"The Tiger Squat Cannon in the double position is exchanged for scattered shells." Deng Ming saw that the distance between the Manchu soldiers was narrowing, and he shouted loudly.

"Marksman shoots freely." Zhao Shujiao ordered at the same time.

As he spoke, the Manchu army advanced to a distance of two hundred paces. At this moment, the scattered bombs of the Ming army began to be fired, and a tiger squat cannon was set to be equipped with a hundred scattered irons, and a cannon shot was really a rain of bullets, and the ten tiger squat cannons were fired together, and it was really an impenetrable rain of bullets. Even if the heavy cavalry has heavy armor, it is also dizzy in the face of this kind of bullet rain without dead ends. Needless to say, after a round of shelling, none of the light cavalry who rushed to the front could stand up, not even the horses.

The remaining heavy cavalry has become the target of the marksman's attention at the moment. The Apocalypse Spear is not powerful enough to penetrate the armor of the heavy cavalry, so the Marksman can only target the head of the heavy cavalry.

The Manchu soldiers were blocked at a distance of 150 to 200 paces, which was a line of death for the Manchu soldiers, and even if a very small number of Manchu soldiers occasionally broke through the defense line and rushed to a distance of 50 paces, the final result was a tragic death.

The Manchu army tried its best to break through the Ming army's defense line, and the Ming army seemed to be victorious, and even Shuo Zhen was seriously injured at the moment.

"Your Majesty, the artillery fire of the Ming army is too fierce, unless our army can also have such a large number of artillery." Feiyango said.

"Khan Amma, withdraw. Evacuate to Shengjing, rely on the artillery remaining in Shengjing, and fight with it. Hauge also suggested.

"Withdraw. Abatai led 5,000 cavalry to break off. Huang Taiji said decisively.

"Wow!"

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After Abatai learned that he was left to break off, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, since the first battle in Shenyang, Huang Taiji has targeted Abatai everywhere, and now he is left behind, obviously putting him to death.

"Amma, Your Majesty wants you to die!" Bo and Tuo said angrily.

"Ama, let's simply retreat to Changbai Mountain, we don't care who wins or loses between Your Majesty and the Ming army." Bolo said.

"How to get around? The family is in Shengjing. Abatai said helplessly, "I see that the emperor's strength is exhausted, and I can be loyal to the Manchu Qing, but you are still young, you go back to Shengjing first, find an opportunity to take your family away, and you must not let them fall into the hands of the Ming army." ”

"Amma......" Bowa said.

"Go, go! The dragoons of the Ming army came up. Abatai urged.

Seeing the retreat of the Manchu army, Zhao Shujiao immediately ordered the dragoons to pursue, but the dragoons did not dare to chase too hard, this is Huang Taiji is the initiative to retreat, and the Ming army is also afraid that Huang Taiji will suddenly kill a horse gun and put the 10,000 dragoons into a passive situation.

At this time, the dragoons adopted the tactics of mounted archery, that is, a method of warfare used by the cuirassiers in the Napoleonic era, which was used exclusively against the infantry phalanx in the Napoleonic era. This tactic was learned by both dragoons and hussars, but it was used for the first time.

As soon as the dragoons rushed into range of the carbines, they fired with their carbines, and when they were finished, they scattered and galloped to the rear of the formation to re-array.

Abatai was also completely confused, and it was the first time he had seen such a tactic. When he saw the Ming army rushing up violently, Abatai was just about to charge, but he didn't expect the Ming army to rush up and shoot a round of shots, so he withdrew. After the Ming army fired two rounds, Abatai understood that this was the three-stage shooting method of the dragoons.

Abatai immediately ordered the cavalry to charge, at this time the dragoons did not charge, but adopted another method of warfare, after the first row of shooting was completed, immediately lay down on the horse, then the second row began to shoot, the second row of shooting immediately lay down, replaced by the third row of shooting, and so on, after the latter shooting was completed, the first row had been loaded, and immediately the first row began to shoot again.

Abatai's 5,000 cavalry faced the 10,000 dragoons of the Ming army, and the Ming army made good use of the numerical advantage, so that his charge could not get close to the Ming army at all, but instead relied on bows and arrows to inflict some damage on the dragoons. After leaving a corpse in front of the Ming army, Abatai immediately chose to retreat.

But at this time, the dragoons saw that Abatai was about to retreat, and immediately launched a pursuit, chasing the cavalry with cavalry, and the dragoons tightly bit Abatai and chased after him. Abatai didn't dare to really retreat, after all, Huang Taiji had just withdrawn at this moment, and when he saw that the Ming army was chasing him, he immediately turned his horse's head and rushed up again.

The Ming army was rushing upward, while Abatai was turning his horse's head to charge, and the two armies were in charge, the dragoons had a complete advantage, and Abatai didn't even have time to stabilize the formation to charge.

Abatai was indeed determined to die at this moment, even if he was now at a disadvantage, he did not hesitate to rush towards the Ming army. The Ming army took advantage of their superiority and quickly cut Abatai's army in two.

The outcome of the battle was sealed from the start, with Abatai killed and his five thousand cavalry either captured or killed in battle.

In this battle, the Ming army reversed the previous decline, and Zhao Shujiao was also ashamed, and Huang Taiji's 5,000 heavy cavalry lost 30% in the first battle.

At noon on July 10, an army of 30,000 led by Zhao arrived at Shengjing, and he camped twenty miles from Shengjing. In the evening, the central army of the Ming army, led by Yuan Chonghuan, also joined up with Zhao Shujiao.

The rear army of the Ming army was mainly responsible for the transportation of ammunition, grain and grass, and other materials, in order to prevent the Manchu Qing Dynasty from sneaking up on the grain route, starting from Jilin Wula, Yuan Chonghuan used the method of water transportation. Although the use of water transportation requires transshipment, Yuan Chonghuan still insists on using water transportation, because water transportation is the safest way Yuan Chonghuan can think of.

Huang Taiji didn't think about sneaking up on the Ming army's grain route, but for the Ming army's water transportation, he was really a little helpless, and he also thought about sneaking up on the Ming army's transfer points, but these transfer points, the Ming army was heavily guarded, and relying on a small number of troops could not achieve the effect at all.

On July 15th, the Midyear Festival, a very important festival of this era, it was on this day that the Ming army completed the encirclement of Shengjing on three sides. The Ming army surrounded Shengjing on the east, west, and south sides.

The reason for the abandonment of the north was the stationing of Dorgon's army of 20,000 men in the three miles to the north. At this time, the range of the Ming army's heavy artillery could reach five miles, and Yuan Chonghuan speculated that the range of the heavy artillery on Shengjing City should also be in this range, which was also a reason why the Ming army took the initiative to give up the north, and Zhu Youxiao also gave Yuan Chonghuan a holy decree, vaguely saying that he wanted to leave a life for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the last reason was to encircle the three queyi.

(End of chapter)