Chapter 145 Preparation... Ignition
I don’t know if there is a certain will in the dark. It is still the place where Du Song died in battle last year and the place where Lu Xuan first traveled through time.
One after another, he would not walk with his head covered like Li Rubai. He walked until he didn't know where he was. Before he set out, he had sent hundreds of scouts to explore the way forward in the shape of a fan. All the movements within a radius of twenty miles were under his control.
Lu Xuan, who was in charge of the central army, frowned slightly. He heard the sound of horses approaching rapidly in the distance.
"Report..." The person who came was Zhao Jingzhong. In the past few months, Zhao Jingzhong has gone deep behind enemy lines to assist Lu Xuan in completing the map around the Qing Dynasty. It was also him who immediately heard the movements of the Qing army.
"Jing Zhong, thank you for your hard work." Lu Xuan stood up to greet him.
"Among the matters of humble duties. Sir, the Qing army is currently thirty miles northwest of our army. I have led the team to fight with their scouts several times and killed more than 30 enemies. They should have noticed our movements."
"Who is the person coming?"
"It should be the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Dai Shan personally led his troops. Although he made a sound in advance and was on the side of the Tieling Guard, according to my investigation, he should have led this elite team in secret and wanted to bypass the Ming army's blockade and attack Shenyang directly. The number of people was about 20,000."
"Haha. Interestingly, it seems that my horoscope and the Qing dynasty are incompatible. I passed my order and the entire Firearms camp will speed up immediately, seize the two hills five miles away within two quarters of an hour and arrange the positions."
There are 12,000 people under Lu Xuan. Among them, there are 500 newest flintlock musketeers, 2,000 old musketeers, and 2,500 musketeers. He is the kind who would rather be insignificant than indiscriminate. Those unqualified firearms are all high-quality ones.
The artillery battalion has a total of 120 artillery pieces, including 80 tiger squat cannons. The remaining forty are all with the ZhongFront machine cannons and the Red Barbarian cannons, equipped with 1,000 artillery soldiers.
Before the emergence of machine guns, the firearm's fire rate was only able to be suppressed by a certain amount. Therefore, Lu Xuan asked the firearm battalion to build a position first. In fact, in history, when Liu Zhen fought against the Qing army last year, he lost the lead. The scout was not powerful enough, and when he encountered the enemy, the two sides were already too close.
Liu Xuan was very clear about the characteristics of the firearms and commanded the firearms battalion to seize a hillside and build a position. However, he was taken first by the Mongolian cavalry on the flank and lost the first move, resulting in a defeat later. Since Lu Xuan formed the army, he attached great importance to the training of scouts. In order to give the firearms enough time to arrange a formation. After all, if the firearms battalion is approached by the enemy cavalry at this time, it is basically waiting to be massacred.
With a command, the 3,500-strong firearm battalion accelerated immediately. Various pack horses carried cannons, shells, gunpowder, and rushed forward with no life. The military order was like a mountain, and after two quarters of an hour, they had to arrive. Fortunately, after eating meat for a year, the soldiers' bodies were raised. If they followed the group of bean sprouts from the Ming army before, they would not faint if they ran with loads of weight in the five miles.
Three thousand five hundred people were the first to build the position, and the remaining 8,500 people were cavalrymen. This team was directly under Lu Xuan, led by him personally. The other five thousand five hundred were infantrymen, led by Shen Lian and Lu Wenzhao. In addition, Zhao Jingzhong's scout team, Miyamoto Musashi, and a team composed of martial arts masters. These two teams were temporarily merged to form a special forces team for the use of beheading tactics.
"Zhao Jingzhong, you have worked hard these days. But you can't rest now. These two hundred people are the two hundred most elite in the entire team. I don't need you to go to the front battlefield. You lead the team, wander outside the battlefield, keep an eye on the battlefield. When the Qing army is defeated, you have to keep an eye on the escaped officers and lead the team to pursue them."
"Receive the order from a low position." Zhao Jingzhong was overjoyed. After several months of his life and death, he finally got rewarded. He could not go to the front battlefield, but also had a lot of opportunities to make contributions. At this moment, he finally believed that Lu Xuan was really training him. As for whether the Qing army would be defeated, he had never thought about it. Before he knew it, he had been influenced by Lu Xuan and took the defeat of the Qing army as a matter of course.
After listening to the scout's report, Dai Shan knew that there was a Ming army ahead of him. But he didn't care. The army in his hand was all the most elite warriors of the Qing Dynasty. There were 5,000 heavy cavalry alone. This was the combat power of the Qing Dynasty. The heavy cavalry of the five thousand Tartars was confident that Dai Shan would sweep the Ming army ten times the time.
There are also five thousand Mongolian cavalry. In other words, Daishan had 10,000 cavalry alone. The remaining ones were elite infantry, including eight thousand Qing troops and two thousand Korean musketeers.
"Let Chobashan (this is a fabricated Mongolian general) attack from the left flank. Dorgon, you bring ten Niulu to attack from the flanks. The rest face the enemy head-on."
Without any complicated tactics, Daishan had enough confidence in his warriors. As long as he protected his wings, attacking the Ming army head-on was definitely not his opponent.
There are actually no mountains in this area. They are all small hills dozens of meters high. However, the rolling and undulating make the terrain look very complicated.
Dorgon, the later regent of the Qing Dynasty, is now the four beiles of the Qing Dynasty. Because Daishan became emperor, the three beiles in the latter increased their rankings one by one, and then Dorgon took office in advance.
About two to three quarters of an hour later, both sides could vaguely see each other. Lu Xuan could even hear the charge of thousands of cavalry on both sides. After the last Battle of Sarhu, Dai Shan saw the truth about the weakness of the Ming army. He had never seen Lu Xuan's ten thousand people at all. He directly raided head-on, preparing to kill Lu Xuan's team in one go.
In Dai Shan's mind, the last time, if it weren't for the crazy man who came out of nowhere to kill Khan, he occupied Liaodong early in the morning and even marched into the Central Plains.
"Did you see it? Brothers, the Tartars look down on you a little."
The firearms battalions that occupied two hillside high grounds were also angry. If there were more than 100 cannons and 3,000 musketeers here, you would dare to charge directly? What they didn't know was that according to the previous standards of the Ming army's firearms battalions, Dai Shan was really brave. Because the soldiers of the Ming army's firearms battalions would usually throw away or even destroy the muskets, and then fight with the hand-to-hand combat. After all, there is still a glimmer of hope for hand-to-hand combat. If you use firearms, your face may bloom in the next second.
"Everyone is ready." A commander holding a simple trumpet shouted. He saw two cavalrymen on both wings approaching quickly.
"ignition......"
Chapter completed!