On the 22nd day of the lunar month, more than 50,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, 7,000 Han troops, and more than 30,000 green battalion soldiers launched a fierce attack on the Taiping army from three directions under the command of Ao Bai, the minister of the Imperial Guard.
The left wing, headed by Dorobelle Chang Adai, has four Niu Lu of the Manchurian Red Flag, three Niu Lu of the Red Flag, and one Niu Lu of the Yellow Flag, with a total of 2,380 soldiers; There are 2,000 Inner Mongolian soldiers in the Wang Esen Department of Duoluo County in the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin, more than 2,000 soldiers in the Han Army Tong Guowei Department, more than 3,000 Green Battalion soldiers in the Xuanfu General Gang Atai Department, more than 4,000 Meng Xiongbi troops in Henan, more than 15,000 infantry and cavalry, and 48 cannons in the Han Army.
Chang Adai is the grandson of Prince Li Daishan, and his father is Bel Mandahai, according to the system, he should have inherited the title of Prince Li, and he did attack Prince Xun in the ninth year of Shunzhi.
At the end of the year, he was demoted to Baylor by order of Shunzhi because of the crime of his father Mandahai, and the hereditary title of Prince Li was inherited by Wang Jieshu of Kangjun, the grandson of Daishan.
Tong Guowei is the second son of the first-class prince Tong Guolai, and his brother is Tong Guogang, who died in the battle at the mouth of the Bian family.
Ah Gangtai was the third brother of Li Shutai, the governor who was martyred in Guangdong, and his father was Li Yongfang.
Meng Xiongbi was the son of Meng Qiaofang, a deputy general of the Ming Dynasty who was originally a deputy general of the Ming Dynasty and later served as the trilateral governor of the Qing Dynasty.
Chang Adai's army launched an attack on Gaomin Temple from the northwest according to the deployment, but it was firmly blocked by the fifth town of the Taiping army in Daijiazhuang, a small village with only more than 100 houses, and more than 20,000 people on both sides started a big battle in this palm-sized place.
Gang Atai and Meng Xiong Bidu led the green battalion to storm the defense line of the fifth town, and with the support of the Han artillery in the rear, the first line of defense deployed by the fifth town in Daijiazhuang was lost.
After successfully breaking through the first line of defense of the Taiping army, Chang Adai was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Han army Tong Guowei Department to follow, in order to take advantage of the victory to break the second line of defense of the Taiping army.
Unexpectedly, more than 2,000 Taiping troops fought to the death with the Qing army in the open space between the first and second lines of defense, and they fought in small teams, unfolding the familiar and good "mandarin duck formation" shape, and with the cooperation of long and short weapons, the Qing army that broke through was constantly forced back.
Seeing that Gang Atai and the others might be driven out, Chang Adai immediately ordered the cavalry of the Esen Department to rush in and defeat the Taiping army that was fighting to the death.
After discovering that the Qing cavalry had moved, Yu Shizhong, who had been holding a knife under the banner of the word "Qi", pulled out his knife, and in an instant, more than 30 artillery pieces carried by the fifth town blasted towards the Qing cavalry that rushed over.
Amid the whistling of shells, from time to time Mongol soldiers and horses flew backwards.
The horn of "woo" sounded, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the B Brigade of the Fifth Town rushed out of the defense line in the sound of the horn, forming an array in the shortest possible time, but it was not the "mandarin duck array" they used without permission, but the phalanx tactics required by the infantry drill.
The "Mandarin Duck Formation" is suitable for small squad operations and cannot cope with the group charge of the cavalry, and the phalanx tactics of concentrating firearms can undoubtedly undertake this task.
The A Brigade at the front bought time for the B Brigade in the rear.
After the B Brigade finished the formation, from a distance, the length and short weapons in the formation were uneven, but the formation was very neat, and the deterrent effect brought by it surprised the Qing army who were fighting with the A Brigade.
"Forward" Li Kuangming, the brigade school of the second brigade and the deputy general of the fifth town, drew his sword and moved forward, and soon his order was replaced by the sound of suona guiding the soldiers forward.
More than 2,000 Taiping troops marched forward neatly and slowly, like one person, and the black pressure was pressed, which made the green battalion soldiers who rushed in feel depressed.
Esen, the king of Korqin Doro County, who was leading his troops to rush over, also became cautious, and he shouted loudly to convey the order, and the charging Mongol soldiers immediately adjusted their speed as much as possible, and the formation was denser than before.
Brigade B and the Mongol cavalry were approaching at the same time.
The speed of the Mongol cavalry began to increase, and the Mongol soldiers, who were carrying bows and arrows, began to put their arrows on their bows.
"Stop" "Fire Gun Inspection" "Ready" The commander took out the fire breaker, blew it in the air a few times, and immediately ignited.
They carefully checked the fire rope, then clamped the fire rope to the hook, held the fire gun flat, and nervously looked at the Qing cavalry rushing in front of them.
After reaching a distance of 100 paces, the Mongols began to shoot their arrows forward.
"Vertical Shield" Almost at the same time, the brand-wielding soldiers in the Taiping army raised their shields above their heads to shield themselves and their companions from falling arrows.
In the sound of "whoosh", from time to time, soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and they were quickly dragged behind by their companions with short knives at their waists, and the vacant seats left were quickly filled by new people.
"Listen to orders" "Ignition" After the Mongol cavalry entered the distance of 80 paces, more than 300 muskets opened fire in unison, and in the black smoke filled the air, I saw the Mongol soldiers who rushed up on their backs and fell hundreds of horses, and the miserable howl and neighing of horses became a one.
The Mongolian soldiers in the back continued to rush forward in this wail, these Mongolian soldiers from outside the mouth had never fought with the Taiping army, and their understanding of the Ming army's firearms was still stuck more than ten years ago.
They thought that if they survived the opponent's first wave of launches, they would be able to slaughter them later, but they didn't want to, and before they could rush a few steps, the Taiping arms on the opposite side fired again.
"Bang bang bang", after four consecutive volleys, the formation of the Taiping army suddenly changed, and hundreds of soldiers in armor rushed forward with spears in a row.
The formation of the Mongol soldiers had already been sparsely beaten by the firearms of the Taiping army, and they were still in confusion in the formation, and the spearmen of the Taiping army came up to stab them.
After the spearmen stepped forward, the gunners behind quickly reloaded the gunpowder, and the commanders kept their eyes fixed on the Mongols who were being stabbed by the spearmen, in order to capture the best fighters.
The Mongol soldiers were killed and wounded no less than three or four hundred, so many corpses and ownerless war horses were in front of the formation, so that the speed of their charge slowed down, and Esen shouted the order, and the Mongol soldiers went to the sides one after another, and began to shoot the Taiping army with bows and arrows with spears.
Although the spearmen were all wearing armor, in the dense rain of arrows of the Mongol soldiers, some soldiers were shot from time to time, and some directly hit the door with an arrow, and they fell to the ground before they could scream.
Some soldiers were shot in the shoulders and could no longer hold their spears, so they had to fall to the ground with their shoulders clutched.
In the fifth town, except for the officers and town guards, the soldiers are wearing improved cotton armor, which is stronger than the cotton armor of the Qing army, but no matter how strong it is, it is still cotton armor.
The arrows fired by the Mongols could easily break through their armor, and the spearmen had to endure the arrows fired from all directions until their own long-range fire was not supported.
Seeing that the formation of the Taiping army's spearmen was out of order, Esen laughed and waved his hand to signal that the people could come forward and slaughter them.
Hundreds of Mongol soldiers roared and urged their horses and brandished their long swords to rush towards the Taipings.
"Twenty Steps Forward" Looking at those spearmen who kept falling, Li Kuangming's heart was like a knife, but he couldn't give the order to rush forward to save them, so he could only grit his teeth and order the soldiers to step forward slowly.
The formation must not be messed up.
One step, two steps When the march reached twenty steps, the sound of suona stopped abruptly, and the "bang" fire gun shot out again in a volley. oshow7 t1706231537: