Chapter 664: Sending troops to test
Since the battle was already prepared, it would be meaningless for those who were in front of the battle. However, when Dorgon saw that they had a good time, he planned to give these people more time to perform, which would at least make the morale of the Qing army higher.
The Qing cavalry who were yelling in the formation became more and more crazy. Their movements became more and more fancy, and they were getting closer and closer to the main formation of the Runing Army, performing courtship like a group of wild beasts in heat.
So the Runing Army shot and fired without hesitation. Seeing that the Qing cavalry had advanced a hundred steps, he ordered a team of musketmen to shoot volleys without hesitation. That is, at the limit of the range, there were not many muskets to shoot volleys, so this time the volley only knocked off the three cavalry of the Qing army.
One of the Qing army riders was not injured. He quickly got up from the ground, jumped onto the horse of the cavalry coming from behind, and immediately fled. The other rider was obviously dead, and he lay on the ground and stopped moving. Another rider was injured, and he shouted that his companions would come to rescue quickly.
There were indeed several Qing army cavalry coming forward, but at this time, the second row of volleys fired again and knocked one cavalry to the ground. Fortunately, this time it was only hit by the horse. The fallen Qing army cavalry was immediately rescued by his companions and quickly moved back and avoided the Runing army's muskets from afar.
But in this way, the Qing army who fell to the ground and screamed was abandoned. With the screams, the Qing army was still cursing. The sound was so loud that the Qing army, who were originally cheering in the formation, suddenly became dull like the sound of the wire pulling out the wire. On the contrary, the Ronging army, who was inspired, saw the unlucky appearance of the Qing army, couldn't help laughing regardless of the military discipline.
The morale increased and disappeared, which made the Qing army generals watching the battle behind very angry. Tubery spit out a series of dirty words and shouted that the Qing army in front would rescue the injured cavalry at all costs.
Dorgon didn't care about the life and death of the cavalry, and it was not his turn to worry about this trivial matter. Dorgon just frowned and secretly judged: "It turns out that the range of this Ming army musket is a hundred steps!"
During the strangulation battle, the Qing army also seized some of the Runing Army's muskets, but these muskets were medium-sized muskets for cavalry. They were not the standard weapon of the Runing Army's infantry - heavy muskets.
But it turned out that the Qing army did not know this. They had also tried the captured muskets. Although they were also surprised by the power of these muskets, they originally believed that the range of the Runing Army muskets was about fifty steps. However, the performance of the Runing Army muskets just now surprised Dorgon.
Since this is the case, some arrangements before the war need to be changed. The first thing is to test the firepower of the Runing Army, otherwise Dorgon's heart would not be stable.
Seeing that the Qing army ahead had rescued the injured cavalry, Dorgon ordered: "Let them retreat first!"
"But the prince! That Minggou is too arrogant..." Tubery still felt a little angry. He wanted the Qing army to do something to save his face.
"But what?" Dorgon suddenly became angry. He shouted, "It's still early today. What are you anxious about? Let's withdraw."
Seeing Dorgon suddenly launched an unknown fire, the Qing army generals immediately became silent. They didn't know: Dorgon felt very bad now, and he felt like he was out of his control.
The Qing soldiers who were fighting returned to their team one after another. Dorgon pointed at the Runing army with a horse whip, but suddenly laughed out loud: "Hahaha-! Everyone! The army in front of him is the last elite of the Ming Dynasty. I thought we would not meet this time, but I didn't expect them to come to the door by themselves. That's good! As long as this army is defeated, there will probably be no soldiers available in the Ming Dynasty! It's today that it will be."
Dorgon's words immediately attracted cheers.
After the cheers stopped, Dorgon immediately ordered: "The Korean musketeer drew half of it to the right wing. The new camp of the Zhenghong Banner of Mongolia rushed to the right side of the Ming army, and rushed! Half a future, it broke down! A future!"
Dorgon's order has reached its peak. When a general arranges troops, he always arranges stronger troops on his right side. This is also a right-handed habit! So compared with the two sides facing each other, the attack on the right side is to attack the weaker left side of the enemy.
Dorgon no longer thinks of any strange tricks. He uses the new camp of the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner as the vanguard to rush forward, and then uses the firepower of the Korean musketeers to try to tear open the right wing of the Runing Army and strive to defeat the formation of the Runing Army at one time.
The Eight Banners of Mongolia are directly under the jurisdiction of Huang Taiji, but this new camp was reorganized by the herdsmen from Mongolian tribes on the grassland. To put it bluntly, it is cannon fodder, but this reward is indeed worthy of their efforts. In addition to the hope of promotion, this military merit can also gain a great advantage in the subsequent distribution of spoils. In fact, Dorgon asked this new camp to try the firepower and tactics of the Runing Army.
After Dorgon's order, even the Qing army generals around him showed envy. However, they all knew Dorgon's intention, so no one opposed giving the cannon fodder such a high reward. The messenger immediately drove his horse to go there. Soon, a cheerful howl came from the other side. Obviously, the Mongolian cannon fodder was excited by the reward. Soon, six or seven hundred Mongolian light cavalry had already gathered into a team.
Under the loud command of a genius leader, the six or seven hundred Mongolian light cavalry immediately flocked out. They bent to the far right of the Qing army, and formed several linear arrays thickly. Then they shouted and charged towards the left side of the Runing army.
In fact, these Mongolian light cavalry were said to be cavalry, but in fact they were just herdsmen. Some of them didn’t even have armor on them, but they had several layers of leather robes, and the better ones were wearing the mandarin duck war robe that was taken off the Ming army. At first glance, they thought they were Mongolian and Han coalition forces, but the weapons in their hands were pretty good. The scimitars and wooden guns when they entered the pass were replaced with the Ming army’s standard weapons. For the Qing army, the Ming army was really a qualified logistics force!
But after a few steps, the arrays of the Mongolian light cavalry were in chaos. Their horses were fast and slow. After a while, everyone crowded together in a mess and turned into a swarm of charges.
Such a charge cannot cause continuous impact on the tightly defended infantry array at all, and gives these light cavalry space to escape, leaving them without the determination to fight to the death.
So looking at this situation, a Qing army general beside Dorgon whispered disdain: "A group of horse bandits!"
Chapter completed!