Text: Volume 10, Chapter 3, Section 5: The Burning of the City (2)
The 320 artillery trucks of the Ming artillery battalion have been bombarded for nearly an hour or so, blasting the Shimenguan city wall like a huge hedgehog, and there are long arrows piercing the bricks of the city wall everywhere. The tens of thousands of Mongol soldiers stationed on the city wall have suffered heavy casualties, and there is hardly any standing figure on the city wall.
After the baptism of the huge artillery battalion of the Ming army, the entire defense line around Shimen Pass has become a pile of rubble, and there is gunpowder smoke and fire everywhere. The dozens of fortresses that Huang Taiji had painstakingly built had turned into dozens of huge fires at this time, scorching the entire battlefield into a hot wave and keeping no one from approaching. Moreover, what made Huang Taiji and the Qing soldiers under his command even more frightened was that under the bombardment of the powerful artillery group of the Ming army, the Shimen Pass had already emitted wolf smoke from both the city and the pass, and there were fires everywhere.
Huang Taiji was furious when he saw this, and sent the Manchu army with two yellow flag soldiers and horses to attack in all directions to maintain the order of the army, and at the same time, Huang Taiji was also very clear that the Ming army was about to attack on a large scale, so he immediately ordered all the 150,000 troops of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion to immediately go out of the city to meet the battle, and prepare for a bloody battle with the Ming army outside the Shimen Pass, and use the 150,000 troops of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion to consume as much of the Ming army's strength as possible.
With Huang Taiji's order, the 150,000 soldiers and horses of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion immediately drove out of the Shimen Pass and began to deploy defenses in the area of the horse retaining wall outside the gate.
I saw that these soldiers and horses of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion had divided into 50,000 troops and were stationed behind the horse retaining wall, basically all of them were firecrackers, relying on the chest-high retaining wall to wait in formation. The rest of the 100,000 troops began to line up in front of the horse retaining wall: 30,000 musketeers were in front, lined up in the same horizontal formation as the soldiers of the Hanwei army, except that the horizontal formation of the Qing army was six rows, not three rows of the soldiers of the Hanwei army; This was followed by 60,000 hand-to-hand soldiers, who were basically axe-bearers, with a thick shield in one hand and a sharp sword in the other, ready to charge and fight at any time; At the back of the Qing army's array, there were 10,000 gunners, and the artillery equipped by these Qing gunners was mostly some third-class general artillery according to the standards of the Ming army, and the big Buddha Lang machine gun equipped by the Ming army soldiers could not compete at all, so when the Qing army was subjected to the Ming army's shelling, Huang Taiji did not mobilize this artillery to meet the battle.
By the time the 150,000 Wuzhen Chaoha battalion had finished arranging, the Ming soldiers in the distance had already completed their formation.
I saw that the Feiyu Battalion led by Lu Ying and the 10,000 Iron Man soldiers led by Zheng Zhibao took the lead. Although Liu Yunwei mobilized two armies of more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, his strength was far less than that of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion dispatched by the Qing army, and the newly trained Wuzhen Chaoha battalion of the Qing army was also equipped with firearms and other firearms, and its strength was extraordinary.
However, Liu Yunwei is still very calm, because in Liu Yunwei's heart, these Wuzhen Chaoha battalions are just Dongshi imitation, although they are equipped with a large number of firearms, they are absolutely unable to compare with the soldiers of the Hanwei Army who have survived a hundred battles. What's more, with the 10,000 Iron Army soldiers led by Zheng Zhibao as backup, Liu Yunwei believes that Lu Ying can lead the soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion to take the lead!
Seeing that the soldiers of the army had finished arranging, Liu Yunwei shouted: "Beat the drum!" Attach! ”
"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”
A total of more than 40,000 soldiers from the Feiyu Battalion and the Iron Man Army, led by Lu Ying and Zheng Zhibao, stepped forward and gradually approached the Qing Army's Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion in the distance with neat steps.
I saw that the Ming army was attacking in the big array, and the soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion were in front, among which the garrison Jiang Wentian led the soldiers of the A Battalion to walk in the front with a large shield with eyebrows, and firmly covered the comrades behind him; The garrison Liu Heihu led the C-battalion bird-gunners to follow closely behind, and the more than 7,000 elite bird-gunners of the C-battalion were also lined up in a neat horizontal formation, but the horizontal formation composed of Hanwei soldiers was only three thin rows, and each platoon had more than 2,000 soldiers; And Lu Ying led the soldiers of the Chinese army and the soldiers of the second battalion to walk at the end together with the garrison Tian Qing, ready to support the soldiers in front to defeat the Qing army's large array.
As for the officers and men of the cavalry battalion under the jurisdiction of the Feiyu Battalion, they were on the left and right of the Ming army's attack formation under the leadership of Dong Qiang, and they could charge towards the Qing army's Wuzhen Chaoha battalion phalanx under the command of Lu Ying.
At this time, Zheng Zhibao led the 10,000 soldiers of the Iron Man Army after the expansion to walk behind the soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion, only to see the heavy armor on the soldiers of the Iron Man Army shining in the sunlight, and the iron tire bow and long-handled machete in his hand were even more cold. The 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Iron Man Army led by Zheng Zhibao are all elite soldiers from near and far, and they can fire a salvo from behind when the birds of the Flying Feather Battalion and the Qing army are firing at each other, supporting the soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion to deal a heavy blow to the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion.
Just when the soldiers of the Ming army were steadily advancing, Huang Taiji was standing on the head of the city and watching every move on the battlefield. Seeing that Liu Yunwei had only sent an army of 40,000 to meet the hundreds of thousands of Wuzhen Chaoha battalions that he had carefully built, Huang Taiji's heart was full of anger, and a feeling of being despised by his enemies of life and death filled Huang Taiji's chest, making this self-esteemed Tatar slave chief feel disgraced.
"Spread my will, this confrontation must defeat the Ming army's array, otherwise although the victory is especially defeated, all the generals at all levels of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion will be severely punished!"
When Huang Taiji's order was conveyed to the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion Array, 150,000 Qing soldiers fell into madness, and these Qing soldiers had no way to retreat at this time, so they could only go to the dark one way, and fought to the end with the approaching Ming soldiers.
The two sides are a hundred steps apart!
The 10,000 gunners of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion stepped forward quickly under the command of the horn and pushed a hundred large and small artillery pieces in front of the large army formation.
"Ready! Put! ”
"Tom! Tong! Tong! ”
These artillery pieces of the Qing army are far smaller than the big Buddha Lang machine guns prepared by the Ming army, and the roar is also very crisp. I saw a hundred scorching cannons smashing straight into the phalanx of the Feiyu Battalion, and in the blink of an eye, they caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the A Battalion who were walking in the forefront. Although the Qimei shield equipped by the soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion was extremely heavy, they were also powerless in the face of the cannons fired at close range, and they were smashed by the cannons that smashed over.
Seeing this, Jiang Wentian, the garrison of Battalion A, was furious, and he wanted to rush forward and kill all those damned Qing gunners.
"All of them are united!"
"The mountains are shaking!"
With Jiang Wentian's roar, the soldiers of Battalion A responded in unison. Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of soldiers of the entire Ming army began to sing the war song of the Ming army in unison, and in the majestic battle song, they advanced forward in the face of the artillery fire of the Qing army, like a proud and resolute lion, making the enemy fearful.
"Wearing iron armor and carrying a long knife. The battle with the son is long.
Fight with the enemy, die and live together. Fight with your son, and your heart will not be slack.
Step on the swallow and chase the beard. Fight with the son, and sing fearlessly. ”
At this time, in the face of the almost death-like attack of the Ming soldiers, the soldiers of the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion of the Qing Army who fought against them were all extremely frightened.
And Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, Azig, Zierharang and others who stood on the wall of Shimen Pass to watch the battle were also shocked at this time, and were deeply shocked by the soldiers of the Ming army who were marching in front of them in line with artillery fire. With such a resolute battalion, how could the Qing Dynasty defeat it?
Huang Taiji had already understood at this time that the Qing Iron Cavalry led by him would not be able to withstand the Ming army in front of him no matter what. It's not because the Qing army is not elite enough, nor is it because the Qing soldiers are not brave enough, but the indomitable momentum of the Han Wei army and the Dangkou camp in front of them is no longer something that the Qing army Tartars can understand!
The two sides are fifty paces apart!
At this time, the 10,000 gunners of the Wuzhenchaoha battalion of the Qing army had stopped shelling and retreated one after another. The 30,000 musketeers in a formation had already stepped forward to meet the battle, ready to shoot at the Flying Feather Battalion and the Bird Gunners of the Flying Feather Battalion.
"Fight!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”
Liu Heihu, the garrison of the C Battalion, led more than 7,000 elite birdmen to line up and shoot at the Qing army, which was almost three times his size. Although the soldiers of the Ming army were at a disadvantage in terms of strength, the soldiers of the C battalion were not afraid, and there was not the slightest fear in the eyes of the soldiers, only deep anger, anger against the Tartars!
At the same time, Zheng Zhibao in the rear of the Ming army's large array also gave an order, and 10,000 Iron Man soldiers took out iron tire bows one after another, and pointed at the sky with arrows, just when the soldiers of the C Battalion and the Qing army of the 30,000 Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion opened fire at the same time, the 10,000 Iron Man soldiers also shot their own arrows containing anger, and the rain of arrows in the sky crossed the sky, smashed into the Qing army's array, and killed many of the 30,000 Qing army gunners.
In an instant, the firepower of the Qing army's Wuzhen Chaoha battalion was reduced a lot, coupled with the frequency of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion's salvo, and the performance of the firearm was far inferior to the Hanwei army's excellent bird gun, so that although the strength of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion was far more than that of the soldiers of the Feiyu battalion, it was in a disadvantageous position in the shooting, and was beaten by the soldiers of the Ming army so that they could not raise their heads.
"Ready! Put! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
Liu Heihu roared loudly with excitement, watching the seven thousand soldiers under his command fire and shoot very quickly and rhythmically, very relieved, and kept roaring loudly. And Zheng Zhibao also commanded the soldiers of the Iron Man Army to shoot continuous volleys, which was originally very physically exhausting to shoot arrows, but the 10,000 soldiers of the Iron Man Army continued to pull their bows and release arrows, without the slightest gap, forming a continuous blow to the Qing army's array.
Seeing that his army had completely suppressed the newly formed Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion of the Qing Army, Lu Ying immediately made up his mind, so he ordered Jiang Wentian, the garrison of Battalion A, and Tian Qing, the garrison of Battalion B, and ordered the soldiers of Battalion A and Battalion B to prepare to charge in formation, preparing to completely defeat the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion in front of him in one fell swoop!