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On the south bank of the Nameless River on the west side of the canal, two armies were slowly approaching each other, and the first to strike was the long-range firepower of both sides.

A swarm of firearms such as flying dragons in the Daishan army were all brought to the camp, and there were no archers in the army, mainly because the training of archers took too much time, and there was only a kind of long-range firepower such as muskets. For fear of accidentally shooting the Ming troops on the boats in the river, the artillery on the boats in the canal did not dare to fire again.

However, the range of the musket was only about 100 meters, and the effective range of the armor that could penetrate the armor was only 50 meters. Compared with the musket, the range of the bow and arrow can reach 200 meters, even within 100 meters, it can penetrate the mandarin duck battle jacket on the soldiers of the Daishan Army, and the strong bow can even penetrate the iron armor within 50 meters. Moreover, the rate of fire of the bow and arrow is much higher than that of the musket, after all, it does not require troublesome reloading like the musket. Of course, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are all former Ming troops, and their archery skills are far from being comparable to those of the Eight Banners. Almost everyone in the Eight Banners can draw a hard bow, and there are only more than 1,000 archers among the nearly 20,000 people in the Han Eight Banners, and most of the archers use bows that are not the strong bows of the Qing army. Of course, there are also a lot of musketeers in Kong Youde's army, but most of their muskets are captured from the Ming army, and the quality is far from being comparable with the muskets of the Daishan army, and there are more than 1,000 musketeers who cross the river, but they are all left to guard against the 3,000 Daishan soldiers of Ren Siqi's department in the river. However, on the whole, the long-range firepower of the Daishan army was not superior to the Qing army.

When the distance between the two sides was about one hundred and fifty meters, the archers in front of the Qing army's array had already drawn their bows and fired them. Thousands of arrows flew diagonally into the air, and then whistled from the air and flew down the heads of the Daishan soldiers. As early as when the Qing soldiers first raised their bows, all the shields in the Daishan army were raised and raised above their heads, protecting the entire phalanx. Due to the lack of armor in the army, the Daishan workshop made a large number of shields. In addition to a spear, each pikeman was issued a shield, with a hand inside, and a rope tied so that he could carry it behind his back when not in use. Except for the musketeers, who did not have shields, almost everyone in the Daishan army had shields, and the musketeers had small flag officers and captains in front of them to protect them. Their shields were different from the pikemen's small shields, but were huge one-meter-and-a-half shields, one in front of them and the other high above their heads, to keep all musketeers at bay.

The arrows fell like rain on the pipa, crackling and falling on the phalanx of the Daishan army. The phalanx of the Daishan army only paused slightly, and continued to advance against the rain of arrows. Occasionally, an arrow would penetrate a soldier's body through a gap in his shield, and as long as it was not too severe, the soldier who was shot would break the shaft of the arrow and continue to move forward. And the projectile from a distance of one hundred and fifty meters was not enough to seriously injure the soldier except for hitting the vital point.

The arrow rain of the Qing army continued to advance, the Qing army's arrow rain became more and more dense, more and more people were injured in the phalanx, and soldiers were constantly shot to the ground, but the other soldiers silently crossed the fallen colleagues and continued to advance.

Knowing that their archers had an advantage in range, the Qing army did not continue to advance, but waited for the Ming army to attack. From a distance of 150 meters, the Daishan military formation walked for about a minute under the rain of arrows to shorten the distance between the two sides to 50 meters. In just one minute, the soldiers of the Daishan Army withstood seven rounds of arrow rain from the Qing soldiers, and more than 200 soldiers fell.

Seeing that the Qing army had entered his own firing range, the officer in charge of distance measurement immediately raised his flag and signaled, and Li Yanzhi, who was commanding the rear of the phalanx, ordered to stop the advance. After receiving the order to stop, the drummer immediately stopped beating the drum, and as soon as the drum stopped, all the soldiers in the phalanx immediately stopped.

The three rows of musketeers raised the muskets in their hands, stretched out from the gaps in the shield array, and there was no need to aim at all in the dense formation of the Qing army, and when the drums representing the firing sounded, they immediately pulled the trigger, and the fire rope that had been installed long ago fell down and ignited the gunpowder, and the sound of "bang bang bang" like popping beans sounded continuously, and a large cloud of white smoke immediately filled the sky over the Daishan military formation.

After a few breaths, the smoke cleared, and when I looked up, I saw a large area of the Qing army in front of me. At a distance of less than fifty meters, it was the best range for muskets, and even armor could not block the penetration of bullets. Although the Qing soldiers also have a large number of round shields, which can slightly block bullets one or two, the area of the round shield is too small, and the area that can be protected is limited. Moreover, the round shields are mostly wooden, and the lead bullets flying at high speed can easily penetrate the shields in front of the archers and enter the bodies of Qing soldiers. And the mandarin duck jackets on the archers of the Qing army have no protection against bullets at all.

It was just one shot, and the Daishan army fired a salvo of 2,000 muskets, and more than 1,000 Qing soldiers fell in a pool of blood. The reason for this result was that the Qing army's array was too dense, and the Daishan army's muskets were far superior to the ordinary Ming army's muskets. The Daishan musket was made with a machine tool to drill the barrel and supervised by Dutch craftsmen, and in terms of the quality of the musket was indistinguishable from the musket used by the Franco-Robot Dutch.

A round of muskets was fired, and the musketeers of the Daishan army no longer loaded with gunpowder, but turned around and withdrew behind the phalanx through the gap between the two columns of pikemen. All the pikemen shouted, and they moved back towards the Qing army. The drums are getting denser and denser, and the pace of the pikemen of the Daishan Army is getting faster and faster, when they are about twenty meters away from the Qing soldiers, the drummers have already densely beaten the war drums, and all the pikemen have already hung up their shields, holding their spears in both hands, and quickly rushed towards the Qing army in front, just as they faced the wooden targets during their usual training.

In the round of shooting of the Daishan musketeers just now, the archers of the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and the Daishan army that came from the rush could no longer pose much of a threat.

"Brothers, kill!" Knowing that the situation was not good, He Gui, the commander of the Qing army, still waved his sword and ordered all the Qing soldiers to rush forward to attack the Daishan army. Since he surrendered to the Manchus, he has never dared to have the idea of escaping. Of course, there is no need to run away from the battle with the Ming army in the past, because in the face of the Ming army, the Eight Banners can be described as invincible!

But will it still be the case today? He Gui didn't have time to turn his thoughts, but he saw that the two armies had already fought together, and the sound of "poof" sounded one after another, and countless soldiers screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

How so? He Gui stopped in shock, and saw that most of the soldiers who fell in front of him were his subordinates! In fact, in terms of combat power, the soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army are not much stronger than the ordinary Ming army, after all, they were transformed by the Ming army. But because of the factor of fox and tiger power, they have a psychological advantage over the Ming army, and the idea of invincibility exists in the hearts of the vast majority of the Ming army, so most of the Ming army met them, and they were cowardly before the battle, and where was their opponent. And the successive victories also made these Eight Banners Han Army swell, and they thought that they were as powerful as their Manchurian masters, but they bumped into the hard stubble of the Daishan Army, and their paper tigers were exposed.

As mentioned before, since the Battle of Qingzhou, Ren Siqi began to pay attention to the training of pikemen, and produced a training method for pikemen, and Yang Bin, a master of Cangzhou marksmanship, was the head of the teaching to teach all pikemen gun skills. And Yang Bin went to multiply and extract essence, and only taught a sprint shot. It was this trick that the spearmen of the Daishan Army practiced every day, and each of them stabbed at the target twenty paces away tens of thousands of times. No matter how simple the marksmanship is, when practiced tens of thousands of times, it will be extremely proficient.

The most terrible thing is that the spearmen of the Daishan Army did not practice defensive spearmanship at all except for stabbing at all, and if they could not stab the enemy to death under one blow, they would die under the enemy's sword.

It was this kind of desperate rush that terrified the Qing soldiers who were fighting against them, how could they ever encounter such a desperate enemy? One or two are enough, but all the Daishan Army spearmen are this kind of desperate impact, everyone is completely defenseless, and they take care of themselves to stab their spears into the bodies of the enemies on the opposite side. If they were fighting alone, the martial arts of these veterans of the Eight Banners Han Army would of course be above the soldiers of the Daishan Army, and they could easily dodge their stabbing attacks. But this is a battlefield of more than 10,000 people in the battle array, where is there room for you to dodge, and besides, if you can dodge one spear, can you dodge all the spears?

Just a short encounter, there were a large number of Qing soldiers fell under the Daishan pikeman, and the other Qing soldiers were all frightened, in a short period of time, including the Qing soldiers shot by the Daishan muskets, the 5,000 Qing soldiers who met the attack had been killed and wounded nearly 2,000. Such a large casualty is not something that an ordinary army can afford, seeing the fierce enemy rushing towards him, and watching the brothers around him fall to the ground one after another. The rest of the Qing soldiers were all frightened, and many of them involuntarily ran away.

One person fled, driving a large area, and soon all the Qing soldiers turned around and fled, and the rout of the army could not be stopped!

He Gui slashed two fleeing Qing soldiers to death with a sword, and took a dozen of his own soldiers to try to stop the collapse of the Qing soldiers. But when the whole army turned around and fled, how could a dozen people be able to contain it, and the fleeing Qing soldiers bypassed his body and fled without looking at him. He Gui sighed, and could only let his soldiers flee with the defeated army.

The Qing army in front was defeated, and the 3,000 Qing soldiers on the bank of the river who prevented the Ming army from going ashore no longer tried to stop it, and rushed ahead of the rout and went west along the river bank.

Defeated like that! Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming looked at the other side of the river in amazement, unable to believe this fact. How is it possible that the 3,000 cavalry sent out to circumvent the river had not yet reached the south bank of the river, and the 8,000 cavalry had been defeated in such a short time!

In the past, the Qing army chased the Ming army and fought like this, why did it turn up today?

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