The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 751
Many people in the Chuangjun only have spears or swords and shields in their hands, and very few have archers.

When charging, the archers of the Chuangjun are all in the rear of the infantry. If the infantry wants to retreat, the Chuangjun will shoot them and urge them to attack again.

At this time, the Ming army did not have a single cannon across the river, and Li Zicheng did not expect to use a large number of archers.

And Ding Yi had fought Chuang Jun several times before, all of which were sieges, using trebuchets, and did not use artillery, so Li Zicheng did not expect that Ding Yi had thousands of artillery on the other side.

The fierce atmosphere of the battlefield also affected Ding Yi, and Ding Yi's heart was surging. Even he himself saw so many soldiers and horses fighting for the first time.

Although Chuangjun is not worth mentioning in his eyes, the scene of 10,000+ infantry swarming up like ants is really spectacular.

He looked back and saw that his cavalry had almost crossed the river and were moving ahead, looking for their positions.

The left wing is Zhou Guangbao's [-] elite riders, and the right wing is Xu Bicheng's [-] elite riders.

At this time, you can see a very interesting picture. The Chuangjun move forward, and Ding Yi's soldiers and horses move left and right.

Li Zicheng's generals were even more overjoyed. Up to now, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have not yet lined up.

Ding Yi's cavalry moved, and in their eyes, they ran around chaotically.

"It's said that Ding Yi is good at fighting, so it's nothing more than that." At this time, Li Zicheng had already approached within a mile with [-] fine horsemen, holding a whip in his hand, and he was full of vigor.

Wang Weiguo laughed loudly: "Standing with your back against the water is a big taboo for military strategists."

Not everyone is Han Xin, you Ding Yi think you are Han Xin?
All the generals in the Chuangjun laughed and became more confident.

"Drumming." Li Zicheng roared at this moment.

Because after their striker had walked for a long time, they were getting closer and closer to Ding Yi's department. The two sides were in front, and it was probably less than 200 meters at this time.

Dong dong dong, the drums of the Chuangjun battle were thunderous, spreading all over the battlefield, and the infantry who had been walking in front for a long time began to speed up.

Start yelling.

"kill."

"kill"

Chuang Jun rushed up like ants.

180 meters, 160 meters, 150 meters.

This distance has already entered the distance of the Ming army's gunfire.

However, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses still did not move.

100 m.

Chuangjun infantry camp quickly entered 100 meters.

"Get ready, fight." He Xiaoche waved first.

Bang bang bang, the battlefield was continuous, and Ding Yi's tens of thousands of musketeers fired in turn.

White smoke was everywhere on the battlefield for more than ten miles.

In this battle, Ding Yi has already equipped a large number of flintlock guns, and [-]% of the [-] musketeers are flintlock guns.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the infantry barracks in front of them fell down in pieces like straw blown by the wind.

And a large number of Ding Yi's pikemen are still on the north bank.

After some came over, they lined up behind the gunmen.

The front has been in full swing.

There are a lot of soldiers and horses in the army, there are 10,000+ infantry battalions alone, but Ding Yi also has [-] gun soldiers.

Within 100 meters, it was like Shura hell. Chuangjun rushed in, fell down, rushed in again, and fell down again.

The Ming army's musketeers kept coming, and the casualties caused by the rushing army was a massacre.

In this era, battalion with infantry and flintlock guns are really no different from suicide.

The key point is that the soldiers still came from two miles away.

They were used to the officers and soldiers collapsing as soon as they charged before, but they didn't expect that they would encounter a hard bone.

"How could this happen?" Li Zicheng, Wang Weiguo, Liu Zongmin and others in the rear were all stunned at this moment.

They watched the soldiers and horses rush up like ants, and then fall down like ants.

10,000+ soldiers and horses cannot advance an inch.

"I said earlier that the guns of the bandit soldiers are powerful." Li Yan exclaimed.

He had already reminded Li Zicheng that Ding Yi's blunderbuss was powerful, but Li Zicheng didn't pay attention at all.

At this period in history, Li Zicheng no longer trusted Li Yan, because Niu Jinxing had always been jealous of him and often picked on him. After leaving Beijing, Li Zicheng ordered Niu Jinxing to lure him to the camp and capture him.

Of course Li Zicheng doesn't trust Li Yan much now.

What's more, he has been fighting with the Ming army for so many years, and he didn't know that the Ming army had musketeers. He defeated the official army many times, and there were a small number of muskets in the army, but he never paid attention to it, let alone formed a special firearms battalion.

Now suddenly seeing the power of the Ming army's musketeers, he was really shocked and couldn't believe it.

Niu Jinxing said at this time: "Ming's blunderbuss are easy to blow up, and if they fire again, they will be slow. You should send cavalry to charge down."

Now their forwards are less than 100 meters away from the Ming army. At this distance, the cavalry can reach them with a single charge. What guns are useful?

Li Zicheng thinks so.

"Your Majesty, don't do it. The Ming army's gunshots are so loud that they can't finish the fight." Li Yan persuaded.

"Could it be impossible to withdraw the troops and return to the city?" Li Zicheng was furious. If the cavalry didn't charge, would they retreat?

"Send the order, fine cavalry to attack." Li Zicheng gave an order, first tens of thousands of ordinary cavalry, and then his [-] fine cavalry slowly pressed on behind.

Booming, thunder was rolling on the horizon soon, and a full [-] cavalry began to speed up.

At this time, the forward cavalry has entered within 500 meters, and the successor elites are also following up.

Li Zicheng ordered to beat the drums frantically, and the whole army charged, intending to smash the Ming army's musketeers in one go.

He has fought with the Ming army for many years, so he naturally knows that as long as they get close, the Ming army's musketeers are completely useless and can only wait to be slaughtered.

A large number of pikemen of the Ming army, with swords and shields, were crossing the river, which was their best chance.

"Kill." Chuangjun's shouts of killing can be heard all over the battlefield.

The cavalry accelerated forward, and the infantry battalion was also charging.

In fact, this would lead to heavy casualties when they broke into the infantry camp, but they couldn't turn back, and they couldn't run even if they wanted to, because the cavalry behind them also rushed up.

Veterans have experience, they will run back, and they are easy to be rushed to death by their own cavalry, so they can only rush forward in one go.

Bang, bang, bang, the Ming army's blunderbuss continued continuously, and each bludgeon was like the god of death harvesting life.

A large number of intruders were killed or knocked down.

10,000+ people rushed for a while, causing countless casualties.

It was completely suicidal to die.

Finally someone couldn't stand it anymore, and the Buying found that no matter how they rushed, they couldn't get through.

At this time, the corpses and wounded of their infantry were all over the battlefield, and in some places they were even piled up to a height of half a meter, which was enough to affect the cavalry charging behind.

But the people in the rear couldn't see the situation ahead, and didn't know how tragic the front was.

"I can't rush up." Some veterans cried to the officers, shrinking to the ground, not daring to get up.

"If you can't rush up, you have to go up." The officers shouted: "The cavalry is about to come up."

Shouts were everywhere on the battlefield, and more and more people were crying and unable to make it to the top.

If there were no cavalry behind them, they would have collapsed and scattered.

Just when everyone was desperate and their hearts collapsed.

The cavalry who broke into the army had entered within 200 meters, and from 200 meters to 500 meters, they were all black cavalry.

"Boom" the artillery on the other side of the Mingjun River finally fired.

The guns of the Ming army and the main battlefield are located in the east-west direction of the Lugou River. The river here is the narrowest, only more than 40 meters, and it is probably located near the position of the Lugou New Bridge in later generations.

The Ming army stood with their backs to the water, and the artillery was at the very edge of the river.

The first shot directly hit the cavalry group. After landing, it first rolled and then exploded.

With a bang, several war horses flew down, affecting more than a dozen horses around.

But this cannon seems inconspicuous on the battlefield of tens of thousands of elites.

The next moment.

Boom, boom, boom, nearly a thousand artillery pieces of the Ming army opened fire one after another from near to far.

An incomparably spectacular picture appeared.

"Damn it." Li Zicheng shouted in horror as he watched from behind.

From the distant horizon, a wave of black things suddenly flew up, and then, like raindrops, swish, swish, and flew into the air, the air was full of dense shells.

Nearly a thousand shells fell into his cavalry formation like rain.

Some of the fuzed shells exploded directly, some of them knocked down a few cavalrymen before blowing up after landing, and some of them didn't blow up, and they could also knock down a few cavalrymen.

Boom, boom, boom, there were repeated explosions on the scene, and the cavalry fell like straw blown by the wind.

The first wave of a thousand artillery pieces hit at least five or six thousand of the [-] cavalry.

There are also a large number of war horses frightened, some have already started spinning in place, and some run straight back.

A volley of thousands of guns almost defeated Li Zicheng's cavalry.

The heavy casualties were more than any battle with the Ming army.

But this is not the worst.

The terrible thing is that a large number of his cavalry also rushed within 100 meters.

Originally, the cavalry rushing to the musketeers also had a good chance of destroying the musketeers, as long as they could charge up.

Li Zicheng was used to fighting other Ming troops. He charged first with battalions and then with cavalry.

But the prerequisite is that his battalion must also be able to rush up.

Now that he couldn't make it to the infantry camp, when the cavalry arrived, he suddenly turned into one of his own people rushing towards his own people, and the first to charge was his own infantry camp.

"Get out of the way." The vanguard cavalry yelled frantically, signaling the infantry in front to get out of the way.

What was even more frightening was that when they arrived, they saw a large number of their dead and wounded soldiers and horses densely piled up on the ground in front of them.

Almost all of them are within 100 meters to 80 meters, piles and piles of infantry battalions are either lying on the ground or squatting on the ground.

Chuangjun General Liu Zongmin quickly discovered the problem.

A large number of infantry camps in front did not dare to go up. Some people piled up the corpses of their comrades in front, others hid behind the pile of corpses, some lay down on the ground, some crouched on the ground, and all the troops flinched.

He quickly ran to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, let a certain lead the elite troops to charge for a while, I think that side can do it."

He now points to the side.

Somewhere near the Marco Polo Bridge, a large number of cavalry rushed up, then fell off their horses and fell down.

There were many war horses left on the scene.

I don't know the infantry battalion of that battalion, suddenly learned to be smart, pushed the horse forward, and hid behind the horse, the chance of being shot by the gun was much less.

Then the rear cavalry followed suit one after another. After rushing 150 meters into the Ming army, they all jumped off their horses and used their horses as shields.

The Ming army's blunderbuss sometimes hit the horse two or three times without being able to kill it, and the horse would not fall down.

This made the Chuangjun approach layer by layer, getting closer and closer.

Li Zicheng was heartbroken looking at it, anxious and angry. He didn't expect that some of them fought so well, but on a battlefield that was almost ten miles wide, it was useless to fight well unless they could break through the Ming army. Only a gun formation can affect the entire battle situation.

Li Zicheng didn't rush to agree, he took a closer look, but unfortunately there was no telescope, and there were too many troops on the battlefield, so he could see the situation of the Qingming army there.

(End of this chapter)