Chapter 1072: The Battle of Panshan (2)

Yue Lejiu attacked the artillery positions of the Ming army and suffered heavy casualties.

On the other side, Abatai led the main force to launch a fierce attack on the large army of Nanjing Zuozhen, in an attempt to break away the position of the Ming army with the powerful impact of the cavalry.

However, Abatai obviously underestimated the strength of the soldiers of Nanjing Zuozhen, although the cavalry was transferred, but the strength of nearly 20,000 infantry soldiers is still extremely strong, after all, the strength of the three towns of Nanjing, are quite not weak, even if they are all infantry, in the face of Manchurian cavalry, maybe they will insert some, but in the face of this group of rabble, it is completely different, even if it is a group of cavalry, it will still ravage them.

Nanjing Zuozhen formed a defensive formation, one by one the spears stood upright, and the soldiers were murderous one by one, full of fighting spirit, and they were not afraid at all!

When the Manchurian reinforcements collided, one spear stabbed straight forward.

"Kill!"

The moment the two armies came into contact, the infantry of Nanjing Zuozhen let out a powerful roar together, and one spear after another brazenly pierced into the body of the war horse and even the cavalry, as if the Manchurian cavalry was colliding straight up, and the more fierce the impact, the more ugly the death.

The horses neighed, the cavalry screamed, and the blood sang!

One by one, the horses arrived on the spot, and some of the cavalry were even nailed directly to the spear, and the tip of the spear was exposed from behind!

The Manchurian reinforcements are not the Manchurian elite, and the Manchurian elite will have accurate calculations and choices for the object of the assault and the angle of the assault, but these cavalry can't, they have no experience in battlefield fighting, and they want to defeat the pikemen in front of them just by virtue of blood bravery, which is too simple.

The first wave of shock failed, and the reinforcements that followed followed by the second wave of shock arrived, the third, the fourth!

The four waves of impact were blocked by the pikemen at the forefront of Nanjing Left Town, the main infantry position stubbornly blocked the impact of the Manchurian reinforcements, and the rear positions, the archers continued to shoot at the Manchurian elite, and the Manchurian reinforcements suffered countless casualties!

The two sides fought fiercely from the afternoon until dusk, and the Manchurian reinforcements were still unable to cross the thunder pond by half a step, and the fighting for most of the day made the Manchurian reinforcements pay the price of four or five thousand men, and had to retreat temporarily.

In the middle of the night, on the battlefield, all the corpses have already frozen like stones, all the blood has already coagulated, and the battlefield still exudes a tragic atmosphere.

"Father, otherwise, we will directly attack the camp late at night and break through the position of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and now we can't afford to delay!"

Yue Le said to Abatai.

Abatai frowned and hesitated, "Attack the camp? What we encountered was obviously the elite main force of the Ming army, either the Tianwei army or the three towns of Nanjing, and the generals of each town were brave and good at fighting, and wanted to successfully attack the camp, but it was not that simple......"

"Father, where can we take care of anything simple or not simple now? If we don't break through the Ming army's blocking position as soon as possible, I'm afraid that Jinzhou City won't be able to hold on for long, as for tomorrow morning's attack, the resistance we face will be even stronger, and most of today's attack will be in vain, tomorrow we will definitely be able to beat this elite of the Ming army? ”

Abatai's heart was shocked, and he said slowly: "Yue Le, what you said is not unreasonable, there is suddenly an elite of the Ming army here, obviously not to target us, but to ambush the elite of the main Manchurian army who retreated to Shengjing because of the broken city, which shows that Zhu Jie and Xu Yifan have absolute confidence and determination to break through Jinzhou City, I am afraid that the emperor will really not be able to hold it for long, Yue Le, give you 5,000 cavalry, and launch an attack on the infantry position of the Ming army at the fourth watch!" ”

Yue Le was ready to make a sneak attack, but the soldiers in Nanjing Zuozhen were not dead, how could Yue Le's conspiracy succeed?

Even the combat power of Nanjing Zuozhen has not been fully exerted, and the Manchurian reinforcements have already suffered a lot of casualties, you must know that during the day, Nanjing Zuozhen has temporarily obtained information, and the Manchurian reinforcements have suddenly arrived, adjusting the deployment at the foot of the mountain, where is it so easy? Suddenly responding to the battle, there is still a little passivity, and the defense is a little negligent.

Shu Xinchen naturally adjusted the deployment overnight, the entire artillery battalion was all pulled up the mountainside, the musketeers were separated from the artillery, three musket battalions were at the foot of the mountain, lined up in an arc, and there was an infantry battalion next to each musket battalion guarding, and there were three bow battalions behind him.

Basically none of the officers and men of the three armed forces can sleep at this time, how can they be careless at the moment of the great enemy? Since Nanjing Zuozhen arrived in Panshan, more than ten days have passed, and he has been recuperating, waiting for the big battle with the Manchurian elite.

Even if it was a group of Li ghosts, Shu Xinchen didn't dare to be careless, after all, no one knew that Dolgon's defeated army would be killed in Panshan, and when the time came, he would be attacked on both sides, and he must arrive at the bottom of Panshan in Dolgon and defeat the reinforcements in Manchuria first!

Yue Le took a cavalry, set off on the fourth watch, and quietly approached the soldiers sitting in Nanjing, but he just came out only two miles away, and the distance from Nanjing Zuozhen was still two miles away, and suddenly, a gunshot rang out, cutting through the sky in the quiet night sky!

Shu Xinchen was naturally not so stupid, on the battlefield, he sent more than a dozen musketeers out, always monitoring the movements of the Manchurian cavalry, and now Yue Le had just approached the position of Nanjing Zuozhen, and was discovered by others, and directly fired a warning.

The Ming army two or three miles away could hear it clearly.

The artillery battalion, which was located halfway up the mountain, launched an artillery bombardment directly ahead without saying a word!

Boom Boom Boom ......

With all his strength, all 30 shells hit the target and landed in the Manchurian cavalry ranks, especially the flowering shells, which directly blew the surrounding cavalry to pieces!

Yue Le was shocked, knowing that the Ming army would be prepared, but he didn't expect that they would send scouts at this time and lie on the battlefield! Unlucky, so unlucky!

The so-called poor dagger, at this time, Yue Le couldn't take care of much, anyway, the Ming army position in front of him did not have a neat defensive formation like during the day, the musket battalion and the artillery battalion were planted on the other side, and they rushed to their main position, and then the night first ended their big battalion!

"Charge!"

However, when there were still more than two hundred steps away from the Ming army, suddenly, the gunfire on the position was loud, and the dense rifle fire instantly enveloped the infantry in front of them.

In the night, the Manchurian cavalry did not notice that the front of the position had been replaced by musket shadows, and all the musketeers were lying behind stones or trees, firing almost at the same time, and a wave of shooting made the Manchurian reinforcements pay the price of blood!