Chapter 68: The Decisive Battle in Eastern Hebei
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On the vast plain on the west bank of the steep river, the cannon roared, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the two huge legions were lined up opposite each other, and more than a hundred cannons on the battlefield that stretched for nearly ten miles kept bombarding each other, and the piercing whistling sound continued to pierce the sky, and the heavy solid cannonballs continued to crash into the opponent's formation with strong kinetic energy, smashing the wooden shield carts, smashing the huge oars, and smashing the fragile bodies of those soldiers, showing the majesty of the god of war to the fullest.
"Steady, cut those who retreat!"
Under the splendor of the Chinese army, Wu Sangui, who was dressed in silver armor, raised his Yanling sword and shouted.
The flag bearer next to him waved the flag.
In the formation in front of this mound, there was no edge at a glance, behind a certain group of soldiers who began to retreat, a team of overseers armed with long-handled broadswords stepped forward, and in the flying light of the swords, more than a dozen deserters were immediately cut to the ground, and the rest ran back to continue the formation with trembling.
This is the decisive battle in eastern Hebei.
The 40,000 elite troops of the Eight Eight Banners under the personal command of Dolgon faced Wu Sangui's 40,000 Guanning Army, and there were also 30,000 Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops, which were all the mobile forces that each side could mobilize.
It is said that the Qing army at this time was also embarrassed.
Both of them were in no hurry to attack, they were bombarding each other with artillery, trying to force the other side to attack first, both Dolgon and Wu Sangui were very careful, the former still could not break through Yutian and Fengrun, and even lost a lot of elites. Especially the abundance behind it, the weakest corner of the eastern Hebei Triangle actually killed two thousand Eight Banner athletes, even if the Qing army bombarded the city wall with artillery, but still failed to break through, the defender of this county is obviously a wizard who defends the city. And Wu Sangui was waiting for this moment, when the Qing army lost the bloody battle of Fengrun, he suddenly ended his wait-and-see, killed Kaiping with the strongest force in his hand, and smashed the rear of the Qing army to force Dolgon to fight him in a decisive battle.
"Dashuai, the Tartars have attacked!"
Suddenly, the soldier beside him said.
A large number of cavalry on the left flank of the Qing army's formation rushed out, and at the front was a banner inlaid with a white flag.
"Dordor!"
He sneered.
"Commander Liang, what do you see?"
He turned his head and asked Liang Cheng beside him.
"Dashuai, it's better to wait."
Liang Cheng, who had just arrived yesterday, said.
"Give the order to Hu Shouliang, don't move!"
Wu Sangui said.
The standard-bearer waved the flag, and among the cavalry behind the Ming army's formation, Wu Sangui's cronies, led Hu Shouliang, who led 7,000 cavalry, including 3,000 Wu family slaves, conveyed this order with a puzzled face, and the cavalry, who were ready to attack, continued to wait. The elite of the Eight Banners led by Duoduo rushed straight to the Ming army, and the galloping momentum of thousands of horses made them begin to chaos in the Ming army opposite, and the command flag of the Chinese army in the rear of the Qing army waved, and Duoduo's army rushed straight over under artillery fire, and the small-scale rout of the Ming army reappeared, and the rear supervision team continued to suppress.
Wu Sangui waved the flag beside him.
Twenty cannons on the high ground overlooking the battlefield in front of him quickly turned around, and the new gun carriage made the job quickly completed, and the cannons re-aimed by the aiming device suddenly erupted flames, and the shells continued to hit the charging Qing cavalry, and the Ming army, which had begun to be chaotic, gradually stabilized.
But Dord's cavalry retreated abruptly.
The temptation is over.
In the Qing army, the military command flag waved again, and the real main heavy infantry immediately moved forward, and the elite of the Eight Banners with heavy armor followed behind the widened shield carts, holding shotgun hard bows and even vehicle Fulong machine guns, and quickly withstood the Ming artillery fire, and the target was the position of the Ming army that had just performed poorly in the trial.
At the same time, the artillery of the Qing army also began to bombard the position of the artillery of the Ming army.
The artillery of the Ming army in front of them also accelerated their firing, and the shells continued to fall in the Qing army, beating those shield carts to pieces, but they could not stop the advance of the Qing army.
Soon they came into range of the Ming army.
Behind the side vans and large shields of the Ming army, dense sharp arrows and bullets kept shooting outward, but most of them could not penetrate the protection of the shield car, as the Qing army approached, looking at these fierce barbarians, the Ming army began to gradually become panicked. Soon when the shield cart moved to a distance of less than ten meters away from them, the Qing army's counterattack began, and the bullets and sharp arrows fired by the strong bow behind the shield cart flew out densely, and even directly hit the face of the Ming army without the slightest protection.
Wu Sangui looked at Liang Cheng.
The latter shook his head anyway.
Lao Wu gave an order with an expressionless face, and the rear reserve immediately stepped forward.
The order of the Qing army was issued, the second attacking Qing army stepped forward, and then the attack on the whole line began, all the Qing heavy infantry all moved forward, and the torrent of shield cars began to impact the entire Ming army formation, and more Ming troops began to rout. The Warlords mercilessly slashed the deserters, forcing them to return to their posts, while reserves were filled in, and although they were on the verge of collapse, the Ming front was still supported.
Wu Sangui simply got on his horse, rushed down the mound with his own soldiers and the thorn, and rushed towards the battlefield.
"It's better to be rebellious!"
Behind him, Liang Cheng muttered to himself.
The performance of the army is indeed not as good as the Shun army, at least during the Huairou War, the main force of the Shun army was not so fast and could not withstand it, but if the Ming army was really stronger than the Shun army, then the Ming Dynasty would definitely not fall to the point where it is today, in fact, Liang Du commanded the emperor to be invincible too many times, and he forgot what the real situation of the Ming army was.
Wu Sangui came to the battlefield in person, and indeed received a certain effect, especially after he personally cut down a few deserters, the trend of rout eased slightly, and the two personal soldiers beside him even picked out the heads of Abatai and the others, in order to remind the soldiers that the emperor is watching you from behind! However, the effect of this thing is also limited, after all, the soldiers know that the emperor is not here, fortunately, the number of Ming troops is large, almost twice that of the Qing army, plus the number of artillery is more accurate and more accurate, so as Wu Sangui's Jing Xuan continues to move, the entire front finally tends to be stable, but at this time, the reserves in his hands are almost all invested, and only the cavalry is left, and they are still waiting behind the battle line.
"Wu Sangui is still Wu Sangui!"
Under the yellow crank cover of the Qing army, Dolgon put away the clairvoyant mirror and said with a smile.
Obviously, this old opponent has not changed, or the first place to preserve strength, the cavalry composed of those house slaves is the foundation of Wu Sangui, unless he saves his life, he will not take it out, even if he loses this battle, he is nothing more than retreat to Jieshi Mountain, and then he can't retreat to Shanhaiguan, in short, there is a way out, but without these three thousand house slaves, he has no way out in the officialdom. This guy is really going to work hard, he is indeed a difficult opponent, but unfortunately this old problem can't be changed, this is also the old problem of all the generals of the Ming army, obviously without the dog emperor personally led, in front of the iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, they are still just a bunch of garbage, maybe a little stronger than in the past......
But that's about it.
"This is exactly what I have destined to do."
Fan Wencheng beside him said with a flattering smile.
"Haha, pass the order to King Yu, give them the final blow as in the past!"
Dorgon said happily.
The command flag beside him waved, and after the tentative attack, the 10,000 cavalry led by Duoduo, who had retreated to standby, suddenly rushed out, with an unstoppable momentum, and fiercely crashed into the left flank of the Ming army.
"Ready!"
Almost at the same time, Liang Cheng suddenly yelled behind him.
Behind him, on the beach of the steep river, which was obscured by the wild grass, countless Ming soldiers hurriedly got up and rushed to the pile of weeds, and then moved them away to reveal the contents inside, on the four-wheeled vehicle made of rough wood, brass pipes that could poke into the head pointed obliquely to the sky, this was of course a mortar, a whole twenty mortars were lined up on the river beach, including even ten that had just been transported from Jinzhou.
"Fire!"
Looking at the Qing cavalry that was rushing to the battlefield in the distance, Liang Cheng shouted again.
All the gunners next to the mortars simultaneously put the arquebus pestle of the ignition rod into the ignition hole, and in the continuous tomming of the cannons, one after another flowering shells with small tails of gunpowder sprayed in the woodpipe fuse, roared straight into the sky, and then fell to the battlefield that had been aimed before. At the same time, the artillerymen wiped the barrel of the gun as fast as possible, reloaded the silk medicine bag, picked up a spherical flowering bullet weighing more than 20 pounds and stuffed it into the gun port and pushed it to the end, and then used an awl to reach into the ignition hole to puncture the medicine bag, and put the arquebus into the ignition hole to complete the second round of firing.
Dordor didn't know any of this.
He didn't even see the firelight rising in the sky, he only saw the Ming army in front of him that had begun to rout, and the next moment his iron cavalry torrent would crash over like many times in the past, trampling these Han slaves under the hooves of horses and cutting off their heads, staining the vast country red with their blood, creating an immortal cause for the Qing Dynasty for the Aixin Jueluo family, trampling this rich land under their feet forever, and letting their descendants kneel at the feet of the banner people for generations.
At this time, he only had an infinite desire to kill.
"Kill, kill all these slaves!"
He raised his knife and roared.
Ten thousand horsemen let out the same roar behind him, and a raging torrent swept by.
Suddenly, a strange whistling sound sounded overhead, he raised his head in astonishment, and a firelight appeared in his field of vision, and there were more firelights behind this firelight, falling like meteors, and before he could react, the first firelight turned into a fiery red flame directly in the sky, and a huge force instantly hit his chest. Like being hit by a galloping war horse, he flew upside down from his horse in the midst of countless sparks that fell like raindrops, and under the blow of two finger-sized pieces of shrapnel.
(Thanks to the book friend minisi, little cabbage feeding the elephant, inferiority self-esteem begging for life, demon duke, Tsing Yi sword without trace, ā dragon wolf ā , black fire cloud, ktyy reward)