The first person to launch a group attack was Dahaqi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Xiong Yue, one of the four deputy commanders outside the Pass. This man's ancestor was Tan Tai, the founding general of the People's Republic of China.
It stands to reason that as a descendant of Tan Tai, Dahaqi should unconditionally support Aixinjueluo Shikai, who inherited the mantle of Emperor Cheng Zongyi, Dorgon, and raise troops to respond to the reform, because Tan Tai was the most respected by Dorgon at that time.
The general was later executed by Shunzhi.
Therefore, Tan Tai's descendants should naturally side with Dorgon's descendants.
However, Dahazi did not go through fire and water for Prince Xinrui like his ancestors, but chose to respond to the call of Shengjing General Hongsheng and raise his troops to rebel.
There is no reason, just following Hongsheng.
Most likely, like the reform emperors in Guan, they regarded their ancestors as nothing.
The Eight Banners soldiers under the command of Dahaqi were stationed in Fuzhou, Fenghuangcheng, Xiuyan, Lushun and other places, totaling more than 2,300 people.
Among them, there are more than 1,400 armored soldiers, more than 600 coated soldiers, and more than 200 cavalry.
Among the four deputy commanders controlled by General Yu Shengjing, he is the weakest in strength, but his fighting spirit is the most ardent among the four deputy commanders.
The task of the Xiongyue Eight Banners Soldiers is to break through Paoergou on the easternmost side of the Thirteen Mountains. This place once had a hundred households in the Ming Dynasty, but it has been abandoned to this day. If they can capture Paoergou, the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces can directly attack it from here.
Insert the Jinniu Cave where the core of the Reform Army is located, and divide the Reform Army into two parts from south to north. This will basically declare the annihilation of the Reform puppet army coming from the pass.
We must know that in addition to the advantage of the Manchu-Mongolian coalition having more troops than the Reform Army, its cavalry advantage is even more difficult for the Reform Army, which is mainly infantry, to match.
Once the Reform Army is broken through by the central government, the entire front will collapse. Will two legs be able to outrun four legs?
"The real soul of the Eight Banners lies outside the Pass, in these white mountains and black waters!"
In order to prove that his argument was true, Dahaqi volunteered to capture Paoergou. When his troops arrived, they found that the entrance and exit of the post road had been occupied by the Reform Army. The periphery was mostly blocked with cut wood, and some simple fortifications were deployed to lag the cavalry.
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No trenches were dug by the puppet troops in sight. The reason was that the cold weather had already frozen the ground solid. It would be tiring to dig out a standard trench on the frozen soil by human power alone.
"The key to a general is to know the enemy's reality, and then avoid the reality and strike at the enemy's weakness. Now the enemy's reality is the enemy's weakness!"
After holding up the pointed helmet on the armrest, Dahazi gave the order to attack.
Although the puppet troops from inside the pass occupy the commanding heights on both sides and are equipped with many firearms, their fighting will will never be higher than that of the real Eight Banners warriors outside the pass. Therefore, as long as they pay some losses, they should be able to defeat this group of Han soldiers.
The Lord's puppet army was defeated.
In order to boost morale, Dahazi raised the battle slogan "For the Eight Banners" before the war.
At the same time, he clearly told the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command that if they defeated the Eight Banners outside the Pass in this battle, they would enter the Pass and become the Eight Banners banned from traveling.
To put it bluntly, I won the battle and the whole family entered the customs together to enjoy the flowers and mountains of the Han people.
This made the Eight Banners garrisoned under the command of Dahaqi very excited. As the saying goes, it is not about the lack of numbers but about the inequality. The ancestors of the Eight Banners outside the pass all followed Taizu and Taizong to conquer the world. Why should the Eight Banners inside the pass be happy?
I'm suffering from the cold outside the customs.
Now that Guan Nei has been ruined by those guys who only know how to enjoy but not pay, they should be free to renovate Daqing River and Mountains.
After the "Woooo" attack horn sounded, Dahazi's troops spared no effort to attack the Reform Army positions.
Baoyi naturally charged forward, followed closely by the Eight Banners soldiers, while the cavalry stood ready to charge and kill the puppet troops once their position was broken through by armored infantry.
"Enemy attack!"
"Raise smoke warning!"
"The gunners are in position!"
As orders were passed one after another, the Reform Army in Paoergou quickly entered a fighting state. When an enemy force rushed close to the artillery firing range, the rumble of artillery resounded over Paoergou. The black smoke filled the air and was deafening at the same time.
The troops guarding Paoergou were a regiment from the Fourth Town under the jurisdiction of the Second Army. The regiment leader was Jiang Hua, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. They did not organize soldiers to attack to prevent the approaching Tatars from demolishing the peripheral defenses, but only requested support.
The artillery continued to bombard the enemy.
Amidst the sound of "whistling", solid iron bullets fell one after another in the charging Xiong Yue Eight Banners soldiers. Many of the coated soldiers rushing in front were instantly cut into pieces. Some had their heads blown away by the iron bullets, and some were smashed in the chest.
Some had big holes, some had their arms taken away by cannonballs, some had their thighs cut off at the base, some had their intestines falling out of their stomachs...
There were a lot of casualties, and screams came one after another.
Both the coated soldiers in front and the Eight Banners soldiers behind were all in a mess. In order to avoid the artillery fire of the Reform Army, some lay down on the spot, some lay under the bodies of their dead comrades, and some ran around. The charging formations followed each other.
A stagnation.
"Come on, charge on!"
"Don't be afraid, the more afraid you are, the more the cannon will hit you!"
"Everyone has an order, anyone who retreats will be killed!"
The left leader who led the charge, many of the Knight Riding School had participated in the war against Junggar and the Hui tribe. They had experienced big scenes and knew that only by rushing in front of the enemy's formation without hesitation could the casualties be reduced. If they were captured at this time,
If the enemy's artillery fire deters them from advancing, then more artillery fire will be waiting for them.
Dahazi, who was supervising the formation at the rear, was mentally prepared to lose several hundred, so he waved his hand expressionlessly, and the Guards immediately stepped forward to prepare for law enforcement.
"Come on! The Han people are as timid as rats. If you get close to them, they will run away!"
A left leader struggled to pick up the military flag and rushed towards the post road first. He was wearing double armor and was as tall as an iron tower. He immediately led the surrounding Eight Banners soldiers to roar forward.
Seeing the chaos in front of them, the coat guards couldn't help but think. They all got up from the ground and charged forward with shouts.
Artillery fire continued to fall all around, and charging Eight Banners soldiers and coated artillery pieces kept falling to the ground. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere on the dirt floor, and some areas looked like a slaughterhouse.
Finally, after suffering more than two hundred casualties, the Eight Banners soldiers finally rushed to the outer defense fortifications deployed by the Reform Army, tore a hole in it, and immediately swarmed in.
Dahazi was overjoyed when he saw this, and ordered his cavalry to prepare to attack. Instead of killing the puppet troops on the opposite side, he drove them back like a herd of sheep. This would make the Reform Army even more chaotic until the entire front collapsed.
This move was used repeatedly against the Ming army.
Often a few Eight Banners soldiers could drive away dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of Ming troops until they howled like ghosts and wolves.
It was just the sound of gunshots coming from the front that made Dahazi realize that victory was still far away.
"put!"
The gunners of the Reform Army, who were waiting in full formation, were lined up in rows behind the wooden wall half a man high, and took turns firing at the Eight Banners soldiers coming up from outside the pass.
The firecrackers at the front took advantage of the cover of the wooden wall to quickly discharge their firecrackers, retreated quickly to reload their ammunition, and the second row moved forward to bombard them.
In the tense battle and the harsh sound of gunfire, the gunmen could no longer hear the officers' orders. They just relied on instinct and strict training to shoot continuously, retreat, and then step forward to shoot again.
The firearms equipped by the Second Army are half old matchlocks and new flintlock guns. The regiment stationed in Paoergou has 360 flintlock guns. The gun is faster and more powerful than the matchlock gun in terms of rate of fire and power.
Strong, so the regiment led Jiang Hua to equip all the troops in one battalion.
The intensive sound of gunfire made Xiong Yue's Eight Banners soldiers who broke through the outer defense miserable. Because the post road behind the breakthrough was too narrow, they not only had to withstand the gunfire from the Reform Army in front, but also the firepower from the hillsides on both sides.
The Eight Banners soldiers and soldiers who had just escaped the cannons had to use their bodies to withstand the blows from all directions. Although the shields were held high, many soldiers were still ruthlessly knocked down by the cannons.
Even if those attacking from the front are wearing double armor, it will be of no avail.
What's even more terrible is that the Reform Army lit square medicine packets on fire and threw them down from the slope. Suddenly, there was an explosion from the mountain pass that was more deafening than the firing of artillery.
Compared with the dense sound of gunfire from the Reform Army, the "whooshing" sound of the Eight Banners soldiers' arrows sounded very feeble.
After half a stick of incense had passed, the Eight Banners soldiers and the coated soldiers who suddenly came in subconsciously turned around and ran to the rear.
They can't stand it.
Deputy Commander Dahaqi, who was watching the battle from behind, frowned, finally realizing that he had also underestimated these Han puppet troops from the pass. Their equipment and fighting will were no weaker than those of the Eight Banners under his command.
If we continue to fight like this, it will have no meaning except for the unnecessary sacrifice of warriors.
He decisively sent an order to withdraw his troops. While carefully observing the positions of the Reform Army, he sent people to seek help from Shengjing General Hong Ye.