Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 380

Tan Tai's 20 officers and soldiers retreated in an orderly manner.

The cavalry guarded at the end, but the infantry did not show signs of throwing away their helmets and armor. Even some green battalion soldiers who were frightened and wanted to run around to disturb the morale of the army were directly hacked and killed by the supervising team to stabilize the morale of the army.

Anyway, these green battalion Han soldiers are not considered comrades in the eyes of these supervising teams composed of Manchurian cavalry, and they are not merciless in killing.

As long as the Han soldiers in the green camp were bloody, they would not be drawn as cannon fodder for the Tartars, so they could only endure it.

Although the 20 officers and soldiers under Tan Tai's command were quite frustrated in this battle, they did not lose their positions and returned to Wuqiao Town smoothly.

The 20 army marching is naturally more than 20, and there are also civil servants, medical officials, civilian personnel, etc., the total should not be less than 50.

At this time, Wuqiao Town became Tan Tai's base camp.

Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops gathered here and set up their camps, stretching for dozens of miles, the small Wuqiao Town is now crowded to the brim.

Most of them are green battalion soldiers with green flags flying. These green battalion soldiers are not afraid of the Ming army at this time, but they are afraid that their Eight Banner masters will instinctively tremble when they see the Manchurian cavalry galloping into the town.

The First Corps of the First Guards Army did not pursue at this time.

Six infantry battalions, two cavalry battalions, and two artillery battalions have also withdrawn to the camp of Shangguan Tunpu for a temporary rest.

The [-]st Guards Corps was not overjoyed by the morning's successful shelling either.

At this time, everyone is silent, and there is a sense of blood that has not yet tasted the war.

It can be said that today's first contact battle seems to be just a warm-up.

The guards were not satisfied, and the Qing army led by Tan Tai was not reconciled to returning without success.

On the third day, Tan Tai continued to personally lead 15 troops.

This time Tan Tai also behaved better, and also carried out a round of shelling at the beginning of the war.

The main artillery of the Qing army was the red cannon, which could only be fired at the castle because of its bulkiness. Therefore, in the first round of shelling, Shangguan Tunbao was knocked down by half of the city wall.

However, the command system and battalions of the First Guards Corps have all been transferred out of Shangguan Tunpu.

The entire upper part of Shangguan Tunbao was blown up by the red-clothed cannon, leaving a cloud of dust, but nothing was found.

The manufacturing capacity of the Qing Dynasty was limited, and the red cannons were cumbersome and difficult to transport.

Therefore, Tan Tai only brought a hundred red-clothed cannons, and did not dare to waste shells. After a round of shelling, five thousand cavalry rushed forward.

However, it was not he himself who led the five thousand cavalry but his younger brother Tan Bu.

Tan Bu led [-] iron cavalry and charged towards the main camp of the First Guards Army. Among them, two cavalry with a size of [-] soldiers rushed directly to the two cavalry battalions of the Guards Army, while the rest of about [-] cavalry rushed directly to the nearby cavalry. Guards Infantry Battalion.

This Tanbu is a young general, and he is also a Ba Yala himself. He has always been brave and invincible. Now he sees six infantry battalions of the Guards with a total of 3 people in front of him. Guards infantry battalion formation.

Liu Qian smiled coldly. He could tell that the cavalry of the Qing army in front of him wanted to directly disrupt his infantry camp, but he did not order the artillery to stop the cavalry from attacking. Open to increase the strike surface.

Liu Qian is already a veteran who has fought many times with the cavalry of the Qing army. Naturally, he can guess Tan Tai's tactical thinking.

Soon after Liu Qian's order was issued, Tan Tai here also ordered his [-] green battalions to form [-] battalions to form a fan shape and press forward step by step towards the main camp of the First Guards Corps.

Tan Tai now knew that the artillery of the First Guards Corps was sharp, so he thought of a way for infantry and cavalry to attack at the same time.

As long as the guards use artillery to deal with their cavalry, their Qing infantry can complete the encirclement of the guards.

If the guards use artillery against their infantry, their elite cavalry of the Qing army can disrupt the infantry battalion of the Ming army and cause them to be defeated.

The three infantry battalions of the Guards surrounded them first, forming a hollow formation, leaving only one door facing the direction of the Qing cavalry's charge.

Tan Bu, the Tartar of the Qing army, came rushing forward with three thousand killers, showing his yellow teeth, staring at the infantry of the Guards with sinister eyes, and his money mouse tail also flew up, took out the longbow in his hand, and prepared to Pull the big Qing bow to hunt and kill the guards directly.

However, the infantry of the Guards did not wait for the cavalry to come this time, but ran up directly to face the cavalry of the Qing army in this hollow formation.

These three infantry battalions are all the main battalions of the First Class First Corps of the Guards Army, and most of them are veterans. They didn't panic at all when the cavalry rushed in, and they were surprisingly calm.

You must know that during their three-year training, their daily training was to let cavalry gallop past them with wooden knives on war horses.

At this moment, the infantrymen of the Guards are no longer panicking when they are attached to the cavalry. Even if some infantrymen are shot under the horse by the cavalry of the Qing army, they just grunt. , Guards regiment-level units have their own field hospitals and a battalion-sized ambulance team.

The infantry of the Ming army surrounded the iron cavalry of the Qing army in an orderly manner, and as soon as they were pasted, [-] Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns were fired.

The Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun uses nitrocellulose as the propellant, and the reloading speed is extremely fast. Coupled with the three-round shooting and the continuous firing of the flintlock gun, the gunfire basically never stops.

Immediately, Tan Bu's three thousand cavalry were all shot.

A cavalryman was shot and fell off his horse, and was hit by the horse behind him, breaking his spine and screaming.

In some cases, the horse was shot and turned over, and the inertia directly tripped the cavalry on the other side.

There was a loud gunshot, and the entire Qing army cavalry was in chaos, and their speed also slowed down.

The infantry of the Ming army on both sides continued to strengthen their formation. Under the command of the battalion commanders, the first row squatted, the second half squatted, and the third row stood. The speed of firing bullets in their hands did not stop.

Since nitrocellulose is used as the propellant, there is no need to worry about the barrel clogging after continuous firing, so the bullets form a barrage one after another and overturn towards these cavalry.

At the same time, the frontal infantry immediately formed the same formation to shoot at the front when they saw that the Qing cavalry slowed down.

Tan Bu wanted to charge the most heroic Ba Yala from the side, but just as he turned his horse's head, he himself was smashed into a sieve by dozens of bullets.

The rest of the cavalry of the Qing army were in a hurry to retreat, ignoring their comrades howling on the ground.

At the same time, the two thousand cavalry that had fought with the two cavalry battalions of the Guards and whose main purpose was to contain them also immediately turned around and prepared to assist the [-] cavalry of the Qing army. Immediately, the infantry battalion was divided into two and charged directly, organizing a line of defense against the two cavalry.

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