The morning light of dawn finally fell, and Ao Bai and Manzhu Xili appeared in front of the military formation of the Shun army, and the two walked side by side, but their appearance was very different.

Ao Bai is strong, wearing armor, extraordinary bravery, and Manzhu Xili is a big fat man, he is wearing a gorgeous armor, that is when he volunteered to participate in the war, his sister, the queen mother of the Qing Dynasty gave him, but unfortunately, my sister did not know that her brother was so fat, so this armor is like a big meat sausage.

Aobai's subordinates had already reconnoitred the battlefield and found that the Shun army had chosen a very particular place to fight, the high mound was the only commanding height nearby, which overlooked the battlefield, and the left flank was a meadow, where Tang Tong's personal soldiers were arranged, but it was a trap, the meadow was full of puddles and mud puddles, which were not suitable for cavalry galloping, and the armored infantry also had difficulty walking there.

On the right flank, it seems that a wide gap is formed between it and the river, but it is where the Horseshoe Bend penetrates, and the Horseshoe Bend is a baggage camp, and there are some light sons, birds, etc., which can cover most of the gaps, and behind the gap is a dense pine forest, which cannot be accessed by Manchurian sentinels, but there is no doubt that there will be ambushes there.

"My men caught a lone guy." Manzhu Xili glanced at Aobai, and said lightly, he didn't like this protector commander, and he made himself look quite funny by being juxtaposed with him. Manzhu Xili said: "His general's name is Tang Tong. ”

"Tang Tong?" Ao Bai had obviously heard the name, and then carefully observed the four infantry formations arranged in the front, and said with a smile: "Sure enough. ”

"Do you know that Han general?"

Ao Bai said: "The general army of the Ming Kingdom, but it seems that now it has been voted for thieves." ”

I thought that this battle was not easy to fight, and the terrain advantage of the deployment of the Shun army in front of me made full use of it, although it was not invulnerable, but there was no big mistake, but when I heard that it was Tang Tong's department, Ao Bai was full of confidence, because in this way it could be fought in accordance with the method of fighting the Ming army.

"Aobai, how do you want to fight?" Manzhu Xili asked: "Do you want to wait for the Han army behind, they have some artillery." ”

Ao Bai shook his head: "No need, His Royal Highness the County King." We must first clear the enemy of the rejecting horses in front of the formation, so that our cavalry can gallop better, and then our men will dismount and fight on foot to break the enemy's array. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Manzhu asked in a courtesy.

Ao Bai nodded: "It's as simple as that, if you fight the Ming army, it doesn't have to be complicated." ”

Manzhu Xili's eyes rolled, he looked at the rejected horses, all thirty or forty steps in front of the Ming army's formation, sparsely sloppy, and said, "I asked my people to clean up those rejected horses for you." ”

Ao Bai smiled and said, "This little thing, I won't bother you." ”

"Your people have just arrived, so it's time to take a break." Manzhu Xili immediately said that in his opinion, he only needed to send hundreds of cavalry to rush through, use the grappling hook rope to cover the fence, and drag it to the side, so that even if he participated in the battle, he could also grab credit after victory.

After that, Manzhu Xili left, and Ao Bai smiled coldly and said to himself: "Idiot! ”

The array of the Shun army was placed in front, but what the firepower was, how many ambushes, and what the will to fight was, they didn't know.

With a long horn sound, the two wings of the Qing army array each gushed out of two or three hundred Korqin cavalry, rushing to the front of the Shun army, its speed is very fast, at the beginning is a direct rush to the formation of the posture, until the front of the Shun army is sixty or seventy steps, the front line of the Shun army is not moving, Ao Bai is watching from behind, although the heart of Tang Tong is from the Ming army, but now belongs to the Shun army, it has grown a lot more than in the past, you know, in the past, the Ming army faced the cavalry impact, and the guns were fired from afar.

What Ao Bai didn't know was that those who stayed in Miyun were the elite of the Tang Tong Department, and Zhang Nai divided this infantry into four parts, all of which were handed over to his cronies and commanders, and according to Zhang Nai's orders, the enemy opened fire without authorization before contacting and rejecting the horse, and all of them were dealt with by military law.

Of course, Zhang Nai also knew how to restrain the Ming army, he put the bird gun and the Franco cannon behind the military formation, these firearms must be aimed at the fire, the front is his own brother, naturally dare not fight, and the archers are all restrained by the officer in charge of each team, but also to prevent him from firing without authorization.

Seeing that the enemy had not returned fire, the Horqin cavalry was not busy cleaning up the rejection of the horse, but spared another circle, and a part of the Mongolian cavalry scattered, crossed between the rejection horses, and thirty paces before the Shun army's formation, skillfully threw it diagonally with a riding bow, and the arrow was endowed with considerable energy by the bow and the war horse, flew high, and then crossed a parabola in the air, and then fell.

There was an immediate crisp sound among the infantry of the Shun army, mixed with some screams.

Tang Tongbu is the only elite of the Ming army in the pass, the armor rate is very high, especially this elite soldier is carefully selected, almost everyone has armor, and there is a card and other defenses, so the loss is not large, and the infantry array also began to use archers to fight back with foot bows, Horqin people are light cavalry, armor is also leather armor, chain mail and the like, the war horse is not armored, and the Shun army archers are aimed at the Mongolian horse shooting, shooting the Mongols for a while.

Several cavalrymen, unable to control their wounded horses, rushed into the gap between the infantry formations and were assassinated on the spot by the spearmen who came out.

The Korqin cavalry, not wanting to suffer casualties, immediately retreated beyond the rejection of the horses after seeing the commotion of the Shun army, while the rest of the cavalry stepped forward and began to clean up the rejection horses.

"It's really strange, the Ming army changed into a Shun army, and they didn't even change their clothes and armor, so they changed their flags, and they calmed down?" Ao Bai watched from behind, amazed.

Behind him, his younger brother Murima grinned and said, "What's so strange about this, the Ming army in Liaodong has become the Eight Banners of the Han Army, can't it also be fought." ”

Ao Bai smiled and nodded: "Yes, Mu Lima, waiting for those rejected horses to be dealt with by the Horqin people, you led the team to fight head-on and broke the enemy's formation, and I will take the remaining soldiers and horses to follow you to guard against the enemy's reserve flank attack." ”

On the mound, Zhang Nai looked at the chaotic battlefield, smiled slightly, and said to Suarez beside him: "General Su, let your artillery start to perform." ”

Suarez's face at this time no longer had a hearty smile that showed big white teeth at every turn, but said to Zhang Nai with a slightly resentful expression: "Your Royal Highness, your arrangement is an insult to these long-legged young ladies, you don't know these cannons at all. ”

Zhang Nai knew that Suarez was very dissatisfied with his arrangement.

The artillery position was chosen by Suarez himself, but the problem was that Zhang Nai's next arrangement was beyond his imagination, and he thought that the infantry should be placed on both sides of the artillery, or even a little later, so that the artillery could have an almost complete firing range and strike at the first moment of the enemy's attack.

However, Zhang Nai arranged the infantry in front of the two wings, and put on a posture to protect the artillery, but also limited the firing range of the artillery.

Zhang Nai smiled and said, "General Su, you know your weapons, but you don't know this army. ”

Just as Ao Bai showed surprise, the combat effectiveness and will to fight of the Ming army is also a metaphysics in Zhang Nai. Although the generals of the Ming army who surrendered to Dashun never hesitated to praise their own army in order to obtain more resources and higher status, Zhang Nai never listened to the evaluation of generals of Tang Tong's level, and he preferred to get news from middle- and low-level officers, especially the news of the Ming army's battle with the Eastern Prisoners.

Because of the loose discipline of the Ming army, the artillery bird guns would be placed outside the effective firing range, which could not contain the impact of the Eastern Armored Soldiers, and when the Eastern Armored Soldiers rushed closer, the Ming Army was easy to disperse.

Will Tang Tong be like this, Zhang Nai can't hold it, so he arranged the infantry in front of him, give it a try, if Tang Tong's department is also a silver-like pewter spear head that is about to collapse at the touch of a button, then there is no need to fight this battle again.

Judging from the fact that it did not easily break up in the face of the impact and projectile of the Horqin cavalry, the Tang Tong Department was worthy of the title of the first in the Ming army.

Zhang Nai's refuge in the front of the arrangement of the horse played a little trick, the general refusal horse is to tie the wood and stand there, but Zhang Nai ordered someone to insert a piece of wood into the ground three feet deep, as part of the feet of the refusal horse, it looks as if it is placed there to reject the horse, but in fact it is easy to pull and move.

The Korqin people obviously did not expect such a conspiracy, they rushed over, some of them threw arrows, some of them threw out the rope buckles, and after hanging the rejection horse, they accelerated and pulled to the side, and then they were directly dragged down by the rejection horse, and many unlucky people were trampled to death by the friendly war horses behind.

Simple drag is not enough, the Horqin people can only dismount, with a machete to cut the feet buried in the ground, found that this pillar is as thick as a calf, the Mongolian scimitar can not cut at all, so they can only cut the rope of the bundle, more and more people joined, the people and horses formed a group, became the best target.

So Zhang Nai gave the order, and the bird guns and Furlong cannons in the infantry array were deployed forward, and they attacked the group of Korqins, and Suarez's four-pounder guns also began to bombard.

Bang!

Six shells flew out of the chamber and cut through the air, leaving a faint trail in the moist waterside air, landing on the horde of Horqin centaurs two hundred paces away.

This was the first time Zhang Nai had seen the actual combat of field artillery, he used the telescope given by Suarez, stared at a cannonball, and saw with his own eyes that the cannonball was fired at a near-perfect angle, like an iron hammer, first smashing the head of a horse, and then smashing the chest of a Korqin cavalryman, the chain mail worn by the man had no effect, and the bloody cannonball exploded a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, and then ejected, cutting off the calf of a soldier, and then crushing the shoulder of another person.

Even so, the shell remained undiminished, and after several catapults, it fell into the distant enemy group, causing a lot of chickens and dogs to jump.

At a distance of 200 paces, six shells showed great accuracy in the face of the range of hundreds of cavalry, and six shells jumped out of six flesh and blood alleys.

Everywhere they went, armoured soldiers, sturdy Mongolian horses, and wooden fences were shattered, and stumps and fragments of weapons of all kinds were wasted in the air.

Yes!

Screams rang out incessantly, and the second shelling had begun, and six more shells were fired.

In two minutes, the four-pounder gun fired three rounds, and then stopped, because there was no need to shoot any more, the Mongols lost twenty or thirty men in the first round of fire, and the sudden huge casualties of these cavalry directly broke up, and some of them ran away on horseback, but the horses were equally afraid, neighing and fleeing, and the Korqin people threw everything away and fled back to their positions.

The next two rounds of firing did less than half the damage of the first wave.

In fact, the coordination between the front army and the artillery position was very poor, after the three rounds of artillery bombardment, the Korqin people were scattered, and the Fran cannons that came out of the attack did not fire, and in the end they could only splash a few rounds, as if they were bidding farewell to those guys, just as these Fran cannons splashed a few rounds with shotguns forty paces away, maybe the effect would be better, but on the battlefield, this is not so easy to handle.

Zhang Nai looked at Suarez, who shrugged and seemed helpless.

Zhang Nai smiled, didn't say anything, just gave a thumbs up, at least at this moment, he thought that all the previous efforts were worth it.

The front line immediately sent some armor soldiers forward, and brought back more than forty horses, most of whom fled in fright, were hung on the rejected horses, and came back with more than seventy heads cut off.

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