"The Great Khan and the army appeared in the southwest with three battalions of Ming cavalry with the word Cao, do you want to fight back?"

"No need, rush to the aid of Huang Taiji, and attack Mangui from the rear army."

When Huang Taiji fell into the dead plain, Nurhachi did not sit idly by.

Originally, he did want to attack Sun Yingyuan's department, but the advice of one person changed his opinion.

"Great Khan, now that the garrison of Shenyang is perfect, judging from the letter sent by Huangtai Jibeile, if the artillery of the Ming army is really so sharp, then the news that Shenyang has thousands of artillery pieces in the letter of Liao merchants before the war is worth paying attention to."

"Maybe we should retreat in time now, otherwise the Ming artillery arrives, and the army will not be able to retreat......"

Fan Wencheng's words echoed in Nurhachi's ears, and Nurhachi also glanced at Fan Wencheng, who was excluded by the generals.

"This Han man can use ......"

Nurhachi thought so in his heart, and then continued to lead the army south, as for how a great battle began?

At least in this era, a main battle is the prelude to a continuous outpost war.

Countless Tang cavalry squads repeatedly entangled, probed, hedged, and fought on the edge of the battlefield. Both sides must try to control the battlefield and cover the opponent's reconnaissance curtain. Cover yourself with the main force to unfold.

The main forces of both sides, under the cover of the outpost pond cavalry, entered a position where they could observe the battlefield.

Even if the main force is arranged, this battle will not be able to start in a while.

Both sides should seek the position of the initiative, and repeatedly use the Tang Cavalry to detect the weak points of the opponent's troop deployment. Where is the other party must protect and the other party must save? In a word, we should do our best to maintain the initiative on the battlefield.

If the opponent's interests are in a quick battle, they will hold each other to watch and provoke, and if the opponent's interests are long-lasting, they will choose the key points and advance to seek a battle.

The battle will be preceded by a series of skirmishes that will lead the main armies of both sides to the final fateful battleground.

When tens of thousands of armies on both sides shouted and formed a formation to kill each other, before that, it may be a few months of confrontation, the two sides fought with wits and strength, and the rear tried their best to supply, before in the end, it condensed into the name of a glorious battle in history!

This time, the battle of the Liaoshen Plain and the iron cavalry collision between Ming and Jin will not escape this road.

Nurhachi, Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and Huang Taiji's four troops and horses, except for Huang Taiji, who was besieged and dismounted, the Tang cavalry of the other three parties had already begun to fight.

Nurhachi's Tang cavalry needed to face the double drive and flanking attack of Cao Wenzhao's troops and Mangui's Tang cavalry, and the three sides gradually advanced in a triangular way, and Mangui's troops would be the final battlefield.

For example, on the battlefield lying on the ground of corpses, the two white flags placed the war horses in the center of the army, and the short soldiers outward, followed by the archers.

The infantry took out their infantry bows, put on their bowstrings, and waited for the Ming army to shoot them back when they swooped.

Compared with the Eight Banners soldiers who could only control five forces (65 pounds) during the Qianlong period, the bow infantry in the Lao Nu period controlled the foot bows of the staggering people.

At this time, the Eight Banners were in the barbaric period, and they were also at their peak, and their combat effectiveness was better than that of the Sauron soldiers in the Kangxi period, and the foot bow they controlled started with seven forces, reaching the power of ninety pounds.

The seven-force step bow combined with an armor-piercing arrow the size of a baby's fist, when viewed from the side, is undoubtedly desperate.

When the foot soldiers of the two white flags began to draw their bows, Man Gui ordered people to sing gold.

No one knows better than Man Gui, who once attacked the Jianyu Heavy Soldiers in the Loess Ridge, how poisonous the arrows were and what the range was.

As far as the string control is concerned, the Ming army's batch of war bows from the Yongle period is only five to eight forces, because the popularity of firearms has reduced the demand for bows and arrows in the Ming army, and there are no such high requirements.

Compared with the Ming army, Jianyu did not have firearms and could only use bows and arrows, and the result of long-term use was that the Seven Force Bow was just their passing line.

Playing a strong bow with a short distance of cavalry was obviously not good for the Ming army, so Man Gui also ordered the cavalry to attack tentatively, and the actual means was still infantry soldiers......

"Are you ready?"

Man Gui asked sideways, and the left and right commanders also bowed their heads and said: "The two thousand infantry guns have been loaded, and now we are waiting for the general's order." ”

The Ming army's flintlock infantry was four feet two inches long, with a maximum range of 100 steps, but an effective range of 50 steps, 35 steps could penetrate the cloth armor, and 15 steps could penetrate the triple armor.

In comparison, Jianyu's Seven Force Bow had a range of sixty paces, but the damage of the arrow missing the armor stomach was very small, and only a hit to the face could cause damage to the Ming army.

Even if the Jin army was a sharpshooter, it was impossible to hit the Ming army in the cheek with every arrow in thirty or forty steps.

However, the Ming army only needed thirty-five steps to penetrate the cloth armor.

"Knife player cover, step hand!"

Man Gui gave an order, and then the cavalry army separated, cruising in the form of a full moon one hundred and fifty paces away from the Jin army, and at this time, a thousand dismounted cavalry with swords and cards on their backs also guarded two thousand dismounted cavalry holding rifles and began to advance.

"What are the Ming army going to do?"

After the bone bandage, Huang Taiji's waist pain was greatly reduced, so he could barely ride on the back of the horse and start watching the battle.

To this day, the Jin army has not seen the power of the rifle up close, and under their influence, the sharpest fire gun of the Ming army is still the big bird gun among the bird guns, that is, the spear that is more than two meters long.

This kind of loading speed is slow, and Jin Jun's armor stomach has long been tested, and within thirty steps, even if the gun is raised, it cannot penetrate the triple armor on the chest.

Therefore, Huang Taiji used his double-barreled clairvoyance to see the fire gun behind the Ming saber player, and when he spoke:

"The Ming army will use big bird guns, the archers will retreat, and the sword and card holders will raise their shields!"

"Yes!" Hearing Huang Taiji's words, the two Gushan Ezhen of the two white flags immediately began to command the heralds to order the troops.

At present, the number of Jin troops has been reduced to six or seven thousand, which is easier for Huang Taiji to command.

Without waiting for the Ming army to enter a hundred paces, the archers of the Jin army retreated, and the sword and card players raised their shields to defend at the front.

It's just that Man Gui turned a blind eye to their actions, and just looked northeast from time to time to be wary of Nurhachi's arrival.

"Prepare for the archers to shoot on their backs! The Ming army retreated and released the shield and arrows! ”

In the Jin army, Huang Taiji began to give orders, and all the archers also began to prepare under the order.

After a dozen breaths, the infantry did not spread out, but more than 2,000 people divided into four rows, each row of 500 people lined up in a phalanx, and walked diagonally towards the south direction of Jianyu.

The Jin army has long had experience in dealing with the Ming army's bird guns, and the shield in their hands is the rigid and flexible shield proposed by Huang Taiji last time.

This kind of crude composite shield, although expensive, is still made out of a lot of Houjin.

After such a shield was raised, Jin Jun didn't panic, but ......

"Stand!"

Suddenly, the forty flag-generals walking in the first row of the army shouted, and then the army immediately stopped, and the sword and card players also lay on the ground.

"Prepare ......"

The general flag was raised, and the foot gunners immediately staggered the position of the general flag, stretching the battle line.

At this time, they were only thirty paces away from the Jin army, and the Jin army still thought that they were facing the bird gun and the spear.

"Put!"

Flat lift, pull the trigger, just a moment of "pop" sound endlessly.

"Peng!" The rigid and flexible shield of the Jin Army, which was still holding a fluke mentality, was instantly pierced by the dense bullets, and for a while the bullets penetrated the shield, and most of them fell on the stomach of the Jin Army, but a small part hit the Jin Army's cheeks, and more than a dozen people fell, revealing a gap.

The first row of soldiers crouched down and began to clear their chambers and change their dressings, while the soldiers of the second row began to raise their guns and shoot.

The sound of "bang bang bang" became the main theme on the battlefield, and the soldiers in the third row handed their rifles to the front row, and took them and began to clear their chambers.

When the second row of soldiers fired the second shot, the soldiers of the third row took the rifle handed by the rear and handed it to the front while clearing the chamber, and took a step back with the rifle.

The third and fourth rows of non-commissioned officers retreated to clear their charges, while the first-row non-commissioned officers had now loaded their rifles, stood up and continued to pull the trigger.

The soldiers in the second row cleared the charge, and at this time, the four rows of guns of the Ming army had been fired, and hundreds of people fell down, but most of them were shot in the chest and abdomen, and after being knocked down, they spit out a breath of turbidity, and they were still able to get up, and only less than 200 people were really killed by penetrating the rigid and soft shield.

Man Gui's tactics of using platoon guns are still a little too conservative, if it is Zhu Youzhen, he will definitely order the platoon to approach ten paces, and in the last breath will crush the Jin army.

However, it is not surprising that Man Gui did not know that there was a kind of existence called "lobster soldiers", nor did he know the power of close-range guns, after all, this was the debut of the Shangzhi soldiers.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Before the consequences of crushing the enemy army at the first time appeared, the Jin army began to loosen the bowstring and shoot arrows between the Ming army's loading ammunition.

A wave of arrows rained out intensively, most of which were aimed at the upper body of the Ming army.

Even at this time, the sword players lying on the ground raised their shields and stood up, but most of the sword players were still too slow, and many of the sword players fell with arrows.

"Beep-"

Suddenly, the flag officer continued to blow the wooden whistle, and at the same time the sword player continued to lie down.

Two seconds after they lay down, the platoon soldiers began to continue platooning their guns.

The sound of "bang-bang-bang" gunfire and swirling white smoke appeared, and the archers of the Jin Army who were caught off guard were directly knocked down and fell.

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"It's not a big bird gun and a bird gun, it's a new type of fire gun that is the same as the Ming Army's Wansheng Franc machine!"

Huang Taiji realized it later, and immediately frowned and said:

"Keep raising your shield, shoot on your back, and wait for ......"

He was giving an order, but at this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves from the northeast, and Huang Taiji also turned his head and looked with his binoculars.

"Reinforcements are coming!"

Seeing the arrival of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji was excited and angry, and at the same time, he did not forget to boost morale.

It was only while he was encouraged that he also saw the Ming cavalry that was chasing behind the Jin army.

He was very familiar with that flag, and it was the soldiers and horses surnamed Cao who had been chasing him out of the mountains from the Chengzi Pass.

That cavalry is less than 10,000 people, and at the moment there are only more than six or seven thousand people in his own headquarters, 30,000 reinforcements, and there are also 30,000 Ming troops here, that is to say......

"The strength is quite ......," Huang Taiji's face darkened.

In terms of the current combat power of the Ming army, the strength of Ming Jin is quite equivalent to falling into the upper hand.

"The whole army blows the whistle and reminds the Great Khan to evacuate after breaking the formation!"

Huang Taiji's face was ugly, he didn't care if his actions would show an act of challenging the authority of his own Khan Ama, he only knew that if the army was entangled, everyone would have to die here, and Dajin would be destroyed in an instant!

"Beep-beep-beep-"

However, after dozens of breaths, a large number of whistles sounded from the two white flags, which were a little chaotic at first, and finally gradually unified the frequency, and finally expanded the sound.

"Blow the wooden whistle and cover their voices!"

Man Gui ordered, not wanting Huang Taiji to send out any useful information, and the Ming cavalry also began to blow the wooden whistle under the reminder.

But the battlefield is always composed of tens of thousands of people, and it is impossible for one person to give an order, and everyone can do what Man Gui wants in the next second.

Therefore, the wooden whistle of the Jin army was still heard by Nurhachi for the first time, and then it became noisy because of the interference of the Ming army.

"Khan Ama and Esi Hui seem to make us ......"

Yue Tuo rode his horse and cautiously spoke to Nurhachi, and the generals also looked at Nurhachi.

It's just that what they saw was not Nurhachi's angry appearance, but Nurhachi's face with a chuckle.

As a man in his sixties, Nurhachi was like a lion in a pack of lions, not allowing anyone to challenge his authority, but he knew one thing.

He needed an heir.

Originally, Huang Taiji was among the heirs he was thinking about, and Huang Taiji's means and abilities in this battle, as well as the courage to directly dare to give orders to himself just now, made Nurhachi a little happy.

"Command the army, after rescuing the two white flags, break through in the direction of Fushun!"

"Yes!" The generals were surprised that Nurhachi was not angry, while Hu Erhan and Yue Tuo, who were close to Huang Taiji, smiled faintly.

Apparently, Nurhachi was a little happy that Huang Taiji dared to challenge his authority, and although they didn't know why, if Huang Taiji was elected crown prince, then Daikin might be better than it is now.

"Drive!"

With Nurhachi's order, 30,000 horse infantry rushed straight towards the Mangui army three miles away.

Behind them, Cao Wenzhao also buried his head in pursuit, and this scene made Nurhachi very unhappy:

"Yue Tuo, you bring a red flag to block the Ming army behind, and withdraw when Huang Taiji gets out of trouble!"

"Yes!" Yue Tuo responded, and then took over the military order, and commanded the soldiers and horses with the red flag Gushan Ezhen.

When the Jin army rushed forward for another mile, five or six thousand horse infantry slowly fell into the army, and their task was to stop Cao Wenzhao under the leadership of Shuo Zhi.

"Get around!"

Cao Wenzhao saw that Shuo Zhi was about to intercept him, so he immediately led people to take a detour with the Chinese army.

At the same time, Man Gui also ordered the cavalry of the whole army to form a formation to prepare for a breakthrough, but it was not to face Nurhachi, but to suppress the Jin army with the help of infantry to face the attack!

The full moon formed by the 30,000-strong army began to converge towards the center at this moment, and the rumble of the war horse sounded, and Huang Taiji also saw all this clearly, but he could only say about it:

"Shoot from the back!"

The six thousand marching players in the front row raised their bows and shot upwards into the sky.

Without a spear, it was impossible to stop the cavalry from charging after the sudden attack.

Arrows rained down, and countless Ming army war horses neighed with arrows, but due to the existence of horse armor, most of the arrows were resisted, and few people could directly shoot the war horses down.

The phalanx of infantry continued to approach the fang, and the iron horses poured in all around, and the two white flags became a white spot under the red tide.

"Put!"

Seeing that the distance was coming, some Ming soldiers immediately raised their horses and pulled the trigger.

The sound of "bang bang bang" sounded again, and almost all the knife players in the front row fell, while the Ming army iron cavalry held a horse gun in one hand and a gourd hammer in the other, regardless of life and death, chose to rush into battle.

If the 30,000 men did not dare to rush the 6,000 short soldiers without spears, the four cavalry guards could be killed head-on.

It's just that on the battlefield, after all, it is not the 30,000 Ming army iron cavalry unilaterally against the 6,000 gold army horse infantry.

When Cao Wenzhao was dragged by Yue Tuo, Nurhachi's more than 20,000 horsemen rushed straight over, and the army deliberately shot the Ming army's war horses, and the Ming army's people turned over on their backs, and at the same time, after the charge, the horse infantry on the left and right sides turned over and dismounted, and fought in formation.

It's like in a blitzkrieg, after breaking through the enemy's gap, using tanks and infantry to isolate the torn army and leave a passage that can be passed.

Without the impact power, the two armies of Ming and Jin fought together, and at the same time, Fan Wencheng also swung his knife at his compatriots, slashing and killing indiscriminately.

Fan Wencheng is a literati, but he is not short and his physical fitness is not bad, he obviously has such ability, but he chose to take refuge in the Jin Army and swung his sword at the Ming Army with the Jin Army.

He followed Nurhachi to the center of the battlefield, and rode his horse and slashed in front of the two white flags.

Seeing this, the two white flag soldiers immediately let people go one way, and Fan Wencheng rode a horse to enter, and hurriedly said when he saw Huang Taiji for the first time:

"Baylor, now immediately order the whole army to mount, and the army will rush out of the encirclement."

"Fengjibao Yang Zhaoji, Wujing Camp Wu Aheng, Zhang Jixian, Liaoyang Lu Xiangsheng have led troops out of the city and surrounded here!"

"Good!" Huang Taiji's waist hurt, but he still gritted his teeth and signaled Gushan Ezhen on both sides to lead the army to retreat.

Tens of thousands of horsemen rushed to kill on this plain, limited by the 20,000 iron horsemen under the command of Nurhachi who were stirring up in the array, Man Gui saw that he could not encircle and suppress Huang Taiji, and continuing like this could only cause heavy losses to the army, so he could only order:

"The army retreats, prepare to face the assault!"

"Bell, bell, bell—"

The sound of gold sounded, and the cavalry of the Ming army immediately abandoned the Eight Banners horse infantry that was entangled with them.

But as soon as they left the battlefield, Nurhachi ordered a long whistle to be blown.

"Withdraw!"

The whistle of "beep" began to blow one long, two short and three long, and the Jin army's horse infantry, which had originally dismounted to kill the enemy, also grabbed the war horses scattered on the battlefield one after another and withdrew their troops to the northeast.

The two white flags that escaped from the predicament were already scarce, but the desire to survive was also the strongest, and the army was constantly looking for scattered horses, even if it was a lame horse, it was not disgusted, and it turned over and retreated with the army.

Man Gui's side had just reorganized the iron cavalry, and when he saw that the Jin army was showing signs of retreat, he took the lead in drawing his sword to catch up.

"Chase! The whole army is following the Chinese army! Seeing this, the adjutant general yelled, and the dozens of horsemen behind him immediately dispersed to inform the army.

The 30,000 Ming army cavalry began to pursue, and Yue Tuo, who was entangled with Cao Wenzhao, immediately led the army to retreat with Nurhachi.

Seeing this, Cao Wenzhao also led the army to follow, and this one turned into a chase between the Ming army and the Jin army.

Huang Taiji's waist was in unbearable pain, and he could only lie on his horse and march, and Nurhachi could only frown when he saw this.

At this moment, the time is approaching dusk, and Jin Jun Ma Duo does not have to worry about not being able to retreat.

Nurhachi was unwilling to believe that when the war was fought here, he did not achieve his goal at all, and as a result, he had to withdraw with a large army.

It's just that there is no way to do this, the Jin army of 40,000 entered the customs, counting the casualties of Weining Camp Fort, there are already tens of thousands of dead and wounded at the moment, and if it continues to fight, it will only collapse the morale of the army.

They fled northeast, but before it could get dark, the former army gathered their horses and came over.

"Wu Aheng and Zhang Jixian of the Wujing Battalion led 15,000 troops out of the city and went south from the north to the south!"

"Go south!" Nurhachi ordered unhurriedly.

It's just that before he could run for a few miles, he saw Tang Riding from the front again:

"Yang Zhaoji of Fengji County has already led 3,000 troops to line up artillery fifteen miles to the southeast, waiting for Man Gui and others to attack before and after."

"Go to the Northeast!"

Nurhachi was quite calm at the moment, but after the army ran due north for more than ten miles, the Tang cavalry in front of him went back and forth.

"Great Khan, twenty miles ahead, the three battalions of Zhejiang soldiers in Baitapu Fort went out of the city, and the target was directly aimed at our army!"

"Bypass Yang Zhaoji!" Nurhachi didn't dare to stop, once they were entangled by the cavalry of Man Gui and Cao Wenzhao at this time, they would only encounter more encirclement and suppression by the Ming army.

The Jin army has already suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and can no longer bear other casualties.

The sky gradually darkened, and the cavalry of the Ming army pursuing Nurhachi also slowed down slowly, and was thrown away by the Jin army for five or six miles.

But when they crossed a low slope, there was a muffled thunder all around them!

"Boom, boom—"

"There's an ambush!" The whole army was terrified, and at the same time, hundreds of stone bullets also smashed into the Jin army's rushing array.

The earth splashed and the stone bullets turned into ricocheting, hitting one war horse after another, and the people turned over on their backs.

"Keep withdrawing! Don't stop! ”

Nurhachi gave a loud order, and the people who carried the flag of the Chinese army were also constantly riding their horses.

All the horses had reached their limits, and at this moment Nurhachi could see where the stone projectiles were fired.

On the low mountain platform more than 30 miles northeast of them, an artillery position with the word "bear" fluttering came into view, and there were hundreds of artillery pieces placed there.

Without waiting for Nurhachi to continue to make adjustments, the artillery fired in unison again, but this time it was not Xiong Tingbi's artillery position, but from the northwest.

"Pemba—"

Hundreds of stone bullets fell, and the Jin army was taken by surprise.

Cold sweat broke out on Nurha's red forehead, and when he looked to the northwest, he only saw the fluttering banner of the word "Qi".

"When did Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jin lay in ambush here?! What about Mang Gurtai?! ”

Nurhachi was attacking, just because it was less than fifty miles away from Fushun, and according to the situation of Mang Gurtai's Ti riding back and forth two hours ago, there should be no one here, Xiong Tingbi should be in a stalemate with Mang Gurtai at the Chengzi Pass.

"What's going on? And hasn't Qi Jin already crossed the Hunhe River and returned to Shenyang? ”

For a while, Nurhachi's mind was in chaos, and he couldn't figure it out, and at this time, a fire appeared on the horizon in the distance, and Nurhachi raised the captured binoculars and looked at it, only to see tens of thousands of soldiers and horses blocking the front.

"Great Khan, we are surrounded!"

"Khan Amma, break through with a broken arm......"

At this time, the generals of the Jin army realized the seriousness of the matter, and they were tricked by Xiong Tingbi.

Xiong Tingbi asked Qi Jin to shake a shot, and after crossing the Hunhe River, he went north to cross the river to ambush them.

At present, they are full of Ming troops in front and behind, they are blocked on the plain by the Ming army at least twice as large as them, and there are tens of thousands of Ming army iron cavalry in the rear......

Hu Erhan, Yue Tuo, and even Huang Taiji and others persuaded Nurhachi to break through with a broken arm, but at this time, Nurhachi still thought that he could fight.

He drew his long knife, looked at the mountains not far to the south, and said with a flash of inspiration in his mind: "The army obeys the order and follows me into the ......."

"Boom, boom—"

didn't give him a chance to speak, the artillery positions of the Ming army on the front and left sides all broke out, and in front of the generals, a stone bullet fell from the sky, smashed next to Nurhachi and turned into a ricochet at the same time, jumped up and hit Nurhachi's legs!

"Khan Ama (Great Khan)!"