Chapter 43 The Battle of the Capital

Qin Liangyu ordered Mingjin to collect the troops and began to clean up the battlefield, the white pole soldiers encountered the injured luxury soldiers and cut the head with a knife, and the guards only killed the wounded soldiers with bayonets, and the head was not cut, and the guards had regulations in the code of conduct, when cleaning the battlefield, only the baggage soldiers and men could cut the heads, and the regular soldiers could not cut the heads, and the violators would not only be useless, but would be severely punished.

While clearing the battlefield, some of the soldiers began to camp, because they would continue to attack forward tomorrow, so they set up camp Jane. The native soldiers marched and fought for a day, and after packing up, they went to bed early. After Qin Liangyu and Lu Qin Yiming inspected the barracks guards, they came to the big tent to discuss tomorrow's strategy.

Qin Liangyu said: "General Lu's men have sharp firearms and a neat lineup, and they are indeed a rare elite soldier." "The results of the battle damage came out, the Guards were killed and wounded more than 100 people, the white pole soldiers alone killed more than 200 people, and of course the number of people killed and captured by the luxury army reached more than 4,000.

Lu Qin said: "Last time we defended in Xindu, the number of enemy troops was small, and the impact was insufficient, so the results were very good, but this time the luxury army disrupted our formation and had to fight with them with bayonets, so the losses were more." The emperor said that it is better to fight positional warfare, and our combat effectiveness will be weakened in sports warfare. General Qin's white pole soldiers are the real elite, and the casualties in hand-to-hand combat are so small, and there are so many enemies, which really makes my guards ashamed. ”

Qin Liangyu smiled bitterly: "That's no way, our armor and firearms are not as good as the guards, so we can only fight to the death." ”

Ruchin couldn't speak, and fell silent. Qin Liangyu quickly packed up his emotions and began to arrange tomorrow's actions: "Our army has few soldiers, and the whole army will be escorted tomorrow, General Lu will lead the guards and the white pole soldiers I brought in front, and Yiming will lead the cavalry as a reserve, only attack the north gate, and strive to capture the north gate." The problem of formation, I want to change it like this tomorrow......"

The next morning, after breakfast, the troops began to march and arrived an hour later outside the city of CD. Qin Liangyu began to deploy his troops, with four rows of white pole soldiers in front, four rows of guards infantry behind, and the cavalry still followed about four hundred paces behind, which was a typical offensive formation.

After a short rest, Qin Liangyu began to mobilize before the war: "In front is the extravagant Chongming thieves who surrounded the CD, the credit is in front of you, it depends on whether you can seize the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, the reward of the court will not be low after this quelling of the rebellion, if you want to earn a good background for your children, it depends on now." ”

The white pole soldiers were full of fighting spirit, and the guards were also eager to try with their firearms. After Qin Liangyu finished mobilizing, he retreated to the back, and the team continued to force the extravagant army one mile ahead.

After the failure of Hao Yin's attack yesterday, in order to reduce his guilt, he exaggerated the number of Qin Liangyu's troops and combat effectiveness by several times, so this time Gao Chongming personally guarded the side of the north gate. When he saw the enemy army of about 5,000 people, he glared at Hao Yin fiercely, and Hao Yin hurriedly said: "Their firearms are really powerful, it's better to wait for them to attack." ”

This correct decision was immediately denied by Yu Chongming: "More than 100,000 people against 5,000 people, you actually want to use it, has your courage been lost in one defeat?" I'm disappointed in you. Attack, attack quickly, do not give them time to breathe. ”

Seeing that the enemy had put on an offensive formation, Qin Liangyu ordered to stop advancing, let the guards step forward, and staggered with the white pole soldiers, Lu Qin ordered: "The white pole soldiers cover the guards, the formation is not allowed to be chaotic, and they are not allowed to attack in formation." ”

Another dense assault, when the enemy was thirty paces away from the front army, the drums sounded, and all the first two platoons of the Guards fired their firearms, and the white mist covered the front completely, and then the rear two rows of infantry and the first two platoons exchanged positions, waiting for the drums, while the first two rows began to charge in the rear rows.

The white mist dispersed, ignoring the comrades who fell beside them, and continued to rush forward, and when they rushed in front of them, the drums sounded, and the crisp gunfire knocked most of the luxury soldiers in front to the ground, and the luxury soldiers who were not shot were easily killed by the white pole soldiers.

Today's battle is like yesterday's reproduction, but today's infantry can be more calmly loaded, and the melee attacks have all been taken over by the white pole soldiers, Lu Qin feels that this kind of cooperation should be better, and he will suggest it to the emperor after going back this time.

Extravagant Chongming urged more urgently, and the density of extravagant troops rushing over was greater, so that the efficiency of the guards to kill people was higher. But after all, there were only 2,000 firearms, and when the density of the luxury army reached a certain point, a lot of pressure was transferred to the white pole soldiers, and gradually the white pole soldiers showed signs of not being able to support them.

Qin Liangyu ordered someone to blow the bamboo flute, and the white pole soldiers broke away from the mixed formation with the infantry and began to charge forward. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ruchin ordered the infantry to change their formation, from the original four platoons to six platoons, and then implement three firing sections.

Although such a change of formation reduced the number of enemies in front of the infantry in a short period of time, it increased the casualties of the white pole soldiers, which was equivalent to the white pole soldiers buying time for the infantry with their lives.

The bamboo flute sounded again, the melody changed again, and the white pole soldiers began to charge on both sides, and the luxury army in the middle part rushed towards the infantry. Fifty paces from the infantry, Luchin ordered three sections of fire, the soldiers of the first and second platoons opened fire and then moved back, the soldiers of the 3456th platoon moved forward, the soldiers of the 3rd and 4th platoons reached the front and fired, and then moved back to the last two platoons, the original 56th platoon and the 1st and 2nd platoons moved forward, then the 5th and 6th platoons fired, and then moved to the last, the 1st and 2nd platoons were already loaded with gunpowder and began to shoot. In this way, the cycle was repeated, ensuring that there was always firepower coverage in front, and the luxury army could not rush to the front of the guards at all.

Every time a shot is fired, more than 600 bullets fly out, in the face of a dense enemy, press half to hit, and then half to cause effective damage, that is also more than 150 people, a minute can shoot four to five rounds of bullets, so the luxury army has no way to rush over, Lu Qin can't help but admire the emperor even more, the emperor said that as long as the formation is arranged, the flintlock pikemen can completely resist more enemies, and there is no need for the cover of pikemen, and just now their own formation, I thought that the cooperation of the white pole soldiers would enhance the combat effectiveness, it seems that it is completely wrong.

The sound of the bamboo flute sounded again, and the white pole soldiers began to retreat, but they retreated from the two flanks, without passing through the front of the infantry, and after retreating, they were distributed on the two flanks of the infantry, and were no longer mixed in the infantry formation.

The extravagant army finally couldn't hold it anymore, and some people began to cower, not wanting to rush forward into the knowing place of death again. One person flinched, of course, more people did the same, and the offensive of the luxury army began to slow down, and in this way, more native soldiers died under the bullets. Finally someone began to retreat, and soon all the front-line soldiers retreated. The overseer team of Yu Chongming first killed the retreating native soldiers, but was killed by the native soldiers who were in a hurry to retreat. Sporadic routs turned into major collapses in a very short period of time.