In the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, on July 18, it was foggy in the early morning.
Boom boom boom...
The morning fog that filled the Yanghe battlefield had not yet dissipated, and intensive artillery fire rang out around Shihe Village, which was defended by elite soldiers with white flags.
Shihe Village is located right in the center of the battlefield, so it is an important support point. Azig's son Fu Lehe led 10 Niulu and drove into Shihe Village during the night last night. They spent half the night setting up defenses and were busy until early this morning.
Of course, the noise they made in Shihe Village could not be hidden from Dodo. But Duduo did not send troops to fight with Fulehe's people at night - night fighting relies on elite soldiers! Duduo's soldiers are not as good as Azige's soldiers. They can fight in formation, but there is no way to form a formation at night, and muskets and cannons are of little use. They rely on personal bravery, which Duduo's soldiers cannot do.
However, Duduo did not intend to let go of the "Qingxi Army" in Shihe Village. His method was to attack early in the morning!
The so-called rushing attack means to attack before the opponent completes their formation!
Because Azig's army was too disorganized, and the soldiers carried too many items, and many of them also carried coated slaves, it was inevitable to have chaos when setting up the formation, and their deployment was also chaotic. Some had to go up the mountain, and some had to enter. Village, the speed cannot be faster.
Duduo's army is much "cleaner" and its formation is simple. The infantry battalion, cavalry battalion, and artillery battalion just go out and line up in sequence. 18 infantry battalions, 2 cavalry battalions, and 1 artillery battalion, plus Duduo's own small battalion, were dispatched before dawn, waded across the river, and were ready in less than half an hour.
At this time, the troops of Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun were still dilly-dallying... against the brave King Duduo of the Qing Dynasty! Not only Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun were afraid, but the people below were also afraid. When they were afraid, their legs became weak, and when their legs became weak, they walked slowly.
So when Duduo's artillery opened fire on Shihe Village, the Green Flag troops who were supposed to line up on both sides of Shihe Village were still on the road...
"Erkechuhur! Erkechuhur! Erkechuhur..."
Before the sound of cannons stopped, bursts of Manchu slogans rang out!
"Erkchuhur" means "brave", and it symbolizes Duduo in the Manchu Army. The lingua franca of the Qingdong Army is Chinese, but everyone can speak "Erkechuhur". Duduo asked the infantry below to shout "Erkchuhur" when charging to embolden their courage.
"The Brave King is coming!"
A Niu Lu with a white flag flew to Fulehe's side, his reporting voice was trembling!
He never dreamed that Duduo, who did not have many cavalry and was small in number, would take the initiative to attack, and the offensive would be unusually fierce.
"Why are you panicking?" Cold sweat broke out on Fu Lehe's forehead, but he still managed to stay calm. "They are just some Han people. How can we, the Eight Banners warriors, be afraid of them?"
"But, their cannons are so powerful that they have destroyed about ten houses in the east of the village. Our people have no way to form an array!"
Although all the Manchu warriors are highly skilled in martial arts, after all, this is a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people. How can we fight without forming an array?
Now is the era where guns rule the roost. If we don't set up a formation so that lances, muskets, and artillery can cover each other, but instead they are a chaotic group, they will be blasted with volleys of guns!
Moreover, Fulehe had 2,000 old Manchus, as well as hundreds of artillery brigades of Han troops, and hundreds of soldiers. The small Shihe Village couldn't move away at all, so it had to rely on the village to form a formation to meet the enemy. If people surround the village, just wait to be blown away by cannons - the Hongyi small artillery is very mobile. If 30 cannons are pulled outside Shihe Village and bombarded, the people inside will not be cannoned. Even if you die, you will have a mental breakdown...
Fulehe knew that he could no longer hide his head, so he had no choice but to take a few soldiers with him and walk in the direction where the cannons and shouts were the densest. As soon as I went up, I realized that something was wrong.
The house at the east end of Shihe Village collapsed. Many of the white-flag warriors who were guarding there were buried inside. Some of them were injured and lay on the ground groaning. Some of them ran out in a panic. , but left his weapon inside, and now his hands are empty.
What's even worse is that the opponent's artillery array is placed on both sides of Shihe Village, so when their infantry advances, the artillery can continue to fire, and the artillery shells are still falling like raindrops!
The shells that landed in Shihe Village often bounced and swept in different directions, making everyone afraid to stand...
"Where are our cannons?" Fuller asked squatting down.
"My lord, they are all buried!" A young leader of the artillery team with a gray face and a broken head wrapped in cloth cried and reported to Fulehe, "The slave pushed the two cannons into the big house at the entrance of the village." After a few rounds, the house was blown down, the brothers were dead, and everyone was left injured..."
Although Dadan Zhangjing of the artillery team of the Han Army Flag was good at operating artillery, he was not proficient in how to arrange artillery arrays, and he did not know what kind of building structure was strong enough to block the 3-pound cannon. As a result, his two cannons were pushed into a large house that was in disrepair. As soon as they opened fire, they attracted a counterattack from the opponent's artillery. Duduo's 30 cannons were used intensively and under unified command. The firepower of the 30 cannons was attracted, and the house was destroyed by a few volleys!
"Dig it out!" Fulehe roared.
Dadan Zhangjing was almost furious when he saw his master. He didn't dare to say that he couldn't dig it out, so he had no choice but to summon his men to dig out the cannon.
But they can't dig for too long, because an "Eastern Army" infantry battalion reinforced by two muskets has already arrived!
The first one was the 3 musketeers. The 900 gunners were divided into 9 rows. They used the "eight into nine series" tactic to fire while advancing. Each time they fired, they fired a salvo of 100 muskets. The firepower was not fierce, but it was Continuously.
Following the 900 musketeers were 3 spear niulu, 1 sword niulu, 1 bow and arrow niulu, and 1 guard niulu. They did not form any square formation, just rows and rows. Go up!
The 10 Niulu under Fulehe are also equipped with muskets. Each Niulu has about 30 guns, half of them are shotguns produced by craftsmen with white flags, and half are "Nissan" matchlocks. There are also people who specialize in practicing muskets. However, these "Western Army" musketeers will not form a large "Niulu-level" establishment, but are scattered in various Niulus, so it is difficult to concentrate when needed.
Therefore, Fulehe was unable to gather 300 musketeers to shoot at the enemy. Under the circular bombardment of 900 muskets from the opponent, the Western Army position at the east end of Shihe Village was in chaos. The Western Army soldiers who had barely formed a formation were Rows of people were knocked down, and the battlefield was filled with corpses and screams.
By the time the continuous volleys of gunfire suddenly stopped and the Chinese shouts of killing began, Fulehe already knew that it would be difficult to resist.
His more than two thousand Manchurian soldiers could not form a formation at all, and they were out of control. They could only be commanded by Niulu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing below to fight on their own.
Huge shouts of killing soon rang out inside and outside Shihe Village, and a violent collision broke out between the two Qing armies. The officers and soldiers of the "Western Army" who had been beaten to pieces by rounds of gunfire were unable to resist the rows of spears. Their already scattered formation collapsed instantly, and some people moved towards the rear in the direction of Caojia Village. They fled, but most of them retreated into Shihe Village, thinking of fighting in close combat with the invading "Eastern Army".
So the brutal fighting continued in this small village.
And outside the village, a larger-scale battle has begun!
The dilly-dallying Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun armies, under Azige's strict orders, finally advanced to the north and south sides of Shihe Village, where they engaged in a fierce battle with eight battalions of infantry sent by Duduo.
The start is still firearms shooting!
Thousands of muskets from both sides opened fire violently, firing round after round of volleys! Then the artillery moved into place and began to violently bombard the opponent's infantry array.
As soon as the morning fog on the battlefield dissipated, gun smoke filled the air again!
