Nanming Engineer

Chapter 223 The shield car can still be used like this
The generals who were waiting on the side suddenly took the order, rode their horses and whipped away one after another, the flags of the Daxi Army changed, and the troops were mobilized. Except for the soldiers of the headquarters and the fast-moving cavalry, there were no other changes in the army, so the formation was not chaotic, and it was still in order.

The Qing army on the opposite side is also making the final arrangement before the battle. The flags of the generals are very eye-catching, and they are not far apart. Who is the general.

Daxi Huwei General Wang Dingguo, who was on the left wing, saw at a glance that on the opposite side of the right wing of the Qing army, a huge Wu character flag was flying, and there was a line of small black characters on the side of the flag, which read "Great Qing Han Army Pingxi King Wu" .

Although he had never served in the Ming army, everyone knew the name of King Pingxi. Seeing this flag, Wang Dingguo, who was born as a thief, immediately knew that among the cavalry on the opposite side, there must be the world-famous Guan Ning cavalry.

When Zu Dashou was in Guanneiqin, he led the cavalry of Guanning, which was no more than 3000 people, and beat the 36th battalion of thieves. They had no power to parry. Their power was so fierce that Gao Yingxiang, who was still at the time, was a pawn His son Wang Dingguo was very impressed, now seeing these enemies on the opposite side, Wang Dingguo's heart was in a panic. He hurriedly arranged the formation, let the spearmen and shield soldiers line up in front, and the cavalry guarded the outside to guard against the enemy on the other side. Iron cavalry.

As soon as the arrangement was completed, there was a sound of horns on the opposite side. Amidst the rough and long sound of horns, the sound of "dong dong dong" war drums suddenly sounded, and the high-pitched shouts of the Qing army began to move.

Wang Dingguo was so nervous that sweat came out of his body. He stared at the Qing army closely without daring to blink. After watching for a while, he was surprised to find that the two-winged cavalry on the opposite side did not move, but the infantry of the Chinese army.

He breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, that's great, as long as Guan Ning's iron cavalry doesn't move, he is safe.

Wang Dingguo is short-sighted. He has fought all his life only to entangle with the Ming army. Not to mention the Tartars, even the Mongols have never fought against each other. What the Great Western Army had to face was not just the Guanning cavalry.

Sun Kewang in the front army, Wang Shangli in the middle army, and Zhang Xianzhong in the rear immediately looked at the Qing army's pawns coming out from behind the shield formation with shocking expressions, and their eyes were full of inconceivable colors.

It's not scary that the cavalry don't come out with infantry, it's just unexpected. What's scary is that those infantry are actually pushing shield carts one after another!
The shield chariots are densely packed, larger and stronger than the shield chariots used by the Great Western Army to attack Hanzhong City. They are all made of thick wood nailed from one root to another. The side facing the enemy is extremely thick. Small wheels, effortless to push.

Hundreds of shield cars lined up in a horizontal plane, spanning the entire front where the two armies were facing each other. When the Daxi Army looked at it, except for the cavalry on both sides, as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but the shield cars in front of them.

The bird commanders standing at the front of the army and the archers standing [-] steps behind them were all stupid. The shield carts pushed over didn't seem to be able to shoot badly, so let them use the bird commanders in their hands. Shoot with a bow and arrow?Give me a break!

The unexpected tactics completely disrupted Zhang Xianzhong's deployment, and also disrupted Sun Kewang's mind. As the former commander of the army, he was sharpening his sword and preparing to lead his troops to cover and kill the Tartar cavalry once the two wings resisted the impact of the Tartar cavalry. In the army, the Jurchen is famous for riding and shooting, but I haven't heard much about the infantry, so I can just bully them.

So when the shield chariot came rumblingly, Sun Kewang was at a loss. The various strategies hidden in his heart seemed to have no correspondence at all. He couldn't think of any way to solve it except to stand still.

The bird commanders who lined up in front looked at their leading general, and the general looked at the position of the former commander behind him, but was disappointed that he didn't see any instructions. He gritted his teeth, turned around, and held the With one stroke of the waist knife, he shouted loudly: "Reload, fill the ammunition, and light the match!"

The archers and generals in the back drew gourds in the same way, and then shouted: "Raise the arrow, raise the bow!"

The shield car was advancing very fast, the distance was constantly shortening, the interval of [-] steps quickly rolled down to less than a hundred steps, General Bird Command was a veteran, and he estimated the distance calmly, the shield car had just entered a hundred steps. One step, he swung his arm fiercely.

Accompanied by the cold light of the waist knife across the air, a puff of smoke rose in front of Daxi's formation, crackling gunshots rang out, and countless spiked heavy arrows pierced through the smoke, flying into the air, and hit the front and rear feet of the lead bullet. On the shield car.

A three-coin heavy lead hit the shield car, punching small holes in the iron sheet, then bounced off the hard wooden board, and fell to the ground. The arrows of heavy arrows were heavy, and their sharpness could penetrate armor, but they also couldn't penetrate them. Through the thick plank, either plunge into the plank, or pass across the inclined plank.

These lead and arrows, like locusts hitting an iron tower, have no effect except for adding some mottled holes in the front of the shield car. The Qing soldiers hiding behind the shield car didn't care at all. None of them were scratched at all, and they pushed the shield car forward in an orderly manner.

"Clear the chamber, load the ammunition, fill the ammunition, hurry up!" General Bird Commander yelled loudly, he didn't know what to shout other than these.

The archer general was a little more sober, and his order was clearly targeted: "Nock the arrow, throw it! Shoot the top of the shield car!"

Because the shield chariot is as tall as a person, and the Great Western Army is far away, it is impossible to see whether there is a cover on the shield chariot. If there is no cover, the throwing can kill the Qing soldiers hiding behind the shield chariot.

It's a pity that the sound of the thrown arrows falling on the wood clearly told him that the tops of these shield vehicles were also covered with wooden boards.

After the bird commanders released two rounds of guns, the shield chariot was already within twenty paces away. The shield chariot was still intact under the impact of lead bullets and bows and arrows, and the people inside were of course intact. ,

When Niao Tongshou was in a hurry to reload for the third time, a wave of arrows rained from behind the shield car, and the Qing soldiers who followed the shield car fought back.

The rain of arrows was accurate and fierce, and the bird commanders and archers were shot in pieces. No one dared to stand still and wait to die. They, who were Daxi's long-range strike force, turned into birds and beasts and fled in all directions.

Sun Kewang had come to his senses at this time, and he deeply regretted that he shouldn't have left those iron cannons under the city of Hanzhong and ignored them. Iron bullets, those tortoise shells are not so arrogant.

But it was useless to regret it. Sun Kewang understood what to do next. The shield chariot approached, and its purpose was only for hand-to-hand combat. The Great Western Army started as a military force of infantry. Although the elite were all cavalry, there were still a group of heavily armored infantry Everyone wears half-length waist armor and iron helmets, and holds long and short fine iron weapons, capable of fighting anyone.

"Fight to the death and never retreat! Let the Tartars know Daxierlang's blood!" Sun Kewang encouraged loudly, causing the former soldiers to scream wildly, like a forest of spears standing upright, long knives clanging, countless pairs of hands either out of fear or madness His eyes were bloodshot, and he roared wildly as he stared at the approaching shield car.

On the battlefield, either become a lunatic or be killed by a lunatic.

As the shield chariot approached, it continuously shot arrows, shooting down one after another of the former soldiers. The Great Western Army wanted to fight back, but they couldn't shoot their bows and arrows in. Those shield chariots were too close together, so there was no room for them.

Sun Kewang finally couldn't bear it any longer, swung his long knife, and ordered: "Attack!"

The former army rushed forward like a flood that opened the gate, bursting out with earth-shattering shouts of killing.

At the same time, the shield chariot stopped, and the bows and arrows that had been shooting also stopped, and then the front baffle was lowered. One by one, the dead soldiers of the Qing army, wearing chain mail inside and cotton armor outside, held long knives. The giant stick rushed out from inside with a shout.

The two armies were less than ten steps apart and collided.

Sun Kewang stood behind the front army formation, directing the battle, but he only looked at it for a moment before he suddenly understood that he was destined to lose.

The Tatars are powerful in cavalry and shooting, but the most powerful ones seem to be their infantry.

The former army rushed to the front of the first few battalions, like a group of cabbage heads rushing up. When they were met by the wolf-like dead soldiers of the Tartars, they cut off their heads. Fearing death, they didn't avoid swords at all, and only slashed at the vital points of the Daxi Army, but they had thick armor and were not easy to be fatally injured.

The Daxi army and the Qing army intersected like water and fire, and the Qing army spread past like water. In the blink of an eye, it completely extinguished the fiery Daxi front army.

Sun Kewang was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and was dragged down by his own soldiers. Wang Shangli's central army came up immediately, but the drums of the Qing army behind them were loud, and a steady stream of elite Bayala soldiers rushed up behind the shield chariot. Like a knife that breaks through tofu, it directly smashed the middle army of the Great Western Army.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at this scene in disbelief, and couldn't believe his eyes. The Daxi Army, which is all over the world, is so vulnerable. In less than a stick of incense, the mighty Suwei Zhongjun appeared in a state of destruction. Failure.

Before he could react, the ground trembled again, horseshoes sounded suddenly, and the Qing cavalry on both wings moved.

If the impact of infantry is compared to the tide, then the cavalry is a torrent, surging and unstoppable.

The Daxi Army on the two wings saw clearly what happened to the former army and the Chinese army, and they were equally terrified. Wang Dingguo and Liu Jingju were almost stunned by the sight. , dare not act rashly.

At this moment the Qing army really moved, and the two reacted differently. Wang Dingguo ordered the infantry to line up their guns, and the cavalry circled to the distance, ready to charge from behind when the Qing army charged the infantry; Liu Jingju was from the frontier army. The old cavalry of the old cavalry didn't have so much fuss. They directly ordered the infantry to stand firm, and led the cavalry to charge head-on, head-on to confront the Qing cavalry.

The fighting style of the two, one is prudent, the other is violent, but the end result is the same.

Lost, failed miserably.

The cavalry of the Qing army was dominated by Mongolian cavalry, and the Guanning army of the Han army and the Eight Banners army were the foremen. They didn't even want to fight the Daxi army. Although the Great Western Army and the Great Western Army have elite cavalry, they are much worse than the Mongols who grew up on horseback, not to mention the difference in speed and endurance between the types of horses on both sides.

Running, running is not as good as others, and shooting is not as accurate as others. How can we fight under the condition that riding and shooting are the main offensive methods?
After two or three waves of arrow rain, the two wings of the Daxi Army, both infantry and cavalry, were already out of shape. Liu Jingji died of several arrows in his body in the first wave of arrow rain.

The Qing soldiers roared and turned back again. This time they didn't draw circles, and directly showed their sabers and maces.

When Wang Dingguo was crushed by a mace, he finally understood that the Qing army didn't have to take advantage of it, they were fully capable of marching forward, and the cavalry he was proud of was just a joke in front of them .

Zhang Xianzhong escaped under the protection of the rear army's personal camp. His [-] troops had turned into scattered soldiers all over the mountains and plains. At this time, he had already understood Li Zicheng's mood in a piece of stone, and understood why he gave up his old nest in Xi'an and rushed south .

It's all unavoidable!

(End of this chapter)