At the right time on October 12, the 20th year of Chongzhen (1647), Dorgon led the main force of 50,000 Qing troops and 40,000 accompanying troops to the Hunhe battlefield. More than 20,000 Mongolian cavalry from the ten banners of Horqin also arrived at the battlefield at the same time.
, and then formed a confrontation with the Ming army, and the second bloody battle of Hunhe officially kicked off.
The Qing army's large nest car was quickly set up.
Dorgon led several hardcore traitors onto the chariot.
Standing on the roof of a large nest car that is six to seven feet high, you can clearly see the formation of the Ming army from a high position, so I was confused when I saw the formation of the word "qi" of the Ming army.
In fact, strictly speaking, the formation of the Ming army is not a standard "qi".
Because the character "qi" has a dog character in the center, but the Ming army's formation also has a mouth character of the same size in the center, so this is actually a formation composed of five mouth characters.
And the five spoken words are all separated from each other.
There is a passage between two adjacent openings.
Seeing this formation, Dorgon and others were stunned.
"What formation is this?" Dorgon frowned.
Hou Fangyu frowned and said, "Is it an enhanced version of the hollow square array?"
"Enhanced version? It doesn't look like much difference at all." Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "Maybe one hollow square formation can't hold so many musketeers, so it was divided into five hollow square formations."
"It's possible." Dorgon agreed with Hong Chengchou's judgment.
Hong Chengchou continued: "So we can break them one by one, first break the four hollow square formations at the four corners, and finally break the hollow square formation in the center. Then the Qing soldiers can go straight to Chongzhen."
After hearing this, Hou Fangyu suddenly felt something in his heart and said, "Why can't we directly attack the hollow square array in the middle?"
"Directly attack the hollow phalanx in the middle?" Dorgon's heart moved slightly, and he said solemnly, "You mean, you mean to attack through the four channels in the middle of the four hollow phalanxes and directly kill Emperor Chongzhen's emperor?"
Hou Fangyu nodded and said: "Master, look, the width of the passages in the middle of the four hollow square formations on the periphery are all about the same. If I am not mistaken, they are at least two hundred steps or more."
"A self-generated fire gun can only be fired accurately within fifty steps."
"Over fifty steps, the accuracy drops sharply."
"If the distance is more than a hundred steps, even heavy armor cannot penetrate it, let alone carriages and carriages. Therefore, it is safe to have at least a hundred steps wide passage between two adjacent Ming army formations."
After a pause, Hou Fangyu said again: "Our Qing soldiers can rush in directly from these four hundred-foot-wide passages and directly attack the Chinese army's main formation in Chongzhen."
"However, the Ming army is not a wooden pile." Ning Wanwo questioned, "If the Ming army shrinks, how should we deal with it?"
Once the Ming army in the four outer square formations shrinks, the four channels in the middle will be narrowed accordingly. Then the Qing army attacking the Ming army's central formation from the channels will be attacked from two sides.
Being attacked from both sides is no joke.
No one with any sense would do this.
Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said: "There is no need to worry about this matter. The Ming army has used sidecars to form a sidecar formation. They have also deployed defensive horses and dug trenches outside the formation, so it is not easy to move."
After a pause, he added: "What's more, we can dispatch the Eight Banner Mongolian or Horqin Ten Banner cavalry to contain them. As long as the Ming army on the periphery moves, the Mongolian cavalry will take the opportunity to cover up and kill them, and the Ming army will be defeated like a mountain."
Since ancient times, it has been relatively easy to arrange troops, but it is difficult to change the formation. It is even more difficult to change the formation in the face of battle. An accident will lead to chaos, which will lead to the collapse of the entire army.
Therefore, when two armies are fighting, as long as they penetrate or disrupt the enemy's formation, they will basically win.
It is rare to see a famous general like Han Xin who can command an army of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people and fight and leave. There are only a few in China's five thousand years of history.
After a pause, Hong Chengchou continued: "The most worrying thing is the Ming army's cannon."
"Cannon?" Dorgon's expression was slightly stern when he heard this. Even without a telescope, with the naked eye you can see hundreds of red cannons placed in the Ming army's main formation. In addition, the Chinese army's main formation and the four surrounding hollow square formations can be seen with the naked eye.
There are tiger crouching cannons inside, and the total number of tiger crouching cannons is at least hundreds. These cannot be underestimated.
Because the red cannon's shells can easily destroy the carriage.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon's 30 taels of combined ammunition is enough to destroy sidecars at close range.
At this time, Hou Fangyu suddenly said: "The Ming army's red cannons and squatting tiger cannons are actually nothing to fear."
Fan Wencheng was about to refute with a straight face, but was interrupted by Hou Fangyu: "Mr. Xiandou, don't rush to refute. It's not too late to let me finish my words first and then refute."
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"Say." Fan Wencheng frowned.
Speaking of this, Fan Wencheng couldn't help but look at Hong Chengchou and Ning Wanwo, and thought to himself that Hou Fangyu's mentality was a little abnormal today. Did he suffer any stimulation?
Hou Fangyu turned around and said to Dorgon: "Master, according to what I know, there is no substantial difference between the red cannon and the squatting tiger cannon of the Ming army and the red cannon and squatting tiger cannon of the Qing Dynasty. Their firing speed is also the same."
They are very similar to our red-coated cannons and squatting tiger cannons of the Qing Dynasty. They can only fire a dozen cannons in half an hour."
Hearing this, Hong Chengchou and the other three people suddenly felt moved.
They really ignored the rate of fire of the red cannon.
Although the red cannon is powerful, its rate of fire is very slow.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon has a slightly faster rate of fire, but its power is much smaller.
Hou Fangyu added: "So, the Qing soldiers who attack will only receive one shot at most."
"My decision has been made!" Dorgon immediately made up his mind to attack, and said, "Use the cavalry of Horqin's Ten Banners to contain the surrounding Ming armies, and then transfer 8 Niulu from the Eight Banners Han Army to attack from the middle passage."
Dorgon was actually very cautious and only invested 8 Niulu.
This is equivalent to a probing attack, intended to test the strength of the Ming army.
The order was quickly passed on, and the Eight Banners Han Army began to move.
The Mongolian cavalry that was originally watching from a distance also slowly pressed forward.
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"Jiannu really plans to launch an attack from the four middle passages."
After seeing Jian Nu's maneuvers clearly, Xu Yingwei immediately judged the other party's intentions.
Jiannu really didn't care about life and death. He actually dared to attack from four channels. They didn't even think about it. If they couldn't block it with firepower, how could they leave the channel?
This is not a deliberate trap.
But it is indeed a trap.
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Soon, the 8 Niu Lu 2,400 Eight Banners Han troops were divided into four groups, with 600 people on each side, and fiercely attacked the passage in the hollow square formation of the Ming army.
In order to protect the Eight Banners Han Army from Ming army firepower from both sides of the passage, Dorgon equipped these eight Niulu Eight Banners Han Army with 160 sidecars, with 40 sidecars in each lane.
160 sidecars are assembled into 4 movable sidecar cities.
Protecting 2,400 Eight Banners Han troops armed with live ammunition, they entered the passage.
Some things are really weird. Although Chongzhen brought flintlock muskets and even rifled rifles to the world in advance, the military technology of this world did not evolve and develop as it should.
For example, the tactic of queuing to kill has gone awry in this world.
This world only staged a few small-scale queuing and shooting, and quickly skipped this ignorant stage and advanced to the chariot stage in advance. Whether it was the Ming army or the slaves, they all equipped the musketeers with chariots and camps.
Chariots, trying hard not to expose one's own musketeers to the other side's guns.
Although it is an original version of a tank, it is still a type of tank.
The front and side of the sidecar are equipped with 15 cm thick locust or elm boards.
A locust or elm board of this thickness can withstand direct fire from a flintlock gun at close range, and can also provide perfect defense against the lead shot of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
The Hongyi cannon's shells are definitely unstoppable,
However, the rate of fire of Hongyi cannons during this period was slow, which was not a cause for concern.
The Ming army's artillery may have realized this, but they never fired a single shot from beginning to end.
Until the four side carriages protecting 2,400 Eight Banners Han troops entered the middle of the passage, there was no response from the red cannons or tiger crouching cannons in the five square formations of the Ming army.
"Strange, what are the Ming artillery waiting for?"
"Do you want to wait for the Eight Banners and Han troops to get closer before firing?"
"When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. The Ming army's behavior is so abnormal, there must be a conspiracy." Hong Chengchou said, "Master, the attacking Eight Banners Han army must be vigilant and don't fall into the Ming army's trick!"
"A trick?" Dorgon frowned and asked, "What trick?"
"This servant never thought of this." Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Landmines!" At this moment, Ning Wanwo suddenly roared, "Beware of landmines!"
"Landmines?" Dorgon's heart trembled when he heard this. He was about to ask the messenger to alert the attacking Eight Banners Han army through flags, when a huge explosion suddenly came from the Ming army in front.
Looking closely, I saw that the array of four sidecars that had just entered the passage had been blown up.
The Ming army didn't know how many mines were buried in the passage. Anyway, after detonating them, the four side carriage cities of the Eight Banners and Han Army were blown to pieces.
The Eight Banners Han troops hiding in the side carriage city were also covered in blood and flesh.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of red cannons and tiger crouching cannons in the Ming army's formation fired simultaneously.
Almost all the iron bullets and lead pellets accurately hit the four chariot cities of the Eight Banners and Han Army. The chariot cities that were already in pieces suddenly became even more shattered.
The Eight Banners Han troops hiding outside the carriage city fell in large numbers again.
Then, the Ming army musketeers on both sides of the passage also moved in one after another, taking turns firing at the Eight Banners and Han troops who had lost the protection of the carriage city. In an instant, more Eight Banners and Han troops fell wailing in a pool of blood.
In less than a moment, the Han troops under the Eight Banners were attacked in three waves.
Less than half of the 2,400 Eight Banners Han troops who attacked were killed or wounded in the blink of an eye.
The remaining Eight Banners Han soldiers who were not injured or were seriously injured turned around and ran away.
You bastard, what you do is simply giving away your life, there is no way to fight this battle.
However, when I wanted to run away at this time, it was already too late. How could I run away?
[On New Year’s Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, I’ll allow the author to be lazy, so this is the update]
