Chapter 318: Stalemate
Kong Youde rode over, and when he saw Sukh Saha, he glared angrily and shouted: "Sukh Saha, control these barbarian minions under you, if they dare to kill again, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite." ”
Sukh Saha's face was solemn, and he responded unceremoniously: "Respect the king, the prince has an order, ordering your troops to immediately break through the enemy's ridge position, and the two blue flags will follow behind, and they will kill all those who hide behind the shield cart." ”
After saying that, Suke Saha beat his horse and left, Kong Youde almost crushed his back molars with hatred, he saw that the savage woman really increased her speed like a torrent, and the two blue flags behind were also following, and extended to the east, and even the banners of Azig himself were advancing, and even entered the range of the artillery of the Shun army.
Kong Youde knows very well that Azig is desperate, he is caught in the middle, and he can't do it if he doesn't work hard.
"Come on, follow me!" Kong Youde jumped off his horse, snatched the banner from the hands of his own soldiers, and immediately launched an attack with the army under the domain.
Kong Youde used this banner to immediately change the direction of the attack, the original focus of the attack was on the position of the earthen wall along the ridge of the army, but now the focus of the attack turned to a dirt slope impacted by a river.
The front of this soil slope has been transformed into farmland by local farmers, the soil slope is more than one zhang high, but the slope is relatively gentle, so the Shun army inserted a lot of sharp wooden stakes in the front line, because of the slope, the shield cart can not be pushed up at all, Kong Youde therefore did not choose this place as the target of attack at first.
But now, he had to choose this place, because the Qing army was on the outer side of the old river channel, and the Shun army was on the inside, so according to the general law, the slope on the inner side would be higher and steeper, so the Shun army would not be able to drag the heavy artillery up, as long as there was no artillery, there was hope for a breakthrough.
The Bao Yi were also driven forward, they took axes, to clean the spikes on the breakthrough, the soldiers of the Han Army Banner have been mixed with the Bao Yi, now there is no distinction between the combat soldiers and the Bao Yi, everyone must advance, as Su Ke Saha said, the Qing army that followed behind will kill everyone behind the shield cart, even some of the wounded who were forced to stay at the front line were ruthlessly stabbed to death by the savage Jurchen, and some of the relatively minor injuries crawled over the shield cart to temporarily save their lives.
The people at the front were all red-eyed, and everyone did everything they could to clean up the spikes in front of them.
At the front was the coat, then the armor soldiers of the feudal army, then the archers and bird guns, and finally Kong Youde and his own soldiers supervising the battle, and on this ridge, the archers and firecrackers of the Shun army were constantly attacking, and the lead bullets and arrows were shooting at the Qing army like flying locusts, and the feudal army also attacked with all firepower, and some of the gunners poured fire as fast as they could, regardless of the danger of killing the former bread.
Kong Youde carried a knife, held a flag, and kept shouting and urging, but his eyes were fixed on the ridge above, where there was a simple breastwall built with sandbags, and he could see clearly when he got closer, there were gaps or shooting windows on it, but the firecracks were all erected on the breastwork to shoot directly, so only the artillery could use these shooting gaps.
He beckoned someone to carry the large wooden shield discarded by the coat and put it in front of him, blocking some of the arrows and lead bullets that came from it, and the large flag in his hand was punched out of many holes.
The front line was all filled with gunsmoke, and when the Qing army cleaned up the sharp wooden thorns, suddenly a sharp swan sounded, and a fire immediately appeared on the soil slope, flashing and connecting into a piece, that was the twelve tiger squatting cannons firing, in the deafening explosion, thousands of shotguns splashed out, and the lead bullets on the ground raised countless smoke and dust on the soil slope, but the front line was a piece of blood mist.
The coats and armor soldiers who were working hard in the smoke of gunpowder fell to the ground in various positions, and immediately there was an irrepressible and terrible howl.
The Qing army in the back row was shocked by this sudden blow, there was chaos all around, and there was a bloody scene in front of him, and Kong Youde hid behind the wooden shield, but heard the sound of the tiger squatting cannon, this thing splashed shotgun at close range is very powerful, but the loading is very slow, Kong Youde immediately kicked over the wooden shield in front of him, and shouted: "Rush up with me, the person who falls behind me, die!" ”
Kill! Kill!
The bird hand threw the fire gun, pulled out the sword, the three-eyed gun no longer loaded the medicine, and tightened the wooden pole, to use the weapon in his hand as a mace, and the archer also grabbed the cold weapon, and rushed up with Kong Youde.
It is already difficult to judge where the first wave of hand-to-hand combat between the two sides took place, because when Kong Youde led the charge of the team, the savage Jurchen also urged the Han army flag and Baoyi in front to attract firepower, and then rushed to the ridgeline.
In the past two days, Zhang Nai used the physical strength of the strong man on the construction of the front and rear, so after entering the hand-to-hand encounter, the two sides immediately fought together, and the fight was inseparable.
Kong Youde led people to attack the place where a gap was first made, but the gap did not expand immediately, but turned into a whirlpool, attracting the reserve force arranged by Zhang Nai, this is the Shunjun armor arranged in the back, people and steel are stirred together by this whirlpool, spears, bones and other cold weapons are waved here, and then on the collision of steel, all kinds of sharp swords and heavy armor-piercing weapons are waving, and the wails of the injured are intertwined with creepy music, it seems that this is hell, It seems that here is the abyss.
Here the devil and the devil gather and cry out together.
The originally low fortifications were heightened by the addition of the corpses of the dead on both sides, and no matter how much ammunition fired from the weapons on their bodies hit the ground, blood would appear one after another.
When the two sides were fighting together, the savage Jurchens also joined the battlefield, and they wore thick armor and fearlessly rushed to kill, fighting with the armor soldiers of the Shun army.
Shun Jun Zhong Jun.
"Dongyu is really tough and durable." Liu Zongmin said with emotion, he saw with his own eyes that Zhang Nai's arrangement caused huge trouble and casualties to the enemy, but the Qing army still rushed to the most critical ridge fortifications, the hand-to-hand combat between the two sides was large-scale and high-intensity, Liu Zongmin fought for more than ten years, but compared with the battle in front of him, it was not worth mentioning.
"Decades of accumulation and precipitation have consumed the Ming Dynasty for decades, which one is not a veteran of the rest of a hundred battles?" Ferreira said with emotion that his observation group was authorized to appear anywhere on the Shun army's front, so when he heard Ruhou's emotion, he couldn't help but say.
In fact, observing the combat effectiveness and will to fight of the Qing army is also in his mission this time, Ferreira has discussed this matter with Li Zhaoji many times, Li Zhaoji's high evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Qing army once made Ferreira feel a little excessive, but now it seems that the Qing army is worthy of being the strongest army in the world.
"Marquis Ru, let me go to support the right wing." Li Laiheng said with his fists clenched.
Liu Zongmin shook his head, and he said: "Now the situation is still in the hands of Yihou, and he still has enough reserve forces, so you should not act rashly." ”
Li Laiheng became famous in various events in the past and was liked by Li Zicheng, but he did not have his own battalion leader after all, so he could only be sent by the main generals on the front line.
Liu Zongmin said this, but he was worried in his heart, because the ridgeline was the highest point of the right wing of the Shun army, and after it passed, it was a flat ground transformed from the old river, and if the cavalry of the Qing army crossed it, the right wing of the Shun army would collapse and face a flanking situation.
After thinking about it, Liu Zongmin pulled Li Laiheng and said: "You immediately go and ask Yihou if he needs support, what support he needs, I need an exact point in time." ”
Support is a knowledge, Liu Zongmin also found at this time that Zhang Nai's layout of the defense line is wonderful, now the Qing army's attack is on the far side of the right flank, these main forces are actually located behind their own Chinese army, if they send a strong army, head-on, you can flank the attacking Qing army, if the operation is done properly, and even cut off its retreat, of course, the Qing army is also aware of this, when the two sides are fighting the ridgeline, Dolgon also personally led the Chinese army to press, squeezing the battlefield space between the two armies, Let Liu Zongmin's flanking plan gradually lose its chance.
Li Laiheng went quickly, but the news he brought back surprised Liu Zongmin, because the time point set by Zhang Nai for Liu Zongmin was on his Daxu, and if Yihou's Daxu fell, he could send troops to support, but instead of attacking between the two armies from the front, he would detour from behind.
Right wing.
The line of contact between the two sides is near the ridge line, the Qing army continues to break through, the two blue flags have also climbed the ridge line to participate in the battle, and the Shun army continues to increase the infantry forward, Zhang Nai sent the elite, from the weak point to constantly launch a counter-attack, the formation of the two sides of the front like an ugly worm, constantly writhing, and each twist represents the loss or recapture of the ridge, but also means the loss of hundreds of lives.
The dirt slope attacked by Kong Youde has become a meat grinder from the beginning of the battlefield whirlpool, thousands of people fell here, but it was still impossible to open the gap from here, but Kong Youde did not dare to withdraw, and even continued to increase the troops, even the gunners picked up the dead man's weapons and rushed up, he knew that as long as he retreated, the Shun army would attack from here and cut the attacking Qing army into two sections.
Shocks and countershocks continue to occur on the ridgeline, and death becomes the main theme here, and wave after wave of reserve forces fill in, but often do not set off a single wave.
In addition to the cavalry, the main force of the Qing army has all climbed the ridgeline, and Azig has gradually felt that there is a shortage of manpower, and he constantly ordered the cavalry of the two blue flags to dismount and participate in the battlefield on foot, but he still could not break through the defense of the ridgeline.
When Azig was about to ask Dolgon for reinforcements, Dolgon himself came to him.
"Azig, you did a good job, and you played the blood of the Manchurian gentry!" As soon as Dorgon saw his brother, he immediately dismounted and hugged him, his face full of excitement.
Azig looked at the generals of the two yellow flags following behind Dolgon, Aobai, Kupilon, etc., and he couldn't help but say, "I haven't opened the gap yet, it's my fault." ”
Dolgon laughed and said: "It's nothing, it's that the right wing of the thieves has more troops than we imagined, so I brought you reinforcements, two thousand taels of armor soldiers with yellow flags and two thousand two hundred banners of cavalry, I see that you still have three thousand Mongolian cavalry under your command, which is very good, seven thousand people, enough to deal a fatal blow to the enemy, what are you going to do?" ”
Hearing these words, Azig couldn't help but reddened his eyes, Dolgon not only brought reinforcements, but also respected his status as the supreme commander of the left flank in front of outsiders, Azig immediately said: "I will send everyone to the big sand dunes, and after the armor breaks through, immediately throw in the cavalry and rush into the enemy's rear camp." ”
Dolgon asked, "Why did you choose to be there?" ”
"Just half an hour ago, Sukh Sakha captured it, but was counterattacked by the thieves, and he told me that all the artillery on it had been destroyed by him, and all the fortifications on the front had been swept away, and that the dunes were very equal for the cavalry to charge," Azig said.
Moreover, behind there is the banner of the thief's right-wing commander, and if we attack quickly, we may be able to kill that guy named Zhang Nai. ”
Dolgon nodded: "Very good, let's do it, I will lead the Chinese army to continue to press forward for two hundred steps, you can rest assured that the attack, the thief's Chinese army will not have a chance to flank you, I promise." ”
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