Chapter 437: Stormy Battle Beijiang (1)
The guard barracks, one of the ace guards of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if it was in the past, even in the Kangxi era, the iron cavalry of the guard camp was a great force, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled the world for more than a hundred years, and these guard camp cavalry around Beijing City had long been in ruins.
Put this kind of tiger and wolf elite soldiers in a big city, it is simply a change of law to let them undergo the test!
Not to mention the old-style army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's guard barracks, you just put the elite of the PLA in the later generations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and give them 10,000 pieces in a month, and if you loosen the management, it will definitely be rotten in a year or two.
However, there are exceptions, and although the current cavalry of the escort camp is not as good as their ancestors of Bayala a hundred years ago, it is much better than their fathers and grandparents.
This is because although I, Qianlong, am the best emperor of the Manchus, I will never be soft when I kill the Manchus, especially because there are more people who kill their heads in wars!
Therefore, under the double pressure of Qianlong's iron-blooded stick and carrots, the already decayed guard camp has actually improved somewhat, at least the cavalry's butt is not so big that it can't be put in the saddle, and it can still charge with a saber.
Directly behind the mountain bag of the riverbank revival army, a white flag guard commander held a horse pistol at his side, gently urging the war horse.
The cavalry of the escort battalion on the left and right sides and a part of the Mongolian horse team also began to move slowly, they divided into two roads, spared a semicircular arc, and began to move towards the light infantry of the Fuxing Army outside the river beach.
Li Ashui did not panic, he commanded the soldiers of the first rifle regiment, forming a hollow phalanx with three sides and two rows, the side of no soldiers was leaning on Beijiang, and a group of soldiers from the first division and the first regiment with the little prince also hurried over to reinforce.
A herald of the back army rode over to Li Ashui and them with a whistle, and he would blow an extremely sharp copper whistle in his mouth every ten seconds or so, with three long whistles and two shorts!
Hearing the whistle, the drummers of the military band, which was located between the Beiwei army and the light infantry, also began to beat the snare drum in their hands.
"Right side! Single row! Left! Three rows! Divide the little prince and the grenadiers to the left, and put bayonets on the first row on the left to prepare for collision! ”
Li Ashui ordered loudly, and the heralds around him passed his orders one by one to the platoon commanders of each horizontal platoon.
These platoon commanders, who had at least a high school diploma, commanded their soldiers and began to change formations in an orderly manner!
The three long and two short copper posts of the Beiwei army mean that they will use all the cavalry to attack the Qing cavalry on the right side of the phalanx, and the cavalry on the left side of the phalanx will have to be solved by Li Ashui himself!
Seeing that Li Ashui had received the signal, the musicians of the military band began to retreat with an uplifting song arranged by the famous music team of Guang'an.
The Manchus did not have a tradition of not playing military bands, and in fact Europe is now beginning to destroy the tradition of not playing military bands.
'Bang! Bang! Bang! While the cavalry was still accumulating horsepower, they faced the light infantry of the Qing army in front of them, and even attacked seven or eight meters forward, knocking over the Qing army that was moving forward again.
However, at the same time, the antler gunners of the Qing army and the gunners of the great general Weiyuan also came up under the coercion of military law.
'Boom! Rumble! Although these old-fashioned artillery pieces were slow and not very powerful, they still caused some damage to the Baath Army soldiers in formation, just now they were scattered in a group of more than a dozen people, and the artillery bombardment was useless, but this would be formed under the threat of cavalry, and the lethality of the cannons would come up.
"Masters, take out the majesty of your ancestors, and trample on such a southern barbarian!"
The first-class guard, the guard camp is full of blue flags, and the commander of the guard is Fucha. Whalen drew his saber and shouted.
With his shout, the seven hundred cavalry of the Escort Battalion, which had been slowly accumulating horsepower on the left, slowly galloped towards the left flank of the Revival Army, and the thin row of flintlock musketeers slowly galloped past.
Originally, the duty of these cavalry under the Five Banners was not to attack the main attack, but to attack the 1,000 guard battalions and the Mongolian horse team on the upper three banners over there, and the Lower Five Banners led by Hui Lun were only responsible for attacking and guarding the Beiwei army not far from the river beach.
But the bait that Li Ashui gave them to eat was too tempting, a thin layer of flintlock musketeers, it is estimated that there are only more than two hundred people, and the cavalry can penetrate it with a single charge!
As long as they are penetrated, Li Ashui's three-sided phalanx will definitely not be able to withstand the front and back attacks.
It was the Manchu cavalry on the left, especially Hui Lun's eyes were red all of a sudden, and he thought to himself that as long as he could penetrate here, even if he was hacked to death by all the soldiers who came over, it would be worth it.
However, it was not them who rushed to the battlefield first, because they had to guard against the back army, so Rao's circle was a little bigger, and the first to rush to the range of the revival army was the Shangsanqi cavalry and the Mongolian horse team on the right!
At the forefront is the Mongolian horse team, when there are Han people, the Han green camp is cannon fodder, but without the Han people, they are the nominal two masters of Monan, then they have to go on their own.
"Fire!" Li Ashui waved the red flag in his hand violently, and more than 400 flintlock pistols shot the first salvo, and the dazzling fire flashed, and the Mongolian horse team that rushed in front fell at least thirty or forty horses, which was almost equivalent to the arrow in front of it was directly dulled.
"Boom!" Another round of guns, rising smoke obscured the view of both sides, and the Mongolian horse team lost dozens of more people.
These Mongolian horse teams, which had long been fooled and lame by the Manchus with the Yellow Sect, could not stand up, and they opened their riding bows one after another, and threw a rain of arrows at the revival army.
What a pity! If they had the courage to get closer, this rain of arrows could have done a lot of damage.
Because the phalanx was formed not by the first regiment of the first division known as the Tiannan Trap camp, but by the first rifle regiment, the light infantry of the first rifle regiment was not armored, or only lined with intimate chain mail, and the threat to them with bows and arrows was far greater than that of the first regiment of the first division in armor.
But the Mongolian horse team at the head of the front has a total of more than 500 people, and there are almost 70 fewer people in the two rounds of guns, and if you still want them to get close to the arrows, then you have to resurrect Temujin's cowardice, these Mongolian horse teams can't!
Two rounds of arrows were thrown in a row, and a volley of guns from the revival army, and the remaining less than 400 Mongolian horses spared a bend and went around when they were seventy or eighty meters away from the front of the phalanx.
These Mongol horse teams only had a bow and a sword, and they did not have the armor, they would not come to the battle, and they did not have the courage and ability, and the three banners of Manchuria cavalry in charge of charging the battle were the Manchurian Three Banners cavalry of the guard battalion and the forward battalion behind them.
In the phalanx, the heralds who climbed on the high watchtower waved the red flag frantically, saying that it was a watchtower, but it was actually a wooden pole four or five meters high, and there was a place to sit on it.
Generally, when the Baath Army is fighting, there will be a soldier with good eyesight who can estimate the distance and climb up as a herald, because the smoke from the musket will obscure the vision of soldiers and officers, especially when defending against cavalry attacks, it needs to be reminded.
The officers who looked at the red flags waving on the watchtower shouted loudly while loading their ammunition.
"Sixty meters, let the little prince and the grenadiers prepare, and the front row is closer to each other!"
"Fifty meters! Fire! As soon as Li Ashui's order was issued, the little prince fired, and the thirteen little princes fired thirteen explosive bombs.
The damage is not great, after all, there are still six or seven hundred cavalry, and the formation is not very dense, but the huge explosion scared some poorly trained war horses into a flutter!
"Charge!" The deputy commander of the guard battalion, Urtuna, shouted, all the Qing cavalry slammed the horse's belly, and the speed of the cavalry soared to the maximum, even if there were only six hundred horsemen, they still ran out of the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping!
"Thirty meters! Grenadier! "Fifty tall and long-legged grenadiers threw the picric acid bomb in their hands with all their might!
At this moment, the violent explosion caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army, because the two sides were too close, and the horses and knights who were killed and paralyzed by the bombs became a stumbling rope to block the attack of their own people, and the horses that were injured and frightened went crazy, and even galloped around regardless of it.
But even so, the Manchu cavalry still rushed in, because the distance was too close, at a distance of thirty meters, the high-speed sprinting war horses arrived almost instantly!