Chapter 226: Breakout

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!!"

In the Qing army's large array, the war drums beat repeatedly, and the low conch horn also resounded on the battlefield at the same time, and the two were intertwined and mixed with each other.

Under the repeated bombardment of platoons and artillery, the soldiers in the front line of the Qing army almost collapsed.

It's just that...... In the middle of the battle, because of the artillery of the Ming army, Chasuka arranged the lightly armored archers who should have been in the front in the middle position, and arranged the followers and auxiliaries who should have been in the rear as cannon fodder in the front.

Most of the guns and scattered bullets of the Hanzhong army were killed and injured by the followers and auxiliaries of the Qing army, and the follow-up lightly armored archers were also severely damaged.

The last dead soldier did not suffer too many casualties, and the Qing army guard camp behind it also did not suffer many casualties.

The dead soldiers of the Qing army in the rear strode forward, and the casualties of the soldiers in the front did not have much impact on their morale, their array was still tight, and their pace was still calm.

Accompanied by the rapid sound of war drums, the dead soldiers of the Qing army, wearing heavy armor and holding swords, formed a large formation, like a wall, and pressed towards the large array of the Hanzhong army.

The casualties in the front did not frighten the dead soldiers of the Qing army in the rear, who traveled between the white mountains and black waters all year round, and were accustomed to seeing death and blood.

Blood and death only stirred up the blood in the hearts of these Jurchen hunters.

They shouted and fought wildly, shouted angrily, and vented loudly.

"Kill all these Nikans, and leave not a single one!!"

A group of Qing army armor soldiers wearing heavy armor swept across the wilderness like a tide, rushing straight towards the large array of the Hanzhong army, and there was no fear and timidity in their eyes.

Since the battle of Sarhu, they have never feared these Ming people who live in the south!

At this moment, there is only one thought in their hearts, that is, to kill the past, lean forward, and kill all these southern soldiers.

The firearms possessed by these Ming troops terrified them and made them panic.

In the face of firearms such as firearms and artillery, the martial arts they have honed since childhood, the physique they have trained since childhood, and the experience they have experienced in a hundred battles are of no use in the slightest.

The firecrackers and cannonballs rolled, but they were powerless to resist, and in the end they could only end up dying.

The Chinese military drums of the Hanzhong army shook like thunder, and the dense drums were like the rain and wind blowing in the mountains and deep valleys.

The armor soldiers of the Hanzhong Army continued to speed up the pace of their feet with the rhythm of the drums, and the long-term training allowed them to maintain a neat pace under the rapid drumbeat.

There was not the slightest fear in their eyes.

In addition to the Liao cavalry in the army, most of the soldiers of the rest of the Hanzhong army were from Shaanxi, and they lived in Shaanxi, thousands of miles away from Liaodong.

The Qing army has never been defeated, so how can they ever be defeated?!

Since they joined the army, they have hardly stopped all kinds of training.

Thousands of miles of battles, thousands of miles of travel, they have fought with thousands of rogues in the pool of blood, and they have come out of the sea of corpses and blood.

And those Liao cavalry in the army, there was no fear in their eyes.

As Liao, the hatred between them and the Qing army was almost impossible to resolve.

When they were in Liaodong, they had no choice, they were just ordinary generals, and they had no autonomous power.

They have courage, but the generals at the top have no courage, and the generals who command the troops have no courage.

But now everything has changed, and their generals are not lacking in courage.

The rumbling footsteps accompanied the advance of the Hanzhong army's large array, followed by the high-spirited war drums and swept forward, colliding head-on with the shouting and killing sound of the Qing army's large array.

The bloodiest hand-to-hand combat is coming!

Twenty paces away, this distance can even be seen clearly by the eyebrows and eyes of the people in the large array opposite.

The soldiers in the formations on both sides saw each other's appearance at this time, and both of them were invariably in their hearts.

"Woo————"

The low sound of the horn came from the rear of the Qing army's large array, and the pace of the Qing army's large array accelerated again.

Almost at the same time, a large number of flying axes suddenly flew out of the Qing army's large array, as well as a number of throwing soldiers such as Iron Guduo.

Many of the cavalry of the escort battalion who followed behind were already dismounted at this time, seizing the last opportunity to shoot heavy arrows.

"Put!!"

At the same time, a loud swan sound also sounded in the military formation of the Hanzhong army.

In the rear array, all the dismounted infantry and Liao cavalry shot out the heavy arrows in their hands.

The Qing army's tactics are very clear, how can there be no means of countermeasures.

Arrows and throws were everywhere in front of the two fronts, and soldiers on both sides were constantly screaming and falling and slandering.

But no one stopped moving forward.

Thousands of people lined up and rushed in together, how could they allow people to retreat and dodge?

When the people in front fall, the people in the rear step on the bodies of the people in front and continue to move forward, and when the people in the rear fall, the people in the rear continue to make up for it.

The tremendous pressure struck the nerves and wills of the soldiers in the front line of the two armies.

"Kill !!"

The deafening shouts of killing burst out from the military formation of the Hanzhong army, and swept away towards the Qing army that was rushing straight ahead.

Thanks to long-term training, even if there are moments when people continue to fall, the large formation of the Hanzhong army is still straight.

The group of Qing army armor soldiers who rushed straight forward also shouted loudly, shouting in the incomprehensible Manchu language, roaring and roaring with hideous expressions.

In front of them, there was a forest of spears, and as far as the eye could see, there was a dense mass of spears, which had now been lowered and rushed straight at them.

The Qing army's large array became more and more eager, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row ran quickly with their bowed bodies, and the armored soldiers in the back row all put down the spears and swords in their hands one after another, and shouted in unison to meet the large array of the Hanzhong army and launched a charge, and the dark blue straight line turned into a curve in the wilderness.

In an instant, the dark blue torrent had already hit the swept red tide, and in the shouting of the mountain and tsunami, the two armies had already crossed the middle interval and were close to each other.

The two streams of iron collided head-on, and in an instant, countless waves of blood were stirred, and the smell of bloody blood filled everywhere in an instant.

Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, spearmen are basically the protagonists of melee combat in the era of cold weapons.

It is not much easier to train a qualified spearman than a difficult sword and shield.

Moreover, a spear and a hundred spears are not a simple addition and subtraction, as the number of spearmen increases, quantitative changes can also produce qualitative changes.

When pikemen form a large formation, the opponent often has to pay a great price to break it.

The front line of the Hanzhong army was almost all pikemen, and there were also a large number of spearmen in the Qing army.

However, the Qing army was the one who launched the attack, and most of the people in the front were still armed with swords and shields.

In many cases, the two armies fought each other in the gun formation, to see which side could withstand the casualties and hold on.

But the sword and shield can also break the spear formation, the advantage of the spear is that it is long, but the disadvantage of the spear is also that it is long.

As long as the sword and shield soldiers can rush forward and open a gap in any place, a phalanx of spears will soon be shattered.

The Ming army had a numerical advantage, and the number of cavalry was extremely large, and it was now surrounded from all sides.

Surrounded on all sides, it is a desperate situation.

If you want to survive in a desperate situation, then you must take advantage of the fact that you have not yet closed the siege and break through all the way first.

That's how they won the battle of Sarhu.

I only went all the way.

As long as you break all the way first, you can greatly reduce the morale of the enemy.

Husband war, courage also.

If you lose your courage, you will lose the battle.

Every time they broke a Ming army, the rest of the Ming army would rush to flee for their lives, or they would be afraid to save their strength.

The generals of the Ming army can fight the family members, and the family members in their hands are gone, and the officials will be done.

As the opponents of the Ming army, they couldn't know better.

The trumpets sounded sharply, the war drums were all over, and the two large formations were rushed into chaos, and the generals and colonels of the two armies were shouting loudly to maintain the military formation.

The crimson waves continued to rise in the tide, and the sound of swords entering the flesh, the sound of blunt hammers, and the terrible screams continued.

Sharp knives and sharp spears continue to harvest people's lives.

A Qing saber and shield soldier in cloth iron armor lowered his body and dodged a spear that pierced straight forward, and then bowed his body to bully him.

Then he used the upper edge of the shield in his left hand to lift the shaft of the other spear, and the sword of his right hand was attached to the tip of the last spear in front of him, and he walked forward quickly.

The Qing army sabers and shield soldiers are all experienced veterans, they have fought old battles, and the sword and shield breaking formation is easy for them.

The Qing saber and shield hand looked hideous and moved forward, breaking the formation and choosing the front, and the first merit of this battle has been included in his pocket!

Generally at this time, the defense line of the Ming army's pikemen psychology has basically collapsed.

As long as they take advantage of the situation to fight into the military formation, the pikemen of the Ming army will collapse in an instant.

It's just that...... His vision soon fell into the void.

Just as he took a step forward, a spear poked out like a viper and stabbed him in the chest.

The Qing army's sword and shield hand was quick, and he withdrew his shield to protect his chest.

A piercing sound suddenly sounded, and the huge force carried the shape of the shield in the hand of the Qing saber and shield hand, and before it could react much, another spear was already attacking.

The sharp spear head stabbed head-on, directly piercing the neck guard of the Qing saber and shield hand, and stabbed into the throat of the Qing army.

The armor of the Qing army rushed into battle, and almost all of them were attacked by several weapons, even if they were lucky enough to rush close, they would be solved by the Liao cavalry who dismounted and fought on foot in the rear.

In the military formation of the Hanzhong army, the dense spears continued to stab out and retract, and the spear array composed of spears up to four feet long blocked the momentum of the Qing army's large array.

Most of the standard spears of the Ming army were one zhang two feet five inches, and the spears produced by the Armament Bureau of Han Zhongwei were one zhang and four feet, one foot five inches long.

An inch long and an inch strong, a longer spear is more advantageous in battle, but the requirements for the quality and skill of the soldier are higher.

The same situation was repeated throughout the line, and the reason why the gun formation was difficult to break was precisely because when the pikemen gathered together to form a gun formation, not only the soldiers in the first row could attack with their spears, but also the spearmen in the second, third, and even fourth and fifth rows could participate in the attack and defense.

However, the coordination between multiple rows of spearmen requires long-term training and a lot of actual combat, otherwise once they encounter experienced sword and shield soldiers, they will be defeated in an instant.

And the Hanzhong Army under Chen Wang, what they lack most is training and actual combat.

Although facing the Qing army and facing the rogues were completely two extremes, the long-term training still allowed them to block the first wave of the Qing army's offensive.

The sound of guns piercing into the flesh, the sound of Jin Ge colliding, and the sound of iron armor stabbing were endless, and people kept falling down in the two fronts, and the dead and wounded were everywhere in front of the two armies, and the flowing blood gathered into streams on the grass, converging towards the low-lying places.

On the battlefield that was about 100 steps long, the military formations of the two sides were strangled together, like a huge meat grinder, constantly reaping the lives of soldiers on both sides.

In the middle of the Qing army, Chasuka looked gloomily in the direction of the front.

From the very beginning when the Ming army launched a charge, he knew that this battle would be difficult to do well.

In the battle, although the Ming army was inferior in hand-to-hand combat, they did not collapse.

The Ming army that stood in front of them was different from all the Ming armies he had encountered before.

The soldiers in the front fell and the soldiers in the back did not hesitate to make up for it.

Chasuka's gaze went beyond the position of the former and looked to the rear of the Ming army's front.

Behind the Ming army's gun array were a group of armor soldiers wearing Ming helmets and Ming armor, and those armor soldiers seemed to be set up against the guard barracks in their army.

He watched as the armor soldiers dismounted from their horses and marched into battle.

Chasuka's gaze turned to the two wings, the number of Ming troops on both wings was extremely large, at the beginning, the infantry of the Ming army on both wings was only about 1,000 people, but now the Ming troops gathered on both wings have exceeded 3,000.

He arranged for the armored soldiers who charged to the formation to achieve a considerable advantage on both flanks, but the Ming troops on both flanks did not collapse and were still resisting stubbornly.

Chasuka's face was pale, when did the Ming army become so tenacious.

"Blow suona, turn to attack!"

Chasukha let go of the last shred of thought in his mind and gave a new order.

The crown on his neck is definitely not kept, and the most important thing at the moment is to protect his subordinates as much as possible.

The loud sound of suona spread throughout the Qing army's large array in an instant, resounding in the fields outside Zhending City.

The sound of suona is extremely penetrating, even if it is hundreds of steps away, but Chen Wang still listens to it really.

The sound of suona from the Qing army was extremely abrupt, Chen Wang subconsciously clenched the horse whip in his hand, and he couldn't be clearer about what the suona sound represented.

Chen Wang raised his eyes to look at the large array in front of him, but he didn't see the white-armored soldiers of the Qing army wearing Ming armor.

Just as Chen Wang was searching, a loud commotion suddenly came from the left.

Chen Wang's heart sank, and he turned his head sharply to look to the right.

The large array of the left camp under the command of Sun Chuanting on the left wing had collapsed, and several groups of white-armored soldiers of the Qing army in silver-white armor pierced into its formation like sharp swords, causing it to be chaotic.

The Qing army's wandering rangers have also begun to assemble in the direction of the left flank, and the Qing army on the right flank and on the front retreated like a tide.

The armored cavalry guards in the Qing army burst out of battle and began to divide the battlefield and cover the retreat.

I didn't want to write so many war scenes, but I didn't control it well, and I wrote too much at once, and I would immediately push the plot later