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The difference in the killing distance of the musket made them feel very powerless, but they still did not collapse under the pressure. After they finished loading their ammunition, they quickened their pace, and the military formation kept moving forward, striving to reduce the distance as soon as possible to the range that the bird guns and tiger squat cannons could kill, so that they had enough ability to return fire!
Seeing that the elite of the two Tartars on the opposite side were abused so badly, even the subordinates of Yuan Zongdi, who were guarding the two wings on one side of the imperial court, were shocked by the simple and neat attack methods of the imperial camp. With such strength, it's no wonder that he dared to fight with the Tartars, and he really underestimated those royal camp pro-troops before.
After seeing the performance of the imperial court's imperial camp descendants, many of the veterans under the command of Yuan Zongdi have secretly withdrawn their doubts and contempt for them, the most important strength in the army, only by showing enough muscles, can they really be recognized and respected by those veterans on the battlefield. The cohesion and morale of the pro-conquest army unconsciously increased by three points.
Because those Dongjiang soldiers failed to resist the pressure of the Ming army's heavy musket salvo, they used firearms such as bird guns and tiger squat cannons in advance, resulting in a completely disrupted rhythm, uneven levels of firepower, and a big hit was deducted. Especially the tiger squat cannon, because the filling time is relatively long, it is basically a wave of foot combat, and it must be withdrawn after the fight.
The Dongjiang soldiers had more than 100 tiger squat cannons, divided into several teams, and fired them one by one.
In the process of the two sides getting closer to each other, although there were many soldiers on the Ming side who were killed and injured by the cannons of the tiger squat artillery, but the overall morale was very high, and the casualties of the sergeants were quickly dragged away by the reserve team to replace them, under the pressure of the bullets of military schools at all levels, they braved the rain of bullets and still fired in an orderly wave of regular fire, after several rounds of heavy musket salvos, the distance between the two sides has been stretched to sixty or seventy steps, and it has completely entered the effective killing range of the tiger squat artillery.
Taking advantage of the gap when the Dongjiang soldiers were desperately filling the tiger squat cannon and planning to forcibly continue another wave, Zhang Jiayu, the general of the Gongsheng Battalion, seized the opportunity to line up the tiger squat cannon that had been prepared for a long time and had already been loaded with ammunition in turn.
More than 100 tiger squat cannons were divided into three teams, boom! Rumble! Rumble! Waves of scattered bullets were fired, and as the roar of the artillery rang out, the wailing waves of dense scattered bullets suddenly poured towards the Qing army's vanguard Dongjiang soldiers' musketeers, and in an instant, more than 300 Dongjiang soldiers were knocked to the ground, and their firepower was suppressed at once with full power.
After three waves of continuous scattered bombardment, the Dongjiang soldiers' birdmen and shield soldiers were shot one after another, and fell to the ground one by one, and most of the shields of the shield soldiers were pierced by artillery, with heavy casualties, and the front army's array was in a mess, and one open space after another appeared.
After the Tiger Squat cannon was fired, the gunners of the artillery team quickly retreated to the rear from both sides, and the rear bird gunners began to shoot in a row, and the fire remained fierce and intensive.
The musketeers of the Dongjiang soldiers, who were lucky enough to escape the bombardment of the tiger squatting and cannonballing, had long been unable to line up with guns, and seeing that a new round of gun shooting on the Ming side had begun again, they were so frightened that they could not bear the pressure, and the morale of the army collapsed. Even in the face of their own Warlord's broadsword, they don't want to face the overwhelming bullets flying in the sky again!
The remaining Dongjiang soldiers immediately became as crazy as headless flies and fled to the rear and on both sides, scattering the rear army array, and suddenly the army was in turmoil, and the green battalion soldiers in the rear also fled backwards, and the overseers beheaded one hundred and ten people to no avail, and the routs all bypassed the superintendent and fled backwards.
In the rear military formation, most of the green battalion soldiers could not even wear cotton armor, they all wore old and thin military uniforms, only the green battalion commanders, the deputy generals' personal guards and military schools above the head of the team can put on iron armor or leather armor, the firearms, waist knives, and longbows are the most sophisticated batch in the battalion, but the number is relatively small.
The non-descendant Green Battalion generals on the two wings and in the rear formation, such as Zhang Wenhuan, Li Yangxing, Kong Long and others, were accustomed to fighting with the wind, and they had no intention of fighting to the death, and they all had more or less ideas of preserving their strength.
After seeing that the elite of the Dongjiang River, which was regarded as the main force of the field battle, was defeated by the Ming army on the opposite side, the very fighting spirit had already gone to eighty or ninety percent, if it were not for the fear of becoming a bird, they would have withdrawn early, and took advantage of the opportunity of the soldiers of the front army to flee, and they all followed the trend and retreated.
Under the banner of the Chinese army, Geng Zhongming's face was panicked, and under his hissing command, the rear battalion soldiers of the national security commander of the general army line were forced to change to the front battalion and retreated quickly, but with the original forward, the rout of the middle battalion rushed in, and their array was quickly dispersed, and then they were surrounded by the rout and fled together, evolving from retreat to rout, just a moment.
The point moves into a line, the line moves into a surface, 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers are like an avalanche, and the trend of a great rout has been achieved!
Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and other chief and deputy commanders are no longer able to return to the sky!
After a long fierce battle, seeing that the field array of the Qing army finally collapsed, Zhu Youlang exhaled lightly, and urgently ordered Yuan Zongdi, the chief soldier of Shunyi Town, to take more than 1,600 cavalry from the two wings to pursue and kill the rout of the Qing army, and at the same time ordered the army to continue to advance steadily, constantly forcing the rout to impact his own rear camp phalanx, and when encountering the rout of the counterattack, he was directly killed with a musket or stabbed to death with a spear.
The two armies have been fighting until now, and it has always been the imperial camp of the Son of Heaven as the main force in the field, and they have defeated the Qing army's foot soldiers head-on with their strong strength.
Zhu Youlang obviously took this into account, so as soon as he defeated the Qing army, he was ordered to go out and be responsible for chasing and killing the defeated soldiers and expanding the results of the battle, which could be regarded as giving him a chance to make meritorious contributions!
The more than 1,000 knights of the Yuan Department have not had any opportunity to perform on the two wings, and they are still a little afraid of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and they have no psychological pressure at all on this group of two Tartars who have been defeated, and they have long been boiling with fighting spirit, and as soon as they get the military order, they are like a tiger descending the mountain, and they are so crazy that they rush to the position of the Qing army's foot soldiers, shooting arrows with guns, whipping and slashing, and venting their exuberant energy.
On the empty position, the deafening shouts of killing and the sound of swords and guns clashing, as well as the screams of the Qing army when they collapsed, were intertwined, presenting an extremely tragic picture.
Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi gathered nearly 2,000 Dongjiang soldiers and cavalry with surviving combat strength, all armored knights, led by his eldest son Geng Jimao, who protected the commander while fighting and retreating.
In a scuffle, Geng Zhongming saw that the knights of the Ming army were frantically chasing and killing his own rout, and hurriedly ordered Geng Jimao to lead 1,500 cavalry to entangle them, responsible for covering the retreat of the remaining foot soldiers.