As Li Zicheng led the main force of his absolute confidants to launch a desperate charge, the pressure on the opposite government and Chinese troops also suddenly increased.
The threat of flying crossbows has gradually approached Shen Shuren himself.
Some crossbow arrows landed at his feet. Although there were several layers of guards holding large iron shields in front of him to protect him, and there were also three layers of carts with shields to protect him.
Therefore, these crossbow arrows were either bounced off the shield or stuck on the wooden board. It was definitely impossible to hurt Chen Shuren himself.
But some of the officers around him still broke into a cold sweat and tried to persuade him: "Master Futai! You'd better get on the ship!"
Chen Shuren resolutely refused: "I'm not going anywhere. I have confidence in your guards. Don't you have confidence in yourselves yet? The key to today's battle is that no one can board the ship!
The warships are responsible for supporting with Hongyi cannons and crossbows, just blast them! They are not for the soldiers on the shore to escape for their lives! I am no exception! I will never get on the ship!"
He knew very well that when Han Xin was fighting against the enemy, Han Xin himself was also in the army. At this time, momentum was the first priority.
Whether you are going to die or really falling into death is just a matter of a thought.
It was rare for Zuo Zixiong to be flexible and tried to persuade him in a different way: "After you get on the ship, you can continue to leave the flag formation in the same place. The friendly soldiers in the distant formations will not know! They think you are
If you stay where you are and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, your morale will not be damaged!"
Chen Shuren's face was stern and he said coldly: "But you know! There are thousands of close friends and dead people around here who know!"
Some things can be hidden for a while, but not for long.
Once someone is shaken, sooner or later it will be infected. It may take a quarter of an hour, or half an hour, but who knows.
Zuo Zixiong had never seen Shen Shuren look so resolute. He was speechless for a moment and was so shocked that he didn't try to persuade him again.
He just swallowed his saliva and changed his words: "Then I will request that all the Folang aircraft in the Chinese army's vehicle formation be changed to bombarding forward! No more cross-firing left and right!"
The Chinese Army's flag formation is no trivial matter. We can't stick to the enemy here and kill more enemies. We just need to use any means to scare the enemy away and force them to retreat! Moreover, Li Zicheng's flag formation seems to be moving forward. After we turn the muzzle, we can shoot Li Zicheng with all our strength.
direction!"
Different parts of the military formation have different values and tactical purposes to be achieved, of course.
Some military formations are just for consumption. You need to set up a point that looks like a flaw to lure the enemy to invest more, and then cross fire to harvest lives.
Some are confidants and just want stability. Even if they scare the enemy away and don't kill too many people, they still achieve their goal.
Chen Shuren nodded to this request, but then added another note: "It is allowed to adjust the fire target, but only shotgun shells are allowed, at most shotgun shells with bullet holders, and solid bullets are not allowed!"
Zuo Zixiong looked puzzled: "Why? Although there are fewer kills with solid bullets, what if Li Zicheng is killed if he is blinded?"
Chen Shuren did not explain much: "Don't bet on luck! It's better to be safe! You also said that the purpose of turning the muzzle of our guns is to deter the intruders from making a desperate move towards our Chinese army, not to bet on whether they can kill Li Zicheng. Don't rely on victory or defeat.
On those ethereal accidental factors!”
Zuo Zixiong thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he resolutely implemented it.
But Shen Shuren actually had other ideas about this - what he needed was the most certain pain, and he was afraid of Li Zicheng, not the risk-return of either making huge profits or maintaining capital.
Moreover, what if solid bullets were used, and one got a super lucky bet, and Li Zicheng was hit by the shot? Solid iron bullets are definitely better than Yang Guo in the martial arts drama who killed Meng Gehan after passing through four shield-raising guards.
The rocks were so sharp that even if there were guards protecting Li Zicheng, they would not be able to block him, and he would be doomed.
If Li Zicheng dies, and Shen Shuren's situation is already highlighted by this, who else will kill Chongzhen? Help Shen Shuren control the Ming Dynasty?
In comparison, a shrapnel with a bullet stock can easily be blocked by several layers of strong shields. At most, a few shrapnel can penetrate through the gaps in the shield array, but these small iron sand and small pieces of lead are probably not fatal.
Under such ulterior motives, the fight between the two armies was like sparks hitting the earth, knives piercing the flesh, guns splattering with blood, and the impact soon burst into pieces.
There are also many heavy armored cavalry in the army, and they are all charging to the death. They are not afraid of life and death. They are elites from the old Shaanxi camp who have been indifferent about life and death for more than ten years.
Even if they are stabbed to death like a hornet's nest or shot to death randomly, they still have to rely on the inertia of their heavy bodies to kill several officers and soldiers on the opposite side, unless they are blocked by the army's vehicle formation and smash a few wooden boards and lift them.
Only after overturning a car can it be stopped.
And because the artillery firepower of the official army was adjusted temporarily, the final desperate charge of the intruder cavalry did not encounter much decisive firepower at the beginning, and they actually caught one who was placed close to fight.
Chance--
When the artillery fires in the left and right directions and engages in cross-fire with shotgun shells, it is not completely free of charge. The most obvious cost is that the range of the artillery will be shortened, because if it shoots diagonally, it will definitely not be able to shoot forward perpendicular to the line.
Far.
This means that if they shoot forward, the cavalry may be threatened by firepower from three to four hundred steps away. However, the density of this firepower is relatively low. At such a distance, only single-headed solid bullets can be used, even if it forms a ricochet.
Not many people could be killed. After firing from the side, the cavalry approached within a hundred steps before they began to encounter artillery fire.
This also gave Li Zicheng's Chinese army an illusion. They rushed smoothly all the way, but were violently blocked at the last moment. At this time, they could not retreat even if they wanted to, and they did not dare to retreat.
If you retreat, you will only suffer twice and suffer twice. It is better to fight forward and fight through it before you have a way to survive.
There is no life or death!
When Zuo Zixiong's order was gradually conveyed to the front row, and all the artillery of the army and the army adjusted their directions, preferring to shoot forward rather than kill fewer people to better deter the enemy, the two sides were already fighting in a melee.
It can't be pulled apart at all. The most it can do is block the input speed of the invading army's rear troops.
But no matter how effective the artillery unit can be, the melee troops of the official army themselves will always fight to the death. Even if the front row is hit by the cavalry and they are all killed, and all the bodies are missing, the back row will still go up and use long guns.
, the bayonet stabbed at the intruder cavalry who landed on the ground,
Even if the opponent has suffered broken tendons and fractures, or even broken necks and died, they still have to fire five or six times with their swords and guns. The direct troops of both sides, who are least afraid of death and most loyal to the coach, are just slashing at each other to exchange lives.
After the bloody and stalemate battle continued for a while, as Zuo Zixiong dispatched all the Chinese army's Folan machines and resumed full firepower for about two cups of tea, the Chuang army finally began to show weakness in the follow-up and backup.
A disconnected situation.
Although the front team is still entangled with the officers and soldiers and does not have to worry about being harmed by indiscriminate firepower, it is nothing more than water without a source. It only relies on a bloody courage to kill and fight fiercely regardless of the overall situation.
Chen Shuren's face was livid the whole time. He secretly looked at the battle situation with a telescope through the gaps in the guards' large iron shield array. It was only at this moment that he relaxed a little.
After holding on for about another cup of tea, the situation on the battlefield finally took a complete turn.
"Our reinforcements are coming! General Zhang's navy has arrived!" Several military formations on the left flank of the government troops downstream were the first to erupt with roaring shouts of killing like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, and their morale suddenly skyrocketed.
More than 10,000 marine water divisions came all the way from the Huaihe River and Yingchuan River. Led by Zhang Minzhen, they took nearly a hundred large sand boats and arrived from the lower reaches with great momentum.
Naturally, this navy will not bring many close combat units, but there is absolutely no shortage of crossbowmen and cannons in the fleet, as well as some musketeers, which are the backbone of the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense.
The Yingchuan River is only a few dozen feet wide. Once these warships can get close and shoot, they can especially launch an attack from the side and rear of the Chuang army besieging the southern flank of Queyue's formation to suppress and fire fire.
The southernmost flank of the invading army will soon be shaken and even show a tendency to collapse.
As batches of hundreds of invading soldiers fell to death screaming in the rain of bullets and rocks, Liu Fangliang, who was in charge of the southern flank battlefield, had to temporarily let the troops on one side retreat and leave the river bank a hundred steps away.
Far above, don't try to attack the officers and soldiers in a roundabout way, just attack from the front.
After the officers and soldiers on the southern front lost the pressure on one side, the situation suddenly became more stable.
In addition, the Chuang Army also organized some naval forces in order to intercept the food routes of the Chen County official army. However, the warships were relatively poor. They were either small boats or improvised rafts, which could only be used in conjunction with artificial reefs and hidden pile fortifications.
use.
In today's battle, these small boats were also forced to be taken out to harass the backs of the officers and soldiers arrayed along the river. Although the boats lacked cover, the soldiers of the invading army could only pile a few sandbags and wooden boards on the edge of the boat to avoid the arrows.
It's a bullet, but at least it can distract the attention of the officers and soldiers, so that they have to be careful behind them.
At this moment, with the arrival of the official navy of the official army, they are still in the lower reaches of the battlefield. There are no reefs and hidden pile fortifications to rely on to avoid. The small boat navy of the intruders will naturally be completely liquidated, either directly bombarded or killed.
They abandoned the ship and landed in embarrassment, and the birds and beasts scattered.
With the double blessing of positive and negative, the morale of the officers and soldiers became even stronger under the blow, while the invading army on the opposite side was obviously on the verge of decline and exhaustion.
"Why! Why don't these Dog Officer's soldiers and horses retreat! Why don't they jump into the river and escape to the boat! Bring the entire formation to collapse! God damn Shen Gouguan!"
The direct descendants of the Chinese army around Li Zicheng have also been killed in batches due to such attrition, but the enemy on the opposite side remains as motionless as a mountain.
Li Zicheng's nerves were finally stretched to the brink of collapse.
"Your Majesty, please retreat! There is no way the officers and soldiers can attack this place! The officers and men's planes have all fired at this place. It is too dangerous for you to stay here. Dozens of our brothers who are holding shields to protect us have died! The officers and soldiers have all fired at this place."
All the big ships came to support the artillery fire!"
Li Zicheng's confidant, his nephew Li Guo, begged for persuasion and tried desperately to pull Li Zicheng back.
"I won't retreat! I won't retreat! Put up a shield! Just put up a few more shields! Give me the chance to break through the dog officer's Chinese army!"
As he spoke, another seven or eight solid shells from the Hongyi cannon flew towards them. They bounced off the ground and jumped wildly, plowing several bloody roads in the middle of the army. They were obviously fired by Zhang Mingzhen's naval warships.
Zhang Mingzhen did not receive the order "not to use solid ammunition" from Shen Shuren. Of course, he was directing the naval operations with his own tactics. Moreover, the large ships on the Yingchuan River were far away from the battlefield and could not be used.
Shotguns, otherwise it will be easy to hit your own people.
Only solid iron bullets can attack over the top and hit the center of the invading army one or two miles away.
It's just that the number of cannonballs was too small, so it was impossible to gamble on the chance of hitting Li Zicheng directly. The nearest one flew over twenty steps away from Li Zicheng, plowing a bloody path.
But this was enough to create chaos in Li Zicheng's army. The shield-wielding guards were left and right, like headless chickens, not knowing which side to block.
Li Zicheng remained stubborn there, and the stalemate lasted for about half a cup of tea. Finally, another piece of shrapnel from the Folan machine flew from the direction of Chen Shuren's central army formation.
The projectiles in the barrel, pushed by the bullet butt, kept flying for a hundred or two hundred steps without scattering, which greatly reduced the deceleration effect of air resistance and achieved a flight distance that would never be possible with a bullpup shotgun.
In addition, there are hundreds of heavy-duty turtledove guns, each loaded with two taels of gunpowder and two single-headed lead bullets of one or two weight each. They continue to fire in this direction, and they have already been harvested.
There were many guards around Li Zicheng.
This kind of lead bullet, one or two times heavier than one, is impossible to block even if you are two to three hundred steps away and holding a solid thick wooden shield. However, in the past, you could rely on the method of killing one guard and replacing another, which continued to consume
, to ensure Li Zichen’s own safety. However, after too many deaths, there will inevitably be gaps in handovers and replacements.
With another burst of roaring, Li Zicheng, who was as powerful as a mad tiger, suddenly let out a loud howl and fell from his horse.
"Protect the King..."
Countless guards didn't know what was happening yet, so they just pressed forward.
"I'm fine! I'm not hurt! I'm not... Uh-huh!
"
Li Zicheng wanted to be like Liu Bang and even said that the arrow in his chest was an arrow in his toe, but the blood splattered all over his face quickly made him unable to control himself. He broke two teeth and was unable to stop trembling.
Perhaps he was destined to suffer this fate - historically, when he was attacking Kaifeng at the end of the 15th year of Emperor Chongzhen's reign, he was shot by soldiers under Chen Yongfu, the commander-in-chief of Kaifeng, with random arrows, and became a one-eyed dragon.
This time, he was still injured on the face. Just like Zhang Xianzhong a few months ago in Hengzhou, his face was pockmarked by broken lead fragments. Moreover, Li Zicheng's injury was obviously more serious. Judging from the bleeding area, it was extremely dangerous.
Maybe he's blind.
Moreover, Shen Shuren's slug-type shotguns were obviously much more advanced and effective than Chen Yongfu's crossbow shooting. Therefore, while injuring Li Zichen himself, he also took away many people close to him.
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For example, his nephew Li Guo, who was also staying with him and helped him block most of the shrapnel just now, was killed immediately. There were also several close confidants and generals who were also killed or wounded.
"Protect the king and retreat! Retreat quickly!" With Li Zicheng's injury, no one could stop the retreat of the intruders. Li Zicheng's Chinese flag formation took the lead and retreated.
Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang on the left and right wings did not understand the situation yet. Liu Zongmin of the Chinese Army was quickly led away and had to prepare to follow him. At the same time, he was worthy of being a general and tried his best to block the news, hoping to break the bad news that the king was injured.
Don't let the lower-level soldiers know about it too quickly, otherwise their morale will collapse directly.
Unfortunately, there was a leak in the house and it rained all night. Just when the various units of the intruder army were at a loss and lost their footing, another new force of the official army arrived on the battlefield in the south at the right time.
It was Huang Degong who came, leading more than 10,000 cavalry, charging into the battlefield with great force. Apparently, he had already made an appointment with Chen Shuren for the decisive battle, so the appearance of Zhang Mingzhen was just the same.
To a quarter of an hour.
The cavalry should be in a stalemate on the front, and the enemy reserves have been invested and stuck, and then enter the battlefield to have the greatest effect!
Especially when the locals show signs of defeat, it is definitely a beautiful thing to serve as the last straw to break the enemy's psychology and follow the trend to pursue death and expand the victory north.
If you rely solely on infantry, even if you defeat the enemy and the enemy turns around and breaks away and flees, the victorious side may not be able to catch up, and cannot achieve mass annihilation in a pursuit battle.
"The intruder is dead! Those who surrender will not be killed!"
"The intruders were all blasted to death by cannons! The dog thieves are just waiting to die!"
"Kill! The Ming Dynasty will win!"
The invading army was completely passive from south to north. Countless soldiers were looking around like headless chickens. They really discovered that the main force of the king and Liu Zongmin was retreating. As a result, the collapse of the two wings became more and more uncontrollable.
The officers and soldiers descended the mountain like tigers and launched a full-scale counterattack. Huang Degong took the lead, slashing and killing wildly. During the pursuit, revolvers and short-barreled spray guns took turns to fire, and then stabbed and trampled in the back. In a short time, they killed mountains of corpses and blood.
pestle.
Tian Jianxiu, the right commander of the rebel army, stood in front of Huang Degong. His troops were beaten the worst, almost half of them were wiped out. Tian Jianxiu himself was also killed by Huang Degong's troops in the rebel army.
Huang Degong just regretted that he did not get the opportunity to directly kill Tian Jianxiu. When he saw Tian Jianxiu, it was already a corpse that had been smashed into a lake of flesh and blood by the bullets of the revolver. Huang Degong was also very angry.
After a few strokes, Tian Jianxiu's body became more and more messy.
The officers and soldiers continued their pursuit to the north to expand their results. The fighting continued until dark that day, when it was finally over. The battlefield also started from the banks of the Yingchuan River more than 20 miles south of Chen County, all the way to the north of Chen County, almost
They chased them for thirty miles and killed tens of thousands of people.
Most of the troops on the southern flank of the Chuang Army were wiped out in this battle. The rest of the central army and the northern flank also suffered losses, but the proportion was not that exaggerated.
After comprehensive calculation, the Chuang army that was directly annihilated accounted for almost one-third of the total number of Chuang troops participating in the war, which is equivalent to the total annihilation of the southern wing troops.
After this battle, Li Zicheng must have completely lost the strength and courage to continue to gain a foothold in Henan.
Not only did nearly 200,000 troops participate in the battle, a direct loss of 50,000 to 60,000 was lost, but Tian Jianxiu, one of the five governors in his army, and his nephew Li Guo were killed, two of the highest-ranking troops.
General Li Zicheng himself paid the price of a pockmarked face and an eyeball.
If he wants to survive, his only choice is to return to Shaanxi and die before Sun Chuanting.
People in Shaanxi could not survive, and everyone was willing to serve as a soldier. In the end, they took advantage of the situation and dragged all the adult men in Shaanxi to the battlefield to replenish their blood and expand the army.