Chapter 218: Fighting Before the Battle
But a strange scene appeared, in addition to the few partial vans left outside, the rows of rattan signs erected at the front of the position, and the soldiers of the loyal and righteous army standing outside just now all disappeared, and the sound of frying iron sand was faintly heard. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Some of the soldiers of the green battalion hiding behind the side van did not know how powerful it was, especially when they were more than a hundred steps away from the position, and the position in front was quiet.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the assessment index of the sharpshooter of the Qi family army was to hit the target three times in a row from a hundred paces, and the assessment index of the crossbowman was eighty steps and three arrows.
The Green Battalion will push the van forward while releasing the gun, and now rushing to a hundred paces away, the other party has not reacted much, which is strange.
Relying on the experience of the past, the soldiers of the green battalion began to drive agitated, and everyone rushed out of the side van, and everyone rushed to the camp of the loyal army with a loud shout.
At first, they were still trying, but after seeing that the opponent's position was unresponsive, everyone became more and more bold, and when they saw that everyone rushed to fifty paces away, and it would only take a moment to enter the position, there was a whistle in front of them, and they saw that muskets were placed on the trench in front.
Everyone was shocked, and some veterans felt that the situation was wrong and stopped, but when they saw that there was no fire rope in front of them (the bird guns needed to be lit), the rear was relieved and boldly followed behind the other soldiers and continued to charge.
A strange scene appeared, in the past, the bird gun needed to light an open flame, but this loyal army musket did not need to light an open flame (flintlock pistol, although it was invented a long time ago, but ordinary soldiers did not know it with experience) fired at the green battalion soldiers who rushed over at close range.
The most serious losses were the hundreds of green battalion soldiers who charged frontally, and the first battalion (division) of the infantry battalion of the Loyal and Righteous Army was deployed in front of the front, unlike other troops, the musketeers of the first battalion were mostly equipped with flintlock muskets, and due to the change in the ignition method, there was no need to worry about any open flames when firing guns, and they were not scattered like arquebuses when shooting, but everyone lined up together, under the loud command of the group leader and squadron leader, and shot at the green battalion in close range in a dense formation.
Because the musketeers were close together, the firepower was too dense, and the close-range shooting (fifty or sixty paces, not only a live target, but also could penetrate several layers of armor, and the battlefield was particularly deterrent), the soldiers who rushed in front fell a large piece, and the loss of more than 20 people in this round alone was more than 20 people.
Everyone was horrified to see the projectiles flying in front of them, and saw their former friends fall in a pool of blood one by one wailing, and quickly after confirming that they were safe and sound, the smell of blood quickly spread, and everyone shouted wildly, and rushed towards the place where the smoke rose under the leadership of the little leader.
However, the loyal and righteous army used the tactic of three-stage attack, that is, one-third of the soldiers fired at a time, in order to ensure the continuity of firepower, and before the soldiers behind them rushed out a few steps, the soldiers in the trench opened fire quickly.
In this way, the continuous frontal charge failed, and the atmosphere of terror spread rapidly, and the soldiers of the green battalion were quite unaccustomed to the tactics of intensive firing of flintlock pistols, and after seeing that the impact was ineffective, one by one, regardless of the shouts of the generals, some people in front began to flee backwards, intertwined with the soldiers who rushed up from behind, and the soldiers of the green battalion on the front line fell into chaos.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Loyal Righteous Army came out, and the grenadiers rushed to the front in groups of three or five, everyone carried baskets and lighted lanterns, stopped twenty paces away, and then threw the thunderbolts with handles into the green camp array.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song army used the earth-shaking thunder when protecting Kaifeng City, and it became a standard configuration after the formation of the Loyal and Righteous Army.
As the prototype of the modern grenade, the Earthquake Thunder Blossom Bomb uses the opportunity of the second explosion to kill and injure the opponent, but the modern grenade uses high gunpowder, while the Earthquake Thunder uses black gunpowder, and the explosion power is very amazing.
Because each squadron had an additional grenadier group, the battlefield suddenly attacked, one after another earth-shattering thunder pierced the sky and fell into the opponent's formation, the sound of explosions came and went like the sound of firecrackers, the entire forward position was shrouded in a fog, suddenly suffered such a blow, the green battalion suffered heavy damage, and many survivors panicked and desperately fled to the back, in a vain attempt to escape to the back of the side van, as a cover to save their lives.
Before everyone could escape to the back of the side van, they saw a bottle of bamboo tube filled with tung oil jump over their heads and fall on the side van, and land on the soldiers behind the side van.
Originally, in order to break the formation of the green battalion's partial vans, the grenadiers not only carried a large number of earth-shattering thunder, but also carried a basket of bamboo tubes filled with tung oil.
A group of crossbowmen rushed out and shot one after another of the ignited rockets onto the side vans, which had already been glued to the tung oil and other wooden materials, and now they were ignited by Mars, and a long fire dragon was ignited throughout the front line.
During this period, some soldiers were covered with tung oil, accidentally ignited by sparks, and the whole person was burned, some hurriedly ran around, and some shouted bitterly and rolled on the ground, the whole scene was not terrifying.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the loyal and righteous army fought out on all fronts, and the soldiers of the green battalion were killed and retreated for more than half a mile, only to stabilize the formation a little with the support of reinforcements.
Seeing the arrival of Qing reinforcements, the loyal and righteous troops fought and retreated, and after regaining their positions, they used the trenches they built to fight with the other side.
The two sides fought together, Gao Mingzhan, who was supervising the battle in the rear, initially did not care, there were many people from the north on his side, one was tall and big, and the other party was a Sichuan man with a thin body, as long as he fought in close quarters, he could completely defeat the other party.
However, it is disappointing that the flintlock pistols and bird guns of the loyal and righteous army are mostly equipped with casing-type spurs outside the muzzle, and after seeing the opponent rushing closely, they can put on the casing and put on the casing while wielding the casing-type spurs to continuously return fire.
Compared with the traitor troops of the Green Battalion, the soldiers of the Loyal and Righteous Army defended their hometowns and relatives one by one, and their morale was high, although they were half a head shorter than the other party, they were not afraid at all on the battlefield.
In addition, each squad is to give full play to the Mandarin Duck Formation, everyone in the Mandarin Duck Formation, the Three Talent Formation, the Four Talent Formation and other formations are constantly converted, although the number of people on the battlefield is small, not like the green battalion to fight alone, but in the process of fighting often form a numerical advantage.
After two months of squatting (rugby) training, the squad leader led several people to resist head-on, often a captain led two people to kill from the side, and cut them to the ground when the opponent was in a hurry to win.
In addition to the internal cooperation of the squad, in addition to the cooperation of the squads, there are also those annoying musketeers, who were still fighting bayonets at first, and they suddenly rushed to the side mountain beam at some point, and kept shooting under the command of the squad leader.
In order to defeat the soldiers and horses in front of him, Gao Mingzhan continued to throw soldiers and horses to the front line, but he felt that it was useless to be like a mud cow entering the sea.
When he was in frustration, he suddenly heard a burst of charging horns on the left, and when he looked up, he saw that more than 300 people suddenly rushed out of the village on the side, and more than 30 horsemen rushed to the front, and now they were rushing straight to the green battalion crossbowmen.
Because it came so suddenly and quickly, everyone was not prepared at all, and in an instant, the cavalry rushed into the formation and pulled the trigger of the three-eyed gun, three fireballs burst out of the muzzle, and the crossbowmen slowly fell down at close range.
Unlike other firearms, the Three-Eyed Gun is an early cavalry gun, with a full gun of 350-450mm, but a third of the ordinary bird gun, which is a typical cavalry gun, and has three barrels that can be fired continuously or together, which is very powerful.
Due to the short barrel and less gunpowder, the optimal range of the three-eyed gun is 50 meters, which can break heavy armor.
It can hit non-armored targets at a distance of 80 meters, and it has no lethality at a distance of 150 meters.
Due to the successful trial production of the flintlock pistol, these three-eyed guns are mostly ignited by flint, rather than the arquebus ignition as in the past, and there is no need to worry about the fire rope extinguishing during the sprint, and only need to continuously pull the wrench after rushing.
With the help of the resulting fear, this cavalry brigade plunged into the formation of the opposing crossbowmen musketeers, as mentioned earlier, the muskets of this era did not have stabs and bayonets, and although some people were equipped with short knives, they had no defensive offensive ability in the face of the cavalry that rushed over.
Seeing the cavalry approaching, the crossbowmen and bird-stalkmen in the rear of the green battalion formed a chaotic formation, and some of them even scattered in all directions, and at this moment, the infantry of the loyal army who followed behind the cavalry arrived, and wantonly slashed back and forth to kill the musketeers and crossbowmen of the green battalion who had little defense.
Gao Mingzhan's heart was dripping blood, this was his most elite troops, in less than a stick of incense, the casualties were less than half, although he continued to increase troops to the front, but after continuous defeats, the morale of the green battalion soldiers was very low, so the battlefield fell behind.