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There is also a special unit called "sizu", that is, the coated slaves who fight with the Eight Banners soldiers.The main functions are: assisting in robbery, taking care of property, escorting captives, and temporarily serving as civilian husband and cannon fodder.

Duoduo came to Shandong to fight this time, and his troops were mainly inlaid with white flags, but the source of troops was somewhat confused.

Due to the loss of fifteen Niulu by Dorgon, Duoduo's direct troops became very few.But you can't just bring those people to the battlefield, so you throw some generals with other flags to cooperate.

Dorgon felt that Shandong was unstable, so he threw Zeyuan, the deputy capital commander of the Han Army Xiangbai Banner, over.

Zu Zeyuan was the son of Zu Dashou, and he set off a bit late. At this time, he had just arrived in Jining with his troops, and confronted Fei Ruhe with Hong Chengchou.

In addition, in addition to the Eight Banners Army and the Daming General, Doduo also has 1500 Korean firearms soldiers.

These blunderbuss soldiers were personal soldiers of the Korean king, and they were often conscripted by the Qing Dynasty to fight, but they simply did not return them.

At this moment, Geng Zhongming's artillery unit pulled out to bombard the civilians of the Datong Army.But only two guns did this, and the rest continued to advance.On the way forward, one door was blasted away, and the rest were fired at the artillery of the Datong Army.

The chariots moved forward slowly, followed by the heavy armored infantry of the Han Army Banner of Li Sutai and Geng Zhongming, and the Gabusi Xian Battalion of Duoduo.

Duoduo personally led 1500 Ba Yala soldiers and advanced together as the Chinese army.

As for the surrendered troops and the North Korean firecrackers, they advanced slowly, and under the cover of the cavalry of the Gabush Xianying Camp, they circled around the flanks of the Datong Army, attracting the artillery of the Datong Army by the way.

Although the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to artillery, Geng Zhongming really didn't have many artillery in his hands.

Part of it was taken away by Dorgon and taken to Henan to fight. Now there are only ten artillery pieces, two of which are Franco cannons.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the two sides fired at each other, and the Datong Army had 25 artillery pieces.

After a round of confrontation, the Manchu Qing artillery was smashed again, and only a few artillerymen of the Datong Army died.

"Speed ​​up!" Duo Duo hurriedly ordered.

The opposite side is too extravagant, there are only [-] troops, but there are so many artillery.

When the Ming army fought in the field, they usually used Huzun cannons, Folang cannons, and Hongyi cannons to defend the city.The Qing army rarely encountered such a situation, and the Datong army actually carried 25 red cannons to fight in the field.

Hmm... Ming and Manchu called all front-loading cannons Hongyi cannons.

"Boom boom boom!"

It was another round of artillery bombardment, one of the Manchu cannons was smashed again, and another four shells fell into the infantry formation of the Manchus.

"Oh!"

One of the shells hit the car hard.

Even though it was wrapped in cowhide and iron sheets, one corner of the cart was smashed.The solid iron bullet jumped two feet high towards the sky with the remaining power, and fell down and hit a hapless elite soldier of Kabush.

As for the wagon, at first glance only one corner was damaged, but the side pillar on the same side was broken.

Being pushed forward a few steps, the entire wooden shield fell backwards, and the cowhide and iron pieces dragged and did not fall down completely.One of the shooting positions of the chariot was abolished, and the number of infantry that could be covered was also reduced by one-third.

The civilians of the Datong Army have all retreated, and only the artillery is attacking in front of the formation.

A shell flew in and hit three artillerymen of the Datong Army. Two were killed and one was injured. The injured one lost his right leg.

However, the Manchu Artillery Battalion suffered even worse losses.

This time, not only were four cannons hit, but also Lu Zhineng, the "Guan Hongyi cannon general" of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Geng Zhongming, was also hit by the artillery shells of the Datong Army.

Lu Zhineng was directing the adjustment of the muzzle, when an iron bullet whizzed towards him, his whole head was like a smashed watermelon, and in an instant, only the neck was left standing still.

"Boom boom boom!"

Facing the terrifying firepower, the artillery commander of one's own side died again, and the Manchu Qing artillery directly collapsed, abandoned the artillery position, turned around and fled.

"Oh!"

Another wagon was hit, this time right in the center.

Wrapped with cowhide and iron sheets to release the force, the wooden shield was not directly smashed, but the wooden beam below was broken.Not only was the chariot scrapped, but it fell down and hit two musketeers.

After defeating the enemy's artillery battalion, the Datong Artillery Corps aimed specifically at the chariots.

It's a pity that the hit rate of the front-mounted smoothbore gun is impressive, and only eight wagons were damaged in the bombardment for a long time.Two of them, only partly damaged, could continue to cover the advance of the infantry.

Fortunately, the advancing speed of the chariot was slow, and the Datong Artillery had enough time to fire again.

Yide led the Qing Xiao cavalry, broke away from the surrendered troops, and went around to the flank of the Datong Army - General Zuo Liangyu who surrendered to the Datong Army.

Ma Wannian followed suit and led the dragoons around Zuo Liangyu's general.

There are also a thousand North Korean gunfire soldiers walking in the middle tremblingly.Just as he was about to stop and take aim, Ma Wannian had already led the dragoons past and stopped near Jin Shenghuan's troops.

Jin Shenghuan's troops do not have long-range units!

About forty steps away, 2500 dragoons, divided into three rounds of shooting, this is to avoid saturation of firepower caused by one salvo.

Jin Shenghuan was born as a bandit. Historically, he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty first, and then to the Qing Dynasty.Because of his meritorious service, he could not be named a marquis, and was extorted by the governor and the chief minister for money.In the end, he was defeated and attempted suicide, and was executed by Manqing Lingchi.

This old man is also doing badly at this time, he has been with Zuo Liangyu for four years, only the old thieves under his command are wearing armor, and the rest of the newly recruited soldiers are not even fully equipped with leather armor.

Jin Shenghuan's troops immediately collapsed after being hit by three consecutive firecrackers.

Ma Wannian led the dragoons to a distance, dismounted again to reload the ammunition, and then rushed up again to aim and shoot.

This time, they aimed at Hao Zhongzhong's troops, and their troops were thrown into confusion by Jin Shenghuan's broken soldiers. After 3 minutes, the formation had not yet been adjusted, and there were still some broken soldiers pushing and shoving inside.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Although Hao Xiaozhong had archers, his formation became chaotic but he couldn't shoot in formation.

After a triple attack, Hao Xiaozhong's troops did not collapse, but became more chaotic.

"kill!"

Ma Wannian extinguished the matchlock, hung up the blunderbuss, drew his waist knife, and led his troops to kill the enemy.

"The whole team, the whole team!"

Hao Xiaozhong shouted loudly, but no one listened to him.

Among Zuo Liangyu's generals who followed Duoduo, only Li Guoying's was barely considered elite, and the rest were all mobs.

They had already expanded their army too quickly, gathered surrendered soldiers and refugees to form an army.Then there was a big epidemic in Shandong, and they didn't dare to gather for training at all, and there was a shortage of food, so they were hungry and full.What kind of fighting power can this have?

As expected of Qin Liangyu's grandson, Ma Wannian led the dragoons and rushed over. He took the lead and killed several enemies in a row. Hao Xiaozhong's troops also collapsed.

Hao Xiaozhong panicked and beat his horse to escape. Ma Wannian rushed to his horse and cut him off with a single blow.

The rout of these two departments destroyed the friendly forces.

Those North Korean gunfire soldiers also collapsed in a daze, leaving only Li Guoying's troops in a chaotic formation, moving closer to the main force of the Qing Dynasty.

Ma Wannian did not go after Li Guoying, but continued to chase and kill the rout soldiers. He wanted to kill the rout soldiers completely.

It was almost the same on Yide's side, he rushed to the front of Zuo Liangyu's army, and hurled wildly towards the crowd.One charge and one shot, then go away immediately, and then charge and shoot again.

After only three rounds of attacks, Han Shixiao's troops who surrendered to the Datong Army collapsed.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ding and Song Rong also collapsed.

Neither Zhang Tieniu nor Duoduo dared to keep Zuo Liangyu's generals by their side.Because it was so bad, the two sides agreed to kill the soldiers and generals on the opposite side first.

Duduo was luckier, at least there was still a surrendered general, Li Guoying, who survived.

After chasing and killing the defeated soldiers, Ma Wannian re-ignited the match, and circled to the rear of the main force of the Qing Dynasty.

The same is true for Yild, who circled to the rear of the Datong Army's position.

The cavalry on both sides couldn't do anything to each other, and simply ignored each other.They seem to have great confidence in the infantry friendly forces, let the infantry carry the harassment of the cavalry, and harass the opponent's infantry themselves.

By this time, 21 Manchu chariots had been destroyed by artillery, and more than 300 Eight Banner soldiers had been bombarded to death by artillery.

There are still about sixty steps between the two sides.

Ma Wannian and Yide each went around to the rear of the opponent's infantry, but they couldn't find a chance to strike.

The Eight Banners soldiers wear armor [-]% of the time, and even the archers wear cotton armor.It is useless for dragoons to shoot from a distance, and they will be shot back by enemy archers when they get close.

All members of the Datong Army also wear armor, and they are protected by rattan players. The bamboo helmets embedded with iron pieces on their heads can also effectively defend against bows and arrows.Yard threatened to charge again, and threw a horse on horseback, feeling like he was doing nothing.

Of course, Ma Wannian's harassment was also useful, that is, it slowed down the progress of some Eight Banners soldiers.

"Oh!"

Another four chariots were destroyed, and a few shells rolled into the formation of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Duoduo issued an order to let the troops who were destroyed by the chariot speed up and launch an attack.

The armored Manchu archers and firecrackers began to shoot at about forty steps.The sword and shield soldiers of the Datong Army stepped forward to cover the artillery so that the artillery could continue to bombard.

Zhang Tieniu didn't wait for the twenty-step shot, and ordered the firecrackers to step forward, first to fire three times in a row.

There cannot be dogmatism in war. In such a situation, twenty-step shooting cannot be tolerated.

The distance between the two sides is forty steps, whether they can hit or not is purely random.Even if they hit, they might not be able to pierce the cotton armor. Anyway, they fired guns at each other and listened to the excitement.

"Peng!"

The distance between them was getting closer and closer, and the artillery fire became more and more accurate. This time, they destroyed five chariots at once.

Duoduo issued an order again to let the troops who had not been destroyed in the chariot stand at the front, and all the other Eight Banners soldiers squeezed behind the chariot.All the archers hide behind the chariot and shoot, this distance can already shoot and kill the enemy.

The last round of artillery fire directly destroyed eight chariots. The Datong Army's formation moved forward to protect the artillery position, and the firecrackers also retreated to be protected by swords and shields.

Both Zhang Tieniu and Duoduo were a little nervous, because this series of changes was done in an orderly manner, and they were definitely rare rivals in their lives.

Chapter 411 [Flesh and blood fight]

"Beep beep beep!"

"Beep beep beep!"

After Ma Wannian received the order, he brought back the dragoons immediately, and entangled with Ild's Manqing Xiaoqi, because the Datong firecrackers behind the cover side were about to switch positions.

Seeing the dragoons coming back here, Ild was very upset, but he could only fight with Ma Wannian.

If Ma Wannian didn't come back again, when all the firecrackers of Datong were transferred to the front row, Man Qing Xiaoqi would be able to take out heavy arrows and shoot flat at close range.

There are three kinds of arrows in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, namely: covered arrows, stabbed arrows, and sentry arrows.

Phi arrows are commonly known as Manqing heavy arrows. The arrows are inverted triangles and look like small shovels.

This thing is extremely powerful. Under close range shooting, it can penetrate two layers of leather armor, one layer of chain armor, and one layer of iron leaf.Iron helmets will also be penetrated, and the bamboo helmets of the Datong Army with iron plates are also unable to prevent them.

Moreover, even if the heavy arrows of the Manchu Qing Dynasty cannot penetrate the armor, they can still cause a heavy blow effect, just like being hit by a bullet while wearing a body armor, the impact alone is very uncomfortable.

The core tactics of Manchu battles were to rely on chariots to advance and then shoot heavy arrows at close range.

The elite servants of the Ming border generals were often shot into chaos, or simply collapsed on the spot.

Soldiers who can hold two rounds of heavy arrows are definitely called elite soldiers, and those who can hold three rounds belong to dead soldiers!

Of course, Manchu heavy arrows also have weaknesses.

That is, the arrow is too heavy to be thrown, and can only be shot flat from 30 meters to 50 meters.

30 meters is [-] steps, that is the world of Datong firecrackers.

As for the Manchu stabbing arrows, the body of the arrow is slender and light, and the arrowhead is also slender and sharp.It has strong penetrating power for leather armor and is mostly used for long-range shooting, but its power is not very great, and the Datong Army can completely take it down.

At this moment, the cavalry of both sides entangled again.

While the Qing infantry was still advancing, the archers hid behind the chariots and shot long-distance with stabbed arrows.

38 Manchu chariots have been defeated, and only 59 are still moving forward, exposing a large number of Manchu infantry.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the Datong Army rang again, and the artillery position was on a small mound.

Even mounds are not counted, just relatively raised flat land.

After adjusting the angle of the artillery, the solid bullets passed over the heads of the Datong army, aiming specifically at the infantry of the Qing army who were not protected by chariots.

One of the shells, after killing the two people in front of them, continued to bounce and roll along the ground with huge kinetic energy, smashing into twelve calves of the Manchu infantry one after another.

"Ah, my feet!"

"My leg is broken, my leg is broken!"

In the infantry formation of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, some who survived after being shot, and who were not unconscious on the spot, hugged their broken legs and hissed and howled.

Up to now, since [-]% of the chariots have been destroyed, the Manchu tactics of chariots, heavy arrows, and heavy infantry have greatly reduced their effectiveness.