A group of white flag soldiers stopped a dozen Eight Banner soldiers who were retreating from the front.
Dorgon rode up to the returning flag soldiers and asked with a cold face: "Look at your virtues. You are claiming to be Eight Banners warriors in vain and are an embarrassment to Zhengbai Banner."
Seeing the group of Eight Banners soldiers in front of him who were throwing away their helmets and armor, he was furious.
"Fourteen Baylor, it's Nikan. The Nikan on the island is coming." One of the Eight Banners soldiers who escaped back pointed in the direction behind him and said with a mournful face.
Dorgon scolded: "As Zhengbai Banner warriors, you have become so virtuous just because you killed a few Nikans ashore. Zhengbai Banner's face has been completely disgraced by you."
"Fourteen Baylor, it's not that the slaves are trying to escape, it's actually Nikan who brought a lot of firecrackers to cooperate with the bombardment at sea. The slaves are really unable to stop them with such a small number!" the Eight Banners soldiers who escaped kept complaining.
Dorgon said coldly: "Ben Beile has no time to listen to your nonsense. Grab your weapons and follow Ben Beile back to kill you. This will be your atonement for your sins."
As he spoke, he looked at the Eight Banners soldiers brought behind him and said, "Give them weapons."
The Eight Banners soldiers asked for weapons from the Han Aha and gave them to the dozen or so Eight Banners soldiers who had escaped.
"My sons, the opportunity to avenge Twelve Baylor has come. Follow Ben Baylor and kill the Nikans in front of you." Dorgon knocked his horse's belly with his legs and urged the horse to rush out.
Followed closely were fifteen Belle Dodo and several white flag guards responsible for protecting the two of them.
kill!
Hundreds of Eight Banners soldiers and hundreds of Han Aha followed, charging towards the shore.
The sound of artillery on the river bank has stopped. Ships are constantly docking at sea, and soldiers carrying the Tiger Flag have landed on the shore on this side of Iron Mountain.
As more and more soldiers came ashore, soon one side of the shore was filled with soldiers holding the tiger flag and holding firecrackers.
"The camp is in full swing, the slave thieves are here." The outpost ran back to deliver the message.
Xing Chaoxi stood on a high place, picked up the monocular telescope in his hand and looked in the direction of Tieshan Camp.
Through the monocular, he saw a group of less than a thousand Eight Banners soldiers rushing toward the shore.
"Send the order and prepare to meet the enemy." Xing Chaoxi explained.
The messenger ran to deliver the order.
A team of more than 300 soldiers appeared in advance on the path that the Eight Banners soldiers must pass.
There were two more such troop teams behind the left and right sides, and the three teams formed a formation on the only road along the shore.
The soldiers each had a blunderbuss, and five squatting tiger cannons were placed on each wing. Because it was inconvenient to carry, the four-pounder cannon on the island was not brought over.
The team of soldiers standing at the front are veterans who followed Xing Chaoxi from Dajuan Island, while the two teams of soldiers on the left and right are recruits trained on Phi Island with veterans as their backbone.
The firecrackers used by the recruits were all transported from other places by sea ships.
"Don't be nervous, just like in training, listen to the orders of the captain of each team. When the captain orders to fire, you are firing, don't be in a hurry to fire. After firing, give your own fire again as you did in training. Gun loaded."
In the ranks of new recruits, there are constantly military officers who comfort the new recruits and relieve their nervousness.
The teams of both sides soon appeared in the eyes of their respective soldiers.
"Brother Fourteen, these Nikans are fools! They are actually waiting here to be killed by us." Duduo looked at the soldiers standing still in front of him and grinned.
"Don't be careless, this should be the military formation of the Nikans." Dorgon was more knowledgeable than Dodo after all, and knew that the Han people liked to set up a battle formation when the two armies faced off.
Duduo said disdainfully: "The military formations that Nikan put up are just a showpiece. Amma has dealt with them many times before. Today, Ben Beile is also here to defeat the enemy. Come on!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he urged his war horse to rush forward.
"Follow me." Dorgon shouted and followed closely behind Dodo on horseback.
After the two sides got close, both men dismounted and took the long bows and feather arrows from their horses.
The other Eight Banners soldiers who came on horseback also picked up their bows and arrows like the two of them.
Unlike the Mongolian cavalry, the Eight Banners soldiers relied on their cavalry bows to attack the enemy directly on horseback. The Eight Banners soldiers used more powerful longbows and had to dismount first in every battle.
Dorgon took a few steps forward, hung an arrow on the bow string, and pointed the arrow at a Tiger Flag soldier in front of him. He took a few false aim, and then released the fingers holding the arrow.
Just a whooshing sound was heard, and the arrow was shot out.
An arrow shot off the felt hat on the head of the tiger-character flag soldier on the opposite side.
Duduo was weaker. Although his arrow was shot, it failed to hit the target and fell to the ground early.
Although the other Eight Banners archers also fired their arrows, they did not hit many targets. The more arrows were all deflected or missed. The distance between the two sides was too far, just like Dorgon's one arrow that hit the enemy. There aren't many marksmen with felt hats on their heads.
"The heavy armor comes forward, and the archers follow behind and get closer to shoot arrows." Dorgon ordered.
In many cases, the Eight Banners soldiers fought with the chariot in front, the heavy armored soldiers following behind, and the archers hiding behind the chariot. They would only shoot the arrows in their hands when they got within twenty steps of the Ming army, or even closer.
Only in this way can it cause the greatest damage to the Ming army, and at the same time make up for the archer's lack of accuracy.
More than twenty Eight Banners soldiers wearing double or triple layers of armor walked at the front of the team, while the Eight Banners soldiers' archers followed behind and pushed forward.
At the same time, several groups of soldiers from the Tiger Character Banner also approached the Eight Banners soldiers.
However, because the soldiers on the Tiger Flag side needed to maintain their formation, the speed in front was not very fast. Far from the Eight Banners soldiers on the opposite side, they quickly appeared within fifty steps.
"Brother Fourteen, it's okay." Duduo said looking at Dorgon beside him.
This was the first time that he and Dorgon led an army alone against the enemy. He was already less than a few dozen steps away from the enemy. His fingers nervously pinching the long bow turned white because of too much force.
"Stay closer." Dorgon was much more stable than Dodo.
He was also facing Nikan's team, so he didn't feel afraid at all. Moreover, he had seen the Ming army's firecrackers, which crackled and caused few casualties to the flag soldiers.
"We can't get any closer. Nikan on the other side hasn't fired yet." Dodo said nervously.
Having seen Ama deal with Ming army guns, he felt something was wrong.
The Nikan team in front of him was a Ming army. They had already ignored the order and fired the muskets in their hands. However, the Nikan in front of him did not fire the muskets, which made him wary.
Although the Eight Banners soldiers didn't care about the Ming army's firecrackers, when they got close, the firecrackers would still cause great harm to the Eight Banners soldiers.
After being reminded by Duduo, Dorgon also discovered something was wrong with the team in front of him.
