Chapter 345 Bloody Battle

After slaughtering the Hunhe tribe, the army continued to advance.

All the Jurchen tribes, big and small, were slaughtered without exception.

After months of bloody massacres, these 7,000 soldiers had already changed their appearance, becoming numb and cruel. They even became excited when they saw the Jurchen tribe again.

In this era, being able to eat and have generous pay is an unimaginable treatment.

The standard of the Beijing Army soldiers is undoubtedly the best in the world. Not only are they well fed every day, but their pay is never short of a penny!

What's more, within the Beijing Army soldiers, Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao personally created a promotion path with strict and clear class treatment, but with a lot of hope.

Human desires have always been endless.

No matter how good the treatment is, it will sooner or later become a matter of course.

The Beijing Army soldiers are used to the current treatment, and naturally they will crave for better.

For example, they will be promoted to generals in the army, such as Tang Mu, Chang Kuohai and other generals, and be granted titles and appointed as generals!

Therefore, this strict military merit promotion system created by Tang Hao will become the place where most of the Beijing Army soldiers desire to go.

Strict classes, clear class treatment, but under the control of Tang Hao, it maintains an unimpeded promotion path for the bottom.

The only criterion for the promotion of Beijing Army soldiers is military merit!

And the biggest source of military merit is naturally the battlefield!

Everyone is afraid of death!

This is human nature!

But only war can have military merit!

Only with military merit can they be granted titles and appointed as generals, and can they embark on the road of rising to honor their ancestors.

Human life is humble, and the soldiers and generals who have come through suffering are extremely clear.

But who would like their life to be so humble, and even their descendants will live such a humble life like themselves?

Not to mention the combat effectiveness of the Beijing Army soldiers, compared with these Jurchen barbarians, it is almost crushing.

In other words, they are now easily hunting for military merit and preparing for their own promotion!

As for these Jurchen barbarians, they are nothing but beasts, which is the tacit consensus of all the soldiers of the Beijing Army.

Because every time they slaughter a tribe, they will find a large number of slaves!

Among these slaves, there are Han people and Korean people, but the majority are Han people.

They were tortured beyond human form, they were kept in the cowshed and horse pen like livestock, and completely lost everything.

So, they are all beasts, damn beasts!

Woo woo woo...

Accompanied by the sound of the vast horn, the earth shook, and the stagnant cavalry once again attacked the soldiers of the Beijing Army like a tsunami.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine what a terrifying scene it is when a large-scale cavalry rushes in.

To be honest, this is the first time Tang Hao has seen it.

Jurchen cavalry!

There are thousands of them!

Panic?

Fear?

Despair?

None!

At this time, Tang Hao was extremely excited, and his whole body seemed to be trembling in every cell!

These Jurchen cavalrymen in front of us are the last foundation of Jianzhou Jurchen.

Because the Ming army suddenly sent troops to slaughter one tribe after another, Jianzhou Jurchen was not stupid, so they immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. The remaining large tribes gathered together under the intentional expulsion of the Ming army, trying to resist these Ming army executioners!

In other words, this is the last struggle of Jianzhou Jurchen.

As long as these thousands of cavalrymen are slaughtered and their nests are destroyed, then the future Later Jin Kingdom will naturally cease to exist!

"Beat the drum!"

Tang Hao gave an order, and the rumbling sound of war drums suddenly sounded.

The flags changed, and the military formations of all parties also moved with it.

The sky was just right, and the scorching sun was hanging high, which had no effect on firearms.

But this time, Jianzhou Jurchen showed all his foundation.

These charging cavalrymen were obviously better equipped, and there were shield cars in the front to protect them.

Getting closer!

Getting closer!

The soldiers of the Beijing Army at the front could even clearly see the ferocious faces of the charging Jurchen barbarians and the rain of arrows that fell from the sky!

Swish, swish, swish!

Endless rain of arrows fell into the Ming army formation, hitting the shields that had been arranged horizontally for a long time. A few arrows penetrated through the gaps and quickly fell silent after causing blood and screams.

It must be admitted that the Jurchen cavalry's archery skills were really good, fast and fierce, and the wild boar skins used heavy arrows. Although the range was not far, they were accurate and tricky, especially the arrowheads were soaked in feces, which was like being poisoned. There was no good end for being shot, and the wounds were infected and rotted.

"Fire guns, fire!"

Xu Tianci shouted loudly again.

Under the command of the flags, the rows of fire guns also emitted endless flames behind the barricades!

For the soldiers of the Beijing Army, multi-stage shooting has long been ingrained in their bones. They practice hundreds of times every day and are so skilled that they can't be any more skilled!

The fire guns fired row after row, continuously, and once again built a firepower network!

In this situation, there is no need to aim at all, because the enemy is right in front of them!

Raise the gun, fire, raise the gun, fire... one action after another, over and over again, without any pause!

The soldiers of the Beijing Army fired mechanically, but in return, the charging Jurchen cavalry fell down in groups like wheat being cut!

In fact, as long as a soldier is not frightened by the threat of cavalry, he can easily kill several times more enemies under the cover of his own side.

And these 7,000 Beijing soldiers have become cold and hard as iron after months of fighting and killing.

Anyway, the Jurchen cavalry is just like that!

It's nothing more than arrows that are more powerful, but that's all!

They can't break through the firepower network built by their own army!

The gap between hot weapons and cold weapons is vividly reflected at this moment!

The muskets only fired several times in succession, and the charging Jurchen cavalry crossed a not-so-long distance, crashing into the barricades, wooden stakes, trenches and the wooden frames used as obstacles in front of the battle... and then fell into a pool of blood with screams!

The Jurchen cavalry is now very desperate.

The leaders of various tribes saw this scene, and their eyes were black and their hearts trembled.

But they had no choice but to force their young warriors to charge frantically, trying to kill all the Ming troops.

Because from the news they learned, the Ming army slaughtered one Jurchen tribe after another, and they killed all the people without leaving any chickens or dogs, and burned the entire tribe to ashes afterwards!

In other words, this time the Ming court really wanted to kill the Jurchens to the point of extinction!

At this moment, they had no way out!

Either they rose up to resist, or they waited to be slaughtered by the Ming army!

Several leaders looked at each other, and then they drew their swords at the same time, roaring and leading the charge!

The front army madly collided with the military formation of the Beijing army soldiers who were waiting in full battle array!

There is no doubt that those seemingly solid preparations were fragile and vulnerable under the collision of the Jurchen cavalry who came one after another.

But in a moment, the various defensive facilities in front of the military formation were completely torn apart!

Next, it was a real close combat!

"Kill!"

The soldiers of the Beijing Army, who were at the forefront of the army, had no way to retreat. They could only shout wildly and resist the cavalry's charge fiercely.

Sabers, large shields, and muskets, three simple weapons, formed a cycle of the first wave of defense for the infantry in this close combat!

Both sides went forward one after another, one after another, one team after another!

The Jurchen cavalry, under the impact of the inertia of the charge, could not retreat at all, and could only continue to charge without fear of life and death!

And the soldiers of the Beijing Army, under the inertia of strict discipline, could not retreat either!

The soldiers of the Beijing Army could only mechanically swing their weapons, or hold the muskets tightly, firing again and again, and each time they could take the life of a Jurchen barbarian.

Accompanied by the shouts of the charge, sharp arrows whizzed past their ears.

Swords and shields clashed, screams rang out, and blood and flesh flew everywhere!

Both sides had fought to the point of madness!

A rain of arrows and bullets flew through the armor and military uniforms, blood splashed in the air, the heads of the soldiers rolled to the ground, and pairs of blood-red eyes flashed crazy light on the hideous faces!

The bloody smell became thicker and thicker, the sky was filled with smoke, and the line of close combat, in a short moment of stalemate, had completely become a bloody purgatory!

The Jurchen cavalry discovered a horrible fact!

That is, in their memory, the originally weak and cowardly Ming army, which should have trembled and fled in panic under their iron hooves, seemed to be crazy at this moment, with red eyes and would rather die than retreat, and started a head-on fight with them!

When did the Han people become so brave and so bloody?

All the Jurchens couldn't figure out this question.

Even if they continued to fight, they couldn't really move forward at all.

Kill one, replenish one, kill a team, replenish a team, the Ming soldiers in front of them are also advancing one after another, endless!

These Ming troops in front of them are like a towering mountain, a mountain that the Jurchen cavalry cannot cross!

Swords, shields, spears, muskets, and cannons, one after another, forming a bloody slaughterhouse, tearing the soldiers of both sides madly, and ruthlessly harvesting their lives!

Just at this time, a burst of rapid military drums sounded!

Immediately afterwards, two steel torrents suddenly surged from both sides of the battlefield, and they ruthlessly chiseled into the Jurchen charge formation without any explanation, causing these previously unstoppable Jurchen cavalry to be cut off in the middle!

Tang Hao, in iron armor and holding a sword, wantonly harvested the lives of the Jurchen barbarians.

The reason why he chose to endure all the time was to wait for the opportunity, waiting for the Jurchen leader to lead the main force to launch a charge!

Of the seven thousand soldiers, only three thousand were actually on the front battlefield. The remaining four thousand soldiers rode on horses and were divided into two armies, led by Tang Hao and Chang Kuohai respectively, ready to launch surprise attacks at any time.

This battle plan was actually not very brilliant, but it was very effective.

The Jurchen cavalry, which had been blocked by the charge, was suddenly intercepted by the cavalry and instantly became chaotic!

For a cavalry, the most terrifying thing is that the offensive that should have been unstoppable was completely hindered by the delay!