Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 213 Capturing the princes of the Qing Dynasty (third update, please subscribe)

Nikan saw with his own eyes that the coated servant in front of him was shot, and he himself was almost shot, so he had to jump to another horse and rushed towards the guards under the hail of flintlock bullets.

Charged with him were dozens of armored cavalry, all of whom were brave old Tartars, trying to smash directly into the guard camp with their flesh and blood.

However, when Nikan saw the Ming army in front of him stabbing his spear out of the shield, and at the same time a row of people holding bayonets and a row of people leveling their muskets, he knew that even if he rushed over like this, he would break the Ming army camp. Stabbed to death by bayonet, or directly shot to death.

Nikan realized that this was a dead end, so he pulled the reins abruptly, turned his horse's head, and tried to attack from behind, but at this time, another infantry battalion had already pressed up and shot directly, so he had no choice but to take Dozens of riders retreated behind them.

Of course, there were also Manchurian iron cavalry who followed Nikan and hit the flanks before they had time to react, but directly slammed into them. In this collision, several shield soldiers were smashed to pieces, and the spear hit even people and spurs. There are even cases where the spears are directly broken due to momentum collisions, causing the frontier infantry battalion to be very miserable.

Fortunately, the infantry in the rear fired immediately, so that the Manchurian iron cavalry who came on the attack were either stabbed to death or shot to death, and some were directly knocked back and fell to death. The bayonet construction principle of the Type [-] flintlock gun comes from the Lumi blunderbuss, which can be used as a cold weapon.

But this also caused some Guards officers and soldiers to be crushed to death before they could react.

Because most of the Manchurian cavalry were blocked by bullets, and the infantry battalions on both sides were besieged at this time, the Manchurian cavalry finally had to give up the tactic of breaking through from the side, but immediately retreated and turned their horses' heads to guard from the side. The army's first battalion interspersed through the gaps, trying to quickly rush to the city of Dingyuan.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Nikan and the remaining 1000 Manchu cavalry were getting closer and closer to the foot of the city wall, Li Ruolian couldn't help shouting, and hundreds of Jinyi Wei Tiqi drew out their Xiuchun knives.

However, Li Ruolian was only a false alarm, not to mention that there are still three B-type infantry battalions standing under the wall in front of Zhu Youjian. Formation, flanking Nikan's thousand Manchu cavalry on both sides.

Immediately, both sides of Nikan's Manchurian cavalry were covered by the firepower of [-] guns!

At the same time, a B-type infantry battalion also pressed forward, shooting Nikan head-on with [-] guns, and the first infantry battalion also changed its formation to be close to Nikan's side, and it was likely to encircle Nikan with a thousand Manchurian cavalry. trend.

In other words, Nikan's [-] Manchurian cavalry were almost completely surrounded by [-] flintlock guns!

When Nikan saw this formation, he felt very bad. Originally, his Manchurian iron cavalry had suffered hundreds of casualties and was on the verge of collapse. Now seeing the encircled formation, he had to immediately turn around and go to the first battalion and the second, second, and second battalions. The third battalion broke through the gap.

But at this time, it was obviously a little late. Although the Manchurian cavalry brought by Nikan were all armored soldiers and were skilled in bowing and horses, only a hundred cavalry escaped under the firepower of tens of thousands of flintlock guns, and the rest of the Manchurian cavalry were killed. It was beaten into a sieve, and there were gun holes in the front, back, left, and right.

"It's really beautiful. Four infantry battalions besieged two thousand full army cavalry. This combination can be regarded as a new formation in the history of the Guards' war!"

Zhu Youjian also said the same thing when he arrived.

At this time, Geng Zhongming also saw that the momentum was not right, and brought the remaining cavalry of the Qing army to meet Nikan, trying to rescue his masters of the Qing Dynasty.

But at this time, hundreds of artillery pieces that had already been prepared directly covered the field a thousand steps away from where Geng Zhongming was with countless shells. In an instant, the soil was splashed, and the trees were broken and the birds were frightened.

Hundreds of flowering bombs exploded among Geng Zhongming's two thousand cavalry, causing chaos in his camp almost instantly. Even he himself was hit by shrapnel in the abdomen and fell to the ground.

The rest of the cavalry saw that Nikan was leaving in a hurry with a hundred remaining Manchu cavalry, and followed suit.

Here, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Han Army who were still fighting fiercely with the Fourth Route Cavalry of the Guards heard the rumble of artillery behind them, and the infantry battalion of the Guards had already pressed up and fled the battlefield immediately.

This time the cavalry battalion did not pursue. Although it was a battle against the Han army cavalry with the help of thunder, but in the end, due to lack of experience, the cavalry of the Guards suffered a lot of casualties. The first cavalry battalion (Type A battalion) suffered casualties More than [-] cavalry, the second battalion suffered more than [-] cavalry casualties, and the two cavalry battalions directly under the Corps suffered a total casualty of more than [-] cavalry, almost collapsing.

The first battalion of the infantry battalion also lost about 50 people, and the second and third battalions had less than [-] casualties.

At the same time, more than [-] cavalry corpses of the Han army and more than [-] cavalry corpses of the Manchurian cavalry were left behind.

The casualty ratio of the 2 Qing army cavalry brought by the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards and Geng Zhongming was about 7:[-]. Of course, because the Manchu cavalry has always been said to be invincible, and there are still some armored soldiers, so Although the Second Corps of the Guards suffered [-] casualties, it was considered a big victory in this positioning defense battle.

And the most commendable thing about this victory is not only the annihilation of nearly [-] Manchurian iron cavalry, but the capture of Huaishun King Geng Zhongming.

Liu Qian, the deputy commander of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, exchanged hundreds of field shells for a prince of the Qing court, which is not a loss.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that although Daming's field artillery is a flowering bomb, it is not a nitrate explosive, so the lethality is not very great, and the cavalry is in motion, so he can survive and there are hundreds of cavalry run away.

Otherwise, Geng Zhongming and the two thousand cavalry would have been turned into dust and debris under the bombardment of these hundreds of shells.

However, after the battle in Dingyuan City was over, no one cheered, they just breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.

Even Liu Qian, the direct commander of this battle, just patted the shoulder of the guard beside him solemnly.

More than [-] casualties were all brought back by the medical soldiers, and Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming was also brought back together.

In order to prevent Huaishun King Geng Zhongming from committing suicide, soldiers of the Guards tied him into a rice dumpling, and stuffed a foot wrap from a soldier's leg directly into his mouth.

Zhu Youjian specially summoned Liu Qian, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, and couldn't help but patted Liu Qian on the shoulder: "Ai Qing really surprised me, with cavalry against cavalry, 2 guns To besiege Manchuria with [-] cavalry, such tactics are enough to be included in the training manual of the Guards."

"Your Majesty's absurd praise, I am ashamed and dare not take it." After Liu Qian said, he ordered someone to carry Geng Zhongming up: "My Majesty, this person is Geng Zhongming, King Jiannu Huaishun, but the son of Gushan who came with him Nikan narrowly escaped."

(End of this chapter)