Chapter 595: The Eastern Front (Continued)

Shuoto was dumbfounded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He didn't know how to fight like this.

The fierceness of the artillery fire of the Nanyue army surprised him. The entire large array of the Qing army was almost completely shrouded in the artillery fire of the Southern Guangdong Army.

The first six-pounder cannon shell that landed on the ground obviously belonged to a test firing and had no clear goal, but after the shell landed, it smashed directly into the dense formation of the new Ming army, almost penetrating the entire forward formation, and jumping up and down along the way, I don't know how many people's arms and thighs were broken, the heads of several people were taken away, and the bodies of several people were penetrated. A bloody alley was smashed, leaving a terrible scream on both sides of the alley.

Another eight-pound solid iron ball smashed accurately on a shield cart, and with a loud "boom", the frame of the shield cart shattered, and the wooden planks flew everywhere, and the sharp and irregular wood became a substitute for prefabricated fragments, so that the new Shunming sergeants hiding around the shield cart enjoyed a handful in advance. They were beaten by all kinds of debris flying everywhere, and they rolled to the ground one by one and howled.

After the first round of artillery test firing, the artillery team of the Nanyue Army quickly adjusted the muzzle height and other elements according to the firing effect of the benchmark gun, and the second round of artillery fire smashed into the position of the Qing army with lightning speed.

The cannonballs swept by, grinding into the air with a screeching sound, violently abusing people's eardrums. In the shrill whistling, one after another cannonballs smashed into the military formation of the new Ming army, or passed through the crowd, bringing up a piece of stumps and broken bones, leaving a bloody mist scream. Or hit the offensive equipment, and beat those shield carts, knife carts, and artillery carts into scattered and flying in all directions, becoming a powerful weapon to kill and injure the Qing army.

Although compared with the formation of tens of thousands of Qingming troops, the artillery casualties in these two rounds are nothing. There were only two or three hundred casualties. However, the fear and mental pressure brought to these surrendered soldiers by the shelling were enormous.

The bodies of the comrades were lightly swept by the shells, and they were immediately bloody and severe. Most of these soldiers who surrendered to the Ming army were ruffians and bastards, if they had ideal beliefs or military discipline in their hearts, how could they fall in the wind? Where do they have this mental capacity?

Every wave of shells came over, and there was a violent commotion, and it was only by the officers who desperately waved the swords and leather whips in their hands to suppress them, and barely maintained the formation.

"Tell these minions, hold up this king! Although the artillery fire on the opposite side was fierce, it would not take more than a while for their cannons to open fire again! Shuoto gritted his teeth and ordered someone to cheer up the new annex army, and ordered his artillery team to fire back.

His troops also had a lot of artillery collected along the way, mainly the general cannon and the Fran machine gun, and there were only a dozen eight-pounder and six-pounder guns.

Although the effective range of the General Franc machine gun is one mile, how can these surrendered Ming army gunners have the training amount of the gunners of the Nanyue Army in peacetime? And what general is willing to give these gunners such a large amount of gunpowder cannons as Li Shouhan and Li Huayu for training? And which artillery team knows how to use trigonometric functions and mathematics to calculate the firing distance and calculate the firing elements?

It is not so easy to bombard effective targets in the opponent's formation like the Nanyue Army within the effective firing range. Inaccurate aiming, inability to hit, these are all common occurrences.

A few cannons are ejected, and the effect is to set off a firecracker to listen to the sound to give yourself courage.

"Tell this group of minions of the artillery team! If you can't reach it, push the cannon to the front of the Nanban team for this king! Push them right under their noses and shoot! ”

Under Shuotuo's strict orders, the Qing artillery began to push the artillery carriage to move slowly southward, preparing to adopt the tactics of shooting at close range to make up for the shortcomings of its own technology.

However, the gunners of the Qing army also had their own peculiarities. Under the command of the officers, the gunners lined up the big franc machine in the front, and lined up the general's cannon, eight-pounder gun, and six-pounder gun in the rear, and slowly pushed forward.

Before these big Buddha cannons were pushed out of the position, they had already loaded a sub-gun in the middle of the house, and pushed forward dozens of paces, and then stopped under the red flag of the officers, and the gunners opened fire one after another, igniting the medicine line on the sub-guns. Suddenly, thick smoke erupted from the muzzle of the cannon and condensed over the artillery team.

The advantage of the Big Franc over other guns is the way it reloads its breech. Each Big Franc cannon is equipped with five to nine guns, which can be pre-loaded with ammunition, and can be loaded into the mother gun in turn during battle, and the firing speed is very fast. If a gunner is well-trained, the first three shots take less than twenty seconds.

Moreover, the Franc cannon has good heat dissipation, and it can shoot more than a dozen shots in one breath and then stop to dissipate heat. Due to the fixed amount of gunpowder charged, it is not very easy to explode. The disadvantage is that the gunpowder gas is easy to leak, not to mention that it is not far away, and if you are not careful, it is easy to be burned by the fire gas that leaks out.

These big francs stopped and opened fire, not to kill and destroy the artillery positions on the opposite side, but to provide cover for their own artillery teams. I've made the area where the artillery team is located obscured, obscuring the battlefield, and see how you bombard me!

However, their peers don't think so.

There is obviously a generation gap between the gunners of the Southern Guangdong Army and these gunners of the former Ming Army in terms of technical level and equipment level.

They used their actions to tell the Qing gunners that although your approach is out of the so-called "great ingenuity cannot win the clumsy", we can prove how ridiculous your ideas are! Under the methodical movements of the gunners of the Southern Guangdong Army, a wave of shells was fired. Of the ten of them, the person in charge of the borechamber immediately brushed the bore, and then someone loaded the gunpowder, loaded the primer, and filled the shells. The observer constantly reports the data, and the aiming hand adjusts accordingly, and the division of labor and cooperation are close and skillful.

After a series of dazzling movements, the gun was already loaded with ammunition, and their movements were at least two to three times faster than the gunners of the Qing army.

After the sub-charge was loaded, the gun adjusted its aiming again, and the gun armor of the gun gave a shout, and the gunner ignited the primer on the fire door, and immediately the gun made another loud noise, and the muzzle of the gun freed up a large stream of smoke, and a hot solid iron ball roared away.

The deafening cannon sounded, thick gray-white smoke rose from the position of the Nanyue army, and chestnut-sized shotguns roared towards the Qing army's position, and in the blink of an eye, countless transparent flesh holes came out. One by one, the shells smashed into the formation of the Qing army, jumping and jumping, making the Qing army scream continuously, and from time to time there were stumps and broken bones and streams of bloody arrows flying. Occasionally, an artillery carriage was hit by a shell from the Nanyue Army, and the heavy barrel was lifted into the air by the huge impact force, and then smashed down heavily.

A thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the cavalry officers of the Southern Yue Army, Ekui and Tuha, each led hundreds of hussars, like two swimming dragons, from the position of the Southern Yue Army, and drove down the new annexed troops that were already on the verge of collapse like ducks.

Thousands of years ago, the Qing soldiers of the Ming army were driven away by hundreds of hussars, discarding their banner weapons along the way, and abandoning their armor in order to run faster. Some people even lost their shoes in a panic. It's completely in its true colors.

"Bastard thing! Let out the cavalry of the Eight Banners Mongols! Teach them a lesson! Shuoto thundered under his own golden dragon, and he didn't know who he was scolding. Are they those defeated soldiers under their own banners, or are they Tuha, Ekui and others who used to be the Two Yellow Banners and the Sauron Department of Heilongjiang?

"Lord Wang! Don't let the iron cavalry of the Eight Banners Mongolia be buried in vain under the fire of the Nanban! Let those Han army flags rush up and resist for a while! Several of the Eight Banners Mongolian princes expressed their opposition in front of Shuotuo. Originally! There are not many Mongolian horses in the Eight Banners. Each flag of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is several thousand or nearly 10,000 dings, and one banner of the Eight Banners Mongolia is only more than 1,000 dings, and five of them are wearing one armor, and an average of one flag is more than 1,000 armored soldiers. Another point is the lack of personal prestige of Shuoto. With Duoduo, Azig, Abatai Yuele and others leading the troops here, these Eight Banners Mongolian princes didn't even dare to let go of a fart.

However, their words, Shuoto could not ignore it.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, after several large-scale expeditions to Chahar, after most of the southern Mongolia were surrendered, Huang Taiji compiled and examined Karaqin and Tumut Zhuangding, and obtained a total of 16,953 strong men, with 300 people as a cow record, 150 arrows as a zuo, 50 dings as a vest, divided into 11 banners.

Among them, there are a total of 7,830 Mongolian Zhuangding under the original Eight Banners of Manchuria plus the newly attached Mongolian Zhuangding, counting eight banners, and the official system of flag color is the same as that of Eight Banners Manchuria, and it is led by ministers, becoming the Eight Banners Mongolia alongside the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Huang Taiji strongly advocated the implementation of the policy of the Manchurian and Mongolian families, and many of the Manchurian and Mongolian high-level relatives were married, and 14 of Huang Taiji's 16 daughters were married to Mongolians. Similarly, the women of the Korqin Borzigit family have also entered the harem of the Aixin Jueluo family. Under the influence of Huang Taiji's policies, even the high-spirited Shuotuo had to pay attention to the opinions of his allies. Because, he also had to use the forces of the Eight Banners Mongolia to suppress the newly surrendered Ming army.

"Humph! These useless minions! Chuan Ben King will order! The two armorers who transferred the Han army banner went up and killed these hundreds of southern barbarian cavalry to this king! ”

In the low sound of the horn, the formation of the Qing army moved again, and the banners slowly converged.

Under the autumn sun, countless flags converge into a large sea of flags. The recognition of the flag of the officers such as the expansion, the allocation of Shiku, and the distribution of the banner, the recognition of the flag of Niulu Zhangjing, the recognition of the flag of Jiala Zhangjing and the dragon Xu, are densely packed.

Another trumpet sounded, and the sea of flags began to move slowly southward.

"It's coming!" Li Huayu put down the binoculars and sneered. For the infantry of the Han army banner, he didn't pay attention to it at all. If it is said that because of the small number of cavalry in the Southern Yue Army, how to deal with the cavalry of the Qing Army has always been a problem that makes the top brass of the Southern Yue Army scratch their heads, then dealing with the enemy's infantry is a light-hearted topic.

"Tell the artillerymen to rest for a while. When these guys who have forgotten their ancestors are close, and the artillery of the Qing army can no longer fire, transfer a regiment of infantry up and teach them how to behave with firecrackers! Then, use rockets to attack the large array of Shuoto, and the whole army will press it! ”

On the position of the Nanyue Army, the flag was waved, and the brass horn of the mobilized troops was loud and high-pitched. As the sound of the brass horn conveyed the order for the movement of troops to the ears of officers at all levels, the officers began to act in an orderly manner according to their duties.

Assemble the team, inspect weapons and ammunition, and wait for orders, and slowly march forward to the clear rhythm of the drummer. The atmosphere was relaxed as if it were a long march training before arriving at the campsite.

Thanks to the strict training and almost harsh military discipline on weekdays, the marching columns of the Nanyue Army were skillful and gorgeous, slow and neat all the way, in the eyes of others, if it were not for the battlefield separated by a line between life and death, the look on the faces of the soldiers was as leisurely and comfortable as the peasants harvesting the harvest and driving the ox carts back home to celebrate the harvest.

Compared with the Han army flag, which had to stop and reorganize the team after walking three or five steps, although the battle team of the Nanyue Army started later, it came slowly and never stopped. In less than a moment, the queue had already advanced to within two hundred steps in front of the Han Army Banner.

At this distance, the artillery of both sides did not dare to fire any more, for fear of hurting their own people.

Maybe he was a little impatient, or maybe he wanted to show off his training results in front of the big and young marshal and show off to the enemy. The commander of the Nanyue Regiment who led the team ordered the trumpeters around him to blow the trumpet, and the whole regiment rushed towards the ranks of the Han army flag at a trotting pace.

In the process of running, the blood-boiling brass horn kept changing its tone, and the dazzling orders were turned into actions by the soldiers and presented in the field of vision of the Qing army on the opposite side and the governor behind him.

"Fetch the gun!" The sound of clamming was endless, and more than 2,000 firecrackers took their beloved firecrackers in their hands from their shoulders, and pointed obliquely into the air.

"Pull off the hat!" In order to prevent dust from entering the mouth of the gun and affecting the shooting effect, all the guns of the Nanyue Army were equipped with a gun head cap sewn from cotton cloth and put on the gun mouth. The pace was not chaotic, and the musketeers took off their hats.

"Let's go!"

"Check the flint!"

"Ready to shoot!"

The execution of the commands by the soldiers flowed smoothly and smoothly, as smoothly as their daily meals and drinks.

On the left flank position of the Qing army, Ozanikan saw this scene and couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for those Han army flags. Most of those people were dressed in cotton armor and had spears and knives in their hands. How is it the opponent of such an elite army?

He turned his head and nodded slightly to a few of his henchmen, the slightest movement was negligible. However, several officers replied with glances and gestures, indicating that they understood. He seemed to have an itch on his body, scratching the itch between the cracks in his armor with his hands, but only his fingers knew that he was pinching the strip of cloth tightly in the depths of his armor.

There was smoke in front of the battle. The deafening sound of firecrackers continued. Rows after rows of musketeers exchanged shots, and after the musketeers in the front row had put their muskets in their hands, they moved out of the way to reload the muskets, and the second platoon continued to bombard. The musketeers simply relied on the instinctive reaction formed by their usual rigorous training, constantly firing, retreating from reloading ammunition, and then coming forward to fire again.

The sound of the platoon has not been interrupted, and when the firecrackers are shooting, some Qing arrows continue to fly. The firecrackers all had eight-petaled hats and iron-tipped helmets, as well as cuirasses. For the arrows fired indiscriminately by the Han Army Banner in the chaos, as long as they don't hit the vital point, it doesn't hurt to stick a few arrows in their bodies. However, some of the firecrackers who were hit by arrows in the arms were immediately snatched up by the accompanying health soldiers and quickly sent to the main camp for treatment.

The Nanyue army fought easily and comfortably, but the Han army flag was extremely sad. Each column had nearly a thousand guns fired at close range, and the projectiles came from the surface, like a strong wind sweeping through the leaves, and were swept by these iron rains, regardless of the people and horses, there were immediately thick blood holes on their bodies. Every time the gray-white smoke rose up, all the screams and cries of the Qing soldiers were instantly drowned out in the chorus of fire.

"Stop shooting! Spike Charge! ”

The horn of the Nanyue Army blew loudly and made people's blood stir. All the firecrackers were still lined up in three columns, with firearms in their hands, and rushed towards the two Han army flags that had already collapsed.

These two Han armies have been beaten by the firecrackers, and now the fierce gods and evil spirits on the opposite side are more flat and shouting and rushing over with the firearms, where do they still have the heart to fight? Many people shouted and turned around and ran wildly towards the way they came.

Although only more than 1,000 people can still run, it makes the entire array of Han army flags shake! All the Han soldiers witnessed the scene just now, and they were all worried in their hearts, constantly comparing themselves with these Han soldiers to see how long they could support themselves. Now that these people have been defeated so badly, how can they still hold their ground? It was only when the defeated soldiers rushed to their homes that they woke up like a dream, and they also left behind the rule that they should not attack the big array, so they just took advantage of the chaos to turn their horses backwards and leave.

"Hey, hey! But that's it! "Li Huayu can see clearly that the Han army banner has become his own vanguard, and he was driven around by the troops with spurs, chased north, and went straight to Shuotuo's Chinese army." Send the order to the rocket team behind, aim at Shuotuo's Chinese army, and blow up Lao Tzu! ”

Dozens of rocket launchers put oil arrows and medicine arrows on the launch pads as if they didn't need money, ignited the fuses at the tail, and let orange-red flames emerge from the tail of the rockets, and flew towards the Chinese military position in Shuotuo in the distance with a cruel smile.

Shuoto was already completely panicked.

Although he also heard the generals of the Tashan system talk about the classic tactics of the Southern Guangdong Army more than once, artillery, rockets, firearms, spurs, and thunder. The combination of these weapons by the Nanyue army was extremely exquisite, making the opponent miserable. However, Shuotuo, who belonged to the role of playing soy sauce during the Liaodong War, was always a little unimpressed. thinks that these Tashan generals are exaggerating, and they just raise their value by boasting about the enemy. (This is the same as the main theme media in the United States.) People boasted the fighting power of the Germans, the Japanese, and even the aliens to the sky. Then, a series of superheroes, represented by the President of the United States, defeated these evil forces in order to defend peace and save the planet. Where is it like the domestic anti-Japanese drama, where the enemy is portrayed as idiots like pigs' heads? )

But today, Shoto realizes that he was wrong. The oil arrows and medicine arrows that exploded around the Chinese army from time to time, stirring up clusters of flames and bringing a scream of misery, taught him a serious lesson. The sea of fire in Tower Hill is not a legend.

"Quick! The minions of the red flag rushed up to this king! Stop these minions! Looking at the soldiers of the new annex army and the Han army banner that were driven down by the Nanyue ******** in front of him, Shuotuo's throat seemed to be stuffed into tens of thousands of tons of sand, and he was uncomfortable. The voice that came out of his throat also became dry and unpleasant.

"Quick! Let the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the minions of the Blue Banner stop the defeated soldiers on the left and right flanks, and don't let them run around! Shuo Tuo looked at the Mongolian prince of the Eight Banners who was in a trance and frightened under the several golden dragons next to him, and shouted in his heart! With the looseness of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, I am afraid that the performance in front of these southern barbarians is not as good as those Han troops and new annexed armies. They must be allowed to stop the onslaught of the defeated army before recovering.

However, it was already too late. As the rockets continued to burst out in flames on the Qing army's position, people shouted and neighed on the Mongolian position of the Eight Banners, and panicked.

Suddenly, a few screams intensified the chaos in the Eight Banners Mongolia. Several Mongolian officers of the Eight Banners adjacent to the Manchurian position of the Zhenglan Banner had a few more transparent holes in their bodies and fell from their horses screaming.

Among the exclamations of countless people, Ezanikan's rough and huge voice was particularly clear: "Brothers of the Blue Flag, if you want to drink wine and eat meat, follow me to vote for the master of the Li family!" The minions of the Red Flag don't treat us as human beings, why should we block them and sell their lives! Kill! ”

In his hand, he held a nine-foot-long tiger spear, and the tip of the tiger spear was dripping with blood, staining the strips of white cloth tied to the barrel red.

It happened suddenly, and it was a change of elbows and armpits. The brother who was still standing by his side just now was facing each other with swords and guns in the blink of an eye. Many Mongolian officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners who were picked by the Zhenglan Banner sword and spear, the smiles on their faces did not fade, and they went to see Changshengtian.

"Hey, hey! Lao Tzu knows that this dog thing will not eat Lao Tzu's wine and meat in vain! Tuha grinned and looked at the scene that happened in the Qing army's position in the distance, and he was not without pride.

"Tuha! Your lord ordered you to bring someone to pick up the team that is going to be up anyway! Be sure to pick them out! Li Huayu also saw this scene in the enemy camp. If he can't take advantage of this opportunity, then he is not worthy to be the acting governor. When the commander of the commander of the command went to Tuha and gave an order, he was ordered to lead the army to attack and receive this Ozanikan who had returned to the uprising.

Ozanikan was in front, leading more than 1,000 cavalry with the blue banner of the headquarters to rush towards Shuotuo's Chinese army flag array, and along the way, soldiers and horses with the blue banner followed them, with white cloth wrapped around their guns and white cloth strips on their helmets, and pounced with them on Shuotuo's woven golden dragon.

Tuha and Okwe led the hussars outside, and like a sharp knife, pierced into the formation of Shuoto, dividing the whole large array and joining up with the uprising troops of Ozanikan.

Behind it, more than a dozen regiments of the Nanyue Army divided and surrounded and annihilated the fleeing Qing army.

In this battle, Shuotuo and other princely generals of the Eight Banners were either killed or captured. Beheaded more than 1,000 real slaves in Liaodong and captured more than 10,000 rebels.

Cao Zhenyan, who led 10,000 firearms soldiers to reinforce Shuotuo, heard the news on the way, and immediately changed his route to Zhangde to return to the division with Duoduo and others.

Li Huayu led the victorious army and pressed from east to west.

Liu Zongmin's Dashun Army, Duoduo Hong Chengchou's Qing Army, and Li Huayu's Nanyue Army met on the battlefield within a radius of 100 miles. (To be continued.) )