Amid the sound of drums and horns, Wu Sangui's cavalry took the lead in rushing out of the Ming army camp and tightly sealed the two flanks leading to the Rufeng Mountain battlefield, opening an extremely wide front for the troops of the Model Brigade.

Hundreds of veterans of Cantonese origin proudly escorted a banner more than two feet high and crashed out of the camp gate, their heads were full of eight-petal hats and iron-tipped helmets, and their bodies were covered with cuirasses, and inside the cuirass were summer military uniforms sewn from fine cotton.

Accompanying this group of veterans were thousands of recruits recruited in Sichuan, and when they fought against Zhang Xianzhong and the earth leopards of the Thirteen Families of Shaohuang, this group of recruits also became veterans. Although the combat experience and battlefield discipline are not as good as those veterans of Guangdong origin, they are slightly stronger than the families of the Ming army on the Liaodong front.

After the Cantonese veterans rushed out of the camp, they quickly extended to the left and right, and then pulled out the formation and walked forward slowly, adjusting the formation while the officers' orders were heard as they walked.

Just this small action greatly impressed Wu Sangui, who provided escort cover for the model brigade on both sides. Don't blame people for being arrogant, such a military formation, as far as he knows, searches all over Liaodong, and I'm afraid that no one can make it.

As the drummers beat the drums, the troops marched slowly to the beat of the drums, and after rushing out of the camp gate, some troops rushed up from the flanks at a rapid trot, opening an extremely wide row.

In the midst of this earth-shattering drum, the troops pressed towards the Rufeng Mountain on the west side.

Outside the gate of the camp, Hong Chengchou, under the escort of many personal soldiers, led a group of civil and military officers to watch how the model brigade fought.

I saw that the banner of the Model Brigade in the wind was stretched out by the northwest wind, and the three big golden characters were like three blazing flames exuding heat in people's field of vision.

"Model Brigade!"

Standing in front of Huang Taiji's command post on Rufeng Mountain, the nobles of Manmeng. I also saw that this team pressed towards Kong Youde's firecracker team with an extremely arrogant attitude.

The three words burned Du Du's eyes painfully, and the familiar formation made him not know whether he was excited or angry, timid and frightened, or it could be that all kinds of emotions were mixed together, and his body trembled slightly.

"Du Du, look at this model brigade, but the Southern Barbarian Army you fought against in Jinan back then?"

Huang Taiji never turned his head to Du Du's side, but only asked in an emotionless tone in the direction where Du Du was standing.

"Back to the emperor, it was the southern army that fought against the minions that day. It is said that they were later left by the emperor of the Southern Dynasty to serve as the Jingying army, thinking that they were a model for the Jingying army. The name of the so-called model brigade. Hence the result. ”

"Send a decree to the King of Gongshun and let him fight well! I want to see what the so-called model brigade in this Ming army is! ”

Kong Youde, who received Huang Taiji's holy decree, naturally did not dare to slack off, and knew that this was a good time for him to show his face, so he was ready to refresh himself. Governor of the Tribe. It also slowly greeted the way of the model brigade.

Although he was regarded as an anti-water traitor by the Nanyue Army. However, the units of the Model Brigade still used the establishment of the Nanyue Army, and most of the soldiers under the brigade headquarters were in several teams, except for the artillery team, the guards battalion, and a horse team composed of about seven or eight hundred cavalry.

At present, all regiments and battalions are under the guidance of their respective flags. Opened in the eyes of Wu Sangui and Huang Taiji and others has no depth but is extremely wide a row, in the middle of the row, it is Wu Biao's handsome flag in front of the guide, more than 100 veterans guard, the left and right wings of the handsome flag is a regimental flag, there are also more than 100 elite soldiers guarded, followed by a battalion flag, there are strong flag bearers raised high, leading the soldiers of the department to march, a stout drummer, followed by a step drum on his chest, the drumstick in his hand continues to rise and fall, beating the step drum hard, Adjust the pace with the rousing drum beat.

The officers and men of the two regiments, one on the left and one on the right, were arranged in four layers, forming an array of extremely long left and right and extremely short in depth. In people's eyes, they only saw dozens of fiery red battle flags of different sizes and shapes fluttering endlessly.

At present, the soldiers of the model brigade are not fully equipped with muskets, firstly, there are not so many flintlock guns, and arquebuses are not enough, and secondly, most of these muskets do not have bayonets, so Wu Biao has to set up at least one-third of the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in the army to serve as the escort of the musketeers.

As the army marched forward, the rows of troops were inevitably a little crooked because of the terrain, or some of the soldiers were not aligned, which was unavoidable, as long as the army stopped, and within a quarter of an hour, they could be put in order.

At the very edge of the team, hundreds of short and sturdy Sichuan horses galloped back and forth, that was the horse team of the model brigade, the clumsy riding skills made Wu Sangui's cavalry laugh, watching them staggering on horseback and nervously controlling the war horse, a few family members pouted, such a cavalry, not to mention a Tartar who is good at horseback tactics, even Ning Yuan's army can easily defeat it.

The cavalry of the Model Brigade, in a group of fifty people, was also lined up in horizontal columns, and the distance between each column was more than ten paces. In the forefront, the cavalry held spears in their hands, and after the second column, the cavalry only had a sabre in their hands, compared to the cavalry of the Ning Yuan Army, the spears and sabers, and the weapons with many kinds of fire guns and bones, it seemed quite cold. They spread out more and were slightly faster than the infantry, but they couldn't go too far to keep the formation tight.

Through the lens of the telescope, Wu Biao also carefully looked at the queue of Kong Youde's firearms soldiers who were slowly coming up on the opposite side. Behind him, the more than 20 artillery pieces allocated to him by Hong Chengchou were pushed hard by the gunners, trying to follow the pace of the marching army. These guns, the smaller ones are six-pounder guns, most of them are eight-pounder guns and big franc machines, all of which are made in Nanzhong.

This war, by the Ming court as the battle of the country that must be won, naturally mobilized the maximum amount of manpower, material and financial resources to supply, the Ming army mobilized more than 100,000 troops, not to mention all kinds of light vehicles and heavy vehicles, there are 2,000 chariots, and there are 2,000 artillery.

And in history, Matsuyama Castle was broken. The Qing army captured 150 cannons and 4,000 cannons from the city. More than 10 rooms of gunpowder. When breaking Xingshan and Tashan, more than 400 large and small general cannons were captured. Tens of thousands of pounds of gunpowder.

The eight-color flag waved, the horn sounded, and in Kong Youde's military formation, the same sound of passwords sounded one after another, and then slowly a sea of people greeted the direction of the queue of the model brigade.

The two armies were thus drawing closer and closer. Finally, the distance is less than 100 steps!

"Herald! All battalions are in formation! ”

With the sound of a trombone from the brigade commander, the battalions of the Model Brigade immediately became dense, and the soldiers began to approach each other. Shorten the separation distance. And aligned with the front row.

And this action is also done in the middle of the march.

"Sure enough, there's something amazing!"

On Rufeng Mountain, Huang Taiji saw the movements of the model brigade clearly.

"You and other ministries, maybe do this?"

Kong Youde's Han army firearms. At the foot of Rufeng Mountain, from south to north. An equally long row of noodles was pulled apart. Columns are formed in six columns. In the middle of the queue, officers at all levels kept kicking and roaring to organize the ranks, trying to make the queue closer.

The team has not yet been put together. The sound of drums exploded in his ears like spring thunder, and the queue of the Model Brigade in front of him was already less than eighty paces away from him, and he was within the range of the firecracker!

In the sound of drums, the soldiers of the Model Brigade shouted in unison, but most of the people present could not understand the Sichuan and Guangdong accents of these soldiers, but felt that the shouts were intimidating.

"Turtle Sun's! Hurry up and get up! Li Jiucheng, the general under Kong Youde, picked up the scabbard in his hand and struck the head of the nearby soldiers who were still rectifying the queue.

"There are those who dare to fight in battle, and they will be decided! The whole family is called Ahma! ”

An officer gritted his teeth and shouted, "Kill the Bright Dog!" ”

"Kill the Bright Dog!"

Bursts of shouts erupted in the array of the Han army, and the officers and generals agitated loudly, and in the roar, they strode towards the side of the model brigade.

The two armies approached closer and closer, looking from the air, in the field, two narrow streams of people were getting closer and closer, and in the central clearing, there seemed to be some small things like ants and insects, flying between the crowds, and thousands of flags of the two armies were flying in the air.

"Yesterday, Kong Youde's gang defeated Li Fuming in such a formation. We almost lost a lot. Wu Sangui's subordinate generals explained to Wu Sangui the power of Kong Youde's army formation with lingering palpitations.

"All the ammunition has been distributed?"

"It's all down!"

Wu Biao chatted with a heavy officer beside him, measured one or two with his eyes, and felt that he had entered the effective range of the firearm.

In Kong Youde's army on the opposite side, some people couldn't hold back the panic in their hearts, and began to pull the trigger, and from time to time there was a short and dense sound of fire, followed by the officers who led the team to pounce, with saber scabbards and horse whips, without receiving the order to fire, opened fire without authorization, disturbing the morale of the army, such an act is enough to kill the head immediately.

From time to time, someone snorted, was hit by a projectile, fell to the ground, and the comrades next to him did not look at him, walked past him, and quickly filled his vacant position. Naturally, the baggage soldiers and auxiliaries behind him stepped forward to carry him away for treatment.

In the contest of will and discipline that the firecrackers had fought before they fired, Kong Youde had already lost to Wu Biao.

"Lord Wang, you can't go on like this, let the minions below catch up!"

Li Jiucheng shouted loudly at Kong Youde.

"That's right! Let those minions come forward to meet the enemy! ”

Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others shouted loudly in unison.

The officers woke up like from a dream, roaring and greeting with their fists and feet, urging their soldiers to come forward.

"The first column is up!"

"Gunners step forward! First Column Ready! ”

The first column of the Han army flag immediately became a chaotic commotion, and the soldiers took three steps forward, took off the fire guns, pulled out the caps of the guns, rammed the projectiles with two strokes to combine the projectiles with the gunpowder more closely, pulled the dragon heads, checked the flints, and waited for the commanders' orders to fire.

However, the opposite side moves faster.

"Raise your gun!"

"Ready!"

"Aim at the target!"

"Fire!"

The soldiers of the model brigade, who had completed the same action like their peers, raised their guns in their hands as a battalion unit, and fired at the Han army flag gunners on the opposite side according to the officers' orders!

Because of the reason for jumping from the Nanyue Army to the Beijing camp, it has become a standard equipment in the Nanyue Army, such as sleeve bayonets and flintlock pistols. In the Model Brigade, it has become a rarity, a treasure that breaks one and loses one. Although flintlock pistols and sleeve bayonets can also be bought in the mainland, they are only a minority after all, and for Wu Biao, who currently has 7,000 troops, it is a drop in the bucket. In desperation, I had to pick up the arquebus again.

The arquebuses of the Model Brigade were equipped in battalion units, and if a battalion was armed with arquebuses, the hundreds of musketeers were all arquebuses, and if they were armed with flintlock pistols, they were all flintlock muskets.

The sound of popping beans rang for a long time. Flintlock pistols and arquebuses fired fiercely together. The gunpowder smoke gushed out of the guns, and there were continuous screams from sixty paces away, and hundreds of Han soldiers fell down in a daze, and then woke up. Pain fell to the ground and struggled.

Their blood was pouring out. stained the ground below. Render those wild grasses and wild flowers more delicate.

"Second column, come forward!"

"Fire!"

After the first round of shooting. The Han gunners seemed to be stunned, and even forgot to fire at the opposite side according to the officers' orders, pausing for a few seconds.

However, it is these few seconds that have become the last sound time of many people's lives.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the flintlock pistols and arquebuses in the second column launched another volley, and more howls sounded on the opposite side, and many Han soldiers who had been shot rolled all over the ground, making a painful gesture of dying.

However, in the face of the rain of bullets that erupted from the opposite volcano, many of the firecrackers also pulled the trigger, dropping the dragon's head and flint, igniting the gunpowder in the pot. A rain of bullets flew towards the Nanyue Army.

The guns used by the Han army's flag firecrackers are all flintlock guns carefully built by Chen Banda and others based on the standard firecrackers of the Southern Guangdong Army, and each firecracker is also equipped with sleeve bayonets, which are comparable to the arquebuses that cannot be loaded with bayonets in the hands of the model brigade.

The flintlock thundered like popping beans, and the Model Brigade soldiers standing at the forefront fell in large swaths, rolling to the ground and groaning in pain.

At such a distance, the projectile could completely penetrate the queue and fly to the bottom of the queue of the model brigade, and dozens of arquebuses and flintlock soldiers standing in the last column also fell in response.

The sound of guns came one after another, and in front of the positions of the two sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the sound of guns, two narrow areas of gunsmoke slowly rose into the air.

In the flames, the positions of both sides were littered with corpses and wounded, and the weeds under them that had been withered and yellow were already dyed bright red.

This hellish scene frightened the allies who watched the battle.

"Master Overseer! The last general was defeated by Kong Youde the day before yesterday with this tactic! The more than 1,000 people of the last general came back with only more than 300 people! ”

"In two rounds of shooting, at least three Niu Lu people have been killed!"

At the gate of the Ming army camp, Li Fuming, the chief soldier of Shanxi, complained to Hong Chengchou, and on the top of Rufeng Mountain, Prince Su was also a little surprised by the Manchurian banner lord of the Blue Banner. In the past, when he saw Kong Youde commanding the fire guns and Wuzhen Chaoha artillery to bombard the Ming army, he had never felt like this.

The Jinzhou War was related to the life and death of the thieves in Liaodong, and Huang Taiji even issued a general mobilization order. All the men over the age of 15 from each banner were brought to the front line in Jinzhou. Almost all the flag bulls recorded all the flag soldiers to fight, many Yu Ding also followed the expedition, and a large number of Han people and other slaves who plundered that year followed, and the young and strong in the country were swept away.

According to the establishment of the Eight Banners, the smallest unit is Niu Lu, every 200 to 300 people is a Niu Lu, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the younger brother dies. Of course, it is not that a cow is two or three hundred people, but that each household produces a strong man, and "Ding" is an adult man between the ages of 16 and 60 according to ancient sayings.

Generally speaking, there are several people in a household, and the number of dings in it varies, sometimes two or three, sometimes five or six, depending on the fertility of the men in each household. Therefore, there were 2 or 300 households per Niu Lu in the Qing Dynasty, generally ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 people.

In the Qing Dynasty, those who served as soldiers were called bannermen, and they were divided into armor banners and unarmored banners. Those who are not soldiers for the time being are called "Yu Ding" or "Idle", and they can also follow them into battle, as a kind of servitude, and their status is higher than that of those slaves.

Each Niu Lu two or three hundred Ding is a soldier, whether you can wear armor or not, it depends on the ability of each soldier. However, Qing men from the age of ten, every three years have to take the exam, the standard is a guard (infantry armor), enjoy military salary, enjoy armor, and then the assessment to the vest. Bayala is not equal.

After all, as flag soldiers, adult soldiers, they are assessed from the age of ten, and they can't wear armor at the age of sixteen, eighteen, or twenty, and they are too embarrassed in the surrounding martial atmosphere.

If the battle is lost. For the Qing Kingdom. It was a catastrophe indeed.

There are also foreign Mongolian tribes, such as the Tumut Right Banner Gushan Ezhen Omu Buchuhuer, the Tumut Left Banner Gushan Ezhen Shanba, the Inner and Outer Karaqin, Chahar, Horqin Left and Right Wing Central Banner, Ao Han, Alu Banner Wang Ye Beile.

There were even banners or tribes of Waizasak Mongolia (later Outer Mongolia) who rushed to help in the war. The Korean state also sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to flatter the master. Make the Qing Kingdom this Jinzhou battle. The momentum is huge.

However, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, in Hauge's opinion. In just a few breaths, more than 1,000 people were lost, and I don't know how many people could no longer engage in farming and warfare and became disabled, this kind of war is simply too cruel.

There are not a few Eight Banners relatives who have the same idea as him. They were accustomed to fighting the Ming army, the Ming army was about to collapse at the first touch, and they chased and killed behind the buttocks, and this kind of war method of fighting with firearms was unacceptable to them.

However, in the blink of an eye, an even more surprising scene appeared.

A few sharp whistles sounded, and the Nanban soldiers who were aiming at the Han army's flag firecrackers in front of the array quickly turned back and retreated, making the evacuation formation dense.

"What are these Nanban going to do?"

Soon, the next action gave the suspicious Hauge and the others a perfect answer.

The two dozen cannons at the back of the queue, already loaded with shells, sounded a deafening sound along the road that was quickly gathered and unfolded by the soldiers.

As the cannon spewed out puffs of white smoke, dense lead sprayed out, and the ground not far away burst into a large puff of smoke and blood mist, and the blood mist was mixed with broken flesh and bones.

Several layers of firecrackers were almost swept away.

Rumble!

There was another loud bang, and a large puff of smoke rose up.

The eight-door big Buddha planes placed on the two wings of the firecrackers queue, covered by the horse team, approached the Han army's flag firecrackers who were in chaos and crying pain, and roared at least 100 thick projectiles at the opposite side.

The fields overgrown with wild flowers and weeds on the opposite side were filled with smoke and dust, grass clippings and dirt were flying, and a hundred and ten Han soldiers, and even some swords, shields, and spearmen who were far behind, made indescribable painful sounds, rolling and howling back and forth on the ground.

Many of them had huge blood holes on their cotton armor, and some even had their heads and faces beaten into meat sauce on the spot.

Using a shotgun is much easier for the gunner than firing a normal shell. Shotguns are diffuse, have no clear target, and only hit a range. There is no need for the angle of the nuclear barrel, the range target, etc., as long as the muzzle is pointed straight ahead, which makes the technical requirements of the gunner very low.

Wu Biao was worried that the artillery gunners assigned to him by Inspector Hong were not up to the standard in courage and technology, and that something might break down, so he adjusted them to use the big Fran machine and attacked the Han army's flag gunners on both flanks under the escort of the horse team.

After this round of artillery fire, the formation of the Han army flag became completely chaotic.

"Reloaded!"

"Raise the gun!"

"Fire!"

This time, all the guns of the Model Brigade were raised together, and the mouth of the black hole pointed forward.

"Put!"

In such a short period of time, all the gunpowder soldiers completed the loading of gunpowder and projectiles, in addition to the strict training of drills on weekdays, and the use of fixed ammunition by the whole army, Wu Biao put into use tens of thousands of new projectiles donated by the merchants who were prevalent in Beijing Shilong when he left the customs.

According to the businessmen, this kind of projectile is by no means similar to the previous round projectile, and the body shape is slightly like a steamed bun, but it is newly developed by the military industry department, with fast loading speed and long range. However, the accuracy has not improved.

"These two things are enough!"

With a fast reload, the arquebus can rival the flintlock pistol, and the longer the range increases. After Wu Biao inspected this batch of projectiles, he was very satisfied.

"General Wu, how are these projectiles used, please tell me the results and experience of using them at any time. If you use it well, we can replenish it to your army immediately! ”

Under another round of firecrackers, the Han army banner could no longer stop the effective resistance, and the soldiers began to howl and turn around and run backwards.

"Shoot back, sword and shield guards, pikemen, attack!"

Wu Biao coldly conveyed his order to the commander beside him.

The sound of trumpets and horses' hooves resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant. (To be continued......)