Ming Empire

Chapter 231 Dorgon loses again

Before the war, Cao Yue made people plant a large amount of explosives at a distance of about 1000 to [-] to [-] meters in front of the carefully built field positions, estimated to be several thousand catties.If Jiannu wants to kill the Ming army, he must rush to this area. Cao Yue is going to use these several thousand catties of explosives to meet Jiannu who is lucky enough to rush past the artillery shooting area. "Hellfire".

Because the trigger fuze has not yet been developed, Cao Yue, who is a landmine, does not have the energy to do technical research support himself, so he can only use the primitive method of bombarding with artillery to ignite the explosives buried in the ground.

This is not too difficult. The explosives planted in two directions were detonated almost at the same time. It exploded like an earthquake. Two small mushroom clouds rose into the sky, and large areas of the slaves who just rushed to the explosion area were violently exploded. Torn, countless people and horses were blown into pieces, mixed with each other, together with a piece of mud that was blasted into the sky, flew up for a while, then fell back to the ground, and could no longer tell you apart I.

Bo Hetuo, who wanted to avenge Boluo, and most of the hundreds of soldiers around him, and one of the thousands of soldiers in the Zhenglan Banner, all disappeared in this huge explosion, and no bones were found. arrive.In this way, the two brothers were mixed with the land of Daming.

Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others, who saw such a violent explosion and the black smoke and flames that rushed up, felt the strong shock. They were so shocked that they even dropped the binoculars they were holding in their hands. The binoculars fell and were hung on the The rope tied around his neck reverberated and hit his stomach hard, but they didn't notice it.

They didn't know Cao Yue's plan. They didn't expect that Cao Yue had planted so many explosives in front of the defensive position, and it had a miraculous effect, blowing up at least thousands of Jiannu to the sky.

The explosions in two directions spread over a wide range, and Jiannu just rushed to this area, and the killing effect of the explosion was astonishing.Not only swallowed thousands of Jiannu, but also blasted out a huge pit in that area. Even if the follow-up Jiannu rushed forward desperately, this huge pit would become a huge barrier to hinder their progress.

Those who watched the battle with Cao Yue were deeply shocked.Although it was said that the huge explosion caught them off guard, they were greatly frightened, and they were almost shocked below the watchtower, but now they only have one thought in their minds, that is, Cao Yue's war arrangements are too different For ordinary people, the youngest commander in the history of the Ming Dynasty pursued a war strategy that they had never even imagined.The arrangement of the artillery can achieve miraculous effects, and now there is such a move. When Jiannu suffered heavy losses, the Ming army had almost zero casualties. They had never experienced such a war.Any one of them, the admiration for Cao Yue can be described as a torrential flood, continuous.

In the minds of Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others, a war is nothing more than a fight between two armies. The difference lies in whether they use the cover of the city wall, or the difference in the formation of the two sides, the morale and combat effectiveness of the two armies.But they didn't expect that Cao Yue had a strategy that they never dreamed of. On the premise that his side didn't suffer any losses, he severely injured Jiannu several times.

They used to believe that Jiannu's combat effectiveness was super strong, almost invincible, and Jiannu's riding and shooting skills could only be left behind by the Han people.There is also their bloodthirsty nature, which is not possessed by the gentle Han people.But today, their views have been completely turned upside down.The war we see now is completely asymmetrical massacres.Jiannu even had the opportunity to rush to the front of the Ming army. The Jiannu soldiers who charged suffered extremely heavy losses under the massacre of artillery and explosives.They even feel a little pitiful for Jiannu, their fate is too tragic.

"It turns out that battles can be fought like this, and gunpowder and firearms have such lethal power." Whether it was Gao Jie, Huang Degong, or Liu Liangzuo, they seemed to wake up from a dream, and they had new insights. "This is a naked massacre!"

Now they also really understand the huge lethality of gunpowder and firearms, which is completely incomparable to bows, arrows, knives and guns.Only now did they understand how Cao Yue was so confident that with an army of 8 horses, he dared to fight against 30 or [-] Jiannu in the wild.

This kind of warfare was completely unimaginable in the past. The Ming army relied on the fortified city and could not block Jiannu's attack.They also fully understood how Cao Yue defeated the army of slaves in the defense of Datong.It's just that they don't understand, didn't Dorgon suffer several times under Cao Yue's hands, why didn't they come up with a way to deal with it, and still use the old method to attack?
Earth-shattering explosions in two directions and huge clouds of smoke also alarmed Dorgon.

Dorgon was expected to encounter Ming army artillery and musket fire during the desperate attack of the Qing army, and he was ready to accept the fact that he suffered heavy losses.He just hoped that he could rush to the front of the Ming army, inflict damage on the Ming army, and finally shake the Ming army's defensive formation.Dorgon knew that most of the Ming army led by Cao Yue were freshly recruited recruits who trained for at most half a year.These recruits were not well trained, and had never experienced war and killing. As long as the Qing army broke through their musket line and killed them, these recruits might lose their positions and flee immediately.

But he never dreamed that Cao Yue still had several tricks left.Dozens of hidden cannons with a long range, a few rounds of bombardment killed many elite girls, even his beloved general Bo Luo was also killed.Next, there will be more intensive shelling. The number of artillery pieces is so large that he and his counselors cannot estimate through the explosion, and finally there will be such a large-scale explosion.Dorgon didn't know what method Cao Yue used to create such a huge explosion, but he knew that the huge explosions in two directions of similar scale, and the Qing army rushing forward desperately, must have suffered heavy losses.

Bo and Tuo led their troops to the forefront, and Abatai's beloved son might encounter another accident.

Abatai entrusted his two sons to take care of him. If something happened to both of them, no matter how powerful Dorgon was, he would have no face to face this and his elder brother.He hurriedly ordered Bo and Tuo to retreat and postpone the attack.

Dorgon knew that even if Bo and Tuo were still alive, this wave of attacking the Qing army was defeated again.

With such a huge loss, the charging Qing soldiers must have been scared out of their wits, and fleeing was inevitable. Even if they were lucky enough to rush to the front of the Ming army, maybe Cao Yue would use some tricks.He had to change his strategy and could no longer attack in such a simple way.Such an attack, even if it pays a heavy price, may not necessarily defeat the Ming army.

Before today, what Dorgon was most afraid of was the firearm formation of the Ming army, but now the firearm formation of the Ming army has not exerted its power, and the Qing army has suffered heavy losses.From the momentum of the explosion, Dorgon can deduce that the Ming army must now have more firearms than before, and the power of each wave of shooting is also greater. The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who escaped the artillery bombardment by chance can rush to the front of the Ming army , and will definitely be shot by musketeers.

Therefore, he decisively ordered to temporarily stop the attack and retreat across the board.

(End of this chapter)