Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Order!"

Without saying a word, this Ling Zongjun left with a loud order.

Zhu Heqi waved his arms and shouted to the more than 100 "Guardian Grenadier Cavalry" who followed him across the river: "Go, follow the lonely family to catch Kang Mazi!"

After speaking, he rode forward and headed out of Sanjiangkou Town.

"Catch Kang Mazi..."

The one hundred or so Chaozhou cavalry, wearing full-piece breastplates and flying saucer helmets, and riding "big ocean horses" or "half ocean horses" bought from Macau, also screamed and joined Zhu Hechi son left.Only a few cavalrymen holding the flag left approached Liu Jinzhong, urging the general to call someone over to take over the banner.

Seeing the "vigorousness" of this group of people, Liu Jinzhong has no choice.They had no choice but to find a general manager and let his people take over the two banners of "the world is for the public" and "great harmony in the world", and then ordered the general manager to lead people to deploy defenses at the pier in Sanjiangkou Town.At the same time, look for some fire starters, and when the Qing army approached, they set Sanjiangkou Town on fire.

After the arrangement was completed, Liu Jinzhong took the remaining "big shirtless men" and the long guns he had just received (it was transported with Ling Zongjun's subordinates) together, and rushed out of Sanjiangkou Town to meet with Zhu Hechi The six-hundred-and-dozen paces of riding converged.After meeting on both sides, there were less than [-] soldiers in total, and then they swaggered towards Gao Fangkang Mazi...to catch him!

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"This, this, what's going on here? Why did Zhu Heqi send more than 1000 infantry to fight us? Is he crazy? And these 1000 infantry are still arranged so loosely. Will they fight?"

It was Gao Fang Kang Mazi who dared to question Zhu and Qi.Although Fuquan is a prince, he also practiced bow and horse as a child, studied military books hard, and also learned the art of battle from a retired Manchurian general.

In his concept, [-] Manchurian cavalry were enough to detour into the customs and burn, kill and loot in the territory of Beizhili, making countless Ming troops fearful.

Now... why are more than 1000 loose infantry coming to fight?This is contempt for the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!

"My lord," Zhou Peigong on the side heard the Manchu master's question, and began to answer, "Our army also carries cannons and mother-child cannons, and there are also a few skyfire thunders, which can form a square formation. With artillery, mother-child cannons, The power of the cannons and thunder cannons is enough to make this puppet infantry dare not approach. Just wait for King Kang's army to cross the Wuyang River, then we will be able to win a complete victory."

Hearing Zhou Peigong's suggestion, Gao Fangkang Mazi didn't know what to say.Of the 1000 and Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, half of them were cavalry, and there were hundreds of White Armored Heavenly Soldiers... Frightened by more than [-] loose Ming army infantry, they formed a square formation and kept shrinking.You acted so cowardly, what would Geng Jingzhong's subordinates think when they saw it?

Gao Fang Kang Mazi said in his heart: "The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners have become like this, what kind of Qing Dynasty do those Geng family dogs still have, and what kind of banner status do they still have? They defected and captured this pockmarked son to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for the restoration of the country." Isn't the hero fragrant?"

Thinking of this, Fuquan snorted coldly: "You can't fight like this, isn't it just more than a thousand infantry? Call three thousand, no, five thousand and eight banner cavalry, trample them to death!"

Chapter 314 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (20)

The five thousand and eight banner cavalry broke out from Gao Fang Kang Mazi's main formation more than ten miles north of Sanjiangkou Town. When they approached Zhu Heqi's troops of more than 1000 people, they were still full of momentum!

The thunderous hoofbeats resounded across the battlefield, causing the ground to tremble slightly, and the dust stirred up by the horseshoes was flying all over the sky.Seeing these cavalrymen approaching aggressively, Zhu Heqi didn't seem to dare to take it too seriously, and quickly ordered Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zongjun to arrange more than [-] people under their command into a quadrilateral hollow square formation.

The main body of this square formation is the shirtless pikemen under Liu Jinzhong. 100 people are divided into four teams, with more than 200 people in each team, and they are divided into two rows. Zhang Ba's long spear was thrust into the ground with the point forward, forming a "hedgehog formation".

At the same time, they also used the round shields they brought with them to cover their heads, faces or bodies, so as not to be injured by enemy bows and arrows.

The hundreds of people brought by Ling Zong's army were all musketeers, and they were all equipped with large-caliber turtledove foot muskets.Most of them were scattered around the phalanx. They set up their muskets on wooden poles, and the barrels protruded from the pikemen standing in the back row.

The turtledove foot muskets they use are all carefully crafted, and their accuracy is far higher than that of ordinary muskets.Moreover, these musketeers have all practiced their marksmanship hard, and they have a high probability of hitting enemies a hundred paces away with their turtledove rifles. They are so-called snipers!

In addition, dozens of daredevils were sent out by Ling Zongjun and scattered around the formation.These men all carried shields and a dozen or so lasso-style grenade hammers.

They would set up shields in the grass around the formation, and then lurk and wait for the cavalry of the Qing army to approach—if the Qing army launched an assault, they would risk their lives and throw mines, first blowing up the cavalry of the Qing army and turning them on their own!If the Eight Banners soldiers are going to shoot arrows around the formation, they will also throw grenade hammers at the running cavalry!

The tactics currently used by the Ming army, if you find a traveler to take a look, you will know that it is a variant of "queue to shoot".Compared to Wu Sangui's "Mandarin Duck Formation" variant, it's still a bit less interesting.

However, Zhu and Qi's troops have the only cable-style grenade, so the phalanx that is displayed now should be very powerful.

But how powerful it is, you have to fight it to know.

Seeing that the people below were very quick to set up the formation, Zhu Heqi seemed extremely satisfied, and then said to Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zongjun: "Liu Zongrong, fierce Ling, you two guard the square formation... the lonely family leads the cavalry to attack! "

what?

This time, not only Liu Jinzhong was surprised, but even Ling Zongjun was taken aback.

"Saint, the Eight Banners soldiers have thousands of cavalry, and you only have 150 cavalry, how can you fight them?"

Liu Jinzhong also said: "Yes, my lord, our phalanx is well defended, even if there are thousands of Eight Banners soldiers, we can't defeat it."

Zhu Hechi waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, they have many cavalry, but the Gu Family's Yang Ma is fast. Moreover, the Gu Family has Rasore who can blow them up, enough to make twenty of them thirty!

If you defend the phalanx, you must withstand the first blow of the Eight Banners soldiers... The blow in one go is the most powerful, and then you should be discouraged.

As long as we withstand their first blow, we will have a complete victory.Even if Kang Mazi couldn't be caught, he couldn't go to Hunan, and he couldn't even stay in Nanchang and Jiujiang. "

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When Zhu Heqi led more than 100 riders and quietly slipped away from behind the "butt" of the phalanx, the black Eight Banners soldiers had already lined up on the open ground to the north of the phalanx.Tuhai himself was in command of the five thousand and eight banner soldiers, and Mang Yitu, the old subordinate of Murima who was killed by Kangxi, was in charge of leading the team... This guy's father is Wu Dachan, a well-known man in Manchuria. He has the brave title of "Batulu", and also left Mang Yitu with the post of third-class Adahafan.

And this Mang Yitu is not too old or young, he is less than 40 years old this year, so he caught up with the "ass" of the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty. Shunzhi joined the army for 15 years and followed Zhuobutai to participate in the war against the Southern Ming Dynasty.In the second year of Kangxi's reign, he followed Murima to beat Li Laiheng, but he made a great contribution and got an errand led by Jiang Ning.

This kind of experience, coupled with his macho appearance, also made him one of the few macho men in the "full second generation" and "full third generation".

So even if the old boss Murima fell ill, Kangxi would keep him as a hunk and continue to guard Jiangning.

And after Tuhai defeated Guangdong, he also thought of the "manly man" and transferred him to his subordinates as the commander of the banner battalion.

With his hard work and training, the thousands of Eight Banners cavalry sent from Beijing can finally ride, line up, and charge with their Ama and Mafayi... When hundreds of thousands of people gallop together There will be no collisions and traffic accidents, and of course no one will fall off while riding.

Although such Eight Banners soldiers cannot be said to be corrupt, they are not heavenly soldiers either!

In fact, Fuquan and Tuhai knew it well, so they had to use 1000 cavalry to destroy the more than [-] infantry of the Ming army... Now they have no "flying swords", no cannons, no chariots, just a hollow that looks thin phalanx.Use more than three times the Eight Banners cavalry to rush, you can't rush!

Looking at the Ming army formation three miles away, the strong man Mang Yitu could only feel ashamed... Now that this scene should be seen by him, the old strong man Wu Dachan, he must be so angry that he vomited blood.

It is too much to send one of Niulu's Eight Banners vests to the Ming army of one thousand and several hundred. Now send five thousand, which is one-tenth of the Manchurian heavenly soldiers!

Although he was ashamed in his heart, he also knew that he couldn't afford to lose this battle... There are tens of thousands of traitors watching the show on the Wuyang River!

They are all Geng Jingzhong people. If the Manchurian soldiers are ashamed, this group of people is likely to turn their backs.

Just as he thought of this, a conch resounded across the battlefield.

Mang Yitu suddenly drew out his waist knife, pointed forward, and shouted loudly: "Manchu warriors, go!"

The Eight Banners cavalry immediately roared and began to charge. Because the front of the Ming army was very narrow, more than 5000 cavalry were divided into three groups.Relying on the middle road brought by him, Mang directly hit the front of the Ming army's phalanx.And Tuhai, and a red-belt clan named Aixinjueluo Shushu, each led a team of cavalry, and detoured to attack the left and right sides of the Ming army's phalanx.

The [-] cavalry were like a flood of four colors, divided into three groups and rushed across the withered and yellow field, [-] horseshoes beat the ground like raindrops, and the thunderous hooves shook the hearts of all the people on the battlefield.

Even Zhu Heqi, who slipped out of the phalanx with 150 cavalry and was waiting for an opportunity to fight back, felt a little bit aroused.

Although the phalanx of Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zong's army was theoretically strong enough to withstand the impact of the five thousand cavalry, they had not conducted many cavalry confrontation drills... Zhu and Qi didn't have many cavalry!So they might be frightened by the oncoming Manchurian cavalry.

But Zhu Hechi knew that this kind of cavalry confrontation would be faced sooner or later... Because no matter how thick Zhu Hechi's golden fingers were, it would be impossible to get enough war horses for the people below in the past few years.

His "magic" can't make a war horse!So he can only "buy rather than raise", but he can't buy much.

Therefore, his infantry must have the ability to withstand the impact of the enemy's cavalry several times the number. Only when they can defeat cavalry can they sweep Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and then attack the Central Plains in the north.

The four-colored cavalry group was getting closer and closer to the Ming army's infantry formation. The jumping horses and knights filled Zhu Heqi's field of vision who was standing on the sidelines. Before he knew it, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

Mang Yitu's cavalry doesn't need to detour, just face-to-face impact is enough, so the closest distance will be the first blow!

At this time, there were already jumping and surging Eight Banners soldiers on the front, back, left, and right sides of him. The braids like money rat tails on the back of their heads were swinging left and right in the air, charging forward and screaming strangely, looking very excited.This allowed Mang Yitu to find some of the feelings he had when he followed Zhuobutai to the south to fight against Li Dingguo.

He felt that no enemy could stop his Manchurian cavalry... The hollow phalanx formed by more than 1000 people in front might collapse before the cavalry charged them.

In a blink of an eye, the cavalry had entered less than two hundred steps in front of the formation of the Ming army.Mang Yitu suddenly saw more than a dozen men in cloth masks jumping up from the grass in front of him, and then threw fifty or sixty hammer-like objects at a very fast speed, and turned around and ran away after throwing them.

What does it mean?Throw a grenade hammer?But they didn't light the fire!Did you forget?This is too stupid, right?

Thinking of this, Mang Yitu waved his whip, lashed the horse a few times, and moved forward at full speed!

Suddenly, a fiery red light flashed in front of Mang Yitu's eyes, and then he saw an Eight Banners soldier who had been charging on horseback suddenly soaring into the clouds and flying towards him backwards...

Chapter 315 Catch Kang Mazi Alive—Fake Mazi Fight!

Mang Yitu hadn't figured out what happened, the body of "Riding the Clouds and Riding the Mist" flew past him with a gust of hot wind.Then his ears suddenly became "lively", with rumbling explosions, and the screams of horses and riders.Smoke and flames also emerged from his front, back, left, and right one after another, making his vision blurred.

It turns out that the dozen or so dead soldiers of the Ming army threw out cable-style grenade hammers!

The wooden tube fuze of this grenade hammer has a cable-type ignition device, which can use the principle of yellow phosphorus matches.It is very easy to ignite, as long as you pull out the fire rope, it will definitely catch fire, and it is not easy to extinguish.

The disadvantage is that it is not very safe and it is more prone to spontaneous combustion.Therefore, this fuze must be carefully stored and assembled on the grenade hammer before use.

However, this unsafe cable-type fuze is the same as sugar gunpowder, which is prone to moisture. The raw materials are relatively easy to obtain, and the production process is relatively simple for Zhu Heqi, so it can be mass-produced and equipped with troops.

Because the ignition performance of the cable fuze is very good, and the matchstick soaked in sugar medicine burns relatively stably.Therefore, the explosion rate of these dozens of grenade hammers is also relatively high. Among the sixty or seventy hammers, at least fifty of them successfully exploded!

Fifty grenade hammers exploded into a sea of ​​flames in front of the charging wave of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army. The fierce Eight Banners soldiers rushed into the formation as if they had been hit hard on the head, and there was a sudden chaos.Many Eight Banners soldiers and their horses rushing forward were hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground screaming.The Eight Banners soldiers behind slowed down one after another to avoid them. Those who failed to dodge in time would be tripped over by the horses and people who were still dying after falling to the ground, and they would also fall badly.The offensive of the Eight Banners soldiers suddenly stalled.Only those Knights of the Eight Banners who were not hit by the shrapnel and avoided the fallen horse knights in time could continue to move forward, but the formation of the charge had become very fragmented, and the speed was greatly slowed down.

Mang Yitu was also a lucky slave, still struggling to identify the direction in the white smoke, while carefully controlling the horse.I don't know what's going on, the smoke doesn't seem to be dissipating, and it's getting thicker and thicker. It's weird at first glance, so be careful and careful.And between these cautions, the power of the cavalry's charge was completely gone.

The cavalry charge is about being brave and courageous... Even if you are stabbed by the enemy's spear and "killed in a row", you still have to use the huge impact force caused by the galloping horse to crush the enemy holding the spear. crashed.

In a sense, the cavalry assault is a way of preparing to die with the opponent.

But now there is another explosion, another "traffic accident", and now there is also smoke from an unknown source, which makes the Eight Banners soldiers who should have rushed are "slowing down" and "driving carefully".If they can still maintain a dense formation, they can also exert their collective power and smash their opponents to pieces.But where are they now?

Finally, some soldiers of the Eight Banners have carefully rushed out of the fog—the fog was caused by more than [-] sugar bombs and smoke bombs. Those Ming soldiers who retreated after throwing the grenade hammer left behind two smokers. As a result, the route of the Eight Banners soldiers' charge was filled with smoke.

If it is the Eight Banners soldiers from Huang Taiji, Dorgon's class or earlier who are charging now, it doesn't matter whether you smoke or not, you will rush over as soon as you harden your scalp.

But Mang Yitu's subordinates are all Eight Banners soldiers who have at least a single family and a courtyard within the Second Ring Road of Beijing!

What is this worth?Can I be a little more careful?How can you just rush into the smoke in a daze?What if there is a carbine sticking in it?

And the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed out cautiously, even a bit like walking out of the fog, immediately encountered a new round of blows - the precise shooting of the turtledove foot muskets!

In fact, the sharpshooter of the Ming army who was attacking the cavalry with a musket at this moment was almost stunned by the attack of the Eight Banners cavalry just now-the charge of the cavalry in the courtyard "inside the second ring" was also very scary!

But just when they were about to be confused, dozens of grenade hammers blasted out a sea of ​​volcanic fog.

By the time those scary Eight Banners soldiers rushed out of the sea of ​​volcanic mist, they had already revealed their true colors.All of them look like "driving carefully", they don't look like cavalry charging, but like pen-style and imperial guards who rode horses to the Forbidden City early in the morning to "check in to work"...

Mang Yitu hadn't rushed out of the "fog area" at this time, he was not afraid of death, but turned around in the "fog area", urging those "drive carefully" cavalry to rush up.

Just as it was being urged, fragmentary gunshots rang out!

Different from the tactics of lining up and shooting guns that people in later generations love to see, Zhu Heqi's musketeers do not like to shoot volleys, but prefer precise shooting-the turtledove foot muskets have heavy ammunition, large charge, and long effective range, but the recoil Also big.It takes long hours of training to make a good musketeer, and these guys are generally good marksmen.As long as you shoot the target in a calm manner, you can shoot one by one to a distance of thirty or fifty paces, which looks like a living target for the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers.Even if the target is a hundred steps away, there is a certain chance that it can be sent on the road.

Therefore, accurate shooting is the standard way of playing the turtledove musket, and this is a test of the gunner's psychological quality.

If the one who came today was really a strong man from outside the customs of the Qi generation, most of the musketeers under Ling Zongjun would not be able to perform to the standard.But once the "eight banners" of the N generation of flags are revealed, they are really not too scary.

Seeing that the Musketeers below were all playing steadily, and the Eight Banners soldiers who fought so that the smoke burst out fell off their horses one after another, and dozens of people were dealt with in a blink of an eye, First Lieutenant General Ling of the Ling Zong Army heaved a sigh of relief.But at this moment, the rapid drumbeat came from the left and right sides of Ling Zongjun's army.

"Deputy General Ling, Qing Yao is going to attack our sides, you look to the left, I'll go to the right!"

Liu Jinzhong's voice also seemed a lot more relaxed... The layout of the four sides of this square formation is exactly the same, and the tactics are also exactly the same, so if one side can succeed, the other three sides are not a big problem.

Ling Zongjun glanced at the front where the smoke was dissipating. There seemed to be a lot of Eight Banners soldiers, but they were already out of formation, and they probably would retreat soon.So he agreed to Liu Jinzhong's arrangement, and took a few soldiers to the left to command.

But changes in the battlefield are often unexpected.

Just when Ling Zongjun and Liu Jinzhong were about to happily watch their subordinates use grenade hammers, smoke bombs and muskets to deal with the Eight Banners soldiers again, those Eight Banners soldiers who had already been defeated in the big formation suddenly got bloody As if, screaming the slogan "The Emperor! The Emperor!", he rushed up.

Many of them also took out their bows and arrows, and while riding forward, they also shot arrows indiscriminately.Although in a panic, their arrowheads were not very accurate, none of Liu Jinzhong's men holding the spears was wearing armor, and only a shield could block them, but they couldn't block them completely, and many of them were wounded and killed soon people.

However, these Eight Banners soldiers did not always use the method of "injuring people with random arrows" to fight. Instead, they rushed to the front of the Ming army on horseback. Poked those shirtless soldiers with spears.There were also some more fierce ones, who simply got off their horses and brandished their spears to fight the Ming army on foot.

Looking at the posture of them getting off the horse and the guns they waved, you can tell that they have practiced seriously!

At the same time, the left and right sides of the Qing army also rushed through the grenade hammer formation and the smoke formation, and then resisted the precise shooting of muskets, stepped on the corpses of their companions, and rushed to the left and right sides of the Ming army phalanx In front of the formation, he also fired a burst of random arrows, and then rushed forward to fight with the Ming army with grenade hammers-there were still some musketeers behind the Ming army who stopped firing muskets and went to the Qing army that was rushing up. Throw the grenade hammer.

Although the grenade hammers of the Ming army exploded in the crowd of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army from time to time, a "gap" was formed when the explosion was made, but the Eight Banners soldiers who suddenly aroused the gang's vigor did not retreat, and forced the Ming army Engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat.

And the reason why these Eight Banners soldiers suddenly "ancestor possessed" is actually very simple, that is, the high imitation Kang Mazi Fuquan came up with a yellow jacket!

"Kang Mazi" is ready to fight, can the people below do it without fighting?

And at the same time that Kang Mazi was going into battle, the Eight Banners infantry of the Qing army also pressed up with wheezing!

This time, Fuquan really put all his energy into breastfeeding—because he just got the news that Zhenmazi Kangxi was defeated in Hubei and suffered heavy losses. lose"!

Chapter 316 Capture Kang Mazi Alive—Help Your Majesty!

To the north of Sanjiangkou Town, the sound of horseshoes and explosions on the battlefield was covered by a sudden earth-shattering shout.

Gao Fang Kang Mazi Fuquan was already a stud, and just now he used 1000 cavalry to defeat more than [-] people in Zhu and Qi. Now he simply went to the field to supervise the battle, and raised the remaining [-] infantry behind him, making it clear that they would all go up.

At the same time, he also dispatched yellow jackets to deliver orders to Zeng Yangxing, Zhao Desheng, Ma Weixing, Bai Xianzhong, Wang Jin, Wang Jingong, Liu Yan, and Geng Zhaozhong, their immediate superiors, who were crossing the river slowly... ...Order them to attack Sanjiangkou Town immediately!You don't have to wait for all the horses to cross the Wuyang River before attacking, but invest as many troops as you cross, and block the Ming army crossing the river to fight in Sanjiangkou Town at all costs!

The reason why Fuquan gave such an order was because he had already received the report of the horse scouting, and many Ming troops had crossed the river again!

Moreover, the Ming army crossing the river did not stay in Sanjiangkou Town. They assembled a few hundred people (one battalion) and formed a square to support the Ming army who were fighting the Eight Banners cavalry.

Although this is a refueling tactic, you can win if you refuel too much!

Now there are only more than 1000 Ming troops crossing the river, and it is already so difficult to fight. If there are another one or two thousand, the consequences will be disastrous!

The general soldiers under Geng Jingzhong who received the order were very active, and soon there was a burst of drums and shouts from the west bank of the Wuyang River.

"Kill the rebels, protect the Qing Dynasty, raise the flag..."