Cao Zhenyan is a native of Liaoyang, the first year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, after Jin Nurha broke Shenyang, Cao Zhenyan's family surrendered, and since then he has become a Dolgon family of Baylor who raised a clothed minion, followed the master to the battlefield, made countless meritorious contributions, relied on the young and brave, quite Dolgon's appreciation, and accumulated merit to become the chief soldier of the Han army, but the identity of the clothed slave has not changed, and now Dolgon is the regent, and Cao Zhenyan's chicken dog ascends to heaven, and it will not change.

When he came to Shanxi, he originally followed Dolgon, but the sudden death of Duoduo made Dolgon return to Beijing in a hurry, but Cao Zhenyan was left behind and distributed to Bolo as reinforcements.

Bolo is not so polite to the Han people, he has been used as cannon fodder for a long time, Cao Zhenyan dares to be angry and dare not speak, and he has to do it with all his heart, and there are words of suffering.

At this moment, there is no way to advance or retreat, only to stand up with a stiff waist, but the feet are as if they have taken root, and they are standing still, just not moving forward. The shield cart seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and the pestle was in place, without turning the wheels for half a sound.

But it's not a way to drag it down like this, look at the cannons of the dozens of black holes on the wings of the Ming army, think about the terrible range, Cao Zhenyan is weak-hearted, he is now only five miles away from the front of the Ming army, and he is already within the range of the cannon, and the big iron bullet can be smashed at any time, and the fate of Karchuhun is about to befall him.

While he was planning, he heard the sound of a horn behind him, and the rough cowhide drum rumbled, which was the signal of the Qing army's march.

"My lord, the nobles told us to march there!" Some soldiers approached Cao Zhenyan in horror and said, not at all as majestic as when facing the Nanming army before: "How is it good?" ”

Cao Zhenyan was bold, straightened the iron helmet on his head, and said fiercely: "What else? Let's go up together, the cannon is fierce, but it's just far away, you can't hit it when you're close, let's move quickly, it's good to get close! ”

His fleshy appearance stimulated the soldiers, who in the old Han army who had lived to this time was not a pawn who rolled out of the pile of dead people? Everyone understood that they wanted to live on the battlefield, that they would not die if they were not afraid of death, and that those who were afraid of their hands and feet would die the fastest, so everyone shouted in unison, pushed the shield cart and began to march quickly.

At this moment, he heard the sound of wheels "Zaza" behind him, and turned his head to look, only to see two more teams of Han troops pushing shield carts on both sides, chasing after them like sparks.

The two Han soldiers who led the team were all recognized, one was called Daoxing, and the other was called Luo Dai, both of whom were generals of Zuo Mengeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, who had been quelling the rebellion in Henan after surrendering to the Qing court.

The two of them each led 3,000 Han troops and copied them from Cao Zhenyan's two wings, and at the same time, cavalry caught up from the Qing army's large array and sent Nikan's royal order.

"Order Cao Zhenyan to order the Han army's general soldiers Daoxing and Luo Dai to lead the Han army of 9,000 to advance rapidly, attack the front of the enemy, and the results will be obtained, and there must be no mistakes!"

"If you break the formation, add half a future, and reward a hundred taels of silver!"

"If you cower, you will be punished for delaying the military aircraft!"

The Dao Dao King's order poured into Cao Zhenyan's ears like a talisman, and he looked deeply sideways at the Qing army array with fluttering flags, where almost all the Han soldiers were sent out, and the three Han army generals who followed Nikan south were all sent out at this time, obviously desperate.

Take a closer look, there are figures in the big array, it seems that the Qing army's dead soldier battalion is also preparing, those people are the Qing army's sharp weapons to break the formation, after the dead soldier battalion, most of the sharp soldier battalion that follows will also be on the list.

"Lord Wang, this is going to be hard!" Cao Zhenyan took a breath, frowned and thought, "For the sake of the Ming army in front of Shiling Pass, it seems that we have to count the losses." ”

He took a step back, gave up his position to one of the guards, flashed behind the man, then straightened his helmet again, bent down, hid his whole body in the shadow of the shield cart, tore his voice, and shouted with all his might: "Forward! Forward! Give me all the strength to push! ”

This shout was like the starting gun of the 100-meter race, all the Han soldiers were full of strength, desperately pushing the frame of the shield car, regardless of the rush forward, the shield car weighed at least hundreds of pounds, under the efforts of everyone, it was pushed almost flying, the wheels bumped in the wilderness, like a tank in disregard of all obstacles.

Nine thousand Han troops, nearly three hundred shield carts, rushed along the wide frontage several miles long.

On both flanks, the Mongol cavalry, which had just been beaten to the north, was also ready to move, and they had gathered more men and were lining up.

In the large array of the Qing army, a large number of Jurchen Eight Banner soldiers were also making final preparations, sorting out bows and arrows, and waiting for the Han army in front to consume the firearms of the Ming army, and then rushed up to break the formation.

sharpen the knife, just to cut off Wang Huan's head.

Nikan and Bolo sent out all the generals around them, each leading the troops, and the two reached a consensus that if they want to crack the method of firearms of the Ming army, there is only close combat, the Jurchen is invincible in close combat, and a Eight Banners soldier can be worth ten Ming troops, this is by no means a boast, but a conclusion reached after a bloody battle of life and death, not only the Qing army thinks so, even the Ming army also recognizes it, and even Wang Huan has to admit it.

As long as you get closer, things will be easy to do.

Before that, it was worth spending many lives, and it was worth doing it with the hand that Kuizhou Jun had just revealed.

However, when the stone ridge was closed, Wang Huan stood straight, holding on to the stone battlements on the city wall and looking around, there was no nervousness at all, to be precise, there was some joy.

"Okay, finally can't help it? I thought I'd try it again. The corners of Wang Huan's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't suppress a smile: "Nikan is decisive, would rather spend all the cannon fodder on hand here than defeat me?" ”

He lightly pounded the stone buttress and said with a smile: "You think too highly of me, but if I were him, he would definitely do the same." ”

Ma Wannian was extremely nervous again, standing high and looking far away, from his point of view, on the battlefield in front of him, the dense shield carts were like a herd of elephants rushing in line, covering many Qing soldiers hiding behind him, and farther away, a large number of Qing soldiers under the banner of Jing also completed the formation, and began to press forward slowly, and the various colors of the cover party formation moved slowly like a whole, keeping a distance of several miles from the shield car array in front, just outside the range of the Ming army's artillery fire.

This impact mode made him a little puzzled, looking at Wang Huan with a strange expression, Ma Wannian couldn't help but ask: "Master Hou, what is the use of the military formations in front and behind the Tartars being so far apart?" Don't they know the power of our artillery? By the time the shield carts in front were routed by us, and the Qing soldiers in the rear rushed up, our artillery was ready to fire again. ”

Wang Huan's knuckles tapped lightly on the stone, and he said in a deep voice: "Of course the Tartars know that the shield cart in front is indeed artillery fire, and the Qing army behind is also the main force to break the formation, but the distance between the two must be so far, otherwise our artillery will be able to shoot directly into their rear formation." ”

"They are so far away just to avoid us from penetrating two formations with one cannon, so it is not the foot soldiers in the rear who launch the assault behind the shield cart, but the cavalry on both flanks."

"The shield cart attracts firearms, the cavalry follows the impact, a wave of arrows rains breaks through the car formation, and then the dead battalion in the rear just takes over, they are the trump cards that break the formation, and the Jurchen soldiers are invincible in close combat. At this time, the cavalry attacked my two wings, and attacked on three sides, and these three axes came down, no matter how strong the ordinary army was, it would have to collapse. ”

Wang Huan said these words in a calm tone, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him.

Ma Wannian became more and more nervous, he thought about it, and wanted to speak again, but was blocked by Wang Huan waving his hand.

"Don't make a noise, just watch." Wang Huan solemnly smiled, extremely dignified: "My Kuizhou army is invincible in the world, this battle is our famous battle, after this battle, the whole world will know that the sign of invincible field battles should be hung at our door." ”

Under the city, before the military formation, Li Tingyu and Ma Xintian's faces became solemn, the two hugged their fists against each other, cherished each other, and then rode away and rushed to their respective positions.

Yan Mingde's hand had already left the long knife at his waist, he squinted one eye, held the barrel of the cannon with both hands, and carefully passed the ruler on the cannon body to estimate the distance.

In the car formation behind the loose Kuizhou military bird commander, a short and thick frame tube, like a big wooden barrel like thunder, was carried out and put into the shallow pit dug in front of the car array.

(End of chapter)