Chapter 107: The Bloody Battle of Lin'an

He quickly stepped up his horse and led 3,000 Eight Banner soldiers to the artillery position of the Ming army. This place is only a mile away from the artillery array of the Ming army, the cavalry will be shelled on the way, but a mile away, the cavalry will come to the front with a sprint, the most huge Hongyi cannon only has time to fire a round, there is no time to load, other artillery can be fired a round, loading and then firing a round is very good, the Japanese can fight to pay hundreds of cavalry casualties to capture the Ming artillery position.

"Fire!" The artillerymen waved the command flag in their hands.

Seeing the Ming artillerymen turn the muzzle of the cannon around, U Heshi showed the skills of the Eight Banners to deal with the Ming artillery when they were in Liaodong: suddenly turned the horse's head during the gallop, ran in another direction, deceived the Ming gunners to open the cannon, dodged the shells, and then took advantage of the Ming army's artillery to reload, turned around and killed into the opponent's formation.

It is worthy of the old Eight Banner cavalry who came in from outside the pass, and the more than 3,000 cavalry moved in unison, turning to the left in unison, avoiding the sharp edge of the Ming army's artillery.

But this time the Eight Banners encountered a strong opponent, and the Ming army was not the use of a few cannons or a dozen cannons, but hundreds of cannons firing at the same time!

From the Hongyi cannon to the tiger squat cannon, hundreds of cannons fired in a salvo, the smoke of gunpowder billowed out, the ground shook the mountain, the muzzle of the cannon spewed fire, and the dense cannonballs formed an impermeable barrage, burrowing into the crowd of the Eight Banners cavalry. With such a high-density salvo, no matter how skilled the Eight Banners cavalry was, it would be difficult to dodge the cannonballs smashed by the iron wall.

More than 200 shells drilled into the herd of horses and smashed nearly 100 Eight Banner cavalry in one fell swoop. The Eight Banners soldiers who were hit by the cannonballs immediately flew flesh and blood, and their men and horses were shattered.

The cannonballs fell to the ground, bounced, and knocked down a large number of Eight Banner cavalry.

"Kill the barbarians! Kill all the Han dogs! Uhe roared with blood-red eyes. Just now, a round of shelling actually caused more than 500 casualties among the Eight Banners, to be exact, only killed and not injured, and were hit by shells. The lightest injuries were also shattered limbs, and there was no cure for such injuries in this era. The more than 500 Eight Banners soldiers who lost were all old Eight Banners who came in from outside the customs and fought in the south and the north, such losses made Wu He so distressed that he was about to vomit blood.

"The barbarian's cannon has been fired! Let's rush and kill them all! Deputy Governor Sashku yelled.

The Eight Banners turned in a different direction and continued to gallop their horses and rushed straight to the artillery position of the Ming army. At this time, the Eight Banners cavalry was less than 400 steps away from the Ming army's artillery position, and it only took about 30 breaths to rush there.

Regardless of whether there is a trap or a stumbling rope in front of them, these Eight Banners soldiers will no longer stop the pace of their horses, even if there are traps and tripping horses. Sacrificing dozens of Eight Banner soldiers, filling them with the corpses of people and horses, they can also rush to the Ming army in one go, and then they can carry out a one-sided massacre of the Ming artillery.

The Ming army's Franc machine and three-pounder and four-pounder cannon fired a second round of fire, and dozens of shells fell in the crowd of Qing troops, smashing over hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers.

"Kill the dog!" He roared, drew his sword, and galloped towards the rising sun. The Eight Banners soldiers in the back brushed and drew their swords, and the morning sun shone on the blades. It shimmered with silver light, forming a rainbow.

Colorful flags and armor surged with the horses' hooves, rolling thunder rushed towards the Ming artillery positions.

"Eight colors of flags, armor. Thousands of war horses galloping, it is indeed very beautiful and spectacular, but unfortunately this is your last swan song! Wang Xinyu turned his head. There was a hint of unbearability in his eyes.

Thirty new-style fire vans had already been lifted off their canvases, revealing their hideous fangs and aimed at the Eight Banners who rushed over.

Originally, the first batch was 20 fire vans, but in the past few days, another batch has been transported. So that the number of swarming bee vans has reached thirty, and a salvo can launch nearly a thousand flowering rockets!

In addition to a swarm of fire vans, another kind of fire vans have arrived these days, which are also arranged behind the artillery positions.

"Ignition!" Zheng Cong personally gave the order.

Cai Yun waved the order flag, and dozens of Ming soldiers stretched out torches and ignited the tail wire of the rocket.

After igniting the rocket, the Ming soldiers ran away one after another, so as not to burn themselves by the tail flame of the rocket.

"Whoosh" The position of the new-style fire van was suddenly filled with gunsmoke, and the fire dragons spewed scarlet flames, dragging billowing white smoke, tumbling, with a piercing scream, like locusts flying in the sky, facing the murderous crowd of Eight Banners soldiers and horses, overwhelming, overwhelming the mountains and seas.

"Be careful! A swarm of Han dogs! Uhe shouted.

These old Eight Banners, who came in from outside the gate, had experience in dealing with a swarm of bees, and they used the stunt of hiding in the stirrup, and their bodies bent over the side of the horse, looking like an uncontrolled war horse running towards the Ming army.

The stirrups were hidden and were used against archers. When the opponent fires a volley of arrows, the cavalry performs the Hide in the Stirrup skill to avoid being directly hit by the arrows. Although the war horse will be hit by an arrow, the skin and flesh of the horse are much thicker, and the vitality is much stronger.

When they were in Liaodong, the Eight Banners cavalry used this trick to deal with the archers of the Ming army. The Eight Banners cavalry dealt with the Ming Army's bird gunners, they rode their horses a few steps forward, tricked the bird gunners into firing before they suddenly turned, and when the bird gunners fired, they didn't have time to reload, and the Eight Banners rushed up. The archers had a fast rate of fire, and the Eight Banners used the method of hiding in stirrups to dodge the bows and arrows of the Ming army. Even if some war horses were shot into hedgehogs by random arrows, the war horses could still rush to the Ming army and knock several Ming soldiers away. The Eight Banners on horseback, after jumping off the war horse, are still very good infantry, and they can still cut down the Ming army.

It's a pity that the stunt hidden in the stirrup of the Eight Banners Cavalry has completely failed to deal with this new swarm of bees!

The rocket landed and exploded in the crowd of horses of the Eight Banners Cavalry, and the violently expanding gunpowder released powerful energy, and the iron balls and thistles loaded in the warhead flew sideways, hitting the horses of the Eight Banners like rain. The horses that had been shot let out a mournful neigh, and fell to the ground one after another, throwing the cavalry hiding in the stirrups into the air. Some rockets fell directly on the side where the Eight Banners cavalry was hiding and exploded, and countless iron beads and thistles pierced into the body of the Eight Banners, and the cavalry that turned into a hornet's nest screamed and fell under the horse, and the war horse that lost human control galloped wildly for a while before stopping.

Not only that, but the ruthless Song Yingxing, Dai Cang, Dai Zi and others also mixed one or two high-powered rockets filled with new gunpowder into the ordinary flowering rockets. The power of the new gunpowder, that is, the Dana explosive, can be imagined, although the number is not much, but as soon as it explodes. Within a dozen paces around, people and horses were shattered, and human heads, stumps and broken legs flew into the sky.

The Eight Banners general Wu He also performed the stunt of hiding in the stirrup, but he only heard explosions around him one after another, and an ordinary rocket fell on the outside of his war horse and exploded. He only felt that the war horse seemed to be out of control, and then the front hooves of the war horse knelt down, and the hind legs were raised high, throwing him out more than ten steps away.

Skilled in riding, Uhyuk rolled several times on the ground in a row to slow down the impact. When he stood up, he was horrified to find that the originally dense Eight Banners cavalry formation. It's already sparse! Three thousand Eight Banner cavalry, the rest may not even be three hundred cavalry!

"Kill the dog!" Sashku didn't feel that he had lost, he still had three hundred cavalry, the opponent's cannon was too late to reload, and the most powerful fire box was also launched, as long as three hundred Manchurian warriors rushed up, they could kill all their opponents.

"Kill the dog!" He also led more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers who had lost their horses, armed with swords, and followed behind the cavalry. Charge the Ming army on foot.

"Boom" more than a dozen cavalrymen fell into the trap and fell into a bloody blur.

The Eight Banners rushed through the trap filled with human corpses and horse corpses, and rushed over with a loud roar.

"Whoosh" was another rocket launch, albeit sporadically. It did not have the power of the salvo just now, but it also caused certain losses to the Eight Banners.

The new type of carriage fires rockets, which can be fired in a salvo or in a single shot. A fire van that has just completed a salvo. As long as the soldier puts a single rocket on the launcher, it can be ignited and fired, and does not need to be reloaded like a cannon. It's just that the hit rate of rockets with a single shot is too poor.

The Ming army in the back pushed more than a dozen fire box cars, this kind of fire box car is different from a swarm of bee fire car cars, it seems that the front is a large wooden board, which is inlaid with iron pipes.

Thunderbolt fire van! Thunderbolt, multi-barreled musket, but the loading of Thunderbolt is too troublesome, and the accuracy is too poor, and the three-eyed gun is actually a kind of garbage as a firearm, but it is a very good cold weapon. The three-eyed guns can be used as a hammer to smash people after fighting, and the thunderbolts can be used as spears after shooting, so they are more like cold weapons.

But the genius boy Dai Zi combined the Thunderbolt and the fire van, and it became a Thunderbolt fire van that was second only to a swarm of bee fire vans!

There were sixty-four guns on one of the wagons, and the projectiles were fired by the fire inquiring with the arquebus. After the fight, the wooden board inlaid with the gun pipe was directly removed and replaced with a new plank, of course, there were also sixty-four loaded gun pipes on it, as long as the fuse hung on the fire door was lit, and a round of fire could be carried out.

Ten fire vans were aimed at the last Eight Banners cavalry, and the Ming soldiers lit the fuse hanging at the tail, and the guns of the fire vans spewed out tongues of fire in turn, and dense projectiles shot out.

Sashk saw only tongues of fire swinging like scythes, and his cavalry fell one by one.

At the same time, the three- and four-pounder guns, which had completed their loading, also spewed out a dense burst of shotguns.

Sashk was unable to rush up, and he did not know whether he was beaten into a hornet's nest by the fire box or the projectiles of the artillery, and fell unwillingly in a pool of blood. The last dozen or so remaining cavalrymen were first blocked by a tripping horse, and then they were swarmed by dozens of Ming infantry who were responsible for protecting the Shenji Battalion, and all of them were cut into pulp.

Seeing that the cavalry was almost completely wiped out, U He lost his mind and rushed towards the Ming army with the Eight Banners on foot.

"Fire!" Cai Yun's banner waved.

After a row of cannons roared and the smoke cleared, more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and they themselves were beaten into a sieve by the dense shrapnel.

"It's over?" Seeing that more than 3,000 fierce Eight Banner soldiers were all wiped out like this, the Ming soldiers still didn't believe their eyes.

"Won!" There was thunder of joy in the Ming army's large array. Everyone knows that this battle has been won! Although there were still Luo Keduo and his 20,000 infantry in front, as well as Qing generals such as Songkui, the Eight Banners were all wiped out, so that the morale of the Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion had fallen to zero, and the Qing army, whose retreat had been cut off, had no intention of fighting.

Seeing that more than 3,000 Eight Banner cavalry were wiped out, but they didn't even touch the side of the Ming army, Rocoduo's heart was dripping blood. More than 3,000 old Eight Banners from outside the country, just like that, it's all gone! Coupled with the more than 2,000 old Eight Banners that were damaged by a few stupid people such as Zhangtai and Zhuo Butai a few days ago, the old Eight Banners brought out by the Aobai expedition this time have all been lost, and the rest are the second generation of the Eight Banners and the third generation of the Eight Banners who grew up in the Guannei, and the combat effectiveness of those people is not worth mentioning at all, and it is not as good as the Green Battalion.

Rocoduo couldn't wait to press the whole army up and fight to the death with the Ming army. But reason prevented him from doing so, he knew that after the old Eight Banners, which were the backbone, were gone, the Green Camp and the Han Eight Banners were now demoralized. Using these soldiers who have lost their morale to meet the elite Ming army on the opposite side, isn't that a death in vain?

"Our army is defeated! Withdraw your troops! Rocodo closed his eyes in pain and gave the order.

"But the old general, our army's retreat has been cut off by thieves, if we retreat at this time, we will be covered up behind the morale of the Ming Dog, and we will also break through the defense line of the Ming Dog in front. Our army is demoralized, can we break through the Minggou defense? It is better to camp on the spot, confront Minggou, and wait for Lord Ao to defeat Minggou who cut off the back of our army. Songkui stepped forward.

Rocoduo sighed bitterly: "You have also seen the power of the cannons of the thieves on the other side!" And new firearms! We are encamped on the spot, can we hold it? Stay here, and you will only be wiped out! It's better to let the soldiers break through the Ming Dog defense! Although their morale is low, when it comes to fleeing for their lives, they will inevitably fight hard! Although the old man also knows that the loss will be great, it is one to be able to run one! ”

More than 20,000 Qing troops who had become turtles in the urn turned around and retreated, charging the formations of the Zheng family army and the Qiongzhou army.

Shi Fu, Jiang Zhiping, Gong Xiaoda, Wang Defeng, Zhou Quanbin, Huang Ting, Yan Wangzhong and other generals, with more than 20,000 Ming troops, are resisting the crazy attack of the Chinese army in Aobai. After dawn, the Qing troops on both wings also arrived. Jiang Zhiping and others led the army to fight with more than 100,000 Qing troops on the three routes, and repelled the frantic attacks of the Qing army again and again.

With the appearance of Rocodo later, the 20,000-strong Ming army faced attacks from the Qing army in all directions.

The fierce battle was extremely fierce, and a part of the Ming army occupied the hills on both sides and bombarded the Qing army with copper mortar cannons. Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong in the back led the army to chase and kill Luo Keduo, and Luo Keduo, who was eager to flee for his life, left a green battalion to break the rear and block the Ming army that was chasing him, and at the same time let the Han Eight Banners fiercely attack the Ming army that cut off their back road at all costs.

"Ming Dog is chasing us from behind! If we can't escape, we're all going to die here! Don't be tempted to surrender! The Ming dog master on the opposite side will be Wang Yu! The letter to the world was sent by him! "Songkui cheered up Han Baqi.

Many soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty listened to Song Kui's words, and those who originally had the idea of surrender did not dare to surrender, they knew that Wang Xinyu hated the traitors more than they hated the Manchurian Eight Banners, and the Manchurians could still survive if they fell into the hands of Wang Xinyu, and the traitors would definitely die if they fell into his hands. (To be continued.) )