Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 402
On a small slope on the other side of the Yellow River.

Li Zicheng led Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Zuo Maodi, Liu Zongmin and other civil and military personnel to watch the battle from the heights.

However, apart from Dashun's civil servants and military generals, Li Zicheng also had a big man in a Mongolian leather robe beside him, which seemed out of place with the surrounding Dashun civil and military officers.

This Mongolian man is the second brother of Batur Huntaiji, the leader of the Junggar tribe, Chuoros Chechen.

The Chuoros family is also an ancient family in Mongolia. Its reputation is almost as famous as the Golden family. A large number of powerful figures have emerged in history, such as Mahamu, Yexian, Tuohuan and so on.

Although this Chechen is very young, he is also a powerful figure.

This time, under Baturhun's order, he led [-] camel cavalry to form an alliance with the Dashun Congress. get ready.

Apparently, Baturhui was still very clear-headed, knowing that Dashun would become a threat to Junggar in the future.

Of course, for the Junggar tribe at this stage, getting rid of the rule of the Oirat leader Guoshi Khan is the top priority.

By the way, in another world line, the leader of Oirat, Guoshi Khan, had already offered his vassal to the Manchu Qing at this time.

However, instead of presenting his tribute to the Manchus, the National Teacher Khan in this world wanted to compete with the Manchus for the title of co-lord of Mongolia.

Taiji Baturhun of the Junggar Ministry also wanted to take the opportunity to expand its influence, so he readily agreed to send troops.

However, even Baturhun himself did not expect that the [-] camel swivel guns he asked Chechen to bring to Hetao to participate in the battle would have such a big impact on the battle situation.

Li Zicheng was shocked beyond words when he saw Jiannu's front team suffered heavy casualties under the continuous bombardment of [-] camel swivel guns, and then turned around and fled, even smashing Jiannu's rear team. Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Liu Zongmin and other Dashun civil and military officials were also shocked for a long time without making a sound.

It turns out that cannons are so sharp when they are used in field battles?
The senior management of the Dashun Army felt that their understanding of field warfare had been refreshed.

When the Dashun army fought against the Ming army and Jiannu before, it was not that they had encountered artillery.

Even the Dashun Army imitated many cannons, but their effects seemed to be very limited.

The main reason is that it is too bulky and extremely inconvenient to move. It can be used for sieges, but it is not enough for field battles.

Because the enemy is not blind, let alone a fool, he will rush forward foolishly after seeing your cannon.

As long as the enemy changes location, or even changes direction, it will be difficult for heavy artillery such as Hongyi cannon or Frang cannon to play their due role.

Heavy artillery does not mean that it is completely unsuitable for field battles.

However, a lot of preparatory work and deception work is often required before the war, which is very troublesome.

But Junggar's camel-camel rotary guns seem to avoid all the shortcomings of heavy artillery.

In terms of lethality alone, Junggar’s camel cannons are far from being comparable to the Hongyi cannons equipped by the Ming army and Jiannu. a little.

However, the camel swivel gun has a huge advantage over the Hongyi cannon and the Frang cannon, that is, it is extremely light and can be mounted on the back of a camel and followed by infantry. This is amazing.

Imagine infantry support artillery in the seventeenth century, what is this concept?
At this time, other countries have not even appeared field artillery in the true sense, but the Junggar army already has infantry support artillery, which is outrageous.

In another time and space, Junggar has a population of less than [-], but has fought against the Manchus with a population of [-] million for [-] years. The camel swivel gun, an excellent infantry support artillery, has contributed a lot.

Seeing Jiannu fleeing in all directions, Gu Junen couldn't help turning his head to look at Chechen.

The camel cannons of the Junggar tribe are so sharp, once the Dashun Dynasty and the Oirats turned against each other and the two countries went to war, would the Dashun army be able to hold the camel cannons?I'm afraid it's hard to bear.

Thinking of this, Gu Junen was instantly anxious.

The monarchs and ministers of the Dashun Dynasty were really frightened by the power of the camel swivel cannon in field battles.

However, Gao Yigong, Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, the general of the rear battalion commanding in front, has already taken advantage of this opportunity to lead the main force of the rear battalion to launch a fierce attack.

However, Gao Yigong is still very strict in running the army, at least he is much better than Li Guo.

Even after launching a fierce attack, the [-] infantry in the rear battalion still kept their formation intact, like waves, rushing towards Jiannu's main formation one after another.

Jiannu's front team and rear team have collapsed.

Now as long as Jiannu's main formation is destroyed in one fell swoop, they will win the battle of Hetao.

However, neither Li Zicheng, nor Song Xiance, Gao Yigong and other Dashun's civil and military personnel cheered, and no one even showed a happy expression. They were all shocked.

……

Looking at the Dashun infantry rushing forward like a tide, Huang Deheng was secretly startled.

Huang Deheng was originally the coat of Badahai's vest in the Zhengbai Banner. Because he saved Badahai's life in the Battle of Sanyang, he was raised to the flag after he made a contribution and became a bannerman of the Zhengbai Banner Han Army.

In the decisive battle of Hetao, the Han army of the Eight Banners can be said to have come out in full force.

By the way, the number of troops in the Eight Banners Han Army has returned to [-].

Moreover, the [-]-strong Eight Banners Han Army has been turned into an all-firearms unit by Dole. The artillery battalion has [-] people, and the remaining [-] people are all-one musketeers.

However, only half of the musketeers were equipped with flintlocks.

The other half of the musketeers were still equipped with captured bird guns or Lumi guns.

Huang Deheng used a flintlock gun, and he fell in love with it after just a few test shots.

"The front team kneels!" Zhengbai Banner Han Jun Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu galloped past the front of the formation, shouting loudly, Huang Deheng and the [-] musketeers in line knelt down one after another.

The next moment, the artillery battalion of the rear team took off their camouflage, revealing cannons in red clothes.

"Let go!" Accompanied by roars, there was a continuous bang of "bang bang bang bang".

Huang Deheng didn't turn his head, but he could clearly feel the ground under his feet trembling, and his eardrums were about to be deafened. Two hundred Hongyi cannons fired at the same time, and the movement was too loud.

When I looked up again, I saw the mud splashed by the shells falling on the grass beach, and the splashed mud was still rapidly extending towards the Yellow River, pulling out muddy water on the grass beach, like A huge iron rake is quickly plowing across the grassy beach of Junzijin.

The mud grooves soon extended to the front of the Puppet Shunjun infantry formation, and then they got into it.

The next moment, wherever the muddy water passed, the infantry of the puppet obedient army broke their limbs and fell to the ground. Just this time, at least a thousand puppet obedient soldiers were either killed or injured.

……

On the other side of the river, on the top of the hill.

"This is..." Li Zicheng said in surprise, "Hongyi Cannon?"

Song Xiance also yelled in disbelief: "When did Jiannu's Hongyi cannons arrive?"

"It was probably transported here quietly while it was dark." Gu Junen said, "After all, Guihua City has been surrounded by groups, and the defenders in the city have no way to monitor the movement of Jiannu all the time."

At this time, Chechen said a lot in Mongolian.

The Mongolian interpreter next to him immediately translated: "Master Chechen said that Jiannu's Hongyi cannon is very laborious to load, so the time interval between firing the cannon is very long, at most two cannons, the Dashun army can rush to Jiannu's artillery In front of the position, at that time, Jiannu's artillery can be massacred one-sidedly."

"This statement makes sense." Gu Junen took it seriously.

Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others also felt a little relieved.

……

Chechen's estimate of the rate of fire of the Hongyi cannon can be said to be not bad at all.

When the Jiannu Hongyi Cannon fired the first row of shells, the Puppet Shun infantry was still about 1500 meters away from the Jiannu artillery position, but when the Jiannu artillery fired the second row of shells, the Puppet Shun infantry had already approached within 700 meters. When the Jiannu artillerymen were about to fire the third row of shells, they had no chance.

Because the pseudo-Shun infantry has approached within 100 meters.

This distance is already less than the minimum range of the red cannon.

By this time, Jiannu's red-clothed cannon basically became a decoration.

However, in addition to the red-clothed cannons, Jiannu also had the Musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army.

"Front team, get up!" As Shi Tingzhu and the Eight Banners Han army Gu Shan'erzhen roared, Huang Deheng and other [-] musketeers of the Eight Banners Han army stood up one after another.

"Let's take turns playing!" Shi Tingzhu and others continued to roar.

The first row of [-] musketeers, including Huang Deheng, raised their flintlock guns at the same time and aimed their muzzles at the puppet infantry who came over like a tide. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only [-] steps (about [-] meters) .

"Let go!" Accompanied by the roars and hand gestures of the eight Gushan foreheads, Huang Deheng and other two thousand musketeers simultaneously pulled the triggers of their flintlocks, followed by the bang bang sound of firing the guns.

After firing the gun, Huang Deheng immediately retreated and reloaded according to his usual training.

The second row of musketeers stepped forward quickly, raised their guns to aim again, and then pulled the trigger.

Immediately afterwards, there was another loud bang and bang, and another cloud of gunpowder smoke diffused from the position, and the light became worse.

Immediately afterwards, the third row of musketeers stepped forward alternately.

And then the fourth row, the fifth row...

……

Huang Deheng, who was in the formation, was completely blocked by the gunpowder smoke.

But Dorgon could see clearly because he was obliquely behind.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, Dorgon could clearly see the puppet infantry lined up neatly and densely, quickly approaching the main formation of the Eight Banners Han army.

There were about [-] Pseudo-Shun infantry in the offensive.

It's easy to count, each row is two thousand, and there are a total of twenty rows before and after, adding up to forty thousand.

Why did Dorgon know that each platoon of pseudo-shun infantry is [-]?The reason is very simple, because the density and width of the Pseudo-Shun infantry formation is basically the same as that of the Eight Banners Han Army.

The formation of the Eight Banners Han Army's main formation is [-] people per row.

The [-] rows of pawns in the front and rear, after charging such a long distance, can still maintain the basic integrity of the formation, but it is only slightly messy, which is enough to show that this is a real elite.

Compared with the Shanhaiguan War, the Puppet Shun Army did not retreat.

It's just that, that's all, the Puppet Shun Army will be defeated today!
The next scene was just as Dorgon expected.

After entering within fifty steps, the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army stepped forward and fired their guns one by one.

Under the round after round of firepower poured down by the Eight Banners Han Army, the Puppet Shun Army infantry fell to the ground row after row.

Facing the firepower of the Eight Banners Han army, the puppet Shun infantry barely rushed forward for more than [-] steps, and came within [-] steps, but the last remaining [-] steps became an insurmountable natural moat for the puppet Shun infantry.

Rows of puppet infantry rushed forward, and another row fell to the ground.

In a blink of an eye, the front of the formation of the two armies was covered with dense corpses.

After being "shot" about six or seven rows and more than [-] infantry, the pseudo-shun infantry behind were finally afraid.

Although the officers of the Puppet Shun Army were still agitating the infantry hoarsely, the infantry turned around and fled uncontrollably. Few of them could persist in the charge knowing that they would die.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the pseudo-shun officers also joined the ranks of fleeing.

Seeing this, Dorgon finally fell into his stomach with a hanging heart.

It's just that the matter is not over yet, and the fun has just begun here.

At that moment, Dorgon shouted in a deep voice: "Tell me the will, and the Eight Banners Manchuria will immediately return to attack! Drive back the puppet Shun troops, disrupt their rear formation, and make their camel swivel guns a meaningless display!"

"Hey!" A dozen cavalry ordered the cavalry to fly away, quickly conveying the order.

The Green Battalion has been completely disorganized and completely lost the ability to counterattack, but the Eight Banners Manchuria has a high degree of organization, and can switch from attack to retreat at any time and under any circumstances, or from retreat to attack.

After receiving Dorgon's order, the Eight Banners Manchuria, who were retreating, immediately came back with their heads full.

And this time, the Eight Banners Manchuria even abandoned their chariots and went into the counterattack lightly.

As a result, the entire battle situation was reversed again, and the puppet army quickly turned from victory to defeat.

And this defeat has no chance of reversal, because the retreating rout blocked the firing angle of the camel swivel gun, and the Junggar artillery had no chance to provide artillery support.

In the end, Junggar's artillery could only swear and retreat.

The Eight Banners Manchuria took advantage of the victory to pursue and rushed all the way across the shallow Yellow River.

Seeing this, the pseudo cavalry who stayed on the left and right flanks also retreated across the Yellow River.

The Hetao War, which lasted for nearly six months, finally ended in Jiannu's victory.

After the war, Jiannu took advantage of the situation to control the entire Qiantao Grassland, and many Tumed tribes that had already belonged to Dashun were forced to change their course and join the Jiannu camp again.

The news reached Guihua City, and Li Yan was forced to break out.

In the end, Li Yan only led less than [-] cavalry to break through.

After the war, after checking the points, the losses of the Dashun Army were not bad.

The rear camp had [-] troops before the Battle of Hetao, and there were about [-] left in the end, with a loss of nearly one-third. It seemed that the loss was quite large, but the [-] old battalion was still there.

[Kneeling for a monthly pass]

(End of this chapter)