Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 436 Jiao Lian vs Dodo
Today's imperial guards have been expanded. An army has [-] to [-] troops, and a brigade has reached more than [-] people. Jiao Lian's third cavalry brigade has more than [-] people in its main force, except for the auxiliary soldiers.

The grassroots officers among these more than [-] people are basically the students of the third and fourth batches of the Royal Military Academy. Most of them participated in the bloody battle against the Khalkha and Horqin tribes, and many even fought against the Cossack cavalry. However, with a wealth of actual combat experience, coupled with more than a year of high-intensity training, many cavalrymen have naturally perfected their riding skills, and many of them are not inferior to Batulu, who built slaves.

Even Jiao Lian, a fierce general at the end of the Ming Dynasty who only started to shine in the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the original history, already possessed the skills of his personal peak at this time. I am afraid that he himself is more brave and good at fighting than in the original history.

Jiao Lian knew the concept of the enemy he was about to face. The Eight Banners force in Yigu Mountain showed that there were as many as six or seven thousand armored soldiers alone. Ten thousand, that is to say, the total strength is almost three times that of oneself.

Moreover, if the Jiannu Eight Banners soldiers of this scale had been feared a few years ago, the entire military system of the Ming Dynasty would have been frightened by the news, and the entire Nine Sides would have been alarmed frequently, and everyone was panicking.

Even now, for many officers and men who had been low-level officers in the Beijing camp or in the frontier army and have now become high-level officers of the Imperial Guard, they are still a little nervous and nervous. The Eight Banners soldiers who pierced through several layers of iron armor with a bow and an arrow are so powerful, and I have also witnessed the scene of their fearlessness.

But fortunately, most of the officers have also fought against the Eight Banners soldiers before, so when they are about to face a larger-scale battle with the Eight Banners, they are not completely panicked.

Jiao Lian raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of Iron Horse Fort ahead. Seeing that he could clearly see the smoke billowing from the Iron Horse, he knew that he was not far from the Iron Horse Castle, and that he could still see the wolf smoke, which meant that the Eight Banners army had not yet broken through the Iron Horse Castle. , perhaps deliberately did not break through the Iron Horse Fort, and was waiting for the main force on his side to go, so as to achieve its purpose of attracting the main force of the Imperial Guards on his side. ,

Jiao Lian, who had already learned about the entire war situation through Lu Xiangsheng's messengers, also guessed the intention of the Eight Banners force in front of him at this time, and his task now was to attack directly, and he must defeat this Eight Banners force, making it mistakenly believe that The illusion that the main force on my side has arrived.

Therefore, when Jiao Lian saw that he had entered the territory of Iron Horse Fort, he immediately gave the order to speed up the advance, so as to achieve the goal of breaking through the enemy army with lightning speed.

Here, the leader of this eight-banners force is Duoduo who followed Huang Taiji to the capital once. Now Duduo hates Daming deeply, and he is eager to use this to avenge his shame. Knowing that the Ming army had already charged, not only did they not have the slightest fear, but even more excitedly ordered the elite troops to give up attacking Iron Horse Fort immediately and charge directly towards Jiao Lian's third cavalry brigade.

These Eight Banners troops are really skilled in tactics. Although they are running fast and bumpy on horses, they can still draw their big bows with ease. As long as they are within range, they can shoot arrows raining all over the sky, piercing through people's armor , causing death or injury.

However, on the side of the imperial guards, Jiao Lian saw that the enemy had entered the range of the cavalry field artillery on his side, so he decisively gave the order for the cavalry field artillery to move forward and the cavalry to attack from both wings.

Immediately, there was loud cannon fire, and the dense shells flew towards the charging team of Tartars in front like a goddess scattering flowers.

In an instant, a large group of Eight Banners armored soldiers who tried to draw their bows and shoot repeatedly were blown upside down!

It turned out that with the recommendation of Daming Steam Industry, iron and steel smelting and machine tool processing have been rapidly improved, which has led to a lot of improvement in artillery casting skills. Even the cavalry has its own mobile artillery force.

The field artillery used by the cavalry is small and portable because the cavalry must operate it on horseback, so the caliber is also relatively small.

However, the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard, as the trump card of the Imperial Guard system and a brigade-level organization, has two cavalry artillery units at the team level, and a total of [-] cavalry field cannons fired at these Eight Banners soldiers, even if they really Those who are not afraid of death will be bombed to pieces.

A shell exploded directly among several white-armored soldiers. These white-armored soldiers who were capable of fighting dozens of warriors in the past were blown to pieces. Even the man and the horse fell to the ground, bleeding all over the place.

These Eight Banners soldiers didn't expect the cavalry in front of them to have artillery, so they were a little bit overwhelmed, but they were still charging. They wanted to rush over as fast as possible to break through the camp of the third brigade of the Imperial Guards, especially Those cannons that move fast.

However, at this time, the cavalry from the two battalions of the third brigade of the Imperial Guard had rushed over from the left flank. Many of them were officers and personal guards holding rifled cavalry guns, and the soldiers were also new-style firing cavalry guns with a longer range. They fired before they could suppress them with bows and arrows. ,

Crackling, like frying beans, when countless white smoke rose, many Eight Banners soldiers also hung from their horses and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Duo Duo couldn't help being anxious, and immediately ordered to rush forward to fight, but the battalions of the third brigade of the Imperial Guard immediately retreated, and scattered from several small teams, constantly harassing and shooting, like a pack of wolves. The soldiers lost a lot.

After a fierce battle, the Eight Banners soldiers on Duoduo's side had lost more than a thousand people, but they didn't have the slightest body near the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard, and it was rare for the Imperial Guard to have zero casualties.

However, Jiao Lian did not give the main force of the Eight Banners a chance to breathe. His task was to defeat the main force of the Eight Banners, completely defeating them, and making them mistakenly believe that they were the main force, so he ordered his cavalry to continue attacking without hesitation.

The artillery continued to fire shells, and the cavalry battalions continued to attack from both sides.

If it weren't for the fact that these cavalry were moving too fast and this was an open space, Jiao Lian really wanted to use gas bombs to solve the problem at once, but it was also because there were no gas bombs to paralyze the enemy's nerves that Duduo could see him again. After losing more than [-] people here, they can quickly avoid Sanshe.

But Jiao Lian was still chasing after him, and personally led two cavalry battalions to detour behind this Eight Banners force as quickly as possible to intercept this Eight Banners force.

And the other battalions also surrounded and surrounded Duduo, the Eight Banners soldiers who were trying to retreat while fighting.

Seeing this, Duoduo immediately shot his bows and arrows directly with his Eight Banners soldiers. Since the two armies are very close to each other, the feather arrows of these Eight Banners soldiers also caused greater casualties to the Imperial Guards, but the cavalry of the Imperial Guards The rate of fire of the firearms is faster, so it is always possible to bring down four or five Eight Banners soldiers at the same time as one soldier of the Praetorian Guards.

After Jiao Lian intercepted the Eight Banners soldiers, he would not have to fight foolishly within the range of the Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows, but retreated to a safe distance while shooting, and then fired with firearms.

This will always result in greater losses for the Dodo Eight Banners soldiers.

(End of this chapter)