Chapter 465
Originally, Duoduo did not enter the pass and plunder the Qing army in the 11th year of Chongzhen, but stayed outside the pass to restrain the Guanning army. However, everything changed in this time and space. Because the Qing army was weakened a lot by Li Guodong, Duoduo could only follow his brother to lead the army into the pass. Outside the pass, there were only Huang Taiji, Jiergalang and other groups of people. Although the main force of the Qing army had already invaded the Ming Dynasty and the troops left in Liaodong were not many, Huang Taiji firmly believed that the Guanning army did not have the courage to attack the Qing Dynasty's rear route.
With the help of the moonlight, Li Guodong saw that many people in the Qing army opposite had their horses off. Looking at the people who dismounted the horses, they were not the heavy cavalry of the Eight Banners, but the likes of Baoyi Aha. Li Guodong said in his heart: After Jiannu surrendered to the Khalkha Mongols, there were more and more horses now, and even Baoyi Aha could ride a horse!
The servant Aha and others got off the horse, and slowly moved forward with a shield in hand, followed by the horse, the Man Eight Banners heavy armored soldiers holding stair bows. The Qing army's method of attack was to use Baoyi Aha to clear the way in front, clean the caltrops, and cover the archers behind. After the caltrops were cleared, Baoyi Aha and the infantry armor crossed the bridge to test whether there were any obstacles such as caltrops, traps, and tripping horses that hinder the cavalry. The iron armored heavy cavalry followed behind, and waited until the infantry and Aha in front entered the Ming army formation, and the heavy cavalry behind followed.
The Qing army was getting closer and closer to the other shore. The Ming army calmed down and did not fire.
The effective range of the three-eyed gun is about fifty steps, but there is basically no accuracy beyond thirty steps, so Li Guodong had to put the Qing army within twenty steps. The caltrops he asked someone to spread were only about twenty steps.
The Qing army Aha and the archers behind the infantry armor walked up, entered a distance of about fifty steps, and began to shoot arrows at the Ming army. Countless arrows were shot down, all protected by shields and armor. The arrows shot by the Qing army fifty steps away did not pose any threat to the heavy armored cavalry that Li Guodong dismounted.
Li Guodong opened his bow and took an arrow, and a heavy arrow shot out, pierced into the throat of a Qing army archer. The Qing army archer who was pulling the arrow to shoot was covered by his throat. The bow and arrow fell to the ground, and blood bubbles emerged from the mouth of the Qing army archer and slowly fell backwards.
More than a hundred Ye Busushu, who followed Li Guodong, also shot arrows, and arrows were shot out one by one. Many Qing archers who were shooting arrows on the bridge were shot, and some were shot in the face or throat, and they threw down the bow and arrow, and fell to the ground with screams.
In fact, Li Guodong's elite Ye Wu did not stop, and everyone was the most elite archer. Their archery skills were higher than ordinary Qing army archers. They had a long range, high hit rate, and strong armor-breaking power. Therefore, when shooting with Qing army archers, Li Guodong's people had the upper hand. Of course, the terrain was also the most critical factor. There was only one bridge on the contact surface between the two sides. Although the Qing army had a large number of troops, they could not spread out. They could only shoot with the Ming army at a time, which was naturally very disadvantageous. If the Qing army could spread out and thousands of people came up to shoot archers, then these hundred Ye Wu would definitely not be able to stop them.
If you don’t stand on the bridge, but shoot arrows on the other side, the distance is a bit far, and the heavy arrows cannot be so far, and the light arrows have no lethality to the heavy armored soldiers of the Ming army.
Li Guodong did not let Ye Bushu waste his precious energy to deal with Aha. As for those who were cleaning up the caltrops, he just gave it to the three-eyed gunner to deal with it.
Seeing Aha and others approaching step by step and reaching the ground covered with caltrops twenty steps away, Li Guodong gave the order: "Speed the gun!"
The heavy cavalry grabbed the fuses on their necks, dragged the three-eyed gun with their left hand, aimed at Aha and Bujia who bent down to clean up the caltrops, and poked the fuses in the fire gate with their right hand. The deafening sound of the gun sounded, and the simple shields in Aha and Bujia were penetrated by the projectiles. The projectiles that penetrated the shield were pierced into Aha, who had no trace of armor, splashed dazzling blood. Aha who was shot fell one after another on the bridge in various postures.
Even though the projectiles in armor were shot through the wooden shield and pierced on the armor on them. Although the projectiles behind the wooden shield may not be able to break the armor, the huge impact force still made the stairs turn back one by one.
A Bujia covered his face and rolled all over the ground in pain. Just after the projectile penetrated the shield, a pile of broken wood chips flew out from the back of the wooden shield, piercing his face. The projectile that penetrated the shield hit him again. Although the armor was not penetrated, he was subjected to a powerful impact force. He felt his internal organs turn over and over again. The wood chips were pricked on his face, which made him roll all over the ground, but accidentally rolled onto the caltrops, and jumped like an electric shock. Then a gun sounded, and a projectile penetrated his armor. The Bujia fell on the bridge deck, rolled a few times and stopped moving.
On the other side of the bridge, deafening sounds of guns kept ringing, and flames spewed out from the white smoke.
On the crowded bridge deck, the Qing soldiers were crowded like canned sardines. At a distance of within twenty steps, the three-eyed gunman did not need to aim at the target, and could hit the target with any random shooting.
Through the smoke, you can see the various postures of the Qing soldiers over there. The bridge deck was filled with corpses and Aha and Bu Jia, who were injured for a while. The rest of the people had been covered with their heads. Some people ran around with their heads in their arms, trying to find a place to cover them, while others rushed over and accidentally stepped onto the bridge deck covered with sharp and sharp thorns. They immediately jumped and howled loudly. The more they jumped, the more thorns they stepped on, and the vicious cycle was in the end. In the end, they either jumped into the river or were killed by muskets on the bridge.
The arrows shot by the archers behind the Qing army were either blocked by shields or armor, and they could not hurt the three-eyed gunman at all. The Ming army's bows and arrows that did not collect at night kept counterattacking, making the Qing army archers cry and cry for their parents. The narrow bridge deck made the Qing army's numerical advantage unable to be used at all.
"What kind of barbarian is this? Why is it so powerful?" Seeing that Aha and Bu Jia could not rush to the bridge at all, the archers behind him also suffered heavy losses, Duoduo was shocked.
In the darkness, the Qing army could not see the flag on the other side of the river, so naturally they did not know whose army it was.
"Prince, it's a pity that we didn't bring the shield car to us. Otherwise, we would have rushed over easily and killed him without leaving any armor?" Xilana, who was standing beside him, said.
Duoduo looked at the mountains of corpses piled up on the bridge deck, and the elite archers rolling around the ground behind him, his heart was cut like a knife. More than 200 Aha, more than 100 armored men and more than 200 archers who had just stepped forward were either killed or injured, and almost all were scrapped. Duoduo wanted to press all the people up, but reason told him that he could not do this. No matter how many people were in front of him, they would not rush over all at once, and would be beaten to death and wounded on the bridge deck.
Li Guodong had prepared a gunpowder bag, horse spear, iron cavalry, and divine cavalry, but he was useless. He blocked the Qing army on the other side and did not move just by relying on the three-eyed gunman and Ye Budou.
"The time is almost over. The second brother and the others should have returned to the military fort, and we should retreat too." Li Guodong looked at the sky and said.
All three thousand cavalry and one hundred gods were withdrawn, leaving only Li Guodong and one hundred nights behind.
Duoduo could not see clearly whether the Ming army on the other side of the river had retreated. He was thinking hard about how to cross the river and eliminated these bold Ming army.
"Well, we can go around from other places. Come and get the map!" Duoduo shouted.
Not long after, a Bayala soldier sent a map of the capital drawn by a Shanxi merchant.
Duoduo looked at the map and looked for the bridge on the Liangshui River. Not long after, he found a bridge, which was more than ten miles away.
"Silana!" Dodo yelled.
Shirana stood up and called out: "Slave is here!"
"You can speed up a thousand cavalry, detour through this bridge, and encircle the barbarian's retreat!"
Chapter completed!