An observing scout shouted, "The enemy has entered a hundred paces!" ”

Wu Zheng shouted: "Dog X, what are you still doing in a daze?" Fire! ”

The smiles on the faces of the soldiers that had not yet dissipated instantly hardened, how could the general say that he would change his face if he changed his face?

However, the mortars (tiger squat guns) blocked by them began to play today's gorgeous music.

Wu Zheng is too yin and too ruthless.

This musketeer did not carry field guns, not without equipment, but with the inconvenience of marching.

So, in Kharchuhun's opinion, this is nothing more than a simple musketeer.

If you can't shoot with a musket, you can only be beaten.

It's a pity that Kharchu doesn't understand, to be precise, he should be uninformed.

Just think about what you encountered when you were ambushed halfway, and you should think about how the army in front of you could not fight back except for guns?

Therefore, Wu Zheng went the opposite way, and he was tempting the Qing army to drill into his firepower coverage.

In fact, the maximum firing range of the mortar has reached 900 meters, and the effective firing range is also around 500 meters, which is nearly 400 steps.

The musketeers could have shelled the Qing army on the encirclement a long time ago, but if the shelling, the Qing army would have retreated.

The lethality of this kind of shell is not strong, and if a flowering shell hits directly, it will kill and injure two or three people.

After a round of shelling, killing hundreds of people will have little meaning for the battle, but will alert the enemy.

In order to kill and injure the enemy's vital force as much as possible, Wu Zheng thought of this strategy to lure the enemy deeper.

Put it in, cut off at the waist, and at a distance of 100 to 500 paces, it can accommodate 2 or 3 thousand enemies, and cut off at 500 paces, then these 2 or 3,000 enemies will become a lone army in a short time.

And the strength of 4,000 musketeers was enough to annihilate these 2 or 3,000 Qing soldiers in the time covered by artillery fire.

The power of a small cannon is not great, and it is not even as good as the grenadiers of later generations, but now, Wu Zheng has equipped the small cannon to the squad level, and this number cannot be underestimated.

4,000 musketeers, 400 small cannons, this kind of artillery fire cover, for the people of this era, it is a natural disaster.

In fact, just as Wu Zheng expected, the offensive formation of the Qing army was cut off by dense artillery fire.

The Qing soldiers who were shelled were like out-of-control flies scurrying in all directions.

The formation of the Qing army surrounded by the west and north was carved into a vacuum area about 30 steps wide.

In this vacuum, the two or three thousand Qing soldiers on Wu Zheng's side were already dumbfounded, and they hesitated whether to continue the attack or retreat.

But the problem is that there is no way to advance, there is no way back, and no one dares to really escape back into this thick smoke of gunpowder.

At this time, the musketeers were launched.

The musketeers, who had already sheathed their bayonets, shouted "Rush" and charged the enemy.

The Qing soldiers, who were cornered, were also "tenacious", and rushed towards the musketeers with a roar.

When people reach this desperate situation, many people are not afraid of death, but this kind of fear of death can only last for a short time, and once they are crushed by strength, "not afraid of death" will disappear and collapse in an instant.

They are going through this process of crushing strength.

As the two sides approached within fifty paces, the musketeers began throwing wooden-handled grenades.

It's too much of a bully!

The people finally mustered up the courage to come to a decisive battle, but the Ming army cheated.

Smash people with iron bullets.

It is estimated that all the Qing soldiers who were not killed by the bombing would think so.

After a round of grenades exploded, these Qing soldiers no longer had the courage to rush and kill, they all threw away their weapons, lay on the ground and surrendered.

The artillery fire in the rear began to extend forward and gradually stopped.

This kind of "mortar" is based on the Tiger Squat artillery, it is not a direct artillery, it is a curved artillery, the elevation angle to control the distance of the firing range, it is very easy to do.

The smoke and loud noise of the shell explosion obscured Kharchuhun's view.

He couldn't see what was going on in those hundreds of paces.

Nor can there be an effective response.

And when the charging musketeers, with their bayonet marks, rushed out of the smoke and rushed towards the Qing soldiers behind, the Qing soldiers collapsed irrepressibly.

In the west and north directions, there were the left and right Chinese armies of Kharchuhun.

The collapse of these two Qing armies made this huge encirclement battle a joke.

In the dark night, the Qing army was fleeing all over the mountains, and Kar Chuhun reacted quite quickly, and he didn't even have time to give the retreat order to the partial division that was still entangled with Jiang Quanyi's troops, so he retreated north with the remnants.

It is indeed a pity that the Qing army of 40,000 people formed a formation five miles away, a distance that the infantry could not reach at all, and the small artillery could not reach it.

I could only watch the Qing army retreat under my nose, and I couldn't chase it, because with this pursuit, the advantage of musketeers' weapons would be lost, and in the same darkness, the large number of people would definitely have the advantage.

In order not to increase casualties, Wu Zheng chose not to pursue.

And this decision made Wu Zheng lose an opportunity to completely annihilate the Karchuhun department, but it was a blessing or a curse, and it was too early at the moment.

In fact, Karchuhun was still under the attack of Chi Erhan's Hangzhou guard, and in this case, because there was no means of instant contact, Wu Zheng did not know that Chi Erhan had been biting the rear of the Qing army.

The defensive battle of Taixing City turned into a counterattack battle in the end.

It ended with a great victory for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

More than 6,200 enemies were killed outside the city, including more than 2,000 prisoners, more than 300 horses, and countless supplies.

In the city, the Song Anbu killed more than 700 people and captured nearly 4,000 people, including the Qing court's Beizi Shangshan.

Together, inside and outside Taixing City, a total of about 12,000 enemies were annihilated.

And Wu Zheng's army and Jiang Quanyi's remnants joined up, so that Taixingcheng's army had more than 10,000 troops.

The Qing army under the command of Kharchuhun encountered two battles in one day, and the casualties and routs were combined, and the loss of troops was nearly half.

The problem is that he is in a situation where he is caught between the north and the south.

If Dolgon had known about the battle, he would have ordered the Karchuhun to move westward, because to the west was Jiangdu, the city was high and thick, and there were thousands of defenders.

It can not only defend, repair, but also attack, and form a deterrent to Zhenjiang Mansion on the other side of the river, so as to contain Wu Zheng's troops from reinforcing Yingtianfu.

But the problem is that Khalchuhun is not Dolgon, and what he is only worried about now is that within a day, he will lose his troops and lose his generals, and he has not completed the task assigned by Dolgon.

Coupled with his arrogance, he has not yet discovered that it is Wu Zheng who is fighting with him today.

Therefore, the decision made by Khalchuhun was to gather the defeated troops, and after temporary reorganization, go east and go to Rugao.

Karchuhun's intention was that Tongzhou had 10,000 Qing troops to rely on, and besides, he could also gather troops to move west again and atone for his crimes.

But Karchuhun didn't know that the 10,000 Qing troops in Tongzhou had already disappeared under the attack of the new naval guns of Jinshanwei and Wusong's naval division, and the main general of the Qing army, Belle Tunqi, was captured alive.

This decision to advance eastward made Kar Chuhun, who had already escaped the attack of Wu Zheng and Chi Erhan from the north and south, embark on the road of annihilation again.