Chapter 108: An Annihilating Emotion

PS: This is the first update of today. The main character, Goldfinger, is here.

The large force of the Chen Jiajun dragged twenty or thirty miles behind the pioneer camp. This area of Yuncheng is located in the plain, relying on the Shahe River, which is very convenient for the march of the army and the logistics and transshipment. This is like the people and horses of Guide Town did not go west to Yuncheng in a straight line after leaving Zhoujiakou, but followed the Shahe River to Xihua first, and then came to Yuncheng. In the face of the traffic environment of this era in the middle of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for either the Chen Jiajun or the Qing army to abandon the convenient river and choose the difficult dirt road. Just like the Qing army on the way from Guide to Chenzhou Mansion, the taste is absolutely sour!

Hearing that Chen Erbao's battalion and the vanguard of the Qing army arrived outside Yuncheng City at about the same time, both sides had already done it. Chen Ming's heart throbbed. This sudden tightening of his heart really shocked himself? What's going on?

Chen Ming's brows were tightly locked.

There are more than 500 people at the head of Chen Erbao's camp, and there are less than 1,000 Qing soldiers and people on the opposite side, there is no reason to lose, where does the 'palpitation' in his heart come from?

"Behind the vanguard of the Qing army, can you detect the march of the Qing army?"

"No Qing army brigade was found."

Liu Wu, who was beside Chen Ming, blinked his eyes, what was going on? How could the young master's expression be so attentive? Just as he was about to speak, he heard Chen Ming ask again: "Has the vanguard of the Qing army ever flinched?" ”

"Nope. The vanguard of the Qing army is the same as the head of Bao Ye's battalion, and it is straight on the bar. ”

Chen Ming exhaled, his eyes swept over Liu Wu, who was also riding on a group of horses, "Order Chen Kaishan, bring the cavalry battalion, and immediately go to support the pioneer battalion." ”

Liu Wu's waist straightened, and he clenched his fists with both hands to lead the order. Chen Ming looked at him and said it, which meant that he wanted him to go and give the order in person.

"Master Shan, you have to hurry. The eldest young master invites you to hurry up. ”

Just when Liu Wu ran to Chen Kaishan to give the order, the 'shock' in Chen Ming's heart, who gave this reinforcement order, disappeared a lot. This made him wonder if his nerves were too tense.

Outside the city of Yuncheng.

The guns crackled, and the confrontation between Chen Erbao's battalion and the Qing army's Chenzhou battalion had not yet entered the Gao Yu Dynasty. The firearms used on both sides were all firearms, and the men and horses were not completely mixed together.

The Chenzhou battalion is small with 400 people, but it has almost 200 shotguns, and the 500 or 600 people in the Chenzhou militia group also have hundreds of shotguns. On the opposite side of them, there were only sixty musketeers at the head of Chen Erbao's camp, and of course, Chen Erbao's personal army was equipped with muskets or handcuffs.

The quality of Chen Jiajun's muskets was hard enough, and the quality of the musketeers was also higher, and the 100 muskets were divided into three columns, and they bombarded the 300 shotguns on the opposite side, and they did not fall behind in a short period of time. When it comes to the exact lethality, the Chen family musketeers, who always keep a distance of twenty zhang from each other, are even more lethal.

Because of the Qing army, the green battalion soldiers of the Chenzhou battalion are still decent when they play platoon shooting, and the Chenzhou militia is completely inadequate. And the quality of the latter's shotgun is problematic, separated by a distance of 20 zhang, it is already a little more than enough and not enough.

The musketeers on the Chen Jiajun's side were all wearing cuirasses, and it had been more than a quarter of an hour since the bombardment, and the Chen Jiajun had fallen twelve people here, but only three of them had really sacrificed, one with a broken leg and one with a broken arm. In this era, when I was hit by a small lead bullet, people will be wasted if they don't die. But the remaining seven survived. That's the benefit of stretching the distance to 20 feet. Even if the lead bullet deformed the cuirass and broke the ribs and sternum of the musketeer, the person could not die and would not be crippled.

This is the firearm of China in this era -- the shotgun.

A scene that is impossible in the Western world has appeared on Chinese firearms and in the hands of Chinese officers and soldiers.

In order to find this distance, the musket battalion did several experiments.

The Qing army had a large number of people and a lot of guns, and the Chen family army had armor on his body, so rest assured. In addition, the Chen Jiajun musketeers were holding flintlock pistols and using wrapped paper bullets, compared with the Qing army's rate of fire, the Chen Jiajun was much faster.

So much so that the situation was briefly stalemate.

Unable to defeat the shotgunmen on the opposite side, the Chenzhou battalion garrison was very angry. Isn't this a plan to disrupt him, before the start of the fight, he can be counted as good, three hundred shotguns to break the Chen family thief's sharpness, and then the team rushed up, entangled the vanguard of the Chen family thief, and waited until the horse team in Yuncheng County took the opportunity to kill, then wouldn't it be possible to get the door to the door?

The two or three hundred horses in Guide Town entered Yuncheng as early as yesterday evening. Yesterday evening, the Qing army's scouts and Chen Jiajun scouts fought fiercely, the former lost a lot of lives, but successfully covered the horse team's whereabouts.

Chen Ming had little experience, so he didn't realize that the sudden force of the Qing army's outpost was still a little abacus hidden behind it. The vanguard battalion of the Chen family army faced not only the Chenzhou battalion and the Chenzhou militia at all, but also the two or three hundred horse teams in Guide Town. Being attacked by a horse team during a foot fight is a fatal thing.

When the Chenzhou garrison was angry, he asked his men and horses to attack the two wings of the Chen family army from the diagonal down, and asked the front shotguns to keep the whole column and continue to exert pressure on the Chen family army shotguns on the opposite side, and the battle instantly entered the Gao Qi Dynasty. Then everything fell into the calculation of the Qing army, when the Chen army was about to defeat the Chenzhou camp and the Chenzhou militia, the south gate of Yuncheng was opened, and a horse team rushed out of it with murderous spirit, directly hitting Chen Erbao's camp.

So much so that when Chen Kaishan led the cavalry battalion to kill, Chen Erbao was completely in a long drought, and he was so excited that he was about to cry. His troops were all separated by the Qing army, and he himself had no way of knowing the situation of the other part.

Even if the horse team of the Qing army is not as good as the real cavalry, in the face of foot bravery, their attack power is stronger than imagined.

So Chen Jiajun ushered in a beautiful big turnaround.

The Chen Jiajun in the predicament relied on their own spirit of winning consecutive battles, as well as powerful equipment, and the greedy Qing army officers did not know how to surrender at all, and only blindly drove troops to attack, so they persevered with difficulty. But the Qing soldiers were different, the quality of the militia was not as good as the regular army, and the Chenzhou battalion had been fighting for so long, and the physical consumption was serious, and the sudden change of the situation made them tremble, and their morale was discharged, so the Qing army completely collapsed.

By the time Chen Ming arrived with his own guards, the battle was over, and the vanguard battalion and cavalry battalion were watching over the prisoners of war while collecting the booty and their own wounded. Chen Erbao and Chen Kaishan reported to him the course of the battle, and Chen Ming's hand pressed directly to his chest. God, if it weren't for that sudden palpitation, would the fist troops of the Chen family's army, the so-called number one general, Chen Erbao and his battalion head be doomed?

Chen Ming's heart was like the waves of the sea, unable to stop. The whole person felt like he was going to collapse.

What 200 shotguns, hundreds of mules and horses, Chen Ming can't listen to it at all, rejoice, rejoice! This emotion completely obliterated him......