Chapter 245 The body is dead, the body is spiritual, and the soul of the child is a ghost
"Honesty is both brave and martial, and in the end it is strong and invincible. The body is dead, the god is the spirit, and the soul of the child is the ghost. ”
Yang Xin roared excitedly.
At the sound of his roar, the Jiannu cavalry, who had rushed through the rain of muskets and bullets, crashed into the spear forest in confusion.
With screams, screams, the breaking of spear shafts and even the screams of soldiers, one after another horses with cavalry on their backs, slowed down and even turned in fear, and slammed their own flesh and blood into the spear that seemed to occupy the whole world. The huge inertia caused their bodies to be penetrated in an instant, and the same huge inertia also broke the spear shafts, knocked over the soldiers in front, and even their bodies fell into the spear forest with their masters, and the brave Eight Banners Manchurian warriors struggled to stand up......
But countless spears on the opposite side immediately pierced out.
In particular, those Jiannu cavalry who attacked the original position of the musketeers were directly provoked by the spears stabbed diagonally on both sides when they crashed into it......
Seven columns of musketeers only.
The width occupied may not be as wide as the length of a spear, and the spears with diagonal spurs on both sides are completely crossed, and the cavalry that rushes into such a position is the most unlucky.
The ten-fold maximum dense spear forest withstood the impact of the cavalry in this way.
The entire line was blood-colored in front of it.
The corpses of the Jiannu cavalry, the corpses of the Dangkou army who were killed, the corpses of the war horses, the broken spears, and the wounded who struggled and screamed, were piled up in front of this line.
Blood flowed like a river, converging and flowing to the Yalu River.
The cavalry behind turned one after another.
They couldn't continue to attack, the musketeers were twenty meters paste, so that almost all the forward cavalry fell in front of this formation, and the follow-up rush was held up by the spear forest, although the loss was actually more than two hundred horses, but for the cavalry, it was already known that this formation was not a good stubble, in this case, what was needed was to adjust the tactics, rather than continue to use human lives to push forward.
"Musketeers!"
Yang Xin roared.
The musketeers, who had stabilized much more, finished reloading, immediately spun out from behind the spearmen, and then stepped forward to raise their guns to aim.
In the chaotic sound of gunfire, the retreating cavalry fell.
These bird guns were all personally supervised by Xu Guangqi, although they were expensive but of good quality, and they were thickened and reinforced, and the power was enough to penetrate the cotton armor of the cavalry.
During the fire of the musketeers, this round of attack of the Jiannu cavalry ended in failure.
Immediately after the cannon mounted.
"Fire!"
Yang Xin yelled at Sun Yuanhua.
The four Hongyi cannons and heavy Furlong planes mounted on the high ground immediately opened fire, and the solid shells continued to fly towards the Jiannu cavalry, which had stopped in the distance and were ready to re-array.
"The musketeers cut off the heads, and half of the family and all the brothers divide it equally!"
Yang Xin roared.
At this time, those musketeers came to their senses, and quickly drew their knives and stepped forward to cut off the heads, as for the Jiannu who was not dead, of course, they also cut down, and those spearmen carried out their own wounded and dead bodies, and there were already people waiting behind them to transfer to the battleship. The spearmen regrouped their formations and waited for the next round of attack by Jiannu, while the musketeers hurried back after cutting off the heads, gathered their muskets and prepared to meet the enemy, the artillery on the high ground in the rear and the battleships on the river next to them continued to bombard.
"How do you keep those spearmen from flinching against the Jiannu cavalry?"
Sun Yuanhua exclaimed.
He now understands that this tactic relies on spearmen who are not afraid of death, saying that they can rely only on armor and spears without chariots, shields or even horses to resist horses, and they do not flinch in the face of the cavalry that is rushing forward, and there are not many such soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.
"How did those peasants who founded the country of Taizu drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains with their spears?"
Yang Xin said.
The founding infantry of the Ming Dynasty was a spear, and firearms were only auxiliary.
Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army is the spear infantry plus light cavalry, but the main force of the army is still the spear infantry, the most exaggerated length of the spear of the Ming army reaches ten meters, and it takes two people to use, and the cheapest and most effective weapon for the infantry to the cavalry is this dense spear forest, which is the same in ancient and modern times at home and abroad.
Of course, the premise is that the soldier must be able to fight to the death.
This tactic is too demanding on the soldiers.
Discipline, tenacious will, determination to sacrifice life and death......
Don't count on the current Ming army.
It is estimated that those who can play this are those white pole soldiers, and the essence of the white pole soldiers is not much different from Yang Xin's Dangkou army, they are the private army of Tusi, and the subjects of Tusi are recruited, and when they die, they not only have the court's pension, but also Tusi takes care of their families. In the final analysis, if you want to make soldiers forget about life, you must first ensure that they have no worries, Zhu Yuanzhang can make soldiers forget about life, and it is also because the military household system under his control can ensure that soldiers have no worries.
The reason why the Ming army is erosive now is only because the soldiers know that even the pension will be greedy by their superiors if they die in battle.
"Jiannu reinforcements have arrived!"
The soldier watching from behind shouted.
Yang Xin immediately rushed to the high ground, and saw countless small boats on the river in the distance.
This is the follow-up Eight Banners Korean infantry, and it carries a shield car.
Wild boar skins absorbed at least 30,000 Korean soldiers, and there were also a large number of North Koreans in the original history, and North Korean clothing and collars were standard.
This time, because of the heavy losses of the previous failure, he simply directly set up the Eight Banners of Korea.
You must know that there is not even Eight Banners Mongolia now!
It must be admitted that the wild boar skin is still worthy of admiration in recruiting rebels, and the combat effectiveness of those who join him can basically skyrocket, and these Eight Banners Korea is no exception. The problem of North Korea is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, they are all civil and noble, and the military generals are suppressed, but after the surrender of Jiannu, those Korean generals are more and more motivated, and at present, these Eight Banners Korea are becoming more and more important in Jiannu.
And these are still familiar with firearms.
During the previous Battle of Salhu, a large number of Korean troops in the Ming army participated in the war, and even some of these Korean troops received Qi Jiguang-style training.
"Ma, where is Mao Wenlong, does he really want Lao Tzu to do it himself?"
Yang Xin said.
There was still no trace of Mao Wenlong around.
In this case, I simply don't care.
"The big Furlong machine, the small Furlong machine, and the turtledove are all given to me to the front!"
Yang Xin shouted.
With the news of his order, those weapons that should actually be in front of the most had to move forward, and when Jiannu landed on the opposite side and lined up, these were also placed in front of the Ming army's line.
As for the four Hongyi cannons, they didn't move.
"Beware of the Jiannu cavalry attacking the flanks!"
Sun Yuanhua reminded him.
"Flanks? I'm the flanker! ”
Yang Xin said.
After saying that, he picked up the big knife and made a slashing motion.
In fact, the flanks are not easy to fight, because this place is narrow, and the flanks are actually mountains and forests, unless Jiannu uses cavalry to insert them around the ravine, he can only dismount and drill the mountains and forests, and then he can attack on the flanks, but no matter what, the flanks will not be in danger.
Soon the Jiannu infantry completed the formation.
The shield cart began to move forward.
Driven by North Korean cannon fodder, these trolleys with wood-bark and iron-composite plate parapets formed a series of attack queues, covering the dismounted Manchurian archers, Korean musketeers, and even small furlong machines mounted on the carts, slowly advancing on the riverbank plain, which was less than two miles wide. At the same time, the small boats on the river began to release fireboats down the river to stop the Ming warships, which quickly retreated under Yang Xin's orders to avoid losses.
Soon these shield carts came into range of the Hongyi cannons.
"Aim point!"
Yang Xin said to Sun Yuanhua.
"This is not bothering!"
Sun Yuanhua said.
Then he lit a cannon with his own hands, and with the flames sprayed from the muzzle, the nine-pound solid bullet fell condescendingly and instantly fell in the shield cart array, and the huge force immediately smashed a shield cart into pieces, and then bounced on the ground with the stump and broken arm that was knocked away, hitting another shield cart again, and also crashing the shield cart into a piece of splinters that shot backwards.
The shield car formation immediately began to disagree.
Three other cannons then erupted in flames, and although they were close to a mile away, the dense arrangement of the shield wagons continued to yield results.
Under the pressure of Jiannu behind, the North Korean cannon fodder had to push the shield cart and start running wildly, but as the distance narrowed, the big Furlong machine in front of the Ming army line joined the attack, although the power was far weaker than the Hongyi cannon, but the big Franc machine with solid bullets also continued to destroy the shield car. Then it was the small Furlong machine that was added, but at the same time, part of the shield cart on the opposite side stopped, and the small Furlong machine it was carrying returned fire, but it was quickly wiped out in the bombardment of the Ming army's Hongyi cannon and the big Furlong machine.
Then added is the turtledove.
This thing can also penetrate shield carts with a single bullet.
"I just like to watch this kind of scene?"
Yang Xin said with satisfaction.
However, in this way, the current tactics of the Ming army are still lacking, these shield infantry may still be able to advance to the battle line, and then the spear infantry and arquebusiers will have to face the advantage of Jiannu's precision archery and bow and arrow rate of fire, and he will have to join the battle to ensure victory. That is to say, the bird gun is not enough, this light arquebus can not ensure the penetration of the shield car, or increase the number of light guns, a large number of three-pounder guns, the Furlong machine is not good, and the big Furlong machine is only less than two pounds.
It also has a sharp reduction in the power of air leakage.
Either it's a heavy arquebus, or a turtledove in the water.
Of course, it has to be changed to be smaller to be able to be used by one person, originally the Ming army hated this thing in history, because it was too heavy, and what was used in the mercenary legend movie was that one by one could not hold it with one hand, but it was used more on the naval warship, but it was loaded with four shotgun bombardments.
An even more wild method is to simply train specialized grenadiers.
In short, the power of the bird gun is still a little worse, this is originally something that infantry shoots.
At this time, Sun Yuanhua's gaze fell into the distance.
"Is there smoke?"
He said as he looked behind a forest in the northeast.
Yang Xin immediately raised his head, and saw that in the green sky, a cloud-like gray was gradually spreading towards the sky......
"Ma, Mao Wenlong is using Lao Tzu as fat, and he went to copy the bottom by himself!"
Yang Xin said.