Won!
Really won!
Governor Yuan Chonghuan wiped his eyes with his hands covered with gunpowder smoke, and then looked again, yes, he really won!
Seeing his own soldiers charging against the squatting tiger cannon of the slave bandit with the blue flag, Yuan Chonghuan actually managed to hit it with one blow. He used a spear formation to charge and sent two to three thousand blue-armored soldiers fleeing in all directions. Yuan Chonghuan even abandoned the carriage and the squatting tiger cannon. It’s really a bit emotional.
Although he has been leading troops to fight in western Liaoning since the sixth year of Tianqi, and has been on the front line of western Liaoning for six or seven years now, he has always been a civil servant who oversees the army, rather than a general who directly commands the troops to kill the enemy.
On several occasions, he visited the front line in person and issued combat orders. But that was also a relatively general order issued by a civil servant. It was not like today that he went directly to the front line and, like a military general, commanded his own army to fight the Eight Banners soldiers in bloody battles. So he never knew that he was so good at fighting!
This was the first time he led his troops into battle, and they killed three or four thousand. No, it seemed that the arrogant Eight Banners soldiers of five, six, or seven thousand were completely defeated.
Yuan Chonghuan thought to himself: It turns out that my real talent is to be a general! I didn’t even learn much, but I’m already so good at it. It’s really amazing. If I had practiced martial arts instead of studying essays, I would have wiped out the slave thieves long ago... But it's not too late now, go back and get that "Taizu Art of War" and study it on your own. From now on, I will personally lead the troops to fight!
While Yuan Chonghuan was shocked by his military talent, Amin, who led 2,000 real Manchu soldiers with blue flags to supervise the battle, was also stunned by the scene of his own defeat in front of him.
He is the frontline commander who is stationed in Jinzhou and fights against the Jiliao Army of the Ming Dynasty. He has been fighting against the Jiliao Army for several years, and he can also feel that the Jiliao Army is getting stronger and stronger... although they are still a little timid. War, but in a real fight, neither the Han army nor the Mongolian army with the blue flag can be the opponent of the Jiliao army, and only true Manchuria can win.
But because the price of victory is not small, it is basically killing a hundred enemies and losing forty or fifty to yourself!
This kind of loss is nothing to the Jiliao Army... As long as they give money and land, the Jiliao Army is not afraid of not being able to recruit warriors.
But it’s very difficult to replenish Amin’s True Manchuria… It takes 18 years to replenish a domesticated True Manchuria!
It would be faster to catch a wild Manchuria, but the wild Jurchens in the mountains and fields relatively close to Liaodong have long been caught. If you want to catch them again, you have to go to the Heilongjiang River Basin, the Daxingan Mountains and the coast of the Whale Sea.
But the cost of catching wild Jurchens in the Heilongjiang Basin, Daxinganling Mountains and the Whale Sea Coast is too high. Even if some wild Jurchens could be caught, they would only be taken by the two yellow flags to strengthen their own strength, and it was impossible to share them with the blue flags.
Therefore, in the confrontation with the Jiliao Army in the past two years, Amin had to use real Manchuria with caution and use fake Tatars more often. Although this method preserved the vitality of the real Manchuria, it also tempered the Jiliao Army. Let the Jiliao Army become stronger and more confident in each battle they can endure...
But no matter how strong the Ji Liao army becomes, it will never be able to defeat the fake Manchus who are similar in number to them so easily!
Although the fake Manchuria is not as good as the real Manchuria, it will not defeat the Ji Liao army in one blow!
Moreover, these fake Manchus were pushing carts and squatting tiger cannons... Even if Amin was asked to take the real Manchus to kill them, they wouldn't be killed so easily, right?
Just when Amin was dumbfounded and at a loss, the real Manchus under his command had already begun to shoot at the retreating fake Manchus - they were sharp soldiers supervising the battle, and of course they had to stop the dead fake Manchus in front from escaping.
But no matter how powerful Manchuria's bows and arrows are, they are not as scary as the array of spears that have already charged!
There were countless spears placed flat or held high, forming a moving wall filled with deadly spear points.
And now there are no longer three spear formations charging, but five spear formations moving forward together. The total strength of the Jiliao Army invested in the attack has exceeded 5,000. After Yuan Chonghuan saw the breakthrough in the middle, he immediately asked the two wings to follow up. , leaving only a spear formation to guard the ferry, waiting for the cannon to cross the river.
As long as the Ningyuan artillery battalion joins the 12-pound Hongyi short artillery commanded by Peng Haogu to cross the Xiaoling River, then the battle of Xiaoling River crossing will be won by Yuan Chonghuan!
"Ama, I can't do it anymore..." Amin's eldest son Airli had already retreated and ran to his Ama to ask for help (he also retreated before the battle, but no one dared to shoot him to death with an arrow), "Han The Korean army and the Korean army are completely unable to stop it...the Manchurian soldiers must be deployed!"
Put in Manchu soldiers?
Amin finally reacted from his thoughts, stretched his neck and looked forward, and immediately took a breath.
Where are the soldiers rolling over from the front? It's completely a few movable walls with spears... Around these walls, there are many musketeers and archers who are constantly firing and shooting, and there are also many swordsmen who are closely guarding on both sides of the spear array. .
The soldiers of the Han Army and the Korean Army with the blue flag standing in front of these spear arrays had no way to fight them, so they could only retreat and shoot arrows. However, they were attacked from the front and back by the Ming army's firecrackers, archers, and the Eight Banners soldiers supervising the battle, Zhen Manchu. There were casualties one after another, and the sounds of crying and screaming resounded throughout the battlefield, almost overwhelming the Ming army's slogan of "Kill the slaves! Kill the slaves!"
Amin, who has been fighting all his life, certainly knows that a spear formation that cannot move is not scary, and a spear formation that cannot move is not scary either - the former is that he cannot move, and will fall apart if he moves. The latter lacked firepower and cavalry cover and therefore could not move. This was the case with the white-pole soldiers in the Battle of Hunhe River.
The pikemen who can eliminate enemy firepower and interference and advance like a wall in a strict formation are the most terrifying, and cannot be stopped by infantry other than the same formation of pikemen.
However, the Eight Banners Real Manchuria cannot use spear formations to fight against the Ming army... In spear formation combat, personal martial arts are of little use. The only option is to slap or stab each other. This means killing 1,000 enemies and causing 800 self-damage. The way to play!
"Quick, get the horses..." Amin shouted to the white-armored soldiers on the left and right, "Everyone, get on the horses! Airli, get on the horses too!"
Airli was stunned, "Amma, do we want to retreat?"
Amin glared at his son, "Fuck you, the eldest brother is still supervising the battle! And today's battle is the decisive battle... Didn't you see? Yuan Chonghuan's supervisors are all here, this is Work hard!"
"Amma, what should we do?"
"What should we do?" Amin gritted his teeth, "Fight... We men of the Eight Banners, 80% of our ability lies on horseback! If we want to fight hard, of course we have to get on the horse!"
By the way, Airli, go see the eldest brother as soon as possible...tell him everything about the situation here and ask him to send reinforcements up quickly! If you arrive too late, you may miss the target halfway through! "
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"What a great Yuan Chonghuan, he won the first battle and has captured the ferry!"
On the south bank of the Xiaoling River, Zhu Youjian was already dancing for joy when he saw Yuan Chonghuan commanding and supervising the governor to show off his might and repulse the troops with gold and blue flags. He didn't know that there were only more than 20,000 Hou Jin on the other side of the Xiaoling River. There were only a few thousand soldiers in Manchuria, and he still thought Huang Taiji was on the other side!
"Come here, take the horse, I want to cross the river, I want to kill Huang Taiji!"
As soon as Zhu Youjian said these words, the expressions of the three generals and six lieutenants present changed - are you trying to trick us again? You have already turned a Governor of Jiliao into a general and guerrilla in charge, and now you want us generals and deputy generals to fight for their lives?
Everyone was speechless.
But the guards around Zhu Youjian were unambiguous and quickly brought the horse.
Moreover, the cavalry brought by Zhu Youjian also began to gather at the Xiaoling River. Looking at this, they really have to cross the river to fight!
What should I do? Do you want to step in and stop me? Otherwise...the emperor has really passed, which is great. An emperor and a governor of Jiliao are on the front line, but their group of generals and lieutenants are hiding behind.
After the Battle of Jinzhou, what kind of officials will they still be? Just wait until Jin Yiwei is ordered to serve prison food!
But if we stop him... he might be tricked into fighting on the front line again!
