Chapter 232: Mix and match of hot and cold weapons
The mode of holding meetings is good, and the officers and assistants of the "Red Banner Army" participate in the decision-making and debate by pooling their wisdom, and their judgment and command level can be improved.
The officers at or above the general flag of the "Red Banner Army" are no longer illiterate, and they all bring notebooks and pencils to write and draw when they hold meetings, and they look like they are taking serious notes.
Although at least half of them made a typo, and many simply circled in place of words they couldn't write, they were able to understand the general meaning of what they had recorded.
Now these officials and assistants took out their notebooks in their respective general flags and Bai Zong, read out the latest instructions of the teacher aloud, assigned tasks, and soon how to act the next day, everyone understood.
The meaning of the head of the family is to slow down the speed and change the attack to a gradual and gradual attack, and not to kill Qingcheng at once, so as not to make the Karaqin people too concentrated and have a city to rely on, causing the "Red Banner Army" to attack for a long time and be in an embarrassing situation where they cannot advance or retreat.
Deliberately exposing the position of our army, letting the Karaqin cavalry leave Qingcheng for dozens of miles to fight with our army, and luring them to attack the position of the infantry temporarily circled by wheelbarrows is a revised tactic, and the key to a complete victory is that the bait cannot be swallowed by the Tartars.
This meant that a thousand or so infantry and a thousand servant men could face double the attack of the Tartar cavalry.
Song Pengfei was under a lot of pressure, although he had a thousand bird guns and 120 guns that could be fired, but if he counted enough lethality, at most he would only make five or six hundred enemy cavalry lose their combat effectiveness.
If the Tartars are not afraid of casualties and rush hard, as long as they break into the position, the tragic situation of the birds without iron armor being slaughtered by one side will happen, where is it child's play to fight with the cavalry with bayonets? After all, a bird with a bayonet is too short, and it is not as effective as an ash pole spear to stab.
This was the first time that the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" confronted the enemy, and Huang Han knew his position in the heart of the "Red Banner Army", so he decided to personally guard the infantry with the infantry and laborers.
Huang Han ordered Hanzi, Yang Danian, Yuan Siming, and Wang Zhanpeng to lead the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army", and the timing of their attack was half an hour after the Karaqin cavalry stormed the infantry position.
In this era, fighting a war stresses vigor at one blow, then declines, and then exhausts in three ways, and when the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" launched a counter-charge, it was precisely when the Karaqin cavalry was "exhausted in three ways."
Huang Han understands the historical examples of cold weapons encountering hot weapons, and the battle of Bali Bridge between the British and French forces against the Manchu and Mongol cavalry during the Second Opium War is completely illustrative.
In this battle, the Mongol cavalry suffered more than 10,000 casualties, while the British and French troops only had 12 killed. This is still a battle of tens of thousands of horses and horses in the hinterland of China by foreign devils who have no armor and come across the sea from thousands of miles away.
The French parliamentarians refused to give the French general Montoban an excessive reward, believing that what had taken place at the Bali Bridge was nothing more than "a laughable battle".
Therefore, Huang Han did not think that the casualties of the "Red Banner Army" were uncontrollable, after all, the defensive strength of the Bird Gunners was much stronger than that of the British and French forces, and the two layers of cotton armor were enough to deal with the light arrows flying in the sky.
The Karaqin cavalry would not be a resolute and ruthless character, they would not have been able to fight even though they had been disrupted by lead bullets, and they were unlikely to rush into a position surrounded by wheelbarrows with ash pole spears.
The Mongols' Mangu tactics were well known to Huang Han, and often the Tartars would take advantage of the flexibility of the light cavalry to disrupt the enemy's formation by diffusing the method of circling around the infantry formation, and only break through when the enemy was in confusion.
But they will soon face a very serious problem, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" is not afraid of trouble, and even carries a total of 860 wheelbarrows with guns, and these wheelbarrows with three ash poles and spears can be formed in less than a breath.
It is also convenient and quick when you need to change formations to advance, and the entire position is actually a mobile existence.
If the cavalry dared to drive their horses directly into the infantry formation of the "Red Banner Army", they would first be ravaged by carrying their spears once within a distance of 200 paces, and would be abused by a bird gun again when they approached 80 paces.
The next is not over, the armor-piercing cone of the foot archer will shoot out continuously, and it can really rush in front of the wheelbarrow, and the war horse will be stupid and hit it in the face of the bright and shaky spear head?
Therefore, Huang Han believed that he understood the enemy's tactics, and the tactics adopted by the "Red Banner Army" were new.
It is a new tactic that uses a wheelbarrow equipped with an ash pole spear as an obstacle to curb the speed of cavalry, and a combination of hot and cold weapons with long-range attacks with guns, medium-range strikes with birds, and close-range rapid fire with bows and arrows.
At the last moment, there will be hand-to-hand combat between spearmen and sword and shield hands, and the Karaqin Tartars will definitely not be adapted.
Huang Han even doubted whether he would use pikemen and sword and shield hands, because the Tartars of this era had long lost the pride of four hundred years ago, and they were beaten by the ignorant and backward Tunguska savages with money rat tails, and they sacrificed the most beautiful and noble women in the tribe and exchanged their relatives for peace.
The Karaqin Tatars can still move forward in the face of the firepower of modern warfare, and they will not take turns to wag their tails and beg for mercy from Jiannu.
The next morning, all the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" went out to continue to look for yurts to kill the Tartars to save the Han people, and Huang Han ordered Song Pengfei to lead all the infantry to conduct on-site drills, and he wanted to review the results of the infantry's training in the past six months.
The infantry marched three miles in marching mode and received Song Pengfei's order to form a formation, and the army labored and pushed the wheelbarrow into place, the ash pole was inserted in place, and the pikemen and sword and shield men appeared in the preset positions left for them step by step.
The next order was to resume the march, and the infantry and the servants would push the wheelbarrow and remove the ash pole and spear in the prescribed order.
Originally, these training subjects were compulsory courses for infantry and military service training, and after training in battle, they were still reviewed by the head of the family.
After noon, calculating the distance, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" should be about seventy or eighty miles away from the Qingcheng of Karaqin, and at this time many Tartar scouts were found.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army", which had completed the four raids at this time, also came to assemble one after another, and they would not go forward to intercept the Karaqin cavalry, but followed the infantry after five miles.
When a large force of Tartar cavalry is found to be attacking the infantry formation, the cavalry will jog and gradually accelerate to the battlefield, at which point the cavalry speed is at its best, and the enemy cavalry should have been weakened by the infantry's firearms.
Hanzi and Yuan Siming and others all sent scouts to report the results of the morning's battle, and there were indeed a lot more yurts in the nearby Tartars.
Within a few miles of the 1,300 knights of the "Red Banner Army" had found several settlements, and in one morning, more than a dozen small Karaqin tribes had been suddenly attacked.