Won?
Isn't this too sudden?
Duduo, who was watching the battle from the high platform at the rear, couldn't believe his eyes. He was also planning to send cavalry to outflank the left wing of the Ming army after the infantry commanded by Yue Le was beaten by the Ming army!
But what happened to the Ming army? How come it failed when it was so good?
Could it be that he, the brave king, is really good at fighting? Still a scam?
"It's a fraud! It must be a fraud!" Duduo was already shouting! He is the Brave King, how can he be so easy to deceive?
Nikan stood next to Duduo and stretched his thick neck to watch. Hearing Duduo say it was a scam, he smiled and said: "Uncle Huang is wise, but we are not afraid of a scam because our cavalry has not moved yet!" Let’s see what kind of deceit those people can pull off?”
The infantry is not the main force in the Dodo Army. The forward battalion cavalry, the valiant cavalry battalion and the Bagala cavalry are the main force!
Now that the main force has not yet come out, it would be a good idea to use the less valuable infantry to test the Ming army's trump card.
Thinking of this, Duduo suppressed Ming Jin's thoughts of withdrawing his troops, raised his telescope and continued to watch the battle.
Looking through the telescope, I saw that the Ming Army musketeers who were murderous just now and wanted to kill the Qing army were now running as fast as rabbits. At first glance, I knew that they were veteran Youzi who was very good at escaping.
The pikemen who were originally pressed behind the musketeers were broken up by this group of veterans who were good at escaping. They used long spears of 1.3 feet. It was obvious at a glance that they were used to stab the cavalry! If the formation can be maintained, it may be possible to deal with the Qing infantry. But now that they are all scattered, facing the Qing army's sword players, they have no choice but to fight or run away!
Could it be that the Ming army did not fake defeat, but was really caught off guard by Yue Le who seized the opportunity?
Just when Duduo was unsure, the retreating Ming army had already stopped its decline. It turned out that after running more than 300 steps, they encountered the Ming army's rear formation. The most common infantry arrays in the square formation era were based on square formations or horizontal formations, and then formed two large formations, front and rear. Place some cannons in front of the front formation, and some cavalry on the left, right or rear of the two formations.
However, the formation of the Ming army that Duduo encountered today was a bit strange. Their front and rear formations were too far apart, more than 300 steps, and their cavalry was nowhere to be seen?
This thing always seems wrong!
Just when Duduo felt that something was wrong, the soldiers of the retreating front formation of the Ming army had already passed through the rear formation in disorder and began to reorganize dozens of steps behind the rear formation.
At this time, many 3-pound cannons were also placed in front of the Ming army's rear formation. These artillery pieces were the ones that were originally placed in front of the front formation. They retreated before the Qing army's musketeers came up. There were originally 36 guns. The previous cannons were Three gates were damaged during the battle, and the remaining 33 gates were now filled with shotgun shells. They fired a round of fierce bombardment at the pursuing Qing army, which knocked the pursuers of the Qing army off their backs and immediately stabilized their position.
The Qing army that had been bombarded also ended its charge, retreated two to three hundred steps and then began to regroup. In the rear formation of the Qing army's infantry, there were 87 artillery pieces (the Qing army's artillery lost 9 artillery pieces in the previous artillery battle), which were also pulled forward by horses. These cannons were the real combat effectiveness of the Qing army's infantry!
When the Qing army reorganized their formation, the Ming army's artillery kept firing desperately. This time they fired cheap stone bullets, but they were still quite accurate. Artillery shells continued to fall among the Qing infantry. Although they were only 3-pound stone shells, they could not hold up too many. Every time they fell, they could overturn several Qing soldiers. The most terrifying thing is that some of the shells can bounce and then fly rapidly for a distance at a height of five or six feet above the ground. The flesh and blood of the soldiers standing in front of the shells will be instantly penetrated by the flying stone bullets! And after penetrating a strong man from the Qing army wearing who knows how many layers of armor, these stone bullets flying around will still have the power to penetrate the second and third bodies.
The Qing army, which was bombarded by the Ming army's artillery, was almost defeated in chaos, but Yue Le was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He personally led Lao Manchu, who was supervising the battle, to hold on behind the formation and beheaded dozens of people in a row. Hold your ground.
But the price is still worth it!
Because more than 80 3-pound cannons of the Qing army had taken advantage of this opportunity, although eight more artillery pieces were hit and damaged by the Ming army's artillery in the process, the remaining more than 80 artillery pieces were still deployed. They reached the front line more than 200 steps away from the Ming army infantry.
This firepower is no joke, it completely exceeds the normal density and reaches the point of excess. It had not been able to exert its power before because it was too far away from the Ming army's infantry formation, so it could only be used to attack the artillery deployed by the Ming army.
But now Yue Le lets his infantry and artillery deploy against the opponent's firepower, thus shortening the distance!
Once the firepower of more than 80 3-pound cannons is unleashed, the Ming army's more than 10,000 infantrymen and more than 30 three-pound cannons will simply not be able to withstand it.
Probably frightened by the number of Qing artillery, before the Qing artillery could collectively aim and fire, the Ming army began to retreat again.
Yue Le was also prepared. When he saw the Ming army retreating in chaos, he sent out more than 2,000 musketeers and more than 2,000 archers in his hands, chasing the Ming army with a volley of guns and a burst of arrows. The retreating Ming army was thrown into chaos. It looked like they couldn't regroup, and many of the Ming army's spearmen even lost their Zhangsan spears!
"Win, win." Nikan, who was standing next to Duduo, was already excited. "Uncle Emperor, let me lead the cavalry to charge into the battle. The 20,000 people who came here will definitely be taken care of!"
Duduo still didn't quite believe that he had won so easily. He always felt that he was being deceived, and that was the time when he didn't come out. Just to the left and rear of the retreating Ming army, at the edge of a large forest, a row of fire suddenly appeared, and then eight or nine black dots were sprayed out, rushing toward the pursuers at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye. The Qing army flew away. Because the distance was long and the targets were moving, most of them were missed. However, there was still a black dot that landed in the middle of a large group of Qing troops. It knocked down several people immediately, and then the black dot bounced around. , swept through the crowd, creating a bloody alley!
"This is not a three-pound cannon!" Duduo took a breath, "Did the Nanmanzi pull out the Hongyi cannon for field battle?"
"Uncle Emperor," Nikan reminded, "this must be a cannon prepared to bombard Tianjin Guards! I didn't expect it to be used here!"
Duduo nodded: "It should be so! But if you have heavy artillery, you must have heavy soldiers. It seems that there is an ambush in the woods! This is probably Shi Kefa's last move, right?"
Probably to prove Duduo's wisdom and prowess, as soon as he finished speaking, a large group of musketeers and pikemen rushed out of the woods, formed a dozen Morris-style square formations, and rushed towards the flank of the Qing army. .
"Uncle Emperor!" Nikan couldn't bear it anymore and called for battle again, "Give me 8,000 forward troops to camp the cavalry, and I will go and clear up the ambush on the left wing of the Southern Barbarians."
Duduo smiled: "Isn't 8,000 forward battalion cavalry not enough? I'll add 6,000 brave cavalry battalion to bring you both red and blue cavalry, and give you 12 3-pound cannons. Remember , don’t charge forcefully, first let the 3-pounder cannon cover the dismounted forward battalion soldiers and attack them with muskets, and then use the valiant cavalry battalion to attack after disrupting their formation.”
"嗻!"
Nikan responded, and after performing a thousand salutes, he was about to go down to the observation tower to mobilize his troops. At this time, there was another burst of intensive musketry from the direction of Shenghengdian on Duduo's left wing.
Nikan stopped and looked back at Dodo. Dodo waved his hand and said with a smile: "Go and fight hard! Don't worry about Deshengdian. It should be the Southern Army's cavalry that was ambushed by Mulima.
Gu had been worried about the Confederate cavalry before, but now the stone in his heart has finally fallen to the ground!
The lonely king can just deploy another 3,000 valiant cavalry to support Mulima. Fighting in a melee in the woods is a show of bravery. This is what we, the Eight Banners, are best at! "
Nikan complimented loudly: "Uncle Huang Taisheng Ming!"
