Section 335
The three associations of the Fengzhou auxiliaries lined up in a line, and they were hard to block the frontal attack, and the auxiliaries did not have reservations like the battalion soldiers, and let go of their hands and feet to fight to the death, and the troops were fiercely attacked as soon as they approached the trench, and they were immediately killed and wounded everywhere. Under the rain of arrows in the sky, the trench in front of which was seven or eight feet deep and nearly two zhang wide seemed to have become the only hiding place, the soldiers gritted their teeth and jumped into the trench, and the thunder and thunder that cut their heads and covered their faces fell again, and between the thunder and lightning, a wolf howl sounded in the trench, and before the soldiers covered in blood crawled out, the people behind stepped on their heads, and the layers of people pressed up and filled the trench in a short time.
At first, the Qing army also used a rain of arrows and guns to cover the surrender of troops, but the opponent's artillery had a long range and great power, and kept hitting the cannons, while the Qing army's artillery could not reach the opponent's battery, so they could only watch the accomplices in front of them be beaten. The Qing army was reluctant to lose troops in vain, so they simply gave up the assist, hid behind and used bows and arrows to drive the soldiers to rush forward wave after wave - the unarmored soldiers rushed to death, who cared about their life or death, the Qing army was more willing to drag the people of the Guannai who dragged their families to Liaodong to farm, and the soldiers were young and strong, single, and it was too cheap to let the Ming Kingdom go, and they were afraid of making trouble in the future when they were brought back to Liaodong, and they were the most worry-free when they died.
The guns and arrows of the Fengzhou soldiers fought desperately, as if there was too much money to spend, no, the money spent by Erlu seemed to be earned from our pockets - Dolgon and Du Du, who supervised the battle at the front, were still chatting with their hands behind their backs, turning a blind eye to the life and death of the surrendered troops, and they did not lack guns in their hands, but they were reluctant to use them. Most of the firearms of the Qing army were bought from Fengzhou, and the price was clearly marked, and they loved to buy it or not, and they were clearly told that the goods sold to them were definitely not comparable to the tattered Ming Kingdom, and they were better and cheaper than the Qing Dynasty itself, but they were definitely much worse than the Fengzhou Army's own use, and if they did not cherish it, something would happen. The family background of the Qing Dynasty is not rich, it is not easy to spend money to buy some good things, and Fengzhou resolutely does not sell gunpowder, and high-end goods like guns still have to be saved.
"Prince Rui, the Fengzhou soldiers are fighting fiercely on the front, why don't we attack from their right flank?" Du Du cautiously suggested.
Dolgon thought for a while, shook his head and replied: "I mentioned it, Abatai said that the artillery of the Fengzhou army is powerful, and their infantry army is also generally horse-based, and they move extremely quickly, and the entire front is spread out to fight, we may not be able to bargain, forget it, just according to Abatai, we asked the minions to take turns to withdraw to rest and eat, and it should be our time in the afternoon, let the troops fight first, anyway, we didn't prepare their lunch." ”
The troops fought for a morning, tired and hungry, and their legs and feet were weak, but there were Qing soldiers behind them who threatened them, and it was impossible to retreat or escape, so they had to move forward, and at this time they were more like lambs to be slaughtered. There is no threat of long-range strikes, the Fengzhou auxiliaries fight easily, the spearmen don't even want the cover of the formation wall, and wait for the surrender directly in front of the trench in a horizontal formation, and stab one to death when they come up, and the officers do not let go of this rare opportunity for actual combat training, regardless of citizens and immigrants, let the soldiers take turns to come forward to kill people and see blood, and those who retreat are seized to drink water and eat dry food, everyone knows that the surrender is just cannon fodder, and the real war is not far away.
Just after half an hour at noon, the Qing army sounded the rapid attack horn, tens of thousands of Qing troops marched forward in a neat array, the front was still the Eight Banners Xianding, the Liaodong Han people took the lead, and the back was the elite of the Eight Banners with helmets and armor, swords and guns, dozens of camp cannons and leather cannons lined up in front of the big array, followed the army after a round of salvo and continued to advance, and then the rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun was also shot to the opposite side, the Fengzhou army immediately returned fire with artillery and bows and arrows, and the whole battlefield suddenly boiled, the sound of guns and cannons continued, and the arrows came and went like shuttles, The troops caught in the middle were so frightened that they hid in Tibet, and at this time the war really began.
"Dongyu finally came up, ordered the auxiliaries to retreat, and the battalion soldiers immediately went up, took out the new gadgets made by the Ordnance Division, and beat Ben Shuai hard!" Du Wenhuan slapped the table table excitedly, grabbed a big knife and walked out of the big tent, and a group of personal soldiers followed him murderously.
While putting on his armor, Mao Yuanyi shouted to his own soldiers: "Quickly report to the commander, the main force of the Qing army is engaged in a frontal battle." ”
The Qing army attacked in a big way, and only half of the auxiliary soldiers in armor immediately suffered a sharp increase in casualties, Zhang Mengcun and Tuoyangkun each lined up their own Central Association and Right Association, and slowly retreated while resisting stubbornly, but the military flag of the Left Association did not move at all, and the soldiers still fiercely returned fire to the Qing army with guns and bows and arrows.
"The doglegs of the Qing court have come up, if you want to find death, you can fulfill them, brothers, if you are not afraid of death, follow me!" Wang Fang held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, shouted a few times and rushed towards the Qing army, and the brothers of the auxiliary soldier Zuo Xie responded in unison, scrambling to follow behind.
Zhang Mengcun naturally wanted to help his old comrades-in-arms of the Civic Party, and immediately ordered the Quanxie to turn around and kill the Qing army. On the battlefield, the two torrents are opposite each other, unstoppable, and the troops have nowhere to hide, but their minds are sober - the Qing army does not give them enough food, and forces them to die, this is the enemy of life and death, since you don't let me live, I will also pull you to die, the shout of "kill Jiannu" quickly sounded, and the four or five thousand soldiers who were still alive suddenly burst out with amazing courage, shouting and rushing to the Qing army behind them, at this time the bows and arrows, guns and cannons were no longer terrible, they only wanted to cut off the enemy's head before dying.
The battlefield situation is chaotic, the troops and Fengzhou soldiers who fought all morning suddenly merged, and pounced on the Qing army together, many of the Eight Banners had fought, and the armor and weapons were also complete, and they could still calmly respond to the battle in the face of chaos, but the Han people in Liaodong were all Nikans who farmed the land, and the family couldn't stand the famine before they came out to eat a mouthful of food, and the hand of the hoe was not good at playing with the knife, and it was okay to indiscriminately fill the number in the team, how could they dare to fight hard with the red-eyed opponent with real knives and guns, and the heart was weak and involuntarily retreated, and the large array of the Qing army was chaotic.
Most of the soldiers of the auxiliary Left Association were Datong refugees, who entered Fengzhou late, had few training and poor weapons, but they were instilled with a whole set of ideals of the Civic Party to liberate the whole world, and dared to play with their lives when they started a war, regardless of life and death, they rushed forward against the rain of arrows and guns of the Qing army, and a group of people went up immediately after they fell, and rushed to the front of the Qing army in one breath. Wang Fang found that the Qing army was chaotic and could take advantage of it, and shouted loudly, "Light the fire, throw the thunder in the sky", and then hundreds of hand-thrown thunder smashed to the top of the Qing army's head like raindrops, the hand-thrown thunder was not very lethal, but the sound was earth-shattering, the Qing army was blown up in fear, and the Eight Banners idlers could not hold on, and fled backwards with the Han people of Liaodong. Victory was in sight, the morale of the Fengzhou auxiliary soldiers was greatly boosted, and they rushed up to chase the Qing soldiers and slash and kill, and the troops suddenly found that the Qing army was not invincible, and it was possible to survive if they continued to fight, and they gritted their teeth and followed the Fengzhou soldiers to beat the water dogs.
Dolgon was furious, and ordered the artillery salvo to block the onslaught of the Fengzhou army, dozens of fires flashed, and the cannons quickly crashed into the crowd, and the Qing army's miscellaneous soldiers and Fengzhou soldiers were knocked down. The elite of the Eight Banners took advantage of the situation, and the large array of 20,000 people slowly moved forward, constantly shooting forward with a dense rain of arrows, and the hand-thrown thunder bought from Fengzhou also returned to the Fengzhou army, and the Fengzhou auxiliaries were like hitting the iron plate, and they were no longer able to move forward, and at this time, the Fengzhou battalion soldiers also came up, and the elites of the two sides faced each other to start a big battle.
"Load the shotgun and kill these Fengzhou thieves." Du Du rushed to the front of the queue to urge the artillery to shoot, the distance between the two sides is getting tighter and tighter, one more shot will take away a few more lives from the other party, this camp cannon is very competitive, knocking down the Fengzhou soldiers on the opposite side, Du Du took advantage of it, and immediately ordered to clean up the gun chamber and shoot again, but he didn't know that the other party was also eyeing his camp gun.
The Fengzhou army did not push the cannon to the front of the battle, but carried a lot of little guys - tiger squat cannon, light and flexible, can throw cannons to attack the city, but the power is too weak, initially rejected by the Fengzhou army up and down, Shi Lao Liu made the flowering bomb, the Ordnance Department began to develop a portable weapon suitable for field warfare projectile flowering projectiles, the old-fashioned tiger squat cannon re-entered the field of vision, several tests were good, to the Terracotta Division to apply for the distribution of battalion soldiers, Sun Tingyao saw that the money was not much to approve casually, and the order was also given to the lack of fist products Xinghe Iron Factory. This kind of thing is simple to manufacture, easy to build in large quantities, and extremely light weight, two or three people can carry it and run, the battalion is easy to carry, now the infantry cavalry, guns and artillery battalions are equipped with a lot, the headache is that the flowering bomb is more complicated, Shi Laoliu's ammunition factory has limited output, and there is not much allocated to the battalions, everyone is generally reluctant to use it, Du Du is lucky, and he will soon be able to get a few.
The left battalion of the infantry front association and Du Du faced each other, and suffered two rounds of artillery bombardment by Du Du in a row, killing and wounding more than a dozen people.
"Hao Heizi, what are you messing with, Lao Tzu is dead, call me immediately!" Tie Biao, the former deputy co-commander of the association, rushed over and yelled, the left battalion is his old army, can he suffer casually? Hao Heizi is just too stupid, if he doesn't return to the Sichuan army, this battalion officer won't be able to take his turn.
Hao Shaoqi was afraid of Tie Biao, so he took a group of soldiers to set up the cannon, and then lit the fire rope, and after a loud noise, five large iron balls with smoke flew out with a roar, Tie Biao snorted, and pulled out the iron whip and rushed towards the Qing army.
Du Du looked at the iron ball above his head and was not afraid at all, and pointed to a few minions and scolded, isn't it just a tiger squatting cannon, I have already seen it from the Ming army, I can make do with smashing the city, I can't beat people, hehe, it fell under my feet, there is no-Du Du didn't finish laughing, a red light flashed, and he flew out.
Dolgon was pressing the formation behind, closed his eyes sadly, finished, the highest level martyr of the Great Qing Kingdom was born, and when he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that Du Du's face was bloody and got up again - the power of gunpowder is limited after all, no matter how Shi Lao Liu ponders, the thunder and flowering bombs he made can only blow up the flesh and skin, Du Du is wearing heavy armor and is unharmed, but his face is blooming.
Du Du was almost mad, kicked away the guards and Aha around him a few times, and rushed towards the Fengzhou army with a scream, and ran into the murderous Tie Biao head-on, and the two immediately judged that the other party's identity was not ordinary, and the knives and whips intersected and hit together, and the subordinates on both sides immediately fought together. Tie Biao and Qin Hu, Yuan Lie and called the "Fengzhou Three Madmen", don't want to die, can't wait to get the result of the opponent immediately, whip after whip smashed, Du Du has been a lifelong Belle Lord, never seen this kind of fierce man, hard to take a few whips and can't parry, was swept away by Tie Biao's whip helmet smashed to the ground, the guards rushed to Tie Biao, two Aha took the opportunity to lift Du Du and run. Hao Shaoqi rushed to help in the battle, killed all Du Du's guards, and sealed the cannon door of the camp cannon.
The elite strength of the Eight Banners is strong, like an iron gate to block the impact of the Fengzhou army, after stabilizing the position, they began to use the advantage of troops to launch a counterattack, Hou Shijie and Sun Shoufa commanded their respective infantry front associations and infantry left associations to fight to the death in dense formations, and the deputy co-commanders of the two associations, Tie Biao and Qin Hu, personally led the team to launch a counter-attack, and Yuan Lie of the middle battalion of the left association also came up, and the "three madmen of Fengzhou" all appeared on the stage to fight, and the two armies attacked each other, and the sky was dark and the blood flowed like a river.
Jin Guoding led two battalions of infantry soldiers to rush up to help the battle, and fired a continuous salvo at the Qing army, and the Qing army was not to be outdone, concentrating all the infantry guns in their hands to shoot, and in the smoke, the sound of infantry shooting was round after round, and both sides were killed and wounded everywhere. Liu Shuangxi and Zhou Wang were red-eyed, and ordered to charge with a sword, and the Qing army immediately suffered a big loss - Fengzhou sold it to the Qing country, but it was never worthy of the sword, this kind of long and thin, extremely sharp little thing in the Qing Kingdom just can't do it, you can't tie a big knife and hammer on the gun, the Qing army infantry had to throw the knife to draw the knife when the Qing army infantry soldiers fought hand-to-hand, this was too passive, Fengzhou infantry soldiers pounced on the first hand, and stabbed the Qing army's infantry hands down a piece, the Qing army's hand-to-hand combat soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly pressed forward to help the battle, The hand-to-hand fighters of Toyosu immediately pounced, and the two sides stabbed each other with spears, and they were at a stalemate with each other.
The Fengzhou soldiers are too strong, and the Eight Banners soldiers can't take advantage of the slightest advantage by fighting more and less, and how many people will be left to go home after this battle-Dolgon was anxious, but he couldn't think of a way to break the enemy, so he hurriedly found Abatai and asked him to find a way to hurry up.
"What's the hurry, Elu's soldiers are not the Ming army, how can they be so easy to deal with, just fight for a while." Abatai was very calm, but his eyes kept looking at his right flank, which was where he cared most.
On the right flank of the Qing army, the Qing army's infantry and cavalry did not abandon and cooperated closely, and the soldiers faced a strong enemy united as one, fighting to the death and did not retreat. Li Yu became more and more anxious, this Haoge was too cunning, holding tens of thousands of cavalry but could not shrink, but close to the infantry array, Fengzhou iron cavalry attacked its infantry formation, the Qing cavalry attacked from both wings, Fengzhou iron cavalry attacked its cavalry, and the Qing infantry attacked from the front, and the infantry of the infantry cooperated tacitly, not giving the Fengzhou army any opportunity to take advantage of.
One mistake, step by step passive, Li Yu helplessly played a clumsy trick to lure the enemy, first sent Sun Fuhu to the battle to insult the Qing army for cowardice, and then sent Darhan to openly lure the Mongols with Chagan Sulu ingots, as long as the Qing cavalry left the infantry formation one mile away, Li Yu planned to separate it at any cost, but Hauge was not fooled, and even more than 200 Mongols surrendered in battle, and he was not moved, so angry that Li Yu scolded Hauge for being a wreck - in fact, Li Yu should scold the Qing Emperor, his old man always likes to compare his own son with his godson, Often scolded Haoge for being too stupid, not even as good as one of Erlu's toes, Haoge is sincere, and he takes it for granted that he is not as good as a toe of his good brother when he is scolded a lot, and he never hopes to defeat Li Yu or take advantage of Li Yu, this battle is also not for merit but for no fault, Li Yu squatted on the side, and also hoped to trick Haoge into being fooled, which was purely in vain.
Li Yu like a tiger in front of the prey around, but can not find a chance to speak, after noon, the frontal battlefield of the military reports continue to come, the elite of the two armies all appeared on the stage to fight, has fallen into a stalemate battle of corpses and blood, at this time the Qing army's right flank can be successfully attacked will determine the success or failure of the entire battle, the cavalry generals have asked to launch a strong attack.
In the past few years, I have been accustomed to fighting against the wind, and I am too light on the enemy, and I have to bear a huge price to deal with a strong enemy like the Qing army, and now I can only take my brothers to fight bloody-Li Yu glanced at the soldiers and made up his mind.
"The cavalry rear association blocked the enemy cavalry on the flank, and the cavalry right association, Chahar battalion, Khalkha battalion, and Oirat battalion followed me to attack the Qing army's infantry formation. Li Yu waved his hand and ordered, and then the generals turned around and got on their horses, raised their horse lances high and led the Flying Tiger to gallop away.
The attack horn of the Fengzhou army sounded, hundreds of guns were fired intensively, and the heavy armored soldiers in the front row of the Qing army's infantry formation were constantly knocked down, and the tiger squat cannon threw flowering shells into the Qing army's large array at the same time, killing the opponent's light armored soldiers and unarmored soldiers, and the Qing army's artillery and infantry also quickly returned fire, and the two sides fired at each other with firearms, and thick smoke billowed from the front of the battlefield.
The cavalry right line into a dense cavalry formation, slowly pressed forward, the Qing army's arrow rain covered the sky and the sun flew in, constantly someone was hit by arrows from the horse, the heavy cavalry while returning fire with horses, while beginning to accelerate, the front of the fire flickered, the Qing army has been chaotic, there is their breakthrough.
"Speed, speed, crush them!" Meng Ke held a riding spear in one hand and a horse gun in the other, constantly calling his subordinates, the Qing army was getting closer and closer, the opponent's wall had been blown down, the spearmen in heavy armor were constantly knocked down by the horses, and the living were tightly huddled together and raised their spears to the iron horse.
The battalion officer Li Xuan used a cavalry spear to suppress a spear that pierced it, and stabbed the cavalry spear into the opponent's stomach with the horse's momentum.
"Brothers, come with me!" Li Xuan shouted, then quickly abandoned his spear, pulled out his sharp axe and cut down a Qing army, and the rolling heavily armored iron cavalry poured into the infantry formation, trampling the Qing army's foot soldiers over.