Dorgon led Zhu Beile and a dozen Mongolian nobles to stand in front of the formation. A dozen ornate gold-woven dragon cloths stood behind them, indicating to the entire army that in front of the central army were a thousand solid wooden bridges. 2
Wanduo auxiliary soldiers stood beside the wooden bridge, ready to raise the wooden bridge and charge into the formation at any time.
However, the brutal Qing army did not launch its first wave of attacks from the wooden bridge.
The first wave of attacks were the people of the Ming Dynasty who had been captured by the Qing army.
Li Zhi looked at the Qing army with a telescope and saw that behind the wooden bridges, the Qing army used whips and swords to drive away tens of thousands of looting people to the front of the battle array. Those ragged Ming people were holding iron drills one by one.
The Qing army actually wanted to use these unarmed people to fill in the trenches.
The common people were all wearing shabby cotton-padded clothes, and some even had no cotton-padded clothes, shivering in the cold wind. The common people were men, women, old and young, and they did not dare to resist under the swords of the Qing soldiers. But they saw the Qing army's cautious appearance.
, also knew that the Ming army in front was not a good enemy, and the Qing army drove these common people to fill trenches this time, which was more dangerous than good.
Going forward is death, and retreating is also death. Many people felt that a disaster was coming, so they grabbed their tools and started crying in front of the formation.
The Qing soldiers were merciless and whipped the crying people with whips.
After a while, tens of thousands of civilians stood in front of the formation. The Qing army's central military horn blew, and the soldiers urged three to forty thousand Ming civilians to rush towards the first trench and fill it with the tools in their hands.
Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters away from the riflemen, the people rushed to the first trench like a tide. They took a cautious look at the silent military base and began to move in the trench.
They had to dig and fill the steep trench into a trench with a gentle angle so that Qing soldiers could run through it.
Seeing the people rushing towards him, Zheng Kaicheng looked at Li Zhi with a pale face and asked, "Sir, what should I do?"
The camp built by Li Zhi was in the shape of a zigzag, with four sides equally wide, each of which was 750 meters. Li Zhi's Huben Division suffered some casualties in the Battle of Gyeonggi, and now there are more than 400
Li Zhi left 2,000 soldiers to guard Fanjiazhuang, while he led 9,600 soldiers to fight in the stronghold of Maligou.
On each of the four sides of the stronghold, 2,400 soldiers were arranged in a four-row firing formation. One hundred and forty cannons were all placed in front.
The infantry on the front of the stronghold consisted of 2,000 riflemen from the Selection Regiment and 400 riflemen from the Polu Regiment. Li Xing, the leader of the Selection Regiment, stayed at Fanjiazhuang, and Zheng Kaicheng, as the leader of the Polu Regiment, was appointed as the commander of the frontal battle.
Officer, stand at the front and command the battle.
Hearing Zheng Kaicheng's hesitation, Li Zhi shouted: "Shoot!"
Zheng Kaicheng was tongue-tied: "Sir, these are common people!"
Li Zhi shouted angrily: "I said shoot!"
Zheng Kaicheng lowered his head, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Fire!"
The horn sounded, and the soldiers in the first row aimed at the civilians filling the trench and opened fire.
Six hundred bullets were fired at the civilians 200 meters away, knocking down hundreds of terrified civilians in one fell swoop. The civilians filling in the soil felt as if they had been struck by lightning, and looked at their fallen companions in surprise, and all stopped their hands.
Actions.
Listening to the Tatars' confrontation with the government and the army, it really didn't end well.
The second wave of bullets came quickly, and hundreds of civilians fell to the ground covered in blood.
Tens of thousands of civilians woke up from a dream and no longer dared to work in front of the trenches. They screamed and fled behind the formations. More than 30,000 Ming civilians lost their order and rushed towards the Qing army camp like the tide during the reservoir discharge.
Went back.
The soldiers of the Qing army slashed and killed the fleeing civilians with swords, but to no avail. No matter how ferocious the Qing army was, they could only kill a few civilians. But the officers and soldiers in the stronghold could kill hundreds of people with just one shot.
.It is clear at a glance which side is more dangerous.
The Qing army's military formation was very frightening. The 30,000 plundered civilians did not dare to rush into the military formation. They collapsed from both sides of the military formation and fled two miles away. Two thousand horse-armored soldiers rushed up and chopped them down for a while before they dared.
Run away again.
Seeing the defeat of the newly captured slaves, Dorgon bit his lip and remained silent.
Although he had long known that these slaves would be defeated by the Ming army, Li Zhi opened fire without hesitation, which still surprised Dorgon. This Li Zhi was so cruel and showed no mercy to the people of the Ming Dynasty. This man
If it is not eliminated, the Qing Dynasty will surely suffer from it!
However, can I get rid of him? He even blocked his way out of seclusion.
Dorgon took a breath and waved his hand.
The trumpets of the Chinese army sounded, and a thousand wooden bridges were lifted up and prepared to charge into the formation. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Qing army walked from the back of the Chinese army to the front of the Chinese army, lined up behind the wooden bridges, and formed a huge attack formation.
The military flag is fluttering, the tassels are flying, and it looks like a flame from a distance.
Abata looked at Dorgon's face and asked, "General, are you ordered to start attacking Li Zhi?"
Dorgon looked at Li Zhi's fortress in front of him, and for some reason he hesitated and felt like retreating. In Dorgon's eyes, the small fortress was like a hill, seemingly indestructible.
After gritting his teeth and thinking for a long time, Dorgon shook his head and said: "Don't rush yet, let's go up to the ten wooden bridges and give it a try!"
Abate did not expect that Dorgon would suddenly hesitate, and looked at Hauge in surprise.
If you let ten wooden bridges go up, you will definitely not be able to rush up, and the lives of some warriors will be sacrificed. But if you use these more than 200 soldiers to test it, you will know the strength of the Ming army and whether it is necessary to attack with the whole army. This is a kind of
A very cautious approach, although it will cause small casualties, can prevent the army from falling into a trap without knowing what is going on.
Abatai secretly sighed and admired Dorgon for being so cautious at such a young age. Both the emperor and Zhu Beile thought highly of Dorgon, especially after Yangu Li lost most of the Zhenghuang Banner in the battle at Fanjiazhuang, the emperor had important decisions to make.
They would all ask Dorgon for his opinion and respect Dorgon very much.
This kind of respect is indeed worthy. If the emperor were not more wise and powerful, it would be possible for all the beile to serve Dorgon as their master.
The flag was fluttering, conveying the order of the Chinese army, and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and followers were asked to lower the wooden bridge again and wait for the order.
The ten selected wooden bridges go out to fight!
The ten wooden bridges walked out of the queue with the sound of the horn and marched towards the Ming army stronghold in the middle of Mali ditch.
The people holding the wooden bridge were all auxiliary soldiers and followers in the Qing army. For the unskilled task of building bridges and filling trenches, Dorgon left it to the auxiliary soldiers and followers to operate. Because Dorgon was worried that Li Zhi had something hidden in his possession.
The ultimate move, if the soldiers and horses crossing the bridge are massively destroyed, it will not be so heart-wrenching to kill some auxiliary soldiers and followers. 8
