Chapter 13 Battle of the Giant Deer 1

Just as the sky was slightly bright on December 12, the dull horn of the unique horn used by the Tak Army sounded around the Lu Xiangsheng Camp.

The flags and horses of the Tatar Army, which had already gathered overnight, took action one after another. A team of armored soldiers began to put heavy iron armor on their bodies with the help of the soldiers, while the archers and soldiers showed their big shields, hung the bow string on the bow, and put the arrowhead in the most convenient position to use. Ready for the attack.

A team of Tatar vest soldiers also put on their armor, sorted out the arrows in the arrow pot, and took out their long guns and halberd, short weapons such as knives and axes on the saddle, as well as small shields.

The current quality of the equipment of the tartarmen is much better than that of the wild boar skin when they started their troops. The perennial battles with various tribes, coupled with the large number of armor captured by the Ming army by the successive defeats of the Ming army, and the iron weapons they set up by themselves, have already used their savage army. When it comes to the teeth, even in terms of firearms, the quality of the equipment of the Tatar soldiers is not inferior to that of the Ming army. Especially after Nurhachi ate the loss of the Ming army's Hongyi cannon in Ningyuan, they also began to pay attention to the casting of artillery.

After the traitors Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming defected to the Manchurian Tatars, in addition to bringing some muskets and cannons, they also took a considerable number of Ming Dynasty gunsmiths from Dengzhou, providing sufficient technical support for the Tatars, so that the Manchurian tars began to cast quite good quality by themselves. At this time, even the cannons in thetar army were not at a disadvantage compared with the Ming army, and even gradually began to catch up and began to surpass the Ming army's artillery.

As for the gunners, they are also not short of gunners. Over the years, they have captured a large number of Ming army, including many gunners of the Ming army. These gunners are basically treated well, fully used by Huang Taiji and integrated into the army, so even in terms of gunners, there is no shortage of Tatar soldiers.

However, there is a point of Tartar Chongxin bow and arrow victory theory. In their eyes, the three-eyed gunshot, bird gun, fire gun and other things equipped in the Ming army are not as powerful, but these firearms have many faults, slow loading, inability to fight in close combat and other reasons, which are far less than the strong bows used in their hands. Arrows are easy to use, so in the current Tatar Army, in addition to the Han army also equipped with firearms such as birds, the serious Manchurian Eight Banners do not disdain to equip these things. Therefore, in terms of long-range firearms, the Tats Army did not deliberately develop.

After tidying up their equipment, these Tatarmen could only hear the roar of several cannons in the north. The flag soldiers roared in the same voice and rushed towards Lu Xiangsheng's battalion. Rows of soldiers with big shields walked in front, and the archers followed closely behind the big shield and held their bows. Build and push forward slowly.

A large number of armored armor followed, waiting for an order to launch an attack. Everyone had no expression on their faces and looked indifferent, as if this war did not affect anything at all. What's more, some people's faces showed arrogance, and their eyes were full of murderous spirit, which had been in the battlefield. The Taran soldiers have long been tempered into a ruthless killing machine step by step, and it seems that they don't even care about their own lives.

This time, in order to encircle and annihilate Lu Xiangsheng's troops, Dorchon and Yue Tuo can be said to have done their best. They not only sent the main force of their white flag, inlaid white flag, red flag and inlaid red flag to the battlefield, but even their most relied Bayara soldiers were sent to the battlefield. The generals in the army more or less thought that they were making a fuss and paid too much attention to Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers.

This time, the Xuan soldiers led by Lu Xiangsheng really did a good job after entering the defense. They followed Lu Xiangsheng and fought several fierce battles with the Tart soldiers. Although they paid a lot of price, they also played the prestige of the Ming army. On the contrary, after the Guanning army, which was regarded by Chongzhen as the most powerful soldier in the world, entered the defense, With Gao Qiqian, he basically didn't do any business. First, he lay on the outskirts of Beijing and did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Tartar soldiers. Then he followed Gaoqi's potential Hebei to carry out an armed parade. He didn't say anything to fight with the Tartars. Instead, he did a lot of things that harm the people. Therefore, in Dorgon's eyes, the Xuanda soldiers and horses under the command of Lu Xiangsheng. It has become their last obstacle. Both he and Yue Tuo want to completely destroy the Xuan army under Lu Xiangsheng in the first battle, so that they will cause any trouble to the Qing army.

As the hand soldiers began to take action, Lu Xiangsheng's battalion also began to act. The hungry and cold officers and soldiers also cheered up one after another. They began to pick up their weapons in their hands and put on their armor. Under the command of the officers, a team went to the position designated for them. Go up.

Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Zhang Yan and other generals were each responsible for a direction of the battalion. Lu Xiangsheng was in the center to command. As the soldiers were getting closer and closer to them, the roar of the generals sounded on all sides: "Glow! ......”

At the same time, the sound of artillery sounded on all four sides of Lu Xiangsheng's battalion at almost the same time. All kinds of Fran machines and small red cannons and even tiger squatting cannons were on fire one after another. All kinds of shells flew out of the gun and hit the queue of the Tartars surrounding them, and immediately made a gap in the queue of Tartars. The frozen ground also became an accomplice to these shells. As soon as the shell landed, it was immediately bounced up and continued to fly forward. The middleman was absolutely not dead or injured.

The Taritar soldiers seemed to be unmoved and continued to indifferently push the front forward, constantly carrying the big shield to fill the gaps opened by the Ming army's cannons, covering the archers and armor behind them and continuing to move forward.

"Fire! Keep firing!" Lu Xiangsheng ran to the west of the camp, waved the snowy knife in his hand, and shouted at the gunners here.

The gunners nervously reload their cannons, but their reloading action is relatively complicated, because it is not the overall charge, which makes the reloading very cumbersome. Although the cannon fires, it causes a certain amount of damage to the tarmen, but it is impossible to form a continuous shelling to stop the tarmen. Get close to their camp.

The hand soldiers continue to withstand the shelling indifferently and slowly move forward. The long-term war has made them form a strong discipline, and everyone knows what terrible consequences will be brought to them and even their families. Therefore, when facing the enemy, they not only consider Their lives also need to consider the future of their families and children, so it also makes them extremely fierce on the battlefield and are not shocked by such a blow at all.

With the firing of Lu Xiangsheng's battalion, the battle also kicked off. The Tatar soldiers rushed to Lu Xiangsheng's battalion against the artillery fire of the Ming army, and from the northwest, a large group of people and horses with black and white flags also pulled out a few red cannons, slowly It was aimed at Lu Xiangsheng's battalion. With the roar of the lieutenant general Zuo, the Hongyi cannons of the Qing army also made a roar. Huge shells roared and fell to Lu Xiangsheng's battalion. Suddenly, a cart blocking the edge of the camp was hit by a shell. Even if it was hit by the sawdust and scattered, Even some archers holding bows and arrows on the cart and a small French cannon were suddenly bombarded out. In a blink of an eye, the Ming army killed and injured many people, and opened a pierced the edge of the camp.

But now, the Ming officers and soldiers had no choice but to immediately send troops with shields to plug the gap. Some archers were transferred to the gap and continued to shoot arrows outward to prevent the soldiers from approaching the camp.

As the distance between the two armies became closer and closer, a large number of archers were engaged in the battle. The archers on both sides desperately splashed the rain of arrows they shot at each other. One side tried to block the other's approach, and the other side tried to sweep away the enemy in front of them, but relatively speaking, the arrow rain fired by the Ming army was obviously weak. There are many Tatari army, and such a launch obviously can't stop the attack of the Tatari. Although the artillery is more powerful, it is so thin in the face of the ant-like influx of the Tatar, so that as soon as the archers fight, they are suppressed by the Tatsars' archers. During this period, there will be a three-eyed or It is the sound of birds, but in such a large-scale attack, the same sound also seems to be very thin.

Although these soldiers from Xuanda showed more courage than the vast majority of officers and soldiers, their number of archers is far inferior to that of Tartar archers. What's more, archery is not a labor-saving job. After the first few arrows were shot out, soon the archers began to get tired because of hunger, but they were forced. The arrows shot by the Taritar archers who came up were dense and powerful. Some archers who blocked the edge of the camp began to hit the arrows one after another, either screaming and fell next to the camp fence, or fell off the cart at the edge of the camp.

And the shooting skills of the Tatar archers are obviously much better than that of the Ming army. These ethnic groups who have been living on horseback since childhood have learned to use bows and arrows since childhood. After adulthood, they are all good shooters, and they are good at making strong bows, and the arrows they use are also heavy arrows. Such heavy arrows are powerful. Once nailed After entering the human body, the damage caused should be greater.

Although the range of such a heavy arrow is average, one arrow counts as one arrow, which is relatively powerful. In addition, with their precise aiming, they often aim at the faces of the Ming army to avoid the armor on their bodies, causing greater damage to the enemy, making many Ming soldiers or arrows in the throat, even if it can be fatal. On the contrary, the archers of the Ming army, even if they hit the Tatar soldiers, but the Tatar soldiers who rushed up were all wearing cotton armor with copper nails. The cotton armor was lined with iron pieces. The arrows were shot on their armor, but they generally could not penetrate the armor. Even if they penetrated the armor, the killing and injuries to the tarmen were very limited. Some fierce Tatar soldiers were shot with several arrows, but they still roared with arrows all over their bodies and rushed forward like monsters. On the one hand, it can be seen that the fierceness of the Tatar soldiers is also shown that the Ming army's bows and arrows are really limited to their lethality.