Chapter 1195: Battle of the Three Kings (Eighteen)
The Ming army marched forward, dug trenches, and arranged soldiers who rejected horses and antlers, and all retreated into the formation.
After firing a shot, the first row of gunners of the Ming army immediately retreated, cleaned up the medicine room in a uniform manner, loaded the ammunition, and then took out the whole strip to pound the ammunition.
By this time, the other two musketeers had already finished firing one after the other, repeating their movements, and they stepped forward again and raised their guns to fire.
There was no other sound in the whole array, only the sound of the whole bar poking into the barrel of the gun and the sound of bursts of fire.
In the sound of "bang ~", the Ming army front was immediately filled with gunsmoke.
In the face of tens of thousands of cavalry swarming in formation, the Ming army did not panic, stuck to their posts, and was loyal to their duties.
In the Ming army's formation, the sound of guns was like hail falling, and small projectiles whistled out and shot at the enemy cavalry at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye.
The Mongolian cavalry in the charge may not have found it, but Dolgon, who was watching the battle in the back, had a cold face, and the cavalry that rushed out was like suddenly hitting an invisible wall, like beating dates, and fell from their horses one after another, and countless war horses rose into the air, and the forward men howled and neighed.
The range of the Ming army's musket was 200 paces, and the Mongols' cavalry bows had to advance to a distance of at least 70 paces if they wanted to penetrate the armor of the Ming army.
That is to say, the Qing army suffered a few rounds of artillery, and it had to eat three rounds of fire from the Ming army before it could shoot a wave of arrow rain.
Dolgon will settle accounts, this deal can't be supplied, the cavalry failed to disturb the Ming army, and he almost died, this is simply a bloody deal.
The cavalry can harass the infantry on horseback, mainly the weapons of the infantry army, and there is no obvious advantage in range, and the infantry archers put a maximum of twenty arrows, and the people are tired, and the arms are weak, and they cannot pull the bow and arrows.
Now the range of the Ming army's firearms far exceeds that of the Qing army, almost twice as much as theirs, and the use of firearms does not require them to spend much effort, as long as they do not blow up the chamber, there is no problem with a few hundred guns, the equipment of the Ming army has made a qualitative breakthrough, but the Qing army still treats the Ming army with the old tactics, and the result is naturally a tragedy.
The Mongolian cavalry was frightened, and the comrades around them continued to fall off their horses, they could only grit their teeth one after another and charge, and under the continuous shooting of the Ming army's platoon, I don't know how many Mongols fell to the ground.
The artillery of the Ming army, made a loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth, so that everyone was shocked, the Ming army's musketeers, taking turns to shoot, the guns never stopped, almost forming an impermeable wall of projectiles, so that they were shrouded in the threat of death, and they had to wait until the Ming army's weapons were used in turns for several rounds, before they could pick up the cavalry bow with a pitiful range and shoot back.
Brave as Lou Qin didn't dare to look back, how many human and horse corpses were left behind him, he was afraid that as soon as he turned around, the breath in his heart would be released.
Finally, after being bombarded by several rounds of artillery and fire from the Ming army, the Mongolian cavalry finally killed within seventy paces. ”
In the rain of bullets, the Mongols, who were galloping on horseback, suddenly straightened up, drew their riding bows into a full circle, and shot an arrow of revenge.
A flying locust shot into the Ming formation, and the soldiers in the front row suddenly wailed, and hundreds of people were shot down.
Seeing this, Li Guo's face was grim and did not fluctuate, he waved his hand, and a group of Ming soldiers rushed forward, in groups of two, to set up and drag the wounded and dead soldiers down, and the next few rows of firecrackers with guns in their chests immediately stepped forward to fill the vacant seats and continued to shoot.
The first team of 10,000 people, after leaving the corpses on the ground, pulled out their horses and made a detour backwards, and the second and third teams followed in the footsteps of the first team.
In the wilderness, there were Mongol corpses everywhere, and they didn't shoot many Ming soldiers to the point of killing themselves.
For the first time, the Mongols felt that their cavalry was useless.
After Lou Qin came around, he looked at the corpses all over the ground, his heart was cold, and he was suddenly cold, he wanted to reproduce Salhu's confidence, and he went more than half of it at once.
When he was hesitating whether to continue to rush forward and shoot another arrow, the sound of gold sounded in the Qing army's formation, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Dorgon saw the whole thing, the corners of his mouth twitching, his eyes bulging in disbelief.
In this round of attacks, the Mongols are afraid that they have lost more than 3,000 people, but the casualties caused to the Ming army will definitely not exceed 1,000 people.
Dolgon's reaction was also quick, and when he saw that the old tactic of harassing the cavalry and then breaking the formation with heavy cavalry did not work, he did not drag the mud and water at all, and shouted: "Withdraw! ”
The sound of gold sounded, and the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, who had lost more than 10%, hurriedly retreated.
At this time, the Ming army's two wings were agitated, wanting to arch up and cover a wave from behind, but Wang Yan was very cautious, striving for a "stable" word, and did not give an order, so the Ma army could only calm the restlessness in his heart.
At this time, the Ming army was like a martial arts master, with strong strength, but he insisted on hiding his clumsiness, deliberately letting a hooligan attack him at will, and then slapping him with a big mouth.
An attack ended in failure, and in the Qing army, Wakda, Rocoduo and others became anxious.
When they saw that Lou Qin had returned in vain and suffered a lot of losses, they couldn't help but ask anxiously: "Uncle Wang, what should I do?" ”
Dolgon looked at the tall looking car of the Ming army and the dragon flag embroidered with gold edges, and his eyes couldn't help but narrow.
Today's battle was his last chance, he didn't expect that the Ming army would be so powerful in the wilderness.
At this time, he didn't have any good methods for the formation of the Ming army, but he had to fight.
Thinking of this, Dolgon said to a few people, "The Ming army is well defended, and the firearms are powerful, we can't add fuel to the battle, we must take advantage of the advantage of troops, all bet, this king does not believe that the king thief is as solid as a rock on all sides." ”
Dolgon was the backbone of this group of Manchurian generals, and they looked at Dol and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Wang, how do you want to fight?" We all listen to you! ”
Dorgon still has faith, and he does not admit defeat, which is the source of their strength.
"The concession army attacked the front of the Ming army, the king did not believe that 100,000 people could not shake the main formation of the Ming army, Wakda, Lou Qin, you led the cavalry, and when the main formation of the Ming army moved, they attacked his two waists, and the king only left 15,000 full eight flags as the final hole card!" Dolgon looked at everyone and said solemnly: "Can the Qing Dynasty still exist, can you go back to see Eniang and his wife and children, just today's battle!" The warriors of the Aixin Jueluo family, let's fight hard! ”
"Fight it!" Several people immediately clenched their fists and raised their fists, shouting like thunder.
They were like chicken blood, but the green battalion in the front row couldn't feel the passion in their hearts, and even the Han Banner Army didn't have the heart to die.
After the old Han flag was played, the newly raised Han army did not enjoy much of the same treatment as the old Han flag, and the identity of the Eight Banners, with the weakening of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was not as noble as before.
Dolgon shouted for a decisive battle in the back, but the Green Battalion and the Han army in front were dumbfounded by the attack of the Ming army.
This is similar to the situation of the last time they attacked the wall, and they were already terrified at the thought that they were killed by 10,000 people last time without touching the wall.
"King Zhishun, the regent ordered you to lead the green battalion soldiers to attack the enemy's middle army, and kill them at all costs." The Manchurian generals galloped to the front and loudly conveyed Dorgon's orders.
The green battalion soldiers who heard the order around him immediately looked like ashes, and scolded in their hearts, "Straight lady thief, why are we again!" “
Shang Kexi knew that if he wanted to break through the Ming army's array, he had to pay the price, which was an unavoidable loss, no matter what his subordinates thought, he had no way back anyway, and immediately received the order: "Obey the order!" ”
After speaking, he drew his sword and shouted coldly: "Go to war!" Kill! ”
The horn sounded, and the green battalion soldiers could only attack, and nearly 10,000 sword and shield men advanced forward while emboldening themselves with swords and shields.
Tens of thousands of archers, armed with bows and quivers, reluctantly followed......