Chapter 196: Stunned

Da Ce Ling Dun Dob's intentions were too obvious, and Liu Yu clenched his fists excitedly, this was the time he had been waiting for.

Of course, no matter how many tactics and stratagems there are, they need the support of combat power.

Now only three battalions of the Chinese army were left on the resistance line, and the three battalions supporting on the hill also ran forward, and the column marched to the predetermined position.

In order to prevent accidents, Liu Yu arranged another battalion to support the Chinese army.

The Chinese army had a total of seven battalions and 3,500 men, and once the cavalry of the quasi-division began to charge, they had to quickly form seven hollow formations with horns forming each other.

If these seven hollow arrays can't hold up and are crushed by the elite cavalry of the quasi-department, then Liu Yu will be defeated in this battle.

If these seven hollow arrays are supported and the cavalry of the quasi-department cannot rush away, then Liu Yu will win a big victory in this battle.

Now that both sides have shown the courage to make a last-ditch effort, there is nothing left to bet on.

The cannons that have just been mobilized have been deployed in the predetermined gun positions and are preparing for test firing.

But this time, Liu Yu's order was not for the artillery to reverse the cannons of the quasi-department, but to occupy the advantage of the hill and flank, and bombard the cavalry of the quasi-division.

On the north side of the hill, the last mobile troops, a grenadier battalion, three infantry battalions, five hundred light cavalry, and eight light cavalry guns accompanied by rapid deployment, were waiting for Liu Yu's order.

Once the last elite cavalry of the Quasi-Department was stuck by the Chinese army and could not break through, these last reserves on the north side had to take advantage of the rapid march and penetrate directly into the flank of the Quasi-Department from the north side.

With the characteristics of the rapid march and change of formation of the battalion column, the gap was opened and the encirclement was completed. If there are more than a dozen cannons in the quasi-department, Liu Yu doesn't dare to use the column like this, but no, he will use it with his heart.

As for the southern line, there is no point in paying attention to it, and the quasi-ministry can't rush through the southern line, which Liu Yu is full of confidence.

In the Chinese army, the infantry cooperated with the cavalry, and after the cavalry forced out of the phalanx, the infantry followed up with such a cooperation...... If the people in the quasi-department could play it, they would have beaten Dashun out of a civil fort again.

After a final glance at the Chinese army, he thought that as long as the seven battalions of the Chinese army could resist the last rush of the cavalry of the quasi-department, the battle would be over.

In other words, after the defeat of the righteous army in the third year of Song Renzong Jingyou, after a lapse of 700 years, the army of the Han people will once again be stationed south of the Altai Mountains.

Chinese Army.

The smoke and dust billowing in the distance meant that the cavalry of the Quasi-Division had begun to assemble.

The phalanx has not yet been formed, and it is not in a hurry, and it is still shooting horizontally.

As a drummer, Zhang Sanbiao mechanically beats the waist drum, just like he usually does during training.

He was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the rifle he carried on his back was about the same height as he was.

Although the guns issued by these drummers were all short cavalry models, he was still young after all, and he had not yet grown into a tall man.

The beating of the drum continued, and in between the beatings of the drum, he lifted his hand up and lifted up the wide, falling felt hat that covered his eyes.

Even the military hat is not a suitable size.

The musketeers on the opposite side had begun to retreat, and a large number of corpses had piled up in front of them.

The officers knew that this was to make room for the cavalry onslaught, and the artillery on the hillside began to bombard the musketeers on the opposite side, and the continuous rapid fire made it impossible for the quasi-musketeers to carry it.

"Whole camp! Phalanx! ”

Hearing the officer's shout, Zhang Sanbiao subconsciously struck the drum a few times, and the trumpeter next to him blew a piercing suona sound.

Several companies next to it quickly turned from horizontal formations to columns, and assembled towards the place where the military flag was erected.

Countless times under the machinery under the leather whip, it only took the whole battalion five minutes to change from the horizontal formation just now to a phalanx.

One hundred and twenty paces to their left was another phalanx.

Zhang Sanbiao was very short, and after hiding in the phalanx, he looked behind him with his feet. A hundred paces behind them, there was also a phalanx. There is another one on the right.

After that, he couldn't see clearly, and this kind of feeling of being a person made him feel very relieved.

When you fight, you always die. But he saw a lot of such things as dead people during the great calamity of that year.

He remembered that Master Liu had said that the victims were the best soldiers of this era, because they could endure the bloodiest fire.

Which country has made the bottom miserable, and it takes great courage to even live, and the line soldiers of this country must not be too bad...... The premise is that the military is paid in full and the food is full.

Zhang Sanbiao is not afraid of the dead, and most of the people in the camp are not afraid either. Most of them were survivors of the starvation of their entire families, not to mention the dead, and I don't even know how many swollen corpses they saw after they died.

It is said that there are still a few people in the camp who have eaten human flesh, and I don't know whether it's true or not.

Years of training have trained these people like wood. In the words of Lord Liu, this is called "dumbfounded".

Although the chicken has a song, it has not changed, and it looks like a wooden chicken; Its virtue is complete, and those who dare not respond to it will go on the contrary.

Once the soldiers formed a formation, they all looked like wooden men who couldn't speak.

The officers' orders are like those of dogs, whoops and barks, and the dogs come running.

Most of the infantry of the Qingzhou Army was in this state.

Zhang Sanbiao is the same.

He can be half-asleep, and when he hears the officer's command, his hands can naturally strike the corresponding rhythm.

"Whole camp! Bayonet ready! ”

Knock knock knock......

Just like when calling a dog to eat, the officer's command, Zhang Sanbiao no longer needed any thinking, his arm shook rapidly, and the drum beat very fast.

The drumming stopped, and he removed the cavalryman's rifle from his back, and loaded the bayonet at his waist.

The French cavalry spear with the bayonet loaded, taller than him, had to be reloaded with his legs between the skews of the musket, rather than standing up straight like the soldiers.

The bayonet was loaded, and the musket was put on his back.

When the fight started for a while, the drums could not stop, and the phalanx facing the enemy could not see behind them.

The sound of drums means that the phalanx is still there, it means that the phalanx has not been crushed, and it means that there is no need to worry about the enemy behind you.

As for the cavalry charge, they had seen something more terrifying than this. On Liugong Island, cavalry was often organized to scare these infantrymen.

At first, it was a scare one by one, stabbing the horse in the eye with a stick. Later, after the formation was formed, the light cavalry who held sticks together and endured the black pressure charged at them.

Whoever runs, then ten military sticks.

In the beginning, when I was training alone, everyone was familiar with it.

But when the phalanx is really formed to face the impact of the black cavalry, there will still be people who subconsciously want to run, and the appearance of hundreds of cavalry rushing up is too terrifying.

It's like the huge waves on the beach of Liugong Island, especially the one during the typhoon last year, which is terrifying.

However, after training and intimidation, and baton beatings, the soldiers were numb to the cavalry charge.

Utter numbness.

The soldiers in the front row crouched on the ground and propped up their bayonets. The thick phalanx of four rows, people next to people, there is no way to retreat and nowhere to run.

In the distance, a rumbling sound like summer thunder was heard, and a group of cavalry under black pressure rushed towards the phalanx.

Zhang Sanbiao stood on tiptoe while tapping the rhythm that kept his comrades steady.

The fastest cavalry pulled into a wave, and the first few men picked up their speed and slowly formed the shape of a wooden wedge.

These men were not attacking the phalanx of their battalion, but the one to their left.

The fastest men, armed with spears. However, after only a few paces, there were several cannon shots on the hillside, and the horses with spears in the front were killed, and several people flew out and fell into the smoke and dust.

"Unlucky bastard, if you don't fall to death, you will be trampled to death."

Zhang Sanbiao muttered, and then looked at the quasi-cavalry in front of his battalion, compared to the wooden wedge next to him, this group of people was like a big tide, but it was getting more and more chaotic and scattered.

"Far worse than the cavalry battalion."

Thinking like this, the officers gave the order for the first platoon to fire, and Zhang Sanbiao struck the waist drum while complaining.

The soldier who was squatting on the ground raised his gun and aimed at the quasi-cavalry who were getting closer and closer in the distance, and a cloud of white smoke rose from the camp phalanx.

When he had finished shooting, he put the gun on the ground, stuck it diagonally, and stomped on it with his foot.

The thumping sound continued to echo in his ears, and Zhang Sanbiao doubted that his comrades could hear the drums at this time, but he didn't dare to stop.

It was both an order and because he knew that if the phalanx broke, he would have to die. Since the officers said let him keep knocking, he kept knocking.

"Soldiers! Steady, steady! After the battle, count the corpses. The price is clearly marked, and the court will not be short of silver. Lord Liu said that after this battle, there will be no big battles in the future, and when the time comes, he will go to the capital to serve as a soldier, and he will get a reward to marry a daughter-in-law! ”

Just like the style of the Qingzhou Army, neither for His Majesty nor for the sake of the family and country, the former is nonsense, and the latter does not understand. On the contrary, it is the salary of the army, and when it is done, there will never be a shortage, and when the war starts, it has always been said that silver is used to boost morale.

Zhang Sanbiao thought to himself, he had never seen anything in the capital, but Lord Liu never lied to people. Even if you say that after this battle, you can go to the capital to serve as a soldier in the future, but you can also have a long experience, which is better than on that island.

Seeing the cavalry rushing to a very close place, Zhang Sanbiao said in his heart that he didn't know which unlucky guy it was, and he would eat a grape bullet first? It was much worse to hit the body than with a musket, and it might not even be able to leave a whole corpse.

Rumble......

As if to satisfy Zhang Sanbiao's wishes, the gunners of the battalion finally fired a shot and all slipped into the phalanx.

More than twenty cavalrymen were swept to the ground in a wave, and the cavalry behind had to get out of the way of the dead bodies and bypass the side.

The cavalry finally rushed to the front of the phalanx, and the thumping guns rang out, and from time to time there were screams of being hit.

The war horse did not dare to directly rush such a phalanx, if this was a horizontal line, maybe the war horse had nowhere to go but to rush.

However, this was only a phalanx, and there was still more than a hundred steps of open space between the two phalanxes, and the cavalry of the quasi-division subconsciously slipped into the gap to circle around.

Zhang Sanbiao felt that this was like going to the beach with his comrades to play in the water, and a group of people carrying wooden barrels to splash water on each other.

The cavalry of the quasi-division continued to rush inside along the interval of the phalanx, and the cavalry behind squeezed forward in a crushing manner, and in the place where Zhang Sanbiao could not see, a total of seven phalanxes formed a chessboard-like shape.

The cavalry of the quasi-division circled back and forth in the holes of these seven phalanxes, not because they didn't want to rush, but because they couldn't.

The people who rushed the fastest were almost dead, first swept by the artillery of each battalion, and then by several volleys, and the dead bodies piled up in front of each phalanx made it impossible for the follow-up horses to rush at all.

Horses were also afraid of sharp bayonets, and these piles of dead corpses would not have been able to rush without excellent horsemanship. Horses can also trip over.

The seven phalanxes were like seven showers, and the quasi-cavalry bathed in them enjoyed a shower of buckshot.

They are proud that their armor can block a bow and arrow with a kinetic energy of 130 joules, but it cannot block a lead bullet with a kinetic energy of 1800 joules at all.

The tenfold difference requires at least 7 mm of armor, and there is no 7 mm thick armor in the quasi-part, and it is estimated that it will not be able to wear an iron plate nearly one cm thick.

The scattered cavalry was worse than the infantry attacking the bastion on foot.

A phalanx is not very useful, but when the phalanx itself is also crossed by each other's horns, there is not much difference from the cross fire of the fortress.

The most panicked thing was the moment when the cavalry first rushed near the phalanx, once the first wave did not rush away, the subsequent impact force was relieved by the unloading, and the phalanx stabilized.

The cavalry of the quasi-division is not a question of whether they will be able to charge against the wall, but they will not attack in waves at all, especially if they can't rush away, the whole team will retreat and rush again. It's not that I don't understand, it's not that I can't, it's that I can't do it with my organization and training.

Little Ce Ling Dun Dob was already red-eyed, he had never seen such infantry, let alone such a phalanx.

Can't rush in at all.

His horse had already been killed twice, and when he changed to a third horse, his subordinates stopped him and shouted, "Retreat, you can't rush." ”

Xiao Ce Ling Dun Dobu raised his hand, pushed away the arm of the guard who was holding him, looked at the corpses all over the ground next to him and shouted, "So many warriors, did they die in vain?" If we can't break through this formation, our Dzungar Department will be finished. Warriors, rush with me again! ”

With a shout, more than 100 guards gathered around him, and Xiao Celing Dundobu held a scimitar, with the courage of death, and formed a team in the sound of gunfire.

His followers, with courage and discipline, quickly relined around him and rushed to the first phalanx.

As long as you can break through the first one, you may be able to bring courage, or you may be able to break through the next few formations.

Constantly people were hit by buckshot and fell off their horses, and some people tripped over corpses on the ground because they rushed too quickly.

Around the phalanx in front, the corpses piled up were already more than half a person high, and the horses that had been hit fell to the ground, and the grass around them was stained red with blood.

The red-eyed little Ce Ling Dun Dobu took out the riding technique that made the headquarters envious, bypassed a dead war horse, whipped the horse with all his might, and shouted: "Don't retreat, rush in!" ”

The last shout encouraged the dozens of remaining people around him, and they crashed towards the already somewhat loose phalanx.

Laugh at......

The war horse desperately knocked into the two people in the front row, and more bayonets pierced the horse's body, and the freshly changed war horse couldn't support it, and fell into the phalanx with a sigh.

Xiao Celing Dundobu was thrown into the phalanx, he was also a long-time battle-hardened warrior, known as the first warrior of Dzungaria, his body rolled on the ground, took advantage of the momentum to stand up, drew his scimitar and slashed at a private with his back to him.

The private was concentrating on loading, but at the moment when his scimitar was about to cut down, little Celingdondob felt a sharp pain in his back, as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer, and all his strength was suddenly drained.

Turning his head, he wanted to see what kind of brave general he, the first warrior of the Dzungar Department, died.

However, when he turned around, he found that he had stabbed to death a half-grown child who was not as tall as a rifle, wearing a big red tasseled felt hat, a waist drum hanging from his waist, and the muzzle of the rifle in his hand was still emitting white smoke.

"Uh......"

Little Ce Ling Dundobu fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and finally what caught his eyes was that the half-grown child was as indifferent as a Han farmer cutting wheat.

He put his rifle on his back and continued to pound the waist drum mechanically. It is like a farmer who cuts wheat, and the wood cuts the wheat down, and the wood till the wheat into bundles.

As for whether the cut wheat was the tallest and strongest in the wheat field, no one cared.