Chapter 316: Duel

But the harassment of the Qing army did not end completely, the whole harassment lasted all night, and the elite of the Qing army continued to infiltrate, they killed or drove the masters and soldiers who built the fortifications, and some even climbed the ridge line to kill the soldiers there, and their weapons were also varied, including fire and thunder, ash bottles, under the cover of night, the advantages of the high quality of the Qing soldiers were displayed.

Night raids are a very high-tech tactic that requires experienced and brave soldiers, and they require a high level of combat enthusiasm that can only be carried out by the true elite. The Shun army was not without similar soldiers, but the problem was that its numbers were completely incomparable to those of the Eastern Prisoners, so they quickly fell into a disadvantage.

The sound of explosions and sirens sounded throughout the night, until the sky turned white, and it all stopped.

Early in the morning, Zhang Nai and the generals came to the front line, observed the Qing army camp crowds, the Qing army that had eaten began to attack again, first a group of soldiers set off to the east, consolidating the artillery positions captured yesterday, and then, it was a new round of troop formation.

The leader is still the army of the domain, although yesterday's two attacks failed, but their casualties were not heavy, but the shield car lost more, but in addition, there was another army to join the attack, turned into the rear formation, look at the color of the flag, this army came from at least five flags in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but the size was only about 5,000 people, that was Dolgon handed over almost all the savage Jurchens under his command to Azig, Azig took this army as the main force of the second wave of attack.

Their task was to open a gap in the vassal's army, or if the attack was frustrated, then attack in depth.

on the battlefield.

Ma Mingcong led Muta's horse and walked in front, surrounded by shield carts and coats, and when those coats saw him, they couldn't help but have some envy in their eyes.

Muta is also a savage Jurchen, but he is one of the noble chieftains, after taking refuge, he made Niu Lu Ezhen, his temperament is relatively simple, especially Zhi'en Tubao, when Muta woke up, knowing that it was Ma Mingcong who saved him, he immediately took Ma Mingcong with him and rewarded him with a set of chain mail.

"Master, aren't we too far ahead?" Ma Mingcong looked at the people around him who were all black, and asked carefully.

"The task was explained above, and I was asked to lead the troops to suppress the Nikan army in front, and we are already counted behind. You can rest assured, Lao Tzu didn't die yesterday, and he definitely won't die today, Ming Cong, you just lead the horse, you saved my life, you don't have to go into battle again, and when you win the thief this time, I will definitely raise the flag for you, and then think of getting you a few minions, in the future, you will be the banner of our Qing Dynasty. Muta said angrily, and his sincerity made it seem that he was not just talking.

For those, Ma Mingcong has no extravagant hopes, he wants to go back alive now.

This Qing army's attack was very clever to avoid the range of fire of the Shun army, especially the four-pounder cannon arranged on the front of the Chinese army, which could only barely hit the westernmost team, Azig in the distribution of troops, the main force was arranged on the easternmost side of the Shun army, and it was clear that it was there to tear a hole, close to the array on the west side, although there were still a lot of troops, but the depth of the arrangement was very large, not so much that this army was attacking the right flank of the Shun army, but that it was to guard against the flank of the Shun army.

This is the mystery of the oblique array, if you want to avoid artillery strikes, you have to desperately attack on one side, but the more so, the deeper you have to go, and by the time you come into contact with the right flank line, its flank and rear are already under the threat of the Chinese army.

With a whoosh, the shell of the four-pounder cannon flew in front of Muta, and he shrank his neck in fright, and Ma Mingcong even lay directly on the ground, and then hurriedly got up and said to Muta: "Master, you better get off the horse, it's safer." ”

Muta nodded, turned over and dismounted, he was only responsible for bullet pressure, so he did not wear iron armor, but only a piece of chain mail, the most important weapon was a bow and arrow, as for the skillful tiger spear used, he handed it to Ma Mingcong for him to carry.

A few more shells hit, but there was not much power, one of the shield carts was hit, but only a few planks were smashed, and the shield carts could still move forward, but there were still a few frightened wow wow wow crying.

Since entering the customs, the occupied Miyun and other places are all places where the Shun army has a strong wall and a clear field, and the Qing army has no choice but to use its own coats to carry out dangerous tasks such as pushing shield carts, and this time the scale of mobilization is too large, and many coats are looted after the Songjin Meeting, and they have never seen a battle at all, so they performed very poorly.

Several Han army banner soldiers rushed over, couldn't help but say, kicked the crying Bao Yi on the ground, raised the big knife, cut off the head, several people raised their heads, scattered around, and proclaimed: "The prince has an order, Bao Yi will attack with the army, and those who make meritorious contributions will be rewarded with land and carry the flag. ”

With the sound of the horn, more than two hundred shield carts immediately began to push forward, forming a gray-brown wave, which was the Chinese army shield car that Dolgon gave Azig support, and the rear was still stepping up to build.

Because yesterday's attack had damaged quite a few fortifications, and the flank fire was very weak, the advance of the shield cart became very rapid, and soon approached the place of yesterday's failure, and its own coat went out, and the broken shield cart was involved to one side, so as not to hinder the advance of the new shield cart, and twenty steps further on, there was a ditch, which was already only one hundred and fifty steps away from the ridgeline position of the right flank of the Shun army.

The ditch is not deep, nor wide, but the shield car can not be crossed, for the Qing army, yesterday's night attack has detected this, in fact, the ditch is the dividing line between the Qing and Shun sides yesterday, around the ditch, I don't know how many people died in battle, and now there is red blood inside and outside the ditch.

The Qing army made preparations in advance, so when they arrived at the ditch, there were coats running out from behind the shield cart, and they were carrying a bundle of wheat in one hand, which had been cut nearby, and threw it into the ditch, and they were followed by a man holding a heavy plank, a bundle of wheat straw and a plank, so that a passage through the ditch could be built for the shield cart.

Everything seemed so natural, and there was no reaction from the Shun army's side until the time when Bao Yi began to build a passage.

Sharp whistles sounded one after another on the ridge line of the Shun army, and then in the central area between the ridge line and the canal, the wheat straw on the ground suddenly moved, and then one by one people stood up, forming a skirmish line across hundreds of meters, and these people all bent their bows and arrows, and then a rain of arrows fell in the air, and hundreds of people fell to the ground immediately after those unknown coats.

These archers shot seven or eight arrows in a row before the Qing army reacted, and at this time, at least 200 Bao Yi had died on the spot, which shows how good these archers' archery skills were.

The feudal army immediately attacked with light artillery and firearms, but the archers immediately leaned to the ground and dodged the direct fire, and the feudal army crackled and fought lively, but with few successes. When the fire was over, the archers rose again and responded to each other, and the wounded were dragged back to the ridge by their companions, while the rest continued to fight, lifting a sign from the ground and holding it up with wood.

The plaque was made of three-inch thick wood, extremely heavy, and covered with a layer of cowhide, which was difficult to concentrate except for the solid cannonballs fired by the Fran cannons, and they and the archers were deployed to the front before dawn, because it was dark, and the front line was a nearly ripe wheat field, so it was not detected, which gave the Qing army a sudden blow.

With the help of the card, the archers of the Shun army and the Qing army shot at each other, and the Qing army's firearms continued to shoot, and the archers also boarded the shield cart and shot at it, but they couldn't help the archers after the cards.

The Shun army did not attack the Qing soldiers at all, after all, the Qing army was protected more than them, when they were more than seventy paces apart, the bow and arrow caused limited damage to the Qing army in full armor, they only attacked those who did not have protection, and after the clothes returned to the shield cart, the archers would squat, or simply lie down, and protect the whole body with a card.

This group of archers, more than 300 people, put Kong Youde at the forefront in a dilemma, he did not have a suitable weapon to deal with these guys, the power of the bird gun was not enough, he could not shoot through such a thick card, the bow and arrow could not be accurate, and the use of artillery, not to mention the limited number of shells carried by the artillery in the battle, just the opponent lying down, so that the gunners were at a loss.

"Muta, the prince has an order, ordering you to take the archers out and drive away the archers at the front of the thieves." A horse stood beside Muta and gave him orders.

As the overseer, there were fifty men under the command of Muta, all of whom were archers, so that the scope of control was large, and he was not the only one who went out to drive away, but there were also two other Niu Lu, a total of one hundred and fifty people.

And Kong Youde also selected 200 archers to shoot at the thieves with the shield cart.

"You stay, take my horse." Ma Mingcong heard the most satisfying words from Muta, just like Xianle. Ma Mingcong nodded like pounding garlic, and when he helped Muta put on the iron armor, he was very active.

Muta led the archers forward, his archers were all armored, and when he walked out of the shield array, Muta picked up a few arrows from the ground and threw them to the people next to him, who looked at each other and laughed, because the Shun army used arrows that did not have the ability to pierce armor, and for Muta and them, the threat was not very great.

"Thirty steps, thirty steps and another shot!" Muta shouted the order, and then the two wings began to respond, apparently the other two Niu Lu Zhenzhen set a distance about the same as his.

Immediately, 350 Manchu and Han Eight Banner archers crossed the trench and slowly advanced, unexpectedly, the Shun army did not have any counterattack, those archers did not use arrows to stop the Qing army's attack, nor did they flee, just squatted behind the card, quietly waiting.

As Muta approached, he felt more and more that something was wrong, the wind was blowing from the south, and he stopped and sniffed, as if he had smelled a foul smell, not the stench of rotting corpses, but the smell that he was familiar with, as if he had smelled it recently.

In a trance, Muta remembered Ma Mingcong, it was the smell of the bird gun that Ma Mingcong made last night, he had decided to carry the flag for Ma Mingcong, but he also found that this guy was timid and couldn't shoot arrows, according to the rules of the Eight Banners, such a person would use a bird gun, so Muta got a bird gun for Ma Mingcong, and Ma Mingcong lit the fire rope, which was the smell.

"Be careful, there are people behind the enemy." Awakened by the shouts of his men, Muta continued on his way, his eyes fixed on an opponent, constantly reminded of the ambush behind the rogue archers.

But Muta could not see anyone, and suddenly he noticed that behind the signs, there was wheat straw moving, and it must be someone crawling on the ground.

It's just that the Qing archers have already moved to their positions at this time, and with a sound of gold, everyone stopped, and the distance between them was about thirty paces, and Muta pulled out a crescent arrow, and he wanted to use this arrow to cut the neck of the outcropping guy from the side.

Just as the Qing army was skillfully preparing for archery, there was one more person behind each archer, and with a few bangs, one after another fire guns were placed on the card, using it as a bracket, aiming at the Qing army.

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