Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 679 Yingkou VII
After all, Honika is old, and dragging his injured body to support him here is already the limit of what he can achieve. Please Baidu search () and ask him to personally give orders to rectify the army as he did when he was young, which is already unrealistic.
What's more, without the tacit understanding of the team cultivated by ordinary drills, it is undoubtedly quite energy-consuming to rely on the officers' horsewhips and sticks to organize the formation before the battle.
The Ming army can organize the formation and attack in a very short time, relying on a complete set of non-commissioned officer system, and the orders issued by Li Yan are conveyed layer by layer to sheds like Chen Wuyi, and then these grassroots sheds can accurately carry out these orders without ambiguity, which is quite a remarkable achievement.
Because just to enable these junior officers to quickly understand the military orders that have been conveyed, a variety of standardized terminology and tactical instructions are required. Only when these grassroots officers correctly convey the military orders in person, can they convey the commander's intentions to the soldiers, and finally complete the desired effect of the military orders.
In the past, when the Ming army was fighting, why the generals liked to use their families to lead the troops actually lies in this. The officers of those armies seem strange to the generals, and these family members are familiar with the personality and way of speaking of the head of the family, as long as the head of the family gives a little prompt, they understand what they should do.
Nurhachi's creation of the Eight Banners system was, to a certain extent, a reform of the traditional organization of the Ming army. The three-level command system of Niu Lu Ezhen, Jiala Ezhen, and Gushan Ezhen greatly simplified the distance of relaying military orders, thus ensuring that the Eight Banners Army could receive the commander's instructions in a timely manner on the battlefield, but it was not easy to make mistakes.
However, the Manchurians relied on simplifying the command system to strengthen the commander's wartime control over the army, although the efficiency was improved, but the requirements for the personal ability of the army commander would be extremely high.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if the orders issued by the commander-in-chief are not concise and to the point, then it is easy for low-level officers to make mistakes. And on the battlefield, mistakes are undoubtedly the beginning of failure.
It seems that after Nurhachi's death, Huang Taiji led the troops to attack Ming for the first time, and he was unable to successfully command the soldiers of the Eight Banners to fight according to his instructions, so he suffered a setback under the city of Jinzhou.
This is not only due to the intrigue of the factions within the Eight Banners, but also because Huang Taiji's military command talent is indeed inferior to Nurhachi, resulting in the orders he issued cannot be understood by the low-level soldiers, and finally cannot be implemented.
On the side of the Ming army, the bloated command hierarchy of the old army system was also seen as a drawback. However, the Ming army did not directly cut the military command level to only three levels like Nurhachi.
The Ming army adopted the division and regimental establishment and non-commissioned officer system, plus the staff organization, thus cutting off the multiple interference of the imperial court and officials in the front-line military command, and ensuring the uniqueness of military orders.
Division, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, squad, six command levels, although the command level of Houjin is twice as much, but the Ming army adopted the method of training non-commissioned officers and officers, ensuring that commanders at all levels have a certain command ability, plus the use of standard terminology and instructions, so that the grassroots officers of the Ming army can also understand their tasks well.
Judging from the organization of the armies on both sides, it is clear that the Ming army has entered another level, and no longer relies on the personal ability of the commander in chief to maintain the combat effectiveness of an army.
On the other hand, the Qing army still did not get rid of the old army organization, and the combat effectiveness of the army was always limited to the personal ability of the commander.
Since he was transferred to Yingkou, Honnika has rarely practiced with his subordinates. This also made his relationship with his new subordinates less intimate than his old subordinates, and it was difficult for his new subordinates to understand the habits of the division in operational command.
Especially in the last year or two, with the recurrence of Honnika's youthful injuries and the need to lie down to recuperate, there has been less contact between the two sides.
Therefore, when encountering such an unexpected incident, Honnika found that his army was so scattered that it was not even possible to line up in a formation.
What surprised him even more was that Turushh led his subordinates to charge the city, not only did he not test the weakness of the Ming army's garrison, but he was actually counterattacked by the Ming army in the city. Turush, however, did not gain a firm foothold and took advantage of this opportunity to counterattack into the city, but was chased and killed by the Ming army and fled to the main position.
In order to facilitate the attack, Honnika set up his own formation seven or eight hundred meters away from the city wall, and it took about six or seven minutes to reach the main formation at the speed of the Ming army chasing these defeated troops.
Honika glanced at the chaotic team and knew that if the Ming army was allowed to attack, the outcome of this war would be a little strange.
Honika cursed Turushh viciously in his heart, and had to take out the last complete Niu Lu beside him, and he said to Bei Yu, who led this Niu Lu: "Tu Lush, this bastard really lived up to my expectations, and was actually defeated by the Ming army so easily.
The rest of our men and horses here are either Han Chinese or Koreans, if the Ming army is allowed to rush so directly, they surrender to the Ming army, we are defeated, and everyone will not have a good life at that time.
So I want you to stop those Ming troops for me, for half an hour or a quarter of an hour, so that I can finish the rest of the army. ”
The tall man, who was half a head taller, nodded and replied without hesitation: "Uncle, don't worry, my nephew will not let these Ming troops rush to this formation with the defeated soldiers." But when I leave, won't there be no one around my uncle to support me, or I'll take half of the cow and leave half of the cow for my uncle..."
Hongnika waved his hand, rejected his nephew's kindness and said: "Isn't there still Goshha by my side, you can bring everyone, you must block the Ming army." In addition, bring that team of Korean musketeers, although it is not very useful, but it can also consume the children of the Ming army..."
Alin Bao hurriedly went to the front with his subordinates to set up a formation, and Hongnika looked at the backs of his nephew and the clansmen, and realized that there were not many old people in his own family, and half of the more than 50 people were young people.
Seeing these young people in the clan eagerly following their nephews forward, without the slightest panic, Hongnika couldn't help but say to himself: "They are all good young men, but there are fewer battles..."
Although he had been commanding his subordinates to drive the defeated soldiers of the Qing army to the Qing army's main formation, Li You was still distracted from time to time watching the movements of the Qing army's main formation. When he saw that a team of nearly 200 people rushed to the front of the Qing army to set up a formation, he immediately began to gather his team, preparing to launch an attack to break through the resistance of this small Qing army.
The pursuit of the Ming army has not been out of formation, so Li You quickly gathered the strength of two and a half platoons in his own hands, and the other half platoon was not able to rush back in time because of the distance.
As a battalion-level officer, he certainly knew that if the Qing army was allowed to line up in formation before attacking, it would undoubtedly consume the lives of the soldiers. Therefore, in order to seize the fighter, he did not wait for all the troops to gather before attacking, but roughly divided the two and a half platoons of his hands into two teams, the front and rear, and began to attack the small Qing army that was blocking the front.
The distance between the Ming army and Alinbao was about 120 meters, and 150 meters behind Alinbao was the main formation of the Qing army.
According to the infantry drill of the Ming army, the speed of the advance of the battlefield should be one and a half minutes per minute.
However, Li You knew very well that he only had one chance to defeat the small Qing army in front of him, otherwise they would not even be able to withdraw to the city when the whole team of the Qing army in the rear of the Qing army was completed.
Since it was an adventure, he decided to simply gamble a little bigger. At the sharp whistle of the commander of the Ming army, hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army wearing red woolen uniforms lined up in two horizontal lines, holding guns and walking forward in the same rhythm.
From the Qing army, it looked like a wall of flames was moving towards them. The neat queue of the Ming army made the Korean musketeers standing in the front row panic, if it weren't for the fact that there were full people behind them to supervise the battle, at this moment these musketeers had either fired in advance and began to flee.
At this time, the young Manchurians who followed Alin Bao and the others for the first time, looking at the Ming army moving forward like this, suddenly became a little afraid, and there was no longer the excitement when they heard that they were going to fight.
If it weren't for the fact that they had Alin Bao and other old Eight Banners around them to maintain order, these young Manchurians estimated that these North Koreans would not be much better. Alin Bao, the old Eight Banners who had experienced several wars, showed the calmness and courage of the veterans at this moment, which made the young Manchus and North Koreans around them regain some composure.
In fact, Alin Bao believed that it would be more appropriate to deal with these Ming troops in front of him by outflanking them from the flanks. It's just that they are only a second-line army after all, and they are guarding the port city of Yingkou, so the number of cavalry in the battalion is not much, and now these cavalry have been sent out to meet those defeated soldiers, so naturally they can't cooperate with them to stop this Ming army.
But even so, Alin Bao didn't think that he couldn't stop one or two attacks by the Ming army, and he didn't fight with the Ming army's firearms once or twice, knowing that the Ming army's musket life rate was far from the bow and arrow.
No matter how neatly these Ming soldiers walked, once they fell into a state of shooting at them, they would not be able to end for a while. Then maybe the cavalry released at that time will be able to come and pick him up.
Alin Bao was thinking about how to communicate with his own cavalry; While scolding the North Korean musketeers in the front row, preventing them from firing ammunition in advance.
However, no matter how much the people around him scolded, looking at the more and more clear figures of the Ming army, many North Korean musketeers could no longer bear the feeling of being pointed at them by the Ming army.
So when the Ming army was 7-80 meters away from them, finally someone couldn't help but press the trigger, and the fire rope fell and ignited the medicine pool*, and after a while, a "bang" was heard, and the projectile in the chamber flew in the direction of the Ming army.
The sound of the gun was as if an order had been given, and the North Korean musketeers scrambled to pull the trigger and ignite the arquebus in their hands.
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