"The Ming army is very seeded today!"

There was only Li Xu apart, and the entire Qing army was already increasing the speed of the horses.

The Mongol army was on the right flank of the Ming army, the main force of the Han army was facing the left flank of the Ming army, and the central formation was with the mixed troops led by Melezhangjing Lashi as the vanguard.

From the second year of the Apocalypse to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he has been fighting on horseback for more than 20 years, even if it is the most elite Liaodong Army and the Xuanda Army of the Ming Army, he has fought many times.

Now under his command are 600 Han troops of Shandong Governor Fang Dayou, 300 Sauron soldiers and Oroqen soldiers of various ethnic groups, 200 Mongolian soldiers, and more than 100 Manchurian soldiers gathered behind him, which is the last assault force and supervision team.

These miscellaneous soldiers have always been used by the Qing army to send the first wave of death and attract firepower, and the miscellaneous soldiers themselves know this.

In the face of the Ming army in a violent state, these miscellaneous soldiers also showed nervous expressions, and many Han soldiers were pale-faced, and their expressions were very ugly...... They were originally in Shandong to confront the opposite Ming army, I don't know how many times they fought each other for most of the year, the more the Ming army fought, the stronger the more people fought, and the better the equipment.

What frustrates these Han soldiers the most is that the treatment of people is getting higher and higher, and the comparison between the two is really frustrating.

Originally, they were the Ming army of Shandong or Hebei, and as soon as the Qing army arrived, they wisely chose to surrender. One is that the Ming Dynasty ran out of gas, and the other is that the Ming Dynasty was short of salaries and weapons, and the Qing Dynasty was at least able to guarantee the food and salary for the Han army.

Even if it is insufficient, it can be made up for by looting, and in many ways, Qing is much more generous than Ming.

But after more than half a year, the Ming Dynasty not only did not have the intention of destroying the country, but reorganized the place, the original Ming Dynasty lacked the most is the real control ability of the place, coupled with the rebellion of the gentry, so the place is not attached, and it is impossible to grasp the power at all.

But now that the central government is in power, the local officials are reassigned, and the gentry have regained their centripetal force towards the central government through the system of contributions and prisoners, everything is completely different from before.

At least, in terms of public opinion, the Ming Dynasty does not have to die, and it still seems to have strong luck, not as if it is about to die immediately.

As for the treatment of soldiers, it makes these surrendered Han soldiers even more red-eyed.

The infantry in Shandong Town is five yuan per month, and they are also given salt tea cloth shoes, and one person is a soldier and the whole family has a share, which is a special regulation of the war zone, and the silver is not as much as the Pingyu army, but the additional material supply is very substantial...... After all, in war-torn places, it is more pleasant to send real materials than silver.

The money, materials, and better armor and blades are enough, which is enough to frustrate the Qing soldiers in Shandong. In the past six months, the Qing armies on both sides had a slight advantage, and the attraction of the rebel armies in various places was also greater than that of the Ming Dynasty. But the arrival of Zhu Dadian and the enrichment of materials quickly reversed the previous unfavorable situation, in the face of Zhu Dadian's prestige and personal ability, the righteous army came to vote, the strength of the Ming army became stronger and stronger, at this time, Shandong Town was worse than Xu Zhen and the equipment of the Ping Capture Army, but it was far more than the ordinary surrender of the Han army.

After discovering that the enemy on the opposite side was the Pingyu army, which was a little sharper than Shandong Town, the frustration and chill of these Shandong Han troops can be imagined.

But there is no way to go up, there are Manchurian soldiers behind him, and Sauron soldiers and Mongol soldiers around him, these Tartars can turn their faces and deny people at any time. At this time, of course, the taste of the slaves in the country is very uncomfortable, but it can only be so.

"Quick, bring me the horses to run, pretend to be dead, and execute them all!"

After fighting with the Han people for many years, and also in the Han land for many years, Laxi's Chinese is also considered to be a correct and round, after he gave the order, the heralds around him also waved their flags and issued orders loudly, so more than a thousand assault troops composed of miscellaneous armies drove their horses and rushed towards the Ming army outside the Li Xu Wai.

At the same time, the Qing army on the left and right flanks was also ordered to accelerate, and with the follow-up of the Chinese army, the momentum of more than 10,000 horsemen speeding up on the ground really appeared.

What a magnificence, what a majesty!

And with the acceleration of the speed of the horses, all the Qing army ranks were scattered, and the cavalry inlaid with red armor and white armor formed an extremely wide front, and thousands of horses galloped, like a landslide and tsunami!

"Cavalry marching?"

As the movements of the Qing cavalry accelerated, the soldiers of the Pingyu Army also became nervous. But Cao Qing, who had been riding in the middle, was not nervous at all.

Seeing the movements of the Qing army, he didn't even move, and in his eyes, he was completely contemptuous!

"Still coming to this set? Scatter and shoot arrows to move me? I'll tell you to lose your teeth! ”

In the face of well-prepared infantry, even the method of charging with cavalry in a position that is completely large enough for the standard of heavy infantry, even the Mongolian iron cavalry in peak state rarely uses such a stupid fighting method!

Compared with infantry, the advantage of cavalry lies in its fast mobility and condescending combat effectiveness, coupled with the unique archery skills of nomads, which constitute the advantage of foreign cavalry over Han infantry.

And the Han infantry in terms of restraining the rangers, is a battle after battle!

As long as the long-range strike ability, plus heavy armor and infantry formation, the cavalry wants to compete with the heavy infantry head-on, which is completely a fool's dream.

Unless it is a real sense of heavy cavalry in China during the Han and Wei dynasties, there is this possibility, but it is a small number of cavalry cultivated with national resources, after the Wei and Jin dynasties and the early Sui Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty is no longer a lifting cavalry, and the Liao and Mengyuan are also not successful.

Only in the early Jin Dynasty did there really heavy cavalry, but it was only a flash in the pan.

The current Qing army also has a small number of heavy cavalry, but there is no one in the opposite formation, and it can only be said that it is self-defeating to rush into battle with this kind of cavalry that only has soldiers and even the vanguard team is in a very unsatisfactory state of armor.

Sure enough, as Cao Qing expected, when galloping to the center of the battlefield, the Qing army's horse team had been divided into several pieces, and more than 1,000 people in the forefront had already opened their bows and arrows, and when they were ready to reach the front of the formation, they scattered and scattered to scatter and scatter when they arrived in front of the formation, and used the rain of arrows to carry out the first round of blows on the Ming army's strong formation!

The so-called advantage of cavalry and archery is this kind of tactics of shooting at a gallop and suppressing the infantry formation that is unfavorable for mobility.

This kind of play has been used by the grassland people for thousands of years, and it couldn't be more skillful.

The Sauron soldiers and Mongol soldiers in the forward horse team were even stronger than the Eight Banners in terms of horsemanship, and even those Han troops who surrendered and belonged were all cavalry, and their archery and riding skills were not bad.

After joining the Eight Banners, the military discipline and organizational surnames of these miscellaneous soldiers have increased greatly, and they are also a bit of a strong army on the side of the Qing army.

As for the armor, most of these forwards were cotton armor or cloth armor, leather armor, and few iron armor, after all, the Qing army was not rich enough to match all the miscellaneous brands with iron armor.

"Four hundred steps, three hundred and fifty steps, three hundred steps......"

Cao Qing had already retreated into his camp, and like him, Zhang Quanbin and Jin Qianli, who were not far away, were counting the distance of the Qing cavalry.

Beside them, there were staff officers, auxiliary officers such as the Chinese army herald, all of whom were breathing heavily, waiting for their own decision as the commander of the battalion.

"Two hundred steps, order, firecracker, salvo!"

"Volley!"

"Fire on Lao Tzu!"

The three battalion officers issued orders almost at the same time, and the flag was quickly displayed, and the firecrackers in each platoon had already stepped forward, and the heavy firecrackers were lying on the ground, beside them was an assistant who helped to load, these heavy firecrackers each weighed twenty-two pounds, and the caliber was already about the same as the cannon, because it was too heavy, and a bracket must be placed under the gun, otherwise no one could bear such a strong recoil with **.

The heavier firecracker is surrounded by a light-fired gunner, and the improved firearm has a shorter barrel than the Ming army's bird-gunned, with a larger medicine pool and a more sufficient charge, because of the rigor and intensification of the production process, although the barrel is shorter, the range and power are multiplied.

In terms of technology, these firecrackers have not surpassed the times at all, but they are more strict in process and more attentive in materials, and that's it.

But the effect is strong enough!

The two wings of each row are the positions of the musketeers, and the two wings are connected to each other, leaving a passage behind the musketeers, and the two wings are connected to each other, which is to increase the salvo power of the platoon shots, and there are guards of sword players, spearmen, and halberders on the sides of the two wings. When engaging with the enemy's cold soldiers, the Gunner can use the passage to retreat and shoot repeatedly, hitting the enemy to the greatest extent.

Each platoon has three heavy gunners, five light gunners, plus the assistants of the gunners, and each platoon has about ten to twelve gunners.

After the battalion officers gave the order, more than 900 musketeers fired their first bullets at the first time.

Because it was a salvo, everyone was standing in the first row, and before the enemy rode about two hundred paces, and before the bow and arrow could be effectively killed, the musket had already fired.

The lethality of the Ming army's shotguns was at most 40 to 60 paces, and it could hit more than 100 paces away, but it could not hurt anyone, and it was useless.

The effective range of the firearms of the Pingyu army is already about 300 paces, and the marksmen in the army can damage targets without armor at this distance, and at the distance of 200 paces, non-marksmen can also have about 50% of the hits.

As for the killing, of course, the closer the better, but within 200 steps is enough to shoot through the leather armor, and within 100 steps, it is the triple iron armor, which is also easy.

With the volley of the firecrackers, the air seemed to freeze!

The Qing army of about 200 paces fell down in a row at once, a puff of blood mist spread in the air, many Qing soldiers' armor was shattered, the entire chest was blood-red, the skin was open, the blood was spilled, and many people fell under the horse without even screaming.

"Shoot, shoot in columns!"

The order was again revised, and after the salvo, column firing began.

The heavily armed men opened fire again, and after another dull sound, the Qing army on the opposite side suffered another heavy blow.

Because it's closer, it's more powerful.

A petty officer in heavy armor was struck by a bullet, and his helmet was shattered, leaving only one body left on the horse, and the whole head disappeared as if it had never grown at all.

Someone's chest was knocked down, someone was knocked off the arm, in front of the powerful heavy fire, the Qing army fell to the ground one after another, for a while, the casualties were extremely heavy!

(To be continued)