Chapter 945: The First Battle (Page 1/1)

The three thousand Han army banners separated from the Jurchen array and began to trot and accelerate, and they ran faster and faster, rushing towards the array of the Changxing army.

Zhang Dou just laughed and ordered the artillery to fire, this is the advantage of the Changxing army, so it must be grasped.

This time, he did not bring the musketeers to Hetuara City because the musketeers had not yet learned to ride a horse and march quickly, and the horses they got from the Guanning cavalry had already been handed over to the musketeers.

It is not required that the musketeers have any great horsemanship, only that they can keep up with the actions of the cavalry on horseback.

But this alone also made the musketeers suffer a lot, and it was not easy to be able to maintain a high speed on a horse and not fall behind.

The training didn't last long, and each firecracker walked like a duck. Their inner thighs are worn out, which is a process that must be experienced by horseback riding, and they simply can't get up fast.

This raid on Hetuara City was to catch the Jurchens off guard, and Zhang Dou naturally had to lead the cavalry to raid. If there were no horsemen and swordsmen in Vladivostok, the Changxing army would have become a complete cavalry.

Zhang Dou's team is very optimistic about the humanoid weapon of the horse swordsman, and this is the existence of a big killer in the era of cold weapons. Even the heavily armored cavalry couldn't please these horse-chopping swordsmen, let alone the Han army banner with only simple armor on their bodies.

Even so, Zhang Dou let the artillery fire at full strength, and the only weakness in the melee combat of the slashers was their physical strength. The heavy chopping knife had to be swung with all his might every time, and even if the Hezhe people were strong and well-trained, they could only swing a dozen knives.

If their physical strength is exhausted, they can only be slaughtered by others, and the enemy who can be solved with firearms must not waste the lives of soldiers, this is the first iron law of the Changxing Army.

The first to fire was the extremely fast Franc gun, and although the caliber of the 6-pounder gun was small, his rate of fire was very impressive.

Each cannon is equipped with nine guns, and when loaded with ammunition, it can shoot out like a storm, and the rate of fire is faster than the Jurchens imagined.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The artillery roared, and more than a dozen projectiles hit the Han army flag array. After firing the shells, the artillerymen did not have to check the results of the battle, and quickly withdrew their guns, replaced them with new guns, and continued to fire.

For a time, the front of the Changxing army was shrouded in bursts of gunsmoke, and the sound of artillery became a whole.

The Han bannermen had only been training for a short time, and they had not trained long before they were pulled by Abatai on their way to Ningguta.

After learning of the loss of the city of Hetuala, he hurried all the way back, and although he rested for some time, he was still physically weak.

They were able to maintain their formation when they separated from the Jurchen formation, but after running a dozen steps, the formation began to disperse.

When they ran fifty or sixty steps, they had completely lost their formation at all, and all of them rushed towards the Changxing Army array in a swarm.

The shells fired by the artillery of the Changxing Army blasted into the queue of the Han army flag just as their formation was out of order, and the stumps and arms were broken all the way through the place where the shells passed.

The banner of the Han army, which had no formation to speak of, was completely chaotic after being plowed by the cannonballs of the Changxing army, and some timid people began to stagnate, looking left and right to find a place to hide.

There are also brave people who charge forward, wanting to rush up and fight with the Changxing army.

The ranks of 3,000 men were in disarray, and the officers stood in place and shouted loudly, which could not stop the confusion of the ranks.

Zhang Dou saw this with a smile on his face, this is the importance of discipline. This is what an army without iron discipline will look like when it goes to the battlefield.

The slightest setback would be chaotic, and he waved his hand for Bayan's light cavalry to attack.

More than 1,000 horsemen immediately rushed out from both sides of the Changxing army array and killed the Han army flag in chaos, these cavalry did not charge directly, but began to fire bows and arrows on the periphery of the Han army flag.

The rain of arrows immediately caused the Han army flag to fall, and at this time they no longer wanted to avenge their relatives. This is a massacre, and there is no revenge when you are gone.

When the remnants of the Han army were defeated and fled back, Bayan did not send people to chase and kill. Just symbolically chased out a few dozen steps before leading the team back to the two wings of the Changxing Army, looking at the quiet and immobile Zhenglan Banner armor, Bayan was a little disappointed.

If the blue banner armor soldiers came from both wings, the cavalry of the Changxing army would also meet them. The decisive battle of the cavalry of the two sides will start immediately, and as long as the blue flag armor is defeated, there will be no suspense about the outcome of this battle.

Obviously, Abatai was unwilling to fight a decisive battle so early, and even watched the Han army flag being slaughtered and held back.

The two sides returned to the original confrontation again, only in the center of the battle there were more than a thousand corpses of Han military flags.

Abatai looked at the Han army banner who fled back with an ugly face, and coldly ordered: "The hundred people who retreated first will be beheaded!" ”

Defeated in the first battle, Abatai had to show an attitude. If in the next battle, the Han army flag is still about to collapse at the touch of a button, this battle will not be fought.

Hundreds of people were pulled out of the array, and the sword light flashed in front of the Jurchen formation, and there were more than a hundred headless corpses.

At this moment, the artillery of the Changxing Army opened fire again, this time they kept firing at the Jurchen formation more than a mile away.

The cannonball flew a distance of more than a mile and hit the front of the Jurchen formation, bouncing and crashing into a fairly complete formation.

For a time, the large array formed by the Han army flag screamed again and again, and was swept down by jumping shells, either dead or wounded.

The array of the Han military flag was a little commotion for a while, but it was suppressed by the Jurchen armor soldiers.

When the Changxing army shelled again, the shells fell into the phalanx of the Han army's flag.

This is the Changxing army bullying people with artillery, I can beat you, and you can only be beaten. After a long time, no matter how strong the army is, it will collapse, and this is how the white pole soldiers by the Hunhe River were defeated in the first place.

Now Zhang Dou has returned all this to the Jurchens, and if he does not attack, he can only retreat. The retreat of 10,000 people is not done well, and if it is not done well, it will be defeated, and when the cavalry of the Changxing army follows behind them, they can easily win.

Abatai's face twisted together, he pulled out his steel knife and pointed at the Changxing army and shouted, "All the army is forward!" Those who dare to retreat are killed! ”

After the order was issued, the entire army began to slowly move towards the Changxing army. The formation of the Han army flags that were bearing the artillery fire was somewhat scattered, but there was no time for them to form a team.

Only by fighting with the Changxing army first could they avoid being shelled, and the Han army flag began to slowly accelerate, and the entire team lost its formation and collided with the Changxing army.

The busiest at the moment are the artillery of the Changxing Army, and they have not stopped from the beginning of the war to the present. One by one, the shells hit the phalanx of the Han flag, and the artillerymen stripped off their shirts to reveal their sweaty muscles.

At the end of each shelling, the cannon was wrapped in a drenched linen cloth, and the retreated guns were first wrapped in a damp linen cloth and then loaded with projectiles.

The longevity of the artillery is not something they think about, it is what they should do to destroy the enemy.

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