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Volume One: Invasion of the Capital Chapter 957: The Qing Army Turns from Defense to Attack

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    The roar of artillery and the smoke of gunpowder spread across the battlefield.  Both armies were retreating until three or four miles were opened in the middle, leaving room for artillery fire between the two armies.  Dorgon watched the Qing army hurriedly rearrange their formations, and saw that his artillery team in front of the formation had been covered by the artillery fire of the Daping Army. He knew in his heart: his artillery team was finished.  Taking advantage of the break in arranging troops, Dorgon had summoned all the generals of the Qing army.  But seeing the fierce artillery fire from the Daping Army, the faces of the Qing generals didn't look good.  The unfavorable start of the war, coupled with the rebellion of the troops, cast a shadow over the hearts of all the Qing generals.  Dorgon looked at the faces of these generals and coughed lightly: "Ahem!" to let them focus on him.  "The battle just now was a bit chaotic. But no wonder, everyone, no one expected that there would be rebels. But even so, we and the Han army were evenly matched, and we didn't suffer any losses!" Dorgon said calmly.  But when he said these words, the faces of the Qing generals also became a little angry.  Indeed, in the battle just now, both sides suffered similar casualties.  Judging from the number of casualties, it seems that they are evenly matched.  Of course, we can't care about the two rebel troops, let alone the lost artillery team.  Therefore, Dorgon played a trick in his words, which had a good effect on boosting the morale of the generals.  "Let's not talk about the previous battles! But you should also understand in your hearts that the Han army is worse than us. I have decided: we cannot concentrate on defending, but we must give full play to the advantages of our national athletes. Riding on a horse. There is nothing to defend.  As a result, we have to attack it," Dorgon continued.  "Exactly! Exactly!" said Azig on the side.  "Fourteenth brother! We were beaten and suppressed. The athletes have long been unable to bear this kind of humiliation. We should have beaten them out long ago to suppress the arrogance of Han dogs." Dorgon nodded to Azig, and then  Said: "Our artillery team has attracted the Han army's artillery team. Now the Han army's artillery team is also lined up in the middle, making it difficult to move. Without artillery, the Han army will lose one of its biggest weapons. Our cavalry.  We must attack the two flanks of the Han army. "Prince Ying! You two are carrying the Mongolian eight flags and two red flags. Be careful!"  Move the Han army to the right wing," Dorgon ordered Azig and Tubeli.  "Cha!" "Prince Su! King Pingxi! You two, with two yellow flags and Guan Ning cavalry, are waiting for my king's order. Once the right wing succeeds, you must rush into the battle decisively and defeat the Han army's left wing in one fell swoop.  , try to defeat their middle line as well!" Dorgon then ordered Hauge and Wu Sangui.  "Cha!" "I personally lead the Han army banner and other banner troops to block the Han army's middle road." Dorgon then ordered.  "Cha!" "Everyone! Strive for a decisive battle. Wait for my king's order. When the whole army attacks, no one is allowed to retreat. Violators will be punished by military law." "Cha!"  In this morning's battle,  Both sides suffered more than 3,000 casualties.  However, two units of the Qing army rebelled at the same time, causing the Qing army to be extremely passive.  For this reason, Dorgon did not hesitate to sacrifice his own artillery team to temporarily stabilize the situation and rearrange his troops.  Prepare for the next battle.  Regarding the battle that had already taken place, Dorgon also reflected in time: after knowing that the Daping Army would take the initiative to attack today, the Qing army was prepared to focus on defense, first wearing down the spirit of the Daping Army, and then the entire army counterattacked.  But this tactic put the Qing army into passivity.  Not to mention surprises like betrayal before the battle.  It can be said that the Qing army was mainly based on cavalry and had high mobility.  If you have strong attack power, you shouldn't focus on defending.  Using one's own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths, this is why the Qing army was passive.  Fortunately, Dorgon saw this in time, and he immediately adjusted his tactics.  In the next battle, the Qing army will switch from defense to offense, give full play to its advantages, and strive to completely defeat the Daping army with continuous attacks.  As the smoke from the battlefield dissipated, the Qing army¡¯s artillery positions were in a mess.  The few artillery pieces that were still relatively intact were all twisted and crooked, and the position was already empty.  All the Qing army's general artillery and general artillery were completely lost in the artillery bombardment just now.  And the artillery losses of the Daping Army were not small. In the battle just now, more than a dozen of them were blown up before and after.  But no matter what, the threat of the Qing army's long-range artillery has been removed, and now the Daping army can attack with all its strength.  So when the artillery bombardment battle reached the second half, the Daping Army's infantry and cavalry artillery phalanx had quietly advanced behind its own artillery position.  On the one hand, this is to protect one's artillery positions and prevent clearing.The countercharge of the cavalry; on the other hand, it was also to launch an attack on the Qing army at the first moment after the artillery bombardment ended.  So when the two armies continued to fight, it was still the Daping Army that launched the attack first.  In the next battle, the Daping Army will use the method of intensive artillery fire to break up the Qing troops piece by piece, so as to accumulate less and make more, from quantitative change to qualitative change, and finally defeat all the Qing troops.  .  At this time, the ten phalanxes that had just charged first withdrew to rest, and the cavalry led by Ma Shouying also withdrew. Even the troops of Kang Zhengwu and Du Laoliu confiscated their weapons and placed them behind the Daping Army's formation, temporarily  Take care of it first.  The ten completed square formations that had been mobilized were still moving towards the Qing army's formation.  According to Dorgon's order, the re-arranged Qing army also began to advance. They moved forward for a few miles, still arranging the oars and carts at the front, making a defensive posture.  To paralyze the Daping army.  Until the two armies were only about one mile apart, the Qing army finally came to a standstill.  They dispersed the defensive formation on the right, revealing the cavalry array that had been prepared behind them.  With the sound of war drums, a linear array of cavalry, as long as a hundred cavalry, rushed towards the two phalanxes on the left wing of the Daping Army.  "Get ready to fire in turn!" "Set up the gun formation!" The officers of the two phalanxes on the left wing of the Daping Army shouted orders at the same time.  The soldiers in these two phalanxes also immediately prepared for battle.  Five rows of gunmen were quickly lined up in front, and the phalanx soldiers behind also stepped on the tails of their spears, arranging them at different angles, and immediately set up a spear formation.  In just a blink of an eye, the Qing army had already rushed within a hundred steps, and with a cry of "shoot!", the Daping army's rounds of firecrackers began.
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