Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 441 A Group of Cannon Fodder
The first group of nearly two hundred musketeers who had reloaded their ammunition quickly stepped forward.
However, before Xia Longshan could give the order to fire, the Ming army on the opposite side had already opened fire first.
There was a dense sound of gunfire, and nearly half of Guan Ning's first group of musketeers fell down.
The remaining musketeers were immediately stunned, and after firing their cannons indiscriminately, they hurriedly retreated.
Even Xia Longshan himself fell from the sidecar and was shot in the chest.
After landing on the ground, when he sat up and looked again, Xia Longshan was surprised to find that the copper breastplate on his chest had been pierced. Fortunately, he wore chain armor inside the armor. After the lead bullet penetrated the armored breastplate,
It didn't have much penetrating power, and it was finally blocked by the close-fitting chain armor. It was really thrilling.
At this point, Xia Longshan completely lost his fighting spirit.
This is not because our Guan Ning army is not brave enough.
It is true that the Ming army on the opposite side is too cunning and insidious.
I have never seen a more insidious, let alone dangerous army than this. They just made some dummies wearing face shields to deceive us. They obviously have such powerful self-generating guns, but they still have to hide them until the end.
As a result, our Guan Ning army was caught off guard and suffered a big loss.
"Retreat, all retreat!" Xia Longshan decisively gave the retreat order.
This battle cannot be fought again. If we fight another two thousand people, we will all have to answer for it.
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The sudden change also confused Wu Sangui.
Because of the smoke, Wu Sangui could not clearly see what was happening in front of him.
"What's going on?" Wu Sangui said with a dark face, "You were fine just now, why did you suddenly retreat? What on earth is Xia Longshan doing? Me?"
"Did I ask him to retreat?"
"Has the king allowed him to withdraw his troops?"
However, no one could answer Wu Sangui.
Because no one knows what is happening ahead.
Only Fang Guangchen whispered: "Your Majesty, the emperor and the regent are watching from behind."
Wu Sangui's face immediately fell. He had boasted a lot in front of Dorgon just now, claiming that he could take down the gun platform in front of him with just one attack, but now...
"Hand the flag to Xia Longshan and don't retreat!" Wu Sangui said in a deep voice.
"Even if the whole battalion is exhausted, we are not allowed to retreat even half a step. There are no cowards in Guan Ning's army!"
The messenger immediately sent a signal to Xialongshan Camp, and the remnants of Xialongshan Camp stopped as expected. This shows that Wu Sangui still has considerable prestige among Guan Ning's army.
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Wu Sangui turned his eyes to a young general standing behind him, with a look of hesitation on his face.
"Uncle!" The young general immediately stepped forward and said, "Do you need a child to go into battle?"
This young general's name was Wu Yingqi, and he was actually Wu Sangui's eldest son. However, because Wu Sangui's elder brother Wu Sanfeng had no children, he adopted Wu Sanfeng as his son.
General Wu Guogui knew that Wu Sangui loved this "eldest nephew" very much.
At that moment, he took the initiative to step forward and invite the battle: "Your Majesty, leave it to the general."
However, Wu Sangui shook his head, Wu Guogui could not replace Wu Yingqi.
At that moment, Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and said: "Weizhou, I order you to immediately lead two thousand soldiers to attack, and ask Xia Longshan to follow you. This time, we must win the gun platform no matter what!"
"Hey." Wu Yingqi immediately went to gather the pacesetters of his headquarters.
Immediately, another two thousand Guan Ning troops separated from the formation.
Soon, the two thousand Guan Ning troops pushed the sidecar forward again.
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Back formation.
Dorgon put down the telescope and asked: "That seems to be Wu Sangui's pacesetter?"
"Master's eyesight is so good, he can see clearly from such a distance." Hou Fangyu did not give up any opportunity to flatter him, "My slave's eyesight is not good, I can't see anything clearly."
"You bitch slave, why are you trying to flatter me?"
Dorgon scolded him angrily: "I have a telescope."
But Hou Fangyu said calmly: "That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying that Master, you know people well. You know that Wu Sangui is a tiger general, and you dare to use him."
"My master has such great vision and broad mind,"
"I'm afraid only Cao Mengde can barely compare."
Hou Fangyu's words really scratched Dorgon's itch.
Because Dorgon's favorite Three Kingdoms figure was Cao Cao, and he very much agreed with Cao Cao's philosophy of meritocracy, he abandoned his personal likes and dislikes and re-employed Wu Sangui.
If he had asked about his heart, Wu Sangui would have been beheaded a long time ago.
"You dog slave, what nonsense are you talking about?" Dorgon scolded Hou Fangyu again, but the smile on his lips could no longer be concealed. The dog slave had a good mouth.
Fulin couldn't help but look at Hou Fangyu again.
Dorgon turned to Hong Chengchou again and asked: "Hengjiu, did you see clearly what happened just now?"
"I didn't see it clearly." Hong Chengchou put down the telescope, shook his head and said, "The distance is still a bit far, I can only see roughly. At the beginning, the Ming army seemed to be suppressed by Guan Ning's army, but the Ming army seemed to have sent reinforcements, and they were all uniformed.
They are all musketeers, and after a few rounds of musketry, Guan Ning's army was defeated."
Dorgon asked again: "Did you see clearly what kind of musket the Ming Army musketeers were holding?"
"I can't see clearly." Hong Chengchou continued to shake his head, "But according to my estimation, it's either a bird gun or a Rumi gun."
"No, Hengjiu, you guessed wrong this time." Dorgon said seriously, "The Ming army also held flintlock guns. I saw clearly just now that the Ming army did not light a matchlock at all."
"Is it also a flintlock gun?" Hong Chengchou was a little surprised.
Fan Wencheng frowned and said, "Did someone leak the secret?"
"It may not be a leak." Dorgon's mind was still very clear. He waved his hand and said, "Flintlock guns are not a secret in Xiyi. If Tang Ruowang can make flintlock guns for the Qing Dynasty, there will naturally be other ones.
The missionaries made flintlock guns for Nan Ming, which was what I expected."
"Master Mingjian." Hong Chengchou complimented and then said, "However, Nanming craftsmen had to use their own money to make guns, so the material accuracy of their flintlock guns cannot be compared with those of the Qing Dynasty. They only need to adjust the muskets of the Eight Banners and Han Army."
If the team goes up, they will definitely be able to crush the Ming Army's musketeers."
"Not yet, let's see Guan Ningjun's performance first."
Dorgon said calmly: "Perhaps, Guan Ning's army can really take down the Ming army's blunderbuss in one go."
Although he said so, Dorgon felt that there was not much hope. If the Ming army commander who raided Dagukou was really Yan Yingyuan, then Wu Sangui would probably not get any advantage.
No matter how good Guan Ning's army can fight, can it be better than Eight Banners Manchuria?
No matter how powerful Wu Sangui is, can he be more powerful than Duduo?
Even the Eight Banners of Manchuria led by Duduo suffered a bloody blow at the foot of Shanyang City. How could Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army take advantage of Yan Yingyuan's men?
However, it is also acceptable to let Wu Sangui and Guan Ning's army use up the Ming army's energy first, and then explore Yan Yingyuan's background.
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On the watchtower in Dagukou Town.
With the help of the telescope, you can clearly see that the newly attacking Green Soldiers have joined the previously retreating Green Soldiers, and then the two groups of Green Soldiers formed a large formation and fought their way back.
However, the Ming army's artillery camp always remained silent.
The signal soldier of the artillery battalion looked at the signal flag on the watchtower.
The communications soldiers on the watchtower were also looking at Yan Yingyuan with their heads bowed.
However, Yan Yingyuan remained unmoved and refused to order the bombardment.
Chen Mingyu asked Yan Yingyuan in confusion: "Jianheng, why don't you order the artillery battalion to fire?"
Yan Yingyuan smiled and asked Chen Mingyu: "Gongchen, do you still remember the two of us playing horse-drawing with Pei Qing in Jiangyin? You always lose."
"You still have the nerve to tell us how much money you have won over us?"
"More than half of Pei Qing's and my meager salary has been turned into your drink money."
"Oh, then do you know why you guys always lose? And I always win?"
"Why don't you know, it's not because you have so many clever ideas and all kinds of tricks come up in endlessly."
"No, you always lose because I have seen through your trump cards. However, you two will never know what trump cards I have in my hand until the last moment."
"Hmm, so the Hongyi Cannon is your trump card?"
A look of understanding flashed across Chen Mingyu's eyes, and he continued: "You deliberately prevented the artillery battalion from returning fire, and even reduced the charge by half, just to prevent Jiannu from knowing your trump card?"
"One of the trump cards." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.
"This is only the first day, and Jiannu has only dispatched green soldiers. How can we easily show all our trump cards?"
"In other words, the green camp soldiers are only equipped with half the charge of the artillery camp, and they are only equipped with half the base ammunition?" Chen Mingyu shook his head and said, "I don't know if the green camp soldiers on the opposite side know about it.
How would you feel?"
"A bunch of cannon fodder, does it matter how you feel?" Yan Yingyuan said casually.
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On the battlefield ahead.
More than three thousand Guan Ning troops came to the slope protection again.
Nearly two hundred sidecars were divided into two rows, front and rear, forming a tight wall.
Seeing Wu Yingqi preparing to stand on the side car, Xia Longshan quickly stopped him: "Sir, don't get up! It's dangerous!"
However, Wu Yingqi was young and energetic, and did not take Xia Longshan's warning to heart at all. He just jumped onto one of the side cars, and then shouted: "Musketeers, light the match!"
The musketeers lit the match ropes one after another and clamped the match ropes to the trigger.
"Sir, be careful!" Xia Longshan stamped his feet anxiously when he saw this.
Wu Yingqi was unmoved at all and turned around with the sword in his hand.
There was silence behind the wooden fence on the opposite side of the ditch, not even a ghost could be seen.
But Wu Yingqi did not have any scruples and continued to shout: "Team 1, get ready!"
The first team of nearly two hundred musketeers after the merger immediately went up to the side car formation with matchlock guns, placed the matchlock guns on the guard board of the side car, and aimed their guns at the wooden fence opposite.
Xia Longshan also got into the side car this time.
"Sir, Ming Gou is hiding behind the wooden fence."
"Be careful with the dummies, Ming Gou has prepared dummies."
Before he finished speaking, a row of Ming soldiers stood up from behind the wooden fence.
Wu Yingqi subconsciously ordered to fire the gun, but Xia Longshan held up his right hand.
"Wait a minute, this is a dummy prepared by Ming Gou!" Xia Longshan said anxiously, "It's not real."
