After the reward silver was given to the new auxiliary troops, their morale was indeed greatly boosted. Moreover, although the more than 200,000 taels of silver from Jierhalang were promised to the soldiers who killed the enemy in front of the battle, they would not wait until after the war.
, Tang Tong naturally had a way to get the money from the hands of the soldiers into his own pocket.
Therefore, even Tang Tong, who had previously been afraid of the Dashun Army, now had strong fighting spirit and felt that destroying the bandits might not be such a difficult task.
Tunqi, who followed Tang Tong to attack to resist the attack of Liu Fangliang's heavy cavalry, watched all this with cold eyes. After the defeat at Nirvana, he had re-evaluated the combat effectiveness of the Shun army. Among the Qing army, he was one of the quite calm generals.
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Unlike Tang Tong, Tunqi was not fooled by the Qing army's temporary momentum. He could also see something deeper:
Since the enemy was fighting against a trapped beast, the determination and courage to leap into the valley to find food must have surpassed those of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who were motivated by the silver reward.
The dark dilemma of not being able to win but seeking death is a gap that is difficult for motley troops like the Ming Army to appreciate.
Tunqi was already prepared that Tang Tong could not win - this situation was what he and Jierhalang had considered. As long as these last Han soldiers could cause enough damage to the bandits, it would be enough.
That's fine.
The Qing soldiers and horses besieging the city had already dug a heavy trench in the surrounding suburbs of Shenzhou City as early as yesterday. The Chinese army camp where Jilhalang was located also built another layer of wooden fences outside the camp wall.
, and there are also many antlers piled up in many important places.
Prince Zhuang's plan was to treat the Han soldiers as expendables and fight against the bandits one by one to consume the bandits' strength. The Qing army's own core troops, whether they were the real Manchu Taijun or those Han army bannermen, were all in the end.
It is necessary to rely on heavy trenches and camp walls to stop the enemy.
Under such a complete deployment of the Qing army, even if the bandits can break out of the encirclement, their breakout force must have been severely damaged, and the new force will be seriously damaged. Even if they can rush to the Huolu battlefield and participate in the main meeting between Qingshun and Qingshun
It would be difficult to reverse the Qing army's unshakable superiority despite the war.
Therefore, the nearly a thousand Manchu soldiers led by Tun Qi himself must not easily fall into the enemy's formation. They must use them carefully, do their job of supervising the team, and encourage the morale of the Han soldiers. No matter how dangerous the situation is,
Unfortunately, Jierhalang also asked him not to fall into a meaningless battle with the bandits rashly.
Tunqi had experienced the defeat at Nirvana, and he certainly knew that the bandits had not yet been overwhelmed by the myth of the Qing army's invincibility. The bandits were still a tough force with a lot of backbone and were very tough to chew. The Manchu soldiers could only be used in
The final blow should be struck, and it should never be easily thrown into a war of attrition.
This level of lesson can be regarded as a summary experience and lesson for the Dashun Army drawn by the knowledgeable people within the Manchu people after experiencing the three battles of Dangshan, Baigouhe, and Nirvanakou!
Under the command of Tang Tong, more than 10,000 Ming soldiers with Changping Town officers and soldiers as the core force broke out of the Chinese army's formation and prepared to fight the Shun army in the wilderness between the Qing army's siege trenches and Shenzhou City.
These officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as the cream of the tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops. Their military appearance is relatively neat, and their battle formations can be regarded as relatively organized. They did not turn into a chaotic crowd, but
Under the organization of the officers, they pounced on Liu Fangliang in several waves.
After the heavy cavalry of the Shun Army fired a final wave of arrows and bullets, Liu Fangliang and Hao Yaoqi turned away from their horses, and each led the Zuoying's three wall elite cavalry and Chu Chuang cavalry to wedge themselves into the enemy formation.
Liu Fangliang clamped the spear under his ribs, and the war horses galloped like thunderous clouds, and the smoke was swirling, as if the landslide and the earth were cracking. The Zuoying cavalry's impact speed became faster and faster, the four hooves of the horses were staggered in one place, the earth shook, Liu Fangliang and
The knights on his left and right all lowered their upper bodies slightly, taking their hands away from the reins and saddle, and only relied on the strength of their waists and abdomen and the help of the saddle and stirrups to fix themselves on the horse's back.
Two teams of both Han Chinese went head-to-head with Maimang. Everything happened under the cold eyes of Tunqi. He led nearly a thousand Manchurian troops to guard the flanks of the Ming army's assault formation, waiting quietly for the Han and Han people.
The bloody fight and consumption between them.
The cavalry of the Shun army mostly wore blue smocks, while the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were in short supply of military uniforms due to long-term arrears of food and pay. Many soldiers were wearing different clothes, which looked a bit disorganized from a distance.
The formation of the Shun army was so neat.
Fortunately, the morale of the officers and soldiers was still quite good due to the reward silver that Jierhalang issued in front of the battle. The charging power of the heavy cavalry of the Shun army was already amazing. Even Tun Qi, who was watching the changes in the battle situation from a distance,
They were all secretly frightened by Liu Fangliang's violent attack.
However, such an astonishing charge did not defeat the Ming soldiers. Tang Tong still surrounded the center with a group of servants. Those fishy Ming soldiers who were inspired by the silver reward did not hesitate to advance and faced them.
The Shun army's charge counterattacked vigorously, and they were massacred in the formation.
The flags of the two armies were mixed together, and the military lines suddenly became entangled. Liu Fangliang originally thought that the siege troops left by Huang Taiji were just weak enemies who were vulnerable to attack. He did not expect that the morale of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers would be greatly improved after they had enough pay to support them.
Cheer up, it's still so difficult.
The Zuoying cavalry was too overconfident. Liu Fangliang only wanted to rush to the Chinese army's formation where Jierhalang was located. He did not anticipate the situation of dealing with the Ming army's counterattack. As a result, the battle situation became anxious. Dashun's heavy cavalry was caught off guard.
, after a brief charge, they were soon trapped in the enemy's siege and could not break free, so they had to resort to hand-to-hand combat.
This kind of hand-to-hand combat is very uneconomical for Zuoying's heavy cavalry equipped with man and horse. Many knights either had their horses cut down by the enemy, or were dragged off their horses directly by the enemy, falling into a brutal battle of attrition.
Although Liu Fangliang himself was invincible, he led a group of personal cavalry to rush left and right in an attempt to open up the situation. But at this time, Tunqi gradually felt that the opportunity to fight was revealed, and immediately deployed the Manchu princes to wander around the outside of the battle line, constantly attacking
For cavalry and shooting raids, the Eight Banners soldiers have some sniper masters with precise archery skills. They mostly use light arrows with extremely long range. They all use several cavalry to shoot at one place. The goal is to snipe and kill high-value officers among the enemy.
general.
Many elite veterans on the three walls of the left camp were shot and fell by the Manchurian horse archers. Although almost all of them were wearing heavy armor, a few arrows could not kill them at all. However, the Manchurian soldiers' arrow skills were very accurate, and many of them were injured.
Mainly shooting war horses, the knights whose horses were injured were more likely to be surrounded by Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, and the situation suddenly became dangerous.
Hao Yaoqi, who was fighting at the other end of the battle line, had no pressure. The tactics used by Chu Chuang's cavalry were different from the traditional Three Walls of Dashun Army, although Li Laiheng also named Chu Chuang's elite cavalry the Three Walls Cavalry -
- But obviously their walls are more "thick" and at the same time more "fragile".