"Shut up!" Tong Tulai roared with his eyes blazing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info At this time, he already had some regrets in his heart. Looking at the Ming troops on the other side, they have obviously been prepared for a long time, and they don't know what tricks they will use next. But he also knows that he must not give up lightly now. In the current situation of fluctuating military morale, once he gives the order to retreat again, the morale of the whole army will plummet or even completely collapse. In the face of the tide of tens of thousands of Ming troops, he and some of the cavalry may be able to withdraw to safety, but the foot soldiers in the rear and the clothed Aha who escort the grain and grass will have no physiology. What's more, even if he can successfully evacuate, he may have to bear the infamy of being greedy for life and afraid of death, cowardly and avoiding war, not only will he be severely punished, but even his family will be disgraced, no matter what, it is not cost-effective.

Since there is no way to retreat, let's fight to the death! At this critical juncture, Tong Tulai suddenly burst out full of pride and ambition, and decided to fight hard to turn the situation on the battlefield. Moreover, he felt that he was not without opportunities, although the Ming army phalanx on the opposite side seemed to be strictly organized, but after all, it was mainly foot soldiers, like this kind of flashy phalanx he didn't know how many he had encountered before, every time it was broken with a rush, and it was impossible to compete with the cavalry.

After making up his mind, Tong Tulai ordered Xu Yong to lead the cavalry of his headquarters to meet the Ming cavalry on the right flank, and sent a member of Jia Lazhangjing to lead a thousand cavalry to meet the Ming cavalry on the left flank. The two Qing cavalry who received the military order immediately rushed out of the formation, and rushed towards the Ming cavalry that had begun to accelerate from both flanks.

After arranging all this, Tong Tulai organized all the remaining more than 5,000 cavalry. In order to boost the morale of the army. He decided to personally lead 5,000 cavalry into battle, striving to break the Ming army battle formation in front of him in one go, and let Zu Zepei lead hundreds of cavalry to press the formation in the rear, and wait for the follow-up Green Battalion infantry and Baoyi Aha to arrive before entering the battle together.

In the face of this decision of Tong Tulai. Zu Zepei hurriedly persuaded and said: "My lord, as the true of this banner Gushan, how can you be in danger, it is better to let ......"

"Enough!" Tong Tulai interrupted Zu Zepei's persuasion with a strong contempt, "My Tong Jia clan has been favored by the Great Qing Dynasty, and I have followed Taizu to fight in the south and north since the Mandate of Heaven, and I have never been a cowardly person to avoid war!" Now in order to repay the king's kindness, even if I die on the battlefield and the horse leather shroud, I will not hesitate! ”

The phalanx of infantry soldiers of the Ming army in front moved towards this side little by little. Flags are unfurled, spears are like forests, and tens of thousands of foot soldiers are stepping neatly like a heavy hammer constantly beating people's chests.

On the side of the Qing army, thousands of cavalry gradually lined up in a charging formation. Tong Tulai was joined by a group of Goshkha under the close protection. Looking at the already cloudy wilderness and the black battle formations on both sides, he felt that his blood was about to boil, and with a surging heart, he raised his throat and personally made a brief pre-war mobilization for his soldiers: "Warriors with white flags, since the beginning of the Thirteenth Army of Taizu in the Qing Dynasty, I have encountered countless battles of all sizes. No one can win! In the face of those weak dogs, they are even more invincible and invincible! Today, let me wait to reproduce this glory and completely kill the incompetent Ming dogs on the opposite side! ”

Tong Tulai's pre-war mobilization was brief. But it was from the heart and full of pride, which instantly attracted the response of the Qing cavalry like a wolf howling and a tiger. Everyone. Whether it was the Bayala soldiers, the armored soldiers, or the auxiliary soldiers in the banner, they all quickly threw away the panic of the party, and raised the weapons in their hands with fanatical faces and shouted loudly.

See the military heart is available. A smug smile appeared on the corner of Tong Tulai's mouth, and he immediately gave the order to attack.

Suddenly, the 5,000 cavalry of the Qing army swept away like a white wave towards the Ming infantry in front of them. At the top of the cone-shaped array were hundreds of stout and shiny armor-clad Baya soldiers, armed with all kinds of heavy weapons, their faces full of cruel excitement. Although they are not genuine Manchurian Baya soldiers, being selected into the Bayala battalion is enough to prove their strength in fighting skills. In the past, they didn't know how many times they tore the seemingly strict battle formation of the Ming army to pieces, and they were also full of confidence in the battle in front of them.

Not only the Bayala soldiers, but also the horse armor, infantry armor and other soldiers of the Aliha Chaoha battalion, as well as the auxiliary soldiers of the various Niu Lu, were all fanatical, and after only a moment of horse charge, they left the panic just now, and quickly found their own feelings: In terms of horse kung fu, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is invincible!

Under the wanton smoke and dust, the iron hooves rolled, the earth trembled, and the formation of thousands of cavalry sprinting together was really extraordinary.

As early as when the cavalry of the Qing army was dispatched, the infantry phalanx of the Ming army had stopped under the order of Pang Yue, like a forest rising from the ground in the wilderness. In the phalanx of the Gangfeng Battalion and the Broken Barracks in the front, the first five platoons were musketeers armed with flintlock pistols and bird guns, with a total of more than 2,000 people. Today, although Huguang Town has mass-produced flintlock pistols, it has not been completely replaced because the bird gun still has its advantages, such as a lower rate of mute fire than a flintlock pistol. Before the musketeers, there were the artillery of the Agni Battalion, and the thirty Furlong medium guns and twenty Furlong bronze cannons had all been loaded with shotguns, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the Qing troops in front.

Looking at the Qing cavalry that came like a tide, most of the Ming officers and soldiers gritted their teeth, clenched the weapons in their hands, and pinched them until the joints turned white. Some of the recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time even turned pale, and cold sweat broke out from their foreheads, but they didn't dare to move in the slightest, and the rigorous training on weekdays had already made them turn obeying orders into a subconscious behavior, and they would never dare to make a little move without the orders of their superiors.

As the flags and drums of the Chinese army changed, the commanders in the musketeer queue and the artillery queue before it were all sounded.

"Fusiliers, all in the first row, guns raised!"

"All the bird guns have them, and they are loaded with fire ropes!"

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"Artillerymen, all of them, check the sub-medicine!"

"Load the arquebus!"

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In the artillery ranks, Margio, a Spaniard in iron armor, was also giving various orders loudly like the other Agni Battalion officers. Originally, Pang Yue was not ready to let him play in person, but he insisted that he was a soldier, and he could only find his sense of belonging on the battlefield, and finally got his wish.

At this moment, Margio looked at the Qing cavalry surging in front of him, his face did not show the slightest panic, on the contrary, a pair of blue eyes were full of excitement and expectation, just like a hunter watching his prey walk towards the pit in front of him step by step.

The tremor of the ground intensified, and the rolling Qing cavalry had already entered within 200 steps of the Ming army's formation.

"Fire!!" In the artillery platoon, Wang Juntao, Margio and the rest of the officers of the Agni Battalion shouted the order to open fire hoarsely.

In an instant, the flames flashed, the loud noise suddenly rose, the earth trembled, and the thirty Furlong medium guns in the middle of the gun roared angrily towards the Qing army.

At the same time as the white smoke rose, a burst of blood mist rose in the cavalry ranks of the Qing army, and looking down from a high place, the tip of the original conical charging queue seemed to be artificially flattened, and hundreds of Bayala soldiers were almost swept away, and the screams and mournful neighing of the war horses followed.

How could the salvo of shotguns fired by 30 medium guns of the Furlong machine be able to resist the "cavalry shooting" of the Qing soldiers? Thousands of small projectiles erupted like a torrential rain, and within a width of hundreds of paces on the front, it was almost impossible for a bird to fall into the net. No matter how many layers of heavy armor the Qing soldiers put on, they could only be blasted to minced meat.

After this round of artillery salvo, the Qing army's menacing charging formation was already miserable, and the originally protruding tip had been deeply dented. The fallen dead men and dead horses tripped the cavalry that followed, and the fallen Qing soldiers were almost all trampled into flesh.

After all, the Qing army numbered 5,000 people, and although the front team suffered heavy losses under the heavy artillery fire, the rear team was still driven by inertia.

The Goshkha guards in front of Tong Tulai suddenly felt that their vision suddenly widened, and then they were dumbfounded: the Bayala soldiers who were still in the dark just now have been swept away at this moment, and they and their masters are already directly facing the battle formation of the Ming army!

A sharp-eyed Goshha even saw that the artillery in front of the Ming army was still busy with something...... Suddenly, fear and despair surged above his head like a tide, and a terrible scream erupted from his mouth: "Master, be careful! ”

"Fire!!" Almost at the same moment, in the artillery ranks, the command to open fire again sounded hoarsely.

"Boom!" "Boom!" …… The twenty Furlong bronze cannons on both sides also roared in unison.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the shrappels scattered by the Heavenly Maiden hit the Qing army again, giving these fearless "Qing warriors" a cruel and bloody baptism.

For a time, the Qing army's array could be described as minced meat and severed limbs flying sideways, blood and rain for a long time, and bursts of terrible screams and exclamations reverberated together. When the rain of blood and minced flesh fell from the sky, the Qing soldiers behind were horrified to find that Lord Gushan Ezhen and the Goshha beside him had disappeared.

At this moment, in the large array of the Chinese army in Huguang Town, Pang Yue saw it very clearly, just now when the bronze cannons of the Franco machine on both sides of the artillery queue opened fire, Tong Tulai's banner happened to move near the intersection of the two fires, and with a flick of his fingers, a cadre of his staff was beaten into minced meat!

Hahaha, Kang Mazi, your grandfather was killed! Pang Yue couldn't help but laugh in his heart, the famous Gushan Ezhen Tong Tulai, the grandfather of the future Emperor Mazi, went to hell like this, this person's life is really fragile!

Zhang Yunli, who was near Pang Yue, also saw that scene, and he was even more overjoyed. In this battle, two rounds of artillery bombardment killed the main general of the Qing Dynasty, which is really a heavenly help to Huguang Town! God helps the Ming 。。 )