"Khan, we seem to have been fooled!"
Li Yongfang spoke to Nurhaci tremblingly.
Nurhaci replied with a cold face: "Withdraw troops!"
"twitter!"
Daishan and others immediately replied.
At this time, Huang Taiji suddenly ran forward from behind and said to Nurhaci: "Father Khan, someone reported that a large number of Ming troops were found in Niuzhuang area!"
After hearing this, Nurhachi glanced at Li Yongfang with sharp eyes.
Li Yongfang was so frightened that he quickly rolled off his horse and knelt on the ground: "Excuse me, Khan! I really didn't know that such a situation would happen! I really planted a lot of agents in the city. Wang Yitu, Jin Yu and the others, as well as Xi Tu Wait, Great Khan, you can go to the Niulu and check carefully!"
Nurhachi ignored Li Yongfang and rode away.
Li Yongfang wiped the sweat from his head and didn't know whether to go back with him or run away.
At this time, Huang Taiji helped him up: "Commander Li, please get up. I don't blame you for this. I will plead with Father Khan on your behalf."
Li Yongfang was extremely grateful to Huang Taiji.
Daishan scolded Li Yongfang in dissatisfaction: "You are a slave, you made our trip in vain, and now even our home is about to be kicked down!"
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Niuzhuang.
Nurhachi attached great importance to farming construction. Since the founding of the state, he has been recruiting Manchus, Mongolians, Han and other refugees to work in the fields, setting them up as villages, and setting up Zhangjing officials in each village to manage each village, and implement a military and political system that combines farmers and soldiers.
Niuzhuang is a settlement area of Donglu.
At this time, Yuan Ke immediately led the Ming troops of He Shixian's tribe and Qin Liangyu's tribe to arrive here.
The Donglu people built cities and fortified villages to live in each village. This was not the way of life of nomadic people, but a standard farming regime.
Therefore, they naturally have their own sentries at the forefront of the city wall, making it difficult for the Ming army to directly attack them.
And at this time.
Zhahatu, the Jiala Zhangjing who stayed behind in Niuzhuang, looked coldly at the Ming army on the opposite side that was several times his own, and his palms were sweaty.
Because according to the population of each Donglu village, there are basically more than 2,000 Ding in a Manchu settlement and more than 4,000 Ding in a Han settlement.
Before Nurhaci captured Liaoyang and Shenyang, the number of Han settlements was relatively small.
Niuzhuang also happened to be a Manchu settlement with more than 2,000 soldiers, that is, more than 2,000 soldiers.
But most of these two thousand soldiers have followed Nurhaci to attack Liaoyang.
After all, Nurhaci always likes to gather all his troops to fight intensively when going on an expedition. Moreover, there are many Ming troops in Liaoyang. Even if Nurhachi has spies in the city, he cannot lead a small number of troops to capture the city.
Therefore, Zahatu now only has about 500 Donglu Eight Banners soldiers around him.
Opposite the Ming army Qin Liangyu's troops were 3,000 white soldiers, and He Shixian led a thousand cavalrymen under his command, and they were elite servants who had just defeated the Donglu twice last year and made a lot of gains.
Therefore, it is impossible for Zahatu not to be nervous.
But Zahatu naturally did not dare to abandon the city and escape.
Because this is their home.
But what they didn't expect was that in the past it was they who went to plunder the homes of the Han people, but now it was the Han people who came to attack their homes.
"Fire the gun!"
After Zahatu shouted the order, the Niulu infantry under his command immediately attacked the Ming army.
He did not choose to form a stronghold to protect himself, because Zahatu knew that if he used his few troops to defend the stronghold, it would make the troops more dispersed, and it would not be conducive to taking advantage of his heavy armored infantry. It was better to concentrate and form a formation on the stronghold. Deal with this Ming army in the wild.
Therefore, before the arrival of the Ming army, Zahatu had already placed all his current troops outside the stronghold.
The Donglu have artillery, because Nurhachi once participated in the Ming Dynasty's war to pacify the Japanese and enter the DPRK, and he also knows the power of the Ming Dynasty's artillery. Moreover, he has now captured important towns such as Fushun and Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty, and robbed some craftsmen and artillery. Naturally, Some cannons will also be forged.
However, Nurhachi has not yet built many artillery pieces and has not trained many gunners. The Eight Banners will not really use artillery on a large scale until the Huang Taiji period.
Therefore, when Zahatu ordered "fire", there were only a few sporadic gunshots, which blew away several Ming troops on the opposite side, causing several people to be killed or injured, resulting in the neighing of some horses in panic and the officers and soldiers. The scream after being injured.
However, Bai Ganbing and He Shixian's servants were all elites of the Ming Dynasty, so their morale was not dampened or their positions panicked.
Zahatu knew that the Ming army that dared to break into his Dajin hinterland would definitely not be easy, but after seeing the strict formation of these Ming troops, he became even more cautious, because many ordinary Ming troops would retreat after the sound of cannons. , and he therefore ordered again: "Baya La, charge into the formation! The shield chariot advances, and the heavy armored infantry prepares to shoot arrows!"
After Zahatu finished speaking, more than ten white-armored soldiers came on horseback.
The main task of these more than ten white-armored soldiers is to disrupt the Ming army's formation. By approaching the Ming army's formation, the Ming army can launch firearms in advance or cause panic. If the Ming army panics, the white-armored soldiers can directly charge into the formation and defeat the Ming army. .
Although Zahatu saw that the Ming army on the opposite side was not defeated by his artillery, he still wanted the white-armored soldiers to try to charge into the formation.
Because he felt that his artillery did not defeat the Ming army. Perhaps it was just because his artillery was too few and caused too few casualties. Therefore, it did not cause too much panic in the Ming army and greatly reduced its morale. However, his white-armored soldiers If we charge another wave, we may be able to completely defeat the morale of the Ming army in front of us.
At that time.
These dozen white-armored soldiers had already approached the Ming army, and they were approaching Qin Liangyu's white-armored army.
Because Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers are infantry units and have poor mobility.
He Shixian's cavalry was on both wings and could outflank and encircle them at any time. Therefore, even if these white-armored soldiers claimed to be brave, they did not dare to attack more than a thousand Ming army cavalry.
At this time, three thousand soldiers with white poles were still waiting in full formation, their hooks and sickles piercing the air in unison, like a forest.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
These white-armored soldiers have already shot heavy arrows into the camp of Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers, hitting several of Qin Liangyu's white-armored soldiers.
"ah!"
Several screams were heard, and several white-pole soldiers fell to the ground.
Qin Liangyu's younger brother Qin Minping, who was standing in the front, gritted his teeth when he saw this, clenched the steel knife in his hand, and winked at the white-pole soldiers behind him: "Make up!"
The white-pole soldiers behind the casualty soldiers therefore automatically filled in, while the casualty white-pole soldiers were actively dragged to the back to recover from their injuries.
Qin Liangyu's white-pole soldiers were all Sichuan soldiers.
The ethnic groups in the southwest are mixed, so group fights often occur, and the folk customs are strong and martial.
As a result, the white-pole soldiers were able to develop strict combat discipline in this kind of regular group fighting, and they did not retreat due to the casualties of a small number of people.
These white-armored soldiers looked horrified when they saw this, and they suddenly became fearful and hurriedly turned their horses' heads.
despair!
despair!
despair!
The main equipment of the white-armed soldiers is hooks and sickles, white-armed spears, rattan shields and crossbows. Therefore, the white-armed soldiers in the front line have already raised their rattan shields at this time. Therefore, despite being injured by these elite white-armored soldiers of the Eight Banners who hold heavy bows and shoot heavy armor, There were a few people, but the number of casualties was not large.
Most of the arrows of the white-armored soldiers hit the vine shield.
at the same time.
Qin Liangyu also shouted loudly: "Fight to the death! Only then can you survive! Listen to my order and shoot!"
The white pole soldiers are not all spearmen, but also crossbowmen, and they use poisonous crossbows unique to the southwest.
Therefore, when these white-armored soldiers turned their horses' heads, thousands of crossbows were fired suddenly, like a black cloud flying towards them.
