Shuotuo led his troops to help Lushun. They indeed took the plain corridor between Case Mountain and Erlong Mountain, but the march route was closer to Erlong Mountain in the east and farther from Case Mountain in the west.
In this way, the most dense pits in the middle of the road can be avoided invisibly, making it easier for the cavalry to pass through this dangerous section. Moreover, if encountering an enemy attack, they can also first resist the enemy troops rushing up from one side.
Originally, Shuotuo could let the troops rush through here quickly, but in this case, there would be a certain number of non-combat casualties due to too many pits, and Shuotuo did not think that six or seven thousand dog barbarians could defeat him. of men and horses.
There are six Niulu soldiers in his hands, no less than 1,600 or 700 people.
One Eight Banners soldier can deal with four dog barbarian infantrymen and let Shen Zhixiang's two Niu Lu serve as shields.
Shuotuo had been in battle for a long time, and he quickly saw the crux of the matter.
If you want to forcefully charge over, the cavalry must dismount, which is to sacrifice the strength to chase the weakness.
Rather than that, it is better to let the cavalry stay on the horse and charge directly towards the mountain.
As long as the thousands of dog barbarians on the opposite side are defeated, they can go around from the foot of the mountain.
Shuotuo would not let his men abandon their horses to fight unless it was absolutely necessary. War horses were the basis of the Eight Banners soldiers' wanton charge.
The Eight Banners soldiers have never been afraid of the Ming army in field battles. This was the case before and it is still the case now.
After Bei Ziye gave the order, the Eight Banners soldiers were not afraid of rejoicing when faced with the barbarians rushing down from the mountain.
They are not afraid of field battles at all, because it is much easier to deal with five barbarians in a field battle than to deal with one barbarian during an siege.
As long as a group charge is launched, the serious barbarians on the opposite side will be crushed alive, and eventually they will lose their armor and run away.
"Capture and kill the barbarian general, and Master Bei will reward you with three future prospects!"
"The opposite side is full of Shandong losers! Brothers, charge!"
Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang was extremely reluctant to take the lead, but not far behind him was Shuotuo. If his troops did not move, Shuotuo would let Harguji take action.
Niulu Zhangjinghar Guji, who was guarding the army with a red flag, commanded three hundred guards and sentries of the Yue Dynasty, and his combat effectiveness was comparable to that of two Jia La slave soldiers.
It can be said that the Eight Banners soldiers who are the most brave and skilled in the entire Xianghong Banner, except for the dozens of soldiers who protect Shuotuo, are all concentrated here in Harguji.
Shen Zhixiang did not dare to hesitate, so he had to bite the bullet and lead others to charge. Fortunately, there are more people and fewer horses on the opposite side, and all our own are cavalry, giving us an absolute advantage.
However, in terms of combat effectiveness, the four banners of the Han army came first, then the troops of King Sanshun, and finally the lackeys of Duke Xushun Shen Zhixiang.
Among the ministries of the Qing Dynasty, Shen Zhixiang's troops were at the bottom in terms of combat effectiveness, comparable to the garrison at the top of the city. Although they came from Dongjiang Town, they were nothing compared to their predecessors on the island.
His uncle Shen Shikui once fought a bloody battle with the Qing army, but was defeated and died in the end. He could be regarded as a hero who served the country, but Shen Zhixiang did not have this loyalty and simply went to Huang Taiji directly and became the continuation of the Qing Dynasty.
Now that Lushun was in danger, Shuotuo and his troops rushed to rescue but were blocked by the Ming army. There were not 10,000 but 7,000 people rushing down the mountain. If it weren't for Haer Guji and his troops to suppress the formation, Shen Zhixiang would have turned around and ran away.
Since Bei Ziye Shuotuo thought that a battle was possible, Shen Zhixiang could only lead his troops to charge forward. As a vanguard, he would be able to get some credit once he defeated the Ming army.
Shen Zhixiang didn't understand why these Ming troops were not afraid of death. Did they forget so quickly how the Qing army traveled thousands of miles and destroyed cities and villages after entering the pass?
For the Eight Banners soldiers, all the Goumanzi units were defeated in one blow and were completely unable to resist the attack. Less than half a year later, they actually dared to land in Liaodong and besiege Lushun. Are you tired of living?
What puzzles Shen Zhixiang is that there are no big flags with the word "Ming" on the mountain. Instead, they are all flags with "Eight Flags Bodhisattva", "Seven Lives to Serve the Country" and various indescribable symbols. He also doesn't know what Goumanzi used this time. Crooked ways...
If you don't understand, you still can't understand, and people will still attack you. Anyone who dares to stand in the way will die!
The closer he rushed, the more clearly he saw it. Not only Mr. Xushun, but also many of the slave soldiers were very confused.
The armors and weapons worn by the men and horses on the opposite side were not very obvious at all, and they couldn't tell the specific style.
In short, something is wrong, but no one will stop and wait. At this time, all the cavalry are already sprinting at full speed.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
The rate of fire of the Folang machine was very high, and several of them were lined up halfway up the mountain, causing a lot of trouble for the Qing army.
However, regardless of casualties, unless the opponent has a very large number of Fo Lang machines, it will still be unable to stop the strong advance of the Qing cavalry group.
"Five chatter~!"
"Pah, pah, pah..."
Suddenly there was a burst of popping beans at the foot of the mountain, and a large number of iron artillery ashigaru began to fire at the charging cavalry in batches.
Even if they ran halfway up the mountain, the Iron Cannon Ashigaru could still threaten the Qing cavalry from a long distance, although the threat was not great.
Generally speaking, if it exceeds a hundred steps, the hit rate is only about 1%, but there are so many ashigaru that cannot hold up the iron cannon.
Among the 8,000 combat personnel of the Fourth Army, there are no less than 3,000 ashigaru iron cannons and nearly a thousand ashigaru spears used for close combat. The rest are naturally samurai whose combat effectiveness is superior to the two.
Whether it is an iron gun ashigaru or a spear ashigaru, they are actually afraid of close combat. This can complement the samurai when configuring the combat sequence.
Warriors especially like to fight in close combat. Only in this way can they reflect their own value.
When fighting, the warrior spirit can be condensed into eight words - ignore pain and despise death!
Only by practicing diligently and adhering to this belief can we be invincible and invincible in wartime!
The Fourth Army consisted of nearly 4,000 samurai, subordinate to 65 foreign daimyo from all over the country.
These were all daimyo who were not favored by General Tokugawa. In order to please the General and support their retainers, they organized a group to send troops to the Liaodong Peninsula.
The soldiers and horses sent by the foreign daimyo in the Kanto region were organized into the Fourth Army, and those in the Kansai region were organized into the Fifth Army.
Naturally, even the Uesugi family, which was entrusted with the Yonezawa domain, had to obey the shogunate's orders and send troops to fight.
The original quota for the Uesugi family was only 300 people, but through the efforts of Naoe Kanetsugu, the confidant of the former head of the family, Uesugi Kagekatsu, the actual quota obtained by the Uesugi family increased to 900, which was tripled.
The extra six hundred cannot be withdrawn at all, which means that even if they go with the army, they will not get the half a stone of rice per person per month provided by the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, as long as Mingguo abides by the agreement and delivers the rice in full, the ration of three hundred people will actually be enough to feed nine hundred people. Just in case, the Uesugi family's soldiers and horses brought extra rations.
After being exposed to the wind and sun on the road, it is a bit unpalatable, but nausea is always better than fighting on an empty stomach...
Naoe Kanetsugu didn't mind the rice thing, and he also gave Abe Shigeji, who was in charge of leading the troops, a great benefit, that is, he gave one million yuan in advance, plus ten taels for each victory and death. The division of silver.
In this way, Abe Shigeji agreed to Naoe Kanetsugu, so the actual number of Japanese troops sent out was more than 50,000. Zheng Zhibao would not mind this, he would only transport people, and the Japanese troops would be responsible for all land battles.
Naoe Kanetsugu had no choice but to do this. The young master Uesugi Sadakatsu was not familiar with the world, and the Uesugi family was the loser. The stone height dropped from 1.2 million koku to 300,000 koku, and was erased by Tokugawa Ieyasu. three quarters.
The vassal state had six thousand soldiers and horses that needed to be fed. If the situation continued, it would only gradually die out. General Tokugawa wished he could wipe the Uesugi family off the map.
There are many down-and-out daimyo like the Uesugi family across the country. The most typical one is the Mori family, which was reduced from the original 1.2 million koku to 370,000 koku.
The Mouri family and the Uesugi family were ridiculed as the "two poor families" in the Kansai and Kanto regions by those daimyo who followed Tokugawa Ieyasu's success.
In addition, Naoe Kanetsugu also tried to contact the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, hoping to obtain the possibility of sending troops through other channels.
But this time it will not be possible because the time for sending troops has been set and the shipping capacity is limited, so we can only wait until next year.
The men and horses from Yonezawa Domain, whether they were samurai or ashigaru, were ridiculed by their peers.
Because there are very few war horses, and the armor on the body is already extremely old...
The Yonezawa clan's troops didn't mind the reactions of outsiders because they had long been accustomed to it.
The way for the strong to succeed is to unite with the strong, while the way for the weak to survive is to endure humiliation and bear the burden.
The Uesugi family could send more troops to land on the Liaodong Peninsula and have achieved the first stage of success.
Next, all they have to do is kill the enemy bravely. The more they kill, the more silver reward they will get.
Generally speaking, soldiers and horses from the north have the tradition of enduring hardship and fighting bravely.
From the ashigaru to the samurai, everyone held their breath, that is a force with terrible combat effectiveness...
The Uesugi family's army consisted of about 400 samurai, 100 spear ashigaru, 300 iron cannon ashigaru, and a number of servants.
Even in extreme decline, this unit still maintained its original style and traditions.
Several battle flags with the word "叱" were displayed. This was the style of battle flag used by the famous general Uesugi Kenshin on the battlefield.
Unlike other daimyo troops, the Uesugi family's iron cannon Ashigaru rushed to the foot of the mountain without firing.
Just waiting in line...
The opponent rushed to fifty steps before raising the iron cannon.
Then, when the enemy cavalry rushed to a distance of almost thirty steps, the Ashigaru lit the match.
By the time the iron cannon fired the projectiles, the Qing cavalry in the lead had almost reached the distance where the long spear ashigaru could assassinate them.
but……
That scene did not happen. Instead, nearly a hundred of the seemingly fearless Qing cavalry were knocked down.
Especially the whole row of cavalry in front seemed to have been hit by a barrage, and they were suddenly shot to the point of being turned upside down.
The Uesugi family's iron artillery ashigaru troops did not use the traditional three-stage firing method, but chose to fire volleys at close range.
More than two hundred people fired volleys from a distance of more than ten steps. The hit rate and lethality were absolutely extraordinary, and the courage and courage required were naturally great.
Although many Ashigaru were knocked to the ground by bows and arrows shot by the opponent in the early stage, this sacrifice was well worth it in exchange for greater results.
The Uesugi family was very poor and could not replace their soldiers with new large armors, so they could only continue to wear old armors. Then, while making shields, each person was given a wooden board to protect the torso...
Wooden boards can also protect against arrows, that's for sure, but the selling price is a bit different, so it's certain that they will be ridiculed by their peers.
Precisely because of the protection of wooden boards, the number of Ashigaru who were actually shot by the Qing army was limited, and most of them survived.
The men and horses belonging to Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang didn't know what happened. The cavalry only knew that they were about to chop melons and vegetables.
Then there was just a burst of gunfire, and nearly a hundred brothers fell down in front of the formation. The cavalry behind them did not react in time and stumbled over the corpses.
In the blink of an eye, almost half of Niulu's cavalry were destroyed, and Shen Zhixiang, who was charging nearby, was shocked.
If you fire at such a close distance, will the barbarians on the opposite side die?
Shen Zhixiang didn't get it for free. He certainly knew that the closer the distance, the more lethal the musket would be, and the shooting would naturally be more accurate.
But even Guan Ning's army, faced with the high-speed charge of the Qing cavalry, did not dare to fire at a distance of twenty or thirty steps. They usually fired randomly when they were hundreds of steps away, and the birds and beasts scattered.
Shen Zhixiang couldn't figure out why these barbarians were not afraid of death after eating something like this.
If the opponent's gunners dared to play like this, his four awesome men wouldn't be enough for the opponent to eat!
However, when Shen Zhixiang heard the shouts and orders coming from the opposite side, he had no idea where the barbaric language was coming from and he couldn't understand it at all.
The opponent's courage and fighting spirit were commendable, and coupled with his incomprehensible barbaric language, Shen Zhixiang felt that he had encountered the Baigan Army, which was second to none in terms of brutal combat power.
But the white-pole army commanded by that old woman Qin Liangyu wouldn't be equipped with so many muskets, right?
Did the soldiers also learn to use blunderbuss?
Shouldn't it? ? ?
If he hadn't been blocked by the White Army, Shen Zhixiang would have felt like he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
Look at the words on the big flags again. There is Tian at the top and Bi at the bottom. Can you add them up to pronounce the words?
Shen Zhixiang knew that there was a day on the left and a month on the right, so read "明".
As for what the word on the flag meant, he couldn't figure it out after pondering for a while...
But the losses suffered by our troops on the battlefield were real!
Apart from the immediate situation, both sides were not much better.
Before engaging the enemy, they had already killed almost two Niulu, which was equivalent to losing nearly half of the troops.
Ever since he took refuge with Huang Taiji, Shen Zhixiang had never fought such a brutal battle.
In addition to bird guns, Shen Zhixiang had never seen such huge bows and arrows.
The Eight Banners soldiers have always been good at using bows and arrows, but they are also good at defeating the enemy.
Especially shooting at close range is comparable to the capabilities of the Eight Banners soldiers.
It's just that unlike the Eight Banners soldiers, these barbarian archers only fire arrows within ten steps.
The shooting was so accurate that the Qing cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and their limbs would be broken if they fell to the ground.
Just from a cursory observation, Shen Zhixiang knew that the opponent used heavy arrows that could break armor.
Moreover, it was not shot on the torso, but on the horse's face, or directly on the cavalry's face.
But having so many excellent archers is by no means an ordinary tribe, and must be an elite force.
It's just that this battle was fought in a really confusing manner, which made Shen Zhixiang extremely puzzled and depressed.
I don’t know which team the opponent belongs to, and I’m not familiar with the opponent’s tactics.
I can't even understand what he's saying. Don't you think he's a barbarian from Shandong?
Isn’t this Shandong dialect? ? ?
The cavalrymen under Duke Xushun also felt extremely strange.
Are these the Shandong barbarian soldiers in front of me who were beaten by the Eight Banners masters until they cried for their fathers and mothers? ? ?
Why are all of them as brave as if they had taken the wrong medicine?
Shout "Qing soldiers are here"!
It's obviously not working, no one is stupid enough to do that.
Maybe the opponent takes the opportunity to shoot an arrow into his mouth, and then he can spit out lotus flowers...
