Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VIII Troubled Times

Chapter 3 The two armies confronted each other in Ningyuan

Section 4 The Brave Wins (1)

It didn't take long for the 130,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army to stop under the nervous gaze of the Jiannu army, and at this time, the 280,000 troops of both sides were separated by two miles, and they all began the final preparations before the war at the same time.

Liu Yunwei looked at the endless army of Jiannu in the distance, his heart was full of anger and hatred, but his mind was becoming more and more sober, and he was not blinded by hatred.

So, after observing the formation of the Jiannu army, Liu Yunwei said to Wu Xing, Gao Hongguang, and Li Tianhao, who came to wait for the order: "Wu Xing, the general of the trapping camp, led his troops to defend the middle road, Gao Hongguang, the general of the Yingyang battalion, led his troops to defend the left flank of the army, and Li Tianhao, the general of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, led his troops to defend the right flank of the army; Ben Governor led the pacesetter battalion as a counterattack force in this battle! In this battle, our army must repel the Jiannu army at all costs! ”

Wu Xing, Gao Hongguang, and Li Tianhao led the order in unison: "The last general will be ordered!" ”

It didn't take long for the 130,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army to begin to change formations, and the soldiers of the whole army quickly formed four huge phalanxes, and the three huge phalanxes composed of the soldiers of the trap camp, the Yingyang battalion, and the Yueqi battalion were in a zigzag formation at the front, and the soldiers of the pacesetter battalion were ready to launch a fierce offensive against Jiannu at any time.

At the same time, Nurhachi also issued an order to change the formation of the 155,000 army under his command: Nurhachi concentrated 40,000 Han troops in front of the army, and used them as the vanguard of the whole army, preparing to consume the strength of the Han Wei army to the greatest extent; Behind the Han army were 20,000 Mongol cavalry led by Oba, preparing to attack the middle of the Han army after the Han army attacked; Behind them, there are two white flag armies led by Huang Taiji and Azig, and Nurhachi is ready to use these 30,000 troops as the absolute main force to defeat the Han Wei army, and lay the foundation for the victory of this battle in one fell swoop; In terms of defense, Mang Gurtai led the army with the blue flag to guard the left flank of Jiannu, the army with the yellow flag guarded the right flank of Jiannu, and Nurhachi led the army with the yellow flag to sit in the middle army.

As for the thousands of Ming defenders in Ningyuan City, they were no longer able to go out of the city to fight, and under the repeated blows of hundreds of thousands of Jiannu troops, the defenders in the city were already on the verge of collapse, and they had lost the courage to go out of the city to fight. What's more, there is an army of 10,000 led by the traitor Sun Sike outside the city, which has completely blocked the possibility of the defenders in the city participating in the battle.

Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui looked at the more than 200,000 troops outside the city who were adjusting their formations, and their hearts were surging, and they couldn't wait to personally lead the army out to participate in this great battle.

Man Gui said excitedly: "Lord Yuan, I think let's send an elite from the city to participate in the battle, there is a superintendent in front of the bloody battle with the Jiannu army, let's kill from behind The odds are very good!" ”

Yuan Chonghuan shook his head and said, "How many soldiers in the city can go out of the city to fight now?" In the battle of more than 200,000 people, the thousands of soldiers and horses in our hands will not play a role, and if we don't do it, it will be self-defeating and lose Ningyuan City, then the gains outweigh the losses! ”

"But my lord, now that the Inspector and the soldiers of the Hanwei Army are fighting outside to build slaves, are we just here watching and indifferent? In the future, what kind of face will we continue to listen to under the superintendent's account! ”

Yuan Chonghuan looked at the Jiannu Great Array two miles away from the city, suddenly thought of something, and said excitedly: "Of course we can't watch from the wall!" Send the order down, concentrate all the artillery in the city on the south city wall, and after the battle starts outside the city, let's give Jiannu a salvo of 10,000 cannons! Even if you can't kill many Jiannu, at least you can hit the morale of Jiannu and disturb the morale of Jiannu! ”

Man Gui was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately led his subordinates to get busy, and the defenders in the city suddenly became lively.

An hour later, the Hanwei army and Jiannu have already adjusted their respective formations, the large formations of both sides are very strict and murderous, under the scorching sun, the armor and blades of hundreds of thousands of armies on both sides are shining, making people dizzy.

Liu Yunwei looked at the Jiannu Great Array in the distance, thinking of the terrible things that Jiannu had done in Liaodong, a pair of tiger eyes almost erupted into flames, and roared: "The artillery battalion of the whole army immediately bombards the Jiannu Great Array!" ”

The trumpet and flag of the Hanwei Army danced again and again, and the four artillery battalions, which had already been concentrated at the front of the army, the Trap Battalion, the Yingyang Battalion, and the Yue Cavalry Battalion, responded to the flag one after another, and took over the command of the front of the battle. ”

At the same time, the 130,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army began to hit the ground rhythmically with the weapons in their hands, and the earth began to tremble with loud noises, and the huge sound spread throughout the battlefield, and the morale of the Hanwei Army was greatly boosted.

"Gale! Gale! Gale! ”

After the whole army roared in unison, Edward roared with all his strength: "Ready! Put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

In just an instant, the heavens and the earth were shattered, the sun and the moon were gone, and a total of 120 large Buddha cannons from the four artillery battalions fired a salvo at the same time, and the smoke and dust raised by the artillery immediately shrouded the artillery battalion position and disappeared without a trace; The thick smoke of gunpowder spread, and the soldiers of the Hanwei Army were set off like heavenly soldiers and generals, looking mighty and extraordinary.

Under the uninterrupted blow of one hundred and twenty big Buddha cannons, the 40,000 traitor army array blocking the front was smashed out of dozens or hundreds of "blood alleys" in an instant, and the corpses with broken limbs and arms and soaring into the air were everywhere, stimulating the fragile nerves of those traitor soldiers, and the entire large array could not continue to be maintained at all, and it collapsed directly after a while. And Bao Chengxian and Tong Yangxing, who led the army, also did not have the demeanor of a general at this time, and they were all frightened to the point of being full of courage and urine, and directly left their subordinates who had collapsed into an army, and fled towards the Mongolian army in the rear under the protection of their own soldiers.

Nurhachi looked at the Han Wei army that kept firing artillery, and looked at the tens of thousands of Han troops that had been defeated before the battle, and the anger in his heart had accumulated to the extreme, he never thought that the tens of thousands of Han troops would be so unbearable and useless!

"Spread my will, order the deputy general Bao Chengxian and the deputy general Tong Yangxing to hold their positions, if they do not do it, I will be severely punished!"

Immediately afterwards, Nurhachi continued: "Order the third Bel Mang Gurtai to lead the army with blue flags to attack the right flank of the Ming army, test the reality of the Ming army, contain the strength of the Ming army, and create a favorable situation for the army in the middle route!" ”

It didn't take long for Bao Chengxian and Tong Yangxing, who had received Nurhachi's strict order, to return to the chaotic battlefield with a dead face, and began to try their best to gather the soldiers and horses under their command, intending to reorganize the battle formation. However, in the face of the continuous artillery fire of the Hanwei army, how can those traitor troops who sell their ancestors for glory resist it? Bao Chengxian and Tong Yangxing's efforts are just useless work after all.

In the end, the 40,000 Han army completely fell apart under Nurhachi's angry gaze, and the front of the two armies was full of Han troops running for their lives. Subsequently, in order to prevent the Mongol army from being affected by the rout, Nurhachi issued an order to kill the rout of the charging army, and began the massacre of the traitor army together with the Han Wei army.

Poor Bao Chengxian and Tong Yangxing saw that they were powerless to return to the sky, so they could only return to the Chinese army with a desperate face and ask Nurhachi for their guilt, and then they were reprimanded by Nurhachi and left aside to listen to the tune.

At the same time, Mang Gurtai led an army of 15,000 with blue flags and began to charge, rushing towards the large array of Yue cavalry battalions stationed on the right flank of the Hanwei army.

Seeing this, Liu Yunwei ordered the artillery battalion to stop the shelling, and at the same time the Huzun cannon and the Shenji cannon were prepared to prevent the Jiannu army from attacking the middle of the army; After that, Liu Yunwei didn't care about the battle situation on the right flank, he just stared intently at the movements of the main army of Jiannu.

The battlefield of the right flank of the Hanwei Army.

General Li Tianhao saw the 15,000 army of Jiannu with blue flags from afar, and his heart was extremely excited, and he immediately shouted: "Brothers, go to war!" Kill the Tartars! ”

More than 30,000 soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion roared in unison, and the first battalion garrisoned Jianghang and the second battalion garrisoned Jing Baoshan even led their guards to the forefront, ready to kill Jiannu with their soldiers; At this time, Jiang Baizhan, the garrison of the C Battalion, had already led more than 6,000 soldiers of the C Battalion to line up in front of the army, forming a horizontal formation of more than 2,000 soldiers in three rows and each row, and thousands of fine bird guns pointed straight ahead.

The cavalry battalion garrison Wei Wuhu was left in the Chinese army by Li Tianhao, and did not let the cavalry battalion soldiers attack immediately, it seems that Li Tianhao is preparing to let the cavalry battalion soldiers as a counterattack force.

In the blink of an eye, the army with the blue flag slaughtered a hundred steps in front of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and Jiang Baizhan, the garrison of the C Battalion, roared angrily: "The front row squats, and the middle row sinks!" Salvo! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

More than 6,000 fine bird guns fired at the same time, and a wall of death formed in front of the army with the blue flag, and instantly smashed into the army of iron cavalry with the blue flag, and a large number of Jiannu soldiers were hit and fell to the ground, and the offensive of the entire army was immediately weakened a lot, and the forward of the army became extremely chaotic in the blink of an eye.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Baizhan, the garrison of the C Battalion, immediately led the soldiers of the C Battalion to retreat into the formation and stand by, while the Jiang Hang garrison of the A Battalion and Jing Baoshan of the B Battalion roared angrily with 12,000 melee soldiers, countless heavy spears pointed diagonally at the sky, and countless long knives were raised high, and the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion were ready to kill Jiannu.

After the initial chaos, the army with the blue banner recovered under the strict orders of Mang Gurtai and once again slaughtered the Yueqi battalion.

The bloody battle between the two sides is about to begin!

At this moment, under Nurhachi's strict orders, Tushetu Khan Oba of the Korqin Department gathered all his troops and rushed towards the middle of the Hanwei army. 20,000 Mongolian iron horsemen rushed forward, and the momentum of the army was really different from the previous traitor army.

"Warriors! The artillery of the Ming army could no longer shoot, rushed forward! Kill all those Nikans! ”

Just as Oba led the army to attack, Huang Taiji and Azig also led the two white flag armies to slowly activate, preparing to cover up and kill when the Mongols attacked the Hanwei army's large array.

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more urgent, Liu Yunwei did not panic at all, but said lightly: "The artillery battalion is ready, and the divine cannon is fired!" ”