Daming Military Empire

Chapter 287
The snow is getting bigger and bigger, the sky and the earth are vast, and everything in the battlefield gradually becomes blurred, as if God can't bear to see the tragic fighting among the living beings, so he has to cover his eyes with pure snowflakes.

However, this battle must be won or lost. Between the old enemies of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, one must fall. This ancient land can return to peace again. Perhaps all the infantry of the Ming army just happened to be in place, or maybe it was the commander who commanded the battle. The general seized the opportunity, and when the snowflakes made his vision blurred, the infantry of the Ming army finally began to charge.

How to say the Ming army's charge, one word, chaos, no rules, no formation, messy without any rules, just like stragglers charging randomly.

At this moment, Huang Taiji's heart has sunk to the bottom. Once the Ming army rushes up, he is basically finished. However, giving up is not his habit. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will fight for it. As long as he persists, persists, persists, maybe Miracles will happen!

Seeing that the Ming army began to charge, he ordered without hesitation that all the artillery began to bombard without interruption, no need to aim, no need to adjust the position, anyway, they couldn't aim correctly, just use shotguns to hit the front!
There is no certainty about the exact range of the shotgun attack, but most of the shotguns of a cannon will fall within a radius of about ten feet. This is the conclusion reached by the joint testing of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War for countless times. , that is to say, as long as the artillery does not adjust its position, even if it is a shotgun, its landing point is roughly fixed.

How to avoid the shells of various types of artillery The soldiers of the Ming army often practiced. Therefore, except for the relatively serious casualties caused by the first round of artillery of the Qing army, almost no one was hit by the subsequent rounds of bombardment. The Ming army actually charged. Still twisting and turning, and just avoided the attack area of ​​most of the shotguns!
As long as you observe carefully, of course you can avoid it. If you see that the snow in front of you is bombarded with pockmarked faces within a radius of ten feet, you still step on it, you are looking for death!

When Huang Taiji reacted and wanted to order the artillery to adjust the angle slightly every time they fired a cannon, it was already too late. The Ming army had already charged within two hundred steps. near the place.

The Ming army suddenly regained their control at this moment. They quickly lined up row after row, one after another, rushing towards them like waves. The bullets did not stop at all like a stream of water, and they were even denser than the snowflakes in the air!

Huang Taiji will naturally know what to do, such as volleying guns, segmented shooting, and stacking waves. It is written in detail in Daming's "Infantry Manual". As the defensive side, it is natural to choose segmented shooting. He immediately organized the remaining infantry. Standing in row after row, began segmental shooting.

At this time, there is nothing fancy to play. The large-scale gun battles in the black powder era are like this. You come to me in a row, and you shoot me in a row. Even if you get shot, you may not die, it depends on who you are Can stick to the end.

This is the so-called queuing and shooting. Both sides line up to send each other to be shot. If you are lucky, then congratulations. You are acting as the executioner who executes the shooting. If you are unlucky, you can only act as being shot. of death row inmates.

The total number of infantry on the Ming side was about 14, and they were shelled by the Qing army, causing about 1 casualties. That is to say, there were still more than 13 Ming army infantry who rushed to Huang Taiji. The Qing army's infantry originally There were also [-] people, but Zhu Cijiong's unconventional artillery charge killed nearly half of them, and now there are only more than [-] people left.

13 vs. [-], and a small half of the Ming army was equipped with revolver rifles that could be fired in bursts, which had an absolute advantage in firepower. Logically speaking, Huang Taiji should admit defeat at this time, but he is still insisting. Those who have made great achievements are extremely tenacious in their hearts, and will never give up until the last moment. In history, Huang Taiji's achievements are still great, so he is not the kind of person who gives up lightly at all.

Like the last time in Liaodong, what a desperate situation it was. First, he was defeated by the little emperor Zhu Cijiong, and then the old king and grandson Chengzong built the fort to the door of his house. Almost everyone thought he was going to die , However, he did not give up, but took all his clansmen to make a great move, crossing mountains and ridges to the Mongolian grassland, and within a few years, he returned to his heyday!

This time, the reason why he persisted was naturally to expect a miracle from the cavalry side, so what happened to the cavalry side?
If he could see the tragic situation of the Manchurian cavalry with his own eyes, he probably would not insist on it anymore. Purely in terms of the number of cavalry, it is true that the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces have a certain advantage, because the Ming army plus two lines of support only have a total of 18 cavalry. , while the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry add up to 20. However, the gap in weapons and equipment is so large that these 2 cannot make up for it.

The cavalry of the Ming army were all equipped with revolver rifles. Before they rushed to the front, the bullets were like rain, hitting the Manchurian and Mongolian allied soldiers on their backs. They are all very good, and they all know that they can be pasted on the horse's back or even the horse's belly to avoid bullets, and they also have bows and arrows. After a hail of bullets, they can use bows and arrows to fight back.

However, the hail of bullets is just an appetizer. The wave after wave of grenades after the Ming army approached is the real killer. Those grenades attack in a range.
Therefore, before the two sides collided with each other, the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces basically suffered more than half of the casualties. Of course, this casualty does not count those who were pierced by steel needles in their hands or legs, because they can still fight. , then they have basically been wiped out!

After the hand-to-hand combat officially started, the Qing army cavalry on the left was still relatively tenacious. Fifty-sixty thousand people fought with the Ming army's 6 people and did not immediately show defeat. They didn't last long against the 10 Ming army, and were soon defeated, but they were able to escape. After being defeated, they immediately scattered and fled like a pot exploded, which really wasted a lot of time for the Ming army on the right.

The reason why the Qing army on the left can still fight with the Ming army is mainly because there are many masters among them, such as Dorgon, Azige, Duoduo, Daishan, Yuetuo, Jierhalang, Obai, etc. Wait, almost all of them are here except Huang Taiji, and they have a very bad habit, that is, they like to besiege and beat the chief generals of the Ming army. They were all besieged by three or four masters, and it was considered good that they had not been killed, so they still had time to command their subordinates to fight.

However, this situation was completely reversed with the arrival of Cao Bianjiao and Zu Dabi. These two guys are mainly because they are not addicted to killing. There is no way. The Mongolian cavalry on the right is almost collapsed. , the enemy slipped away, which made them extremely unhappy.

What should I do if I am upset?Anyway, there was nothing to do, and they were not interested in chasing and suppressing deserters, and they didn't have to clean up the battlefield by themselves, they just went to the left to help out, so it was a tragedy for Dorgon and others.

It's hard to measure how fierce these two people are, because the historical materials are incomplete. The only record is that Zu Dabi once fought against the number one warrior of the Qing Dynasty, Oboi, in the ten thousand army formation. As for Cao Bianjiao, Zu Dabi I once tried to compete with him, but I was beaten all over the floor by him!
With the arrival of these two fierce generals, the Qing army on the left finally collapsed. According to the original plan, Qin Gongming hastily gathered [-] cavalry and rushed to the infantry battle area.

Huang Taiji's long-awaited sound of horseshoes finally sounded. Hearing the rumbling sound, there were at least tens of thousands of cavalry rushing over here. He couldn't wait to take out his binoculars to look around. The sun, moon and dragon flags belonged to the Ming army !
His only hope was shattered, and he finally despaired. Seeing the Ming army infantry attacking like flowing clouds and flowing water, he painfully said to the guards beside him: "Put up the white flag, surrender!"

A fierce battle finally came to an end, and heavy snow like goose feathers slowly covered the entire land, and the northern border of the Ming Dynasty was settled!
(End of this chapter)