Chapter 483 The war that came to an abrupt end
After the troops from Shaanxi Town, Gansu Town and other roadside towns pressed forward and made room, Huang Zhen, the Yongwei Battalion General, lined up from the right wing rear, then turned west and headed towards the Qing army's left wing middle army, which was fiercely fighting with Xuan Dabing.
In order to ensure the final victory of this war outside the pass, the Ministry of War, in accordance with Zhu Youjian's decree, transferred most of the Yongwei Camp Zhang Kui and Huang Zhen's troops stationed in Shanhaiguan out of the pass, leaving only 1,500 people guarding the pass.
Huang Zhen, who was riding on the horse, led his troops to turn around and walk westward. He saw the Qing army flags flying in the distance, and smoke and dust were everywhere. Not too much, the large number of Qing army left the middle brigade and turned towards the Ming army he led. The specific number should be no less than his men and horses. The distance was two miles away, and there was no horse team.
"Stop! The whole team!"
Huang Zhen shouted loudly, and the personal soldiers beside him blew the trumpet. As the front row of soldiers stopped, the entire brigade also stopped the formation.
"Check the ammunition! Ignite the fuse!"
A sound rang out, and the soldiers completed the contents of the daily drill step by step in a very short period of time.
"Enter!"
Huang Zhen gave a loud order and then jumped off the horse.
He had long heard of the power of the Qing army's archers. Once both sides join the formation, he would be the best target when he rode on the horse.
The distance between the two miles was coming in a short time for the two armies traveling against each other. After dozens of breaths, the two sides stopped about one mile apart and began to form their own teams, preparing to launch an attack.
The first to start the attack was the Yongwei Battalion. The two thousand gunmen in the middle formed a five-layer square formation with 400 people in a row. They walked towards the Qing army under the protection of spearmen on both sides, with swords and shields. Grenadiers and Tigers [ Update Fast] The squatting gunners followed closely behind the gunmen square formation.
The five thousand Qing troops who came to intercept the enemy still adopted an unchanging formation: more than 30 shield cars were in front, with a few heavy armored infantry following behind the 500 archers, followed by a large group of infantry wearing cotton armor.
The main reason why the Qing army has not used the horse team until now is that more than 10,000 Guanning cavalry brought them tremendous pressure.
Because when he followed Yuetuo, Dorgon and others to go south, the Eight Mongolian Banners suffered heavy injuries during continuous combat, and the number of cavalry was greatly reduced. Facing the threat of Guanning cavalry that was almost fully dispatched, the Qing army's flags had to dispatch their respective cavalry to the two wings to confront the Guanning cavalry, which made the main battlefield on the front basically all become infantry. Even so, the number of cavalry was still thousands of cavalry worse than that of Guanning cavalry.
Seeing the Qing army's coats pushing the shield cart, Huang Zhen gave the order, twenty of the fifty grenadiers came out, and walked forward along the passage between the spearman and the gunman. The sky-shaking thunder and the fire-burning fuse in each of them were ready.
When the shield chariots pushed by the coats were about fifty steps away from the Ming army, they were about to put down the car and run back, twenty grenadiers rushed out holding the ignited thunder. Before Baoyi and the Qing army archers following behind, the grenadiers rushed forward quickly to the 20 or 30 steps of the shield chariot. Then they all leaned back, and their waists and arms were exerting force while their bodies were leaning back, and their bodies were suddenly leaning forward. One by one, with sparks and blue smoke, one by one, flew towards Baoyi and Qing army, who had not yet reacted.
Immediately afterwards, before the first wave of thunder fell, twenty grenadiers quickly took off another thunder from their waists, threw it out again in the explosion of the first wave of thunder, and then turned around and ran back to the formation.
All of this was done in more than ten days. Before the coats and the Qing army archers holding the bows had already figured out, two forty waves of thunders had already exploded in the crowd and the shield chariots. Within a radius of dozens of feet, they were wrapped in dust and smoke. The limbs and arms were broken in the range, and blood and flesh flew across the body. The shield chariots were also broken and shattered and tilted to one side, losing the function of protecting the Qing army archers.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the Qing army and its vision was blocked, the Ming army's gunmen phalanx quickly moved forward twenty steps. The front row of gunmen fired up the muskets in their hands and evacuated to both sides. The back row followed and fired quickly. Within more than twenty days, all five rows of gunmen were fired.
Except for a few dumb fire guns, nearly two thousand guns baptized targets within seventy steps like heavy rain. A breeze blew, and the smoke disappeared. In people's sight, there was no standing creature within the entire shooting and explosion range. Only a few intact shield cars stood alone.
The Qing army archers who followed the Baoyi shield chariot were devastatingly hit. One out of ten of the five hundred archers remained, and none of them were spared. Before the Qing army's offensive had begun, they died on the spot under the sudden attack of the Ming army.
Not far behind the archer, the heavy armored infantry of the Qing army was at a loss when they looked at the scene in front of them.
Without the suppression and support of the archers on the Ming army, coupled with the corpses and wreckage of shield vehicles on the path ahead, they had no way to attack for a while.
At this time, the Qin army on the left wing of the Ming army and the Beijing camp team also gained considerable advantages in the battle against the two red flags.
Although the formation of archers of the two red flags caused considerable casualties to the Qin army, the tenacious Qin army gunmen braved the rain of arrows and launched a barrage with the Qing army fifty steps in front of the Qing army infantry taking advantage of the situation to advance. Under the three-stage attacks, more than a thousand Qing army infantry were shot to the ground until the Qing army stopped attacking Fangzhan in fear.
The progress of the middle road car camp was hindered.
The three-layer artillery array piled up by the Qing army effectively blocked the direction of the chariot camp. Under the cover of the Furang machine cannon, the swords, shields and spearmen of the chariot camp had to do the demolition work, which allowed the two yellow flags, which had not been damaged, to calmly retreat a few miles back.
The border troops of Shaanxi Town and other departments still had traditional fighting styles when facing the enemy. They mobilized the archers of each town to shoot against the Qing army, and then used the shield to use a large shield to resist the Qing army's armored soldiers, while the spearmen stabbed behind the shield.
As the battle formation spread, hundreds of cavalry soldiers under the generals of each town were unable to ride horses and could only wait for Shangguan's orders in the rear so that they could rush to and kill at the right opportunity.
As for the two armies and cavalry at the farthest end of both sides of the battlefield, because they had their own concerns, although the horses gathered, both sides sent small groups of cavalry to fight and did not launch such large-scale hedging.
The Qing army's cavalry was less than the Guanning cavalry, for fear that the casualties would be too great after the hedge, and the Zu Dashou side was reluctant to let the men who had worked hard to be killed or injured. The two convenient maintained a short-term peace under such a state of different thoughts.
As the battle between the two sides gradually unfolded, the sky gradually darkened. Before we knew it, time had reached the hour and hour of the afternoon.
At this moment, the Qing army suddenly sounded a long horn sound. The riders sent from the two yellow flags from the middle road ran to the sides while blew the horns in their hands.
After hearing the sound of the horn, the Qing army from all walks of life retreated one after another when there was enough distance between them and the Ming army.
Sun Chuanting, who observed this situation on the cart, immediately issued an order: the entire army suspended the attack and did not advance to pursue the retreating Qing army, and allowed the other party to withdraw.
Chapter completed!