Chapter 168: War Elephant VS Cannon
Huang Hu is not a cavalry general, but a typical Guangxi wolf soldier king-style foot general, but he has a high prestige among the wolf soldiers in southern Guinan, and under a shout, the wolf soldiers of Siming Mansion and Siming Prefecture began to converge on him.
Huang Hu didn't wait for all the people to get closer, and when about 2,000 people gathered around him, he began to yell at this group of people to form a whole team - the problem of beachfront landing is that everyone is easy to run away in the process of getting on the boat, getting off the boat and grabbing the beach, so the current front is slightly stable, and he immediately seizes the opportunity to form a team.
said that it was really time to hurry up, and before the time for a stick of incense arrived, Huang Hu preliminarily completed the formation of the team, and temporarily fine-tuned the command sequence, and then immediately took this group of people forward.
Attack is the best defense, Huang Hu may not have heard this sentence, but he must have come to this conclusion from years of war experience, he knew that although Zheng Jun's wave of attack just now was repelled because the main general was killed, but that person may not look too high in the future, now that this section of the attack has failed, the other party will definitely make adjustments, and he will immediately regain his strength and kill again.
After all, when the Ming army landed, the Zheng army could basically only be trapped in the isolated city of Thanh Hoa.
So now they have to rush for time, waiting for the other party to attack has never been the habit of wolf soldiers, and it is their hobby to rush over to collect people's heads, so Huang Hu's actions made this group of Huang Zhiting's descendants very excited, and the two thousand people gathered into a fist and smashed Zheng Jun in front of him.
In front of them, the Zheng army was really regrouping, preparing to rush back again, and at the same time they also summoned reinforcements to the rear.
The Zheng army's troops, which were about 3,000 men, had just assembled, and the wolf soldiers led by Huang Hu had arrived.
This is not a confrontation between the two armies before the start of the war, and there is no time to engage in any long-range archers to cover and shoot and then the infantry forward, the wolf soldiers at the moment are all a pack of hungry wolves, and catching the enemy is to rush and kill.
Of course, the habitual round of javelins of the wolf soldiers is still inevitable.
I have to say that although these wolf soldiers do not require height like Gao Pragmatic Selector, their strength is really not small, and the average distance of the javelin in their hands is estimated to be more than 30 zhang when they run forward - this is about three zhang away from the javelin world record in later generations, but it is their average.
Zheng Jun's weapons are varied, including javelinmen, but they don't like to use them in a concentrated manner like the wolf soldiers - in fact, the wolf soldiers used to prefer small-scale centralized use, but later Gao Shishi gave Huang Zhiting advice, and Huang Zhiting asked Huang Hu to experiment, with a single hundred households as a small formation, forming five or six javelins with a hundred households in unison, one throw for a wave, divided into three waves of overlapping and turn-turning.
This tactic was obviously modified from the three-stage fire of muskets, and it was not easy to use in ordinary Ming troops, because these people were equivalent to rushing over to bid for guns under the threat of the opponent's bow and arrow or even a salvo of muskets, and it would definitely not work without amazing courage.
But the wolf soldiers have such courage, and these people have long been instilled with too many strange respects and values that are difficult for outsiders to understand, just like some religious brainwashing.
For them, after a few rounds of javelins, the enemy will have to collapse, and if they are lucky enough not to collapse, then come to the second trick and directly step forward to let them taste the bamboo spear formation. Some people in later generations believe that the original idea of Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array came from the spontaneous formation of those fellow wolf soldiers "three or five groups of each other", although it is not necessarily true, but at least it shows that the wolf soldiers' bamboo spear array is very powerful.
Huang Hu is also an experienced player, and seeing that the other party is about to complete the reorganization, he ordered to hurry up and throw a javelin three-stage throw without saying a word. Needless to say, the discipline of the wolf soldiers in carrying out the orders of the Tusi Needless to say, the four hundred households team was in one round, and the three-section javelin was already turned by the Zheng army.
Many of the unlucky ones who were close were even nailed to the ground by the inertia of the javelins, and some of those who were lucky enough not to die screamed and were extremely desolate.
This kind of puncture injury, but as long as it hurts a slightly more critical part, it is basically not saved in this era, and because the bamboo pole is not very thin, even if it penetrates the thigh, arm or something, it is easy to cause blood vessels to break...... On the battlefield, this is also not saved.
After the three-stage throw, the Zheng army directly reduced more than 400 people, and in this era it was already a heavy casualty, but the Yellow Tiger was still inexhaustible, and the wolf soldiers who threw a javelin retreated and rested for a while, and the remaining about 800 wolf soldiers who did not participate in the three-stage throw had formed a bamboo spear formation and rushed forward.
The bamboo spear formation is indeed a little similar to the mandarin duck formation, it does not have to stand in place and honestly line up and slowly approach, but can directly rush forward to kill - in fact, this is somewhat similar to the "infantry squad attack tactics" in later generations, focusing on small-scale cooperative operations.
Gao pragmatic understands the truth, but he does not know much about specific training and command, while Huang Hu is the opposite, he may not know the truth, but he is definitely good at application.
These 800 wolf soldiers are actually divided into 80 "infantry squads", each infantry squad has a small flag, which is equivalent to the squad leader, who selects the enemy, and then the whole "squad" cooperates with the battle under his command.
In a round of rushing killing, the Zheng army collapsed in front of them, in fact, they were killed by this round of bamboo spear arrays There were no more than two hundred people, which was not as good as the previous javelin three-stage throw, but the feeling of the enemy killing in front of him was different from the feeling of facing long-range throwing.
This group of wolf soldiers not only cooperated tacitly, ten people were like one person, but these guys were full of enthusiasm and excitement, as well as some inexplicable cruelty, Zheng Jun was killed by them in a burst of rush, almost all of them were slaughtered, and all kinds of resistance simply did not cause harm to the other party.
What a!
I don't know who was the first to lose the weapon in his hand and shouted and turned around and ran, anyway, in an instant, it evolved into thousands of Zheng soldiers who threw away their weapons and turned around and fled, and many people also took off their half-body armor while running, so that they could escape lightly.
This Zheng army of 3,000 people completely collapsed.
On this side, Huang Hu defeated the Zheng army in front of him, and more wolf soldiers came closer from the rear and from all directions, and Huang Hu took the opportunity to concentrate and reorganize again in order to form a greater combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
And the collapse of the Zheng army in front of him annoyed Ruan Youyi, the chief general of the Zheng army's defense line along the river, who was watching the battle in the rear, and Ruan Youyi was furious and mobilized men and horses to fight in person.
This time, he not only had his 3,000 elite descendants, but also brought twenty war elephants sent by Ruan Huang at the beginning.
While Huang Hu was in the whole team, he did not forget to observe the situation in front of him, those war elephants were too tall, and they were discovered by Huang Hu from afar.
There were elephants in Guangxi in the past - the Ming Dynasty even set up an elephant guard in Guangxi, which was under the jurisdiction of Nanning Prefecture, in Hengzhou, east of Nanning - so Huang Hu was not very strange to war elephants.
However, there are fewer and fewer elephants in Guangxi, and the mahout guards are actually only an empty shell, and they don't know if they can get a circus out, and it is completely nonsense to use them to fight, and they are now a Tuntian soldier with a few mascots.
But this is enough for Huang Hu, he knows that it is not difficult to deal with these war elephants, the difficulty is that he did not expect to encounter war elephants, so he lacks preparation at hand - for the wolf soldiers who are bold in battle, there is no need to engage in any fire attack to deal with war elephants, as long as there are elongated bamboo spears, a group of wolf soldiers surround them, poke at the eyes of the war elephants, as long as they can poke one eye blind, the war elephants will go crazy.
There is no need to attack the part outside the eyes, although the bamboo spear with an iron spear head can still pierce the body of the war elephant, but in fact, when the war elephant moves, it is very dangerous to poke the bamboo spear into it, because it is easy to be carried into the air, and then no one can say what will happen.
Moreover, the skin of war elephants is thick and thick, and this skin wound is not fatal to them, and the real lethal and effective attack site is the eyes. War elephants are likely to go berserk when their eyes are blinded, but they are intelligent creatures who know that the enemy in front of them who pokes them blind cannot afford to offend, so they will generally turn and run away - which will cause them to completely overwhelm their own lineup.
But the problem now is that he doesn't have an elongated bamboo spear, and an ordinary bamboo spear can be poked, but that danger is more than ten times higher - being slammed by this giant beast, let you usually look like a cow, that is, death.
Huang Hu's mind was spinning wildly, he thought of a way, and immediately shouted loudly, gathering the wolf soldiers who usually threw spears the most accurately - that's right, he planned to use the spear-throwing method to stab the war elephant's eyes!
However, he didn't have time to implement this method, and Gao Zhang hurried from behind.
Along with Gao Zhang, it was Gao Shishi's descendants in this battle, his family guard group.
At the same time, in addition to thousands of Longqing Type II muskets, there were also cannons.
After listening to Huang Hu's brief introduction to the battle situation and telling him about the threat of war elephants, Gao Zhang decisively ordered the deployment of artillery - as Gao Shishi has always emphasized, artillery should be used in a centralized manner!
Since the large No. 3 Franc cannon had not yet been transported across the river, Gao Zhang placed 120 relatively small Tiger Squat cannons in front of the formation, and all preparations were completed in the shortest possible time.
The elite soldiers under the personal command of Ruan Youyi were already killed a mile away with twenty war elephants.
Huang Hu quietly gave a look to the javelinmen under his command, which meant that in case the Gao family couldn't handle these war elephants, they still had to attack, and the hundred households who were temporarily arranged by him to command this round of "elephant hunting javelinmen" just now nodded and said that they understood.
Gao Zhang didn't pay attention to the Yellow Tiger's side, but was carefully observing the distance, and when the war elephant immediately approached the distance of 100 zhang that he had asked the artillerymen to position, he suddenly shouted: "Ignition!" Firecrackers! ”
"Huh...... Bang! ”
"Huh...... Bang! ”
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One hundred and twenty tiger squat cannons that Qi Jiguang liked to take to fight roared in unison, and all the projectiles were smashed towards a hundred zhang away.
People turn on their backs - no, people turn on their backs. Three unlucky war elephants were directly hit by artillery, one of which was shot in the head by a cannon, exploded a ball of blood and bones, and fell to the ground with a bang, and also crushed two Zheng soldiers to death by the way.
The other two were hit in the back, and of course they were killed, leaving the mahout sitting on its back with no bones.
The last one was a little lucky, and due to the angle, he broke one of his hind legs, and he also fell to the ground with a bang, throwing the mahout on his back a few feet away. The war elephants hissed in pain like a whistle, which suddenly caused the other war elephants to become unstable, and they all became agitated, struggling from side to side, and refused to come forward no matter how urged by the mahouts.
Elephant, in fact, is a timid vegetarian animal.
Fear of fire, fear of loud noises.
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