Chapter 273, Retreat (2)
Chang Le stood on the hillock, looked at the Qing army that was gathering below, and turned his head to Guo Huai: "General Guo, I have always heard people say that Jian Yan is good at fighting, but when I saw it today, I felt that it seemed to be a bit exaggerated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info You see, when we came out of Xingshan Fort, Jianshan's scouts spotted us. But only now have they caught up, and they have caught up like this. Not to mention the cannons, not even the shield carts. Is this here to send you to death? ”
When Guo Huai heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Xiao Chang, if Jian Yan can catch up now, it really shows that they are not bad." In this world, how many teams can march faster than our model army? They used to see our Ming army that couldn't walk 30 miles a day, when did they see a team like us, under normal circumstances, they can walk 100 miles a day, but if they really want to march forcibly, they can walk 150 miles a day? And they also saw that we brought so many things. As a general rule, when you take these things with you, you can walk more slowly. I heard that my Ming artillery team can only walk more than ten miles in a day, and it is like a dream to be able to walk twenty miles. The cannons of the Jianzhi are heavier, and the speed of the march is not too fast. But our situation is different, our guns are lighter than theirs, the big wheels are better for walking, and our horses are more abundant and better. I guess these Jianqi were dealing with us as ordinary Ming troops at first, but when they were ready, they found that we had already run far away. They couldn't even reach it. So, that's all they have to do. ”
"What's the use of rushing over like that?" Chang Le sneered, "Except for giving away heads." ”
"They haven't seen us fight in the field, so they don't know how deep the water is." Guo Huai said with a smile. He had seen the model army's combat training and knew that the field combat level of the model army was not low.
"Then let them know today." Chang Le said fiercely.
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"This team is finished." Sha Zilong sat on the tree branch, looking at the battlefield in the distance, shaking his head, while saying to Wang Sansheng next to him, "Brother Sansheng, you see that they have more people, but now they are not hiding behind the car to defend, but running out to open the formation and prepare to fight hard, isn't this looking for death?" ”
"Big brother, I don't think they can help it. If they hide behind the car formation, the other person will not necessarily rush up and fight. As long as they hold them back, after a while, more Jianshen will rush over, as well as shield carts and cannons, and they will be dead at that time. However, these people still have a hole in their heads! If we take the master, it will definitely be to just throw away the mess, let the family get on the horse, and then run away. Their horses have all galloped all the way to catch up, and most of them can't outrun the horses pulling the cart here. Big brother, don't look at the horses pulling carts here, but I dare to say that these horses are all good horses, no worse than those over there! The horses in our game of darts used to be completely incomparable to these horses. ”
"I don't know whose family it is, everything is so good. It's a pity that there won't be a war. The sand dragon shook his head again.
"Probably Zheng Zongbing's, I heard people say that Zheng Zongbing's family made a lot of money by doing business. It is said that it is more generous than the Guanning army. I heard that his family's family is full of meat every day! Wang Sansheng said enviously.
"It's probably those Tessie soldiers." Sha Zilong said, "What the Lord mentioned, said that Inspector Hong invited him for a lot of money. I heard ......"
While the two of them were talking, the formations on both sides had already opened up, ready to start.
"Big brother, these Taixi people are so strange, they pull the formation so wide and thin, how can they withstand a rush?" Wang Sansheng couldn't help but say.
"Killing pigs and buttocks, each has its own way of killing. Who knows. "Sand Dragon Road.
In the distance, more than a dozen puffs of white smoke suddenly rose from the array of the "Tessie", and then the sand dragon saw that many people fell in the queue of Jianzhi opposite them. Then, a burst of cannon sound reached the ears of the sand dragon.
"They're really accurate." Sand Dragon Road.
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"What are you artillerymen doing? How did the cannon hit? So close, how many shots were missed? Chang Le shouted at Zhang Qingxi.
Zhang Qingxi didn't answer with a dark face, but turned around and shouted at the artillery team: "The muzzle of the cannon has dropped by four millimeters, prepare for the second round of shelling!" ”
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"Hey, these Tessie people are really a bit of a way, you see this cannon, it's so fast, it's faster than a musket!" Seeing the "Taixi Man" in the distance playing the second and third rounds of shelling at an astonishing speed, Sha Zilong couldn't help but admire.
"If they hide behind the car formation, these cannons alone can make Jian Xuan eat a pot. But...... Jianshen began to move forward...... Why are they in such a hurry to go up and fight ......," Wang Sansheng said.
"What if you don't go up? Is it possible to stop there and be shot? If you want to say that Jianxuan is really powerful, you look at people, they have been hit by so many cannons, and they are still unhurried, and the basic formation is still there. ”
"It's not that they don't want to go fast, but if they rush so far, they rush to the front, but they are afraid that they will be too tired to breathe and fart. However, Jian Yan is really strong, if we were replaced and let people bombard like this, I am afraid that they would have scattered and fled long ago. ”
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"Commander Chang, you really can't blame us, the ground in this place is too soft, the cannonballs don't jump too much when they fall on it, shit, if the ground was harder, the old men would have collapsed the building grate a long time ago!" Zhang Qingxi said to Chang Le with annoyance, "But the head of the regiment, you wait, the next wave should be replaced with shrapnels, and they will see it then!" …… The muzzle of the gun is raised ten, change to a shrapnel! ”
The shrapnel is a new type of artillery shell developed by the artillery factory, which has achieved quite good results on the shooting range, but it is the first time it has been used in actual combat. The shell was actually a pre-cut tin jar filled with iron balls and an oversized firecracker. When used, the artillerymen calculated the time, determined the length of the shell lead, and lit it, and then shot it out with the cannon. When the tin can was shot out for a while, the firecracker exploded, just enough to blow the tin can, and then the iron beads inside would rain down.
This type of shell is more expensive and far less reliable than ordinary solid bullets and shotguns, but it has advantages that these two types of ammunition cannot match. It can hit a wider range of targets like a shotgun, and it can hit almost as far as a solid bullet.
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Darha was an old white armorer, but it was the first time he had seen someone who could shoot so quickly and accurately. Originally, if the guys on the other side were going to huddle in the chariot formation, they wouldn't mind resting while holding each other - anyway, as time goes by, there will only be more and more friendly troops that can arrive, and when the time comes, there will be shield carts that can be used to break the chariot formation. I don't want this strange Ming army, which doesn't know the height of the sky, to hide in the car formation, but to come out and put up a horizontal team that can't withstand the impact at all, as if it is going to fight a field battle with the Qing Balutu. Speaking of which, when it comes to field warfare, who have I been afraid of in the Qing Dynasty? (At least at this time, they really fought in the field)
But the fellows didn't pounce on them directly, but stopped more than a mile or two away from Darhar and them, and then opened fire in this direction.
Speaking of cannons, Darha has also seen them, and the Ming Kingdom on the other side and my Daqing have this thing. However, in Darha's memory, this thing is also useful for attacking and defending cities, and it is not easy to use it to fight people in field battles, and now the two sides are still so far away, although the cannon can hit so far, it is not easy to hit accurately. So when he heard the cannon shot, Darha was not worried at all, and even thought: "These stupid guys, if they fire the cannon from such a distance, it won't be long before they will hit the barrel red." Then we can't shoot the cannons, and then we can easily go up and collect their heads. ”
However, the situation after that was completely contrary to Darha's expectations, and the cattle on the opposite side fired quickly and accurately, and in a matter of moments, three rounds of shells were fired from the opposite side. Almost every round of shelling hit more than a dozen people. If we continue to stand here, there will not be enough people to die. Somehow, Darha remembered those white pole soldiers in the Battle of the Hunhe River, those white pole soldiers were in a tight formation, and their combat effectiveness was strong, but after the formation was set, it was inconvenient to move, and as a result, I was cleared, no, at that time, I Dajin used cannons to bombard the formation...... The infantry of my Qing Dynasty was much more convenient to move than the white pole soldiers, who were mainly spears, and Darhapo was a little glad to think of this.
It's just that the artillery of those cattle on the opposite side is really too fast and accurate, and just now, another round of artillery fire was fired on the opposite side. A shell first landed a little in front of the Qing army's formation, then bounced off and hit the waist of a soldier next to Darha. The shell tore the soldier into several pieces in an instant. Then several soldiers were hit in a row. The soldier who was shot in the torso died instantly, and death came so quickly that they didn't even have time to think about it. And those soldiers who were not hit in the torso were even worse. Shells often just pass by them, taking away their hands and feet. For example, a little before Darha, there was a soldier whose legs were missing from his thighs. He collapsed in a pool of his own blood, bent over like a shrimp, struggling with both hands to hold the bleeding cut in his leg, while his mouth let out a terrible howl. Darha recognized this man as Tak Tan, who was the same as him. But now Darha can't help him, such an injury, in Darha's opinion, is actually certain death. Perhaps the best way to help him is to give him a knife.
However, Darha did not do so, as he had to move on, and after several rounds of shelling, the speed of the group's advance increased markedly, and the formation began to fall apart......