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Chapter 543: The Temple of the Prairie Jackal: The Defeat of Guangning (6)

Under the cover of the archers, the female real white flag soldiers gradually approached the battlements. Seven or eight flag soldiers supported the shaking ladder under the long ladder. Four dead soldiers shouted and climbed upwards. More soldiers from the archers gathered under the cloud ladder to prepare for attack in turn. The Jurchen archers vigilantly opened their bows and arrows to watch the soldiers about to emerge on the city wall at any time. They wanted to completely suppress the threat of the Ming border troops to attack the dead soldiers. At this tense moment, hundreds of black shadows with blue smoke flew out from the head of Shalingyi City and fell near the siege ladder.

The experienced Zhengbai Banners reacted at that time. This was the defensive weapon of the Ponu Army. They ran back regardless of whether there was a supervising team behind them. These flagists subconsciously believed that the Jurchens' most vicious enemy, the Ponu Army, was on the Shalingyi Castle. Accompanied by the sound of explosions, the siege ladders that had lost their stable support were jumping in the explosion shock wave, and they led countless Jurchen siege dead soldiers to fall under the city wall.

There was only one Jurchen dead soldier who reacted very quickly and threw away his shield and grabbed the inner side of the city wall with one hand. His thick left hand was carefully taken care of by the Ming army. The Ming army, who was hiding behind the wall, suddenly saw a strangely extra hand in front of him. A bold veteran reacted first. While he used his hand to spread the thick big hand, he saw the new recruits igniting * when they were about to throw out, the new recruits holding "*" was knocked off their fingers by the wolf-toothed arrow shot from under the city wall, and fell to the ground. At this critical moment, I don't know what the veteran was thinking, so he grabbed the smokey * and stuffed it into the palm of the Jurchen dead soldier's about to release.

The dead soldier was extremely unwilling to fall. During the process of falling, he was shocked and instantly shocked. When he was torn into pieces by "*", the lively battlefield had already fallen into silence. The Jurchens' offensive was blown up by the explosion. When the Jurchen army retreated silently, Wang Yiquan, who was completely immersed in the battle, quickly stopped his subordinates' actions of throwing * wildly. Only then did Wang Yiquan realize that the power of the Slave Army sent by the Pokémon Army was so huge that even the fierce Jurchen dead soldiers could not avoid it.

Wang Yiquan knew that this time the Jurchens withdrew from the army because they borrowed the light of the Po Slave Army's recent victory over the Jurchen coalition. Now the Jurchens are really afraid of the Po Slave Army. As long as the Po Slave Army appears on the battlefield, or the standard weapons commonly used by the Po Slave Army will appear by the Jurchens. The fear of the Po Slave Army is clearly on the battlefield. Therefore, when the Shaling Post defenders throw the commonly used weapon "*", even the most severe battlefield supervision team feels a little panic.

Huang Taiji, the assistant to the Qing Dynasty, who was supervising the battle behind the military formation, was also shocked by the sudden explosion. This explosion sound was different from the sound of artillery, not to mention that Huang Taiji did not see artillery on the wall of Shalingyi City, which caused Huang Taiji to misjudgment of the defense strength of Shalingyi. Faced with the retreating Jurchen army, Huang Taiji was not discouraged. While mobilizing a nest cart from the rear to enter the front line, he also issued a retreat order to the Jurchen yellow flags interspersed in the rear of Shalingyi.

Meile Ezhentulai, who was stationed in the north of Shaling Post, heard the agreed horn sound of the ox horn in the south of Shaling, and also felt that the attack of the female real white flag failed. However, his troops could no longer leave the battlefield because the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Zhao Shujiao rushed towards their army. The three thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry who were speeding up were about three meters away from each other. While avoiding the flying arrows, they also had to avoid the injured brothers who fell to the ground, and raised their shield with their left hand and held the cavalry rifle with their right hand.

The reason why the Guanning Iron Cavalry uses cavalry lances is mainly because of the different concepts of fighting. When the Pound Army attacks, the Pound Army pays attention to attacking the flanks of the enemy formation, while the Ming Dynasty official army forces the courage to fight and use their lives to attack the front of the enemy formation. What's more, the Pound Army attacks the enemy infantry formation, no longer uses cavalry to attack the enemy formation, but uses long-range fire ranges to clear the enemy formation. Thousands of Iron Cavalry of Guanning of the Ming Dynasty fly around and dust and rush towards the enemy, and they want to use their weapons in their hands to vent their decades of shame of failure.

When Liaodong general Man Gui saw that the Jurchen Yellow Banner was focused on the Guanning Iron Cavalry, he immediately launched three thousand infantry to rush towards the enemy formation a hundred feet away. The weapons of the Ming border infantry were extremely complex. The two rows in the front were common swords, shield soldiers and musket soldiers mixed together. Even the musket soldiers had three-eyed guns and bird guns, and the order of the array was the three-eyed guns in front and bird guns behind. The Ming Dynasty official army was Shanghong, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry was from the north, and the Liaodong infantry went from the northwest like two red carpets, one fast and one slow to cover the Jurchen Yellow Banner Half Moon Army formation.

The bright red Ming battle flag was like clouds and seas, rushing towards their enemies amid the shouts of the battle horns. As the officer leading the Jurchen Yellow Flag, Meleezhentulai was shocked by the high fighting spirit of the Ming border army. In his impression, the Ming official army would only huddle behind the solid city wall before daring to fight with the Jurchens. Unexpectedly, the Ming official army would take the initiative to attack the Jurchens in the wild.

Tu Lai, who did not dare to neglect, shrank the army and shot wolf-toothed arrows at the Ming infantry that rushed over. Shortly after Tu Lai's order was issued, the Ming Guanning Iron Cavalry had already rushed into the Jurchen military formation. Although the Jurchens used the forest-like snatching formation to block the Ming army's war horses from the formation at high speed, the war horses that rushed into the army formation still chased the Jurchen military formation. The Guanning Iron Cavalry who rushed into the enemy formation, their war horses were stabbed into hedgehogs when they rushed into the formation, but they also knocked away the Jurchen Tartars blocking the war horses. The Jurchen spearmen who blocked the war horses were either seriously injured by the huge impact force of the war horses, or the spears that inserted into the body of the war horses themselves broke the tiger's mouth.

As the soldiers of Guangning Iron Cavalry, they knew everything they might encounter when they rushed into the enemy formation. In order to avoid being led by the lifeless war horses, they took the lead in stabbing out their spears after rushing to the formation and quickly untied the stirrups, grabbed the sword and rolled into the enemy formation. These veterans knew that if they wanted to save their lives on this battlefield, they had to kill the enemy in front of them. If they wanted to retreat, they would be trampled on by the subsequent war horses that rushed up. With the subsequent attacks of Guanning Iron Cavalry, the northern military formation in the Jurchen Inlaid Yellow Banner Army began to fail to withstand the pressure and gradually collapsed. Seeing this emergency, Tu Lai had to draw soldiers from the south to block the gap in the northern military formation.

The already thin Crescent Jurchen Army formation took the shape of a somewhat strange tadpole. Even the thin Western Army formation still stubbornly continued to shoot arrows at the Liaodong border infantry. The Jurchen Tartars' wolf-toothed arrows were far higher than those of the Ming border army. The Ming infantry during the attack became a little impatient after being attacked by the Jurchen bows and arrows. In particular, the musket soldiers in the military formation could not stand the attack of the Jurchen Tartars' arrows and shot on their own far from the Jurchen Army formation.

The Ming Bird Gun itself is not accurate, and it is also scattered shooting during the marching, which cannot effectively kill and damage the enemy. The most important thing is that the Ming border army has been lazy for a long time and does not pay attention to normal training. Take the Ming Dynasty's most elite Liaodong border army as an example. It is also a training session every ten days and a school every month. This is a world of difference from the strict training of the Po Slave Army for three hours a day. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty musket soldiers to load the second fire muskets in the marching team. Therefore, after the musket soldiers fired, the weapons in their hands became useless fire sticks.

In comparison, musket soldiers holding three-eyed guns seem to be a little better than musket soldiers holding bird guns. They know that the range of the three-eyed guns in their hands is too close, and even if they are anxious, they cannot ignite the leads on the muskets randomly. In particular, the main shooting target of the Jurchen archers has become the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the north, which has not caused major casualties to the Ming infantry. The armor of ordinary border troops in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty is mainly leather armor and cotton armor, and only cavalry and officers can have high-quality iron armor. It is not that the Ming craftsmen are lazy, but that these senior officers in Liaodong are reluctant to bribe the men of the Ministry of War for the war equipment.

In the Ming Dynasty, if they want to get a good pair of armor, they must bribe them to all relevant yamen. The Liaodong border army seemed to have received 80% of the military pay in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact they lived a little better than the border army in other places. The armor they had to pay for was repairing. If they wanted to save their lives on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers had to save money from their living expenses from their teeth and asked craftsmen to repair the armor. Many leather armors were already worm-eaten, but they were the hope of saving their lives on the battlefield.

These ragged armors seemed particularly vulnerable when facing the fierce wolf-toothed arrows of the Jurchen Tartars. Even the shields in the hands of the border army were better than this shield. When the Jurchen Tartars shot through the shields of the Ming border army, they could hear the curse of the soldiers and the bad-hearted officials, but they had to use these ragged weapons to fight the fierce Jurchen Tartars. The Liaodong general Man Gui, who was commanding far behind the military formation, was filled with extreme resentment when facing the dead bodies of the wounded soldiers left on the way to attack the enemy's military formation.

Seeing that the Ming border army had already engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, Mangui's attention turned to Shalingyi Castle. On Shalingyi Castle, the Ming Dynasty guard Wang Yiquan hid behind the battlements and saw a heart-wrenching scene through the arrow hole. Another group of five thousand people from the female real white flag army were slowly approaching the battlefield. The Jurchen siege nest chariot was about four zhang long and one and a half zhang wide, with four wooden wheels, one of which was extremely strange. The shape of the four nest chariots was no different from the Ming chariots, all of which were hidden deep in the chariots.

Only the weird nest car was closed with wooden boards around it, and it was impossible to see what was in it. At this moment, there was a deafening shout of killing from the north behind Shalingyi Castle. Wang Yiquan guessed that his upper peak ginseng general was a man of Gui, and perhaps the Tartars inserted behind Shalingyi were being wiped out. (To be continued)
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