"Boom boom boom..."
Before Mandahai could react from the shock, the second round of shotgun volley from the Ming army's artillery began!
The round of volleys just now had knocked down more than 500 cavalry. The Eight Banners cavalry soldiers who were charging forward were almost wiped out. However, most of the cavalrymen further back were still alive. They were just stunned and lost by the horrific scene in front of them. The courage to risk one's life. Just when they were hesitating, the Ming army gunners had already completed clearing, loading and firing the new round of guns!
Still 24 cannons fired at the same time, spraying out thousands of lead bullets, most of which hit the cavalry and horses of the Qing army further back, knocking down a large number of them!
Now the dead people and horses lay on the ground, and some of them were still alive, rolling and wailing in the blood. What appeared in front of Mandahai was a scene of pure hell on earth.
Man Dahai was also frightened by the two rounds of "shooting" by the Ming army. He had just thought of leading the dead soldiers to attack Zhu Youjian in formation. Fortunately, he was afraid of death and didn't dare to rush too far forward, so he saved his life.
But whether this life can be saved is hard to say now!
Just when Mandahai was stunned by the hell-like scene in front of him, someone shouted beside him: "Big, big cavalry...the big cavalry is coming!"
The Malaysian cavalry are the foreign cavalry soldiers of the cavalry army in front of the tent! He is the enemy that the Eight Banners soldiers fear most... no one!
Mandahai was so frightened that he quickly looked up and saw at least a thousand armored cavalry on tall horses. He didn't know when they had appeared on his left wing! Different from the "foreign cavalry" that the Qing army encountered on the battlefield between Gaizhou and Fuzhou before, whose men had plate armor and whose horses had no uniforms, what appeared now were the soldiers who gradually disappeared from the battlefield after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Armored cavalry. Not only did the knights on horseback wear slatted iron armor, but the war horses also wore cotton armor.
Thousands of armored cavalry formed 10 horizontal formations of hundreds of cavalry. The armored cavalry in the first row had straightened their spears and began to charge into the formation. Mandahai immediately felt the ground below trembling, and his heart was trembling too... because he knew that those armored horsemen were a powerful force that he could not resist! In the blink of an eye, the speed of these armored cavalry increased. The roar of horse hooves, the shouts of the knights, and the exclamations of the Qing cavalry themselves were mixed together, becoming the most beautiful and most beautiful sound on the battlefield. Terrible sound.
The Qing cavalry that had just been bombarded had completely lost their fighting spirit. Some turned their horses around, some closed their eyes and waited for death, and some were completely at a loss. They just opened their mouths and stared blankly at the approaching approaching troops. The torrent of steel couldn't help but look at the trembling tip of the gun, and the god of death that was rapidly approaching him!
If someone could put on wings and fly up in the air and look down, he would be able to see moving iron walls slamming into the scattered formations of the Qing army's cavalry, and the Qing army's previous attack on the front of the Ming army's formation. Sweep the lower right corner of the arc that comes out.
After the moving steel city walls rolled forward, what was left behind was a mess of blood and flesh! In this wave of charges, the number of Eight Banners generals who were knocked off their horses, pierced by spears, and trampled to death by their horses was only in the thousands, and among them was Daishan's seventh son Man Dahai!
The Qing army's losses caused by this wave of cavalry charges were probably greater than those caused by the previous shelling!
And more than a thousand other armored cavalry, also riding foreign horses, had already passed the Ming army's artillery position, and also launched an impact formation with a wider front - this time there were more than three hundred cavalry in a row. Three rows of cavalry were listed in the front, middle and back. After the first wave of armored cavalry completed the charge, the second wave of charge began, stepping over the bodies or corpses of the Qing cavalry lying on the ground. , rushed towards the Qing cavalry who had not been killed by the shelling and the first wave of armored cavalry charges, but had completely collapsed and were retreating hastily towards the Qing army formation to the north, and soon caught up with these Qing troops. The tail of the cavalry!
Then they killed and drove away...killed all those who could catch up, and drove the rest into the Japanese and Qing coalition's military formation. They also took advantage of the chaos in the Japanese and Qing coalition's battle formation to follow them and rush in. A wave. It was not until Duduo led two thousand Eight Banners cavalry soldiers to launch a counterattack that they roared away and withdrew from the Japanese-Qing coalition formation.
Although the counterattack commanded by Duduo saved the Japanese and Qing coalition forces from immediate collapse, their night attack still failed miserably!
The 10,000 Japanese troops who attacked under the leadership of Masayuki Hoshina returned with a disastrous defeat after losing more than 3,000 people! The losses of the 89,008 banner soldiers led by Daishan, Wakda, and Mandahai were even worse. More than half of them failed to return, and Daishan's two sons, Wakda and Mandahai, both died there. In the formation!
In addition, the diversionary attack launched by the Japanese and Qing coalition forces on the left flank of the Ming army was also repelled by the Ming army, with the loss of no less than 1,000 people.
A failed night battle caused the Japanese and Qing coalition forces to lose nearly 9,000 people!
If we include the fierce battle during the day the day before and the losses caused by the previous cavalry competition, the Japanese and Qing coalition forces have lost more than 15,000 people.
However, compared to the 120,000-strong Japanese and Qing coalition forces, this loss is still bearable.
Moreover, people like Taisong, Dorgon, Daishan, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Hoshina Masayuki also know that they cannot give up easily.
Because they can’t afford to lose!
"withdraw......"
Empress Dowager Taisong was riding on her horse, watching the Ming army formation slowly unfolding in front of her, and finally gritted her silver teeth and uttered the word "withdraw".
"Queen Mother, where to evacuate..." The person who asked was Daishan, whose face was full of tears and was in a state of despair. Both of his sons died in the battle, but he himself was lucky enough to escape.
"Let's withdraw across the Qinghe River first," Taisong said. "By relying on the Qinghe River, we can always defend Gaizhou..."
If you lose this battle, you will have to defend Shenyang!
The Queen Mother Taisong didn't want to end up in this situation. She was already used to being a condescending Queen Mother, so how could she be willing to become Zhu Youjian's prisoner?
Besides, even if she wants to surrender, she still wants to retain more territory and troops, so she has to continue to hold on... and she is not the co-owner of the Qing Dynasty now, but only one of the "Ten Masters" .
There is still a possibility for her to surrender, but if the other nine masters (including Funing) really surrender, will they have a way to survive?
Dorgon, who was standing side by side with Taisong, also sighed: "Just take a step back... guard Qinghe first, and then look at the situation."
"Is there anything else we can see?" Mang Gurtai asked.
"And...Qingniwa Bay!" Dorgon said, "If the Japanese gain a firm foothold on the east bank of the Nanguan Canal in Jinzhou, we will still have a chance. Otherwise... ." He sighed, "Otherwise, prepare to defend Shenyang!"
...
Dorgon hoped that when Japan launched a sneak attack in Qingniwa Bay, Matsukura Shigeharu had already taken the remnants of less than 1,500 people and the head of Matsukura Shigeharu, who had committed seppuku, on several light Western sailing ships to skin him. Fleeed towards the island.
Behind these light sailing ships is a huge fleet of 66 sailing ships - this is the main force of the Ming Dynasty's Beiyang Navy led by Count Hans Postman!
It turned out that the 66 sailing ships led by Hans Postmann were just one step behind. When they returned from Liaoxi, they happened to encounter a southwesterly wind, so the return speed was very fast, but they were just a little short of being able to catch the Matsukura Shigetsu. Arrive before retreating... If so, Matsukura Shigetoshi, the 1,500 Japanese soldiers, and several small boats of the Japanese shogunate fleet would have no chance to leave Aoniwa Bay.
But in that case, Hans Postman also had no chance to track these Japanese sailing ships to find the main force of the shogunate fleet - if the main force of the shogunate fleet was hiding in Nagoya Bay, the Ming Imperial Navy would not have There is no way they can block the gate of Nagoya Bay for a long time, let alone attack by force. And this time the shogunate fleet launched a large-scale attack, giving Hans Postman a rare opportunity!
