Chapter 984: For the Eight Banners

The first group to launch a group attack was Xiong Yue's deputy capital commander Dahaqi, one of the four deputy capitals outside the Guanwai, whose ancestor was Tan Tai, the founding general of the country.

It stands to reason that as a descendant of Tan Tai, Dahaqi should unconditionally support Aixin Jueluo Shikai, who inherited the mantle of Emperor Chengzongyi Dolgon, and raise troops to respond to the Restoration, because Tan Tai was Dolgon's most important general back then, and was later executed by Shunzhi.

Therefore, it is natural that Tan Tai's descendants should side with Dolgon's descendants.

However, Dahaqi did not go to the soup for Prince Xinrui like his ancestors, but chose to respond to the call of the Shengjing general Hongsheng to raise troops to rebel.

There is no reason, just follow Hongsheng.

Most of them regarded their ancestors as nothing like the Emperor of the Guannai Restoration.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners under the command of Dahaqi were garrisons in Fuzhou, Phoenix, Xiuyan, Lushun and other places, with more than 2,300 people.

Among them, there are more than 1,400 armored soldiers, more than 600 clothed soldiers, and more than 200 cavalry.

General Yu Shengjing's temperance is the weakest among the four deputy capitals, but the fighting spirit is the most fiery of the four deputy capitals.

The mission of the Xiongyue Eight Banners is to break through the easternmost Pao'er Ditch on the easternmost side of the Thirteen Mountains, where there were 100 households in the former Ming Dynasty, and then abandoned to this day. If the Paoergou can be captured, the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces will be able to penetrate the Jinniudong where the core of the Restoration Army is located from here, and divide the Restoration Army into two from south to north, so that the Restoration puppet army from the Guannai can basically be declared annihilated.

You must know that in addition to the advantage that the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces have more troops than the Restoration Army, the advantage of its cavalry is even more difficult to compare with the Restoration Army, which is dominated by infantry.

Once the Restoration Army is broken through by the central government, it will collapse on all fronts, and then two legs will be able to run more than four legs?

"The true soul of the Eight Banners is outside the gate, in this white mountain and black water!"

In order to prove that his argument was true, Dahaqi took the initiative to ask Ying to capture Paoergou, and when his troops arrived, they found that the entrance and exit of the post road had been occupied by the Restoration Army, and the perimeter was mostly blocked with felled wood, and some simple fortifications of the delayed cavalry were deployed.

In the line of sight, the puppet army did not dig a trench, because the cold weather had already frozen the ground hard, and it was a tiring thing to dig a trench that met the standards in the frozen soil by manpower.

"The general's value is to know the enemy's reality, and then avoid the reality and attack the enemy, the reality of the enemy is the enemy's void!"

After holding the pointed helmet on his head, Dahaqi gave the order to attack.

Although the puppet army from the pass occupies the commanding heights on both sides and has a lot of firearms, the puppet army's will to fight will never be higher than the true Eight Banner warriors outside the pass, so as long as they pay some losses, they should be able to defeat this group of puppet troops dominated by Han soldiers.

In order to boost morale, before the war, Dahaqi put forward the battle cry "For the Eight Banners".

At the same time, he clearly told the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command that if the Eight Banners outside the pass were victorious in this battle, they would enter the customs and become the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade.

The vernacular is to win, and the whole family enters the customs together to enjoy the flowers and rivers of the Han people.

This made the soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in various places under the command of Dahaqi very excited, the so-called not suffering from widowhood but unevenness, the ancestors of the Eight Banners outside the pass are all fighting the world with Taizu and Taizong, why can the Eight Banners in the pass be happy, they will suffer and suffer outside this pass.

At present, the Kannai has told those guys who only know how to enjoy and don't know how to pay for it have been broken, and they should clean up the rivers and mountains again.

After the horn of the attack was sounded, Dahaqi's headquarters spared no effort to launch an attack on the position of the Restoration Army.

Bao Yi naturally charged ahead, the main soldiers of the Eight Banners followed, and the cavalry was on standby, charging and killing once the puppet army's position was broken through by the armored infantry.

"Enemy attack!"

"Wolf smoke warning!"

"The gunner is in position!"

As orders were passed one after another, the new army in Paoergou quickly entered the battle state, and when a group of enemy troops rushed close to the artillery firing distance, the rumbling sound of artillery resounded over Paoergou, and the black smoke was deafening at the same time.

The unit guarding Paoergou was a regiment in the Fourth Town under the jurisdiction of the Second Army, and the regimental management band was Jiang Hua, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, who did not organize soldiers to attack to prevent the approaching Tartars from demolishing the fortifications deployed on the periphery, but only asked for artillery to continuously shell the enemy.

In the sound of "whistling", a solid iron bullet fell in the charging Xiongyue Eight Banner soldiers, and many of the clothed soldiers who rushed in front instantly split their bodies like five horses, some of their heads were directly called iron bullets to be smashed, some of their chests were smashed out of big holes, some of their arms were taken away by cannonballs, some of their thighs were cut off, and some of their intestines fell off from their stomachs.... There were dead and wounded, and screams came and went.

In order to avoid the artillery of the Restoration Army, some of them lay on the ground, some lay under the corpses of their dead comrades, and some ran around, and the stormtroop formation stagnated.

"Rush up, rush up!"

"Don't be afraid, the more you are afraid of that cannon, the more it will hit you!"

"There are all orders, and those who retreat will be killed!"

Many of the left leaders and Xiao cavalry schools who led the charge had participated in the war against Dzungaria and Huibu, and had experienced big scenes, and knew that at this time, only by rushing to the enemy's position without looking back could they reduce casualties, and if they were deterred by the enemy's artillery fire at this time and did not dare to advance, then more artillery would be waiting for them.

Dahaqi, who was supervising the formation in the rear, was already mentally prepared to lose hundreds, so he waved his hand expressionlessly, and the pro-soldier team immediately stepped forward to prepare to enforce the law.

"Rush! Han people, cowardly as rats, get close to them, and they will run away! ”

A left leader struggled to pick up the military flag and rushed towards the post road first, wearing double armor and tall like an iron tower, immediately driving the surrounding eight banner soldiers to roar forward.

Seeing this, the chaotic coat in front couldn't help but think, and they got up from the ground and launched a shouting charge.

The surrounding cannons continued to fall, and the Eight Banners and the cannons in the coat who were constantly charging fell to the ground, and the muddy ground was full of stumps and broken arms, and some sections were like slaughterhouses.

Finally, after paying more than 200 casualties, the Eight Banners finally rushed to the fortifications deployed by the Restoration Army on the periphery, tore a hole in it, and immediately swarmed in.

Dahaqi was overjoyed when he saw this, and ordered the cavalry to prepare for an attack, but instead of slashing and killing the puppet troops on the opposite side, he drove them to the rear like a flock of sheep, which would make the new army even more chaotic until the whole line collapsed.

This trick was tried and tested repeatedly when dealing with the Ming army.

Often a few Eight Banner soldiers can drive dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of Ming troops into a wolf howl.

It was only the sound of guns in front of him that made Dahaqi realize that victory was still early.

"Put!"

The gunners of the Restoration Army, who were waiting for the battle, lined up behind the half-man-high wooden wall, and took turns firing their guns at the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed up outside the Guan.

The firecrackers at the front quickly put down their firearms under the cover of the wooden wall, hurriedly retreated and reloaded their ammunition, and the second platoon continued to bombard.

In the tense battle and the piercing sound of guns, the gunners could not hear the officers' shouts, but relied on instinct and the usual strict training, constantly shooting, retreating, and then stepping forward to shoot again.

The firearms of the Second Army were old arquebuses and new flintlock pistols, and the regiment stationed in Paoergou had 360 flintlock guns, which were faster and stronger than arquebuses in terms of rate of fire and power, so they were all equipped in one battalion by the regimental management.

The dense sound of guns made the Xiongyue Eight Bannermen who broke through the outer defenses miserable, because the post road behind the breakthrough was too narrow, so they had to withstand not only the shooting fire of the frontal Restoration Army, but also the fire on the hillsides on both sides.

The Eight Banners and the Wrappers who had just dodged the cannon had to use their bodies to bear the blows from all directions, and although the shields were high, many soldiers were mercilessly knocked down by the guns.

Even if you are wearing double armor, it will not help.

What's even worse is that the new army set fire to the square medicine packets from the slope and threw them down, and suddenly the mountain pass sounded an explosion that was even more deafening than the firing of artillery.

Compared with the dense sound of the New Army, the "whooshing" arrows of the Eight Banners sounded very weak and powerless.

After the time lasted for half a pillar of incense, the Eight Banner soldiers who rushed in, whether it was the clothed soldiers, all subconsciously turned around and ran to the rear.

They can't stand it.

Dahaqi, the deputy commander who was watching the battle in the rear, frowned, and finally realized that he also underestimated these Han puppet troops from the pass, and his equipment and fighting will were not weaker than the Eight Banners under his command.

If you continue to fight like this, there is no point in making the warriors sacrifice senselessly.

Deciminably ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and while carefully observing the positions of the Restoration Army, he sent people to ask for help from General Shengjing Hongsheng. Recently, the transcoding has been serious, so we are more motivated, and the update is faster, so please move your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you