The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 275

"Assemble the guards and take back Gongshu Terrace for me at all costs!"

Dorgon clenched his fist and slammed it on the green brick in front of him.

The frontline military report circulated, and the information revealed in the military report had already made Dorgon understand the Ming army's intentions and the importance of Gongshutai.

"Send the order to Tan Tai. He only has two quarters of an hour!"

Dorgon looked gloomy as he looked at the Gongshu Terrace in Nanshan. The red color among the mountains looked extremely dazzling.

The Ming army suddenly used a large number of artillery, and in just half an hour, they had broken through three fortresses in a row, and then went straight to Gongshu Terrace.

The Ming army's intention is obvious.

Two quarters of an hour was enough for the Ming army to transport the artillery to Gongshutai.

As long as Gongshu Terrace is occupied and the artillery is set up, most of the entire Nanshan camp will be exposed to the Ming army's artillery range.

By then none of these fortresses can be defended.

Others can hit you, but you can't hit others.

The Ming army's artillery was indeed small in number and could not cause much damage.

But the biggest role of artillery on the battlefield has never been to kill the enemy, but to undermine morale and destroy formations.

Once the Ming army set up artillery, the only order he could give was to abandon all camps within the coverage of the Ming army's artillery.

And this will undoubtedly expose the Chinese army camp where the baggage is stored in the center.

The terrain of Nanshan is steep in the south and gentle in the north. When the Ming army climbed up Nanshan, they could swoop down directly from Nanshan and take the inner mountain road, directly threatening the transportation lines leading to the outside of the pass.

At the last moment, something like this happened, and the losses that would be caused were simply immeasurable.

Dorgon felt extremely depressed and uncomfortable in his heart.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

Long before entering the customs, Dorgon had already deduced it many times, imagined countless situations, and figured out how to deal with it.

Therefore, from the breach to the pass, the journey south was extremely smooth, with consecutive battles and victories.

But everything was reversed until the battle of Jiazhuang, when Sun Chuanting arrived with his Qin soldiers.

Jinan, Dong'an, Wuqing, and now Qingshan Pass.

The Ming army was always able to find fleeting opportunities to reverse the tide of war.

It was as if he had already understood all his deployments and plans.

Only when attacking Qingshan Pass, Chen Guowei, who abandoned the pass and fled, allowed Dorgon to find a familiar feeling and felt that many things were back under his control.

However, less than a few days had passed, and the Ming army attacked again and wiped away his feeling.

Dorgon stared in the direction of Gongshu Terrace with a gloomy face.
After giving the order to Tan Tai.

Dorgon has already figured out everything.

All the previous actions and attacks of the Ming army were confusing.

Sun Chuanting concentrated the main elite troops and a large number of artillery on Dongshan in order to make him mistakenly think that the main attack direction was to the east, so that he could take attacks from other directions lightly.

At the same time, it was not a complete release of water and feint attacks in the south. The Ming army's offensive in the south was equally fierce.

They also climbed up from all sides and attacked with all their strength.

It is precisely because of the solid attack that people can believe it and be induced step by step.

"Gongshu Terrace... Gongshu Terrace..."

Dorgon shook his head helplessly. He had already obtained information about the surrounding terrain earlier.

He just glanced at Gongshu Terrace and didn't pay much attention to it, or even had much impression of it.

Because this place is not suitable for hoarding troops, and it is not on a necessary road, it does not have much value at all.

But he only forgot that terrain like Gongshu Terrace is an excellent artillery position.

Because the army did not carry artillery, Dorgon never thought that Gongshutai could be used as an artillery position from the beginning.

A leaf covers your eyes, and you can't see Mount Tai.

Dorgon looked in the direction of Nanshan and issued military orders one after another.

The scale of the war is tilting towards the Ming army step by step. Once all the artillery is transported to Gongshutai.

When the artillery on Gongshu Platform began to roar, it was when the entire company and battalion he had set up was defeated.

Dorgon did not place all his hopes on Tan Tai.

Dorgon knew very well that Gongshu Terrace had been lost, and it would be very difficult to get it back.

The Ming army planned for a long time and attacked the mountain from all sides, using all its troops to confuse them. The price they paid was not small.

And paying such a heavy price and making so many moves were all to capture Gong Shutai.

Then it can be expected that he will definitely send elite troops to seize the stage, and he must have thought of a countermeasure.

Now that he is sending troops to seize the stage, he is undoubtedly playing into the Ming army's ambitions.

But knowing this, Dorgon still had to order elite troops to seize the mountain.

On the battlefield, no matter how small the chance of victory is, one cannot give up easily.

However, Dorgon's mind had already flown away from the Nanshan battlefield to another place.

You can't put all your eggs in one basket.

As the commander-in-chief of an army, Dorgon did not put all his hopes on Tan Tai.

Now he needs a plan.

A plan for how the Ming army should respond after breaking through from Nanshan.

The plan should have been made before the war, but Dorgon did not make any plan.

Because Dorgon never thought that the company he set up could be broken by the Ming army.

The two losses in Jiazhuang and Jinan were only strategic losses, not combat losses.

Against the enemy in the field, they were still invincible and had almost no defeats.

Decades of victories have made the Ming army on all sides have great fear of the Jurchens.

On the battlefield, this kind of mentality can often make the Ming army lose the courage to fight, and then evolve into a rout of thousands of miles.

Just like what Cao GUI said thousands of years ago.

A husband fights with courage.

Fighting requires courage.

How can an army win if it doesn't even have the courage to face the enemy?
The saying that Jurchens are not equal to ten thousand, they are invincible. It is precisely because of this that they were deliberately released as a way to weaken the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that some people say too much, and not only people in the Ming Dynasty believe it, but they themselves also believe it.

It was precisely because of the contempt in his heart that Dorgon did not make any plans.

Now Dorgon needs to pay attention to the entire battle while formulating a plan for the Ming army to break through the Nanshan position.

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There are only two roads to climb Gongshutai, the South Road and the North Road.

The south road leads directly to the third camp that was just captured, and the north road leads to the fourth camp set up by the Qing army.

After Chen Gong broke through the third fortress, he passed the third fortress and ascended the South Road to Gongshu Terrace.

Therefore, the Qing army's attack must also revolve around these two roads.

The soldiers of the Qing army used the fourth fortress as a stronghold and divided their troops into two groups.Climb the North Road from the fourth camp all the way, take the North Road, and attack directly on the top of Gongshu Terrace.

The other way is from the fourth camp to the mountain road to the third camp, trying to cut off the south road, leaving the Ming army on the Gongshu platform alone, and at the same time ascending the platform from the south road to attack the Ming army on the platform.

But all the actions of the Qing army were within Chen Wang's expectations.

From Gongshu Terrace, you can have a panoramic view of the Qing army's companies and camps, and Chen Wang has already had a panoramic view of the troop movements in each camp of Jiannu.

In order to regain Gongshu Terrace, the Qing army dispatched a large number of troops in a very short period of time and rushed towards Gongshu Terrace from various mountain roads.

Chen Wang naturally had a plan for such a situation.

"First row, let go!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang bang!!!"

Under the male tree stand, huge plumes of gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and the deafening sound of musketry dispersed the circling birds.

On the North Road, several armored soldiers of the Qing army who were charging at the front spurted blood arrows and were knocked to the ground mercilessly.

What they wore, whether it was cotton armor or iron armor, could not protect their bodies from harm.

At a distance of forty steps, the power and accuracy of the Everlasting Gun have reached an extremely terrifying level.

At this distance, even three layers of heavy armor could not block the projectiles fired from the mouth of the Everlasting Gun.

Heavy arrows are good, but they can be blocked with a shield.

In the face of the heavy musket, the thick shield covered with cowhide was only in pieces.

"Second row, raise the gun!"

"put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang bang!!!"

Hu Zhili stood in the formation holding the Yanling Sword in his hand, calmly giving orders.

Several more Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground by rapid-fire lead bullets.

On the North Road, a group of soldiers of the Hanzhong Army were already ready.

The heavy armored infantry holding tower shields have already formed a shield formation, blocking the mountain road and blocking all the roads up the mountain.

Behind them were the infantry of the Hanzhong Army. These infantry were all holding sworn guns, standing on top of each other, all the way to the top of the platform.

With the help of the sloping mountain terrain, multiple rows of fire cannons can fire downwards without any worries about accidentally injuring teammates in front.

"kill!!!"

The Qing army on the mountain road was shouting with ferocious expressions. Several heavy flying axes and iron bones, together with dozens of feather arrows, were shot from the ranks of the Qing army with the sound of wind and howling. And out.

The armored soldiers in front were knocked to the ground, which did not cause the following Qing armored soldiers to panic. They stepped on the corpses of their comrades, roared upwards, and continued to charge forward.

Most of the rapid-flying iron bones and feather arrows hit the shield array in front of the Hanzhong Army. Only a few of them crossed the shield array and hit the Hanzhong Army gunners at the rear.

The soldiers hit by Tieguduo were okay and could still hold on.

But the soldiers who were hit by the feather arrows couldn't hold on.

The feathered arrows used by the Qing army were basically heavy arrows.

The so-called arrows are even the same as small short spears, and the overall shape is like a small spear.

It is such long and heavy arrows that give the Qing Gong super lethality, and it can be called a small spear thrower.

The soldiers of the First Cavalry Thousand Headquarters arrayed in front were all wearing three layers of heavy armor and were protected by tower shields, so they were naturally fine.

But the Hanzhong infantry at the rear mostly wore only a layer of cloth armor, and the heavy arrows of the Qing army posed a huge threat to him.

Several soldiers fell to the ground on the spot after being hit by arrows.

The fall of Paoze beside him did not make the other soldiers of the Hanzhong Army feel fear or panic. Instead, it aroused the anger of the other soldiers of the Hanzhong Army.

Since the Biao camp under Lu Xiangsheng are all fellow villagers, friends, brothers, family members, etc., one person's death in battle can often arouse the anger of most people.

In fact, the same goes for the Hanzhong Army. Except for the First Cavalry Thousand Headquarters, most of them are Liao people.

The rest of the troops were basically selected from hungry soldiers who were defeated and captured, as well as displaced refugees.

All of them had a bad fate. Natural disasters and wars caused them to lose everything.

They don't have enough to eat, their livelihood is precarious, and even their survival is just a luxury...

It was Chen Wang who reached out to them when they were most desperate and pulled them out of the sea of ​​misery.

They became soldiers, camp soldiers.

The same situation makes there not much gap between them.

Although the military discipline of the Hanzhong Army is strict, it is not harsh.

Not only are military salaries paid regularly every month, but there is no shortage of food.

Oppression is strictly prohibited in the military. Once discovered, there will be severe punishment without mercy. Private fights are prohibited and public fights are preferred.

The military judges at the Supervision Office regularly explained the principles to them.

Although many of those principles were profound and many of them could not understand them, they could sense that the military judges did not want to harm them.

Because of Chen Wang, the internal situation of the Hanzhong Army was completely different from that of other armies.

Therefore, within the Hanzhong Army, the relationship between the soldiers is extremely harmonious and they truly feel like brothers.

A group of gunmen from the Hanzhong Army faced the arrows that kept flying and fired back without retreating.

The narrow mountain road became the burial ground of the Qing army, and the last twenty steps became a natural chasm. No armored soldier of the Qing army could jump over this last distance.

As a flintlock gun, the terrifying rate of fire of the Oath Gun became the key to the Qing army's hatred.

Although the battle on the North Road was tragic, it pales in comparison to the fierce battle that was breaking out below Gongshu's stage.

The battlefield below the stage did not have the favorable terrain of the North Road. The Qing army rushed forward. Even if the flintlock guns used a three-stage attack, there was no way to contain the Qing army's offensive.

Once the armored soldiers of the Qing army approached, it was impossible for the gun soldiers wearing only a layer of cloth armor to resist.

Therefore, facing the swarming Qing army soldiers, Chen Wang chose the simplest, most effective, and cruelest method - hand-to-hand combat!

Under the public tree platform, on the narrow mountain road.

The soldiers of the Hanzhong Army in front were all holding big guns and pressed closely together to form a military formation.

On the other side, the armored soldiers of the Qing army's guard camp also held spears in their hands, lined up together, and charged straight towards them.

In a majestic formation, the brave cannot go first, and the timid cannot come behind!

In the military formations of both sides, countless spears were thrust out and retracted densely, and the heartstrings of the soldiers at the forefront of both sides were stretched to the limit.

The fear of death is close at hand, but they have no way to take a step back and can only wait for death to come.

They roared crazily and angrily, venting the fear in their hearts.

The spears poked and poked away, and the sound of the gun blades piercing flesh was endless. People on both sides were falling every moment.

But the next moment it falls, the subsequent armored soldiers will fill in and support the military formation again.

They could only keep thrusting the weapons in their hands forward, stabbing the swarming enemies to the ground, or being stabbed to the ground by the enemies.

The gurgling blood flowed out to the ground, forming a small stream, flowing slowly along the mountain road towards the bottom of the mountain...

Are the soldiers here?Paste Feng E.

Min An in?Fill the gully.

Sighing that the country remains the same, thousands of villages are scattered...

(End of this chapter)