Early the next morning, the main force of Huang Taiji's Eight Banners was once again ready to attack, which was the final blow he had prepared. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, he did not let Li Yongfang's troops and the Mongolian Khalkha Department and other Han and Mongolian cavalry attack as the main force, but directly dispatched all the elites of the Eight Banners, including his own Zhenghuang Banner.

Huang Taiji no longer planned to think about preserving his strength or sacrificing the Han and Mongolian cavalry to achieve the fewest casualties of the Manchurian Eight Banners.

The Praetorian Guard in front of him was not as easy to deal with as the previous Ming army, and Huang Taiji only realized at this moment that the Ming army under the personal command of Zhu Youxiao had characteristics that all armies did not have, that is, obedience and not fear of death, and the chief officer always rushed to the front.

This point, his Eight Banners cavalry does not have either, in the Eight Banners, Shangguan is the master who rules you, is your everything, and can even take your life at any time.

More than 5,000 elites of the Eight Banners rushed towards the location of Zhu Youxiao's Praetorian Guards, and these money rat-tailed tartars were still nostrils facing the sky, arrogant and domineering.

The soldiers of the battalions of the Praetorian Guard stood in their positions without moving, quietly watching this stream of iron.

Some of the soldiers' palms were even more sweaty, but after several days of actual combat, they had calmed down a lot, and when they were waiting to enter the firing range, the big cannon still adjusted its running position in an orderly manner, waiting for Fu Dahai's command.

The cannonballs streaked across the sky like meteors, exploding among the elites of the Eight Banners that were rushing rapidly.

Some of the skilled Eight Banners soldiers quietly avoided and dodged with a strong turn of the horse's head, but after running a few steps, the fierce horse still fell to the ground.

According to the conservation of momentum, the speed of the iron bullet is enough to pierce the horse's stomach, coupled with the violent running, it can definitely bleed to death in a short period of time.

It's the same with people, no matter how brave the Eight Banners are, they are also creatures, and after having a huge wound, they will also die.

However, Huang Taiji and the other Eight Banner Tartars did not stop moving forward, and in the rumbling artillery fire, they rushed forward one by one without fear of death.

The 3rd Infantry Battalion had already raised its flintlock pistols and began firing as the Tartars drew their bows.

Intensive artillery fire and bullets harvested the lives of a large number of Eight Banner Tartars, but these Tartars still charged forward, and they always naively thought that the Ming army's firearms would not always attack like this.

However, the continuous firing of the Praetorian Guards brought them back to reality, just as they naively thought yesterday that the Ming army's firearms would be scrapped when it rained.

The Eight Banners soldiers were brave but not really afraid of death, they entered the customs with the intention of making a fortune, and once the casualties increased, they were unwilling to fight again, because it was impossible to draw a line.

But now due to Huang Taiji's restraint and insistence on attacking, they had to continue to attack at the risk of death.

Once a person's mortal heart is gone, coupled with the increasingly difficult opponent, there will be slackness, and the combat effectiveness will also decline, although Huang Taiji used the supervision team, but these Eight Banners soldiers obviously did not have the fighting spirit of the Ming army border soldiers.

Seeing that the muzzle of a gun was pointed at them, they changed their shock formation, and sometimes it was not the man who wanted to change, but the horse who wanted to change direction.

Horses with the same biological trait, i.e., conditioned reflexes, have instinctively produced a reflex arc to avoid harm when they see the muzzle and muzzle, and they do not naturally change the direction of attack.

The cavalry attack formation changed, and the threat formed was greatly reduced.

However, the Praetorian Guard was also in difficulty at this time, and although they had rested for the night, many of the soldiers were already exhausted from the continuous days of fighting.

Firearms are very demanding on the attention of soldiers, and as soon as a person's fatigue increases, their accuracy decreases.

This is not the most serious problem, the most serious is the large consumption of gunpowder, coupled with the rain yesterday, today we have to face the most powerful attacking troops.

The gunpowder has reached the point where it is stretched, and Qin Botong even went to the position to let Chang Yanling and Fu Dahai save a little.

As a result, Chang Yanling, who was fighting with the Tartars and had hundreds of people killed and injured by the Tartars, burst into foul language for the first time and quarreled with Qin Botong.

In the end, it was Zhu Youxiao who stood up and ordered the Praetorian Guards to suspend the use of gunpowder before the Tartars could carry out the next attack, and let the baggage battalion engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tartars.

The engineer battalion remained as a reserve, and the cavalry and artillery battalions and infantry battalions rested for the time being.

Qin Botong was not afraid that his baggage battalion was going to fight the most powerful Tartars, and he and his baggage battalion soldiers kept holding their breath.

Since the training, it seems that everyone has thought that the baggage battalion is not the main battle force, but the auxiliary army serving the infantry and artillery cavalry.

And now will be the time for Qin Botong and He Heavy Battalion to prove themselves, last night's Tartar sneak attack is basically the credit of the engineers, and the Tartars withdrew too quickly, which is not a glory.

And this time is different, the confrontation in front of me is the main force of the Eight Banners in armor, these cavalry who will be scared if anyone hears it now.

"Brothers, in the next battle, we will face a tartar who will be frightened by everyone's heard, and I will ask you if you are afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Good! Let those guys from the infantry artillery battalion see that the spears of our baggage battalion can also kill Tartars! ”

The baggage battalion was the worst equipped, with only a hundred flintlock pistols in the whole battalion, and the rest were all arquebuses.

Zhu Youxiao did not object to his approach, logically speaking, the spear does have a certain resistance to the cavalry, but the effect is not very good, after all, in the face of a strong impact, people are easy to collapse, and once the cavalry maneuvers to attack the flank, you can't immediately change the direction of attack, not to mention that the spear formation can't attack except for self-protection.

"Array!"

After Qin Botong gave the order, the baggage battalion immediately formed an array of spears on the periphery, arquebuses on the inside, and flintlock pistols on the inside.

"Forward!"

Under the leadership of Qin Botong, the baggage battalion walked towards the main force of the Eight Banners of Huang Taiji with neat steps.

The Eight Banners Tartars also rushed over at this time, and some of the Eight Banners soldiers who had turned their horses' heads too late collided directly, and some soldiers from the baggage battalion were directly shocked to the ground.

But at this time, the soldier with the musket was indifferent, and he was so stunned by the scene before him that he forgot the usual training drills.

Fortunately, after a short period of stagnation, muskets began to shoot one after another, and several pikemen began to poke into the Eight Banners Tartars.

The soldiers of the baggage battalion are really not afraid of death, and they have to block the galloping horses when they fall in a pool of blood, and they can quickly make up for them when they see a comrade falling.

No one knows what kind of chicken blood Qin Botong gave them, maybe when a person is desperate to prove himself, he will become extremely crazy.