On May 20, the Tiger Ben army attacked Shenyang and confronted 50,000 Tatar Qing cavalry thirty miles outside the city. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Looking at the Tartar standing silently on the wasteland, Xue Sanku asked in surprise: "Grandpa Guo, the Tartar has emptied Shenyang, and even the door panels in the city have been removed, and they are all fleeing to the north, obviously preparing to give up Shenyang." Since Shenyang has been abandoned, why are 50,000 cavalry placed here to fight us? ”

Zheng Kaicheng had just returned from Tianjin to recruit the Liao people's husband, and the back and forth made him a little tired. However, the excitement of conquering Liaodong and recovering the homeland of the Han family supported him, and his mental state was very excited. He put down his binoculars and said, "The Tartars all sent cavalry to fight, it seems that it is to facilitate escape. ”

"Leading the team is Prince Zheng Jierharang!" Li Laosi put down the binoculars and said, "Boss, I see that the Tartars are using cavalry to test our 40,000 recruits. After all, giving up Shenyang is a heart-wrenching thing for the Tartars, and before they completely abandon Shenyang, they must finally test whether our recruits are all capable and strong soldiers. ”

After a pause, Li Laosi said: "If our recruits show their flaws, so that Dolgon feels that there is an opportunity, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Tartar soldiers will flock to eat us clean." ”

Zhong Feng scolded: "The thief is arrogant, no matter what his intentions, just defeat these Tartars!" ”

While the crowd was talking, Zilharan's cavalry began to move.

50,000 cavalry dispatched 20,000, like an overwhelming sea of water, rushed towards the Tiger Army. The sound of tens of thousands of horses' hooves pounding on the ground was like a rumbling thunder.

Li Zhi sneered and put down the telescope to observe the Qing army.

In the face of the cavalry of the Tatar Qing, the Tiger Ben army set up four round-shaped formations. Four Roundabouts were spread out in the direction of the Tartar cavalry, each of which was 10,000 men. The front of each Papering Formation is more than five hundred meters wide.

The 4,000 cold-weapon cavalry under the command of Zu Dashou were arranged in the middle of the formation formation, ready to attack hand-to-hand combat at any time.

Li Zhi brought 300 heavy artillery pieces to be deployed in the army this time. Originally, it was possible to bring more artillery, but considering that the Northeast Great Plain was too vast and the supply support of artillery was too difficult, only 300 cannons were brought in the end. At this time, the cannons were arranged on ten sides on the outside of the four circles, and thirty cannons were placed on one side of each circle.

Three miles away, one hundred and twenty cannons on the front of the four Circular Formations opened fire on the Manchu cavalry.

With a loud bang, the cannonballs shot straight into the mighty ranks of the Tartar cavalry like meteors. Wherever the shells passed, both men and horses were immediately shattered and torn apart, turning into minced flesh. A scream rang out from the ranks of the Tartars' cavalry, and hundreds of gaps appeared in the menacing cavalry ranks.

Zhong Feng laughed out loud when he saw that the tartar had been hit hard.

"Look, Commander, look at those stupid Tartars!"

Li Zhi looked at the excited Zhong Feng and did not speak.

Faced with a round of shelling, the Central Military Department of Zilharang immediately sounded the horn of changing formations. The cavalry of the Tartars suddenly slowed down their horses and began to stretch and widen the tight formation, gradually turning into a sparse formation.

The cavalry of the Tartars rushed a few hundred meters, and the artillery in front of the Tiger Army opened fire again, and another hundred and twenty solid shells were fired at the Tartars.

However, this time, the formation of the Tartars was sparse, and the shells jumped on the ground a few times, causing less damage than the previous round.

The cavalry of the Tartars saw the fierce frontal fire of the Tiger Army, and no longer attacked the front. Only a dozen conch trumpets were heard one after another, and the Tartar cavalry was like a broken sea, divided into two strands, and crossed the front Tiger Army towards the side of the Circular Formation.

Sixty cannons arranged on the sides were fired one after the other.

The solid bullet shoots straight ahead, smashing and smashing all the targets that are unlucky enough to hit it, then bounces off the black earth overgrown with weeds, continues to jump, and then hits the target in front of it. There was a neighing of men and horses in the ranks of the Tartars' cavalry, and it was unknown how many people had died under the sixty solid bullets.

The cavalry of the Tartars rode mightily on the flank, and saw that the Tiger Ben army on the flank was high-spirited, the camp was neat, and the cannons were endless, so they did not stop, and went around in a big circle to the back of the Tiger Ben army's circular formation.

Zhong Feng scolded: "Commander, these Tartars are looking for our weakness!" ”

Li Zhi sneered and said, "You can't let these Tartars come for nothing, you go and let the artillery behind show some flaws!" ”

Zhong Feng laughed and rode towards the back of the Formation Formation.

Compared to infantry, cavalry has extremely high mobility. When cavalry meets infantry, they are free to choose when to fight and from which part to fight. Even if Li Zhi's Tiger Ben Army infantry was armed to the teeth, it couldn't change this natural law when cavalry and infantry fought.

20,000 Tartar cavalry circled the back of the Tiger Ben army, began to bully the riflemen a mile away, and oppressed the Tianjin soldiers guarding there with the sound of rolling iron hooves.

One hundred and twenty cannons on the back fired one after another.

Of Li Zhi's 40,000 soldiers, more than half were recruits who had never been on the battlefield. In order to strengthen the defense of the front, Li Zhi placed more veterans on the front. And the back is more recruited. These recruits were a little nervous under the oppression of 20,000 Tatar cavalry, and these situations fell in the eyes of the Tatar cavalry.

Not only that, but under Zhong Feng's instructions, the three heavy guns behind the Formation were dumbfired. The gunners of the three heavy guns lit the arquebus decently, but failed to fire the cannons.

In the continuous artillery queue that spat out tongues of fire, the three heavy guns of this dumb fire were particularly conspicuous.

The cavalry of the Tartars was fast and mobile, and they could choose when to go to war. But they have a natural shortcoming, which is that they are at a disadvantage as a whole in this war. So sometimes they have to give it a go for even the unlikely chance of winning.

When the Tatar cavalry saw these three dumb cannons, like flies smelling flesh, they became excited at once. These cavalrymen tried back and forth, hoping to find the weak point of the Tiger Army. And these three dumb cannons seem to have been labeled as "poor psychological quality" on the faces of the Tiger Ben Army soldiers on the back of this Circular Formation.

One after another, the trumpets of the Tatar conch sounded, and the 20,000 cavalry, separated by 5,000 men, pounced like a swarm of flies into the area where the cannon was dumb.

Zhong Feng laughed.

"Those stupid tartars!"

The five thousand Tartars thought they had found a weak point, but they didn't know that the artillery dumb fire was Li Zhi's performance, and they hit an iron plate. After a year of hard training, Li Zhi's Tiger Army recruits don't know how many times they have fired guns and how many cannons, even if they lack actual combat experience, they will not be soft in front of the Tartars.

The 5,000 Tartars were greeted by the shotguns of thirty guns. Nearly 10,000 shotgun projectiles erupted violently, dominating the area in front of the Circle like a deadly cloud of smoke, as if it was about to destroy everything.