Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 313 Shatter Your Last Pride, How Lonely Is Invincible

Listening to Duduo's clamor and provocation, Li Cunming didn't take it seriously and looked calm.The courtiers around him were indignant, and the soldiers yelled and cursed endlessly.

Gong Yonggu said: "He is still so stubborn when he is about to die. This Duoduo just needs to be dealt with. If he is imprisoned in Jinyiwei North Town Fusi for three days, I will definitely make him cry and beg for mercy on his knees!"

Li Cunming smiled and said: "The dog with the broken spine is still barking and barking, don't pay attention to him! What I want is victory, as for how to win, why should I care? I am here to kill the world with real swords and guns, not for a war of words .”

But Weng Zhiqi plopped down on his knees, and shouted: "Your Majesty, I have always known your Majesty's method of using troops, paying attention to the coordination of multiple arms, and using all kinds of unpredictable strategies. But I really don't want to hear Duduo humiliating my Ming like this." Face to face, saying that the Manchu Qing cavalry is invincible in the world, are the cavalry of our Ming Dynasty useless? I request to lead the cavalry to fight Duoduo!"

Li Cunming was about to veto, but Yan Yingyuan also knelt down: "Your Majesty, I have the same thoughts as General Weng. In the past few years, under the wise leadership of Your Majesty, our soldiers have been invincible in all battles. Numerous brilliant victories have been achieved."

"But in the past, our army generally only fought against the troops of the Manchu, Qing and Han Eight Banners, and rarely had the opportunity to confront the Tartars, let alone fight with a single Tartar cavalry. For decades, our soldiers have been deeply loved by the Tartar cavalry The oppression of the Tartars is still feared even today. Your Majesty, why don't you take this opportunity to break the myth that the Tartar cavalry are invincible?"

Weng Zhiqi said: "Yes, it's time to break this myth!"

"You really think so?" Li Cunming asked.

Several cavalry generals greeted the soldiers to kneel down and shouted: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while, I will ask to go to battle!"

The shouts echoed on the hill. Li Cunming looked at the cavalrymen who were kneeling on the ground, saw their expressions of fighting against the enemy, and looked at their brave and fearless eyes. He couldn't help feeling agitated.

"Okay, I promise you!" Li Cunming said.

Weng Zhiqi stood up happily, drew out her knife and said: "Soldiers, you have all heard that Doduo is so rampant that he dares to look down on the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, which is unbearable! Today is the time for us to prove ourselves, It is when we serve the imperial court and follow this general to kill the enemy!"

Li Cunming exhorted: "General Weng, for the face and dignity of the Ming Dynasty, you are brave enough to fight the Tartar cavalry head-on. I am very relieved! But I want to tell the general that once you lose the enemy, you should retreat immediately, and you must not show off your courage. .To deal with the Tatars, I have always used conspiracy and conspiracy, and I don’t care if others say that I don’t follow martial ethics. Do you understand?”

"I understand!" Weng Zhiqi agreed.

With an order, tens of thousands of cavalry screamed wildly, swung their whips and jumped their horses, and rushed down from the hill.

Yan Yingyuan was also neatly dressed, mounted a horse, and planned to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Li Cunming stopped him and said, "Yan Aiqing, what are you doing? You are a civil servant, so there is no need to fight in battle."

"Your Majesty, I want to avenge the people of Liaocheng, Feng Houdun and Chen Mingyu! I have been waiting for this day for too long, please make it happen!" Yan Yingyuan said sincerely.

"Go, be more careful." Li Cunming knew that he was eager for revenge and stopped stopping him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yan Yingyuan cupped his hands and rode down the hill.

Li Cunming ordered: "Gong Yonggu, pass on our military order to make the artillery battalion, musket battalion, and infantry battalion not to relax. Once the cavalry battalion shows signs of defeat, the three armies will immediately attack and kill all the Tartars in the valley."

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The cavalry battalion of the Ming army was dispatched. Duoduo was a little surprised and proud, thinking to himself: "Haha, after all, Chongzhen couldn't hold his breath. I ran against him with a few words and even sent cavalry to fight. Isn't this a rush to seek death?"

Duduo shouted: "Listen, cavalry of the Ming Army. You dare to come and fight. I admire your courage. Come on, although the number of cavalry left by me is not as large as yours, today I want you to know what is true." cavalry!"

Weng Zhiqi shouted: "Duduo, don't try to bully people with your evil spirits! Today, General Weng Zhiqi, I want you to see the power of our Ming Dynasty cavalry. I also told you, I will never bully the minority with more. There are 4000 in your army." There are many people, and I, the general, only use 4000 people to fight with you."

"Hahaha, you have the guts!" Duoduo looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and said after laughing enough, "Man Qing cavalry, one of you can beat the three of you!"

Weng Zhiqi didn't talk to Duoduo anymore, and sure enough, he only ordered four thousand cavalry to line up, and ordered the rest of the cavalry to stand by at the foot of the mountain.

The four thousand cavalrymen of the Ming army had not yet fully formed their formation. Duduo had already ordered the Qing troops to charge. He wanted to take advantage of the Ming army's unstable position and catch them off guard.It must be said that Duduo knows how to seize opportunities.

"Shameless!" Gong Yonggu on the hill stomped and cursed, and was very surprised, "Why didn't General Weng give the order to charge?"

"Calm down." Li Cunming was calm on the surface, but his palms were actually sweating.

I saw 4000 Qing soldiers galloping on horseback, while the Ming army was still forming in an orderly manner.The Qing soldiers were getting closer and closer, and they were already a hundred steps away before the Ming troops formed their formation.

Duoduo laughed wildly and said: "The cavalry charge depends on their speed. The Ming army is still not charging at this time, let's see how they can increase their speed within a hundred steps? Without speed, the advantage of the cavalry is gone. It seems that this Weng Zhiqi will not When it comes to fighting, you’re a fool!”

When hundreds of cavalry in the front row of the Qing army entered within eighty paces, Weng Zhiqi and Duoduo gave the order almost simultaneously: "Shoot!"

The Qing army used Manchurian hard bows, and the arrows were extremely powerful and made a whistling sound.There were 500 musketeers in front of the Ming army, using breech-loading flintlock guns, crackling and firing back.

In the blink of an eye, people were killed or injured on both sides.Duoduo was very surprised: "How can the Ming army use muskets in heavy snow? Don't worry, rush over and break their formation!"

At the same time, Weng Zhiqi ordered: "The musketeers and light cavalry spread out, kill the enemy from both wings, and the heavy cavalry line up!"

The five hundred musketeers slung their flintlock belts over their shoulders, drew their knives, and hurried to the wings, followed by two thousand and five hundred light cavalry.

Then [-] heavy armored cavalry were exposed to the front of the Qing army. These heavy armored cavalry were built and trained after Li Zicheng's "three walls".

Weng Zhiqi has worked hard for the past two years, just to build a strong cavalry team for the imperial court, and tried every means possible.Among them, the heavy armored cavalry, which had long been eliminated by the Ming army, was established by Weng Zhiqi.

Of course, in order to conform to the trend of the times and to implement the emperor's guiding ideology of building an army, heavy armored cavalry only accounted for [-]% of the cavalry battalion, and [-] heavy cavalry were equipped with [-] cavalry.Their mission is to use the "three walls" tactic to break the formation.

When the vanguard of the cavalry of the Qing army charged in front of them, the heavily armored cavalry of the Ming army raised their spears in unison and greeted them head-on.

I could only hear the clanging sound of heavy armor rubbing, and the spear pierced through. The Qing soldiers screamed and fell to the ground one after another.

Duoduo's face changed, and he shouted: "Scatter the formation, take the two wings as the main attack points, and deal with the light cavalry of the Ming army first!"

When the cavalry of the Qing army fought in the field, they always liked to use wide frontal shock tactics. After the formation was dispersed, they relied on their skilled bow and horse skills, and often one cavalry could deal with three enemies.

But soon, Doduo discovered that the light cavalry of the Ming army did not seem to be so easy to deal with, and it was not what it used to be.

The light cavalry of the Ming army was half-armed, and the soldiers were equipped with soft bows, long arrows, fast horses, and light knives.These four weapons are called the four sharp weapons in the book "Wu Bei Zhi" by Mao Yuanyi, a martial artist in the Ming Dynasty.

The military bows of the Ming Dynasty were all horn bows, and most of the horn bows were Kaiyuan bows. The shape of this bow is very peculiar, and it is a bow specially designed for fighting on horseback.

There are hook-shaped extensions at both ends of the bow tip of the Kaiyuan bow, which is also the most typical feature of the Kaiyuan bow.This design is very delicate. On the battlefield, when the two armies are fighting and shooting at each other, the arrows are often scattered all over the ground.If the cavalry ran out of arrows, they could use the hooks at both ends of the bow to hook the arrows from the ground instead of getting off the horse to pick them up.

Using a "soft bow" can make it easier for soldiers to aim, and can also maintain long-term combat effectiveness. For mounted archery, these two points are more important.Because riding and shooting is in motion and bumps, it interferes with aiming and consumes a lot of energy.

Long arrows are used with soft bows. The reason why long arrows are used is to avoid over-drawing the bow and causing the draw length to exceed the arrow length.Once the archer's draw distance exceeds the length of the arrow, the arrow will shrink behind the bow, risking damage to the bow and injury to the hand.

The penetrating power of the soft bows of the Ming army is naturally inferior to that of the hard bows of the Qing army. Fortunately, at this time, the two armies are engaged in close-range hand-to-hand combat, and with the assistance of the musketeers, the damage caused is not inferior to that of the hard bows of the Qing army.

The sword used by the cavalry of the Ming army is called the waist sword, which is a long sword used with one hand.In the late Ming Dynasty, the waist knife combined some styles of Japanese swords, with a slender shape and a slightly curved handle.

This kind of waist knife was first adopted by Qi's army, so later generations also called it Qi's knife.The Qijia knife is well-made, light in shape, and has patterns like flowing water on the blade.

Until the late Qing Dynasty, some people still sighed after getting a Qi Family Knife from the Ming Dynasty, praising the Qi Family Knife as "bright as water and light as paper".

"Light as paper" is of course just a literary exaggeration, but a light knife does have a unique advantage on a horse. It can be swung flexibly with one hand by relying on the strength of the wrist, and it can perform some complex movements on horseback.

Immediate confrontation, the victory or defeat is only in the blink of an eye. Whoever can use the weapon faster has a greater chance of winning. The longer blade allows the waist knife to still have good combat effectiveness even if it is dismounted.

And the fast horse is the key to the light knife's power.Especially in the past two years, whenever the army captured war horses, the best horses were transported to Jining and given priority to Weng Zhiqi's cavalry battalion.

Because of the strict requirements for the horses, Weng Zhiqi only sought refinement but not many, and only formed [-] cavalry in two years.

In fact, strictly speaking, the four sharp weapons "soft bows, long arrows, fast horses, and light knives" do not have any gorgeous special functions, nor do they blindly pursue might or boast of personal martial arts bravery, but these four sharp weapons are all Practical first, pragmatic rather than unrealistic.In fact, this pragmatic spirit is the soul of all war artifacts.

Because of Weng Zhiqi's pragmatic spirit, in just two years, the Ming army's light cavalry combat capabilities have undergone earth-shaking changes.

It didn't take long for the two sides to fight each other, and Duo Duo realized that the fighting power of the Ming army's cavalry was extraordinary, and he was beating drums in his heart: "Damn it, when did the Ming army have such a powerful cavalry?"

And Li Cunming, who stood on the hill watching the battle, had an insight into the extraordinary fighting power of his own cavalry, and sincerely praised: "Well, Weng Zhiqi is really my parachutist, and he will become Wei Qing of my Ming Dynasty and Huo Qubing in the future." !"

Gong Yonggu also breathed a sigh of relief, and said confidently: "Your Majesty, I don't think there is any need for other arms to fight. Duoduo will definitely be defeated by General Weng."

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The two sides rushed back and forth for many rounds, and the battle reached a fierce stage.

Thousands of horses are galloping in the valley, the ground is covered with horseshoe marks, mud is splashed, and small stones on the hills are shaking and rolling down.The mountains are covered with heavy snow, and the battle is in full swing.

The two sides were already entangled in one place, inseparable. Whether it was the Ming army or the Qing army, they all abandoned their bows, arrows and spears, brandishing knives and fighting hand-to-hand. Many people even got off their horses and fought on foot.

The Qing army marched long distances throughout the day and fought hard in the valley all night, reaching the limit of their physical strength.The Ming army was full of physical strength, became more and more courageous as they fought, and gradually gained the upper hand.

Since Yan Yingyuan went to the battlefield, he was full of hatred, and he fought desperately.He was stabbed twice, one on his right arm and one on his back, his body was covered in blood.

But Yan Yingyuan didn't feel the pain at all, he chopped down a Qing soldier who was running in front of him, held the knife and took a few breaths for a while, the hot air from his mouth was steaming.

When the battle reached the most critical moment, Yan Yingyuan gritted his teeth and persisted.He looked around, through the flurry of flying snow, through the swaying figure, suddenly saw Duo Duo.

"You dog thief, I will make you pay for your life today!" Yan Yingyuan roared angrily, and drove his horse towards Duoduo.

Duoduo was entangled with two Ming soldiers in front of him. He had just swung the knife from one of them and killed the other, but he felt the cold wind coming from behind him. In the belly of the horse, the war horse leaped forward one meter away, narrowly dodging Yan Yingyuan's knife.

Yan Yingyuan was a little impatient when he missed a hit, so he slapped the horse's butt a few times with a knife.The blade scratched the horse, and the horse neighed, raised its hooves and galloped forward.

Seeing that he was about to pass by Duo Duo, Yan Yingyuan didn't care about so many things, so he jumped off the horse and hugged Duo Duo.The two fell to the ground at the same time, hugging each other and rolling.

All the strength in Yan Yingyuan's body burst out, and the iron arm never loosened even an inch, while Duoduo was pressed under him, the knife in his hand fell, and he raised his leg and slammed into Yan Yingyuan's body in horror.

Yan Yingyuan vomited blood, and the blood sprayed Duoduo's face.His eyes were bloodshot, and with a frightening smile on his face, he shouted, "Do you know who I am? I am Yan Yingyuan! I want to avenge the 17 people in Liaocheng. My two good brothers take revenge..."

While screaming, he lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite Dodo's ear.

Doduo screamed, the pain was so painful that he saw that the person pressing on him was like a demon, with blood dripping from his mouth and biting half of his ear.

Duduo was scared, frightened, and his soul was trembling!

At this moment, the Ming army suddenly cheered: "We won, we won, the Tartar cavalry were all wiped out..."

There was a buzzing sound in Doduo's head, and his arrogance disappeared. The Manchu Qing cavalry he was proud of was defeated by the Ming army cavalry. This kind of blow could not be repeated, and he passed out in a panic attack. .

Weng Zhiqi ran over, pulled Yan Yingyuan up, hugged him tightly and said, "Governor Yan, we won!"

Yan Yingyuan spat out half of his ear, burst into tears in an instant, and muttered to himself: "I won, I won..."

The cheers of the Ming army resounded throughout the valley. Li Cunming stood in the strong wind, holding the hilt of his sword with one hand and leaning over to look at the corpses on the ground.

He was looking for Duoduo, and said in his mouth: "The Manchu Qing cavalry is invincible? Huh, who is invincible in the world, haha, how lonely invincible is!"

(End of this chapter)