stubborn thief

Emperor Chongde was deploying his troops in a new one-two formation.

As the Daiqing army's second line of defense was successfully formed, the chaos caused by the surprise attack gradually subsided.

Except for Hauge, all the flag leaders who participated in the expedition received Huang Taiji's orders from the central army and returned to their camp to put on armor and supervise the battle.

Hauge didn't need to go back. Except for a small group of elite soldiers who broke out with him, there were many White Banner troops who fled back to their main camp, but the Plain Blue Banner troops were pitifully small and were still trapped in the enemy's encirclement and attack, with no troops left to form an independent formation.

Huang Taiji did not dare to ride in the Jiuniu Khan's tent again, and moved his central army to the end of the left wing, which is the third left wing, the southwest corner of the entire army formation.

Although this position would make it a little difficult for him to command the right wing of the army, it would be more convenient to command in the middle of the three horizontal rows.

But this is Huang Taiji's personal habit.

Since he ascended the throne, whenever he went to battle, he never deployed the Eight Formations, that is, the Nine Battalions and Four Square Formations. Whether it was a horizontal formation or a scattered formation to encircle the enemy, he was never in the middle.

When it was generally safe, he would be on the right wing, because the Mongols respected the right, and this tradition was also inherited by the Later Jin.

When the enemy was under siege, he would temporarily stay in various camps, and only when he needed to give commands would he stop under the yellow flag of the Guard Camp.

Because the opponents of the Later Jin Dynasty had a lot of artillery.

But this time, Huang Taiji did not dare to be on the right wing.

In his eyes, Liu Chengzong was no different from the Mongols. He must be a guy who only respected the right, and he was a person of low character. He even did such a thing as stealing the army. There was no reason for him not to use cannons to bombard him with yellow flags.

He heard it. Liu Chengzong had a lot of cannons in his hands. The sound of the cannons firing was like thunder in the sky, which made people tremble with fear!
What can I say? Huang Taiji's view of Liu Chengzong was definitely biased and unfair.

He even planned to create a new Manchu word, "Chengzong", which means that this person is bad from the root of his ancestors.

The view is definitely not fair.

But Emperor Chongde was indeed very good at judging people.

There is no need for Liu Chengzong. Gao Yingdeng, who is behind the royal camp's chariot formation, is busy repairing the artillery position.

Gao Yingdeng was extremely jealous of the troops on the front line.

As a general in the Marshal's office who followed Liu Chengzong throughout the game, Gao Yingdeng knew the character of the Grand Marshal very well.

The Grand Marshal always gave his army whatever he had, but when it came to money, he himself was a pauper... They were good at fighting, but after beating them all, they were all poorer than them. Only the Ming Dynasty was richer, but the Grand Marshal had to rule over the cities he conquered, without massacring them or looting them completely.

Therefore, the Marshal’s Army had indeed not seen much real gold and silver.

It was just the battle of Liaoyang that conquered three feet of land, making the generalissimo like a nouveau riche, receiving rewards for everything he did.

According to the financial situation of the Marshal's Office, such generous distribution of money is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Unless they really come again next year, it won't take long for things to return to normal.

Therefore, Gao Yingdeng planned to build nine small artillery batteries that were ten feet high and pull up the nine thousand-jin field guns directly under the First Brigade, hoping to cross the formation and kill Emperor Chongde.

He originally had twelve 1,000-jin field guns, but two of them were damaged by hits from Haizhou artillerymen during the battle, and another one fired too quickly and became bulging.

The cannon, which is made of iron with copper wrapped around it, has bulging and deforming copper shell cast on the outside, which means that the iron barrel inside is broken and it will easily explode if fired again.

So Gao Yingdeng ordered his men to push the damaged cannon into the river, and for the cannon that was about to explode, he asked the army's craftsmen to flatten the bulging copper shell overnight and throw it near Liaoyang.

No matter whether it was the Jinzhou Army or the Eight Banners Army, whichever lucky guy was picked up to fight and killed in the explosion would be no loss to the Marshal's Army.

The artillery position on the battlefield was prepared by Gao Yingdeng for Huang Taiji.

For the people in the Marshal's Office, from top to bottom, the highest honor for a military man is probably to kill the emperor in battle.

Just letting them know that there is an emperor in the opposing army will increase the fighting spirit of the marshal's army.

For Gao Yingdeng, if he could kill Emperor Chongde on the battlefield, he would be able to establish his reputation as the top general in the headquarters. After returning to the interior, he would be able to suppress Wei Qianer and Zhang Tianlin.

If you want to become famous in the Marshal's Office, you must do great things.

Zhang Tianlin was so powerful in the past that he dominated the area where Bai Guangen was active.

But Wei Qianer came on a plague march, and not only was he conferred the title of earl, but now temples have been built in Huazhou and Tongzhou areas north and south of the Wei River, and they worship Wei Jinming, the mighty and epidemic-preventing god.

How majestic!
However, Gao Yingdeng's wish was destined to fail, as Emperor Chongde had already expected that he would be hit by bullets on the front line.

There was another reason why he was stationed at the left corner, which was that the Blue Banner led by Fei Yanggu on the right wing was the most elite, and support from the Yellow Banner was also on the way, so there was nothing to worry about there.

At this moment, good news came from the left wing of the battlefield.

The vanguard cavalry led by Lausa was successful in the attack on the left wing of the battlefield.

The Vanguard Camp is where the Eight Banners Supermen gather.

During the Nurhaci era, there were a large number of armored soldiers. For a Niulu of more than 300 people, there were 100 armored soldiers, half of whom were Bayala. There were ten with white armor and forty with red armor, but their quality varied.

By the time of Huang Taiji, everything was on track. Many people died in the war. The number of Niulu was reduced to 300, and the number of armored soldiers was reduced to 60. At the same time, white armor was drawn from each flag to form a guard camp.

After he made the transfers, each Niulu still had white armor, but the most elite group, Old Bayara, who was one of the thirty selected by Nurhaci, became his guard battalion.

The outpost cavalry in the Guard Camp, who were wearing armor and brave enough to fight, and who were often active on the front lines of the Guanning battlefield, were independently organized into the Vanguard Camp.

They are the equivalent of Bayala's forward selection department.

Laosa was the leader of the vanguard camp and the true first warrior of the Later Jin Dynasty at that time.

Because Turush is dead. Before Turush's death, both of them were very powerful and it was difficult to tell who was better.

These two lieutenant generals led the most troops at one time, each with a deputy general. The four generals commanded a total of 1,000 troops, with each leading more than 200 people, so the command power was full.

The form of warfare they are most familiar with is to lead a dozen or dozens of people to fight against others on the battlefield.

This time was no exception. The moment the more than one hundred vanguard cavalry led by Lausa entered the left wing battlefield, they were like a whirlwind, forcing Subadi's Mobei cavalry to retreat step by step.

However, they could not fight for long. After a brief battle on the front line, they rode back with arrows all over their bodies. They retreated to the rear of the Han army, took off their armor, and rested while sweating.

But this moment was enough for Jin Yuhe's defeated Han army to escape back to the formation and reorganize. The morale of Ma Guangyuan's Han army was also greatly boosted, and they transferred their guns and artillery to the front line of the central army.

For Emperor Chongde, the most critical moment seemed to have passed. As long as Ma Guangyuan's guns were arranged in the first line of the central army, Yue Tuo led the Red Banner and the Mongolian tribes to arrange in the second line, and the Eight Banners followed, they could completely eliminate the impact of Liu Chengzong's surprise attack and fight alternately.

At this moment, the right wing, which made him most confident, was in chaos.

The support from the Bordered Yellow Banner was still on the way when the flag of the Bordered Blue Banner fell to the ground.

Fei Yanggu really didn't dare to disrupt the front line unless it was absolutely necessary.

In order to cover up the lie that there were no shield carts, he stubbornly lined up on the right wing, but he did not expect that the one who arrived was the artillery battalion of the Marshal's Army.

Fei Yanggu really wanted to ask Liu Chengzong, what kind of strange formation was this?

How can you not put cavalry on the flanks and place guns and cannons on the flanks?

Aren’t you afraid that the gunners will be killed by the cavalry?

Fei Yanggu had no idea what was going on. He had just reached the right wing and had not yet stood still when he saw smoke rising on the horizon two hundred steps away.

Two hundred steps!

It was almost invisible. There was a cloud of smoke and thousands of bullets were sprayed over.

Some hit the sky, some hit the ground, and some hit the body but had no ability to break the armor, but the dense rain of bullets inevitably injured the eyes of some flag soldiers, causing them to cry out in pain everywhere.

However, there were some neatly-armored bannermen who, because the power of some huge lead bullets was so strong that they did not realize they were shot at first after their armor was pierced. Instead, their bodies continued to move forward mechanically, and then suddenly fell down without any warning at a certain moment.

At first, Fei Yanggu did not realize how fierce the firearms attack was.

Relying on his experience as a veteran on the battlefield, he immediately ordered his cavalry to advance from the flank and destroy the artillery formation in the distance, while his infantry also continued to press forward.

In the interval between the cavalry's running, Tang Tong's line moved forward another thirty steps and opened fire again.

The distance between the two sides was closing rapidly, and this time the lethality of firearms was much stronger than the first round of volleys. Fei Yanggu could clearly feel that the cavalry was running on the flanks and the infantry was falling on the front.

A volley of gunfire came and the front line fell down in unison. Nearly two hundred soldiers in the first row fell, and even more than a dozen in the second row fell. They twisted and struggled on the ground, shouting to the sky.

The key point was that the cavalry sent out for the attack did not work as expected.

The cavalry sent by Fei Yanggu was from the cavalry of Jala Zhangjing Wudahai under the banner of Huxibu Xianglan Mongolia.

Because at the beginning he felt that there was something wrong with Liu Chengzong's formation, placing the lone gunner on the flank, which would be destroyed by the cavalry's charge. He thought this was a job that could earn him merit, so he gave it to Wu Dahai.

Wudahai was also a member of the Daiqing clan and the fourth son of Murhaci.

He was overjoyed when he received the order to attack the gunners, and immediately led the cavalry to bypass his right wing, avoiding the guns' firing range, and planned to attack from the flank.

Two hundred steps is a long distance for infantry, but for a cavalry unit running, it only takes a blink of an eye to get there.

Coincidentally, the other side thought the same thing.

As soon as Wu Dahai led the cavalry out from the right wing, he heard another row of gunfire not far away. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed... As long as this row of guns was fired, the enemy on the opposite side would not have time to reload and would be hit by his cavalry.

The gunners and artillerymen of the Eight Banners Army fought many battles.

Whether it was the Ming army or the Eight Banners, those who used guns and cannons must have been weak soldiers who could not use strong bows or spears and horses.

Or the opposite is also true. There are old soldiers who are skilled in archery and horse riding. When they put on armor and fight on the battlefield, they are like bulldozers. How could there be generals and nobles who allow such people to practice guns and artillery?
Generally speaking, this is true.

But sometimes there are exceptions.

Seeing the cavalry rushing towards him in neat rows and from the flank, Tang Tong was not panicked. He just asked people to wave the flags on the chariots and summon Zuo Guangxian's cavalry battalion at the rear of the army to prepare for work.

At the same time, he calmly ordered a change of formation. The Western Barbarians' Corning firearmsmen remained motionless, and continued to fire with their heavy guns and rifles. The Han army pulled down all the flags and spears on the chariots, with the front unit preparing to withstand the impact and the rear unit preparing to counterattack.

Facing the Eight Banners cavalry roaring from the flank, the Corning gunners continued to load ammunition as usual, but their movements were a little faster.

The cavalry was getting closer and closer, and along the line of the chariots, the sound of scriptures being chanted to suppress fear gradually rang out.

When Wudahai's cavalry was about to collide with the flank of the reinforcement camp, the Han army completed its formation change. The soldiers of the two divisions formed two small "U"-shaped formations to protect the left side and rear of the Western Barbarians.

Spears with military flags hanging on them were held on the outside by the red-armored soldiers. Each soldier holding a flag spear had two muskets at his side. On the inside, a circle of soldiers with goose-feather swords drawn were ready to go into battle and kill.

The horses' hooves were getting closer, and the sounds of scriptures being chanted at the front line were getting louder and louder.

When the loudness of the chanting reached its climax and the two armies were only more than ten steps apart, the cavalry, facing the sharp spearheads, became scared and, like water hitting a reef, spread out into two wings at the edge of the square formation, turned around and returned, having no choice but to throw sparse arrows into the formation.

Wu Dahai was so angry that he raised his whip and cursed behind the formation.

Of course, he was also very good at cavalry archery. Most of his cavalry were good at using strong bows. Just from what he saw behind the formation, the cavalry shot hundreds of arrows into the formation in one charge, making the infantry in the formation unable to raise their heads.

Just one attack injured dozens of people and caused several of them to fall down directly.

If they were the only ones in this battle, then the impact tactics would be fine.

The problem is that even if there is only a local battlefield on the right wing, there is no time for them to launch cavalry and archery attacks on the army formation again and again, and they cannot even weaken the enemy formation with cavalry and archery first - they must crash into the formation!
This army formation cannot be broken without being hit. It is useless to throw arrows and injure dozens of people. The army formation still stands firm. People can break the arrow shafts and even let the armor continue to stand in the formation with the arrows.

Even if a small area is hit and loses its combat effectiveness, it will be fine if it is pulled into the formation.

Even when it came to shock tactics, his cavalry didn't use them well. They held their bows and didn't shoot at people's faces, but instead shot at their cloth armor, relying on luck for the chance of hitting the seams in the armor. Isn't that crazy?

Especially after the cavalry circled around, some people were still shooting arrows from behind, which made Wu Dahai even angrier.

The enemies are fully dressed in cloth armor and helmets, and they may even have other protective gear underneath. It doesn't matter if the arrows pierce their bodies, so why are you wasting the arrows?

Where is the man who wants to borrow arrows?
At this moment, the Corning gunners on the front line finished reloading and fired another row of muskets at Fei Yanggu's army not far away. This time they were very close, and the power of the heavy guns was so great that they disrupted the formation in front of the line at once.

At the same time, Fei Yanggu's troops drew their bows and fired at the musket line.

On the flank, Wudahai led his guards, cursing, and joined the second charge.

It’s not that he wanted to lead his troops into the enemy camp for excitement, but on his flank, military flags were fluttering and horses’ hooves were clattering in the vast dust.

The Oirat Lancers rushed out from the side and started working! (End of this chapter)