Chapter 89: The Moment of Truth

It's good to have strong self-confidence.

But sometimes that self-confidence can be harmful.

For example, the Baiyin diagram suffered greatly this time.

After discovering the 1,000 Yiding of the Ming army, Bai Yintu responded as soon as possible, letting Zhuo Butai take two Niu Lu to intercept and kill 1,000 Yi Ding, and he and another Huang Qi fierce general, Chen Tai, led another three Niu Lu, to protect the back of the main force of Jiannu led by Ao Bai to avoid being cut off by the Ming army.

Bai Yintu felt that his arrangement was extremely proper and there was nothing wrong with it.

Although the Ming army's 1,000 Yiding were difficult to entangle, two Niulu 600 Yellow Flag Eight Banner soldiers were enough to entangle them, and the remaining three Niulu 900 warriors were enough to protect the back road.

Kebaiyintu ignores a brutal truth.

Or maybe the Baiyin diagram actually found it but didn't pay much attention to it.

That is the huge gap in strength between the Jiannu and the Ming army.

In the battle of Xiazhen, there were only more than 10,000 Jiannu in total.

Of the ten thousand, there were 3,000 soldiers and 3,000 coats.

In other words, there are less than 6,000 real Eight Banner soldiers.

However, the Ming army stationed in Xia Town was at least more than 30,000!

Baiyintu did not know the exact strength of the Ming army, and 30,000 men was only an estimate.

Moreover, these 30,000 Ming troops are not Xiangyong, not Weisuo Army, all of them are recruits.

Previously, Ao Bai led the main force of Jiannu to storm in the northwest area of Xia Town for more than an hour, capturing more than 100 guns, but the Ming army fighting with them was less than 10,000 people.

And most of the more than 10,000 Ming troops ran away.

In other words, the remaining more than 20,000 Ming troops have been recuperating.

In fact, the Ming army that has been recuperating is not 20,000, but 40,000!

However, Baiyintu didn't care at all, even if he found out, he didn't care too much.

Victory after victory, invincible and unfavorable brilliant achievements on the field battlefield, so that the senior generals of Jiannu firmly believe in the field of Jiannu from the bones that Jiannu's field is invincible, even if the number of the Ming army is in vain, the Ming army can barely defend the city and fight, and the field battle is given in vain, which has almost become a stereotype.

It is precisely because of this stereotype that Baiyintu is ruthlessly planted.

One Thousand Yiding first made contact with the two Niu Lu with yellow flags and started a chase battle.

The combat effectiveness of a single soldier of 1,000 Yiding is actually better than that of the Eight Banner soldiers with yellow flags, because when Zu Dashou formed 3,000 Yiding, the target was Huang Taiji's 3,000 protectors, that is, the white armor soldiers.

Of course, 3,000 Yiding will definitely not be able to defeat 3,000 white-armored soldiers.

Because in terms of equipment, physical condition, armor and other aspects, the three thousand white-armored soldiers have a crushing advantage over the three thousand Yiding, and the two sides are not comparable at all.

However, the cavalry and archery skills of the three thousand Yiding still have to be better than the white-armored soldiers.

Therefore, Yiding's tactics are very clear, that is, he will never fight with Jiannu in close combat.

Instead, he adopted the tactic of flying a kite, always keeping a distance of fifty paces from Jiannu.

Fifty paces was an awkward distance for Jiannu, because with the exception of a very few sharpshooters such as Aobai and Yabulan, most Jiannu did not have the ability to shoot at a target fifty paces away from a galloping warhorse.

However, Yidin can be projectile with light arrows.

Although the Eight Banners with yellow flags were all armored, the threat of light arrow throwing was minimal.

However, this method of warfare is not very harmful, but it is extremely insulting, especially since the Mongols are still defeated by Jiannu's men, so this is even more unacceptable.

So the two sides started a desperate chase.

Not long after the two Niu Lu's Jiannu chased Yi Ding out of the battlefield, Bai Yintu also came to the periphery of the Ming army's defense line with the other three Niu Lu, and at the same time rang the golden bell to let Ao Bai withdraw his troops.

Yabran heard it right, what he heard was the sound of gold.

It's a pity that Jiannu's golden bell was drowned just after two rings.

Because the Ming army's formation suddenly sounded the trumpet, followed by the sound of swans one after another.

Hearing the sound of the cannon and the swan, Bai Yintu's heart sank suddenly, didn't it? Could it be that the Ming army is going to fight back?

At that moment, Bai Yintu turned over and dismounted, hurriedly climbed the outermost slope protection, and then climbed onto one of the carts thrown by Jiannu on the slope protection, and raised the telescope to look at the formation.

Since the height is not high enough, you can only see an approximation.

But Bai Yintu still saw that the Eight Banners Army had been defeated on all fronts.

The Eight Banners who were originally advancing were obviously counterattacked by the Ming army, and then failed to withstand it, and were completely defeated, and through the vision of the telescope, they could even see the panicked expressions of the soldiers.

"Damn it!" Bai Yintu was inexplicably annoyed, it would be nice to withdraw the army as soon as possible.

If the troops had withdrawn earlier, they would not have been counterattacked by the Ming army, let alone defeated.

An orderly evacuation from the battlefield is completely different from a rout and escape.

It seems that a big defeat can't run away, this is really stealing chickens and not eating rice.

Fortunately, after the three Niu Lu were in charge, the casualties should not be too large, that is, the baggage of the partial van, the chariot and the Franc machine gun may only be abandoned.

However, before this thought could be finished, the two flanks of the battlefield suddenly sounded the sound of trumpets and cannons.

"Huh?!" Bai Yintu Huo Ran turned his head, and was surprised to find that there was actually another Ming army foot soldier on the right flank of the battlefield, at least a thousand people, pushing a long row of side vans, slowly approaching their side.

"Lord Baiyintu, there is also one on the left!" Chentai, who was following him, also roared angrily.

Bai Yintu quickly turned his head to look to the left, and then his heart sank to the bottom in an instant.

Because there was also a Ming army of more than 1,000 foot soldiers on the left, also pushing a long row of side vans, the side van of the side car has been opened, revealing a Franc machine gun loaded on the car.

"Lord Baiyintu, this is the second ghost knocking on the door!" It's rare that Chen Tai still knows chess, "Minggou wants to leave all the more than 8,000 people who worship in Aobai, they really have a big appetite, and they are not afraid of being strangled to death!" ”

As soon as Chen Tai's words fell, the hoarse shouts of the Ming army suddenly sounded on the battlefield.

At first, the shouts seemed messy, but soon they converged into one voice: "Kill Jiannu, don't leave a single one!" ”

"Don't leave one, what a big appetite!" Bai Yintu sneered, and said to Chen Tai, who turned his head, "Chen Tai, it's time to fight for the honor of the yellow flag!" ”

"Please give the order!"

"You take a half-bull to meet the Ming army on the right flank, and you are not allowed to take half a step back before you hear the sound of gold!"

"Huh!" Chen Tai fought a thousand, and immediately ordered a half-Niulu Eight Banners to meet the right-wing Ming army, and Baiyintu personally led the remaining one-and-a-half Niulu to meet the left-wing Ming army.

The critical moment has arrived.

……

"Forward!"

"Stay in formation!"

Huang Degong held an iron whip high and stood proudly on a side van.

At this time, Huang Degong wore a hood on his head and wore a straight mountain armor, like a door god who came out of a New Year's painting.

Seeing this scene, the five thousand Ming troops behind him were all deeply encouraged, and Jing Nanbo, as the commander-in-chief, could take the lead, what else did they have to take care of?

Following the momentum, the Ming army slowly moved forward.

Ahead, Jiannu has also sorted out the side car and the car.

There were about four or five hundred Jiannu pushing about twenty side vans and carts in a row to meet this side.

There were still about 100 steps away, Jiannu took the lead in stopping, inserted the mortise and tenon into the card slot, nailed the iron drill into the ground, and twenty side vans and carts quickly formed a car formation.

Immediately, one by one, Jiannu with a large bow appeared on the wall.

The Ming army did not stop and continued to advance under the command of Huang Degong.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The five No. 1 Franc cannons on the Jiannu side van were the first to fire.

With the screaming of the piercing shells, 2 closed bullets swept over the heads of the Ming army and fell into the open space, and the remaining 3 closed bullets all hit the Ming infantry phalanx.

One of them also hit the van.

The van was torn apart in an instant.

The Ming army in the phalanx was also mournful.

The 25-pound closing bullet was enough to penetrate the Ming military formation.

Where the closing bullet passed, it left a string of severed limbs and stumps.

But the actual death toll is not much, and the lethality of the solid bullet is not a little worse than that of the flowering bullet, or the killing effect looks scary, and the severed limbs and mutilated bodies are really unbearable for ordinary people.

However, the Ming army had Huang Degong in front and did not collapse.

Eighty paces away, Jiannu fired again, this time all 5 combined bullets hit the target, and in an instant 2 more vans were destroyed, leaving five strings of corpses in the Ming army.

However, the Ming army still did not stop and continued to move forward.

Sixty paces away, the Ming army had another van destroyed.

However, Huang Degong still had no intention of stopping and continued to move forward.

The few heralds standing behind Huang Degong were about to come out in a hurry, and they didn't dare to raise their flags.

It wasn't until fifty paces away that Huang Degong's iron whip fell: "Che Ying, form a formation!" ”

A few heralds, who had been in a hurry for a long time, quickly turned around and waved the command flag in their hands vigorously.

Seeing the command flag of the Chinese army, the soldiers of the car battalion hurriedly turned the side van sideways, riveted the connecting mechanism with a tenon rivet, and then drilled the iron into the ground to quickly form a car formation.

The musketeers in the first row quickly went up to the wall.

However, before the first row of musketeers could fire, Jiannu's heavy arrows had already been fired.

Fifty steps, for the Ming Army's bird gun, is just barely into the effective range, but for Jiannu's Eight Banners, shooting a humanoid arrow target at this distance can basically hit nine out of ten.

Therefore, the Ming army's guns only showed their heads slightly, and more than a dozen of them were immediately shot by Jiannu.

Fortunately, the remaining musketeers opened fire one after another, and the smoke of gunpowder obscured their vision.

What followed was basically a scuffle, mainly relying on the Franco's cannons on both sides, with the archers and musketeers only supporting.

Seeing this, Bai Yintu breathed a sigh of relief.

The Ming troops on the left and right flanks were finally blocked.

Although the two sides fought lively, the casualties were not large.

At this intensity, it is absolutely fine to hold on for half an hour.

However, it only took a quarter of an hour, and it was enough to worship them to retreat.

However, before this thought was finished, Bai Yintu was extremely frightened to find that the outer rear of the Ming army on the left and right flanks actually divided into two Ming armies, and continued to push the side van forward to outflank it.