Chapter 1762 The final chapter(1/3)
The large number of armored soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty formed moving silver mountains, and the weapons in their hands were like shrubs and weeds on the mountain. This mountain was so huge that it was worthy of being the peak of East Asia's cold weapons army in this era. The same number of Japanese troops, Korean troops, and the armies of small countries in Southeast Asia were no match for them at all.
Judging from the results of the wars over the next hundred years, the Buryat Mongols, Kyrgyzs, Khalkha Mongols, and Weilat Mongols were not their opponents.
Only when the organization was stronger, tactics, strategies and weapons were beyond the hands of the Cossacks of the Qing army's era, the Qing army never got a good advantage.
Zhang Han was surging, and a large number of iron cavalry shouted when they rushed past the formation, which was a tribute to the commander under the banner. The lances fought bravely. Under the banner, they formed company columns one by one, one column after another, and moved forward bravely like a tide. Their array was neat, almost like a knife cut, so that the knights were closely connected. They held their spears high and would sting their strength to stab the enemy in the moment they met the enemy.
Control the distance between the vertical and horizontal directions, hold the spear, see an enemy, and stab the spear in your hand at the moment the war horse sprints into the air.
There is no need to review next, pull out the saber and continue moving forward with your friends around you!
Each lancer company was divided into the first, second and third rows, with charges back and forth, uniform formations and well-equipped. Each person was covered with iron armor weighing dozens of kilograms. Such iron cavalry had far exceeded the times. If Zhang Han had not been suppressing his side and was not in a hurry to seize the world and did not want to establish a new dynasty under the scattered blood of the world, then the iron cavalry of the two divisions would have been able to penetrate the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty long ago!
Now, the mountains and rivers are shaking, and the iron cavalry of the vanguard has rushed into the enemy formation.
From a distance, you can hear crackling explosions, and a large number of spears like dense forests were laid flat, and then intersected with the enemy's weapons and armor!
Everyone let out a terrifying roar. On the one hand, the Jurchen warriors who had been traversing Liaodong for many years and had extremely rich battlefield experience. They had the strength to fight alone, and on the other hand, they had European-style lancers who cooperated with the method of cavalry and battle arrays to defeat the enemy. At the beginning of their contact, the two sides burst into sparks!
Zhang Han cheated and the iron cavalry trained by the modern cavalry method two hundred years later was finally used on the battlefield where it should exist.
Almost in a moment, a large number of armored soldiers, white armor, Bashiku, and Niu Luezhen were instantly broken through a huge crack under the impact of the thick military formation of the lancers. The entire Eight Banners Cavalry Formation suffered heavy damage in the first moment and began to lose a lot of blood.
At the same time, the hunting cavalry on the left wing of the Shang regiment army began to shoot in close proximity, and the continuous muskets were not much stronger than the Qing bow. In terms of firing rate, accurate head and strength, the Qing bow was not bad. This is also the reason why the Manchus later rejected and despised the muskets.
However, when more than 10,000 hunting cavalry shot at short-range wheels and firearms like storms, it was difficult for the Eight Banners soldiers to effectively fight back in the speeding cavalry formation.
He rode a bow and shot immediately, and the musket completely suppressed the bow and arrow cavalry.
This is also the reason why there is a cavalry hunter in Europe, which is efficient, high output, and high maneuverability!
When attacking from left and right wings, some of the dragon cavalry completed roundabout actions on the right wing battlefield. While setting up the formation, some of them blocked the attack distance between the Ming army and the Shang army.
It can be seen that the Ming army no longer has the intention to fight.
Even if the 20,000 Ming troops on the seaside still have the power to fight and the will to fight, they could not find any opportunity in front of more than 10,000 Shang regiments. There were still thousands of Shang regiments that were suppressing along the Bohai Sea. The Ming army either surrendered or had to accept the result of being massacred.
The Ming army soldiers had already begun to slowly put down their weapons, and no one was stopping them. Many Ming army generals were looking at the battlefield in the distance, where flags were flying, and the cavalry hedged on a limited battlefield. Arrows really fell like rain, spears were constantly being fired, and infantry began to advance, oppressing the cavalry's space to play. The dragon cavalry of the Shang army began to form horizontal formations and hollow square formations, and the square formations were blooming like plum blossoms. In the North Wing City, the flag Ding, the Han army Baoyi and the Mongolians were still attacking more than 20,000 Ming troops. But when they saw that the Shang army was fighting resolutely and powerfully, the Eight Banners soldiers were already in an unfavorable situation, the combat effectiveness and morale of the Ming army came back together, and the North Wing City was in a state of anxiety again.
"This battle is probably won." Sun Jingting rode his horse beside Zhang Han, with a satisfied and relaxed expression.
He looked at Zhang Han with a serious expression and said, "The Jurchen soldiers are indeed fierce. They have not yet collapsed yet. They are much more powerful than the Mongolians. But I still don't understand why Wenlan, why have you always regarded them as a great enemy? From now on, they have more than 80,000 people and 50,000 of us, but we can still win easily?"
"You don't understand..." Zhang Han smiled slightly and shook his head.
In his memory, the same battlefield was a stone, the same army of the new Han dynasty, and the same battles of the Han people. On the battlefield where the fierce battle with the Guanning soldiers, the Shun Army was about to defeat the Guanning soldiers. After Wu Sangui surrendered, more than 100,000 Qing troops entered the gate from the gate, and 30,000 cavalry descended from the flank and attacked the Shun Army battlefield. The Shun Army was defeated miserably and was out of control after that, and the Chinese civilization fell again.
This time he won, and it would be an outright annihilation battle. The Eight Banners Army did not want to leave when it came in, but Zhang Han didn't know why he was not too happy. This time he was a time traveler and used the knowledge of hundreds of years to build a advanced system. But what if it weren't for him? For Huaxia himself, would he really not have the ability to save himself?
Even hundreds of years later, the west wind blew over, and a large number of people with lofty ideals drew nourishment from Western learning, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established a powerful China.
What if it was the Qin Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty?
Where is Tang?
Song?
Two Han dynasties?
Maybe there will be different performances?
Zhang Han smiled bitterly, feeling that he was too pretentious.
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The artillery continued to extend forward, the shells fell like rain, and a large number of coats were avoiding everywhere in the screams, but they had nowhere to escape.
The cavalry moved very quickly, and the two armies were close to each other, and the artillery fire of the Shang regiment army had long been aimed at the large number of flag-dragons and coat-coats mixed with infantry.
Huang Taiji was holding his big bow, but he was unable to rush directly to the front of the formation. This time, unlike when he was Sarhu, he was no longer the commander and the lord of the banner, but the Khan of the entire Eight Banners and the Jurchens.
When the two armies were in close contact, Huang Taiji heard the explosion when the spears were in contact.
He saw countless iron-armored cavalry rushing into his military formation.
The Jurchen elite, who were originally thick armored and strong, encountered a thick hammer.
In front of the opponent's thick iron-armored cavalry formation, the vanguard of the Eight Banners was quickly defeated. Compared with the opponent's thick cavalry formation, the Jurchen side's cavalry formation was quite thin. Almost shortly after contact, the two white flag cavalry formations on the right side of the cavalry formation were quickly crossed. Huang Taiji immediately understood with his rich battlefield experience. The enemy cavalry planned to rush over the right wing, rushed to the direction of the North Wing City, and shot back sideways from the Jiaoshan side. When rushing back, the Jurchen cavalry not only had to be careful of the charge of these iron-armored cavalry, but also faced the infantry formation of about 20,000 people standing in front.
Huang Taiji was anxious. When he looked into the distance, he found that there was a big banner of Zhang Han on the left flank, and the front was a stair formation of thousands of people. Behind the formation, there seemed to be a large number of chariot formations and auxiliary soldiers of more than 10,000 people.
The auxiliary soldiers did not go directly to the battlefield, but at this time they formed an array, which seemed to be the city defense behind the Shang regiment army. The artillery positions were in front of the chariot formation, and they were far away from the Jurchen cavalry on the right wing, so Huang Taiji discovered that the artillery fire extended by the artillery formation was mainly aimed at large troops composed of infantry and cavalry composed of Qiding, Mongolians, and Han troops.
The sound of artillery was constantly, the fireworks were constantly rising, and the smoke columns were rising, and there were panic shouts and running sounds everywhere. Ordinary officers could no longer suppress them. These infantry and cavalry were originally going to strike from the right to the flank of the Shang regiment army, threatening Zhang Han's flag, and then clamping the Shang regiment army left and right, forcing them to retreat. If they did not retreat, they would push them to the Bohai Sea, pushing tens of thousands of people into the sea, killing a lot.
Of course, Huang Taiji never imagined that the Shang army would fight to the death under unfavorable conditions. The Shang army had stronger strength and better situations, so there was no need to fight here. However, he never expected that when more than 30,000 elite cavalry rushed over, the Shang army could quickly adjust the infantry and cavalry array, as if they had been waiting for this moment. When the two armies met, Hutchison was not at all confused, but on the contrary, it quickly made the most correct reaction.
Using cavalry to control cavalry, exert the effectiveness of artillery fire, interrupted the Jurchens' rapid advance, forced the Ming army to retreat, and the infantry formation was adjusted to meet the enemy. On a small battlefield, Huang Taiji discovered almost every step of adjustment and pace. So far, he found in despair that the Shang army had no mistakes or omissions. With the current terrain, battlefield development, military distribution, firepower output, bows and arrows had a fight against muskets. These ferocious iron cavalry flanked the red-robed light cavalry that disrupted the Jurchen infantry cavalry array, and the thick mountain-thick infantry formations of the Shang army, they were taking neat steps, swarming like devils.
The pace of the infantry formation of the Shang regiment army was too neat, causing vibrations and sounds when walking together. This was a unique rhythm. In the battlefield, such masculine beauty, neat steps, neat military uniforms, bayonets and guns jumping up and down with the pace, as well as those dancing military flags, and the sound of striking and neat regular sounds, all of which hit Huang Taiji's chest like a heavy hammer.
Looking back, there were still some infantry riders on the high slope of Huanxi Ridge a few miles away, and some shells were also falling there, so there was chaos on the ridge.
The area around the North Wing City is still in a melee, so Huang Taiji certainly wouldn't know that as soon as his brother Prince Rui entered the pass, Ming army Tang Tong and other troops immediately surrendered.
Now Yang Guozhu, Hei Yunlong and others are still fighting bloody battles, and the Ming army's spirit is completely different.
In fact, during the Battle of Yi Piece of Stone, Tang Tong's 10,000 people were not weak in combat, and was the essence of Xuanda, Ji Town. Wu Sangui had more than 80,000 people, and only 30,000 people were truly able to fight three times, which was half the decline from the 60,000 elites during the Yuan Chonghuan period.
Moreover, these 30,000 people were mainly veterans. According to the records of people at that time, the Wu army was mostly hesitant and unsteady in the will of the Wu army. They always wanted to use archers and muskets to stop the enemy from retreating. The Wu army and Shun army fought fiercely for two days and gradually lost support. Wu Sangui then shaved his head in front of the formation and asked the Qing army to enter the pass.
The Qing army entered from many places such as Shuimen, and some infantry and cavalry went along Huanxi Ridge to the North Wing City. Thirty thousand cavalry formed an array, similar to fish scales. When strong winds blew, sand and stones flew. Shun army failed to detect the changes in time. When the 30,000 Qing soldiers went down with the situation, the Shun army could not resist the enemy at all.
Huang Taiji didn't know about the past of history, but the situation in front of him was also very dangerous. He looked at the big flag in the distance again. Huang Taiji had seen the map before and knew that it was Xiaogangfu, Zhang Han was there. Behind him was the camp array, and the artillery was in front of the left. It seemed that the artillery soldiers of the Shang regiment army were also adjusting the distance. Many artillery were pushed away from the cannon position and came further forward. The camel horse and the gunner pulled and pushed the cannon handily forward. Huang Taiji saw a gunner waving the small flag constantly, and then the cannon position was constantly moving forward.
The air was filled with a thick smell of blood. Thinking of the consequences of the cannon pushing close to bombardment, Huang Taiji, who had been in the battle formation for a long time, could not help but tremble.
The Later Jin side also had a small number of captured artillery. Huang Taiji looked back and saw more than 20 artillery pieces scattered and arranged in a row. There was no one shot after a long time, and the range was very close. The Han army gunners were worried that they would shoot their own array, so they were reluctant to fire them.
The artillery no longer made any hope. At this time when Huang Taiji was watching, more Jurchen arrays were destroyed by the Iron Cavalry. At first, many vests tried to bypass the Iron Cavalry array of the Shang regiment army. However, on the narrow battlefield in front of Shanhaiguan, they could hardly find any opportunity. This behavior instead disrupted their own array, with people and horses mixed together, like a contaminated picture.
Huang Taiji was in a high terrain, and he could overlook the entire battlefield. The more he did this, the more he felt his powerlessness and weakness.
A horse was flying in various arrays, and shouts in Manchu and Mongolian were heard constantly. Huang Taiji turned his eyes to the Han army array. There were more than 20,000 Han army members, most of which were scattered between Huanxi Ridge and the North Wing City. Many Han army arrays have not yet been unfolded. Perhaps because they saw that the Jurchens were not fighting smoothly in front of them, the Han army was moving very slowly, and they were even deliberately delaying.
Only a small number of Han troops were surrounded by flag-dogs, and they were attacking the Ming army in the direction of the North Wing City with the Mongols. Now the Baigang soldiers and a small number of Jizhen soldiers on the North Wing City have stopped resisting, and the two Ming troops did not continue to attack. They could only turn around and meet the enemy on the battlefield. If the Shang army had not fought very smoothly, I believe these two Ming troops had surrendered.
"Old Eighth!" Dai Shan, who was exhausted, rushed over and rushed over and shouted from a distance: "It won't work like this. I, Zhu Shen, can't hold on for long."
Now the Jurchens have suffered heavy casualties, but after many years of victory, these Jurchens have formed a fixed psychological advantage in fighting against the Han people, which allows them to hold on for a while. In addition, the cruel military law of the Later Jin Dynasty and the fierce battle against the water allowed the Later Jin soldiers to tolerate artillery shells whizzing over their heads and crushing heavy cavalry charges.
Whether it was Daishan, Mangourtai and others, or those little Beller and Gushan Ezhen, they all understood that if they continued to fight like this, the Jurchens would have no chance.
This is a war game with generation differences. The two sides are more than a hundred years apart. Of course, the current merchant army cannot defeat the European powers two hundred years later. However, the Spanish phalanx at this time, and the Russian army that has a century of Russians, the Nordic powers Sweden, the British and Dutch troops are definitely not opponents of the merchant army.
Before the fight, both the Jurchens and the Shang Group Army misjudged the other party's strength. The Shang Group Army looked at the Jurchens with a high glance under the influence of Zhang Han, while the Jurchens always had psychological advantages over the Han army because of the weak performance of the Ming army.
In less than half an hour of contact between the two parties, their evaluations have changed drastically.
In the eyes of the merchant army, the Jurchens were tough, fierce, fierce, and good at riding and shooting. The cavalry formation was firm and the cavalry was accurate and fierce, and they were much stronger than the Mongolians.
But that's it, that is, the enhanced version of the Mongolians.
At this time, the hunting cavalry on the right wing of the Jurchens broke through many round formation defenses in front of them. In the interval of running, the hunting cavalry skillfully loaded bullets, and another round of washing, flexible and maneuverable, and strong firepower. At this time, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan looked at the red devils with complex eyes. These hunting cavalry used reality to educate these stubborn barbarians who only knew riding and shooting and cold weapons tactics. After training and qualified firearms, the elimination of cold weapons was a necessity of history. They were as powerful as the Eight Banners soldiers and the clear bows in their hands, and they had no choice but to have no ability to resist.
Zhang Xianzhong was in the hunting cavalry formation, and Li Gui was in the dragon cavalry battle formation behind him. The former was violent and the latter was steady. Many of the circle or square formations of the Later Jin soldiers were broken by the hunting cavalry, and the array was quite chaotic.
Zhang Shixiong chased and annihilated the enemy under the banner like wind swaying the remaining clouds.
Behind him were the officers and soldiers of the First Guard Division led by Wang Yikui.
Ren Jing and Li Congye led their troops forward, and approached step by step with the intense drum beats.
In front of the stormy hunting cavalry hunters, there was not much magical in the insurgent formation that the Jurchens were proud of. They were nothing more than armored soldiers in the front row, the dead soldiers disturbed the enemy's team, the flag-drillers were good at shooting behind, and experienced officers supervised and rushed in the front in the formation. The two wings were circling and shooting with cavalry, and there was no outstanding point in the tactics. Under the fierce and violent assault of the hunting cavalry, multiple insurgent formations showed signs of instability. Huang Taiji had to draw out a part of Gebushxian, cooperated with the vest to rush to the left wing, trying to drive away the hunting cavalry.
A large group of cavalry began to shoot at each other on a small battlefield, wandering, the Jurchens threw bones, broad swords, guns, and kept shooting arrows. The battlefield seemed to be covered by dark clouds. The shouts of humans, the sound of throwing weapons, the sound of archery collapse, the sound of arrows flying and buzzing, and the screams, moans, dying sounds, the sound of horses, the strong smell of blood, and the roar of artillery that seemed to come from the distance from the sky. The entire battlefield was very few, and there was not much room for detour and dodging. In a very short time, it almost became hell on earth.
"Old Eight, Old Eight!" Dai Shan roared and pointed to his left wing. A large number of iron-armored cavalry advanced like a wall. The Jurchens had already begun to dodge and avoid it. The more they were like this, it meant that the confidence of the soldiers was seriously insufficient and they were not far from defeat.
Behind the Iron Cavalry was a square array with a towering spear. The power of the musket was now Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and others had realized that the power of the infantry gun was above the bow and arrow, and the power of the volley was much greater than that of the bow and arrow. There was no chance of winning against the Jurchen head-on. Especially after being washed back and forth by the iron-armed cavalry, their morale fell to the bottom, and even making a formation became very difficult.
"There is only the last chance now." Huang Taiji said: "The spirit cavalry is on the left and the enemy cavalry. I still have five hundred Ge Bushxian in my hand. I will adjust another thousand white armor. The Han army has three thousand armors. They can't hold on the left, but they can adjust them to attack! I will adjust another thousand to two thousand Mongolian armor, and use six thousand elite cavalry to rush towards the enemy formation, break the enemy's stance formation defense and directly penetrate the place where Zhang Han's banner is!"
Dai Shan narrowed his eyes for a while, looked at Huang Taiji lifelessly, and said, "What if Zhang Han himself is not under the banner?"
"As long as we break the formation and cut the flag, it will be the same whether we are there or not. Even if the enemy formation is not defeated, our army can still enter the city to rest and find opportunities to fight."
Huang Taiji's words were already deceiving himself. Today, the Shang army had only more than 50,000 people. When he was fighting with the Ming army, the Jurchen soldiers suddenly entered the pass and could not win. Even if Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao could recognize Zu Dashou's surrender and merge with the Eight Banners soldiers, the two broken soldiers could not be able to compete with the 50,000 people. Moreover, Zhang Han could still continuously transfer the vitality troops.
"Just do it like this!"
Daishan was no longer able to do so, knowing that this was the last chance. Just now, he saw Shuotuo being crushed to death by a lancer, and his heart was as sad as a knife. Although Daishan slaughtered countless Han people in southern Liaoning and killed countless elderly, weak women and children, when his relatives fell, he still felt uncontrollably heartache.
"I don't know how many people we can survive." Dai Shan said to Huang Taiji when he rode his horse and left: "Khan must take care of himself. If there is still something to do, he must take his tribe members away and do not die here."
"We will win, second brother." Huang Taiji nodded with a pale face.
Dai Shan said nothing and left with a horse, his pale braids dancing in the air.
Huang Taiji sent Sony, Oboi and others to pass the orders, and soon as he assembled an elite cavalry team of more than 6,000 people behind the Later Jin Formation.
More flag cows and Baoyi were also gathering on the right wing. The iron cavalry there were too much pressure. Huang Taiji sent these cannon fodder to block the iron-clad knights who were sprinting back and forth.
Dorgon, Duoduo, Tabai and others were all in the cavalry team. Huang Taiji thought about it again and again and decided to send Abatai as the leader of this cavalry team. The Later Jin soldiers would win or draw, which was the last chance.
To be continued...