Chapter 308: Vanguard Encounter
It's a gentle drizzle here, but it's tense over there, and it's going to be bloody and bloody soon.
Brother Zhu, Zhang Qiang's personal guard, the deputy captain of the Chasseurs, and the current deputy brigade commander of the Seventh Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army, the deputy brigade commander is the position of Xin'an, and it is also a position temporarily arranged by Zhang Qiang in order to monitor Liu Liangzuo, an old fox who has been bored in Quzhou Mansion after surrendering.
The field brigade is the commander-in-chief, and the staff department directly under the field brigade headquarters is responsible for arranging the marching route, arranging logistics supplies, arranging combat methods, planning campaigns, and sharing the work of the brigade commander, but not sharing the rights of the brigade commander, this is because of the restrictions of this era, sometimes the so-called staff department in later generations is not too advanced things, especially in the Ming Dynasty, which is a feudal era, and does not need many staff officers to be responsible for how much work.
In many cases, due to poor communication and backward information transmission, many things need to be handled by the officials in charge on the fly, and the wars in the era of cold weapons are all encounters within half a day, and there is no effort to ask for instructions or let the staff officers plan anything, so the chief officer needs a lot of power to decide how the battle is conducted.
Everyone fights for strength, whoever has more brave warriors, who wins, so let the chief of staff share the power, such a command system in later generations, for the Ming Dynasty, is simply looking for death, it is simply the same as Chang Kaishen in later generations, indiscriminate command, so that the chief officers below do not know how to fight, but will fail.
When Brother Zhu asked this, Feng Wuyu had already led the troops to rush into battle.
As soon as the militia and the people were gathered in the middle of the army, and the engineers picked up their tools and began to build fortifications, the Qing army was already close to a mile away, and two thousand cavalry did not sound much, but the momentum they caused was not small at all, like thousands of troops and horses, and the earth was shaking.
The army, which had just been reunited, had formed a rough circular defensive formation, and the enemy rushed over.
The spearmen in front of them thrust their spears into the ground, and the formation was still in chaos, like jagged teeth, and the archers and crossbowmen on the left and right were still in a curved shape, and had not yet converged.
The Qing army has divided the cavalry on two wings, and the rain of arrows poured into the formation of the pikemen, and the pikemen immediately fell dozens of people, and the sword and shield soldiers behind had just rushed into the pikemen queue, and when they were still stuck with the pikemen's not very clear formation, the Qing army had already brandished scimitars and spears and rushed over.
The cavalry on both wings shot a rain of arrows, the war horses had flown to the archers and crossbowmen on both wings dozens of meters away, and there was another wave of arrow rain, the archers and crossbowmen immediately fell one or two hundred, some people shot a wave of arrow rain scatteredly, the flying Qing cavalry, there were more than a dozen fallen horses on each wing, the war horses dragged the bodies of the dead, or the wounded Qing troops continued to outflank the two wings in a "" shape.
At this time, the artillery was still in the deployment stage, only one or two cannons had been loaded, and one or two cannons were issued, and the shells grazed the heads of the pikemen in front of them, and plunged headlong into the frontal assault of the Qing cavalry formation.
Immediately, thirty or forty Qing cavalry were swept all the way, the horses fell to the ground, their stomachs were broken, the cavalry had stumps and broken arms, and the howl was heart-wrenching.
When the cavalry of the Qing army in the frontal assault collided with the spear, the war horse neighed violently and fell to the ground in grief, and the cavalry behind continued to charge, skipping the cavalry in front and continuing to attack the pikemen.
The pikemen quickly opened the gap behind them, and then formed a formation to protect themselves, and the sword and shield man quickly pressed the shield above his head, and the knife in his hand swung upward.
It can be said that in this wave of assault, the 2nd Field Brigade suffered heavy losses, especially the pikemen in front, the first line has been abandoned, and they can only face the enemy's cavalry rushing alone.
The pikemen and shield bearers of the second line organized a defense, and used hasty battles to contain the enemy's attack and buy time for the musketeers behind.
Of course, their deaths or their casualties were not lost in vain, they also inflicted some damage on the enemy, and when the enemy's cavalry broke through the incomplete formation of the pikemen and sword and shield men of the second line, the musketeers behind were already in full formation.
With a command-like gunshot, the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in front quickly fell to the ground, and then the gunfire of fried beans rang out.
Bullets flew over their heads, wounding some of them, and most of them landed on the Qing cavalry, who were clearly taller than them.
The archers and crossbowmen on both flanks were quickly supported by nearby swords and shieldmen, who cut into their formations and shielded them from damage with their shields, while the cavalry on both wings, ready to outflank them in the form of "", met their great enemy, and the flanks were interspersed with the resistance of the marching musketeers and other battalions.
The trained musketeers know what to do at this time, because the Huaxia Army is a little different from the army of this era, they will deduce and exercise all kinds of situations, and this begins after they graduate from the new barracks and enter the ranks of the Huaxia Army.
So the Qing archers who tried to outflank the two wings were tragic.
The sound of pop-fried bean-like gunfire rang out as they went.
The formation of the Huaxia Army was like a wave, with ripples in waves, and in the midst of these ripples, the formation of the previous exercise was quickly put into use, and a response method to adapt to this situation soon appeared.
This doesn't require Feng Wuyu to adjust anything.
It was completely spontaneous and swift by the officers below, and at most the officers at the garrison level communicated with the sound of flags and horns, and with a slight adjustment, the formation of the response came out and was unified.
"Boom—"
"Boom—"
Gain time for artillery, quickly in position, or deploy on the spot, three guns in a base point, around the total rapid adjustment of the formation, change the protection of protection, the blocking of the enemy of the enemy, coordination of coordination.
It seems that the whole battlefield is very chaotic, the Huaxia Army was attacked by the Qing cavalry unit at close range due to the lack of mobility, and it looked panicked, but in the eyes of the senior officers of the Huaxia Army, the situation was very orderly, and met the requirements, the actual combat and exercises may not be perfect, there are some flaws, but it is the best way to deal with it, and this method has worked, preventing the enemy's attack.
Don't you see that the Qing cavalry has begun to flee?
Yes, the Qing army has begun to flee, when it attacked, it was more than 2,000 Qing cavalry, when it retreated, it was about seven or eight hundred cavalry, and the rest were either surrounded, or had become corpses on the ground, or wounded, and there were also scattered cavalry still resisting stubbornly, and it was likely to break through the siege and escape, but in this assault battle, the Huaxia army won.
Maybe there was no victory yet, just an attack on the side of the enemy.
Soon, Feng Wuyu, who had already reacted and began to give orders to the entire army, saw the back road, that is, the right flank, and there were about 3,000 Qing cavalry rushing over, judging by the situation, it should be Mongolian cavalry.
On the back road there was only a group of cavalry and scout cavalry behind the palace, and further to the side, a group of musketeers, who had already set up their formation, facing the first wave of Qing Manchurian cavalry in front of them, and behind them was a group of archers and a small group of crossbowmen who had just suffered losses and retreated to the rear to regroup.
A little to this side was a squad of pikemen with modest losses.
"Guards, meet up," Feng Wuyu shouted.
Immediately led the 200 cavalry of the pro-guard team to rush up, and at this time, the rear cavalry on the right flank had bravely met it, buying time for the rear formation to adjust.
This cavalry was about a hundred people.
And in the center of the formation, the artillery Qianhu battalion was bombarding the fleeing Manchurian cavalry with 9-pounder guns.
The ranks on the left flank were rapidly closing their ranks, and the baggage soldiers rushed out of the center of the formation, ran to the positions of the pikemen on the first line of the battle they had just fought, and dragged the bodies of the wounded and comrades back to the center of the formation.
On the right flank, in the rear, the remaining remnants quickly handed over the wounded and corpses to some lightly wounded wounded to take back, and then quickly formed a blocking position on the flank, and the Chinese pikemen behind were running forward, forming a protective array in front of them.
This time the musketeers were brought back, and the musketeers protecting the central position quickly attacked, and the archers and crossbowmen were divided into two teams on the flanks, aiming at the Mongol cavalry rushing in front.
Like the tip of a needle against Maimang, the charging rear cavalry directly crashed into the opponent's cavalry team, and the fast cavalry cavalry was good at riding and archery tactics too late to implement, or they released a round of arrow rain, and when they had not yet drawn out their arrows again, the loss was not large, and told the moving rear cavalry of the Huaxia Army that they had rushed into their ranks, wielding their knives and slashing.
Of course, they didn't have a short firebolt, but at this time, no one thought about pulling out a short firebolt, maybe the shortfire bolt could inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but it would definitely give the enemy a chance, because the enemy was also rushing at high speed, and after the short-fire bolt was finished, they didn't have a chance to draw their swords at all, so they just pulled out their sabers and rushed straight up.
Compared with the fake movie performance of "Cavalry Company, Attack," in the Bright Sword TV series, which makes people's blood boil with a slogan, they are the cavalry that should be respected the most.
The cavalry in the bright sword did not see blood, nor did they see the enemy blood, here, they not only saw the enemy blood, but also their own blood, the sloppy one killed by both sides.
Compared with the bright sword cavalry company that is all handsome men and beautiful women, they show a real bloody manhood, because the bright sword is surrounded by others, for their own performance, and they don't want to do that at all, just rush up and kill, it doesn't mean anything, they are the cavalry of the Huaxia Army.
"Kill-" Seeing the hundred or so cavalry in front and the dozen or so scout cavalry following behind sacrificing themselves, for the safety of the army, in order to buy time for the army to counterattack, they rushed to the Mongolian cavalry of the brigade without hesitation, Feng Wuyu shouted, and rushed forward with his own guards.
From the discovery of the enemy to the preparation, it took only ten minutes, a quarter of an hour, from the first Qing cavalry to shoot the first arrow, to Feng Wuyu to start the charge, it was only a quarter of an hour, the entire brigade of the second field brigade was still in the process of adjusting the formation, and the entire 5,000 Qing cavalry was divided into two teams and attacked the second field brigade from two directions.
Soon, the first group of charging Huaxia Army rearguard cavalry disappeared into the vast Mongolian cavalry army, directly penetrating most of the enemy's cavalry formation.
The featherless cavalry also rushed forward, and the enemy was preparing to turn and dodge them, forgetting even to shoot arrows, use maneuvers, which the Mongols excelled, and kite flying.
They were clearly running for their lives.