On the artillery position west of Fuldan City, five D30-122 howitzers fired three rapid fire rounds, and then extended their firing backwards in accordance with Zhao Xin's request. This time the range was increased by 200 meters, eight rapid fire rounds!
In the mountain forest 1,500 meters away, when the Qing army led by Ushhada was bombarded four times, the forward battalion and the central army immediately exploded! Thousands of war horses were frightened and lost control, colliding with each other, trampling on each other, and neighing.
Ushhada and other generals comforted their men and ordered: "Stop the whole army! This is a ten thousand enemy planted by the thieves!"
(According to records in the Ming Dynasty's "Cao Hai Tu Bian", "Records of Military Training - Miscellaneous Collection", and "Military Preparation Records", by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were more than ten kinds of landmines used by the Ming army. According to the detonation method, There are combustion, pull, trip, machine, etc. In addition to single mines, there are also group mines that use fuzes to control the explosion; "child-mother mines" that detonate several sub-mines through the explosion of a mother mine. According to combat If necessary, mines can be placed on vehicles, buildings, or animals can be used to carry mines into formations.)
When the soldiers settled down a little, calmed the horses, extinguished the flames, and prepared to treat the wounded, there were roars in the sky again along with the roar in the distance.
"boom!"
"Oh my god! Come again!"
"Run! This is not an enemy of ten thousand people, but thunder from the sky!" Several gunners from the Qing artillery battalion were the first to wake up and ran back.
The first to begin to disintegrate were the "retreating barbarian troops" following the artillery battalion. The archers composed of these border residents were frightened and overwhelmed by the explosions and shouts of people and horses in front. When they saw the Qing army in front of them running back screaming, they also fled together.
Although these border residents who were urgently recruited had undergone certain training, they were not professional soldiers after all. In addition, the supplies and treatment were different from those of the Eight Banners Armor, so their fighting will was naturally different. In the eyes of these border residents, God is already thundering, and this is nothing! Hurry up and run home with the food on your horse! The assistant leaders in charge of these archers, Fuke Jingge and Tasha, led a few soldiers to shout loudly, trying to prevent the retreat. But as the casualties gradually increased, the two of them realized that the situation was out of control, and they actually fled southward with the rebels!
This is like putting a bad student and a top student at the same table. As a result, not only did the big brother fail to bring the newbie, but the two of them skipped classes together. If Fukangan, the "head teacher", knew about it, he would have gone crazy on the spot...
In the central army where Ushhada was located, the knight holding the banner held the reins with one hand and was trying to calm the horse under him; but two explosions sounded dozens of meters away, causing his horse to completely lose control. When he was hit hard by another frightened horse, the flag-bearing knight jumped forward and flew off the horse, breaking his neck.
In the fire and smoke, those Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground to avoid the explosion looked up and saw the Chinese military flag suddenly disappearing. They were shocked and said: "Wujunmen was killed! Everyone, run away!"
The Qing army's eastern front troops were in complete chaos!
At this time, Dai Sanbao and Guanbao, the commander of the escort, stood up from their horses regardless of their own safety and shouted at their fleeing men, trying to prevent them from dispersing. As the chief and deputy commander of the firearms battalion, the scoldings of Dai Sanbao and the official security had no effect. Yarjiang'a of the artillery battalion initially tried to dissuade them loudly with Dai Sanbao, but it had no effect even if their voices were hoarse. Yaerjiang Ah's heart was filled with confusion, he slumped down on his horse and actually blended into the fleeing crowd, never to be seen again.
The general Ushhada could not be found, and everywhere he could see were soldiers fleeing. Dai Sanbao was so desperate that he pulled out the Yan Fei Dao from his waist and was about to commit suicide when a cannonball exploded beside him; Dai Sanbao flew into the sky amidst the fire and the exploding soil.
When Guan Bao, the deputy guard officer's officer, saw that Dai Sanbao was dead, he no longer wanted to organize his team. He tucked his horse's belly between his legs and fled eastward with his own soldiers.
"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"
Up and down the walls of Fuldan City, accompanied by the roar of cannons, thousands of people in Beihai Town cheered louder and louder. After hearing the news, Chen Qingsong walked to the top of the city and asked Zhao Xin: "Do we need to send militia to attack?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "Fukangan's group has not arrived yet, and there are Wang Yuanfang and the others in the south. Let the militiamen strengthen their vigilance. As we said before, if the enemy approaches, we will fire volleys from 150 meters away! "
After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he went down the city wall, arrived at Chen Qingsong's logistics headquarters, and informed Liu Sheng.
"Contact Wang Yuanfang immediately and order them to dispatch! Take Mongolian Karen within two hours and cut off the Qing army's south escape route!"
"Understood! I'll notify him right away!" Liu Sheng on the phone must have overcome his previous dull state, and he answered with a very powerful voice.
When the Qing army troops on the southern front heard the rumble of artillery six or seven miles away to the north, they thought Ushhada had begun to attack the city, so they started shouting excitedly.
A counselor in the team complained: "This Ushhada is really trying to dig eggs out of his ass. I'm so anxious!"
As his deputy, Zuo Ling said with a smile: "I guess he wants to capture Fuldan City first and let Marshal Fu repay him."
The counselor's eyes widened and he said disdainfully: "I really don't look down on him, just because of him? Grandma!"
While the two were talking, they heard the rapid sound of horse hooves behind them. They turned around and saw a messenger holding an order flag running past the team and shouting: "The commander has an order. The whole army is two miles away." Formation!"
Zuo Ling said in surprise: "Isn't it too early to form an array now?"
"Shut up! This is the commander's military order, you have no right to question it!"
At this time, Fukang'an knew that the fighting on the Eastern Front had begun, and finally made up his mind to give it a try. While he continued to send forward battalion scouts to the north for reconnaissance, he also sent messengers to contact Durjia in the Western Front Camp and Ushhada in the Eastern Front. The 7,500 Qing troops on the Southern Front began to move in from Fuzhou. They formed an array three miles away from Erdan City.
The grand formation set up by Fukang'an is the famous "Nine Advances and Ten Chains".
In the 29th year of Kangxi's reign (1690), Emperor Kangxi, who was on a personal expedition due to illness, ordered Prince Heshuo Fuquan to lead 50,000 soldiers, plus auxiliary troops and logistical civilian teams, known as a 100,000-strong army, forty miles away from Ulan Butong. Set up camp and form array.
Since the Qing army's musket manufacturing at that time was still at the level of the late Ming Dynasty, it was really no match for the Junggar army holding Tsarist Russian firearms, and suffered heavy losses. Even Tong Guogang died in the battle. After that, the Qing army simply stopped attacking and formed a "Nine Advances and Ten Chains" at the foot of the mountain. They started to fight with the Galdan southern invasion army with artillery and artillery. The battle lasted for a whole day, with soldiers from both sides fighting many times. The battle ended with Galdan's troops running out of ammunition.
At this time, those who came to the forefront of the formation were the firearms battalions stationed in the Eight Banners from various places. There are 458 men in each battalion, arranged in staggered formations, a total of twenty, totaling 9,200 men.
Each camp is divided into three divisions, with three flags in the formation.
Behind each flag are sixty bearers of antlers, thirty shield vehicles behind the antlers, eighty musketeers and cotton armor soldiers, and two rope guides stationed on both sides (responsible for keeping the fire and helping the musketeers light the match ropes). On both sides of the rope soldiers, there were twenty spearmen and twenty flail soldiers. There are five magical general cannons on the left and right sides of the flail soldiers, and each cannon is manned by three gunners. On both sides of the cannon, there were one hundred and eleven cavalrymen and one hundred shotgun cavalry.
There are also three leaders and three knights who are responsible for raising the flag, one official who follows the flag, two leaders and twenty knights. Secondly, there are five people who participate in the leadership of the flags and fifteen riders who hold the flags. There are two red flags, and two people are holding the flag to lead and urge; there are ten knights responsible for ringing the gold, four knights carrying the drums, two knights beating the drums, and thirteen knights ringing the conch horn. In addition, there are two Dutong people, one deputy Dutong person for each flag, two auxiliary leaders, five casual rank officers, two envoys, and seven Xiaoqi cadets.
Behind the first line of firearms battalions is the second line with the vanguard battalion in the center and the archers of the retreating barbarians at both ends.
In addition, a group of civilians drove a cart to the back of the second column of Qing troops, unloaded a lot of wood from the cart, and began to build a high platform with ping-pong-pong.
Two hours later, when twenty battalions of the Qing army formed a long snake formation 2,370 meters long and more than 160 meters deep on the vast plain in front of the twin castles, all the officers and soldiers of Beihai Town, including Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, Everyone was dumbfounded!
To the west, Liu Sheng applied cooling oil to the big lump on his forehead that had not subsided, and exclaimed: "I'm going! I'm going~! I really want to play with guns and cannons!"
In the trenches on the southern front, Katsu Kaishu and Heita looked at the opposite side and exclaimed: "It is indeed a powerful army of the Celestial Empire! It's a pity that I met my lord."
Pingtai said: "After this battle, will we be able to live a peaceful life for a while?"
Sheng Haizhou said: "It's hard to say, I think the lord must have his own plan. Lu Shoushan and the others will also bring back many refugees from Henan. Pingtai, my blood boils when I think that the lord's foundation will be even stronger!"
Pingtai said: "Yes, at the beginning of last year, we were still struggling to survive on Bear Island. Who would have thought that we would be here today!"
Sheng Haizhou put down the telescope and nodded: "Yes! We in Beihai are invincible!"
Ding Guofeng didn't say anything for a long time, thinking that these two idiots were suffering from hysteria again...
To the east, Zhao Xin stood at the top of the city, holding up a telescope, and said in surprise: "I'm going to kill you! Old Chen, take a look! Seeing is worth hearing a hundred times!"
Chen Qingsong looked at the tyrannical formation on the opposite side and sighed: "It would be great if history could keep this up! What a pity!"
Liu Siting also ran to the top of the city, looked around with a telescope, and said, "Why are there no handsome guys?"
Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong: "..."
"Boom~!" Zhao Xin and others were startled. They shrank their heads and saw a faint cloud of white smoke rising in the distance. Then they heard the sound coming from the Qing army formation on the opposite side. There was a sound of drumming.
Liu Siting asked curiously: "What is this for?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand either. That sound just now should have been a cannon. It should have been the coach coming out."
Having said this, Zhao Xin supported the wall, pointed to the high platform in the distance with a smile, and said to Liu Siting: "It should be the emoticon package!"
"Who are you talking about?"
"Erkang, it's Fukangan." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he learned the lines from the TV series and said: "Ah! Ziwei, you can't have more than me, because I'm already full!"
Liu Siting said with disdain: "Eh~~ It's so disgusting!"
Zhao Xin curled his lips and said, "I'm not cooperating at all. If your Doctor Hong were here, you should say, 'If you're full, then I'll let you out!'"
"Ugh~! Man, you big-headed devil!"
At this time, behind the Qing army's formation, a marching cannon sounded, and amid the sound of drums, Fukang'an's sedan, escorted by hundreds of Chinese army guards, arrived in front of the marshal's platform that had been set up. A horse-riding general following the sedan held a square gold-plated cloud python flag with a side length of five feet. The flag was surrounded by flame patterns; the flag was crowned by a gilt-iron crown, which was supported by iron. The plate is decorated with Zhu Yan. This is the big banner that Fukang'an used for expedition. If the battle is won, after the victory, the flag will be placed in the Purple Light Pavilion for preservation.
Another general held high a large yellow flag more than one foot wide, with a large word "handsome" written in both Manchu and Chinese characters in the middle; the flag was topped with a golden wooden gourd top and a blue ribbon. .
In addition, there is a large rectangular flag with a height of more than ten feet, which reads: "I ordered the co-organizer to be a bachelor, a first-class Jiayong Marquis, and a blessing to the general of Jilin."
The sedan curtain shook, and Fukangan walked out of it.
"See you, Marshal!" Under the Marshal's stage, hundreds of commanders, deputy commanders, staff generals, and assistant leaders all raised their hands to give Fukang'an a flat-chested military salute.
"No courtesy." Fukang'an looked as usual. He asked Fu Ming'a, the commander of the forward battalion, "How is the situation with the thieves?"
"Commander! The thieves dug a four-mile-long trench under Fuldan City, as well as at Jurgen City. Now they are all huddled in it, afraid to go out. According to the bidders sent to investigate, the opponent seems to have only one or two thousand people. Human appearance.”
"They are just a bunch of clowns, relying on their sharp guns. Our Qing soldiers are invincible!" After hearing this, all the generals smiled on their faces.
Fukang'an knew very well that morale should be boosted but not let down, so his words exuded contempt for Beihai Town. As for the news of Duerjia's defeat, only a few people including General E Hui of Chengdu know about it.
Originally, he had not slept a wink since last night and had been thinking about launching a general attack today almost all night. He had actually been very familiar with the sand table map around Fuldan City for a long time. He could see it flashing before his eyes as soon as he closed his eyes, vividly remembering it. Last night he held the candle and read again and again. The closer to morning, the more irritable he became; excitement was mixed with nervousness and expectation, but also a hint of uneasiness.
Unexpectedly, news of Duerjia's defeat came in the morning, which made him feel more uneasy. An army of 7,500 people was defeated. Is it because Duerjia is too incompetent, or does the opponent know magic? Is it really like what Fu Ming'a said, that Zhao Xin only has one or two thousand men? This is too appalling.
"Your Majesty, you will wear your clothes and eat at night to conquer the powerful armies of the Eight Banners in the world. A man has made a great contribution to serve the country and the Emperor. He will never let the Jin Ou be lost! If he cannot destroy this imperial meal today, Fu Kang'an will only have to die to repay this high heaven. What a blessing!”
"I'll die if I don't do it!"
"E Hui, Shu Liang, Pupu, Mukden'a, and Fuming'a, follow me to the commander's platform to watch the enemy! Others, please return to the camp and wait for orders!"
"tie!"
The handsome platform is built on a slightly arched earth slope, more than six meters high, and the area on the platform is only eight or nine square meters. In addition to the three big flags flying high, there is also a Taishi chair covered with tiger skin.
When the three big flags of Lingzhu, Commander's Flag and General's Flag were erected on the Commander's Platform, tens of thousands of soldiers shouted amidst the thundering drum music: "Ten thousand victories! Ten thousand victories! Ten thousand victories!"
Everyone went up to the commander's platform. Fukangan took the telescope handed to him by the soldiers behind him and looked at the opposite side.
Fu Ming'a on the side pointed and said: "Commander, please look. The thieves dug two trenches more than four miles long in the west and south of the two cities, and soldiers were hidden in them. There are some strange things behind the trenches. Facility, my subordinates don’t even know what it is.”
In the field of vision of the telescope, I could see that the trenches on the opposite side were dug in twists and turns, and there were crowds of people inside. Fukangan noticed that some thieves had their upper bodies sticking out of the trench and were looking towards him.
Following Fu Ming'a's fingers, he noticed six strange roofless buildings on the two wings of the opposite position. These buildings were only surrounded by two earth walls in a half circle, with wide gaps at the front and back; two dark tubes poked out of the space between the earth walls, facing me. In addition, there are some weapons that appear to be rifles set up behind the trenches; what is striking is that a light brown shield is installed in front of those rifles. This should be the kind of fast-firing cannon Na Qitai mentioned. The power when fired can knock away a gun weighing several hundred kilograms.
Fukang'an put down his clairvoyance and ordered fiercely: "No matter what, let the cannon speak first! Send the order! All the magical generals on the front line should fire!"
