The Qing army, which was furious after being bombarded, wanted to fire back with artillery, but then they realized that because they were so excited to kill just now, they thought they would be able to annihilate these barbarians in a few hours, so they didn't bring artillery, so why not fire back? ?
More than two thousand people were either nesting in trenches or lying on the ridge. In short, they were like maggots with their heads held down. Even though they kept struggling and swaying, they could not get rid of this extremely unfavorable situation.
No one wants to run to the bottom of the mountain first and then fight to the top of the mountain from other places.
Who can guarantee that there are no barbarians lying in wait on any ridge ready to attack them?
The Eight Banners soldiers are very good at mountain warfare, but only if they occupy a favorable situation.
The terrain outside Jinzhou was so unfavorable that they failed to achieve the set goal after months of fighting.
None of the Qing army thought that they would not be able to conquer places with cities on the top of the mountain, and they would still be unable to conquer places without cities on the top of the mountain.
Even the Japanese army did not expect that this north-south trench would play a vital role. It was originally built to facilitate the entry of troops and to facilitate the rest of the second-line troops.
The Qing army, which broke through the first and second lines of defense of the Japanese army from the west, ran into this originally unimportant line of defense.
The main artillery position of the Japanese army was located on the top of the highest mountain. The terrain here is excellent. Not only can you overlook the foot of the mountain, but you can also directly control several nearby ridges.
In order to protect the safety of the artillery position from being occupied by the sudden Qing army, the Japanese army also built a quasi-circular trench around the artillery position to deploy iron artillery ashigaru.
There are no less than a hundred people in the vicinity of the entire gun emplacement. Including the troops on both sides of the ridge, there are a total of more than a thousand people. It may not seem like a lot, but due to the favorable terrain, it can get twice the result with half the effort.
After receiving the news that the second line of defense had been lost, the Japanese troops here quickly entered a fighting state. It was impossible for the Qing army to make a sneak attack.
If you want to attack head-on, it will play into the hands of the defenders. You only need to concentrate more than a hundred iron cannon ashigaru and a similar number of infantry warriors, and fire at the dozens of "two hundred taels" rushing at the front.
This kind of difficulty is similar to a group of people going hunting together...
About forty or fifty steps away from the front of the gun emplacement, the corpses of the Qing soldiers who were unwilling and unwilling to die were already covered with countless corpses.
Even if only two squatting tiger cannons and two hundred-gun guns were deployed in the artillery position, they could still make the Qing army, which only had bird guns and bows and arrows, complain incessantly.
The two sides were not at the same level in terms of range and firepower. The Qing army had the upper hand in terms of total strength, but they were unable to use all their strength. This was what made the Eight Banners soldiers feel most resentful.
After losing nearly 500 people, a group of generals who followed the Qing army to kill them thought that after a brief discussion, they felt that being suppressed here by the barbarians was not an option.
No matter how heavy the casualties are, we have to go all out to reopen a bloody road. Otherwise, even if we wait until dawn, we will still have to stay here and not be able to move!
"You really don't treat me like a human being!"
God's Blessed Army Maile Zhangjing Cao Dexian followed the large group of people with white flags and rushed here. He originally thought that the Eight Banners Master had been defeated several times and would take a detour. Unexpectedly, he was ordered to lead the charge with his men.
This clearly requires their God Blessing Army to attract firepower and pave the way for the Eight Banners masters!
There are still more than two Niulu left in the Tianyou Army who rushed here, only 700 people.
With this kind of terrain and this style of play, wouldn't all the people in his hands have to die?
However, Cao Dexian did not dare to disobey the orders of the general with the white flag. The timidity in battle reached the ears of Prince Duduo of Yu, and even Prince Rui Dorgon, but even the obedient King Kong Youde could not protect himself.
It's not that the Eight Banners men didn't think of a solution, they just discovered that the Ming army artillery that had been abandoned on the battlefield had no gunpowder at all.
I want to get a lot of gunpowder for firing cannonballs first. Where can I find it?
The Eight Banners soldiers don't carry barrels of gunpowder when fighting. Once they are exploded by the opponent, it will be extremely brilliant and eye-catching...
The artillery was left behind, but the gunpowder was taken away!
Damn you bastard, how dare you play tricks on the Qing soldiers!
I want to send people from our own formation to the mountains to resist, but how can I do it in time?
So I might as well risk my life to make the journey!
Simple and efficient!
"Brothers! The masters of the Eight Banners are watching us! We will defeat the enemy tonight! Whoever goes up first will be rewarded with two prospects! A reward of one hundred taels of silver! Give them all to my general to rush forward!"
Cao Dexian could only give a "kind reminder" first. Whoever dared not to charge, the Eight Banners Master behind him could shoot his head to pieces with one arrow!
The only feasible way is to induce and hope that the remaining morale and greed in the hearts of the slave soldiers can play a certain role.
He was not willing to carry out such a death order at all, but otherwise, the Eight Banners masters would definitely not be happy, and they might immediately wield their sabers to chop at those disobedient slaves.
People under low eaves have to bow their heads!
The helpless Cao Dexian could only follow orders, even if he was a member of the God's Blessed Army, Mele Zhangjing, when the time came to fight, his status would be worse than that of Niulu Zhangjing with a white flag.
Obviously, he is the uncle and he is the grandson. If the grandson does not stop the grandson, he does not need to wait for outsiders to come over, the grandpa himself can teach the grandson a lesson...
None of the unlucky slave soldiers dared to explode at this time. They could only gnash their teeth with hatred, and kept cursing Cao Dexian, this unpopular beast in their hearts.
Under the coercion of the Eight Banners masters, hundreds of people from the Tianyou Army reluctantly took the lead and charged towards the Manming position on the opposite side, which seemed very close but was actually out of reach.
"kill!"
For the future!
For money!
In order not to be hacked to death by the Eight Banners men behind you!
The slave soldiers could only reluctantly reorganize their troops and began to rush towards Man Ming's position on the opposite side.
This time, the Tianyou Army and the White Banner Company were used near the ridge, giving the infantry a wider area for their charge.
There were as many as seventy or eighty people rushing at the front, and thousands of troops were invested.
Even if all the slave soldiers are dead, they still have to capture the mountain in front of them in one fell swoop.
"Boom boom boom..."
However, they were first greeted by the Crouching Tiger Cannon and Baizi Cannon, then the volley of iron cannons, and finally the "rain of grenades".
Every Japanese army position was issued with grenades, but considering the second line, the total supply for the defenders here was only 500.
If the enemy does not invest a large number of troops, the extremely precious grenades will naturally not be thrown.
But now facing an unprecedented scale enemy charge, it is time to use it, and the Japanese army will naturally not be stingy.
The front row of slave soldiers was instantly knocked to the ground by artillery and iron cannons, followed by the second row, third row...
In order to advance about thirty steps, the Qing army paid a price of nearly one niulu.
To the generals with white flags, this loss was nothing at all.
Cao Dexian's heart was bleeding, but he couldn't look back at this time.
You can only rush forward with all your heart. If you step back a little, you will arouse the transcendent anger of the Eight Banners Master!
It is not as easy as imagined for the column to rush into the horizontal column's position.
The Japanese army also possesses the magic weapon of positional warfare - grenades!
After seeing that the enemy was willing to do whatever it took, he simply threw out all the remaining grenades.
As a result, the Tianyou Army led by Cao Dexian was almost destroyed. They rushed to the front and suffered the heaviest casualties.
Almost all of the more than 700 people who participated in the charge were injured, and it was impossible to count those who died on the spot. Looking around, they all lay on the ground and started wailing.
Cao Dexian himself was hit on the shoulder by a cannon, and he could only run back holding the wound with the help of his own soldiers.
The armored soldiers with white flags who rushed up did not deliberately stop him because he was Mele Zhangjing.
If the Qing army launches a general offensive in advance, it may be possible to successfully occupy this position.
But while they were reorganizing their troops, the Japanese army's reserve troops were also moving to the north.
After receiving the battle report that the second line of defense on the west side had also been lost, Abe once again hurriedly ordered the approximately 9,000 men who had just withdrawn to rest yesterday to reinforce the second line.
Two thousand of them were sent to the west side, where the white flag was set to step up the attack.
The Qing army was unable to occupy this place before, but now the Japanese army has strengthened its garrison.
The Qing army wanted to rush to the top of the mountain again, but there was no chance.
When the Xiangbai Banner launched the attack instead of the Tianyou Army, Japanese reinforcements arrived on the battlefield just in time, and they were deployed very quickly.
They also carried fifty barrels of oil and a thousand grenades, which was a timely help to the original defenders here.
Since all the iron artillery was left in the front line, the only reinforcements were infantry samurai and spear ashigaru.
However, infantry warriors are better at both long-range attacks and melee combat, and can use huge bows and bows to shoot down enemy soldiers.
In close combat, the firepower output by more than two hundred infantry warriors was actually more intense than the same number of iron cannon ashigaru.
An arrow takes three to four seconds, and it goes straight to the opponent's head, which can have a stabilizing effect on the sea-fixing needle.
The infantrymen with white flags are also good at using arrows, but it is not easy to shoot the target on the opposite side.
The opponent lined up in a row and was still hiding in the trench. The hit rate of direct fire was extremely low.
If you turn to direct shooting, you can only rely on luck, which is actually not much different from blindness.
More than 200 infantry warriors fired nearly 3,000 arrows in a short period of time, knocking down no less than 400 to 500 enemy soldiers.
Among them, armored soldiers with white flags accounted for almost half, which reduced the number by almost an oxen.
At this point in the battle, of the more than 2,600 Qing soldiers who came to attack, there were less than one Jia La soldier left who could continue to fight.
Near the top of the mountain are all the corpses of the Qing soldiers who were killed. Together with those who rolled down to the foot of the mountain, the dead are really all over the mountain.
Due to the extremely limited number of hot weapons equipped by the Japanese army here, the Qing army's casualties seemed to be many, but the number of people killed on the spot was relatively small, less than 300 people, and the rest were wounded soldiers of various degrees. .
If the fight continues, all Xiangbaiqi's men and horses will die in this damn place. They can only change the front team to the rear team, retreat from the original route, and wait for Prince Yu to send people to support his troops again.
The generals of the Eight Banners also knew that there were only more than a thousand people left on their side, and they would not be able to do much in the face of the dog barbarians who refused to retreat. Moreover, staying in place would only increase casualties, and the gain would not be worth the loss.
Only then did they wisely choose to retreat, but they had to occupy the territory they had conquered previously and not let the barbarians hold on to it any longer, otherwise they would lose a lot of troops if they attacked again.
Not only did Cao Dexian's troops who advanced eastward suffered heavy casualties, Jia Shikui's troops who went south and Chang Guofang's troops who pursued westward also encountered similar situations.
Facing the third line of defense organized by Gou Manzi, they were unable to break through. After suffering nearly half of their casualties, they were unable to fight anymore.
The Tianyou Army and the Xiangbai Banner had invested more than 8,000 troops in total. As a result, only two Jia La and 3,000 people were left.
The difference is made up of those who were killed, injured, fled, fled, pretended to be dead, or even sprained their feet.
Originally, after the victory, except for those who were killed or seriously injured, everyone else could be gathered up and reorganized.
However, under the premise of this battle situation, the original strategy was completely ineffective.
After daybreak, it would be lucky to lose only two men and horses.
Thousands of people were killed and injured in the Xiangbai Banner, and no one knew how to explain to Prince Duduo of Yu after returning.
Under the wrath of Prince Yu, it was inevitable that some people would be whipped.
This battle can be regarded as a victory first and then a defeat. It cannot be said to be a defeat, it is just that it cannot be defeated.
But the loss of so many people made Prince Yu extremely embarrassed.
More than a thousand armored soldiers were lost in this way, which was a combat strength of more than three dozen.
In order to absolve themselves of the blame, the generals with white flags all decided to stick to the top of the mountain in order to "pay for their crimes and make meritorious services."
Besides, the casualties suffered by the Gou Manzi were certainly not small. The Qing Heavenly Soldiers suffered 3,000 casualties, while the Gou Manzi suffered more than 10,000 casualties.
This cannot be confirmed, but it is an undoubted fact that Goumanzi's two lines of defense were breached in succession.
Compared with the military exploits achieved by the two red flags, it is estimated that they will not be at a disadvantage.
As long as Prince Yu adds some troops to his side today and tomorrow, he can completely annihilate the barbarians here.
The Qing army took away the wounded soldiers who could still limp and walked, and slowly retreated towards the mountains on the north side.
Azig and Geng Zhongming, who were responsible for the east attack, were also successful.
What makes Azig unhappy is that the two Eight Banners soldiers under his command only captured half of the hilltop occupied by Goumanzi.
The terrain on the south side of the K-shaped mountain is higher, making it very easy to defend.
The Qing army launched six charges and lost nearly three Niulu troops before they could fight back.
Including the previous casualties, the total loss was no less than 2,000 people, which was more than 20% of the total force invested.
Azig did not want to see this kind of casualties. Those responsible for attacking the center were all Eight Banners soldiers, and more than half of them on his side were slave soldiers, whose combat effectiveness was incomparable.
Azig did not want to let his troops suffer serious losses. Before the battle, he reminded his subordinates to try their best to let Geng Zhongming's Tianyou Army rush forward and kill. Their Eight Banners soldiers were only responsible for holding down the formation for most of the time.
This is mainly due to listening to Shuo Tuo's report. If the top of the mountain is really full of white pole troops, why would you let the two white flags and the white pole army fight to the death?
If there really is a large-scale casualty, can Huang Taiji provide the two white flags in time to supplement it?
It is simply impossible!
Therefore, the purpose of fighting Azig was to "hold back and fight". If you can fight, fight. If you can't win, you can't use all your capital to join in. It's really not a mistake.
Autumn is about to enter the customs. The dog prince in the capital has tens of millions of taels of silver in his hands. Now that he has lost his troops and generals here and can't even make a profit, it is a loss-making business.
The army coach Dorgon is his younger brother. Even if he knew that his troops did not use all their strength during the attack, he would only give him a few words of reproach at most.
Besides, Dorgon actually thought so too, otherwise why would he let the two red flags attack first?
Huang Taiji wanted to consume Liang Baiqi's strength, so his second brother asked Liang Hongqi to fight the dog barbarian first.
In fact, they are all the same, no one can criticize the other!
