Nurhachi was in the east of Shenyang City. Seeing that the Ming army could persist to this point, he sighed: "He Shixian is brave and has no plans, so there is nothing to fear... You Shigong is low-key and capable, so he is a big worry for me!"
Dorgon and Duduo followed him and saw that Shenyang City was firmly defended, and then the Jin soldiers and horses had no other way to attack the city except traitors, climbing walls, and digging into the city. This left a huge impact on their young hearts.
"We must get a weapon to destroy the city in the future, especially the big bronze cannon on the top of the city!"
Nurhachi glanced at the two red flags and the white flag that were temporarily resting, and prepared to devote the final force to capture Shenyang in one go.
Suddenly, An Feiyanggu, one of the five ministers, rushed from the south.
"Great Khan! The Southern Army Zhou Dunji's troops have crossed the Hun River. Da Beile has ordered his light cavalry to raid the Southern Army across the river!"
"Hmph! Daishan doesn't know that Xianglan Banner can't defeat Zhou Dunji's tribe! Can he win with his light cavalry?"
Old Boar Skin immediately discovered the problem.
"Let the two red flags go up together and be sure to stop Zhou Dunji!"
"嗻!"
He arranged for Daishan to ambush He Shixian, and after a period of pursuit, he went to keep an eye on the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements.
I was afraid that Zhou Dunji would be rescued quickly, but now the worst case scenario has happened.
Nurhachi, who had been fighting for decades, suddenly became extremely solemn.
"I have been on the battlefield for decades and have experienced countless fierce battles that are more dangerous than this. Today, I only want to destroy Hupi Post, Fengji Fort, kill He Shixian, and Shenyang is about to be conquered. How can I give up halfway!
The soldiers of the Seven Banners gathered together to work together! At this time, retreating would be discouraged, and the Ming army still restored the guard of Shenyang!
Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed! Anyone who dares not to try his best will be killed!
After three drums, this Khan will personally go to the city to kill the enemy! Anyone from my clan in the east of the city who falls behind this Khan will be killed!"
“嗻!!!”
The order of three kills was immediately passed down.
The two yellow flags and the white flags swarmed directly up. Those with ladders climbed up ladders, and those without ladders piled on the human wall. The momentum was extremely huge.
The Ming army was stretched thin, and the Mongolian soldiers in the city heard the sound of war drums and shouts, and launched a fierce attack to the east of the city at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, the savage Jurchen climbed up the north wall with her bare hands like a wild beast.
Du Du's white flag, taking advantage of the lack of troops in the south, climbed up the ladder directly.
Only the eastern part of the city was left tightly surrounded. Under the leadership of General Xia Guoqing, they fought desperately and never surrendered.
Fei Yingdong, the leader of the five ministers, was old and sick, and his martial prowess was far less than what he had been before, but he still had the ability to shoot arrows. He aimed an arrow at Xia Guoqing, who was shouting.
"ah!"
The guard general Xia Guoqing was hit by an arrow and fell off the city wall. The Ming army in the east of the city was finally defeated.
Although there was only Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner in the west of the city, when they heard the sound of war drums, they all launched an attack on the city.
...
"kill!"
After Wang Hongyu's troops repelled the cavalry with red flags, they made a slight adjustment and headed northeast to rescue Shenyang.
When approaching the two red flags of Jiannu, the spear phalanx suddenly changed from standing still to trotting forward.
"All veterans in the world are heroes! I have never been afraid of anyone with a spear in my hand!"
Singing war songs loudly, Wang Hongyu, Qin Bangping, and Qin Minping led 3,000 spearmen forward.
Zhou Dunji, Ran Yuelong, Lei Anmin and other 3,000 people stood on the north bank of the Hun River.
The white-stemmed spears advanced slowly like a forest. Jiannu could not get up close in hand-to-hand combat, and could not break armor with long-range shots. Only twenty-step close-range shots could achieve significant damage.
However, there are many three-eyed gunmen in the spear phalanx. It is not easy to knock down the Jiannu archers in twenty steps.
Setting up a red flag, fighting and retreating at the same time cannot stop the spear phalanx from advancing southwest of Shenyang.
Later, Daishan saw it clearly. He was very anxious at first and sighed that it was indeed the Confederate army that had lost two battles and had a blue flag.
But after observing for a while, he laughed again.
Yue Tuo asked: "Why is father laughing?"
Dai Shan pointed to the formation of the Confederate army and said: "I laugh at Zhou Dunji's lack of intelligence and Wang Hongyu's recklessness! You see that the army's formation is disconnected from the front and back, and our army can surround it and annihilate it!"
Yue Tuo observed carefully and found that after the Ming army had won the defense, the spear phalanx attacked, while the crossbowmen and sword and shield soldiers on both sides stopped in place and did not follow up.
Although the spear phalanx is brave, according to experience, it is most powerful head-on. Once it is flanked or surrounded, it can be easily eliminated!
"Father! We can surround and destroy him!"
"Yes, but be careful of those Ming troops staying by the river. They are staying in place to cover the subsequent Ming troops crossing the river, so move quickly. If the situation goes bad, follow my orders and retreat immediately!"
"嗻!"
Dai Shan personally led more than 6,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhenghong Banner, constantly harassing the spear phalanx from the front.
Yue Tuo brought three armored men with red flags, and a total of 4,500 people surrounded him from the side.
The remaining remnant troops with red flags stared at the remaining Ming troops north of the Hunhe River. For a time, the two red flag troops of Jiannu and others came together, and the momentum of Mount Tai's pressure was very scary.
The spear phalanx was immediately surrounded by Jiannu who were marching very fast, with red flags on the sides and back.
Yue Tuo rushed forward in person, thinking that those six-meter spears would be inconvenient to turn around, and he would be able to stab the Ming army in the butt from behind~
But when I got behind the square formation, I was dumbfounded~
The Ming army's spear phalanx was like a hedgehog, with spearmen at the front, rear, left and right facing the enemy.
Just now on the north bank of the Hun River, the formation was six rows of spears, with all the Ming troops facing south and north.
Now, the Ming army is in a square formation. On each side of the square, there are three rows of spearmen, and everyone faces outside the square.
The inside of the square is hollow, with Wang Hongyu and others directing and dispatching in the middle, and there are also tiger crouching cannons that shoot in a straight direction, shooting towards the outside.
"I've never seen this kind of hedgehog formation... No matter how many there are, just kill them!"
Xianghongqi roared towards the phalanx and bumped into it again.
This time there were only three rows of spears, and the front row was not squatting but standing normally. The momentum was much different from the six rows where there were people crouching and others raising their heads above their heads.
If you don’t believe it, you can’t break it!
"They're dead!"
Zhenghongqi, who was still being suppressed at first, suddenly became brave and brave, and despite heavy casualties, he broke into the spear phalanx with his heavy armor.
The spears in the first row were stretched out so long that they looked dull from a distance and seemed very clumsy, but they could be avoided by just dodging when they were thrust at them.
When I got closer, I found that the first row of Ming soldiers were just holding their heads up, motionless, and there was no threat at all~
"superior!"
The daring Jiannu took the ax and knife in his hand and reached under the tip of the spear, trying to lift the spear up, and then rushed forward to kill them while there was no gap.
As soon as he stretched his weapon down, he saw the Ming army on the opposite side showing excitement and running forward with their spears raised.
"puff!"
The weapon was stretched out and he was still twitching. He didn't even have a chance to block, and he was shot through a hole.
"We are not clay sculptures. If you interfere with the barrel of the gun, we will not rush forward, right?"
These white pole soldiers and Sichuan army spearmen have long been trained in various ways to kill the enemy. When encountering such a situation, instead of thrusting their spears, they rush forward and stab at the same time, ensuring that the enemy has no time to dodge.
Moreover, they cooperated tacitly, and even after stabbing one person, they did not pursue him. Under the cover of the spears of their comrades behind them, they took a few steps back to regain their formation.
Some of the slaves wanted to take the opportunity to fight and take advantage of short weapons, but in the end they had no chance.
Another person reached out to grab the gun barrel, but it was still slippery because it was oiled and stained with blood, and he was instantly stabbed to the ground.
The three rows of spears were like waves. A wave shot out, stabbed a group of slaves, and then went back, as if the waves had calmed down again.
This is the hollow wave spear phalanx trained by Wang Hongyu by combining the original hand-to-hand combat formation of the white pole soldiers with the Spanish spear phalanx.
The beating made the slave builders fall on their backs.