Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 228
The main force of the Eight Banners Army led by Azig was in Yingtianfu. Facing the advancing new army, he now had two choices, whether to fight the new army in the wild or fight against Yingtian City.

If they fight against the city, the combat power of the Eight Banners Army will be greatly weakened. After all, the Eight Banners Army relies most on the cavalry, and if they fight against the city, the horses will be useless.

But fighting according to the city is also beneficial, and it can play a big role by relying on the strong city.

Just like this, it was divided into two factions, and one faction agreed to fight for the city.

The other faction agreed to use the advantages of the cavalry to deal with the infantry of the new army. If they hid in the city and passively defended, they would avoid their strengths and exploit their weaknesses, and the gains outweighed the losses.

No one convinced anyone, but Azig directly decided to compete with the new army outside the city.

For Prince Ying, who has a fiery personality, it is not in his character to hide in the city and defend passively before fighting. There is no one in this world who can make Azig just hide.

What's more, Tang Ning was so procrastinating, knowing that he had the strongest army and the largest number of troops in the Aji Department, but still marched in three ways, with only 4 troops and dared to attack Yingtian Mansion. grid contempt.

Azig didn't think that Tangning didn't know that he had 8 soldiers in Yingtian Mansion.

However, Azig did not underestimate the new army led by Tangning, so most of the troops he led to attack were elite, except for the 1 troops he had drawn from the Zhengbai Banner and Eight Banners Army, and the [-] Guanning Army from Wu Sangui's department.

The rest are the Mongolian cavalry and some of Shang Kexi's soldiers and horses. Of the [-] troops in total, cavalry account for half.

After reorganizing the army, Azig led his army towards Tangning's attacking direction without hesitation.

Not long after passing Lishui County, Tangning learned that Azig had led his army southward, approaching his own side, and he might have passed Moling Pass by this time.

After discussing with the army staff, Tang Ning immediately turned back to Lishui County for a certain distance, but did not retreat into Lishui City.

About five miles to the north of Lishui City, the defense line began to be built, and the soldiers and engineers began to get busy, and a large number of scouts were also sent to closely monitor the movements of the Qing army.

The next day, the Qing army appeared about forty miles to the north of the new army, then slowed down, and set up camp about thirty miles away from the new army in the late afternoon.

The Qing army did not rush to attack, but sent a large number of scouts to scout the movement of the new army, and the scouts of the new army often fought against their scouts.

Since the scouts of the new army are all elite soldiers of the new army, and the reconnaissance team will prepare at least one MP40 submachine gun, in this kind of confrontation, the new army wins more and loses less.

But the next day, the Qing army still did not launch an attack, and Tangning had no intention of attacking, so the confrontation between the two sides was still limited to the scouts.

The same was true on the third day, Tangning was waiting for the Qing army to launch an attack, and the Qing army seemed to want Tangning to launch an attack.

On the fourth day, Azig's patience was exhausted, he no longer listened to anyone's opinion, insisted on launching an attack, and immediately led the main force to approach the new army.

However, he also knew from Duo Duo that the new army has very powerful artillery, so he tried his best to be careful and prevent his specific whereabouts from being locked by the new army.

However, Tang Ning had no intention of using German artillery to launch a bombardment, even though the Qing army had already entered the firing range at this time.

Azig has been leading the army to line up fifteen miles away, and then dispatched a gratifying force to launch a tentative attack first.

Shang Kexi pointed out a thousand cavalry to attack from the front, and the new army kept putting it around Li Xu before firing shells.

The Shang army rushed forward for about a hundred feet, then ordered to retreat, and then the whole army of a thousand cavalry attacked from the right wing of the new army, but was still repelled by the artillery of the new army.

"The new army only used red cannons and tiger crouching cannons. The more powerful cannons have not yet been put into use. Do you think we have too few offensive troops?"

Shang Kexi pondered for a while, then ordered [-] troops to go around the right wing of the new army.

These [-] troops were all infantry, followed by nearly [-] cavalry.

Artillery and chariots were placed at the front, followed by bird commanders and archers, followed by light infantry and heavy infantry, arranged in columns in turn, advancing step by step towards the new army camp.

Knowing that the new army has advanced artillery, he does not have any advantage in the artillery, and the slow-moving red cannon is likely to become the target of the new army and be wasted in vain.

Therefore, the Qing army only carried Fran cannons, attacking army cannons, and tiger squatting cannons in this operation.

However, Shang Kexi didn't dare to invest too many cannons, and there were only fifty or sixty cannons in total.

Because of this, in the first round of artillery battle, the Shang army was quickly defeated.

The chief general immediately ordered the rear team to move forward and launch an attack, but the Shang army, which was not strong enough to fight, quickly retreated under the bombardment of one or two hundred artillery pieces of various types from the new army, and almost lost all the artillery and chariots it carried. .

Azig was expressionless when he learned that Shang Kexi had failed, which was also expected by him. After all, among the troops he is leading now, Shang Kexi's troops have the worst combat effectiveness.

This is also one of the main reasons why Azig sent Shang Kexi to fight in the first place.

Shang Kexi did some testing, except that he found out that the new army had a large number of artillery pieces, but it didn't make much progress.

Not to mention the loopholes in the new army's camp, which further proved that the new army's front and right wing defenses are very tight.

The left wing is adjacent to the Rouge River, which is not conducive to the deployment of large forces, so it was abandoned as the main attack direction early in the morning.

As for detouring to the rear of the new army, that is even more unrealistic, so if you want to launch an attack again, you can only start from the front and right wing of the new army.

Tangning naturally knew that the Qing army's attack was only tentative, and Shang Kexi's troops were also the weakest.

However, in Tangning's camp at this moment, the generals and staff officers were still discussing the battle that just happened.

After several generals and staff officers expressed their conclusions, a middle-aged man with a mustache stood up and looked around.

When everyone saw him, they all showed a little helpless look.

He turned his gaze to Tangning, and said with a neither humble nor condescending expression, "My lord, I really think your tactic is too risky. This kind of tactic has a good chance of winning for those who don't have a strong will to fight."

"However, the main enemy of our army is the real Eight Banners Army of the Tartars. The main force is the cavalry, and they fight fiercely. Our army is formed in a horizontal formation, how can it match the speed and ferocity of the long cavalry."

"Once the enemy cavalry breaks through the horizontal formation without echelon blocking and rushes into our formation, even if our army fights bravely, it will definitely not be able to bridge the gap between infantry and cavalry in melee combat."

"At this time, the enemy cavalry has not launched a full-scale attack. Please think twice, and immediately change the formation to a column. It is not too late to coordinate the defensive formation with various arms..."

This person's words were very sincere, and as soon as his words fell, the entire camp became quieter. Everyone's eyes were on Tangning, including a few foreigners who were obviously not from the East.

These foreigners are none other than the Portuguese who came with the army, headed by Claudia.

The new army and the Portuguese army have joined forces to attack Manraga. The relationship between the two sides is in the honeymoon period. Claudia offered to increase her knowledge with the army, so Tangning naturally couldn't refuse.

Except for the layman Claudia and some technicians, the rest of these Portuguese are officers.

In many respects, Tangning didn't even deliberately guard against them, and even allowed them to enter the camp to observe and discuss.

(End of this chapter)