"You still dare to rush out?”
Dorgon said coldly as he looked at the Royal Guards charging from the flanks.
He didn't think that tens of thousands of imperial guards could pose a threat to his army.
Even if there was any danger, he could take the army and retreat, so he was not afraid.
With Dorgon's order, the Qing Eight Banners Cavalry finally moved.
In the past few days, the cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty had not attacked the city. The ones who attacked the city were only ordinary soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.
As the elites of the Qing Dynasty, the cavalry of the Eight Banners were very strong.
The 20,000 Eight Banners Cavalrymen split into two groups and charged towards the Royal Guards. In open areas, cavalrymen were very lethal.
"Aim at the enemy cavalry and fire five shots!”
After the imperial guards discovered the Eight Banners Cavalry, other than the imperial guards who were fighting the Manchu soldiers in the front, all of them took out the divine arm crossbows on their backs.
Then, they split into five rows and fired wave after wave of arrows at the Eight Banners Cavalry.
The divine arm crossbow was a weapon from the Northern Song Dynasty. The bow was three feet and three inches long, and the chord was two feet and five inches long. Its maximum range was over three hundred and forty paces, and it could kill wild boars within a hundred paces.
It could be said that the lethality of the Divine Arm Crossbow was even stronger than some pistols.
Such lethality was a nightmare for the Eight Banners Cavalry.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
The rain of arrows covered the Eight Banners Cavalry.
Anyone who was hit by the crossbow bolts, whether it was a horse or a failure, would be heavily injured in an instant. If the vital points were hit, they would die instantly.
"Retreat, the enemy has strong crossbows."
As the most elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, they immediately chose to retreat after seeing this situation.
Even so, in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, more than three thousand of the eight banners cavalry had died.
"The enemy actually has such a powerful crossbow."
Seeing this, Dorgon's expression turned ugly.
Once the enemy was equipped with a large number of such strong crossbows, their Qing cavalry would be restrained. This was something he did not want to see.
The reason why the nomads were strong was because of their cavalry.
However, facing such a powerful crossbow, the cavalry charge was completely ineffective. Instead, they would become the enemy's target.
"We must destroy them."
Dorgon's killing intent grew even stronger. He couldn't allow such a weapon to spread.
Just as he was about to mobilize his army to surround the Royal Guards and destroy them with their numbers, Chen Cheng appeared from behind with his army.
This time, there was no need for the messenger to report. Dorgon saw it himself.
"Cavalry, assemble and follow me to meet the enemy.”
Dorgon was very confident in facing thirty thousand cavalrymen.
No matter where this group of cavalry came from, they had no chance of winning against the Qing Dynasty's Eight Banners Cavalry.
This was the confidence that they had gained after roaming the grasslands for so many years.
Dorgon led 50,000 cavalry and charged at Chen Cheng's 30,000 soldiers.
Although the royal guards were not cavalry, as a tier 9 soldier, it was not inconceivable that they could fight on horseback.
Although the imperial guards couldn't defeat cavalrymen of the ninth rank or even seventh or eighth rank, they could easily defeat cavalrymen of the fourth or fifth rank.
Not to mention that the equipment of the Royal Guards was much better than the Eight Banners Cavalry.
The two sides were getting closer and closer, and they could see each other's expressions.
"Kill them!" Dorgon roared.
"My lord has ordered us to destroy the cavalry and capture Dorgon.”Chen Cheng immediately gave the order.
In the next moment, the two sides collided.
Puchi!
Thrust!
The spears in the royal guards 'hands easily pierced through the bodies of the eight banners cavalrymen.
Some of the Royal Guards were so fast that their spears pierced through two or three cavalrymen, turning them into a stick of candied haws.
On the contrary, the swords and spears of the Eight Banners Cavalrymen could not break through the armor of the Royal Guards.
This also caused the cavalry of the Eight Banners Army to be overturned and unable to charge into the formation of the Royal Guards.
On the contrary, the formation of the eight banners cavalry was broken by the royal guards.
Dorgon was also at the front, but he wasn't at the very front.
When he saw this situation, he dared to give an order. In the end, he was shot in the face by Chen Cheng and fainted.
Chen Cheng held Dorgon in one hand and brandished his spear in the other. Soon, he led the Royal Guards to pierce through the Eight Banners Cavalry.
"The left and right wings will pursue the enemy cavalry. The rest will follow me and charge.”
After breaking through the formation of the Eight Banners Cavalry, Chen Cheng gave the order.
The 20,000 Royal Guards went to chase after the remaining Eight Banners Cavalrymen, while he led the 10,000 Cavalrymen to charge at the Manchu army.
"It's over."
Standing on the corner tower and watching Chen Cheng defeat the Eight Banners Cavalry and charge into the Manchu army, he knew that the war was over.
Facing Chen Cheng's cavalry charge, the Manchu soldiers were like lawns that had been mowed by lawnmowers. Everywhere they passed, there were corpses.
The surrounded Manchu soldiers wanted to put down their weapons and surrender.
Unfortunately, Liu Yu's order was to annihilate them and not take any prisoners.
Therefore, even if they had already knelt down and surrendered, they would still die.
This made it more difficult to annihilate the Manchu soldiers. After all, when a person was about to die, they would explode with a powerful force.
However, Liu Yu would not change his orders. These people had to die.
Even though many of these 200,000 soldiers were Han Chinese and even Liaodong soldiers.
However, when they attacked Beijing, they were destined to be traitors.
Even if the soldiers at the bottom didn't have their own wishes and letting the Manchu into the pass wasn't what they wanted, everything was already a fact. There was nothing left to say.
People always had to pay for their mistakes.
Although the order was not given by the soldiers, the soldiers were the ones who carried out the order.
In history, the Qing Dynasty was able to conquer the Ming Dynasty because of that 120,000-strong army?
No, they relied on the surrendered army of Da Ming.
They relied on the Donglin Party, who did not want to be human, but only wanted to be dogs and slaves.
When the Manchu army attacked Jiangnan, they did not use the Manchu soldiers, but the Ming Dynasty's surrendered soldiers.
As long as the massacres in various places were caused by the Manchu Dynasty, in actual action, these surrendered Ming soldiers did not participate much.
Otherwise, why would the Ming Dynasty, which had a population of more than 100 million during the Chongzhen period, have a population of more than 50 million in the Shunzhi period?
Therefore, these people had to die.
Liu Yu wanted to set a rule that anyone who surrendered to the non-humankind and became a traitor had to die, no matter what the reason was.
The royal guards killed from morning to night.
The river water of the moat was dyed red, the ground was covered in a layer of blood, and corpses were everywhere.
When more than 200,000 corpses piled up into a few mountains and began to be incinerated, even Tianjin Wei could smell the burnt smell of the roasted meat.
The sky was also dyed with a layer of grayish-white fog.
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