The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 679 The Decisive Battle in Jiangnan ([-])

After a brief discussion with Zu Runze and Zhang Hongmo, Sukesaha quickly decided to divide the cavalry into two parts.

Zu Runze led [-] Guanning troops in front, Suke Saha led [-] cavalry inlaid with white flags and Zhang Hongmo's [-] cavalry behind, and took turns to attack the Ming army.

It's not that they don't want to concentrate their forces, but that the terrain around Ximing Mountain is really narrow, and the width of less than five miles can barely accommodate three or four thousand cavalry, which is already crowded.

You know, the most powerful aspect of cavalry lies in speed.When unable to break through the enemy's formation with one blow, the cavalry must turn around to regroup, and then accelerate the charge again.

If there is no space to turn around, and the large cavalry is crowded in front of the infantry position, the combat effectiveness is not as good as half that of ordinary infantry.

Therefore, even if 900 cavalry charge concentratedly, they must be arranged in a wedge-shaped formation with several rows in front and behind, and the frontal width of each row is only [-] people-the gap between the horses is only less than three meters.

This is why Dodo was reluctant to use cavalry as the main attack at first.The usual tactic of the cavalry is to go around and attack the weak points of the enemy. However, Xi Mingshan was tightly blocked by the Ming army. It can be said to be extremely disadvantaged.

However, the main force of the Qing army's infantry was thrown into chaos by the sudden bombardment of hundreds of Franc machine guns. He knew that he was at a disadvantage, but he could only use the cavalry to attack him. pressure.

Zu Runze looked at the narrow ground leading to the Ming army's position, and couldn't help but frowned, then pulled out his saber and pointed forward, "Order, the whole army will directly attack the enemy's formation!"

Soon, five thousand Hetao horses raised their hooves at the same time, making the ground tremble slightly.The huge cavalry phalanx slowly pressed towards the Dragon Guards like a beast.

Chen Xiongfei burst into laughter, "Damn it! Are you stupid? Put such a dense formation, haha." He simply refused to let the artillery hide in the hollow phalanx beside him, and pointed to the Jianlu Gao in the south. Said, "Give me a hard bang!"

Immediately, hundreds of cannons made thunderous noises, and shells ranging from eleven catties to one catty poured into the cavalry formation.

Due to the tight formation, almost no shells killed only one enemy.The most powerful [-]-pound gun even created a terrifying "record" of shooting through five captive soldiers, rolling twenty or thirty steps on the ground, and breaking seven horseshoes!
The overturned cavalry in the front row tripped many of the horses behind. With just one volley, a corner of Zu Runze's department was in chaos, stirring up dust all over the sky.

It's only three or four hundred steps!Zu Runze leaned on the saddle, gritted his teeth and thought secretly, fighting to kill or injure hundreds of riders, he was able to attack the front of the southern army in an instant!

Sure enough, the cannons of the Ming army only had time to fire three or four salvos, and the cavalry in front of them approached seventy or eighty paces away from the Dragon Guards, and then, dense bullets shot at them head-on.

Yu Xin only dispatched 400 infantry to form three hollow phalanxes to arrive at the front, and the remaining [-] soldiers still formed a line formation behind the hollow phalanx to meet the enemy.

The narrow area of ​​Ximing Mountain can barely be supported by three hollow phalanxes, while the infantry line in the back row can exert as much firepower as possible.

Therefore, the firepower of the infantry of the Ming army is definitely not weak, and with the cooperation of the [-] hunters in the hollow phalanx, the front cavalry of Zu Runze's department turned their backs on their backs.

This team of Guanning cavalry was originally Wu Sangui's subordinates. After the traitor Wu died, Zu Runze, who was related to him, took over his troops.

In addition, Wu Sangui's death was unclear, and it was widely rumored in Guan Ning's army that he was killed because of Duoduo's suspicion. How can this morale be raised?

No matter how brave the army was in the past, once its morale was low, it would certainly not have the belief and motivation to fight to the death.

Therefore, after the first 800 people were killed, the offensive of the Guanning cavalry suddenly slowed down.When the Dragon Guard artillery and infantry fired another round of salvos, the soldiers of the Qing army watched in horror as they fell to the ground with blood and blood beside them, and immediately turned their horses' heads and exclaimed, "I can't stop it!"

"Run, the southerners have very strong firearms!"

"I can't go up at all, go back quickly!"

No matter how much Ren Zu Runze scolded and beheaded several of his subordinates who flinched, he still couldn't stop the decline of his troops.

Sukesaha saw that Zu Runze's people had lost their vigor from behind, so he had to call him back with a gong.He was afraid that if Zhang Hongmo's troops were defeated, his Xiaoqi battalion would be affected, so he personally led the cavalry with white flags as the vanguard, and let Mrs. Zhang follow behind. go.

Although Doduo, who was farther away, knew that the cavalry might be difficult to secure the victory, he didn't expect it to be so useless, so he glanced at the sky, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and waved for Shuo Sai to whisper some instructions.

The latter's eyes widened in surprise, "Master, this is impossible..."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go!"

"This...hey!"

Shuosai nodded and left, Doduo immediately took out the treasured sword he was wearing, and sighed, "It's only six or seven thousand barbarians, I didn't expect it to be so difficult... oh, that's all..."

Although the elite cavalry of Xiangbai Banner are extremely powerful, they are only mortals.After Sukesaha rushed three or four hundred steps, more than [-]% of them were wiped out by the Ming army's cannons and firecrackers, even more dead than the Guan Ning army.

With red eyes, he finally saw that the Xiaoqi in the front could almost touch the Ming army, but he was surprised to find that the speed of the team's impact had slowed down.

He ran forward for a while, only to find that there was a row of wooden frames in front of the southern army's battle line, with curled hemp rope hanging loosely on it.Any of the cavalrymen under his command wanted to jump over it, but they were all hooked by the ropes and couldn't get rid of it eagerly.

All of a sudden, hundreds of riders crowded there, some swung their knives and slashed, some got off their horses and untied their ropes, how could they take half a step forward?
On the opposite side, the guns and cannons of the Ming army unceremoniously harvested the lives of Xiaoqi Battalion.

Just as Sukesaha was about to give the order to turn back and regroup to charge again, he saw several heralds driving up behind him and loudly conveyed Duduo's military order to him.

He froze for a moment, confirmed it again, and finally cupped his hands and said: "The last general obeys orders!"

Soon, the cavalrymen of the Suksaha tribe dismounted one after another, blocked the front with their horses, and slashed with their knives in their hands. Fighting for countless deaths and injuries, they insisted on removing the iron rope nets and repelling horses blocking the road.

Zhang Hongmo's troops who followed them also dismounted according to the order, and bit the bullet to shoot at the Ming army with three-eyed blunderbuss, bows and arrows.

But these weapons are naturally not the opponents of the Dragon Guard rifled guns.After a while, the corpses of soldiers and war horses of the Qing army were scattered all over the field, but they were blocked by something behind them, and they were still unable to retreat.

Suddenly, more than a hundred chariots rushed out from behind Zhang Hongmo's troops, forcibly ran over the crowd and arrived at the front of the Ming army.

Afterwards, Belegon Adai of Zhenghuang Banner, under the protection of his confidant guards, rushed out from behind the chariot first, and a large number of Zhenghuangqi infantry armor rushed forward with howling.

On the east side, Yakov held a tomahawk and roared behind him, "Let me see if you are worth the price of three sheep a month!" Then he led his Russian and Buryat mercenaries to rush towards the Dragon Guard artillery. camp.

The reason why these two men stormed the Ming army's position without fear of death was because behind them, the captive chief Duoduo rushed up with a knife in his hand, leading the [-] Ba Yala guards close to him.

The tens of thousands of Zhenghuangqi infantry armor and two thousand Luocha mercenaries are only seventy or eighty steps away from the Dragon Guards' battlefield at this time, almost in the blink of an eye.

Yu Xin, who was watching the enemy's formation, immediately shrank his pupils. Jianlu actually sent thousands of elite cavalry as meat shields and bait to cover the sneaking approach of the infantry behind!
He hurriedly shouted to the herald beside him: "The whole army prepares bayonets!"

(End of this chapter)