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In the early morning, with the horn whining, the first tentative attack of the Qing army began. {We don't write, we're just web word porters.} - The Han army was commanded by Tong Yangzhen, the commander of the Yellow Banner, but the troops invested in this attack were very small, and more than 200 recruits were only sent to attack from the north of the Ming army's round array. It is said that it is an attack, but in fact it is to send them to death, as long as they can test the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, these people will die as they deserve.

These hapless traitors were also poorly equipped, they were all infantry, armed only with swords, not even bows, and without any armor. Tong Yangzhen gave an order, and these people had to shout and rush forward, otherwise the supervision team behind them would immediately take it down and behead them in front of the battle.

The encirclement of the Qing army was set up five miles away from the Ming army's circle array, because Tong Yangzhen had participated in the battle of Beijing and knew that the Ming army had a powerful artillery that could hit three miles away. The lives of his soldiers don't matter to him, he still cares about his own small lives.

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Now these more than 200 traitors must also cross the five-mile-wide battlefield. This is the offshore area of the Hexi Corridor, and the terrain is very flat, so that both sides can have an unobstructed view of the battlefield. For the Qing army, the open battlefield was certainly very advantageous for cavalry charges, but now it was all infantry that launched the attack, and there was no place to hide, so they could only rush forward desperately.

Five miles, three miles, two miles, one mile... In the process of charging these more than 200 people, the Ming army did not fire a single shot. Tong Yang, who was watching the battle from behind, was a little calm, which showed that the enemy did not carry long-range artillery, otherwise it would have been fired a long time ago. Of course, the Ming army will definitely have small artillery with a range of one or two hundred paces, probably because they want to fight closer and more accurately.

Tong Yangzhen was also mentally prepared for this, and he even hoped that the Ming army could fight fiercely and consume more ammunition, so that it would be much easier to fight later. If the traitor troops charging on the battlefield knew that their main general was actually thinking this, I don't know what it would be like in their hearts!

However, the thoughts of these traitors, from the moment they set foot on the battlefield, are no longer important, because they are not far from death. When they rushed to within 150 steps of the Ming army's position, a crisp and loud gunfire immediately overwhelmed the chaotic shouts of the Qing army.

A traitor pawn who rushed to the front fell in response, and when everyone looked down, they saw that half of his heavenly spirit cover had been cut off, and Bai Huahua's brain flowed to the ground. This kind of death is not bad, there is no pain, and it will be reimbursed at once.

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This incomparably accurate shot from a hundred and fifty steps away opened the curtain of the Ming army's attack. Immediately after three loud bangs, three shells accurately fell into the formation of the traitor troops. The red-hot solid cannonballs were unstoppable, and after they landed, they rushed forward several feet away, and all the Qing troops on this line broke their bones and tendons, and screamed miserably.

Almost at the same time, in the trench in front of the Ming army, fifty bird guns suddenly stood up, quickly stepped out of the trench, lined up in a neat formation, rushed to a place only 80 steps away from the Qing army, raised the bird guns in a kneeling position, and launched a volley.

Before the smoke had cleared, the fifty bird-gunners in the second row followed from behind and fired again in a standing position. At the same time, the fifty infantrymen of the third platoon had already handed the loaded bird guns to the bird guns in the first row, and took back the bird guns that had just been fired, and skillfully cleaned the chambers and filled the ammunition. At this time, the first row of bird gunners will hold their guns in a kneeling position and aim at them, and when the second row is all over, they will continue to shoot. The soldiers in the second row took the loaded guns from the soldiers in the third row, and so on.

This is the standard three-stage attack of the Ming army's infantry battalion. The ten fighters in each platoon are a squad, with three columns in the front, middle and back, exactly one platoon. This combat method is one of the basic training that every platoon, squad, and soldier must practice, and when it is applied in actual combat at this time, it is no different from peacetime training, and it is very easy to fight.

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But the Qing army on the opposite side couldn't stand it, they were originally recruits, and they had never been on the battlefield at all, and the dense gunfire was all chaotic. There were a small number of traitors who still wanted to rush forward, but the Ming army was eighty paces away, which was not a short distance for the infantry army. Before they had run a few steps, the men were all beaten and laid down by the rows of lead bullets swept over.

Most of the rest of the traitors turned around and ran, and they didn't care about any military orders or not. But is the battlefield a place where you can come and go when you want? While the Ming army continued to kill and wound the enemy with long-range artillery and flintlock guns, the infantry pressed forward and harvested the remnants of the enemy. Every time a salvo was fired, a dozen or twenty traitors screamed and fell in a pool of blood, chasing for a mile before stopping.

There were more than 200 of these unlucky traitors when they came, but when they returned to the camp in defeat, there were only about 30 left.

And Tong Yangzhen saw that these people ran back without waiting for his order, and without saying a word, he ordered the supervision team to rush forward, and the two frames were all knocked down, and then beheaded together, in order to strictly enforce military discipline. The Ming army saw it clearly, so they began to laugh and coax, and some even shouted: "I knew that you cut your own people so neatly, what else do we fight, put it all back and let you cut it yourself!" Dog traitors, have you seen what happened to you as a dog? ”

When the soldiers of the Han army heard this, they all bowed their heads in shame.

But Tong Yangzhen didn't care, and was even a little happy. The battle just now had given him a preliminary understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

First of all, it is now completely certain that the Ming army was all infantry. Otherwise, to deal with these more than 200 Qing infantry, the Ming army only needs to send cavalry. It seems that the more than 300 horses may just be the foot power to transport the baggage, and it is not possible to charge into battle.

Second, the weapons of the Ming army were mainly bird guns and equipped with artillery. This is not unexpected, but the scale of the tentative attack just now is too small to be tried, and we have to continue to try.

Third, the defensive positions of the Ming army were roughly divided into two layers, inside and outside. The inner layer is a circle surrounded by carts, and the artillery is in the circle. The outer layer is a trench temporarily dug out of the inner layer five zhang, and the Ming army jumped up from this trench just now.

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But in Tong Yangzhen's opinion, this trench is useless, that is, it has a little impact on the infantry army, and the cavalry can jump over. As for those big cars, they may be a little troublesome, but as long as they get close to the front, they can naturally climb through the roof, which is nothing more than paying more casualties.

Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, fifty bird-gunners in the second row followed from behind and shot again in a standing position. At the same time, the fifty infantrymen of the third platoon had already handed the loaded bird guns to the bird guns in the first row, and took back the bird guns that had just been fired, and skillfully cleaned the chambers and filled the ammunition. At this time, the first row of bird gunners will hold their guns in a kneeling position and aim at them, and when the second row is all over, they will continue to shoot.

The soldiers in the second row took the loaded guns from the soldiers in the third row, and so on.

Haoge's order to Tong Yangzhen was to surround the Ming army and make a tentative attack, and it is said that Tong Yangzhen has completed the task. But this dog-legged man still wanted to ask for credit from the master, and after thinking about it, he said viciously: "Chuan Bendu commanded the general, and ordered 3,000 recruits to divide into four roads, east, west, north and south, thirty squads on each road, and twenty-five people per squad, give me turns to attack, and those who dare not obey will be beheaded immediately!" ”

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