The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 799

Kong Youde glanced at Wu Jinsheng, and said loudly: "Let's fight now, try two more times."

"Cha." Wu Jinsheng replied: "Prepare for test firing."

He yelled, and all the ministries began to stand, separate, and line up.

It took a while for 5000 people to stand in their positions.

"Reload." Wu Jinsheng shouted.

Then officers at all levels were calling.

But I saw that the gunmen, whether they had guns or not, were all making gestures to reload, but in fact they didn't reload.

Because they now have fewer and fewer craftsmen and fewer and fewer guns to make, so there are fewer and fewer test shots, fearing that the chamber will explode and lose the Lumi gun.

Wait for everyone to say that the bomb is loaded.

Wu Jinsheng called again: "Raise the gun."

"aim."

Scratching, following the shouts of the officers, five thousand blunderbuss soldiers raised their blunderbuss or the wooden guns in their hands flatly to make blunderbuss loads.

"ignition."

Wu Jinsheng called again.

"Hey..." Someone still made a sound from their mouths, as if a fire had really started.

But the eyes of everyone on the scene looked at Kong Youde at this moment.

At this moment Kong Youde picked up a bow and drew out an arrow.

The front of the arrow was painted red, and it was all red.

Whoosh, Kong Youde bent his bow and shot an arrow lightly.

The direction was exactly the direction of Wu Jinsheng, shooting directly behind Wu Jinsheng.

Wu Jinsheng was dumbfounded.

But he didn't hesitate: "Hit." There was a loud cry.

In an uproar, all the musketeers turned around at the same time, facing Wu Jinsheng's direction one after another, bang bang bang, everyone fired row after row, and made noises from their mouths.

After finishing the first row, he immediately squatted down and walked around from the left.

The second row continued to fight, then also squatted slightly, and walked around from the right side.

A total of five rounds were played.

The musketeers who returned to the back continued to do the reloading and stood up in order.

This is the new training method suggested by Yuan Tian to Kong Youde.

When the order comes, fire the gun immediately without hesitation.

At that time, Kong Youde practiced in Shengjing for a period of time, and many people who were unhappy or slow to respond were beheaded.

At first everyone treated the training as a joke, but after Kong Youde killed a group of people, everyone became scared and became serious.

One day, Kong Youde organized a hundred people, 20 people in a row, and asked them to train with live ammunition and shoot five rounds.

He even let his newly married concubine watch from the sidelines.

Suddenly Kong Youde shot an arrow at the concubine.

The gunmen turned around one after another, but many gunmen in the first row were stunned and did not dare to fire their guns.

Then 20 of the 16 people in the entire row did not fire their guns, and four of them shot, directly killing Kong Youde's newly married concubine.

Kong Youde was furious, and ordered the 16 people in the front row who hadn't fired guns to be beheaded, and the family members were demoted to slavery.

The four who fire the gun will be promoted to a higher rank and rewarded with a hundred taels of silver.

After this time, whenever Kong Youde ordered the arrow to go, he dared not to shoot.

No matter who they were asked to fight, the gunmen did not dare to hesitate.
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The Ming army marched very slowly, not in a hurry.

Only came out of Shanhaiguan on August 10,000th, [-]+ troops, countless supplies of food and grass, and countless carts headed outside the pass.

It is about [-] miles from Shanhaiguan to Hunhe Dorgon Garrison.

Ding Yi's sentries arrived first, and then the forward Wang Weizhong's [-] troops arrived on August [-]th.

It is equivalent to walking fifty or sixty miles a day.

There is no way, so much food, grass and luggage are moving too slowly, and this is still at the speed at which everyone rides on horses. If more than half of the Ming army had no horses like before, the speed would be even slower.

As Dorgon expected, the Ming army bypassed the later Hunhe Bridge, and from the south to the north, Wang Weizhong arrived at Zhaijia Village after crossing the bridge. At this time, the Qing army was less than forty miles away.

While Wang Weizhong set up his camp by the river, he sent sentry cavalry around, and he was not in a hurry to attack.

Ding Yi followed up with soldiers and horses, occupied Guangning first, and hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in Guangning.

At that time, this side was the throat of the Ming army in western Liaoning, the gate guarding Shanhaiguan, and the barrier to defend the capital.

When Wang Huazhen was here, he had 13 soldiers and millions of food stores. It was an important military fortress in the Ming Dynasty.

When Xiong Tingbi fell into the hands of Xiong Tingbi, Hou Jin plundered a large amount of grain. Only Youwei Tun, where Xiong Tingbi was stationed, had 50 shi of grain and grass. It was this batch of grain and grass that helped Nurhachi survive a terrible economic crisis.As for the plundering of pearls and treasures, there are countless.

And Ding Yi was very confident in winning this battle, and he only brought 30 stone grain along the way.

His 15 people ate these grains and grasses for a year, but in fact, some of them were used after the war.

Xu Bicheng defended Guangning with [-] soldiers, and another [-] cavalry were swimming in Guangning and the western front of the Hunhe River, but Ding Yi had [-] soldiers and horses who did not participate in the war.

If Dorgon wanted to attack Ding Yi's granary, he would have to send at least [-] elite troops across the river, and he might not be able to defeat Xu Bicheng's troops.

Dorgon soon sent sentry cavalry to detect the reality of the Ming army, knowing that the Ming army had hoarded heavy troops and food in Guangning.

In the Battle of Songjin that year, they sent a surprise army to attack Bijia Mountain where the Ming army's grain and grass were located, thus defeating the Ming army.

But now, of course he knew that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were not easy to mess with. Hauge, the leader of the right road, once asked for orders to attack Guangning.

But Dorgon refused.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are no better than the Ming army, not to mention a waste of time and manpower, our original soldiers and horses are not as many as his, and if you divide the troops, it is useless if there are fewer, what should we do if we have more main forces?
The Ming army has [-] elite troops on the opposite side of the Hun River, and it will take at least [-] to fight.

Hauge wanted to say something, but the other nobles dissuaded him one after another. Azig even said that if he attacked the city, it would take at least [-] to defeat the [-] Ming army, so Hauge had no choice but to give up.

Now the whole Qing Dynasty united as one and decided to fight the Ming army on the Hunhe River.

On the 24th, the ministries of the Ming army slowly came to Zhaijia Village, and nearly 30 troops from both sides were stationed within a range of dozens of miles to face each other.

There are a large number of sentry cavalry collisions every day.

A team of 20 sentry cavalry of the Ming army, and a team of 50 soldiers of the Qing army usually did not take advantage. The sentry cavalry of the Qing army suffered heavy losses and could only retreat step by step.

In the past few years, Ding Yi's spring wheel gun has been constantly modified, and it can hit farther and farther. Now it can break through heavy iron armor at a distance of 20 meters.

In this battle, each of their sentry cavalry brought four, and some even brought six, which was crazy.

It was only later that Ding Yi found out that someone had asked Zhang Qidong's subordinates for wheel-wheel guns when they passed through Shanhaiguan, and each of them brought six of them, with the intention of being full of Qingshao cavalry.

There is really no way for the Qing soldiers. Now Ding Yi's cavalry shooting skills are no worse than theirs. When the two sides get close, they directly take the guns and keep a distance, so that they don't get close.

After 25 days, the sentry cavalry of the Ming army advanced to the vicinity of Xiaotuozi, only about eight miles away from the main force of the Qing army.

Dorgon hadn't fought Ding Yi for several years. He didn't expect Ding Yi's soldiers to become more and more powerful. He began to panic, but now he was on the verge of riding a tiger. With so many soldiers gathered here, it was impossible to retreat.

He is sure that as long as he says to retreat, the whole army will collapse like the Ming army in the Songjin War, especially this time, many Mongols are not very willing. If they do not fight, they will withdraw. In the future, the Mongols will say goodbye to them .

That day, he was looking worriedly into the distance, when suddenly, a heavy horn sounded from the sky.

Before the sound of the horn was over, sentry cavalry from Manqing had already run over: "The Ming army is here, the Ming army is here."

"Assembly." Dorgon didn't hesitate, it was useless to think about anything now, only a bloody battle.

The Qing soldiers also sounded horns, and all the battalions began to gather at the designated positions.

In less than half an hour, a group of cavalry appeared on the opposite side, and then more and more cavalry, and finally almost covered the mountains and plains.

10,000+ Ming troops lined up on the eight-mile-long front.

At this time, the Ming and Qing soldiers had the Hun River on the west, and the Taizi River on the east (so it was called Yanshui, the Daliang River in the Han Dynasty, the Luwei River in the Qing Dynasty, and the Taizi River in the Ming Dynasty).
The area between the Hunhe River and the Taizi River between eight and ten miles is their main battlefield.

This kind of battlefield benefits both sides.

Dorgon's choice here is also carefully selected. There are rivers on both sides, which means that both sides only need to confront each other head-on.

There is no need to defend the left and right wings.

No one can cross the river to outflank this place, because the distance to cross the river is too far, at least it takes several hours to run.

Dorgon also learned from Ding Yi. When Ding Yi had few soldiers, he liked to choose this kind of place, including the battle of Qingshuibo, where he blocked 5 people with [-] troops. The way of Dorgon's [-] troops must be fought.

At this time, Ding Yi was slowly riding a horse and holding up the binoculars to look at this side. After reading it, he smiled at the people around him and said, "Dorgon has learned how to fight like us now?"

Everyone around laughed.

"It's a pity that the situation is different. We are no longer the Lushun warlords of the past." Ding Yi laughed, then his face slowly became serious, and he looked through the binoculars.

The soldiers and horses on both sides in front were moving and walking slowly.

At this time, on the battlefield of 30 people, there was no sound, and the soldiers and horses of both sides were advancing.

Ding Yi’s 10,000+ people were all riding horses, but after reaching a certain distance, someone gave an order, and then some cavalrymen rode horses and ran in front of the formation, waving flags.

Soon, a large number of gunmen dismounted one after another, and a small number of spearmen behind them also dismounted, and then led the horses back.

Not many musketeers participated in this battle, only [-], even fewer than those who fought against Li Zicheng.

Dan Ding Yi brought a large number of cavalry.

Wang Weizhong had [-], Yuan Youcai had [-], Guan Fumin [-], and Shen Shikui had [-], each with [-] cavalry, which means [-] cavalry.

Forty thousand cavalrymen slowly followed behind the Gunners, keeping a distance of 100 meters from the Gunners.

On the opposite side, Dorgon watched the Ming army change as they walked forward.

First, the cavalry in the front row got off their horses one after another and turned into musketeers, and then the musketeers transformed as they walked, and soon became ten phalanxes.

Between each phalanx and the phalanx, there is a gap, about 100 meters wide.

Dorgon quickly saw that this was reserved for the rear cavalry to charge.

Is this why the Ming army wants to use cavalry to hedge against us?

Or do you think that the musketeers can defeat us, and then the cavalry pursue us?
Do you really think that I am a warrior of the Qing Dynasty, as vulnerable as the peasant army?Dorgon was furious when he saw it.

But he felt a little uneasy in his heart, and looked behind from time to time.

"Report." Suddenly there was a sentry riding over from behind, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Across the Hun River, Xu Bicheng's [-] cavalry are swimming and have not crossed the river."

"There is no Ming army on the other side of the Taizi River."

(End of this chapter)