On the artillery position west of Fuldan City, five D30-122 howitzers fired three rapid fire rounds, and then extended their firing back according to Zhao Xin's request. This time, the range was increased by 200 meters, and eight rapid fire rounds were fired!
In the mountain forest 1,500 meters away, when the Qing army led by Ush Hada was bombarded four times, the forward battalion and the central army immediately exploded! Thousands of war horses lost control of their fright and collided with each other and trampled on each other.
There were bursts of neighing noises.
Ushhada and other generals comforted their men and ordered: "Stop the whole army! This is a ten thousand enemy planted by the thieves!"
(According to the Ming Dynasty's "Cao Hai Tu Bian", "Military Training Records-Miscellaneous Collection", "Weaponry Records" and other books, by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were more than ten kinds of landmines used by the Ming army. They were distinguished according to the detonation method.
There are ignition mines, pull mines, trip mines, machine mines, etc. In addition to single mines, there are also group mines that use fuzes to control the explosion; "child-mother mines" that detonate several sub-mines through the explosion of a mother mine. According to combat
If necessary, landmines can be placed on vehicles, in buildings, or animals can be used to carry mines into formations.)
When the soldiers settled down a little and were busy calming the horses, extinguishing the flames, and preparing to treat the wounded, along with the roar in the distance, there was another roar in the sky.
"boom!"
"Oh my god! Come again!"
"Run! This is not an enemy of ten thousand people, but thunder from the sky!" Several gunners from the artillery battalion of the Qing Army were the first to wake up and ran away.
The first to break up were the "retreating barbarian troops" following the artillery battalion. They were frightened by the explosions and shouts of people and horses in front of them, and saw the Qing troops in front of them running back screaming.
, so they also ran away together.
Although these border residents who were urgently recruited have undergone certain training, they are not professional soldiers after all. In addition, the provisions and treatment are different from those of the Eight Banners Armor, and their fighting will is naturally different. In the eyes of these border residents, God is now despotic.
It's thundering, what a slap! Hurry up and run home with the food on your horse! The assistant leaders in charge of these archers, Fuke Jingge and Tasha, led a few soldiers to yell and try to
To stop the rout. But seeing more and more casualties caused by the explosion, the two of them understood that the situation was out of control, and actually fled southward with the rebels!
This is like putting a bad student and a top student at the same table. As a result, not only did the boss not bring the new student, but they both skipped class together. If Fu Kang'an, the "head teacher", knew about it, he would have gone crazy on the spot.
In the Chinese army where Ushhada was, the soldier Xiaoqi holding the flag was holding the reins with one hand and trying to calm the horse under him; but two explosions sounded dozens of meters away, causing his horse to completely lose control.
When he was hit hard by another frightened horse, the knight holding the flag jumped forward and flew off the horse, breaking his neck.
In the fire and smoke, those Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground to avoid the explosion looked up and saw the Chinese military flag suddenly disappearing. They were shocked and said: "Wujunmen has been beaten to death! Everyone, run away!"
The Qing army's eastern front troops were in complete chaos!
At this time, the guards' commanders Dai Sanbao and Guan Bao ignored their own safety, stood up from their horses, shouted at their fleeing men, and tried to prevent them from dispersing. As the chief and deputy commanders of the firearms battalion, Dai Sanbao and Guan Bao's
The scolding had no effect. At first, Yaerjiang'a from the artillery camp and Dai Sanbao tried to dissuade each other loudly, but it was of no use even if their voices were hoarse. Yaerjiang'a was heartbroken and slumped down on the horse's back.
On the way, he actually blended into the fleeing crowd and was never seen again.
The general Ushhada could not be found, and everything he could see were fleeing soldiers. Dai Sanbao was despairing. He pulled out the Yanling knife from his waist and was about to commit suicide with it when a shell happened to explode next to him. Dai Sanbao was caught in the flames and
It flew into the sky from the exploded soil.
When the deputy guard officer Guan Bao saw that Dai Sanbao was dead, he no longer had the intention to form a team. He tucked his horse's belly between his legs and fled eastward with his own soldiers.
"Wonderful victory! Wonderful victory!"
Up and down the city wall of Fuldan City, accompanied by the roar of cannons, thousands of people in Beihai Town cheered louder and louder. Chen Qingsong, who came after hearing the news, walked up to the top of the city and asked Zhao Xin: "Do we need to send troops?"
Militia attack?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "Fukangan's group has not arrived yet, and there are Wang Yuanfang and the others in the south. Let the militiamen strengthen their vigilance. As we said before, if the enemy approaches, we will fire volleys from 150 meters away!
"
After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he went down the city wall, arrived at Chen Qingsong's logistics headquarters, and informed Liu Sheng.
"Contact Wang Yuanfang immediately and order them to dispatch! Take Mongolian Karen within two hours and cut off the Qing army's southward escape route!"
"Understood! I'll inform him right away!" Liu Sheng on the phone must have overcome his previous dull state, and he answered with a very powerful voice.
When the Qing army troops on the southern front heard the rumble of artillery six or seven miles away to the north, they thought Ushhada had begun to attack the city, so they started shouting excitedly.
A staff leader in the team complained: "This Ushhada is really trying to dig eggs out of his ass. I'm so anxious!"
As his deputy, Zuo Ling smiled and said: "I guess he wants to capture Fuldan City first and let Marshal Fu repay him."
The counselor's eyes widened and he said disdainfully: "I really don't look down on him, just because of him? Grandma!"
While the two were talking, they heard the rapid sound of horse hooves behind them. They turned around and saw a messenger holding an order flag running past the team and shouting: "The commander has an order. The whole army is two miles away."
Array!"
Zuo Ling said in surprise: "Isn't it too early to form an array now?"
"Shut up! This is the commander's military order, you have no right to question it!"
At this time, Fukang'an knew that the fighting on the Eastern Front had begun, and finally made up his mind to give it a go. While he kept sending scouts from the forward battalion to the north for reconnaissance, he also sent messengers to contact Duerjia in the Western Front camp and the Eastern Front.
In Ushhada, 10,000 Qing soldiers on the southern front began to form an array three miles away from Fuldan City.
The grand formation set up by Fukang'an is the famous "Nine Advances and Ten Chains".
In the 29th year of Kangxi (1690), Emperor Kangxi, who was on a personal expedition due to illness, ordered Prince Heshuo Fuquan to lead 50,000 soldiers, plus auxiliary troops and logistics civilian teams, known as a 100,000 army, forty miles away from Ulan Butong.
Set up camp and form an array.
Since the Qing army's musket manufacturing was still at the level of the late Ming Dynasty, it was really no match for the Junggar army that held Tsarist Russian firearms. It suffered heavy losses. Even Tong Guogang died in the battle. After that, the Qing army simply stopped attacking and listed "
"Nine Advances and Ten Chains", and the Galdan southern invading army began to bombard with artillery and fire. The battle lasted for a whole day, with soldiers from both sides engaging in hand-to-hand combat many times. The battle ended when the Galdan troops ran out of ammunition.
At this time, the people who came to the forefront of the formation were the firearms battalions stationed in the Eight Banners from various places. Each battalion had 458 people. They were arranged in a staggered formation, with a total of 20, totaling 9,200 people.
Each battalion is divided into three divisions, and three flags are placed in the formation.
There are sixty bearers of antlers behind each flag, thirty shield vehicles behind the antlers, eighty musketeers and cotton armor soldiers, and two rope guides stationed on both sides (responsible for keeping the fire and helping the musketeers light the match ropes). Two rope guides
On the side, there are twenty pikemen and twenty flail soldiers. On the left and right sides of the flail soldiers, there are five magical general cannons. Each cannon is manned by three gunners. On both sides of the cannon, there are also valiant cavalry.
One hundred and ten, one hundred shotgun cavalry.
There are also three leaders and three Xiaoqi who are responsible for raising the flag, one official who follows the flag, two leaders and twenty Xiaoqi. Next, there are five people who participate in the leadership of the flag and fifteen Xiaoqi who hold the red flag.
On the second side, they held flags and led two people; there were ten knights who were responsible for ringing the gold, four cotton armor soldiers who carried the drums, two knights who beat the drums, and thirteen knights who sounded the conch horn. In addition, there were two people from the capital,
Each flag officer has a uniform number of officers, including two auxiliary officers, five casual rank officers, two envoy officers, and seven knight commanders.
Behind the first line of firearms battalion battle line is the second line with the vanguard battalion in the center and the archers of the retreating barbarians at both ends.
In addition, a group of civilians drove a cart to the back of the second column of Qing troops, unloaded a lot of wood from the cart, and began to build a high platform.
Two hours later, when twenty battalions of the Qing army formed a long snake formation 2,370 meters long and more than 160 meters deep on the vast plain in front of the twin castles, all the officers and soldiers of Beihai Town, including Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng,
Everyone was dumbfounded!
To the west, Liu Sheng applied cooling oil on the big bump on his forehead that had not subsided, and exclaimed: "I'm going! I'm going~! I really want to play with guns and cannons!"
In the trenches on the southern front, Katsu Kaishu and Heita looked at the opposite side and exclaimed: "It is indeed a powerful army of the Celestial Empire! It's a pity that I met my lord."
Pingtai said: "After this battle, will we be able to live a peaceful life for a while?"
Sheng Haizhou said: "It's hard to say, I think the lord must have his own plan. Lu Shoushan and the others will also bring back many refugees from Henan. Pingtai, when I think that the lord's foundation will be even stronger, my blood boils!"
Pingtai said: "Yes, at the beginning of last year, we were still struggling to survive on Bear Island. Who would have thought that we would be here today!"
Sheng Haizhou put down the telescope and nodded: "Yes! We in Beihai are invincible in the world!"
Ding Guofeng said nothing for a long time, thinking that these two idiots were suffering from hysteria again.
To the east, Zhao Xin stood at the top of the city, holding up a telescope, and said in surprise: "I'm going to kill you! Old Chen, take a look, seeing is worth hearing a hundred times!"
Chen Qingsong looked at the tyrannical formation on the opposite side and sighed: "It would be great if history could keep it up! What a pity!"
Liu Siting also ran to the top of the city, looked around with a telescope, and said, "Why are there no handsome guys?"
Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong: "."
"Boom~!" Zhao Xin and others were startled, and they shrank their heads. Then they saw a faint cloud of white smoke rising in the distance, and then heard the sound coming from the Qing army formation on the opposite side.
There was a sound of drums and trumpets.
Liu Siting asked curiously: "What is this for?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand either. The sound just now should have been a cannon fire. It should have been the coach coming out."
Having said this, Zhao Xin held on to the wall, pointed to the high platform in the distance with a smile, and said to Liu Siting: "Here comes the emoticon pack!"
"Who are you talking about?"
"Erkang, it's Fukang'an." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he learned the lines from the TV series and said: "Ah! Ziwei, you can't have more than me, because I'm already full!"
Liu Siting said with disdain: "Eh~~ It's so disgusting!"
Zhao Xin curled his lips and said, "I'm not cooperating at all. If your Doctor Hong were here, you should say, 'If you're full, then I'll let you out!'"
"Ugh~! Man, you are such a big-headed ghost!"
At this time, behind the Qing army's formation, a marching cannon sounded, and amid the sound of drums and trumpets, Fukang'an's sedan, escorted by hundreds of Chinese army guards, arrived in front of the marshal's platform that had been set up.
.A horse-riding general following the sedan held a five-foot-long, square gold-plated cloud python flag. The flag was surrounded by flame patterns; the flag's crown was topped with a gilt iron top, supported by an iron plate, and decorated with red.
愄. This is the banner that Fukang'an used for the expedition. If the battle is won, after the victory, this flag will be placed in Ziguang Pavilion for preservation.
Another general held a large yellow flag more than one foot wide in his hand, with a big word "handsome" written in both Manchu and Chinese characters in the middle; the flag was topped with a golden wooden gourd top and a blue ribbon.
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In addition, there is a large rectangular flag more than ten feet high, with the message "I ordered the co-organizer to be a bachelor, a first-class Jiayong Marquis, the crown prince's Taibao, the imperial minister, Jilin General Fu."
The sedan curtain shook, and Fukangan walked out.
"See you, Commander-in-Chief!" Under the Commander-in-Chief's stage, hundreds of commanders, deputy commanders, staff generals, and assistant leaders all raised their hands to give a flat-chested military salute to Fukang'an.
"No courtesy." Fukangan's expression remained as usual. He asked Fuming'a, the commander of the forward battalion, "How is the situation with the thieves?"
"Commander! The thieves have dug a four-mile-long trench under Fuldan City, as well as at Jurgen City. Now they are all hiding in it and dare not go out. According to the subordinates who sent people to investigate, the enemy seems to have only one or two thousand people.
Human appearance."
"They are just a bunch of clowns, relying on their sharp guns. Our Qing soldiers are invincible!" After hearing this, all the generals smiled on their faces.
Fukang'an knew very well that morale can only be boosted but not depleted, so his words deliberately showed contempt for Beihai Town. As for the news of Duerjia's defeat, only a few people including General E Hui of Chengdu know about it.
He has not closed his eyes since last night, and has been thinking about launching a general attack today almost all night. The sandbox map of the Fuldan City area can flash before his eyes as soon as he closes his eyes, and he can still remember it vividly. Last night, he was still holding a candle.
I looked at it again and again, and the closer it got to morning, the more irritable I became; the excitement was mixed with nervousness and expectation, as well as a hint of uneasiness.
Unexpectedly, news of Duerjia's defeat came in the morning, which made him feel more uneasy. An army of 7,500 people was defeated. Is it because Duerjia was too incompetent or the other party knew sorcery?
?It’s like Fu Ming’a said, that Zhao Xin only has one or two thousand men? This is too shocking.
Fukang'an put back his chaotic thoughts, faced south, clasped his fists and raised his hands, and said to the generals: "Your Majesty wears clothes and eats at night to conquer the powerful armies of the eight banners in the world. A man has made a great contribution in this one act, serving the country and the emperor, and will never allow Jin Ou to fail! Today
If this imperial edict cannot be destroyed, Fu Kang'an will have no choice but to die and repay this great kindness!"
"I'll die if I don't do it!"
"E Hui, Shu Liang, Pupu, Mukden'a, and Fuming'a, follow me to the commander's platform to watch the enemy! Others, please return to the camp and wait for orders!"
"tie!"
The handsome platform is built on a slightly arched earth slope, more than six meters high, and the area on the platform is only eight or nine square meters. Inside the railing, in addition to the place where the big flag is placed, there is also a handful of draped flags.
Tiger skin Taishi chair.
When three big flags were raised on the commander's platform, tens of thousands of sergeants shouted amidst the thundering drum music: "Ten thousand victories! Ten thousand victories! Ten thousand victories!"
Everyone went up to the stage. Fukangan took the telescope handed from behind and looked to the opposite side.
Fu Ming'a on the side pointed and said: "Commander, please look. The thieves dug two trenches more than four miles long in the west and south of the two cities. There are soldiers hidden in them. There are some strange things behind the trenches.
Facility, my subordinates don’t even know what it is.”
In the field of vision of the telescope, he saw that the trenches on the opposite side were dug in twists and turns, and they were crowded with people. Fukangan noticed that some thieves had their upper bodies sticking out of the trenches and were looking towards him.
Following Fu Ming'a's fingers, he noticed six strange buildings without roofs on the two wings of the opposite position. These buildings were only surrounded by two mud walls in a half circle, with wide gaps in the front and back; two dark
The pipes poked out from the open space between the earthen walls, facing their side. In addition, there were also some weapons that seemed to be carrying guns set up behind the trenches; what was noticeable was that the fronts of those carrying guns were added.
It is equipped with a light brown shield. This should be the kind of quick-firing cannon that Qitai mentioned. The power when fired can knock away hundreds of kilograms of muskets.
Fukang'an put down his clairvoyance and ordered fiercely: "No matter what, let the cannon speak first! Send the order! All the general cannons fire one round!"