The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 217 Nine Palace Formation

In the third year of Ming Shenwu, in the autumn, the Ming and Qing armies, who had been facing each other for nearly three months, finally launched a decisive battle north of Jizhen.

However, whether it was Zhu Cilang or Doer Gun, after knowing the strength of the opponent's troops, they all understood that this decisive battle was mostly just a show.

Similarly, both parties immediately saw their own calculations.

The 15 infantry of the Ming army were divided into three large army formations according to the left, right and middle armies, and each large army formation was composed of eight small army formations.

A total of 24 small phalanxes are arranged neatly and orderly on the plain with a radius of ten miles, which is extremely spectacular.

The army was only five miles away from the camp at the rear, and it could be said that they were fighting with their backs, waiting for the Jiannu cavalry and infantry to take the initiative to attack.

On Jiannu's side, although the [-] cavalry were forced to five or six miles north of the Ming army's formation, the [-] Han soldiers in front were ten miles away from the Ming army. Obviously, they also intended to lure the Ming army to attack, and then Retreat to the camp and let the Ming army attack the camp.

At this time, noon had passed, and the two armies did not take the lead in launching an attack. Instead, they sent envoys to each other to continue provoking, accusing each other of fearing death and fighting.

Dorgon accused the Ming army of being afraid of death. Originally, after the army left the camp, the two sides should advance ten miles each.

However, the Ming army only advanced five miles and then stopped. As a result, the infantry of the two armies were still separated by ten miles, unable to engage in battle.

Zhu Cihong accused the cavalry of the Qing army of not taking the initiative to attack the infantry for fear of death, but only dared to peep from the sidelines. As for why they did not advance ten miles according to the rules, they only recommended five miles and did not bother to explain.

Seeing Zhu Cihong's reply, Duo Ergun was also very angry, looking at the Ming army formation far away, his face was extremely dignified.

Hong Chengchou on the side, although he was stroking his beard with a calm expression, couldn't keep calm in his heart.

Because the 15 infantry are neatly arranged, the size is well located, and the visual impact is too shocking.

Such a large-scale army formation, as long as the Ming army does not confuse the formation, no matter how many cavalry charge up, they will probably die. stick it in.

"Sir, the little emperor made it clear that he doesn't intend to take the initiative to attack, and just wait for our army to attack, what should we do?"

"For today's plan, we have to test the truth first, thinking of a way to defeat the enemy." Hong Chengchou said slowly.

After finally getting the main force of the Ming army out of the big camp for a decisive battle, if there is a chance to eliminate them, it is definitely necessary to fight, but you can't rush forward blindly.

Dorgon nodded. Although he had decided to fight the Ming army, it was not advisable to run into him like a reckless man.

So [-] cavalry were sent to test it out. As for the infantry, they had no intention of letting them attack actively.

After the two sides had been deadlocked for an hour, Jiannu's [-] cavalry finally broke away from the brigade and rushed towards the Ming army.

However, the [-] cavalry were only galloping around the periphery of the Ming army, making a charging posture from time to time to test.

Although the three large phalanxes of the Ming army were separated by one or two miles from each other, and there were one or two hundred steps between each small phalanx, the [-] cavalry only dared to pass between the big phalanxes, but did not dare to cross them. Interspersed between small squares.

From time to time, Jiannu's cavalry would approach the small phalanx and shoot arrows on horseback within a hundred steps, but almost all of them fled in embarrassment after being beaten by the phalanx's archers and gunfire soldiers.

Each small phalanx is based on a battalion, supplemented by hundreds of firearms soldiers, and the number is about 7000.

The Changyu soldiers are in the front, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen are in the back, the archers and firecrackers are in the innermost, and the artillery is all concentrated in the central army.

Therefore, Jiannu cavalry avoided the central army and only harassed the left and right troops. But after half an hour, they almost didn't take advantage of it. Instead, they were shot to death by firecrackers and bows and arrows. Hundreds of cavalry .

Zhu Cihong, who was on the commanding platform of the Chinese army, sat on the chair with his old god all the time, drinking tea leisurely, as if he didn't care much about the situation on the battlefield.

In the distance, Dorgun and Hong Chengchou met the coercion of the cavalry, and the various phalanxes of the Ming army were not chaotic, even if there was no commotion, they completely no longer had any illusions.

"My lord, it's getting late today, so I'd better withdraw my troops for now and fight again tomorrow!"

Hong Chengchou knew that it was pointless to try again, and he also knew that the Ming army would never retreat if they did not retreat first, so he said.

"Alright!"

Dole nodded helplessly. He missed the Ming army very much. No matter how many Ming troops were in the past, as long as the cavalry charged in the field, they could directly massacre and capture prisoners.

In this way, the two armies worked hard and mobilized a lot of men and women. After fighting soy sauce for a day, and after agreeing to fight again tomorrow, Dor Gun led the cavalry back to the camp.

Zhu Cihong also gave an order, the army turned around, and each phalanx began to slowly march towards the camp.

Until returning to the camp, Zhu Cihong was still complaining in his heart. He finally understood the real reason why the hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides in ancient times would fight for ten days and a half months, or even longer.

It wasn't that it really took that long to fight, but that both sides were unsure, and no one wanted to take the initiative to attack, but they didn't want to lose their momentum, so it was procrastinating.

Of course, the premise is that the strength of both sides must be evenly matched.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, the two armies got up early to eat again, and then went out to assemble. The strength of the two sides was almost the same as yesterday.

Similarly, the Ming army still only stopped after five miles out of the camp, and the [-] Han soldiers of the Qing army also only advanced ten miles and stopped moving forward.

"Go back and tell Dole that such a war of words is not an option. As for the fighting generals, what age is it? Let's forget it. This is good. I will use 6 people to form a Jiugong formation, no matter how much he uses. Infantry and cavalry, as long as you can defeat them, how about you winning the Qing Dynasty?"

Faced with Dorgun's proposal to fight for generals, Zhu Cihong directly refused, and then said with a smile.

"Oh? Emperor Ming's words are serious?" the envoy asked doubtfully.

"You are not joking, you just go back and tell Dole to go, if you have a choice, you will break the formation, if you have no choice, go back to the camp."

Zhu Cilang waved his hand.

The envoy didn't say any more, and when he returned, he passed on Zhu Cihong's words to Doer Gun.

"Sir, this king has never heard of the Nine Palaces Formation. I wonder if you know it?" Duo Ergun was also quite surprised, and then looked at Hong Chengchou.

The latter said in an unfathomable way: "Don't care about the formation, first agree to it, and then it will be clear at a glance after the Ming army is in place."

Dorgon didn't bother, and immediately sent an envoy to reply to Zhu Cihong. Anyway, this is really not the way to go, and he has the final say on whether to break the formation or not.

Naturally, Zhu Cihong didn't know any formations, the so-called Nine Palaces Formation was unintentionally created by Hong Niangzi and the others when they were training.

To put it bluntly, it is nine battalions, forming nine square formations, arranged in the order of the nine squares, and each square is divided into nine smaller squares, also arranged in the order of the nine squares.

Except for the most central phalanx, each large phalanx is separated by [-] steps, and the small phalanx is separated by [-] steps. Close up and drown the enemy troops entering the formation.

It's very simple. At the beginning, Hong Niangzi also borrowed from the formation of the Chinese army's defense of the slave cavalry during the Battle of Tongzhou. After improvement, they came up with the so-called Jiugong formation.

The main function is not to kill the enemy, but to test the battlefield command communications and queue training of each army, as well as the coordination between each battalion, each standard, and each team.

An army just formed a Jiugong formation, and then the red lady gave various orders, and the army carried out various exercises according to the orders.

(End of this chapter)