The sound of drums and trumpets is the most common word used to describe ancient warfare, but it is unknown when drums and trumpets gradually lost their original use. At the very least, the drums and trumpets in the Goryeo army served only a general indicative role.

The Hunan army was different, the big drums carried by the wrestlers set the basic point of the entire army formation with a dull sound that would sound every fixed time, and the relatively crisp sound of the small drums set the pace of the Hunan army. The sound of the horn is used to convey the relative distance between the various military formations and the news of their movements.

The Europeans used this communication technique in the era of queuing to be shot, and the overall effect was still good. Of course, it is not realistic for the Hunan army to learn these things directly from foreign devils. However, in the Taiping Army, Wei Ze was the first to sinicize these technologies and applied them very effectively. The technology of the Liberation Army was a bit too difficult for the Taiping Army to understand, but these techniques were quickly learned by the elite of the Taiping Army. After pouring a hand, the Hunan army also learned these techniques from the Taiping army. Although the captured Taiping army who taught them these techniques was killed by the Hunan army, the Hunan army's extremely regular combat mode itself required this technology, and although the people died, the technology was completely transplanted into the Hunan army.

Although the Goryeo army did not know the process of these twists and turns, the neat Qing army strode in, and they could still feel a strong murderous aura. It was a murderous aura peculiar to a soldier.

"Line up! Lined up! The Goryeo officer shouted. In this era, Asian countries are no longer simply white-knuckle warfare, and the popularity of arquebuses is not low. There was no special technical content in the three-stage attack, and even if the enemy attacked halfway, the Goryeo soldiers were prepared.

"Humph!" Seeing the chaotic response of the Goryeo army from the telescope, Bao Chao didn't even bother to comment, he just snorted coldly. After expressing his contempt, he turned to the artillery commander and said, "Be careful when you fire your guns, don't hurt those ships!" ”

The Manchu Qing kept shouting that Guanwai was the land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's dragon and was the lifeblood of the Manchu Dynasty. In fact, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not operate at all outside the Guan, and there were only civilian boats on the Yalu River, and there was no naval army at all. The Hunan army is now an army, but there is no shortage of personnel from the former Hunan army's naval division. Seize the boat as much as possible and rebuild the Hunan army as much as possible, Bao Chao has a lot of ideas about this.

During this march into Goryeo, the Hunan army also studied the topography of Goryeo. This is a peninsular country, and if you want to gain a foothold here, or even completely occupy Goryeo, you must have a sailor who can maneuver. This is not just Bao Chao's thoughts, no matter what Zeng Guofan thinks, the Hunan army, including Zeng Guoquan, is desperate for the small Manchu court. As long as they could capture Goryeo, or even a part of Goryeo, the generals of the Hunan army felt that it was necessary to occupy Goryeo and prevent the bannermen from getting their hands on Goryeo. The banner men themselves felt that they were the masters, so let them claim the king and hegemony in the place outside the gate. It is enough for the Hunan army to fight for the Manchu Qing so far, and the Hunan army now has to think about itself.

The arquebus not only has a short range, but the really reliable range is 40 steps, at least when the Hunan army used the arquebus in the past, it was to shoot intensively and continuously at this distance. The same was true of the control zhì of the generals of the Goryeo army. 40 steps is about 60 meters, and he is waiting for the Hunan army to approach this distance. But the Hunan army stopped at a distance of 120 paces, 120 steps is about 180 meters, and arquebuses are of little use at this distance. If you can hit people, you have to be favored by God.

Some of the weapons in the hands of the Hunan army were the weapons sold by the Guangfu Army to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in order to make the war fierce, the Guangfu Army sold the Manchu cast iron barrel of the fire cap gun without deception. The other part was the weapons seized by the Hunan army from the Twist Army, and in order to allow the "friendly army" to beat the Manchus, the Guangfu Army naturally provided the same weapons as those sold to the Manchus. The Liberation Army itself has long used steel-barreled rifles, and the outer sketches are all products produced by the same weapons factory.

These rifles have an effective range of 200 to 300 meters, and even if the rifling is worn off a lot, it also fails a lot because of the lead. But these weapons were not hostile to arquebuses. The melodious sound of trumpets sounded in each military formation, which was to inform each other that the other military formations had reached the end and were ready.

The big drum was slammed, and the small drum began to beat intensively as if in response to the big strands. The Goryeos, who were barely arrayed, felt a stronger danger from this formation, and although the enemy was still far away, far beyond the range of the arquebus, the incomprehensible sound of drums and trumpets gave the Goryeo a strong sense of charge.

Just when they were completely nervous, the drums and trumpets in the Hunan army suddenly stopped completely. After the Hunan army on the opposite side stomped their feet, the queue became more neat. As the drums stopped, they stood straight in place, like stakes.

"Aren't they going to rush over?" The Goryeo general, who was completely confused about these changes, asked the lieutenant general next to him. At this time, the Goryeo Dynasty was a dynasty surnamed Lee, and both the chief general and the deputy general were surnamed Lee. After learning that the Manchus had been expelled from the Guanwai by the Guangfu army, the king of Goryeo felt that the time had come to make a profit. Before the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo was not able to get its hands on the four Han counties. After the Ming Dynasty drove the Mongols out of the Central Plains, Goryeo was finally recognized by the Ming Taizu, and their borders reached the banks of the Yalu River. Although later forced to submit to the Manchus, Goryeo retained the land of the four Han counties.

With this experience, the Koreans felt that they should have the opportunity to take advantage of the change of dynasty in China. After a heated discussion, Goryeo sent troops across the Yalu River, hoping to nibble a few bites from the Manchus. If they can occupy some land at this time, they may wait until the Liberation Army strikes out of the border to take it for themselves.

What the Goryeo army did not expect was that the Manchu army, which was fiercely attacked by the Liberation Army, decisively sent troops to meet it at this time, and judging from the method of attacking half-crossing, the opponent's army was not a weak brigade that was vulnerable to attack. Where has the adjutant general seen such a tactic, and he is completely unable to respond to the question of the main general. But the battlefield has changed from the noisy drums and trumpets to the silence now, and the gap in between does make him feel completely wrong, but he can't say what is wrong.

Just when the two of them were staring at each other, the sound of artillery suddenly came from behind the Hunan army array. Goryeo also has artillery, and even if their cannon casting level is not good, it is not impossible to cast some iron cannons. It's just that these cannons are either "tiger squat guns" with a very short range, and the long-range cannons weigh several hundred catties, which are inconvenient to carry, and they are still on the east bank of the Yalu River at this time, and they cannot be transported to the west bank. These artillery pieces are not effective at all across the river.

Before the two of them had time to regret that they had no artillery on their side, the shells of the Hunan army had already flown into the array of the Goryeo army and exploded. In terms of artillery, the level of the Huai army was above that of the Hunan army. However, Jiang Zhongyuan, the leader of the Huai Army, had a bad relationship with Zeng Guofan, so he gave Wang Qinian, the person in charge of the Huai Army's artillery, to Zeng Guofan. With the help of artillery expert Wang Qinian, the artillery level of the Hunan army has greatly improved. Coupled with the artillery captured from the Twist Army, the artillery of the Hunan Army has made a qualitative leap, and it can also use flowering shells to attack and shell.

The Hunan army had flowering shells, but the Koreans did not have flowering shells. Bao Chao originally thought that the Goryeo army would immediately disperse, but he didn't expect that under the fierce artillery fire, the Goryeo army would withstand it. They just stood there and let the artillery bombard indiscriminately, and there was no movement.

Bao Chao was a fierce general of the Hunan army, and in the past, when the Taiping army was unfavorable in battle, he adopted the tactics of retreating in detachments, and at the same time threw property on the ground. When the ordinary Qing army encountered such a situation, they desperately picked up things, and the entire pursuit formation was chaotic. The Taiping army immediately turned back and assaulted, and defeated the Qing army, which was in the upper hand. This tactic worked again and again until it encountered Bao Chao's army.

This was the first Qing army to ignore the goods on the ground and pursue the Taiping army fiercely. The Taiping army suffered heavy losses at the hands of Bao Chao several times, and it was not until elite troops like Chen Yucheng were mobilized to come to the hostile scene that they could stop Bao Chao. This shows Bao Chao's strictness in governing the army, and it can also be seen Bao Chao's character.

When he saw the Goryeo army, he stiffened up and was hit by artillery, and Bao Chao came to the momentum. He shouted: "Stop fighting, artillerymen! The infantry began to shoot! ”

The military order was quickly carried out, and the artillerymen came to a halt. The infantry, under the command of the squad officer, raised their rifles and began a neat row of guns. The bullet flew over a distance of more than a hundred meters and crashed into the ranks of the Korean soldiers. But to Bao Chao's surprise, the Korean soldiers who were standing still in the face of artillery fire actually collapsed after being fired by a volley of guns, and those Korean soldiers who were killed and wounded fell to the ground, and these people could ignore them. Those who were not injured, or who had been slightly wounded, threw down their weapons and began to flee. It's just that they are arrayed along the river, and at this time they can only run away along the river, or rush to the boat and try to escape.

Where would Bao Chao let go of this opportunity, he shouted: "Pursuit!" ”

The snare drum continued to beat rapidly, and in accordance with the order of this percussion, the Hunan army drew the bayonet from the gun, pushed the steel bayonet forward, put the sleeve on the muzzle, and locked the sealer.

"Kill!" As the shouts of the officers rang out, the Hunan infantry followed the officers and raised their bayonets and chased after the fleeing Goryeo army. The distance of more than 100 meters passed in a blink of an eye, not to mention that the Hunan army was wearing rubber-soled shoes captured from the dead of the Twist Army, and the weather in May was not cold, and they ran very briskly on the dirt in rubber-soled shoes. In the blink of an eye, the Hunan army rushed to the front of the Goryeo soldiers.

Where did the chaotic Goryeo soldiers have the spirit to resist the Hunan army, not to mention that the rifle with the bayonet was a short spear, and the Hunan army didn't care what the Goryeo soldiers shouted "Oba", "Smecta" and so on, they completely understood the words, and stabbed with their guns when they got close. A massacre unfolded on the west bank of the Yalu River.