Chapter Seventy-One: The Western Front

Drums burst, white background and red border inlaid white flag guidance, more than 2,000 Zhenyi infantry army mighty towards the front of the turn from the mountain village, Huang Taiji's west side attack officially launched, in front of the Zhenyi infantry army is dozens of shield carts pushed by the coat, there are more than 1,000 white flag horsemen on each wing, and the rear is the white flag of Wuzhen Chaoha.

In order to contain the middle road of Dengzhou, Huang Taiji sent 500 people with yellow flags to fight for Wangjiatun Village, and the middle road has also started to fight, but Duoduo still frowned.

Duoduo is the last child born to Abahai, and it is also the most favored one by the old slave, and Houjin has always had a tradition of doting on his young son, so Duoduo accepted the old slave's most powerful thirty bulls, of which fifteen of them were the old Zhengzheng Yellow Banner Niulu that Nuer Hachi had kept until the old slave died.

The ordinary Eight Banners Niulu is roughly in three hundred Dingkou, some newly-built Niulu only has more than 100 Dingkou, and the least half-Niulu has only more than ten households, and the strongest Niulu of the Zhengbai Flag is as many as more than 700 Dingkou, which is twice as much as the ordinary Niulu, and the strength of the Zhengbai Flag is unparalleled in the entire Houjin Eight Banners, even if it is now the Yellow Flag of the Emperor Taiji Control zhì, it is not as good as the inlaid white flag of Duoduo.

Although Duoduo is not very old, he has been favored by the slave Hachi since he was a child, and his surname is arrogant and domineering, when the old slave just died, Duoduo also recommended himself to be the Great Golden Khan, and naturally no one paid attention to him at that time, a child of twelve or thirteen years old.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the chief messenger of Yangzhou was already over twenty years old. After the death of Abahai, Duoduo's arrogance has been restrained, and he is quite cunning after years of training, Tiancong has not fought any hard battles since the first year, and he is not a leading bird, the only time he has been hit by Dengzhou Town once, is the Lushun offensive and defensive battle, Duoduo followed Dolgon on the right flank of Houjin, and did not contribute to attack at all, but the final responsibility was borne by Dolgon.

His strength has not suffered any loss, all the robberies have not fallen, to Chongzhen eight years, the inlaid white flag is still the most powerful flag in Houjin, this time it was placed on the right wing again, to participate in the dignified battle, right under the nose of Huang Taiji, there is no chance to steal and play slippery, Huang Taiji gave two white flags and inlaid red flags order, is to break through the left wing of Dengzhou, and then defeat the entire Dengzhou array, the commander of the left wing is Yue Tuo, Yue Tuo naturally used the most powerful inlaid white flag for a frontal attack on the rotor mountain village, In such a big battle that decided the fate of Houjin, Duoduo was still very aware of current affairs and did not push back.

Hou Jin soldiers do not have the concept of infantry and artillery coordination, before the attack with five Tianyou to cheer the general on the rotor mountain village three rounds, due to the accuracy is not high, most of them did not hit the target, after the artillery is finished, more than 2,000 armor soldiers and Yu Ding composed of the white flag infantry formation divided into two formations, under the command of their respective Niu Lu banners to advance, their front has shield vehicles and skirmishers cover, Hou Jin in many battles with the Dengzhou infantry army, also strengthened the stragglers in front of the large array, used to deal with Dengzhou's long-range strike.

Countless bright helmets with red tassels emerged from the ruins of the rotor mountain village in front of the white-flaged infantry army, two eight-pounder guns and a four-pounder cannon showed the muzzles, and a thousand general cavalry formations of the Ming army behind the rotor mountain village began to adjust their formation.

Duoduo had already noticed the cavalry of the Ming army, and after waving the flag a few times, more than a thousand horsemen with white flags on the left flank of the Houjin infantry slowly advanced to prevent the Dengzhou cavalry from assaulting the flank of the infantry.

There was a muffled thunderous sound from the west, Duoduo turned his head to look, only to see the Zhengbai Banner horsemen, the Mongolian left wing, the Mongolian Horqin Division, and the Khalkha Department passing through Zhangwangzhai to the west of the Rotor Mountain, they will bypass the Rotor Mountain, directly attack the left wing of Dengzhou Town, and the three hundred foot armor of the Zhengbai Banner climbed along the northern slope of the Rotor Mountain to the top of the mountain, preparing to seize the commanding heights of the left wing, and those black figures are particularly conspicuous against the white mountain background.

Two roars drew Duoduo's attention back to the Rotor Village, where white smoke rose and the eight-pounder cannon began to fire, and the black iron bullets rushed into the Houjin soldiers at a speed visible to the naked eye, like an iron plough breaking through the black earth, leaving behind a series of defective ditches.

Duoduo's heart ached, every manpower of Houjin is precious, and it is even more important to the banner owner, the banner owner's right to speak is closely related to strength, and Dorgon's current fate is a negative teaching material.

Due to lack of preparation, there were only dozens of shield carts on the entire Houjin right flank, and the battle with the Dengzhou soldiers would soon be lost, and the back would have to rely on the armored soldiers to take their lives. Thinking of this, Duoduo couldn't help but feel some resentment towards Dorgon's brother, if Dolgon captured the Rotor Mountain Village in the morning, then the white flag would not have to face the geographically advantageous Dengzhou Town at this time.

The white-flaged infantry continued to advance under the blow of artillery fire, and a small number of casualties did not break their courage, but aroused the fierce surnames of these barbarians.

After two thousand infantry troops, there are nearly 1,000 Wuzhen Chaoha inlaid with white flags, the right wing is the direction of the main attack of the Houjin soldiers, and it is also the direction of Wuzhen Chaoha, these Han soldiers are quite effective in defensive warfare, but they need more courage in the offensive operations are a lot worse, the red flag of Wuzhen Chaoha has already been taken to Lianshan Pass by Du Du, and the white flag is left in Haizhou and Gaizhou, and some of the armor soldiers guard these cities together to protect the back road of Jiannu, and the only Wuzhen Chaoha on the right wing is the white flag of Duoduo. Duoduo really wanted them to be cannon fodder at the front, but Huang Taiji strictly ordered that Wuzhen Chaoha should not be used as a striker, which was the lesson of the Battle of Caohe Fort, these soldiers who were dressed in the army could not be as brave as their masters, but when they fled for their lives, they were like crazy, but they rushed their own army formation.

The white flag drumming to speed up the rhythm, the infantry soldiers inlaid with the white flag walked faster and faster, the vision in front of Duoduo was full of surging and undulating helmets, the three guns in the rotor mountain village fired iron bullets at a fixed speed, from a distance of one mile to one hundred and fifty steps, the shield carts hit by the six catties of iron bullets were all fragmented, the bullet-like sputtering sawdust knocked a group of coats to the ground, the shield car line became incomplete, and the damaged shield cart remained on the road passed by the army, becoming the remains of the battlefield, and the blood flowed on the land. It's like red blood-colored flowers blooming in the snow.

More than 2,000 infantry troops approached dozens of steps to the rotor mountain village, and began to impact in the passionate drum beat, the ferocity in the blood of the Houjin soldiers burst out, and the crazy howls resounded throughout the earth, and the three Dengzhou artillery quickly carried out two rounds of shotgun shooting, focusing on the position without the cover of the shield car, and splashing more than 700 lead bullets to the dense crowd.

Rushed to Rotor Village thirty steps away, a few pieces of white cloth on the rammed earth wall defense line of Rotor Village were torn apart, revealing four tiger squat cannons dedicated to the Dengzhou Killer Flag Team, and then remembered a few roars, and the front of the Houjin soldiers was once again punched out a few gaps, and the Mandarin Duck Formation had a total of four killer flag teams, one for each flag team, providing close intensive fire support for the killer team.

In view of the absolute superiority of Dengzhou's long-range firepower, Duoduo even gave up his best heavy arrow shooting, and directly pounced on Dengzhou Town in close combat, and after paying heavy casualties, the White Flag infantry finally broke through to the edge of the village under the cover of the last remaining shield carts.

The Dengzhou killer team, who were on standby, immediately launched a bloody melee battle with the Houjin soldiers, and the rammed earth wall exchanged spears and broadswords, and the casualties on both sides began to surge, and the two hundred musketeers of the 1st Division fired at the Houjin crowd outside the city from a higher position in the ruins.

The first general division of the fourth battalion is stationed in the rotor mountain village, and the first general of each battalion is the Qi family army, and the mandarin duck formation in Dengzhou Town can form a combat group of twenty-four people with musketeers, and the most classic twelve-person killer team can also be used, and it can also be divided into a small three-talent formation of five or six people in a narrower place, which is very suitable for fighting in such ruins.

After a fierce battle around the rammed earth wall on the edge, the Houjin soldiers relied on the numerical advantage to attack the village, and the first division occupied the high place of the ruins with musketeers to cover, and the killer team with the small three-talent array configuration carried out close combat, and a variety of weapons cooperated with the battle, showing very skillful combat skills, and the fourfold Houjin soldiers started a bloody battle in the village.

After the fierce battle on the rotor mountain began, the cavalry battle on the right side of the village also began, a cavalry thousand headquarters of the first battalion of the Dengzhou cavalry took three cavalry bureaus as a wave, a total of three waves launched an intensive charge to the white flag vest soldiers, and in the rumbling hooves, more than 3,000 horse hooves brought up the snow powder in the sky, and the ground shook the mountain.

The white flag horsemen fought hard with the Dengzhou cavalry under the leadership of Gushan Ezhen Cherge, they combined with the frontal impact and the guerrillas, and constantly attacked the Dengzhou cavalry formation from both wings, but the Dengzhou cavalry formation was frontal with three cavalry bureaus, making the front very wide, each cavalry bureau still used three column tactics, the white flag horsemen needed to maintain their own formation, and could not avoid head-on engagements, and their tactics were difficult to confront the modern cavalry tactics of Dengzhou head-on, and they were beaten by the dense Dengzhou cavalry. The white-flaged horsemen soon suffered severe casualties, and the formation was completely broken.

The rangers with white flags attacked the Dengzhou cavalry formation with cavalry bows from both wings, and also gave the Dengzhou cavalry a certain amount of damage, but the Dengzhou cavalry did not entangle with them, and always maintained a state of running, and only some of the sabre cavalry responded with short guns. After the first wave of attacks, the next two rounds followed, disrupting the formation of the white-flagged horsemen, and the entangled first wave of rangers were dispersed, and the rear Duoduo had to send a hundred Bayalas to counterattack in order to try to get the cavalry back in formation.

What he didn't know was that the training methods of Dengzhou cavalry were also constantly improving, and they were close to the level of Prussian cavalry during the Frederick period, and most of the cavalry could meet the enemy in a dense cavalry formation at a distance of more than 700 meters, and launch a fierce attack in the final stage.

The white flag of the solid mountain is really Cherge has been burnt out, this Cherge and Zhang Zhongqi that Niu Lu Feng De Pashku name is the same, although this person is not famous in history, but he is one of the eight ministers in the early years of Tiancong, as the white flag Gushan Ezhen, and later was punished when he hit Phi Island, not to mention the loss of the world, even the Gushan Ezhen can not be done, the future of the government is over, and he went to be an idle post of the Ministry of Industry, and he was mixed until Huang Taiji was dying before he mentioned the world post of Niu Lu Zhangjing, Although his political career was not good, his son Chen Tai later mixed with the official department Shangshu and the yellow flag Gushan Ezhen.

This Gushan Ezhen has been knocked out at this time, the white flag horsemen were beaten by a round of impact and the formation was chaotic, the Dengzhou cavalry that completed the impact had withdrawn to the south of the rotor mountain village, and was re-arrayed under the command of the military horn, but the speed seemed to be very fast, as long as there was a round, Cherge's horsemen would be completely chaotic, and it would be difficult to cover the flank of the infantry army.

Just when he was worried, a drum beat sounded behind him, and when Cherg turned his head to look, thousands of cavalry had arrived under the guidance of a large banner with red hearts and white borders, Cherge breathed a sigh of relief, his confidence in Yue Tuo was much stronger than that of Duoduo, and with the support of the red flag horsemen, he could at least support the defense line on the cavalry side.

Cherge didn't rejoice for long, and a cannon rang out in the south, and the four small phalanxes of the first battalion of the Dengzhou soldiers pressed towards the rotor mountain village in a strict formation. Then a conch horn sounded in the southwest of the rotor mountain, and the assault of the Zhengbai Banner, the left wing of the Mongols, and the Mongols of the Outer Domains on the left flank of Dengzhou Town also began, and the entire western front entered a fierce battle. (To be continued.) )