"Boom ......"

A burst of cyan smoke rose, and more than thirty six-pound iron pellets broke free from the constraints of gravity and flew into the air, and then fell down in a beautiful arc, smashing heavily into the heavy shield held by a foot armor who was desperately rushing forward.

The heavy shield made of hard birch wood instantly turned into a pile of fragments in front of a fist-sized projectile, and then the projectile mercilessly hit the infantry armor behind the heavy shield, breaking him in two. In the end, the remaining projectile fell to the ground, jumping all the way and hitting the three people who followed closely behind the foot armor, then stopped beating and lay quietly on the ground, behind it were blood stains and corpses all the way.

Bao Tai is a native of the Blue Banner and is deeply trusted by Abatai, and this time he attacked the Yingzhou army, and Abatai still asked him to lead the infantry to launch a frontal attack on the Yingzhou army. At this time, he was brandishing the long knife in his hand, directing the infantry and horse armor to attack forward.

"Run fast for me, Ming Dog's artillery fires very quickly, staying here can only look for death, those who don't want to die hurry up and run for Ye, as long as you run in front of them, we will win!"

Baotai, who is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, has a lot of combat experience, and he has fought dozens of major and small battles with the Ming army, and he is very aware of the weaknesses of firearms. Judging from his previous combat experience with the Ming army, as long as they can bully the front of the Ming army, they will win this battle, and this time Abatai also sent two Jialazhangjing to lead more than 1,000 cavalry to launch a feint attack on the flank of the Ming army, in fact, it is a feint, but if the flank of the Ming army is really vulnerable, this feint will immediately become a strong attack. Over the years, with such tactics, the Manchus were almost invincible, and the Qing army also deliberately left a back road out, and many Ming troops were under such a three-sided attack that could not last long before the whole army collapsed, and finally turned around and fled. In the end, they were caught up by the Qing army and annihilated one by one.

"Reload!"

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Looking at the approaching Qing army, Zhao Yongxin still held his long knife high and gave orders in an orderly manner, next to him, the gunners were either shaking the bend rod to adjust the muzzle, or busy cleaning the breech and loading gunpowder projectiles, and the entire artillery position was busy.

"My lord, the Tartars are coming at us from both wings!" One of the horsemen said loudly, pointing to the rising dust and smoke in the distance.

"Hmph...... I'm afraid they won't come! Wu Chengfeng sneered, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers, the Tartars are here." According to the old rules, come forward and sprinkle the guys in a flat row! ”

"Yes!"

Soon, the cavalry on both flanks immediately rode forward, and the fifteen hundred cavalry ran to a place three hundred paces ahead of them with a long snake formation, and then stopped, and with the order of the officers, the cavalry picked up a pocket from the saddle, and then turned their horses and ran back, scattering things as they ran, and soon behind them were covered with layers of iron thistles that shimmered with cold light.

When the Qing cavalry circled to the side of the Ming army's phalanx. Wu Chengfeng had already led people to sprinkle thistle, looking at the dense thistle terrestris everywhere, the two Jialazhangjing of Zarqi and Chang Adai were so angry that they scolded, they can be regarded as old men who are used to fighting. They had never seen such a shameless army casually sprinkle thistles on the battlefield, don't they know that these things are easy to scatter and difficult to put away? Can you have a good fight with us, how can you make us go back like this?

That's it. The two of them were full of confidence and looked at the iron thistles everywhere and were helpless, and finally Chang Adai led the cavalry around the back of the Yingzhou military formation, wanting to stab the chrysanthemums of this army. But today, Chang Adai is destined to be disappointed. As soon as the cavalry had bypassed the thistles, the guns rang out, and the two phalanxes of firearms that had been guarding them unceremoniously aimed at them and pulled the trigger.

In the rows of gunfire, countless projectiles rushed to the target with a sharp whistling sound, and the soft lead bullets hit the target with strong kinetic energy.

Dozens of cavalrymen who rode war horses and rushed in front just bypassed the thistle terrestris and rushed towards the rear of the phalanx of the Yingzhou army, when they heard a sound like fried beans, and a blood hole appeared in the chest of a cavalryman who rushed to the front, and the whole person was lifted off the horse by the huge impact force, fell heavily to the ground, and twisted into a strange shape, and looked dead. Beside him, the cavalry who rushed in first with him were also shot down and dismounted, and for a time the battlefield was full of the screams of war horses or the screams of the Qing soldiers who had been shot.

"Go on, rush over and kill those lowly Nikans!" Chang Adai brandished a long knife, with a flame in his eyes and kept shouting, in his opinion, it was only a distance of more than two hundred steps, and the war horse could rush over with only a few dozen breaths.

But the truth disappointed him, as if the Ming army's guns could not be finished, one after another gunfire rang out, and rows of hurried non-local war horses fell in pools of blood with a mournful roar. Since the sides of the phalanx were sprinkled with thistles, it was natural for the Qing soldiers to bypass these pesky obstacles and rush from behind, but the speed of the circles continued to decrease, and they repeatedly became the target of the firecrackers.

In less than ten minutes, under the blows of thousands of firecrackers, four or five hundred Qing soldiers fell in a pool of blood, such a huge casualty made the Qing soldiers begin to fear, many people have slowed down, and even many people subconsciously rode their horses to the side, wanting to escape from this death area.

"Come up, what are you still doing in a daze! Just rush up and kill those lowly Nikans! ”

At this time, Chang Adai had already fallen into a lot of fanatical love, and now he had only one thought in his heart, that is, to rush in front of the Ming army and kill these Ming soldiers who were hiding behind and putting guns.

"Enough! Don't rush anymore! Withdraw! ”

A voice sounded in Chang Adai, and Chang Adai turned his head to see that it was Charchi who had come to his side. As soon as he saw Zarqi, Chang Adai seemed to see a life-saving straw, he grabbed his arm and said eagerly: "Zarqi, you immediately lead people to charge with me, as long as you and I work together, you will definitely be able to rush into their big formation, and then we will win, I will kill all these cowardly dogs!" ”

"it!" Zarqi interrupted Chang Adai's words mercilessly, and he froze his body hard and looked behind him. I found a cloud of dust rising from behind.

Charqi pointed to the back and shouted: "Have you seen it, the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming, and if we don't leave, we won't be able to leave!" ”

Seeing this, Chang Adai's even turned white, judging from the dust raised and the regrettable sound of horses' hooves that had just reached his ears, the cavalry that came behind must have been six or seven thousand. And now they are enemies on both sides, and their numbers are far less than the other's, and there is only one way to stay here.

"Good...... Let's withdraw! Chang Adai shouted a sentence from between his teeth, and then he held back a sullen breath that could not be dissolved and ordered the troops to retreat.

But at this time, it was not so easy for them to retreat, and after sprinkling the thistle, they were still watching from the sidelines, where would Wu Chengfeng, who was lively, let go of this opportunity to beat the water dog. Seeing that the Qing soldiers turned around and wanted to run, he immediately brandished his saber and commanded the cavalry under his command to pursue, and for a while, a cavalryman with black armor brandished a saber and chased in the direction of the Qing soldiers' retreat.

Due to being blocked by the phalanx of the Yingzhou army, Chang Adai and Zarqi fell into a bitter battle, and Abatai did not know, at this time he was holding a monocular clairvoyant mirror to watch Baotai command the infantry to attack the front of the Yingzhou army's formation. It's just that while he was watching, his brows furrowed from time to time, just now, when the army commanded by Bao Tai had rushed to a distance of more than two hundred steps from the Ming army, the opponent's artillery was replaced with shotguns. When dozens of artillery pieces were fired in unison, hundreds of thumb-sized iron pellets fell from the sky like scattered flowers from the sky, beating the Qing army to the bitter ground.

Seeing the Qing soldiers who fell to the ground and wailed, Abatai's face distorted. He scolded in a low voice: "Bastard! ”

After a while, the sound of artillery in front suddenly stopped, and the battlefield suddenly became silent. Abatai was also stunned, and aimed the clairvoyant mirror at the Ming artillery position. He immediately found that the artillery of the Ming army in front of him had stopped firing, and many Ming troops were packing up their things and dragging the artillery back.

See here. Abatai was overjoyed, and he turned his head sharply to Goshha on the side and shouted: "You immediately go over and tell Sù Baotai, those Ming dogs are scared, you immediately let him speed up, let the archers quickly rush to the front of the Ming army, and kill all those Ming dogs with the bows and crossbows in their hands!" ”

"Huh!"

In fact, there was no need for Abatai's orders, when the cannonfire stopped, the Qing army in front of the formation also automatically adjusted its formation. The archers who were originally hiding behind also ran to the front, and behind the dense layers of archers, there were layers of spears like a forest, and there were dense blue red flags in the queue of each person.

"Forward!"

As the speed of the Qing soldiers accelerated, the two sides got closer and closer, and in the sound of neat steps, the armor and weapons of the other side, the fluttering red tassels, and even the twisted and hideous expressions on the faces of the soldiers on all sides could be seen clearly.

Feng Xiaoming, who had been promoted to a defensive officer, stared at the Qing soldiers in front of him and shouted: "Check the ammunition!" ”

Although they had already filled their guns with gunpowder and lead bullets, at this time, amid the shouts of the officers one after another, the dense Yingzhou arms gunners still opened the powder magazine and carefully checked the loading of their guns again.

"Raise your gun!"

"Whoa......

A blackened firebolt was raised, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed in front of it.

"First platoon ready, ready to shoot!"

The Musketeers slotted the enemies in front of them into their aiming rings.

Since there was no threat of artillery, the Qing soldiers on the opposite side also formed a dense formation on the march, with three or four hundred shield bearers in front and nearly two thousand archers in four rows walking behind. Behind the archers were two thousand heavy infantry armed with spears, all of whom were wearing heavy armor and holding spears, and they were either in a row of 100 people or 200 people in a row, forming a dense array of many layers, each holding a spear and a halberd, one by one murderous, staring at the archers in front of them to shoot the opening of the Ming army, they could form a formation and charge to kill. For decades, they used this method to defeat the Ming army again and again.

Feng Xiaoming quietly looked at the Qing army approaching step by step in front of him, with a look of nervousness and excitement in his eyes. In fact, according to the power of the Mini-style firecracker, it could penetrate most of the armor of the Qing army at a distance of more than two hundred steps, but in the face of the heavy shield of the Qing army, it was a little insufficient, and it was Feng Xiaoming who decided to put them at a distance of one hundred steps before firing.

At this time, although the sound of artillery had stopped, and there was a strange silence on the battlefield, the hearts of the two warring sides were even more hanging, whether it was Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Ming army, or Azig, the commander of the Qing army, they all began to get nervous.

For Lu Xiangsheng. If Yue Yang can withstand the Qing army's attack and inflict heavy casualties on the other side, then he will have to reposition Yue Yang, such a person who has money, food and heavy troops in his hands, and can still fight with the Qing army in the field is undoubtedly of great importance to the Ming Dynasty.

And for Azig, if Abatai can defeat the Yingzhou army in front of him, everyone will naturally be happy, and the credit after the war is indispensable to his own part of the coach, but if Abatai can't attack it, it will be his incompetence, and he can also report the battle situation to Huang Taiji "truthfully" after the war and teach him a lesson.

At this time. The Qing army had come to a distance of more than 100 steps in front of the Ming army, but the Ming army on the opposite side had not yet shot, which also made the Qing army both puzzled and happy. What is suspicious is that the previous Ming army was easy to blow up due to the poor quality of the birds, and the training process of the firecrackers was low, and the psychological quality was even worse. They often fired indiscriminately at a distance of more than 100 or even 200 paces, and even the lead bullets shot at such a distance could not even hit the feet of the Qing soldiers. And happily, since these Ming troops did not open fire, they would not be able to wait until they reached a distance of about seventy paces after a while. At that time, your own archers will use their strong bows to kill them without a single piece of armor.

Although the upper echelons of the Qing state deliberately concealed the information, most of the lower-level officers and non-commissioned officers did not know about the past achievements of the Yingzhou army. But there are still some well-informed people who know that the Ming State has such an army that is very powerful, but so what, no Ming army can stop the strong bows and crossbows of the warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom in a head-on battle.

Soon. The Qing army entered the firing range of a hundred paces, and Yue Yang, who was standing in the center of the phalanx, gently spat out a sentence in his mouth: "The slaughter has begun." ”

As soon as Yue Yang's words fell, the long knife in the hand of Feng Xiaoming, who was in command in front of the battle formation, was raised high, and the sharp whistle in his mouth also sounded. A sharp and poignant whistle drifted through the sky.

In front of the military formation, a thousand generals, ten hundred generals, as well as the chief and the chief of the army, all shouted, "Fire!" ”

A deafening sound of fire rang out. The front row of firecrackers fired a volley, and a long and dense area of gunpowder smoke was vacated on the five or six hundred meter long front of the Yingzhou army.

The heavy shields of the Qing army in the first row only felt that the heavy shields in their hands were hit with a heavy hammer, and a sharp pain came from the tiger's mouth holding the heavy shields, and many heavy shields were hit by several lead bullets at the same time, and under the blow of the lead bullets, many heavy shields suddenly broke open. Even if some of the heavy shields are not broken, those heavy shield hands often can't hold the heavy shields in their hands anymore after being hit by a huge impact, and the whole person falls to the sky.

The heavy shield bearers at the forefront fell to the ground or lost their heavy shields, and the entire Qing army was exposed to the Ming army.

The first platoon of musketeers quickly retreated to the back after firing, and the second platoon quickly stepped forward. With the command to shoot, another deafening sound sounded.

The cotton armor of the densely arranged Qing soldiers who had lost the protection of their shields suddenly appeared in a blood mist, and a large piece fell in an instant. After many people were shot, their expressions seemed to froze for a moment, and then when the sharp pain on their bodies came, these people rolled to the ground and let out a terrible scream.

Like a gust of wind crossing, the Qing soldiers on the opposite side of the archers were in chaos, many of the archers in the front row who were not shot did not believe their eyes at all, and some people were stunned with fright, and some archers hurriedly pulled their bows and shot arrows, trying to suppress the other party with strong bows, but at such a distance, when the arrows flew in front of the Ming army, they had already become the end of the strong crossbows, and these bows and crossbows could only helplessly fall in front of the Ming army's gunners, and they were obliquely inserted into the ground.

The tragic situation of the Qing army did not arouse the slightest soft-heartedness of the Ming army's musketeers, and after the second row of shots, the third row of musketeers came up firmly and aimed the firearms in their hands at each other.

"Fire!"

"Bang ......"

Five hundred firecrackers roared at the same time, in the burst of firecrackers, rows of archers fell into a pool of blood like prey shot by hunters, after three consecutive rounds of blows, the archers of the Qing army at the forefront have been beaten almost to the ground, and the archers who were lucky enough to survive and chatted not much were almost frightened to lose the courage to move forward, even the stupidest people know that even if they are wearing cotton armor, they can only be used as targets for each other.

Just when the Qing army in front was in chaos, there was a desolate horn sound from behind, and the Qing army understood that it was an order for the archers to retreat, and the archers who had been frightened turned around and ran backwards almost at the moment when the horn sounded, and some of them even had bows and arrows in their hands still on the ground.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Another horn sounded, after the archers retreated, they immediately revealed the figures of the pikemen behind them, these pikemen in heavy armor heard the horn sound, and immediately tilted their spears upward, and the dense spear halberds shone dazzlingly in the sun, and waves of Qing army pikemen wearing heavy armor rushed towards the Ming army with their guns shouting. (To be continued......)