A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 268 See how much blood they shed
Dorgon struck while the iron was hot, and said: "My lords, Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Dou have already lost their spirit. As long as our Qing soldiers strike again, the Ming Dynasty Xuan camp will be destroyed."

His eyes sparkled: "At this entrance, looking at the whole Ming country, only Lu Xiangsheng dared to fight, and that Wang Dou was known as the brave champion of the three armies, and killed many of our Qing soldiers. As long as these two people die, the morale of the Ming army will be lost." , there is no more resistance army, our Qing soldiers will be invincible."

He said: "Once the two of you die, most of the Ming Dynasty Xuan Department will be wiped out, and our Qing soldiers can plunder as much as they want. No matter how much you lose, the emperor will give you double compensation."

As soon as Dorgon said this, the banner owners of the Outer Domain Mongolia and the Eight Banners Mongolia all had bright eyes, and what the general ordered was very reasonable.

Not to mention Duo Duo loudly agreed, even Yue Tuo and Jier Harang also spoke out in support of Dorgon's remarks.Although they were dissatisfied with Dorgon's domineering, but as members of the Eight Banners Manchuria, seeing their ally Eight Banners Mongolia showing hesitation, they had to stand by Dorgon at this time.

With so many casualties in the army, everyone is on the verge of riding a tiger. If the Xuanda camp is not breached to provide a guarantee for the smooth looting in the future, then the casualties of the various banners these days will be in vain.More importantly, they saw the hope of victory.

Yue Tuo said: "Ming Dynasty Supervising Army Gao Qiqian has led the army to Jize for three days, and it is only a few dozen miles away from Julu. Will they take advantage of our Qing soldiers rushing to attack the Xuanda Camp and attack us from behind? ?”

Dorgon said disdainfully: "Do they have the guts? According to what the outposts have heard, the Guan Ning army, who is high and latent, is standing on the high wall and deep in Jize. I am afraid that I am even more worried that our Qing soldiers will launch an attack on them." Hit it?"

All the Qing generals present burst into laughter, but even so, Dorgon discussed with Yue Tuo and others about preventing an ambush.

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Chongzhen 11th December [-]th, morning.

Today's Qing army camp seems to have been quiet for a long time, until the first quarter of noon ([-] o'clock in the morning), there was finally movement in the Qing camp. Amid the sound of horns, they came out densely again, gathered the whole team, and after half an hour of work, from The darkness on three sides surrounded them.

Unlike usual, when their dense chariots advanced to two miles, they stopped moving.Wang Dou and the others were surprised to see them push out four cannons from behind the formation. Although they couldn't see clearly from a distance, they could still see the hugeness of those cannons.

Wang Dou was puzzled, Zhao Xuan came up to Wang Dou with a pale face, and reported to Wang Dou that according to his estimation, the Qing Army's four cannons, two were Hongyi 24-pounder guns, and two were Hongyi [-]-pounder guns. Li away, the Hongyi six-pound guns and Buddha Wolf machine guns in our army couldn't hit them at all.

Zhao Xuan murmured, "Where did the Tartars get these cannons?"

He shouted: "I see, it must have been transported from Tongzhou and Wanping, and there must be gunners from the Beijing camp on the Tartar side."

He hated himself, the quality of the Hongyi cannon supervised by the imperial court at the end of Ming Dynasty was good, but without a good gunner, it would explode if it was not handled properly, just like the artillery of the Qing army a few days ago.In the Ming Dynasty, only the Nine Frontier Army, the gunners of the Beijing Camp and the Kong Youde Department of Hetou Qing had experience in operating the Red Barbarian Cannon.

If there are really surrendering Beijing gunners operating, a few Hongyi cannons will bombard them...

Han Zhong, Wen Fangliang and others surrounded Wang Dou anxiously. Wang Dou could see a group of people around the artillery on the side of the soldiers, busy loading ammunition, and it seemed that the launch was not far away.Wang Dou shouted suddenly: "The heavy soldiers in the ordering battalion quickly filled the soil with cloth bags and placed them within the defense line. If there were wooden baskets, they were all filled with soil and arranged in the same way."

Wang Dou suddenly remembered the methods of defending solid smoothbore bullets in the later generations. The artillery at this time was most afraid of ricochets. As for the earth walls and trenches, let them bomb them.That low earthen wall, if they can get it.

Under Wang Dou's order, all the soldiers in the battalion were put into emergency operation. At the same time, Wang Dou sent people to inform Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others to send people to help.

At the same time, Wang Dou also ordered all the soldiers in his battalion to hide behind two earthen walls.Immediately, Wang Dou and his central army hid behind the second earthen wall, and all the soldiers in Han Zhong and Wen Fangliang's troops hid behind the first earthen wall.

Under Wang Dou's persuasion, Lu Xiangsheng also got out of Yuan Rong's chariot and hid with him behind the second earthen wall.The auxiliary soldiers of each battalion, after receiving the news from Wang Dou, also desperately dug up the soil and filled them with bags.There are baskets and the like in the army, and all of them are found out to fill with soil.

As if the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking, a shell from the Qing army whizzed over and smashed heavily into the open space of the first line of defense of the Shunxiang Army. A large iron ball weighing more than [-] kilograms hit the hard ground, Get up, charge straight away, and punch a big gap in the second section of the earth wall.

The iron ball did not lose its prestige, and it rolled back, rolling off the calves of several Shunxiang army spearmen and firecrackers who were densely gathered behind the first earth wall.

A shrill scream sounded, Wang Dou clenched his teeth, and ordered the doctors of the Central Military Department to carry them down for rescue.After waiting for a while, I heard the sound of cannons from the Qing army, and then heard dozens of iron balls coming one after another. With a dozen small bullets.

These shells whizzed over, and kept hitting the front and rear earth wall defense lines of the Shunxiang Army, as well as various low walls and ditches. Dense iron balls jumped and rolled on the ground, and from time to time, soldiers from Shunxiang were hit by the shells.The projectiles of the Qing army also penetrated into the tents, smashing the inner tents into a mess, and some tents were even burned. Several tanks in the core defense line were also smashed to pieces, and some doctors inside were killed and injured.

The auxiliary soldiers of each battalion who were busy filling soil and bagging in the battalion were also continuously brought down by the rolling shells. They ran away screaming and then were hit by the shells coming from the shells.

Han Zhong hid tightly behind the earthen wall. Seeing the continuous artillery fire from the Qing army, he cursed: "Is there any end to this bunch of fresh goods?..."

As soon as the words fell, a large iron ball weighing more than [-] kilograms hit the earthen wall beside him, and a large piece of the hard earthen wall was immediately collapsed. Han Zhong fled away covered in earth, but saw The body of a guard next to him had already been hit by shells.

With a loud bang, a Hongyi [-]-pound gun erected on a passage was hit by a bullet from a Hongyi [-]-pounder gun, and the gun was immediately paralyzed on the spot, with the iron ball sandwiching the gun carriage. The wheels flew around.

"The slave thief is so powerful, my soldiers suffered a lot of casualties..."

Dozens of large and small iron balls from the Qing army came over three times in a row before stopping temporarily. Obviously, the barrel of the gun was hot and needed to stop for a while to dissipate heat.

Wang Dou and Lu Xiangsheng stood up, the scenery in front of them was like hell on earth, the ground of the two lines of defense was full of blood and stumps, and the screams of the soldiers resounded.Those wounded sergeants who were hit by the iron ball were all dead and fractured, and their injuries were horrific.

The Qing army had long-distance and powerful artillery, and it seemed that this battle was becoming more and more difficult to fight.Wang Dou estimated that just these few rounds of artillery fire by the Qing army had already caused one to two hundred casualties of one's own sergeant, and the rest did not know how many auxiliary soldiers in each battalion.

In particular, this kind of bombardment had a great impact on morale. Fortunately, the Shunxiang Army usually trained strictly. Although the soldiers suffered a lot of injuries, this round of bombardment did not collapse.

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, Wang Dou was silent for a while, and said: "The slaves have Hongyi cannons. Although our army is caught off guard, we only need to install mud bags and earthen baskets everywhere to prevent their projectiles from rolling, and we can still avoid casualties. increase."

Lu Xiangsheng nodded slowly, and the two of them looked at the field quietly. The densely packed auxiliary soldiers of each battalion, no longer caring about fighting for the wounded, under the order of the generals, raced against time to fill the soil bags with soil baskets, Distributed everywhere in the defense line.Those who couldn't find the bags and baskets, everyone tore down the tents and used them to bundle the soil.

At the moment of life, everyone moved very quickly. Soon, the flat ground between the two earth walls of the Shun Township Army was covered with large and small mud bags and earth baskets. After that, it was also covered with large and small mud bags.The cannons on the passage were also pushed behind the earthen wall.

Although Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were not hit by artillery fire, they were prepared for any danger. They also prepared a large number of mud bags and soil baskets.

Not long after, the Qing army's artillery roared again, and immediately everyone got down quickly, especially those heavy soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of each battalion, who lay down tightly behind the mudbags and soil baskets.Waves of large and small iron balls came one after another, and the front and rear earth walls were constantly knocked down by them.Those big and small iron balls shot at the open space in front of and behind the earth wall, and the cloth scraps and soil were even splashed.Everyone's screams kept ringing.

After a while, the artillery fire of the Qing army stopped. Fortunately, with the buffer of those mud bags and soil baskets, the projectiles could not jump. Greatly reduced, the sergeant's mood quickly stabilized.

Wang Dou breathed out and felt relieved, while Lu Xiangsheng felt relieved at the same time with lingering fears. Fortunately, with these mud bags and soil baskets, the power of the enemy's sharp artillery fire was greatly reduced.

Numerous doctors came out to rescue the wounded, watching them carry the bloody wounded into the camp one by one, Chen An and others behind Lu Xiangsheng all showed expressions of disgust.

The field was quiet, only the screams of the wounded when they were carried in. In the cold winter weather, these people who were taken by the artillery projectiles, I am afraid... Many sergeants are clenching their teeth, and they can't fight back after being beaten.

The cold wind was still howling, bringing a biting chill, and the weather was getting colder. Many sergeants were still shivering with their heads and faces tightly wrapped.The weather in this severe cold is probably dozens of degrees below zero, right?

In the dry and cold air, there was a strong smell of blood and a faint smell of gunpowder smoke from time to time.

In the silence, Lu Xiangsheng, who had been staring at the front for a long time, suddenly said: "Guoqin, it seems that the security sergeants are going to retreat to the second line of defense."

Wang Dou immediately understood the problem. The first line of defense of the Shun Township Army, the space between the two earthen walls was covered with mud bags, and the ground was full of obstacles. Except for the firecrackers, the Shun Township Army was proud to fight in formation has lost its effectiveness...

Wang Doudao: "What the governor said is very true. Let go of the first line of defense and let the slaves come in. The ground is full of mud bags and obstacles. They charge slowly, and our army shoots against the wall..."

He was beaten up by the Hongyi cannons of the Qing army, and he sneered: "The slaves have artillery, and we have firecrackers. It depends on how much blood is shed after they rush in."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Wang Dou: "The slaves rush in from the front, we must prevent them from rushing into the wings to attack."

Wang Dou said: "Don't worry, the governor, the distance between the two trench walls is only more than 100 steps. The army of slaves rushing in will not be able to rush into the two wings under the blow of my artillery."

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The horn sounded, and at this time, apart from the frontal enemies, the Qing troops on both wings had poured in from two miles away. Lu Xiangsheng urgently called Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei to come to discuss military affairs, and told them the tactics of the frontal defense, lest they think they were frontal. The defense line collapsed, affecting the morale of their army.

In addition to ordering Zhong Tiaoyang's supply battalion to prepare more mudbags and soil baskets, Wang Dou also ordered Han Zhong and Wen Fangliang to come to discuss arrangements, and let Han Zhong's firecrackers defend the first earth wall, and Wen Fangliang and the rest cavalry firecrackers Defend the second earthen wall.All the spearmen under their command also withdrew behind the second earthen wall.

If the Qing army attacked head-on, Han Zhong's firecrackers pretended to resist for a while, and then all retreated to the second earth wall, concentrating all the firecrackers in the camp, inflicting the greatest damage on the enemy, and then the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers chased them down.

Not long after, the sound of fierce artillery fire came from the two wings, and it was obvious that Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei fought with the Qing army.

On the front line of defense of the Shunxiang Army, after another round of shelling by the Qing army, finally their horns sounded, and the Qing army rushed towards them pushing their chariots like a tide.Behind the chariot, there are densely packed Qing army miscellaneous servants, carrying many wooden shields and other things in small carts, rushing forward.

Seeing the Qing army rushing, Wang Dou felt relieved, and ordered Zhong Tiaoyang's supply team to clear away the mud bags and baskets behind the second earth wall to restore a flat ground.Those mudbags and soil baskets are all gathered together for use in the next shelling by the Qing army.

According to Wang Dou's order, the first earthen wall defense line, except for Han Zhongbu's firecrackers, the rest of the firecrackers were all concentrated behind the second earthen wall.

In Wang Dou's army, each qianzong, including the heavy soldiers, has a total of 460 six shots of firecrackers, and two qianzong is 930 two shots.There are also more than [-] guns in the battalion's supply team.The cavalry and the auxiliary soldiers also have six hundred firecrackers.There are more than one hundred firecrackers in Gao Xun's office.In this way, the whole army has a total of more than [-] firecrackers.

Even if Fangcai is removed, and the number of casualties of these skyfire blunderbusses, there are more than 600 blunderbusses in the army that can be used, and they will be gathered together later to show the Qing soldiers who rushed in a little color.

In addition to the firecrackers, the two Qian Zong's spearmen and sword and shield soldiers also lined up neatly behind the firecrackers.

Wang Dou's central army is located in the back.Not far behind him is Lu Xiangsheng's Central Military Headquarters. Lu Xiangsheng boarded the Yuanrong chariot again and commanded the Xuanquan army to fight.The flag bearer beside him, who was not far away from the pole cart, was also standing on the Diao Dou, constantly transmitting the movement of the Qing army's formation.

In addition, there are only four Hongyi six-pound guns left in the Supervision Battalion, as well as fifteen Buddha Wolf machine guns from the Shunxiang Army, 25 small Buddha Wolf machine guns, and thirty Tiger Crouching Guns. They pushed back one after another.

Compared with the first earth wall, the second earth wall has four large passages, and there are also many small gaps one or two steps wide.These passage gaps are all staggered from the first earth wall. After the artillery is pushed back, it is placed in each passage gap at the earth wall.

All the cannons were filled with cannonballs, and the artillerymen held their fire, planning to launch a volley after the Tartar soldiers came in, and give them a ruthless shot, to see if they dare to bombard us with the Hongyi cannons.

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Old White Bull: There is another chapter tonight.

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