualty does not count those who were pierced by steel needles in the hands or legs, because they can still fight, if this is counted, then they have basically been wiped out!

After the official start of hand-to-hand combat, the Qing cavalry on the left flank was relatively tenacious, 50,000 or 60,000 people and 100,000 people of the Ming army were entangled together and did not immediately show defeat, and the Mongolian cavalry on the right flank was not good, 50,000 or 60,000 people did not hold out for long in the face of 80,000 Ming troops, and they were quickly defeated, but they were quite able to escape, and immediately after being defeated, they scattered and fled like an explosion, which really wasted a lot of time for the Ming army on the right.

The reason why the Qing army on the left can still fight with the Ming army is mainly because there are many masters among them, such as Dolgon, Azig, Duoduo, Daishan, Yuetuo, Jierharang, Aobai, etc., etc., except for Huang Taiji, almost all of them came, and they have a very bad habit, that is, they like to besiege and beat the main generals of the Ming army, although Cao Wenzhao and Qin Gongming are also a few masters in the Ming army, but everyone was beaten by three or four masters, they were not killed It is already good, then there is still kung fu to command his subordinates to fight.

However, this situation was completely reversed with the arrival of Cao Bianjiao and Zu Dabi, these two goods are mainly not enjoyable to kill, no way, the Mongolian cavalry on the right is almost a touch of collapse, they have just cut down a few Mongolian generals, the enemy will slip away, which makes them extremely unhappy.

What should I do if I am not happy? Anyway, there is nothing to do, they are not interested in chasing and suppressing deserters, and they don't have to do it themselves to clean up the battlefield, so they just go to the left to help, so Dolgon and others are tragic.

It is really impossible to measure how fierce these two people are, because the historical data is incomplete, the only thing recorded is that Zu Dabi once beat the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Ten Thousand Army Array to look for teeth, and Cao Bianjiao, Zu Dabi once tried to compete with him, but he was beaten all over the ground looking for teeth!

With the arrival of these two fierce generals, the Qing army on the left finally collapsed, and according to the original plan, Qin Gongming hurriedly gathered 50,000 cavalry and rushed to the infantry battle area.

Huang Taiji's long-awaited sound of horses' hooves finally sounded, listening to the rumbling sound, at least tens of thousands of cavalry rushed over here, he couldn't wait to take out the binoculars and look away, the sun and moon dragon flag, it is the Ming army!

The only hope was shattered, he finally despaired, looking at the Ming infantry attacking like a cloud, he painfully said to the guards around him: "Put up a white flag, surrender!" “

A fierce battle finally ended, and the goose-featherlike snow slowly covered the entire land, and the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty was settled!