Chapter 699: No War in the Southwest (6)
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Zhu Hongsan stood on the high platform and saw the momentum of his soldiers, and said with satisfaction: "Very good, now the Yi barbarian An Kun outside the city dares to bring 80,000 troops to besiege Guiyang because Lao Tzu robbed his woman!" As Lao Tzu's Imperial Forest Army, what do you say? ”
His soldiers, led by the junior officers, shouted: "Your Majesty, we will go out of the city and kill them all!" ”
"Good! Now go out of the city with Lao Tzu and let these barbarians see what war is! ”
After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he said to Han Sanqiang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard who was standing beside him: "Sanqiang, this time you have full command, don't embarrass Lao Tzu!" ”
Han Sanqiang was very excited, as the head of the Praetorian Guard by the emperor's side, he rarely had the opportunity to go into battle in person, and today the emperor gave this opportunity to himself, which was to make some merit.
Han Sanqiang hurriedly went down to lead the troops out of the city and lined up outside the Liuguang Gate.
Emperor Zhu Hongsan also sat on his royal chariot and went out of the city with the army, followed by Gu Xingzu, the coerced Marquis of Zhenyuan, and his 10,000 guards.
Outside the Liuguang Gate of Guiyang City is Qianling Mountain, Han Sanqiang led the army to the back of Guiyang City Wall, on the left is Qianling Mountain, and directly opposite is a large area of farmland outside Liuguang Gate.
As soon as the Ming army finished sorting out the ranks, the whereabouts of the Yi armed forces were discovered in the distance. I saw a dusty cloud, and a group of chaotic Yi people appeared from the distant horizon.
Zhu Hongsan sat on the imperial chariot and watched with a telescope, and saw that these Yi people were wearing everything, holding all kinds of weapons, machetes, bamboo guns, and many people were holding dung forks. Seeing the equipment of the Yi people, Zhu Hongsan laughed in his heart, this is the white pole soldier who went on an expedition to Pyongyang and couldn't find the north of the Japanese invaders?
In fact, Zhu Hongsan didn't know that Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers only had thousands of people, and the natural equipment was better, plus the white pole soldiers were professional soldiers, who had fought for the Ming Dynasty for many years, where could these Yi people compare their combat effectiveness!
"Gu Xingzu, these are the Yi barbarians you are afraid of?" When Zhu Hongsan saw the appearance of the Yi people, he couldn't help but start laughing at Gu Xingzu beside him.
Gu Xingzu was coerced out of the city by Zhu Hongsan, his face was already frightened and snow-white, he saw that the army of the Yi people was boundless, and hurriedly approached Zhu Hongsan and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know, these barbarians are walking through the mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, don't look at the equipment is not very good, but the combat effectiveness is very strong!" Especially the 5,000 rattan armor soldiers in Shuixi, as well as the 10,000 Yi soldiers and Miao soldiers in Yongning Luxury, they are the main force! Your Majesty, you see, those who wear white clothes and wrap their heads are those Yi soldiers who are Yongning luxury! ”
Zhu Hongsan looked into the distance with a telescope, and the rattan armor soldiers were very recognizable, they were wearing rattan armor made of old rattan in the mountains. A bunch of soldiers with iron cannons in their hands, dressed in white, and cloaked on the side should be Yongning's soldiers.
At this time, An Kun had already come to Guiyang City with his army five miles outside the city, and he had already seen the rows of Guangdong Ming troops lined up outside the city. These Ming soldiers were all tall, wearing red and blue military uniforms, wearing high military hats, and they were like roosters.
Yongning Tusi Haochen was by An Kun's side, and it was the first time he saw this strange Ming army, he asked An Kun beside him, "An Kun, these are the army of that Han Dog Emperor?" ”
An Kun gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it's them!" Big brother, pay attention, these Ming weapons are sharp, don't suffer! ”
It was also the first time for him to fight against the new army in Guangdong, and it was inevitable that he would be a little underestimated, so he used the combat effectiveness of the previous guards to compare these Ming troops.
"Haha! The firearms of the Ming army are powerful, but the rate of fire is slow, if this group of Ming troops hides behind the city wall, it is really difficult to deal with, but they are camped outside the city, Brother Ankun, what are you afraid of? ”
An Kun listened to what Haochen said and nodded, he was killed by hundreds of rattan armor soldiers two months ago, but he didn't see the Ming army run away after the second load, so he still looked at this Ming army with old eyes.
An Kun saw that there was a ten-meter-high flagpole behind the Ming army, with the sun and moon flags of the Ming army on it, and at the same time, there was a big "Ming" character on the flag. Under the flagpole was a crowd of people surrounding a carriage that appeared to be a man in riotous bright yellow armor that glittered in the sun.
An Kun pointed at that person and said, "Big brother, that is the new emperor of the Han people, I didn't expect him to be so bold and dare to go out of the city!" ”
"This emperor really didn't know how to die, he dared to go out of the city to fight us with less than 20,000 people in total? Brother, don't worry, my brother will bring someone to arrest him in a while! Avenge you brother! Although An Kun did not say that his wife was arrested by the Han emperor, Haochen still knew about it through his own channels, and now it is inevitable to use words to squeeze An Kun.
Hao Chen turned around and shouted to the forty-eight toasts behind him: "Everyone, listen, let's go into the city in a while, everyone can burn and kill at will, but that Han dog emperor will be left to Brother Ankun!" ”
Those Tusi also felt that the battle could end quickly, after all, where is the combat strength of the Han people, a Yi person can top four or five Ming troops, and this battle will be won today.
An Kun saw that the morale was good, and let the five toasts take the lead, with his own rattan armor soldiers and extravagant Miao soldiers behind, and rushed towards the neat ranks of the Ming army in a mess.
Zhu Hongsan saw that the Yi people did not have any formation, like a bunch of chaotic people spread their feet and rushed over, knowing that the show was on, he stood up from the imperial chariot to watch, and the surrounding Jinyi guards were afraid that the emperor would be shot by a stray arrow, so they hurriedly stood by Zhu Hongsan's side to protect.
The Yi people are worthy of being a mountain soldier, running fast on the flat ground, smearing their faces with black ash one by one, and rushing up with strange screams in their mouths.
Two miles away from the Ming army, the artillery of the Praetorian Division was the first to fire, and the first few rounds were all solid shells, but because of the tight formation of the Yi people's charges, they still caused hundreds of casualties.
However, the Yi people were brave, and under the leadership of Tusi, they were not afraid of death, regardless of the partners around them, and rushed forward at a faster pace, ready to get mixed up with the Ming army and make their artillery unusable.
After entering the 500 meters, all the guns of the Praetorian Division were replaced with shotguns, which were specially designed to kill and injure dense infantry, and the full power of the Yi people was demonstrated.
There are five regiments of the Praetorian Guard Division, and an independent artillery regiment, with a total of 160 six-pounder guns and 20 twelve-pounder guns, and a salvo can launch 50,000 or 60,000 lead bullets.
After three rounds of salvo shots, the Yi people have been lying down nearly 10,000 people in the front, and the Yi people behind them can no longer withstand this kind of slaughter, they are brave, but they are not organized soldiers, just with a momentary brave charge, now they find that the brave is useless, and nearly 10,000 people died without even touching the side of the Ming army, and the rest naturally did not want to die, and retreated for a while.
An Kun, who was commanding in the back, saw that the front team was defeated so quickly, and his eyes fell out in shock, the Ming army's artillery was not so powerful before, and the range of that kind of Franc machine cannon was very close, and the rate of fire was not so fast!
But this is not the time for An Kun to express any feelings, An Chongsheng of the front team retreated, came to An Kun and shouted: "An Kun, tens of thousands of people died in the front team, the Ming army's artillery is too powerful, let's retreat!" ”
"No! Absolutely no refund! The artillery of the Ming army is so powerful, it must be inconvenient to move, let the rattan armor soldiers go up, organize the rear team to line up, and use bows and arrows to deal with the attack of the Ming army! ”
An Chongsheng had no choice but to return to the front line again to organize the soldiers to resist.
An Chongsheng finally organized a defensive line in front of the formation, with rattan armor soldiers in the front and archers in the back, preparing to use rattan armor soldiers to protect muskets and use archers to kill and injure the Ming army from a distance.
Han Sanqiang saw that the artillery repelled the enemy, and the next thing was the infantry. He shouted: "Order, the infantry form five columns, press up!" ”
Zhu Hongsan's Praetorian Guard Division was all veterans, and one by one, under the command of the platoon commander of the grassroots company, they pressed towards the Yi people on the opposite side in a neat line listening to the sound of passwords.
An Chongsheng saw the Ming army coming up and shouted: "Archers steady, wait until the Ming army enters the firing range and fire arrows!" ”
But An Chongsheng said it easily, the atmosphere on the battlefield was depressing, these Yi people had no professional training, and many people shot bows and arrows in their hands to strengthen their courage. Now there are still seven or eight hundred meters away from the Ming army, and these bows and arrows naturally shoot into the open space in the middle.
Because of the backward productivity, the Yi people also used bamboo bows and arrows, which only had a range of 20 meters and were not as powerful as the pistols of later generations. However, even the East Asian angular bow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, accelerated by horses, coupled with upward shooting, can only shoot a range of more than 200 meters, and the kinetic energy is only 160 joules, and the bullet kinetic energy of the May Fourth pistol of later generations is also 240 joules, and the power of AK bullets has reached 680 joules, so the bow and arrow have absolutely no chance of winning against the musket.
An Chongsheng saw that some of his subordinates were nervous to shoot bows and arrows first, scolded angrily, stepped forward and hacked a few archers to death with a knife, and then ordered to prepare again.
At this time, the Ming army had already entered a distance of 200 meters and had entered the range of the Ming army's muskets, but Han Sanqiang did not order to stop, but did not order to stop until he approached a distance of 100 meters and started shooting.
In later generations, the British army could shoot close to the enemy at a distance of 60 meters, but this tactic had extremely high requirements for the psychological quality of the soldiers, and 60 meters could already see the face of the enemy on the opposite side, and shoot with muskets face to face, and few soldiers could not collapse under this pressure, so it is not said that the British army in later generations had super combat effectiveness.
Zhu Hongsan's army was not as good as the British army in later generations, and could only approach to a hundred meters, and the psychological quality of his soldiers was too high in the future. However, this has already put a lot of pressure on the soldiers, after all, seeing the enemy shoot themselves, and they have to march in a neat line, it is really impossible to have no pressure in their hearts.
After entering a hundred meters, the soldiers of the front squad stopped at the order of the company commander, the first platoon got down on one knee and began to shoot in a double platoon *, and for a time the front line was covered in gunsmoke.