Chapter 400: Camel Boom Cannon

Including Jiang Xuan's Xuanfu soldiers, including Wu Sangui's Guanning army, they were all organized as green battalion soldiers.

Moreover, Jiang Hao's Xuanfu soldiers and Wu Sangui's Guanning army have changed from the garrison of Xuanfu Datong to the green battalion stationed in Beijing, and this time they also came to Hetao with Dolgon.

Although the Green Battalion was reorganized, its status was much lower than that of the Eight Banners Han Army.

It is even more incomparable with the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Eight Banners Manchuria, which is a world of difference.

To put it bluntly, the green battalion is cannon fodder or a death battalion, a consumable item specially used to consume the enemy's firepower, physical strength and energy during the battle, although Jiang Hao and Wu Sangui are very dissatisfied, they are helpless.

For example, in the decisive battle of the Hetao, Dolgon put the Green Camp at the forefront.

Dolgon's intention was to have the Green Battalion consume a wave of pseudo-Shun troops first.

If the Green Battalion soldiers crushed the puppet Shun army in one go, and then threw themselves into the pursuit of the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Eight Banners Manchuria, if the Green Battalion failed to defeat the puppet Shun army, it didn't matter, at least it could consume a lot of physical strength and energy of the puppet Shun army, and then put into the Eight Banners Manchuria to launch an attack at this time, and the puppet Shun army would be defeated.

I have to say that Dolgon's arrangement is extremely thoughtful.

In terms of the strength of both sides on paper, the Qing army's chances of winning were very high.

Hong Chengchou said: "The master arranges it like this, and it is foolproof." ”

As he spoke, half of the Puppet Shun army had already reached the north bank of the Yellow River.

Fan Wencheng said: "Master, this is a good time to attack halfway!" ”

"Well, this time it's finally our turn to attack the Qing Army." Dolgon nodded happily, in the past six months, it was the pseudo-Shun Bandu who attacked their Qing army, this time the situation was finally reversed, and he shouted, "Spread the decree, the green battalion is the front team, the Eight Banners Manchuria is the rear team, the Eight Banners Mongolia protects the two wings, and the whole army attacks!" ”

Dorgon didn't even want to be tempted, and when he came up, he was always attacking.

Dolgon's order was given, and the Qing army immediately began to move.

The terrain around Junzijin is extremely open, which can be called the most perfect battlefield.

The continuous sound of horns, the sound of war drums, and the majestic shouts of generals instantly resounded on the battlefield, and the war horses let out dull neighs from time to time, adding a bit of solemnity to the battlefield.

60,000 green battalions, 60,000 banners of Manchuria, and 20,000 banners of Mongolia on the left and right flanks, a full 140,000 army, pushing rows of side vans and carts, stepping on neat steps, pressed towards the puppet Shun army.

On the north bank of the Yellow River in Junzijin, about 50,000 or 60,000 puppet Shun cavalry had just come ashore.

Before the whole team could be formed, the army of Jiannu had already been crushed by the tide.

At this time, the puppet cavalry had only two choices, one was to quickly dismount and line up, spear array to spear array, gun array to spear array, resist the attack of the Qing army's green battalion, and win time for the follow-up infantry to cross the river, as long as the follow-up hundreds of thousands of infantry and the car battalion successfully crossed the river, this battle still had to be fought.

The second option is to get out of the way of the front of the battlefield, and use the mobility of the cavalry and the cavalry to attack the two flanks of the green battalion to slow down the advance of the green battalion, which can also win time for the follow-up infantry and the car battalion to cross the river, but the pseudo-shun cavalry will also be entangled by the Eight Banners Mongolia while attacking the green battalion.

The Puppet Shun cavalry finally chose to get out of the way and attack the two flanks of the Green Battalion.

More than 50,000 puppet cavalry began to change formations, and soon divided into two groups, left and right.

I saw that on the grass beach of Junzijin, which was more than ten miles wide, countless horses' heads were crowded, and the horses were neighing.

There are more than 1,000 cavalry, boundless, more than 10,000 cavalry, grounded to the sky, more than 50,000 Dashun cavalry gathered together, and it almost completely covered the Junzijin grass beach more than ten miles wide.

It was as if the whole world had been covered with cavalry.

Seeing this through the telescope, Dolgon's face fell.

Unknowingly, the pseudo-shun actually has such a large cavalry.

If you give the puppet Shun a few more years to integrate the steppe, you won't have to pull out hundreds of thousands of cavalry?

Hong Chengchou, Ning Wan, and Fan Wencheng behind Dolgon were also secretly shocked when they saw this, it has only been more than a year, and the pseudo-shun has actually recovered his vitality? There is Nanming in the south, pseudo-shun in the west, and it is difficult to do it in the Qing Dynasty.

The horse's head was rushed, the iron hooves turned over, and the pseudo-shun cavalry quickly gave way to the front of the battlefield.

Dolgon and his henchmen saw the rear of the puppet army still wading across the river.

However, to the surprise of Dolgon and others, the rear team of the puppet Shun army actually led mules and horses in addition to the infantry, no, it was not a mule and horse at all, but a camel?

Dolgon was a little stunned and said, "This is a camel? ”

"How can the puppet infantry carry camels? Is it used to carry baggage? ”

"No, how can the baggage battalion walk in front of the infantry battalion?"

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan also looked at each other and were very surprised.

Hong Chengchou's face changed and said: "Master, it may be that the reinforcements from Dzungaria have arrived!" ”

"Hengjiu, do you suspect that this is the Dzungar camel cavalry?" Dolgon's face instantly fell again.

"Yes." Hong Chengchou said, "I heard that the Dzungar tribe has a large number of camel cavalry, and only the Dzungar tribe has camel cavalry, and no other Mongolian tribe has it. ”

"Baltuhun still chose the pseudo-shun after all." Dorgon said in a deep voice.

As he spoke, nearly a thousand camels that had walked in front had already come ashore and soon spread out along the riverbank.

At this time, the puppet Shun cavalry separated from the left and right had already been wrapped in a ball with the Eight Banners Mongolia on both wings.

The Green Battalion in the middle had also advanced to a distance of less than five hundred paces from the north bank of the Yellow River.

According to the advance speed of the two sides, only a few infantry in front of the puppet Shun army still have a chance to go ashore, and the vast majority of the infantry and car battalions in the rear can only squeeze into the icy river water to confront the green battalion.

Seeing this, Fan Wencheng smiled and said, "Master, the overall situation of this battle is decided. ”

Dolgon and Hong Chengchou's eyes kept staring at the nearly 1,000 camels.

The two of them had a faint feeling that there was something strange on the backs of these nearly a thousand camels.

Sure enough, after nearly a thousand camels spread along the north bank of the Yellow River, they soon turned over and fell to the ground under the control of the camel driver, and then the camel driver lifted the Persian carpet covering the camel's back.

The carpet was lifted, revealing a small cannon underneath!

Dolgon's heart immediately chuckled, and he almost exclaimed, "What the hell? ”

"Master, it seems to be artillery!" Hong Chengchou's voice was also a little trembling, although the caliber of these cannons is not large, and the lethality should be far inferior to the red-clothed cannons, but they can't stand much, there are nearly a thousand!

"Cannon?!" Dolgon's face instantly became extremely embarrassed, and the telescope locked onto a camel.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, you can see very clearly that the cannon on the camel's back is not long, at most three feet, and the weight is at most three or five hundred catties.

He was able to turn around, and under the control of another camel, he quickly turned the muzzle of the cannon and aimed it at the green battalion soldiers in front.

Seeing this scene, Dolgon suddenly roared: "I remember, I remember, damn it, John Tang told me that this is the Dzungar camel whirling cannon!" ”

"Camel boomer?" Hong Chengchou and other henchmen looked at each other.

Looking ahead, I saw that nearly a thousand camel whirling cannons had been fired one after another.

Dolgon quickly turned the telescope's field of view and aimed at the Green Battalion who was charging towards the river beach, but saw that hundreds of bloody paths were plowed out of the dense infantry array of the Green Battalion in an instant.

This wave of green battalions was beaten badly, most of the shells directly hit the infantry queue of the green battalion, and a small number of shells fell on the grass beach in front of the green battalion queue, but they also formed ricochet, and finally also entered the queue of the green battalion soldiers, and also ploughed out a bloody path in the strict queue.

I saw that where the shells passed, the green battalion soldiers were all broken limbs.

Even conservative estimates put at least 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers killed.

The side van that was pushed to the front by the Green Battalion soldiers was useless at all.

Hit hard by this, the Green Camp slowed down and began to hesitate.

Because the density of the artillery fire of the puppet Shun army has exceeded their tolerance limit, who can withstand such a casualty method? No one can bear it! That's a thousand guns!

Facing the charge of thousands of platoon guns, isn't that looking for death?

However, the Dzungar artillery did not stop and continued to bombard the green battalion.

The rate of fire of the camel boom cannon is significantly faster than that of the redcoat cannon, and the redcoat cannon can fire at least three shells if the redcoat cannon fires one shell!

After a few rounds of shelling, the Green Battalion had more than 5,000 casualties.

Such heavy casualties finally broke through the psychological defense line of the Green Battalion, and they turned and fled uncontrollably.

However, because there were 60,000 banner soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria behind him, he could only flee to both sides, but in this way, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were exposed to the muzzle of the camel boom cannon.

The Eight Banners Manchurian carts also could not bear the shells of the gyroscope.

In the continuous crackling sound of Pengkacha, one cart after another was destroyed.

The Manchurian soldiers of the Eight Banners who were hiding behind the chariot also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 1,000 casualties in a short period of time.

However, the will to fight of the Eight Banners Manchuria was far superior to that of the Green Battalion, and even if there were heavy casualties, the Eight Banners Manchuria still dared to continue to advance against the Dzungar maneuver cannon.

Seeing this scene, Dorgon couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"Heng Jiu, if it weren't for you this time, I would have almost missed a big thing." Dolgon took a deep breath, turned back and shouted, "Spread the decree, the left and right wings will not move, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria will be withdrawn!" ”

Dolgon's will was soon passed under the royal flag.

The next moment, the Eight Banners Manchuria, which was originally advancing, immediately turned around and retreated.

At this time, under the cover of the Junggar artillery, tens of thousands of puppet Shun infantry had already gone ashore, and when they saw the retreat of Eight Banners Manchuria, these tens of thousands of puppet Shun infantry who went ashore took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack.

With the counterattack of the infantry in the center, the puppet cavalry on both flanks also tried their best to advance forward.

Seeing this, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of Dolgon's mouth, fortunately, I kept a hand, otherwise it would have been planted today, but now, it should be the turn of the puppet army to be unlucky.