Chapter 829: Blowing Up the White Armor
readx; If the Jurchen Eight Banners are the main force of the Later Jin Army, then the Zhenghuang Banner is the elite of the main force, and the white armor soldiers are the elite of the elite. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The entire Jurchen clan is only a few hundred thousand people, but due to the implementation of cattle recording, almost all the men are in the Eight Banners, so the absolute strength is not small, at least more than 100,000. Coupled with the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner, the total strength has reached more than 200,000, which has far exceeded the scale of the Liaodong Border Army.
But among so many people, the white-armored soldiers only had 3,000 people, and they never increased. In order for every soldier to become a white-armored soldier, he must first be a Jurchen with pure blood, and second, he must be burly and skilled in riding and archery.
Of course, there are many people who meet these two criteria. But the third condition is by no means something that ordinary people can do: he must be alone and defeat a black bear empty-handed! This requires not only great strength, but also fearless courage, a spirit of death, and the ferocity of a wild beast!
But that's not the ultimate test. After defeating the black bear, he will have to fight the existing white-armored soldiers, with the winner staying and the loser going. Therefore, the white-armored soldiers always maintain a strength of 3,000 people, and their combat effectiveness is extremely fierce.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of the white-armored soldiers is not only reflected in the fight against wild beasts, the real horror of this army is that they are also heavy armored cavalry. The same heavy cavalry, the white armor soldiers are especially better than the Guanning iron cavalry, they are wearing cotton armor, leather armor, iron armor triple armor, not only can not be injured by arrows, can even be said to be invulnerable.
Of course, the war horse of the white armor soldier is also a horse that is one in a thousand, with strong weight-bearing capacity and explosive power, otherwise it would not be able to bear such a large weight. Nurhachi once ordered: Whoever gets a good horse, it must be given priority to the white armor soldiers to choose, even Nurhachi himself can only take the white armor soldiers to pick the rest of the horses.
Due to the incredible power of the white-armored soldiers, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji never used them lightly. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was low, and they basically avoided field battles and only retreated in the city to defend, so the white-armored soldiers were useless, and they were usually only responsible for defending the Great Khan.
Previously, only in the Battle of Ningyuan, the white armor soldiers had fought with the Guanning Iron Cavalry for a while. Although Li Chongyao personally fought in the battle, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was still at a disadvantage, because in terms of troops, strength, horses, armor and other aspects, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was slightly inferior to the white-armored soldiers. And when these factors come together, it's quite a stark gap. If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's risking his life at that time and not letting Yuan Chonghuan block the gap in the city wall, the Guanning Iron Cavalry might have been wiped out by the white-armored soldiers.
This time, Huang Taiji saw the whole Ming army break through, which was an excellent opportunity to completely annihilate the opponent in the field. Moreover, there is also a Huang Luo umbrella cover in the opponent's formation, in order to quickly solve the battle, Huang Taiji dispatched the white armor soldiers. But he was still reluctant to let the white-armored soldiers and Guan Ning Tiecai stumble, but looked at the gap in the opponent's formation, and let the thousand white-armored soldiers of Aobai suddenly insert it. The Chinese army of the Ming army was all light cavalry, which was a piece of cake for the white armor soldiers. As long as the Chinese army is defeated and the Huangluo umbrella cover is snatched, the Ming army will inevitably collapse, and then it will be the happiest "harvest moment" for the Houjin army.
At this time, Ao Bai really followed the deployment of Huang Taiji, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Mongolian Eight Banners to entangle the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and suddenly inserted himself into the middle of the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Ming Army. The white-armored soldier is called "White Armor", but it is not really white, but covered in black iron, like a group of monsters that have just rushed out of hell, and it looks even more murderous in the middle of the night.
"Rush!" Ao Bai took the lead and went straight to the direction of the Huang Luo umbrella cover in the Ming army formation and killed him. Thousands of cavalry white-armored soldiers also followed closely, the distance between the two sides was very close, and in an instant, they had already killed the Ming army!
What made Ao Bai and his subordinates feel strange was that the cavalry on the opposite side did not fire arrows, nor did they hold knives and guns, let alone firearms such as birds, but only held a torch in one hand, but their upper body looked bloated, and it seemed that there were some ball-like things hanging on their chests.
Although it was strange, he didn't have time to think about it, but he was happy in his heart. Thinking that since you are bare-handed, then don't blame me for being unkind, so I immediately shouted violently and slammed into the enemy horse in the front row.
But just when the distance between the two sides suddenly shortened to about five zhang, suddenly the opposing cavalry suddenly pulled a round ball from their chests, swept it with torches, and then threw it with all their might.
Ao Bai still didn't know why, thinking that he and his white armor soldiers had triple armor protection, even if they were smashed by an iron ball, it didn't matter. Could it be that the other party is whimsical and wants to burn himself with an iron ball?
But in an instant, Ao Bai suddenly felt a flash of white light in front of him, and at the same time, with a bang, an iron ball had suddenly exploded in the air! A wave of air carried the debris from the explosion like a wall towards Aobai, and Aobai felt like he had hit a hard stone wall, and he was knocked up from his horse and fell heavily to the ground, and blood sprayed wildly!
In an instant, the sound of thunder was endless, and hundreds of black balls exploded in the white-armored formation! Not to mention the triple armor, even the ninefold is not good, the power of the gunpowder explosion is indestructible, even the boulder can be blown to pieces, not to mention the flesh and blood!
The white-armored soldiers were caught off guard, and the more than 100 horsemen who rushed to the front were all swept off their horses by the huge wave of qi, just like Aobai. No matter how brave the white-armored soldiers in the back were, they were all stupid by this incredible scene, and they changed their direction one after another, avoiding these seemingly inconspicuous but infinitely powerful black guys, and the formation was chaotic for a while!
And the Ming army would never miss this fleeting opportunity, and suddenly burst out with an earth-shattering shout, and quickly rushed through the area where the white armor soldiers had just blocked it. There were many white-armored soldiers who fell from their horses with brute strength, but they could not use it at this time, and were ruthlessly trampled by thousands of troops and horses, and soon turned into a ball of flesh and blood.
Only Ao Bai lived up to the reputation of "the first warrior of Manchuria", and when he was seriously injured, he could still jump up, grab the outstretched hand of a white-armored soldier who galloped past him, and run away from the desert on his horse, so as to avoid the fate of being trampled to death by the chaotic army.
The battlefield is so fast-moving. Originally, the left and right flanks of Dorgon and Duoduo had blocked the left and right flanks of the Ming army. As long as it falls into a melee, due to the obvious difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides, it will not take long for the left and right flanks of the Ming army to be defeated.
But now the situation has changed sharply, and the middle of the Ming army suddenly rushed forward, instantly defeating the most elite white-armored soldiers of the Houjin army, and the front army and the Chinese army merged into one, launching a fierce attack on the Huangluo umbrella cover where the Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin Great Khan was located.
Two Huang Luo umbrella covers, quickly approaching on the battlefield!
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