The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 196
Tong Yangjia was talking to his entourage with a relaxed expression. He was taken aback when he heard what Tu Lai said. He hurriedly picked up the binoculars in his hand and looked towards the battlefield ahead. He saw that the Qing army was in chaos. The infantry restraint, I am afraid it has really collapsed.

He was shocked in his heart. You must know that although these green battalion soldiers surrendered from the south, they are far stronger than the ordinary Ming army. **, only stay strong.

Just like Li Chengdong, who led [-] soldiers to surrender at the beginning, but in the end only [-] elite soldiers were left in the green battalion to follow the Boluonan expedition, and the rest were all dismissed.In fact, the Qing court has always been like this for all surrendered Han troops, leaving at most [-]% of them, which can not only improve combat effectiveness, but also save military pay and food.

Therefore, even the ordinary green battalion had little defeat against the Ming army.In fact, in history, most of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River was defeated by the green camp of the Qing army. Li Chengdong once led his 5000 troops from South Zhili to Guangdong, and the Ming army was invincible.

But right now the 7000 troops of Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren didn't even hold out for a stick of incense, and there was a tendency to be defeated by the Ming army!
Tong Yangjia didn't dare to think any more, and hurriedly urged his men to speed up the march.Without Han and Zhang's cannon fodder to block the enemy's guns and cannons, the Eight Banners soldiers under his command would have suffered several times more casualties.

As Tulai and Tong Yangjia issued the order together, the former army of Jianlu immediately started trotting, and the formation was chaotic for a while.

At the forefront of the battlefield, the troops of Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren suffered several rounds of volleys from the Dragon Guards, making the situation even more chaotic.

Due to the slow loading speed of the Polu camp using matchlock guns, it has been changed to a platoon firing method after the initial salvo. Although the firepower is weaker than that of the Dragon Guards, it still maintains a lot of pressure on the Qing army.

The captive soldiers looked at the people beside them lying down in a pool of blood, and they were all terrified. They knew that after such a fierce shooting, it would be their turn to be shot!
But the fierce Manchurian infantry behind them was forcing them forward with knives. Under the usual prestige, these green battalion soldiers did not dare to resist at all, and moved forward thirty or forty steps slowly, and they were about to meet the Ming army. .

Gan Xinda narrowed his left eye slightly, raised his blunderbuss to place the sight on a captive flag bearer, and then held his breath and pulled the trigger.The Type [-] Jaeger shot out a high-speed rotating Minie bullet in an instant, and accurately opened a hole in the captive soldier's head, and the weapon with the word "Zhang" fell down immediately.

Gan Xinda took out the gunpowder pack and the conical warhead from the ammunition pack again, and finished reloading it swiftly. He was searching for the next target, when he heard the sound of a blunderbuss beside him. A. Today, these Jiannu are really not bad. They are almost three times dead, and they can still charge forward. But they came at the right time, my second-class merit..."

Said that the unintentional listener was interested, Gan Xinda frowned slightly when he heard the words. According to the battles he participated in in the past, the enemy army would start to rout after at most [-]% of the casualties, but today these enemies can withstand it.

A gust of wind blew away the gunpowder smoke on the battlefield, and he immediately discovered the key point-the supervisors in the rear of the captive army lined up in a straight line, dressed in bright cotton armor, and held single knives.

Compared with the ordinary supervisor team, these people are not only extremely strong, but also extremely ruthless, almost to the point that anyone who is within five feet in front of them will be chopped down immediately.Therefore, other Qing soldiers were constantly driven forward by them like avoiding evil spirits.

Gan Xinda squinted his eyes, and said to the messenger: "Order all the hunting companies to concentrate on those who wear blue armor at the back!" These Eight Banners elite infantry are all wearing blue cotton armor, which is very recognizable.

"Yes!"

Gan Xinda waited for the order to leave, and raised his gun to aim at the infantry soldiers in the enemy's rear row.Although the frontmost enemy army was only less than [-] steps away from him, the supervisor team was still [-] steps away from the entire captive army battle formation.

He took a deep breath, and holding the rifled gun weighing nearly ten kilograms, he hardly moved at all.The next moment, he saw his right index finger move slightly, and with the sound of a blunderbuss, the miniature bullets passed through the enemy's gap and flew straight towards an infantry soldier supervising the battle in the distance.

The man was raising his knife and slashing at a Qing soldier who was slower at his feet, and his head was about to fall to the ground, when he suddenly heard a scream of "嗤", but blood the size of a bowl burst out from the chest of the beheading officer. The huge impact threw him upside down and flew out again.

The captive soldier who was almost hacked to death by him was stunned for a moment, touched his neck, and realized that he was still alive. The Ming army immediately ran backwards.

Similar situations soon appeared everywhere in the Qing army formation. As the Manchu infantry soldiers who supervised the battle were shot dead one after another by the Dragon Guard hunters, more and more captive soldiers turned around and fled.

Soon, more than [-]% of the supervisory team had been killed. They finally realized that they were the target of the Ming army.

But in this way, how can we still supervise the war?
Finally, after the tenth round of the Longwei Army's salvo, Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren's troops couldn't hold on any longer, they uttered a scream, and fled backwards.

"Trash!" Tulai cursed secretly as he could see the green battalion soldiers running for their lives in all directions without using a telescope.However, his forward was only one mile away from the Ming army, and he gritted his teeth and reached the fighting distance.

He turned to the general next to him and said: "Pass my military order, slow down the pace, straighten out the battle formation, and prepare for the battle."

"Whoo!"

As his order was sent out, the eight thousand banner soldiers of the former Qing army stopped trotting and began to form.

One by one, the carts were pushed to the front of the battle by the team's coat and follower.

These carts are made of solid wood, more than seven feet wide, equipped with four small wheels, and a six-foot-high thick wooden board is installed in front, and some iron sheets are nailed on it, and sandbags are piled behind the wooden board.

This kind of wooden cart was the decisive weapon for the Qing army to fight all over the country.Every time they fought against the Ming army, they would use their chariots in front of them to defend against firecrackers and crossbows, especially the Ming army's three-coin bird blunderbuss, which was impossible to shoot through.

The Qing army hid behind the chariot, fought back with blunderbuss, bows and arrows all the way, and kept advancing. When the Ming army approached, they immediately rushed out and fought hand-to-hand with knives and spears.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the Ming army had low morale due to lack of wages and other reasons. In addition to lack of training, they were most afraid of hand-to-hand combat. As long as Jianlu charged close with a knife, most of them would be defeated at the touch of a touch.

However, because Azig needed to maintain a relatively fast marching speed in order to attack Shanguan this time, he was unable to carry a large number of chariots.Yesterday, before the battle, the Qing army urgently made another batch, and at this time there were only seventy or eighty chariots in front of the battle.

But Azig believed that these chariots were enough to deal with the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)