Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 215 Shelling the Old Slaves
"Khan, the third battalion of Ming army cavalry with the word Cao appeared in the southwest of the army, do you want to fight back?"

"No, rush to help Huang Taiji, and attack Mangui from the rear."

Liaoshen Plain, when Huang Taiji fell to death, Nurhachi did not sit idly by.

He originally wanted to attack Sun Yingyuan's department, but one person's suggestion changed his view.

"Big Khan, Shenyang is currently well-defended. Judging from the letter sent by Huangtai Jibel, if the artillery of the Ming army is really so sharp, then it is worth paying attention to the news that Shenyang has thousands of artillery pieces in the Liao merchant letter before the war. .”

"Perhaps we should retreat in time, otherwise the Ming army's artillery will arrive, and the army will not be able to retreat..."

Fan Wencheng's words echoed in Nurhachi's ears, and Nurhachi also glanced at Fan Wencheng who was pushed aside by the generals.

"This Han man can use..."

Nurhachi thought so in his heart, and then continued to lead the army to attack south. As for how did the big battle start?

At least in this era, a main battle is kicked off by a continuous skirmish.

Numerous Tangqi squads repeatedly entangled, tested, hedged, and fought on the edge of the battlefield.Both sides must strive to control the battlefield and cover the opponent's scouting screen.Cover your main force.

The main force of both sides, under the cover of the outpost Tangqi, arrived at the position where they could observe the battlefield.

Even if the main force is properly arranged, this battle cannot be fought in a short while.

Both sides must seek an active position, and repeatedly use Tangqi to spy on the weak points of the opponent's military deployment.Where is the key point that the opponent must protect and save?In a word, it is to try to maintain the initiative on the battlefield.

If the opponent is interested in a quick battle, they will hold a stalemate to watch for provocations; if the opponent is interested in a long-term battle, they will choose the key points and press forward to seek a battle.

Before the battle, there will be an endless series of small-scale battles until the main forces of both sides are finally led to the final battle battlefield that will determine their fate.

When the tens of thousands of armies on both sides shouted and formed formations to fight each other, before that, it may have been a few months of confrontation, the two sides fought wits and strength, and the rear tried their best to supply, and finally, it was condensed into the name of a glorious battle in history !

This time the Liaoshen Plain battle and the collision of iron cavalry between Ming and Jin will not escape this route.

The four troops of Nurhachi, Mangui, Cao Wenzhao, and Huang Taiji, except for Huang Taiji who was besieged and dismounted, the Tangqi of the other three parties had already started fighting.

Nurhachi's Tangqi needs to face the double drive and attack of Cao Wenzhao's and Mangui's Tangqi. The three parties gradually advance in a triangle, and the Mangui's troops will be the final battlefield.

For example, right now, on the battlefield full of corpses, the two white flags put the horses in the center of the army, and the short soldiers went out, followed by the bow infantry.

The arched infantry took out their infantry bows, put on the bowstrings, and waited for the Ming army to shoot them back when they were confronted by the bowstrings.

Compared with the Eight Banners soldiers who could only control strings and five strengths (65 pounds) in the Qianlong period, the bow infantry in the Laonu period controlled the infantry bows astonishingly.

At this time, the Eight Banners were in a barbaric period, and they were also at their peak. Their combat effectiveness was superior to that of the Sauron soldiers in the Kangxi period, and the infantry bows they controlled started with seven strengths, reaching a power of ninety pounds.

The seven-strength step bow combined with the armor-piercing arrow the size of a baby's fist, looked from the side, undoubtedly making people desperate.

When the pawns of the two white flags began to draw their bows, Man Gui ordered people to call for gold.

No one knows more about how poisonous the Jianlu horse infantry's arrows are and how far they can shoot than Man Gui, who once attacked Jianlu's heavy soldiers in Huangtuling.

As far as string control is concerned, the batch standard war bows of the Ming army from the Yongle period were only five to eight powers. Because the popularity of firearms reduced the Ming army's demand for bows and arrows, there were no such high requirements.

Compared with the Ming army, Jianlu had no firearms and could only use bows and arrows, and the result of long-term use was that the seven-power bow was just their passing line.

Hitting a strong bow with a short-distance cavalry gun is obviously not good for the Ming army, so Man Gui is just ordering the cavalry to make a tentative attack. The actual method is still the infantry...

"Are the rifles ready?"

Man Gui tilted his head to ask, and the left and right commanders also nodded and said: "The two thousand rifles have been loaded, and now we are waiting for the general's order."

The flintlock muskets of the Ming army were four feet two inches long, and had a maximum range of one hundred steps, but the effective range was fifty steps. Thirty-five steps could penetrate cloth face armor, and fifteen steps could penetrate triple armor.

In contrast, Jianlu's seven-power bow has a range of [-] steps, but the arrows hit the armor with little damage, and only hitting the face can cause damage to the Ming army.

Even if all the Jin soldiers are excellent archers, it is impossible for every arrow to hit the face of the Ming army within thirty or forty steps.

However, the Ming army only needed thirty-five steps to penetrate the cloth face armor.

"Sword player covers, rifle hand!"

Man Gui gave an order, and then the cavalry army separated, cruising in the shape of a full moon, [-] steps away from the Jin army, and at this time, a thousand dismounted cavalry with swords on their backs also guarded two thousand dismounted cavalry with rifles. go ahead.

"What is the Ming army going to do?"

After bone-setting bandages, Huang Taiji's waist pain was greatly reduced, so he could barely ride on the horseback and start watching the battle.

To this day, the Jin army has not seen the power of the rifle at close range. In their influence, the sharpest firearm of the Ming army is the big bird gun among the bird guns, which is a carrying gun more than two meters long.

This kind of gun is slow to reload, and the armor of the Jinjun has been tested for a long time. Within thirty steps, even raising the gun cannot penetrate the triple armor on the chest.

Therefore, after Huang Taiji used his binocular clairvoyance to see the firecracker behind the Ming saber player, Dang Li said:

"The Ming army will use the big bird gun, the archer will retreat, and the swordsman will raise the shield!"

"Yes!" Hearing Huang Taiji's words, the two Gu Shan Ezhen of the Liangbai Banner immediately began to command the messengers to order the various departments.

The current number of Jinjun has been reduced to six or seven thousand people, which makes it easier for Huang Taiji to command.

Before the Ming army entered the hundred paces, the archers of the Jin army retreated, and the swordsmen and poker players raised their shields to guard the front.

It's just that Man Gui turned a blind eye to their actions, and just looked to the northeast from time to time to be alert for Nurhachi's arrival.

"The archers are ready to shoot upwards! The Ming army released their guns, then withdrew their shields and released their arrows!"

In the Jin army formation, Huang Taiji began to give orders, and all the archers also began to prepare under the order.

After a dozen or so breaths, the riflemen did not disperse. Instead, more than [-] people were divided into four rows, with [-] people in each row forming a square formation, and walked obliquely toward the south of Jianlu.

The Jin army has long had experience in dealing with the bird guns of the Ming army, and the shield in their hands is the hard and soft shield proposed by Huang Taiji last time.

Although the cost of this kind of crude composite shield is expensive, there are still a lot of them made by Houjin.

After such a shield was raised, Jin Jun was really flustered, but...

"Standing!"

Suddenly, the forty general flags walking in the first row of the army suddenly shouted, and then the army stopped immediately, and the swordsmen and poker players also lay on the ground.

"preparation……"

The general flag was raised, and the riflemen immediately staggered the position of the general flag, lengthening the battle line.

At this time, they were only thirty steps away from Jin Jun, and Jin Jun still thought that he was facing the bird gun and raising the gun.

"put!"

Lifting the trigger horizontally and pulling the trigger, there was only an endless stream of "cracking" sounds for a moment.

"Boom!" Jin Jun's hard and soft shield, which was still thinking of luck, was instantly pierced by dense bullets. For a while, most of the bullets penetrated the shield and landed on Jin Jun's armor, but a small part hit Jin Jun's cheek and fell down. A dozen or so people went down, revealing a gap.

The soldiers in the first row squatted down and began to clear their chambers and change their medicines, while the soldiers in the second row began to raise their guns and shoot.

The sound of "bang bang bang" became the main theme on the battlefield. The soldiers in the third row handed their rifles to the front row, took the rifles and began to clear the chambers.

When the second row of soldiers fired the second shot, the third row of soldiers took the rifle handed from behind and handed it forward while clearing the chamber, and took a step back with the rifle.

The soldiers in the third and fourth rows stepped back to clear their guns, while the soldiers in the first row had already loaded their rifles and stood up to continue pulling the trigger.

The second row of soldiers cleared their guns and loaded their guns. At this time, the four rows of guns of the Ming army had finished firing. Hundreds of Jianlu fell, but most of them were shot in the chest and abdomen. Those who were able to stand up and were actually killed by piercing the rigid and soft shield were less than two hundred people.

Man Gui's tactics of using platoon guns is still a bit too conservative. If it was Zhu Youjian, he would definitely order the platoon guns to approach ten steps, and defeat the Jin army in the last breath.

But it's not surprising that Man Gui didn't know that there was a kind of existence called "lobster soldiers", and he didn't know the power of firing guns at close range. After all, this was the first show of Shangzhi soldiers' horse rifles.

"Fire arrows!"

Before the consequences of defeating the enemy appeared immediately, while the Ming army was loading ammunition, the Jin army began to let go of the bowstring and shoot arrows.

A wave of arrows rained densely, most of which aimed at the upper body of the Ming army.

Even at this time, the sword players lying on the ground raised their shields to stand up, but most of the sword players were still too slow, and many rifles fell down.

"Beep--"

Suddenly, the chief flag officer continued to blow the wooden whistle, and at the same time, the knife player continued to get down.

Two seconds after they got down on the ground, the soldiers began to discharge their guns.

With the sound of "bang bang bang" gunfire and lingering white smoke, the golden archers who were caught off guard were directly knocked down.

"It's not the big bird gun and the bird gun, it's a new type of fire gun that is the same as the Wansheng Frang machine of the Ming army!"

Huang Taiji realized later, and immediately frowned and said:
"Continue to raise the shield, shoot upwards, and wait..."

He was giving orders, but at this time, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes from the northeast, and Huang Taiji also turned his head and looked with binocular clairvoyance.

"The reinforcements are coming!"

Seeing the arrival of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji was excited and angry at the same time. He was full of mixed emotions and did not forget to boost morale.

But at the same time as he was encouraged, he also saw the Ming army cavalry chasing behind the Jin army.

He was all too familiar with that flag, it was the soldier named Cao who had been chasing him out of the mountain from Chengzi Pass.

That cavalry was less than [-] people, but right now there are only [-] to [-] people in our headquarters, [-] reinforcements, and [-] Ming troops here, that is to say...

"The strength is quite..." Huang Taiji's face darkened.

Judging from the current outbreak of the Ming army's combat power, Ming Jin's strength is quite equivalent to falling into a disadvantage.

"The whole army blows the whistle to remind the Great Khan to evacuate after breaking the formation!"

Huang Taiji's face was ugly, he didn't care whether his actions would show an act of challenging the authority of his own Khan Ama, he only knew that if the army was entangled, everyone would have to be buried here, and Dajin would be destroyed in an instant !

"Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-"

However, after dozens of breaths, a large number of whistles sounded from the two white flags. The whistles were a bit chaotic at first, but gradually unified in frequency, and finally expanded the sound.

"Blow the wooden whistle to drown out their voices!"

Man Gui ordered that Huang Taiji not want any useful information to come out, and the cavalry of the Ming army also started to blow the wooden whistle under the reminder.

But the battlefield is always composed of tens of thousands of people, it is impossible for one person to order, and everyone can do what Man Gui wants in the next second.

Therefore, Nurhachi heard the first part of the wooden whistle of the Jin army, and then it became noisy because of the interference of the Ming army.

"Khan Ama and Eshun seem to want us to..."

Yue Tuo rode his horse to keep up, and spoke to Nurhachi cautiously, and all the generals also looked at Nurhachi.

It's just that what they saw was not Nurhachi's angry appearance, but a chuckle on Nurhachi's face.

As a man in his sixties, although Nurhachi, like a lion in a pride, does not allow anyone to challenge his authority, he is still clear about it.

He needs to have an heir.

Originally, Huang Taiji was among the heirs he was thinking of, but Nurhachi was a little happy with Huang Taiji's means and abilities in this battle, as well as his courage to directly order himself just now.

"Order the army to break out in the direction of Fushun after rescuing the two white flags!"

"Yes!" The generals were surprised that Nurhachi was not angry, but Hu Erhan, Yue Tuo and others who were close to Huang Taiji smiled cryptically.

Obviously, Nurhachi was a little happy that Huang Taiji dared to challenge his authority. Although they didn't know why, if Huang Taiji was selected as the prince, then Dajin might be even better than he is now.

"drive!"

Following Nurhachi's order, the [-] horse infantry rushed straight to the Mangui army three miles away.

Behind them, Cao Wenzhao also buried his head in pursuit. This scene made Nurhachi very unhappy:
"Yue Tuo, take the red flag to block the Ming army behind, and retreat when Huang Taiji is out of trouble!"

"Yes!" Yue Tuo responded, and then took over the military order, and Gu Shan Ezhen, who was carrying the red flag, commanded the soldiers and horses with the red flag.

When the Jin army rushed forward for another mile, five or six thousand horse infantry slowly fell out of the army, and their task was to block Cao Wenzhao under the leadership of Shuo Tuo.

"Go around!"

Seeing that Shuotuo was about to intercept him, Cao Wenzhao immediately led his men to choose a detour holding the banner of the Chinese Army.

At the same time, Man Gui also ordered the cavalry of the entire army to prepare for a confrontation, but it was not to confront Nurhachi, but to confront the Jin army with the help of rifles!
The full moon formed by the [-]-strong army began to converge towards the center at this moment, and the roar of war horses sounded, and Huang Taiji also saw all this clearly, but he could only speak about it:

"Backshot!"

Six thousand marched to remove the sword players in the front row. At this moment, they all raised their bows and shot upwards towards the sky.

Without a long gun, it is impossible to prevent the cavalry from charging after a face-to-face confrontation.

Arrows rained down like rain, and the arrows of countless Ming army horses neighed, but due to the existence of the horse-faced armor, most of the arrows were blocked, and few of them could directly shoot down the horses.

The infantry phalanx was still approaching to release the guns, while cavalry rushed in all around, and the two white flags became a white spot under the red tide.

"put!"

Seeing that the distance was approaching, some Ming soldiers immediately raised their lances and pulled the trigger.

The sound of "bang bang bang" sounded again, and almost all the sword players in the front row fell down, while the iron cavalry of the Ming army held a blunderbuss in one hand and a pumpkin hammer in the other, and chose to rush into the battle regardless of life and death.

If [-] people dare not rush into the [-] short soldiers without spears, the four cavalry guards can be killed head-on.

It's just that on the battlefield, after all, it's not the [-] Ming army's iron cavalry unilaterally facing the [-] Jin army's cavalry and infantry.

When Cao Wenzhao was held back by Yuetuo, Nurhachi's more than [-] cavalry rushed straight over. The army deliberately shot at the Ming army's horses, turning those who were shot by the Ming army on their backs. , fight together.

This is like in the blitzkrieg, after breaking through the enemy's opening, use tanks and infantry to isolate the torn army and leave a passable passage.

Without impact, the Ming and Jin armies fought together, and at the same time, Fan Wencheng swung his sword at his compatriots, hacking and killing.

Fan Wencheng is a literati, but he is not short in stature, and his physical fitness is not bad. He obviously has such abilities, but he chose to join the Jin army, and together with the Jin army, he swung his sword at the Ming army.

He followed Nurhachi to the very center of the battlefield, and rushed to the front of the two white flags.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the two white flags immediately asked people to walk in the same way, while Fan Wencheng rode his horse in, and hurriedly said the first time he saw Huang Taiji:
"Baylor, immediately order the entire army to mount their horses, and the army will rush out of the encirclement."

"Yang Zhaoji of Fengji Fort, Wu Aheng and Zhang Jixian of Wujing Camp, and Lu Xiangsheng of Liaoyang have already led their troops out of the city to encircle this place!"

"Okay!" Huang Taiji's waist hurt, but he still gritted his teeth to signal Gu Shan Ezhen on both sides to lead the army to retreat.

Tens of thousands of cavalry rushed to kill in this plain, limited by the [-] cavalry under Nurhachi's command in disorder in the formation, Man Gui saw that he could not encircle and suppress Huang Taiji, and continuing like this would only cause heavy losses to the army, so he could only order:

"The army retreats and prepares for a confrontation!"

"Clang clang-"

The sound of Mingjin sounded, and the cavalry of the Ming army immediately abandoned the Eight Banners horse infantry who were entangled with them.

It's just that they had just left the battlefield when Nurhachi ordered someone to blow a long whistle.

"withdraw!"

The whistle of "beep beep" began to blow one long, two short and three long, and the horse infantry of the Golden Army who had dismounted to kill the enemy also grabbed the horses scattered on the battlefield and withdrew their troops to the northeast.

The number of escaped two white flags is already very small, but the desire to survive is also the strongest. The army is constantly looking for scattered horses, even if it is a lame horse.

Man Gui had just reorganized his cavalry, and when he saw the Jin army showing signs of retreating, he drew his sword and caught up with him.

"Pursue! The whole army is following the big flag of the Chinese army!" The lieutenant yelled when he saw this, and the dozens of horsemen behind him immediately dispersed to inform the army.

The [-] Ming army's iron cavalry began to pursue, and Yue Tuo, who was entangled with Cao Wenzhao, immediately led the army to retreat with Nurhachi.

Seeing this, Cao Wenzhao also led his army to follow, and this follow turned into a chasing battle between the Ming army and the Jin army.

Huang Taiji's waist was in unbearable pain, so he could only march on his horseback. Seeing this, Nurhachi could only frown.

At this moment, it was approaching dusk, and the Golden Army, Ma Duo, didn't have to worry about being unable to retreat.

What Nurhachi was unwilling to do was that when the war came to this point, he failed to achieve his goal at all, and in the end he had to lead the army to withdraw.

It's just that there is no way to do it. The [-] Jin army entered the customs. Counting the casualties in the Weining camp, there are already tens of thousands of casualties. If the fight continues, the morale of the army will collapse.

They fled to the northeast, but before it got dark, the former army Tang cavalry gathered their horses and came.

"Wu Aheng and Zhang Jixian of the Wujing Battalion commanded [-] troops out of the city, from north to south!"

"Go south!" Nurhachi ordered calmly.

But before he ran for a few miles, he saw Tang Qi coming from the front again:

"Yang Zhaoji in Fengji County has already led [-] troops to line up artillery fifteen miles to the southeast, waiting for Man Gui and others to flank him."

"Go northeast!"

Nurhachi was still calm at the moment, but after the army marched northward for more than ten miles, the Tangqi in front came back to report again.

"Big Khan, twenty miles ahead, the third battalion of Zhejiang soldiers from Baitapu Fort came out of the city, aiming at our army!"

"Bypass Yang Zhaoji!" Nurhachi didn't dare to stop. Once they were entangled by Man Gui and Cao Wenzhao's cavalry at this time, they would only encounter more encirclement and suppression by the Ming army.

The Jin army had already suffered tens of thousands of deaths and injuries, and could no longer bear other deaths and injuries.

The sky gradually darkened, and the cavalry of the Ming army who were chasing Nurhachi also slowly slowed down, and were thrown away by the Jin army for five or six miles.

It's just that when they crossed a low slope, thunder suddenly sounded in the dark surroundings!
"Boom boom-"

"There is an ambush!" The whole army was terrified, and at the same time hundreds of stone bombs also smashed into the formation of the Jin army's attack.

The mud splashed, and the stone bullets turned into ricochet bullets, hitting the horses one by one, causing people to fall on their backs.

"Continue to withdraw! Don't stop!"

Nurhachi ordered loudly, and the people who carried the banners of the Chinese army kept riding their horses.

All the war horses had reached their limit, and at this moment Nurhachi also saw clearly where the stone bomb was fired.

On a low mountain platform more than [-] miles to the northeast of them, an artillery position flying the "Xiong" flag came into view, and there were hundreds of artillery placed there.

Before Nurhachi could continue to make adjustments, the artillery fired again, but this time it was not from Xiong Tingbi's artillery position, but from the northwest.

"Boom bang—"

Hundreds of stone bullets fell, and Jin Jun was caught off guard.

Nurhachi broke out in cold sweat on his forehead. Looking northwest, he only saw the flag with the word "Qi" fluttering.

"When did Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jin ambush here?! Where's Mangurtai?!"

Nurhachi is having an attack because it is less than [-] miles away from Fushun, and according to the situation reported by Mangurtai's Tiqi two hours ago, there should be no one here, and Xiong Tingbi should have a stalemate with Manggurtai at Chengzi Pass right.

"What's going on here? And hasn't Qi Jin crossed the Hun River back to Shenyang?"

For a moment, Nurhachi's mind was full of chaos, and he couldn't figure it out. At this time, a fire appeared on the horizon in the distance. Nurhachi raised his captured binoculars and looked at it, only to see tens of thousands of soldiers and horses blocking the way. ahead.

"Khan, we are surrounded!"

"Khan Ama, let's break through with a broken arm..."

At this time, the generals of the Jin Army realized the seriousness of the matter, and they were tricked by Xiong Tingbi.

Xiong Tingbi asked Qi Jin to take a shot, and after crossing the Hunhe River, he went across the Hunhe River to ambush them.

Right now, they are surrounded by the Ming army. They are blocked on the plain by at least twice their Ming army, and there are tens of thousands of Ming army cavalry behind them...

Hu Erhan, Yue Tuo, and even Huang Taiji and others persuaded Nurhachi to break out of the siege, but at this point in time, Nurhachi still thought it was possible to fight.

He pulled out his long knife, looked towards the mountains not far to the south, and said in a flash of inspiration: "The army obeys the order, follow me..."

"Boom boom-"

Without giving him a chance to speak, all the artillery positions of the Ming army in the front, left, and right sides exploded, and in front of the generals, a stone bomb fell from the sky, and it turned into a ricochet when it hit Nurhachi's side, jumping up and hitting Nurhachi hard. legs!

"Khan Ama (Great Khan)!"

(End of this chapter)