Chapter 68 If you want to die, someone will fulfill him!
A stone bridge, two armies facing each other.
At this time, Jia Lazhangjing of the Qing army came out. He rode his horse across the stone bridge and looked at the situation here in the distance. His eyes were full of contempt and disdain. He thought in his heart: Just like this stone bridge,
One hundred and eighty bright dogs also want to stop hundreds of warriors from the Zhengbai Banner of the Qing Dynasty?
There are so many arrogant people in the Ming Dynasty!
He watched from a distance at the end of the bridge and estimated in his mind that the bridge was about three feet wide and about forty paces long. If his side used divine eagles holding strong bows and hard arrows to suppress them from both sides, and then used warriors holding shields to throw spears and hatchets,
For a strong attack, based on ten warriors per row, it is estimated that there will be almost five rows.
Looking at the dozens of bird cannons in the hands of Ming Gou opposite, he even wanted to laugh out loud. Ming Gou's fire cannons were indeed quite powerful in breaking armor, but they had never hit the warriors of the Qing Dynasty.
The Ming army used so many blunderbuss and artillery, but they were chased by Qing warriors from Liaodong to the gates of Beijing.
What's more, this thing is easy to explode, and in such windy weather, the priming powder is more likely to be blown away by the wind. I don't know how much it will produce when set off.
At this time, a few people came forward on horseback and gathered around Najia Lazhangjing, gesticulating and saying something towards the stone bridge.
Suddenly, a heartbreaking howl caught their attention. Jia Lazhangjing and several Fende Bashiku turned around and saw several willow trees on the other side of the Liangshui River, south of the stone bridge.
Four people were hanging on the branches.
All four people were stripped naked and hung naked on the tree. The only difference was that three of them had no heads, and the one with a head was Fende Bashiku who had led the team to explore the road before.
On the other two trees nearby, fifteen bloody human heads were hanging on the branches. They were all tied with a hemp rope in a small braid, hanging on the willow branch, and the bright blood was still ticking along the neck.
Red blood dots.
Najia Lazhangjing was furious and cursed loudly: "Ming Gouzi is so arrogant, he dares to humiliate our Qing warriors like this."
The few Bashiku beside him also had angry looks on their faces, pointing at the Ming army on the other side of the river and shouting curses.
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Jia Lazhangjing didn't talk too much. He was thinking of a quick victory. He shouted out orders and immediately five members of the Qing army, Bo Shiku, came out to take the order.
They shouted orders in front of the formation, and groups of armored warriors from the Qing army dismounted one after another, holding strong bows, shields, swords and axes, and instantly transformed into heavy armored infantry.
Two of them, Shiku, each led a group of heavy armored infantry from the Qing army. They were a group in front of the army. The other group was armed with strong bows and heavy arrows, and they were arranged on both sides of the stone bridge, with more than 20 people on each side.
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The other team lined up on the official road in front of the stone bridge. There were slightly more people in the first row, which almost covered the entire stone bridge. There were only ten people in each row in the back. There were five rows in total, and everyone was left-handed.
He holds a large shield, holds a throwing spear in his right hand, and has three or four throwing spears behind his back. He also has a short axe, iron bone sword, and waist knife stuck at his waist.
The Qing army planned to use strong bows to suppress the Ming army's artillery and heavy infantry to capture the stone bridge.
In the cold wind, the Qing army's formation also began to move. Two soldiers, Bo Shiku, rode their horses and shouted for a while. They saw some soldiers without armor, and some soldiers who only wore cotton armor without iron leaves.
The soldiers and servants dismounted and started running. Their temporarily unridden horses, mules and horses gathered together and rushed behind the Qing army's brigade.
Then two men were seen marching out of the crowd, with more than thirty Qing soldiers in cloth armor following them. They were divided into two teams along the Liangshui River, and each rode away in the north and south directions.
Explore the surrounding situation to see if there are any other arrangements or ambushes by the Ming army.
There were about 150 armored soldiers left in the Qing army, as well as some auxiliary soldiers who were good at shooting, totaling about 200 people. They dismounted behind the stone bridge and formed a small square formation.
Each man held a bow and an arrow in his hand, apparently intending to throw arrows to suppress the Ming army's cannons.
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When he saw the Jia La Zhang Jing and several Fen De Bo Shi Ku shouting for the formation on the opposite side, Chen Dakuan was also nervously arranging his deployment.
In addition to the three rows of firecrackers with more than seventy firecrackers in the front, there are more than thirty archers, more than thirty sword and shield men, and more than thirty spearmen waiting in formation behind the earthen wall on the south side of the official road.
Tong Shoushan's cavalry all dismounted and lined up behind the earthen wall on the north side of the official road. They were more than a hundred people, half armed with bows and arrows, half armed with three-eyed blunderbuss, and only a few bird blunderbuss among them.
More than 270 people stood firm on the stone bridge, the only narrow passage. Chen Dakuan and Tong Shoushan were both full of confidence.
"If you want to die, I will help you!"
Chen Dakuan couldn't help but feel cold when he saw the Qing army on the opposite side slowly approaching.
He then shouted an order: "Attention, everyone, the Tatars are about to attack. Fire cannons are fired in accordance with military orders, bows and arrows are fired freely, and swordsmen, shields and spearmen are preparing for close combat."
"Tiger tiger tiger!"
The sergeants in each formation responded loudly.
The three rows of firecrackers guarding the official road had already loaded their firecrackers and lit the match ropes. They squatted behind the cart, quietly waiting for the military order to get up and shoot.
The archers in the Qing army who were good at shooting were habitually called the Divine Eagle Hands. They stood in a row of three and stepped onto the stone bridge in a relatively scattered formation along both sides of the stone bridge.
Then ten large shields stood at the head of the bridge. They held the shields some distance away from the ground. Spears were poked out from below, and they were scratching on the ground. The iron caltrops on the bridge were carried along and rolled to both sides of the stone bridge.
"Whoosh...whoosh...whoosh..."
There was a sound of bowstrings ringing, and two hundred light arrows soared into the air behind the stone bridge. They diffused from the leaping bridge and fell on the Ming army's position in the setting sun.
Just as the Qing army began to throw arrows, a Fende Bashiku shouted, and the shield-bearing heavy infantry lined up neatly on the official road roared loudly and bravely rushed onto the stone bridge.
Chen Dakuan shouted loudly: "First row of firecrackers, fire!"
"Bang...bang...bang..."
As the gun roared and white smoke rose, twenty-three bullets shot out from the mouth of the gun.
Their position is about ten steps away from the stone bridge, and about fifty steps away from the Tatar infantry who have just stepped onto the stone bridge on the opposite side. Although there are still horse-rejecting stakes at the head of our bridge, the official road is slightly higher than the stone bridge.
, so the bullets were not blocked, but some bullets hit the horse and made a "pop" sound.
"Ah...ah..."
Five people in the first row of the Qing army were shot by muskets one after another. Although they were protected by shields, at such a close distance, the shields were cracked by the muskets. There were also several shields that were not cracked but were also crooked.
Crooked.
But their second row quickly stepped forward, and in an instant they had advanced more than ten steps on the stone bridge.
"The first row squats and loads, the second row rises and releases!"
Chen Dakuan stood on the edge of the official road and shouted orders loudly. Following his rhythmic orders, rows of firecrackers were set off in response to the order.
"Ah...ah..."
As Qing army archers fired light arrows in rows, some soldiers began to be hit by the falling light arrows. Although most of them were not fatal, some soldiers were also forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
"Tuk tuk tuk..."
Light arrows were thrown, and many landed on the earth walls and carts.
When Tong Shoushan saw the Qing army starting to charge the bridge, the two guards shouted loudly: "Take your shields and protect Ma Yuan, and slap the Tatar's balls hard."