After the conferment was completed, the army immediately went north and took the initiative to meet the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces of the 14th Lao.
After the new army came out of the fortress, they advanced hand in hand in an inverted triangle shape.
The second town is on the left, the third town is on the right, and the Konoe town is a little behind and in the center.
The first backup force with the strongest combat effectiveness and the most maneuverability serves as the general reserve force of the entire army.
In modern wars, an army without reserves will lose half of its troops before the war begins.
When Old Fourteen heard that Yuzhu led his troops out of the Great Wall, he was very happy. He was afraid that Yuzhu would not be able to get out.
Originally, the fourteenth child wanted to wait for Yuzhu to come and die.
Unexpectedly, when Yuzhu reached Jiqinggou, which was only thirty miles away from Wanquan County, he refused to go forward.
Yuzhu's meaning is very clear, will you come to the decisive battle?
If you don’t come to the decisive battle, I will go back!
Jiqinggou was actually the place where Yuzhu had chosen for the decisive battle, and it was inevitable that the Fourteenth would not come.
The area around Jiqinggou, with a radius of fifty miles, is all flat prairie, which is very conducive to the formation of the 200,000-strong army of the 14th Lao Si.
Yuzhu’s meaning is actually very clear. Old Fourteen, aren’t you the best at bow and horse? I will simply help you and let you display your talents to your heart’s content.
After waiting for two days, Yuzhu stayed in a motionless place in Jiqinggou.
Today, the old Fourteenth Army is really running out of food, so he has no choice but to lead all the main forces southward in order to completely annihilate Yuzhu's new army.
Two days later, when the sun rose high, the opposing sides on the north and south sides of Jiqinggou formed their own offensive formations.
The total strength of the Fourteenth Army was claimed to be 300,000, but in fact, it was only 200,000.
In addition to the elite Eight Banners that Old Fourteen brought to the northwest, there were also a large number of Green Camp soldiers and Mongolians.
Objectively speaking, the elite northwest troops under Old Fourteenth are already considered the most combat-effective troops among the Manchus.
After the confrontation between the two armies, Old Fourteen was surprised to find that the formation formed by Yuzhu was only an unusually thin dozen or so rows.
Among all the sons of the old emperor, the fourteenth one was the one with the most military talent. Naturally, he would not be so stupid as to send his trusted cavalry to attack the opposing infantry camp.
However, it is different when the Mongolians come to fight the autumn wind with them!
When a large group of Mongolian cavalry appeared in the monocular in his hand, Yuzhu, who was riding on the horse, couldn't help but smile, he was about to die!
In today's decisive battle, the new army's formation was lackluster. It was the emperor's specialty formation, with artillery in the front and infantry in the back.
Since everyone in the first town with the strongest mobility has a horse, when necessary, they will act as cavalry in pursuit.
More than a hundred 8-pounder army guns and 6-pounder army guns were neatly arranged in front of the line of infantry.
The black muzzle exudes a ferocious and man-eating terrifying magic power.
Old Fourteen was smarter and deliberately set up his formation three miles away. Even if the 8-pound army cannon fired from this distance, it would only be a lonely fight.
The first to launch the attack were the 10,000 Mongolian cavalry of the Sanyin Nuoyan tribe.
Sanyin Noyanbu Kumohan was also a smart man. He did not attack the new army's front line head-on, but wanted to go around to the side to see if he could take advantage.
Yuzhu smiled coldly, he had been on guard against this move for a long time, and immediately ordered the New Army soldiers to use a unique trick to deal with the cavalry attack: the hollow gun array.
Under the command of loud bugles, the New Army soldiers quickly changed their formations and expanded into countless large hollow formations.
Take the battalion as a unit and form a square formation, with three rows of soldiers on each side.
At the same time, the 6-pounder army gun did not move, and the 8-pounder artillery team, under the command of the foreign instructor, promptly adjusted the position of the muzzle and pointed it in the direction of the enemy's attack.
8-pound army gun, with a maximum range of 1,300 meters and an effective range of about 800 meters.
Yuzhu's idea is very clear. Close combat relies on volley shooting, and the function of artillery is to cover the enemy's attack route.
The cavalry charge must be in dense formation.
The New Army's artillery does not need to be aimed. As long as it continuously bombards the enemy within 300 meters, it can disrupt the enemy's offensive rhythm and even divide the enemy into two parts.
With the dream of becoming Genghis Khan, Kumo Khan commanded his cavalry and began to accelerate rapidly.
In his opinion, such a thin enemy front was simply looking for death.
To be honest, if the new army positioned itself in front of the formation and formed a formation of dozens of layers of infantry and hedgehogs, Kumohan would not have the guts to attack them head-on.
The large Mongolian cavalry force first urged their horses to a slow trot. When they were one and a half miles away, they officially accelerated their charge.
For a moment, the sound of hoofbeats was like thunder and the smoke was billowing, as if millions of cavalry were rushing towards them, with an aggressive momentum.
Artillery Co-Commander Liu Shenghong had been holding up the monocular telescope in his hand, silently estimating the enemy's distance.
"Fire!" Liu Sheng fiercely pressed down his right hand, and the artillerymen who had been preparing for the attack immediately fired.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The rumbling sound of cannons officially kicked off the decisive battle.
"Herod..." A war horse was hit in the chest by a flaming iron ball. A huge bloody hole immediately appeared on the originally strong body.
The war horse fell suddenly, and the knight on the horse was caught off guard and was thrown into the air.
As soon as the knight's body fell to the grass, it was swallowed whole by countless horses' hooves, and was instantly trampled into a pulp.
"Ah..." The fiery red iron ball flew past the Mongolian knight's left arm. The Mongolian knight just wanted to feel lucky, but unexpectedly, he felt an uncontrollable sharp pain in his left shoulder. He subconsciously looked down.
Ah, his left arm actually disappeared out of thin air, his body immediately tilted, and he fell off the horse.
Another iron fireball fell from the sky and hit the ground hard. Then it bounced off Lao Gao and headed straight for the Mongolian knight.
The Mongolian knight was horrified and lowered his body desperately, trying to avoid the fatal blow.
"Boom!" The red iron ball hit the horse's head fiercely. In almost the blink of an eye, the horse's skull was shattered into pieces, and its brains burst out.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The dead horse with its head crushed pressed the knight on its back tightly under the body. The dead horse and the knight were pressed to the ground under the influence of huge inertia.
It slid forward a short distance.
When the dead horse finally stopped sliding, the entire right side of the Mongolian knight's face was scraped away by the huge friction force, revealing the hideous white bones.
I can't live without seeing it!
After all, today's artillery is not a hollow shell, and its ability to cover the battlefield is extremely limited.
Amidst the fierce shelling, there were still many lucky Mongolian cavalry who rushed in front of the line infantry.
He Wenda, the commander of the third town, had been waiting impatiently for a long time. Seeing that the enemy had already attacked within 200 meters, he immediately ordered: "Raise the gun!"
Zhentong's military flag then pointed diagonally 45 degrees to the right.
There were officers at the front to observe the command signal of the Zhentong Flag, so the soldiers of the Third Town, under the command of their respective officers, raised their rifles one after another.
Mongolian men, as long as they are over seven years old, must ride on horseback and help their elders herd sheep and cattle.
It is true that we are a nation on horseback!
The charging cavalry continued to speed up and entered about 100 meters away. The Mongolian knights on horseback drew their bows and arrows and fired fatal arrows at the new army's front.
This is the traditional skill of the Mongols, using the impact of the war horse to make the arrow miss farther.
"Uh." A New Army soldier, who unfortunately was hit by an arrow in the face, screamed and fell to the ground.
A New Army soldier not far away was hit by an arrow in the chest and fell to the ground rolling in pain.
The formation of the line infantry was too dense, and it was impossible to get someone to carry him down from his position.
The wounded soldiers were rolling on the ground in pain, and the sound of wailing reached their ears, making their noses sore. They really wanted to cry, but there were no tears.
He was surrounded by his comrades-in-arms, but no one could do anything to him. They could only watch him helplessly, unable to move, and gradually became silent.
The tactic of lining up to be shot determined that if any soldier of the New Army was injured, no one would dare to squat down to help him.
Because, in front of the cavalry charge, the disorganized line infantry were nothing more than fish and meat, just a plate of appetizers.
For the survival rights of more comrades, in many cases, individual lives can only be sacrificed.
War is so cruel!
Battlefield discipline is so ruthless!
It is definitely not a lie!
As soon as the large group of Mongolians rushed within 80 meters, Liu Shenghong gave the order to shoot in turn.
"Pah, pah, pah..." The crisp sound of gunfire rang out immediately, and thick white smoke rose over the position of the third town.
The pungent white smoke almost obscured the entire front line. At this time, the grassroots commanders on the front line could no longer clearly see the enemy's situation. They could only mechanically command their subordinates to fire round after round.
According to the officer's order, the soldiers repeated the same set of actions over and over again: shooting, loading, waiting for orders, shooting again, and so on.
"Papa..."
Amidst the intensive gunfire, a dozen Mongolians who were rushing at the front fell off their horses.
"Bah, bang, bang..." The Mongols continued to charge upwards, and gunshots continued to sound.
In the process of repeatedly stretching the distance, many horses and the corpses of knights fell in front of the new army's line.
After all, volley shooting is not machine gun fire, and it cannot completely stop individual fish that slip through the net.
Suddenly, a war horse without a knight galloped in front of the new army's line.
Everyone thought that the knight on the horse had fallen off his horse and died.
Who would have thought that the Mongolian knight was hiding under the horse's belly. He suddenly swung his sword and attacked. Several of the New Army soldiers who were caught off guard were immediately chopped down. The air was filled with a thick smell of blood.
The Mongolian knight succeeded in the sneak attack, and when he was feeling proud, suddenly a volley of gunshots rang out, and his chest suddenly hurt. His vision immediately went dark, and he fell off his horse.
At this moment, in front of the New Army's front line, dense volleys of guns kept ringing.
The soldiers didn't know how many rounds they fired in a cycle. They just obeyed the orders mechanically, raising their guns, shooting, loading, raising their guns again, and shooting again.
It wasn't until they heard the loud bugle sound that the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and stopped shooting.