Daming pirates

Dorgon looked at the terrain of the battlefield, then looked at the formation of the Yu family army who had arrived here, and frowned. Now he had completely given up all the contempt for the Yu family army in his heart, and he no longer dared to underestimate it.

I'm looking down on this Yu Jiajun guy.

Even now, when he saw the Yu Jiajun's military formation, he still felt a little twitching in his heart. Thinking about the Yu Jiajun's fierce artillery and muskets, he still had lingering fears.

This time he came to fight the Yu family army for a decisive battle. It can be said that he spent a lot of words, coercion and inducement to finally convince the Mongolian soldiers to come here for the last fight.

The leaders of the Mongolian tribes were actually not willing to give up the wealth they had finally captured. Although they were afraid of Yu Jiajun, they thought that if they returned to the outside world like this, their lives would definitely not be easy.

With these captured wealth and slaves, they still had to live a life of extreme hardship outside the customs.

Although the Yu family army is indeed powerful, under the heavy profit, they finally chose to stay and follow Dorgon in this last fight. As long as they can defeat this Yu family army, then they can easily carry the wealth and slaves

, return to the grassland, and live a relaxed life with enough food and clothing for a while.

And this time Dorgon made a promise to them that he would never use them as cannon fodder again. This time it was a fight to the death. Dorgon would never begrudge their Eight Banners soldiers and only use Mongolian soldiers and horses on the battlefield.

cannon fodder.

Now that Dorgon has spoken to such an extent, the leaders of these Mongolian tribes are relieved. If they want to die together, don't let me get killed by you, and you can just run away with your things.

Yes, as long as everyone advances and retreats together, then this battle can still be fought.

So Dorgon led his troops here, took up positions on the battlefield, and began to mobilize his troops.

The confrontation between the two sides did not last long. Dorgon knew very well that the Yu Jiajun could delay this battle, but he, Dorgon, could not afford it. Now that he had finally built up some morale, if the confrontation continued for a long time, the opponent would be

He was at a great disadvantage. Yu Jiajun could wait and delay, but they could not delay.

It has been almost half a year since they entered the customs. Most of the soldiers are already homesick. The biggest problem is that they have been plundered now. Many of them are no longer willing to risk their lives. If they are stuck here for too long, they will not be able to survive.

We know whether the Ming Dynasty will send another army to encircle and suppress them.

If the Ming court understands the meaning at this time, once a large army is mobilized, with so many soldiers and horses, they might be completely trapped here.

Therefore, after the two armies lined up and faced off for a while, Dorgon saw that the Yu Jiajun did not want to take the initiative to attack, so he stopped waiting and gave the order to attack.

They have a lot of cavalry, but they are not good at defense. Attack is the biggest use of cavalry. Since today is a decisive battle, he will not begrudge anything.

So he immediately put the armored infantry in front. In the past few days, he also tried to raise a lot of vehicles. He even unloaded some looted oxcarts and mules and converted these vehicles into oars.

Cars are used as a way to restrain enemy artillery.

At present, apart from this method, he really couldn't find any way to restrain the enemy's sharp firecrackers, so he tried every means to piece together hundreds of these oars as a tool to cover his infantry charge.

The first batch of soldiers sent out were mostly Han soldiers who had been captured by them and surrendered to them. These Han soldiers had a low status among the slaves. Although Huang Taiji had been quite tolerant to these Han soldiers over the years, after all,

They are still the Han army, and they will never be able to raise their heads among the slaves.

Since the first battle was definitely a war of attrition, these Han troops naturally became consumables and were the first to be filled into the battlefield as cannon fodder.

In addition, there was a group of young and strong men who were selected by them and captured this time, and they were also forced to go into battle to help push these heavy oars.

The first batch of soldiers and horses to go into battle, along with the strong civilians who were forced to help them push the carts, Dorgon invested more than 20,000 troops at once.

Over 10,000 infantrymen and Han soldiers intimidated the captured civilians amidst the deep sound of horns, helped them push the oars, and slowly walked out of the formation. Not only were these helpless people

, the ordinary people who assisted the slaves in the war, including the Han soldiers and the armored soldiers who established the slaves, all had livid faces and looked like they were about to go to the execution ground. Regardless of whether they were willing or not, for this arrangement, they

There was no room for resistance, and there was nothing more they could do except die.

These Han troops were in front, accompanied by coated slaves, and behind them were the Eight Banners armored infantry, one to supervise these Han troops, and the other to serve as the second echelon. After reaching the front of the enemy's defense line, they served as

Fresh troops went into battle.

Behind them, there are nearly 10,000 Mongolian cavalry and Jiannu cavalry. They are ready. Once the infantry in front is in a stalemate with the enemy, they will immediately launch an assault. When the infantry blocks the enemy's artillery fire,

To tear apart the enemy's defense line.

After Dorgon arranged everything, he immediately ordered the beating of drums and launched a full-scale attack. A rumble of war drums suddenly sounded on the battlefield, accompanied by the low sound of horns.

The black army of Jiannu slaves began to squirm towards the Yu family's defense line like locusts. One after another, oars were pushed into the battlefield. They were either equipped with thick wooden boards, or were directly pieced together with logs, or even

Yu simply piled the bundles of firewood directly on the cart to resist the bullets fired by Yu's army. Those in slightly better condition were even covered with a layer of rawhide.

Several hundred oars were lined up in three rows. Many Jiannu soldiers and generals hid behind these oars and slowly pushed towards the Yu Jiajun line.

Yu Xiaotian silently watched these actions of establishing slaves and did not give any more instructions. The artillery should know when to take action, and he did not need to worry about this at all.

The artillery battalions directly under each brigade were already well prepared at this time, with specialized personnel constantly visually measuring the enemy's distance and reporting it to the officers for immediate information.

The heavy oar car, poor manufacturing technology, and uneven battlefield roads made the oar car move very slowly. The heavy oar car axle made a squeaking and rubbing sound.

The clothes slaves pushed hard, squirming like ants.

From the time they set off to the time they entered the 1,200-meter range, it only took two and a quarter of hours to walk a few hundred meters. This left the artillerymen who had already jumped anxiously speechless, cursing these slaves for being too lazy.

Walking so slowly, does this count as a charge?

So they could only stare and wait quietly for the slaves to come. Just when they thought they were about to run out of patience, these slaves' oars finally came within the range of their artillery fire.

When the battalion commanders of each artillery battalion confirmed that the enemy had entered the effective range, a cold light flashed in their eyes, and suddenly they raised their sabers high above their heads and shouted: "Everyone is here! Fire!..."

"Boom, boom, boom..." In the entire Yu Jiajun position, several artillery positions shook violently almost at the same time. Balls of flames suddenly spurted out of the muzzles, and then the rumbling sound of artillery rolled toward the sky and the earth.

surge away.

More than a hundred artillery shells roared across the sky, leaving streaks of smoke in the sky and hitting the Jiannu array like hailstones.

When all the Jiannu slaves saw the clouds of flames spewing out from the Yu family's army formation, their hearts seemed to be clenched. They felt as if their hearts suddenly sank, and then they were suddenly lifted up, directly to their throats.

Eye.

My mother! Where did the Yu Jiajun get so many cannons? I didn’t see them having so many cannons in the first few days, so why did they suddenly have so many more cannons today? This is so embarrassing

Should people live without letting others live?

Dorgon only felt his temples pounding, and he had already cursed in his heart. In the first few days, he also saw the power of the Yu Jiajun's cannons. However, in those days of fierce fighting, the Yu Jiajun did not have as many cannons as they had today.

A cursory glance showed that the cannons brought by Yu Jiajun today were far more than double the ones they had seen in the past few days.

This time, Yu Xiaotian was really not wronged. In the first few days, when the Yu Jiajun resisted Dorgon's fierce attack on the Tianjin Guard side, Yu Xiaotian never moved all the artillery to the front of the formation for use.

But from beginning to end, only two artillery battalions were mobilized to participate in the battle, with a total of only sixty or seventy cannons. Even so, Jiannu had been beaten badly by them, so Jiannu firmly believed that in his heart,

The family army only had this little possessions, but today he wanted to have a showdown with Jiannu led by Dorgon, so he no longer hid it.

This time he used all his elite troops and brought over almost all the artillery that could be used. There were four brigade-affiliated artillery battalions, plus an independent artillery battalion, for a total of five artillery battalions, which instantly doubled the number of his artillery pieces.

A lot more.

When these artillery battalions began to fire, the scene was of course quite shocking. Even Yu Jiajun's own people had never seen so many artillerymen firing at the same time. Now even their own people were shocked by such fierce artillery fire.

I feel a little dizzy, let alone the enemy Jiannu.

A ferocious smile appeared on Yu Xiaotian's face again, and he thought to himself, Dorgon, aren't you the famous general of the Qing Dynasty? Well, today I want you to see what it means to fire thousands of guns!

These hail-like artillery shells landed in front of the enemy array one after another. Some of the artillery shells hit closer or farther due to the large aiming error of the gunner's operation. Some shells directly hit the enemy group, and some shells also fell.

The point was too close, and before the artillery shell could ricochet into the enemy formation, it had already lost its kinetic energy and landed on the ground.

(I would like to express my gratitude to Brother Damo Xiaochunfeng for another big reward! In addition, Uncle Bi'an, a friend of Zhongzongheng in the article, gave me a reward!)