The bayonets glittered in the sun, rising and falling with the movements of the soldiers walking in unison, like the waves of steel.

Tartar artillery forts.

Manchuria is a white flag Meler Ezhen Amida put a pergola in his hand, and the oncoming sun shone on his face, making him very uncomfortable.

Four or five guns in the fort opened fire continuously, the horses were stimulated, and the men stood up.

Amida hurriedly reached out and stroked the mount's neck to calm her horse.

"Lord Wang, the formation of the Yi soldiers is strange, looking at the walking posture, could it be that their knees can't be bent?"

"Vice-Metropolitan ......"

"What are you talking about, the cannon is too loud for me to hear."

Geng Jimao had to pull his throat and say: "Deputy Dutong, that is the method of the Yi people, the Franco and Hongmao Yi people in the army said that there is no pure fire gun army in Taixi." ”

Amita was amazed, "It's so rare, a water comes to the fire, what is the prince's charter?" ”

"Deputy Commander, I would like to ask you to lead all the horsemen to charge their large formation."

"Huh? Lord, what did you say? ”

"I said that I had prepared 30,000 taels of silver, and I wanted to ask the deputy commander to lead all our horsemen to rush into a large array."

"Got silver? Where is it? ”

Geng Jimao waved his hand, and the palace guards opened the box placed on the side, shining with silver light.

"The money is here, it depends on whether the deputy capital dares to take it."

Geng Jimao had a smile on his face.

The wealth was dazzling, and Amida's throat rolled up and down.

"I have 300 brothers, 30,000 is not enough, 50,000!"

"Good!" Geng Jimao did not hesitate, "The deputy capital will accept 30,000 first, and the remaining 20,000 will be presented after this battle." ”

Amida pulled the reins of the horse, and the horse spun around twice in place, snorting.

"Lord Wang, we can't let the horsemen rush against the sun!"

"The horse team is a clutch soldier, since it is handed over to the deputy commander, you are in charge."

Amida arched her hand, "Thank you, Lord Wang!" ”

Although Dolgon once ordered that the Eight Banners on the battlefield were mainly used as a supervisor, supervising the battle between the Green Battalion and the Han army. But the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is no such ideal situation. In recent years, the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade have lost 4 Meler Ezhen in Hunan and Fujian, and it is inevitable that they will go into battle.

Now it is no more than when it first entered the customs, and there are not many opportunities for Eight Banners to make a fortune through robbery. Amida was only promoted from the commander to the deputy commander in the first month of the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, and finally survived to the qualification of being independent.

Amida returned to his own team, he had 200 armor soldiers, basically everyone brought a coat, some of the clothes that could fight went into battle with the master, and the others stayed in the camp.

Amida stretched out five fingers, "Each member of the team will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and another 500 taels will be rewarded for capturing the flag." ”

When the team goes out to see the battle, the court has its own reward, and Amida said to the flag soldiers that it is extra money.

The Eight Banners soldiers' usual treatment is much stronger than that of the Green Battalion, and the Green Battalion soldiers can do some small business to subsidize their families, but the Eight Banners soldiers cannot, and compared with the standard of living, it is not necessarily who is better. Therefore, since the flag soldiers have left Beijing, they all have a heart to make a fortune.

The vests and infantry cheered, the Manchurian iron cavalry conquered the Central Plains, won more and lost less, and won with riding on the flat ground is the military belief of the Eight Banners.

The legendary Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade went into battle, and the morale of Geng Fan and the Green Battalion Horse Team suddenly rose to a new level. Under Xinhui City, Geng Fan fought against Li Dingguo, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry broke Li Dingguo's elephant array, and that hearty victory seemed to be right in front of them.

Amida pressed the formation, concentrated on the towns of the Manchurian Han and Mongolian green camps, and a total of more than 2,800 horsemen went around from the west of the artillery base.

Geng's infantry opened their antlers, turned around, lined up, and made way for the cavalry to attack, and they were very skillful in cooperating.

Tens of thousands of horses' hooves hit the ground, raising red dust in the sky, and the sound was deafening. Any soldier in the middle of it will feel invincible, even some of the Green Battalion soldiers.

The brigade of Tatar cavalry attracted the attention of everyone in the rear of the coalition front.

Langemann's telescope swirled with the Tatar cavalry ranks, and he let out a sigh of relief.

"Finally out, medieval cavalry."

Wash your face with cold water in order, and by the way, make your mind clearer.

Langemann put down the binoculars, "As planned?" ”

"There's no reason to change."

"Let's get started."

Shou Xuan said to the seven young cavalry ensigns standing on the side: "Gentlemen, this is your first time on the battlefield, and I fully believe in your ability to bring orders to the commanders at the front. ”

The ensigns, who acted as communication officers, saluted, mounted their respective war horses, and scattered in all directions, running to the 3 infantry regiments, the 3 Ming troops on the left flank, and Longtou Village.

"Are the horses of the artillery rested?"

"It should be fine."

"Karl, this is too far from the battle line, I also want to move forward, you take the observation team to stay."

"Oh, Your Excellency, this is not possible, the officers can take care of themselves, I want to stay with the Guards Infantry."

Shou Zhi nodded, "Come on, then." ”

Walk down the embankment and get on the horse with Langemann.

Xiao Decheng, the commander of the guards battalion, drew his command knife, "The whole battalion, stand upright." ”

A thousand pairs of leather military boots made a neat sound when the heels touched.

The Führer Guard is armed with blue and white uniforms and leather boots, and the black armbands on their tops are worn by the most elite units of the Federal Army.

"Take the sub-battalion as a unit and form a close column!"

The Guards Battalion is divided into two horizontal columns, and one battalion has a total of four horizontal columns, and the longitudinal spacing of each company is half the width of the horizontal column.

The two companies of the Guards Carbine Cavalry Squadron were divided into two companies, which were spread out on both flanks in a cavalry company, guarding the flanks.

The captain of the mounted artillery ordered: "Take the platoon as a unit, turn to the right!" ”

Three platoons of 4-pounder guns turned 90 degrees to the right and formed an artillery column with 2 guns in a row.

Orderly waved his right hand, "Forward." ”

The immense momentum created by thousands of Tatar cavalry seemed to be insignificant in the eyes of the soldiers, and the officers and men of the reserve marched forward in a parade formation, as if no one was around.

Xu Dinghe, Yu Shihui, and Andre received orders to leave the flanks and continue the attack almost simultaneously.

Front-line offensive forces continued to advance.

At a distance of 1,000 meters, the Tatar artillerymen, who were firing at the sun, finally found the crosshairs, and the solid shells opened a gap in the infantry front, causing several casualties, and at this time almost 1 hour had passed since their test firing.

5 minutes later, 800 meters away from the Duomian Fort, Xu Dinghe raised his right hand: "Stop advancing!" ”

Similar orders spread throughout the front, and the troops stopped.

The column of the battalion that was dragged behind by the 2nd Regiment marched with the left pacesetters of each company as the axis of semi-rotation, filling the longitudinal gap between the companies, and quickly forming a horizontal column facing the Tatar cavalry to the southwest, protecting the artillery and the left flank.

The soldiers of the 5 front-line infantry battalions stared straight at the artillery placed by the Tatars in the main bunkers, and the current distance was within the effective range of the Tatars' 7,8 guns, and at any moment, a solid bullet could make a gap in the battle line. The soldiers who were hit were either killed or had their legs broken.

The front was slightly shaken.

Xu Dinghe frowned and coldly ordered, "Tighten the formation!" ”

"Yes, tighten the formation, elbow to elbow!"

The dense formation made it impossible for the soldiers to move their feet, and they had to straighten their chests to meet the enemy's shells.

The commander of the artillery battalion of the heavy artillery company, located on the left flank, ordered: "Artillery columns!" ”

The gun carriage then stopped, and the gunners untied the front car, turned the muzzles, and formed a battle formation with adjacent guns at a distance of 8 meters.

If there are howitzers in the company, usually the cannon is on the right and the howitzer is on the left, and the howitzer of the heavy artillery company will be called out, and there is no need to care about this formation.

The ammunition carts stopped 30 meters behind the artillery, and they were not needed for the time being until the front vehicles were ready to fill the air.

The infantry in the artillery company was scattered, some helped the artillery to carry ammunition, and some kept watch on the perimeter of the artillery position.

The 12-pounder gun was too heavy and needed the infantry to help him turn the gun wheel.

Battalion staff ranging.

Theoretically, artillery is the most demanding branch of the military in this era for mathematics education.

Courses offered in the Artillery Section of the Military Academy include elementary arithmetic, Briggs logarithmic tables, plane and solid geometry, trigonometric functions, elementary algebra, fundamentals of mechanics, and finally a little calculus.

The textbook is approved by Shou Order, which is basically a book of heaven, and there are more than 100 people in the artillery department, and no more than 5 of them have learned all of them, and most of them just have a concept.

In the eyes of infantry and cavalry, artillery is occult.

There is no time to model and calculate the officers on the battlefield, and it is still based on experience, so artillery in actual combat is a metaphysics.

The battalion staff officer gave the reading.

"Distance 810 meters, gauge 15."

The deputy gunner adjusted the screw according to the order, so that the missing holes in the gauge and the crosshairs were connected with the firing target.

"The guns are loaded with solid shells."

One minute later, a 12-pound solid bullet fired by the pretty girl flew out of the chamber.

The artillery recoiled several meters, and the gunners and the infantrymen who helped pushed the heavy artillery back into place.

The officers raised their binoculars and observed the drop point.

The staff and gun chief continued to fine-tune the artillery firing angles.

At a distance of 800 meters, the 12-pounder gun hit rate was 40 to 50 percent in training, and the 6-pounder gun was slightly lower against such a large target as most of the Tatar forts.

The actual combat is not as well trained, but the hit is not much of a problem.

There was no need for rapid fire, the 6-pounder gun fired at a rate of 1 round per minute, and the 12-pounder gun fired at a rate of 2 rounds in 3 minutes.

Several shells fell not far from the position, and the Tatars transferred their artillery and fired at 2 artillery batteries on both flanks with the main fire.

With the ability of the federal artillery, shooting at the artillery company-level position in actual combat is a completely sky-watching behavior, and the Tatar artillery seems to be fighting happily, but the artillery does not care, and being hit is a small probability event.

The Tatars still had part of their artillery firing at the infantry column, a 1-kilometer front, with occasional hits, opening gaps in the front and taking away several soldiers.

The depth of the horizontal column is shallow, and the casualties of direct fire from solid bullets are very low, but it is a great test of the nerves of the soldiers, and the cruel orders to tighten the formation come and go on the battle line.

A 6-pounder shell flew into the Tartar fort.

Broke 1 neck, 3 legs, 1 hand along the way, and finally smashed a two-wheeled cart to pieces.

Another 12-pounder shell hit the wall of the fort, bounced back, and jumped to break the wheels of one of the guns, and the collapsed barrel pressed the gunner's calf, causing a series of screams.

The artillery battle lasted 10 minutes, causing a commotion in the Green Battalion formation.

Geng Jimao's face turned pale, he had never seen an army standing still in the shelling, and he had never seen such a ruthless artillery on the other side.

"Lord Wang."

Geng Jimao roared, "What's the matter? ”

"Our cannon is too hot, we need to stop."

"****", Geng Jimao scolded angrily.

"What is Amida doing? Hurry up and send someone to urge! No matter where he chooses, rush now! ”

Several horses carrying the royal palace Goshha galloped out of the army and ran to the horse team on the west side of the battlefield.

As soon as Amida arrived, he received an order from Geng Jimao, and at the critical moment of the decisive battle, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly looked up to observe the battle situation.

To the southeast of the horse team, there were two Ming artillery arrays, surrounded by infantry guards armed with spears and birds, and hundreds of cavalry on one side, Amida did not want to break through.

To the northeast, it was the Hongyi cannon that fired at Geng Jimao. The cannon was so powerful to look at it that it made Amida's heart tremble. Behind the artillery, there were nearly 1,000 Yiren infantry armed with running guns. The army was originally walking vertically on the battlefield, but as soon as it turned around, it formed a horizontal formation again, obviously a well-trained elite, and Amida abandoned the idea of attacking the Yiren artillery array.

Directly in front is a few hundred Ming cavalry, which looks like a soft persimmon, breaking through this Ming army, and can also sweep the rear of the Yiren.

Amida donned a fine iron mask.

The Northeast is rich in forests, and Jianzhou uses charcoal to control iron, and the armor made is better than that of most Ming troops.

The front chest of the war horse is protected by a vest.

Amida was dressed in two layers of armor, a layer of cold-wrought iron armor inside, layered and covered with satin, and a layer of mercury armor on the outside, and the scale quartz polished armor pieces shone brightly.