296 First meeting

I have to admit that the Tartar soldiers' riding and archery skills are indeed very powerful, they grew up on horseback since childhood, live between the white mountains and black waters, and the living environment is far more cruel than that in the pass.

It can be said that at this time, with the field strength of the Tartar army, it is absolutely powerful.

The 3,000 Tatar army led by Zabek in front of him is a group of men and horses belonging to the Tartars with blue flags.

Don't look at the number of them as many as 3,000 people, but the Tartars who really belong to the Blue Flag Banner are only 600 people, and they are also the core of the Tartar army.

The rest were all their Mongol, Han Chinese, or Korean servants.

The cavalry and archery ability of these servant soldiers is much worse than that of the Tartars, and when fighting, the Tartar generals will generally let these servant troops rush ahead.

At this moment, most of the 100 Tartars who were desperately galloping their horses were servant soldiers, and the real Tartars were only twenty.

Dodora must have let those servants rush to the front to attract the firepower of the White Dragon Army.

According to the experience of the Tartars in the past battles with the Ming army, they were well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of these birds.

The advantage of the bird gun is that it has a long range, and its lethality is far stronger than that of a bow and arrow.

At this time, the disadvantage of the bird gun is also very obvious, that is, after each fire, it takes a long time to fill.

Therefore, they would let the servants rush in front to withstand the first blow of the Ming army's firearms, and then they would rush through as fast as they could while the enemy's bird-gunners had filled the gap.

As long as they are allowed to rush to the Ming army, the rest is the time for them to slaughter, which is also the most commonly used tactic of the Tartar army in the field to deal with the Ming army's vehicle formation.

Anyway, it was not their bannermen who rushed to the front, those Mongols, Han Chinese, and Koreans died a little, and it didn't matter to them at all, as long as it could help them achieve victory.

This time, Dodora thought that the White Dragon Army he encountered was the same as the Ming army in the past, so he still used this common tactic.

"Ready, shoot!"

As the Tartar cavalry rushed in, when there were still sixty or seventy steps away from the White Dragon Army's chariot array, Liu Chong decisively gave the order to open fire, but Li Zixiao sat in the formation and did not personally command.

Bang Bang Bang ......

Only a burst of gunfire was heard in front of them, accompanied by a thick puff of white smoke, and the dozens of Tartar cavalry running in front seemed to have crashed head-on into a hard wall, and they fell off their horses one after another.

Immediately afterward, there was a burst of mournful screams of horses, which were the wails of warhorses that had been hit in the body by buckshots.

The cavalry was already galloping at high speed, and the oncoming projectile was also full of kinetic energy, and in this case, once the cavalry was shot, he would basically die.

"Those Ming Dog's firearms have already been fired once, let's rush over and destroy them all."

Seeing that the servant army that rushed to the front lost more than 20 horsemen under a volley of birds fired by the White Dragon Army, Dodora also felt a pain in his heart.

He knew very well that those soldiers who fell off their horses had a very slim chance of survival, and under the trampling of the horses' hooves behind, it was good that they could have a whole corpse.

Although those who died were not their bannermen with blue flags, they also belonged to their servant army with blue flags!

These people are also a group of trained servants, and the loss is still their blue flag strength.

"Speed up, rush over, cut them."

With red eyes and a large sword in his hand, Dodora shouted loudly, and led the way, this time he was going to rush to the front.

Dodora knew that at this time, the Ming army's bird gunners were reloading ammunition, leaving them the best time to attack.

Although the time was very short, it was enough time for them, the cavalrymen who were galloping at high speed.

"Ready, shoot!"

However, before Dodora could finish his words, there was another burst of gunfire like fried beans in front of him.

Dodor, who was wielding a large knife while cheering up his subordinates, only felt a sharp pain in his chest.

As soon as he looked down, he saw a small finger-sized hole in the cotton armor on his chest.

Then he felt as if the strength of his whole body had been taken away by something, and he could no longer hold the reins.

He fell headlong and fell heavily to the ground, and at the same time, dozens of Tartar soldiers who followed him also fell to the ground.

"Shoot!"

At this time, the hundred Tartar cavalry had already rushed in, and there were only about twenty paces left from the White Dragon Army chariot array, but after this round of bird gun volleys, there were less than twenty horsemen left alive.

Bang Bang Bang ......

Another burst of gunfire rang out, and finally the twenty Tartars failed to rush into the formation of the White Dragon Army, and all of them fell from their horses.

A hundred-strong army of Tartar cavalry was wiped out!

Originally, Alenhadu had already gathered his subordinates and was ready to attack, just waiting for Dodol in front to rush into the White Dragon Army chariot formation and disrupt the formation of the White Dragon Army.

Alenha in the back will personally lead people to rush forward, not too many people, only a few hundred people, he is sure that he will eat the Ming army of 3,000 people in front of him.

However, just when Alenha was excitedly preparing to attack, the real scene of the battlefield in front of him poured cold water on him.

Alenha looked at the hundred Tartar cavalry led by Dodol, right in front of him, and in less than a cup of tea, they were wiped out by the Ming army on the opposite side.

Alenha only felt that his heart sank to the bottom in an instant, and a hundred cavalry were gone, and there were more than 20 of them with blue flags!

The number of their Eight Banners disciples is already small, and there are only hundreds of thousands of ethnic groups, and every Eight Banners children are the elite of their Great Qing Kingdom!

If these twenty or so bannermen were to be broken in his own hands, if Lord Zabek knew about it, he would have skinned himself alive.

"No, we must not let a hundred warriors die in vain, otherwise Lord Zabek will definitely not be able to bypass me."

Thinking of this, Alenha's face turned hideous, and he was about to give the order to attack again.

But before he could give the order, there was a sound of horses' hooves from behind, and as soon as Alenha turned around, a large red flag with blue borders fluttered in the wind and came towards him.

At this time, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army in the opposite car formation killed a hundred Tartar cavalry because of the victory of the first round of flags, and their morale soared.

If it weren't for Li Zixiao's special emphasis on strict military discipline, the soldiers would probably have cheered.

Li Zixiao stood on the car temporarily erected in the middle of the car formation, and nodded with satisfaction after seeing the results just now.

Li Zixiao knew that just now the Tartars treated them as ordinary Ming soldiers, and thought that the new bird guns in the hands of the White Dragon Army Bird Gun were the rags made by the Ming Army in the past!

No matter how far the White Dragon Army's new-style bird gun is, its power will surpass that of the Ming Army.

Coupled with the optimized ammunition reloading and the soldiers' three-stage attacks, this change in detail is the key to the victory of the White Dragon Army.

Suddenly, Li Zixiao found that puffs of dust and smoke appeared in front of him, and a group of Tartar soldiers were heading towards him.

After Li Zixiao carefully looked at them, he had just made a preliminary estimate that the number of people was more than 2,500.

Zhou Dazhu in front scolded at this time and scolded: "Damn, these Tartars are just such a few people, can they go south all the way unimpeded?"

Are the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in the capital eating dry rice? Let us meet today, let these wild boar skins outside the gate see the power of our White Dragon Army. ”

Li Zixiao said coldly: "There is nothing strange about it, Tartars have always been rampant, otherwise they would not have wreaked havoc in Hebei with only 10,000 people."

These Tartars who went south were fighting the idea of Nanzhili and Shandong, and they also blamed the incompetence of the Ming border army, allowing those Tartars to come and go freely, as if no man's land. ”

Li Zixiao now has extreme contempt for the combat power of those Ming border troops.

At this time, Tartar and Da Ming are like one is the rising sun, and the other is a drowsy twilight, which is a fact that has to be admitted.

It's just that what Tartar doesn't know is that at this time, there is also a blazing sun rising in Daming, and the first collision between the two sides has arrived.

While the two were talking, the Tartar soldiers drove over one after another, and in front of the Tartar army, a group of cavalry sentries came roaring.

just kept circling around Li Zixiao's car formation, while constantly shouting at the White Dragon Army in Manchurian, but he didn't rush up.

Soon, most of the Tartar soldiers rolled in, and the flags were red and blue, slowly concentrating on the original team of Tartar soldiers.

Seeing that there were more than 2,000 Tartar soldiers, and the strength of the two sides was almost equal, some of the sergeants and generals around Li Zixiao let out a heavy panting.

Although all the soldiers of the White Dragon Army were prepared to compete with the Tartars, and they also annihilated a hundred Tartar soldiers just now.

But at this moment, the Tartar soldiers are pressing, and with the prestige of the Tartar soldiers in the past, there is still a lot of pressure on them.

According to Li Zixiao's previous understanding of the Eight Banners of Tartars, in addition to the three banners, each banner should in principle contain twenty-five Niu Lu, each Niu Lu has three hundred people, a total of 7,500 people.

But in fact, the number of cattle records in each banner is different, none of them are fixed, and they can be changed at any time according to the emperor's personal preferences.

For example, the number of Eight Banner Cattle Records during Nurhachi's reign is roughly distributed as follows: 45 cattle records under the yellow flag, 33 cattle records with blue flags, 26 cattle records with red flags, 25 cattle records with red flags, 25 cattle records with white flags, 21 cattle records with yellow flags, 20 cattle records with blue flags, and one cattle record with white flags.

Every five Niulu is led by a Jialazhangjing, and in wartime, Jialaxing stops all the way to one place, and the battle is to attack one place, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

At this time, the Tartar army on the opposite side was solemnly arrayed, and the whole army exuded a breathtaking atmosphere.

Although they had already seen the corpses of the 100 cavalry killed by the Ming army in front of them, their military discipline was still strict and neat, and all the sergeants just stood quietly, and there was no noise in the entire military formation.

In the army formation of the Tartar soldiers, there is a red and blue color, and in front of the Tartar army, there is a large flag, on which is a red and blue flag, without a python in the middle.

The general of the Tartar soldiers under this banner is none other than a Jiala with a blue flag, Zabek.

Zabek raised more than 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command to take the initiative to attack this Ming army that dared to infringe on the majesty of their Qing army.

The main reason is to kill chickens to show monkeys, and he wants to let the Ming officials and soldiers in Beizhili and Shandong know that their Qing army is invincible in the world.

Previously, he had also secretly made up his mind in his heart that he would wipe out all this Ming army, and he would never accept it even if they surrendered voluntarily.

He wanted to let all the Ming army know the fate of daring to offend the majesty of their Qing army.

However, when he came to the front of the Ming army, what surprised him was that Niu Lu, led by Alenha, who had been sent before, had lost a hundred people in a short period of time.

In fact, including the entire twenty-six flag-inlaid flags, this is the elite of the blue-flag inlaid for many years, so there is no more.

You must know that the Tartar army entered the customs and plundered the first few times, and each time the losses were very small, but the gains were huge.

Once entering the customs and plundering, the entire Tartar army lost at most 1,800 people, of which the real Eight Banners were even 180 people.

And every time they enter the customs, they can plunder tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, countless gold and silver goods, countless cattle, sheep and livestock, weaken the enemy, and strengthen themselves.

It is precisely because of this that the Tartars were able to hold out outside the pass.

Otherwise, with their backward production technology, lack of salt and iron, and they can't even build weapons, it is they who plundered a large number of Han craftsmen from the Guannai, so that their production technology has been improved.

Now this battle is the first battle they fought when they entered the pass and encountered the Ming army, and they lost 100 people as soon as they came up, but the enemy was unscathed, which made Zabek feel heartache and also be furious.

Alenha knelt in front of Zabek at this time, put his face on the ground, did not dare to raise his head, and his body was trembling slightly.

He has followed Zabek for many years, and he knows very well how cruel this Jialazhangjing is, and his loss this time is so great, even if the capital crime can be avoided, the living crime cannot be escaped!

Zabek's face was constantly changing, showing how intense his mood was at this time.

At this time, the Tartar soldiers had automatically synthesized a large array, and each Niu Lu was arranged into a separate small formation, with the soldiers in front and the auxiliary soldiers behind, and the five Niu Lu led by Zabek totaled more than 1,480 people.

The remaining more than 1,600 people are from the Mongolian Eight Banners or the Han Banner.

Among the five Niu Lu, each Niu Lu has two big flags, and the two people who hold the flag are next to them, and there are two soldiers, who are the forward battalion sergeants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the later generations.

These soldiers are wearing flying feathers on their helmets one by one, and there is a flying tiger carrying a flag behind them, wearing bright helmets and bright armor.

In addition, there were seventeen white swing tooth soldiers, that is, the most elite seventeen people that Niu Lu could normally select.

They are known as the elite white-armored soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the protectors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, their one-color Ming armor, the helmet is a high red tassel, and there is a blue flame border flag on their backs.

These seventeen white-armored soldiers, led by a Manchurian leader called Kugu, were red in armor and wore a slanted pointed flag on their backs.

Among the Tartar soldiers, they had three hundred soldiers in one ox, and one of the three was a soldier in armor.

Among them, they are divided into infantry and horse armor, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers, and they are also subdivided into horse-based followers and unarmored foot-followers.

Among these five Niu Lu, in addition to each Niu Lu's personal soldiers, Kashoshi soldiers and white armor soldiers, there are also 40 horse armor soldiers in each Niu Lu.

The vested men were in bright and dark armor, with fifty arrows and one bow and one sword, and were led by two Tartar officers called Divishiku.

There were also fifty infantry soldiers, led by two infantrymen, all of whom had black tassels on their helmets and a two-foot square flag on their backs.

Regardless of the vest or step, there is a chief for every few or ten people, and the Tartar is called the small leader of the Tunda.

Among the Tartar soldiers of Zabek, there were more than 500 soldiers in armor, and the rest were followers and auxiliaries.

They wore no armor, or only cotton armor with no iron leaf inside, and in addition to this, there were a dozen to dozens of blacksmiths and saddlers in each oxen.