The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 634
Following Wang Weizhong's order, the entire Ming army began to function in an orderly manner.

The difficulty Wang Weizhong considered at this time was that Jiannu's Hongyi cannons were farther than theirs. The farthest on their side was the 12-pound cannon, and there were only four of them.

It will be very disadvantageous if you really confront each other.

Sure enough, Zhang Qidong, chief artillery officer, said to Wang Weizhong, "Head, we have to build artillery positions."

Wang Weizhong disturbed his head: "Isn't it impossible to dig?"

"If you can't dig, you have to dig. The Qing soldiers have Hongyi cannons, which can hit farther than us."

"If you don't think about it, it's easy to be crushed by their cannons."

No matter how well-disciplined soldiers and horses are, they can't stand the bombardment.

The Battle of Hunhe was an example. If Ding Yi's soldiers were only beaten but did not fight back, they would still be blown apart.

"Then find a way." Wang Weizhong said.

The Qing soldiers Hongyi Cannon walked slowly, and they were still behind, just to give them time.

Zhang Qidong was very clever, and quickly thought of a way. Qingshuibo was right next to the river, and he went to the river to dig mud.

At this time, the river surface was not frozen, and the mud in the river water could still be dug.

Then pack it with sandbags, and then stack them in front of the artillery. In order to extend the range of the artillery fire, the elevation angle of the artillery is raised, and the artillery pad is also raised.

Sandbags can also defend against the artillery on the opposite side, and the effect is the best in this era.

Of course, the range of such an increase is still limited. After all, the amount of gunpowder and the design of the barrel of the 6-pound gun basically fixed its range.

After being raised, the only high point is that after the shell hits the ground, it may jump a little longer.

In order to speed up, they kept cutting down trees, and combined the trees with cloth bags as a temporary fence around the cart.

Xu Fuzuo was dumbfounded, and finally realized that Ding Yi's soldiers are powerful.

They had everything, shovels, saws, axes, felling trees very fast, and brought a lot of cloth bags to hold mud and rocks.

They dug halfway through the soil, when suddenly someone screamed. It turned out that there were a lot of pebbles by the river, which was better. Some soldiers went directly into the water to touch it despite the severe cold.

Then pack them in bags, cover them with soil, erect trees and sandwich them.

Xu Fuzuo looked at it for a while, and felt that if the Qing soldiers did not attack again, give Wang Weizhong a day or two, and he could build a stone wall.

Damn it, he has to obey.

Wang Weizhong was working there in full swing, and Dorgon was also anxious.

Because they were afraid of being bombarded by the Ming army, they were all two miles away.

Although this distance is also within the range of the artillery, generally no one will hit the opponent with a cannon at such a distance. It is easy to be dodged, and it is even more difficult to hit.

Dorgon waited anxiously while observing the Ming army.

Because of the long distance, he didn't know exactly what the Ming army was doing, but he knew that the Ming army could not be given time to set up the battlefield.

"Where's Kong Youde? Where's the cannon? How far is it?" He asked anxiously.

They have an army of 31, [-] livestock, and thousands of vehicles, stretching out for dozens of miles.

The striker has arrived in Qingshuibo, and the back team may have just come out of Qingzhou.

The Hongyi cannon was heavy and heavy, so it naturally fell to the end.

Kong Youde was not around, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Come here." Dorgon immediately called a few followers and asked them to see where the artillery was.

"Can't attack without guns?" Hauge said angrily, "When buying time, attack a wave first."

Dorgon glanced at him, but said nothing.

The forwards are all Zhengbaiqi and Xiangbaiqi, all of which are his soldiers and horses, he is not so stupid, let his soldiers and horses attack Ding Yi's troops by force.

"Be quiet and hurry. The Ming army has fierce weapons and preparations. We still have few soldiers and horses now." Du Du persuaded him.

Now they have only reached 5000 people one after another, and there are tens of thousands of people behind.

The people behind here, some want to protect the looted wealth, some want to watch over the looted people and animals, and some want to protect the artillery, so it's so easy to gather all of them.

Just because they robbed too many people, animals and wealth, the team headquarters was lengthened, and it also gave Wang Weizhong time to desperately build the construction site.

Finally, more than an hour after Dorgon saw the Ming army, the first wave of Qing soldiers, fifteen small artillery pieces, arrived at the scene.

Kong Youde and thousands of Han troops also arrived at the scene.

At this time, the Qing soldiers had assembled almost 3 horses, and those who hadn't come yet had missions.

"When will the rest of the guns arrive?" Dorgon asked.

Kong Youde said: "At least two hours."

"Ba" Dorgon whipped his whip in the air fiercely, and couldn't wait, so he hit him immediately.

Based on his understanding of Ding Yi, Ding Yi does not fight unprepared battles, even if he sends people to stop him, Ding Yi's troops will definitely come.

Just as Wang Weizhong expected, Dorgon didn't want to fight Ding Yi to the death, he just wanted to take people away quickly.

But if you want to go there, you must defeat the Ming army in front of you.

At this time, the Qing soldiers sent sentry cavalry to the front for interviews from time to time, mainly to observe the number and formation arrangement of the Ming army. They were not afraid of the Ming army's artillery, but they did not dare to approach within 150 meters.

The successor soldiers and horses are gathering, preparing to attack, and the artillerymen are also preparing, estimating the distance.

Kong Youde said at this time: "The range of the Ming army's artillery is similar to ours. We have few small artillery, so I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat them."

"It doesn't matter, once you order an attack, your cannons will fire, and fire their cannons." Dorgon didn't care, he planned to do his best, and he couldn't delay the Ming army any longer.

"Hey..." Kong Youde was helpless.

The best way is to wait for the Hongyi cannons behind to arrive before attacking. If you can't build artillery positions now, you are fighting for casualties.

They used to learn from Ding Yi and used stacks of sandbags to build positions, but now it is freezing cold, and the Ming army on the opposite side has not even built them, and they have nothing to do.

But they didn't have binoculars, otherwise they could see that a wall was almost built between the carts of the Ming army and in front of the artillery, and all kinds of sandbags and wood were filled in it to strengthen the defense.

The Qing soldiers who were inquiring and observing in front were Zhenghongqi vests, with a total of ten cavalry.

The leader of the team is called Jebuku, who is still Hauge's general.

He led a team of cavalry forward, mainly to observe the formation and approximate number of the Ming army.

But the Ming army blocked it with large carts, and they couldn't see the back, where they could clearly see the number of people.

Fortunately, when the Ming army appeared from the other side of the river, they took a rough look and estimated that there were 6000 to [-] people.

Now he was getting closer and closer, and suddenly found that there seemed to be many obstacles in the middle and in front of the Ming army's carriage, and there were familiar cloth bags. It was cold and cold, where did the Ming army dig it?

The more Jebuku looked, the more he wanted to see clearly, and the horse couldn't help but move a little forward.

"Be careful." There are subordinates behind him to remind them not to get too close.

"It doesn't matter." Jebuku thought to himself, if we charge on a large scale, the Ming army is easy to fight, but if I am alone, how easy is that?

Driving, he ignored the persuasion of his subordinates, accelerated sharply, and rode forward like an arrow.

There was an uproar in the Ming army formation, and many people probed.

Naturally, Wang Weizhong also saw it, and laughed loudly: "Whoever beats him down will reward him with ten taels of silver, and he will be promoted to a higher level."

As soon as he finished speaking, many people who had shot well in front of the battle stood up one after another.

Nazhebukuma ran fast, changing positions from left to right, as if showing his superb riding skills to the Ming army.

After a while, he ran within 100 meters of the Ming army.

At this time, Wang Weizhong's artillerymen were very calm.

When fighting in a dense assault formation on the battlefield, sometimes you don’t need to aim, as long as the position is not high, but now when you fight alone, everyone is calm and takes aim very seriously.

Sudden.

Bang, someone fired a gun at the scene.

Then, bang, bang, bang, conditioned reflex, several guns were fired.

Wang Weizhong's gunmen turned their heads strangely, and it turned out that it was one of Xu Fuzuo's gunmen, who couldn't hold back, and fought first, and then Xu Fuzuo fought several gunmen.

As a result, the gun was naturally missed.

Xu Fuzuo's face turned red immediately.

His soldiers and horses are all trained by Ding Yi's people, and he often goes to see them during training, and the sentence he hears the most is, don't rush to fight, let alone fight when you hear the sound.

Because ordinary Ming soldiers can easily hear the sound, they can't help but fight out.

I didn't expect that after training for so long, someone would still make such a mistake.

The main reason is that his soldiers and horses have almost never fought, and have never actually fought, so they are naturally easily agitated.

"Hahaha." At this moment, the Qing soldiers on the other side laughed, and Jebuku became even more proud.

"Ho, ho, ho." A large number of Qing soldiers shouted behind him, cheering him on.

Dorgon also showed an incredulous expression, and looked back at his subordinates: "Aren't they all Ding Yi's soldiers?"

"I just saw a Xu Ziqi, but it was removed later." Someone said.

"Xu Fuzuo?" Hauge said, "Maybe it's Denglai General Soldier, Xu Fuzuo's person."

"Then it will be easy to fight, if half of them are Xu Fuzuo's people, it will be easy to fight." Du Du and others were overjoyed.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Ding Yi's troops, the other Ming troops were all bullshit in their eyes.

If it weren't for Ding Yi's men, they would have dared to rush up and fight with a few hundred riders just now.

As soon as the voices of the people fell, suddenly.

Bang, bang, several gunshots ahead.

Jebuku wobbled, and a second later, he plopped and fell off his horse.

At this time, it was about 80 meters away from the front of the Ming army's position.

"Wow!" It was the Ming army's turn to cheer.

The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were all in mourning, and there was no sound.

Suddenly, Jia, the easternmost side of the Ming army was near the coast, and a horse rushed out.

Immediately, the Qing soldiers seemed to know what they were going to do, and they cursed one after another.

The cavalry rushed in front of Zhebuku, pounced, chopped off his head with a knife, and then stuck it on the tip of the knife.

"Tiger." Ming Jun laughed and shouted.

"Tiger."

"tiger"

"tiger"

Ming Qi held his head and galloped left and right in front of the formation. The Ming army behind the car kept cheering, the cheers were thunderous, and their morale was greatly boosted.

The rest of the sentry cavalry of the Qing soldiers ran back one after another, startled and frightened: "Master, there are piles of obstacles in front of the Ming army vehicles, and there are many bags."

Dorgon's face turned blue with anger, who asked Na Zhebuku to go to the front to choose a shirt for the Ming army without authorization, isn't this giving away his head?

This seriously affected their morale.

"Release Jebuku's family as slaves." Dorgon roared angrily.

Hauge didn't say a word, and his face was very ugly.

Kong Youde was standing next to the artillerymen, and the artillerymen pushed the cannon forward with great effort.

They finally found a place with a slightly higher terrain, about two miles away from the Ming army's position, just within the range of their shelling.

But at this distance, the power of the shell will be weakened when it hits that position.

But there is no way, further forward, the Ming army's artillery is even more powerful.

Kong Youde also knew that the range of the Ming army's small artillery was about this distance, and by then, it would be up to who could shoot more accurately.

They have less artillery, so the Qing soldiers will definitely suffer.

At this moment, someone came over quickly from behind: "Prince He Shuorui asked, how long will it take to go to the battlefield?"

Kong Youde hurriedly said, "One meal."

The man turned around and left, and ran over after a while: "My lord said, if you don't have half a meal, the artillery battalion will draw one out of ten and cut it off."

Kong Youde's complexion changed drastically, and he cursed in his heart, but he had no choice but to give orders quickly, and the artillery battalion desperately pushed forward.

Originally, he wanted to delay the time, including the Hongyi Cannon behind him, who also walked slowly on purpose.

Ding Yi, Ding Yi, I can only help you so much.

Kong Youde sighed in his heart.

After the First World War in Korea, he had already fully seen how powerful Ding Yi was. With the Qing soldiers and Ding Yi repeatedly defeated, it was time for Kong Youde to make a way out for himself.

Dorgon looked behind from time to time, and when he saw the artillery battalion going uphill, he knew it was almost done.

"Give orders, attack, advance but not retreat, those who retreat without permission, beheaded."

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" Among the soldiers and horses that the Qing soldiers had prepared long ago, a long horn sounded.

The vanguard of this battle was 5000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry.

The successor soldiers and horses are five thousand for the Han army.

Tens of thousands of people ride, the momentum is huge.

On this more than 400-meter defense line, an army of ten thousand people slowly spread out.

Because I have fought with Ding Yi many times, the intensive charge will be severely damaged by gunmen and artillery, so the soldiers dispersed one after another and kept their distance.

At this moment, boom, the artillery of the Ming army rang first.

It turned out that Wang Weizhong's artillery saw that the Qing soldiers' artillery had entered the range and fired first.

"Come on." Without saying a word, the Qing soldiers gave an order, thousands of horses galloped, and tens of thousands of cavalry rushed forward.

Before the war, Prince Dorgon of He Shuorui issued a strict order that he could only go forward and not retreat. If the horse was lost, get off the horse and rush, and if the horse was blocked, bypass the horse and rush, and everyone was not allowed to stop.

In this battle, Jurchen took the lead, followed by the Mongols and the Han army, showing Dorgon's will to win.

The first two waves of people are rushing, and the third and fourth waves of 5000 people in each of the following waves are already gathering one after another. The Qing soldiers are going to rush forward in one go, and almost all the soldiers and horses on the scene are mobilized.

Many people were paying attention to the front, only Dorgon kept looking behind, he was more concerned about when his cannon would go off.

As long as the artillery can suppress the artillery of the Ming army, he is [-]% sure to break the Ming army in front of him.

Boom, boom, the artillery of the Ming army did not hit their cavalry, and several artillery pieces fired at Kong Youde's artillery position.

Their guns were still advancing, already up the slope.

Suddenly, with a splash, a shell landed on the hillside and jumped up.

This is already the farthest limit of the cannonball, but the cannonball can jump forward and jump into the cannon of the Qing soldiers with a plop.

Ah, there were several screams at the scene, and several artillerymen of the Qing soldiers were cut to death on the spot.

But the gun was lucky, and the carriage was not knocked down.

"Go up, go up, go up, hurry up, don't want to be beheaded and go up quickly." Kong Youde personally supervised the battle and ordered the artillerymen to go up to replace them.

Another wave of Han artillery rushed up and continued to push the cannon.

Dorgon saw it and felt that Kong Youde was still dedicated.

But before their cannons moved forward, boom, boom, boom, the Ming army's cannons came again.

Wang Weizhong had forty cannons on his side, with an average of five shots fired once, and two waves were fired first.

The second round of shells flew over again.

Plop, this time a cannon directly hit the Han army's cannon, and the gun mount Kacha collapsed instantly, and the surrounding Han soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.

One cannon had already been knocked out by the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)