"Twelve Belles, don't panic, we have been waiting for the Ming army for a long time! Let them have a taste of the power of our great general Dajin Tianyou Shenwei!"
Commanding the banner of the Han army, the prince-in-law in the west room of the Jin Dynasty, known as "Tong Banchao", Angbang Zhangjing, Tong Yangxing, had been waiting for a long time. When the defeated soldiers with red flags retreated across the river, he hurriedly shouted. After shouting here, his nephew on the other side Er Tong Tulai shouted, and 1,600 former Ming army gunners immediately took up their positions.
Sixteen red-coated general cannons and fifty-two bronze cannons shipped from Yiju and Shenyang were lined up in a row. The black muzzles pointed directly at the other side of the river, which was more ferocious.
The artillerymen of the Ming Army have been artillerymen for many years, and some of them were even subordinates of Taishi Li back then. These people were carefully selected by Tong Yangxing. They were well-fed, well-clothed, and treated better than other prisoners. Many. Some even gave them as wives to captured Han women. In addition, they had stayed in the Jin Kingdom for a long time and had long forgotten their ancestors. Now they were all willing to sacrifice their lives for the Jin Kingdom. Come. Everyone has one thought in their mind. This is the first battle of the artillery battalion. No matter what, it must display a prestige. Only if the battle is good, the masters will pay attention to them in the future. If the battle is not good, they will have to disband after returning. Slave to the armored man.[
It took a lot of effort to transform from a prisoner to a soldier of the Kingdom of Jin. It took a lot of effort to marry a wife and have children. It took a lot of effort to live a good life. Who would be willing to go back to the past? My parents and ancestors died long ago, and people have to make their own plans for life! ( Author's note: Taishi Li, Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong Li Chengliang.)
For a time, the gunners of these Han army flags were all working hard. They loaded the explosives and tamped them tightly. They had already measured the distance of the guns before the war. They didn't need to aim at this time and just fired directly.
Seeing the Ming army's chariot approaching Xiaoling River from a distance, Tong Tulai glanced at his uncle, his face flushed with excitement and fear. After a nervous moment of waiting, he waved his hand fiercely ’s command flag.
"fire!"
With the sound of "whistling", more than a dozen red-coated cannons fell into the Ming army and exploded like a goddess scattering flowers.
The Ming army that was first hit by the bomb was smashed to pieces in an instant. Both men and horses were unstoppable. They were killed and injured, and screams came one after another.
"Where did Jiannu get the red cannon?!"
Hearing the sound of cannons, the Ming army was alarmed, and Zhang Chun even turned pale. Since the slave chiefs raised their troops, they had never heard of slaves having cannons, let alone Western red barbarian cannons. Could this slave have learned how to make them? Shot?!
The vehicle formation in front was in chaos. The soldiers were so frightened that they ran around in order to avoid the Jin army's artillery fire, and the army's formation also stagnated.
Two red cannons hit the chariot directly. Before the Ming army beside the chariot could react, the chariot was overturned into the sky, then landed with a crash and fell into a ball.
No one among the 40,000 Ming troops expected that the Jin army would have cannons. The roar of the cannons made them panic, and the formation began to become chaotic. In some places, the Ming troops even began to retreat.
"Give the order, keep moving forward, no one is allowed to take a step back, anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
Zhang Chun gritted his teeth and gave the order to die. As the commander-in-chief of the army, he was responsible for supervising military preparations. He was ready to kill the defeated troops at any time. He must not let the defeated troops disrupt the entire army, otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.
If you don’t succeed, you will succeed!
Zhang Chun had no choice. If he ordered a retreat at this time, not only would all his previous efforts be in vain, but the army would also be swept away by Jiannu's cavalry.
He didn't dare to imagine what kind of massacre it would be, and he didn't dare to imagine what the consequences of failure would be for Dalinghe, Jinzhou, and Ming Dynasty.
But he never thought about what his fate would be if he failed.
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"Listen to my order and fire together!"[
The red-coated cannons that had fired one round needed to be reloaded. Seeing that the Ming army had been disrupted by the cannons, Tong Tu Lai hurriedly ordered the dozens of bronze cannons to fire, fearing that the Ming army would take advantage of the intermission of the red-coated cannons to slow down and rush across the river.
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As the command flag in his hand was waved again, the fifty-two bronze cannons captured from the Ming army shook violently at the same time. The muzzles of the cannons erupted with fierce flames, and thick smoke rose up.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Amidst the deafening sound of cannons, fifty-two iron balls smashed fiercely into the Ming army's formation. As the cannons fell and jumped up, the Ming army's formation was filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and broken limbs and arms were thrown up from time to time.
A cannon smashed into the front array of the Ming army. Although the soldiers dispersed like a tide at the impact point, the solid shell did not explode and shoot out like a flower. Instead, it jumped up on the ground and smashed a living line.
The road to human flesh is coming.
A cannon jumped up and down as if it had eyes. It swept forward for nearly a hundred steps, taking away the lives of several people along the way. The heads, bodies, arms, and thighs and legs of many people were like little ones in the hands of a juggler.
It was like a toy, constantly throwing up and down. It wasn't until it was exhausted that the cannon stopped smoothly, its body red with blood, leaving behind a long and shrill howl filled with blood and cries.
"fire!"
Tong Tu Lai shouted out his temper. Looking at the miserable situation of the Ming army, he waved the flag in his hand with great force.
After the roar of the bronze cannon, the red cannon fired again. Like the wind blowing rice, near the impact point of the red barbarian cannon, one by one Ming army was hit and fell down, wailing, screaming, rolling...
One chariot after another was overturned or smashed.
The Ming troops behind were frightened by the tragic situation in front, as if the cannon would fall on their heads at any time. Listening to the screams, their tense heartstrings suddenly broke, and thousands of Ming troops began to run away together.
What awaited them was a formation supervision team composed of three thousand cavalry. Deputy General Zhang Hongmo personally led his subordinates to supervise the formation, pointing his shining saber directly at the defeated troops.
"No retreat, no retreat!"
"Those who retreat will be killed! Those who retreat will be killed!"
"Master Bingbei has issued a death order. You are not allowed to take a step back!"
After killing nearly a hundred defeated soldiers, the rout was stopped. Under the pressure of the cavalry, the Ming infantry turned back reluctantly. They were not bold enough to dare to fight with their own cavalry.
In the entire army, there was only one army that not only did not retreat, but instead advanced more than a hundred steps. This was the five thousand firearms soldiers led by Deputy General Wang Zhiku. They also experienced the attack of the Jin Army's artillery fire and suffered heavy losses. However,
From top to bottom, no one retreated.
"Hold on, hold on, brothers, hold on. As long as we rush across the river, we can hold back Jiannu's artillery array!"
"Spread out, spread out. They are so densely packed together. Do you want to eat some of the cannonballs?"
"Don't be afraid of those cannons. The more afraid you are, the more the cannons will fall on your head! Damn it, the Lord of Hell is also afraid of evil people! As long as we are not afraid of ourselves, the Lord of Hell will kill him.
Can’t take it away!”
Wang Zhiku's voice was hoarse from shouting, and the smoke choked him to tears, but he didn't care to take a breath or drink water, because he knew that if the Chinese army's formation collapsed, not only would it be impossible to relieve the great Ling
During the siege of the river, the entire army, including him and his five thousand soldiers, would be buried in the white mountains and black soil outside the pass.
We've all rushed to the Xiaoling River, there's no point in going back! You bastards of Jiannu, let me see how many guns you have![
Wang Zhiku gritted his teeth and shouted orders to spread out his troops as much as possible. He could not take care of the soldiers injured by the cannons. The only way now was to rush across the river and rush to the Jiannu artillery array.
, making their cannons unable to fire.
Zhang Jifu, Manku, Yang Zhenghua and other troops also quickly suppressed the defeated troops. Seeing that the king's troops were advancing under artillery fire, they ordered another offensive.
But they didn't expect that the Jin army's artillery fired so fast, and the formation was about to disperse. Their artillery came over again. This time, the formation was dispersed a lot, but the attack from the opposite side
There were also a lot of artillery, and the casualties were still quite high.
A wave of artillery came over, and dozens of large and small iron balls hit the cavalry array. These cavalry were not much better than the infantry. Their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and their arms and legs were severed.
However, they did not flee for their lives like the infantry. Instead, they tried their best to control their mounts and continued to move forward.
The battle has reached this juncture, and everyone knows what retreat means. The Eight Banners soldiers on the other side of the river are eager for them to collapse on their own!
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"King Khan, my consort, this cannon is well shot, well shot!"
"Our God-Blessed Divine Power General of Daikin is showing off his power, showing off his power, haha, blow up, blow up well, blow up those Ming barbarians hard!"
Looking at the death of the Ming army formation on the other side of the river, all the flags of the Jin army burst out with loud cheers. However, the smoke had not cleared at this time, and the situation on the other side was still unclear, but all the Eight Banners soldiers seemed to be
They were shouting and cheering loudly as if they were victorious.
"King Khan, I didn't expect that the cannon made by my brother-in-law is so powerful. When I heard the sound of the cannon, I really felt that the sky was shattering, like the roar of thunder, and I almost screamed in fright. I am so ashamed! So ashamed!"
After Ning Wan calmed down, I couldn't help but admire him. This was much more powerful than the two cannons I saw at the foot of Yiju City. When the cannons were fired just now, they made his ears go numb.
"If we want to win this battle, my son-in-law must be the first to take credit!"
Huang Taiji was also indescribably excited. He took a telescope and looked at the Ming army's formation, wondering if the Ming army was in chaos. But there was too much smoke and he couldn't see clearly, so he put down the mirror and smiled.
Wait.
Soon, the smoke dissipated.
After the gunpowder smoke cleared, the Ming army's formation on the opposite side was finally fully revealed. The formation that looked quite orderly and disciplined just now had been torn open several times. The Ming army's morale was so high just now, but now it has become...
It was even more embarrassing. The original dense formation behind the chariot has now disappeared. Many places have turned into a white field. You can't see any blood on the ground, only purple-black soil and corpses.
"Why, the Ming army hasn't collapsed yet?" Prince-in-law Darhan looked carefully and saw that the Ming army's formation was still slowly moving forward.
"Yeah?"
Huang Taiji frowned and raised his telescope to look again. Sure enough, the Ming army's vehicle array was still moving forward. Judging from their posture, they were prepared to cross the river at all costs.
"Huh?"
In the telescope, I suddenly saw a large flag with the word "Zhang" written on it gradually moving forward. Under the flag, there seemed to be many Ming army generals surrounding it.
"Old Zhang Chun is not afraid of death, which is rare."
Huang Taiji put down his telescope and smiled contemptuously. He was not in a hurry to order all the banners to cross the river to attack the Ming army. Instead, he wanted to wait for Tong Yangxing's artillery to blow up the last bit of courage of the Ming army before taking action. That would be more effective.
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Wu Xiang and Song Wei's cavalry on the left and right wings were not hit at all by artillery fire. Thanks to the large formation of the Chinese army, the cavalry on these two wings were not targeted by the Jin army's artillery fire.
However, although they were not attacked by artillery fire, the situation of the Wu and Song Dynasties was not optimistic. The sound of the artillery made the horses scream and scream, and the formation was somewhat scattered. If there were Jin Army cavalry to attack at this time, they would probably be completely defeated.
Seeing that the Chinese army's formation continued to advance, Song Wei did not hesitate to order his men to move forward, preparing to cross the Xiaoling River. However, Wu Xiang actually ordered not to advance any further. He was frightened by the Jin army's artillery fire and began to move forward.
The two sides rose up. The reason why he did not turn around and retreat immediately was because the Chinese army's formation was still there. He had to be sure that the Chinese army was defeated before he dared to lead his men to escape. Otherwise, if Zhang Chun led the Chinese army to break through the Xiaoling River, he would run away.
, then there will be no good fruit to eat after returning.
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Zhang Chun braved the risk of being hit by the Jin army's artillery fire and resolutely moved forward with the army. After the Ming army saw the banner of the military commander, they were somewhat reassured. They were about to start crossing the river, but the Jin army on the opposite side still did not come out.
After intercepting, the cannon stopped firing as if it was a misfire, and the Ming army was a little surprised.
Not only were they surprised, Huang Taiji was also surprised. He had not ordered the flags to cross the river for a long time. He wanted to wait for the Han army's flag artillery battalion to completely blow up the Ming army. However, after waiting for a long time, there was still no sound of artillery. The Ming army over there wanted to
After crossing the river, there are only Xianghong Banner and Zhenglan Banner on the other side of Xiaoling River. If they cannot stop the Ming army, the artillery battalion will probably be captured by the Ming army.
"What happened to the prince in the west room? Why did the cannon stop?" Huang Taiji was anxious and angry. He was holding the riding whip there and didn't know whether to raise or lower it.
The generals and commanders on the left and right didn't know what was going on. Everything was fine, but why did the artillery stop?
"Why don't you go and ask!"
Seeing that the Goshikhas were still stunned, Huang Taiji was so angry that he whipped them. The Goshikhas were startled and hurriedly wanted to hit their horses to ask what was going on. At this time, they saw a horse galloping towards them.
It was a guerrilla under the banner of the Han Army. When the guerrilla saw King Khan's tent, he dismounted his horse and ran over, shouting urgently: "King Khan, we have run out of medicine. Please ask King Khan to send troops immediately."
Intercept the Ming army!"
"What? All the medicine is gone?!"
Huang Taiji was stunned for more than ten seconds before he realized what he was doing. He flicked his whip angrily and said to the guerrilla: "Go quickly and send an order to Azig, telling him to lead troops to stop the Ming army immediately. You must not let them