Ming Empire

Chapter 265 The Fall of Tianjin Guard

Dorgon, who kept receiving reports of defeats on the battlefield, seemed to be suffering on a frying pan.

He didn't expect that the Ming army left the trenches to attack actively, and the situation was still the same. The Qing army could not break through the Ming army's defense line.

On the battlefield, the deafening sound of guns and cannons made people tremble uncontrollably. Dorgon knew that with every burst of guns and cannons, many Qing warriors lost their swords before they could cut out their swords. life.This kind of death is too useless, everyone will die with regret.

Dorgon found sadly that the ongoing war was completely unequal. In front of the Ming army equipped with a large number of muskets and cannons, the Qing army was like a child who had no strength to fight back. They fought back passively, and they were all beaten in disgrace.

He really couldn't understand, how could Cao Yue have caused such a fundamental change in the Ming army in just two years?

In the past, the Ming army was not equipped with muskets and artillery, but at that time, muskets and artillery did not pose any threat to the Qing army at all.He still had some scruples about the artillery of the Ming army, but all the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty completely ignored the muskets equipped by the Ming army.

Unexpectedly, the large number of muskets equipped by the Ming army has become an eternal nightmare for the soldiers of the Qing army.

Facing muskets and artillery, is it really outdated?

Although Dorgon was unwilling to admit this, the fact that wars happened again and again forced him to admit that the fighting power of the Qing army and the Ming army was too far apart because of the firearms.

Before Cao Yue took the initiative to attack, he had already made sufficient preparations, and the Ming army hadn't invested all its strength. There were only 7 to [-] horses on the frontal battlefield, and there were at least twice as many troops preparing to go into battle behind.However, the Qing army could not break through the line of defense built by the [-] to [-] Ming troops after they left the trenches, let alone after all the troops were put into battle.

"Stop attacking and retreat to the camp!" After more than an hour of fighting, the counterattack did not make any progress, but after paying a heavier loss than yesterday, Dorgon was forced to issue an order to stop the counterattack, ordering the entire army to stop the counterattack. Retreat to the camp and use the defensive means built outside the camp to block the attack of the Ming army.

Following Dorgon's order, Jiannu quickly retreated across the board and completely broke away from contact with the Ming army.

And the soldiers of Ming Dynasty, who had used up more than half of their ammunition, did not take the initiative to pursue them, and still stuck to their original positions.

The continuous strong wind blew away the gunpowder smoke on the battlefield, revealing the horrible scene in front of everyone.The corpses of people and horses piled up like a mountain, the flags lying on the ground in all directions, the scene of burning can be seen everywhere, the scenes of undead people and horses struggling and screaming on the ground and among the piles of corpses, it is a vivid hell on earth.

Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong, who were commanding the battle, also heaved a sigh of relief when Jiannu retreated across the board.

They were also nervous. When faced with Jiannu's life-threatening attack, they were still very worried, fearing that the Musketeers would not be able to withstand the attack.They all ordered the cavalry attached to the guards to prepare for the attack. They planned to let the cavalry join the battle group when the Musketeers were unable to withstand the impact of Jiannu. No matter how they could not let Jiannu rush into the army of Musketeers .But I didn't expect that the power of musket shooting was so great that Jiannu's large-scale charge was blocked from the range of bows and arrows, and only a few of them could rush to the front of the Ming army.

The large number of hand grenades equipped in the army easily wiped out these slaves, and there were not many Ming soldiers who used knives and guns in the end.It can be said that today's battles really only need to use firearms, and knives and guns are basically useless.

The two also admired Cao Yue's foresight even more, and even thought of equipping the army with firearms on a large scale. You must know that firearms have been around for many years, and no general is interested in them. Most people think that these are similar to "fire sticks" , almost cumbersome, and has no lethality in battle. The final solution to the war still depends on bows, arrows, knives and guns.

After several great victories in battles, they finally completely changed their concepts and fully realized the great power of firearms.

In fact, they can’t be blamed for this. Cao Yue is a time traveler. Later generations saw many modern war scenes through various channels, and knew that the war mode of cold weapons would eventually be replaced by the mode of force weapons.Before crossing and leading the army, he actually felt the huge lethality of hot weapon warfare. Therefore, after arriving in the army, he never thought of developing cavalry and training soldiers in riding and shooting, but focused on developing firearms.

At the same time as the town and garrison and after arriving in Nanjing, Cao Yue devoted himself to the manufacture and upgrading of firearms.

After arriving in Nanjing, he devoted all his efforts to upgrading the manufacture of firearms. After mastering the government, he devoted the main financial resources of Ming Dynasty to the research and development and upgrading of firearms.Without his desperation, there would be no way to manufacture so many firearms, nor would he be able to win consecutive victories in the war against Jiannu.

The hard work has paid off, and everything is easy to explain. No one doubts Cao Yue's original decision. The manufacture and development of firearms will enter a faster mode.

Now Jiannu has no way to defeat the Ming army, so don't think about it in the future.

It's a pity that the overall technological productivity is not high now, and the army cannot realize mechanization.And Cao Yue wanted to fight steadily, and didn't want to advance rashly. Otherwise, the current Daming army, after winning a big victory, would immediately accelerate the pace of attack and continue to give Jiannu more suffering.

Seeing that the Ming army did not pursue the trend, but stopped, Dorgon was slightly relieved.

He knew that this battle could not continue to be fought in this way. If the Qing army wanted to defeat the Ming army, it had to be equipped with more muskets and artillery like the Ming army. Otherwise, the result of the war would still be the same as it is today. He failed successively and was forced to withdraw from outside the customs, even unable to stand outside the customs.

Withdrawing troops to defend the front line of Beijing, or immediately retreating to the outside of the customs, using the Great Wall to block the Ming army's attack, this is the strategy that Dorgon immediately thought of after withdrawing the army and returning to the camp.It's just that after paying a heavy price, he was very unwilling to withdraw the troops like this.He also wanted to find an opportunity to fight back fiercely and make the Ming army pay a heavy price.

Lure the enemy to go deep, lure the Ming army to the direction of Beijing, set up an ambush on the way, and hit the Ming army hard when the Ming army is unprepared. This is what Dorgon made after discussing with Duoduo and Fan Wencheng. Decide.Today's another disastrous defeat has already left the three most resourceful people unable to think of a better way, so they can only decide to retreat and lure the enemy into this bad strategy.

Everyone knows that this kind of lure the enemy to go deep, as long as the Ming army continues to fight steadily and does not advance rashly, it will still be the Qing army that will suffer in the end.Everything can only be resigned to fate, and Dorgon can't help it.

But just when Dorgon made the decision to lure the enemy deep and was about to withdraw overnight, another surprising news came.

Tianjin Wei has fallen!
(End of this chapter)