Lord of Ming Dynasty

One mile, a distance of more than 500 meters, is the best distance for the six-pound gun to fire, and it is also the most lethal distance. The casualties of the Han army flag became more serious. 2000 people fell to the ground, and the Han army banner and the Qing army column were already crumbling.

Seeing the enemy's artillery destroying his own artillery one by one, Duolong's heart was bleeding, and he immediately ordered the retreating Mongolian cavalry to attack the heavy artillery positions of Tian Bin's army on both wings.

At the same time, he dispatched the cavalry of the Qing army from Xinjun Town to join the attack on the enemy formation. He led the Chinese army and braved the cannon fodder to continue advancing and entered the range of three miles.

The Green Battalion soldiers on the two wings had already collapsed. They turned around and fled at a distance of 600 meters. They were hacked to death by the Manchu and Qing cavalry time and time again.

Seeing the distress of the Qing army, even though his soldiers and artillery were also suffering losses, which were more serious than the Qing army, Tian Bin was very happy, because the enemy entered the rhythm of fighting on his side, and the Qing army should bear the pain it's time.

Chapter 6 and Four collapse

The current battle is not bad. Compared with the miserable scene where he and Oboi are beaten every time they encounter the Huaxia army, Duolong definitely has an absolute advantage in troops. As long as his soldiers advance to the enemy, they will be able to Relying on the superiority of its troops, it can destroy these rebel soldiers who have fled thousands of miles in one fell swoop.

Their will to fight is definitely not as strong as the Manchu soldiers they led. The enemy has already collapsed twice. As long as they add more strength, the enemy will be defeated. At that time, all the cavalry will attack and chase, and the battle will soon be won. .

"Send someone to urge them to step up their attack and speed up. Don't be so slow. They must get close to the killing distance of the bow and arrow as soon as possible. Otherwise, let their generals come to see me." Duolong said fiercely to his side shouted the orderly.

The orderly immediately conveyed the news to the orderly outside, and then the orderly rushed away with Duolong's order.

Doron raised the binoculars, which was a monocular copper telescope given to him by the Dutch, opened it, and looked to both sides. His artillery was suppressed by the enemy, and only three of the ten red cannons remained. There is one door left in front, and there are two more doors on the hill six miles behind. The door in front is on the hill four miles away, and it is on the hill behind not far from him.

In order to tow the twelve cannons, he scavenged all the cattle from Liaocheng. Otherwise, the war horses and pack horses would not be able to pull them, or they would fall into the soft ground. Only the cattle are strong enough to pull these cannons weighing several thousand catties. .

His marching speed was also slowed down. The cannons carried by the Xinjun Town were about the same as those of the rebels on the opposite side. The heaviest was only a twelve-pound cannon weighing [-] catties, but it was a little less, because There are too few firearms troops in their establishment, only a mere [-] troops, and the firearms troops in the two Xinjun towns add up to only [-] troops, and the total strength is only half of the rebel army on the opposite side.

The others are auxiliary and supporting, as well as the cold weapon troops that those Manchu Qing masters who don't know how to form Xinjun Town have ingeniously stuffed in. For this, Duolong, who has fought countless times with the Huaxia Army, is still experienced. But although these troops are under his command, how to form them and the number of troops are not determined by him.

So he had no choice but to know that their firepower was weak, so he brought the Ming army cannons seized before and the red cannons made by the Ming army in the warehouse in Liaocheng.

And the rebels on the opposite side know that they have reorganized the troops in Xinjun Town to be almost the same as Hong Chengchou's Xinjun Town troops. There are many troops, but when Hong Chengchou was established, the Huaxia Army had just changed its name from the Jinhua Yijun to the Huaxia Army, so just like the current Huaxia Army, almost the entire army is a firearms army, and they still retain quite a few cold weapon troops. Too much emphasis on the specialization and simplification of the firearms troops.

"Boom," a shell suddenly exploded in the chamber, and one of the last two red cannons on the Qing army's artillery position exploded suddenly because the soldiers put too much gunpowder and couldn't bear it. A dozen or so Qing soldiers and civilian husbands were operating, but now the remaining artillery did not dare to operate, and they dropped their cannons and fled.

So they were hacked and killed by the Manchu cavalry who loyally carried out the order of supervising the war.

Duo Long has the heart to kill those cavalry, so you can drive them back, you just kill them, who will operate the cannon, who knows how much gunpowder to put, the cannon can hit the enemy's position instead of blowing it up chamber.

With the occurrence of this accident, other artillerymen of the Qing army and the new army who operated the artillery fled one after another, and the result became even more chaotic. Artillery accidents happened one after another. In an instant, more than a dozen artillery pieces exploded, and nearly a hundred artillerymen were killed or injured. The artillerymen became more timid, so mistakes occurred frequently. The artillery suddenly weakened.

What followed was that Tian Bin's artillery put more artillery into the bombardment of the Han army flag and green battalion soldiers fighting in front, and the casualties began to increase. Bombarded by pounders, the cavalry rushing past were hit by artillery shells and attacked by the infantry protecting the cannons. Crossbows, bows, and javelins fell on the Mongolian cavalry and the cavalry of the new army for free.

Most of the cavalry of the new army were composed of Han Chinese or Manchu cavalry, and the Manchu cavalry also suffered casualties.

However, more and more soldiers from the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion began to flee. Duolong had to send the Manchu and Qing infantry up to shoot arrows in the back to prevent them from fleeing. His central army marched to two miles, a distance of 1000 meters, The new army approached to a distance of three miles.

Finally, the soldiers of the Han Army Banner gritted their teeth and charged to the front of Tian Bin's army formation.

Numerous crossbows and arrows struck them at a distance of 80 meters, and the rain of arrows raged above their heads. Many Han army flag soldiers and green battalion soldiers gritted their teeth and charged against the rain of arrows, holding their shields above their heads to avoid the damage of bows and crossbows.

After approaching, he rushed into the formation of sword and shield soldiers with a roar, and started hand-to-hand combat, while the crossbowmen retreated to 30 meters. Behind the sword and shield soldiers, the artillery in the middle of Tian Bin's army and the artillery on the two wings quickly retreated to the pikemen and generals. The gap between the guards was rearranged.

Soon, relying on the superiority in numbers, wave after wave of Han Banner soldiers defeated the sword and shield soldiers and rushed towards the crossbow archers.

The musketeers started shooting one after another, shooting freely, covering the defeated sword shield soldiers and crossbow archers retreating behind themselves to regroup.

The pikemen quickly ran to wait 30 meters behind the musketeers, and the sword and shield soldiers accompanying them raised their shields to set up a protective net for them to prevent the enemy's sudden bow and arrow from killing them.

The musketeers in front, against the impact of the enemy, launched a row of shooting tactics in succession.

Two thousand musketeers lined up in two rows on each side, staggered shooting, and a single volley caused thousands of Han army flag soldiers waving swords, spears, shields, and maces to fall to the ground while roaring, killing them all. The impact speed slowed down, so that the soldiers of the Han Army Banner did not dare to move forward, so they could only use archers to suppress them. They slowly approached, which gave the Musketeers time to reload. The soldiers of the green battalion collapsed directly, and 600 people fell to the ground in an instant. They lost 600 people in two volleys, and this battle could not be fought.

The smarter green battalion soldiers quickly fled to the hillsides on both sides, and some jumped into the nearby lake. Now the Manchu cavalry had no way to catch them back, because thousands of Han army flags and green battalion soldiers surrounded them and retreated. After all, they were few in number. While retreating, two or three hundred cavalrymen were hacked to death by Han army flags and green battalion soldiers, and then thousands of Manchu and Qing infantrymen who followed ended their escape with a round of volleys.

Duolong endured the pain in his heart, and asked the Manchu soldiers to come again to stop the retreating Han army flags and green camp soldiers again, and then sent the remaining green camp soldiers to join the queue. Hundreds of Manchu and Qing officers were sent in to take over their troops. Command, take them back and continue to charge towards Tian Bin's formation.

Chapter 6 and Five

As a result of the strong suppression, the eight thousand green battalion soldiers collapsed in the dark night, because the sky was very dark, everyone only relied on the opponent's shouts, the burning fire on the battlefield, and clearly knew that the opponent's position would not move, so they only relied on intuition The principle of rushing forward with the opponent in front, shooting arrows forward, and attacking the opponent with the light of the moment when the artillery fires from both sides, this situation gives people who are good at drilling and escaping opportunities, Especially the soldiers of the Green Battalion and some soldiers of the Han Army Banner whose minds have already been shaken and their morale has declined.

An hour later, Duolong found that there was only the flames of the enemy's guns in front of him, but he couldn't hear the shouts of the charge on his side, and he couldn't see the [-] green battalion soldiers and the [-] Han flag soldiers filling the battlefield. .

Duolong was surprised, and hurriedly dispatched the soldiers around him to investigate. After a while, the soldiers ran over cautiously and shouted to Duolong, "My lord, my lord, it's not good. Except for the Han army banner soldiers who were injured earlier on the battlefield, The other soldiers were gone, and the rebels on the opposite side occasionally fired a row of firecrackers, but in fact they seemed to be shooting indiscriminately, as long as they saw a figure, they would shoot..., that is to say, there were no soldiers fighting in front of them."

"Set up the camp, set up the camp quickly, and let the scout cavalry look around, looking for the green battalion and Han army flag soldiers for a while, but check the enemy's position, don't let the enemy run away, and then send people around this valley and look behind. Probe, see if the Mongolian cavalry has arrived, what are they doing?"

Duolong took his personal guards to inspect the various troops, and asked his generals to count their own strength.

At this time, the scout cavalry ran back, this is the scout cavalry sent out to investigate backwards, "Report to my lord, the cavalry of the Huaxia Army occupied Liaocheng, and sent troops to come behind us. It seems that the strength of the troops is 5000 people Around, there are more than 2000 civilian husbands, and the villain got the news from the county magistrate who escaped from Liaocheng that the field brigade of the Huaxia Army is less than sixty miles away from us."

Duolong and the generals around him were all stunned. The enemy was getting closer and closer to them, and the back route had been cut off. Now they could not retreat, they could only advance, and to advance, they had to defeat the enemy, but the enemy was very tenacious. Tonight It was very dark and unable to fight. If the troops were sent out on such a night, it would be like the Han army banner soldiers and green battalion soldiers. They didn't know where to go. Duolong believed that they must have escaped, but I can't send people to chase, because the enemy is in front of me, and if I go over mountains and mountains to chase, there must be insufficient troops. If I am ambushed by those fleeing soldiers in the middle of the night, I will definitely suffer heavy losses and return in defeat.

"Rest, all battalions set up their camps. Without orders, no one is allowed to run around or leave the camp. Let's fight again tomorrow." Duo Long ordered his men.

Duolong did this, and Tian Bin, Tian Xian, and Wang Dong did the same. As the sky turned dark, both they and the Mongolian cavalry had no choice but to retreat and set up camp on the spot.

Schulte really didn't know whether he should be lucky or unlucky. Fortunately, he finally didn't have to fight the enemy. It was too troublesome. More than 1 Mongolian cavalry were killed by enemy traps, mechanisms, and muskets. Losing a fifth of his troops, he knew it would make him a laughing stock for all Mongols,

According to the results of many investigations and infiltrations, and fighting the enemy, he found that the enemy's main force was only less than 2000 and less than [-] soldiers, and the rest were civilians. Just such a force prevented his tens of thousands of soldiers from moving forward. Even lost soldiers and generals.

Tomorrow, he still had to fight tomorrow, he didn't know if he would have to suffer losses tomorrow, and then he was helpless.

As the sky gradually turned from pitch black to white, the cold air in the mountains made everyone who had just come out of the warm tent shiver, and some even sneezed, and it took a long time to stop their movements. The scouts and cavalry, who had been running all night in the mountains, turned back to the brigade one after another. With exhaustion and dew on their bodies, their heads were on the horse's back little by little, shaking as the horses rose and fell. After the order was issued, the scout cavalry rushed into the messy tent and fell asleep.

After eating and preparing for an hour, all parties dismantled the barracks again and lined up to prepare for the battle.

When the morning fog cleared, the two sides were bathed in the rising sun and marched forward in line. This time Duolong had to use more than 3 new troops to meet the enemy, because he confirmed last night that the Han army flag and the Han army flag in his hand The Green Battalion fled completely, and there were even some troops and groups that practiced bravery. Of the 500 strong soldiers, no more than [-] could be assembled the next day. The rest either died in battle yesterday or fled away. .

This made Duolong very angry, but there was nothing he could do, because now he had to worry about the fate of this army, and his own fate. There were interceptions in the front and pursuers in the back, and there was nowhere to escape.

The cannon rang again. This time the two new armies had [-] musketeers, and the opponent also had [-] musketeers. It was unclear who would die.

As soon as the two sides came up, eight thousand musketeers confronted the enemy.

The musketeers on both sides actually used the same weapon, both of which were the imitation versions of the Huaxia Army’s Jingai 1 matchlock gun of the Qing army. The drums rang and the horns sounded. Both sides marched forward in neat steps, approaching the enemy’s phalanx , the artillery of the two sides are fighting just like yesterday. Today, the artillery of the Qing army does not have the red cannons of yesterday. They all use the standard artillery of the Qing army. There are the latest artillery presented by the Dutch and the Portuguese, and some imitate the Chinese army. artillery.

As the rebels who came out of the Qing army, they may learn from the Huaxia army in terms of organization, but in terms of weapons and equipment, they cannot obtain the advanced weapons of the Huaxia army, especially firearms, so they are on the same starting line as their opponents.

"Brothers, if we win this battle, we can get rid of the enemy and go home. We will no longer be the running dogs of the Qing Dynasty, and we will no longer be the second-class Han Chinese who are bullied by others. We will become members of the Huaxia Army and become A truly dignified and promising soldier of the Huaxia Army. Therefore, soldiers, take courage and not let the enemy defeat us in the end. Do you want to go back alive, or be captured by the enemy and be a slave alive, and be executed without dignity? Shi Caishikou, you have to make a choice."

Tian Bin rode at the front of the queue and mobilized the soldiers loudly. As his words sounded, the morale of the soldiers became higher and higher. Tian Bin smiled with satisfaction and ran back to his general guard, waiting for a decisive battle with the enemy.

In the distance, Tian Xian glanced at the 4 tired civilian men, then at the slightly lost soldiers, and waved his hand, "The second line of defense must be defended, otherwise we have to retreat another mile to defend The third line of defense is better, but when we get there, we can only do our best. The enemy has more than 7000 troops, and each person can drown us with a single mouthful of saliva. One person can kill ten times as many enemies as you. Soldiers, the longer the second line of defense lasts, our main force can help us resist the enemy after we have wiped out the enemy. Moreover, the Huaxia Army has dispatched [-] troops What elite soldiers, pulling cannons, holding guns, and riding horses to help us, hold on until the reinforcements arrive."

Chapter 6 The actual situation is like this

When the two sides were cheering up, preparing troops and horses, and fighting to the death, Hong Chengchou, Feng Quan and his generals were sitting in the hall of the Yangzhou government office to discuss matters.

Feng Quan made an introduction, "My lords, because we were suspected and suppressed by the court, officials from all over the country regarded us as rebels. Those officials and generals from all over the place have distanced themselves from us one after another, which made the territory controlled by our army less It has shrunk by about half, and it is not a complete province, but across the junction of two provinces. At present, due to our current situation, the original Xinjun Town of our army, which has returned to our army thousands of miles away, has been chased and intercepted by soldiers and horses of the imperial court. The situation is dire."