Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 460
The remaining Mongolian cavalry froze in place, a little at a loss.

If you continue to charge forward, not only will the troops be blocked, but also the firepower of the Ming army will be too brutal. It feels like no matter how many people charge forward, the final result will be death.

But there was no order to retreat.

So the remaining six hundred or so riders froze in place.

Jiannu was stunned in place, but the Ming army would not be stunned.

While the Jiannu cavalry stopped at a distance of [-] steps, the second row of Ming troops came up again and opened fire at the same time.

There was another intensive volley of guns, and the Jiannu cavalry who were stunned in place fell down nearly two hundred cavalry in an instant. The remaining Jiannu cavalry finally collapsed, turned their horses and ran away.

The Ming army was not idle either, aiming their guns at Jiannu who had fallen to the ground.

Although many Jiannu fell off their horses, they were only fainted or injured, and even some Jiannu were unscathed after falling off their horses, and they jumped up and wanted to run back.

However, they had no chance to escape.

With the sound of firing guns row after row, Jiannu fell to the ground one after another.

It took less than a quarter of an hour from the time when the four Niulu Mongolian cavalry went into the attack until the final attack was disintegrated by the Ming army. However, in less than a quarter of an hour, more than 700 Mongolian cavalry were killed, but the Ming army had zero casualties.

The sound of firing the guns stopped one after another, and the pervasive gunpowder smoke gradually dispersed, and a tragic scene was presented in front of the soldiers of both sides at the same time.

As a result, exclamations sounded in front of the two armies at the same time. Obviously, the scene in front of them surprised both sides, whether it was the Jiannu who had an absolute superiority in force, or the robot-like Ming army.

……

Staring at the corpses of soldiers and horses that almost covered the battlefield, Doduo felt his brain buzzing, how could it be?How is it possible, how could it be this result?

Obviously, the first wave of probing attacks just now almost succeeded.

So logically speaking, the second wave of attack invested four full Mongolian cavalry, and they would never miss it, and they should definitely crush the Ming army in one fell swoop!

However, the reality gave Duduo a cruel blow.

The second wave of attack not only failed to crush the Ming army, but suffered even worse defeat!
The generals of the Eight Banners, such as Sony, Aobai, Baiyintu, Yabran, and Wa Xing'a, also had expressions of disbelief. The scene in front of them stimulated them so much that it was almost subversive.

To paraphrase a common saying in later generations, their three views have been shattered.

In their inherent impression, except for the white pole soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers in the Hunhe battle, the Ming army basically collapsed when encountering Mongolian cavalry in field battles, without exception.

The Baigan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers also relied on the car battalion to carry the Mongolian cavalry hard.

If there is no car battalion, even the white pole soldiers or Zhejiang soldiers cannot beat the Mongolian cavalry.

After all, the Mongolian cavalry can beat the Ming army without the protection of the car battalion just by relying on a mangu evil tactic.

But now, a group of Ming army cavalry defeated the Mongolian cavalry in the field without relying on the car battalion, and it seemed that it was very easy. It seemed that they would not be afraid of a few more attacks?

After a long while, Duduo finally recovered from the huge shock.

After being shocked, Dodo immediately became a little annoyed, this time he was really ashamed.

What Doduo cares more about than losing face is the punishment. If he still loses this time, it will be troublesome.

At this time, Duo Duo didn't know that Dorgon had completed the reform of the Eight Banners military merit system, so as long as there was a reason, even if he lost the battle, he would no longer be punished as before.

Well, if according to the previous Eight Banners military merit system, Duoduo's title of county king will definitely not be guaranteed this time, and Baylor will not be guaranteed either. He will be demoted directly to Beizi or even Zhen Guogong. record?Although it can only be increased or decreased within two white flags, it is not a good thing after all.

What if one day I fall out with Brother Fourteen?

So he can't lose this battle, he has to win, and he has to win beautifully.

What does it mean to win beautifully?Wherever you fall, you have to get up again.

Facing Zamusuo and Tengjisi who had fled back in disgrace, Doduo said angrily, "Zamusuo, Tengjisi, I will give you two another chance. Simultaneously attack the infantry array of the Ming army from four directions in the northwest, listen, if you still can't take it down this time, don't come back, both of you!"

"Hey!" Zamusuo and Teng Jisi looked miserable, and they could only bite the bullet and continue to attack.

……

Hu Guozhu couldn't stop sneering when he saw Jiannu split up the cavalry and started to line up again.

Even if there are more cavalry dispatched by Jiannu this time, it seems that there are three or four thousand cavalry, but so what?Facing the well-defended hollow phalanx, no matter how many waves of Jiannu's attacks, it would be useless.

"There are all of them, hurry up and refill the ammunition."

"Grenade, prepare a grenade each!"

Accompanied by the voice of Hu Guozhu and Qin Wang's scholars, the innermost row of cavalry quickly returned to the horses to fetch ammunition and grenades, and then distributed the ammunition to the front two rows of cavalry.

The cavalry grenade was developed later by the Daming Arsenal.

The weight is lighter than the infantry grenade. Each infantry grenade weighs ten catties, while the cavalry only weighs two catties.

The grenade used by the cavalry is light in weight and has low lethality, but it is very effective for disturbing the cavalry, enough to cause a huge disturbance to the enemy cavalry.

In the previous half a month of fighting, the reason why the cavalry of the Ming army did not lose the wind was due to the grenade, because whenever the Jiannu cavalry came close, they just threw a grenade behind the horse's buttocks, and the Jiannu war horse They will turn around in fright, and the war horses of the Ming army will accelerate crazily, and then easily get rid of the Jiannu cavalry.

In addition, a small number of flintlock guns malfunctioned or exploded.

Due to the shortage of flintlocks, the cavalry battalion did not have spare flintlocks.

These cavalry who lost their flintlock guns were left by Hu Guozhu at the end as substitutes.

Once there is a loss of cavalry in any direction, these substitutes can immediately replace them.

Although until now, the casualties of the cavalry of the Ming army are still very small, but such a large-scale battle, it is impossible to avoid casualties, and someone will need to replace them at that time.

……

The decisive battle in Guting Town is imminent.
The infantry of the Ming army led by Chongzhen and Du Yinxi were still twenty miles away.

"Quick! Move faster, speed up!" Du Yinxi kept urging the army to speed up the march, because he had already smelled the breath of conspiracy and was worried that something would happen to the cavalry battalion.

Chongzhen seemed very calm, not panicking at all.

"My lord, this is all my fault." Du Yinxi said with a face full of self-blame, "This matter is due to my negligence."

Chongzhen said in surprise: "Duyin, what have you neglected? Why can't I understand something?"

Du Yinxi said anxiously: "Your Majesty, Jianu obviously came prepared for this attack. If there is no accident, he must have set up an ambush during the pursuit of the cavalry battalion."

"The pursuit of the cavalry battalion will inevitably lead to an ambush."

"After more than half a month of combat-based training, although the horsemanship and riding and archery of the cavalry battalion have made great progress, they are still slightly inferior to those of Jiannu, not to mention that the number of cavalry in Jiannu still occupies an absolute majority. advantage, so if the cavalry battalion is encircled by Jiannu's heavy troops, the consequences will be disastrous."

"It doesn't matter even if you are in ambush." ​​Chongzhen shook his head and said.

"After all, the terrain here is a plain terrain. Even the ambush soldiers cannot hide at a very short distance like in the mountains, because if they are too close, they will be discovered by Ye Bushuo, and if the ambush soldiers are hidden within tens or even tens of miles In addition, it will leave enough time for the cavalry battalion to react, and the cavalry battalion will take the initiative whether it is to break through or line up to meet."

Du Yinxi sighed: "The minister is worried that they won't be able to break through, otherwise there should have been sentinel cavalry."

"That's true." Chongzhen said deeply, "I didn't meet even a single sentinel from the cavalry battalion this way. This is enough to prove that the cavalry battalion is really under siege and can't get out."

"But even so, there is still nothing to worry about."

"Because I have taught the cavalry battalion the hollow phalanx long ago."

"Hollow phalanx?" Du Yinxi obviously lacked confidence.

"My lord, is the hollow phalanx really as magical as you said?"

Chongzhen did not explain further: "You will know when the time comes."

The power of the hollow phalanx has already been proven in another time and space.

Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo, thanks to the hollow phalanx.

Because of this, Chongzhen was not worried about any accidents in the cavalry battalion.

Because the Jiannu who came to Xuzhou only had cavalry, nomadic cavalry alone could not deal with an infantry regiment that had already set up a hollow phalanx and was equipped with flintlock guns with socket bayonets.

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The battle in Guting Town was just as Chongzhen expected,

The Mongolian cavalry could not do anything to the Ming army who had already set up a hollow square formation.

Although there were two Jiala and three thousand Mongolian cavalry in the attack, and they attacked from the east, south, west, and north directions at the same time, it was useless.

"Bah bah bah!" The sound of firing guns was endless.

Accompanied by the sound of dense volleys of guns, the Mongolian cavalry fell down one row after another.

Then the horses lying on the ground had a serious impact on the rear cavalry, making the rear cavalry unable to rush up, or being forced to stop in place, or going around from the side and colliding with other cavalry.

So the end result is that the Mongolian cavalry can't get within thirty steps at all.

Basically, between thirty and fifty steps, all the Mongolian cavalry were knocked down.

There were more Mongolian cavalry in the attack, and they only lasted a little longer.

The first half of the attacking team lasted only 3 minutes, the second attacking team of four players lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the third attacking team of two Jiala only lasted for half an hour.

Half an hour later, the entire battlefield fell silent again.

As the gunpowder smoke dispersed, a more tragic scene emerged.

But I saw that the corpses of the dead people and horses had piled up into mountains.

It's really piled up, not just an adjective.

(End of this chapter)