It was not someone else who whipped Ebonus, it was Du Du, the banner owner of the Zhenglan Banner.

As the supreme commander of this frontal main attack, Du Du's heart was broken. In the past, the Jurchens in such a battle or infantry battle would generally drive auxiliaries or clothed minions to take the lead, they either pushed heavy shield carts, or raised heavy shields to rush to the front, using their flesh and blood to act as meat shields for the Jurchens, which was also the Jurchens' favorite thing to do, and the minions below were desperate and they followed behind to eat meat.

But now there is no such good thing, the coats and auxiliaries of each banner have been collected by Nurhachi as consumables and become the soul of Jinzhou City, and now there is no one to use the clothes and auxiliaries in the Zhenglan Banner, these Jurchen warriors have to personally push the shield cart and raise the heavy shield to meet the artillery fire of the Jiangning army.

Before the attack, Du Du was still full of confidence. He firmly believed that the dozens of heavy shield vehicles and hundreds of heavy shields in his hands could completely withstand the attacks of the Ming army's firearms, as long as he waited until his men and horses broke into the distance of sixty or seventy steps in front of the Daoming army's formation, with the Jurchen warriors' unparalleled strong bows and crossbows, they would definitely make those Ming troops unable to eat and walk around.

But the reality gave Du Du a ruthless mouth, and when he confidently commanded the infantry armor of the five thousand positive blue flags to attack, the Ming army opened fire again.

Well, it's not unusual for the Ming army to open artillery, they just opened fire. But Du Du never dreamed that the artillery fired this time was not only a few scattered artillery guns fired together, the power of hundreds of artillery salvos is absolutely incomparable to the power of a single cannon fire, just three rounds of shells covered by artillery fire took the lives of thousands of blue flag soldiers, followed by two rounds of shotgun shells and hundreds of Dajin warriors fell in a pool of blood.

Originally, such a loss had already made Du Du vomit blood, and finally rushed to more than 100 meters in front of the Ming army's formation, Du Du thought to himself that the Ming army's artillery couldn't fire indiscriminately at such a close distance, right? Yes, the artillery of the Ming army is no longer open, but the guns of the Ming army ushered in, and the rows of dense bullets and rains knocked down the invincible warriors of the past on the way forward.

Just when Du Du was angry, he saw a Niu Lu with a small blue flag stuck in his neck staggering up from the ground, and Du Du, who had nowhere to send out an evil fire in his heart, immediately gave him a whip, pointed at him and scolded: "I don't care if your dog slave is seriously injured now, as long as you are not dead, roll me to the front, if you can't take your Niu Lu to break through Minggou's position today, I will personally cut off the head of your slave!" ”

Looking at Du Du's almost fire-breathing eyes and feeling the hot feeling on his face, Ebonus struggled to get up and shouted loudly, "Master, please rest assured, the slave will go up and kill those bright dogs!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and ran towards the large array of the Ming army.

Du Du looked at the shaky figure of Emusi and shouted in a hoarse voice: "You all listen to me, if you can't break through Minggou's big array today, we will all die here, understand?" Now you all rush forward, you can only survive by killing those Ming soldiers! ”

Driven by Du Du, the remaining nearly 3,000 infantry armor of the positive blue flag rushed forward, although the Ming army in front of them still kept pouring bullets and rains on them, but these infantry armor of the positive blue flag rushed forward as if crazy.

After paying more than 3,000 casualties, the Tartar of the Blue Banner finally rushed to a distance of fifty paces from the phalanx, which was already within the range of the strong bow. The fighting methods of the Jurchen Tartar archers were the same as those of the Jin soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, they would shoot arrows when they entered a distance of fifty or sixty paces, and even about twenty or thirty paces if they were extreme, because the Jin soldiers at that time could only shoot through the foot armor worn by the Song Dynasty infantry at this distance.

Today's Jurchen warfare methods are also in the same vein as the Jin soldiers hundreds of years ago, and the arrows used in the bows and arrows are as long as six or seven inches, and their shape is like a chisel, and it is difficult to take out when they are shot deeply. Not only that, but their arrows were soaked in dung, and if they were shot, they would die nine times out of ten

Eugus, who had returned to his combat post, shouted, "Hurry up...... The heavily armored soldiers step forward with their shields raised, and the archers prepare to shoot arrows! ”

As soon as Elumus's words fell, dozens of lightly armored archers ran from behind the heavily armored infantry to the sides, and they began to crouch down with their bows and arrows, their steps separated in a figure-of-eight stride. For a moment, dozens of arrows from the bow and arrow flew forward.

At the same time, a new round of salvo fire began in the phalanx ahead.

The screams of both sides rang out almost simultaneously, and in the loud volley of fire, at least a hundred Houjin's infantry soldiers were knocked to the ground, and no matter how many layers of heavy armor they wore and how heavy shields they held in their hands at a distance of fifty paces, it was useless. The powerful lead bullets fired from the Brown Bess flintlock easily broke through their armor and heavy shields, knocking them to the ground one by one.

Rushing to the front, wearing three layers of heavy armor and holding a heavy shield, Eugus was also hit by a lead bullet, this lead bullet broke the wooden heavy shield in his hand, and easily broke the three layers of armor on his body and knocked him to the ground, when he lay on the ground, a stream of Bobo blood flowed out of his body, his eyes were wide and looking at the sky, blood continued to flow from the corners of his mouth, and his mouth muttered to himself: "All ...... Give me a charge......"

Umus died, and the famous warrior of the Blue Banner lay quietly on the black-brown ground, along with three Zhanda, two Fen Dashku, and dozens of foot soldiers.

Some of them died on the spot, others were not completely dead, and clouds of blood came out of their bodies, and they rolled to the ground screaming and screaming. Because the projectile of lead bullet is round, both the range and penetration are far worse than the pointed bullets of later generations, but because of this, their destructive power is also stronger, and the internal organs of the human body are all deformed after being shot into the body by lead bullets, and all the deformed projectiles are broken, so even if the gods come, there is no problem.

There are also some infantry soldiers who are really far away from the bullet were also shot, because the distance was too far so the lead bullet failed to penetrate their thick shield and the three layers of heavy armor on their bodies, but the powerful impact of the projectile was all borne by the body of the person who was shot, even if the projectile did not penetrate the heavy armor, their bodies still had to bear a huge impact, and some unlucky people even had their bones broken and their internal organs were also shocked to blood.

At this time, the Ming army also began to have casualties one after another. Although the plate armor provided by Yang Feng was made of high-strength steel plates, and the heavy arrows of the Houjin Tartar could not penetrate the plate armor on their bodies as long as they were forty paces away, after entering thirty steps, this kind of heavy arrow weighing three or four taels could shoot through the armor of the sergeants.

Under the desperate attack of the Houjin Tartar archers, the sergeants in the phalanx were shot one after another and fell to the ground, and some of the sergeants who were hit by the arrows fell to the ground and groaned in pain.

"Speed up the reload...... Fast! ”

Seeing that there were casualties on their side one after another, the Houjin Tartars rushed to a distance that was only a few dozen steps away from them, looking at a Houjin Tartar who was swarming over, and Chu Maoguang, who was in the middle of the phalanx in the first row, had an anxious look on his face.

Although the Jiangning army has become a strong army after a year of hard training and battlefield tempering, it is only relatively speaking, if they pick up the ability of hand-to-hand combat, they are not as good as the Jurchens who have been practicing killing skills since childhood, if they really let the Jurchen Tartars rush into the phalanx, their phalanx will be in danger of collapse.

At this critical moment, a hoarse voice came from behind, "Ten thousand enemies are ready...... Put! ”

As the sound fell, Chu Maoguang saw more than a dozen black things cross the top of his head and fall into a distance of about seventy or eighty steps in front of the phalanx, and then a series of huge explosions were heard, and countless fragments and iron beads flew in all directions with a powerful shock wave, blasting the Houjin Tartar with a radius of more than ten meters into a bloody and bloody air, and the originally dense offensive formation immediately appeared in pieces of space.

In the middle of the phalanx, a battalion commander placed 10,000 enemies in the funnel-shaped shape of more than a dozen catapults under the command of dozens of gunners.

Catapult is a kind of large-scale manpower long-range weapon that uses the principle of lever to throw stone projectiles, and it is also a very ancient weapon, which can even be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and its production difficulty is not high, but its biggest disadvantage is that it is large and inconvenient to carry, and the throwing distance is limited, and this ancient weapon has been eliminated after the Ming Dynasty.

These catapults are made by Yang Feng in order to make up for the short-distance firepower of the Jiangning Army and let the Minghu Iron and Steel Plant of modern society, it uses high-strength aluminum alloy as the skeleton, so that it is both light and strong, plus a two-and-a-half-meter long rod, the end is a bucket spoon for putting things, after tying the rope, a simple catapult is completed, the most powerful thing is that the weight of such a catapult is less than two hundred catties, and two people can push him around after four wheels.

"Ten Thousand Enemies...... Put! ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The 10,000 enemies thrown by the artillery battalion will naturally not be the kind of little guy who weighs only two pounds brought by the sergeants, and the 10,000 enemies they use are all specially made big guys weighing ten pounds, and this kind of 10,000 enemies are not only engraved with grooves in the shell when casting, but also contain hundreds of iron pellets, and once they explode, their power is not inferior to that of a twelve-pound cannonball.

The Tartars who were caught off guard were stunned at once, and the huge explosion sound and shock wave were mixed with countless shrapnel and projectiles flying around, but all the Tartars within the range of the shock wave were either killed or injured, and the Tartars who had finally rushed to the front of the phalanx were all blown down. When the smoke cleared, looking at the large empty place in front of the Ming army, Du Du was almost about to vomit blood, in order to rush to this less than 100 steps they killed and wounded thousands of people, and they were about to meet the Ming army in a short battle, but they were bombed back by a round of 10,000 enemies.

"Is it really God who bless me with Dajin?" Looking at the Ming army Du Du, who took advantage of such a little time to reload the ammunition and wait for the battle, his heart was full of despair, after such a back and forth, the five thousand warriors under his command are now less than two thousand people left, according to the experience just now, even if he rushes to the front of the Ming army, it is only to deliver food.

Just when Du Du was desperate, there was a sudden sound of heavy horses' hooves behind him, and then he felt a vibration under his feet, and when he turned his head, he saw a group of black cavalry rushing from behind, these cavalrymen were all wearing red armor, and the helmets on their heads were like lightning rods fluttering in the wind.

"The horse armor soldiers of the Red Banner, they are also here to reinforce?" Du Du's face was relieved, and then he tightened, only to see him roar loudly: "Get out of the way...... Get out of the way! ”

In fact, there is no need to say it, those surviving Tartars of the Blue Banner are rolling and crawling to both sides, they have grown up on horseback since the bottom, they know very well that when the cavalry begins to charge, anything in front of them will be crushed into powder, not to mention that they are like this, even if a banner owner like Du Du is trampled to death, there is no place to cry injustice.

"Rush up, everyone rush for me!"

In the cavalry's offensive formation, Yue Tuo shouted loudly while riding his horse and charging, originally he received the order to wait until Du Du's Zhenglan Banner broke into the Ming army's phalanx before rushing in to expand the results, but the Zhenglan Banner was not powerful, and he was about to meet the Ming army in a short battle but was driven back by the enemy with 10,000 people, which also forced him to launch an attack in advance.

He had fought with Yang Feng very well knowing how powerful the Jiangning weapons under his command were, and what was the point of everything if he waited until all the Zhenglan Banners were destroyed in front of the battle, so he ordered to attack in advance without thinking.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Sure enough, when Yue Tuo led the Zhenghong Banner to attack, the artillery battalion in the Jiangning military array opened fire again, and one by one the flowering bullets fell down in two or three rows, and the cavalry of the Zhenghong Banner were shot down by the shock wave and shrapnel, but Yue Tuo did not take any steps, on the contrary, he kept urging the cavalry to speed up and rush over, as long as they could rush into the phalanx of the Ming army, they would win half of it.

"Quick...... Launch...... Be sure to stop the Tartar cavalry for me! ”

In the middle of the large phalanx, Qiu Disheng tried his best to give orders to the artillery battalion through the neighing of walkie-talkies, under his order, more than 100 artillery pieces raised their muzzles, and constantly poured artillery fire forward, watching the cavalry with Tartars falling off their horses, he was excited and nervous.

The gunners were almost crazy, one after another flowering shells kept falling and exploding, constantly taking the lives of the Tartars, Qiu Disheng was sure that once the cannon fired a few more rounds, the thousands of Tartars in front of them would have at least one or two thousand corpses before rushing to the phalanx.

Just as Qiu Disheng jumped to his feet and ordered the gunners to speed up the rate of artillery, the observer standing on the bucket cart suddenly shouted: "My lord, all the surrounding Tartars have gathered around!" ”

Qiu Disheng turned his head and looked, his face immediately turned white with a "swish", and it turned out that at some point, the five thousand cavalry with white flags that were originally just surrounding them also launched an attack on them......