One Thousand and Seventy-Two: The Great Beam Gate
The gate of the girder in the west of Kaifeng City was opened, and the people and horses were crowded, and this night, Jierharang killed all the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs in Kaifeng City, so that a dog barked again this night, and there was no rooster crowing this morning. This practice had a covert effect before the army left the city, so Liu Qian would definitely not hear the roosters and dogs barking again.
Aobai's vanguard troops began to accelerate within the Daliang Gate, and they silently slaughtered towards the west of the city as fast as they could. Ao Bai doesn't care about form, only time, and he wants to break through deeper before the Ming army can react effectively. They broke through the trap in a column and rushed through the thistles. This also caused the cavalry to reduce a lot of losses, and then launched a lightning raid on the Ming army's ten-mile joint camp. The Ming army has always been very careful to prevent the Qing army from breaking through, but the tiger also has times to nap.
Having learned the lessons of the previous Ming army, Dorgon prepared enough soldiers for this vanguard cavalry, with a total of 30,000 men in front and behind. After these cavalry initially passed through the obstacles outside the camp set up by the Ming army in a single formation, they were led by several fierce generals, and hundreds of wrestlers each rode two war horses and then stormed, followed by a large number of cavalry one after another.
Of course, Ao Bai bore the brunt of the whole vanguard, he was still wearing an apricot yellow iron leaf red shining satin armor with red trim, but this time he was still riding a horse after recovering from his injuries. I only saw him wielding a big gun of ox tendon wood, rolling to the ground, and bringing lightning to the Ming army in front of him was a series of lightning out of thin air, and only those who have experienced lightning know what color the rainbow is before death.
The Ming soldiers could not stop their advance, and at this time the Ming army was not fully organized at all. Waves of Ming troops rushed forward, how could they withstand the huge impact of the cavalry of Aobai? At the forefront is the Imperial Battalion Five Army, although their infantry is not organized to defend decently, but their army is equipped with a large number of chariots, and the chariots are still like Hong Chengchou's second change of formation, with each chariot battalion as a unit, the troops are divided into modules.
But even this still did not stop these illegal intruders, Ao Bai commanded the Qing army to kill every time they reached the front of a Ming army's vehicle array, they threw out hooks and tiger claws, and then pulled back with their war horses, quickly destroyed them for a while, and then continued to shout and kill for the next one. By the time the soldiers of the five armies of the imperial camp had basically organized a decent array and a large number of soldiers on the chariots began to return to their battle positions, Ao Bai had already broken through the ten camps of the Ming army one after another.
Ao Bai is too fast, and he is familiar enough with the tactics of the Ming army's chariot formation. While most of the Ming army was asleep, he gave them a painful blow. However, the Ming army's military formations were not only ten, but one after another, one after another. When the war drums of the Ming army sounded and the horn sounded, the next time for the Qing army's forward troops really came. The countermeasures of the Ming army became more and more intense, there were more and more flying arrows in the sky, and there were more and more phalanxes formed by the Ming army in front. After breaking up the defenses organized by the Ming army in the nearest large battalion, the Qing army will approach a platoon of Ming chariots. However, this time, the Qing army made three charges in succession, and they were all repulsed by the Ming soldiers on the chariot.
Although in the defense system inside the Ming army camp, it is impossible to use too much heavy equipment, such as crossbow arrows, rockets, artillery, etc. In the midst of the chaos and in the camp, these weapons are very likely to injure their own people. However, even with bows and arrows, spears and other weapons, the Ming troops on the chariots still inflicted a lot of damage on these offensive cavalrymen.
Just when the Qing army was in a dilemma, their main general, Aobai, once again stood up. Just look at him dismounted from his horse, shot in his hand, rushed to the chariot formation like a storm, and suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse when he was still six or seven meters away from the chariot. The horse suddenly kicked forward with four hooves in the high-speed run, and the pace of the run almost stopped at the slightest moment when the horse touched the repulsion pistol. And the Ao Bai on the horse, with this hair and receiving, the body actually soared by inertia. The sturdy body landed gently and softly on the roof of the chariot like a swift. He touched the carport with both feet, and his body jumped into the inside of the car formation, and then he heard the wail of the Ming army.
A big bull tendon gun turned the earth upside down, and suddenly, the Qing troops outside the formation found that the car formation had begun to sway. After a few more swings, there was a click, and a row of chariots was torn off by Ao Baisheng's arms. Then he saw a chariot lifted high by him and thrown against the body of a row of Ming soldiers behind him who were about to attack him. Seven or eight of the Ming soldiers were hit, some immediately lost their breath, and some lay on the ground or dizzy or groaned.
"Sons, kill!" With a shout from Aobai, the Qing army commando rushed through and began to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army in the formation again. The Ming army counterattacked on the spot in every penetrated car formation, and although the cost was great, they never chose to escape. The follow-up troops of the Qing army also rushed in one after another with the bloody road of Aobai, and there was Aobai rampage in front, and the follow-up troops also killed all the Ming troops who dared to block their way along the way. At the same time, he was also using horse bows to return fire at the Ming archers hiding in the chariots.
Although it was a cavalry archery, their damage to the Ming archers was much greater than their own losses. Eight banners to bow horses to win the world, the knights in the army not only good archery, the accuracy of the cavalry is also higher than the accuracy of the Ming army's foot bow, which is in addition to the gap in archery skills, there is also the Qing army cavalry is fast-moving, and the Ming army archers themselves are real fixed targets.
The Ming army's chariot formation was an independent army formation that did not communicate with each other, which could prevent the enemy from crossing through the camp gate to another military formation, but it also prevented them from effectively assisting each other in the current unfavorable situation. In every military formation that was opened, the soldiers of the Ming army could only fight alone, until they could not see the road and could not raise their swords, until the end.
The right battalion of the Chinese army where Plug Yinxi was located was also broken through, and the old general was wearing a purple python robe, a gold lacquered mountain armor, a black hood on his head, a scarlet cloak on his shoulders shook in the wind, and his beard was already white. At this time, he personally went to the battlefield to organize the gun and shield array of the Ming army in his base camp to resist desperately, and there were 3,000 directly subordinate guards around him to protect his safety. The left battalion of the Chinese army, where Hong Chengchou was located, was on his north side, close to the position of Plug Yinxi. Hong Chengchou also personally went into battle, organizing the soldiers in his position to support Du Yinxi. The battle was extremely fierce, and even Hong Chengchou had already bent his bow and arrows, and also shot two or three Qing soldiers who killed the Yinxi army array, and the vanguard of the Qing army broke more than 300 people in front of the old general. Ao Bai was not only brave, he saw that the Ming army in this formation was not easy to overcome, so he immediately picked up a chariot from the south and made a detour to attack the Ming army there.