The total number of troops participating in the battle in Qiantun Town under Li Fuming's command numbered several thousand. After the leading troops of Guan Ning's troops were overwhelmed by Ma Bao's troops, the Chinese army and the rear troops fought and retreated, so that the Ming army's formation did not immediately collapse
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But then the left camp of the Chuang army also attacked with all its strength. The soldiers used their lives and shouted in unison, and the momentum shook the world. The ice of Baigou River trembled. The Ming army suffered another blow and finally could not hold on. It was on the verge of collapse. The entire army
On the verge of collapse.
Although Wu Sangui had already made plans to preserve his strength, he, Liu Zeqing and others did not expect that the fighting power of the Chuang Army would be so fierce. Li Fuming, an elite soldier in the Guan Ning Army who was good at recruiting and fighting, would actually be like this.
Break it to pieces quickly!
Li Jiantai, the supervising scholar who was watching the battle in front of the camp, was the most frightened. He said with fear: "Three generals, our army is completely gone!"
"Bah! Stop talking nonsense, old man!"
Wu Sangui knew very well that if Li Fuming's forward team was defeated by the Chu army, it would have a serious negative impact on the overall morale of the Ming army. Therefore, he had no choice but to temporarily put aside the wait-and-see idea of conserving his troops, threw Li Jiantai away, and even pushed him hard
When he reached the ground, he immediately got on his horse and said hurriedly:
"Shanhai, can the Second Shandong Town move? Will the Eastern Division move out? Let's press forward with all our strength and push away the bandits!"
Gao Di and Liu Zeqing looked at each other with suspicious expressions on each other. Especially Liu Zeqing, who had been ridiculed and reprimanded by Li Fuming before, and was not from Guan Ningjun's system, so he did not bring Shandong to
Zhen’s plan to throw the last bit of his strength into the pot.
But Gaudi still has some overall awareness. He started from the overall situation, held Liu Zeqing's hand, and said sincerely:
"Brother Hezhou, aren't we here just to defeat thieves? If we don't move now, how long will it take? If the Liao soldiers are destroyed, how can the Lu soldiers survive alone?"
What Liu Zeqing was thinking was that if the Liao soldiers were destroyed, then I would simply lead the Lu soldiers to surrender and let the bandits escape. I have soldiers and horses, and in these troubled times, am I still afraid that no one will bribe me?
However, most of the guards standing around in front of the military tent were elite servants of Wu Sangui and Gao Di. Although there were also many soldiers from Shandong Town, they were obviously far inferior to the Liao soldiers in terms of quantity and quality.
The situation was stronger than his own. When Liu Zeqing saw that the veins on Wu Sangui's left palm pressing on the handle of the knife were bulging, he immediately nodded and said: "Follow the second general to defeat the thieves!"
"good!"
Wu Sangui flicked his riding whip and immediately rushed out of the Chinese army camp. Gao Di first helped Liu Zeqing pull a war horse and said warmly: "Uncle Chang is a young man, extreme and has no fixed opinions. Brother Hezhou, don't take it too seriously...
We will always fight together from now on!"
Liu Zeqing secretly thought that Wu Sangui's performance just now, that kind of murderous spirit, if he really disagreed, he would kill him on the spot and annex Shandong Town, right?
He did not regard Wu Sangui as an overly immature "young man" in Gaudi's hands, but as an opponent who must be strictly careful and guarded against.
"Humph... the Liao soldiers are good at fighting, and the Eastern Division is holding the battle, so we Shandong people are just here to do odd jobs."
Gao Di knew that Liu Zeqing was quite dissatisfied with Guan Ning's army, and he also looked down upon Wu Sangui's overly conservative and then extreme and unintelligent style of play since the beginning of the war.
But the troops in Shandong Town are still very helpful to Guan Ning's army!
The Ming army attacked across the board, and countless official and army flags fluttered and fluttered. Suddenly, the sky was covered with military flags. Li Jiantai, who was thrown to the ground by Wu Sangui, saw the formation of the army from a distance.
As soon as he moved, the calm lake turned into a turbulent ocean. He was immediately shocked by this powerful and majestic military appearance and said excitedly:
"The officers and soldiers are brave, the army is out in force, and the second ancestors are protecting us, the Ming Dynasty will surely be crowned!"
The soldiers in Ningyuan Town moved the fastest. They were originally stationed behind a leeward hillock on the northeastern bank of the Baigou River. After Wu Sangui ordered the entire army to attack, the army behaved just like they did when they beat the Qing army several times outside the pass.
Swift, fast yet calm and steady.
Wu Sangui's deputy general Yang Kun and staff general Wu Guozhu were outside the cotton armor and put on a layer of hard and thick cloth armor. They rushed at the front of the team and led the army to the icy battlefield of Baigou River.
The team of officers and soldiers in Ningyuan Town stretched as long as the clouds in the sea. As far as the eye could see, it was endless. The military flag beside Wu Guozhu was blown up by the strong wind as he was flying. It flew several feet away. Lieutenant General Yang Kun couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise:
"The wind is not in my favor. Do we really want to send troops now?"
Wu Sangui pressed his sword and rebuked: "A battle between armies is about meeting on a narrow road, but the brave one wins. How much can the strong wind hinder? It would really be disadvantageous for me to sit back and watch Qiantun Town collapse!"
But before Yang Kun and Wu Guozhu could retrieve the Wu army's banner that had been blown down, everyone suddenly heard a faint sound of artillery shelling. They seemed like thunder rolling from a distance, and the sound of the artillery became louder and louder.
Then it seemed like cannons were fired everywhere. The small light cannons made a banging sound, and the big heavy cannons made a roaring sound. In an instant, there were thousands of horses galloping and thousands of guns roaring, as if they were going to
Eliminate the frozen Baigou River from the ground in Beizhili.
Just after the sound of the cannon, thousands of bullets fell on the ice, and the thousands of meteorites turned into a downpour, washing out a shower of fireworks in the sky above the Baigou River.
In the blink of an eye, the deafening sound of artillery shelling, the smoke generated by the bombardment, and the large pieces of ice thrown up by the artillery shells caused chaos on the battlefield where the intruders and the officers and soldiers of Qiantun Town were fighting.
As long as the jumping cannonball encounters any object blocking it, whether it is a person, a war horse, or a piece of broken ice, it will immediately tear these things to pieces.
Many brave warriors with superb martial arts skills were scratched by iron bullets and lead bullets without any tricks or vitality before they had time to display their extraordinary skills. Then, any place on their hands and feet that was rubbed by the cannonballs would immediately be scratched.
The flesh and blood were blurred and fragmented.
No matter how powerful the warrior is, he cannot withstand the power of artillery. This is the first chemical energy that humans have maturely mastered. It surpasses the degree and speed of accumulation of all physical forces. The moment he releases himself, he immediately
He smashed all the words of praise for bravery to the ground.
This is a mockery of savage bodies from civilized people. The irony is that the best chemical energy in the East Asian world is in the hands of savages.
Gao Di and Liu Zeqing, who had just rushed out of the camp and followed the team in Ningyuan Town, saw the sudden shelling and said in unison:
"The Eastern Division has arrived!"
When Wu Sangui heard the words "Eastern Division has moved out", he no longer felt any pressure in his heart. With Manchurian soldiers standing guard, what should he be afraid of? How could he possibly lose!
When the Manchus are our enemies, they are indeed the most ferocious and terrifying enemies; but when the Manchus become our allies, they must also be the most reliable and trustworthy partners.
Wu Sangui took out his sword from its sheath, pointed it directly at the ice, and shouted: "Follow me to kill the thief!"
The servants around him also waved their weapons and shouted: "Come and kill the thieves with us!"
Guan Ning's army was the first to attack across the board before Li Laiheng. Their troops were extremely large and were fully deployed at this time. The soldiers of Guan Ning's army were crowded all over the mountains and plains, on the roads, trails, fields, and on the ice.
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Wu Sangui could easily see the point where the rebel cavalry gathered most densely. He waved his hand and asked Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wu Guozhu and Staff General Gao Dejie to lead a capable force to take the lead and charge towards the densely populated area of the enemy.
He himself, together with Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief Gao Di and Shandong Town Commander-in-Chief Liu Zeqing, concentrated their actions. On the one hand, they threw the main force into the icy battlefield of Baigou River, striving to drive the intruder cavalry out of the battlefield with a fierce and short counterattack.
Wu Sangui also retained reserve forces to deal with the remaining invading troops on the south bank of the Baigou River at any time.
"The Eastern Division has mobilized across the board? I can't believe in Gao Qiqiu... Keshtu, you are a Mongolian. Go to the Eastern Division camp and take a look at the situation!"
Keshtu was a Mongolian soldier in Ningyuan Town. Of course, Wu Sangui trusted his Mongolian servants more than Gao Qiqian, the eunuch who oversaw the army.
Keshtu gave a military salute and immediately clapped his horse and ran towards the place where the Qing army was stationed. The Qing army had already started shelling, indicating that they were fully prepared for a full-line attack, but Wu Sangui was also afraid that Abatai was just pretending.
Want to rely on rogue thieves to consume the strength of the Ming army!
After all, although there are many close connections between Guan Ning's army and the Qing army, for example, many members of Wu Sangui's uncle's family surrendered in the Qing army camp, but if you look carefully, there is also a lot of hatred between the two sides!
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Note: Many readers said that I made the Ming and Qing armies too strong, and I was suspected of opening a reverse cheat. However, at this time, the combat level of some Ming and Qing armies has indeed reached the first-line level in the world.
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Some people explain that the army is a model of a small number of servants + a large number of guards. However, this combat mode only existed in the early days of Tianqi and Chongzhen. After the camp troops were reorganized in the middle and late periods of Chongzhen, the combat effectiveness of the recruited "camp soldiers" who cooperated with the servants to fight has been extremely high.
A big improvement. Although the Qing Dynasty mostly destroyed relevant data and historical materials, it can still be found in the Eight Banners Annals that in several battles in the middle and late period of Chongzhen, especially the Battle of Songjin, the Qing army also paid what can be called "broken teeth"
"The heavy cost of casualties.
As for why the combat level of the Qing army has reached the first-line level in the world, since some people like to use the beast chess mode to make things against Gustavus II, the second master Gu died in Lützen and fought against the Swedish army of 20,000 people with 60
Cannons. The Battle of Rocroix took place in the 16th year of Chongzhen, that is, 1643. In this classic battle of the Confucius, the French army of more than 20,000 soldiers was only equipped with 12 cannons. The wealthy Clam Fort Army
It is 28,000 men equipped with 30 artillery pieces.
In comparison, the number of artillery deployed by the Ming and Qing armies during the Battle of Songjin was on the order of hundreds per 10,000 people. During the Battle of Rufeng Mountain, Hong Chengchou also used field artillery very skillfully, and just talking about this red army.
The scale of the Yi artillery battle was a grand scene that Gu Erye and Da Kongdai could not even imagine.
As for the cavalry, the Swedish cavalry had not yet charged up the wall at this time. On the contrary, the Swedish cavalry, which had several times the strength advantage in 1653, was overturned by hundreds of hussars. The training and tactical modes of the hussars were completely different.
It is the noble cavalry mode. With two extra feathers, can it be more powerful than the braided soldiers who also adopt this training and tactical mode?
Of course, the Swedish army has reliable artillery and a stable infantry line. In terms of infantry, it has an advantage over the Shunxi and Zheng families of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in East Asia. But comparing the gap in artillery firepower density, I think it can be said that the war in the late Ming Dynasty in East Asia
The technical level is at the forefront of the world.
To sum up, neither the Eight Banners soldiers nor the Ming army in this book were cheating. The Guan Ning army violently defeated the Eight Banners soldiers in the 16th year of Chongzhen, and the Eight Banners soldiers defeated the Cossacks in the Shunzhi period. The Eight Banners soldiers defeated the general Junggar Khan.
The famous Chinese general Ling Dunduobu once killed more than 3,000 Russian troops. According to the theory of fighting beasts, can we get the formula of combat effectiveness that one eight flag soldiers equals five gray animals?