Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Pulling of the Battle Situation
The most primitive artillery, starting with heavy artillery.
Solid shells hit the world, and the shock is greater than the damage.
Houjin is a solid cannonball.
But the technique of Han Baqi was developed by smashing his own people.
The cannon sounded, the heavy bullet fell, and the Jurchen galloping war horse was smashed to pieces by a bullet, and then rolled over, directly smashing several war horses on the ground, and finally rolled to the edge of the car formation.
The first shot, in order to find a landing point.
Is Huang Taiji angry?
No, shelling one's own people has become a matter of course.
adjusted, artillery bursts.
The footing of the shells kept moving forward.
Rolling, landing, rolling to the formation.
Moving forward, this time directly into the car formation.
With a bang, the miserable image suddenly appeared in front of him.
A cannonball that fell precisely into the pikemen's shell bounced straight into a furrow in the sea of people.
Blood, debris, corpses, blood foam.
One after another, the shells fell heavily into the car formation, and the rhythm of the new army was immediately disrupted.
It is impossible not to be afraid, and the body is controlled by consciousness.
So the car formation was finally broken away by the Houjin soldiers in the shells that fell one after another.
The horses galloped into the spearmen's field of guns.
"Hold on!"
The gap in the car formation indicates that Houjin is starting to fight back.
The emperor was overjoyed and ordered the artillery to advance again.
There was nothing wrong with taking advantage of the victory, but Huang Taiji's order also buried the last artillery in his hands and buried his hope of victory.
More than 20 shells in a company accurately fell into the formation, injuring 1,000 people.
Zhang Xiahai ordered artillery to cover the bombardment.
So the long-range artillery began to look for the direction of the opponent's artillery point and bombarded it.
This time, the artillery was no longer left behind.
After two rounds of artillery, the Jurchen Han Eight Banners artillery was completely disabled.
There is a huge disparity in numbers, firing range, lethality, and artillery quality.
There is no suspense.
The artillery company and the artillery were overturned and blown up one by one in the sight of Huang Taiji.
But the Houjin cavalry finally rushed into the chariot formation, and the gap in the chariot formation continued to expand, and although the pikemen tried their best to resist, they could not block the impact of the war horses.
At the moment when the Houjin cavalry rushed into formation, the hope of victory had been rekindled.
The cavalry, mixed with the pikemen, made the musketeers dare not shoot at random, because the bullets were likely to hit their own people.
The tide of battle began to go in the other direction.
If you don't make any changes, then it is likely that a big win will turn into a fiasco.
The cavalry rushed into the infantry formation, and slaughter ensued.
Zhang Xiahai gritted his teeth.
Drumming.
Suddenly, in the ranks, the sword and shield men who had been waiting behind the musketeers began to move forward, facing the rushing cavalry.
In the distance, after the two wings wandered and shot, the Tang cavalry of the Golden Cavalry also began, galloping towards the front of the large array, and directly intercepted the cavalry who continued to attack the gap outside the vehicle formation.
After a long time, under the desperate resistance of the spears, the Houjin cavalry finally did not let the Houjin cavalry advance into the musket formation.
At this time, outside the formation, the cavalry had already begun to intercept the Jurchen cavalry, and the two sides fought together.
The sword and shield men finally advanced into the spear formation and began to surround the Jurchen cavalry.
The gap was about twenty paces wide, and the Jurchen cavalry entered the battle about three hundred.
And the number of sword and shield hands is two thousand.
Two thousand sword and shield men fought against three hundred Jurchen cavalry, and it seemed that they were going to be defeated.
But when the sword and shield men fought against the cavalry, the degree of erosion of the battle situation was suddenly stopped, and the 300 cavalry besieged by 2,000 sword and shield men were completely annihilated without even a quarter of an hour of resistance.
Why this is so, the dead Jurchen cavalry probably knows best.
Heavy armor sword and shield soldiers.
In order to prevent the Jurchen cavalry from fighting in close combat, Tang Xidong specially established a team.
There are only 5,000 people in Shanxi.
Select a strong man of more than 1.85 meters, wrap his whole body in improved iron plate armor, hold a heavy knife and iron shield, train every day, not seeking speed, only for endurance and strength of the extreme armed force.
In order to recapture the position and block the cavalry when it loses speed after charging into battle.
At this moment, the heavy-armored sword and shield hand who stepped onto the battlefield for the first time showed his edge at the right time and in the right situation, and dealt a heavy blow to the Houjin cavalry as soon as he appeared on the stage.
The gap in the rookie formation was finally filled again.
It was piled up with the corpses of war horses and the corpses of the Jurchens.
The deterioration of the fighting was contained.
In order to plug the gap, it seems that he relied on the fight of heavy armor swords and shields, and did not consume many troops.
But it's not.
Behind the sword and shield men who successfully blocked and killed the Jurchen cavalry, they relied on Tang cavalry to desperately intercept outside the formation.
Tang Qi, who was rescued poorly, killed 300 enemies and lost 500 in just a quarter of an hour.
The moment the gap is plugged.
The drums beat again.
Tang Cai was finally able to withdraw from the battlefield in front of the battle.
But Tang Qi, who was already less than 20,000, paid the price of 3,000 killed.
The situation of the fighting moved back.
Begin to continue in the original direction.
Huang Taiji relied on artillery to open up the situation, but in a quarter of an hour, he was blocked by the new army.
Artillery and artillery were buried, as well as thousands of Jurchen cavalry.
The gunfire was loud again, and the Jurchens once again struggled to no avail.
A big war.
From dawn to noon.
No matter how strong the Jurchen physical strength is, it can't stop the long-term fight.
Finally.
At a certain moment, suddenly, the impact of the Jurchen became slow at a certain point in time, as if dragged into a quagmire.
This feeling came suddenly, and the Jurchens were still rushing into battle, but the pressure on the new army was suddenly reduced.
Throughout the war, the chariot array was constantly broken by the Jurchens relying on war horses and human lives, but they were made up again.
The large array of the new army was like a bottomless quagmire, in which the Jurchens could not extricate themselves.
Both sides suffered damage, but the Jurchen's losses were two or three times as many as those of the new army.
Huang Taiji looked up at the sky, and the sun was on his head.
The Jurchens still seem to be doing useless work.
Brought him hope again and again, disappointed again and again, he couldn't understand why the gap between a car formation and the previous one was so big, making it so difficult for Houjin.
But, he knew it couldn't be delayed any longer.
Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to go today.
He was withdrawing, even if Dorgon resented himself.
The Jurchen soldiers can no longer be allowed to die here.
A morning passed, although no casualties were counted, but Huang Taiji knew that more than 10,000 Jurchen sons and daughters had stayed here forever.
Jurchens are scarce, and every death is a great loss.
Huang Taiji can't afford it.
In the big array, Zhang Xiahai's eyes showed a bright light, and he decided not to wait any longer.
At this time, it is the best opportunity to crush the Jurchens in one fell swoop, and the opportunity is fleeting.
So he pointed with his sword.
Behind him, a fierce snare drum sounded, which was the horn of the charge.
And, at this time, in the distance, Huang Taiji began to withdraw his troops.
Both sides chose the same timing.
Zhang Xiahai wants to charge, what does he rely on? Is it possible to rely on the cavalry that only has a little more than 10,000 left, do you want to test the infantry?
No.
He relied on the other team he was hiding, the attacker.