Chapter 141: Winning the First Stage of the Bloody Battle of the Hunhe River

The Ming army was given a stick of incense to recuperate.

On that night, more than 2,000 people were killed and more than 6,000 wounded. There were many wounded, more than 1,000 were completely disabled and could no longer fight. But the rest of the wounded and sick were all armed and still stuck to the battlefield.

"Great Ming Wansheng!"

No matter how tired the Ming army was, it was still full of morale.

Because it's almost dawn!

In this short period of time, the Ming army changed its formation.

The artillery was all placed on the sides and behind, the muskets were also placed on the sides, and the wounded soldiers were also placed on the flanks for defense.

The front concentrated the remaining melee soldiers and horses of the whole army, all capable of attacking.

At this moment, a ray of the morning sun rose in the east.

The fortress of the Hunhe River in the darkness suddenly lit up.

Brown civil structures were scattered everywhere, puddles of blood on the ground were already black, white smoke rose from time to time, and some flames added a little black smoke.

The Ming soldiers in the center and south of the fortress had long been soaked in blood, their banners were blackened by smoke, and their weapons were often broken and damaged. But their faces were resolute, and no matter how tired they were, their faces were determined to win.

Jiannu's side was completely opposite, the yellow, red, blue, and white armor banners looked quite good, but the Jiannu soldiers squatted behind the shield cart one by one and smiled obscenely. And the coats have a fine light in their eyes, looking forward to the "dream of raising the flag" like a cake, but they look like ghosts, and no one rushes forward.

The battlefield has come to a standstill for the moment, and Jiannu is ready for the next onslaught.

Nurhachi wiped his scimitar and drew his bow.

Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai, this time, they will also take their guards and personally rush up to kill, saying that they will take down the Ming army.

The five auxiliary ministers of Fei Yingdong, Eyidu, He Li, Hu Erhan and An Feiyangu, although they were old and some were still sick, also polished their swords and prepared to enter the decisive battle.

Just wait for the Great Khan Nurhachi's order.

The Ming army also had to fight again.

Because it's not enough to crush an enemy offensive once!

It's good to defeat Jiannu!

"Toot! Honk! Toot!"

Suddenly there was a trumpet from the southeast.

This is the clarion call of the Ming army!

"Reinforcements have arrived! Come on, veterans!"

Chen Ce, a 69-year-old veteran general, led the charge.

"The wind is howling! Horses are barking! The Yellow River is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring!" Tong Zhonghua sang "Defending the Yellow River" taught by Wang Hongyu, and surpassed Chen Ce in a few quick steps and grabbed the first one.

"Afraid of death, the unhero raised his gun and rushed forward, and only one roar made the enemy tremble!"

Zhou Dunji, Wang Hongyu, Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Hannian and others rushed towards the enemy.

"Come on, veteran, do you hear me! Come on and kill, leave no chance!"

The southern army launched an attack, with guns and cannons, arrows and arrows, swords and guns at the same time, and everyone scrambled to be the first.

Jiannu was caught off guard, Baoyi was still at the front of the queue, and the main force of Jiannu was still behind.

Where can the coats withstand the onslaught, they suddenly lose their courage, and run away.

Outside the fortress, the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Jiang Bi, You Shilu, Qin Bangping, Qin Minping and others launched a pincer attack at the agreed time and had already torn through the Jiannu Front.

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Originally, Nurhachi left the soldiers and horses of the Daishan Zheng Red Banner 20 miles away to monitor the Ming army that fought during the day. ….

used suspicious tactics and set up an ambush to prevent them from interfering.

In fact, the red flag alone can't defeat those Ming troops, but at least it can cause a lot of losses through ambushes, or entangle and drag, so as not to let them interfere in the decisive battle here.

As a result, he never expected that the Ming army, which was twenty miles away, not only rested for the night, but had already sounded the horn of attack in the southeast of his large array at this time.

At the same time, the southern army in the fortress also launched a charge singing war songs, obviously wanting to attack from the north and south.

Especially You Shilu with 3,000 cavalry, he ignored the pursuit of the Daishan cavalry and released arrows.

There are many people who fall from the back with arrows, and they have to rush over desperately.

The Jiannu banners hurriedly sent troops to guard against the flank impact of the cavalry.

But the rout in front of him was wrapped in a coating, and the formation was forcibly disrupted.

Like an irresistible torrent, the wolf rushed to the unprepared front of the Jiannu army, and these Jiannu soldiers were coated by their slaves and trampled mercilessly.

The masters were furious, and picked up the weapons in their hands to slash and slash the coats, who saw the miserable end of the same kind who had stormed the fortress as cannon fodder not long ago.

Knowing that they were deceived, it turned out that they were not asked to make meritorious service and carry the flag, but to be used as a meat shield to send their lives, and now they are killing them, and in the face of death, they chose to resist and hold the serf desperately.

Bao Yi was sandwiched between the Southern Army and Jiannu, killing them before and after, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and a river of blood.

The guns and swords of the Southern Army advanced all the way, knocking the coats who stood in the way to collapse and flee.

The slaves also raised their knives and moved forward, chopping the backlashed coats into pulp.

The wrappers didn't want to die in vain, so they brandished their weapons and slashed Jiannu.

I can't cut the heavy armor of the Jiannu.

Then hold them, strangle, crush, bite to death!

Baoyi and Jiannu killed each other so much that they cried and cried for their mothers.

Nurhachi lost his former composure, and personally led 3,000 taels of yellow flag elites to the northwest to kill.

Whether it is Jiannu or Baoyi, as long as it is facing him, he will be killed.

Nurhachi led 3,000 taels of yellow flags to meet the rushing Southern army head-on, because the chaotic army on both sides was congested, leaving the passage for Nurhachi's escort to be only twenty-three paces wide.

Just in front of the Zhejiang soldiers was the direction of attack, and the Zhejiang soldiers installed all the Furlong machines and tiger squat guns on the chariots, and shot while being advanced by the auxiliaries.

At the front were the Three-Eyed Gunners, followed by the Arquebusiers, who charged in a progressive manner, using paper-wrapped medicine to charge much faster than Jiannu had imagined.

Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu, who had fought twice with the blue flag, saw Jiannu take the initiative to give way to the passage, and more than 3,000 elites wearing two yellow flag armor rushed over.

"The old slave's two yellow flag elites!" Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu shouted at the same time, and quickly asked Chen Ce to inform Zhang Mingshi in the flag:

"Nearly 100 paces to start shelling, arquebuses in full swing!"

"The Three-Eyed Warriors run to support the left and right flanks!"

They knew that the elite of Jiannu could shoot the target in 100 steps, and they couldn't be allowed to enter within 100 steps, otherwise the Zhejiang soldiers would suffer a big loss.

The two winged Sichuan soldiers, Youyang Tusi soldiers, some white pole soldiers, and Fujian soldiers were mostly sword and shield soldiers, archers, and crossbow soldiers.

The Fran machine gun and the tiger squat cannon were mainly left by Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu, who had three eyes and few arquebuses. ….

Half of the two wings were in close contact with Jiannu, and most of them fought back, and the casualties were naturally serious.

Now with the support of the three-eyed gun, the pressure has suddenly been reduced a lot. This is the wonder of the goose-shaped formation trained by Wang Hongyu.

The artillery of the Sichuan army all used scattered bullets, and the poisoned arrows used by the Youyang soldiers also hit the Jiannu array on both wings.

The elite of the two yellow flags were covered by the dense guns, bows and arrows of the Zhejiang soldiers, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded at once.

Nurha is wearing three layers of heavy armor, but she is still alive and well, and the dynamic vision of the battlefield is excellent.

He found that a general of the Ming army opposite, commanding the firing of guns and cannons was very powerful, and he was standing majestically on the artillery carriage, it was Zhang Mingshi, a general of the Zhejiang army.

The old slave picked up the carved bow and shot it with an arrow.

Zhang Mingshi had a guard next to him who saw someone standing on a horse 150 steps away and raising a bow, and pushed Zhang Mingshi away, and he was shot in the right rib by the old slave and died.

When Nurhachi's elite of the two yellow flags appeared, Wang Hongyu issued an order to Li Tiezhu, who commanded the iron-core bronze cannon on the fortress, to bombard the two yellow flags vertically.

The cannonballs flew by, directly cutting the gaps in the two Yellow Flag Army arrays dozens of steps long, and the broken legs and short arms flew everywhere.

Because of the high level and close distance between the uncles and nephews of the Lu family and those gunners under Wang Hongyu, it can be said that one hit is accurate, and there is no missing shot.

Most of the Francos and Tiger Squatting Guns were taken care of in the queue of the two yellow flags, which was the principle set before the war: the two yellow flags and the white flags of Jiannu were found to be fought to the death!

The old woman couldn't behead the cunning old slave, knowing that she had been beaten, she hurriedly jumped off the war horse to call the guards to cover, dozens of shields covered the old slave, and scattered bullets immediately rained down.

The old slave hurriedly rolled to the side seven or eight paces away, and then saw that dozens of guards holding shields were almost dead and wounded, and the iron shields were pierced by the iron nails.

This kind of iron nail scatter bomb is difficult to manufacture, it needs to be thick at one end and thin at the other, it is specially made by Li Tiezhu, and the key is that the mold is particularly laborious.

Li Tiezhu got the inspiration from making honeycomb coal, just like a laboratory cluster dropper, but it is solid, inserted in the mud, and pulled out to become a mold.

After the cast iron nail is made, it is fixed into a cylinder with wax, and the wax is melted and burned when fired, and the iron nail gradually disperses after breaking out of the muzzle.

In particular, when it was thrown into the air by the tiger squat cannon, the lethality of the falling shell was greater than that of the original round cannonball.

Nurha's face was gray, and when he looked back, except for the guards of the two yellow flags, the other flag guards were not so desperate.

"Retreat!"

That's all Nurhachi can do.

He saw that in close combat, the Houjin army did not even have the upper hand.

Qin Bangping and Qin Minping led the Sichuan soldiers and the white pole soldiers to directly rush to kill the enemy's flank on the east side, and several times the Jiannu infantry could not block their impact, and the Jiannu had to mobilize a large number of infantry to support.

However, there are many frontal battles and many people cannot be put away, and the southern army is always in a situation where there are more fights and fewer fights, which is the advantage of the formation and weapons of the white pole soldiers.

Jiang Bi's 2,000 Wujing battalion also fought bravely to kill the enemy, entering the enemy formation from the south, echoing with the Sichuan army's spear phalanx.

You Shilu's 7,000 soldiers and horses had half of the cavalry, and the cavalry carried out a penetrating attack, leaving the back to Dai Shan's Zhenghong Banner and ignoring it, in order to break up the Jiannu formation, he suffered heavy casualties, and most of them were shot in the back.

The remaining more than 3,000 infantry attacked the flank of Jiannu, because Jiannu was passive at the beginning of the war, and gradually contracted to the east, the battle on the west side was not fierce, and the losses were small.

Jiannu's archers and ordinary soldiers directly let the Sichuan army's spear phalanx go through.

This strong army with two defeats and a blue flag is like entering a no-man's land.

Although You Shilu's cavalry was also shot by the Red Banner cavalry behind him, and the losses were huge, it played a major role in disrupting the Jiannu formation.

In such a situation, the main force of Jiannu retreated in disarray, leaving a large number of flags and weapons scattered on the ground.

If it weren't for Nurhachi himself to stabilize the situation, I am afraid that the retreat would have turned into a rout.

But even so, they suffered a total of 5,000 casualties, and also lost thousands of clothing, as well as almost all of the shield carts, the largest loss since Nurhachi's campaign.

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