Chapter 188
"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a loud explosion, followed by a series of explosions. The explosions were so dense that it was impossible to hear them.
Dense explosions blasted the ice, and large swaths of sea ice cracked gaps. Yue Tuo, who was charging, didn't have time to rein in his horse, and his body fell. Then I felt like my whole body was pricked with steel needles, and my hands wanted to scratch something. But he didn't catch anything, he opened his mouth to call for help, and the salty sea water immediately poured into his mouth.
"Hahaha! Hahaha! Ao Canghai let out a hearty howl.
Before the sea was frozen, Li Xiu made a move. Twenty cannons bombarded together, and the sea ice was blown apart in large chunks. The artillery landed very closely, causing the sea ice to be blasted open in a neat gap.
This opening seems to be the devil's mouth, which is ruthlessly devouring Houjin's cavalry.
It is simply impossible to restrain the galloping war horse in time on the ice. Seeing countless Houjin cavalry, they fell into the ice cave one after another. Dai Shan felt that his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.
"Brothers, get rid of the crumbs. The Tartars had no backup, and they couldn't get through. Ao Canghai roared, picked up his saber and rushed to the place where the battle was most intense.
Shuotuo led almost two hundred Red Banner cavalry rushing in, and these people were so powerful that they were outrageously strong. Many of them had their arms and thighs broken, and they were still wielding their weapons and fighting. These people are not like people, but like beasts.
It doesn't matter if you're a human or a beast. After all, it can't withstand the huge numerical advantage, and two hundred people get into the military formation of five thousand people, and they know what will happen with their butts.
The soldiers learned quickly, and Ao Canghai's advanced experience was faster than the wind blowing. The fellows didn't make a fuss at the knights on their horses, they all beckoned to the horses.
Either cut the horse's leg with a knife, or poke the horse's stomach with a bayonet. The bellies of several horses were disemboweled, and their internal organs crackled down with blood. A shocking red color was left on the snow-white ice, and the war horse ran and ran, and as soon as its head fell to the ground, it did not move.
The knights on the horse did not fall well, they had heavy armor on them. The soldiers struck with hammers, and those who did not use hammers with axes. I don't have a hammer or an axe, so I can find anything. There was a lot of noise, and some people even used grenades like Ao Canghai.
Fortunately, the grenades made by the sledgehammer are of good quality. None of them were smashed, but many of the Houjin cavalry's heads were opened.
It was too dark to see clearly. Anyway, if you smash it at the figure on the ground, you can't tell if it's on the head or on the thigh, anyway, as long as you hear the people on the ground screaming, then the fuck will continue to smash.
It wasn't until the smashing was dead that the soldiers sat down on the ground and gasped for air.
Two hundred elite Red Banner cavalry soon disappeared into the sea of Ming soldiers. When Ao Canghai dragged the chaotic Ming soldiers up and reformed the military formation. There was not a single living Tartar soldier on the ground.
Azig and Duoduo reined in their horses helplessly, watching the Red Banner cavalry being ruthlessly slaughtered, but they had nothing to do.
They rode war horses, not flying eagles.
The damned warships are constantly shelling, and the cracks in the ice are getting bigger and bigger. No matter how cold the wind is, it is impossible to refreeze it in a short period of time, and it is frozen to the point that people can run away on it.
I used to hear a word called Wangyang Xing, and it is really appropriate to use it at this time.
There was a man who was always observing the battle as a spectator!
The Tartar soldiers called, and Huang Taiji naturally became the focus of attention. Ao Canghai ordered him to never go out of the courtyard where he was, and of course he was definitely not allowed to go out of the courtyard.
Thanks to the law of standing tall and looking far, Huang Taiji saw this battle very clearly. When they saw the army of the yellow flag, they were forced to stop in front of the exploding sea ice. Huang Taiji sighed helplessly, this may be the best chance the Jurchens have ever had to defeat Li Xiao.
But in the face of absolute strength, no matter how good the opportunity is, it is no longer an opportunity, but a trap that devours human life.
Throughout this battle, the Jurchen bannermen used their lives. The tactics were also appropriate, and even with the help of the red-haired cannon, he almost succeeded in the attack at one point.
The Jurchen flags have done their best, including his positive white flag.
But in the end, it failed, and the artillery fire came from the sea. This made Huang Taiji feel desperate, starting when he was a child. Nurhachi told Huang Taiji that as long as the bow horse is skillful, he can walk sideways in this world.
After watching this battle, Huang Taiji knew that Nurhachi was wrong. Bow horses are skilled and cannot walk sideways in this world.
Maybe it's not that Nurhachi is wrong, but that the world has changed.
With the advent of gunpowder, the thing that made individual bravery determine the direction of war is gone forever.
Compared with Li Xiao's firearms, the firearms of the Ming army are simply dolls' toys. Huang Taiji now knows how lucky the victories he fought in the past were.
If the Ming army had a firearm like Li Xiao during the Battle of the Hunhe River, it was likely that the entire army would be wiped out by the Eight Banners.
Although the sea ice will continue to freeze tomorrow, the Ming army can still blow the sea ice away.
Belch......! Maybe not to blow it up.
Just when Huang Taiji's brain was running at high speed, Li Xiu's artillery fire began to extend. With the light of the fireworks, artillery fire began to hit the soldiers of the flags who were still on the ice.
As long as the shells fall in rows, they can always blow up large areas of sea ice. Regardless of whether it was hit by a shell or not, as long as it fell into the water, there was no chance of survival.
Standing on the roof, you can still feel the cold north wind, what kind of temperature the sea is, Huang Taiji can't think about it.
The Tartars retreated like a tidal wave, or rather, the rout came more accurately.
Huang Taiji closed his eyes in pain, in his military career, he had never seen so many battles of the Eight Banners, and it actually ended in a rout.
The military regulations of the Eight Banners are extremely strict, and if you retreat on the battlefield without authorization, you will be unloaded and hung in eight pieces of corpses after you go back. Even if you show the intention of cowardice on the battlefield, you will be fined money and food after you go back, and even Bian Da will be punished as a punishment.
And if this person doesn't make meritorious deeds in the future, he won't want to raise his head in this life.
Now the Eight Banners have retreated, and they are retreating so embarrassed. I don't know how Nurhachi will be troubled when he returns.
With a sigh, Huang Taiji climbed down the ladder and down the roof.
Perhaps the Jurchens' past victories came too easily, and God couldn't see it, and wanted to take away everything the Jurchens had gotten.
It's just that it's easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it's hard to go from luxury to thrift.
Can the Jurchens, who are accustomed to slaves, really go back to their previous lives? Or in the next battle, after paying more losses, will you be forced to return to your old way of living.
Huang Taiji walked to the kang tiredly, took off his shoes, leaned on the quilt and closed his eyes and pondered.
"Ao Ye! The Tartars ran away! Zheng Sen didn't care how cold the soldier's face was, and sat down beside Ao Canghai. The little face was almost smoked like a cat's face, and he was holding an arquebus in his hand that he didn't know where to go.
"Fuck it, I almost got it here. Why can't our guys fight? Ao Canghai picked up a flintlock pistol and studied it, it was true. No matter how much the bullet hits inside, it just can't get into the chamber. It seems that the chamber of the gun is one size smaller, and I don't know why.
He picked up an arquebus from the Japanese kingdom, and this thing was used as usual. The projectile is loaded into the barrel and can be fired. I tried to shoot it, and there was nothing wrong with it at all.
"Dachengzi said that he was guilty of the immortal ......!" A company commander with a big tongue whispered to the side.
"Fuck off, when Liaoyang City is broken. Tartar is not a human thing, and he has done less? Will the gods help them? If the gods helped them, Lao Tzu would bombard his mother's immortals with cannonballs.
The good people of the Ming Dynasty do not bless, but bless the cattle who kill people and set fires. Such a god should be fucking bombarded into scum. He kicked the little company commander in the ass, so frightened that the little company commander didn't dare to say anything. Ao Ye is in a bad mood at this time, so don't mess with it.
"Count the battle damage on a company-by-company basis, and then bring it back for repair. Each company takes turns on duty, who the hell dares to mention any bullshit fairy things, Lao Tzu let him eat guns. ”
"No!" Ao Canghai gave an order, and the commanders of each battalion and company responded in unison.
I kept fiddling with the two guns in my hand, and I didn't figure it out for half an hour, so I simply didn't fiddle with it.
Call the messenger and ask him to bring a message to Li Xiao. This guy immediately ran along the ice, and now it is safest to go to Jinzhou by boat. Although the pier of Kyaw Hwa Island is frozen, there are still boats on the sea that is not frozen.
Inside a dilapidated loess house, Nurhachi looked at the tandem charcoal brazier. All the people in the room were so angry that they didn't dare to make a sound. It was the first time for the Houjin Empire that a character at the level of the flag master died in battle.
Dai Shan's hair was braided, and he sat in the corner with dull eyes, and his eyes were red like rabbits.
In this battle, the eldest son Yue Tuo and the second son Shuo Tuo were all killed. The most pitiful thing is Yue Tuo, who fell into the dark sea and couldn't even find a corpse.
I wanted to find trouble with Li Yongfang, but there was no excuse.
Li Yongfang was responsible for inquiring about information, and there was no mistake in the information of others. It is said that the sea will freeze, and the sea is really frozen so strong that you can run a horse. It is said that the Ming army did not build a fortress, and the Ming army really did not build a fortress.
The decision was made by himself, and now if he wants to find a scapegoat, he can't find anyone else's Li Yongfang's head.
If it's someone else, just find an excuse to kill it. But Li Yongfang is different, he is in charge of the entire Houjin intelligence system. If he had been killed, Nurhachi would have been blind and deaf.
This is not easy for Nurhachi, who is old and has a bunch of strong sons, to be a disaster.
"Withdraw your troops!" Nurhachi struggled to spit out two words.