Chapter 553 Doubts(1/2)
Before more than a hundred of Jiannu's cavalry collided, the first three rows of gunmen quickly retreated, revealing rows of bayonets leaning slightly forward on the ground.
The rifled gun equipped with a bayonet is more than two meters long and can be used as a long gun.
When the Manchurian soldiers of the Eight Banners of Jiannu led by Bolo rushed up, they thought they would be able to knock away the musketeers in the front row of the phalanx.
Unexpectedly, the gunmen in the front row of the phalanx suddenly turned around and retreated quickly, and rows of bayonets appeared in front of Jiannu's eyes with a dazzling cold light.
It was impossible for the charging horses to avoid or stop when they found the bayonet array. Jiannu could only watch as rows of bayonets suddenly penetrated the necks and belly of the horses.
"Puff puff……"
There was a sound of bayonets entering the body, and the war horses screamed and fell down one after another. The slaves on the horses also fell into the bayonet formation with the inertia of the war horses, and were instantly penetrated by dozens of bayonets. They screamed like pigs...
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Of course, there were also some Tianxiong Army soldiers with bayonets in their hands who were instantly knocked away by their horses. However, after they fell down, they were immediately carried to the phalanx by the army doctors accompanying them for emergency treatment.
The moment more than a hundred Jiannu came into contact with the bayonet array, most of them were killed by the bayonet array.
Some of the white-armored white-armored slave soldiers who were agile and highly skilled in martial arts saw that the situation was not good, and they hurriedly jumped up to avoid the bayonet attack.
As a descendant of Aisin Gioro, Bolo was certainly not bad at skills. He also jumped up from the fallen horse and jumped more than two meters away to avoid being stabbed by a bayonet.
"Protect the master..."
More than a hundred Jiannu Zhenghong Banner Manchu soldiers were killed and injured when they collided with the bayonet formation. The remaining fifty or so Jiannu immediately held heavy weapons and protected their master Bolo in the middle.
Unable to escape, Bolo and his slave-building elites chose to fight to the death with the Tianxiong Army. They all glared at the Tianxiong Army soldiers with bloodthirsty eyes, as if they would not stop fighting to the death.
Bolo and the others were surrounded. In order to avoid accidental injuries, they did not dare to use firearms at all and could only fight with cold weapons.
Although there are only more than fifty Jiannu, most of them are white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers. They are very powerful in combat. They have maces, big axes and other heavy weapons in their hands, just like a group of ferocious beasts.
Lu Xiangtong and his subordinate Tianxiong Army Hu Ying were both tiger and wolf troops. How could they be accustomed to the slaves who repeatedly attacked the border and harmed the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Lu Xiangtong waved his hand, and the general immediately led his men to rush forward and surround Jiannu.
Former Li Zicheng's subordinates Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, and Dang Shousu were all among this commander.
These men were different from other Ming soldiers. They were basically used as death squads in this battle because they wanted to use the heads of slaves to atone for their sins.
They had never used bayonets. In order to maximize their combat effectiveness, Emperor Shenwu ordered that they be equipped with hand-held weapons and defensive armor.
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Under Miyun City, a large-scale battle is about to begin, with 50,000 Jiannu flags rolling towards Miyun City with great momentum.
As thousands of Jiannu cavalry galloped, the ground beneath Miyun City was trembling slightly, giving people a feeling of trembling in their hearts and souls.
In the Jiannu Formation, most of them had a red flag with a red flag, but there were also a white flag with a white flag, a blue flag with a blue flag, and even Huang Taiji's yellow flag with a yellow flag and a yellow flag came with a small amount of troops.
Three miles away from the Shenwu Army, Yue Tuo ordered the army to stop advancing and immediately sent fifty Jiannu scouts with superb riding skills to investigate the artillery layout of the army.
At this time, Zhu Cixiang's chariot had also entered the square formation. He jumped off his horse and took Yue Yang, Hu Bao and Zhou Yuji to the third floor of the chariot.
Zhu Cixi's chariot was specially built by the Military War Bureau. The height of the third floor reaches 4.6 meters. Standing here, you can have a clear view of the entire army.
"Da da da……"
There was a sound of horse hooves, and while the army on the opposite side was still moving, a small group of men and horses came galloping over. This group of men and horses ran back and forth about 300 meters in front of the Shenwu Army formation, and kept flipping up and down on their horses to show off their superb riding skills.
To be honest, there is a certain gap between the Ming Dynasty's native cavalry and the nomadic cavalry in terms of riding skills.
At least there were very few cavalrymen present who could do what they did, and could easily perform various movements on their horses at high speeds.
The officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Army saw Jian Nu showing off in front of the formation, and they all gnashed their teeth angrily and wanted to rush forward and cut Jian Nu into pieces, but they could only think about it in their hearts, and none of them dared to move without orders.
Seeing that no one in the Ming army was paying attention to them, the fifty Jiannu scouts gradually became more courageous. They moved forward another hundred steps or so, and were already two hundred steps closer to the square formation.
They were still showing off their riding skills, and at the same time they were also carefully searching for the Ming Army's artillery positions, but they only saw a dozen squatting tiger cannons in front of the Ming Army's formations, and no artillery positions were found.
Since the Ming army was already in formation, it was impossible that there would be no artillery. These scout cavalry did not leave, but were still carefully searching for the location of the Ming army's artillery.
General Zhaowu Manyi stepped forward to the chariot of Emperor Shenwu and asked for orders:
"Your Majesty, I request an order to kill them..."
Zhu Cixi nodded:
"Leave a few alive!"
"According to the order!"
Manyi received the order and immediately ordered the Shenwu Army snipers to find their targets...
Qi Guang'an, commander of the Royal Artillery Battalion, placed all the artillery pieces in the phalanx, with several rows of gunmen in front blocking them.
The Jiannu scouts were galloping back and forth at about two hundred paces. They could not see the artillery at all, and they did not expect that the Shenwu Army would place the artillery in the square formation.
Of course, they didn't even know that the black muzzles of guns were quietly protruding from the front row of the phalanx, and these rifled guns were all equipped with sights.
The leader of the Jiannu Scout Cavalry, Biden, was also a white-armored soldier. He was a very fierce man. Since the Battle of Hunhe, at least two hundred Ming soldiers had died in his own hands.
He urged the horse to run happily in front of the Shenwu Army. He first hid in two stirrups, then turned over and stood firmly on the horse's back. Although the horse was still galloping back and forth, he seemed to be glued to the horse's back.
The angrier the Shenwu Army became, the more energetic they became. Seeing their boss acting like this, they all followed the performance, and nearly twenty of them stood on horseback.
Upon seeing this, Man Yi couldn't help but sneer, and he pressed the trigger with his right hand without hesitation:
"boom!"
There was a gunshot, and Biden, the white-armored soldier who was having the most fun, wanted to make another move. Suddenly he felt something hit his chest. He fell off his horse with the simplest move...
While Biden fell off his horse, gunshots rang out one after another:
"Bang bang bang..."
The twenty-odd Jiannu slaves had just stood on their horses, but suddenly they fell off their horses with various difficulties following the sound of gunfire.
The Shenwu Army had long wanted to kill these barbarians. Seeing their own snipers take action to kill Jiannu, the phalanx suddenly burst into warm applause...
The remaining twenty or so Jiannu scouts saw that the situation was not good and immediately urged their horses to run away. But no matter how fast the horses were, could they outrun the bullets?
"Bang bang..."
The snipers of the Shenwu Army can kill their opponents in more than three hundred steps, and the distance of two hundred steps is nothing to them. A burst of gunfire rang out again, and there were only two Jiannu left who could ride on the war horse.
The companions were actually killed by the Ming army at a distance of more than 200 steps, and the two slave souls were scared away.
"Drive..."
They hurriedly urged their horses to gallop, completely turning into homeless dogs, completely forgetting that just now they were showing off their power in front of the Shenwu Army...
In fact, they were able to escape not because the sniper missed the target, but because Emperor Shenwu deliberately left two people alive, otherwise they would definitely be wiped out.
Hearing the sound of gunshots from below Miyun City, Yue Tuo thought that the Ming army was chasing their scout cavalry, so he immediately sent two thousand cavalry to rescue them.
"Da da……"
But as soon as the two thousand cavalry rushed out, they saw two war horses galloping towards them. Yue Tuo quickly ordered the cavalry to stop attacking. He wanted to ask about the situation before making a decision.
"master……"
Two Jiannu scouts rolled their saddles and dismounted a dozen steps in front of Yue Tuo's horse. They knelt and crawled to Yue Tuo's horse and kowtowed:
"Master... the Ming army's guns are very fierce. Fifty scouts will only come back with two slaves. The other scouts are all dead..."
"What?"
Yue Tuo was shocked when he heard this. He only sent reconnaissance cavalry, not to attack the Ming army. He could have fled back when the situation was bad. How could so many people be killed by the Ming army?
Before Yue Tuo could speak, Saharian had already jumped off his horse, stepped forward quickly and kicked away two Jiannu scouts, shouting angrily:
"Incompetent dog slave, have you seen where the Ming army's artillery is deployed?"
The two Jiannu slaves were kicked more than two meters away by him. They immediately opened their mouths and spit out two mouthfuls of blood, but they immediately knelt and crawled to Sahalian and kowtowed repeatedly:
"You deserve to die, my slave. Master, please calm down. There are more than a dozen artillery pieces on top of the Ming army's city. There were some tiger cannons on the eve of the battle, but no large artillery positions were found..."
Hearing that the Ming army did not deploy many artillery pieces, Yue Tuo suddenly felt relieved. The Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were not afraid of the Ming army's artillery at all, but they were afraid that the Ming army had too many artillery pieces.
No matter how fierce the Eight Banners are, they are still made of flesh and blood, and two or three layers of heavy armor are completely vulnerable to artillery.
"Send the order, the Ming army will form an array two miles away. I want to see how fierce the Ming army's firearms are!"
"twitter!"
Yue Tuo gave an order, and the 50,000 slave-building coalition troops began to approach Miyun City. Two miles in front of the Shenwu Army's formation, Yue Tuo waved his hand and the army stopped in formation.
Yue Tuo immediately looked at the Shenwu Army formation in front of the formation, and saw a sea of red in front of him. Two phalanxes were neatly arranged. In front of the phalanx were three rows of musketeers, with cavalry defense on both wings.
Not to mention heavy artillery, Yue Tuo didn't even see sword and shield soldiers or spearmen. Except for a dozen artillery pieces at the top of the city and a dozen tiger squatting cannons placed in front of the formation, all he saw were almost all firecrackers...
Yue Tuo had experienced hundreds of battles, but this was the first time he encountered such an army and formation. He was immediately confused:
"What kind of formation is this? Is it just looking for abuse? That's not right. The Ming army's formation is so neat. It looks like they have undergone rigorous training. Why..."
This was indeed the case in the late Ming Dynasty. It was difficult to load ammunition for firecrackers, and they were almost defenseless against cavalry.
Seeing this, Yue Le quickly raised his hands and said:
"Your Majesty, order the cavalry to charge over. A charge will definitely tear the Ming army's formation into pieces..."
Saha Lian also believed that what Yue Le said was reasonable and immediately agreed:
To be continued...