Chapter 725: Steady Win
Feng Quan's 4,000 elite soldiers and horses, plus 2,000 militia and artillery combined with young and strong people, followed left and right.
The artillery they led was much more powerful than the Japanese and Dutch artillery teams.
That was all these years Feng Quan has been committed to imitating the cannons of the Huaxia Army, and when he left, he moved most of the good cannons from the Ordnance Industry Bank he managed and built.
From three-pounder guns to eighteen-pounder guns, Feng Quan's arsenal technology was much higher than that of those looted by the Qing army.
This time Feng Quan selected the lightest and best quality twelve of the cannons he brought, six on one side, and eighteen on one side of the twelve-pounder guns, nine on one side, thirty-six nine-pounder guns and eighteen on one side.
The six-pounder guns were all carried in the army, and there were as many as 36 guns, of which two phalanxes and nearly 1,000 soldiers and horses were artillery, which was an elite artillery that had fought countless battles.
By the time Feng Quan approached the enemy two miles with the main force, the troops who had gone out at the beginning had already fought with the enemy.
The battlefield stretched for ten miles, and although the number of troops commanded by the militia was smaller than that of the enemy, the soldiers holding the Jingai 2 arquebus were still much more powerful than the shotguns and muskets held by the Japanese Qingzhuang.
However, as the enemy's forces increased, the rate of fire of the arquebuses could not keep up with the increase in the enemy's strength, and soon the first group of men and horses was drowned.
Feng Quan remained silent, the artillery immediately deployed on the spot, and the team began to battle in formation.
Tens of thousands of Japanese troops pressed over with great momentum.
Feng Quan calmly said to his entourage: "Let the artillery of more than twelve pounds bombard the enemy's artillery and the farmers in the rear, and we will stay where we are and wait for the enemy to come up." ”
The shells began to bombard the peasants behind the enemy fiercely, and after a round of bombardment, the 60,000 peasants were in disarray, scattering and fleeing, after all, the peasants had never seen a fight.
Even the fierce samurai who had seen it were afraid of the bombardment of the bowl of iron lumps.
The Japanese team approached more anxiously, and the peasants behind were gathered by a group of thousands of soldiers, and they were driven to disperse on both sides, preparing to completely entail Feng Quan's troops.
Two thousand meters, one thousand five hundred meters, eight hundred meters, Feng Quan shouted and asked the artillery to step forward and prepare.
These artillerymen were the regular soldiers of the Lu army who followed.
Seven hundred and fifty meters, a thousand artillery men laid down nearly sixty six-pounder and three-pounder guns in front of the queue.
Six hundred meters, the six-pounder gun fired.
The enemy ranks began to become scattered, and the Japanese rushed up with a scream.
Five hundred meters, the second round of artillery fired.
The enemy's artillery was divided into two columns and began to prepare, and the six-pounder guns turned their muzzles to bombard the enemy's artillery formation.
Four hundred meters, the first three queues of the six queues behind, and the ten meters behind the artillery lined up, opening gaps for the artillery to pass through.
Three hundred and fifty meters, the three-pounder gun opened fire.
After a round of firing, the enemy's artillery also opened fire, and the shells of both sides were about to fight in the air.
The first two thousand four hundred on both sides had already been defeated by the enemy, and the remaining hundreds of people fled to the rear, and at once they ran for more than ten miles, and returned to the rear.
The second departure procession, 2,400 men, was still resisting to the death, exchanging their own casualties for twice as many as the enemy's.
Both the enemy and Feng Quan's side had people fleeing.
There are more on the enemy's side, after all, there are too many farmers.
Even if there were people driving and suppressing the nearly 60,000 peasants in the rear, under the bombardment of the 18-pounder cannon, the 12-pounder cannon, and nearly 30 artillery pieces, most of them were scattered, and only a few thousand peasants rushed over to help the young and strong team that was suppressed and released by Feng Quan.
At this time, the eighteen-gun was still bombarding the peasants, and the twelve-pounder gun had turned its muzzle to bombard the enemy's brigade.
At two hundred and fifty meters, the enemy was still approaching, and they had already withstood six rounds of artillery bombardment.
There were faint signs of collapse in the ranks.
Two hundred meters, the enemy's formation began to panic.
Eighteen pounder guns joined the bombardment queue, and the enemy fell more than they stood up.
One hundred and fifty meters, the artillery was still bombarding, and the six-pounder guns had already suppressed the muzzles in front of the enemy ranks, replaced them with shotguns, and blasted out in one round, and the enemy formation immediately felt like it had been bitten, and a large piece was missing.
Deserters appeared in the rear of the enemy, running in both directions in the front.
One hundred meters, the enemy's three-pounder cannon was prepared, and the panicked soldiers fired indiscriminately, but Feng Quan's side still did not move.
Withstanding the enemy's shelling, the artillery in front has been destroyed seven or eight pieces, and it is still holding on.
Eighty meters, the six-pounder gun scattered, and the three-pounder gun was still solid.
The enemy's frontline ranks are still charging.
Fifty meters, the enemy stopped, Feng Quan hurriedly let the six-pounder gun retreat, and the three-pounder gun replaced with a scatter bomb for the last bombardment.
The enemy's platoon guns had already been fired, and the artillerymen had been shot and fell to the ground, and after the three-pounder artillery persisted in the bombardment for one round, the enemy's front line had been killed and wounded.
Feng Quan said to the entourage beside him who had already hung colors: "Order, the eighteen-pounder cannon concentrates its fire to bombard the general's guards behind the enemy, and it is incomparably necessary to annihilate them all at once." ”
The enemy's general guards were surrounded by nearly 500 people, all of whom were some warriors who looked mighty, with long knives hanging from their waists and smoothbore guns on their backs, but they were only front-loaded, and the guards around Feng Quan were 200 people, but they were all rear-loading singles The standard flintlock pistols of the current mounted troops of the Huaxia Army.
The 2,000 soldiers in the front were holding arquebuses Jingai-2, which had made a technical breakthrough in the arsenal of the Lu country, and the Lu army was already able to install this arquebus.
But the 1,000 soldiers in the back column were holding rear-loading singles flintlock pistols supported by the Huaxia Army, which was Feng Quan's own elite troops, and of course they had to be equipped.
Feng Quan didn't even give Kong Yousex anywhere, the 1,500 flintlock pistols he got back this time were all mounted in his direct troops, with 1,200 guns around him, and there were still 300 in the Kagoshima Mansion, as the prime minister of Lu State, he would definitely leave 300 shots for his mansion in the end, in case the enemy hit him?
"Kill the enemy's general, and we will win." Feng Quan waved the horsewhip in his hand and said with a smile.
He didn't even look at the pot of porridge that had been fought on both sides, even if the 36,000 soldiers were all dead, as long as he destroyed the enemy's frontal forces, the others would have to flee.
A few minutes later, even without the telescopes given by the Huaxia Army, Feng Quan could already see the enemy generals' guards retreating in embarrassment in the artillery fire, suffering heavy casualties, and nearly 200 people lost their combat effectiveness in a bombardment, the formation was scattered, and the banner was shaken.
In ancient wars, the general's banner could not be moved, and it could not be moved casually, and the wavering was to shake the morale of the army.
Sure enough, the front was already approaching thirty meters, and when they raised their guns and prepared to strike with all their might, all the commanders couldn't help but be stunned when they saw their flags moving back.
Before they could react, the soldiers of the first two thousand Lu Army, who were forty meters away from them and had already suffered a certain number of casualties, quickly hit them with two fierce rounds of fire.
The third column then gave up and stood and fired a volley from a distance of fifty meters.
The ranks of the enemy completely collapsed.
At this time, the twelve pounder guns of the Lu army joined the bombardment, and a total of thirty cannons sealed the retreat route of the general's guards, and finally in the third round, a shell concentrated General Kumamoto Daimyo, and the whole person was scattered.
The attacking forces of the Hula enemy quickly dispersed and fled to the rear.
General Kagoshima, who was killing all over there, was startled and immediately fled with his guards, even though he had already seen an opportunity to break Feng Quan's wings.
But he fled less than a mile, and when he was still three miles from the battlefield, a dozen eighteen-pound shells came from behind, scattering a hundred guards around him, killing nearly a dozen Dutchmen who were following him, and then smashing the legs of his horse, from which he tumbled, and was crushed by the horse, crying out in pain.
The soldiers next to him tried to pull him up, but unfortunately, the twelve-pounder cannon flew again, and he was beaten to pulp along with the soldier who pulled him.
Feng Quan put away the binoculars and shouted, "Attack it, the whole army will attack, chase and flee." ”