This time, Jianlu's casualties were much higher than the first time. At least a hundred of them lay on the ground groaning in pain. Moreover, the carriage was smashed to pieces by iron bullets, which also exposed the Jianlu who were hiding behind to the sight of the Ming army. among.
The Ming army officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately waited for the military order and the fusiliers opened fire together.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
A single person's shield can only protect against bows and arrows, but its protection against lead bullets shot by muskets is still very poor. Even if the Jianlu sword and shield soldiers raised their shields in time, under several rounds of volleys from the Ming army soldiers, these Jianlu sword and shield soldiers often ended up with broken shields in their hands and people lying on the ground rolling.
As a result, more than two hundred Jianlu were immediately on the ground groaning in pain.
Seeing this scene, Meng Qiaofang was a little dumbfounded.
The Ming army's two responses were both beyond his expectations, causing his men to suffer heavy losses. He lost nearly five hundred men without even touching the edge of the Ming army.
Although in terms of the number of casualties, the proportion among the 10,000 men was not high. However, the Ming army's unexpected response just now had a heavy blow to their morale. This could be seen by just glancing at the expressions of his men.
When did the Ming army become so good at fighting? Who is the general of the Ming army opposite?
Naturally, he could not have imagined that in fact these response methods were not the ideas of one person, but the result of discussions between many generals above the guerrilla general level under the auspices of Zhang Mingwei.
The so-called three cobblers are as good as Zhuge Liang, and now Jianlu has tasted this power.
Just like that, Jianlu was defeated again. Compared with the first time, the lost carriages could not be replaced.
At this time, Meng Qiaofang felt helpless when facing the Ming army's position on the ground. Remembering the boast he had just made in front of Turge, he suddenly felt a little scared. He was afraid that Turg would use this to threaten him or use him to establish his authority. Although he would not be killed, it was common for him to be whipped several times in public.
However, he was overly worried.
Turge quickly sent someone over and told Meng Qiaofang: "My lord has said that he has already sent people back to the city to transport the general's cannon. You wait until the general's cannon arrives before attacking. By then, the battle will still be ineffective. Dispose of it according to military law!"
Upon hearing this, Meng Qiaofang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly wanted to pat her chest to reassure her, but she immediately remembered that he had already been slapped in the face once, so she didn't dare to pat her chest again.
Even so, it was obvious that he was looking forward to the performance of the general's artillery.
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Seeing that the Jianlu infantry no longer attacked, Ma Xianglin was unhappy but worried. Because according to prior deductions, in this case, there is a high probability that the Jianlu would use heavy artillery to bombard them.
There is really nothing he can do about this situation.
Heavy artillery has a long range, so you can only rely on heavy artillery to fight back. But on my side, it is not practical to transport heavy artillery from the ship, it is too heavy. Moreover, Jianlu's cavalry was watching there eagerly, and they were also staring at the beach. The heavy artillery moves very slowly. It is basically difficult to transport a heavy artillery under the eyes of the Jianlu cavalry.
And even if one or two heavy artillery were transported and fired against the Jianlu heavy artillery, it would still not be able to solve the problem that the Jianlu heavy artillery would blast away the sidecars.
This means that the next war will be the time to test the Ming army.
Thinking like this, Ma Xianglin looked up at the sky and found that there was at least an hour left until dark. According to the previous agreement with Duke Xingguo, the cavalry should arrive before dark.
However, it is not that easy to get the time accurate when traveling such a long distance by land.
I think back then, the Ming army divided into four expeditions to conquer the Jurchens in Jianzhou, which had just emerged. This was because the four armies did not arrive at the designated place at the agreed time. Once they set off, they were unable to contact each other, which made it impossible to cooperate with each other as imagined. As a result, they were defeated by the Jianzhou Jurchens one by one. Saarhu was defeated, and several other routes were also defeated.
Duke Xing Guo, can he really arrive in time?
Ma Xianglin has been worried about this issue in his heart.
Naturally, the soldiers of the Ming Army also knew about the situation of this battle.
Otherwise, no matter how courageous they are, they will definitely be afraid of a lone army inserting behind Jianlu to stop Jianlu. This is especially true when they have never won against Jianlu before on land.
Therefore, Zhang Mingwei directly asked Ma Xianglin to tell the infantry soldiers the specific combat plan. Let them all know that as long as they block Jianlu for about half a day as planned, the cavalry will arrive, and by then they will be able to defeat Jianlu and achieve military success.
It can be said that all aspects of this war have been considered after preliminary discussions.
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Time passed slowly, and the Jianlu troops, whether cavalry or infantry, did not attack, they just stared covetously at the Ming army.
The Ming army was also resting and recuperating, with a little uneasiness. Everyone knew that when Ningyuan City's heavy artillery was transported by the rebels, a difficult battle began.
In this regard, the soldiers of the Baigan Army were the most calm and calm, because they were actually Ma Xianglin's private soldiers. If they dared to run away cowardly, not only would they die, but even their family members would be implicated. This relationship also makes the military discipline of the Baigan Army always the best.
Now in this situation, their chieftain himself is on the front line, so they are even less likely to be afraid of running away.
Zhang Mingwei was interested in this and asked Ma Xianglin to lead the infantry to complete this blocking mission.
The waiting seemed very long, and also seemed very fast. Anyway, it was still broad daylight, and suddenly I heard cheers from Jianlu's side.
Upon hearing this news, all the Ming army officers and soldiers knew that Jianlu's heavy artillery had arrived, and a bloody battle would follow.
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On Jianlu's side, Turg was proud of his wise decision at the beginning. Fortunately, I had thought of this possibility from the beginning, so I sent someone to Ningyuan City early to deliver the order and transported two heavy artillery pieces from Ningyuan City.
Now that the attack on the Ming army's position was fruitless and bombarded by heavy artillery, the Ming army was like a lamb to be slaughtered.
"This time, give me a good beating. Before sunset, I don't want to see these naked dogs standing there again!" Turge stared at Meng Qiaofang, who came over excitedly, and said sternly.
Among the Jianqiu people, those who controlled the artillery were all Han people who had surrendered to Jianqiu. A considerable part of them are the artillerymen that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming brought to Liaodong and were trained by Sun Yuanhua using Portuguese instructors.
Therefore, Meng Qiaofang was very confident and immediately responded to Turg: "Don't worry, sir, with the heavy artillery in hand, the Ming army will be blown to pieces!"
Here, based on his previous lessons, he played a trick. But Turg didn't notice, he just ordered the whole army to prepare for war.
On his territory, he was blocked and robbed by the Ming army. This was simply an insult to the Qing army and to himself. If we don't defeat this Ming army as soon as possible, we will definitely be laughed at by others when we return to Shengjing.
Following Turge's order, both cavalry and infantry in the Jianlu army began to prepare.
The Ming army also began to prepare for the most severe challenge. Death will be inevitable!
But at this moment, Jianlu Tan's horse suddenly came galloping like crazy. When he saw Turg's flag, he galloped past. He reined in his horse until he got close. The horse kept screaming in pain: "Sir, Ming Ming The National Cavalry Army is coming, at least more than 10,000 troops."
"What?" Turge was shocked when he heard this, "Where did the Ming army get so many cavalry?"
Although there was an urgent report before, saying that the Ming Cavalry had four to five thousand cavalry, according to his understanding of the Ming Army, this was already the limit of the Ming Army in Shanhaiguan. Because before this, the Ming cavalry had never been found to have such a number.
Even before, when the Ming Dynasty gathered all the cavalry to attack the hinterland of Liaodong, there were only five thousand cavalry. Later I heard that some of the cavalry were sent to Dongjiang Town. Therefore, he always thought that the Ming cavalry at Shanhaiguan could reach the top with only 5,000 cavalry.
Tanma naturally couldn't answer his question.
But there was no need for Tan Ma to answer, as he saw the rumble of horse hooves coming from the direction of Ningyuan.
Meng Qiaofang was preparing for battle when she heard the noise and quickly turned her head to look. He didn't know the specific situation and was still wondering, where did Turge transfer another cavalry force from?
As a result, just looking back, he saw in his field of vision, Ming army soldiers wearing red military uniforms, one man and two horses, galloping towards this side.
Not only did he see it, but all the Jianlu could be said to have seen it.
All of a sudden, these Jianlu were all dumbfounded!
What's going on? At first glance, there are only a thousand cavalry. How dare the Ming cavalry rush to Ningyuan so arrogantly? They didn't wait for the infantry. Are they bringing food to the Qing Dynasty?
However, Turge received an urgent report from the scouting horse and knew that there would be tens of thousands of Ming cavalry behind him. Therefore, he was not in the mood to think about "eating food" and immediately gave a loud order to prepare the entire army for war.
When this military order was passed down, all the Jianlu were a little confused. How could the Ming cavalry be so prepared to face a powerful enemy?
Before they could carry out the military order, the Ming Dynasty Infantry Army had already seen traces of the Cavalry Army Pao Ze. Suddenly, everyone couldn't help but be overjoyed and cheered loudly.
Because they knew that the reinforcements were all cavalry, and since they had seen the forward, the main force of the cavalry was not far away.
After hearing the thunderous cheers of the Ming infantry, Jianlu, who was unaware of the situation, was not stupid. He immediately knew that there would probably be many Ming troops coming.
It was at this moment that they felt the earth shake. Wherever he could see, countless Ming cavalry troops were galloping towards them. At a glance, you can't see how many cavalry troops are behind them, it just feels like a patch of red.
