"Knock knock."

"Get on the bayonet! Advance! ”

With the sound of drums urging the attack, the sixteen teams below the 49th Brigade of the 20th Division of the Ming People's Army were simultaneously issuing orders to the infantry who had already formed three horizontal formations to "bayonet" and "advance".

Now the left flank of the first line of defense, which was composed of the 54th Brigade of the 19th Division under the 5th Army Corps, has been partially broken through by the Qing army!

Under the dual effect of the decisive charge of the two red banner infantry stimulated by the "Kangxi detour behind the enemy", and the two hundred ironclad heavy cavalry led by the first-class friend Chunqin to step on the bodies of the infantry of both sides in the melee to launch the iron cavalry impact, Rao is Ming infantry who relied on the trench and the chest wall to hold on, and failed to block the onslaught of the Qing army.

The left flank of the defense line of the 19th Division of the Ming Army was stunned to break open a big hole more than 100 steps wide for the Qing army! Peng Chun's 200 iron cavalry and thousands of two red banner infantry have already rushed into this breach, once they roll over to the 54th Brigade of the 19th Division of the Ming Army, this elite infantry brigade with more than 5,000 people, if it is not good, it will be devastated, and maybe it will collapse together with the 55th Brigade of the 19th Division responsible for the right flank defense line.

The 50th Brigade of the 20th Division and the cavalry battalions of the 19th Division and the 20th Division under the Fifth Army Corps of the Ming Army are now fighting with the 8,000 Red Banner horse team on the periphery of the right side of the Fifth Army Corps.

If the 55th Brigade in their rear collapses, then they may also collapse!

In the face of such a bad situation, Hu Yigun, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Ming Army, had no choice but to send people to General Li Yat-sen to ask for reinforcements from at least one brigade, and at the same time ordered the 49th Brigade, which was responsible for the second line of defense and was also a reserve, to attack the whole brigade, forming four battalion-level horizontal formations, and posing a wide enough front to press the 12,300 cavalry of the Qing army that had already broken in.

This was actually an extremely risky move, because the infantry marching in slender horizontal formations was weak in their ability to resist the onslaught of cavalry, and once they were broken by the 200 iron cavalry of the Qing army, it would be a one-sided massacre!

At that time, the two divisions of the Fifth Army will probably have to let the Qing army collapse!

Li Zhongshan, who was in the middle of the army, also realized that his right flank was in danger of collapsing, and immediately sent a brigade plus a group of cavalry from the Shanzi battalion to support Hu Yigun, and at the same time immediately launched an attack on the four divisions responsible for commanding the center and left flank to relieve the pressure on the right flank.

After giving the latest order, Li Zhongshan grabbed the binoculars and got into the bucket car, staring at the right wing that was about to start a life-and-death duel.

On the other side of the battlefield, Emperor Kangxi's attention was also attracted by the excellent performance of the two red flag new armies. To be honest, he didn't expect Lang Tan and Peng Chun to fight so well, as long as they fought a little better and broke through that thin and long red line, the right flank of the Ming army would collapse!

At this time, the first class of Gongpeng Chun did not realize that he had become the focus of this battle related to the survival of the Qing Dynasty! He had now reined in the reins and stopped his horse. It's not that he wants to take it when he sees it, but to let the horse under his crotch take a breather, and let the infantry cavalry who follows him a little bit.

Because another decisive assault will begin soon!

This is a real death, and it is likely to be sent to death, but he still has to fight for the Qing Dynasty!

Just two miles in front of Pengchun, a linear horizontal formation more than a mile long was advancing with a rhythmic drum, and with the rumbling of footsteps, rows of bayonets rose and fell very intimidatingly, and about 4,000 infantry marched forward in a neat and rapid manner at a rate of sixty paces per minute.

Peng Chun also studied the two courses of "infantry tactics" and "cavalry tactics" of the Ming Army's martial arts hall by himself, and of course knew that the Ming army now uses the big horizontal team flat push tactics known as the "thin red line".

It looks like a thin red line, but it has lethal power! Because of this, the soldiers who make up the "thin red line" are equipped with rifled guns or cavity bullets that can make the smoothbore guns shoot a hundred steps to destroy the enemy

So the charge to the "thin red line" will most likely be quite deadly!

But. That was also the only chance to break through the defense line of the right flank of the Ming army! And breaking the right wing of the Ming army is related to the survival of the Qing Dynasty!

If they don't attack the "thin red line" now, wait until they get close to the Ming army that has been broken through, but the rest is still on the front line of the Ming army. Then the breakthrough that was formed with great difficulty will soon be blocked, and those two red banner infantry who have long been at the end of the strong crossbow will also be defeated, and at that time, it will be all over!

Thinking of this, he visually measured the distance again, and it was almost within three hundred steps. But they can't get any closer, and their rifled guns will fire corks. Now rifled guns account for about 8 percent of the infantry of the Ming army, that is to say, out of 4,000 infantry, there are about 300 rifled guns, and all of them are held by soldiers with excellent marksmanship.

These 300 rifled guns are the hole cards that the Ming army dares to put out the "thin red line" formation! If they are allowed to fire freely at a distance of about two hundred and fifty paces, one stick of incense can kill Peng Chun and his men without leaving a single one!

Peng Chun raised the blood-stained Pu knife in his hand, pointed forward, and shouted: "The children of the Eight Banners, Manchurian Erlang, the survival of the country, we are all killed. Gentlemen, rush with me! ”

After shouting these words, this first-class duke of the Great Qing Dynasty did not hesitate at all, and took the lead and rushed towards the thin red line in front of him.

The 200 horsemen and more than 1,000 infantry who followed him also shouted that Ken might be the last charge of their lives.

On the opposite side, the "thin red line" array, which was pressing up at the speed of walking, suddenly remembered a burst of suona, and then the "whole line" was established and stopped advancing. All the rifled guns in the thin red line were flattened, and the muzzles of the black holes of the bayonets were all aimed at the Qing troops who were approaching rapidly.

There is no unified order, and there is no volley of platoon guns, which is superfluous for elite veterans with rifled guns . How to fight, when to fight, who to fight, they are completely free to decide!

"Bang!"

The first gunshot rang out when the cavalry led by Peng Chun was only 300 paces away from the "thin red line" of the Ming army - almost 450 meters, a headshot, an "old gun" who had been in the army for eight years aimed at the head of a stout "wild girl real man" is a shot, and the horse head of this "wild girl real man" exploded on the spot. The war horse, which lost the control of its brain, took two steps forward under the action of inertia, and then fell to the ground, and even the man fell hard, and his big face hit the ground, and there was no sound on the spot.

This is a rather bad omen, the accuracy of the Ming army's rifled guns and the marksmanship of the rifled gunners are likely to be more powerful than Peng Chun expected!

But Peng Chun didn't stop the charge! Because this is the only thing he can do for the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, deadly gunshots rang out one after another!

Mini's bullet flew accurately to the Qing army's vest galloping wildly, and several Manchurian warriors were shot and fell from their horses, or fell to the ground with men and horses.

But the rest of the Eight Banners are still charging with their heads covered!

Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty held a telescope and watched intently at this decisive charge, every time he saw a vest fall, his heart was a twitch and the Ming musketeers who used rifled guns would definitely not care about Kangxi's heart, so every bullet they had was greeted by those horse armor soldiers.

Although these vests charged resolutely, the distance of their horses galloping three hundred paces was still enough for these rifled spearmen to complete at least three accurate shots.

And because the distance of the shot is getting closer, the accuracy of their shooting will also be higher!

And when the remnants of the cavalry rushed within a hundred paces of the "thin red line" . Peng Chun, who was still surviving, saw that the first row of the Ming army's "thin red line" suddenly squatted en masse, changing from a standing position to a kneeling position, while the flintlock muskemen in the second and third rows all flattened the flintlock pistols.

At the same time, so rifled guns ceased to fire freely, but joined a salvo together.

The bright bayonets and the muzzles of the black holes were all aimed at the first class Gongpunchun and his Goshkha cavalry. By this time, they had reduced from more than 200 to less than 100!

Facing the rain of bullets that were about to be poured on him, Peng Chun closed his eyes, and just silently said in his heart: "Ancestor, Peng Chun did his best. Your Majesty, Pengchun will be loyal to you in the next life."

As soon as he thought of this, his left chest and right shoulder were slammed by something, and at the same time, the war horse under his crotch also sank down, and then he was thrown out on the horse's back, and then fell hard, completely unconscious, and fell into endless darkness!

"Defeated?"

Kangxi, who was immediately on a high place, saw clearly, and when he saw that Peng Chun and the cavalry he led were almost all down in front of the "thin red line", his heart was about to break.

Without cavalry, the more than 1,000 infantry would have to be crushed by the "thin red line" - there were at least 4,000 people in the "thin red line"!

Now the breach on the right flank of the Ming army is about to be blocked, and then .

"Your Majesty. Look at the south bank of the Beisha River, Chabel them"

Gao Shiqi's voice suddenly sounded in Kangxi's ears, pulling back Kang Mazi's thoughts, who were "heartbroken", - his heart was broken slowly

He hurriedly turned the direction of the telescope and looked at the south bank of the Beisha River, and what caught his eyes was another heartbreaking scene, the 17,000 Qing cavalry that was supposed to quickly assault in the direction of the Ming army's big camp was now confronting a Ming army with a mix of infantry and cavalry with about the same number as them!

The Ming army put out a formation with infantry on the left, relying on the Beisha River to cover the right flank, and the cavalry brigade on the right. Among them, the infantry did not set up a dense vertical formation, but a very ordinary large horizontal formation of two rows in front and rear, and twenty or thirty cannons were mounted in front of the formation, and they were bombarding the horse team of the Qing army.

The Qing cavalry seemed to hesitate, showed signs of detours, wanted to charge, and probably wanted to retreat, but they stayed on the south bank of the Beisha River, right next to the shoals they had passed as they crossed the river.

Because they are all cavalry, they can't play any formation, just standing behind a dozen 6-pound guns on their side in groups. These dozen or so cannons are also bombarding, but the effect of the shelling is obviously not as good as that of the other side - the Ming army has more artillery, and it is aimed at the bombardment of the cavalry group with a larger target, and from time to time it shoots a row of life-harvesting ricochets! The Qing army had few artillery, and the target of their bombardment was the infantry of the Ming army, while the Ming infantry adopted a squatting posture to avoid the artillery, so the effect of the Qing army's artillery bombardment was very poor!

But no matter what the effect of the artillery bombardment is, the 17,000 cavalry commanded by Chani, Li Guangdi, and Gonggong Gui will definitely fight with the Ming army, and the effect of this surprise attack will definitely be gone!

"I'm confused!" Seeing this scene, Kangxi muttered, "I should let Peng Chun take this cavalry"

When Gao Shiqi on the side heard this, he seemed to understand something, and immediately retreated, and after walking away a little, he beckoned a few imperial ministers and eunuchs, and whispered to them: "Quickly bring the bridge building team to build the pontoon bridge again. Be sure to be fast! ”

"Huh!"

"Boom Boom"

Another wave of shells fell in the cavalry group of the Qing army, knocking over more than a dozen cavalry at once, and then three or four more solid shells jumped up, and then flew flat in different directions. Everywhere they passed, none of the Qing army's vests in front of the shells were spared, and they were all beaten into blood gourds, and before they could even scream, they fell headlong in a blur of flesh and blood.

Although the absolute number of casualties is not large, the blow to the morale of the Qing army is visible to the naked eye!

At the same time, there were bursts of cheers from the Ming army.

"Kill Kangxi and take revenge!"

It seems that the Yellow Dragon banner not only inspired the morale of the Qing army, but also the morale of the Ming army. Fighting back is a double win!

In order to avoid the artillery, the three of them, Chani, Li Guangdi, and Xiao Guizi, all hid in a relatively backward place, but they could still feel the growth and decline of the morale of both sides

"Lord Belle, it can't go on like this!"

"Lord Belle, we can't stand up to the bombardment like this!"

Li Guangdi and Xiao Guizi both found out that something was wrong, Chani was the son of Duoduo, and since the resumption of the Ming and Qing Dynasty wars, he has been leading troops, and he still has experience, of course, he can see that something is wrong.

But he didn't have a solution!

It is not possible to charge into formation, the enemy is a whole division of infantry, and it cannot be rushed at all. And there are about 8,000 cavalry on the side of the infantry of that division to cover, how can this rush?

And it doesn't seem like it's okay to choose to fight those 8,000 cavalry. At that time, their infantry set up a hollow phalanx, and the cavalry was undefeated under the cover of the infantry and the cavalry of the Qing army.

"What can I do? Why are there so many infantry? ”

Chani stood on the stirrups, holding a telescope, with a blue face, staring blankly at the Ming army's infantry and cavalry formation in front of him. Dig out your mind and don't know how to defeat them?

The shelling of both sides continues, as does the hesitation of Chani. As the minutes ticked by, and I don't know how long it was, suddenly Chani heard a dense burst of gunfire in the distance, followed by a noisy shout: "Defeated, defeated, defeated."

"Defeated? Where did it fail? Chani blurted out a question.

"Two red flags, two red flags defeated!"

What answered him was the trembling voice of Katsuriko.

Chani hurriedly turned his binoculars to look, and then found that on the north bank of the Beisha River and south of Jiehe Town, the battlefield was already a tragic state of defeat. On the wide battlefield, there were waves of red men of the Ming army everywhere, slapping the infantry defense line of the two red flags of the Qing army that was collapsing. The two red flags were supposed to have more than 10,000 infantry, but now they seem to be almost half less, and the rest have lost the battle, and as soon as they were rushed by the Ming army, they saw the defeated soldiers rolling backwards.

After fighting with the 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army and the infantry of a brigade for a long time, the horse team of the two red flags had also lost their will to fight, and when they saw that their infantry was defeated by the overwhelming enemy, they did not dare to fight again, and began to retreat in the direction of the boundary river.

"This, how is this possible, what can we do?"

At the same time that Chani fell into panic, the drums of the attack suddenly sounded in the already high morale of the Ming army on the opposite side, and then there was an earth-shattering cheer: "Kill Kangxi!" Kill Kangxi! Kill Kangxi! “

Chani hurriedly turned his binoculars to look again, and found that the infantry of the Ming army had begun to attack!

(End of chapter)