Chapter 401: Life is like a mustard
Shang Shan's department has been in battle for a long time, although it suffered a small loss, but the reaction is very fast, the people who have just finished shooting turn to the back of the line, and the rest take advantage of the gap between the front and rear rows of the Sunit to take ten steps forward, raise their guns and shoot.
Teng Jisi's subordinates have been riding horses since childhood, and after training in recent months, it is very rare to be able to dismount and form a formation, but the level of the gun is still far below the Qing army.
The second row of gunners on their side clumsily squeezed to the front, and the opposite side almost raised their guns together, and then both sides burst into flames at the same time. The difference was that the Qing army fired a volley in a whole row under the command of an officer, while the Mongols were disorganized due to insufficient training.
But Rao was like this, and the soldiers of Shang Shan's subordinate still suffered a great loss when they were sixty paces apart, and more than 100 people were killed by the messy lead bullets on the opposite side.
Shang Shan's face was gloomy, and he simply ordered to get closer to forty steps and shoot again. So his army forced the Dunites to shoot in rows, leaving more than 100 corpses, until they reached a distance where they could see the appearance of the enemy, and then began to return fire.
At a distance of forty paces, the three coins were finally able to penetrate the cotton armor, and suddenly a large number of Mongols fell in the battle array. The two sides put two more rows of guns face to face, and confusion began to appear on Teng Jisi's side, and the soldiers didn't care about alternate volleys of fire in an extremely tense situation, but loaded the ammunition and put it away.
The accuracy of the arquebus is very poor, and the purpose of the salvo is to increase the chance of hitting, and random scattering is extremely disadvantageous.
Although the Qing army had killed five or six hundred people, it still maintained four rows of guns in turn, completely making up for the disadvantage of the caliber of the firearms, and even faintly began to gain an advantage.
However, this situation did not last long, and the more than 1,000 people left on the flank by Shang Shan were scattered by 5,000 cavalry led by Mang Gudai.
Subsequently, the Mongol cavalry divided into two routes, constantly attacking from Shang Shan's flank and behind, and the Qing army, which lacked cavalry cover, had to divide its manpower to defend, and the frontal firepower suddenly weakened.
Previously, the Mongols relied only on cavalry, and when they were close in number, they dared to fight with the Manchus. Now that they have an infantry battle formation, they can contain the Qing army in the front, and the pressure on the cavalry has suddenly decreased several times.
Although the cavalry of the Sunit and Chechen divisions also suffered many casualties under the fire of the Qing army, because the firepower was not dense enough, they were still able to grit their teeth and return fire with arrows or choose the weak points of the enemy position to rush in.
In addition, due to the lack of frontal strength of the Qing army, Teng Jisi's infantry still overwhelmed them with firepower, even though they fired indiscriminately.
Shang Shan originally only thought about dealing with the Mongol cavalry, but he was unexpectedly cooperated by the infantry cavalry, and he was at a loss for a while. Its formation was squeezed backwards in all three directions, and gradually it had come together, and it was about to be encircled.
Shang Shan had no choice but to ask Duoduo for help, but Teng Jisi had already led his guards to wait on his east side, and shot him five or six messengers in a row, before Shang Shan's nephew finally saw Duoduo with a breath of relief when he was hit by six arrows.
Duoduo's side is fighting smoothly, the Tushetu Department and the Zasaktu Department are still the old Mongolian tactics, and the repeated charges are blocked by the Qing army's infantry formation, which is extremely tired, at this time Wakda led 3,000 horsemen to raid from the flank, which suddenly made the Mobei cavalry chaotic.
Duoduo was about to make the infantry battle array rush forward, but when he heard that Shang Shan's side was not supported, he couldn't help but feel a little bored in his heart, but he didn't dare to let go of the tens of thousands of enemy troops behind him.
He immediately pointed to Mu Long, the deputy general beside him, and ordered him to lead 3,000 foot soldiers to support, thinking about it, he was afraid that it would not be safe, so he allocated another 500 elites with white flags to go together.
When Mu Long gathered his men and horses and hurried west, but as soon as he walked more than two miles away, he suddenly heard a shouting on his side, and Teng Jisi personally led the elite to gallop through the scattered marching columns of the Qing army, leaving hundreds of corpses, and flew away.
And the Qing army's side reorganized the queue again, Teng Jisi also arrived as scheduled, and Mu Long'e had to stop and form a formation to block the attack.
Teng Jisi got Dai Xiuyuan's order, didn't dwell on it at all, turned around and left.
Mu Long's forehead was so harassed that he didn't get out of the four miles for half an hour, so he had to ask Duoduo to send cavalry reinforcements. The latter was overwhelmed, and sent 700 men from Wakda's cavalry to follow Teng Jisi, and Mu Long'e was able to continue to move forward.
Nearly 4,000 enemy troops were lost on the side of the Tushetu and Zasaktu divisions, and the pressure was suddenly greatly reduced, and the already dangerous situation was stabilized again.
Besides, on Mu Long's side, when he finally got rid of the entanglement and rushed to the western position, the army of Shangshan was surrounded by death, arrows continued to fall like rain around him, and the screams of dying were endless, and from time to time there were soldiers kneeling on the ground and begging to surrender.
And Mu Long'e was also received the same "reception" by Shang Shan, and he only had about 3,000 people, so he was surrounded by only a few moments.
Seeing that the army and the Khalkha were stalemate, Duoduo became more and more anxious, and several attempts to force the army forward were ineffective, so he wanted to personally lead his henchmen to attack the enemy again.
At this moment, he only heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and when he hurriedly turned his head, he saw Mang Gudai galloping with two thousand cavalry. Behind him, more than 2,000 soldiers with firearms, swords and spears on their backs were jumping off their horses and forming a formation nearby......
The battle that followed was no longer in doubt, and although only more than 4,000 Dunites appeared behind the Dordor army, it was enough to upset the balance.
Many people from the Tushetu and Zasaktu tribes had died at the hands of the Manchus before, and at this time they were even more crazy and repeatedly attacked the Qing army's positions.
In order to escape the danger of Prince Baoyu, Ge Bush personally led the remnants of the white flag to resist to the death, but he also killed many Mongolian soldiers in his desperate efforts.
Dai Xiuyuan watched from a distance as the men and horses on both sides continued to die under the light of swords and bullets, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. In fact, with the current situation, the Mongol troops should besiege but not attack, and it will only take half a day's work, and the construction captives will inevitably lose their morale and surrender.
But he only watched silently, the more the Manchu and Mongolian tribes fought and lost, the more beneficial it was to the Ming Dynasty. In this battle, although the three major tribes of Mobei combined with the Sunit Department almost completely annihilated Duoduo's 30,000 troops, because their combat strength was still slightly weaker than that of the Qing army, their casualties were definitely not few.
After this battle, the forces outside the Saiwai were bound to be dealt a great blow, and the tribes, including the Khalkha, Tumut, Chahar, and Korqin tribes, were also unable to recover for a long time.
It was not until dawn the next day that Teng Jisi and Mobei's men and horses completely cleaned up the remnants of the Qing army. Except for Duoduo who fled to Hailin Cave with more than 300 guards, more than half of his 29,000 troops were killed or beheaded by Teng Jisi, and the rest were distributed to the Khalkha tribes as slaves on the spot.
Teng Jisi was drinking with the generals of the Khalkha tribes to celebrate the victory, when he saw Harhu coming over and whispered: "Big brother, we lost a total of 2,900 warriors in the first battle yesterday......"
Teng Jisi looked at the blood-soaked grassland and sighed in his heart, but then stuffed a bowl of wine into Harhu's hand, and smiled again and chatted with the others.
Men in the desert are like wolves in the cold winter, either desperately biting the bison to death for a full meal, or being killed by the horns of the ox, they have long been accustomed to death.
He knew that in fact, the losses of the Sunit tribe were not the greatest, and he had just heard from the people of the Zasaktu tribe that they had killed nearly 5,000 people yesterday.
However, the 30,000-strong army of the Manchurian people was lost, and this is the most important thing!