On November 3, Lu Xiangsheng and Li Zhi's military horses arrived in Gaoyang County and encountered Qing troops all the way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Qing army on that road was about 15,000 people, and the Chinese army was holding a golden dragon silk and besieging Gaoyang County. The trap potholes outside Gaoyang City have all been filled by the chariots of the Qing army, and the defenders in Gaoyang City are struggling to support them, and the city will be broken in only one or two days. Lu Xiangsheng's reinforcements came just right, and a few days later, he would have to collect the corpses of the defenders in the city.

Seeing more than 20,000 Ming troops killed, the Qing army besieging the city reluctantly abandoned Gaoyang City and set up a formation under the city to meet the Ming army.

Over the years, the Qing army rarely missed against the Ming army, and often a thousand Qing troops could chase two or three thousand Ming troops. Although the Qing army under the city was only more than half of the Ming army, they obviously thought that the Ming army was vulnerable and useless.

Li Zhi grabbed a few Tartar prisoners, pointed to the Qing army banner in the distance and asked them, "Which Qing army is that?" ”

The general translated Li Zhi's Chinese into Manchu, and the captives looked at the Qing army flag in the distance for a while, and replied, "That's the banner of Rao Yu Bel Abatai!" ”

Li Zhi asked again: "How many vests does Abatai have and how many step armors?" ”

The prisoners said: "Now that the Qing soldiers are all divided into the three major battalions, the soldiers and horses will be divided from the battalion to the commander of Baylor as needed in wartime, and the troops are all temporarily divided, we don't know how many vests and how many infantry armors are in the soldiers and horses along this road!" ”

Li Zhi asked his subordinates to give these Tartars a few whips, and whined these Tartars alive until they were dripping with blood and screaming in pain. However, these Tartars shouted a whimper, but they still did not change their words.

Only then did Li Zhi let these Tartars live and let the soldiers take them down to take care of them.

Li Zhi rode to Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army, and Lu Xiangsheng and the three general soldiers were discussing the enemy's strategy against the map. Seeing Li Zhi coming, Lu Xiangsheng said happily: "General Longhu has come just in time, we are dividing the flanks and discussing how to arrange to defeat this Qing army!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while, and then asked: "General Longhu has captured a large number of prisoners, can these prisoners know who the Qing generals on the other side are?" ”

Li Zhi arched his hand and said: "Confession alive, the leader of the Dongnu opposite is the Rao Yu Belle Abatai of the Dongnu!" ”

"It turned out to be Abatai!" Wang Pu said loudly: "I heard that this Abatai is considered brave and good at fighting in the Tartar clan, but because his mother is from a low background, he has always only been crowned a Baylor, not a king. ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "The opposite side is led by Abatai, but it can't be underestimated, it's a tough battle." ”

Li Zhi arched his hand and said: "The last general is willing to attack the right flank of the Tartars for the east flank!" ”

When the other commanders saw Li Zhi's invitation, they also said: "I am willing to guard the right side of the army for the western wing." ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "Okay, then I will lead the standard army as the Chinese army!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, let's go into battle to kill the enemy!" You are all noble and generous people, and you are repaying the grace of the mighty emperor at this time! ”

Yang Guozhu and the others shouted loudly: "Oh! ”

The crowd returned to the formation, and the soldiers put on their armor, grabbed their bows, and entered the battle mode. The 25,000 Ming soldiers and horses were like a huge machine, slowly moving and arranging a formation.

Li Zhi rode on a horse to observe the Lu Xiang Shengbiao barracks, and felt that the 4,000 soldiers were also quite strong, and at first glance they were veterans who had seen blood. Most of these soldiers wore cotton armor inlaid with iron plates, and each one held a large sword, and his eyes were determined.

These soldiers are all professional soldiers who eat soldiers' salaries, and when it comes to the ability to fight and kill, they are not under Li Zhi's Tiger Soldiers. Even against the same number of Qing troops, these soldiers could hold out for a while.

Of course, compared to the Tiger Division, which used rifles and cannons to kill the enemy, their combat power was very bleak.

Li Zhi rode in the middle army of the Tiger Ben Division and called Zheng Kaicheng over.

"You led two thousand four hundred soldiers and horses to guard the westernmost flank of my Huben Division, bordering the Governor's standard army. You let the 1,000 men and 200 men closest to the Governor's army put their Tartars a hundred paces away before shooting, and don't let the Governor discover that our rifles can shoot a hundred and forty paces! ”

"The remaining 1,200 men are a few hundred paces away from the governor's soldiers and horses, and the governor can't see clearly, so he can open fire at one hundred and forty paces!"

Zheng Kaicheng said suspiciously: "It takes a hundred steps to fire, what should I do if the firepower is insufficient?" ”

Li Zhi said: "Don't be afraid, I will arrange fifty artillery pieces in your formation, and when the time comes, I will bombard the Tartars with shotguns, where will the Tartars withstand it?" ”

Zheng Kaicheng replied at this time: "The subordinates obey the order!" ”

Li Zhi nodded and let Zheng Kaicheng arrange it. The fifty cannons of the Xuanfeng Regiment soon heard the order and were deployed in Zheng Kaicheng's army, scattered among the various companies.

As soon as the team was arranged, Li Zhi saw Lu Xiangsheng's military command flag unfurled in the distance, and Lu Xiangsheng ordered all the armies to advance and force the Qing army under the city.

Li Zhi also raised the command flag and the whole army advanced.

The Tartar army saw that the Ming army was pressed over by the left, center and right, and also met the left, center and right. Seeing that there were many people on both flanks of the Ming army, Abatai put 6,000 men on the west flank and 6,000 on the east flank, leaving only 3,000 men in the middle lane. Challenging Li Zhi's eastern flank of the Ming army were the 6,000 soldiers on the eastern flank of the Tartars.

Li Zhi raised his binoculars and looked over, and saw that those Tartars were all riding horses, about a quarter of them were horse armor, a quarter of them were foot armor, and the remaining half were auxiliary soldiers.

The Tartars jumped off their horses in front of the battle and stepped forward to fight. The Tartars are a fishing and hunting people, and although there are many horses, they are best at foot combat. Whether it is a Tartar spearman or an archer, the fighting power under the horse is far stronger than when it is on the horse.

However, they didn't understand that Li Zhi's side was full of firearms, and the slow sprint speed of the infantry would turn the two hundred meters in front of the formation into a Shura hell.

Li Zhi asked the whole army to form a horizontal formation in four rows of depth, preparing to shoot in four rows.

Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army sounded the horn of attack, and the various armies marched forward and killed the Abatai army under the city. Not to be outdone, Abatai's 15,000 Qing troops also sounded their horns and pressed on the Ming army.

At a distance of 600 meters, 500 meters, and 400 meters, the two armies approached quickly.

Three hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, the Tartar rushing over in the distance was already very close, and Li Zhi could already see the Tartar's hideous expression clearly with the naked eye. The Tartars seemed to despise the Ming army in front of them, howling and rushing up, many of them even with a cruel smile on their faces.

Li Zhi's 140 six-pounder guns opened fire.

One hundred and forty guns spewed tongues of fire and fired fourteen thousand shotgun projectiles at the ignorant Tartars.

The lethality caused by these shotgun projectiles is devastating.

As soon as the cannon rang out, a storm of blood and water immediately broke out in front of the Tartar formation. Fourteen thousand projectiles swept through the front row, piercing the bodies of the Tartar soldiers, with or without armor, and making holes. Their bodies, the armor they thought they were proud of, were as fragile as pieces of paper in front of a shotgun. Passing through the body of the first row of Tartars, the Shotgun projectile can even kill one Tartar and then continue to pierce backwards, killing the second Tartar in the back row.

The blood and water were like a sea of flowers blooming collectively in June, blooming violently in front of the Tartar array, one by one, connecting into a face, like a red picture of a splendid cluster of flowers, but it took the lives of a thousand Tartar soldiers in an instant.

Thousands of Tartar soldiers in the front row fell at once, fell to the ground, screaming or not screaming, dead or groaning. Scraps of limbs were everywhere, and fragments of intestines and various organs were scattered on the ground. Blood poured out from the corpses, flowing out of the lowlands in front of the formation, merging into countless streams.

The Tartar in the back was stunned at once.

Is this war? It's a massacre! (To be continued.) )