Chapter 76 (1) Battle of Tongzhou 3
Sure enough, the slave soldiers of the two slave soldiers of the Aliha Chaoha battalion urged the war horses to roar and rush to the two wings of the Dazhong army one by one, and one by one the slave soldiers took off their riding bows from their horses, drew arrows from the sack in their hands, put them on the bowstring, and prepared to ride and shoot.
The Jianzhou Jurchen Tartar soldiers, although they dare not say that they are all marksmen, but these semi-nomadic and semi-cultivated people who live in a harsh natural environment all the year round, everyone has to learn to use bows and arrows since they were young, and often have to participate in various conflicts, so that they have been trained since childhood, so that each of them has become a qualified archer and knight, which is forced by their lives to have such skills, and among these Tartar soldiers, there are also many Mongols, these Mongols themselves are nomads, Since he was a child, he has lived on horseback, so he is also a master in riding and archery.
Therefore, the Tartar soldiers go to war, whether they are horse armor soldiers or foot armor soldiers, each of them is an archer, everyone is equipped with hard skills, like their horse armor soldiers are each equipped with two bows, a foot bow, a riding bow, riding on a horse with a riding bow, when fighting on the ground, you can immediately take out a foot bow and transform into a qualified infantry archer, so the slave soldiers claim to be on the battlefield with a top three, in fact, it makes sense, they can fight on their horses, and they can also fight when they get off their horses, not only can they charge into battle, but they are also qualified archers, This point is as an agricultural nation of the Han people can not be compared, in the Han army, the skills of the army are relatively single, cavalry is cavalry, infantry is infantry, archers are archers, very few people can cover all kinds of skills, if there really is, it must be a fierce man in the army, but such people are very few in the Han army, not as popular as Jiannu and Mongolians, which is also one of the main reasons for the super combat effectiveness of the Jiannu army, which no one can deny.
The tactics that these Tatar cavalry are best at using are not actually the tactics of rushing into battle, but the tactics that their nomads have used for thousands of years and have tried and tested, and their cavalry will not easily launch a desperate attack on a large array of well-formed enemies, unless they are at the end of their rope, otherwise their generals will be brainless or drunk, or they may have lived enough to kill themselves.
Unless the cavalry is a heavy cavalry, under normal circumstances, in the face of the enemy's infantry corps that is very neatly formed, it is simply impossible to break up the enemy's infantry group, and just the spear of Rulin can kill them, so as long as they are not stupid or crazy, they will only use the tactics of attack and harassment to deal with the enemy's infantry formation.
From the earliest Huns, to the invincible Mongol army, to the current Jiannu army, the main tactics they used to raise troops are still this tactic of changing the soup without changing the medicine for thousands of years, but not to mention, when dealing with the Han army in the Central Plains, it is really tried and tested, and it can often achieve miraculous results.
It's a pity that today they chose the wrong target, and the object they chose today was the large Chinese army that far surpassed them in tactics, and the large number of muskets was equipped, and their trick was no longer so effective.
The slave soldiers of the two slave soldiers of the Aliha Chaoha battalion of Jiannu urged the war horses to shout wildly one by one, cheering for their own courage, while bending their bows and arrows, just after rushing close to the front of the Dazhong Army, they threw their arrows to kill and injure the front of the Dazhong Army, but their tactics, the Dazhong Army already knew how to deal with it.
On the chariots on both wings, there were two gunners each, operating the two small Fran cannons on the chariot, constantly adjusting the muzzles, slowly aiming at these Jiannu soldiers who rushed towards them, and a large number of gunners, under the command of the officer, Yuguan boarded the chariot, put a flintlock pistol on the chariot's plate, and began to aim at the oncoming Jiannu cavalry with the card as the basis.
Moreover, these musketeers were ordered to aim as much as possible at the Jiannu's horses in order to increase their accuracy, and only those first-class marksmen were allowed to aim and shoot those slave generals in the enemy's cavalry.
After so many years of operation, the big middle army is now the gunners have also been divided into detailed grades by the armies, according to the assessment results conducted every three months, the gunners are divided into one, two, three and special four levels, the special shooters are also marksmen, and the rest of the third-class shooters, the first-class shooters are the main force of the gunners in the army, after such a division, the gunners of the Dazhong Army have a new method of warfare, that is, when the time of war, the first-class shooters in the army are the shooters who are mainly responsible for shooting, and the second-class and third-class shooters, It is mainly responsible for loading ammunition for the first-class shooters and above, and continuously providing them with loaded muskets for these first-class and above musketeers to be responsible for accurately shooting the enemy, only the first-class shooters in front of them, when the casualties are removed, the second-class shooters will take their place and continue to fire, this method undoubtedly makes the firecrackers in wartime shooting lethality greatly improved, and gradually began to be popularized in the large Chinese army.
Therefore, all the musketeers who boarded the chariot were all first-class marksmen and sharpshooters among the musketeers, and these people could easily hit human-sized targets at a distance of about 100 paces with this flintlock pistol in their hands, and the sharpshooters could even shoot moving targets, so it was not a problem to shoot the war horses of the Jiannu cavalry at a distance of 100 paces.
The officers not only played the role of command, but also took into account the work of visually measuring the distance of the enemy, and they also closely watched the oncoming Jiannu cavalry on the chariot, silently calculating the distance between the Jiannu cavalry and them.
When the Jiannu army roared to their line of eighty to ninety paces, the musketeers on these chariots began to give the order to open fire.
In terms of the power of the flintlock pistol of about 12 mm caliber made by the Great Chinese Army, there is no problem in breaking the iron armor at a distance of 70 steps, it is very easy to shoot an unarmored target at a distance of 100 steps, and it is easy to kill an enemy wearing two pieces of armor at a distance of 50 steps, which is much more powerful than the bird gun used by the Ming army, and the power of the sharpest Lu Mi gun in the Ming army, even compared with the Lu Mi gun, is not much better.
Therefore, firing at a distance of eighty or ninety paces, and aiming at mainly the unarmored war horses of the enemy, is completely competent for this kind of flintlock pistol of the Great Chinese Army.
The Jiannu cavalry was excited one by one as if they had beaten chicken blood, screaming and charging towards the big Chinese army, they actually did this mainly to create an image of themselves who were brave and good at fighting and not afraid of death, on the other hand, they were also cheering for their hearts, after all, when they rushed up, they were faced with death that could come at any time, as long as they were people, they would feel how much nervous, so shouting was a way to vent this tension for soldiers, and they also wanted to use this whistling sound, To create fear for the enemy, sometimes when they simply urged their horses to roar towards the Ming army, they frightened the Ming army to collapse on its own.
"Steady! Stabilization! ...... "In the large Chinese army, the low-level officers shouted their subordinates from time to time, after all, not everyone in the soldiers is a nervous person, some people are still timid, the officers' cheers can undoubtedly make them feel at ease, which is also the value of the existence of low-level officers in the army, they can become the backbone of the soldiers, at a critical time, it can bring the soldiers a sense of security, and let the soldiers know what to do.
At this time, on the chariot of the large Chinese army, suddenly a series of gunshots began to sound, and the firecrackers standing on the cart had already aimed at a target, and after hearing the officer's order to fire, they did not hesitate to gently pull the trigger, and the hammer suddenly fell under the action of the spring sheet, and hit the flint at the fire door, hitting a ball of sparks, and the sparks fell in the open fire door, and ignited the primer in the fire door, and the musket was fired immediately. The projectile in the chamber of the gun was fired.
The Jiannu soldiers who rushed to the front were actually a little scared at this time, because they had also attacked the Ming army's large array many times before, and the number of guns equipped by the Ming army was really a lot, but the Ming army was not as calm as the Dazhong army, often when they roared and began to charge, sometimes there were still one or two hundred steps away from the Ming army's front, and the Ming army's gunners couldn't bear the psychological pressure, and they started firing without authorization. Even if it is a sharper bird, it is difficult to kill and injure the Jiannu Tartars, let alone the three-eyed guns with a very short range, in addition to sounding lively and spectacular, the Ming army is often unable to kill and wound many Jiannu soldiers.
Therefore, Jiannu used this method, often causing the Ming army to panic, regardless of the effective range of fire together, wasting their ammunition in vain, and Jiannu took this opportunity to accelerate towards the Ming army at a very small cost, once the Ming army gunners fired, it took a long time to reload again, especially when they were in battle, they were even more nervous to the extreme, and in a hurry, they couldn't even complete the reloading of the firearms in their hands, and as a result, they immediately became a bunch of guys with burning sticks. We can only wait for the Jiannu cavalry to rush up and slaughter them!
Therefore, it seems that the Ming army is equipped with a large number of advanced firearms, but often when facing the Jiannu army, which is dominated by bows and arrows, the advantages of this advanced weapon are wasted by the Ming army.
But in turn, this situation also had a side effect on Jiannu, which made Jiannu more gullible, and their bows and arrows were more powerful than firearms, so that they became accustomed to this method of dealing with firearms.
At the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Jiannu entered the customs and met the Xingtian Army because of the psychology they formed, and suffered a big loss in front of the Xingtian Army, the Xingtian Army is different from the Ming Army so waste, under the efforts of Xiao Tianjian, the Xingtian Army has always adhered to the elite soldier policy, and the obedience of the soldiers is far more than the general Ming Army, and the use of muskets in the army is promoted to suppress or five sections, forming an endless firepower in front of the battle, so that the Jiannu Army led by Dolgon and Yue Tuo was repeatedly defeated by the Xingtian Army. The advantages of the cavalry could not be fully exploited, but now Abatai followed in their footsteps and sent troops to launch such a charge against the Great Chinese Army again.
With the approach of the two battalions of Jiannu Aliha Chaoha Battalion, the gunners of the two flanks of the Great Chinese Army began to fire almost at the same time, plus the shooters they were responsible for shooting were basically first-class shooters with accurate shooting, and at a distance of eighty or ninety paces, the projectiles they fired could basically cause fatal damage to the enemy's war horses and even cavalry, and these Jiannu cavalry who rushed in front were almost like crashing into an invisible knife wall together, and the war horses let out a terrible neigh. One after the other, they were shot and spurted blood and fell to the ground, slamming the slave cavalry they were carrying on their backs to the ground.
When they entered the distance of eighty or ninety paces, the speed of the slave cavalry had already been mentioned to a very high level, and they were suddenly hit by this blow, seeing that the robes in front of them were shot and fell to the ground, but the Jiannu cavalry behind them still maintained a high speed, and continued to rush forward, and they didn't have time to rein the reins, and their military orders did not allow them to stop, they had to continue to charge, otherwise it would be a crime of escaping, so even if they saw that the slave soldiers in front of them were not injured or killed, But they could only rush over on their horses, knocking them into the air or trampling them under the hooves of their horses, and the poor slaves whose horses had been overturned had no chance to get up and flee for their lives, and were trampled to death by their comrades.
And these Jiannu cavalry themselves also know very well that once the enemy fires, they stop but are looking for death, giving the enemy time to reload in vain, although they know the danger ahead, but they can only choose to continue to charge, before the enemy reloads and fires, to kill in front of the enemy, in order to avoid greater casualties, so at this time, they continue to charge is actually a wise choice.
But it's a pity that if they charge like this to deal with the Ming army, it may have a good effect, but today they are facing the big Chinese army, the big middle army is not vegetarian, the chariot or the front of the array of musketeers after completing the first round of volleys, immediately handed the empty musket in their hands to the robe behind him, and at the same time took the loaded musket from the hands of the brothers behind him, immediately raised it again to aim, and soon fired again.
This time, the armor soldiers of Jiannu were unlucky, after one batch was overturned, another batch rushed up, but then immediately they were knocked over again, and then another batch came up, but the firecrackers of the Dazhong Army on the opposite side seemed to need to reload at all, just kept firing back and forth, and did not give them any respite at all.
Jiannu cavalry such a charge, almost like sending to death, some slave soldiers looked at the corpses of their comrades who were lying on the ground in front of them and the war horses rolling all over the ground, and their hearts couldn't help but begin to be afraid, they are also people, they don't want to die, especially like today, slaughtered like chickens and dogs, death is meaningless, so many Jiannu began to be afraid, there were actually many people began to be at a distance of sixty or seventy steps, so they began to fire arrows in a panic, and then turned the horse's head, and began to rout on the battlefield.
Abatai's mouth opened wide, his chin almost fell to his chest, and he was stunned to see the two battalions of Aliha Chaoha under his command on both wings, just like a large group of chickens and dogs slaughtered by the Dazhong Army, and the rest In his opinion, the Jianzhou warriors under his command who used to be never-say-die actually began to turn their horses' heads one by one and fled towards defeat, and they didn't even touch the front of the Dazhong Army.
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