The firearms and archers on the front line of the Liaodong Army were swept away by muskets and bullets from the infantry army of the First Division of the Chinese Army. The cavalry in the back formation finally had the chance to attack.
However, the frontier cavalry belonging to different generals. Only the cavalry of the Liaodong Army launched a charge and rushed through the chaotic fleeing infantry defeated soldiers and rushed towards the front line of the First Brigade of the First Division of the Chinese Infantry Army.
They had no formation. They gathered in chaos and rushed forward. Under the dispatch of hot air balloon observers, the Chinese Army had 150 light field artillery and fifteen heavy artillery all poured the artillery fire towards the Liaodong Army cavalry.
The Chinese infantry on the front heard a few short conch horns and drums, and immediately set their heels. They adopted the tactic of marching in the opposite direction to load the wheel. The flintlock fire gun plus paper loading ammunition, and the long-term hard work Training. The Chinese flintlock firingers' shooting speed reached 3-4 rounds per minute. They fired dense and continuous bullets at the official cavalry. Ten steel cannons also covered the shotgun at the Liaodong cavalry.
Zhang Chengyin ordered the official cavalry to charge desperately, just to buy time for his troops to evacuate the battlefield. He did not expect that the cavalry could block the enemy's attack.
In the era of black gunpowder and flintlock muskets, it was still difficult to stop the cavalry charge by relying solely on infantry musket bullets and wheel-firing tactics. However, the Chinese army had the assistance of powerful artillery, and half of the shells were flowering bullets. The official cavalry had never experienced such baptism of artillery fire and guns... The artillery fire overturned half of the cavalry on the charge. Some war horses turned around and ran around after being frightened. Some cavalry were overturned to the ground by frightened horses. Then they were trampled into meat paste. Many cavalry enjoyed the taste of flying; in the fireworks generated by the explosion of the flowering bomb, many human bodies were flying.
The cavalry who could rush to the last section of the road saw the flames burst out from countless flintlock guns on the opponent's position. Stars were densely spread across the entire front of their sight. At this time, they were often hit by several bullets and dying.
Not long after the cavalry launched the charge, the cavalry troops also collapsed. Only hundreds of Liaodong cavalry could rush to the infantry positions of the First Brigade. As a result, they were stabbed off the horse by Chinese soldiers who had bayonets. This round of cavalry attacks The Chinese army had only 50 or 60 casualties in total. The official cavalry was seriously injured and injured. There was no longer the organization of the troops and fled in all directions. There was no possibility of organizing a charge.
At this time, the Chinese cavalry had already advanced to the vicinity of the Japanese altar and was almost cut off the retreat of the old camp of the official army.
The heavy cavalry on the right wing of the Chinese Army led all the firearms, archers and knife hands blocking the road. With the cooperation of the sailors and musket teams chasing behind, they quickly defeated the troops on the left wing of the official army. The army generals of the roadside were all defeated. The soldiers and officers fled one after another with their personal soldiers. The heavy cavalry blocked the moving iron wall and pushed countless officers and soldiers into the direction of their old camp of the central army.
"Woo woo..." The conch horn blew a long sound. The drum sounded quickly. All the infantry and soldiers of the Chinese army shouted "kill." They raised their bayonets and launched a bayonet charge.
The government army has completely collapsed. There are the soldiers of the Ming army running away everywhere. Their numbers are too large. The Chinese army pursuing cannot control so many prisoners. Therefore, as long as they automatically abandon their weapons and hide aside, they will not care about their lives or death. Keep chasing.
In the evening, a heavy rain fell for a while and stopped in a blink of an eye. When the rain stopped, a crescent moon shone brightly out of the clouds. The Chinese army also stopped chasing.
At this time, some of the remaining soldiers of the official army hid in the Japanese altar in the eastern suburbs of the capital, including Zhang Chengyin's old camp of the central army. The chief supervisor of the Ministry of War Huang Jiashan. The military affairs department clerk Zhao Xingbang and the eunuch of the Beijing camp military supervisor Zhang Wei, Ma Tong and others are all here. At this moment, these people no longer have the domineering attitude of the daytime. They are completely useless. They all sit there with pale faces. Looking at Zhang Chengyin who is walking back and forth in the central army tent .
Tens of thousands of defeated soldiers gathered inside and outside the Japanese altar. On the outside, the Chinese army was waiting for battle.
They were surrounded.
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Although the Chinese military earth building on the south bank of Tonghui River is simple, it was built according to the Western fortress construction method. The entire fortress is square. A square enemy platform is built at each corner of the city. It extends on both sides from outside the city and on the other side is the city. Connect. Form a "outside the city" momentum. The cannon is mounted on the platform. It can shoot from three sides. There are no dead corners outside the wall. Even if the enemy rushes under the city wall, one and the other form cross firepower, causing the enemy to suffer Killing. Ordinary city wall buildings cannot achieve this effect. As long as the enemy reaches the city, the sharp gun angle is limited, it cannot be fired. When the officers and soldiers of the Shenji Camp rushed to the fortress, the Chinese army's fortress will accumulate horizontal attacks and fierce crossings. Shooting gives officers and soldiers a lot of damage.
The Shenji Camp rushed to the earth wall of the fort after firing a burst of firearms. As a result, it was not only slaughtered by cannons, but also blood was stormed by musket bullets and grenades from the holes of the earth wall guns. After the first charge was repelled, I was about to rely on firearms to cover the attack. However, the shotguns and solid bullets fired from heavy artillery on the Chinese army's artillery platform smashed the artillery position of the Shenji Camp. Hundreds of burning rockets The gunpowder truck of Shenji Camp was detonated and one-third of the gunpowder of Shenji Camp was reimbursed.
For a whole day, the South Road official army led by Liu Jing was blocked by the earth-walled fortress on the south bank of Tonghui River. They did not advance in an instant.
The Beijing official army lacked the courage to fight to the death. They were usually neglected to train. The range of their firearms was close. As a result, they suffered a great loss in the artillery battle with the Chinese army. They were named by the three heavy artillery guns of the Chinese army. Official arms positions were destroyed.
The official army still had no idea how powerful these new firearms of the Chinese army were. They gathered together without any scruples and rushed to attack. As a result, they created conditions for the Chinese army to burst into flower grenades, thunder rockets, grenades, etc. to bombard and massacre. One morning. The official army. More than 1,000 corpses were scattered in front of the fortress, and more than 2,000 people were injured.
In the afternoon, although the war on the north bank was in full swing, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army under Liu Jing were no longer willing to launch an attack. They did not even dare to enter the range of the cannon.
When the official army formation on the north bank of Tonghui River completely collapsed, Liu Jing also felt that it would be meaningless to be stalemate. He decisively ordered the retreat. But he was still late. More than 1,000 sailors and musket teams had just defeated the north bank of Tonghui River. The Beijing Camp troops immediately took a raft across the Tonghui River. They landed on the south bank of the river three miles west of the Chinese Army Fortress and entered the rear route of the Beijing Camp troops under Liu Zhen.
At the same time, the Chinese army in the fortress also opened the fort gate and rushed out under the cover of cannons. The Shenji Camp collapsed immediately. Liu Jing could only control his Sichuan Army soldiers. He fought for his whole life and had never fought such a cowardly battle. : He failed without even seeing the enemy's appearance. He was furious and rushed towards the Chinese army with hundreds of personal soldiers.
Yang Liu was startled by him and quickly ordered his troops to meet the enemy. The sailors formed small square formations with a hundred-man sentry as a unit. Muskets fired continuously; the artillery fired with all their might, and even caused the heavy rain. The gun was pushed out to welcome the charge from Liu Zhen's troops.
Liu Jing waved his big knife and tried his best to get close to the enemy. He wanted to cut off a few heads with his own hands to vent his anger. However, Yang Liu did not intend to cooperate with his final decisive performance.
Ten heavy rain guns were lit at the same time. Each car had 100 bullets. A total of 1,000 bullets flew towards Liu Yu's troops within 1 minute. At the same time, countless bullets from the sailors were welcoming Liu Yu.
The powerful general Liu Jing was finally beaten into a hornet's nest by his men and horses. The body fell ten steps in front of Yang Liu. All 200 personal soldiers who followed him were killed. None of the Chinese army was killed because of his charge. And injured.
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The next day, Du Song, the general of Shanhaiguan who had been harassed by the Chinese cavalry for several days, suddenly heard the news of the defeat of the imperial army. Without saying a word, he immediately led the team to retreat and ran to Shanhaiguan. He did this very timely. His troops had just left. All the cavalry of the Chinese Army appeared at the site of Du Song's original camp. Half a day later, the infantry of the Third Regiment of the First Division also arrived. However, he only met himself near the camp. The cavalry comrade-in-arms, Juniper's troops, had already escaped.
The entire imperial army was defeated. In fact, there were not many casualties compared to their military strength. There were only a few thousand officers and soldiers who died under the Chinese artillery bombardment. It was better than the number of officers and soldiers who trampled on each other and died during the Great Collapse.
However, the power of firearms combat is indeed beyond the imagination of all Ming soldiers. If this battle was replaced by the Chinese army and an opponent with a firm fighting spirit and high morale, it would not have won so easily and quickly. But the Ming army would have been The battle will and morale are lacking. The command system is chaotic. The troops are organized in a mess. The formation is unstructured. The generals have no ability to make decisions when they are in the battle. The troops cannot mobilize command. Tens of thousands of people gathered together and were bombarded. Failure is inevitable.
The Chinese army surrounded the Japanese altar at night and fired a gun inward. Then they sent someone to shout: "Requesting the official soldiers to surrender."
They lifted the encirclement before dawn and evacuated the Japanese altar. Most of the Ming army officers and soldiers who were driven here surrendered in the evening. When Zhang Chengyin counted the number of people in the morning, there were only thousands of official soldiers left inside and outside the Japanese altar. Most of them were his Liaodong troops.
He fled back to the capital with the half-demented Minister of War Huang Jiashan and others.
Afterwards, the court counted the number of people, but could not figure out how many people were lost in the battle of the eastern suburbs of the capital. Because many deserters left the army since then. And many captured official troops were sent to Taiwan, Luzon. They redeem themselves for hard labor. After they redeem themselves, they can live in the China Company ruling area. Many prisoners of the government settled in the areas where they served hard labor and never returned to the Ming army.
Therefore, the official statistics on casualties and captured by the battle formation were a mess. However, before the war, only Shanhaiguan General Du Song maintained a complete organization along the way. The rest of the troops collapsed as a whole. Back to the Beijing Camp, Changping There were only more than 10,000 people. More than 15,000 corpses were left on the battlefield. Nearly half of them were trampled on by the government troops. There were also a large number of dead horses. The Tonghui River water turned bright red in an instant.
Huang Jiashan, the Minister of War, returned to the capital and found his soul. He hurried to meet the cabinet chief Fang Congzhe. As soon as he met, he cried and said, "The bandits are in great power. Sir. Please move the capital to the emperor."