Chapter 201: Short Soldiers
"The power of the fire gun is so sharp?" Yao Wenqian's eyes were solemn, and he could hardly believe his eyes.
Liu Zerun, Liu Zhigan and others around him were the same, and everyone fell into a stupor in a short period of time.
In this round of volleys, at least 100 people fell to the ground, most of them were seriously injured or directly killed, and half were slightly injured, lying on the ground wailing.
This seriously shook the morale of the army, and after a slight pause, Yao Wenqian immediately ordered to shake his general army flag and ordered all to accelerate forward.
"Give them one or two more rounds, I'm afraid that the front army will collapse."
Seeing that the military formation quickly rushed forward, the opponent's firecrackers had no time to reload, so they could only turn around and go backwards, Yao Wenqian was also comforted in his heart.
After saying a word, Yao Wenqian's face turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Let Liu Kecheng prepare, the cavalry flanks the enemy's right flank, even if they can't run and be involved, the cavalry assault is not so easy to deal with, they have firearms, we have cavalry, we can still win this battle." ”
Yao Wenqian himself didn't notice that when he led more than 10,000 troops down to Yunti Pass, he never thought about whether he could take it down, and what he always considered was how to clear out the defeated and fleeing flag army, successfully take the salt pond, retain the salt pond craftsmen, and resume the production of the salt pond as soon as possible.
It is to use these things to curry favor with the marshal, so that the marshal will be happy and praised.
Starting from the perseverance of the fifty cavalry, there were also the strong positions on the left and right sides showing the mobilization and determination of the defending side, and then there was the unstoppable and neat military formation of more than 3,000 banner troops in front of them.
All this has reached the point of shaking Yao Wenqian's confidence.
As soon as these words came out, of course, Liu Zhigan was strongly dissatisfied, and he glanced at Yao Wenqian, and then pulled his horse back into his own military formation.
Although the number of soldiers and horses led by Liu Zhigan is not large, most of them are the inner dings around Liu Zeqing, and this time the expedition is still a little hasty, otherwise Liu Zhigan will bring more inner dings to the battle.
More Neiding is following Li Huajing, after all, Li Huajing is the general of Neiding, and Liu Zeqing's Neiding is all under the command of this person. Li Huajing failed to come, mainly to lead the Neiding to forcibly relocate a large number of demolished people in Huai'an Prefecture.
Obviously, in Liu Zeqing's heart, forcibly demolishing the people and building his mansion as soon as possible is more important than sending troops to recruit a small force gathered by the military attaché of the guard.
Before the battle, Yao Wenqian and the others also felt that this was an easy task, until the nightmarish fifty cavalry appeared.
At this moment, there were firearms firing again, artillery roaring overhead, and Yao Wenqian and the others were actually making a last stand.
A large number of miscellaneous soldiers began to shout and rush forward, and the firecrackers on the opposite side began to retreat.
At this moment, the rousing drums sounded again.
Liu Zhigan, who returned to his own team, spat and scolded: "Why are you so willing to be weird, can you win by beating the drum." ”
The people around did not join in, and everyone was a little worried.
A large number of armored banner troops rushed forward from the rear of the formation, with long spears like a forest, and the array was unusually neat.
This made many of the guests who rushed forward hesitate, they felt that the army formation on the opposite side was quite neat, and every part of them was facing a neat army.
This is the jumping team in the banner army, with a spear in the middle, a boring handle in the back, and a two-wing knife card.
The team struggled forward to the beat of the drums, and the long and even brutal training played its due role.
All the soldiers just continued to move forward according to the habits of training, and many of them were also pale and nervous, and even their bodies were trembling slightly.
But when everyone is moving forward, inertia makes everyone not look back and hesitate.
The officers around him were roaring, and they were not necessarily nervous, but everyone was at their own posts and didn't have much else to think about.
Meet the enemy, engage in battle, kill the enemy, and make meritorious contributions.
This is a simple idea and position, and all this in front of Yanchi and in front of him is all worked out by everyone following Lord Min. If these soldiers of the new army had not experienced a major war, and Min Yuanqi had taken them to the battlefield to fight for his own achievements, their morale and obedience might not have been as good and outstanding as they are now.
This is also a reasonable thing, working hard for one's own family and relatives, and working hard for the fame and fortune of the above, these are completely different results.
Maybe in the future, Min Yuanqi will be able to take these soldiers away from Yunti Pass and give them better returns and prospects, but that is in the future.
The current flag soldiers are just thinking about protecting their homes and relatives, and their morale is actually much higher than that of the guest soldiers.
Almost instantly, hand-to-hand combat began everywhere on the front that was more than two miles long.
"Thorn!"
The monotonous and exuberant shouts of the officers rang out one after another throughout the front.
The pikemen in the middle of each jumping game were already raising their spears diagonally, and when the enemy approached, they were within ten paces of them.
The two sides confronted each other, shouted, and insulted, and everyone was like an exuberant monkey.
All kinds of ugliness are nothing at all, at this time a little distraction is to lose their lives, almost everyone's nerves are highly tense, even too excited, and even at this time, even if they are scratched by the sword of their partners, many people actually don't feel much.
Even if they are stabbed and shot, as long as they are not injured, many people are still in a state of excitement, and they will consciously ignore the trauma of their bodies and continue to move forward.
Of course, this state is also extremely easy to be interrupted by external forces, such as the death and injury of his partner, his own serious injury, and so on.
Once out of euphoria, then it will be confined to extreme depression, the morale of the army will be low, the battle formation will collapse, and defeat will be inevitable.
In many cases, a large number of people may not be able to defeat a small number of people, that is, it depends on the completeness of the military formation, how long the soldiers can hold on to the excited state on the battlefield, and the real veteran soldiers, the embers of a hundred battles, are able to calmly face the enemy on the battlefield.
Neither too excited, nor easily depressed.
Even if the battle situation is unfavorable, the veteran will not easily rout and flee, giving his back to the enemy, but will try to stabilize the battle line as much as possible, and fight and retreat with his companions.
Li Lingbu, who had been fighting on the grassland for many days, faced the encirclement and interception of more than 100,000 Hun cavalry, killed and injured a large number of enemy cavalry, calmly transferred, and was finally besieged for many days, and the arrows were shot out, and they were forced to surrender as a last resort.
This is a typical Han soldier, brave and persevering.
The banner army obviously can't reach the point of the Han army, and the difference is very far.
Fortunately, the enemy opposite them was not the strong and brave Huns, and the difference was even greater.
When the two armies met, spears were pierced, some in the air and some in the air.
The guests on the opposite side pushed each other near or far, their faces full of fear and panic.
If the banner army is a rabble, a gang of bandits, bandits, pirates, or serious untrained guards, these guest soldiers will also be fierce, and some will take the initiative to pounce on the front, hoping to make military achievements and get promoted.
Or those who take the initiative to rush forward can be rewarded, and the guest soldiers also have their own set of rewards and punishments.
Ascend first, charge, trap, behead, although it is not very fine, but the strong people in the army are indeed easy to get the opportunity for promotion.
Even if it is a general like Liu Zeqing who leads the troops, he also hopes that there will be more brave soldiers under his command.
In an instant, as soon as the battle formations of the two sides came into contact, a large number of guests were stabbed with spears.
The spear training of the flag army does not talk about too many tricks at all, just like Qi Jiguang said in Ji Xiaoxin's book, you come with a spear and I go with a spear, and the public will poke at the past together.
It is to catch a gun, hold a gun, poke and stab, return the gun, the simple action is not fancy, the emphasis is fast, accurate, stable, ruthless.
There is no excessive fancy and no need to pay attention to any right thorns.
At the beginning of the country, the Ming army was originally a strong soldier who paid great attention to spear stabbing and gun formation.
At the beginning of the country, Fu Youde used 2,000 spears and 1,000 light cavalry to face tens of thousands of strong soldiers from the north, defending first and then attacking, and the enemy was embarrassed.
The spear can be both defended and attacked.
The first guard of the country, swords, archers, spears, any of the troops are quite important.
A rain of blood splattered, and the pikemen roared and stabbed and shot back.
A large number of guest soldiers were killed or wounded.
Some of the guests swarmed up, and the sword players roared and pounced, blocking the enemy attack with their long cards and firing back with their swords.
The two armies were entangled, and at this time the benefits of a neat array were manifested.
Although the number was outnumbered, the banner army was in a state of attack, and the cooperation between the various arms was quite tacit, with spears and knives against the front, and boring handles attacking those brave people who tried to kill in vain in the gap.
In just a few minutes, the battle of canines and teeth on the battlefield was full of gold and iron, and at the same time, a considerable number of people fell in a pool of blood.
The guest soldiers Yu Yong was still there, and the flag soldiers were cooperating with each other and rushing forward.
This is a large area of official roads, fields, and plains.
People fought on flat ground, there were no stumbling blocks under their feet, and everywhere there was a flat.
Soon large masses of corpses and seriously wounded appeared on the ground, and no one recalled, and both sides tried to defeat the enemy in a short time.
But the guest soldiers felt more difficult, they were large and small, they were under considerable pressure, and they could not find a place to attack in the gap.
The flag army on the opposite side had no flaws at all, and the entire battle front was like a tidal wave, but the flag army's military formation was like a hard rock, and it did not change in the slightest.
The attack of the guest soldiers was like a tidal wave on the reef, and after a blow, it became scattered and powerless.
The attack of the flag army is extremely sharp, these flag army officers and soldiers have always maintained the array and cooperation, and the generals have always insisted on commanding.
The drums, the flags, the slightest chaos, everything is like a wind-up machine, cold, efficient, merciless killing.
In the view of Min Yuanqi of the Chinese army, the army he built by himself still has many shortcomings.
The over-exuberance caused some confusion in the array, and the pikemen's attacks were sharp and effective, but the number of spear loadouts was still small.
There were few guns and no artillery.
As a result, the military formation still lacked a decisive means of attack.
But in Min Yuanqi's view, the balance of victory is already tilting in favor of his side.
In less than ten minutes of fighting, the casualties of the guest soldiers were already very heavy, at least for the guest soldiers.
The more hesitant their attacks became, the more dense they gathered, which was related to the state of battle, and the worse they were beaten, the more subconsciously they gathered with each other.