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Chapter 178 Hongyi Small Cannon Debuts

The cavalry of the old camp of Shunjun shot a round of arrows and immediately pulled out their horses and ran back, quickly leaving the range of Qing army's bows and muskets. But they did not run far, but ran thirty steps away, continued to turn their horses and rush towards the Qing army formation, and shot another round of arrows to harass the Qing army's infantry.

"Uncle, Jiannu's heavy cavalry is coming." Li Laiheng reminded. Although Gao Yigong is not a few years older than Li Laiheng, he is Gao Guiying's younger brother, and Li Laiheng's adoptive father Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, so Gao Yigong's seniority is much larger than Li Laiheng, so Li Laiheng calls Gao Yigong the uncle.

Gao Yigong stopped the horse and ordered his personal soldiers to send a flag-speaking signal to Liu Zongmin, telling him: "The Jiannu heavy cavalry is coming, please stop the infantry from advancing, and wait in line."

The infantry of the Wanshun Army stopped advancing, with swords and cards in front, and spearmen followed closely, with archers and bird gunners following behind, waiting for the attack of the heavy cavalry of the Eight Banners.

Gao Yigong and Li Laiheng led the cavalry of the Shun Army's old camp to retreat quickly, avoiding the sharp edge of the Qing army's heavy cavalry, and retreating to the wings of the infantry phalanx of their own side. When retreating, they turned around and shot arrows from time to time.

The Qing army's Eight Banners heavy cavalry naturally would not foolishly drill into the dense spear forest of Shun Army infantry, but stopped moving forward. At Ajige's order, Wu Keshan led three thousand Mongolian Eight Banners light cavalry to rush out of the formation and rushed towards the Shun Army infantry formation.

The Mongolian light cavalry's tactics against infantry are to get close to it, use cavalry bows to harass them, and wait until the opponent's infantry formation has flaws, then replace it with a sabre to rush forward.

"Shoot the arrow!" Liu Zongmin roared.

The archers of the Shun Army set their bows and arrows one after another, and long arrows flew into the sky, covering the sky and the sun. They fell into the formation of the Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry like locusts.

Wu Keshan took the lead in using the unique skills of hiding in the pedal and avoided the arrows shot by the Shunjun. Although his war horses were hit by several arrows, the vitality of the war horses was far greater than that of humans. The horses who had hit several arrows suffered and ran to change. The other Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers also used the unique skills of hiding in the pedal and avoided the attacks of the Shunjun archers. Only a few war horses were shot down by arrows. After the knights on the horses were caught, they rolled flexibly on the spot, avoided the trampling of the cavalry behind, and immediately hid behind.

In terms of cavalry, no one can compete with the Mongols. With his superb cavalry, the Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry avoided the arrows shot by the Shun Army and quickly rushed to about ten steps in the first ten steps of the Shun Army infantry formation. Just before the Mongolian Light Cavalry was about to hit the Shun Army spear formation, the Mongolians quickly turned their horses and drew an arc in front of the Shun Army formation, passing by the Shun Army infantry formation. At the same time, the Mongols' cavalry bow was already in their hands, and quickly shot out light arrows.

Shun sabre player blocked with a shield, and at the same time, the archers and bird gunners in the back formation launched a counterattack against the Mongolian light cavalry. The light arrows shot from the Mongolian Eight Banners fell into the Shun army crowd, and most of the arrows were blocked by the shield, but there were still many arrows passing through the gap between the shield and the shield and drilling into the Shun army crowd.

Accompanied by screams, the Shun Army's spearmen, musketeers and archers who were caught in the arrow fell down one after another. These Shun Army soldiers had almost no armor on their bodies, and were shot by light arrows, which could be said to be arrows. Most of the Shun Army soldiers who were caught in the arrow were injured, and a few unfortunate soldiers were shot into the vital points and died on the spot.

The arrows and muskets shot by the Shun Army counterattack caused the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers to fall from the horse's back. The distance between the two sides was too close. The Shun Army archers and bird gunners exerted great power, especially the bird gunners. They shot at close range, and a large number of Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who had no time to run away, even the people and horses were beaten into sieves by the bird guns.

"Go away!" Wu Keshan shouted.

The Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers shouted, turned their horses and galloped away, leaving the long-range fire strike range of the Shun Army and left.

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Seeing the Mongols retreating, the Shun Army infantry cheered and the injured Shun Army soldiers were rescued by him. Since Zhao Peng invented the battlefield treatment technique, the death rate of the Shun Army soldiers has plummeted. Especially the wounded soldiers who were injured by arrows were waiting to die in the past, but now all the wounded soldiers who were injured by arrows can be rescued without exception.

Before using the light arrows of the Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry, they were inserted into various feces to turn them into poisonous arrows. In fact, the arrows soaked in the feces were not really poisonous arrows, but bacterial infection caused the wound to be incurred. With the treatment technique taught by Zhao Peng to Shunjun, the knife was disinfected with boiling water, the arrows were dug out, and the wounds were disinfected with strong liquor, and then bandaged with gauze disinfected with boiling water. After this treatment method, Shunjun was almost immune to the poisonous arrows of the Mongolians.

Of course, Shunjun did not have so much spirit to treat every wounded soldier, so they adopted the method of directly burning the wound, which could also be disinfected and sterilized.

Liu Zongmin was also injured by arrows in the battle of Yibi. Fortunately, Zhao Peng taught Shunjun the treatment technique he used a disinfectant knife to dig out the arrows, then sterilized the wound with strong liquor, and bandaged clean gauze. Within a few days, Liu Zongmin's injuries were all healed.

At that time, after Li Zicheng was cured by the injury of his beloved general Liu Zongmin, he was deeply moved: "Wenfeng is so talented, it's a pity that she can't use it for me, Dashun, otherwise why would I worry about not being able to win the world?"

Liu Zongmin, who saved his life, replied: "King, although Wenfeng cannot be used by me, Dashun, but with him in the Ming Dynasty, Dashun can join forces with us to fight the enemy. Moreover, Wenfeng has helped us a lot. Even if he cannot serve the King, he will have a friend in the end, right?"

Just when Liu Zongmin remembered the past, a personal soldier beside him shouted: "True slave! Tiger is here!"

Liu Zongmin picked up the monocoque thousands of miles mirror and looked out six hundred steps. He saw a large number of Qing army infantry in front of him pushing forward in his direction. These Qing soldiers were dead soldiers wearing cotton armor, iron leaf armor, and iron shields, followed by a large number of archers wearing cotton armor and lightning rod helmets; there were also Eight Banners Han armour soldiers wearing cotton armor, lightning rod helmets, and muskets on both sides. Liu Zongmin roughly estimated that there were about 10,000 infantry soldiers in the Qing army, Manchu and Han Dynasty.

"The elite Jiannu has come up, and our infantry and cavalry are no match for each other. I feel like I'm sending a banner to the king and asking for the slogan to withdraw the troops!" Liu Zongmin shouted to his personal soldiers.

When Li Zicheng saw the flag-speaking signal sent by Liu Zongmin, he found that a brigade of Eight Banners heavy infantry was rushing towards his infantry formation. He quickly ordered: "Ming Jin to withdraw the troops and ask General Liu to withdraw quickly!"

Seeing the elite infantry of the Qing Dynasty getting closer, Liu Zongmin was anxious. He knew that with the infantry in his hands, he would use the mixed combination of the Manchu Eight Banners heavy infantry and the Eight Banners Han arms and weapons to form the Eight Banners soldiers. It would be simply a delivery. You should know that the Manchu Eight Banners horse-riding heavy infantry is the most elite heavy infantry of this era. The dead soldiers are in front and the archers are behind. It can be said that they are invincible.

Finally, when he heard the sound of gold from the camp behind, Liu Zongmin decisively ordered: "Retreat!"

The brigade of Shun Army infantry retreated steadily, and the cavalry of the old camp of Shun Army was arranged on both wings of Shun Army infantry and slowly retreated toward the main camp. From time to time, the Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry came to harass her, and they were all defeated by Shun Army infantry and cavalry.

The Manchurian Eight Banners heavy cavalry slowly advanced and followed the Shun Army from a distance, seventy steps away from the Shun Army infantry. This distance was the effective range of the Shun Army bird gun. The Eight Banners heavy cavalry also dismounted from time to time, holding stair bows and placing arrows, shooting rows of arrows at the retreating Shun Army, causing some chaos to the retreating Shun Army infantry formation.

Standing on a high place, Li Zicheng saw the Qing army's heavy cavalry, heavy infantry and Wuzhenchao Ha Han army's flag-fire weapon soldiers, and he knew it was time to use his trump card: "Tell me the order, the Red Armored Cannon Team is ready!"
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