"This is God blessing the Qing Dynasty!"
"The Qing Dynasty can be saved!"
Now, the only two thoughts that fill the minds of the three brothers Funing, Ye Bushu and Shuosei are "God's blessing" and "The Qing Dynasty can save them."
Although these three teenagers didn't know much about fighting, they could still see how strong the Ming army's camp was, with trenches, horses, fences, and parapets all available. Moreover, the defending troops reacted quickly. As soon as they were attacked, a large number of firecrackers were already in place! But even so, their defense line was broken through by the Manchu warriors who attacked desperately.
Seeing the Manchu soldiers wearing yellow and blue cotton armor screaming and rushing towards the breach that had just been made, Funing, the traitor of the Qing Dynasty, finally showed a happy smile - once the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers put their lives on the line, they are still very capable. call taxi! His two brothers also looked as if they were about to sing with joy. They looked at the breach filled with corpses and shouted compliments to their younger brother.
"Your Majesty, you are really like a god with your troops!"
"Yes, I haven't been able to get in after fighting for so long, but you broke it as soon as you came up. It seems that you are the God of War of our Qing Dynasty!"
Funing also smiled proudly, "The soldiers are all using their lives. I'm just trying to boost their morale."
Just when the traitor of the Qing Dynasty was humble, there was a sudden burst of gunfire and shouts of killing in the breach ahead.
Funing frowned and thought to himself: Hasn't it already broken through? Why did they start fighting again? Is this over? No, I have to go take a look!
Thinking of this, Funing waved to the left and right, then drove his horse forward, rushing towards the newly opened breakthrough.
Ye Bushu, the eldest among the three, was a little more cautious. Seeing that Funing was about to move forward again, he quickly stepped forward to persuade: "Your Majesty, is it too forward?"
Funing waved his hand and said, "I heard that Zhu Youjian would go into battle every time he personally went to battle. Sometimes he would even go into battle and fight with others in person to boost the fighting spirit of the three armies. I can't lose to him, I also have to go into battle to supervise the battle!"
As he spoke, Funing rode forward and passed the breach under the protection of more than a hundred white-armored soldiers under the Zhenghuang flag.
Entering the breach, Funing found that his Manchu Warriors were blocked in front of a makeshift car formation.
It turned out that when Wang Dadou discovered that the defense line consisting of trenches, horseback horses, fences, and parapets was about to be broken through, he did not organize a counterattack. Instead, he mobilized more than a hundred four-wheeled carriages and lined them up behind the possible breakthrough. An arc-shaped line of defense was formed. Not only did it block the passage for the slave thieves to break through to the interior of one's own camp, but it also blocked the route for the slave thieves to expand to both sides along the edge of the breach to expand the breach.
The reason why he did this was not because he didn't have a reserve team in hand, but because he found that the slave thieves were doing a one-shot deal, and at least 10,000 people were rushing toward his defense line mindlessly. And he only has more than 4,000 people at hand, so filling them all in may not be enough to stop this group of lunatics.
However, the madness of these lunatics also has a time limit. They cannot continue to be crazy, and they cannot have such strength. Wearing such heavy armor and pulling such a stiff bow, who can continue to shoot like this? Moreover, Wang Dadou also discovered that there were many old and young among the attacking Manchu soldiers, and he knew at a glance that they would not last long.
Therefore, Wang Dadou adopted the method of "defense in depth" and put a "patch" behind the defense line that was about to be breached.
Now the arrows and projectiles from both sides were densely intertwined in the early morning darkness, as if there was no end to them. Wang Dadou's two thousand-man infantry battalions (one of which was transferred from elsewhere for support) relied on the curved vehicle formation to defend. Thousands of firecrackers fired continuously in a three-stage attack, hitting row after row of enemies. The lead bullets will kill the enemies who try to attack the curved vehicle formation, leaving corpses everywhere on the ground.
The Manchurian soldiers fought back with a dense rain of arrows. Almost all the Manchurian soldiers with bows and arrows were shooting arrows desperately, trying to suppress the Ming army's firecrackers. However, the fire gunners of the Ming army on the opposite side were all wearing very good quality cloth-covered armor, and they also wore anti-arrow flying saucer helmets. There was also a thick felt hat inside the flying saucer helmet to prevent them from being knocked unconscious by heavy arrows. Therefore, although the rain of arrows fired by the Manchurian soldiers was much denser than the bullets fired by the Ming army, the casualties caused were not large.
If the stalemate between the two sides continues like this, it won't take long before most of the Manchu soldiers will be unable to draw their bows...
But just when Wang Dadou was planning to wait for the enemy to be exhausted before launching a counterattack, the Manchurian soldiers on the opposite side suddenly became "crazy" again, shouting "Long live" and launched a desperate charge against the lead bullets of the Ming army.
Wang Dadou saw this scene and knew that his opponent was going crazy again. Facing the crazy slave thieves, 1,000 turtledove guns with a very slow firing rate cannot stop them.
Fortunately, Wang Dadou still had 1,000 spearmen in his hands, and now he had formed several three-row formations to guard behind the vehicle formation.
The battle between the pikemen soon started along the arc-shaped vehicle formation. Because of the obstruction of the vehicle formation, the Manchurian soldiers, who also held long guns, could not maintain their impact status and had to climb over these four-wheeled vehicles that were connected by chains.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Dadou's spearmen immediately launched a charge. The spears in their hands were standard infantry spears, one foot and three feet long. In addition, the kinetic energy generated during the run-up was concentrated on the tip of the spear, and the lethality was quite considerable. Even if the opponent is wearing heavy armor, there is still a certain chance that it can be pierced.
One wave of impact knocked over many of the Manchurian soldiers who were climbing over the vehicle formation!
However, after the spear charged into the formation, its lethality was not that great. The charging Manchu soldiers all carried shields, which allowed them to draw their spears and get close to the Ming army's spearmen to engage in melee combat.
The spear is not a weapon suitable for close combat. Once the opponent gets close, the Ming army's spearmen can only abandon the spear and use iron whips and maces to fight the opponent hand-to-hand. The firecrackers who had retreated before now also put away their firecrackers and joined in the melee fight waving their iron whips and maces. There are many Manchu soldiers on one side, but they have been marching and fighting since yesterday evening, and their strength has weakened somewhat. The Ming army was full of fresh troops. Not only did they fight more fiercely, but they were also able to maintain the front line and fight side by side with the Manchurian soldiers. Therefore, they quickly gained the upper hand and began to fight against the Manchurian soldiers.
Funing, who was supervising the battle from behind, saw this scene and became anxious again. Why do the Manchu Warriors always fall behind at critical moments?
"Tan Tai! Tan Tai..." Funing shouted loudly that he was the commander of the army.
Tan Tai quickly stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, are you going to withdraw?"
Tan Tai didn't ask randomly. He had been fighting for his whole life, and of course he knew that something was wrong with the situation...
But Funing glared at Tan Tai fiercely: "What nonsense are you talking about? Today's battle is related to the survival of our Qing Dynasty... We must advance without retreating and survive in death! I will lead the cavalry into the battle. !”
Tan Tai was startled by Funing's words and thought to himself: Why don't you naughty kid know how to write the word "death"?
"Go and get ready!" Funing shouted.
"Hey!" Tan Tai had no choice but to respond and went to summon hundreds of cavalry.
He didn't dare to form a wall-like horizontal formation, so he formed a square formation and surrounded Funing. The cavalry formation had just been arranged, but the Manchurian soldiers who were fighting in front of them retreated one after another after the sound of golden drums, leaving the channel of attack to Funing.
Funing didn't hesitate at all and just shouted: "Go!"
After receiving the order, the Eight Banners soldiers were already excited. They all urged their horses together and rushed towards the thin front line of the Ming army. Those Ming soldiers had actually begun to flee. They had lost their spears and relied on blunt weapons to block the attack. Unable to resist the charge of the Eight Banners cavalry, they had no choice but to disperse and run away. But Funing has no interest in chasing them. As long as they don't stand in front of his charging team, he doesn't bother to bother!
He has only one goal now, and that is Zhu Youjian!
At this time, Zhu Youjian had already reached the opposite side of him, about four to five hundred steps away, and was riding his horse to stand behind six 6-pound field guns lined up in a row and covered by wooden boards.
It turns out that the Ming army's artillery has already been in place!
