Chapter 160: Breaking into the king's hegemony, in one fell swoop
"Master Hou, the enemy army is at least 50,000!"
Gao Dejie held the telescope and said with a solemn face.
"Are you scared?"
Yang Qing said.
"Hou Ye said with a smile, don't say it's 50,000 with Hou Ye, even 500,000 generals dare to rush, don't talk about winning or losing, at least kill happily, don't have to live like a dog like in the past, even if you die in battle, it's at best a dead dog of Tama, Hou Ye really treats us as brothers, then we will give this life to Hou Ye."
Gao Dejie pulled out his knife and said.
"After this battle, I will form a cavalry army for you!"
Yang Qing patted him on the shoulder and said.
At this moment, the Shun army began to line up in the distance, 40,000 infantry in the center, 10,000 cavalry divided into two wings, the infantry in the center pushed out a dense forest of spears, behind a cannon like an iron wall, the two wings were still ordinary cavalry. In fact, because of the small size of the war horses and the widespread equipment of firearms, the classical-style mounted cavalry like the Iron Cavalry Battalion has long been eliminated, after all, they are the same in front of bullets, and the losses of mounted cavalry are different because of the high cost.
The formation of the Shun army was separated in the middle, and a general rushed out on horseback.
"Yuan Zongdi!"
Yang Qing said.
After saying that, he also urged the war horse.
"Tiger squat cannon ready, aim at the enemy cavalry formation!"
Gao Dejie raised his knife behind him and said.
The standard-bearer immediately waved the signal flag and issued the flag written by Yang Qing to the two wings, and on the two wings of their cavalry formation, there was a car city that had been formed, and in the center of these car cities, a total of twelve mortar guns of two artillery teams began to aim at the cavalry on the two wings of the Shun army on the opposite side.
Yang Qing's formation was the opposite of the Shun army.
He is the cavalry in the middle of the two wings of infantry, an infantry brigade separated from the second army, and a brigade originally stationed in Liuhe in the third army. The whole army of 3,000 cavalry was dispatched, and this special cavalry, which had been converted into a brigade, was divided into six battalions, and six dense cavalry phalanxes were arranged in the wall protection of the side vans, and the 13,000 cavalry finally became a huge rectangle, lying across the green field to face 50,000 enemy troops.
Just when all the soldiers were preparing for the next big battle with apprehension, Yang Qing had already come face to face with Yuan Zongdi.
"You can kill me and see if my men will die without a fight."
Yuan Zongdi said sarcastically.
"I only like to kill aliens, I'm not interested in you!"
Yang Qing said.
"Then let's have a good fight!"
Yuan Zongdi nodded and said.
After speaking, he took a step back under control of the war horse, then turned the horse's head, then turned back and said: "Marquis Zhongyong, it's too late for you to regret it, if you return to the king and deserve to be above me, why should you be in the same league with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials?" ”
Yang Qing waved his hand and told him to get out.
Yuan Zongdi took a deep look at him and rode back to his own position.
Yang Qing also turned around and returned.
Just as he returned to the formation, the cannon sound suddenly sounded in the camps on both sides, and twelve flowering shells dragged the smoke trail of the fuse through the sky, and then exploded in the cavalry of the Shun army.
And at the same time, the cannons of the Shun army in the distance erupted flames.
However, in such a field battle, there will definitely be no Hongyi cannon level, basically some small cannons that are no more than 1,000 catties or even hundreds of catties, and the shells that shoot directly within a distance of a few hundred meters continue to penetrate the protective wall of the shield car, causing casualties with flying pieces of wood, and even fall on the cavalry in the formation to cause casualties. Similarly, all the artillery on the Ming army's Checheng, including the mountain splitting cannon and the Fran machine, was also firing, and the shells splashed a piece of flesh and blood in the spear forest of the Shun army.
The formation of the latter began to be confused.
These are all miscellaneous cards, that is, those who surrendered, they naturally want to be cannon fodder, their task is to consume the opponent's shells as much as possible in the artillery bombardment, and then use them as meat shields to pave the way for the main force behind when charging.
They still have to fill in the trenches during the siege!
"Why aren't their cavalry afraid?"
Gao Dejie didn't care about the losses caused by the falling shells in his formation, such losses are not worth mentioning at all, because they are all light artillery, as long as they are not hit by shells at such a distance, generally speaking, there is not much danger, he is more concerned about the cavalry of the Shun army who are facing the flowering shells, in the fire and loud noise of the flowering shell explosion, those cavalry still maintain the formation, although some of the horses are frightened, but the whole formation is not chaotic.
"Together with Li Laiheng, I used a gunpowder bag to blow up Dolgon's cavalry, can Li Zicheng be stupid enough not to train his cavalry?"
Yang Qing said.
This result is normal, in fact, it is estimated that Dorgon will have to carry out similar training at this time, and it is impossible to use mortars to defeat the cavalry.
"The Tiger Squat Cannon was raised two degrees and bombarded the back of the infantry."
He said.
Immediately after the flag was issued, all the mortars quickly turned their muzzles and raised the elevation angle, the cannon fodder that crossed the front and fell behind, and behind the cannon fodder was the main infantry of the Shun army, as the shells continued to fall, the originally safe main infantry of the Shun army began to suffer a large number of casualties in the fire of the explosion. In the end, the power of the twenty-pound mortar is not weak, at least not weaker than a modern 60 mortar shell, and in a dense infantry formation, the explosion of this thing will definitely cause a lot of casualties.
Faced with the casualties of his main infantry, Yuan Zongdi finally couldn't help it.
With the waving of his Chinese flag, the sound of war drums was forced by the cavalry and the main infantry behind, and the cannon fodder had to rush forward.
They quickly crossed the artillery positions.
Gao Dejie looked at Yang Qing.
Yang Qing waved his hand.
The cannon fodder on the opposite side was against the shells of Checheng, running wildly in the longing of the bloody Jiangnan, and soon entered the range of the shotgun, and then the dead fell in large pieces, but the alive continued to move forward, behind them was the main force of the Shun army that was constantly squeezing forward, and it was impossible to escape, and the shotgun could not stop them, and then they entered the range of the bird gun bullet and the gun-lifting shotgun, and more cannon fodder fell, but the living could only step on the dead bodies of their companions.
Then grenades flew out of the battalion and exploded in cannon fodder.
The cannon fodder can only move forward.
Of course, the power of the three-pound black powder grenade itself is limited, and there are not a few fragments of the quality of the cast iron, which is more of a scare. It's still too exaggerated to rely on this thing to sweep the world in the era of black powder, at least there is no drama in the field, after the Europeans queue up to shoot tactics matured, the grenadiers have no name, you must know that even by the time of the American Civil War, the nine-pounder grenades fired by the twelve-pounder mountain howitzer only exploded about ten fragments.
Not to mention that these grenades are less than four pounds at most.
This scares people more effectively.
But when they can't scare people, it's nonsense to expect them to kill as many enemies as they kill.
In the flames of the explosion, the cannon fodder quickly began to storm the car city, and the axe-gunners, spearmen, two-handed swordsmen, and swordsmen in the car city quickly moved, and the bloody battle between the two sides began, and under the cover of the protective wall, the bird guns raised their guns and even the Furlong machine continued to spray flames at the enemy at a very close range. Including the cavalry in the formation, they all raised their bows and arrows to shoot the enemy who tried to charge, and even the mortar raised the elevation angle to the highest and reduced the propellant to the minimum, and one after another shells continued to fall outside the car city and exploded, the latter's mortality rate soared, and more and more cannon fodder began to turn around.
But at this moment, countless small fires appeared in the dense crowd of enemy soldiers, and then one by one small cloth bags dragged the burning smoke traces flew out and exploded in the car city.
Chaos ensued in the camp.
Fortunately, the ammunition was in a special compartment on the car, so there was no explosion of ammunition, but the appearance of the grenadiers of the Shun Army still boosted the morale of the cannon fodder.
"Master Hou?"
Gao Dejie said.
"Keep waiting!"
Yang Qing said.
If he can't even hold this test, then his training in the Beijing camp will be considered a failure, after all, the grenades of the Shun army are not as good as the Ming army, at least he has done a better job in the ratio of gunpowder and the purification of raw materials, and the grenades of the Ming army are definitely better in the same weight, and the only threat is to detonate the ammunition, but the propellant and grenade of the van are hidden in the iron dark grid on the car.
Unless the Shunjun grenade is falling inside, it will not be detonated.
And this possibility is almost zero.
In fact, after the initial panic, the Ming army quickly stabilized, and the two sides fought in close quarters separated by side vans, spears stabbed each other, grenades were thrown at each other, long-handled axes and axe guns slashed at each other, archers aimed at each other at close range, and the dead bodies continued to fall in the bloody face-to-face fighting, and even obviously piled up, but the vast majority were attackers, although grenades fell from time to time, but the casualties of the Ming army were still far less than their opponents.
After all, the Ming army's Furlong machine was more ruthless with guns and birds, and the Furlong machine loaded with shotguns killed a large number of people at close range.
Even a lot of cannon fodder has already begun to run away.
And at the same time as the bloody battle ahead, the mortar shells of the Ming army continued to explode in the main force of the Shun army that supervised the battle behind, and those main forces of the Shun army were not really afraid of death after all, and the power of the twenty catties of mortar shells was not comparable to that of grenades.
Then all the cannon fodder did not hesitate to rout and flee backwards......
"Attack!"
Yang Qing roared.
The vans quickly separated, and the torrent of iron riders surged out.
Yang Qing took the lead in wielding his twin horses and rushed straight towards the rout, and in the blink of an eye, the two iron swords were stabbed into the back by the hook blade at the same time, and then the body was torn apart with the wild gallop of the war horse, and at the same time, more mounted cavalry crashed into the rout......
Yuan Zongdi watched quietly in the distance.
A general next to him looked at him with an inquiring gaze.
"Wait!"
Yuan Zongdi said.
The general controlled the restless war horse, and together with the thousands of cavalry lined up behind him, quietly watched Yang Qing rush forward on the battlefield, and watched the distance between him and the rear car battalion quickly widen.
"Break into the king's hegemony, in one fell swoop!"
Yuan Zongdi suddenly roared.
Immediately after that, he lifted the cone gun and suddenly urged the war horse......