Chapter 282: Unable to Move Forward
In the middle of Ganzhou Mansion in Jiangxi, on a huge battlefield, Li Chengliang's 500,000 Ming troops and Wang Shengrong's 180,000 people's troops fought here.
The battlefield is from north to south, respectively, Li Chengliang's rear army, the middle army, the front army and the main force of the People's Army led by Wang Shengrong personally 130,000 horses, in the left and right flanks of the front army of the Ming army, there are several people's armies to the north, and there are already two people's armies to attack the Ming army led by Li Chengliang himself.
The People's Army, which numbered only more than 10,000 people, dared to launch an attack on the main force of the Ming army, which made Li Chengliang completely angry, and directly hit the army to divide into two routes, and first eliminate the two people's armies of more than 10,000 people at all costs.
The Ming army attacked, the people's army retreated, and the people's army, which was good at long-distance running, was not afraid of the pursuit of the Ming army, but now, Li Chengliang sent the cavalry troops, even if the cavalry troops were all wiped out, Li Chengliang would destroy the retreating people's army in front.
"Brother Fu, the Ming army has sent cavalry to chase us, prepare for battle." Shao Feng, the commander of the Fifth Division, said to Fu Yutang, the commander of the Seventh Division, beside him.
Fu Yutang nodded and replied: "Then let's fight, the reinforcements are not far from us, there are not many Ming cavalry chasing us, it seems that there are only two or three thousand, let's build a simple position here, destroy all the Ming cavalry, and then give the pursuing Ming army a big one." ”
"Okay."
The two division commanders, Shao Feng and Fu Yutang, immediately issued combat orders, and all the more than 12,000 people in the headquarters stopped, and the musketeers, the first soldiers, and the grenadiers made preparations for battle.
In front of the People's Army, more than 3,000 cavalry of the Ming Army galloped wildly, and General Zhou, who led this cavalry, looked at the People's Army that had stopped in front of him, and his eyes were full of "war exploits".
"Li Shuai asked me to delay the retreat, it's not enough, it's only more than 10,000 thieves, how can 10,000 thieves resist my 3,000 iron horsemen?" Thinking of this, General Zhou shouted directly to the surrounding Ming cavalry: "Charge me, destroy the thieves in front, and everyone will be promoted and rich!" ”
"First column, fire!"
As soon as the Ming cavalry rushed into the 700-meter line, the commanders of the People's Army musketeers gave battle orders one after another, and more than 700 lead bullets rushed out of the guns with fire and black smoke, and attacked the Ming cavalry rushing towards them.
In the blink of an eye, more than 700 lead bullets collided head-on with the Ming cavalry, and even if hundreds of cavalry were hit by lead bullets, or killed or wounded, the number of war horses with larger targets was far smaller than the number of Ming troops hit by lead bullets.
In the People's Army, every musketeer has undergone a lot of time training, and it is impossible for everyone to be a sharpshooter, as long as the shooting angle is mastered, the probability of hitting a war horse from a distance of several hundred meters is much less than that of a Ming army hitting a war horse.
Horses are more precious in the People's Army, there are not many cavalry units in the People's Army, horses are more used to carry people and goods, with the cement road connecting all places, the People's Army needs more horses, so Fang Nan issued an order to the People's Army, if possible, kill as few horses as possible during the battle.
The cavalry of the Ming army was already in a state of charge, and most of the hundreds of people in front were hit by lead bullets and fell off their horses, and before the cavalry behind could react, another wave of more than 700 lead bullets attacked, and hundreds of Ming soldiers were hit by lead bullets.
The tragic situation of the colleagues in front made the faces of the people who followed behind full of horror, the cavalry charged in clusters, a single cavalry could not withdraw from it, in the face of the muskets of the People's Army, they could only make a choice, the Ming troops on the horses had to bow down, at this time who dared to stand up and charge the People's Army, is looking for death.
Seeing the charging Ming cavalry bow down one by one, the musketeers of the People's Army lowered the angle of musket firing one after another, directly aiming at the war horses of the Ming cavalry, their eyes full of pity.
The victory or defeat of the battle between 2,200 musketeers and 3,000 cavalrymen was determined as early as the moment the musketeers opened fire, and the cavalry of the Ming army was all shot and killed before they could rush within 200 meters of the musketeers, and only about one percent of the cavalry escaped with their lives.
The cavalry of the Ming army was wiped out by the People's Army, and the large force of the Ming army behind the Ming cavalry rushed up, and there was still a distance of more than 350 meters between the two sides.
At this time, the People's Army could still choose to retreat, but Shao Feng and Fu Yutang did not choose to retreat, the reinforcements behind were about to arrive, and there were two divisions of reinforcements, adding up to a total of four musket regiments as many as 4,400 musketeers, as long as the Ming army did not have a chariot, even if 100,000 people came, they could block it!
In the front line of the People's Army, the musketeers standing in three rows kept loading ammunition and firing, and waves of lead bullets were shot at the Ming army hundreds of meters away like half of the turbulent sea, and the rows of Ming soldiers fell, and the Ming soldiers behind them stepped on the corpses of their colleagues and continued to rush forward without fear of life and death.
In the face of the rain of bullets and bullets of the People's Army, the Ming soldiers who rushed forward frantically took a while to advance a distance of dozens of meters, and for the sake of these dozens of meters, thousands of Ming soldiers and soldiers had already fallen.
"What a firearm."
Knowing the battle situation ahead, Li Chengliang had to sigh, why is this sharp firearm in the hands of the enemy, not in his hands, if there is such a sharp firearm, then the Ming Dynasty is his Li Chengliang's.
Li Chengliang knew in his heart that if he wanted to take down the two people's armies on the left and right, the Ming army would have tens of thousands of casualties, and if he wanted to destroy all the people's troops on the battlefield, more than half of the 500,000 troops under his command might have to be killed or wounded.
However, as long as the muskets equipped by the more than 100,000 people's troops can be obtained, the strength of Li Chengliang's army will not drop too much.
What's more, this war is about to be unstoppable, if Li Chengliang orders the army to retreat, maybe more people will be killed and wounded, the only choice is to fight, defeat the People's Army, exterminate the People's Army, and win the battlefield war!
The Ming army is still rushing forward frantically, the people's army musketeers keep loading ammunition and then firing, in a moment the fifth and seventh divisions of the people's army have fallen on the battlefield Wan Ming army (including cavalry), relying on death paving, the distance between the Ming army and the people's army is less than 150 meters, the Ming army musketeers are about to appear.
On the battlefield, the arrays of the Ming army and the People's Army changed at the same time, and the soldiers holding shields and broadswords at the front of the Ming army leaned to the left and right sides to make way for the musketeers; At the forefront of the People's Army, more musketeers joined it, and reinforcements came!
"Fire!"
It was the speed of the People's Army that was faster, and a wave of lead bullets collided directly with the Ming army musketeers who had just appeared on the field and had not had time to fire, their fragile bodies could not resist the lead bullets at all, and even if they were knocked down, they would either die or be seriously injured and dying.
The number of musketeers in the People's Army has increased from 2,200 to 4,400, and although the "width" of the battlefield is limited, and the number of musketeers who can shoot at the same time is also limited, more musketeers bring a higher frequency of firing.
At this moment, the Ming army could no longer move forward!