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Chapter 178 Great Victory at Xifengkou

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"Fire!" Wu Liuqi raised the red flag for the third time and waved it down fiercely!In just a split second, [-] soldiers of the Slave Slaughter Army pulled the triggers of their rifled guns with a range of more than [-] paces at the same time!At the same time, on the platform of twenty wooden carts behind the slave slaughtering army team, twenty slave slaughtering army snipers also pulled the triggers of their sniper rifles at the same time!Amidst the sound of gunshots one after another, more than [-] miniature bullets were heated and expanded, clinging to the rifling and whizzing out of the muzzle, flying densely towards the screaming Tatar cavalry!
"Ah——! Hu——!" Almost at the same time, nearly a hundred Tatar cavalry or war horses rushing to the front screamed and hissed. The corpse of the horse tripped the companion war horses that were charging intensively in the rear again, and the Tatar cavalry team that was charging intensively was suddenly in chaos.Horqin Taiji Tumei, who personally led the army to charge, was hit by more than a dozen sniper bullets at the same time with his man and horse, and the blood on his face and chest was splashed together. He was killed on the spot as far as ten feet away—and he deserved to be ignorant. Among the Tatar generals who led the charge, he was the only one who was of a high rank. The flag, the snipers of the Slavery Army naturally aimed their guns at him.

"Ready, fire—!" Before the Tatar cavalry could recover from the chaos caused by the shooting, the soldiers of the slaughtering slave army who were shooting in squatting and standing positions had already retreated to load their ammunition and ammunition. The soldiers of the army each took a step forward, squatting and standing to aim at the flowers, while the five hundred soldiers of the Slaughtering Army who were lying on the ground and firing were reloading their ammunition on the spot, specially picking out the fish that escaped the front and firing.The second team of slave slaughter troops had just finished shooting, and the third team stepped forward and fired again. After two consecutive rounds of shooting, the Tatar cavalry horses who had rushed within [-] steps fell down even more. The Ming army snipers on the ground also opened fire one after another, and immediately shot and killed several Tatar generals.Thick smoke billowed from the position of the slave slaughtering army, completely shrouded in blue and yellow gunpowder smoke. In front of the Tatar cavalry, there were corpses strewn all over the ground. Numerous wounded soldiers and horses rolled and struggled in the pool of blood, and the screams and hisses resounded through the sky.

"Get ready, fire!" In less than ten seconds, the first group of [-] slave-slaughter soldiers who reloaded their ammunition stepped forward again, raised their muskets and fired in unison; Charge and reload, and then go forward to fire, and the three thousand-man teams take turns to fire and reload, so that the cycle is endless, and the density of bullets is always maintained.In this way, the Tatar cavalry will be out of luck. As long as they rush within [-] steps from the slave slaughter position, they may be hit by Ming army muskets at any time. The further they go, the more dangerous they are. The corpses piled up on the ground There are more wounded soldiers and horses.After several rounds of shooting, the Tatar cavalry didn't even have a chance to get within [-] steps of the slave slaughtering army, let alone shooting arrows to kill the slave slaughtering soldiers. Within a hundred paces, the Tatar cavalry's wounded soldiers, wounded horses, human corpses and horse corpses were piled up in disorder, overlapping and piling up, almost like Shura's hell.

It is not that there are no clever Tatar cavalry troops planning to attack the flanks of the slave slaughter army, but until this moment, the Tatar cavalry were surprised to find that the positions of the slave slaughter army were not arranged randomly, but carefully selected-the cross-section of the position was different. Two miles away, the left flank was impassable by the river, and the right flank was covered with overgrown trees and rocky hills, and there were [-] slave-slaughter musketeers who lined up alone to cover them. Even if they rushed to the mountain, they would become living targets. Gui's [-] cavalry and Alashan's [-] cavalry were watching the tiger, and they might rush up to protect the flank of the slave slaughtering army at any time.What's more troublesome is that the snipers of the Ming army only picked out the Tatar generals. If the Tatar general dared to show his head, two or three bullets would hit his face and chest immediately, and he could be turned into briquettes in the blink of an eye.In the back, the Tatar cavalry of Bushitu Khan who charged intensively had already blocked the retreat path of the Tumei cavalry. The Tumei cavalry lost their command and could not advance or retreat. The charging speed of the Tatar cavalry became a training target for the slave slaughter army on the road strewn with corpses, falling down in rows.Later, as Bushitu Khan was also crushed by a Ming army sniper and forced to withdraw from the battle, the Bushitu Khan Tatars began to join the escape team with the Tumei Tatars, leaving countless corpses and wounded soldiers to escape from the position .

"Everyone, Taiji, who dares to charge the third? Charge into the barbarian position, and all the things in Xifeng Pass will belong to him!" Oba, the leader of the Tatar coalition army, shouted.The failure of two consecutive tribes' charges does not mean that the Tatar coalition forces gave up. Years of experience in fighting the Ming army told the Tatars that the musketeers had the upper hand at a long distance, but as long as they rushed to the musket positions, they all You can be sure of winning.It is precisely because of this understanding that Subdi, one of the 36 Taiji in Karaqin Duoyan, and Horqin Taiji Dorji yelled again, "Brothers, follow me, kill a barbarian, and reward a cow!"" Mongol warriors, kill me, kill a barbarian soldier, and reward a barbarian woman!"

"Allah!" nearly [-] Tatar cavalrymen from the two Tatar tribes yelled together, charging one after another, rushing towards the position of the slave slaughtering army recklessly.They deserved their misfortune. Just a gust of southeast wind blew, and the gunpowder smoke covered the position of the slave slaughtering army and drifted northward, blocking their sight. The corpses of the soldiers and horses on the ground also blocked their charge. The soldiers of the slave slaughtering army took turns Open fire, a new rain of bullets flew, and countless Tatar cavalry screamed and fell to the ground, and several Tatar generals who led the charge also fell under the sniper rifles in an instant.Seeing the precious warriors' horses fall down like wheat, and slaughtered by slave soldiers like cattle and sheep, Subudi and Dolji almost went mad, brandishing their sabers and shouting wildly, "Come on! Go to me! Rush forward and shoot arrows! Allah——!"

"Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping!" No matter how desperately the Tatar cavalry charged, the position of the slave-slaughter army remained unchanged and changed, taking turns to load and fire continuously, and rifled muskets, which cost several times the cost of ordinary muskets, were here. The power was brought into full play in a moment, as long as the Tatar cavalry dared to rush into the position of the slave slaughtering army within [-] steps, they could knock down a large number of them in the blink of an eye. Shibu was immediately knocked down by the second and third rounds of Slavery Army shooting, and if anyone bought a lottery ticket and won the jackpot and could rush within [-] steps, the [-] Slavery Army soldiers crawling on the ground would not be polite Individual bursts of each to knock them down and kill them!The gunfire on the position of the slave slaughtering army was like bursting beans. The Tatar cavalry in front of the position fell down like harvesting wheat. Wounded horses and terrified Tatar soldiers ran around and trampled on each other. It flows along the river bank, dyeing the Luan River red for a long time.

"Allah! Allah!" Another Tatar tribal cavalry charged forward, replacing the Tatar cavalry of Subudi and Dorji who had been repulsed by the slave-slaughter army. He yelled frantically, "Come on! The barbarian's musket will run out of powder! Allah!" Duoyantai Jiseleng who was behind also led the cavalry from the headquarters to charge, ready to take advantage of this huge advantage.

"The gunfire stopped?!" Probably God couldn't bear to see the Tatar cavalry continue to be massacred by the slave army with rifled muskets that were more than 200 years ahead of this era. When the slave army found the charge, the gunshots that had been bursting like beans just now suddenly disappeared without a trace. Immediately afterwards, someone from the Tatar cavalry in front shouted, "The barbarians are retreating, the barbarians are retreating!"

"The barbarians are retreating?" Auba and all the Tatar Taiji present stretched their necks and tried to look around. Sure enough, through the smoke as thick as the morning fog, they could see that the musketeers of the slave slaughter army were indeed retreating in large strides.Almost all the Tatar Taijis had the idea, "The barbarians are running out of gunpowder and iron bullets!" In ecstasy, almost all the Tatar Taijis roared, "Charge! Go ahead and grab the barbarian's musket! Allah!"

"Allah!" Almost all the Tatar tribal cavalry sounded their charge drums. Although Oba, who was afraid of the chaos of the army, tried his best to stop it, but all the Tatar Taijis had such an idea, "Hurry up, rush up to grab that Such a powerful musket! If you go late, it will be gone!" So they pretended not to hear, but ordered their troops to charge.The Zashi and Selen tribes who were at the front were even more happy, roaring and rushing to the front, but the Tatar cavalry of these two tribes managed to pass through two hundred steps long and half a man tall. When he was in the corpse accumulation area and the gunpowder smoke area, he was stunned to see that the Slavery Army Musketeers who were retreating in large strides had rearranged their queues outside the gunpowder smoke area, and there were more Thirty Franco cannons propelled by a wheelbarrow!

"Fire!" Zhang Dapao, the chief trainer of the Slavery Army and commander of the artillery team, waved the red flag with one arm. Thirty Francophones roared at the same time, and heavy iron bullets and stones spewed out of the muzzle along with flames and gunpowder smoke. The scene of the Tatar cavalrymen rushing towards the madness, turned on their backs, appeared again in front of the slave slaughter army.The reverberation of the cannon that shook for ten miles continued, and the musketeers of the Slavery Army opened fire again, and the dense and accurate rain of bullets fell on the Tatar cavalry again—the reason why the Slavery Army retreated just now was actually because of Master Zhang. It was too conservative, and the chosen position was too narrow, with a cross-section of less than two miles, which was not conducive to the simultaneous display of power of the guns and artillery. Master Zhang took advantage of the opportunity of the Tatar cavalry's retreat and ordered to retreat to a wider section of the road. Re-array so that the artillery and muskets can work together.Of course, it’s uncomfortable not to engage in conspiracies and tricks. Young Master Zhang’s move also has the intention of luring the enemy to charge. The full-line charge of the Tartar cavalry was also unexpected by Young Master Zhang.

"Ping ping pong, ping ping pong!" Boom!boom!boom! "I have to admit that with the cooperation of the Franji cannons, the already powerful and unparalleled firepower of the slave-slaughter army was immediately further strengthened. The combined forces of the guns and artillery made the Tatar cavalry cry for their fathers and mothers, and they turned upside down. Flesh and blood splattered. The Tatar cavalry in the back rushed up to snatch the muskets and crowded each other. The Tatar cavalry in the front had nowhere to run even if they wanted to escape. They could only be pushed forward by friendly troops. , to meet the overwhelming firepower of the slave army, and was killed by the muskets of the slave army. The companions squeezed into the Luan River, struggling in the blood-stained river water, shouting and begging, and the sound of wailing could be heard clearly even on the wall at the entrance of Xifeng. Then he loaded ammunition with a cold expression, aimed and fired, and retreated slowly while shooting, keeping a distance from the Tatar cavalry, and using powerful firepower to destroy the enemy as much as possible.

"You can't charge, the barbarian's firearms are too powerful!" Finally, the first Tatar tribe realized that the situation was wrong. If they rushed forward, they would only get entangled with their allies and be slaughtered by the slave soldiers. They subconsciously reined in their horses and retreated to the rear. After regrouping, other tribes followed suit, and the defeated Tatar soldiers who rushed to the front were able to turn around and escape, retreating from the front of the slave slaughtering army like a tide.Seeing that the time had come, Young Master Zhang standing on the high platform of the wooden cart decisively issued an order to charge. The flag waved, and the Slavery Army Musketeers stopped firing together, and spread out from left to right to make way. Man Gui, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, took the opportunity to raise his knife Roaring, "Brothers, it's time for us to go! Kill——!"

"Kill——! Allah—!" The four thousand Mangui cavalry and the five hundred Alashan cavalry roared together, holding sabers, bows and arrows, rushing towards the fleeing Tatar defeated soldiers, rushing into the densely packed enemy ranks like a tiger into a flock of sheep, Slashing wildly with a saber.The severely degenerated Tatar cavalry had extremely poor discipline. Just now the commander was beaten by Ming army snipers during the charge, and now he was charged by Mangui cavalry again. The team immediately collapsed, and countless soldiers turned around. , holding their heads and patting the horse and running away, trampling and colliding with each other in the chaos, countless dead.

What is the most feared enemy on the battlefield?He is the defeated army of his own army!The tide of their own defeated army rushed towards him, and he couldn't kill him, and he couldn't stop him. No matter how well-organized the formation was, he would be disrupted by the defeated army, and the more terrible consequence was the collapse of morale caused by the defeated army—no matter how brave and how good at fighting Soldier, even if you are burning with fighting spirit in your chest, you hear your comrades yelling that we have lost, run for your life, and see your comrades throwing their armor and armor and rushing towards you covered in blood, crying and shouting towards you However, your morale will also collapse, and your burning fighting spirit will be extinguished by ice water, then you will drop your weapon, hold your head and flee for your life!

Ever since, a relatively rare scene in the history of war finally happened north of Xifengkou. More than 4000 Ming army cavalry, with blood-red eyes and wielding sabers, drove the Tatar cavalry several times their own to slaughter like ducks. They cut people down and killed the enemy when they saw them; while the Tatar cavalry, who were far more numerous than the Ming army, were terrified and had no fighting spirit. They overturned the commander-in-chief flags of friendly and self-armies, trampled on the bodies and corpses of their companions, and fled crying and crying.Although the strongest Horqin Oba troops tried their best to stop them, tens of thousands of defeated friendly troops rushed forward, and the orderly formation of Oba troops quickly rushed across and dispersed, and they were forced to join the fleeing team.

During the melee, Mangui's cavalry pierced straight into the core of the Tatar position like a sharp knife, which is where Oba's command platform was located, and the defeated Tatar soldiers who led the Ming army for free also went to the friendly army there-to ask for help, almost It was in the blink of an eye that the guards of Horqin Ouba were overwhelmed, and the Mangui cavalry rushed to Ouba with little effort.Auba, Huang Taiji and others saw that the situation was not good, so they quickly left the position and turned around and ran. The Mangui cavalry took advantage of the situation and rushed to the position, swung their knives and chopped down Auba's Tuxietuhan pseudo-Longshuai flag.As soon as the handsome flag fell, the Tatar cavalry, which was already relatively poor in quality, completely collapsed, including the rear of the Tatar coalition army who hadn't even seen the appearance of the slave-slaughter army, turned around and ran away, and the Mangui cavalry chased after them. While shouting to surrender and not to kill, he slashed and killed the Tatar cavalry who fell behind, further expanding the results of the battle.

"The savages are here, run away!" Amidst the cries, the Tatar cavalry fled northward along the Luan River like chickens without their heads, and soon rushed to the gate of their own camp, but the Mangui cavalry behind chased them down. Not only that, the Alashan cavalry who were gang-raped by these tribes and almost died last year had red eyes, shouted slogans of revenge, charged more fiercely than the Mangui army, and slashed harder than the Mangui army, forcing the Tatars The cavalry rushed down the self-army camp again, left their supplies, cattle and sheep, and continued to flee northward.In the chaos, countless Tatar cavalrymen were knocked down and trampled to death by their companions, squeezed into the Luan River by their companions and drowned, and even drew their swords at each other in order to fight for roads or horses. There were several times more in the hands of the Manchu cavalry, and countless Tatar cavalry dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees, crying and begging for mercy. The number fell into the hands of the Ming army.

"Kill!" Although he was destined to win a big victory and won the spoils that would make any Ming army envious, the Mangui cavalry, who had been ordered by Young Master Zhang beforehand, were still hot on their heels, chasing the Tartars. The tail of the defeated Tartar army slashed and chased.This time it was hard for the defeated Tatar coalition army - they didn't even have a bite of lunch, the forage in the stomach of the war horse had already been digested, and the Manchu cavalry was chasing so closely, and they couldn't reorganize the team. They can only flee like sheep being hunted down by wolves.Crying and fleeing for their lives, one by one Tatar soldiers fell off their horses and knelt on the ground to surrender. Occasionally, there were a few stubborn resisters, but whether they surrendered or resisted, they were quickly chopped down by groups of Manchu cavalry. Seventeen or eight yuan—Man Gui's task is to bite the defeated Tatar army, and it is the task of Zhou Zhen, the general of Xifengkou, to recruit prisoners.

At this point in the battle, the cavalry of the Ming army were no longer fighting fiercely, but chasing ruthlessly. Although the number of more than [-] cavalry of the Ming army was not large, they were interspersed among the defeated Tatar troops all over the mountains and plains like a wandering dragon. Charge and kill, sometimes rushing straight, sometimes splitting divisions, outflanking, intercepting and killing.On the way for the Tatar coalition forces to escape, there were densely packed corpses of Tatar soldiers and horses, wounded soldiers covered in blood, as well as fragmented flags and incomplete weapons.

The pursuit of the Manchu cavalry continued from Xindianzi to the mouth of the Baohe River where the Baohe River merged into the Luanhe River, and did not stop until it was completely dark.Seeing that the Manchu cavalry stopped chasing, the shocked Tatar cavalry had just rolled off their horses to rest. The soldiers and horses rushed to the river to drink water. Crying endlessly, he just raised his head when he suddenly saw the banner of the slave slaughtering army with red background and white characters fluttering in the wind under the light of torches densely packed with stars. They came at the same time as the east, ping-pong-pong with rifled muskets in the distance, and changed into sabers when they approached, and rushed into the exhausted Tatar cavalry brigade to hack and kill.Wu Sangui's wolf cavalry, who ran the fastest, detoured back to the east, cut off the defeated Tatar army in the middle, and slashed and killed frantically in the enemy's formation.

At this moment, the advantages of the strictly trained slave-slaughter army are fully revealed. The four cavalry teams of thousands of cavalry are running and sprinting. Many Tatar cavalry who rolled off their horses to drink water were immediately trampled and chopped into pieces by the cavalry of the slave slaughter army before they even had time to get on their horses.Even when the Tatar cavalry thought of getting on their horses to fight or flee for their lives, they were surprised to find that their horses were already foaming at the mouth. The war horses of the slave slaughter army ate high-quality soybeans mixed with eggs, and the physical strength of the war horses far surpassed that of the Tatar cavalry.Without the horses, the bow-legged Tatar cavalry could not run away even if they wanted to. They could only be slaughtered by the slave soldiers like sheep and cattle, and then trampled into meat paste by the slave soldiers' horses.At the mouth of the Baohe River alone, nearly [-] Tatar cavalry were intercepted by the slave army, most of them died tragically under the sword of the slave army, and the rest either surrendered or jumped into the river to escape. It was the corpse of a Tatar soldier.

The Tatar allied forces who escaped from the mouth of the Baohe River by chance did not escape. When the sky was twilight, they had just fled to the Kuanhe area. They had just dismounted to rest and replenish their strength. The Mangui cavalry had taken turns to rest for two hours. After chasing up again, the Tatar cavalry, whose number was less than [-], did not have the courage to continue the battle. They immediately fled to the neighboring Kuancheng town, trying to escape into the town. The Mangui cavalry had expected it and did not stop the Tatar When the Tatar cavalry entered the town, they just slashed and killed the Tatar cavalry who were exhausted, chased and killed the scattered enemies, and let the defeated Tatar army enter the town to escape.At noon, the slave-slaughter army, who had taken turns to rest for two hours, also chased Kuancheng, and joined hands with the Manchu army to surround this small town outside the pass, which was only protected by a low earth wall. The defeated Tatar army with broken guts and no food or aid.

So far, the first stage of the decisive battle at Xifengkou is over. Master Zhang defeated 12 Tatar allied forces with [-] troops, beheaded nine Tatar Taijis, captured six, and beheaded more than [-] Tatar generals above a thousand commander ——The snipers killed half of them, captured more than [-] prisoners, and captured countless horses, cattle, sheep, flags and weapons!As for the crucial number of beheadings, because we have been fighting along the river, many corpses fell into the river. We can only rely on the waste snack army of Yu Dazong to build a pontoon bridge on the river to block the statistics of Tatar soldiers' corpses, so If you don't have three or two days, don't even think about counting the real results!And because many Tatar defeated soldiers ran into the deep mountains and old forests to flee for their lives, and were caught by Ming soldiers cleaning the battlefield from time to time, the actual number of beheadings is still expanding.

After the war, Young Master Zhang also analyzed the various reasons for his great victory in this battle, excluding several important factors such as the superiority of self-armed weapons, the overall quality of the army far surpassing the Tatars, the favorable terrain, and the serious deterioration of the combat effectiveness of the Tatar cavalry , Young Master Zhang believes that there is another key reason - that is the Tatar coalition forces themselves, Oba's status as the leader of the alliance is simply nameless, basically unable to command any tribe, and the tactics are also lackluster. And greed far exceeded Young Master Zhang's imagination!I just saw the slave slaughter army retreating and felt that there was hope of snatching the new muskets. More than half of the Tatar Taijis even ordered to charge, for fear that the good things would be snatched by the friendly army if they were too late. As a result, the Tatar coalition army was completely disrupted. Not to mention the complete chaos, when the cavalry of the Ming army launched a countercharge, these troops were the first to flee for their lives. This caused the Tatar coalition army to be defeated like a mountain, and collapsed in a row until the entire line collapsed. ——Of course, such an army is a wonderful and suitable opponent for the slave slaughter army that urgently needs large-scale actual combat experience. After the first battle, they have all the confidence and experience.

"Brother Man, how many casualties are there in your army?" After meeting, Young Master Zhang asked Man Gui.Man Gui stood at attention and replied: "Our army's cavalry killed 410 people, and Alxa's forehead killed 190 people." After that, Man Gui asked curiously: "Brother Zhang, where is your slave slaughter army? Are there many casualties? "

"It's too big!" Young Master Zhang replied with a sad face: "More than 71 people were injured, twelve of them were injured because of musket explosions, and [-] people were killed in battle-this is my hard work and elite!"

"Come on, you think it's cheap and good-looking?" Man Gui snorted disdainfully, and then pointed to the small town of Kuancheng in the distance and asked: "Why are there so many Tatars there? It is estimated that there are at least [-] Tatars in it." Tartar, if we push them into a desperate situation to break through, we may not only be unable to stop them with our own strength, but may even be bitten by them."

"It's simple, send envoys to the city to surrender." Young Master Zhang said calmly, "Don't forget, I asked the court in advance for the right to dispose of Tatar Taiji's life and death, just for today's preparation."

(End of this chapter)