Chapter 563: Fierce Fighting
After the battle officially began, it was not the Jungger army that took the lead in firing, after all, the camel cannon they relied on, although the performance was much stronger than the sub-mother cannon, but it was still worse than the current artillery of the Fu Han army, and they did not know the specific range of the Fu Han army's artillery, so they walked into the range in ignorance.
Under the command of the artillery officer of the Fuhan Army, eighty-five six-pound guns let out their own roars in unison, and eighty-five flowering shells flew into the sky, and then in the blink of an eye, they fell into the ranks of the Jungar artillery march.
"Boom—"
Only a series of explosions were heard, and more than 30 camel cannons were destroyed in this way, and by the way, hundreds of lives were taken.
In this era, it is simply impossible to conceal the artillery position, and the smoke of gunpowder is the best pointer, and it is difficult for the artillery to move quickly, so that the big battle between the two sides has become a cruel situation of shelling each other.
Dong Ce was very helpless in his heart, he understood that he only had the advantage of first-hand, and after the Jungger army completed the construction of the artillery position, his more than 80 artillery pieces would definitely suffer heavy losses, but he had no other way, if he did not fight this time difference, the losses in the future would only be greater.
"Hurry up and fire, get ahead of them and build artillery positions, and get a few more rounds! If you fight faster, you can be awarded the Baoding Medal after the war! ”
Soon, the order was issued in the artillery position, and almost all the artillery began to boil, because they knew how rare a Baoding medal was, like everyone can only get some basic loyalty medals on weekdays, and medals like Baoding first-class medals will only be awarded to officers and soldiers with major meritorious performance, and now they have this opportunity to obtain, and after receiving the medal, the benefits will naturally be innumerable.
"Boom—"
"Second round, ignition!"
"Third round, ignition!"
The artillery soldiers of the Fuhan Army began to speed up the pace, because the position map before the war has been clearly marked, so the later work has become very simple, when the artillery officer finds the position of the artillery of the Jungger Army, he will calculate the number of marks at the first time, and then fire, the whole process can be regarded as smooth.
At the same time, the Jungger army, which was a little unbearable, also began to speed up the pace, fortunately, their camel guns were all light artillery, so when the third round of artillery fire of the Fuhan army fell, the artillery of the entire Jungger army also arrived at the predetermined position, and the position of the Jungger army and the Fuhan army at this time was only about a mile left.
Of course, by the time the camel guns of the Jungar army began to build positions, their losses were also very huge, in addition to the first surprise destruction of more than 30 camel guns, the subsequent two rounds also caused damage to more than 10 artillery guns, adding up to almost 60 camel guns were destroyed.
I saw from a distance that the Jungger army at this time was no longer in formation, and a large number of corpses fell in the artillery ranks, and many wreckage of camel guns were left in place, and even the body of the cannon was blown away, giving people a shocking feeling.
Dace Lingdun Dobu looked at what was happening in front of him with a pale face, he was the officer in charge of 'Bao Qin', so he could not evade this responsibility after the artillery force had suffered a major blow at this time.
"The Great Khan, the ministers were unfavorable, resulting in heavy damage to the camel cannons, and asked the Great Khan to behead the ministers to comfort people's hearts."
In front of the position, Da Ce Ling Dun Dob knelt in front of Galdan Tse, and his whole face showed a deep look of remorse, and even a strong sense of guilt, he was really willing to die to wash away his sins.
At this time, Galdantse's face no longer had the previous relaxed color, and became heavy as water, he really didn't expect that in such a short period of time, his artillery would lose so much, and if he wanted to recast these cannons, he needed to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, and the key was that there was still time.
But at the moment, Galdan Tse Ling could not punish Dace Ling Dun Dobu, after all, Bao Qin had arranged for Da Ce Ling Dun Dob to command, and if he was killed, he would not be able to recover the loss, but would also cause Bao Qin to fall into chaos, which was an unacceptable consequence.
"Dundob, Ben Khan won't kill you, but Ben Khan wants you to understand, not because your crime is not big enough, but because you can't die so cheaply, you need to lead Bao Qin and suppress their firearms, understand?"
Gardanze stared at Da Ce Ling Dun Dob with a gloomy look on his face.
"Yes, Great Khan, Great Ce Zero will never live up to the expectations of Great Khan!"
After receiving the support of Galdan Tseling, he immediately returned to the front of the battle, and he arranged for the remaining camel guns to start building artillery positions, and asked the artillery officers in the army to begin to estimate the distance and prepare for test firing, which is the difference between the attacker and the defender, and the attacker often needs more time for trial and error than the defender.
"Boom—"
As the camel cannon began to be test-fired, several projectiles were fired in front of the Fuhan army, but because of the lack of accuracy, it did not cause any blow to the Fuhan army - and then Dong Ce's face became very solemn, because it was only a test firing at the moment, and when they found the right position, then the two sides could only fall into a situation of death battle.
"Hurry up and fire, and take out another batch of artillery while they don't have enough accuracy yet!"
The face of the artillery officer of the Fuhan Army turned slightly red, and he hurriedly blew the whistle in his mouth, signaling the artillerymen to continue to speed up the pace, many artillerymen after hearing the whistle, but directly untied their military uniforms, and began to load and unload the flower shells with a hot sweat shirtless, and they are now firing almost faster than during training.
With the sound of artillery, wave after wave of flowering shells were fired into the air by the artillery of the Fuhan army, and then fell on the artillery position of the Jungger army, but it was blown up to pieces, not only destroying more than a dozen artillery pieces, but also killing many gunners on the spot.
Seeing the heavy casualties in his own artillery position, Galdan Tseling couldn't bear it anymore, he almost wanted to kill Da Ce Ling with a knife, but before he could put it into action, the last test firing of the Jungger army finally achieved its goal, several Fu Han army artillery pieces were destroyed by their own side, and more than a dozen Fu Han soldiers were killed!
Dace Lingdun Dobu almost jumped to his feet with joy, and he shouted at the artillerymen: "Go on, hit me hard, and when the time comes, I will ask the Khan for your credit!" ”
After hearing Dace Lingdun Dobu's promise, the other Jungger soldiers were naturally speeding up, but their speed was originally much slower, and no matter how much they increased their speed at this time, it seemed that they could not catch up with the frequency of the Fu Han army's artillery, and the accuracy of the two sides was even far apart - later, the Fu Han army could almost destroy several or even more than ten artillery pieces in each round of salvo, while the Jungger army could only destroy three or four Fu Han artillery.
When the battle situation developed to this scene, both sides actually realized one point, that is, the rest of the battle was bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and it was difficult for the two sides to have room to move, and at this time, compared with the combat effectiveness of the two sides, the Jungger army had more than 180 artillery pieces, but the Fuhan army only had about 60 guns, a difference of three times.
Of course, in the actual battle, because the artillery of the Fu Han army has a longer range, higher accuracy, and greater power, although the number is small, it can take advantage of a certain advantage.
The artillery battle lasted for about two full hours, and the losses on both sides became extremely heavy, at this point, even the Jungar army could not stand it, and the Jungar army only destroyed more than 40 artillery pieces of the Fu Han army at the cost of more than 160 artillery pieces, and the battle loss ratio almost reached a tragic degree of four to one, so even Galdan Tse zero could not bear it, and he would never allow his artillery to be completely lost in this battle.
"Bang-bang-bang-"
With the sound of marching drums, the infantry of the Jungger army began to attack in the direction of the Che Camp of the Fu Han Army, they maintained a complete formation, with musketeers in the front row, archers in the middle, and finally hand-to-hand soldiers with swords, and in the distance there were thousands of cavalry eyeing the side, ready to rush into the Che camp and slaughter at any time.
For the Jungar army, their tactics are essentially very similar to those of the Fu Han army, they all use artillery to bombard first, and after the artillery has achieved certain results, they use muskets to shoot intensively at long distances, but because their firearms are not fully equipped, they still need some archers to supplement, and finally they are hand-to-hand infantry.
"Ready!"
When the infantry of Jungger was getting closer and closer to the car battalion, Dong Ce couldn't help but raise his arms and shout, holding a saber in his hand, pointing at the Jungger army in front, the bright blade exuding a thick murderous aura.
One hundred and fifty steps.
One hundred and twenty steps.
One hundred steps.
"Bang-"
When they reached a hundred paces, with a neat and crisp burst of gunfire, a thick smoke rose from the front line of the soldiers of the Fu Han Army, and a whole row of black lead bullets were fired like rain, creating a blood line in the array of Jungger soldiers on the opposite side, and with this blow alone, more than one hundred and fifty or sixty Jungar soldiers fell to the ground.
The range of the muskets held by the Jungar soldiers was about 80 paces, and if they also chose to shoot at 100 paces, they would not have the same accuracy as the Fu Han army, and it was not cost-effective to fight, so they could only endure the second round of shooting from the Fu Han army and continue to insist on moving forward.
After reaching a distance of eighty paces, the Jungger soldiers finally began to prepare for the first round of salvos, but soon discovered that their muskets were all arquebuses, and the rate of fire was much slower than that of flintlock muskets.
"Bang-boom-"
The first volley of high hopes for the Jungar army was finally fired, but the result made Galdance dripping blood, it turned out that the Fu Han army relied on the cha camp barrier to shoot, which was full of sandbags and dirt bags, so most of the lead bullets were almost hit on it, and only a dozen people in the Fu Han army were hit and fell to the ground.
And just when the Jungar monarchs and ministers were dumbfounded, a new round of shooting of the Fuhan army appeared, and this time it also took more than 80 lives, it can be said that in the face of the efficient killing efficiency of the Fuhan army, the Jungar army is like a piece of ice exposed to the sun, which seems to be huge, but the speed of death is also very fast.
"Great Khan, we can't fight like this anymore, if we continue to fight like this, even if we take down these people, our own losses will never be small!"
Jungar Xiaotai Jidawazi hurriedly knelt down, a large part of those who had just died were his subordinates, so he couldn't watch these people die here in vain.
Gardanzer gritted his teeth, pulled out the scimitar on his waist, and said in a loud voice: "Let the death camp, whoever ascends the camp first will be exempted from capital crimes and rewarded with a thousand gold!" ”
"Kill!"
With the roar, the Jungar archers and the soldiers of the death camp began to rush forward, while the direction of the Fuhan army was shooting in an orderly manner, and the rows of gunfire seemed to be extremely rhythmic, and under the attack of such firepower, the Jungar soldiers were naturally killed and wounded along the way, but fortunately, now the formation was scattered, but they also persevered.
When the distance between the two sides was shortened to thirty paces, the Jungar archers began to shoot into the air, and a large number of arrows fell into the camp, but they caused certain casualties.
In fact, the reason why there is chaos in the Fu Han army at the moment is because most of the composition of the East Route Army this time are new soldiers, if they have fought one or two battles, then the situation will be much better, but in the first battle, they encountered the main force of Galdan Tseling, and it is inevitable that there will be some misbehavior.
Dong Ce looked at the Jungger army that was already close at hand, as well as the slightly scattered soldiers of the Fu Han army, his face showed a slight trace of anger, he ignored the rain of arrows that fell, and slashed down with his saber.
"Keep shooting! The military law team is ready, enforce battlefield discipline at any time, and those who retreat are killed! ”
"If one person retreats, the whole team will be killed! One team retreats, and the whole company is killed! If you retreat in a row, the whole battalion will be killed! ”
After all, in wartime, anyone will have a cowardly mentality, which can be understood, but cannot be forgiven, because once the retreat is due to timidity, it may lead to the collapse of the entire team, so the Fu Han army is also implementing strict military discipline for a long time under the premise of establishing perfect material support.
Under such a stern order, although the soldiers of the Fu Han Army were still suffering casualties, the others had already stabilized their minds, and when they knew that the military law team behind them was even more terrifying, then they could only calmly face the enemy army in front of them.