It has to be said that Duduo's battlefield command ability is still very strong. At a glance, he found the most critical point on this battlefield filled with smoke and fighting everywhere - it was the Nine Gate 12 that was bombarding Yue Le's right wing. Pound cannon.
With the existence of these cannons, the artillery that Yue Le relied on most would be wiped out sooner or later, and it was impossible for the Qing army to retreat and defend the camp. Once the field battle is defeated and there is no chance to take a breath, you have to start running away.
Considering that Beizhili is now full of chaos and fortresses everywhere, it is not that easy to run back to Beijing empty-handed.
Therefore, Zhan Dai's Baya La soldiers must destroy the Ming army's 12-pound artillery position, and they must succeed as soon as possible.
Because Yue Le can't stand it for too long...
But Zhan Dai found that he could not attack immediately, because his Bajala soldiers were unwilling to take off their cotton armor and chain armor, let alone throw away their eight-power bow and two pockets of feather arrows... .Those are all good things that cost a lot of money to buy. Why are they useless?
Besides, the battlefield is so dangerous, and two layers of armor are not very safe. How can you go to the battlefield naked? Isn't this going to die?
Although everyone is a warrior, warriors are also afraid of death!
Zhan Dai was a close bodyguard of Dorgon. Duduo let him take charge of his Baya La soldiers in order to win over Dorgon's old troops. Therefore, he was "airborne" from Zhang Jing and had no foundation in the army. It's not easy to use force, so I have to patiently persuade.
"This is the order from the Emperor's uncle, how could it be wrong?
Besides, how much does a collar of cotton armor plus a collar of chain mail weigh? At least seventy pounds, right? Plus two pockets of feathers and arrows, an eight-power bow, and some miscellaneous things, the weight is more than eighty pounds... Plus you are all big guys, and the final weight on the horse's back is at least two hundred pounds. How many pounds!
How heavy is your horse? Can you still charge up after carrying so much? Besides, the Nanmanzi infantry don't even use bows and arrows. They only use muskets, and they are so powerful that even shields and chariots may not be able to carry them. What's the use of the cotton armor and chain armor on us?
It’s our Manchurian heroes who have taken off their cotton armor and chain mail armor for me, put on their spears, and followed me into the battle! "
As Zhan Dai spoke, he called his coated servants over to help unload two pairs of heavy armors that together weighed no less than eighty kilograms. He didn't even mention an eight-power bow and two pockets of feather arrows.
The Manchurian cavalry soldiers were proud of their bows, horses and hand-to-hand combat. Now that their armor was gone, of course they did not dare to fight hand-to-hand easily. If they lost their bows, what would be left? Is it really possible to break through the Confederate infantry formation with just one spear? He himself feels unreliable!
Seeing Zhan Dai taking the lead, and knowing that this was Duduo's order, the soldiers below had no choice but to reluctantly begin to remove their armor. However, most of the cavalry soldiers still kept their chain mail on their bodies... having an extra forty pounds of wrought iron body protection would always give them a sense of security!
While Zhan Dai was busy persuading his men to remove their armor, two cavalrymen were already facing each other near Deshengdian, ready to hedge.
One of the two cavalry was the three thousand Manchurian vests commanded by Aisin Gioro, Liuyong and Mulima... They did not lose seventy or eighty kilograms of armor, and they were all neatly dressed.
On the other side were less than four thousand "Black Lancers" commanded by Li Yuanyin. They were much "lighter" and only had iron helmets and a pair of breastplates to protect their vitals.
Although both sides were planning to charge into the formation, neither side was a serious shock cavalry, so they couldn't even set up a larger cavalry square.
Li Yuanyin's men arranged thirty-two "cavalry groups" in company units. They were really groups of groups. They arranged two formations, each with sixteen groups.
There are less than thirty lancers in each group, leading the group, and the cavalry following behind are all armed with sabers. According to the Ming army's black lance and mule soldiers' drills, guns and arrows are not allowed to be fired when charging in groups! Both the archers and the musketeers must hold sabers, and just follow the lancers and attack together.
On Liuyong and Mulima's side, twelve cavalry groups were arranged in Niulu as a unit, and they were also in groups, a total of one formation.
The cavalry of the Qing army were led by lance cavalry, but behind the lance cavalry were all bow cavalry, and everyone had a bow and arrow in hand.
Liu Yong and Mulima's plan was to use lances and cavalry to break up the Ming army's cavalry group, and then use bow cavalry to get closer and shoot arrows.
The attack horns of both sides sounded almost at the same time, and the Qing army's twelve horse teams and the Ming army's sixteen horse teams in the front line began to advance almost at the same time.
The war horses on both sides are about the same size, and they have accumulated their power for a while. Whether they can charge forward now depends on how heavy the knight they are carrying is. The Ming army's cavalry carried a lighter load, so the impact speed was faster and the impact force was greater.
The Qing army actually had some advantages. Their advantage was that they had a larger cluster. A group of almost 250 cavalrymen was twice as large as the Ming army's cavalry group. However, during the attack, the Qing army's cavalry group was divided into groups: a group of cavalry with lances and a group of cavalry with archers. The lances charged forward, while the cavalry controlled the horse speed and followed behind. These horse archers probably wanted to take advantage of the lancers in front to disperse the enemy and get closer to shoot arrows at close range.
The most powerful thing about Manchurian cavalry archery is close-range archery. The cavalry soldiers would often rush to the opponent and fire arrows within ten steps. To shoot an arrow at this distance, you don't need Manchu warriors. If you let the beggars of the Ming army do it, you can hit the target 100% of the time.
However, once these cavalry with bows fell behind, there were not many people with guns and vests left. A group of forty or fifty cavalry could not form a numerical advantage at all when facing the Ming cavalry with more than a hundred cavalry.
The quantity is small and the speed is slow, so why rush? After the collision, almost all the Qing army's gun and vest groups were "engulfed" by the Ming army's cavalry group on the opposite side. The Manchu warriors were either shot down by their opponents' spears or hit by sabers, and some simply encountered "horses" A traffic accident involving a "horse collision" caused him to fall off his horse together with his opponent.
There were also some who were lucky enough to rush through intact, but don't be too happy. The rear formation of the Ming army's cavalry group rushed up after them... This time, it was the most bullied by a hundred or dozens of cavalry. Twenty riders, and these twenty riders have lost their original speed!
Seeing that the horse armor they were attacking was washed away, the horsemen holding bows behind them dispersed their formation and wanted to stick up to shoot arrows. However, the Ming army cavalry who had completed the attack did not stop to fight hand to hand with the Qing army horsemen who had been scattered by them. He continued to ride his horse forward and passed by the Qing army's archers and cavalry who had dispersed their formation. Before these Qing army archers could react, the Ming army's rear cavalry group rushed towards them...
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"Manchu warriors, charge at me!"
Zhan Dai shouted loudly, waved his carbine, pointed towards the place where the smoke was thickest, and then took the lead and rushed straight away.
He had already found the position of the Ming Army's Hongyi artillery on a battlefield that was in chaos and filled with gunpowder smoke! These Hongyi cannons were still firing, bombarding Yue Le's artillery position to support the counterattacks of Gao Jie and Qin Mingtao.
It was really not easy for Yue Le. With more than 10,000 infantry troops on hand that had been reduced to exhaustion, he was able to withstand the attacks of Gao Jie and Qin Mingtao in turn, and repelled the opponent three times in a row - his method was to concentrate artillery fire and blast them away. The Ming army's phalanx then sent sword soldiers to fight in hand-to-hand combat despite the smoke of the battlefield!
Because the infantry of the Ming Army canceled the melee combat unit of sword soldiers, they were at an obvious disadvantage in close-range melees. Moreover, they did not have the shock cavalry that could make a decisive impact on the battlefield, so they were dragged into hand-to-hand combat by the scattered Qing soldiers again and again.
However, the nine 12-pound guns of the Ming Army were constantly "calling out" Yue Le's artillery position, and they had already blasted away more than a dozen 3-pound guns.
As Yue Le's firepower became weaker and weaker, the collapse of the Qing infantry was imminent.
At this moment, Zhan Dai, under the cover of smoke, suddenly rushed to the front of the Ming army's 12-pound artillery position!
