Chapter 405: Still a Traitor?
Just when Li Chengdong and Ma Degong were going to transfer soldiers to prepare to serve as cannon fodder, Xu Dingguo, the cannon fodder on the side of the Great Qing Kingdom, had already gritted his teeth and went to the front line.
Xu Dingguo is also a cannon fodder! played a trick on Zhu Cihong on Daming's side, and when he became cannon fodder, he didn't even copy the old nest. When he went to the side of the Qing Dynasty to continue to be cannon fodder, he first ran into a bloody battle at the C-shaped fort in Qufu City, and almost killed his old man.
This is back to the earth river and continues to be ashes! And he was escorted to the battlefield by a group of clothed minions......
This is the old rule of the Qing army, and when you go into battle to kill the enemy, you will divide the dead soldiers and sharp soldiers. Now that the Eight Banners masters are not charging, they are naturally the clothed minions as sharp soldiers, and Xu Dingguo's green battalion as dead soldiers.
Xu Dingguo is a slave who raised the flag, the glorious Han army with a white flag - that is Dolgon's minion! He was really not scared by other Eight Banners Uncles, but Duoduo wanted to kill him no different from crushing a bedbug.
So the old man had no choice, so he had to take his two sons, Xu Er'an and Xu Erji, to the front line together, and took out all the housekeepers to fight...... These family members are now slaves among slaves, and they can't be grandfather soldiers anymore, and the military salaries they receive are the same as ordinary green battalion soldiers! The Qing Dynasty was not allowed to deduct the salaries of ordinary soldiers and pay high salaries to their families.
Therefore, Xu Dingguo's family members are now a little better than ordinary green camps, and there is no special treatment.
And many of them left their families in Suiyang, and I don't know if it was a disaster for Huang Degong's people, or a disaster for Haoge, who now occupies Suiyang...... I'm going to cry just thinking about it!
However, they chose the traitor road themselves (Xu Dingguo was defeated by Li Ruolian last time and ran to the land of the Qing Kingdom, they all followed closely), and they had to go on crying!
So they are now all neatly dressed, wearing helmets, wearing cotton armor, holding knives and cards, a team of twenty people, holding the pikemen of the green battalion for Xu Dingguo, forming more than a dozen phalanxes, slowly pushing towards the Ming army's position like a wall.
Xu Dingguo and his two sons, with one hundred and ten of their most confidants, walked behind a dozen phalanxes to supervise the battle.
Behind them, there were clothed minions in yellow, white, and red cotton armor, and they also formed a dozen or so phalanxes, some of which also carried eight-force bows - not used to shoot the Ming army, but to shoot Xu Dingguo's green battalion soldiers!
If you dare not fight hard, you don't need to make a move from the master of the Eight Banners, and the clothed minions will shoot them to death!
Zhang Mingzhen had already returned to the front line, looked through the gap between the two shield carts, and saw groups of green battalion soldiers approaching the trench ten steps away from him, so he opened his mouth and shouted: "Shoot arrows!" Archers, shoot now! ”
It's really a bit embarrassing to say, the bamboo bow and wooden bow used by the Shandong regiment training army really have no bow power, if it is used to fire heavy arrows that break armor, it can shoot more than ten or twenty steps, and no matter how far it is, it will not be able to use its strength.
Therefore, the archers of the Shandong regiment did not practice long-range shooting, but practiced close-range projectiles and direct shots. And the throwing distance they practiced was fifteen to twenty paces - so they couldn't fight back when the Eight Banners shot the arrows just now. They had to wait for the other party to rush fifteen to twenty paces away before they could fire all the arrows.
Therefore, the trench outside the fort was fifteen to twenty paces from the position of the archers. And this trench is neither deep nor wide, and it is easy to cross. However, on the inside of the trench there was a row of repulsors, which would take some time to clear.
Just when the green battalion soldiers of the Xu family rushed into the trench and were about to clean up the horse rejecting rifles, the bowstrings of 2,000 bamboo bows and wooden bows suddenly flicked down, and then feather arrows came all over the sky.
The green battalion soldiers of the Xu family are all wearing cotton armor, the outside is cotton cloth, and the inner layer is an iron piece to protect the vital points. However, the archers of the Shandong regiment training are all heavy arrows, even if they are wearing iron armor, they cannot guarantee that they can carry these heavy arrows 100%, not to mention that the worthless green battalion soldiers only have a cotton armor filled with water.
So the rain of arrows fell, and it immediately knocked over a piece!
"Not bad!"
This is the emotion of Dord!
He was standing on the horse's pedal at this time, holding a telescope to watch the battle, and when he saw the opponent's wave of arrows, he couldn't help but admire: "To be able to use the light bow to this extent, these Nikans are not weak!" ”
"Lord Wang," He Luo said to the side, "our Eight Banners warriors will soon return the color!" ”
Duoduo smiled: "Of course! ”
The archers of the Eight Banners have been waiting for this moment for a long time! Before, they just blindly threw the feather arrows, and they didn't know if there was anyone behind the shield car of the Ming army? But now, it is certain that someone is shooting arrows there. So the counterattack of the Eight Banners soon began, and they did not continue to hide behind the shield cart, but lined up in front of the shield cart and threw heavy arrows neatly. They couldn't see the situation behind the Ming army's chariot fort, and there was no one to calibrate the landing point of the arrows for them. So they could only shoot as much as possible "scattered", so that they could always shoot some Ming archers.
Because the Shandong regiment training army was founded for too short, there was not enough armor available. Archers who don't have to participate in hand-to-hand combat are not qualified to wear armor, and even if the Eight Banners shoot light arrows, they can't resist them.
The sound of feather arrows entering the flesh was constantly muffled, Zhang Mingzhen hurriedly turned his head to look back, and immediately saw several archers being shot at the vital point and falling to the ground. Two of them were not seriously injured and were struggling to get up. It seems that they still want to continue fighting! And the rest of the archers, still desperately pulling their bows and shooting arrows, no one dared to take half a step back.
The Eight Banners' eight-force bows could throw feather arrows far away, and a few even landed in front of Gao Hongtu. But the tall governor in his armor, sitting upright on his horse, did not blink an eyelid. Several of his personal soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to protect him with their bodies, but they were pushed away by the old man: "What are you panicking about? This official is wearing strong armor, and he is far away, are you still afraid of the arrows of the Tartars? ”
As he was talking, some of the Green Battalion soldiers in front of him had already risked their lives to move away from their rifles and climbed onto the bunker, which was actually made up of shield wagons and artillery wagons, and there were also dirt bags piled up in front of the shield wagons to prevent shelling. Because the dirt bags are piled up on an inclined plane, it is not difficult to climb. Soon the traitors of the Green Battalion climbed up, but before they could stand firm, the javelins had already been thrown!
The first few green battalion soldiers who rushed up couldn't dodge, and they were all pierced by javelins, screaming and falling.
The javelin is the standard weapon for Ming saber players, and a knife player should be equipped with two javelins. According to Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", the comparative martial arts reward and punishment chapter stipulates: try the javelin, stand three silver coins, and hit within 30 steps, or up, or middle, or down, not bad for cooking.
In other words, when training, the knife player should be able to hit a target the size of a silver coin thirty steps away! Qi Jiguang's requirements are really a bit high, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, basically no one could meet his requirements.
Even many generals with troops have forgotten this requirement, and most of the sword players do not carry javelins - they can't eat enough, so how can they have the strength to bid for guns?
However, Gao Hongtu carefully read the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", and also trained the regiment according to the above requirements. It is impossible to invest money in China thirty steps away, but it is no problem to kill a traitor in one or twenty steps!
Xu Dingguo also saw that his soldiers were stabbed to death with javelins, and his scalp suddenly became a little numb.
These Shandong group exercises are much more powerful than he imagined...... It's just that I didn't play well with firearms at the beginning, but I played well later! Shoot arrows well, javelins throw even better!
If such an army is to be left in the Ming army, it is also a strong force, at least it can have the level of the Qin army trained by Sun Chuanting! How can your own green battalion soldiers fight?
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
At this time, the drums sounded like a burst! This is Doduo urging the attack...... He doesn't care how many traitors he dies!
Today's battle, as long as it can be won, how many traitors will there be?
If you can't win, what's the use of keeping a traitor like Xu Dingguo? Keep them as three ministers and four ministers?