Chapter 730: Shameless Zhang Yue
"Quick, rush up, just rush up and we'll win!"
"Rush up and over the low wall!"
The officers who supervised the Ming army waved their waist knives in their hands, and each shouted different slogans, but the purpose was the same, that is, they wanted to rush forward with the troops!
And when they rushed to about one hundred and fifty meters, many cannon muzzles appeared on the low wall of the pseudo-Tang thief army that seemed to be empty in front of them, and then spewed out balls of fire and white smoke!
When the cannon sounded, the Ming soldiers in the front row were still inevitably falling down!
At this time, the Ming army on the right wing had already panicked, and then it collapsed again!
However, the new army of the left flank and the central army did not waver in the shelling of the shotgun, although a large number of soldiers in the front row fell, but many of the Ming officers of the new army knew that the casualties of the shelling of the shotgun were just such a one!
The next distance is only more than 100 meters, as long as the charge is launched, it is impossible for the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side to have a second chance to open fire!
So they all shouted: "Don't be afraid, rush forward, the thief army's shotguns have already been fired, and now they can't fire the second shot when they rush up!" ”
With the shouting of the Ming army's supervising officers, the musicians also blew the horns in their hands, and the horn sound is getting denser and denser, at this time, thousands of new troops are already ignoring the formation, and rushed up directly, there are spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and musketeers, among which there are no archers who stop shooting arrows when they run dozens of meters away!
The gunfire began to sound intensively, and in the face of such a dense crowd charge, the musketeers of the Tang Army did not need to aim at all, and they could easily get a hit by hitting the crowd!
One after another, the Ming soldiers who were charging fell to the ground!
However, the shooting of muskets still did not stop the charge of these Ming troops!
These supervising new troops are not those places to train the army, they have spent so much military money on Zhang Yue, naturally they have their own advantages, the overall quality of the soldiers and even the quality of those generals who are civilian officials are much stronger than those places to train the army.
This scene made Wang Chaohong, the chief of staff of the First Army, who was watching and directing the battle on the top of the mountain, also frown slightly!
These new army inspectors are not good!
With this rushing formation alone, there is quite a bit of the shadow of its own Datang Army, and it is no wonder that whoever let the new army supervise the new army is completely trained according to the Datang Army.
Zhang Yue didn't want any face at all, but wherever he could plagiarize, he did it all, and even the training code of the Tang Army didn't know where to get a copy, and then deleted and modified it in combination with the situation of the new army itself, and finally came up with the training code of the new army itself.
Although many things in the Tang Army cannot be learned by the new army, such as the officer training system, the soldier recruitment and dispatch system, the field division system, the food and management and so on.
But in addition to these, some superficial things are the basic learning of the new army, equipment, establishment, and even tactics, and then to the training methods behind the scenes, almost the same, if you have to say anything different, that is, the new army is limited by funds, and there is no way to do the same daily training as the Tang Army, and conduct frequent live-fire training.
However, Zhang Yue's new army also has some unique things of its own, such as his soldier and officer system is also quite interesting.
The recruitment and training of soldiers of the New Army, and even the final formation of the army, are basically the responsibility of a certain general alone, and will not be divided into several departments like the Tang Army, and this has led to the fact that most of the troops of the New Army are from the same place, such as a thousand households or even a certain guard.
Not only are the soldiers from the same township and county, but even those middle and low-level officers are actually from the same township and county, and many of the middle-level officers are actually the children of the local gentry, and some of them are even talented and famous.
Of course, these talents and people come to join the army, naturally they do not say that they join the army as a military general, their purpose is still to be a civilian official, Zhang Yue recommended a large number of civilian generals in the new army to obtain the official positions of county commander, county order, governor, and even prefect.
Even middle and high-ranking generals are all civilian officials.
And these civil officials and generals who were born as scholars, with the ties of the same clan, teachers and students, and classmates, formed a huge and complex network of relationships.
This has created a rather unique civilian general system in the new army!
In addition, these civilian generals generally recruited soldiers from their hometowns, and many soldiers and even low-ranking officers were even the same clan and slaves of these civilian generals.
This situation is somewhat like a local gentry fighting with a group of soldiers of the same township and clan, which is very similar to the countless armed tax resistances suppressed by the Tang Dynasty.
And this situation is also a phenomenon unique to the New Army, which cannot be seen in several other Ming Army New Army and even in the Tang Army.
The internal network of the new army is close, and Zhang Yue has used the name of flat thieves to raise military expenses in the local area, when this army only obeys Zhang Yue's orders, and can also have independent financial power, it also means that the Ming Dynasty can hardly bypass Zhang Yue to control this army, and this is why the Ming Dynasty has a suspicion of Zhang Yue!
Because of the uniqueness of the new army, it was decided that without Zhang Yue, it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to control this new army.
Relatively speaking, although Yu Dayou's thief army is not weak in combat effectiveness, and the number of people is tens of thousands, but the Ming Dynasty does not have much suspicion about this, because Yu Dayou's thief army is a relatively pure army of generals, although this army is also Yu Dayou's private army, but without the military funds and ordnance given by the imperial court, Yu Dayou would not be able to raise an army of tens of thousands of people.
However, Zhang Yue's new army was able to survive on its own without the imperial court's military expenses!
And this trend also exists in those local training troops that were absorbed by Zhang Yue!
If Zhang Yue wants to rebel one day, in fact, the Ming Dynasty has no way at all, otherwise why do you think the cabinet bigwigs of the Ming Dynasty and even the Zhengde Emperor would be defeated in Zhang Yue in a row, and he would be promoted and knighted.
In the winter of the third year of Xuanping, the Ming Dynasty sent Wang Yiqi to serve as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and supervised the military affairs of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian.
This is one of the three orphans, from the official title of the first product, although it is said that it is one level lower than one of the three dukes, Wang Yiqi of the prince Taibao, but it can be regarded as a very human minister.
Zhang Yue single-handedly created the New Army of Supervision, but on the contrary, the New Army of Supervision and Bidding also pushed Zhang Yue to the peak of Renchen!
Now, what is rushing up is the elite division that Zhang Yue has spent countless efforts and military funds to build!
And just looking at their charging posture, even Wang Chaohong has to admit that this new army is indeed decent!
But I just don't know if they have learned the essence of their own Datang Army, and when they will see the red bayonet, will they still be able to hold on!
Wang Chaohong has been in the army for many years, and he has fought many battles with the Ming army, and there are many Ming troops who can not collapse under the guns of the Tang Army, but he has never seen the Ming army that can not collapse under the bayonets of the Tang Army!
At the same time, a major of the Tang Army, who was in the first line of defense, also saw the Ming army rushing over, and standing behind the breastwork, he immediately shouted: "Grenade ready!" ”
Suddenly, nearly a thousand soldiers in the first line of defense began to stop shooting in unison, and then took out grenades and held them tightly!
"Ignition!"
"Bomb dropping!"
When the Ming army rushed through a distance of thirty meters, the Datang New Army threw out one grenade after another!
But this time, although the Ming army also endured a violent grenade explosion, the Ming army's counterattack also came, and I saw that more than a hundred Ming soldiers also threw flowering bombs at the breastwork, and instantly, the Tang Army behind the breastwork also suffered a lot of casualties!
The new army is also equipped with grenades, although there are not many, but there are still them!
Grenades were thrown on both sides, but some of the soldiers of the Ming army were already about to rush to the breastwork, and the young major did not hesitate, holding up the command knife and shouting: "Bayonet ready!" ”
It didn't take long for the Ming army to rush under the breastwork, and then through a breastwork, the Tang army above stabbed each other with musket bayonets and spears!
If the previous shelling, musket rounds and even grenades were huge!
Then the current bayonet hand-to-hand combat is extremely bloody!
The soldiers on both sides were separated by a low wall, and then stabbed each other with spears and muskets with bayonets in their hands, and the spear head stabbed forward and then pulled out, and it brought up a bright blood flower!
In less than half a minute of contact between the two sides, the battle front between the two sides was almost full of corpses and wounded!
The corpses of the Ming army under the breastwork were even stacked in several places, and the later Ming soldiers fought with spears or muskets and bayonets on the corpses of their fallen comrades!
And the Datang Army defense line behind the chest is also full of corpses!
But if you count carefully, then you will find that the casualties of the Tang Army are only about one-tenth of that of the Ming army!
The biggest reason is naturally not that the bayonets of the Datang Army are sharper, and the quality of the soldiers is higher.
The reason for this situation is because this seemingly short breastwork and the armor rate of the Tang Army are too high!