Chapter 170: Looking North (7)

The total length is seven feet, and the blade alone is a full two feet long, this kind of horse chopping knife has never been equipped in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, but Shi Daniu is not other middle and lower-level officers, he is a veteran who has begun to follow Chen Wen on Dalan Mountain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Although he dragged the old Nantang battalion back in the military rank, the qualifications are here, the personnel are also good, and there are many senior officers within the group who have made friends on weekdays.

It can never be the Fujian Ming Army, Shi Daniu had heard An Youfu say before, Chen Wen is very confident in Zheng Chenggong's integrity, and Chen Wen's vision is absolutely trusting. Since this is the case, then the only answer is that the Qing army used the time of the past few months to train a new iron army as the killer weapon of this battle, and there is only one explanation!

"In return, the Tartars have sent out an Iron Army, and the location of this outpost is the focus of the Tartars' attack, quickly."

Handing over the report to the herald, Shi Daniu immediately ordered the formation of this outpost to change the original defensive counterattack formation to a thorough defensive formation in order to be complete.

Just as Shi Da Niu thought, this is where Zilharang tried to break the formation. In this direction, the cavalry of the Qing army had greater space mobility, and once the infantry battle formation crushed the battle formation of the Ming army, it could easily drive the Ming army to the direction of Gucheng Lake and Lishui, and use the terrain to kill and injure the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as much as possible. As long as this heavy army group is hit hard, even if Chen Wen relies on mountains and rivers for defense, he will be a rabbit's tail and will not be able to grow.

In order to achieve a breakthrough in this point, Zilharang chose the Iron Man Army, which had previously inflicted heavy losses on the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners of the Guanxiao Army, in the Battle of Zhenjiang, and used the equipment discarded by the Iron Man Army on the battlefield and the hundreds of Bayala elite soldiers he brought from Beijing to train in isolation for several months.

The leading military general of the Eight Banners Iron Man Army, although he is not a military general with rich combat experience, but Jierharang is still confident in the ability of this person, and this military general named Ma Jia * Tuhai, the ups and downs in the Shunzhi Dynasty, is the Shunzhi left Kangxi Shi Grace to reuse the minister, in the Kangxi Dynasty participated in the battle to exterminate the Kuidong Ming Army, in the rebellion of the three feudatories, first with the eight banners of clothing, domestic slaves defeated the Mongolian Chahar Department, and then led the four generals of Hexi into Sichuan, is an important contributor to the rebellion of the three feudatories in Qingping, Zhou Peigong, who was touted by a TV series in later generations, was just a staff member under Tuhai at that time.

On the battlefield of 100,000 bloody battles, hundreds of people are inconspicuous, but these hundreds of iron army are all the elite of the elite, riding war horses to the battlefield, they dismounted in the upper right corner of the Ming army's battle formation under the leadership of Tuhai, and divided into several teams before and after striding towards the Ming army's phalanx.

At this moment, in front of them, each of the Ming army phalanx has only one sentry of soldiers and horses, only a hundred people, the Iron Man Army did not form a dense battle formation, but in accordance with the tactics of the Fujian Ming Army, each soldier is separated by a considerable distance to give full play to the power of the horse sabre as much as possible.

The Iron Man Army came straight to the Ming army's formation, although it was the first time to use this kind of tactics to fight, but these Bayala soldiers were all proud of the Eight Banners Army, and they had absolute confidence in the blades in their hands, the iron armor on their bodies, and especially their personal bravery.

These Qing troops strode forward, and the cavalry of the Qing army rode around and attacked the Ming army in other directions, because there was no need for their harassment here.

Soon, this iron army approached the front of the Ming army, in terms of weapons and equipment of both sides, there was no difference in armor, the spear of the Ming army was one foot and five feet long, compared to the only seven feet long chopping knife in terms of length has a great advantage. However, it was only the first round of attacks, and the weapons that Zheng Chenggong used to ride with infantry showed its incredible power.

The Iron Man Army stepped forward, and the infantry of the Ming army had the advantage of length in weapons, so they took the lead in attacking the Qing army. Spear stab, these ironclad infantry of the Qing army held their swords in their hands and looked at the direction and time of the Ming army's attack, just waved left and right, most of the spurs were deflected in an instant, and only a few Qing troops were stabbed by spears. Some were knocked down with a single blow, but many more were only pushed back a few steps by the spear, apparently failing to pierce the thick blades of the iron armor.

If the blow failed, the Ming army collected the gun and stabbed again, but this was the Qing army, but the Qing army had already rushed into the blind spot of the spear attack!

It is an unavoidable objective fact that long guns are easy to age, and the longer the length of the spear, the more obvious the problem. The Ming army fought in formation, especially the more experienced officers like Shi Da Niu had already changed the formation, and the assassination of the first row failed to achieve too good results, and the Ming army in the second row only waited for the Qing infantry to take a few steps forward and immediately launched the assassination.

Just like the assassination in the first row, in the face of the iron armor that was indistinguishable from them, the Ming army was able to inflict very little damage, and more of them were chopped off by these seven-foot-long swords. And at this moment, seeing those Qing troops rushing up like wolves, the commanders on the flanks also rushed forward with waist knives and long cards.

As melee combat unfolded, the Qing army focused its attention on these Ming army captains who rushed to the front, because once they were rushed to the front by these hand-to-hand combat units with shorter weapons, their horse swords would become a complete burden in the face of the Ming army in close hand-to-hand combat.

Shi Daniu stood under the banner of this outpost, as far as his eyes could see, the Qing army's saber fell, the long card was split in two, and the left arm of the Ming army was cut off along with the neck.

He knew this captain, when he was still the captain, this captain had just enlisted in the army, his family fled to Jinhua, his parents were not in good health, his younger brothers and sisters were still young, and the burden of life was on the burden of Wu Chang alone. It wasn't until he joined the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army that the family was divided into land, and life was better. In the past few years, the land of military merit has been divided a lot, and the youngest brother in the family has also entered the Boy Scout Academy, and the chief Wu has become a family, and even the children have it, and they finally live a good life.

Wu Chang always said that these good days were brought by Chen Wen, if it weren't for the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, their family would have starved to death on the way to escape the famine. If one day he really dies on the battlefield, it will be worth it, because with the collective of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, he doesn't have to worry about his parents having no one to support, and he doesn't need to worry about his young son not being able to grow up.

The contented Wu Chang slowly fell, and the spears of the Ming army used the swords to stagnate at this moment, and they stabbed one after another, directly stabbing the Qing army into a sieve.

Three arrows are not as good as one knife, three knives are not as good as one shot, the spear stab is extremely lethal, and it is possible to be stabbed by one shot and the strength is insufficient to completely pierce the armor leaf, but being stabbed by several shots at the same time like this, there is no possibility of being intact at all.

The Ming army's assassination combined with the long player's assault had a good killing effect, but the long player also suffered a lot of damage in this short encounter. This is something that can't be helped, long cards can resist knife slashes, axe slashes, and can block weapons, but there is no protection in the face of weapons such as horse swords, not to mention sabers.

The momentary advantage quickly disappeared as the casualties of the long players skyrocketed, and the re-relieved Qing army immediately regained the initiative on the local battlefield after paying a certain amount of casualties.

With the advance of the Qing army's iron army, there were either corpses or broken weapons of the Ming army along the way, and in the face of such a sudden crisis, the reaction of the phalanx that was attacked was also very different.

Some simply let the firearms team discard their guns and draw their knives, while others shrank inward. Shi Daniu is the top priority of the Qing army's attack, the mandarin duck array of the left flank assault has not been able to completely clear the Qing army that has entered the interval, and the Qing army in front has also launched a diversion attack after noticing the results of the Iron Man Army, and even a small number of Iron Man Army have appeared behind the formation, he can be said to have no way to retreat. As long as the battle formation rarely retreats, even the entire outpost will completely collapse in an instant, so that it will cause the entire Ming army to collapse.

"Turtledove foot, loaded. Lu Mi Gong, abandon the gun and draw the knife, attack! ā€

When the order was given, the musketeers with the guns in their hands dropped their guns, drew their sabers at their waists, drilled through the battle formations of the pikemen, and shouted and killed the Qing army.

In a moment, the advantage shifted again in favor of the Ming army, but as these brave musketeers were either killed in battle or forced to retreat into battle, the balance of victory once again tipped in favor of the Qing army.

The Qing army marched forward in great strides, waving sabers, and the thrust of the spear could cause less and less damage. It's not that the troops are restrained, but these Bayala soldiers are the strongest warriors in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the number is scarce, but they have always played a decisive role on the battlefield.

Break through, and the moment when the first Iron Man Army rushed to the front of the Ming army with a slashing knife and began to slash and kill those Ming infantry who had no way to retreat.

In fact, such casualties had already surprised Tuhai, and the firmness of this Ming army's will to fight was unheard of, and even before the moment when the Qing army, which had suffered a lot of casualties, broke through the Ming army's spear formation, he was once doubting whether this tactic could work.

"I finally rushed in, and the next step was to cooperate with the cavalry to expel these routs."

The heart turned with his thoughts, but before Tuhai gave further orders, the phalanx in the upper right corner of the Ming army, the most important point of his attack, accompanied by a loud shout, the Ming army engaged with the Iron Man Army subconsciously squatted down, and almost at the same time, the shooting sound of the fire gun sounded, and the few Iron Man troops who had just rushed in, and the Iron Man Army who were about to rush to the front were shot in front of the formation, and few of them were spared.

"Damn Zhejiang bandits!"

These Bayala soldiers are the hearts and minds of Shunzhi, all of them are warriors with one enemy and one hundred, and they are also extremely rare in the Eight Banners Army, and every death is a great loss for the Eight Banners Army, and now in his hands, nearly 100 people have been killed and injured in just this moment of battle, which makes him not angry.

"The first team, rush up with Ben and kill all those Zhejiang bandits!"

The first team was his reserve team, which was originally intended to be used to replace those tired Iron Man Army after breaking through the battle formation of the Ming Army, but now the Iron Man Army on the front line suffered a lot of casualties, so he could only send this new force as soon as possible.

The new force of the Iron Man Army slowly moved forward and killed the outpost of the Nantang Battalion of the Fourth Ming Division of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, the oldest old unit in the army, and in the distance, the main force of the Eight Banners Army of Jierharang also came out of the whole division and killed the right flank of the Ming army.

The Qing army came with all his might, Shi Daniu was the key here, the blow just now was already the limit blow of the phalanx in his hand that was attacked by the Qing army on all sides, if he was killed by the Qing army's iron army again, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At present, the Ming army is still taking advantage of the offensive gap of the Iron Man Army in front of the formation that was shot and wounded a lot to reorganize the battle formation, and the Tartar officer in the distance is even more with the Iron Man Army that has been killing the Iron Man Army under his banner. The Qing army was clearly ready to give it their all, and in a moment it would be the key to the victory, but he no longer had any hole cards to use.

"Sentry Chief, reinforcements! Reinforcements! ā€

Hearing the sound, Shi Daniu hurriedly turned his head, and in the distance, there was indeed a Ming army with a clear banner that was quickly passing through the gap in the battle formation and rushing towards the right flank. More Ming troops marched out from the flank of the right flank, slowly approaching as they continued to stretch their ranks.

"Reinforcements are coming, brothers, hold our flag!"

After a while, the armor post readjusted the battle formation, and they still couldn't shrink the battle formation, and even the archer with turtledoves also threw down their fire guns, drew their sabers and stood at the front of the battle formation.

Moments later, the new force led by Tuhai arrived, and the exchange of swords and spears broke out again. However, just when Tu Haiman thought that he could destroy this Ming army with a large number of attrition as quickly as possible, the reinforcements of the Ming army were replenished at this juncture to supplement the phalanx attacked by the Iron Man Army.

Without warning, as black balls were thrown into the sparse battle formation of the Qing army, an explosion sounded, and these tall Bayala soldiers were wearing dozens of pounds of iron armor, but they were still staggered in the fire and air waves as if they were wearing nothing. And those Ming army reinforcements who were not wearing any armor after throwing those round balls, they came out one after another, and aimed their guns at the Qing army that was not attacked.

After the shooting, only to listen to the order of the officer in charge, these Ming soldiers invariably drew a sword from their waists, put it on the front end of the firearm and rushed towards the Baya soldiers who were blown up.

"Kill!"

The tide of battle was reversed, and the heavy iron armor greatly restricted the movement of the Bayala soldiers, even if the martial arts were selected from tens of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners. What's more, although the grenade just now was not like the Spanish phalanx that blew up the southeast meridian in Jiangxi, each of which could blow up a dozen or even dozens of Qing troops, but even if they were wearing iron armor and exposed to the killing range of such weapons, even if they did not die, they would inevitably be shocked out of a mouthful of old blood.

While the grenadiers cleanly cleaned up the Bayala soldiers who were bombed, many grenadiers began to kill in the direction of Tuhai, and even Tuhai retreated into the battle formation of the main force of the Eight Banners Army who had just arrived with the few remaining Bayala soldiers in embarrassment, and was inevitably chased and bombed by the grenades of the Ming army.

Ji'er Harang's Eight Banners Army continued to rush to the right flank battlefield, and the Jinhua Division, which had always been held in his hands, also arrived at the same time, after the large army formation, Chen Wen only left the cavalry and cavalry infantry battalion drawn out of his hands, and observed the situation.

"Gentlemen, two famous kings, at this time!"