Chapter 171: Looking North (End)
As early as when Tuhai's Bayala army arrived at the battlefield, Chen Wen had already discovered this Qing army. In terms of terrain, as long as you think from the perspective www.biquge.info of Zilharang, the main direction of attack of the Qing army must be the right flank of the Ming army, and it will naturally be where Chen Wen pays more attention.
However, this Bayala soldier is indeed a rare elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the ordinary infantry created by the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang in the system such as the industrial assembly line relied on the battle formation to replace only a part of the elite, until the same as the elite grenadiers in the army entered the field, and the Bayala soldiers wearing heavy armor were beaten on their backs by these Ming troops who did not have a piece of armor.
The equipment of the grenadiers, Chen Wen has always been studied, at first on the battlefield in Jiangxi, wearing heavy armor, armed to the teeth, using grenades to destroy the enemy's formation, while causing a large number of casualties, and then holding a sword and shield to break the formation, the effect at that time was really good. But today, with the popularization of ironclad, since grenades have been able to provide a lot of damage, whether it is for personnel or morale, then the follow-up can completely rely on ordinary hand-to-hand infantry to tear apart the enemy formation. After all, Chen Wen didn't plan to learn from Mao Zi's grenadiers, and often rushed directly to hand-to-hand combat without even throwing grenades.
Just now, the grenadiers opened the way with grenades, used muskets to further inflict casualties on the Qing troops, and then put on sleeve bayonets and rushed up to hand-to-hand combat. The powerful lethality of the grenades and firecrackles in the early stage caused so much damage to these Bayala soldiers that what the grenadiers needed to do when they entered the field with bayonets had become to replenish the wounded Qing soldiers.
The four divisions, originally planned to have a grenadier brigade of 100 men per battalion, had to be changed to 200 grenadier infantry per division because the equipment could not keep up. The number was less than half, but there were also enough eight hundred people here, and these elite Chen Wen always held them in his hands until he confirmed that the direction of Zilharang's main attack was correct.
Half of the grenadiers reinforced the Nantang battalion on the right flank as reinforcements, while the other half followed the Jinhua Division as a reserve. Since at this moment, Zilharang's Bayala soldiers failed to destroy the formation of the Ming army and achieve the goal of snowballing through the rout, and Jilharang had no choice but to send the Eight Banners Army in his hand as the winner, then for Chen Wen, all that remained was how to kill and injure the Eight Banners Army as much as possible.
After all, this is likely to be his last battle with the Manchu Eight Banners Army in Jiangnan, and every time he kills one more Eight Banners Army in Jiangnan today, the less cavalry pressure he will have to face during the Northern Expedition in the future!
"Gentlemen, two famous kings, at this time!"
Chen Wen drew his sword in his hand and rode his horse to the northeast, followed by the cavalry battalions of the four divisions, and finally the two mounted infantry battalions of Flying Bear and Feathered Serpent.
In the direction pointed by the army, in the direction east of the right flank of the Ming army, the infantry of the Eighth Banner Army of Zilharang had already collided with the Jinhua Division.
In just an instant, with 400 grenadiers opening the way, the Ming army strode forward in a neat and dense queue, running over the survivors like bulldozers. In the face of such ferocious tactics, the Eight Banners Army, which was called by some people in later generations as the strongest barbarian tribe in the human world in the seventeenth century, could not even parry, let alone fight back.
Jierharang's handsome banner has moved to the rear of the Eight Banners Army, and Prince Heshuo Zheng is behind him, especially before the war, he has been instilled that if the master is lost, even if the slave wears the guilt and makes meritorious service, it will only be a dead end like Liu Liangzuo.
The Eight Banners Army sacrificed their lives and deaths, and the Jinhua Division's advance slowed down. Zilharang had already come to the rear of the Eight Banners Army, and Lanbai, Arzin, and Yilde also led the Eight Banners Army in their hands to supplement the battle formation. But at the same time, the Mandarin Duck Formation of the Ming Army on the left flank, the middle army and the right flank drove the rout of the Green Battalion and pierced into the battle formation of the Qing army like fangs.
Someone will fall on the battlefield almost every minute, and if they fall, they will never be able to stand up again, and the battle has entered a white heat, even if the sun has not yet fallen to the point where it can be called faint, but the entire battlefield has entered the Shura field, especially the Nantang camp on the edge of the right wing of the Ming army, and the blood can no longer even penetrate into the soil, but flow to the lower area under the trampling of a pair of big feet.
Chen Wen's army came to kill, and Zilharang did not fail to find out. He still had less than 6,000 cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners, but many of them participated in the previous harassment operations against the flanks of the Ming army.
Now that Chen Wen led more than 4,000 cavalry to kill, Zilharang remembered very well that Liu Cheng had commented that Chen Wen commanded the battle in a decent manner, but he was very good at seizing the opportunity to launch a fatal blow. At this moment, the battle of the main battlefield Ming army only had the upper hand, and before the victory was completely determined, Chen Wen took the lead in releasing the winner, and the purpose of it was almost clear to Zierharang with his knees.
"Chen Wen, this hasn't gotten anywhere yet, do you think you must win?!"
Holding the telescope tightly in his big rough hands, Chen Wen wanted to kill and injure the Eight Banners Army as much as possible, and even not give Zilharang a chance to retreat, his purpose was self-evident. Seeing this, Zilharang immediately issued an order to the officer who had just commanded the harassment of the right flank of the Ming army.
"Ming Andali, take the cavalry, entangle the cavalry of the Zhejiang bandits, and buy time for this king!"
The war horse under Zilharang's crotch is indeed a rare good horse, but if the Qing army is defeated, the chances of escaping in the chaos are far worse than leading a large group of cavalry.
Although Liu Liangzuo is the banner of the Han army, but Ming Andali asked himself that a Mongolian Gushan Ezhen could not afford the former regent, and the current Prince Heshuo Zheng had a responsibility for a mistake, seeing that Jierharang ordered him to attack with cavalry, he hurriedly said to Jierharang: "Prince, let's let the minions sit here, and the minions must buy time for the prince to kill Chen Wei!" ”
Ming Anda fell to the ground, but Zilharang shoved him back with a word: "You are not qualified enough. ”
Sitting here and stabilizing this Eight Banners Army, Ming Andali is really not qualified for a Mongolian solid mountain, not to mention the Manchurian Eight Banners, even if the Eight Banners of the Han Army are now in a disadvantaged situation, once there is something to do, there is no psychological burden to sell him with oil under his feet.
But Ji'er Harang is completely different, such an identity and status are only higher than Yue Le, even if the Manchurian Eight Banners flee back, there is only one death, not to mention the Mongolian Eight Banners who fought with the Manchurian Eight Banners on the battlefield and were about to face Chen Wen's cavalry troops.
Ming Andali is a veteran general with rich combat experience, and the doorway in this is clear, but the habitual thinking of the slave to ensure the safety of the master is troubled, so it will be like this. At this moment, Zilharang's cold words were immediately like a basin of cold water poured on his head, and he knew what to do next.
"Slaves obey!"
Ming Andali knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, and turned over on his horse. The conch horn sounded, and the cavalry of the brigade behind the formation shouted to follow the Ming Anda salute in the direction of the Ming cavalry.
The Mongol Eight Banners army attacked, and Chen Wen's strength was superior, but the number of cavalry was inferior. But even so, he still led the four thousand iron horsemen to rush up.
The cavalry of both sides launched a confrontation on the easternmost side of the battlefield, galloping horses, riding bows and shooting fiercely, the rain of arrows flying in the sky, with a group of cavalry according to the weapons and parallel advances of the Ming army wearing cavalry-style iron armor, the cavalry suffered few casualties, but the unarmored war horses were repeatedly killed by arrows. On the side of the Qing army, in the face of the Ming army's cavalry shooting, which was slightly inferior to its own accuracy, the cavalry of the Qing army continued to move away from the horses while drawing their bows to return fire, giving full play to the nomadic horseman's riding skills.
Closer to home, the formation of the Qing army has been loosened, and the cavalry needs more space than the infantry to wield their weapons, so as to give full play to the advantages of horsemanship, martial arts and experience, and the Ming army has always been underestimated by the Qing army, and even Chen Wen never intended to use cavalry as the main force of the battle, and it is still the same old column as a unit to meet the enemy.
Tens of thousands of cavalry in this area staggered, soon melee into a group, the Ming army has the cooperation of fighting in array, and the Qing army is better in riding and other aspects of experience, the two sides come and go, Chen Wen in the battle group under the protection of the guards is close to the Qing army into a state of melee.
"Kill!"
Captain Chen Fugui went down with an iron hammer, and a Qing soldier in front of Chen Wen was slapped on the back with a strong sturgeon, and the whole person was directly carried down from the war horse, and it looked like the backbone had been completely broken.
At that time, not far away, a Qing army officer who had just slashed and killed a Ming cavalry was seeing Chen Fugui wielding an iron mace to kill several people in a row, although he didn't know that this person was Chen Wen's guard captain, but at a glance he saw that he was a brave and incomparable officer, but he still took advantage of the situation to pick up the riding bow, took the bow and arrows, and aimed at this humanoid steamroller to shoot.
But at this moment, as the Qing army who had broken his backbone dismounted, Chen Wen immediately noticed the Qing army who was about to secretly use cold arrows, raised his hand and didn't even aim, a gunshot rang out, red and white splashed out, and the Qing army officer immediately raised his head and drove off the horse. Compared to the Qing army who had just broken his backbone by Chen Fugui, this unlucky guy couldn't die anymore.
The melee in the center of the war group was like this, but Li Huanxiang saw the Qing soldier who killed several people in a row before engaging in battle, and even cut one of his subordinates. Anger rose from the heart, evil was born to the side of the guts, picked up the saber, Li returned to his hometown, and rushed forward.
However, this time the horse charge was quickly stopped by several other Qing troops, and when Li returned to his hometown to fight out of the encirclement, the Qing warrior had already disappeared.
"Damn it, you're in luck!"
The two sides come and go, the melee in the center of the war group is like this, outside the war group is still riding horses and galloping, riding and shooting from afar, and staggered fighting from near, unlike the main battlefield, until the Eight Banners Army enters the battle, it can be regarded as completely entering the white-hot level, and it is almost the first moment of collision that has killed red eyes.
In general, although the Ming army has a cavalry formation to cooperate with the battle, it is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the Ming Andali can tolerate this kind of almost one-for-one attrition. At least for now, he still has great confidence in relying on the superiority in numbers and combat power to completely overwhelm this Ming cavalry group.
However, in the next moment, through the flying smoke and dust, Ming Andali noticed that the direction of the Ming army's attack, a spear shining in the sunlight was coming towards it, and his heart was cold.
It was none other than the two mounted infantry battalions of the Ming army that were about to enter the battlefield. They followed the cavalry, but there was a big difference in speed, and by the time they reached the left closer, the cavalry groups on both sides had already started a scuffle, and they didn't even notice them.
Coming from behind the Ming army, these Ming troops, who could only wear lighter armor due to the need to exist as a mobile force, got off the mule, immediately connected the special two spears in the distance, and immediately formed a formation and advanced in the direction of the war group.
The strength of the two battalions can be heard on the main battlefield, but they quickly maneuver to the flanks of the cavalry battle, and they have the ability to completely change the situation of the battle.
The flying bear is on the left, the Feathered Serpent battalion is on the right, the two battalions are marching together, the cavalry of the Qing army has already stood in a group with the Ming army, in the face of these two slowly advancing spear forests, the Qing army outside the war group still has a chance to disperse, but when the cavalry and infantry battalions of the Ming army outside the war group converge, the cavalry is wandering on the flanks, and the infantry is slowly pressing towards the war group, and the Qing cavalry in the war group is like falling into the quagmire and becoming unable to extricate themselves.
The exchange ratio took a sharp turn in favor of the Ming army the moment the infantry entered the battle group. The Qing cavalry in the battle group drove to the speed of the horse, and when they landed, they became the target of the Ming infantry, and almost every assassination would have the Qing army fall off their horses. The cavalry of the Qing army outside the battle group wanted to rely on speed maneuver to attack, but they needed to face the Ming army's spear forest and cavalry flank attacks at the same time.
Soon, the Qing troops in the war group were crushed by the Ming army one by one, and they paid a lot of casualties, and Ming Andali had to lead the remnants out of the battlefield.
But at this juncture, on the main battlefield, with a burst of exclamations, the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army's central army, under the offensive of the Yongjia division at the head of the old battalion, took the lead in not being able to withstand the pressure of a large number of casualties, and the collapse of the military formation quickly spread from point to surface. Almost instantly, tens of thousands of troops lost their minimum order and collapsed.
At this moment, Chen Wen had already escaped from the melee, and as far as the telescope could see, the Green Battalion was defeated, and the Eight Banners Army of the Chinese Army, the left and right wings were also scattered and fled.
The collapse was like a contagion, and it soon spread to the location of the Eight Banners Army led by Zilharang. It seems that the appeal of Zilharang is still there, and the Eight Banners Army has been greatly affected, but the phenomenon of rout and escape is not obvious, and it is still fighting around Jilharang's handsome banner.
"Pass the order, the Yongjia Division and the Dalan Division will freely pursue the routed soldiers, and the Nantang Battalion of the Four Ming Divisions will besiege Jierharang with this king!"
Even if the order does not need to be given, Li Ruixin, Ma Xin and Chen Guobao know very well what to do. At the same time, Chen Wen led the cavalry and the cavalry infantry battalion, which had already entered the state of foot, to outflank Zilharang's rear road. When the Ming army's intention to encircle was discovered, the morale of the Eight Banners Army seemed to be pressed on the last straw, and it collapsed like other Qing armies.
The encirclement of the Ming army was soon formed, and Chen Wen had no interest in surrendering, only a killing word. The army besieged and killed until dusk, and Zilharang and the only remaining soldiers under his command were exposed to the sight of the Ming army under the banner of the commander.
Chen Wen was just a killing word, and the infantry in the front row surrounded and went up, and all of them were killed by the Ming army, except for Zilharang. And when Zilharang's handsome banner was cut off by the Ming army, the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners Army came to an end completely.
Chen Wence stood in the center of the battlefield, his heart was full of excitement, several years of hard work was not in vain, although he did not have high-tech to help, nor was he the kind of famous general who strategized to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away, but through the establishment of a semi-feudal and semi-modern professional army and a matching administrative system, he finally embarked on the road of completely sweeping away the dust and reviving China. And that's just the beginning!
I saw that he held a spear in his hand and lifted Zilharang's golden helmet high, looked around, and shouted: "Nanjing! ”
The soldiers of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies raised their weapons one after another and shouted in unison.
"Nanjing!"
"Nanjing!"
"Nanjing!"
The sound shook in the wilderness, and the echo was loud.