The Qing soldiers are coming!

In the faintly discernible sky in the early morning, a series of shield carts that looked boxy from the front suddenly appeared in the distance. At the same time, the sound of dense footsteps and horses' hooves also rumbled, and the sound became louder and denser, like thunder, and sounded into a ball. Needless to say, this is the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers!

Although the Qing Dynasty liked to blow what bow and horse to win the world in later generations, and how to shoot Manchurian cavalry, in fact, the Manchurian Eight Banners were mainly "obscene streams". It is rare to shoot arrows while running on a war horse, which is a Mongol trick. They Manchurians are not nomads, although they can also ride and shoot, but they do not rely on this mixed market.

Their most common style of play is to have the clothed minions push the shield cart in front, the Eight Banners dismount and hold bows and arrows behind, and in many cases they will also bring Han or Korean firecrackers. If it's a large-scale engagement, they'll also drag the Hongyi cannon out for a field battle!

And the real advantage of the Eight Banners is not the bow and horse at all, but the multi-purpose of one soldier - archery, horseback riding, hand-to-hand combat, a Eight Banners soldier is all round, and all the killing skills are very good. On the side of the Ming army, cavalry, archers, musketeers, sword players, pikemen, etc., all perform their own duties, and few people can specialize in multiple abilities.

If you want to divide it a little rougher, the Eight Banners are a three-in-one of projection, impact, and hand-to-hand combat, while the Ming army is separated from the three.

Therefore, when fighting in formation, the Eight Banners can easily form a relative advantage in firepower and numbers. Their combat effectiveness was already much stronger than that of the Ming army, and with their relative superiority in numbers, they were naturally invincible.

In today's battle, known as the "Battle of Tuhe", the approximately 13,000 Eight Banners True Manchuria invested by Duoduo is a "three-in-one" army. 5,000 of them, now carrying the Eight Force Bows, followed behind more than 300 shield carts propelled by clothed minions. And with them, there were about 800 Eight Banners Han Army Musketers. Armed with a fairly good quality bird or turtledove, these musketeers were clad in cotton armor and spread out in formation and walked in front of the shield carts.

There was also a Niu Lu's Eight Banners scattered around the battlefield on horseback, responsible for searching for the cavalry and ambushes of the Ming army. However, because the Shandong regiment did not have any cavalry, and Li Chengdong and Ma Degong refused to disperse the night away. So these Eight Banners on horseback didn't find anything, and they didn't fight anyone.

In addition, there are nearly 20,000 infantry of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion pressing behind, waiting to launch the second and third waves of offensives......

"Enemy attack, Tartar is coming!"

A terrible shout suddenly sounded in the Ming army's Chebao array!

Then more and more mournful shouts followed, and the shrill sound of golden drums sounded from the towering watchtower. The soldiers who rested in the camp were alarmed, and either rushed out of the tabernacle or simply jumped up from the field. Most of these non-commissioned officers and generals are regimental soldiers, and they have not been trained for a long time, and they have little experience in actual combat in the past. Now that the Qing army is coming, how can you not panic? In the camp, there was a sudden chaos.

Fortunately, the high-profile Shandong regiment training is a combination of the old and the new, leading the team is not only the children of local tyrants and inferior gentry, but also many veterans from Shandong patrol as the backbone, supporting the scene.

Gao Hongtu did not treat them badly, they all gave 300 acres of land to a person in Jinan Prefecture, and their families were also detained to live in Mount Tai Wohu Mountain City - Wohu Mountain is a part of the Taishan Mountain Range, close to Jinan Mansion City, and under the hillside is a valley, open and fertile, so it has become Gao Hongtu's old camp. The mountain pass built a Crouching Tiger Pass, and also built the Crouching Tiger Mountain City on the northern slope of the Crouching Tiger Mountain.

Once the city of Jinan fell, Gao Hongtu would retreat to the city of Crouching Tiger, nibbling on roasted sweet potatoes and persisting in resisting the Qing Dynasty......

The officers at all levels, who were filled by the backbone of veterans, quickly reacted from the panic, gave orders loudly, and commanded their respective men and horses to take their positions.

Although the training army of the Shandong regiment also refers to the establishment of the new army, it also has its own characteristics, that is, there are many archers. In the hundred-man banner, the archers accounted for about fifty, and the pikemen and sword and shield bearers combined numbered fifty. The firearms and assault guns were organized separately in the firearms battalions, and each battalion consisted of a firearms battalion and three infantry battalions.

However, the time for the establishment of Shandong Tuanlian was still too short, and there was no time to build weapons and armor, so there was no sufficient number of Kaiyuan bows (a composite bow with a relatively soft bow body) to use, so most archers used wooden bows and bamboo bows. Under the arrangement of the officers, they spread out behind the shield carts one after another, lined up neatly, ready to meet the enemy.

The gunners and gunners of the firearms battalion were also in their respective positions, and the assault guns had already formed a car fort together with the shield cars, so the gunners went directly to the front line, while the gunners put the three-eyed guns in the gap between the two shield cars.

Zhang Mingzhen had already reacted, and ordered loudly at the top of his voice: "Pass on the official order!" All his N Lao Tzu resisted, and the firearms soldiers were not allowed to fire without orders...... Whoever dares to take half a step back will be killed! ”

Most of the personal soldiers behind him answered the promise and went to give orders. And Zhang Mingzhen, surrounded by the remaining personal soldiers, strode to the front of a high platform made of earth, taking in all the battlefields.

Under the bright sky, I don't know how many shield carts, lined up in a line, slowly pressed in, giving people a feeling of breathlessness.

Suddenly, Zhang Mingzhen saw a burst of fire flickering again...... Then there was the crackling, fried bean-like sound.

This is the Qing army firing firearms!

"So far...... How can you beat it? Look at the Qing army, it's just that! Zhang Mingzhen was muttering to himself, and a roar sounded in his ears, and there was even more gunsmoke in front of him!

This is the Ming army's assault artillery and three-eyed guns firing! It turned out that the purpose of the Qing army's indiscriminate firing was to lure the Ming army's firearms to open fire outside the effective range......

"Damn! Don't indiscriminately......" Zhang Mingzhen's face turned pale, and he opened his voice and shouted.

But his voice was drowned out by a crackling roar! Almost all of the firecrackers and artillerymen in the Shandong regiment training army are new recruits, and now they are nervous to death, and they are led by the Qing soldiers, how can they hold back and not fire?

Even if you can't hit anything, it's good to listen to the sound and be brave!

He Luo, who was riding a horse and following Duoduo, looked at the flickering firelight in front of him, and said to Duoduo with a smile: "Lord Wang, the firearms soldiers of the Southern Barbarians are still the same, it seems that today's battle will not take much effort." ”

Of course, his words are not nonsense, don't look at most of the firearms of the Ming army are unreliable. However, in many battles with the Ming army in the past, it was these firearms that could really cause certain casualties to the Eight Banners.

For example, in Dagukou and Qufu City, the Ming army's firearms were used correctly to kill a certain number of Eight Banner warriors.

The Shandong regiment training army in front of him is obviously not able to make good use of a limited number of firearms......

Duoduo also smiled: "It's not a lot of effort, we've all won...... The order was sent down, and the Han army was allowed to get close to within fifty paces before fighting. ”

"Wow!"

A few of the redarmies behind Dodor received the order and flew forward.

At this time, the guns of the Qing army, whether they were turtledoves or birds, were a little lethal within fifty paces. The Ming army's three-eyed firearm could not play a role in less than twenty steps, and even if it was an offensive artillery, its power was relatively limited at a distance of fifty steps. Moreover, at this moment, the guns of the Qing army did not form a dense formation, but fought in a skirmish mode, and bombarding them with artillery was really a waste of ammunition.

In addition, the Assault Cannon and the Three-Eyed Musket have two more fatal flaws. First, it is very troublesome to reload, and it is difficult to fire repeatedly in a short time.

Second, the gun body and gun body are all cast of pig iron, which is easy to blow up. Once you get busy, you often have accidents, such as filling up with more gunpowder and causing the weapon to explode!

Therefore, in actual combat, the Qing army often used the trick of luring the enemy to open fire, as long as you come and go for a few more rounds, the Ming army's firearms themselves will be scrapped more than half.