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Li Zicheng continued to walk forward along the trenches dug by the fifth battalion, and sure enough, there were many auxiliary trenches communicating with it, extending to the direction of the seventh battalion, in case the Jurchen cavalry broke through the defense line of the fifth battalion, these trenches themselves were obstacles for war horses, and it was difficult for the Jurchen cavalry to pursue and kill the infantry of the fifth battalion in the first time!

Although the trench was not deep, it was as wide as one foot and two, which not only facilitated the passage of soldiers inside, but also hindered the rapid advance of the enemy cavalry.

The soldiers were hiding in the trench to bask in the sun, some were sleeping, some soldiers were in groups of three or five, chatting about all kinds of interesting things, there was no panic and fear before the big war came, maybe this is what they said had accumulated self-confidence, right?

Everywhere Li Zicheng went, the soldiers hurriedly got up, knelt in the trench and kowtowed.

This is really not good, he was originally here to boost morale, but he didn't expect to interfere with the rest of the soldiers.

What if He Xiaomi was sent to inspect with his own soldiers?

Li Zicheng quickly denied it, he wanted the soldiers to understand that he was on the front line, always standing with the soldiers, and fighting was not only risky, but also an opportunity to make meritorious contributions!

He barely walked through the entire trench before he returned.

After another day, the rangers came to report: "The Jurchen cavalry has drawn its camp and is coming west, and in about an hour or so, it will enter the position of the Heavenly Mandate Army." ”

The camp of the Jurchen cavalry was only forty miles away from the position of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and the rangers found that the Jurchen cavalry was coming from the camp, so they rushed back first, and had to delay for a while, so that they might come over in less than an hour.

Li Zicheng got out of the big tent and began to set up in front of the battalion, and the infantry of the fifth and seventh battalions immediately all entered their respective positions.

The cavalry also took action, this time he did not arrange an ambush, the key is a horse Pingchuan place, except for Dam Mountain, it is difficult to find the location of the ambush, in such a Pingchuan place, it is very suitable for cavalry battles.

Li Zicheng did not have much confidence in his own cavalry, and was reluctant to suffer casualties, so he would not arrange a cavalry decisive battle, he guarded the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry on the left and right sides of the infantry position, and the cavalry of the second battalion and the Watabu department were only responsible for pressing the formation in the rear, and they did not need to appear unless in case.

"Da Da Da ......"

The sand and dust are rolling, the sound is shocking, the appearance ceremony of the Jurchen cavalry, it is quite shocking, the soldiers are forward, the momentum is pressing, the armor is dazzling, and the pennant covers the sky and the sun......

Two or three miles in front of the Mandate of Heaven Army's formation, the Jurchen cavalry stopped, knowing that the Mandate of Heaven Army had artillery, and they didn't dare to get too close.

Dolgon stared at the Kyushu military banner in front of him, with infinite hatred in his heart, it was this kind of military flag that caused him to lose thousands of elite cavalry.

The nine stars on the military flag seemed to be blinking their eyes, and even smiled at him, but this smile was more vicious than mockery, and he couldn't stand it.

Dorgon spat at the opposite side, and then looked away, his thousands of cavalry were already in formation, and the white flag he led was in the middle, on the left was Haug's yellow flag, and on the right was Yueto's red flag.

The more than 1,000 Mongol cavalry of the Ibrimidzaheqi bandits, and the 800 left-wing Mongol cavalry of Tashhai and Huluk Zhaisang, can only hide at the end of the rank, and compared with the Jurchen cavalry, they can only be regarded as second-class cavalry!

Yue Tuo first glanced at the infantry of the Heavenly Mandate Army in front, they were hiding in the trench and couldn't see clearly, but the cavalry on the two wings was only three thousand, which was less than his own side, "Uncle Fourteen, are you going to attack now?" ”

"Hmm!" Dolgon nodded subconsciously, since he came, it is impossible to withdraw again, waste horsepower in vain, no matter what, fight first and then say, even if you can't win, you have to know how sharp the firearms of the Han people are, "Yue Tuo, let Tashhai and them fight together, I'm worried...... There were too few cavalry in the Ibrimidzaheqi bandit to effectively shake the position of the Celestial Mandate Army. ”

"Uncle Fourteen is right, you can try the firearms of the Han people, and the battle will end soon!" What Yue Tuo was afraid of was not the frontal infantry of the Heavenly Mandate Army, the Han infantry who dared to fight with the cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom in the field should not have been born yet, but the thousands of Han cavalry on both wings gave him a headache...... The combat effectiveness they showed yesterday seemed to be stronger than that of the Han cavalry in Liaodong.

It is really difficult to completely annihilate them in one battle, so they can only be slowly consumed.

How did the Han train cavalry?

He had a bad feeling that if he wanted to defeat the Han army, he was afraid that it would not be a matter of time!

Dorgon looked at Haug on his left, but Haug looked ahead, pretending not to see.

Hum! Dolgon snorted coldly in his heart, and decided not to ask Hauge's opinion anymore, anyway, he was the main general, and he had the decision-making power of the war, so he didn't have to ask him for advice on everything.

When he returned to Shengjing in the future, he would report to the Great Khan and impeach him for disobeying military orders.

Dolgon nodded to Yuetuo and motioned for him to convey the military order, and Yueto hurriedly sent his personal guards to the rear of the team to convey Dolgon's military order.

The sound of horses' hooves and the raising of sand and ashes, approaching two thousand Mongol cavalry, from both sides of the Jurchen cavalry, overtook the past and quickly approached the position of the Mandate of Heaven.

"Drive!"

When Tashhai passed by Dorgon's side, he whipped sharply, increasing the speed of the war horse to the maximum as soon as possible, this was the first time he had served the Dajin Kingdom since he returned to the Dajin Kingdom, and his heart was even more excited than the soldiers.

A smile bloomed on Dolgon's face, and the unhappiness just now was swept away, "This Tashhai, it's really impatient, fortunately let him participate in the first wave of attacks, I hope he won't let me down!" ”

On the front position, the soldiers of the fifth battalion of the Mandate of Heaven have already made all preparations, the bullet is loaded, the rifle is in hand, one finger is hooked on the trigger, as long as the finger moves slightly, the bullet will fly out, they are already aiming, just waiting for the cavalry on the opposite side to enter the firing range.

Zhou Bin has been staring coldly at the Mongolian cavalry roaring, in order to face the enemy with peace of mind, he insisted on "driving" Li Zicheng out of the battlefield, and asked him to go to the second line of defense to wait for the good news with peace of mind.

As usual, the gunners were divided into three groups, each of which was more than a thousand people, and once the fire was fired, it was almost non-stop, trying to block the passage ahead with firepower.

Before the gunners fired, there were also mountain artillery, and the Mongol cavalry had already entered the effective range of the mountain artillery, but he never gave the order to open the artillery.

Closer, closer, the cavalry on the opposite side is only two thousand, as long as they are on the battlefield, don't be ready to turn back, these may not be the main cavalry, but leaving these two thousand cavalry is also a great drain on the strength of the Jurchen cavalry.

If the Jurchen cavalry swarmed up, it would be difficult for 3,000 gunners to completely annihilate the Jurchen cavalry on such a wide terrain, God forbid, the Jurchens only sent 2,000 cavalry to make a tentative attack, this is the opportunity of the fifth battalion, the opportunity to completely annihilate the enemy cavalry.

The gunners were already impatient, such a long distance was the best range for mountain artillery, and if the cavalry wanted to assault again, it would soon enter the blind spot of the artillery, and the distance was too close for the artillery to play a role.

The herald kept looking at Zhou Bin's gesture in front of him, however, Zhou Bin was like a statue, standing under the Kyushu flag, and he didn't move.

The gunners could only adjust the angle and shorten the range of the mountain artillery, as long as Zhou Bin conveyed the order, the mountain cannon would be effective at the first time.

Eight hundred steps!

When the front of the Mongolian cavalry was only eight hundred paces away from the position of the fifth battalion, Zhou Bin finally gave the order to open fire.

The gunners immediately loaded and ignited, fired the first flowering shell as quickly as possible, and then adjusted the direction and angle of the barrel according to the landing point of the flowering shell.

"Boom...... Long ......"

Twenty flowering bombs, almost at the same moment, drew rainbow bridges in the air, and the speed was amazing.

When Tashhai had just seen the "lines of fire", the flowering bombs had already landed and exploded in the crowd.

The Mongolian cavalry was very dense and did not need to be adjusted at all, and the flowering bullets flew out, and the landing point was either the cavalry, or the gap between the cavalry.

Near the bomb drop point, there were first deep craters, and then there were flames, mixed with blood and mutilated corpses.

After the wounded soldier fell from his horse, he covered his ears or wounds while rolling and screaming, magnifying the cruelty of the flowering bullet......

Tashhai was stunned for a moment, even in the city of Kadang, when the Mongols and Han Chinese were stumbling, he had never seen this kind of artillery, near the point of the bomb, death, severed limbs, screams, and the sudden appearance of a deep pit......

Maybe it's because the sandy soil is relatively soft, and the landing point of the flowering bombs has been blown out of a deep pit, and the war horses behind have no time to dodge, most of them are turned over on their backs, and the soldiers are dead or wounded, and they can only be handed over to God!

He hesitated for a moment, but when he looked closely, there were not many casualties among the soldiers, "As long as you dodge well, maybe the power of the artillery is not so great......

What's more, Dolgon was in the rear, and everything he did was seen by Dolgon.

Could it be that the Mongol cavalry would have been deserters from the battlefield? This little danger......

Tashhai quickly convinced himself, he whipped at the war horse again, this time he whipped very hard, as if all the fault was due to the war horse under the crotch, "Warriors, don't stop, rush, as long as you get close to the position of the Mandate of Heaven, the artillery will be useless......"

Near the landing point of the flowering shell, many Mongolian soldiers were shocked to the ears, but the cavalry only stopped for a short time, and under the personal leadership of Tashhai, a new attack began, and the screams of the wounded soldiers were covered up by the horses' hooves......

"Boom...... Long ......"

Another wave of artillery bombardment, the landing point was still in the cavalry thicket, but this time it did not frighten them, except for casualties and falling horses, the Mongolian cavalry simply ignored this sound, one by one lying on the back of the horse, only hoping that the landing point of the flowering bullet was far away from themselves.

But the sound of the explosion of the flowering bomb was still too loud, and the war horses could not selectively forget the sound and fire like the soldiers, and some of the war horses were frightened and ran rampant directly in the crowd, and the team was chaotic.

Tashhai and the others tried their best to finally control the war horse, but after this pause, the speed of the cavalry slowed down significantly, and they had to start a new round of acceleration.

Zhou Bin looked at the scene of the people in front of the formation turning over on their backs, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, but the speed of the cavalry was still too fast, and in a blink of an eye, the front of the Mongolian cavalry was only four hundred steps away from the position!

He decisively waved the order flag and gave the gunners the order to shoot.