On May 20th, the Huben army attacked Shenyang and faced off with 50,000 Qing Qing cavalry thirty miles outside the city.
Looking at the Tatars standing silently on the wasteland, Xue Sanku asked in surprise: "My lord, the Tatars have evacuated Shenyang. They have even removed the door panels in the city, and they are all fleeing to the north. They are obviously preparing to do so." Abandoned Shenyang. Since you gave up Shenyang, why did you put 50,000 cavalry here to fight us?"
Zheng Kaicheng had just returned from Tianjin to recruit the people of Liao Dynasty. He was a little tired from traveling back and forth. However, the excitement of conquering Liaodong and regaining the Han family's homeland supported him, and his mental state was very exciting. He put down the telescope and said: "The entire Tatar faction The cavalry seems to come to fight for the convenience of escape."
"The leader is Prince Zheng Jierharang!" Li Laosi put down the telescope and said: "My boss, I think the Tatars are using cavalry to test our 40,000 recruits. After all, abandoning Shenyang is a heartbreaking thing for the Tatars. Before giving up Shenyang completely, we need to test one last time whether our new recruits are all capable and capable soldiers."
After a pause, Li Laosi said: "If our recruits reveal flaws and Dorgon thinks there is an opportunity, hundreds of thousands of Tatar soldiers will probably swarm us and eat us up."
Zhong Feng scolded: "The thief is a fool, no matter what his intentions are, just defeat these Tatars!"
While everyone was discussing, Jilharang's cavalry began to move.
Fifty thousand cavalrymen were dispatched, and twenty thousand were dispatched, like an overwhelming sea water rushing towards the Tiger Army. The sound of tens of thousands of horse hooves hit the ground, like a rumble of thunder.
Li Zhi sneered and put down the telescope used to observe the Qing army.
Facing the Tatar cavalry, the Huben army deployed four loop formations. The four loop formations were laid flat in the direction facing the Tatar cavalry. Each loop formation had 10,000 people. Each loop formation had 10,000 soldiers. The front is more than 500 meters wide.
Four thousand cold weapon cavalry under Ancestor Dashou were arranged in the middle of the formation, ready to attack at any time.
This time Li Zhi brought 300 heavy artillery and deployed them in the army. He could have brought more artillery, but considering that the Northeast Plains was too vast and the artillery supply support was too difficult, he only brought 300 artillery pieces in the end. At this time, the cannons were arranged on ten sides outside the four circular formations, with thirty cannons placed on one side of each circular formation.
At a distance of three miles, one hundred and twenty cannons on the front of four circular formations opened fire on the Manchu cavalry.
With a loud roar, the cannonballs shot straight into the mighty Tatar cavalry formation like meteors. Wherever the cannonballs passed, both men and horses were immediately smashed into pieces and turned into pieces of meat. There were screams in Zi's cavalry queue, and hundreds of gaps appeared in the menacing cavalry queue.
Zhong Feng burst out laughing when he saw the Tatars being hit hard.
"Commander, look at those stupid Tatars!"
Li Zhi looked at the excited Zhong Feng but said nothing.
After being bombarded by a round of artillery fire, Jilharang's central military office immediately blew the horn to change the formation. The Tatar cavalry immediately slowed down their horses and began to lengthen and widen the tight formation, gradually turning into a sparse formation. .
The Tatar cavalry rushed a few hundred meters, and the cannon in front of the Tiger Army opened fire again, firing another 120 solid bullets at the Tatars.
However, this time, the Tatar formation was sparse, and the shells bounced on the ground a few times, causing less damage than the previous round.
The Tatar cavalry saw the ferocious firepower of the Tiger and Ben troops in the front and stopped attacking the front. Only a dozen conch trumpets were heard one after another. The Tatar cavalry split into two groups and passed over the Tiger and Ben troops in the front as if they were broken by sea water.
Go around the side of the circle formation.
Sixty cannons arranged on the side fired one after another.
The solid bullet shoots straight forward, smashing and smashing any target that is unlucky enough to be hit by it. Then it bounces on the black soil covered with weeds for a while, continues to jump, and then hits the target in front of it. The Tatar cavalry
There was a scream of men and horses in the queue, and it was unknown how many people died under these sixty solid bullets.
The Tatar cavalry rode on the flank in mighty force. Seeing that the Tiger and Ben army on the flank had high fighting spirit and well-organized formations, and a continuous stream of artillery, they did not stop and made a large circle to the back of the Tiger and Ben army's formation.
Zhong Feng cursed: "Commander, these Tatars are looking for our weakness!"
Li Zhi sneered and said: "We can't let these Tatars come here in vain, you go and expose some flaws in the artillery behind!"
Zhong Feng laughed loudly and rode towards the back of the formation.
Compared with infantry, cavalry has extremely high mobility. When cavalry encounters infantry, they can freely choose when to fight and from which position to fight. Even if Li Zhi's Tiger Infantry is armed to the teeth, it cannot change the time when cavalry and infantry fight.
This natural law of.
The 20,000 Tatar cavalry circled around the back of the Tiger Army and began to bully the riflemen within a mile, using the sound of rolling iron hooves to suppress the Tianjin soldiers guarding there.
One hundred and twenty cannons on the back fired one after another.
Most of Li Zhi's 40,000 soldiers were recruits who had never been on the battlefield. In order to enhance the frontal defense, Li Zhi deployed more veterans on the front and more recruits on the back. These recruits were among the 20,000 Tatar Qing cavalry.
There was some tension under the pressure, and these situations fell into the eyes of the Taqing cavalry.
Not only that, under Zhong Feng's instruction, the three heavy cannons behind the circular formation misfired. The gunners of the three heavy cannons properly lit the match ropes, but failed to fire the cannons.
Among the artillery formations spitting out flames continuously, the three misfired heavy cannons were particularly conspicuous.
The Tatar cavalry runs very fast and has great maneuverability. They can choose when to go to war. But they have a natural shortcoming, that is, they are overall at a disadvantage in this war. So sometimes even for a possibility
Even with a small chance of winning, they had to give it a try.
When the Tatar cavalry saw these three misfired cannons, they suddenly became excited like flies smelling the smell of meat. These cavalrymen tried back and forth, hoping to find the weak points of the Tiger and Ben army. And these three misfired cannons seemed to
The label of "poor psychological quality" was put on the faces of the Tiger and Ben Army soldiers behind the formation.
The Tatar conch trumpets sounded one after another, and the 20,000 cavalrymen separated into 5,000 men, swooping like a swarm of flies towards the area where the cannon misfired.
Zhong Feng laughed.
"These stupid Tartars!"
The five thousand Tatars thought they had found a weak point, but they did not know that the misfire of the artillery was Li Zhi's performance, and they hit an iron plate. After a year of hard training, Li Zhi's Tiger and Ben Army recruits were beaten countless times.
No matter how many times the gun has been fired, even if you lack actual combat experience, you will not show mercy to the Tatars.
What greeted the five thousand Tatars charging into the formation were shotgun shells from thirty artillery pieces. Nearly ten thousand shotgun pellets suddenly spurted out, dominating the area in front of the formation like a sheet of deadly smoke, seeming to destroy everything. 8
