Chapter 14: The Bloody Battle of Wuhu (3)
Pang Yue carefully looked at the Qing army that was forming a team on the opposite side. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info As he expected, this time, Manchurian Jiannu had already been dispatched, and all the traitor troops of the two Zhang and Liu troops were left behind the battle. Judging from the flags, Manchuria Jiannu is white, yellow, red, and blue, and is in the center. The fake tartars of the eight banners of the Han Dynasty are red, red, white, yellow, and blue, and are located on both wings.
Suddenly, the Manchurian Jiannu formation in the center shook, and the Jiannu cavalry in the front row gave way to both sides, and then a dazzling white light poured out from this passage. If you look closely, it is a team of cavalry dressed in bright helmets and bright armor, with a flaming border flag behind their backs, and red tassels on their helmets. This team of white-armored Jiannu is particularly eye-catching in a large number of cotton armors of various colors, and what is even more amazing is that even their war horses are uniformly covered with cotton armor.
Jiannu White Armor Soldiers! Pang Yue quickly confirmed the identity of the team of Jiannu with the help of the knowledge of later generations. The ranks of the Manchurian Jiannu soldiers from low to high were three levels: defenders, infantry armor, and horse armor. The White Armor Soldier, whose full name is the White Swing Tooth Soldier, is a type of vest and is selected from ordinary vests through a rigorous examination. The white-armored soldiers generally have more than eight years of military experience, brave and experienced in combat, and are the absolute elite of Jiannu, under normal circumstances, each Niu Lu only has a dozen or more than twenty such soldiers. Moreover, the equipment of the white armor soldiers can also be described by the word luxury, not only the blade in the hand is the most sophisticated, but also the body is covered with triple armor, the innermost is chain mail, the middle is leather armor, and the outermost layer of iron armor, even the war horse is closely protected by the cotton armor lined with iron leaves, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.
I saw that the white-armored soldiers in the distance poured out of the passage, and gradually moved to the front row of the entire Manchurian Jiannu array, and began to line up. A rough estimate puts the number at nearly 1,000.
It seems that Jiannu is really willing to spend money, and probably gather all the white-armored soldiers to prepare for the battle! Pang Yue saw that Jiannu dispatched thousands of white-armored soldiers like baby pimples, and secretly sighed to himself.
Nikan has indeed decided to let go this time. Seeing that Huang Degong's troops were not as easy to deal with as other Ming troops, he no longer wanted Liu Liangzuo and other newly attached traitor troops to go up and waste time, but directly dispatched the Manchu and Han Eight Banners, preparing to let the Han Eight Banners contain the Ming cavalry on both wings, and then break through from the center of the Manchu Eight Banners and give Huang Degong's troops a thunderous blow. In order to make the attack go smoothly, Nikan gathered all the white-armored soldiers in Niu Lu Zhangjing's hands and formed a powerful breakthrough force.
Seeing the appearance of Jiannu's white-armored soldiers, Huang Degong's heart was also tight, he had lived and fought in Liaodong for many years, of course he knew the destructiveness of this white-armored soldier, but he didn't show anything on his face, just let the herald go down and urge the battalions to hurry up and set up the formation.
After a while, the Ming army and Jiannu had already completed their formations and lined up their formations.
"Boom! … Boom! … Boom! Jiannu's war drums sounded first, and this time it was still them who took the lead in attacking. This time, Nikan only left 2,000 Han Eight Banner infantry and 1,000 Zhenghuang Banner Jiannu cavalry as the Chinese army, and the rest of the main forces of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners were all pressed, which can be described as a desperate and inevitable victory. The left flank of the whole formation is the 5,000 cavalry of the Han army with two red flags and blue flags, the right flank is the more than 4,000 cavalry of the Han army's yellow flag and the white flag, the middle route is led by more than 1,000 Jiannu white armor soldiers, followed by 4,000 Jiannu light cavalry, and then the infantry of Jiannu and Han Eight Banners, totaling more than 15,000.
Soon after, as the drum beat changed, the cavalry of the Han Eight Banners on the left and right flanks began to speed up. After a while, the white-armored soldiers in the middle also controlled the war horse and began to trot. The sound of horses' hooves grew louder and denser, and gradually converged into a series of earth-shattering thunder, and the ground trembled.
The Ming army's formation did not change much compared with the morning, except that the two infantry phalanxes that did not participate in the battle and the phalanx that participated in the battle in the morning exchanged positions, and the two cavalry battalions that had fought against the traitor army and the Han Eight Banners were also replaced by two cavalry battalions in the reserve. …,
Just when the war drums of the Qing army sounded, the war drums of the Ming army were also beaten, and the command flag conveyed one by one from the Chinese army. Two cavalry battalions were divided into two cavalry battalions on the left and right flanks of the large army array, and five thousand cavalry began to trot and accelerate, and the soldiers in the front two infantry phalanxes also erected their shields to form a shield wall at the commander's command.
Listening to the louder and louder sound of horses' hooves in front of them, and feeling the increasingly violent tremor of the ground, the Ming infantry in the infantry phalanx couldn't help but feel a little nervous. After all, it was the first time that many of them had fought with the real Manchurian Jiannu, not to mention that the enemy in front of them was the notorious white-armored soldiers. A fine layer of sweat oozed from the foreheads of many soldiers, and some of the timid soldiers began to tremble even with their hands holding their weapons. However, under the constraints of Huang Zhen's strict military discipline, this personal emotion was not enough to affect the strict order of the entire phalanx.
On both wings, with the sudden sound of shouts and the clashing of swords, the Ming cavalry and the fake Tartar cavalry of the Han Eight Banners met. This time, the two sides are not much different in terms of horsepower and numbers. This evenly matched situation made the fight even more tragic and difficult to distinguish, and after a few hedges, the two became deadlocked.
At the same time, the Jiannu white-armored soldiers in front of them were getting closer and closer to the Ming army's infantry phalanx, and the triple armor on the white-armored soldiers greatly reduced the rain of arrows sent by the Ming army. The soldiers of the Ming army could even see the hideous expressions of the white-armored soldiers.
The light armored cavalry after the Jiannu white armor soldiers also raised their cavalry bows to suppress the Ming army. I have to say that although Jiannu's "riding and shooting" is exaggerated, it is not in vain. The arrows of the Jiannu cavalry were extremely tricky, almost hitting people's vital points, and what was even more vicious was that these arrows were mostly three-edged arrows, which were several times more destructive than ordinary feather arrows.
Despite the shield wall as a cover, there were still Ming soldiers in the formation, covering their faces or chests, screaming and falling. However, as the battle progressed, the tension of the Ming soldiers was somewhat reduced. After all, there are many veterans who have seen the sea of corpses and blood, and they quickly got through the panic under the command of their superior officers and gradually entered the state. The dead and wounded were constantly carried away, and their places were taken by soldiers in the back. The archers of the Ming army also risked being hit by arrows and counterattacked the Jiannu outside the field.
In the blink of an eye, the Jiannu white-armored soldiers were already fifty paces away from the infantry phalanx of the Ming army.
Behind the shield wall, the Ming crossbowmen who had fired the last round of arrows had retreated, replaced by a firecracker with a three-eyed firearm, and the mouth of the gun pointed directly at the Jiannu white-armored soldiers outside the formation through the gap between the shields.
"Ready! - Put! "When the white-armored soldiers reached the front of the phalanx forty paces, the commander of the musketeers gave the command.
"Bang! Boom! Boom! "Bang! Boom! Boom! ”…… The sound of the three-eyed fire bolt was continuous, and the smoke of gunpowder dispersed in all directions. Time was precious, and the musketeers had no time to reload their ammunition, and they didn't even have the heart to observe the results of the battle, so they quickly turned around and retreated through the gap between the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen behind them.
The sword and shield soldiers quickly took position, and the several rows of pikemen who followed them raised their Zhanger horse guns in their hands and pointed diagonally forward over the shield wall, forming a forest of spears.
Although the Ming army's three-eyed firearm salvo just now caused some casualties to the white-armored soldiers, the white-armored soldiers, as the number one elite among the Jiannu, still rushed over fearlessly. Moreover, they also knew that most of the firearms of the Ming army could only be fired once, and then they could only be used as burning sticks, so they had nothing to worry about.
Before the smoke cleared, the Jiannu white-armored soldiers appeared in front of the shield wall. Due to the momentum of the war horses, coupled with the smoke of gunpowder obscuring part of the vision, some of the white-armored Jiannu who rushed to the front did not have time to rein in their horses, and the mounts under them collided headlong with the horse rejection pistol, and after a mournful neigh, they threw the owner on horseback to the ground. Some of the white-armored Jiannu were directly stabbed in the chest, abdomen, throat and other vital points by the rejection horse gun, and they rolled off the horse with a muffled snort. However, there were still some quick-eyed white-armored soldiers who dodged the horse rejection pistol with a low body, and then rushed directly from the horse into the Ming army's formation, raised the iron-handled knife in their hands and slashed at the Ming soldiers. The soldiers of the Ming army, who were engrossed in the defense array, couldn't help but be a little flustered when they saw a white-armored soldier appear in front of them, so these white-armored soldiers were even more proud, and the pick-up knives in their hands rolled up and down, bringing out a cloud of blood rain. …,
Although the white-armored soldiers were brave, the number of people who climbed into the shield wall was still a small number compared to the Ming army, and the Ming soldiers also began to kill these white-armored soldiers after they woke up from the panic of being raided.
Seeing the dense array of horse-rejecting guns in front of them, the rest of the white-armored soldiers outside the formation reined in their horses, dismounted and fought, holding a shield in their left hand and wielding an iron-handled long knife in their right hand to attack the shield wall of the Ming army. At the same time, after the light armored cavalry after Baijia Jiannu threw the last round of arrow rain into the Ming army's formation, they divided into two groups and rushed to the two wings to assist the Han Eight Banner cavalry to attack the Ming cavalry, and then, more than 15,000 Jiannu and Han Eight Banner infantry poured towards the Ming army like a tide.
Inside the shield wall, the dozens of white armor soldiers who went deep alone were less and less under the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, but the Ming army also paid a heavy price for this, and almost every time a white armor was killed, several Ming soldiers fell. But all the soldiers of the Ming army knew very well that if they didn't get rid of these white-armored Jiannu as soon as possible, then they would fight with the Jiannu outside the formation sooner or later, and sooner or later the entire formation would be chaotic, and once their own formation was disrupted by the Jiannu, the consequences would be unimaginable. Because of such a sense of crisis, coupled with the continuous transmission of the reward information from the rear, "The commander has an order, kill a white-armored Jiannu and reward fifty taels of silver", the soldiers of the Ming army burst out of unprecedented combat potential, and the Jiannu Baijia who broke into the formation was gradually submerged in the sea of people of the Ming army.
At this time, the Jiannu Baijia outside the formation had broken through several shield walls, but they were all blocked by the Ming saber shield hand with human lives with the tactics of the sea of people. On the battle line, the sword light fluttered, flesh and blood flew, although the enemy in front of them was less than a thousand, but the Ming officers and soldiers felt unprecedented hardship. With the later addition of more than 10,000 Jiannu and Han Eight Banner infantry to the battle group, the pressure on the Ming infantry increased sharply.
Seeing that the phalanx in front was crumbling, the two Ming infantry phalanxes in the back were also ready to enter the battle at any time.
The situation on both flanks is even more not optimistic, originally the Ming cavalry has been tied with the Han Eight Banner cavalry, but with the addition of the Jiannu light cavalry, the battlefield situation is sharply tilted towards the Qing side. The Jiannu cavalry accompanied by a strange roar from the flank of the Ming cavalry, rushed into the formation and slashed back and forth. The cavalry of the Ming army was caught off guard by the two sides of Jiannu and Han Baqi, and the number of fallen horses rose sharply.
At this time, there was still a cavalry battalion on each side of the Ming infantry phalanx. Seeing that the two wings were in danger, Huang Degong hurriedly ordered the two battalions to go up for reinforcements.
On the right flank, seeing the cavalry reinforced by the Ming army coming up, the Zhenghuang and Zhengbai Banner Jiannu cavalry of about 2,000 people let go of the Ming army on the right flank that had attacked before, and the formation turned slightly and rushed towards the Ming reinforcements.
After a fierce metal collision and screams, the Ming cavalry and the Jiannu cavalry rushed past. Although the Ming army still had a slight numerical advantage, the casualties were greater than those of Jiannu. After this hedging, more than 60 corpses of Ming cavalry were left on the ground, while the corpses of Jiannu were only about 30. After the Jiannu cavalry ran dozens of steps, they turned their horses and launched a new round of attack on the Ming cavalry, but there was still a part of the Ming cavalry that had not yet completed the turn. This fighter was firmly grasped by Jiannu, and after another fierce hedge, the casualties on both sides were even more disparity than the last time.
The left flank was also in a similar situation, hedging again and again, and the Ming army's reinforced cavalry was almost exchanging lives with Jiannu in exchange for two to one.
Seeing this situation, Huang Degong's face suddenly sank, he didn't expect that the reinforced cavalry would not even be able to protect himself! Although there were still two resting cavalry battalions in the reserve, they were tired soldiers who had fought all morning with the fake Tartars of the traitor army, and it would be useless to send them up. As soon as he thought of this, Huang Degong was ready to show off his killer feature.
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On the position of the Flying Tiger Battalion, Pang Yue looked at the battle situation in front of him, and his heart was also anxious. The cavalry on both flanks is in danger, and the infantry in the middle seems to be almost unable to hold on.
Seeing that the front was tight, the officers and men of the Flying Tiger Battalion were also gearing up one by one and were eager to try. Pang Yue couldn't remember how many times Shi Youliang stared at the bull's eye and stomped his feet and begged him to go to Huang Degong's place to ask for a battle for the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion.
"Alas, my lord..."Shi Youliang stabbed the handle of the big knife into the dirt, ready to repeat his previous "request".
But before he could finish speaking, a voice came: "General Pang, the marshal ordered you to quickly lead the men and horses of the camp to strengthen the Chinese guards." ”
Shi Youliang turned his head and saw that it was a herald beside Huang Degong.
"Let the handsome rest assured, we will go immediately!" Pang Yue said to the herald.
The herald saluted Pang Yue with a fist on his horse, then pulled the reins and walked away. After that, under Pang Yue's order, all the officers and soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion began to act.
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