Hearing the dull sound of Spanish muskets, Nikan's face sank again—this is indiscriminate shooting! The Ming army is still a hundred paces away, it is still night, and I can only faintly see the ups and downs of the cold light by the moonlight.

Seeing that Nikan was about to be angry, the "black man" hurriedly dissuaded: "Lord, let the people below be bold...... Now the morale of the army is shaken and morale is low, if you don't make any more movements, I am afraid that the soldiers will scatter in a hurry! ”

"This, this ......," Nikan gritted his teeth, "how heroic my Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers are, how did they come to this point?" ”

The "black man" shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Lord Wang, the Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers in the past have long been lost, and the people who go into battle today are all farmers in Guannai who were tempted by dozens of acres of land, what else can you expect?" ”

Nikan was speechless for a while, and then felt that the man's eyes were raw, so he asked, "Are you...... Who are you? How do you talk like that? ”

"Xiaguan Duncan is a subordinate of the old king of Dingnan."

The old king of Dingnan is Kong Youde, and this Jiala, surnamed Deng, turned out to be the remnant of Kong Jiajun. Nikan also remembered that when Duoduo went out of the customs, he also transferred people from various solid mountains in the green flag, including Kong Youde's subordinates, who were led out of the customs by Kong Tingxun at that time. But later, Kong Youde committed suicide by smashing the back of his head with a pen and martyred the Qing Dynasty, Kong Tingxun went back to the Guannei, and the people and horses he left outside the Guanguan were annexed by Duoduo, and they were incorporated into the Zhenglan Banner Han Army with Niu Lu as a unit. And this Duncan was a Niu Lu Zhangjing at the time, but he didn't expect that he would be mixed with Jiala Zhangjing now.

"Well, or not......," Nikan stomped his foot, "it's better to shoot indiscriminately than not at all, so let them be bold!" ”

There is nothing Nikan can do about the group of old peasants under his hands, if they are forced too hard, I am afraid that they will disperse in a hurry! The young soldiers on the other side did not frown, and continued to approach the enemy at the speed of their march - they did not set up any horizontal formations or phalanxes, and it was more troublesome to maintain their formation in the middle of the night. And there is no need for this, now it is not fighting in formation, but attacking the enemy's camp, so a relatively dense straggler formation with a company as a unit is put in.

But no matter how dense it is, it is also a straggler, not a dense horizontal formation and a phalanx. Therefore, the 8,000 young soldiers put on a posture of 20,000 or 30,000 in the dark night, which made the Qing army, who did not know the truth and the truth, tremble.

Of course, Qin Mingtao chose to attack in a wide skirmish formation not to scare people, but to avoid the attacking troops being killed too much by the Qing army's 3-pounder guns with shotguns - the Qing army's 6-pounder guns have been almost destroyed, but their 3-pounder guns have not fired, they must be waiting for the Ming army's infantry to approach!

If they don't fire, they will naturally not expose their targets, and the 12-pound guns of the Ming army will not be able to destroy them.

In addition, the use of skirmishers is also to lengthen the Qing army's key defensive front, and increase the wave of the Ming army's attacks, and prolong the time for the Qing army's muskets to shoot - the quality of the Qing army's muskets is uneven, and the quality of the gunners is also poor......

Since it is a skirmish formation, there is no concept of musket salvos, and when to fire is all in the hands of the soldiers themselves, and the officer can at most explain an approximate distance.

Zhang Cheng knew that his vanguard battalion was going to lure the enemy's 3-pounder guns into fire, and he couldn't fire too early. Because then the enemy will find himself in a straggler formation, and maybe he will not open fire, but let the infantry fight back. So he set the distance of the first fire at thirty or forty paces...... However, whether the people below can carry it out or not depends on their consciousness.

As he got closer and closer to the Qing army's position, Zhang Cheng's heart also raised his throat - if the Qing army's 3-pounder cannon was placed in front of him, that artillery bombardment, he would be martyred!

In addition, the muskets on the Qing army's position in front were also very lively, and there was a lot of smoke, and nothing could be seen, obviously using inferior gunpowder with a lot of impurities.

Suddenly, a particularly bright fire flashed from a cloud of smoke in front of him, followed by a deafening sound of cannonball!

This should be a 3-pounder bronze cannon firing, and it's very close, just a hundred paces away!

Needless to say, it must have been a shotgun!

And Zhang Cheng could still hear the sound of the cannon, and he didn't feel any severe pain on his body, indicating that he was not shot. Since you didn't get shot, you have to charge.

Now that the infantry of the Ming army has approached the front line of the Qing army, the 12-pound short guns and 24-pound mortar guns in the rear have all stopped firing, and it is impossible to suppress the 3-pounder guns of the Qing army. So you have to rely on the infantry who rushed to the front to get rid of those cannons with bayonets and flintlock pistols!

Zhang Cheng hurriedly turned his head, wanting to give an order to the trumpeter who followed behind him, but he didn't find his figure, and after looking again, he found that the seventeen or eighteen-year-old northwestern boy had fallen to the ground and didn't move...... I don't know if he was killed by the shotgun sprayed by the Qing army's 3-pounder gun?

"Guards! Come on! ”

"Guards...... Bao Daming, Father Weijun! ”

Just as Zhang Cheng was distracted, the young soldiers under his command had already taken the initiative to charge—the enemy's 3-pounder guns had fired!

The sound of artillery is the order to charge!

Moreover, these young soldiers did not charge indiscriminately, but rushed to the nearest Qing 3-pounder gun from all directions - they were really advancing against the enemy's artillery fire!

A 100-step sprint is almost a race against death! If the Qing gunners reload before they get closer, they can reap a round of lives, otherwise these young soldiers will be able to capture these cannons with bayonets and muskets!

Zhang Cheng didn't look for any suona anymore, and also charged with a sword.

As these young soldiers got closer and closer to the Qing army's artillery array, some of them began to stop and raise their guns to shoot at the approximate direction where the Qing army's artillery was. Because the smoke in front of them had not yet cleared, they had no way to aim at the target, but they were not shooting indiscriminately, but interfering with the opponent's loading...... They can charge under artillery fire, but the enemy may not be able to reload in the rain of bullets.

I don't know if the artillery skills of the Qing army were too poor or because they were interfered with by the shooting of the young soldiers, anyway, until the young soldiers rushed to the more than 20 paces away from those cannons, they did not fire again. At this time, the smoke in front of the Qing army also dissipated a little, and the visibility was greatly improved - the reason for this was because most of the arquebuses that had been fired indiscriminately just now were dumb by themselves, either because they were too hot to load, or they blew up by themselves, and some of them were too nervous for the gunners to knock out the whole strip......

Now the firepower of the Qing army has been greatly attenuated, but the young men of the Ming army have begun to shoot accurately, and the two or three hundred muskets are all aimed at the gunners who are busy loading the artillery, and a burst of crackling guns will turn the artillery position of the Qing army into a place of ambush!

After killing most of the Qing artillery, these young soldiers did not retreat, nor did they waste any more time reloading, but continued to charge with rifles loaded with bayonets!

This frightened the musketeers at the front of the Qing army who were leaning against the breastwork to shoot, although they were all equipped with socket bayonets, but they had no training in stabbing and did not have the consciousness of hand-to-hand combat with their opponents - according to the standard Spanish phalanx tactics, hand-to-hand combat was the work of pikemen and sword and shield bearers! How can a musketeer be allowed to fight hand-to-hand? If the musketeers did even hand-to-hand combat, what did the pikemen and sword and shield men do?

So the musketeers got up and retreated, and ran to the pikemen who had formed a phalanx in the rear. And when they ran, they "ced" a chest wall that had been painstakingly repaired to the charging Ming army, and at the same time gave up 6 3-pounder guns that only fired one shot!

Nikan, who was supervising the battle behind the battle, saw this scene and was so angry that he was about to jump to his feet - what a battle! worked hard to repair a daytime position, let the family take it with a charge, and took away 6 artillery pieces by the way! He has a total of 18 cannons on hand, and now the 6 6-pounder guns are dumb, and the 6 3-pounder guns have been taken again, how will the next battle be fought?

In addition, why are those infantry of the Ming army so powerful? Where did they come from?

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