Southern Ming Rebel Army

Chapter 312 Battle of Tianping Mountain (1)

The battlefield was littered with corpses. Wu Sangui looked at the huge front that stretched for miles, where the two armies were fighting to the death. At this moment, Wu Sangui suddenly had a dreamlike feeling.

For Wu Sangui, he had planned well with Fang Guangchen before the war to preserve his strength, but it was no easy task on the battlefield under Duoduo's watch. According to Duoduo's approach, he had to shed his last drop of blood. Before, there was still some room for maneuver in his main attack, but seeing that the Zhou army on the opposite side had begun a full-scale attack, Wu Sangui could not do anything even if he wanted to. He could only watch his subordinates being thrown into this meat grinder like consumables.

In Pingdu Town, Wang Deren was both angry and regretful. He was angry that these loyal soldiers were useless and actually charged back on the front line. He regretted that if he had known this would happen, he should have sent troops to help, instead of letting it come to this.

Once the battle line was in disarray, the Qing army stared at Wang Deren's troops like a dog smelling shit. Wang Deren looked from afar and saw a large group of cavalrymen in white armor galloping towards him.

Wang Deren knew at a glance that they were real Eight Banners soldiers, and the Bordered White Banner, one of the two most powerful white banners among the Eight Banners.

At the beginning of the Bordered White Banner's entry into the Pass, in the Battle of Yipanshi, Duoduo personally led the elite troops of the Bordered White Banner to launch a charge and completely defeated the central army of the Chuang army. In the most important battle of Tongguan with Li Zicheng's group, the Shun army used various means, including horse battle, foot battle, field battle, and sneak attack, but all these tactics were defeated by Duoduo's army.

Afterwards, Duoduo led the Bordered White Banner to destroy the Southern Ming Hongguang regime with great force. After returning to Beijing, he put down the Khalkha Mongolian rebellion. Every battle was a crucial battle for the Qing court, and the Bordered White Banner followed Duoduo in every battle.

At this time, Wang Deren was shouting anxiously, trying to reorganize the front line, but the chaotic battlefield made it impossible to assemble quickly. Wang Deren could only watch helplessly as the Eight Banners crashed into the ranks of the Pingdu Town Army.

Duoduo appointed Tulai as the cavalry general and led 2,600 White Banner cavalrymen, and rushed into the formation of Pingdu Town Army like a hurricane. At this time, Tulai's eyes were as sharp as a cheetah, his eyes were wide open and he shouted for a fierce fight.

The cavalry was like a sharp knife, stabbing fiercely into the formation of Pingdu Town Army. Their horses' hooves crushed the formation of Pingdu Town, and their swords and guns, like lightning, cut off the lives of Zhou Army's infantry.

The formation of the Pingdu Town Army was already somewhat disorganized, and under the charge of the war horses, it was like being swept by a strong wind and falling down with the wind.

The Eight Banners cavalry were extremely fast and rushed into the formation of Pingdu Town in an instant. The infantrymen under Wang Deren's troops looked at this powerful cavalry torrent in horror. Some tried to resist, some fled back in fear, and some stood there as if they were frightened silly.

Tulai led the charge, and every time he swung his sword, a soldier fell to the ground. His bravery boosted the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers behind him, making them kill even more frantically.

The infantry fell to the ground one after another under the charge of the cavalry, and their blood had already dyed the ground red. Their screams and shouts intertwined together, forming a horrifying scene.

The Eight Banners soldiers rushed in like a ragtag army, killing people wantonly. The defense line of Wang Deren's infantry was completely broken, and they began to flee in all directions. Wang Deren was dragged away by his subordinates. Wang Deren felt bitter in his heart, and there were only two words in his mind: "It's over!"

Tulai was covered in blood, but he didn't care. He laughed wildly and said, "It's not difficult to kill this pig-like thing!"

Tulai immediately gathered his strength and prepared to drive out the defeated soldiers, disrupt the Zhou army's formation, and defeat the Meng bandits completely by attacking the whole area from one point to another.

Duoduo, who was behind the formation, was also overjoyed. He immediately ordered Wu Sangui's cavalry behind the formation to charge into the already collapsed Zhou army formation.

Wu Sangui felt mixed emotions when he received the order, but he still managed a smile on his face, saying, "The Eight Banners warriors of our dynasty are indeed worthy of their reputation. They defeated the enemy in one battle. Please report to Prince Yu that I, Wu Sangui, will lead the charge and completely defeat the enemy army!"

Tulai was in high spirits at the time. It was so comfortable and satisfying to use his cavalry to chase and kill the infantry who had their backs in front of him. Killing people was like killing a chicken. No, it was even simpler and more convenient than killing a chicken.

However, Tulai was killing smoothly when he accidentally glanced to the left. Tulai was stunned. It was the musketeers who had killed more than half of Shen Zongzhong's cavalry before. The dense muzzles of their guns were pointing at him.

Looking at the densely packed muskets, Tulai's heart couldn't help but feel a chill. At this moment, the horse's speed had slowed down, and more importantly, it was now his own formation that was in disarray. The cavalry was chasing him and he had long since broken up into formation.

Tulai was extremely angry and shouted, "Gather, charge, charge!"

On the opposite side of the Po Lu army, Chen Changgong roared in anger: "Fire!"

Thousands of muskets fired at the same time, and the sound was so loud that it shook Chen Changgong's eardrums, making him a little deaf for a moment. In his deaf eyesight, the noisy battlefield seemed to be performing a pantomime, as thousands of bullets hit the Eight Banners cavalry and the defeated soldiers of Pingdu Town.

It seemed that the peaceful world allowed Chen Changgong to observe the scenes more easily, but the huge smoke produced by the firing of the muskets obscured more details.

Through the gaps in the smoke, Chen Changgong saw an Eight Banners cavalryman who seemed to be hit by several hammers. His body shook back several times, and then he fell off his horse in pain. The Eight Banners cavalryman stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to ask for help, but suddenly, an ownerless warhorse rushed over from behind and stepped on his head with its hoof...

The second row, fires a volley, the third row, steps forward, fires a volley, the fourth row, steps forward, fires a volley, the fifth row, steps forward, fires a volley, the first row finishes reloading, steps forward again, and the cycle continues.

The continuous shooting was like a dense net, or like a barrage of bullets filled with the breath of death, splashing a barrier of flesh and blood in the body.

After several rounds of musket fire, the thick smoke of black gunpowder had completely enveloped the sky above the formation of the Po Lu Army. There were almost no horses and knights standing on the front line.

Chen Changgong looked up and saw corpses of men and horses all over the ground. He smelled the pungent smell of gunpowder and laughed while coughing. He said unconsciously, "The smell of this gunpowder is really good. Hehe, I like it."

Wu Sangui personally led the cavalry to the scene, but when he saw the corpses of the White Banner soldiers lying on the ground, his heart felt as if he had fallen into a cold cave, filled with chills.

A gust of wind blew, carrying a mixture of the smell of blood and gunpowder towards the direction of Wu Sangui, but the strong smell of blood on the battlefield was not even dispelled by the wind.