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After the bloody battle on July 20, 1849, the Ming and Qing armies on the Ningjin front once again fell into a state of confrontation. It was not until after the 5th, 100,000 Eight Banners of Korea drove from Shengjing to Ningyuan, and set up camp on both sides of the Wuli River, and the next day, Emperor Tiande of the Qing Dynasty ordered the Eight Banners of Korea to command Guiliang and Fu Fang, and led the headquarters to attack the Ming army position on the Ningyuan front.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Liu Jiong, commander of the Fourth Army of the Ming Army, also arrived at the Longbei Mountain Central Army and took over the command of the Ming Army on the Ningyuan front, and the decisive battle of the Ningyuan War officially began.

More than 36,000 officers and men of the Fourth Army of the Ming Army have now all landed on the land of Ningyuan, and taking advantage of the truce of these few days, the Fourth Army has strengthened the Ningyuan defense line. A new barbed wire barrier was erected, and a parametry was built behind the trenches to cover the artillery positions and to accommodate the riflemen.

This time, the scale of the Qing army's dispatch was ten times larger than the previous one, and the battlefield of Eight Banners Korea, which invested a full 30,000 people at one time, was not very wide, and it was close to the sea on one side and the Wuli River on the other, and there was no way to put troops into it. Only the north and west sides can launch an offensive, throwing in 30,000 Eight Banners of Korea, and then placing the same number of Manmeng horses behind them is already considered the limit. An army of 60,000 and 3,400 shield carts covered almost the entire wilderness, and the momentum was extremely huge.

The shield wagons of the Qing soldiers were built after they withdrew to Manchuria, and they are said to be able to use them to withstand artillery!

"These shield carts are made of the finest hardwood from Manchuria, and the large shield plate on the front is six inches and six minutes thick. It can't be penetrated by a 3,000-pound cannon at a distance of 200 steps, and it can definitely block the artillery bombardment, not to mention foreign guns! Gui Liang sat on his horse, watching the shield chariot he was responsible for building being pushed slowly forward by the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Korea, and proudly showed off to Fu Fang.

Fu Fang smiled faintly and was noncommittal. The three-thousand-pound cannon sounds very powerful, but Fu Fangzhi said that here in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the iron cannons that are cast by the soil method are all different by the weight of the cannon body, and the casting process is very poor. Portion weight. Weak firepower. The projectile loaded with a 3,000-pound cannon is only more than five pounds and less than six pounds, and it is easy to explode, and the gunner does not dare to add a sufficient amount of gunpowder, and the power is inferior to that of the Western 6-pound gun. Now the Ming army in Ningyuan is armed with 12-pounder cannons. These shield carts simply can't resist it.

"What's going on with these cars?" Liu Jiong stood on Longbei Mountain. Asked with some curiosity. He was born as an auditor at the Sanchester Military Academy in England. I have received a serious Western military education, and I have never seen this kind of shield car. This thing probably existed in Europe hundreds of years ago, and it was a museum artifact in the 19th century.

"This is a shield car. Siege equipment. Peng Yulin said with a smile, "It's a four-wheeled cart with a big wooden shield on it, and the bullets and arrows can't shoot through it." ”

"Qing Tartar when our cannon doesn't exist?" Liu Jiong said with a smile: "Why do these Qing Tartars go back more and more?" Looking at it than the battle of the Dongjiang River, I can't help but fight! ”

Peng Yulin shook the paper fan with a smile, and said lightly: "Of course, the Qing Tartars are not as good as the time of the Battle of the Dongjiang River, when they still had the whole of China, and now they have been driven out of the Central Plains, and in just two years, at least 200,000 Manmeng Zhuangding have died, and now the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners who can hold weapons in the Qing Tartar are at most 100,000, and a Yixin is distressed when he dies." 6 days ago, Yi Xin sent back the Eight Banners to send him to death, and these people who are dispatched today are probably the so-called Eight Banners North Korea, right? ”

The artillery group of the Ming army began to exert its strength again. The establishment and heavy armament of the Ming Army are the same, with four 9-pounder cannons per regiment, 36 12-pounder cannons/12-pounder howitzers in each division, and 24 24-pounder cannons/howitzers in military artillery regiments. The Fourth Army had 168 guns of various types at full artillery, and now all but 24 24-pounder guns were now pushed to the front and fiercely bombarded the approaching shield wagons.

"Don't retreat, forward, forward!"

The soldiers of the Eight Banners who were carrying the soil on their carts were about to retreat when they were bombarded by artillery, and they only coveted the fertile land of Manchuria and joined the Eight Banners Korea, and they never thought that there would be a day when they would brave the enemy's artillery fire. Now I saw that the signs were wrong and wanted to run, but I was blocked by the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners Mongolia who were supervising the battle behind me, and warned them with words they didn't understand, and then bows and arrows, spears, and sabers beckoned up.

Seeing that there was no way back, these Eight Banners North Korea began to brave the artillery fire of the Ming army and push the shield cart forward with all their might. It's just that the shield carts are constantly being hit by shells, which are still far away at first, and the thick planks can withstand the projectiles fired by the 9-pounder cannon and the 12-pounder howitzer (which can also shoot at the same point), and only when hit by the projectile of the 12-pounder cannon will it be smashed to pieces.

But as these shield carts slowly advanced to 200 paces away from the Ming cannons, all the cannons became powerful. One shell after another accurately hit the shield cart, shattering the thick planks. Scattered pieces of wood chips were scattered like flying shrapnel, sweeping down the surrounding Eight Banners North Korea piece by piece. The screams of exhaustion rang out, and the Manchurians and Mongols who were supervising the battle behind saw this scene and immediately opened their bows and arrows and shot all the wounded soldiers who were howling miserably into hedgehogs, so as not to affect the morale of the others.

Peng Yulin's face gradually became solemn, because the brigade of the Eight Banners Korea was getting closer and closer to the first barbed wire fence of the Ming army, and although the artillery fire of the Ming army was fierce, it still let them get in after all. The Korean soldiers of the Eight Banners who rushed to the front piled up the dirt bags on the edge of the barbed wire, and the guns and bullets of the Ming army also swept over, and many people were killed before they could drop the dirt bags, but this is also considered to have completed the task, let the Manchurian Mongolian iron cavalry step on their bodies to advance!

In addition, the remaining dozens of shield carts were completely equipped with barbed wire, and the North Korean soldiers of the Eight Banners behind the shield carts worked together to push the shield carts forward, and some soldiers took axes and slashed wooden stakes with guns and bullets, and actually tore a few holes in the barbed wire.

Soon, three of the four barbed wire fences deployed by the Ming army on the front line were broken through by the Eight Banners North Korea with shield carts, earthen bags and bones!

"Qing Tartar seems to have found a way to deal with barbed wire!" Peng Yulin turned his head to look at Liu Jiong.

Liu Jiong just smiled faintly: "It's really a good way to fill it with your life!" These Tartars have really grown a little bit outside the gate, at least this heart is more ruthless than in the past, but this alone still can't win! ”

At this time, on the position of the Qing army, Fu Fang, the one-armed commander of the Eight Banners of Korea, put down the binoculars in his hand, looked at a man wearing a yellow flag cotton armor and a tiger's waist, and smiled slightly: "Heng Deputy Dutong, it's your turn, be careful, the guns of Ming Rebellion can be powerful." ”

The name of this "Heng Deputy Dutong" is Hengling, a native of Dahur, surnamed Guo Erbei, affiliated with Manchuria with yellow flags, growing up outside the Guan, looking at his appearance, he knows that Lu Dao is a little more wild than the Eight Banners Uncle from the Guannei.

"Zhilu said," Heng Ling raised his horsewhip and pointed to the chaos of the Eight Banners in front of him, "Do you still want these people?" ”

"Don't!" Fu Fang replied categorically, "As long as I take back our own people, the lives of these North Korean coated Aha are all yours." ”

The name of the Eight Banners of Korea seems to be a member of the Eight Banners, but in the eyes of the serious Manchurian Eight Banners, those people are the servants of the cloth. In fact, the essence of the Eight Banners system is a strict and changeable hierarchy, even in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, there are three upper flags and five lower flags. In the past, when they were in Guannai, there were 40,000 Han people who could oppress, and the Eight Banners were naturally more harmonious, but now there are not so many Han people, and the hierarchy within the Banner people is naturally more strict. Under the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, they are all considered slaves, but there are still some people in the imperial court of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, especially the bannermen who have been transferred to the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in Chengdu and those who came out of Beijing are considered fellow countrymen, so their status is slightly higher. As for the Eight Banners North Korea and the lower status of the North Korean Baoyi, even if it is livestock, it is not even a person! However, theoretically speaking, even if it is a North Korean coat Ahab, as long as he makes meritorious service, he can still carry the flag at the first level, and later becomes the highest level of the Manchurian Yellow Flag.

"If you don't want these animals." Golbe. Heng Ling said with a smile, "Let them play a role after the best, and let my cavalry drive them to fill in the trenches of the Ming army and crash into the phalanx of the Ming army...... It is also their glory that these people can die for our Qing Dynasty, and they think that they will die without regrets. (To be continued......)