Like a hurricane blowing across the grassland, or like a heavy rain sweeping across the wheat fields, the firepower composed of more than 4,000 cannons instantly swept past the 7,000 spearmen of the Han army.
Although these 7,000 men and horses were well-trained, the Qing army had never trusted these Han troops, so most of these soldiers and horses were not equipped with armor. Under the salvos of bird cannons at close range, they could only resist with their flesh and blood. !
General Ban Zhifu was horrified to see the bloody scene. The seven thousand elite spearmen under his command fell one by one like wheat harvested by scythes, while the gunmen of the new Lingshan Guard Army did not know how they were trained. When it came out, the shooting speed was surprisingly fast.
You must know that the fire gunners led by Xu Erxian are already elite, but they can only shoot one to two shots per minute. However, the new gunners of the Lingshan Guards, with the accumulation of a large amount of live ammunition training and the blessing of custom-loaded paper shells, can achieve three rounds per minute. They can even do one when they make a knowing blow on the battlefield. The firing rate of four to five rounds per minute is unmatched by anyone in the world today!
"put!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, and Shen Tuo kept barking orders, as if they wanted to vent all the anger in their hearts.
The large horizontal formation composed of more than 4,000 people continued, and it only took a stick of incense to defeat Shang Kexi's troops. The defeated soldiers with long gunmen and fire gunmen fled back like crazy, constantly attacking Manchuria in the rear. Five thousand cavalry with white flags.
Duduo's face was livid at this time. He grabbed Shang Kexi who had just escaped and said angrily: "This is your elite firearms army! They are all trash!"
Shang Ke was crying with joy. The Han soldiers he had trained were elite enough. Ten thousand Han soldiers could even fight against several times the Ming army without falling behind at all.
However, the new Lingshan Guard army facing today is completely different from the Ming army in the past, and is exactly the same as the Qi family army back then.
"Prince Yu also saw it. Liu Yan's soldiers and generals are all crazy! They were able to suppress them with volleys of firecrackers, and then they fired directly with thousands of firecrackers. Where is this? It's unheard of. ah!"
Duduo looked at Shang Kexi who was frightened by the beating, with a look of disgust in his eyes. He waved his hand and slapped Shang Kexi on the face, scolding: "Gather those defeated soldiers, don't attack the king's cavalry, go to the back immediately and re-attack." The whole formation!”
"嗻!"
Shang Kexi covered his red and swollen cheeks and ran away like a bereaved dog, but at this time, thousands of defeated soldiers were still running back frantically.
Duduo directly ordered his 5,000 cavalry to immediately shoot down the defeated troops in front of the formation. A moment later, the 5,000 Manchurian Zhengbai Banner cavalry fired continuously. The Han army's routed troops in front of the formation were immediately killed and injured. General Ban Zhifu was hit by several arrows. , his eyes widened, and he fell on his back in disbelief. Even until his death, he could not figure out why these Manchu masters wanted to kill him. Was he not loyal enough?
"Charge the entire army!"
Soon, the defeated troops in front of the formation ran to both sides, and the attack of the Manchurian white-flag cavalry was cleared. Taking advantage of the shooting gap of the new Lingshan Guards, Duduo immediately ordered a charge, hoping to use five thousand cavalry to attack the enemy. Horizontal array.
The five thousand cavalry led by Duduo are all the essence of the white flag, the horse armor and infantry of more than a thousand people, and the garrison of more than two thousand people. Although the remaining ones are just the remaining members of the flag, they are all skilled in bow and horse. generation.
Around Duduo, there were dozens of white Baya soldiers guarding him. These dozens of people were all old slave soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles. In the past, if these dozens of people were charging on horseback, Duduo would have dared to attack. Thousands, even thousands of Ming troops.
But at this time, Duduo was extremely nervous. He kept roaring loudly and urging the army to speed up, for fear that the large horizontal array in front of them, which was getting closer and closer, would suddenly open fire.
"There are still dozens of steps to go, we'll be there soon!"
Duduo was so ecstatic that he even raised the tiger gun in his hand, screaming wildly and galloping on his horse. The five thousand cavalry with white flags also roared, seeming to have dispersed the new Lingshan Guard army.
Suddenly, a burst of fire erupted from the large horizontal array in front, and thick smoke filled the air. Immediately afterwards, Duduo saw hundreds of warriors from the front army falling off their horses screaming like fallen leaves in autumn. Even the armored horses fell to the ground in mourning.
There were only a few survivors at the forefront of the Manchurian cavalry army with white flags. Almost all of them were killed by the firepower of this wave of cannons!
"ah!"
The forwards of the army were almost all the elites of the Manchurian White Flag, such as vests and infantrymen. Duduo was so distressed that he almost vomited blood. The White Flag was about to break his muscles and bones.
"accelerate!"
Duduo's eyes were red, and he gave the order to speed up again. Even in order to maintain a high-speed charge, these Qing army cavalry gave up archery and just focused on riding horses. At this time, they could only defeat Liu Yan's men, so these warriors' death would not be in vain.
But in just a few breaths, the Dahengzhen opened fire again. At this time, the distance between the two sides was even closer, only more than thirty steps. At such a close distance, there was almost no need to aim at more than four thousand muskets, as long as they fired. You can hit the enemy.
In an instant, at least two thousand people in the army with white flags were hit, and almost half of the entire army was killed!
More than a dozen of the Baiya soldiers around Duduo also fell off their horses. These brave and adept Manchu warriors, who had never been defeated in the world, fell down on the charging road so meaninglessly, even in front of those hateful Ming soldiers. Without even seeing it, he ended his sinful life.
"Liu Yan!"
Duduo screamed like crazy. At this time, the elite cavalry he was proud of had collapsed. These elite cavalry, which had never been defeated in the Ming Dynasty, were fleeing. No one listened to his orders as the banner leader anymore. Duduo I even thought I was dreaming, having a nightmare that I had never had before!
Liu Yan, from the center of the new Lingshan Guard Army, stood on the observation deck and looked at the retreating Manchurian army with white flags. He couldn't help but touch his nose and said to himself: "I really don't know if that Duduo is brave or an idiot. He was so stunned that he led his army to attack an army formation composed of thousands of cannons!"
Then Liu Yan looked around, hoping to find Duduo's banner among the rebels, and to see if Duduo had been killed by the previous rounds of volleys.
But what disappointed Liu Yan was that Duduo's banner was still there, moving crookedly towards the south.
"That's really a shame."
Liu Yan sighed, then looked at the Qing army's formation in the distance, and said: "Instruct all the troops to stand firm on the spot, and order the rear camp and the middle camp to retreat immediately to protect the two wings of the army. Order the guard camp to retreat two hundred steps. Rely on the heavy baggage vehicles to defend the rear, and the entire army is on alert and on standby!"
At this time, the cavalry battle on both wings of the army was still continuing. Although Liu Yan's side defeated Shang Kexi, Duduo, and the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner, the main forces of the Qing army, Manzhou Zhengbai Banner, Xianghong Banner, and Zhenghong Banner, did not dispatch. If more than 30,000 cavalry were put on the battlefield, the situation of this battle would most likely be reversed.
Therefore, Liu Yan can only be cautious now and wait and see what happens in the cavalry battle between the two wings. Dorgon wanted to reinforce that side, so Liu Yan led his troops to move closer to that side.
On the left-wing battlefield, the three thousand Mongolian cavalry with red flags have begun to retreat. The flag leader Buyandai is cunning and cunning, and is always paying attention to the trends on the frontal battlefield. The continuous salvoes of thousands of cannons shocked Buyandai, and at the same time he had deep doubts about whether he could defeat Liu Yan's men.
So Buyandai led his troops to fight and retreat, not entangled at all with the New Army cavalry battalion officers in front of them. The two cavalry armies chased each other back and forth on the left-wing battlefield. Arrows and blunderbuss were fired fiercely, but neither side was too aggressive. Heavy casualties, the fighting was very perfunctory.
On the right battlefield, Lu Huaiying, who had been promoted to the rank of general, was covered in blood, as were the more than 4,000 cavalry soldiers of the Supervisory Biao Battalion under his command.
The Mongolian red flag cavalry, led by the flag owner Engetu, was very tenacious. Even though the Qing army on the middle battlefield had begun to collapse, the Mongolian cavalry still fought to the death. The two cavalry armies were mixed together and a melee began.
"The descendants of Genghis Khan, may you live forever in the sky, follow the battle flag and crush those Ming cavalry!"
The flag leader Enge Tu shouted loudly, holding back all his energy to fight the situation and show off in front of Dorgon and other Manchu masters.
More than 4,000 Mongolian Zhenghongqi cavalry were also quite tenacious at this time. Facing the charge of the cavalry soldiers of the Dubiao Battalion, these Mongolian Zhenghongqi Tatar soldiers continued to launch counterattacks in small groups, which made General Lu Huaiying extremely angry.
Soon, the formations of both sides were almost "shattered" by the other side.
"kill!"
Lu Huaiying charged at the front, leading a group of night guards and retainers, and directly collided with the flag leader Enge Tu. Dozens of elite soldiers, guards, dozens of vests, and several white Baya soldiers Fighting together, the battle is fierce.
I saw that both sides were already red-eyed, and they kept waving various weapons such as spears, machetes, and rakes at the enemy. When the weapons were damaged, they directly hugged the enemy and jumped off the horse. Even if they died together with the enemy under the hooves of the horse, they would not hesitate. !
At this time, on the entire battlefield, the fighting on the right wing turned out to be the most intense. The huge sound of fighting even attracted the attention of Dorgon and Liu Yan.
Dorgon frowned. At this time, the left battlefield and the middle battlefield had been defeated. Although the right battlefield was still fighting, Liu Yan would definitely send troops to support. Mongolia's Zhenghong Banner could not hold on for long unless heavy troops were invested in the middle and left flank. On the battlefield.
However, at this time, all the banners of the Qing army were scarred, and even Duduo was in a low mood and had no will to continue fighting. Even if Dorgon wanted to severely damage Liu Yan's troops before Liu Yan's defense line was formed, he was unwilling to do so at this time. There is more than enough but not enough strength.
"Let Ngetu lead his troops to withdraw!"
Dorgon said coldly: "Let Du Du lead the red flag to respond, and the other flags will slowly retreat!"
When everyone heard the order to withdraw their troops, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. In today's battle, everyone saw the power of Liu Yan's firearms, and they were all frightened, so it was better to withdraw first and take it easy.
At the same time, Liu Yan was worried that the Du Biao camp would not be able to hold on, so he immediately sent Qian Commander Xu Ming to lead the cavalry battalion soldiers to support the right-wing battlefield. At the same time, he ordered Qian Commander Shen Tuo to lead the middle battalion to rush to the left wing of the army to deploy defenses to prevent the Qing army from raiding.
However, when Xu Ming led his troops to the battlefield on the right wing, the retreat horn sounded from the Qing army. Engetu hurriedly led his troops to leave the battlefield. With the support of 3,000 Manchu cavalry with red flags led by Du Du, Retreat to the south.
At this time, Lu Huaiying looked exhausted at the Qing army retreating like a tide, and had no intention of pursuing it. He led his troops to move closer to Liu Yan's command, and after joining the soldiers of Xu Ming's cavalry battalion, he returned north to Jinan Fucheng to rest.
In this battle, Liu Yan led his troops to defeat the Han army led by Shang Kexi, the Manzhou Xiangbai Banner, and the Mongolian Red Banner, severely damaging the main force of the Qing army.
After the war, the New Army officers cleaned up the battlefield and beheaded 4,952 Han troops and 4,168 Manchu and Mongolian banner leaders. A total of 9,120 Qing troops were killed. It can be said that Great victory.
The soldiers of the New Army also paid a heavy price in this battle. Especially when advancing against the firepower of Shang Kexi's command, the soldiers of each battalion suffered heavy casualties.
After counting, the front camp, left camp, and right camp suffered the most casualties, with 1,251 soldiers killed, the rear camp and middle camp suffered 308 soldiers, and the cavalry battalion suffered 211 soldiers.
In this battle, the New Army lost more than 1,700 soldiers from various departments. It was the heaviest loss in a battle since the founding of the New Army!
Some people died, but not completely...
