Fifteen thousand infantrymen approached Zheng Kaicheng's Polu Division.
These Tatar infantry soldiers are not as elite as the horse soldiers, which can be seen just from their horses. Compared with the tall horses of the horse soldiers, the horses of these infantry soldiers are at least half a head shorter. Galloping in the wilderness, these infantry soldiers have no
Fifteen thousand vests are so menacing and breathtaking.
However, these infantry were very arrogant and forced them to be around 400 meters away from the Polu Division.
Ten thousand soldiers of the Polu Division formed a circular formation to meet the enemy. Zheng Kaicheng hid the cannon behind the queue of soldiers and asked the soldiers to quietly load the cannon.
The infantry soldiers around the Polu Division are obviously not as vigilant as the cavalry soldiers. If the cavalry soldiers come to harass, the cavalry soldiers on horseback will stand on their horses from time to time to observe the Polu Division's cannons. Once they find that the cannon has been removed from the artillery carriage, or even just the cannon is found.
When out of sight, they will whistle and run away.
The reaction of these infantry soldiers was much slower. As long as they did not see the muzzle of the cannon pointed at them, they did not pay attention to the position of Zheng Kaicheng's cannon. Maybe individual infantry soldiers have become vigilant, but the overall stress ability of the infantry soldiers is relatively weak. Individual soldiers
His vigilance failed to affect the entire queue of more than 10,000 people.
Suddenly the horn sounded in Zheng Kaicheng's army, and the soldiers in the front row of the cannon retreated at the same time, exposing the cannon with loaded shells.
With a loud roar, fifty cannons aimed at the densely formed Tatar infantry and fired.
Fifty rounds of artillery shells were like fifty rays of lightning, piercing into the queue of infantry soldiers 400 meters away. The power of solid shells during bombing at such a close distance was very terrifying. Wherever the artillery shells hit, they destroyed everything.
Whether they were war horses or infantry, they were all smashed to pieces. The shells had to penetrate four or five layers of soldiers before they stopped.
The infantry soldiers woke up from a dream and knew that the Ming army's artillery was already aimed at them. The infantry soldiers panicked and fled far away.
But Zheng Kaicheng's cannon can complete a reload and fire in twenty seconds at its maximum rate of fire. It is not easy for the infantry soldiers to escape beyond the three-mile direct range of the cannon.
Fifty cannons were like fifty butchers, constantly bombarding the infantry who were huddled together and escaping.
By the time the infantry soldiers had fled three miles away, Zheng Kaicheng's cannon had fired four rounds, and the barrel was very hot. If the barrel was not too hot during rapid fire, Zheng Kaicheng could have disabled all of these infantry soldiers. But even if only
After four rounds of fighting, hundreds of infantry soldiers were killed, which was regarded as being severely damaged.
The artillery bombing stopped, and hundreds of scout cavalry rushed out, using muskets to shoot the infantry soldiers who had lost their horses. Some of the infantry horses were hit by the cannonballs, but they were not injured. These infantry soldiers who lost their horses ran away.
Unhappiness is the best target for scout cavalry.
The sound of gunshots and the screams of infantrymen were heard everywhere on the battlefield.
Finally, Zheng Kaicheng cleaned up the battlefield and found that a total of 731 Tatar infantry had been killed.
After a few such killings, these 15,000 infantry soldiers will completely collapse. Obviously, the infantry soldiers with poor tactical literacy will not be able to entangle the Polu division and prevent Li Zhi's food and grass from being transported to the front line.
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On the second day of September, Li Zhi faced off against Dorgon's army, which was mobilized by the whole clan, south of Alchukha.
Hundreds of thousands of Tatars were like an ocean covering the sky and the earth, surrounding the Tiger Army who were defending the camp. From a distance, it looked like a small red camp in a black ocean.
Zhong Feng stood next to Li Zhi, looked at the Manchu army in the distance with a telescope, and spat: "This Dorgon is really too smart. When he saw Zheng Kaicheng's grain transport team going south, he
Raise all your troops and attack our 34,000 men."
Li Laosi said: "I'm afraid there are 110,000 to 20,000 Tatars. We only have 30,000 riflemen among the 34,000 people. Zu Dashou's 4,000 cavalry are not equipped with rifles. We have no advantage in combat power. I
Let’s wait for the 10,000 Polu divisions to come back, and then we can attack Dorgon from the inside and outside together.”
Li Zhi nodded and said: "What Li Laosi said makes sense. We will wait for Zheng Kaicheng's troops to return before we fight the Tatars decisively."
After Li Zhi's army discovered that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was attacking, they immediately dug trenches and established camps on the spot. By the time the Tatar Qing army surrounded Huben's army, 34,000 people had already dug a trench nearby, and behind the trench there were another
An earth wall was built. The front of the earth wall was covered with caltrops. The cannons were hidden behind the temporary earth fort, with only one muzzle exposed.
Although this kind of defense is simple, it is very effective. If the 110,000 strong Tatar men rushed towards this defense system at the risk of their lives, they would probably lose their blood and still not be able to reach the edge of the Tiger Army.
Therefore, Li Zhi could wait for work and stay in this temporary camp waiting for Zheng Kaicheng's 10,000 troops to join. From August 30 to September 2, Li Zhi actually stayed in this simple camp for three days.
Li Zhi was talking to several division commanders when he saw a commotion outside the camp. Several soldiers came towards Li Zhi holding something in their hands.
"My lord, the slave chief Dorgon sent people to deliver these things."
Li Zhi took the thing from the soldier and opened it, only to find that it was a set of bright women's clothes.
There was also a letter on the clothes, which was written by Dorgon to Li Zhi. The letter was written in Chinese: "The Duke traveled thousands of miles to come, and he was stationed in the wilderness but he did not dare to fight with our Qing soldiers.
, she is actually a woman. I, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgun, gave a piece of women’s clothing to the Duke.”
Everyone was speechless after reading Dorgon's letter.
Zu Dashou half-knelt in front of Li Zhi and said: "My lord, this is Dorgon's method of provoking generals. My lord, please don't be fooled."
Li Zhi held up the colorful women's clothes and said with a smile: "It's a pity that they are too bright and a bit tacky, otherwise I would definitely take them back for my wife to wear."
Zhong Feng took the letter from Li Zhi, read it, and laughed.
Li Laosi looked coldly at the Manchu army outside the camp and spat: "This Dorgon is really full of tricks. I find that if he doesn't play some tricks, he seems to feel uncomfortable all over."
Everyone scolded Dorgon for a while, then drank tea and waited in the Chinese army tent.
Two hours later, when it was getting dark, another messenger came in holding a letter from Dorgon.
Everyone was curious about what tricks Dorgon was going to play, and gathered around Li Zhi to read the letter.
"Your Majesty, Dorgon knows that he is no match for the heavenly troops of the Duke, so he is willing to lead hundreds of thousands of his people to surrender. As long as the Duke allows hundreds of thousands of our people to farm, fish and hunt for a hundred miles around Alchuka
, we are willing to serve the Duke as our master. I, Dorgon, will abdicate and give up the title of emperor. From now on, I will pay tribute of mink skin and ginseng to the Duke every year."
Zhong Feng read the letter and said with a smile: "Dorgon has exhausted his talents and can't use any tricks. He has begun to think about the terms of surrender."
