Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1079 Star Gorge Five
Baturhun gave an order, and the low-pitched horns sounded in the Mongolian army formation. A man wearing a strange mask with blue-faced fangs and holding a bone staff suddenly came to the front of the formation, beating drums and shouting. Dance.

Seeing this scene, the two Han bannermen in front of the line couldn't help muttering in their hearts, wondering what kind of witchcraft these Mongols were doing.Some people can't help but look up at the sky, worrying that there will suddenly be dark clouds, lightning and thunder, but the sky in the northwest is as calm as water. The technique is not working.

The Mongols have many beliefs. Before going out, they would ask the mages and priests for divination. If the priests and mages said that the expedition was unlucky, the tribal leaders might even cancel the expedition.

However, this kind of ceremony is usually done before the expedition, and it is rare to perform divination and prayer when the two armies are facing each other.

Now that Baturhui asked the priest to pray before attacking, it can be seen that he attaches great importance to the first battle and his eagerness to win.

The Jin army has already caught up from behind, and the [-] cavalry don't know how long the delay can be, and there is not much time left for Zhungeer.

The low-pitched horn pierced the sky, and in an instant, all the Mongolian tribes blew their horns in response to Khan's naming.

There was nothing more than preparation, and before the horn sounded, Zhungeer's vanguard cavalry urged their horses out of battle. The horseshoes changed from slow to fast, and the cavalry charged along the road like the tide of the Qiantang River, like the water flooding the golden mountain.

The earth-shattering sound of horseshoes is the source of courage for the Mongolian warriors!

Under this iron hoof, the ground trembled and the situation changed. Zhungeer's iron cavalry would be unstoppable.

Batur Hunkhan stepped on the stirrups, sat up straight and looked into the distance. Seeing the yellow dust rolled up in the sky by the forward, and the cavalry, like magic soldiers flying through the clouds, they nodded slightly in a hurry.

The expression on Daishan's face was a bit solemn. To be honest, in terms of military strength and the quality of soldiers, the Qing army was inferior to Zhungeer. Not afraid of Zhungeer, Baturhun wanted to get cheap from him, it was wishful thinking.

In such a terrain, there is basically no need to consider any roundabout surprise attack, just head-to-head, Daishan raised his hand and shouted, "Command! Attack!"

Zhungeer's cavalry has already sped up. If the Qing cavalry does not move, it is courting death. They are not infantry, and they do not have a strict formation to fight against the Mongolian cavalry. Hedging and raising the speed of the horse to the extreme can compete with the Mongols.

The horns of the Qing army blew loudly, and the two Han flags who had held back for a long time in front of them beat their horses fiercely as soon as they got the order, and shot them out like sharp arrows!
The sound of the horn was encouraging, and the cavalry on both sides rolled up the billowing yellow dust, like two steam trains smoking, rushing towards each other. Once they collided, it would be an earth-shattering scene.

After Xian Guoan and Xu Banzhifu heard the order, they immediately raised their three-eyed guns and urged their horses to charge forward, "Brothers, kill!"

Zhungeer's cavalry, because of the backward productivity of the tribe, only had bows and arrows except for the scimitar, and there were few shields. However, the Qing army occupied the Han land, and their productivity and technology were much stronger, and their equipment was more complicated and diverse.

Over the years, in the battle against the Ming Dynasty, most of the old Eight Banners who were good at riding and archery lost more than half of them. The Qing Dynasty selected a group of people to join the Eight Banners, but let these new Eight Banners have the same equestrian skills and superb archery skills as the old Eight Banners. , obviously unlikely.

It takes too long to train a cavalryman who is good at archery. Faced with the military pressure of Nanming, the Manchu Qing had to pay attention to firearms.

The distance between the cavalry is rapidly approaching. The front row of Zhungeer cavalry holds scimitars, and the rear row of cavalry draws bows and arrows into a full circle. The Qing army uses three-eyed guns in the front row, and the back row also gallops while bending the bow and drawing arrows. .

In this way, when the two armies approached quickly, in addition to the Qing army being able to throw a wave of arrows, the cavalry in the front row could also quickly shoot three gunballs.

The front row of cavalry holding three-eyed guns, with one thousand cavalry, is equivalent to being able to shoot three thousand more projectiles.

"Kill!" With an angry cry, Xian Guoan ignited the medicine thread, and white smoke rose from the cavalry of the Qing army.

"Shhhhhhh..."

Thousands of hooves trampled on the ground, splashing pieces of dust. In the era of cold weapons, the most feared armies on the battlefield were about to have a big showdown. The cavalry from both sides rammed into each other with desperate courage.

The shooting range of the three-eyed blunderbuss was not as good as that of bows and arrows. As soon as the cavalry in the front row lit the fire, the cavalry in the back let go of the bowstring.

Thousands of sharp arrows soared into the sky, like locusts, leaped over the heads of the cavalry in the front row, and shot into the galloping Mongolian army.

The sharp arrow hit the knight, who immediately flew backwards, and the ownerless horse continued to gallop.The arrow hit the war horse, and the war horse immediately neighed and stumbled. The knight on top was thrown flying because of inertia, and the whole person rolled a few feet away. submerged.

Countless voices of people neighed, and the moment the arrow fell, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry rolled and fell to the ground immediately.

Almost at the same time, the galloping Mongols also loosened their bowstrings, and the Qing army turned their backs immediately, and several times the arrows were shot, and the sharp arrows were inserted obliquely on the ground, and the shafts and tails of the arrows vibrated, making a buzzing sound .

A wave of arrows caused the cavalry with guns to lose a hundred men. At this time, the distance between the two armies finally entered the range of the three-eyed guns. "Bang bang bang..."

There was a dense sound of gunshots, white smoke filled the front of the Qing army's formation, and the bullets hidden in the tube were shot out by the thrust of the gunpowder explosion.

The three-eyed musketeer fired three shots in a row in a very short period of time. Shang Zhixin knocked down an oncoming Mongolian cavalry with the first shot, and the empty horse galloped past him. Holding the scimitar high, the second blunderbuss was fired instantly, knocking the Mongolian cavalry upside down and flying away.

Pieces of gunballs hit, and the Mongolian cavalry immediately fell like beans, but before the Qing army had time to see the results of the battle, the two armies collided suddenly.

The impact of the two torrents was earth-shattering!

With a "boom", the moment the two armies collided, dozens of people could be seen thrown into the air because of the collision of horses. The hiss of horses and the screams of soldiers became a hundred times more violent in an instant.

The scimitar cut through the chest of the Qing army, the blunt weapon shredded the Mongol's head, the two torrents collided fiercely, blood bloomed, and the screams and shouts of killing were intertwined, almost maddening.

Xian Guoan and Ban Zhifu broke into Zhungeer's formation, Xian Guoan's three-eyed blunderbuss killed four people in a row, and his heart was full of joy!

The cavalry of the Qing army and Zhungeer each committed suicide through the formation of the formation. When they came out of the formation, there were falling corpses and mourning horses behind them.

Both armies had no chance to reorganize their formation, and had no chance to accelerate again. Zhungeer's cavalry collided with the oncoming Mongolian Eight Banners with great momentum.

With a huge impact force, the galloping horses continuously bumped into the enemies in front of them, and the scimitars of the cavalry flew up and down, slashing and killing the opposing cavalry.

However, due to the continuous impact and collision, Zhungeer's cavalry began to slowly lose their impact after advancing for a certain distance, and the Han Eight Banners on the other side also could not move.

(End of this chapter)