At this time, the deacon camp belonging to the Shenshu Camp had already arrived in the central army of the imperial army with the imperial flag. This place was five miles east of the Japanese stadium. Huang Jiashan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Zhao Xing, the head of the Military Affairs Department of Military Affairs. The eunuch of the Bang and the Jingying Army Supervisor Zhang Wei were both here. Liaodong General Zhang Chengyin stood aside helplessly. The group of literati who knew nothing was instructing the eunuchs there.
"General Zhang, why can't our army attack the bandits yet?"
"Mr. Huang, our army is still setting up its formation, so our court army naturally has to use a dignified formation to fight the enemy..."
"General Zhang said this very well, but it has been half an hour since the beginning of the formation. Why can't the front team still be in a team?"
"Mr. Zhang, please let our army fire the artillery. The bandits' raiders have come."
"Eunuch Zhang, don't worry, this is the enemy testing us. Our army must firmly stick to it and never lose its footsteps."
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A personal soldier ran over and leaned in Zhang Chengyin's ear and said a few words.
Zhang Chengyin's face changed and bowed to Huang Jiashan, Zhao Xingbang, Zhang Wei and others who were sitting in the central army's tent, saying: "I've reported it from the front, and the pirates sent a messenger to deliver the letter,"
"What, send a letter," eunuch Zhang Wei shouted in a sharp voice: "Our court army represents the emperor. It is inevitable to eliminate pirates. Unless the bandits surrender in front of the camp, there is no need to pay attention to any of their letters."
Zhang Chengyin smiled bitterly, jumped onto the war horse and said, "It is good to have a war between the two armies, and it is good to understand the enemy situation. I'll go and see the situation. Please wait here..."
Huang Jiashan stood up and said, "I'll go with you to see who this pirate's messenger is."
One was the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty and the other was the general of Liaodong. Two senior officials came to the front, but were shocked by the age of the Chinese military messenger in front of them.
The Chinese military messenger was indeed too young, about seventeen years old.
The head of the student army, Wang Shuowong, was wearing black clothes and armor, and was calm when he rode on the horse, and did not take the tens of thousands of officials in front of him into consideration. He had four flintlock guns on his waist, and a saw-sawed gun was hung on his saddle. The squidlock riding rifle, straight uniform, shiny buttons, high-tube horse boots and Wang Shuowong's Japanese sword behind his back, this young man with a low-key boy had this unspeakable heroic spirit, and, A senior official of the Ming Dynasty court had to admit in his heart that the calmness and arrogance of the young man in front of him were the calmness and confidence of the high-ranking officials in the court when facing the enemy camp, which was absolutely impossible to see in the Ming army camp.
Without waiting for the two of them to speak, Wang Shuowang bowed to them and said, "I am Wang Shuowang, the battalion commander of the Chinese Military Academy, and the personal disciple of the ship owner Yin. At the order of my family, I will hand this letter to the general of the commander of the army."
Zhang Chengyin sighed inwardly: He is so young and so calm, why does the Chinese Army have such talents?”
He shook his head and was about to say something, Huang Jiashan suddenly said: "This soldier ranks first in the court, currently serves as the Minister of War, and supervises the army of the army to fight against the thieves: This is Zhang Chengyin, the general general of the Liaodong of our court, and the army of the court is here. , Just like the emperor comes, how can you not get off the horse and kneel down? If you immediately surrender, I may still be able to save your life. Otherwise, the imperial army is powerful, how can you resist it? But..."
At this time, the relationship between civil officials and military generals was not harmonious. Under the habit of emphasizing civil servants and over military officials, Zhang Chengyin, the battlefield commander, had to sigh, keep silent, and let the old scholar speak loudly and talk in the sky.
Wang Shuowang smiled as if he was a child, and looked at Huang Jiashan and said, "You are the Minister of War. Haha, are you in command of this imperial army?"
"I am the Minister of War..."
Wang Shuowang interrupted his nonsense: "Do you want to read the letter in my hand?"
Huang Jiashan's face turned pale. When he was speaking in the court, even the chief minister of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe would not interrupt him rashly. At this moment, Huang Jiashan, the Minister of War, said coldly: "My dear minister, I will never do it." Read the letters of the bandits,"
Wang Shuowang sneered: "This letter is a few peace talks from Ship Master Yin. Since you don't want to read it, you just want to start a war. Well, after the battle is over, you have to ask you to come and see this letter."
After saying that, Wang Shuowang sneered and bowed his hand. As soon as he knocked his horse's boots, his war horse immediately raised his front hooves, neighed, and turned around and ran towards the Chinese army camp.
Wang Jiashan and Zhang Chengyin looked at each other, both shocked.
But I saw the young messenger running towards the formation as if he was running. At the same time, he raised his hand and a short rocket flew into the sky from his hand. With a whistle, he flew to more than a hundred feet high and suddenly exploded, splashing countless times. Red fireworks, followed by observers on two hot air balloons also launched two red fireworks rockets.
Fifteen thousand-pound cannons on three heavy artillery cannons fired at the same time.
At the same time, 60 Pili Rockets launched a total of 600 Pili Rockets at the same time.
Field artillery located at both ends of the main positions of the first division of the Chinese Army, six regiments, also opened fire, and one hundred cannons fired at the same time.
At the same time, a team of rafts appeared on Tonghui River. Chinese military blue flags were hung on the rafts, and field artillery was placed on the rafts. They began to fire at the three major battalions of Beijing troops, which were still lined up on the north bank. There were more than fifty in total. Rafts were lined up on the river in turn, and a series of flowering shells were fired with dense artillery, including shells fired by heavy mortars.
Except for the Liaodong Army, the other troops in the Ming army were still in adjustment. No one expected that the Chinese army would fight as soon as they said they could, and they would use cannons to bombard them as soon as they came up.
At this time, fifteen heavy artillery of the Chinese army mainly bombarded the artillery positions on the left wing of the official army. The longest range of the Chinese army's artillery was five miles. Basically, the artillery of these three artillery can hit the artillery positions of the official army, and the official army's The artillery range is only two miles, and it is still barely enough to attack the opposite Chinese infantry. It has no power to fight back against the bombardment of the Chinese army's heavy artillery. Under the command of the balloon, three rounds of artillery bombardment have smashed the official artillery positions. Time But five minutes.
These five minutes determined the fate of 85,000 official troops, and also determined the fate of the southern bank of Tonghui River and Shanhaiguan official troops.
Due to the large number of people, the government army set up a five-mile formation in the face of the Chinese army's infantry front, and several layers of firearms, bird gunners, archers, knife hands, etc. The formation is much thicker than that of the Chinese Army. The problem is that in the face of the Chinese Army's artillery fire, the dense crowd is the best target for the artillery fire to exert its power.
The Ming army soldiers had never been exposed to large-scale firearm warfare. Before they came into contact with the Portuguese firearms, their opponents had always lagged behind them in the firearms. Even the Japanese pirates on the Korean battlefield were just on the mesh gun. One of them has abnormal development, and the other firearm combat technology is not as good as the Ming army. In fact, until the Chinese army encountered the Chinese army, the Ming army had never fought a war with its opponents who surpassed its firearm technology in large-scale field battles.
Within these five minutes, the heavy artillery fired three rounds, 150 field artillery (including the artillery rafts on the Tonghui River) fired a total of four rounds, and 90% of the 600 thunder rockets fell into the official camp and exploded.
Hundreds of explosions and flowering bombs caused the officials and soldiers to overturn their horses, and the thunder rockets even further covered the official positions within a few miles.
Most of the other half of the solid bullets are chain bullets, rod bullets, grape bullets and other shells that enhance the killing performance. These shells have caused a massacre effect in the dense and thick Ming army camp.
The two Chinese army artillery positions three miles apart formed cross-fire on the central front of the official army. In the face of the crisscrossing artillery trajectory of the crisscrossing artillery shells, the flesh and blood body was completely meaningless.
Before the eighty-five thousand official troops set up their formation, they were bombarded by the other party. Moreover, the bombardment made it so fierce, powerful and cruel, which was simply firepower beyond the imagination of all the Ming soldiers.
After the Beijing troops on the right wing of the government army were bombarded by the sailor musket team on the Tonghui River, they were immediately attacked by 2,500 cavalrymen of the Chinese army. The total cavalry of the government army was about 10,000, but they were placed at the end of the position. It is simply impossible to cross the chaotic frontal positions to fight against the enemy cavalry.
At the beginning of the other party's shelling, Zhang Chengyin immediately dragged the frightened Minister of War Huang Jiashan to the Central Army's tent. Fortunately, he was the Liaodong troops under his command, and they all gave way to him. Even so, there were still two shots. The Thunder Rocket exploded in front of the central army's tent, killing several of Zhang Chengyin's personal soldiers.
He pushed Huang Jiashan, who was already speechless, into the central army tent, grabbed a personal soldier and ordered loudly: "Go to the cavalry position quickly and order the deputy general Po Tingxiang to lead the cavalry to attack immediately, and be sure to break through the enemy infantry formation."
He wanted to use cavalry charge to attract the firepower of the Chinese army, seize the time to complete the team, and stabilize the already precarious official army's main lineup.
However, he did not expect that the Chinese Army's field fighting style was completely separated from traditional strategies and tactics. The Chinese Army's main weapon was firearms, and he was best at fighting by firepower output.
While the Chinese Army's artillery was still in progress, the Central Front of the Chinese Army separated several intersections, and ten field steel cannons were quickly pushed out, and the light steel artillery truck was pushed 300 steps ahead of the chaotic official positions. The artillery soldiers put down the support frame of the gun seat and immediately started firing. The ten steel cannons fired shotguns, and each cannon could shoot ten kilograms of iron sand and iron sheets at one time. At 300 steps, the iron sheets of iron were scattered and covered the sky. The heads of the firearms on the front line of the army were pressed down.
The official artillery position has been suppressed by the heavy artillery of the Chinese army. There is still no bullet. The official arms firearms are already impatient to open fire. Unfortunately, any of the firearms in their hands cannot reach the Chinese army positions a mile away. They finished firearms in their hands in a swarm. While loading ammunition with all their hands, the opponent's steel artillery team took the opportunity to approach and fired a round of shotguns. Thousands of firearms in the official army fell down screaming, and the entire position became even more chaotic.
"Woo woo woo woo woo----"
The rhythmic conch horn sounded, and the Chinese infantry roared "kill," and took neatly: the infantry began to attack the entire line.
At this time, the artillery attack reached its peak, and all Chinese artillerymen were loading ammunition at the extreme speed, igniting the fuse, and then firing.
The Pili Rockets fired again, and 600 Pili Rockets fell into the dense crowd of officials and soldiers again.
The blood flowed into a river and the body flew across the government's positions were all in chaos. All the officials and generals didn't know what to do. Among the Ming army present, no one had ever been exposed to large-scale pure firearm battles, and it was impossible to be beaten. Retaliation, such a dilemma caused the morale of the government army, which was already low, to fall rapidly.
As the main force, the Liaodong Army was bombarded by the heaviest cross artillery fire in the center of the entire official position, and the casualties rose sharply. Some troops had collapsed and the generals began to unable to control their troops.
Chen Zhongji held up a telescope and saw the chaotic scene of the official army's position on the fort. He smiled and said to Zhao Tie: "Brother Zhao, it's up to you. The sailors and musket team is also ready to attack and bring the student army with them. We have to hurry up and we have to end the battle before dark.”
It was about one o'clock in the afternoon when the war started, and now it is late autumn. The sky in the north will soon dim. Once it is evening, the Ming army may escape by the night.
Wang Shuowong looked forward with a telescope under the fort. When Zhao Tie walked off the fort, he patted his horse and smiled and said, "What can you see here! Go to your own troops quickly, it's your turn to fight. ,”
Wang Shuowang jumped up, suddenly remembered something, saluted Zhao Tie, and asked, "Uncle Zhao, didn't you say that the Nine Border Army was very capable before the war? Why did you get lost after a few shots? I see This official army was not even comparable to the relevant lagoons in combat.”
Zhao Tie smiled and said, "What's so strange about this? The La people are from Europe. They have experienced artillery and firearm combat training in their own country. The Ming army has never encountered a scene of artillery bombardment, nor has they corresponding firearms." Training, when we meet our cannons, it would be good to be able to escape without turning around,"
The Chinese infantry quickly advanced 300 steps within the second five minutes after the war started, then stood attentively, and after a long conch sound, they began to fire guns 250 steps away from the official army's position.
The first row of soldiers squatted and shot, the back row bent down with guns, and the last two rows stood and squeezed together to open fire. More than 11,000 infantrymen from the First Division of the Chinese Army fired at the same time.
Huge pieces of fire burst out suddenly, and the smoke of gunpowder immediately filled the entire First Division of the Chinese Army.
Thousands of officers and arms were loading ammunition in a hurry, and at the same time, another round of shotgun bombardment on the steel cannon position came.
The soldiers on the front line of the official army collapsed.
First, the Liaodong Army Central Front, which was overwhelmed by artillery fire from multiple directions, collapsed; then the collapse quickly spread to both wings.
Fifteen minutes after the war started, the positions of the government and infantry had collapsed one after another. The dense artillery bombardment of the Chinese army was still massacring Ming officers and soldiers. The infantry used flintlock firing guns to erupt at an average shooting speed of two rounds per minute. rain.
The Chinese cavalry had now broken the Beijing vanguard troops on the right wing of the official army. Cooperating with the artillery on the Tonghui River, the sailors began to launch a full-scale attack; a regiment on the leftmost wing of the First Division of the Infantry Army had also launched a bayonet charge.
Twenty minutes after the war started, the right-wing Beijing camp of the official army collapsed, the troops of the Five Military Camp and Shenshu Camp were all disintegrated, and the organization was completely chaotic, and no one could organize effective resistance.
At the same time, the Liaodong troops of the official army, Xuanda, Yan, Baoding and other troops began to collapse.
After the fifth round of thunder rocket bombing ended, the messenger ordered the artillery to stop the rocket attack, because at this moment, the Chinese cavalry troops began to turn right and were reversing to the rear of the official army; and the left wing of the official army was being
150 heavy cavalry broke through; some infantry had already rushed to the official positions. At this time, the rocket with poor accuracy might hurt its own people, so they had to stop the rocket attack.
The 25th minute after the war started, the Chinese army's sailor reserve team bypassed the right wing of the main formation, followed the heavy cavalry's horse, and rushed into the positions of the left wing of the official army's Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhen Border Army and Baoding Army.
In the middle, generals of Datong Wang Pu, generals of Xuanfu Yang Guozhu, generals of Jizhen Tang Tong, generals of Jizhen Ma Ke, generals of Baoding Wang Xuan, generals of guerrilla Zhang Jing and other generals had already fled with their own soldiers.
The 85,000 official troops collapsed within half an hour. In front of the Chinese soldiers who launched the bayonet charge, the smoke was full of the backs of the Ming army's escaped soldiers.