Chapter 397: Prince Yu's 6,000-character chapter will not be torn apart
Although Zhu Shuren was more than 95% sure about today's battle, he still felt a lot of pressure when faced with Duduo's desperate move and all his money.
The main force of the Han army's flag infantry led by Zhang Cunren bravely charged upwards with large shields and messy armors on their backs. At a distance of 150 steps, they received the first round of fire from the Ming army's new musketeers.
Afterwards, almost every thirty or forty steps forward, they would be hit again. However, Zhang Cunren's elite soldiers did not shrink back out of fear. They fell to death and were trampled into the mud. It did not seem to have a great impact on them.
This kind of situation is something Zhu Shuren has never seen before after five or six years of fighting. Whether it is the troops around Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong's direct descendants, their fighting will seems to be even less than that of these Qing troops. In the history of the Qing Dynasty,
If the imperial court can conquer the world, it will naturally depend on it.
After paying the price of more than two thousand people being killed directly, and even more people being injured and falling to the ground screaming and wailing, the Qing army was stunned and rushed into the distance between the two armies on some local fronts——
Of course, this is mainly the case in those positions where the Ming army has not yet been equipped with new "Wuchang-made" rifles. Those local fronts that use bird cannons and Lumi cannons have insufficient firepower density to kill the enemy directly in the queuing and shooting stage.
Get rid of it completely.
In the final analysis, it is Zhu Shuren’s arms production capacity that has not kept up. Everything in farming and technology takes time.
If Zhu Shuren had more than 3,000 "Wuchang-made" weapons on hand now, instead of more than 3,000, the situation would definitely have changed dramatically, and most of Zhang Cunren's troops might have to be on the charge.
According to Zhu Shuren's farming plan and the pace of reproduction are expanded, and given another two to three years, he will definitely have 30,000 to 50,000 new rifles!
However, the main force of the Qing army's infantry was still able to bravely charge forward even though more than one-tenth of the total number of soldiers were directly killed. The fighting will is no small matter.
As the infantry successfully engaged the enemy after suffering heavy casualties, Wanyan Yechen's two Banner Manchu cavalry followed up almost front to back, taking advantage of the opportunity of friendly forces to hold the front and prepare to attack in a roundabout way.
Of course, the Ming army would not let him succeed. The main force of the Ming army's cavalry commanded by Cao Bianjiao also launched an interception with Zhu Shuren's acquiescence.
Zhu Shuren was also calm and composed, watching everything progress naturally.
The fierce battle between the Chinese army continued like this, and for half an hour thereafter, the sound of killing continued. In several places, the Qing army gradually could no longer hold on and began to retreat. Later, it was attacked by volleys of guns from the back of the Ming army, and the casualties increased.
Heavy.
Although the number is small and the firepower is not great, the key is to provide a qualitative change between presence and absence. When a group of enemies originally thought they would not be able to attack, but in the end they were actually bombarded, this contrast will definitely cause a huge shake in people's hearts.
If you shoot casually while going bumpy, even if you are ten or twenty steps away, the accuracy is not guaranteed. Maybe emptying the magazine will only hit one or two people - this accuracy is not exaggerated at all. Take a look at the Western cowboys' performance of pistols on horseback in later generations.
, many cowboys have to stay within three or five steps in order to hit every shot.
But Cao Bianjiao's 20,000 Ming army cavalry were like a fish in water. The cavalry chased and killed the deserters of the enemy who had abandoned their helmets and armor. It was not very satisfying. The Ming army cavalry had been fighting against the Tatars for so many years, but they had never caught such a person.
It's a cool game of backstabbing and killing indiscriminately.
At this moment, Li Chengdong's southern wing of the Qing army was the weakest, and the reserve units had also been transferred to the Chinese army's meat grinder. Many of these troops were still Ming troops more than a month or a few months ago, and they all came from the north.
The Tatars who surrendered during the fall were very unstable.
As mentioned before, Zhu Shuren had planned it from the beginning, and wanted to use an offensive strategy in the decisive battle, using the news that Yangzhou had been lost and Liu Liangzuo had died in the battle to severely damage the morale of the Qing army and make them confused and shaken.
As for the Ming Army, for today's battle, they also adjusted the rationing of weapons and ammunition. Originally, when they fought against the bandits, the Ming Army was equipped with shotguns even for their revolvers, but now they have replaced them with single-head bullets.
It can penetrate iron armor with relatively low chamber pressure.
As a result, Li Chengdong was temporarily painted in the minds of Duduo, Wanyan Yechen, Zhang Cunren and others, a personality portrait similar to that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Zhu Xu who disrupted the morale of the Qin army in the rear of the former Qin army during the Battle of Feishui.
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The Qing army mistakenly believed that the remaining parts of Yangzhou had been recovered by the Ming army, and even Li Chengdong agreed to be a traitor to the Ming army in advance to save his life, which is why he stretched his crotch like this today.
Junior high school students in later generations all know that kinetic energy is directly proportional to mass and the square of speed. Arrows mainly rely on mass to provide kinetic energy, and bullets mainly rely on speed to provide kinetic energy.
As a result, the scene was really like the former Qin army retreating from the Battle of Feishui. Li Chengdong's troops soon collapsed across the board and fell apart.
The heavy armor of the Man Eight Banners cavalry once made it difficult for the Ming cavalry to use their melee swords and guns. Both sides were heavily armored, so they could only rely on huge force to knock the opponent off his horse, and tricks such as slashing, slashing, and stabbing were generally ineffective.
The Tatars are Tatars, and they don't like the Han people in field battles. They like to talk about their righteousness first, and then rush straight to you without giving you time to talk.
Originally, they thought it would be enough to retreat a hundred steps away from the river bank to prevent the enemy from pursuing and landing. They should not be killed by the enemy's long-range firepower.
With a flash of thought, Zhu Shuren immediately agreed to Jiang Shoude's request and gave a few additional instructions. Moreover, he also gave him new equipment that exceeded Jiang Shoude's requirements.
His general guidance was simply to imitate the Battle of Feishui. Fu Jian's army of the former Qin Dynasty retreated slightly by the Feishui River to make way for the Jin army to cross the river for a decisive battle. However, because Zhu Xu shouted indiscriminately at the rear army and disturbed the morale of the army, the army of the former Qin Dynasty and the latter's army retreated.
The army immediately thought that the former army was defeated and in chaos, and could not hold back.
Of course, Zhu Shuren didn't want to waste this trump card, so he could only adapt to the situation and temporarily delay the rhythm of his heart-warming propaganda. Waiting to get over the stalemate stage, once he found that the enemy's position was loosened and people's hearts were shaken, he would add fuel to the flames.
Bundle.
If it hadn't been for this river, he wouldn't have mobilized the strategic reserves on the south side so thoroughly, and wouldn't have been so worried about problems in the south.
Countless Manchu Eight Banners elite cavalry were beaten to death by the 2,000-man vanguard of the Ming Army at a very close range of more than ten paces with pistols and left and right arrows.
On the southern battlefield, as the fast-moving horse-drawn artillery carts were deployed to the muddy area along the Hengtang River, they simply deployed and began shelling, Li Chengdong's troops on the opposite side also began to panic.
The price is that the firepower density of the revolver will be greatly reduced. After all, each gun could shoot seven or eight small lead beads and iron slag, but now it can only shoot one shot.
However, the soldiers of the Ming Army were also able to adapt to changes. Although the original combat drill training principle was to be able to fire within twenty steps, today's temporary use of single-ended bullets in actual combat, many warriors found that the accuracy of twenty steps was too poor, and they had problems.
Shao stood up to the enemy's lance and calmly rushed to five steps before firing.
But the rewards of doing this are also very obvious. As long as you make no mistakes and the guns are fired within five steps, you can probably kill or injure three or four enemies after firing six bullets.
Moreover, in today's battlefield, the Qing army did not invest much on the southern front. As the fighting between the Chinese army became more and more fierce, Duduo gradually invested all his reserve forces into the Chinese army. It can be seen that the Qing army also felt that the southern front
As long as you don't have any faults, you don't feel there is any danger.
It turned out that Jiang Shoude and Lin Chengchang, who were in a stalemate with Li Chengdong on the southern front, sent scouts for reinforcements and asked Zhu Shuren to allocate light horse-drawn Hongyi artillery to the Chinese army so that they could urgently deploy on the west bank of the Hengtang River to bombard Li Chengdong on the other bank.
troops, forcing Li Chengdong back a certain distance in order to free up the landing site for the Ming army on the southern front to cross the river and pursue them.
I was shocked by the Ming army's brave and fearless battlefield crossing of the river. In addition, the Ming army's cavalry artillery fire preparations, the light mortars with explosive shells slowly entered the barrage to block the counterattack, and a series of combination punches came down, but they were not completely blinded.
As both sides entered into a full-scale battle, the casualties on the Ming army's side naturally continued to rise. The generals directly commanding the front line all looked as determined as iron, unmoved by the losses.
If the friendly forces on the southern flank, which accounted for one-third of the total force, were suddenly informed that they were actually the enemy's internal agents, the battle would be a farce! Li Chengdong must have known such bad news before the war to take such a desperate risk!
At this point, the main force of the Ming army's infantry could only pursue and kill them for a short time because of their slow running speed, but they were separated by the defeated Qing army who abandoned their helmets and armor.
The most elite Jia La of the Zhengbai Banner kept Duduo himself on the run. These troops were also considered the elite of the Qing army and were the core family assets of the two brothers Dorgon Duduo. Many soldiers were even Dorgon Duoduo's family members.
The direct lineage servant of the Duo brothers.
Once on the right track, the musketeers can become proficient in a few months of training. The fierce fighting warriors of the Qing army and the iron cavalry of the Eight Banners require at least several years of rigorous training and actual combat. The Tatars must follow
If we fight a war of attrition, the Tatars are destined to be destroyed first!
Their entire clan only has over 200,000 people who are suitable to serve as soldiers. Counting the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are a total of 400,000 men. Although we Han people have experienced more than 20 years of war and internal strife, we still have at least tens of millions of people! 400,000 men and
Tens of millions of people have spent money to exchange for their lives. Is it worth it?
If you hold on for a while, you will soon see a turning point. After this bloody battle, every new rifleman who survives will be able to lead the new with the old and participate in training the new rifle army!"
At the same time, he also adapted to the situation and dragged the scolding soldiers trained by Gu Yanwu before the war, and those soldiers who spread the bad news of the Qing army's fall of Yangzhou and Liu Liangzuo's death in battle, to the southern front, asking them to cooperate with Jiang Shoude's pursuit.
Don't be afraid of losing human lives. Since the decisive battle is coming, we must be mentally prepared and have this awareness. In the past, the cost of training the musketeers was high, but it was because there were few seeds. We had to explore the drill code of a new unit and adapt to the use of new weapons.
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When Duduo realized that the southern line had completely collapsed, it was too late to plug the leak.
But among the Ming cavalry, the two thousand elites equipped with revolvers and breech-loaded double-barreled nozzles killed everyone on this occasion.
The Chinese army, including Zhang Cunren's troops who were still fighting hand-to-hand on the front line, and Wanyan Yechen's two banner Manchu cavalry, collapsed one after another, and finally passed to the northernmost part of the battlefield. The Mongolian army's banner light cavalry, which had not made any achievements at first, 50,000 Qing cavalry.
The main force of the army was devastated, like a landslide and a tsunami, sweeping eastwards.
"The one wearing golden armor is Duduo! Kill Duduo!" Because Duduo's target was too big, Cao Bianjiao certainly knew that he wanted to chase the big fish, so he had thousands of the most elite Ming army cavalry in his army, including more than a thousand mounted horses.
The elite short musketeers were all chased by the Manchu cavalry holding Duduo's flag.
With added fuel and jealousy, it seems that not only is the fact that Liu Liangzuo died in battle and the fall of Yangzhou City become irrefutable evidence, but also various variants have evolved.
Previously, Duduo called on the troops to penetrate Jiangyin and enter the prosperous land of Wuxi and Suzhou. There is also a subtext, that is, once they enter Suzhou, they can raise the funds to sail to Luyuan Port (Zhangjiagang), Liujiagang and other places to cross the Yangtze River north again.
Return.
The bloody pursuit continued until the evening of that day. Of Duduo's 50,000 main force, more than 20,000 people were directly killed! It was terrifying.
The Manchus knew that they would not die well, so once they were chased during their escape, they would turn around and fight in an attempt to survive, but they were often beaten and killed quickly by the superior Ming army.
Zhu Shuren knew how to fight, and he immediately realized the principle after just a moment's thought. Indeed, if Li Chengdong had not retreated far enough from the river, Jiang Shoude Tushe would definitely be counterattacked by the misaligned formations and be attacked halfway across the river.
Jiang Shoude saw the opportunity and immediately launched a wading pursuit, allowing the spear formation of the Ming Army on the southern front to take the lead in crossing the Hengtang River in shallow water.
The rest were either trampled and maimed, wailing in the mud, and chased by Ming infantry to finish off their wounds, or they simply knelt down and surrendered - of course, the main ones who surrendered were Li Chengdong's newly surrendered traitor troops, who were still soldiers just a few months ago.
The Ming army surrendered without any psychological burden.
Only a few rounds of explosive shells fell into the crowd of Phalanx, which actually killed dozens of people, but caused a lot of commotion.
The hand-to-hand infantry led by Lin Chengcheng quickly gained a foothold. Li Chengdong once wanted to struggle and charge back, shouting at his men:
Muskets are not as good as crossbows in that they can shoot in a straight direction. The projectiles are too light compared to arrows. The damage is mainly provided by the flying speed. As long as the speed drops, the musket bullets have no lethality. And the arrows are slowed down by air resistance.
, at any rate, an arrow itself has more than one or two weights, and it can maintain a considerable part of its kinetic energy due to its own weight.
"Charge up! Take advantage of the Ming army's disarray and attack halfway across the river! You will definitely win! Jiang Shoude did not let his musketry team go ashore first, but let the spear formation take the lead! Nanmanzi's musketeers were defeated by their own
The musketeers blocked the shot, take this opportunity to rush forward and avoid being shot by the musketeers!"
With Gu Yanwu's status, he didn't have to go to the battlefield to watch the battle. Zhu Shuren asked him to come today mainly because he left the work of making heart-warming speeches to Gu Yanwu to prepare before the war, so he was asked to come in person so that he could make appropriate decisions according to changes in the situation.
Supplement.
At this point, the existence of Hengtang River has completely deceived Duduo.
Zhu Shuren used the cavalry artillery tactic of forward follow-up deployment for the first time in human history, a full 120 years before Frederick the Great of Prussia. This suddenness was naturally enough.
Both sides had little room to move, so they launched a straight-up cavalry charge and a deadly fight.
After all, the total width of today's battlefield is close to twenty or thirty miles. The Chinese army's battlefield is still seven or eight miles away from the southern front. The details of the Ming army's use of cavalry artillery and light bursting mortar cannons to break the enemy's beach on the southern front. The Chinese army and the Qing army are
If you don't know, they can't hear the sound of cannons that far away.
At this moment, the Ming army repeated its old tricks again and began to shout, "The Tatars have been defeated across the board! Yangzhou in Jiangbei has been lost, and Liu Liangzuo has been killed! Li Chengdong already knew that his partner was dead!"
Use artillery to push the enemy more than a mile away from the shore. At this time, if you cross the river to pursue, you will have enough reaction time to buffer.
You must know that the Yangzhou Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty included Taizhou and Nantong in later generations. Zhu Shuren had only restored Yangzhou City and individual counties in Taizhou in later generations. The remaining areas of Taizhou and Nantong in later generations are actually still in the hands of the Qing army.
He could not understand at all how the traitorous newly surrendered troops under his command, no matter how incompetent they were, could be forcibly defeated by the Ming army across the Hengtang River on the battlefield.
And now if they are told that the Jiangbei area on the other side of Suzhou has also been recovered by the Ming army, it will definitely have a huge blow to the morale of the Qing army, which means that their theoretical possibility of going to Jiangbei has also been blocked.
Only some civilian staff accompanying the army found it difficult to adapt to such a tragic situation.
Zhu Shuren's face was as dark as water: "Wait a little longer, we are not close to the turning point of collapse. There are some mind-attacking strategies. The enemy will get tired if you tell them too much, and they will think you are lying. You have to find an opportunity and use them according to the situation.
Zhu Shuren continued to watch and supervise the battle for a while with a resolute face, but his mind was running rapidly, thinking about what else he could do. Just when he had a slight realization in his mind, an opportunity for inspiration came to his mouth.
side.
In particular, the Qing cavalry could not wear double heavy armor. Previously, the iron armor was consumed too much in siege battles, and even officers could only wear one piece.
These lines are not completely consistent with what Gu Yanwu taught him before the war. Because just now, Gu Yanwu followed Zhu Shuren's adaption and adapted it again, adding some private goods for the scolding players to shout.
This kind of thinking was the most fatal blow to the Qing army.
However, the common sense of these traitorous soldiers harmed them again.
This time Zhu Shuren brought a light-weight mortar with explosive shells. This thing is to make up for the lack of direct firepower. It is not usually used much, but today the Ming army on the southern front happened to be crossing the Hengtang River, so they used close combat troops to gain a foothold first. They
In the time lag while the musketeers cross the river, those light mortars can very well hinder and delay the enemy's counterattack.
Originally, what the Ming cavalry was most afraid of was the Qing cavalry fighting, taking advantage of their riding skills and speed. However, the narrow and muddy battlefield and the tightness of the two rivers forced the situation to become a positional battle. The Ming army's
The invincible output at close range and close to the face has been fully utilized.
At such a small distance, if you hesitate for one more breath, you will be hit by the enemy's lance. After all, there is a rumor in later generations that "a knife is faster than a gun within seven steps." What's more, it is a hedge on horseback. Five steps is enough.
In an instant.
Next to Zhu Shuren, his aide Gu Yanwu was very anxious. He repeatedly urged Zhu Shuren to quickly think of ways to undermine the morale of the Qing army and further increase the psychological strategy planned before the war——
This kid has surrendered a long time ago! He even used to betray me, the Qing Dynasty, as a certificate of surrender in exchange for the Nanman imperial court to forgive his original traitorous behavior!
Such thoughts were like a poisonous thorn, completely destroying the morale of the Qing army at the last moment.
Gu Yanwu saw that Zhu Shuren had pressed his trump card, but he was extremely anxious. Seeing that the Chinese army began to fight hand-to-hand with bayonets, he once again proposed that the rear army should shout in unison to shake the Qing army.
In their view, all this unreasonable and sudden defeat can obviously be attributed to "Li Chengdong colluded and surrendered to the enemy before the war."
But the progress of things cannot always go as expected. Today, Duduo charged directly as soon as he came up, and did not give you much time to shout. Zhu Shuren temporarily asked people to shout some according to the situation, but it was all because of the chaos of the situation.
It cannot attract enough enemy attention and has little effect for the time being.
Now Li Chengdong's army was directly defeated. More than 10,000 newly surrendered traitor troops rushed forward. Not only did they completely open the door, but they also destroyed the Han army flags on the southern edge of the Chinese army.
During the fight, some Ming army cavalrymen actually fired a second too late because of their accuracy, or the reset action of the hammer was distorted due to bumps, causing them to fire incorrectly. As a result, they were directly shot by Qing cavalrymen.
Get off your horse.
Although the few Hongyi cannons that were similar to 6-pound cavalry cannons were pulled over, as well as a smaller number of experimental stage mobile light mortars (similar to mortars) that used explosive shells, Zhang Huang had previously said that he would defend Nanyang City against Azigh.
At that time, we had already used several heavy-duty shell mortars, this time it was a lightweight mobile version.)
The number of people directly killed by these cannons on Li Chengdong's men was not very high, but with the rumbling cannons, they were massacred unilaterally by this unprecedented tactics, plowing bloody ditches in the crowd.
These newly surrendered traitor troops quickly retreated in chaos.
"Damn it, who said that if the army and the army use long gunmen to attack us first, they won't be able to use firearms to attack us, I quit!"
The 20,000-strong cavalry cut through each other, creating a bloody storm. How many more than 10,000 Tatars fell directly under the butcher's knife of the Ming army?
After all, no one in this era has ever experienced being bombarded by heavy artillery in a field mobile battle. How can a heavy artillery that can fire for more than a mile be deployed mobilely in the field, and can also be deployed forward to shoot at close range as the front advances.
A series of devastating news made the Qing army extremely confused. The suspicion of Li Chengdong definitely caused more chaos than the fall of Yangzhou.
There were quite a few brave infantrymen among those who had just surrendered to the traitor army. They felt that what the general said was reasonable, so they finally gave it a try.
However, the existence of the Hengtang River made Duduo indifferent to the hidden dangers of the southern front opening up. Because the Chinese army was tight, he had already spent his last remaining energy on it.
"My surnamed countryman, we can't waste our lives like this. We have to drive the Tatars back as soon as possible. How can our elite army fight with the Tatars in a melee battle that costs lives? When you trained the musketeers, you spent a lot of money."
Jiang Shoude and Lin Chengcheng quickly seized the opportunity. While driving Li Chengdong's troops to defeat the troops and helping the Ming army defeat the free vanguards who disrupted the Manchu formation, they continued to shout loudly about the blows Gu Yanwu taught the scolding fighters.
The words of the enemy's military morale.
Even at this point, the Qing army was completely defeated, and these coated slaves and dead soldiers still resisted desperately. The Ming army that Cao Bianjiao chased was already several times their number, and their weapons still had an absolute advantage. Duduo's
The personal guards couldn't resist either.
But I have to admit that Duduo's last direct bodyguard, who was well-fed with money, was really a powerful force in the world.
In the process of killing them all, the Ming cavalry actually paid a heavy price with more than a thousand people killed in battle! Many more people were injured to varying degrees! Only then could the full strength of the Manchu White Banner cavalry be annihilated.
Kill them all and leave no one behind!
The people around Duduo were really tough. They were all killed. No one surrendered. They all protected the prince and fought until the last moment.
Duduo didn't do anything embarrassing like "throwing away his gold-plated prince's armor and pretending to be a soldier to escape". He has always been arrogant. When Huang Taiji was alive, he dared to contradict him. How could he lose face?
In the end, Dodo wore his golden armor that was beaten to pieces by shotguns, iron slag and lead balls, but the gold inlaid on the outside was still shining brightly, and was beaten into a hornet's nest.
Duduo was hit by at least dozens of revolver bullets, his blood pressure was no longer enough, and he fell to death among the rebels.