Soon, the Qing army on the front rushed within a mile and a half. However, what surprised the Tatar soldiers was that the Ming army's usual fierce artillery and rockets were not fired at this time. After another two hundred steps, the same situation remained. .
There is a high platform in the Qing army's formation two miles away. Here, the Eight Banners Manzhou Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner, the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner are erected, as well as several huge woven gold dragon flags of the Mongolian Karaqin tribe in the Outer Fandom.
Behind both sides of the high platform, there are mighty Qing soldiers and horses, most of whom wear the banners and armors of the Eight Banners Manzhou Zhengbai Banner.
Originally, among the total of 310 Niulu under the Eight Banners in Manchuria, there were 48 Niulu under the Zhengbai Banner and 50 under the Bordered White Banner. They were the two banners with the largest number of people among the Eight Banners. Even the two yellow flags led by Huang Taiji had no more people. Dorgon has many brothers.
This time, the Dorgon brothers' banner had the largest number of soldiers and horses. Although many bannermen stayed behind in the Qing Dynasty, the total number of troops sent by the two banners was still 15,000, including 5,000 armored bannermen and 2 bannermen. There are also hundreds of Baya soldiers each.
After the battle with the Xuanda and Shandong armies, Duduo suffered the greater loss among the two brothers, but the armored and unarmored bannermen in Dorgon Banner only lost a few hundred people in total, and their bones were still there. After the military meeting last night, Dorgon knew that he could no longer drive the Eight Banners Mongolia to attack the outer vassal Mongolia, and they needed to take the lead themselves.
Therefore, several Jiala Zhangjings of the Liangbai Banners took part of the troops and horses, with the Manchu soldiers in front and the Mongolian soldiers in the back, and attacked the frontal camp defended by the new army in Xiahe Village in multiple waves. In addition, there are two white flags of Baya La soldiers, slowly following behind, depending on the situation of the battle, ready to launch a decisive attack at any time.
Before they had even reached a mile, the Ming army's artillery rockets were fired violently, silently at this time, which made Dorgon and others a little uncomfortable.
Duduo was a little confused and said: "Could it be that the Ming army under Lu Xiangsheng's army has been defeated by my artillery fire?"
Dorgon and Abatai beside him were both deep in thought. Several Mongolian banner leaders of the Eight Banners laughed and said: "What Prince Yu said is very reasonable. They have always bombarded us with artillery. Now we bombard him. We were caught off guard. The armies of Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan suffered heavy casualties, and it is possible that they would be defeated."
Duduo even speculated: "Perhaps all the Ming army's artillery pieces have been blown up by our army's artillery."
Abatai shook his head: "Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan are full of tricks, we must not underestimate them."
Everyone sank down and just looked at the situation ahead. Not long after, the first wave of Qing soldiers, under the cover of layers of shield vehicles, rushed to the low wall trench defended by the new army in Xiahe Village. Fierce shouts were heard from the front. The sound of gunshots and fire started to sound.
Tan Ma Gungun came back and reported: "...the Ming army's artillery was nowhere to be seen on all the passages, and the firecrackers they fired were much weaker than yesterday..."
"The Ming army seems unable to resist, but our Qing soldiers can attack the trench wall with one blow."
Duduo and others were already discussing, and Duduo said: "I will say that all the Ming army's artillery has been blown up. Our warriors under each banner are protected by shields and chariots, so their firecrackers are naturally useless. It seems that they have If your courage is blown away, you will be defeated.”
Several Mongolian leaders of the Eight Banners agreed with Duduo's opinion, but Abatai shook his head and said: "It's not Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Yan and others who are so easily defeated."
He said: "According to my speculation, the various departments of the Ming army suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of our general's artillery and were unable to defend the first trench wall, so they retreated into the second trench wall. Yesterday, the Zhengbai Banner warriors attacked the trench wall When I was inside, I saw another trench wall behind the Ming army."
Dorgon made up his mind and said: "The Ming army should not be defeated yet, but the previous rounds of artillery bombardment, it is expected that the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, and it is unable to defend. Now the Ming army has lost its vigor, and our Qing army can Capturing his first trench wall can also breach his second trench wall. Under my bombardment, where can he retreat to? No matter how many trench walls they set up, they will all be breached by my army one by one! "
So Dorgon issued a series of attack orders, and the passionate drums sounded again. It seemed that at the same time, overwhelming shouts sounded from the front, and the tide of Qing soldiers rushed toward the first earth wall passage defended by the new army in Xiahezhai. Pounce away.
The trench wall defended by the new army in Xiahezhai, which the Qing army attacked in the past few days, was 400 steps long. Later, the long defense line was 600 meters long, with five passages, each passage being 80 steps apart.
Attacking Xuanda camp today, Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner led the Mongolian Karaqin tribe of the outer vassal to attack three passages and related low-wall trenches. Duduo's Xiangbai Banner led the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner to attack two of the passages and the related low wall trenches.
Each of the two white flags dispatched two Jia La troops. Each Jia La army formation was separated by more than a hundred steps. In addition, there were nearly 10,000 Mongolian soldiers and more than 4,000 handymen, totaling 10,000 troops. This shows Dorgon's determination to capture Liu Yan's position.
When the Qing soldiers rushed to the new army formation in Xiahe Village, the densely packed shield vehicles still avoided the gaps in the passages as they did yesterday.
Only their servants, driven away by the threat of the Qing soldiers behind them, fearfully carried heavy wooden shields tied with thick wood, over the low walls, and placed the wooden shields on the unfilled corridors. In front of the low wall trench.
Among them, many of them were killed and injured by the cannon soldiers of Xiahe Village's new army. If the servants retreated in panic, sharp arrows would be shot from behind, knocking them to the ground one by one.
The old rule is that after the wooden shields are installed, the two white flags and several Eight Banners Mongolian heavy armor protect the two wings, while the remaining archers cover the handymen filling the trenches. However, seeing that there were no longer the artillery figures in the passages, they couldn't help but wonder and poked their heads around.
After receiving the order from the superior officer of the banner, the Qing soldiers between the low wall trenches retreated, gathered behind the shield chariots of their respective armors, and made arrangements for the whole team.
The sound of passionate war drums rang out from the formation at the rear. They suddenly raised their flags high, and under the cover of the shield car, one team after another, they rushed towards each passage with loud shouts.
"These fresh goods..."
The Qing soldiers rushed in like a tide, and there were black flags and armor everywhere, as well as rumbling chariots.
Seeing the power of their charge, Wang Bo couldn't help but curse, but his voice was quickly drowned in the overwhelming shouts of the aliens.
Soon, the Qing soldiers poured into each passage. In front of them, there were at least three refined shield vehicles, and on the two front passages, there were five more shield vehicles running parallel. Behind each shield car are soldiers holding high shields, holding swords and axes, and wearing heavy armor with white flags and white flags.
Behind these heavily armored soldiers, there were many light-armored archers on both sides, shooting arrows at the Xiahe Village New Army soldiers on the earth wall to cover the advance of the shield vehicles. The first wave of people who rushed into the passage were at least one Niulu and several hundred people. Behind them, there were densely packed two white flag warriors one after another.
"withdraw!"
Wang Bo shouted, "The purpose of bringing in the Tatar soldiers has been achieved, so there is no need to stay in the ditch."
At his order, more than a hundred fire gun soldiers under his command quickly ran towards the second earth wall. When he ran back, the ground was covered with mud bags and baskets, as well as solidified and slippery blood. Many people tripped and slipped in their hurry, and the gun soldiers beside him hurriedly helped him up. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared within the second earth wall. Soon the Qing soldiers rushed in, and then they ran into trouble.
The shield cart pushed by the handymen could no longer push it after pushing it a few steps into the earth wall. There were mud bags and baskets everywhere on the ground.
In the front passage, dozens of people dressed as white flag soldiers flashed out from behind several shield vehicles. One of them was extremely short and stocky, with a beard and a face covered with scars. He has a very pretty body, a breastplate on his chest, a black tassel on his helmet, and a flag high behind him, but it is a white flag covered with three layers of heavy armor.
He was carrying a heavy shield and a huge half-moon hatchet in his right hand. He looked around and saw that there was no one between the earthen walls in front of him. There was only another earthen wall about a hundred steps in front of him. There was no movement of anyone behind the wall. Between this earth wall, there are mud bags and baskets everywhere, making it extremely difficult for people to walk. What are those Ming people trying to do?
He couldn't allow him to think too much, but the warriors behind him were already pouring in. They might be wearing double layers of heavy armor, holding spears, halberds, and broadswords and axes. Or wearing iron-inlaid cotton armor, holding bows and arrows, they are heavy armored soldiers and light armored soldiers with two white flags. Behind them were some unarmored flagmen.
We didn't encounter any blows along the way, it was so smooth that it was unbelievable, but now that we've broken in, there's nothing to fear.
No matter what was behind the second earth wall, it looked like the Ming army had been defeated. Perhaps if you enter the second earth wall, you can see their figures running for their lives in panic.
In just a moment, the earth wall was covered with Qing and Mongolian troops from the two white flags pouring in from various passages. Some of them had already rushed towards the second earth wall.
Fende Pashiku let out a howl, waved the half-moon hatchet in his hand, and immediately his team of Qing soldiers followed behind him, running towards the earth wall step by step. As expected, there seemed to be no danger in front of them, but they were still covered by heavy-armored shield soldiers, and light-armored archers followed on both sides, with their bows and arrows drawn, keeping vigilance at all times.
However, there were mud bags and baskets all over the place. If one had to look around cautiously, some Qing soldiers who maintained their fighting formation would inevitably stumble and fall, which greatly damaged their image as warriors of the Qing Dynasty.
A steady stream of Qing soldiers poured into the earth wall, knocking against each other all the way. In this space of 600 meters horizontally and nearly 200 meters vertically, they rushed toward the second earth wall in a dark pressure.
"Are there thousands of Qing soldiers entering the wall?"
On the side of the new army in Xiahe Village, only the whistling of the cold wind could be heard quietly. Liu Yan looked outside the earthen wall. The darkness outside was filled with two white flags and armor flags. Seeing that they were approaching slowly or quickly, each of them There were only fifty or sixty steps away from the earthen wall.
"it's time!"
Liu Yan looked at the officers and soldiers of the new army in Xiahe Village around him. Behind the earth wall were four rows of bird gun soldiers squatting quietly. Since there were more than 1,600 bird gun soldiers in the army, this second earth wall It was only more than 300 paces wide, less than 500 meters wide, and had to go through four passages. There were many gaps and the space was limited, so Liu Yan divided the firecrackers into four rows to shoot.
At this time, they were hiding quietly behind the earthen wall, and the same was true for Wang Bo's new fire gun soldiers who had just entered the wall. They were squatting quietly in the fourth row.
In addition, the artillery behind the four passages and many gaps were all moved into the earthen wall. The whole army stopped and waited for the Qing army to enter the urn. Now they finally arrived.
Liu Yan looked at the spear soldiers and sword and shield soldiers behind the fire gun soldiers. At this time, they were also lined up in order and ready.
The artillery ammunition has been filled, the gunpowder powder in everyone's hands has been loaded, and the match ropes have been lit. Everything is ready!
Liu Yan suddenly looked at Miao Shao and nodded heavily. At this time, Miao Shao was also extremely excited. He shouted loudly: "Drum!"
The exciting war drums of the new army in Xiahe Village sounded, and all the soldiers in the army suddenly shouted in unison, and all the gun soldiers stood up. The gunmen in the front row set up their guns on the earth wall in a dark manner, and all the artillery were pushed out from the earth wall.
When the Qing soldiers were collectively shocked, Qian Qian shouted at the top of his lungs: "Fire!"
The ground shook violently, and an earth-shaking artillery salvo sounded. Four Hongyi six-pound cannons from the Dubiao Battalion and five Hu Zun cannons from the Xiahe Village New Army opened fire at once.
Large plumes of thick gunpowder smoke rose up, and the entire area around the earth wall seemed to be shrouded in smoke. Countless lead pellets roared towards the Qing soldiers in front of the earth wall. No matter what armor they wore or what shields they held, there was no trace of them. effect.
In front of the hundreds of meters long earth wall, the Qing troops fell on a large number of people like ears of wheat blown by the wind. They were all bloody and covered with dense blood holes. Dozens of people were beaten until they flew out.
The four Hongyi six-pound cannons of the Dubiao Battalion have a shotgun range of more than 200 steps, and the five Huzun cannons of the Xiahezhai New Army have a shotgun range of more than 100 steps.
There is only more than a hundred steps between the two earth walls, and most of the artillery fires directly through it, which can penetrate the entire space. Those Qing soldiers came in densely, and from one end to the other, no one could escape. From beginning to end, they were cut through alleys of flesh and blood!
Just as the sound of artillery stopped, the sound of gunshots, as dense as exploding beans, sounded again.
Some people died, but not completely...
