About three miles north of the Great Wall ruins, the second battalion of the garrison is temporarily stationed.
Commander Zheng Yi looked at the mountains and forests to the south with sorrow and anger, and said to the three commanders around him: "The south is in chaos, but we are sitting on the bench here! General Chen Shen just looks down on our garrison. He is not at ease. !”
The three commanders under Zheng Yi are named Chang Tianming, Ge Cong, and Zong Yuan. They were all Zheng Yi's old subordinates when he was in Dongchang Mansion. They studied together at the Qinglai Town Yanwu Hall and graduated with honors. , was placed in the second battalion of the garrison by the Shogunate Ministry of War.
At this time, the three of them were doing the same. Looking at the direction of the battlefield to the south, they all encouraged Zheng Yi to send people to ask for a fight.
Zheng Yi gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! Find me a chicken, I will write a blood letter asking for a fight!"
Chang Tianming, Ge Cong, and Zong Yuan were immediately dumbfounded. Where could they find chickens in this wilderness?
At this moment, several Ye Busuo who were on guard outside rode up on horseback, and they also brought an injured Ye Busuo with them.
"It's from the front camp!"
Zheng Yi was shocked and led three of his subordinates to meet him. They placed Ye Bu Sheng on the ground and leaned against a tree stump. Ge Cong also loudly sent for a medical officer.
"I'm looking for Commander Zheng, hurry!"
There were two arrows stuck in the back of the Night Warrior. Because they were inserted too deep into the body, no one dared to pull them out for a while.
Zheng Yi frowned and said, "I am Zheng Yi, the commander of the second battalion of the garrison. Brother, have you met the Qing soldiers and Tatars?"
I saw that Ye Bushou excitedly grabbed Zheng Yi's hands, said with red eyes and gritted teeth: "The Qing army's Mongolian Zhengbai Banner has been bypassed by more than ten thousand Tatars."
The defense line of the Great Wall Ruins, attack from the east of the defense line! The humble duty is that the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the front camp will not accept Wang Cong at night. Please send troops to meet the enemy quickly! "
Zheng Yi immediately punched the ground with his fist and shouted: "The whole camp has assembled! The war has begun!"
After saying that, Zheng Yi looked at Ye Buzai named Wang Cong again, only to see his eyes widened, a smile on his lips, and he was dead.
A member of the second battalion who brought Wang Cong back stayed overnight. At this time, he said with red eyes: "The arrow should have hit the back of the heart. This brother is a man. He crawled all the way over with just one breath. We found him By the time, my hands were already worn out.”
Everyone was silent.
At this time, more than 12,000 soldiers of the second battalion quickly assembled and soon lined up in the woods.
Zheng Yi held a blunderbuss in one hand and a waist knife in the other. He looked at the soldiers of the second battalion who were ready to go, and roared loudly: "More than ten thousand Mongolian Tatars from Zhengbai Banner are coming around the road to kill. This is the first battle of my first battalion." , is also the first battle of our garrison. All officers and soldiers must move forward and show those dog Tatars that our garrison is also the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty. Send those dog Tatars to see the King of Hell!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
At this time, the soldiers of the second battalion were waiting here and were already furious. Suddenly they heard that a large number of Mongolian Tatar soldiers were suddenly coming to kill them. Everyone's eyes were gleaming, like tigers and wolves seeing fresh meat, eager to try.
"The left part is on the left, the right part is on the right, and the middle part is in the middle. It is the central army. The entire battalion of soldiers is pushing southward to meet the enemy in a standard battle formation!"
According to the requirements of the infantry drill, the standard battle formation of each battalion is that the gunmen are in front, facing the enemy in a horizontal formation, and the spearmen and sword and shield hands are behind, ready to cross the gunmen to fight at any time.
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Of course, each battalion has its own fine-tuning for specific deployment situations, and this is generally the case.
Soon, the three soldiers of the second battalion were assembled, and then the horn sounded. Among the more than 12,000 soldiers, except for the craftsmen, medical officers and veterinarians who accompanied the army, they stayed behind to form a war "hospital" here. , the army's heavy troops also left a general, responsible for transporting the wounded back from the battlefield.
The number of troops who finally headed south to meet the enemy was about 10,000.
Zheng Yi stood in the middle of the formation, looking at the densely packed soldiers on the front, left, and right, with high fighting spirit. He felt so proud that he shouted: "Forward!"
“The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, fame and fortune follow the dust and earth.
Looking at China, the people are suffering and the fertile land for thousands of miles is barren.
Look at the world, there are no barbarians, and only one man can make up for the incompleteness of the way of heaven.
A good man, regardless of his parents, only cares for the common people and not for the Lord.
Holding a ninety-nine steel knife, he stopped after killing Hu Er.
I am a man, why should I act like a horse or an ox for the Tartars?
A strong man drinks all the wine in his bowl and never looks back on a journey of thousands of miles.
The golden drums are beating together and the crowd is roaring, and the yellow dragon will not stop until it is broken. "
Nowadays, among the war songs sung by various units of the New Army, in addition to "The End of the Han Dynasty" written by Liu Yan and "Triumph Song" written by Qi Jiguang, each battalion has its own war song, and most of them have chosen this song "Yun Cong" dragon".
At this time, tens of thousands of soldiers marched south in orderly formation, marching condescendingly in the mountains and forests, singing "Kill all the Hu'ers before we stop", and the morale of the army suddenly reached its peak.
Soon, a large number of Mongolian Zhengbai Banner Tatar soldiers began to appear in front of the army. They were all elite soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor. They were the forward scouts of the Tatar army.
Those Mongolian armored soldiers are all sharp archers.
They were shooting arrows one after another, or running through the forest yelling, and many people threw spears, iron bones, etc. Many soldiers in the second battalion were hit, and casualties began to appear in the army.
However, the soldiers of the marching second battalion did not panic, and no one among the thousands of gunners in front of the army opened fire. Everyone gritted their teeth and looked angrily at the Tatar soldiers in front, waiting for the superior's order.
The Tatar stragglers saw that the Ming army in front of them was in a tight formation, and their harassment had no effect at all. The huge army formation was uniformly pressing towards them. They were all horrified and retreated one after another.
"Stand firm and keep moving forward!"
Zheng Yi's eyes were red and he roared loudly. Chang Tianming, Ge Cong, and Zong Yuan were in their respective military formations. Seeing the casualties among the soldiers under their command, they were all extremely angry and wanted to rush forward to fight immediately.
Soon, a large number of Mongolian Zhengbai Banner soldiers and horses appeared in the forest to the south. Those Tatar soldiers came in formation, with more than 2,000 elite armored soldiers at the forefront, all holding up their shields and roaring towards them. Behind them were more than 1,000 soldiers. Ya La elite soldiers, followed by thousands of Mongolian Tatar soldiers.
Thousands of people in the Tatar military formation pointed their bows at the sky, and then, under the command of trumpets, they fired volleys of arrows. However, even if the arrow rain from the Mongolian Tatar soldiers was projectile, the two sides were more than a hundred steps apart at this time, and the damage to the second battalion would be zero.
However, the spectacular scene of arrows raining from the sky was a great shock to the enemy. If it were other Ming army soldiers, their morale would probably be in chaos at this time, and deserters would even begin to appear.
But the Tatar soldiers under Ibai
They faced the second battalion. Although it was slightly weaker than the other battalions of the New Army, it was definitely the strongest army in the world!
"A hundred steps away!"
The messenger in front shouted loudly, and Zheng Yi hurriedly shouted: "Stop advancing, the gunmen are ready!"
"Stop!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
The more than 10,000 soldiers of the second battalion stopped almost at the same time. Thousands of gunmen in front were divided into three rows, with hundreds of people in each row. At this time, the gunmen in the first row had raised their guns and were ready to fire at any time.
"Eighty steps away from the enemy!"
Zheng Yi roared angrily: "Solley! Let go!"
boom!
Starting from the first row of gunners firing a volley, the three rows of gunners took turns firing. Apart from being a little nervous at first, the soldiers quickly regained their usual training feeling. The rigorous training they experienced in daily life came into play at this time. All gunners were able to eliminate all kinds of interference and focus on changing defenses, loading, and shooting, ensuring the continuous firepower of the horizontal array.
The Tatar soldiers who were advancing were hit hard. The shields in the hands of the heavy armors in front could not withstand the close-range volleys of flint-haired muskets, not to mention the constant shocks thrown by the second battalion's swordsmen and shieldmen. Thunder from the sky kept exploding in the Tatar army formation.
At this time, there were fires and smoke in the dense forest. The more than 2,000 elite armored soldiers in front of the Qing army's formation had hundreds of casualties. The more than 1,000 Bajala armored soldiers following closely behind also suffered more than 200 casualties. Such a huge loss made Ibai heartbroken, and he hated to his bones that the dozen or so front campers who had given advance warning had not closed the night.
"Archers charge forward!"
Yibai gave an order, and thousands of Mongolian archers strode forward. At the same time, they continued to shoot arrows in their hands.
He used the unique "continuous shooting" technique of the Chinese people to continuously launch missiles at the second battalion's military formation.
At this time, the arrows from the Tatar soldiers could just reach the front of the second battalion's formation. The gunmen who were firing the volley were hit, and soldiers from all departments began to fall down with arrows.
"Ah! Bastard!"
A gunman was shot in the armpit. He sat on the ground yelling and cursing, and was then dragged away by two heavy soldiers behind him.
"The wounded, take them away quickly!"
When Zong Yuan, the commander of the department, saw a musketeer in front of him falling down with his hands on his neck, and an arrow hit his throat, he hurriedly yelled and asked the baggage soldiers behind to come over and drag him away.
"died!"
One of the baggage soldiers stretched out his hand and tried the gunman's neck. When he found that there was no pulse, he called on his companions to pull the body away.
At the same time, the gunners at the back consciously filled their positions forward to ensure the integrity of the horizontal formation.
Zongyuan said angrily: "Keep the rhythm, shoot in turns! Shoot in turns! Give me a round to kill the Tatars!"
The bird cannons continued to roar. The Mongolian archers in front did not have the three-layer heavy armor of the elite armored soldiers. At most, they were wearing cotton armor. At a distance of sixty or seventy steps, they were no different from shooting at each other with flint-haired bird cannons. To commit suicide.
As long as the arrows of the Mongolian archers did not hit the neck, face or other vital points, the soldiers of the second battalion could resist those arrows with their excellent armor and helmets.
But the Mongolian Tatars cannot. At such a distance, even if they are wearing three layers of heavy armor, they will most likely be penetrated!
The two sides fired at each other for a while, and almost all the Mongolian archers fell down. Those armored soldiers and Baya soldiers who took the opportunity to rush up with their shields and wanted to fight in close combat also fell down screaming.
The command of the Zhengbai Banner Mongolian soldiers in Ibai
After the battle, they were able to move forward slowly. Of course, this was the result of using a large number of lives.
"These are the auxiliary soldiers in Liu Yan's hands, why do they have such firepower!"
Yibai has seen the combat power of each battalion of the New Army, and also knows the flags of each battalion of the New Army. Although the soldiers and horses in front of him are also Shandong soldiers, their flags are the so-called garrison troops. It is obvious that Liu Yan improvised them to fill the numbers. Auxiliary soldiers, so it is inevitable that they feel a little contempt in their hearts, thinking that as long as they fight hand-to-hand, they can definitely be defeated.
It's just that Yibai couldn't understand how many firearms Liu Yan had. Even these auxiliary soldiers were equipped with a large number of blunderbuss?
"Charge forward and win the melee battle!"
At the same time, Zheng Yi looked at the Tatar soldiers who had rushed to about thirty steps, and immediately shouted: "All gunmen, fire! The spearmen are ready!"
Thousands of bird gunners paused briefly, then squatted in the front row, sank in the middle row, and stood upright in the back row. The three rows of bird gunners opened fire at the same time. The fierce firepower was like a hurricane, instantly sweeping through the large number of Tatars in front of the second battalion. Soldiers, this wave of volleys took away at least a thousand people!
Immediately afterwards, thousands of spearmen came forward in formation. After three roars of "Kill! Kill! Kill!", they charged towards the already chaotic Tatar formation with their guns drawn.
This charge was devastating. With this charge, thousands of Zhengbai Banner Mongolian soldiers collapsed on the spot!
