The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 204 Despair
As soon as Zhuobutai's Xiaoqi troops managed to gather together, the [-] heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guards had killed more than a hundred paces away.

Zhu Jiadi waved the steel sword in his hand and commanded calmly: "Fast forward!"

The heavy cavalry in a neat line immediately repeated loudly, "Fast forward!" Then all the horses began to trot at an accelerated speed, and the sound of horseshoes was like dense drumbeats, making the ground tremble.

Zhuobutai knew very well that cavalry should never hide in a battle, and whoever exposes his side to his opponent will surely die.

Everyone in the Eight Banners wears armor, and the Qing bow is powerful, and they are proficient in riding and shooting. Therefore, since the surrender of the Guanning iron cavalry in the Ming Dynasty, they have been rampant in China and rarely encountered opponents.

Zhuobutai still has more than 3000 cavalry under his command. He believes that although his formation is not neat, it is more than enough to deal with hundreds of southern cavalry.

Immediately, he raised his lacquer bow high, turned his head and shouted: "Follow me to meet the enemy!" Then he roared and led his troops to meet the Ming army.

The two groups of cavalry were still forty to fifty steps apart, and the captive cavalry opened their bows and fired arrows one after another, and suddenly the arrows rained down on the heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guard Army.

But with a clanging sound, most of the feathered arrows slid away to the sides the moment they touched the plate armor. Even the heaviest armor-piercing arrows seemed to be indistinguishable against the three millimeter thick fine steel heavy armor. powerless.

There are a few arrows that penetrate the plate armor due to the relatively straight angle, but they can only penetrate about an inch, and it is difficult to cause fatal damage.

After a shower of arrows, the heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guards were not affected much, but the captive cavalry had no chance to shoot arrows again.

Following Zhu's younger brother's order to "charge", the heavy cavalry immediately accelerated their horses to the fastest speed.

But Zhuobutai's men and horses had just started, and they hadn't started to run fast yet, even though they wanted to stagger past the Ming army, it was too late.

It was seen that the heavy cavalry were all pointing their steel swords straight forward, and more than [-] cavalry rushed into the Qing cavalry group head-on like a giant galloping beast.

Only then did the cavalry hurriedly change their sabers and slash at the roaring heavy cavalry.But they obviously underestimated the shining "iron shells" on the Ming soldiers. The blades of the blades were mostly blocked by the thick steel armor under a hasty blow, and there was nothing they could cut.

On the other hand, the cavalry swords used by the Dragon Guards are very suitable for stabbing, and they are even more powerful under the acceleration of galloping horses. But it is like paper paste, which is transparent to the touch.

Immediately, hundreds of cavalry swords set off a bloody storm in the enemy's formation, and the broken bodies and limbs flew everywhere. Even the lower half of the cavalry was still sitting on the saddle, but the upper body was cut off by the sharp blade, and the blood shot straight like a fountain. half empty.

In just a moment, Zhu Jiadi led his army through the enemy's formation, and thousands of Qing soldiers were separated by a bloody river full of corpses.

In addition, when Jianlu attacked the hollow phalanx of the Dragon Guards, dozens of lower-level officers were sniped and killed by hunters. At this time, no one came forward to restrain the soldiers, and the originally irregular formation was even more chaotic.

Never did Zhuobutai think that these hundreds of southern cavalry would be so fierce, they killed thousands of cavalry in one face, even the cavalry of Guan Ning back then were by no means so terrifying.

The cavalry must be united in battle, and only when they are united can they exert their combat power. At this time, his thousands of cavalry were divided into two pieces, and the men and horses ran around, so there was no way to fight.

Zhuobutai had no time to take care of the task of attacking the gunners of the Ming army. Only about [-] of the [-] knights he brought were left, and it was God's blessing to bring these people back alive.

Not far away, he saw the whole group of southern cavalry turning around, he hurriedly shouted to his officers to gather the team, and ordered his own soldiers to send orders such as Battelle to lead the Mongolian cavalry to the rear, so he prepared to take advantage of this gap to escape.

However, before his military order was sent out, he heard the roar of dense cannons from the east.In an instant, dozens of shells slammed into the crowd of the Qing army with a sharp sound like a hammer, and large pieces of remains flew around. More than a hundred captives were killed immediately.

At the same time, not far away, the two spear phalanxes of the Ming army had bypassed Bateer's troops, and the sharp spear points were approaching Zhuobutai with a cold light.

Now who cares about Zhuobutai's military order, they all ran around screaming like bereaved dogs.

Zhuobutai turned pale with shock, just now the southerners only had three light cannons, how could they have such momentum?He looked at the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, but saw more than 20 cannons neatly arranged in the formation, and the gunners of the Ming army were quickly loading ammunition.

Zhuobutai's eyes really looked like ghosts, weren't these cannons bombarding Tulai's troops before, why did they come here in a short while?
Xia Fu first wiped off the blood on his face, grabbed Chen Xiongfei by the collar, and said angrily, "Why did you come here?!"

"The frontal battle has just ended," Chen Xiongfei broke away from his hand, "I rushed over immediately!" He looked at the soldiers who died defending the hollow phalanx, and shouted at the gunner beside him: "F*ck* , Give me a hard hit on these dog tartars!"

"Yes!"

The artillerymen immediately responded with a salvo, and under the roar of thunder, more than 20 iron balls left a fragment of corpses in the Jianlu group with vengeful anger.

"General, let's go!"

Zhuobutai was startled awake by the shouts of his own soldiers, and saw the half-dead corpse lying on his side, from his armor, he knew that it must be an elite cavalry.

His heart twitched, and he looked around. To the north were the armored cavalry, and to the east was the southern phalanx.In desperation, he had no choice but to take more than a dozen soldiers and fled westward, praying that Tulai would have dealt with the Ming army.

After running for a while, he didn't see anyone chasing him, so he breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of the sudden appearance of the Nanren's cannon, he was very indignant. If he had such a fast-moving cannon just now, he would have defeated the Nanren. Phalanx, how could there be such a defeat?
More than [-]% of the Zhenglan Banner's Xiaoqi were destroyed here, and some Zhenghuangqi's Xiaoqi were destroyed here. These are the elites of the Qing Dynasty!Zhuobutai was bitter in his heart, losing these brave cavalry, Zhenglan Qi's vitality was seriously injured, and it would be difficult to recover within a few years.

When he was thinking wildly, he suddenly saw several large formations lined with spears in front of him, chasing after the Qing army steadily, stopping to fire their guns from time to time, while the Qing army fled in all directions, apparently defeated.

Could it be that the main force of Tulai has been defeated?He suddenly felt cold all over, and the square formation of spears and firecrackers in front of him suddenly evoked a word from his memory—Battle of Hunhe.

That year tens of thousands of Jianzhou troops fought against Qiqianchuan and Zheming troops in the Hunhe River, and the Ming troops also formed formations with spears and blunderbusses.Taizu personally led the army to attack in turn, supplemented by internal responses, and it took nearly [-] casualties to finally defeat the Ming army.One of his uncles died in Hunhe.

He used to think that after the Southern Man's Qi family army was wiped out in the Hunhe River, there would be no more elite soldiers, but seeing the reappearance of the gun battle formation today, it made him feel a touch of despair.The number of Southerners is a hundred times that of the Manchurians. If they can continue to train such a strong army, can this Huahua World in the Central Plains still have the surname "Qing"?

(End of this chapter)