Three Three Three White Grass Folding the North Wind (12)
Suohai arrived at the Qing army camp in Pangjiazhuang. When he saw Ahas holding wooden shovels in hand, he was hitting the frozen soil weakly under the whip. He didn't know whether it was flattening or digging the soil, so he felt a little depressed. He rode a horse into Hilgen's central army camp and shouted in Manchu: "Hilgen! What battle did you fight!"
Zu Zerun has been in Liaodong for many years and can speak some Manchu words. He knows that this is a problem between Manchus and must not participate. He retreats to the side as a deaf person.
Suo Hai ignored him and shouted at Hilgen, "It's already dawn, why haven't you attacked yet! Just let some Aha knock the ground there and knock the barbarian to death!"
"Sir," Hilgen's face turned pale, "It's a strong wind today, even bows, arrows, muskets cannot reach the Ming army formation..."
"Just! If the wind is strong, will you stop fighting?" Suo Hai waved his hand: "From now on, the whole army will obey my orders!" He strode to the main general's seat and sat down: "Let the array! For me to rush forward! Aha, no armor is in front of you, if anyone dares to retreat, kill the armored soldiers! If someone dares to retreat, kill the armored soldiers! If someone dares to retreat, kill the Ming army formation wall, then die there!"
In strong winds, the gunpowder of the bird gun will be blown away, and even the lead will be blown away. Because it is the northwest wind, the bow and arrow are blown directly across, and there are very few that fall in front of the Ming army. However, the artillery of the Ming army was not affected much, and the flintlock rifle in front directly sent the gunpowder into the barrel. As long as the Qing army attacked into the range of twenty steps, it could still effectively break the armor.
Qi Jiguang's standard for excellent musketeers is seventy steps away from 70 steps. According to this standard, the musketeers who were strictly trained by the Ming army were basically considered excellent musketeers. However, due to the technical reasons of the musketeers, this kind of hit is just aiming at the left chest and hitting the abdomen or head, but for the war needs of this era, it is also effective to kill.
In addition to having an advantage in numbers, Suo Hai was at a complete disadvantage in terms of weapons and morale. The new force he led did touch the Ming army's chest wall. However, he was shot back by the Ming army's spear again and again.
The closest victory was that several Bayala even broke through the chest wall and rushed into the formation. Just when Suo Hai thought the overall situation was settled, a row of gunfire sounds were emitted behind the Ming army. The musketeers who came to rescue the scene approached and shot, instantly regaining the gap.
Wang Jiakang was wearing cotton armor. The helmet and flag on his head were torn tightly by the strong wind. He climbed up to the watchtower step by step, holding a thousand-mile mirror in his hand, grasping the battle situation below. Although the Ming army was small, it was still more than enough in defense. The civilians ran back and forth and quickly transported the injured and dead Ming army into the village, reducing the impact of casualties on morale to the lowest point.
On the other hand, the Qing army rushed to the wall with wailing wounded soldiers and corpses, causing morale to plummet. When the Manchus reacted, they sent armored soldiers to slash Aha who was wailing on the ground, but they could no longer boost morale.
More and more Aha immediately fell to the ground and pretended to be dead after rushing into the Ming army's attack range, or pulled a Qing army's body to cover it, hoping to escape the big sword of the Arctic Army's Supervisor.
Suo Hai was itchy when he saw it. It was hard to understand that this was the Ming army, who was famous for its timidity.
"Jing Jin." Suo Hai's arrogance in the morning was gone. Looking at the Qing army, which charged slowly than walking, he finally decided to stop the troops and rest.
Hearing the sound of gold in the camp, the Qing soldiers quickly evacuated the Ming army's front like a tide. The Aha who pretended to be dead quickly crawled out of the dead and knelt down to surrender, hoping to avoid death.
"Colin!" The chief of staff raised his head and shouted at Wang Jiakang on the watchtower: "Stay prisoners!"
"Stay." Wang Jiakang said while climbing down: "Give them hot soup, hot porridge, cotton coats and leather shoes. Take a break for two days. When you have finished it, you will call me."
The staff officer smiled, feeling a sense of similarity between heroes.
Wang Jiakang jumped off the last two pedals and said, "Send the order and prepare for attack."
"Occurrence?" The staff officer was a little surprised.
"How long have we been fighting here?" Wang Jiakang asked back.
"The first attack by the Qing army was at 8:20, and now it is 1:30." said the staff officer.
"One and a half," Wang Jiakang's lips raised slightly, "The first one from Shenze, the second and second thousand headquarters were in place yesterday. They must have been waiting for the Donglu to completely relax before fighting."
The Ming army in the Eastern Palace system is not a single force.
In the era of the old guard camp, everyone instilled teammates, team concepts, rewarding each other with merits, and having a joint punishment has become an instinct in the bone.
The other two thousand headquarters of the Second Battalion of the First Guard Division rushed to the battlefield early in the morning and finally arrived at the battlefield when the Qing army was weak. However, seeing that the Qing army had not exhausted all its strength, they kept lying on the west side of the battlefield. They only sent horse scouts to roam and kill the Qing army's horse and road soldiers. At this time, the war was in a tight spot. Neither Suohai nor Hirgen realized that the horse search on the West had been without a reward for a long time, nor did they expect that the two thousand headquarters had been eyeing each other.
Finally, when the Qing army retracted the troops, the two thousand headquarters, which had been resting, finally showed their fangs and rushed to the Qing army camp ten miles away. At this moment, the Qing army was trapped and lacked in morale and was sluggish. When they were cooking, they never thought that there were two armies attacking from the flanks.
The tiger squat cannon tore through the defense line organized by the Qing army in panic. The high-spirited Ming army was like a hot knife like frozen oil, instantly swallowing the Qing army that was lined up to fight.
Suo Hai couldn't figure out why there was such a large-scale ambush in the Ming army. If the Ming army had planned it, how did they know that the Qing Dynasty would fight Anping first? If the Ming army generals responded quickly... they shouldn't have responded so quickly!
"Sir, I can't hold my head in front anymore, let's retreat first!" Hirgen rode his horse and found Suohai, surrounded by panicked Qing troops.
Suo Hai watched the Ming army's red flag fluttering, his morale was like a rainbow, and he occupied the upper hand again. Knowing that the situation was hopeless, he had to say angrily: "Go, gather the troops and rush back!"
However, the high-rise Jiangqi betrayed Suo Hai's whereabouts, and the escape direction soon attracted the Ming army's poisonous fireball. This special shell using arsenic, croton, wolf poison, lime, and asphalt will release a large amount of smoke once it explodes. If this poisonous smoke is inhaled in large quantities, it will cause blood to die from the mouth and nose.
Of course, in fact, no one is so stupid that he sucks at poisonous smoke, so the function of poisonous fireball is mainly to interfere with horses.
This continuous damage to the horse's sense of smell is far more useful than sound and fire, forcing the horse to spin on the spot, constantly sniffing, and refusing to obey the rider's command.
The weather was beautiful. After the Ming army fired the poisonous fireball, the original strong wind stopped and the thick smoke was not blown away in time, causing greater chaos among the Qing army.
Suo Hai had lost a lot of effort before he rushed the horse to a safe position in the chaos, but there were only a few Goshhas beside him, and Hirgen and Zuzerun were missing. He didn't care about the two of them, but just took Goshha and fled to the Abatai camp.
Wang Jiakang's third general also launched an attack at the right time, but when he was attacking the enemy camp, he was blocked by his own poisonous fireballs. He had to stop chasing the formation and lined up to prevent the panicked Qing soldiers from fleeing south. At the same time, he sent horse soldiers and the Yuanyang formation to bypass the poisonous smoke area and chase the fleeing Qing soldiers.
Wang Jiakang followed the pursuit troops around the Qing army camp and saw that the snow-covered plain was full of Qing troops and Baoyi Aha who had fled scatteredly. These people had lost their weapons and were reluctant to take them off because their armor could keep warm. However, the heavy armor also became a shackle that bound them, making them look like snails in the snow.
Wang Jiakang took the lead, and the horse team behind him also replaced the whistle stick and slammed the backs of the escaped Qing soldiers. Occasionally, the strong Qing soldiers still wanted to resist stubbornly, but in an instant, they were stabbed into a blood sack by the Ming army surrounded and fell to the ground.
The auxiliary soldiers and civilians following behind also held short sticks and hemp ropes, tied up the fallen Qing soldiers, connected them into a string, and escorted them to the village. Anyone who dared to resist would immediately be whipped.
In this battle, the Ming army could not kill 300 people, but the captives of Manchu Zhenyi and Han Aha were more than 5,000, even surpassing the Manchu army of the Second Battalion.
The Suohai Army arrived this morning, and the animal power and food they brought had not been consumed. After counting, they obtained more than 170 mules and horses, and 300 stones of various food, fodder, beans and grass. This was like a timely help for the Ming army, which had insufficient transportation capacity.
Chapter completed!