Chapter 24: Working Together

Looking at Du Du's young face, Zhang Dou smiled. Dudu! Nurhachi's grandson, even a banner of soldiers was handed over to him, which shows Nurhachi's liking for him.

With Du Du in hand, Zhang Dou has a powerful hole card in his hand. Although this hole card was not enough to make Nurhachi give up the pursuit of the Ming army, it could still play a very big role at some critical moments.

Qin Shi listened to Du Du's words, and his expression was also in a trance. This is the biggest figure captured by the Ming army since the war with the Houjin!

He looked at his brother in surprise, this ability, this luck is too against the sky! His own white pole soldiers fought and died on the north shore for a morning, and more than 2,000 casualties were not as great as Zhang Dou's one-time attack.

Zhang Dou smiled and asked the second question: "What are you going to do next?" ”

"I don't know!" As soon as Du Du finished speaking, he found that Qin Shi's face had changed, and he hurriedly explained: "Really! The Khan ordered us to attack with all our might, and not let you evacuate the northern shore. There really is no other order left, really! ”

Zhang Dou didn't add, "Really? ”

"Really! That's right! In the morning, the Khan also sent people to gather all our warriors to Shengjing, and to wipe out all the Ming and Ming armies on the banks of the Hunhe River. "Now Dudu has completely succumbed, he is still only an 18-year-old child. I almost told the dog that was hanging on my lips, but fortunately he reacted quickly and took it back.

Just now in charge of the white flag, this battle of the Hunhe River is thinking of killing the enemy like his father and becoming a hero in the clan. But who knew that the first war encountered the white pole soldiers.

He finally joined forces with the other banners to defeat the white pole soldiers, and he was chasing and killing! met Zhang Dou, a pervert. As a result, it was still a small fresh meat Du Du cup, and three of his limbs were broken, and he suddenly became a cripple.

This blow was too big for the young man, and he was disheartened and no longer wanted to be a hero or make a contribution. He just wants to live, and he is willing to do anything as long as he can live.

Zhang Dou just asked who he was, and he really asked a big news. He hurriedly said to Qin Shi: "Brother! Hurry across the river and go and tell Deputy Marshal Qi Jin that the Jurchens have concentrated all the armor soldiers. It is not invincible, and it is only right to withdraw to Liaoyang as soon as possible. ”

Qin Shi agreed and nodded. Then he asked, "Brother!" What about you! When to cross the river? ”

Zhang Dou hesitated and said, "Brother, you go first!" I still have to resist here for a while, otherwise the Jurchens will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and the forward battalion will be finished. ”

Qin Shi looked at Zhang Dou's face with a somewhat lonely expression. He seemed to know Zhang Dou's choice, and just now his father said the same thing, let him go first.

He was a little annoyed, why do you all think of yourself as children? Why do you always let yourself go first when there is danger?

Why?

Why?

Do you really look like a coward? Are you so greedy for life and afraid of death?

No! It can't be like this! Don't run away for the rest of your life!

If you want to stand up like a man, even if you are broken, you will not hesitate to do so.

Thinking of this, Qin Shi turned around and went to arrange for the wounded soldiers to cross the river. At the same time, Du Du was also brought to Chen Ce, with Du Du Chen Ce there was an excuse to withdraw the troops, hoping that the last elite of the Ming army could escape the annihilation of the whole army!

At this time, the Jurchens attacked. They already knew the strength of the Ming army's chariot formation, and they used cavalry to attack the chariot formation without coming up. Instead, he used the shield car humidification quilt as a defense, intending to get close to the car formation, destroy the car formation with a knife and axe, and then kill it in hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing the Jurchens pushing the shield cart approaching little by little, Zhang Dou immediately ordered the gunners to prepare and target the Jiannu shield cart. When the Jurchen shield car entered the range of three hundred steps and the Franc cannon, Zhang Dou decisively ordered "Fire!" ”

For a while, bursts of white smoke rose from the chariots, and cannonballs rained down on the Jurchens' shield carts.

Zhang Dou's forward battalion was an all-firearms unit, with 12 large and small Franc machines and 26 tiger squat guns. The Franc has the fastest rate of fire among these guns, and it only takes him more than 20 seconds to fire a shell.

This rapid-fire cannon consists of a mother gun and nine sub-guns, which are loaded with gunpowder and projectiles in advance before the war. Once the war starts, you can save time to reload. You only need to take off the beaten sub-guns and replace them with new ones, and the speed can be described as a storm.

It's just that due to the poor level of craftsmanship in this era, the sealing of the child and mother guns is not good. It leaks air when fired, so it doesn't have a long range and can only be used as a secondary artillery, but such a gun is a very powerful firearm when used to attack foot soldiers.

And the Tiger Squat Cannon is not so much a small artillery as a large musket. It weighed only 40 pounds, was only two feet long, and its whole body was tightly bound by seven iron hoops to prevent it from exploding.

Its range is only about 100-150 steps, and it can fire 100 small lead bullets or 2 catties of iron pellets at a time. It is a small mortar-like cannon that is extremely lethal to foot soldiers.

Therefore, the shield car used to deal with the Jurchens this time was mainly based on the Franc machine, supplemented by the tiger squat cannon. Use the Franc machine to smash the Jurchen's shield car, and then use the tiger squat cannon to kill and injure the Jurchens behind the shield car.

As the Jurchens approached, the artillery of the forward battalion became more and more accurate. Just on the way to the forward camp of 100 steps, the Jurchens lost more than 30 shield cars, and the Jurchens behind the shield cars were also killed by tiger squatting artillery.

Under artillery fire, the Jurchens finally approached a hundred paces of the forward battalion. Half of the shield cart had been lost, and the remaining shield cart was no longer enough to protect the Jurchens behind, and the remaining Jurchens fled back in a swarm.

Nurhachi looked at the defeated soldiers who had fled with a gloomy face, and he ordered the first 50 to be beheaded. Now he was furious, and his heart was very irritable.

These defeated soldiers are unlucky to hit his hands, he can't care about anything else, his beloved grandson was captured by the Ming army, and his life and death are unknown, how can he not be in a hurry!

Then he gave the order to take turns to attack the Ming army's car formation without stopping. We must drive this Ming army down the Hunhe River, seize the pontoon bridge and kill the Ming army's camp on the south bank.

Next, the Jurchens attacked the forward battalion's car formation like crazy, and the entire forward battalion suddenly fell into a fierce battle.

After paying heavy casualties, the Jurchens finally approached the forward battalion's car formation. They shouted and rushed to the formation, intending to destroy it with their knives and axes, but as soon as they jumped out of the shield vehicle's protection, they were knocked to the ground by a series of firearms.

Zhang Dou's vehicle formation not only had artillery, but also 140 firecrackers. They hid in the carriage and calmly knocked down one Jurchen after another from the firing ports on the carriage.

Mahu was a musketeer in the Forward Battalion, and he was rapidly reloading the projectile at the moment. He poured gunpowder into the pot and the muzzle of the gun, and from the muzzle he added lead pellets, and pounded the projectiles and gunpowder with a strip of gunpowder, and filled the lighted arquebus. Aim the gun at a Juroid who rushes up, pull the trigger, and continue to repeat the action.

He had already killed 4 Jurchens, and looking at the Jurchens who kept falling under his mouth, his heart was full of joy.

He felt that the Jurchens deserved to die, because a Jurchen's head could receive 50 taels of silver. Although the general needs to take the lion's share of the silver, and has to give points to the gunners and killer teams and soldiers, the silver in hand will not be less than 15 taels.

There is no such treatment in other camps, and it would be good to kill a Jurchen and give one or two pieces of silver. It seems that it is still their own general benevolence and righteousness, but there are too many Jurchens they have encountered today.

He didn't even need to aim, he probably aimed in the direction, and almost every gun was rewarded. He couldn't help but start worrying about the forward battalion, if the Jurchens were allowed to rush into the formation, then only death awaited them.

Li Zhu, who was with him, asked him: "Donkey! How many were killed today? ”

He was angry at the mention of his name, and he didn't know what his father thought at the beginning, so why did he give him a name like Ma Hu?

As a result, almost no one calls him by his name, and they all call him a donkey.

"Pillars! You're itchy kid, aren't you? Lao Tzu called Ma Hu, and then called me a donkey to be anxious with you! Ma Hu said threateningly.

"That's it! Come on! Donkey, don't bark next time. Seriously, how many did you kill? ”

Ma Hu rolled his eyes helplessly, and said weakly: "4, what about you?" You say there are so many Jiannu, can we keep it? ”

"Enough! Try your best! If we retreat now, we won't cross the bridge yet! You have to be killed by Jiannu, so ah! When can you carry it, when is it! "Li Zhu has no bottom at all about guarding the pontoon bridge.

As time went on, the firearms of the forward battalion also became hotter and hotter, and finally the artillery was no longer usable. At this time, the Jurchens rushed up frantically, and the fire guns alone could not stop the Jurchens from approaching.

Some of the Jurchens had already rushed to the front of the train, and they had already begun to climb up the bamboo baskets outside the carriages. Zhang Dou looked at the increasingly dangerous situation and was about to give an order.

At this time, more than 300 white-pole soldiers ran from the direction of the pontoon bridge, led by Qin Shi. He strode to Zhang Dou, who was in a state of surprise, and said, "Brother! I've already sent the wounded soldiers across the river, how is it? Brother didn't come late, did he? ”

The white pole soldiers behind him also said in unison: "We are willing to follow General Zhang to kill Jiannu!" ”

One of them was also hanging from his chest with his right arm and a bloody human head in his left arm. From time to time, he would bite off a piece of meat from a person's head, chew it a few times, and then spit it out.

"Although my Ma Bao has one arm left, I still have a good tooth, even if I bite with my teeth, I can bite a few Jiannu to death!" As he spoke, the man threw the head of his left hand out of the car formation, causing a burst of exclamations from the Jurchens outside!

"Good! Let's work together to eliminate Jiannu! ”