Generally speaking, the Manchurian Eight Banners Army likes to rely on elite heavy cavalry and infantry, dares to launch fierce and death-defying charges, and is famous for its proficiency with bows and horses.

However, the Eight Banners Army is still an army that mainly uses cold weapons. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty also regarded cavalry and archery as "the foundation of Manchuria and the top priority of the bannermen."

In fact, what helped the Eight Banners of Manchuria fight against firearms in the battle against the Ming army, gradually gain the upper hand and finally win the victory, was not the "mounted shooting" that everyone usually means, but a secret weapon "chariot".

The "shield" is connected to the "shield", that is, the shield cart. According to Fan Jingwen's "The Complete Book of War and Shou", the shield on the Eight Banners cart is made of thick wooden boards covered with cowhide and iron sheets. The "little bricks" made of this cart are

It will not move when hit by stones, it will roll down when hit by large bricks, and it will not burn when thrown by firewood." It has strong defensive power.

At that time, although the Ming army had been equipped with a large number of firearms, these firearms were mainly aimed at the Mongolian light cavalry without armor or with little armor, so they were seriously lacking in power when facing the chariots.

In fact, the carriages used by the Eight Banners of Manchuria were borrowed from the Ming Army.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to deal with the threat from the "Northern Mongols", a group of military strategists such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou developed a vehicle camp that was "encircled by vehicles and used to attack the enemy with muskets and artillery".

The Ming army used chariots as vehicles carrying firearms and movable barriers, which effectively restrained the Mongolian army, which was famous for its cavalry, and finally forced Anda Khan to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

In the battle of Nurhachi to capture Shenyang, the Eight Banners Army not only used marquees in the siege, but also used a large number of marquees in the field battles with Chen Ce's troops of the Ming army who came to support Shenyang.

The Ming army under Chen Ce wore cotton armor lined with iron armor and carried long spears, broadswords, and sharp swords. Moreover, this Ming army was also equipped with a large number of firearms.

Faced with such a Ming army armed to the teeth, Nurhachi felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy and immediately ordered You Gushan to move the chariots and heavy armored troops to the front line.

However, the Red Baiyala Division under Nurhaci was eager to fight and fought with the Ming army without waiting for the arrival of the heavy armored troops. As a result, General Buha and the guerrilla Lang Shirtai were killed by the Ming army.

After the carriages and heavy armored troops arrived, the Manchurian army turned defeat into victory and wiped out the Ming army.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners of Manchuria, with the support of Wu Sangui and other former Ming surrender generals, entered the Pass and moved south, eventually establishing the Central Plains and establishing the Qing Dynasty.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers, in order to "consolidate the country forever," erased as much as possible the chariots that had left heavy traces of the Ming and Qing wars in the historical records for reasons of confidentiality.

Because the Manchu rulers could not completely erase the history of the use of chariots in the Ming Dynasty, they tried their best to belittle the role of chariots, and made an evaluation of the Ming Dynasty's chariots as "not enough to be an enemy" and "not enough to fight".

The Manchu rulers also deleted several books that recorded records of the use of chariots, making it difficult for readers to discover the records of the Manchurian army's use of chariots and preventing people from discovering the secrets.

In this way, under the deliberate obliteration and concealment by the Manchu rulers, it seemed that the important weapon of the Eight Banners Army, the carriage, had never existed in history...

Seeing that the Mongolian army left more than a thousand corpses and retreated, Sun Yingyuan was looking forward to Prince Jiannu Rui's continued attacks. He was not afraid of any tactics Jiannu would use, but was worried that Dorgon would withdraw his troops and run away.

After the National Guard Army became stronger, both Huang Degong of the Tiger Army and Sun Yingyuan of the Dragon Army, including Cao Bianjiao and Lu Xiangkun, were all worried about Jiannu running away.

For the National Protectorate Army, the heads of Jiannu are their future. Once Jiannu retreats without a fight, how will the generals of the National Protectorate Army seal their wives and children...

Therefore, when Sun Yingyuan saw Jiannu pushing out the shield chariot, instead of being surprised at all, he actually smiled with relief.

"Field artillery, prepare to continue fighting, we must break up the Jiannu shield vehicle!"

"Here!"
Chapter completed!