Chapter 30: The Decisive Battle 1
Dolgon looked at the terrain of the battlefield, and then looked at the formation of the Yu family army that had arrived here, and frowned, now he had completely dispelled all the contempt for the family army in his heart, and he no longer dared to underestimate this group of Yu family army.
Until now, when he saw the formation of the Yu family's army, he still felt a little twitching in his heart, thinking about the fierce and incomparable artillery and muskets of the Yu family's army, he had palpitations.
This time, he came to fight a decisive battle with the Yu family's army, and it can be said that it took a lot of words, coercion and temptation to finally persuade those Mongolian generals to come here to make a last stand.
The leaders of the Mongol tribes were not willing to give up the wealth they had captured so hard, although they were afraid of the Yu army, but they thought that if they returned to Guanwai like this, their next life would definitely not be easy, without these captured wealth and slaves, they would have to live a life of extreme hardship outside the Guan.
Although the Yu family army is indeed powerful, but under the heavy profits, they finally chose to stay and follow Dolgon to do this last fight, as long as they can defeat this Yu family army, then they can easily carry these wealth, slaves, return to the grassland, and live a relaxed life with enough food and clothing for a period of time.
And this time Dolgon promised them that he would never use them as cannon fodder again, this time it was a decisive battle, and he Dolgon would never spare their soldiers of the Eight Banners, and only filled the Mongolian soldiers and horses on the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Since Dolgon has spoken to such an extent, the leaders of these Mongol tribes are also relieved, if you want to die together, don't fucking Lao Tzu be filled in by you and die, you fucking run away with things, as long as everyone advances and retreats together, then this battle can still be fought.
So Dorgon brought his troops here, took up his position on the battlefield, and began to dispatch his troops and horses.
The confrontation between the two sides is not long, Dolgon knows very well that this battle can be dragged on by the family army, but he Dolgon can't afford to drag it out, and now he finally musters up some morale, if the confrontation continues for a long time, it will be very unfavorable to him, Yu Jiajun can wait, can delay, but they can't drag it.
They have been in the customs for almost half a year, most of the soldiers have been homesick, and the biggest problem is that they have now been plundered, many people are no longer willing to fight with their lives, if they are blocked here for too long, I don't know if the Ming court will send a large army to encircle and suppress them.
If the Ming Dynasty understood the taste of coming at this time, once the army was mobilized, then they would have so many soldiers and horses, and if they couldn't get it, they would be completely planted here.
Therefore, when the two armies faced each other for a while, Dolgon saw that Yu's army did not look like he was going to take the initiative to attack, so he did not wait and gave the order to attack.
They have more cavalry, so they are not good at defense, and attacking is the greatest use of cavalry, and since today is a decisive battle, then he will not hesitate to do anything.
So he immediately put the armored infantry in front, and in the past few days he has also managed to raise a lot of vehicles, and even unloaded some of the goods on the plundered ox carts and mule carts, and converted these vehicles into oars, as a way to restrain the enemy's arms.
At present, in addition to this method, he really couldn't find a way to restrain the enemy's sharp fire, so he tried his best to cobble together hundreds of these oars as a tool to cover the charge of his infantry army.
The first batch of soldiers and horses sent were mostly those Han soldiers who were captured by them and surrendered to them, these Han soldiers had a low status among the Jiannu, although Huang Taiji had been quite tolerant of these Han troops over the years, but after all, they were still Han troops, and they could never raise their heads in the Jiannu.
Since the first battle must be a war of attrition, these Han troops naturally became consumables, and they bore the brunt of being filled into the battlefield as cannon fodder.
In addition, there were a group of young and strong men selected by them who were captured in the customs this time, and they were also forced to go into battle to help push these bulky carts.
The first batch of soldiers and horses to go into battle, with these people who were forced to help them push carts, Dolgon invested more than 20,000 troops at once.
More than 10,000 infantry soldiers and Han soldiers in the low horn sound, coerced those people who were taken prisoner, helped them push the cart, and slowly walked out of the big array, not only these forced helpless, to help Jiannu to fight the ordinary people, including those Jiannu Han soldiers and Jiannu armored soldiers, all of them have a blue face, an expression of going to the execution ground, whether they want to or not, for this arrangement, they have no room for resistance, except to send them to death, they can not do more.
These Han troops were in front, accompanied by the clothed slaves, and behind them were the Eight Banners Armored Infantry Army, one was to supervise these Han troops, and the other was also the second echelon, after attacking in front of the enemy's defensive line, it was put into battle as a new force.
Behind them, there were nearly 10,000 Mongol cavalry and Jiannu cavalry, who were ready to launch a surprise attack once the infantry in front of them was stalemate with the enemy, and tear apart the enemy's defense line while the infantry was blocking the enemy's artillery fire.
When Dolgon had arranged a qiē, he immediately ordered the drums to be beaten and launched an all-out attack, and the battlefield suddenly resounded with the rumbling sound of war drums, accompanied by the low sound of bull horns.
The black-pressed Jiannu army, like locusts, began to squirm towards the defense line of the Yu family's army, and one by one the carts were pushed into the battlefield, which were either loaded with thick wooden planks, or directly put together with logs, or even simply piled up bundles of firewood on the carts to resist the bullets fired by the Yu family's army, and the slightly better conditions were also covered with a layer of raw cowhide.
Hundreds of carriages were lined up, forming a total of three columns, and many Jiannu soldiers and generals were hiding behind these carriages, slowly pushing towards the front line of the Yu family's army.
Yu Xiaotian silently watched the actions of these Jiannu, and did not give any more commands, the artillerymen should know when they will act, and there is no need for him to worry about this at all.
At this time, the artillery battalions directly under the brigades were already prepared, and there were special personnel who constantly visually measured the distance of the enemy troops and reported them to the officers at any time.
The heavy roam, with inferior manufacturing technology and uneven battlefield roads, made the roof travel very slow, and the heavy axle of the robe made a creaking and rubbing sound, and was pushed hard by the clothed slaves hiding behind the car, squirming like ants.
From the time they set off to the time they entered within the firing range of 1,200 meters, they walked for two quarters of an hour in just a few hundred meters, which made the artillery door, which was already in a hurry, quite speechless, scolding these Jiannu for being too lazy and walking so slowly, is this also a charge?
So they could only stare dryly, quietly waiting for Jiannu to come to the door, and just when they thought they were about to run out of patience, these Jiannu's carts finally came into the range of their shelling.
After confirming that the enemy had entered the effective firing range, the commanders of each artillery battalion flashed a cold light in their eyes, and suddenly raised their waist knives above their heads and shouted: "All of them!" Fire! ……”
"Boom, boom, boom......" In the entire position where Yu's army was located, several artillery positions shook violently almost at the same time, and a ball of flame suddenly erupted out of the cannon, and then the rumbling cannon sound rolled towards the heaven and earth.
More than 100 cannonballs roared through the sky, pulling out traces of smoke in the air, and smashed towards the Jiannu array like hail.
When all the Jiannu saw the flames spewed out from the Yu family's army array, their hearts seemed to be caught, and they only felt as if their hearts sank all at once, and then they were suddenly lifted up again, directly to their throats.
Oh my mother! Where did Yu Jiajun get so many cannons! I haven't seen them have so many cannons in the first few days, so why are there so many cannons all of a sudden today? Does this still make people live?
Dolgon only felt that his temples were beating suddenly, and he had already scolded in his heart, he had also seen the power of the Yu family's army cannons in the first few days, but in those days of fierce battles, the Yu family's army was far less than the cannons put out today, just a cursory glance, it could be seen that the cannons pulled by the Yu family's army today were far more than double what they had seen in the first few days.
This time he really didn't wronged Yu Xiaotian, in the first few days, when Yu Jia's army resisted Dolgon's onslaught on the Tianjin Wei side for several days, Yu Xiaotian never transferred all the artillery to the front of the formation.
But from beginning to end, only two artillery battalions were transferred to participate in the battle, and there were only sixty or seventy cannons in total, even so, Jiannu had been beaten very badly by them, so Jiannu firmly believed that the Yu family army was also a little bit of a belonging, but today he wanted to fight with the Jiannu led by Dolgon, so he no longer hid it.
This time, he did his best, and almost brought all the artillery that could be used, four brigade artillery battalions, plus an independent artillery battalion, a total of five artillery battalions, which made the number of his artillery suddenly double and a lot more.
When these artillery battalions began to fire, the scene was of course quite shocking, even the Yu Jiajun himself had never seen so many artillery guns firing together at the same time, and even their own people were a little dizzy from such fierce artillery fire at this time, let alone as the enemy's Jiannu.
Yu Xiaotian's face once again showed a hideous smile, and he said in his heart, Dorgon, aren't you known as the immortal general of the Qing Dynasty? So today I want someone to see what it means to fire ten thousand guns!
Some of the shells were hit closer or farther because of the gunner's large aiming error, and some of the shells directly smashed into the enemy group, and some of the shells fell too close, and before the shells could ricochet into the enemy array, they had lost their kinetic energy and fell on the ground.
(Kneel down to thank the desert laughing Chunfeng brothers for another blockbuster reward!) In addition, there are also tips from Uncle on the other side and friends in the text! )