Chapter 127: Keeping people and losing land, everyone and land are saved!
"Shoo, shoot, shoot!"
Jiannu saw that he could not break the spear array with hand-to-hand combat, so he continued to fire arrows at the phalanx.
Bows and arrows are the best against spear phalanx.
They were thinking in their hearts, those super long spears without shields, standing in such a dense formation, unable to dodge left and right, wouldn't they be living targets in front of their own shooting skills?
But they were wrong.
The effectiveness of the spear phalanx was greatly underestimated.
The infantry in the square formation are close to each other, completely blocking the side weaknesses that lack armor protection and weapon blocking.
The phalanx infantry all wore armor and helmets. Yuan Yingtai was not greedy at all and paid the most attention to logistics. These equipments were not available to the Saarhu Ming army.
Everyone had long been prepared to defend themselves against arrows.
Jian Nu was attacked by random arrows fifty steps away.
Every arrow still hits the front and cannot hit the unarmored positions on the sides. In addition, the Confederate Army has long been trained to protect key positions, so the killing effect is relatively limited for the time being.
"Boom boom boom!"
The tiger's crouching cannon fired straight at Jiannu from above his head.
This kind of artillery was invented and popularized by Qi Jiguang. Its prototype was first used by the frontier army. Before the improvement, it had various names, including the Three Generals Tassel Cannon, Tiger Venom Cannon, etc. Qi Jiguang led troops to fight against the Japanese, and he continued to improve in actual combat, and finally had
The Tiger Crouching Cannon commonly used in the Ming Dynasty.
Its shining point is not actually its power, but its ease of portability and deflection.
Weighing only 36 kilograms, it is not only easy to transport, but also suitable for combat areas such as mountains, forests, and paddy fields that hinder the mobility of cannons. It has two iron claws to hold the cannon head up, and it can shoot straight into the sky when shooting, so that it can bombard the enemy over its own military formation.
square.
Now it is time to pass over the top of the phalanx and directly blast the archers of Jiannu.
"Bang bang bang!"
The three-eyed gun exploded, and the effect was outstanding within fifty steps.
Although this kind of weapon is relatively simple and primitive, when placed in a square formation of spears, it can exactly protect the spearmen. As long as the enemy is not far away, they will be hit by continuous firepower from the three-eyed gun.
Waves of gunpowder smoke floated up, blowing in the north wind, and the red flag behind them temporarily lost sight of the target.
"Damn it! Keep your eyes wide open!" Yue Tuo is full of blood and will fight to the death even if the situation is unfavorable.
Being so disturbed by the smoke and having some superiors, he didn't notice Daishan waving a flag for him to retreat.
"Dudu!"
A horn sounded from behind.
The Ming army that had been guarding the north of the Hun River Floating Bridge just now came from behind.
"Zhuangzhi is hungry for Hulu meat!"
The sword and shield soldiers roared and charged, and the crossbowmen fired a volley like the wind when they reached 50 steps.
Zhou Dunji directed them to attack the flank of Xianghongqi. Ran Yuelong, Lei Anmin and others led the Youyang soldiers, whose hand-to-hand combat ability was already superior to that of Jiannu. Under this opportunity, Xianghongqi was defeated steadily.
Yue Tuo hurriedly led his army to retreat, but was defeated under the attack.
After escaping, he saw Dai Shanzao leading Zheng Hongqi to retreat to a safe location.
The messenger sent by Daishan to notify him had just arrived, and he was so angry that he cursed: "Why are you reminded so slowly!"
He originally had a grudge because Daishan liked his stepmother, disliked himself and his younger brother, and suffered mistreatment. If Nurhaci hadn't personally asked him to separate his brother Shuotuo and Daishan, they would have been in trouble long ago.
Now the hatred has been added to the story. Daishan retreated on his own, but did not notify him in time!
An inspection of the troops and horses with red flags revealed that the number of troops was reduced by more than 500, and the number of wounded was also over 500.
For a time, the morale of the red flags was greatly reduced, and they retreated 10 miles to take a temporary rest. No matter how Daishan asked them to attack the Ming army from a flank, they decisively refused on the grounds that Daishan was cheating people.
The Ming army defeated Xianghongqi and was so frightened that Zhenghongqi Daishan did not dare to fight alone.
Subsequently, Chen Ce, Tong Zhongkui and others also marched to the south bank of the Hun River.
According to the arranged battle plan, the Zhejiang troops were still strictly guarding the south bank of the Hun River, while the Sichuan and Guang troops were crossing the river to take over from Zhou Dunji's troops to guard the north bank of the Hun River.
Wang Hongyu and others led the spear phalanx in front, Zhou Dunji and others led the chieftain soldiers closely behind, Chen Ce and others led thousands of soldiers and horses to guard the north bank, and Qi Jin and others set up guns and cannons in Henan.
The layout is orderly and coordinated from front to back. Although there is a risk of being divided and attacked by the enemy, the battlefield is changing rapidly and the four banners of Jiannu are attacking the city with all their strength. It is impossible to divide the troops to deal with the Southern Army.
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You Shigong knew that the east wall of Shenyang had fallen, and a large number of Huangqi slaves had come along the wall.
There was also chaos in the city.
Tens of thousands of people who still supported the Ming Dynasty gathered in the west of the city, praying that the Ming army could defeat the Jiannu and protect them, or simply open the west gate and everyone could break out and escape.
However, Zhenglan Banner's offensive in the west of the city was fierce.
"Siege the city! Attack with all your strength!"
Mang Gurtai shouted loudly, and 4,000 of his soldiers and horses went into attacking the city. The city gate was also blocked by two Niulu and 600 people, and a thousand of the most elite Bagala guards were guarding him.
The western part of the city was captured in just a moment.
Just when the slaves of Zhenglan Banner climbed up the city wall and were about to defeat You Shigong's servants, the horns of the Confederate Army sounded, and Wang Hongyu's troops rushed outside Shenyang City.
"Reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming!"
The Ming army on the west wall was greatly inspired and used all their strength to resist Jiannu. The situation that was originally bound to lose turned into a stalemate.
Mang Gurtai looked back and saw that Zhenghongqi, who had a huge force, did not dare to attack the spear phalanx of only 3,000 people at close range. He also did not dare to get close to shoot arrows. He just threw them from a hundred steps away, which had no lethality at all.
"You bastard Daishan! You are trying to harm me on purpose!"
Mang Gurtai basically broke up with him because of his biological mother's affair with Daishan. The two sides were already deeply conflicted, and now they are even more resentful!
In desperation, they had no choice but to throw in the elite troops of Zhenglan Banner to continue the attack on the city. This reinforcement must not be allowed to enter the city.
But Wang Hongyu didn’t want to enter the city at all~
The spear phalanx broke out between the red flag and the blue flag and approached the southwest corner of the Shenyang city wall.
You Shigong hurried to the southwest corner, wanting to communicate with the reinforcements and attack Zhenglan Banner first to eliminate the threat in the west of the city.
But he was dumbfounded when he arrived.
"Only...there are only so many reinforcements..."
Seeing that there were only 3,000 reinforcements, and there were two banners of Jiannu outside the city with more than 10,000 people, the initial excitement suddenly subsided.
"General Soldier You, I am Wang Hongyu!"
After hearing the call, he was still stunned and did not answer.
Although I knew that Wang Hongyu was very powerful, he had just been promoted to guerrilla and had very few troops under his command... Those generals and generals would not be able to defeat the Nurhachi Eight Banners without seven or eight generals.
"Save the land and lose the people, and everyone and the land will be lost! Save the people and lose the land, and both the people and the land will survive!"
Wang Hongyu shouted this sentence with his loudest voice.
After You Shigong heard this, he was still stunned, but his heart was like a turbulent wave, and he suddenly felt like he was enlightened.
Save the land and lose the people, everyone and the land will be lost! Save the people and lose the land, everyone and the land will survive!
These sixteen words suddenly awakened him. At this time, the city was in chaos. The east part of the city had been lost, and the west part of the city was about to fall.
If you continue to fight to the death, you will definitely die.
Although as the guard of Shenyang, he should live and die with the city...