Duolong, the first warrior in Manchuria, was by no means a fool. He was a strategist who was familiar with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and was very clever in battle.

While leading the charge, he was observing the movements of the Ming army's artillery soldiers in front. Seeing that they quickly formed a team and reloaded their ammunition quickly, he knew that they could not rush forward forcefully.

This group of fire gun soldiers is weird inside and out. Not only can they bring their opponents closer to hit them, but they can also fight hand-to-hand. Their hand-to-hand fighting skills seem to be quite good!

Wu Sangui's Guan Ningjun is not necessarily stronger than them. They dare to fight and fight! Does Guan Ningjun dare?

This group of fire gun soldiers is a bit similar to the bandits that Yi Yishi met... The only thing he didn't know was Silly Nikan who didn't know how to be afraid of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers!

So Duolong immediately changed his strategy, instead of charging hard, he switched to riding and shooting!

The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners were skilled with bows and horses. Not only could they charge and fight hand-to-hand, they could also enjoy mounted archery like the Mongols, and their level of mounted archery was not inferior to that of the Mongols.

So Duolong put away his spear on horseback (the carbine can be carried on his back), replaced it with a riding bow, then pulled the reins, and started to turn forty or fifty steps in front of the Ming Army's gunnery formation, heading towards the Ming Army's formation.

The right wing flew away.

After completing the turn, Duolong took off the rein with both hands and controlled the horse with his legs. At the same time, he took out the feather arrow from the cowhide quiver, attached a horn-headed arrow (relatively light, used for long-range shooting) and shot it out. The arrowhead was in the air.

Drawing an arc, he fell into the queue of the Ming army's artillery soldiers, hitting the target without hesitation.

However, the Fire Gun Soldier who was shot by an arrow did not suffer any damage and still stood there fine.

This is because the fire gunners under Hao Yaoqi's command are all covered with armor, and the light arrows have insufficient armor-piercing capabilities and are difficult to cause damage unless they directly hit a part not covered by armor.

After Duolong turned and shot the feather arrows, the Manchu cavalry following him also turned their horses around, opened their bows and fired arrows. Hundreds of feather arrows were shot out. Although the distance was far away and they were shot from horseback, they were absolutely

Most of them fell into the Ming army's artillery formation, immediately causing twenty or thirty casualties.

Bang!

Hao Yaoqi also sounded the gong after discovering that the Eight Banners soldiers switched to mounted shooting. Almost a thousand firecrackers (hundreds of which had not been loaded) were fired at the same time. Suddenly, projectiles were flying and smoke filled the air.

There were immediate casualties on the Eight Banners soldiers side. More than a dozen warriors were hit by bullets and fell from their horses. A similar number of war horses were hit by projectiles and fell to the ground mournfully. The Eight Banners warriors riding on them also suffered bruises and swollen faces.

Several warriors were trampled by horses running nearby, and they either died tragically or were seriously injured!

The first round of confrontation between fire cannons and horse archers ended quickly. If you just look at the number of casualties, it would be difficult to tell the winner. But the "injury" of being hit by a fire cannon and the "injury" of being hit by an arrowhead are completely different concepts.

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The former is seriously injured and has a low probability of survival. He will most likely die due to inflammation and ulceration of the wound. The latter only needs to take out the arrowhead and clean the wound. There is basically no danger. After a month or two, he will be a good officer and soldier of Prince Zhu again.

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In addition, the time required to train a Fire Gun Soldier is much shorter than making an Eight Banners Warrior.

Even if you start training as a new recruit, a few months to a year is enough to train a Fire Gun soldier.

And it takes at least 20 years to make an Eight Banners warrior!

If the Ming army in history could correctly use turtle-dove-footed muskets and red barbarian cannons, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers would have no chance of ruling China.

Duolon, the first warrior in Manchuria, was not shot, and could continue to lead a group of Tatars born around 1620 and start flying around the Ming army's formation.

Hao Yaoqi's gunmen could not form a hollow square formation, so their two wings had to be covered by pikemen, and their rear was covered by Hetan and the cavalry commanded by Wu Sanfu himself.

So Duolong quickly rushed to the right wing of the Ming army. Arranged here were more than 1,000 people from the Chinese Leftist Association commanded by Qu Huajie.

Qu Huajie is an old subordinate of Wu Xiang and a member of the Ningyuan Guards. His ancestors followed Xu Da in the Northern Expedition to Yan. He has a family lineage of thousands of families. He himself has been fighting in the Guan Ning army for nearly twenty years.

He didn't do well in life. He only got the title of Qianzong when he was thirty-four or five years old. He was obviously a man whose legs weakened when he saw Tatars.

However, he still has very rich combat experience, so he has already seen that Duolon and the others are "fake Tatars" - they must be the Tatar Han army, otherwise how could they be so weak? The cavalry was beaten to pieces by the fire gun soldiers.

How could it be a real Tatar?

So when he saw the first warrior of Manchuria roaring towards him with his cavalry, Qu Huajie, who was fat, black and thick, almost like a big bear, didn't panic at all and started laughing.

"They are fake Tatars! Brothers, don't be afraid, they are all fake Tatars! They are all the dogs of the Third Mine! They are all eggless cowards..."

The backbone of the association he commanded were all the cavalry of the Guan Ning Army brought by Wu Guoyong. They had fought with the Qing soldiers for a long time. Naturally, they knew that there were real and fake Tatars. Among them, the real Tatars from Manchuria were the most powerful, and the Mongolian Tatars were worse.

The traitors and fake Tatars are much weaker than the elite Guan Ning.

But the group of Tatars in front of them were beaten violently by the fire rifle soldiers who were born as rogues, so Fatty Qu was right, they were obviously fake Tatars!

Since he is a fake Tatar, what is there to be afraid of?

"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated!"

Immediately some officials started shouting loudly.

"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng..."

Then the soldiers responded in unison.

As the slogans rang out, murderous intent also soared. More than a thousand spearmen, sword soldiers, and archers were all so murderous that they startled one of the best warriors in Manchuria.

Are these people really Nikan? Why are they not afraid of the Manchu warriors? Is it possible that Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, did not reincarnate alone, but brought with him the powerful iron army of the early Ming Dynasty?

Although he was frightened, the Manchurian warrior still had the courage to play horseback shooting - the number one warrior in Manchuria, he couldn't let Nikan scare him away!

But the cavalry and archery skills of the Manchu warriors are not cheap from Fatty Qu. The cavalrymen from Ningyuan under Fatty Qu are all elites who are "prepared for three battles", that is, warriors who master the three combat skills of spear, sword, and bow and arrow at the same time.

Now that they saw the fake Tatars playing horseback archery, they immediately made adjustments and stepped forward with their swords. Some of the pikemen with bows and arrows dropped their spears, took out their bows and arrows, and started shooting with the archers.

As long as the foot archers really know how to shoot, there is actually no disadvantage for the foot archers against the mounted archers. The arrows from both sides came and went, knocking down twenty or thirty people. In terms of exchange, Fatty Qu didn't suffer at all!

He is indeed a fake Tatar!

Nikan here is not normal...

When the first warrior of Manchuria and his cavalry had just rushed to the bank of the Wei River, there were suddenly several roars in his ears that shook the mountains.

Boom boom boom boom...

Immediately afterwards there was a neighing sound - this was the whine of an injured or frightened war horse!

Hongyi cannon! It shoots so accurately...

Duolong looked forward along the place where the roar sounded, and immediately understood what was going on - there were two large ships with their prows facing him stranded on the tidal flats of the Wei River. The two large ships must have been equipped with red boats.

Yi cannon!

"Withdraw! Withdraw..." Duolong knew that he had lost the battle for a while. He had suffered dozens of casualties before being bombarded. He didn't know how many warriors had just been shot down by the enemy's artillery? I'm afraid not.

There will be less than ten people, right?

We have lost this battle and must go back and reorganize.

"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated... Ten thousand victories! Ten thousand victories!"

Seeing the Tatar cavalry retreating, cheers sounded like a tsunami in front of the Ming army's formation. Then, the entire formation began to move forward slowly.

Seeing this scene, Geng Zhongming and his Zhenghuang Banner Han army were frightened to death. They knew that Duolong was leading real Tatars! More than 400 people were killed and injured in two attacks! There were people lying down everywhere on the battlefield.

Tatar soldiers and war horses, while the Ming army suffered minimal losses... Such an exchange ratio has never appeared since the rise of Nurhaci!

What does this mean? This means that "the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao" is probably true!

It must be that stupid emperor in Chongzhen who was such a bastard that he was so angry that Zhu Yuanzhang was reincarnated and became the Ming Prince...

These traitors from the Zhenghuang Banner were not very powerful to begin with, and they had to rely on the real Manchuria to hold the battle line before they had the courage to charge forward. Now that all the real Manchuria were dead, what courage did they have? Every one of them was trembling.

At this moment, the west gate of Dagukou City was suddenly opened, and then a large group of Ming troops were seen lining up from inside, and everyone was eager to try!

The heads of Tatars are worth a lot of money! If you can really chop them to death, can you still kill them if they are fake? What are the Tatars outside the city of Dagukou now? They are clearly money, farmsteads in the south of the Yangtze River, and official hats!
Chapter completed!