Chapter 35 The two armies face off against each other
November 11th is a very popular festival in later generations, "Single's Day". Of course, Huang Taiji did not know about this festival. However, on November 11, the tenth year of Chongzheng, he led 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces to arrange a formation and directly blocked the army in front of the Ming East Road that had just entered Chahar.
His meaning is very obvious, that is: Come on, little emperor, let's fight together!
Zhu Cijing certainly knew Singles' Day, but on the eve of this war, when the victory and defeat were about to be decided, he had no intention of thinking about a festival that was irrelevant to future generations. However, when he received a spy report, he also led his 250,000 troops straight towards Huang Taiji's 300,000 troops.
Of course, both of them have very unlucky sides. For example, Huang Taiji, who directly hid thousands of field howitzers behind the formation, while Zhu Cijiu hid 100,000 elite cavalry behind the formation. To be honest, the two people had a radius of eight taels, which was comparable. However, Huang Taiji had been planning for a long time, while Zhu Cijiu had just made a temporary decision.
At some point, heavy snow fell in the sky. After nearly half an hour of marching, Zhu Cijiu finally arrived more than ten miles away from the Manchu-Mongolia coalition. This place was already deep in the Chahar grassland. The terrain was flat and boundless. In the telescope, you could vaguely see the dense black dots in front of them, and the shelf was there, which was more than ten miles wide!
The reason why Huang Taiji chose such a flat terrain was to tell Zhu Cijiu that you see, I am very bachelor and have no intention of ambushing me. Come on, let's fight with you.
Of course, Zhu Cijiu would not tell Huang Taiji that I had ambushed 100,000 elite cavalry and followed closely behind more than ten miles away. As long as a telegram was shot, they would rush up crazily and give you a big surprise!
He was thinking all the way, why Huang Taiji was so bold and dared to face off against him head-on. You should know that the power of the Ming army's muskets and cannons is already terrifying. Even if it is 250,000 to 300,000, it is a crushing, absolutely crushing. Huang Taiji didn't know how powerful the Ming army's muskets and cannons were. He had suffered a lot in Liaodong. Why did he seem to be not afraid at all now?
This time he thought for a long time, but in the end he still thought that it was very likely that Huang Taiji had already learned the Ming Dynasty's skills and was comparable to the Ming Dynasty in terms of equipment, otherwise he would not have the courage to fight him head-on!
It is actually very simple to determine the equipment of the Qing army. Within a range of six miles, you can tell with a telescope. Now the Ming Dynasty's military telescope can be seen clearly within six miles. Moreover, even if Huang Taiji is equipped with a Type 620 howitzer, it can hit three or four miles at the farthest, and the distance of six miles is still very safe.
Some people may want to say why the scouts did not see their equipment when they went to investigate. This ancient war was not like the modern one. Hundreds of thousands of troops were moving forward, and there were scouts within a radius of ten miles. The enemy scouts could not even think of approaching. They could only look at the approximate number of people and the direction of the march from a distance. If you really dare to get close, you would definitely be killed instantly.
At this time, Zhu Cijiong saw that the Qing army had no movement at all, so he decisively ordered: "The entire army stopped advancing and ordered all artillery soldiers to pull the artillery to one mile of the army's vanguard to set up a formation. The Type 317 howitzers were in front, the Type 417 howitzers were then lined in three rows, the Type 518 howitzers were then lined in two rows, and the Type 620 howitzers were in the last row."
With Zhu Cijiu's order, the Ming army stopped advancing. Thirty thousand artillery soldiers drove war horses and pulled more than two thousand howitzers out of the large army, and quickly lined up in rows in front.
Huang Taiji seemed to be trying to be a bachelor today. The Ming army started to set up a formation under his nose, but he still had no movement at all.
With the cannon formation, Zhu Cijing was not afraid of the Qing army rushing up to attack. He calmly ordered: "I ordered Qin Gongming to lead the First Army of the Imperial Guards to be on the left, Zu Dabi led the Qin army to 30,000 elite cavalry on the right, and the rest of the infantry were in the middle, and the standard combat formation in the front row of the cannon formation."
With his orders, the Ming army scattered everywhere, and the two cavalrymen were one left and one left. The infantry of the three armies passed through the artillery phalanx and soon lined up in front of the artillery formation.
At this time, the two armies were less than seven miles apart, and Zhu Cijiu gave a shocking order: "Carry the dragon chariot to me!"
A row of Zhongzhen Hou Qin Liangyu, who was riding horses to accompany him, quickly advised: "Your Majesty, no!"
Zhu Cijiong smiled calmly and said, "It's okay, I'll go forward and take a look, let's go."
Seeing that Qin Liangyu could not persuade him, everyone had to accompany him to the formation.
As soon as the dragon celestial arrived in front of the formation, Zhu Cijiu reached out to take the telescope handed over by Cao Huachun and looked at the Qing army formation.
Sure enough, the infantry phalanx in the middle of the Qing army had a musket, which looked like the style of the second and fourth flintlock rifles. However, the cavalry on both wings did not have a rotary rifle, and they still held swords, guns, swords and halberds. It seemed that they had not developed the rotary rifle yet.
The second and fourth type flintlock rifle can be copied, and the field howitzer must have been made. Although he was mentally prepared, Zhu Cijiu still couldn't help frowning. It was a bit troublesome now. Fortunately, the Ming army had an absolute advantage in cavalry equipment, so he could definitely win, but the casualties might be huge.
Just now, Huang Taiji was standing in front of the formation and looking at this side. Seeing that the military telescope he was holding was clearly the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but raise his right hand, stretched out his index finger, and pointed him a few times with the action of shooting.
Huang Taiji had seen this action when he was in Liaodong. At that time, he didn't know that there was a pistol, so he didn't know what the action meant. Now he certainly understood, so he raised his right hand without hesitation and made a traditional throat-cutting action to show his revenge!
Seeing this, Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but sneer contemptuously and said to himself: "Hmph, dare to fight with me with hot weapons, and seek death!"
If it is commanding cold weapons to fight, Zhu Cijiu may not be as good as Zu Dabi Zu Erlang, let alone compared to the cunning Fox Emperor Taiji. However, when it comes to fighting hot weapons, no one in the world is as experienced as him. Not only has countless experiences in his previous life as reference, he has also commanded several battles since his time travel. That is all the battles of hot weapons, and the Ming army has won great victories.
On the other hand, Huang Taiji even practiced thermal weapons secretly, and commanded thermal weapons to fight was the first time a girl got into the sedan chair. How powerful could she be!
Judging from his troops arrangement, Zhu Cijing estimated that this guy might have even learned "Infantry Warriors" secretly, but it doesn't matter. Just give him some tactics that are not available in "Infantry Warriors" to see how he deals with it!
What tactics does Zhu Cijing use? Please see the next breakdown.
Chapter completed!