Chapter 460 Keqing, Defeat!
The Ming army was responsible for landing in Dagukou by Huang Degong, the 13th Border Defense Army.
The one responsible for rushing to the front to land on the south bank was the first battalion of the town. The battalion general was from Shandong, Yang Keqing.
It is said that Yang Keqing was originally a hunter in Shandong, but when he went out to hunt, his whole family was killed by Qing captives. Therefore, he changed his name to Keqing and joined Huang Degong's army.
Unfortunately, over the years, he not only did not get the opportunity to fight with the Qing emperors, but also because of his stubbornness, although he made many military achievements, he was never promoted.
It was not until Huang Degong's army was loyal to Zhu Mai that he quickly stood out in the three battles of Yangzhou, Luzhou and Runing, and was promoted to the general of the camp for many achievements.
Yang Keqing knew that quickly capturing Tianjin Wei was the key to destroying the Qing army within the pass, so he led his personal soldiers as the first wave of soldiers to land on the beach.
Before they could land, they saw hundreds of Qing cavalry emerging from the ground one mile away and heading straight to the shore.
Yang Keqing knew about the existence of Qing robbers in the trenches, because the drone had already been reconnaissance, and the navy artillery was also "taken care of".
It seems now that because the navy warship is relatively far away from the trench, the Qinglu trench has been prepared for a long time and is digging deeper and larger. Therefore, the previous multiple rounds of artillery attacks did not cause much to the Qinglu in the trench.
Kill.
Although the Qing Lu Green Camp cavalry had more personal soldiers than Yang Keqing, he did not mean to retreat at all. Instead, he shouted loudly: "Speed up the boat!"
Yang Keqing's personal soldiers were also full of fighting spirit. The sword player squatted on the bow of the boat, while the navy paddler rowed the boat very quickly.
On the other side, Feng Manzhong, the Green Camp general, led more than 500 cavalrymen to a place half a mile away from the sea, and suddenly frowned.
Because half of the way further was the beach, the horse's feet were deep, and the speed suddenly slowed down, but it was not as fast as the people.
He immediately made a decision and shouted, "Dropping off the horse! Run over!"
Feng Manzhong was led by more than 3,000 green camps under Gang'Atai. Most of them were composed of servants and had a good tactical execution. He immediately dismounted and rushed to the beach.
On the other hand, Yang Keqing and other Ming troops also encountered difficulties - as they approached the shore, the water became shallower and shallower, making it difficult for even the boat to move forward.
Yang Keqing also ordered the soldiers to get off the boat and wading in the water.
After all, it was easier to run on the shore. Feng Manzhong and other elite green camps rushed to the beach first. Seeing that Yang Keqing and others had approached within fifty steps, he saw that there were fifty musketeers in the Ming army that landed in the first wave of landing, he shouted.
:"Phot one round!"
After saying that, he bent his bow and shot an arrow at the Ming general who was holding a knife card in the front.
As a general, he used a strong bow and a very accurate head. He thought that this arrow would definitely kill the Ming army, but when the Ming army raised his hand, he blocked his arrow with a rattan card.
Other elite green camps can also shoot arrows, but the rain of arrows composed of more than 500 arrows can only hear a jingle of gold and iron sounds in the sound of waves.
However, Yang Keqing's personal soldiers all wore steel flying saucer hats and exquisite cloth armor and plate armor (breast armor). Except for a team of musketeers, the remaining two hundred people were sword players, so they were naturally not afraid of shooting arrows.
rain.
Seeing this, Feng Manzhong could only order: "When they reach within twenty steps, shoot with heavy arrows. Now they all spread a little to guard against their muskets and grenades."
Since the Battle of Yangzhou, although there were only two major battles between the Qing army and the Ming army, small battles actually occurred on the two battlefields in Jiangbei and Shaanxi, so the Qing army fought against the Ming New Army.
I have learned a lot about the equipment.
Sure enough, Feng Manzhong had just given the order and saw the Ming saber player dispersing in the shallow water, revealing the two musketeers behind him.
The Ming army's flintlock rifle is now effective at seventy or eighty steps, and now it is only fifty steps. When the Qing army's enemies are dispersed relatively, the Ming army's musketeers did not use platoon guns, but fired freely.
Although the more than 500 elite Qing soldiers were wearing cotton armor and chain mail, just like the Eight Banners Army's vest soldiers, within fifty steps, the Ming army still killed or injured more than a dozen people.
At this time, Yang Keqing led the scattered sword player and rushed into within thirty steps.
Feng Manzhong did not dare to wait any longer and immediately ordered to shoot arrows.
As a result, due to equipment reasons, this round of arrow rain only caused several casualties to Ming Sabre players.
Then, Yang Keqing led his personal soldiers to finally break into the Green Camp within twenty steps, only a dozen steps away from the shore. So he took out grenades, bit off the fuse, and threw them out.
Many green camp soldiers were waiting to bend their bows and shoot arrows again. When they saw the grenades thrown, they could only hurriedly dodge.
Boom boom boom...
One or two hundred grenades almost flooded the beach with gunpowder, and many screams of green camp soldiers were heard.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Keqing finally led his personal soldiers to the shore.
"Run!" Yang Keqing shouted, "Fight for the troops landing behind!"
After saying that, he first entered the Green Camp soldiers who were temporarily in chaos due to grenades.
The personal soldiers in the border guards were all Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the powerful soldiers in the official army back then. They had rich fighting experience and are now well equipped. Even if these green camp soldiers are good in strength and good in equipment, they are still poor in the end.
Yang Keqing seized the opportunity to lead his personal soldiers to slash and kill, but he unconsciously retreated.
Just then, Atai led the remaining two or three thousand infantry soldiers of the Green Camp arrived. Seeing this, he ordered Feng Manzhong and others not to retreat, while shouting other green camp soldiers to join the battlefield.
However, fifty musketeers from Yang Keqing's personal soldiers also came ashore at this time. They first threw grenades into places where the Qing barbarians were behind the battlefield, and then they platooned and killed them.
Even wearing cotton armor, the green camp soldiers in the chain mail could not block the flintlock rifle within fifty steps, let alone other green camp soldiers with cotton armor or another layer of armor.
For a time, even though the number of Qing soldiers had an absolute advantage, they could not immediately drive Yang Keqing and more than 200 people into the sea.
In this short period of time, the soldiers of the First Battalion of the Thirteenth Town also landed one after another, and went around to both sides to use tiger squat cannons, and bombarded directly at the wings of the Green Camp soldiers and the rear formation.
As the cannons were fired, the overwhelming splashing of shots, and the Green Camp soldiers were killed and injured.
"Defeated! Escape quickly!"
Someone shouted, and suddenly many green camp soldiers turned around and ran away.
"If you don't retreat, you will be killed!"
Gang Atai was holding a knife to cut off the retreating green camp soldiers while scolding, angry and angry.
Previously, he felt that even if the Ming army could not be stopped from landing, he could delay for more than half an hour.
But now, it hasn't been blocked for even a quarter of an hour.
The fleeing Green Camp soldiers were not afraid of Gang Atai at all, and some of them even resisted with knives.
Gang Atai and his personal soldiers finally had only more than 100 people, and they would not be able to change the defeat of the Green Camp soldiers, so they could only escape with them.
However, Yang Keqing had long noticed that Gang Atai, dressed as a general of the Eight Banners Army, saw him turn around, and took down the bow and arrow on his back and shot him with one arrow.
As a hunter, he was brave and had been in the army for several years, and his archery skills were quite good.
This arrow hit Gang Atai's vest. Although he did not shoot to death, Gang Atai fell to the ground. Then he was stepped on by the green camp soldiers who were fleeing from behind, and he was trampled to death by himself!
"Kill!" Yang Keqing shouted excitedly, "Don't let the Qing barbarians run away!"
After saying that, he led the soldiers of the First Battalion to bite the tails of these green camp soldiers and kept chasing them, and continued to chase them outside the Tianjin Acropolis.
After being bombarded by some enemy and us in the Qing army defending the city, dozens of people were damaged. Yang Keqing calmed down and ordered his retreat to the range of the Red Armored Cannons at the top of the city to prepare to wait for the subsequent large troops to transport the Guangming Cannons.
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In Tianjin Acropolis.
Leng Sengji's gray eyebrows were wrapped in a ball.
He had never expected that Tuntai would be defeated so quickly, and he probably could not hold back the landing Ming army at Dagukou for even a quarter of an hour.
He had seen the power of the Ming Navy's artillery when he bombarded the various artillery batteries at Dagukou before. Therefore, it was clear that the more than a thousand soldiers and horses left by Tianjin Acropolis and eight red barbarian cannons could not be defended at all.
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The only thing he is now grateful for is that when Atai sent troops in Tuntai, he sent several fast horses to report to the capital.
‘I just hope that the Regent will learn that the Ming army has landed in Zhigu, so I can take the emperor with me and the Empress Dowager to escape from the pass. If the Ming army is really allowed to stay in the pass, my Qing Dynasty will be destroyed.’
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