Zhang Mingzhen galloped with the wind whistling in his ears.
He only felt the blood boiling in his heart. He was no longer a young man who had just joined the army, but this time he went out and felt an unprecedented feeling.
I can't explain this feeling clearly, but it feels different from the previous battles.
He is fighting with a mission.
The elite servants from several battalions were gathered as the vanguard. Zhang Mingzhen, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province, was granted the title of Earl of Zhendong and a general with the seal of Japanese General. At this time, he wanted to take off all the cotton armor on his body and use the four words of "Serve the Country with a Heart"
The big characters are revealed.
He didn't look back, but he knew that His Highness Jianguo must be following closely behind and watching them.
Raise the gun.
Zhang Mingzhen relied on his skill as a knight to control the horse with his legs, but he held a three-eyed blunderbuss in each hand, and a match rope was wrapped around each arm.
The wind is howling and the horses are roaring.
The Tatars are roaring arrogantly and killing without restraint.
Zhang Mingzhen took the lead and ran down the mountain like a fierce tiger, charging straight at the Tartars.
Approach quickly.
This sudden attack was like a flying stab, sudden and fierce, hitting the Tatar directly in the back.
This Tatar cavalry quietly crossed the sea by boat directly from the north of Hangzhou Bay, landed in Yuyao, Shaoxing, and was ordered to conduct reconnaissance. After landing, they were very arrogant and did not pay much attention to the Ming army on the south bank.
The surrendered officials were killed or fled one after another, and bright flags were raised again everywhere, but the Tatars still didn't take it seriously.
With these 600 cavalry, who in Ningshaotai can stop them?
Attacking a village that doesn't know how to praise is just killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
They were about to be captured, but they didn't expect a group of troops to suddenly appear from behind.
"Am I being ambushed and this village is just a bait?" The Tatar white-armored soldier even had this thought, but he quickly shook his head and drove away.
This is unlikely.
They had just landed and there was no prior plan to attack this village.
However, the white-armored man didn't panic. It looked like there were only two or three hundred riders on the other side, so he wasn't afraid at all.
He waved to his own soldiers and asked them to blow the horns and ask half of the troops who attacked the stronghold to withdraw.
At this time, he was still unwilling to give up the stronghold he had entered, and was preparing to attack both sides together.
Faced with the galloping Mingqi, the man in the white vest took the initiative to dismount, led the group of people around him, and directly raised his bow and set an arrow. This was to fight the Mingqi with a walking bow.
The Jurchens are good at shooting. Many people think that the Jurchens mainly shoot from horseback. In fact, although the vast majority of Jurchens ride horses, they mainly use horseback maneuvers. Their most powerful tactics are still horseback maneuvers, outflanking and then fighting.
At that time, they were often famous for their foot combat, especially their bow shooting, which was very good.
The Jurchens have a very high armor coverage rate and their melee rifle fire is very fierce.
There are also real Jurchen cavalry, but most of them are used in a centralized manner. For example, their guard camps and vanguard camps are concentrated under each banner and used as forwards or guards.
On the other hand, the Eight Banners of Mongolia still maintained the traditional light cavalry warfare method.
The Eight Banners of the Han Army had formed a very powerful firearms force earlier. Most of the Tatar artillery were used by the Eight Banners of the Han Army. The Eight Banners of the Han Army also focused on infantry combat, with spears, bows and arrows, and close combat.
Speaking of which, the Tatars have been fighting for nearly thirty years since Nurhachi raised their troops, and they have indeed produced a very capable army, which is very capable in sieges and field battles in all aspects.
Especially now, half of the Ming Dynasty has been captured by them, which makes the Tatars have an arrogant mentality of being invincible.
Even when faced with the sudden appearance of a Ming army, they did not take it seriously. They even frantically recalled only half of their troops, preparing for a two-sided battle, with both sides fighting together.
Zhang Mingzhen looked at the dismounted Tatars, but his eyes were colder.
Two three-eye blunderbuss were fired crosswise on the left and right.
The war horse speeded up again.
Holding two ignited three-eyed guns, Zhang Mingzhen aimed at the group of Tatars and continued to charge.
The chirping fire line was burning, and gunpowder smoke blew into his mouth and nose. The smell made him more and more excited.
"I am so angry that the rain breaks by the railing!"
"Lift our sight, the sky and shouts, grand, vehement·······"
Zhang Mingzhen actually read Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" loudly before engaging the enemy!
There was a sound of strings.
The Tatars' bows and arrows shot first, but Zhang Mingzhen still ignored them and charged forward.
An arrow hit Zhang Mingzhen's arm, but was deflected by his iron arm.
Close.
The line of fire finally burned out.
Two three-eyed cannons roared fiercely at close range.
Two bangs, two shots fired in unison.
Behind him, hundreds of three-eyed cannons were fired one after another.
The three-eyed gun is a very backward thing among fire guns. Compared with the bird gun, Lumi gun, and thunder gun, it is too far away. The range is extremely short and the accuracy is very low. It is completely a fire door gun that should have been eliminated long ago.
The shape is three bamboo-shaped single blunderbuss, with a small hole on the outside of each blunderbuss tube. When used, the blunderbuss tube is filled with gunpowder, and finally filled with lead, or directly filled with crushed iron sand, cast iron blocks, steel balls, etc., small
Add a match rope to the hole and light the match rope to shoot when in use.
There is a handle at the end of the gun, which can be held under the arm or held in the hand with a short handle.
However, this kind of musket is too backward, with extremely low range and poor accuracy. It is usually effective only when you are close to the enemy. Secondly, it reloads very slowly and is almost useless in wind and rain.
However, backward things are not useless. This thing is rough, low in manufacturing cost and fast in production. Of course, it has three eyes and can shoot three times. It can even be used as a mace or iron bone for close combat after shooting.
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For the cavalry, if they fire three muskets first in a battle, no matter whether they are accurate or not, at least they can build up their momentum.
Zhang Mingzhen was even more impressive. He fired two cannons on the left and right at the same time. After one round, he immediately lit the fire again and started another round.
Three rounds of six muskets were fired. Even though the Tatar he was aiming at was wearing a mercury armor, he was still hit by two or three bullets. He was beaten so hard that he fell to the ground and could not cry out in pain.
After three rounds of fighting, the two men and horses had collided.
Zhang Mingzhen immediately threw out a three-eyed gun as a flying gun, then held another three-eyed gun in both hands and swung it towards a Tatar who was nocking an arrow.
There was a huge shock, and the Tatar was thrown into the sky. His jaw was broken, his teeth were flying, and his eyeballs were knocked out.
Arrows and buckshot were flying.
For a time, people from both groups were falling down one after another.
The hundreds of forward cavalry behind Zhang Mingzhen were shot down in an instant. Dozens of them were shot down in an instant. Zhang Mingzhen also rushed into the Tatars with a few feather arrows, grabbed a three-eyed gun and smashed them randomly.
The Tatars also aroused a fierce spirit at this time. They did not expect that these bright cavalry could actually rush in.
But they did not show any weakness, and formed several small square formations, with spears, bows and arrows, and shields, like hedgehogs with spikes.
This made it impossible for the cavalrymen such as Zhang Mingzhen and others who rushed forward to break through them directly. They could only chop along the square formation. The cavalry slowed down, allowing the Tatars to find opportunities to shoot with spears and arrows, shooting down many Mingqiu.
There was a melee between the two armies.
Shadows of swords, guns, and blood splattered.
Zhang Mingzhen charged forward and no one dared to retreat.
At this time, the Shizhong camp on the top of the city also launched a desperate counterattack and held back some of the Tartars.
The two armies were in a stalemate, but Zhang Mingzhen and the others relied on their sharpness. If they could not break away from the Tatars, they would still be defeated when the Tatars who were turning around surrounded them.
At this moment.
The two wings of the Ming army who were walking in the rear finally rushed over and appeared at the rear of the battlefield.
The flag was fluttering, the town sign was running wildly, the 2nd Yongwei Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion arrived.
The bearded and hook-nosed mercenaries of the Shenji Battalion rushed to the front with the new recruits. Among them, the spearmen were all tall and powerful, and they could actually maintain a barely formed formation while running with five-meter spears.
, sprinting over.
Behind them were mercenaries carrying light matchlocks. Their leather armor was lighter than that of the pikemen, and they ran very fast. They were followed by heavy musketeers, while the artillery team was far behind.
After the pikemen rushed to the battlefield, they stabbed five-meter long spears at them. Suddenly, the Tatar infantry formation that was still restraining Zhang Mingzhen's cavalry was no longer able to do anything.
Against light cavalry, this Tatar infantry formation has some advantages, but it has no advantage against the same infantry spear formation.
When the musketeers arrived and started firing volleys at them from twenty to thirty paces away, the Tatars finally began to panic.
Mattim commanded the musketeers to adopt a turn-in formation. After the musketeers in the first row finished shooting, they stood directly on the spot to reload, and then the soldiers in the rear row advanced to the front of the first row to shoot. In this way, they could advance in turn, and they could actually shoot every minute.
Maintain a propulsion speed of thirty to forty meters.
This tactic was originally called a turnaround tactic, that is, after the front row fights, it retreats to the last row. Rows of rows fight while retreating. They can retreat ten to twenty meters in a minute, always maintaining a certain distance from the enemy, and forming a powerful firepower.
However, under the current circumstances, the forward turn tactic is more suitable.
These experienced mercenaries, despite the rain of arrows and bullets in the sky, still lined up to fire muskets and lined up with calm expressions. Although the team stood relatively close, some people fell down from time to time after being hit by arrows, but they simply ignored it and one fell down.
Just fill up the positions left and right and keep moving forward.
Until one dies, one's footsteps will not stop.
Although the musketeers have weak armor, they still have spear infantry leading the way, so they are relatively safe and have a sufficient output environment. Zhang Mingzhen also leads the light cavalry in guerrilla attacks, which reduces a lot of their burden.
By the time Zhu Yihai arrived with the artillery teams from the Houwei Banner Battalion and the Shenji Battalion, the battle had already heated up, and it was even clear that the Ming army had the upper hand.
Lao Zhu pulled Nikolai over and shouted, "Hunt your cannons on the Tatars, hit them hard!"
Nikolai's artillery team is all small cannons. There are no cannons. The small cannons can be pulled by horses. Although they are not powerful, it depends on the situation where they are used.
"Your Highness, please rest assured and watch our performance."
Nikolai pushed his nose and directed his artillerymen to take the Fran machine gun off the horse, load it quickly, and build an artillery position.
Adjust, correct.
Load, aim.
"put!"
After the six sub-cannons of the Fran cannon were loaded, they were quickly loaded into the main gun barrel, ignited, and fired.
With a few loud bangs, six lead bullets passed over the Ming army and hit the Tatar position.
Zhu Yihai held up a telescope to watch. Only one of the six cannons hit. The small cannonball fell into a Tatar infantry formation, killing two of them. After landing, the cannonball jumped up and rolled around like a bowling ball.
He broke several more Tatar legs, then jumped up and took another one away.
Although it didn't have the powerful splashing effect of the explosive bomb, this thing was also very terrifying. The Tatar formation with dozens of people was suddenly opened with a big hole.
Nicholas quickly ordered his artillerymen to correct their positions based on the impact point of the first shot.
The gunner over there cleaned the gun barrel, reloaded it and replaced it with a sub-barrel, and the Fran cannon was in position again.
"put!"
There were six booms in a row, and this time three out of six were struck. Nikolay, the artillery captain, was indeed professional enough.
At least six or seven of the Tatars died and more than a dozen were injured.
Mattim's Shenji Camp musketry team also continued to advance, firing muskets non-stop.
"The Tatars are running!"
Zhang Mingyang, who has been guarding Zhu Yihai, said.
On the battlefield, the arrogant Tatars were also stunned. They never expected that the Ming army that suddenly appeared was so fierce. Those light cavalry were more powerful than the Guan Ning cavalry, and they could fight with so many firearms behind them.
It's so sharp, why does it have a cannon?
Still so accurate?
The Tatar leader is also a ruthless man. He knows that he has made a big mistake today. As soon as these Ming troops appear, he should not underestimate the enemy. He should abandon the stronghold and immediately turn around to meet the enemy. He should even retreat temporarily to avoid their attack and regroup.
Fight again.
One wrong step, one wrong step.
The Tatars were attacked from both sides and couldn't even form a formation in a hurry. The opponent's light cavalry charged too fast, their firearms fired too hard, and even their infantry was far superior to the Ming army they had encountered before.
How long has it been since you encountered such a tough situation?
This made him feel as if he had returned to the time when he fought fiercely with the Ming army in Liaodong in the early years.
Seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable, he gritted his teeth and ordered a breakout and retreat. He could no longer continue fighting like this.
Upon hearing the order, the Tatars mounted their horses and fled.
These people were very fierce. Even though they were beaten so badly, they were still very fierce and did not collapse. They galloped forward and moved forward indomitably.
They were forced to break out of the way.
Zhu Yihai stopped Zhang Mingzhen.
"Don't chase poor bandits."
Although they had just won a battle, Zhu Yihai, who was watching the whole battle, could clearly see that in this battle, they were 5,000 against 600. They were outnumbered by a large number, and they were even better at attacking them unprepared.
Now the Tatars are trying to survive by cutting off their tails, and they only have a few hundred cavalry here. If Zhang Mingzhen really pursues them, he won't be able to gain an advantage. He might accidentally get bitten off a piece of his flesh, or even be annihilated.
"It's pretty good if you can tear off a chunk of meat from a tartar. There's no rush."
"Just send a team to keep an eye on them all night. I believe there will always be a chance. If we find an opportunity, we can destroy them again."
Zhu Yihai was not dazzled by the victory. After all, his men were a new army. He was secretly shocked by the Tatars' fighting power just now. Under such circumstances, he was attacked by ten times the number of enemies, but he could still withstand it.
Come down.
Although they suffered over a hundred casualties, they still allowed them to break out. This performance far surpassed that of the Ming army. Faced with this situation, none of his battalion leaders were confident that Zhu Yihai could do this.
"First clean the battlefield, treat the wounded soldiers, and capture the defeated soldiers."
"Your Highness, the leaders of the Meishan Village Shizhong Camp Volunteers Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi, Wantai, Lu Yuding and others request to see you!"
"Lu Yuding from Ningbo?" Zhu Yihai remembered one of the six crazy students in Ningbo who he had met. This man was a good friend of Qian Sule. Zhu Yihai had previously given him the same background as a Jinshi and the title of Xingren, but he refused to be an official.
Unexpectedly, here.
"It's Mr. Lu. He is good friends with Huang Zongxi and Feng Jingdi who have returned to society. They came here to set up the Shizhong Camp together. They were originally recruiting troops here, but unexpectedly the Tartars suddenly attacked. Fortunately, His Highness arrived, otherwise today
Then something unexpected happened.”
The name Huang Zongxi is very familiar to Zhu Yihai. He and Gu Yanwu are one of the four major thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties listed in the history books of junior high school. Gu Yanwu's "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" is a famous saying through the ages, while Huang Zongxi advocates the idea that the world is the master and the guest.
Also very impressive.
They are also famous veterans of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Huangyan before, Huang Zongxi now, and Zhu Yihai never expected to meet on this occasion.
"Today's great defeat of the Tartars brings great joy to people's hearts. We also meet Huang and Feng Zhu, loyal and patriotic men, which makes me even more happy. Please invite all of you soon!"
Although Zhu Yihai had never liked the Donglin Party and Fushe in his heart, at this time, he was also very aware of the huge influence of Donglin and Fushe among the people, and he needed the support of these scholar representatives.
What's more, these few people are still Donglin, and it is rare for Zhu Yihai to admire and praise them as true gentlemen in Fushe, so they should be treated more favorably.
"Behead all the Tatars." Zhu Yihai specifically confessed.
"Take no prisoners, leave no one alive, behead them all." Then he added another sentence.
The generals accepted the order without any objection. Regardless of whether they were real Tatars or two, they should be killed.
