The sound of guns, cannons, and shouts of killing resounded throughout the wilderness, horses galloped, cavalry roared, and bullets and bows and arrows fired back and forth in the air.

The Ming army formation of the three general flags was like a fire-breathing hedgehog, firmly and tenaciously pushing forward. The Qing army swept from three sides like a tidal wave, trying to submerge and destroy the Ming army's array.

Slowly, shoot, step, shoot, forward, shoot...... In the clouds of rising smoke, the Ming army crushed and crushed the wave of impact, and marched and advanced on the corpses and blood of the enemy. In particular, in the gap between the three phalanxes, the staggered and dense firepower will turn the Qing troops into the middle of the battle, and the casualties will be heavy.

Hara did not expect that what should have been a beautiful siege and annihilation battle would turn into the current big melee, and the rigor and tenacity of the enemy's infantry phalanx exceeded his expectations. For the inflective infantry, it is difficult to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry in the face of dense and continuous musket fire. And the result of the confrontation was a war of attrition that he tried so hard to avoid.

The longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the Qing army. Draw a strong bow and shoot sharp arrows, although it is very threatening, but it consumes energy; War horses also have times when they are tired, and in the roar of muskets and cannons, from time to time horses are frightened and jump. While the Ming army's musketeers paid casualties, they also used their superiority in weapons and firepower to inflict death on the enemy, destroying their will and morale.

The arrogance was disappearing from the faces of the Qing soldiers, the momentum of the impact was gradually fading, and in the face of blood and fire, superb horsemanship and martial arts could not match a cheap buckshot. The horses galloped and killed, but they could not crush the tenacious and tenacious infantry phalanx. When smoke rises, blood shoots out, and the Qing soldiers who fall to the ground cover their wounds and howl in pain.

Yes, the onslaught of the Qing soldiers brought some confusion to the phalanx. It brought a lot of damage, but the Ming army quickly repaired or contracted, but it never collapsed, still spitting flames outward, burning people and horses who dared to approach it.

Running away is faster than holding on to death. Maybe not everyone thinks this way under pressure, but when you're in the whole, the peers around you will give you strength and courage and give you a reference to learn from when you're a little overwhelmed.

The firearms are sharp, and the battle formation is fierce. It is not uncommon for infantry to defeat cavalry with such a magic weapon, especially after modern times, only modern infantry who can block the cavalry wall charge that looks like death is the modern infantry who also has an iron will. Let alone. The current Qing army still doesn't know what a wall charge is.

The plundering and killing of nomads relied on their martial prowess and combat skills, while the resistance and fighting of the farming peoples depended mostly on their technology and equipment.

The progress and use of firearms was a great contribution to the first defeat of foreign rule by the Han nation, which was the battle of the Yuan Dynasty led by Zhu Yuanzhang; After a lapse of hundreds of years, the weapons and equipment of the Ming army have once again come to the forefront of the world, and they also have the concept and will of modernization, and they are once again launching a fierce counterattack against the alien race with such an advantage.

Of course. To explain the research and development of firearms in the DPRK, in fact, it can be regarded as one of the world's leading levels. At that time, there were already self-generated fire guns and Lumi guns. With a flintlock pistol is basically an idea and structure.

But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many evils. First of all, it is difficult to guarantee the reliability of the quality of firearms, the reasons for which are complex, involving many relationships, and there is no solution to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And more importantly, the discipline of the Ming army was corrupt, and even some were as ruthless as bandits. Grain is certainly a problem, but it is not a reason for "bandits come like combs and soldiers come like grates". In this way, no matter how sophisticated the firearms are, they will not be able to exert their power.

So. At that time, the theory of victory with weapons was not entirely correct, and the key was still in people, in the will and discipline of soldiers. Li Dingguo's victory in Hengyang and Zheng Cheng's ability to force Nanjing are illustrated in the Great Cheng dù, and it also shows that the army of the Eight Banners and the Han Chinese, if the will to fight is equally resolute, the gap is not as great as the Manchus boast. Now, the Ming army is proving to the Manchus more clearly that a rising nation cannot be conquered.

More Ming troops rushed to the battlefield, and the general banner led by Tang Ji absorbed the Qing army with heroic death, bought time, and enabled the Ming army, which was mainly infantry, to rush to reinforcements, gradually forming a strength advantage, and began to implement the siege.

The Ming infantry did not have a mobile advantage, and if the Qing cavalry did not take the initiative to attack, it would never be able to force it into a face-to-face battle. Now, in Hara's eyes, the Ming troops were constantly pouring in from afar, and one phalanx after another cut the formation of the Qing cavalry, and the transmission of orders became difficult, and more and more Qing troops were hit by staggered firepower.

It's time to retreat! Seeing that the battle on the mound was over, and that there was no longer a standing figure among the corpses, he was heartbroken and lost, but he was also slightly comforted.

A whimpering horn sounded, and the Qing cavalry took advantage of their speed advantage to quickly leave the battlefield and gallop into the distance. As long as the cavalry wanted to escape, the infantry could not deal a annihilating blow to the cavalry, which was undoubtedly a defect that the infantry could not make up.

The muskets were still ringing, and from time to time Qing soldiers were shot down and dismounted, and some Qing soldiers who lost their horses in the battle could not outrun the lead bullets that came from the burst.

Meler Ezhenhara looked back, and this was perhaps the most regrettable move of the battle. On the small mound stained with blood and corpses, suddenly a figure staggered, followed by a second with difficulty...... The flag was re-erected, bright red, and it stung Hara's eyes.

That's the end result? Hara didn't want to admit it, but she had to. At the same time, he also knew that all the Qing soldiers who still had a trace of comfort in their hearts would be heartbroken by these seriously injured figures. The loss of troops and the inability of the cavalry to shake the infantry were already a heavy psychological blow. And these few survivors made the Qing soldiers discouraged and had no intention of fighting.

Biting his lip and bleeding, Hara hurriedly assembled his troops, already more than half of the casualties, and the future harassment and delay mission will not be completed. In the face of five or six hundred Ming troops, it was impossible to wipe them out cleanly and completely, and it was conceivable that the morale was extremely low.

But the battle did not end with the detachment of the Qing army, the Ming infantry was reinforced, and the more than 1,000 dragoons gathered had already cut off the retreat of the Qing army in a roundabout way.

In Hara's field of vision, the dragoons of the Ming army all jumped off their horses to form a formation, the formation was stretched wider and wider, and a wide line of four columns of skirmishers was discharged, and the seemingly thin four columns of musketeers were lined up very densely, standing straight in front of them, and nearly a thousand muskets were pointed at them.

…………… (To be continued......)