Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 442

The first team of nearly two hundred musketeers who had reloaded their ammunition immediately stepped forward.

However, before Xia Longshan gave the order to fire, the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire first.

Intensive gunshots rang out, and nearly half of the first team of musketeers of the Guan Ning Army fell down.

The rest of the musketeers were stunned at once, and retreated hastily after firing their guns indiscriminately.

Even Xia Longshan himself fell from the van on his back and was shot in the chest.

When he sat up to check after landing, Xia Longshan was surprised to find that the copper breastplate on his chest had been pierced. Fortunately, he wore chain mail under the armor, and the lead bullet pierced through the armor breastplate. It didn't have much penetrating power, and it was finally blocked by the close-fitting chain mail, which was extremely thrilling.

So far, Xia Longshan has completely lost his fighting spirit.

It's not that our Guan Ning army is not brave enough,

It is really that the Ming army on the opposite side is too cunning and too insidious.

I have never seen a more insidious and less dangerous army than this one. It’s fine to get some dummies wearing masks to deceive us. Obviously there are such powerful self-generating muskets, but they have to be hidden until the end.

As a result, our Guan Ning army suffered a big loss by being caught off guard.

"Retreat, all retreat!" Xia Longshan decisively issued the retreat order.

This battle can no longer be fought, and all 2000 people will have to be accounted for.

……

The sudden change also confused Wu Sangui.

Because of the cover of gunpowder smoke, Wu Sangui didn't see clearly what happened in front of him.

"What's going on here?" Wu Sangui said with a dark face, "It was fine just now, why did they retreat all of a sudden? What is Xia Longshan doing? Oh?"

"Did I tell him to retreat?"

"Has the king allowed him to retreat?"

However, no one could answer Wu Sangui.

Because no one knows what's going on ahead.

Only Fang Guangchen said in a low voice: "My lord, the emperor's father and the regent can watch from behind."

Wu Sangui's complexion immediately collapsed, he just boasted in front of Dorgon, threatening to take down the gun platform in front of him with just one attack, but now...

"Send Xia Longshan the command flag, don't retreat!" Wu Sangui said in a deep voice.

"Even if the whole battalion fights, you are not allowed to take half a step back. There are no cowards in Guan Ning's army!"

The messenger immediately sent a signal to the Xialongshan camp, and the remnants of the Xialongshan camp stopped as expected, which shows that Wu Sangui still has a lot of prestige in the Guanning army.

Wu Sangui turned his gaze to a young general standing behind him, with a look of hesitation on his face.

"Uncle!" The young general immediately stepped forward and said, "Do you need a child to join the battle?"

This young general's name is Wu Yingqi, and he is actually Wu Sangui's eldest son, but because Wu Sangui's elder brother Wu Sanfeng has no children, he adopted Wu Sanfeng as his son.

General Wu Guogui knew that Wu Sangui loved this "nephew" very much.

Immediately, he took the initiative to go forward and asked for a fight: "My lord, leave it to the last general."

However, Wu Sangui shook his head, Wu Guogui could not replace Wu Yingqi.

At that moment, Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and said: "Weizhou, this king ordered you to lead two thousand pacesetters from our headquarters to attack immediately, and let Xia Longshan follow you. This time, no matter what, we must take down the blunderbuss platform!"

"Hey." Wu Yingqi immediately went to gather the pacesetters in the headquarters.

Immediately, another two thousand Guan Ning troops separated from the formation.

Soon, the two thousand Guan Ning troops pushed the van forward again.

……

back line.

Dorgon put down the binoculars and asked, "That seems to be the pacesetter of Wu Sangui's headquarters?"

"Master's eyes are really good, you can see clearly from such a distance." Hou Fangyu didn't give up any chance to flatter, "The slave's eyes are not good, I can't see anything clearly."

"Dog slave, what kind of flattery are you?"

Dorgon reprimanded angrily: "I have a telescope."

But Hou Fangyu said calmly: "This is not what this servant said, but that you, master, know people well and know that Wu Sangui is a general, so you dare to use him."

"The master has such eyesight and such a mind,"

"I'm afraid only Cao Mengde can barely compare."

Hou Fangyu's words really tickled Dorgon's itch.

Because Dorgon's favorite character of the Three Kingdoms is Cao Cao, and he also agrees with Cao Cao's philosophy of meritocracy, so he abandoned his personal likes and dislikes and reused Wu Sangui.

If you ask yourself, Wu Sangui may have been beheaded a long time ago.

"Dog slave, what nonsense are you talking about?" Dorgon reprimanded Hou Fangyu again, but the smile on the corner of his mouth could not be concealed, and the dog slave opened his mouth.

Fulin couldn't help but look at Hou Fangyu again.

Dorgon turned to Hong Chengchou again: "Heng Jiu, did you see clearly what happened just now?"

"I didn't see it clearly." Hong Chengchou put down the binoculars, shook his head and said, "The distance is still a little far away, I just took a rough look. At the beginning, the Ming army seemed to be suppressed by the Guan Ning army, but the Ming army seemed to call in reinforcements, and they were all the same. They were all musketeers, and after a few rounds of platooning, the Guan Ning army was defeated."

Dorgon asked again: "Have you seen clearly what kind of blunderbuss the Ming army musketeers are holding?"

"I can't see clearly." Hong Chengchou continued to shake his head, "But according to my servant's estimation, it's either a bird blunderbuss or a Lumi blunderbuss."

"No, Heng Jiu, you guessed wrong this time." Dorgon said solemnly, "The Ming army also took flintlock guns. I saw clearly just now that the Ming army didn't light a match at all."

"It's also a flintlock?" Hong Chengchou was a little surprised.

Fan Wencheng frowned and said, "Did someone leak the secret?"

"It may not be a leak." Dorgon was still very clear-headed, and waved his hand and said, "Flintlocks are not a secret in Xiyi. If Tang Ruowang can build flintlocks for the Qing Dynasty, there will naturally be other The missionaries made flintlock guns for Nanming, which is what I expected."

"Master Mingjian." Hong Chengchou complimented, and then said, "However, Nanming craftsmen have to paste silver to make their own guns, so the material accuracy of their flintlock guns is definitely not comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty. We only need to adjust the muskets of the Eight Banners Han Army Team up, it will definitely form a crushing trend against the Ming Army Musketeers."

"Not yet, let's see Guan Ningjun's performance first."

Dorgon said indifferently: "Perhaps, it is unknown whether Guan Ning's army can really take down the Ming army's blunderbuss in one go."

Although he said so, Dorgon felt that there was not much hope. If the general of the Ming army who raided Dagukou was really Yan Yingyuan, then Wu Sangui probably wouldn't be able to get a bargain.

No matter how good the Guan Ning army can fight, can it beat the Eight Banners Manchuria?

No matter how powerful Wu Sangui is, how can he be more powerful than Duoduo?

Even the Eight Banners Manchuria led by Duoduo were beaten to death under Shanyang City. How could Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army get cheap from Yan Yingyuan's men?
However, it is also acceptable for Wu Sangui and Guan Ningjun to consume the energy of the Ming army first, and then explore Yan Yingyuan's details by the way.

……

On the watchtower in Dagukou Town.

With the help of binoculars, one can clearly see that the newly attacked green battalion soldiers have joined up with the retreating green battalion soldiers, and then the two groups of green battalion soldiers form a large formation and fight back.

However, the artillery battalion of the Ming army remained silent.

The signalmen of the artillery battalion watched the signal pennant on the watchtower.

The communication soldiers on the watchtower also raised their heads to look at Yan Yingyuan.

Yan Yingyuan remained unmoved and refused to order shelling.

Chen Mingyu asked Yan Yingyuan puzzled, "Wu Heng, why didn't you order the artillery battalion to shoot?"

Yan Yingyuan smiled, and asked Chen Mingyu back: "Gongchen, do you still remember that when we were in Jiangyin, the two of us and Peiqing played horse hanging together? You always lose."

"You still have the nerve to say, how much money did you win?"

"More than half of Pei Qing's and my meager salary has become your drinking money."

"Oh, then do you know why you always lose? And I always win?"

"Why don't you know, it's not because you have so many ghost ideas, and all kinds of tricks emerge in endlessly."

"No, you keep losing because I have seen through your hole cards, but you two will never know what hole cards I have until the last moment."

"Well, so the Hongyi Cannon is your trump card?"

A look of enlightenment flashed across Chen Mingyu's eyes, and he said again: "You deliberately don't let the artillery battalion fight back, and the charge is halved, just to prevent Jiannu from knowing your trump card?"

"One of the trump cards." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.

"This is only the first day, and Jiannu only dispatched the Green Battalion soldiers. How can we easily show all our cards?"

"That is to say, the green battalion soldiers are only equipped with half the charge of the artillery battalion, and only half the base ammunition?" Chen Mingyu shook his head, and said, "I don't know if the green battalion soldiers on the opposite side know it. How would you feel?"

"A group of cannon fodder, does it matter how you feel?" Yan Yingyuan said in disdain.

……

On the battlefield ahead.

More than 3000 Guanning troops came to the slope protection again.

Nearly two hundred vans were divided into front and rear rows, forming a solid car wall.

Seeing that Wu Yingqi was about to stand on the van, Xia Longshan hurriedly stopped him: "My lord, don't go up! It's dangerous!"

However, Wu Yingqi was young and energetic, and he didn't take Xia Longshan's warning to heart at all. He just jumped onto one of the vans and shouted: "Musketeers, light the match!"

The musketeers ignited the matchlocks one after another, and clamped the matchrope to the trigger.

"My lord, be careful!" Seeing this, Xia Longshan stomped his feet anxiously.

Wu Yingqi was not moved at all, and turned around with the waist knife in his hand.

Behind the wooden fence on the opposite side of the ditch was silence, not a single ghost could be seen.

But Wu Yingqi didn't have any scruples because of this, and continued to shout: "First team, get ready!"

After joining forces, nearly two hundred musketeers in the first team immediately went up to the van formation with matchlock guns, put the matchlock guns on the guard plate of the van, and aimed their guns at the opposite wooden fence.

Xia Longshan also got into the van at this moment.

"Master, Minggou is hiding behind the wooden fence."

"Also beware of the dummy, Minggou has prepared a dummy."

Before the words were finished, a row of Ming soldiers got up from behind the wooden fence.

Wu Yingqi subconsciously ordered to fire the gun, but Xia Longshan held his right hand.

"Wait, this is a dummy prepared by Minggou!" Xia Longshan said anxiously, "It's not real."

(End of this chapter)