On a small slope on the other side of the Yellow River.
Li Zicheng, along with Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Zuo Maodi, Liu Zongmin and other civil and military officials, were climbing high to watch the battle.
However, in addition to the civil servants and generals of Dashun, there was also a big man wearing a Mongolian leather robe next to Li Zicheng, who seemed out of place with the civil and military officials of Dashun around him.
This Mongolian man is the second brother of Batur Hutaiji, the leader of the Junggar tribe, Choros Chechen.
The Choros family is also an ancient family in Mongolia. It is almost as famous as the Golden family. There have been a large number of powerful figures in history, such as Mahamu, Ye Xian, Tuo Huan, etc.
Although this Chechen is very young, he is also a powerful person.
This time, under the orders of Baturhui, he led 3,000 camel cavalry to form an alliance with the Dashun Congress. Firstly, it was to defeat the slaves who coveted the throne of the Mongolian Communist Party. Secondly, it was to spy on the reality of Dashun and make preparations for the future use of troops.
Be prepared.
Obviously, Baturhun's mind is still very clear and he knows that Dashun will become a threat to Junggar in the future.
Of course, for the Junggar tribe at this stage, getting rid of the rule of the Oirat leader Guoshi Khan is the top priority.
By the way, in another world line, the leader of the Oirat Alliance, the National Advisor Khan, had already submitted a petition to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
However, instead of offering homage to the Manchus, the Khan of this world wanted to compete with the Manchus for the title of co-leader of Mongolia. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Junggar to send 3,000 camel cavalry to join the alliance.
Taiji Baturhun of the Junggar tribe also wanted to take the opportunity to expand his influence, so he readily agreed to send troops.
However, even Baturhun himself did not expect that the 800 camel revolving guns he asked Chechnya to bring to Hetao to participate in the battle would have such a big impact on the war situation.
When he saw Jiannu's front team suffering heavy casualties under the barrage of eight hundred camel cannons, and then turning around and fleeing, even overwhelming Jiannu's rear team, Li Zicheng was shocked beyond words.
Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Liu Zongmin and other Dashun civil and military officers were also shocked and remained silent for a long time.
It turns out that cannons are used in field battles and are so sharp?
The top brass of Dashun Army felt that their understanding of field battles had been refreshed.
When the Dashun Army fought against the Ming Army and Jiannu before, it was not like they had never encountered artillery.
Even the Dashun Army imitated many cannons, but their effects seemed to be very limited.
The main reason is that it is too bulky and extremely inconvenient to move. It is just fine for siege, but not enough for field battles.
Because the enemy is not blind, let alone stupid, he will rush forward stupidly after seeing your cannon.
As long as the enemy changes location or even changes direction, it will be difficult for heavy artillery such as Hongyi cannon or Folan cannon to play their due role.
This does not mean that heavy artillery is completely unsuitable for field battles.
However, a lot of preparation work and deception often need to be done before the war, which is very troublesome.
However, Junggar's camel swivel gun seems to have circumvented all the shortcomings of heavy artillery.
In terms of pure lethality, Junggar's camel revolving gun is far from comparable to the Hongyi cannon equipped by the Ming army and Jiannu. It is not even comparable to the Ming army's Folang machine gun, and is stronger than the tiger squat cannon.
a little.
However, the camel swivel gun has a huge advantage over the Hongyi cannon and the Folang machine gun. It is extremely light and can be mounted on the back of a camel to follow the infantry. This is very powerful.
Imagine infantry supporting artillery in the seventeenth century. What is this concept?
At this time, other countries did not even have real field artillery yet, but the Junggar army already had infantry support artillery, which was outrageous.
In another time and space, the Junggars, with a population of less than 700,000, fought against the Manchu Qing Dynasty with a population of 200 million for seventy years. The Camel Rotating Gun, an excellent infantry support artillery, played a major role in this.
Seeing Jiannu fleeing in all directions, Gu Junen couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Chechnya.
The camel revolving cannons of the Junggar tribe are so sharp. Once the Dashun Dynasty and Oirat are at odds with each other and the two countries go to war, will the Dashun army be able to withstand the camel revolving cannons? I'm afraid it will be difficult to withstand them.
Thinking of this, Gu Jun'en was immediately anxious.
The emperors and ministers of the Dashun Dynasty were really frightened by the power of the camel revolving gun in the field.
However, Gao Yigong, the general of the rear camp who was commanding from the front, Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, had already taken advantage of this opportunity to lead the main force of the rear camp to launch a fierce attack.
However, Gao Yigong was still very strict in running the army, at least much better than Li Guo.
Even after launching a fierce attack, the 40,000 infantrymen in the rear camp still kept their formation intact, like waves, rushing towards Jiannu's main formation one after another.
Jiannu's front and back troops have collapsed.
Now as long as they can defeat Jiannu's main formation in one fell swoop, they will win the battle of Hetao.
However, no one cheered, no one even showed joy, no matter Li Zicheng, Song Xiance, Gao Yigong or other Dashun civil and military officials, they were all shocked.
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Looking at the Dashun infantry rushing towards them like a tide, Huang Deheng felt secretly frightened.
Huang Deheng was originally the captain of Zhengbai Banner's vest Badahai. Because he saved Badahai's life in the Shanyang Battle, he was lifted up after his meritorious service and became a bannerman of Zhengbai Banner's Han army.
In the decisive battle of Hetao, the Eight Banners and Han troops came out in full force.
By the way, the strength of the Eight Banners Han Army was restored to 20,000.
Moreover, the 20,000 Eight Banners Han Army had been transformed by Dole into an all-firearms unit, with 6,000 people in the artillery battalion, and the remaining 14,000 people were all musketeers.
However, only half of the musketeers were equipped with flintlock muskets.
The other half of the musketeers were still equipped with captured bird guns or Lumi guns.
Huang Deheng used a flintlock gun, and he fell in love with it after just a few test shots.
"The front team kneels down!" Zhengbai Banner Han Army's real stone pillars galloping past the front of the formation, shouting loudly, Huang Deheng and the 14,000 musketeers who lined up knelt down one after another.
The next moment, the rear artillery battalion took off its camouflage, revealing a majestic red cannon.
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Huang Deheng did not look back, but he could clearly feel that the ground beneath his feet was shaking, and his eardrums were about to be deafened. Two hundred Hongyi cannons fired at the same time, and the noise was too loud.
When I looked up again, I saw the earth splashed all over the grassy beach by the cannonball, and the splashed mud was still rapidly extending towards the Yellow River, pulling out mud puddles on the grassy beach, like
A huge iron rake was plowing rapidly across the grassy beach of Junzijin.
The mud puddles quickly extended to the front of the puppet infantry formation, and then they dived into it.
The next moment, wherever the mud ditch passed, the limbs of the puppet soldiers' infantrymen were broken and they fell to the ground. In just this moment, at least a thousand puppet soldiers were killed or injured.
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On the other side of the river, on top of the hill.
"This is..." Li Zicheng said in surprise, "Hongyi Cannon?"
Song Xiance also shouted in disbelief: "When did Jiannu's Hongyi cannon arrive?"
"It was probably brought here quietly while it was dark." Gu Jun'en said, "After all, Guihua City has been surrounded by everyone, and the defenders in the city are unable to monitor Jiannu's movements at all times."
At this time, Chechen talked a lot in Mongolian.
The Mongolian interpreter next to him immediately translated: "The Chechen master said that the reloading of Jiannu's Hongyi cannon is very laborious, so the time interval between firing is very long. At most, with two cannons, the Dashun army can rush to Jiannu's artillery.
In front of the position, at that time, we can achieve a one-sided massacre of the artillery of the slaves."
"This is reasonable." Gu Junen deeply agreed.
Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others also felt a little relieved.
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Chechnya's estimate of the rate of fire of the Hongyi artillery can be said to be accurate.
When the Jiannu Hongyi artillery fired the first row of shells, the puppet infantry was still about 1,500 meters away from the Jiannu artillery position. However, by the time the Jiannu artillery fired the second row of shells, the puppet infantry was already within 700 meters.
When the Jiannu artillerymen were about to fire the third row of shells, they had no chance.
Because the puppet infantry has already approached within 100 meters.
This distance is already smaller than the minimum range of the red cannon.
By this time, Jiannu's red cannon had basically become a decoration.
However, in addition to the red cannons, the Jiannu also had the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army.
"Front team, get up!" As Shi Tingzhu and other Eight Banners Han Army Gushan Ezhen roared, Huang Deheng and other 14,000 musketeers from the Eight Banners Han Army stood up one after another.
"More rounds, take turns to play!" Shi Tingzhu and others continued to roar.
The two thousand musketeers in the first row, including Huang Deheng, raised their flintlock rifles at the same time and aimed their muzzles at the pseudo-shun infantry in front of them. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only fifty steps (about eighty meters).
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"Fire!" Accompanied by the roars and gestures of the eight Gu Shan'erzhen, Huang Deheng and two thousand other musketeers simultaneously pulled the triggers of their flintlock rifles, and immediately there was the sound of gunfire.
After firing the gun, Huang Deheng immediately retreated to reload according to his usual training.
The second row of musketeers quickly moved forward, aimed their guns again, and then pulled the triggers.
Then there was another loud banging sound, and another cloud of gunpowder smoke spread from the position. The light became even worse, and it was almost impossible to see the pseudo-submissive infantry coming from the opposite side.
Immediately afterwards, the third row of musketeers came forward.
Then the fourth row, the fifth row...
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Huang Deheng, who was in the formation, had his sight completely blocked by the smoke.
But Dorgon could see clearly because he was at an angle from behind.
Through the field of vision of the telescope, Dorgon could clearly see the puppet infantry forming a neat and dense formation, quickly moving towards the main formation of the Eight Banners Han Army to cover up and kill them.
There were approximately 40,000 puppet infantrymen engaged in the attack.
It's very easy to count, each row has 2,000, and there are 20 rows before and after, which adds up to 40,000.
Why did Dorgon know that each row of Pseudo-Shun infantry was two thousand? The reason is very simple, because the density and width of the Pseudo-Shun infantry queue are basically the same as those of the Eight Banners and Han Army.
The formation of the main formation of the Eight Banners Han Army was 2,000 men per row.
The twenty rows of pseudo-infantry at the front and rear could actually maintain the basic integrity of their formation after charging such a long distance, and it was only slightly messy, which was enough to show that this was a truly elite force.
Compared with the battle of Shanhaiguan, the puppet troops did not retreat.
But, that’s it, the puppet army will be defeated today!
The next scene was just as Dorgon expected.
After entering within fifty steps, the musketeers of the Eight Banners and Han Army came forward in rows and fired their muskets.
Under the pouring firepower one after another from the Eight Banners and Han troops, the puppet infantry fell to the ground row after row.
Facing the firepower of the Eight Banners and Han Army, the puppet infantry reluctantly rushed forward for more than twenty steps and came within thirty steps. However, the last thirty steps became an insurmountable chasm for the puppet infantry.
The pseudo-submissive infantry rushed forward row after row, and fell to the ground row after row.
In the blink of an eye, the front of the two armies' formations was covered with dense corpses.
After about six or seven rows and more than 10,000 infantry were "shot dead", the pseudo-subordinate infantry behind them finally became afraid.
Although the officers of the puppet army were still shouting hoarsely to encourage the infantry, the infantry turned around and fled back uncontrollably. They charged knowing that they were bound to die, but few of them could persist to the end.
Seeing that the situation was over, the hypocritical officers also joined the fleeing ranks.
Seeing this, Dorgon's heart finally fell into his stomach.
However, things are not over yet, and the fun has just begun here.
At that moment, Dorgon shouted in a deep voice: "According to my decree, the Eight Banners of Manchuria will immediately return and attack! Drive the defeated puppet troops back, disrupt their rear formation, and turn their camel swivel cannon into a meaningless display!"
"Hey!" Dozens of horsemen ordered the cavalry to fly away, conveying the order quickly.
The Green Camp troops were completely defeated and completely lost their ability to counterattack, but the Eight Banners Manchuria was highly organized and could switch from attack to retreat, or from retreat to attack, at any time and under any circumstances.
After receiving Dorgon's order, the retreating Eight Banners Manchuria immediately fought back.
And this time, the Eight Banners Manchuria even abandoned their carriages and launched a counterattack with light equipment.
As a result, the entire battle situation reversed again, and the puppet army quickly turned from victory to defeat.
Moreover, there was no chance to reverse this defeat, because the retreating troops blocked the firing angle of the Camel Revolving Cannon, and the Junggar artillery had no chance to provide artillery support.
In the end, the Junggar artillery could only retreat cursing.
The Eight Banners Manchuria took advantage of the victory and pursued them, charging all the way across the shallow Yellow River.
Seeing this, the pseudo-submissive cavalry who stayed on the left and right flanks also retreated across the Yellow River.
The Hetao War, which lasted for nearly six months, finally ended with the victory of Jiannu.
After the war, the Jiannu took control of the entire Qiantao grassland, and many Tumut tribes that had originally surrendered to Dashun were forced to change their ways and rejoin the Jiannu camp.
The news reached Guihua City, and Li Yan was forced to break out of the siege.
In the end, Li Yan only led less than 2,000 cavalry to break through.
After the war, a check showed that Dashun's losses were not bad.
The rear camp had an army of 120,000 before the Battle of Hetao. In the end, there were only about 80,000 left, with a loss of nearly one-third. It seemed like a huge loss, but the old camp of 20,000 was still there.
