Dorgon is calm on the outside, but restless inside. Xue Yongli is also calm on the outside, but restless inside. Facing the upcoming national war, both coaches are a little nervous.
However, it takes a long time for hundreds of thousands of troops to form a pre-battle formation. However, the two armies patiently arranged their troops and did not bother to harass the enemy's formation. It was very common before the battle for the cavalry to arrive at the enemy's formation.
The chase battle between the former provocateur and the small cavalry did not appear. Today it was decided to decide the outcome, so the two coaches were not interested in playing tricks.
But while waiting, several Qing soldiers came from the direction of Shanhaiguan. They delivered an urgent message to Dorgon. Dorgon opened it and looked at it, and a smile immediately appeared on his face. Then he
He announced loudly to the surrounding Qing generals: "Soni and the others fought well! They pushed back Wu Ni's troops who rescued the two cities in Liaodong. You must also fight well and don't let Sony and the others steal the show in front of you!"
"Good!" Good news came before the war, which was really a good sign. Then a burst of cheers broke out under the command of the Chinese Army Commander.
Looking at the cheers of the generals, Dorgon still kept smiling, and then he stuffed the urgent message into his arms. The urgent message was indeed sent by Sony. However, the content in it was not Dorgon's.
The good news that Gon mentioned was just a report: Sony's reconnaissance cavalry and Pegasus Town's reconnaissance cavalry have met, and there may be a war with Pegasus Town soon. Of course, the meaning of Sony's urgent report is to ask Dorgon to do more
Send some reinforcements there.
But after receiving this emergency report, Dorgon felt a lot more relieved. He thought he seemed to understand the reason. It turned out that in order to hold back the main force of the Qing army, Dorgon was not allowed to send troops to support the Sony Department, which was why the Daping Army behaved like this.
The ground turns from defense to offense. After understanding this reason, Dorgon was relieved. Having a result is much better than making random guesses.
Besides, because Shanhaiguan is now in the hands of the Qing army, the Qing army is actually fighting on the inside. As long as the main force of the Daping army in front of it is repulsed, the Qing army can easily pass through Shanhaiguan to support the Sony Department. It can even seize the offensive advantage of the Daping army.
There is a flaw, let's have a battle to decide the outcome. Of course, Dorgon now most hopes that Abate's troops will appear.
The reason why Dorgon hid it from the generals around him just now was because the Sony Department had just made contact with Pegasus Town, and no battle report had been transmitted at all. So why did Dorgon distract the generals? Everything was
Focus on the decisive battle in front of you.
What is very interesting is that before the decisive battle began, Dorgon pinned his hopes for victory on the threat of the Abatai tribe to the Daping Army's rear route; while Xue Yongli pinned his hopes for victory on the Han Dynasty.
The army's betrayal and the arrival of reinforcements. Due to lack of information, the two coaches did not understand the battle situation in other theaters. They also pinned their hopes on off-the-table moves outside the battlefield.
On the other hand, Dorgon and Xue Yongli also lacked confidence that their armies could win today's decisive battle relying solely on their own strength.
"Master! How should we fight?" Seeing that both sides were about to complete their formation, Tuberi asked Dorgon.
"Just follow the old routine of the past few days and let the Han army flag in front charge first." Dorgon replied.
Dorgon responded to all changes by remaining unchanged, trying to make Xue Yongli on the opposite side misunderstand. It seemed that the Qing army did not notice anything strange about the Daping army. This attracted Xue Yongli to make command errors.
Following Dorgon's order, the more than 20,000 Han troops at the front of the Qing army, all under the cover of the front row of oars, slowly pressed towards the Daping Army's main formation.
The current Qing army also has experience in fighting against the Daping Army. Therefore, their oars and carts are relatively scattered and will not concentrate fire on the Daping Army's artillery. Moreover, they have completely abandoned the tactic of cavalry charging into the formation.
The weapons of the Daping Army were restricted from showing off their power, so the battle was infantry versus infantry at the beginning.
Seeing that the Qing army still maintained its normal behavior of attacking first, Xue Yongli couldn't help but say "Hey".
There was no way to hide the early departure of the 100,000-strong army, and Xue Yongli never thought of hiding it. But according to Xue Yongli's understanding, the Qing army's tactics would definitely make corresponding changes. Unexpectedly, the Qing army is still the same as before.
, which caused Xue Yongli to have a lot of doubts.
Could it be that the Qing army had already discovered that the Han army had rebelled? Could it be that the Qing army wanted to take advantage of the situation? Could there be some accident that he didn't know about? Question marks appeared in Xue Yongli's mind.
However, the Qing army had already attacked first according to the old routine, so the Daping army should give up the attack and defend according to the old routine! So Xue Yongli made a gesture and asked the troops to defend first. Then the soldiers immediately walked along the passage
He ran to the front troops and passed Xue Yongli's orders to everyone.
The subsequent battle was like a repeat of the previous days. The artillery of the Daping Army was still the first to show off its power. However, the Qing Army's oars were relatively scattered, and the artillery could not focus on firing. Therefore, although the artillery shells destroyed many oars, but this
The losses were still within the tolerance of the Qing army. Even with the cover of the oars, long-range firepower such as muskets and swarms of bees had no shooting effect. Therefore, the Daping army simply did not use these firepowers.
After the Qing army's oar car approached, the Daping army's phalanx had already lined up a spear formation. After the Qing army behind the oar car rushed out, they immediately threw a large number of javelins and throwing axes at the Daping army to disrupt them.
The spear formation of the Daping Army.
However, under the cover of the free fire of the gunmen, the spear formation of the Daping Army moved forward and began to assassinate. The number of casualties on both sides gradually increased. However, not long after the battle, the formation of the Daping Army was still there.
If it remained intact, the Qing army began to call for gold, so the fighting Qing soldiers also dragged their oars back to their formation.
Originally, according to the old routine, the Qing army should have withdrawn its troops after several similar battles and ended the day's battle. However, the subsequent battle deviated from this trajectory.
Seeing the retreat of the Qing army, Xue Yongli also immediately ordered: "The ten regiments in the front row maintain the square formation and move forward at the speed of review."
The inspection speed of the Daping Army was equivalent to modern times, which was about seven to eighty steps per minute. So the drummers of each regiment beat the war drums, and the ten phalanxes composed of ten regiments in the front row also all
March forward to the beat of the drum.
Seeing the ten square formations of the Daping Army marching forward in uniform steps with their spears erect, some Qing soldiers who did not know the inside story widened their eyes and found it difficult to accept the sudden change in the tactics of the Daping Army.
Tubeli and others, who knew that the Daping Army might move, pointed at the Daping Army's phalanx and shouted excitedly: "Here they come! They are attacking!"
