Chapter 134: The Cornerstone of the Empire
The appearance of Yang Qing and the five hundred heavy cavalry made all the cavalry who originally rushed towards Checheng stop.
This is mounted cavalry.
This is the opponent they fear most of the ordinary cavalry.
On the sturdy Hequ horses with horse armor, those former Wu Sangui slaves with bright silver armor and iron faces covered with iron faces, and the current soldiers of the Daming Jinyi Guard Iron Cavalry Battalion, each holding a Zhangba spear with a small pennant, like a steel wall, stretched across the flanks of the entire battlefield. In front of them, Count Yang, who was coquettishly draped in a scarlet cloak, carried a pair of iron claws like a sickle dragon and looked at the hesitant enemy with a proud gaze......
"Rush!"
Wang Yuncheng roared.
Then he snatched the flag next to him and waved it violently.
And the drummer behind him was just as desperate as he beat the drums of war.
But those cavalry still did not dare to continue to advance, they knew very well that if they continued to advance, the loyal brave man, who had been rumored to be a god, would take this legendary cavalry that was also mythical to attack them.
And they can't stop the mounted cavalry.
Although this ancient era of cavalry kings has become history because of the appearance of firearms, the problem is that these light cavalry have no firearms, and they only have cavalry bows that can definitely not shoot through heavy armor, wild goose knives that can only cut infantry, and taper guns that can only be used for melee. And what's on the other side? Dense like a dense forest-like spear! An inch is long and an inch is strong, and in the cavalry hedge, they can't even reach the opponent's horse's head, and they are poked to death by these scary-looking spears, they are all playing this, and they don't understand this.
"This bunch of garbage!"
Wang Yuncheng roared angrily.
Then he watched as his only chance was lost in a strange confrontation.
Then the second car city was completed.
With the rejection of horses on the swing, those soldiers who were originally hidden in the side box car rushed out with an iron thistle terrestris, and constantly threw to their periphery through the rejection of the horse, the iron thistle, the horse rejection, and the wall of the side box car together formed three lines of defense, and on the wall of the side box car, a door Franc machine stretched out the muzzle, and the bird guns of those bird guns were also erected above the wall guard, and on both sides of the side box car, the original boring hand became an axe gunner......
It's a change.
Compared with boring, Yang Qing felt that it was more suitable to use an axe gun, so the original boring was changed to an axe gun, and they also worked part-time as a grenadier.
After all, axes are melee.
It's a good idea to let them throw grenades in pairs before they need to pick up their axes and guns.
Another change is that the original part-time bird gun player is now a part-time gun bearer, and two people are responsible for one gun lifter, so as to make up for the lack of bird gun projection, after all, this thing can be loaded with shotguns, and when it comes to shield cars, it is much stronger than bird guns. In addition, compared to the Furlong machine attached to the car, they can carry it around at any time, and they are not knife players, in fact, their other weapon is a two-handed long knife. The van was more than enough to protect the soldiers, and the long knives were more effective against enemies who tried to climb over the wall or rush into the gap to assault, especially when the cavalry broke through.
In fact, the sum of the regular soldiers and the odd soldiers of a side van was a total of two furlong machines, a large pole, four axe guns, two captains each with a spear and a bow and arrow, and four bird guns, and all soldiers had their own melee sabers.
And this is the composition of tactical units.
In fact, a brigade as a car city, in addition to specialized artillery and cavalry, the former is equivalent to a three-pounder cannon mountain splitting cannon, plus the improved version of the tiger squat cannon is actually a mortar cannon, you can use a woodpipe fuse of the flowering shell, the Ming Dynasty originally had a similar, but it is a reed pipe, and the price is too expensive and generally not used.
The mountain splitting cannon is in the four corners of the entire car city.
And artillery carriages were specially designed for them, which could hide behind the parapet and shoot like modern artillery with shields.
The cavalry was only three hundred.
Their duty is to counterattack in the direction needed when the battle situation is tense, or to pursue and kill when the enemy is fleeing, but it is usually mainly used for reconnaissance, in essence these brigades are still infantry, and four such brigades are an army, each brigade phalanx is a battalion on one side, and a battalion can also form a phalanx when necessary. This is actually the institutionalization of Qi Jiguang's tactics, from the tactics of the original Qi family's army, to a tactic that can be said to be the national standard of the Ming Dynasty, just like the great phalanx of the Spaniards, although Yang Qing does have a lot of better things, but he can't guarantee that these scum-like generals of the Ming Dynasty can understand and master those new tactics!
Qi Jiguang's set is so good, they all understand it!
"General Wang, why don't you attack yet?"
Hou Fangxia urged.
"Attack, how to attack!"
Wang Yuncheng said angrily.
These car camps locked the road in front of him, on his left is the Ganjiang River, on his right is more than ten miles away is the mountainous area, the road to Nanchang is this one, he doesn't want to go forward if he doesn't open the car camp, but to open the car camp, then he really has to work hard, this thing is impossible without human life.
Unless he has a Hongyi cannon.
But this had to be transported from Changsha, although he was attacking Nanchang, but he never thought about really attacking the city, the gentry of Nanchang had already been contacted, and the latter certainly didn't like the new deal, they wished that Chongzhen would be beaten up by Zuo Liangyu and teach this increasingly arrogant emperor to learn to be a man! Obviously, Wang Yuncheng didn't know that there were also cannons in the Checheng in Jingying, although the mountain splitting cannon could not be compared with the Hongyi cannon, but those mortar version of the tiger squat cannon could hit more than four miles, which was actually equivalent to a twenty-four-pound mortar cannon, and there was no pressure to bombard his Hongyi cannon with a flowering cannon.
"General, don't you want to enter Nanchang? Hongdu Xinfu, a treasure of nature! ”
Hou Fangxia said in a seductive tone.
Wang Yuncheng was entangled.
"Wait for the Hongyi cannon!"
He said.
"The Hongyi cannon has arrived from Changsha, and I'm afraid Yang Qing's follow-up army has also arrived."
Hou Fangxia said.
Wang Yuncheng continued to struggle.
"If you win Nanchang, you can win at least one million gold and silver."
Hou Fangxia continued to bewitch.
"Attack, attack in formation, take down Nanchang, and don't seal the knife for three days!"
Wang Yuncheng roared.
His men instantly erupted into a roar of excitement as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
It is said that for these soldiers and ruffians, these five words are simply like fairy sounds, as for the car city in front of them, it was completely ignored, and even the brilliance of Lord Yang in the distance was already dimmed, and all the troops who arrived immediately lined up and prepared. And Yang Qing did not move, there to watch them prepare for the attack, by the afternoon all the 40,000 troops were completed, the left step and the right horse, the left side of the Ganjiang River as a barrier, the heavy cavalry formed a formation to block Yang Qing's possible assault, and the light cavalry took the lead in launching an attack and attack.
Thousands of cavalry rushed to Checheng, raising their cavalry bows and shooting at Checheng as they approached.
But it doesn't work.
The parapet of the van was like a wall to block the arrows that fired straight at them, and the upward projectile could not penetrate the cotton armor and helmet after falling, but the firing of the furlong and the spear caused the cavalry to fall continuously.
Soon the hussars retreated.
Immediately afterwards, the infantry pushed forward various light artillery, including the Franco, but before they could enter the firing range, the mountain splitting guns in the four corners of Checheng and the mortars in the city began to shoot, especially those mountain splitting guns that hit three catties of solid shells were quite accurate, and the shells kept falling in Wang Yuncheng's infantry formation within a mile, and even hit his artillery, and the shells of those mortars fell behind the formation, directly hitting his heavy cavalry.
Although it is only a solid bullet, it still has a great impact on morale.
Fortunately, there is still the support of the knife for three days.
Soon these guns were almost at a distance where they could be fired, but at this time, they also came into the range of those Furlong planes, and in fact both sides were about the same weapons, only the quality of the Beijing camp was better, and that was enough. The Franco, the mountain splitting cannon even had a big lifting rod, Checheng completely turned into a fire-breathing monster, and the dense shells continued to concentrate their firepower and bombarded wildly, Wang Yuncheng and Hou Fangxia were stunned to see this unprecedented firepower, and they also watched their artillery collapse in a blink of an eye.
"Rush forward!"
Wang Yuncheng finally came to his senses, and he roared like crazy.
The infantry charge finally began.
The cold-weapon infantry swarming forward, and the firepower of the initial stage of the hot weapons, launched a fierce collision on this early spring field, and the fighting spirit inspired by the temptation of the three-day unsealed sack, and the will to fight supported by sufficient military pay and no worries also began to collide fiercely. However, the limited amount of firepower could not stop the surging number of infantry after all, and after countless dead bodies fell, infantry soon began to step over the subway and climb over the horses and directly hit the defense line of the shield car.
Yang Qing's eyes widened.
The most important moment is here.
Soon he smiled with satisfaction, and the soldiers behind the shield cart did not flee, and the axe-gunners quickly began to throw the original grenades, and then picked up one axe gun after another and began to slash at the stunned enemy in the explosion.
But the latter is still in flux.
Even if the front ones already wanted to turn around and escape, they could only press forward under the pressure of the dense infantry behind and the cavalry that drove them.
The same soldiers of the Beijing camp who had just entered the battlefield did not flinch, and the Bird Gunners and Furlong Men kept loading and firing, shooting the enemies who were close at hand, even if their spears were almost stabbed in their faces. While axe-gunners and two-handed swordsmen were constantly slashing or piercing enemies trying to rush into Checheng, those archers who used bows and arrows to supplement their rate of fire, just like the Qing army, kept shooting sharp arrows through the enemy's face at a distance of less than five paces......
This is how the real bloody battle began.
"This is the cornerstone of the empire!"
Yang Qing, who was watching the battle from afar, sighed with relief.