Ming Empire

Chapter 306 The Battle Begins

The two sides lined up in the direction of the north gate outside Beijing.

The Ming Guards who drove out of the city were well-dressed and neatly dressed.Against the backdrop of the flying battle flags, a very powerful aura emerges spontaneously.The consecutive victories also brought the morale of the Ming soldiers to a peak.The neat formation and cheerful laughter also revealed the confidence of the soldiers. They are not afraid of any powerful enemy, and they are the strongest army that makes the enemy afraid.

Compared with the Ming army, Jiannu, who had not rested well and looked very tired, was obviously disorganized.However, the Manchu Qing army was a well-trained army after all. They had experienced countless battles and killings, and the belligerence and bloodiness in their bones could not be erased, even in a very embarrassing situation.

The two sides lined up at a distance of five miles, ready to fight.

There was no time to build trenches, and there was not enough artillery to support them, which weakened the combat power of the Ming army to a certain extent.But none of the soldiers who followed Cao Yue out of the city to face the battle felt afraid.Cao Yue is the god of war in their minds, and he has never been defeated. It is impossible to lose a battle with Cao Yue.This kind of blind self-confidence can be transformed into powerful combat power during combat.

Duoduo really did not expect that Cao Yue would agree to his challenge and lead the army out of the city to fight.He suspected that there was fraud, but he had no choice. He couldn't just escape Beijing and return to the grassland.On the current grassland, there is no place for the Qing Dynasty to gain a foothold. Even if they fled back to the grassland, they would have to compete with several other forces for territory under the threat of the powerful Ming army.

The Mongols and the remnants of Wu Sangui's Guanning Army are no longer allies of the Qing army. They are also standing on the opposite side of the Qing army. Once allies have become enemies, they will definitely be more vicious than the original enemies. The powerful Ming army oppressed.Even if they fled back to the grassland and gained a foothold by defeating the Mongols or the remnants of the Guanning Army, the Ming army would not sit back and watch them become stronger again.

And Duo Duo was burdened with too much hatred. The continuous blows, especially the death of Duo ErGun, had made him a little bit on the verge of collapse. He didn't want to continue living with such a heavy burden. relief.

If you can win this battle and kill or capture Cao Yue, then all the grievances and grudges with Cao Yue will be eliminated, and the great hatred will be avenged; if you lose the battle unfortunately, then you will have no regrets and let your life come to an end in the bloody battle , From now on, it's over.

Just after the formation of the two sides was completed, Duoduo launched an attack.

In order to defeat the Ming army, Duduo spent a lot of brainpower. He knew that a frontal attack would be difficult to break through the blocking of the Ming army's musket array, even if it cost a lot.If you want to inflict heavy damage on the Ming army, you can only attack in a roundabout way.

This time, Dodo also adopted such a strategy. He ordered a general to lead [-] soldiers and horses to feign an attack from the front. attack.

While the musketeers of the Ming army were still in formation, the two main forces commanded by Duoduo and Yue Le, as well as the five thousand sergeants who were feigning a frontal attack, launched an attack.The first to launch the attack was naturally the five thousand feint-attack sergeants. Although they were feint-attacks, their desperation was no different from the usual frontal charge.

Jiannu also understood one point in many confrontations with the Ming army, that is, at any time to charge, you cannot maintain a dense formation, and you must spread out.Although spreading out will greatly reduce the power of the charge, it can effectively reduce the casualty rate.The artillery and muskets of the Ming army were very lethal to dense crowds. In order to avoid huge casualties, the cavalry had to be scattered to charge.

Duoduo hoped that the thousands of troops in the frontal feint attack and the formation of more than [-] troops in the rear could successfully deceive Cao Yue and let Cao Yue put his main force in the frontal defense of the enemy.In this way, the [-] fine cavalry led by him and Yue Le could break through the defense lines on both sides of the Ming army and directly enter the Ming army formation.As long as he can rush into the formation of the Ming army, Duoduo is fully confident in defeating or even severely injuring these tens of thousands of Ming troops.

More than [-] soldiers and horses who were feigning a frontal attack quickly rushed towards the Ming army's formation, and hurriedly led the galloping horses, raising dust all over the sky, adding to the momentum of the impact.Under the cover of the raised dust, the [-] soldiers each led by Duoduo and Yue Le also rushed towards the two flanks of the Ming army at the fastest speed.

However, Duoduo's strategy had long been expected by Cao Yue. The Ming Guards, equipped with new rifled guns, no longer needed the method of segmented shooting.The bullets fired by thousands of sergeants in the front are dense enough to cause huge damage to thousands or even nearly ten thousand charging enemies.In order to guard against Jiannu's flank attack, Cao Yue only arranged more than [-] Musketeers in the frontal direction, and the other [-] Musketeers were arranged on the two flanks.

The seventy or eighty artillery pieces brought out of the city were arranged in front of the side formations.These dozens of cannons are mainly Franc cannons. Although the range is not far, they are light in weight, easy to carry, and relatively mobile on the battlefield.This war was also kicked off by the shooting of these artillery.

Amid the sound of continuous shooting, one round after another of the cannons flew towards the heads of Jiannu who were rushing to kill them. Some unlucky ones were torn apart in the explosion of the cannons, and were thrown heavily into the air. Falling in pieces.But more Jiannu, fortunately escaped the bombardment of the artillery, and continued to kill the Ming army.

There were only a few thousand Jiannu who attacked from the front. Cao Yue became more and more convinced that Duoduo would concentrate his forces to attack the two flanks, so he aimed most of the artillery in the direction of the two flanks, and made the two flanks that had been basically deployed The chariot formation in the direction shrank a little, so that the Musketeers hiding behind the chariot formation could get better protection.

The situation seen in the telescope and the report of the sergeant of the Special Guard Battalion further proved that Cao Yue's judgment was correct. Jiannu really concentrated the main force and attacked the two flanks of the Ming army.Cao Yue also immediately ordered the soldiers on the two flanks to prepare for a desperate fight.Following Cao Yue's order, the Musketeers who were on full alert in both flanks were all ready to aim and shoot.

The cavalry that supported the escort retreated to a later place. They were going to cover and kill Jiannu when the Musketeers inflicted a large number of casualties on Jiannu and Jiannu fell into chaos, and then deal a fatal blow to Jiannu.

Because of the rapid increase in the number of Musketeers, the role of the Ming cavalry has declined significantly, which made the cavalry officers feel very unbalanced. They hope that today, with their bravery, they can once again prove the role of the cavalry.

(End of this chapter)