Gu Kecheng, the commander of the large camp in Liucheng, fought and retreated, and the results were not unfruitful. The Qing army chasing along the way did not take any advantage, especially the roundabout light cavalry led by Nikan.
At that time, they blindly attacked the phalanx of musketeers formed by the Shun army, and were fired upon intensively by the musketeers, causing heavy losses.
The gunmen of Dashun Army should probably be called according to the more famous name called by the soldiers of Zuozhen in the past, "Ting Army"!
A large number of gunmen from the Ting Army were arranged neatly even during the march and retreat. They stood around Gu Kecheng, guarding General Quan of the front army with firm steps and formations.
Gu Kecheng's expression was a little sad. Every time he thought of Wang Deren behind the camp hall in Liucheng and Wang Zamao's determination to die, he felt doubly that he must shoulder all the responsibilities of expelling the Tartars and completing Li Zicheng's unfinished business.
"Your Majesty! It's Luqi who's rushing up."
That was the light cavalry unit commanded by Nikan. They rounded the flanks of the Shun army and tried to directly cut off the road for the remaining defenders to retreat to Xuzhou. However, in terms of speed, Nikan was one step slower than Gu Kecheng, and as a result, the return route was cut off.
Interspersed and divided, it turned into an unexpected encounter.
Gu Kecheng did not feel the slightest panic. He could easily see that Nikan's troops were almost all fast-moving light cavalry. Most of the knights did not even wear a layer of cloth armor, only a livery.
There is even less vest for the war horse.
In Gu Kecheng's view, such protective conditions would not pose much of a threat to the defenders' retreat.
What's more, Nikan's light cavalry troops with such equipment were actually extremely arrogant. After discovering the main force of the retreating troops, he did not adopt the tactic of harassing and delaying along the way. Instead, he directly concentrated all the light cavalry on hand and launched a frontal charge.
tactics of warfare.
Gu Kecheng, who has always been calm and resolute, could not help but show a look of ridicule:
"Is this the famous king of the Donglu? He went deep alone, and his tactics were so arrogant. If we didn't teach him how to behave, the Manchu Tatars really didn't know what their last name was, and they still thought they were invincible and invincible in the world.
Jurchen cavalry?”
Gu Kecheng pointed his sword in the direction where the Nikan Qingqi troops were coming, and directly ordered: "The Ting army formed a formation, lined up their guns, and fired a volley to stop the enemy."
The heavy bird muskets currently used by the Ting Army infantry have been improved several times. Whether it is power, accuracy, range or reliability, they have made huge progress compared to when Li Laiheng eliminated Zuo Liangyu's military group in Hubei a few years ago.
Not to mention that among Gu Kecheng's pro-army troops, many Tingjun infantrymen had already switched to Suizhou-made self-generated fire guns. The reliability of flintlock guns was far superior to that of matchlocks, and the reloading speed was also different.
The Dashun Army's three trump cards, the Three Walls elite cavalry, the Ting Army infantry and the new Hongyi artillery, have all been gathered on the Xuzhou battlefield. These military resources that Li Laiheng has accumulated and learned over the past few years have finally been put to full use.
The moment when all the power is used to compete with the Manchus.
The Nikan light cavalry troops quickly approached the Dashun Army's position. There were a large number of bright red knights in red, and their flags were rolling. Although they did not have much armor, the smoke raised by the horses was still very impressive.
Nikan rushed to the forefront of the troops, wielding weapons in his hands, and his arrogant attitude only made all the Dashun soldiers feel extremely funny.
"Load! Fire!"
The officers who lined up in the front row of the line gave orders one after another. Facing the pressure of the Qing army's light cavalry, the infantrymen of the Ting army did not waver in their movements at all. Everyone maintained a very stable mentality and meticulously followed the army's instructions.
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The closer the enemy got, the more thunderous the sound of galloping horses' hooves became, and even the ground began to tremble.
However, none of the infantrymen of Ting Army seemed to notice these movements. They just silently loaded the gunpowder, lit the matches or cracked the flints. Until under the orders of the officers, they aimed the fire blunderbuss at the figure of the captive cavalry that had been targeted for a long time.
The breathing of the fire gunners gradually became more urgent and intense. The small sparks swayed slightly in the fierce breathing. The figures of the Qingqi galloping from the distance were like crushed sand and dust.
In the eyes of soldiers, the pressure brought is no more terrifying than strict discipline.
"Fire-gun-"
The gunfire of the Ting Army was not very intense. This was because the soldiers fired their guns almost at the same moment. The roar of hundreds or even thousands of bullets gathered together, and at first glance, it seemed that there was no sound from a distance.
Dense, only one shot.
Only those who are close to Shunjun's array can feel what Tingjun's "thunder" is.
Dashun's thunder is not the power of heaven, but is composed of thousands of bullets. The volleys of guns fired at the same time only need an instant to overturn a large area of the Qing light cavalry that charged arrogantly.
The sickles made of heavy bird guns and self-generated fire guns were like leeks, sweeping away the Qing cavalry's charging queue.
There wasn't even much wailing, but countless Qing knights could be seen with blood flowers sprouting from their bodies, and then fell off their horses, or their horses were directly killed by the volleys of the soldiers and fell to the ground.
Immediately, the entire queue of the Qing army was in chaos. Nikan was shot in the arm. He endured the pain and did not shout out to affect the morale of the army. He could still be regarded as a man.
But there was no need to force the attack anymore. Just looking at the panicked faces of the Qing light cavalry, Nikan knew that he had really kicked an iron plate.
The remnants of the Shun army who had hurriedly retreated from the Liucheng camp actually still had such strong fighting power.
This is really unimaginable to Nikan.
He suddenly remembered what Bo Hetuo had said: "It's so difficult for the Han people to control them, and it's so difficult for bandits to deal with them. If we live in the Central Plains, aren't we setting ourselves up for death?"
What Bohetuo said was true, but looking at the scattered Qing troops who were shot and killed by Shun troops around him, Nikan found it difficult to admire Bohetuo's prediction.
He could only knock out his teeth and swallow them, hold back his grief and anger, and try his best to order the troops to retreat. However, the retreat of the Shun army from the Liucheng camp was highly dangerous. Isn't it dangerous for Nikan to retreat in front of the volley fire of the Ting army?
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Gu Kecheng had already prepared more than a dozen light red barbarian cannons behind the platoon of guns. Although the Qing army's light cavalry had retreated a lot, they were still within the shooting range of the Shun army's light cannons.
These light red barbarian cannons mounted on artillery carts are easy to maneuver, so they have not been captured by Dorgon. Of course, their range power cannot be compared with the heavy red barbarian cannons, but they are effective against some unarmored light cavalry in field battles.
But very good.
Some of the light artillery were not even loaded with large solid bullets with high kilograms, but directly sprayed out large slugs of shotshells, blowing into Nikan's military columns like flying sand and rocks.
The firepower of the light artillery was almost no less than that of Tingjun's volley, which shocked Nikan. Before the Qing cavalry could carry out any effective attack, they were hit repeatedly by the fierce firepower of Shunjun.
Only then did Nikan understand that during the Huolu War last year, when Li Zicheng's guards in the middle camp were violently bombarded by the Qing army's superior artillery, they were still able to fight in front of Huang Taiji. How brave and decisive it was!
"Retreat, retreat, retreat...!"
The retreat of the Qing army could only be a disaster. If Gu Kecheng had not been eager to withdraw his troops to garrison in Xuzhou, and Nikan's troops fled in panic, it would have turned into a rout with even more heavy casualties.
Nikan escaped from death twice at the hands of the Shun Army. Unfortunately, he did not learn many lessons, and Li Laiheng would not leave the Manchus any more time to gain wisdom.
Li Laiheng had made up his mind that what was going to be destroyed in the Battle of Xuzhou was not Dorgon or the Qing army's 100,000 troops, but what was going to be destroyed -
Manchurian.
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