Chapter 328: A Great Victory

The cavalry in the first row are all wearing three layers of heavy armor, and it stands to reason that the army's three-eyed guns and bird guns cannot be pierced. But what armor is as thin as a piece of paper before a shotgun with an initial velocity of 200 meters.

The cavalry in the first row only saw a puff of white smoke from the artillery on the opposite side, and then they felt as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer, and then they were completely unaware.

When the cavalry came into contact with the shotguns, a large number of horses and riders were knocked down, and the first batch of shotguns killed more than a thousand cavalrymen.

Jin Daoming, who was behind, saw his cavalry fall to the ground one after another, and shouted: "Dad! It's this kind of cannon! It was a thousand soldiers who killed their son back then! ”

Jin Shenghuan waved his horsewhip and gave Jin Daoming a whip, and scolded: "You go back for me, don't mess with my army's heart here!" ”

After beating his son Jin Shenghuan and his own soldiers, he said: "Order, order the infantry to charge!" Now that the cavalry is less than five hundred paces away from their artillery, I don't believe they can kill them all! ”

Jin Shenghuan was right, Zhu Hongsan's artillery reloading speed was one shot per minute, and now the Qing cavalry was less than 400 meters away from the new army, and according to the horse's sprint speed of 30 kilometers per hour, 400 meters could be reached in only 50 seconds. So the artillery of the Forces nouvelles can also fire a round of shotguns.

But what made Jin Shenghuan desperate was that when the cavalry rushed into 200 meters with the second wave of shotguns, the muskets on the opposite side opened fire.

The maximum range of the muskets of the new army was 300 meters, and 200 meters was the effective range, which was a distance that could penetrate heavy armor.

At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army had suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and it was also at the end of the crossbow, and under the continuous fire of the four rows of muskets of the new army, it was blocked one hundred and fifty meters in front of the new army's position.

Ma Rufeng's regiment is still a recruit, after the panic in the early stage, these recruits have entered the state, under the order of the platoon commander, accurately loaded gunpowder, lead bullets, and then compacted with a bar, waiting for the signal to shoot, these recruits can now hit the highest rate of fire of three rounds per minute.

The cavalry on the opposite side had been completely resisted, and the cavalry behind saw that the front team had been killed in large numbers, so they turned their horses and fled in all directions.

At this time, the infantry of the Qing army behind had already entered the Erli range, and the artillery was replaced with solid shells and began to fire at a long distance. The infantry platoon was tightly formed, and each solid bullet could make a bloody alley. In fact, at this time, if the Ming army on the other side would have collapsed, but Jin Shenghuan's team was all veterans after all, and they were still running forward with solid bullets.

Seeing that the cavalry had been repulsed, the infantry behind him came up again and ordered: "All musketeers, follow the drum beat, advance!" ”

Maleonn gave the order, and the drummers of each company began to beat the drums, and the musketeers began to march forward in unison with the beat of the drums.

Soon the two teams approached, and the musketeers stopped and began firing.

The Qing army had 30,000 people, and the new army musketeers had a total of 6,000 people, that is, each person could wipe out the entire Qing army with five bullets. But this is ideal, after all, not every bullet can hit the enemy. However, the Qing army did not have much combat effectiveness, and the range of their horn bows was between fifty or sixty meters, which could not reach the new army at all, and could only be beaten from a distance of two hundred meters. Zhu Hongsan's soldiers are all soldiers who have undergone strict training and are armed with the idea of loyalty, while the Qing army on the opposite side does not recognize the characters, and they are soldiers just to eat. So start backing after holding on for a few minutes.

Originally, it was just an organized retreat, but because the quality of the soldiers was not high, the commander ordered the retreat to immediately turn into a rout. In ancient China, not many people actually died under the sword in every battle, and most of them were trampled to death after the rout.

Ma Liang is also the first time to participate in this kind of large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people, and he didn't expect the Qing army on the opposite side to be defeated so quickly.

The number of people trampled to death by their own men in the rout of the Qing army was more than they died under the musket. At this time, Jin Shenghuan didn't expect to be defeated before entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, now that the general trend has gone, Jin Shenghuan knows that the big camp can't go, and the next defeated army will impact his own big camp, and the remaining 50,000 soldiers in the camp will also be coerced by the defeated army, and returning to the big camp is also a death. Now only by entering the city of Ganzhou, in the reinstatement of the army, relying on the tall city walls of Ganzhou can resist the artillery of the Ming army.

Things are just as Jin Shenghuan expected, the defeated Qing army ran there with many people, and now the largest number of people is of course the big camp, 30,000 defeated troops all rushed to the big camp, and Ma Liang led 6,000 musketeers to kill later. Originally, the generals in the camp were still preparing to organize resistance, but they didn't expect to be rushed by the chaotic army, and the 50,000 Qing troops in the camp also retreated. Ma Liang completely created a miracle in the history of Chinese warfare, using 6,000 men to drive 80,000 people around.

The Qing army camp relies on Ganzhou city and Gongshui to build, a large number of Qing troops run around like headless flies, some want to jump into the water to escape, have been drowned in the river, there are a large number of Qing troops want to enter the city, but the city gate is narrow, there can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the same time, a total of more than 30,000 people are concentrated outside the south gate of Ganzhou Town, and they can't get in and out.

At this time, the artillery company behind arrived, and the first to rush to the city of Ganzhou was twenty artillery pieces, which began to fire solid shells one mile away from the south gate of the town. You must know that the south gate of the town is now crowded with people, and these 20 solid bullets have caused thousands of deaths. In fact, the artillery company of the new army has less than 200 people, and with tens of thousands of troops outside the city, if someone organizes it, it is completely possible to turn back and eat the new army of 200 people, but the Qing army has been frightened by the artillery, so they dare to turn back and counterattack, and they surrender on their knees. This artillery company captured almost 20,000 people with two hundred people.

In the end, Ma Liang saw that it was too close to Ganzhou City, and was afraid of being attacked by the city's artillery, so he stopped the pursuit one mile away from the city wall. The battle outside the city of Ganzhou is officially over. In this battle, at the cost of less than 100 casualties, the new army completely annihilated nearly 100,000 troops outside the Qing army, captured 50,000 people, and more than 10,000 jumped into the river and drowned, and less than 3,000 people swam across the river to escape. More than 30,000 people fled into the city of Ganzhou and continued to survive.

There may be many people who think that there should not be such a disparity in battle, you can check the Battle of Bali Bridge in the Second Opium War, Monk Lingqin led 40,000 horses, including 10,000 brave and good Mongolian horses, and the 6,000 men of the British and French forces fought at the Bali Bridge outside Beijing. As a result, all 40,000 Qing troops were killed in the battle, while the British and French troops only lost 12 people, and two were killed by diarrhea. The Battle of Bali Bridge was a classic battle between the modern army and the feudal army. The Anglo-French army had already been tested by the Napoleonic Wars, and the soldiers were compulsory military service plus a professional officer corps. Armed with breech-loading flintlock pistols and smoothbore guns equipped with bayonets. The tactics of hollow phalanxes and three-row arrays were used. The Eight Banners Army is a mixed infantry and cavalry army based on cold weapons and equipment. There was a generational gap with the Anglo-French coalition forces. Modern armies in nineteenth-century Europe rarely fought against feudal armies around the world without overwhelming victory. In the battle of Bali Bridge, more than 40,000 Qing troops were all killed, while only 12 British and French troops of 6,000 were killed. What does it mean to be "beaten if you fall behind"? This is "if you fall behind, you will be beaten"! And Zhu Hongsan's new army's equipment, training, and numbers are still above the British and French coalition forces, so there is nothing unbelievable to achieve such a big result.

Zhang Jiayu, who was watching the battle in the back, was almost scared to death at first, and the 10,000 cavalry charging into battle was still very amazing, and he could feel the ground trembling when he was close. The next battle surprised Zhang Jiayu even more, the battle was completely one-sided, and he didn't expect the majestic cavalry to be completely beaten by the artillery. Ma Liang dared to lead thousands of people to pursue the Qing army of tens of thousands, and also won the war, and finally Zhang Jiayu was speechless when Ma Liang occupied the Qing army camp. With 6,000 to 100,000, there is no record in the history books, only in the storytelling.

When Zhang Jiayu saw the victory, he hurriedly led people over to help Ma Liang collect the prisoners, and this time it was a great achievement, and more than 50,000 prisoners were captured.

The Qing army's camp happened to be still there, and it was used to hold prisoners of war. After they were all busy, Zhang Jiayu saw Ma Liang and Ma Rufeng.

"Haha! The two generals have made extraordinary achievements! I must report this good news to His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Ma Liang was also very happy, he knew that his new army was extremely combative, but he didn't expect that he could do this, and he could beat 100,000 Qing troops, although these Qing troops were all Ming troops a few years ago. But Ma Liang believed that one of his regiments should be fine against 10,000 Manchurian Eight Banners.

"The adult has won the award, and the credit for the subordinates is that the adults have commanded well, and the two subordinates are just following orders!" Ma Rufeng said modestly on the side. Ma Liang was very surprised to hear Ma Rufeng say this, this has something to do with Zhang Jiayu?

Ma Rufeng gently touched Ma Liang with his foot, interrupting Ma Liang's question. Ma Rufeng is not a martial artist like Ma Liang, he has seen a lot of these stinky old nine bad things around Ma Jiyuan, what is in their hands, the good can become bad, and the bad can also become good. It's nothing to give half of the credit to Zhang Jiayu this time, as long as Zhang Jiayu says a few kind words in front of the emperor, then there will be everything.

In fact, Ma Rufeng underestimated Zhu Hongsan too much, Zhu Hongsan is also a founding monarch, and naturally has his own secret intelligence channels in the army, and the situation here will be transmitted to Guangzhou by the Jinyi Wei secret agents in the soldiers as soon as possible.

However, Zhang Jiayu likes to listen to this very much, and now he is in a very good mood, and now he sees that the two people in front of him have lost their previous high-minded attitude, and there are some Corporal Lixian, at least he thinks it is Corporal Lixian.

"General Ma's words are serious, we all have a share in this great achievement, and the whole army has a share! Ha ha!!! ”