Nikan saw the clothed minion in front of him be shot, and he himself was nearly shot, so he had to jump onto another horse and charge the Guards in a hail of flintlock bullets.

He was accompanied by dozens of armored and iron horsemen, all brave old Tartars, who tried to use their flesh and blood to directly break through the Guards camp.

However, when Nikan saw the Ming army in front of him stabbing their spears out of their shields, and at the same time a row of people holding bayonets and a row of people leveling their muskets, he knew that even if he broke through the Ming army's camp, he would be stabbed to death with bayonets, or directly shot to death.

Nikan realized that this was a dead end, and hurriedly pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and tried to attack from behind, but by this time, another infantry battalion had already pressed up and fired directly, and he had to retreat with dozens of horsemen behind him.

Of course, there were also Manchurian iron cavalry that followed Nikan to impact the flank without having time to react but directly collided with it, this collision, several shield soldiers were smashed to heart, and the spears were even hit into a string of people with spurs, and even because of the collision of momentum, the spears were directly broken, causing the forward infantry battalion to be very miserable

Fortunately, the infantry in the rear immediately opened fire, so that the Manchurian iron cavalry that came from the impact was either stabbed to death or shot to death, and some were directly knocked back and fell to death, of course, there were also those who were stabbed to death with bayonets in the middle of the progressive barracks, after all, the bayonet construction principle of the Chongzhen 14-style flintlock pistol came from the Lumi gun, which could be used as a cold weapon.

However, this also caused some Guards officers and soldiers to be stoned to death before they could react.

Because most of the Manchurian cavalry were blocked by bullets, and the infantry battalions on both sides besieged it at this time, so that the Manchurian cavalry finally had to give up the tactics of breaking through on the flank, but immediately withdrew and turned the horse's head, interspersed with the gap left by the first battalion of the flank guards, in an attempt to quickly break through to the city of Dingyuan.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Nikan was approaching the foot of the city wall with the remaining more than 1,000 Manchurian iron cavalry, Li Ruolian couldn't help shouting, and hundreds of brocade-clothed guards pulled out embroidered spring swords.

However, Li Ruolian only made a false alarm, not to mention that there were still three infantry battalions under the city wall in front of Zhu Youzhen, and the second and third battalions of the infantry, which had been rehearsed in advance, had already changed their formations at this time, and attacked Nikan's 1,000 Manchurian iron cavalry on both sides.

Suddenly, both sides of Nikan's Manchurian iron cavalry were covered by the fire of 6,000 guns!

At the same time, a battalion of infantry B also pressed up, firing 6,000 guns at Nikan, and the first infantry battalion also changed its formation to close to Nikan's side as its head, and there was a great tendency to encircle Nikan's 1,000 Manchurian iron cavalry.

In other words, Nikan's 1,000 Manchurian cavalry was almost completely surrounded by 24,000 flintlock muskets!

Nikan felt very bad when he saw this formation, his Manchurian cavalry had already suffered hundreds of casualties and was on the verge of collapse, but now seeing this formation surrounded on all sides, he had to immediately turn around and break through to the gap between the first battalion and the second and third battalions.

But at this time, it was obviously a little late, although the Manchurian iron cavalry led by Nikan was all armored soldiers and skilled in bows and horses, but under the fire of tens of thousands of flintlock muskets, only a hundred horsemen escaped, and the rest of the Manchurian iron cavalry were beaten into a sieve, with gun holes in the front, back, left and right.

"It's really beautiful, four infantry battalions besieging two thousand Manchurian iron cavalry, this combination can be regarded as a new formation in the history of the Guards war!"

Zhu Youzhen also said this.

At this time, Geng Zhongming also saw that the momentum was not right, and brought the remaining Qing army iron cavalry to meet Nikan, wanting to save his Manchu masters.

But at this time, the artillery that had been prepared for a long time directly covered countless shells on the field where Geng Zhongming was a thousand steps away, and in an instant, the soil was splashed, and the trees were broken and the birds were frightened.

Hundreds of flowering shells exploded in Geng Zhongming's two thousand iron horsemen, and almost instantly caused chaos in his camp, and even he himself was hit by shrapnel in the abdomen and fell to the ground.

The rest of the iron horsemen saw Nikan walking away in a hurry with a hundred remnants of Manchurian iron horses, and they also followed the emperor in a hurry.

Here, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Han Army, who was still fighting with the Fourth Route Cavalry of the Guards, heard the rumbling of artillery behind them, and the Guards Infantry Battalion had already pressed up and immediately fled the battlefield.

This time the cavalry battalion did not pursue, although it was a battle with the Han army's iron cavalry and there was a thunderstorm to help, but in the end because of its own lack of experience, so the cavalry of the Guards suffered many casualties, the first battalion of the cavalry (A battalion) suffered more than 100 cavalry casualties, the second battalion suffered more than 300 cavalry casualties, and the two cavalry battalions directly under the corps suffered a total of more than 1,000 cavalry casualties, and almost collapsed.

The first battalion of the infantry battalion also lost more than three hundred men, and the second and third battalions suffered less than fifty casualties.

At the same time, more than 5,000 corpses of the Han army's iron cavalry and more than 1,800 Manchurian iron cavalry were left.

The casualty ratio of the 10,000 Qing Army Iron Cavalry brought by the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army and Geng Zhongming is about 2:7, of course, because the Manchurian Iron Cavalry has always been invincible, plus there are some armored soldiers, so although the Second Corps of the Guards Army suffered 2,000 casualties, it was also a big victory in this positioning and defense battle.

And the most commendable result of this victory is not only the annihilation of nearly 2,000 Manchurian iron cavalry, but the capture of Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun.

Liu Qian, deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, exchanged the price of hundreds of field artillery shells for a prince of the Qing court, which was not a loss.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that Daming's field artillery was a flowering shell but not nitrifying explosives, the lethality was not very large, and the cavalry was in motion, so he could still survive and hundreds of iron horsemen ran away.

Otherwise, Geng Zhongming and the two thousand iron cavalry would have turned into dust and debris under the bombardment of these hundreds of shells.

However, after the battle of Dingyuan City ended, no one cheered, they just breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.

Even Liu Qian, who was the direct commander of this battle, only patted the shoulders of the guards around him solemnly.

More than 2,000 casualties were carried back by the medical guards, along with Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun.

In order to prevent Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, from committing suicide, the soldiers of the Guards tied him into a dumpling, and directly stuffed a footcloth on the soldier's leg in his mouth.

Zhu Youzhen specially summoned Liu Qian, deputy chief officer of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, and couldn't help patting Liu Qian's shoulder: "Aiqing was really startled, with cavalry against cavalry, 20,000 guns besieged Manchuria with 2,000 iron cavalry, so the tactics can be included in the Guards training manual." ”

"Your Majesty praises falsely, and Weichen is ashamed to be ashamed", Liu Qian ordered Geng Zhongming to be lifted up after he finished speaking: "Your Majesty, this person is Geng Zhongming, the king of Jiannu Huaishun, but the Gushan Beizi Nikan who got up with one of them escaped. ”

(End of chapter)