Chapter 365: It's not as good as an internal and external attack

"General, when the spear is fighting, it only needs to stab at a distance about the same distance as the upper arm, and there is no need to swing so much, your spearmen's fighting style is more like holding a stabbing sword, the spear is already long and heavy enough, and the movement is too large, it is easy to consume the physical strength of the soldiers."

"General, in my hometown, swords and shields have been eliminated in infantry regiments, only spears and muskets are needed, and axes and guns are only used by non-commissioned officers and officers, more for the distinction of identity."

"General, the infantry regiment on our side is almost 1,600 people."

The Duchy of Saxony is a country of the German states, and Germany at that time was not the unified Germany of today, but many scattered small city-states, and the German region was not a rich place in Europe at that time.

In addition to coping with the oppression of the landlords, the peasants also had all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there were many natural disasters, and many peasants who could not sustain themselves directly sold their land, or sold all their family property, bought a two-handed sword or other weapons, and went directly to join the mercenaries.

At that time, German mercenaries and Swiss mercenaries were famous in Europe. Garris seems to be a person with a lot of stories, but if he doesn't tell it himself, Li Meng's side won't get to the bottom of it.

What the Jiaozhou battalion needs here is the knowledge and war skills of this German mercenary, and the next day, Li Meng took this Ouman to watch the training, accompanied by Father Federer, his role is to translate, and Yuan Wenhong, the main bookkeeper who did not follow the barracks in the past, is also by his side, and his role is to record.

Auman. Garris is different from the frivolous Dunglas, perhaps because of the language barrier, Auman rarely takes the initiative to say anything. But I didn't speak, and it was basically the key. But Dunglass's appearance, even if he doesn't understand the language, I'm afraid he will chatter endlessly.

This kind of character is very appreciated by Li Meng, and there are many suggestions along the way, all of which have been written down by Yuan Wenhong, of course, whether they are actually changed. It will only take effect after discussions and actual drills by officers at all levels.

It took almost a day to watch the soldiers and listen to Auman's narration, and at the end, Li Meng asked:

"Do you think there is any difference between my troops and your European troops?"

Auman thought for a moment before making a judgment, and replied slowly:

"The general's troops are well-equipped and disciplined, and the spirit of the soldiers is also very good. But many tactics and tactics are about 20 to 15 years behind ours. “

Hearing this "twenty to fifteen years" phrase coming out of Father Federer's mouth, Li Meng's face was very normal, and he could follow the personal guards around him, as well as the officers of the battalion who were observed. They all had angry faces, and in the eyes of these people, this kind of combat method of the Jiaozhou battalion was unparalleled in the world.

After training farmers in the Jiaozhou battalion for several years, they were rampant strong soldiers on the battlefield. These phalanxes combined with firearms made them invincible regardless of whether the opponent was infantry or cavalry.

It is really inexplicable that such a strong army and a strong army are actually said to be 20 to 15 years behind by a ghost of unknown origin.

Auman didn't finish his words, and said again:

"On the other side of my country, the infantry phalanx composed of spears is also constantly exploring and using, and many things are changing. General, after your army improves its tactics, it should be a second-class elite army in Europe, but there is still a certain gap compared to the elite troops of France and Spain. ”

Father Federer was constantly translating there, and the people on the side listened even more unconvinced, but Dunglas had also spoken about it when he was an instructor. The Franc side began to use this infantry column very early. But this Ouman sentence is belittling the army of the Jiaozhou battalion, what is the intention. It's because of his high value.

Li Meng's face was calm, but he was not very comfortable in his heart, and Ouman said softly over there, Li Meng turned his head to look at Father Federer, and the priest hurriedly translated:

"Although the appearance of this army is good, it can be seen that there is too little actual combat experience!"

After this evaluation, Li Meng was also speechless, and only said in a half-loud voice:

"That's right, it's true that there is less actual combat."

In Li Meng's mind, the real enemy is the Tartars outside the Guan, so the direction of Shandong facing the north is the old battalion soldiers and horses and the Dengzhou army as the rear team.

If there is a war around, the armies are rotated, but since the battle in Qihe County, the number of battles that the old battalion has participated in is not as much as that of the rest of the armies, for example, now the Qingzhou Army and the Huaiyang Army are fighting in Nanzhili.

Before Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, Shouzhou, led his army to block the reinforcements, the Huaiyang army besieging the city first fought with the outpost of the reinforcements of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo.

Although it was said that there were two long enclosures and trenches inside and outside, which turned the periphery of Yingshang City into a ring fortress, it was unrealistic to hold on to the fortifications in the face of the two strongest troops of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution.

At the beginning of the southward movement of the two armies of Lao Hui Hui and King Reincarnation, Chen Liu, a general of the Huaiyang Army, ordered his deputy Gao Ke to lead 5,000 men to set up a position thirty miles away from Yingshang City.

Whether it is the army of the fifth battalion of the left or the Huaiyang army of the Jiaozhou battalion, their movement is relying on the water transportation of Yingshui, the troops of the old Hui Hui and the king of the reincarnation move along the waterway, and the troops led by Gao Ke are lined up on the edge of Yingshui, which is on the main road of transportation, and they can't dodge if they want to.

Camping on your back is not the same thing as fighting on your back, with a river behind you, and if the enemy forces press on, the soldiers have no way to retreat, and often collapses.

The troops led by Gao Ke were met by a fleet of ships on the water, and the shore was a position composed of firearms and fortifications.

Several attacks were organized, and when the firearms were fired, the opponent's artillery fired accurately and quickly, and it was impossible to take advantage of the slightest advantage.

Although the twelve-pounder guns were not brought, the most powerful guns in the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution were about six-pounder guns, and the density of firepower was not even as good as that of the Huaiyang army on the opposite side.

Prepare to organize a charge of foot soldiers, be bombarded by artillery at a long distance, be fired by a fire gun at a close point, and rush forward to attack. The spear poked out, the same could not be resisted, this officer and soldier were different from any of the officers and soldiers encountered by the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, and the will to fight was extremely tenacious.

The backbone cadres and veterans of each battalion of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Left, that is, 10,000 people, charged at the positions of the officers and soldiers by the river, and these backbones and veterans were more of a supervising team, urging them to rush forward in the back, and those soldiers who charged were still a little bloody at the beginning. I also heard from the veterans that the officers and soldiers fired artillery and arrows from a distance at most, and as long as they rushed to the front, the other side would break up and flee.

But they could endure the flying shells and guns rushing to the front, and the officers and soldiers formed a formation with spears in their hands, shouting and fighting, and there was no fear at all, occasionally a few times. On the contrary, the officers could be heard restraining the soldiers not to fight outside the fortifications, so as not to mess up the formation.

After rushing so twice, the morale of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Wing was low, and these people in the Fifth Battalion of the Left Battalion had fought for so many years. It's all about knowing proportions.

They know that if they continue to force the cannon fodder to charge, they will mutini and hurt themselves, but if this nail is not pulled out, how to save the alliance in Yingshangcheng.

Lao Hui Ma Shouying and the reincarnated king Lin Cheng discussed and argued for a long time. One person sent out hundreds of backbones, and selected veterans as much as possible to go to the assault.

The charge mixed with the backbone and the veteran soldiers was indeed effective, and the 5th Battalion of the Left Revolution was willing to take out the equipment that was ready to attack the work this time, which could be used on this occasion, that is, the carriage.

The men took refuge behind the cart, and the planks in front of the cart were covered with sandbags, and the bows and arrows and firearms were sufficient, and even a small cannon of about a pound could not be opened. And your own soldiers and ranged weapons can be fought from behind. Judging by the leader of the 5th battalion of the left side of the revolution.

The reason why the offensive is unfavorable is because in the short distance of the charge, the sharpness and fighting spirit are worn out by the opponent's firearms, as long as you can reduce the loss as much as possible before approaching this fortification, and get close to hand-to-hand combat, you can take the position.

The cars lined up, and someone pushed them behind. Behind the cart were the outcasts who followed the charge. Gao Ke, the deputy general of the Huaiyang Army, brought eight cannons here.

Seeing the opponent's ground cart entering the firing range, several artillery pieces immediately opened fire. Every time a shell falls, it is a rook that is blown up, but the carts of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution are not a column, and if one column is blown up, another one will immediately fill the gap, and the speed of gun loading naturally cannot form a completely gapless shot.

After pushing the range of the artillery, the artillery fired at the elevation angle could only hit the army behind the cart, but this time the soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Left Battalion also absorbed, and they no longer rushed up in a swarm, but stood quite loosely and followed the cart.

The 5th Battalion of the Left Wing of the Revolution was changing, and the officers and men were not fools, and when the cart was pushed into the range of the firearm, the firecrackers all stood on the low wall of the fortifications and fired, just to hit the homeless soldiers who followed the cart forward.

But if this continued, the 5th Battalion of the Left Revolution finally rushed to the Huaiyang military fortifications with much smaller casualties than the previous charges.

In hand-to-hand combat, the five battalions led by Gao Ke were arranged in horizontal formations according to the battalion, and the spears were stabbed in rows, as if they were steel thorns, and the gap between the battalions was blocked by the firecrackers who fired in rotation.

In this hand-to-hand combat array, almost the spearmen in the front five rows put their spears flat forward.

The soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Left Side rushed to the front, climbed over the low wall and found that they were facing five rows of spears, while there was only one person on their side, and there was only one row of comrades around them.

After realizing this, the charging team composed of backbones and veterans collapsed faster than the front, since they rushed to the front and still couldn't beat the other party, then what is the point of this battle, run!

From encountering the position set up by Gaoke by Yingshui, to organizing people to charge, to the collapse of backbone veterans, it took about three days in total.

This situation made Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng gasp, attacking with all their strength here, what to do on the side of Yingshang City, delay for a day, the situation on the side of Yingshang City will be critical for a day, and it has been many days since I saw the other three battalions of Yingshang City sent out a distress messenger.

The situation in Yingshang City has changed, and we can't spend more effort here.

Thirty miles away from Yingshang City and arranging a formation on the edge of Yingshui, there was nothing wrong with Chen Liu's idea, but this distance was not suitable.

Thirty miles away, even without water transportation, short-distance land transportation can already solve many problems. The 5th Battalion of the Left Revolution was not ambiguous, and the next day it left 20,000 soldiers and horses to confront the Huaiyang Army's high-tech department, and at the same time began to dig trenches around the fortifications and camps of the officers and soldiers at a safe distance.

In this area of Nanzhili, because the water network is vertical and horizontal, it is not suitable for cavalry to come and go, so there are few horses, and the speed of infantry movement. The speed of the displaced soldiers who wanted to drive away the trenches digging on the periphery was far from enough, and the whole team walked out of the fortifications, and the other side ran, and as soon as they returned, they continued to dig.

As a result, Gao Ke watched angrily as the trenches outside wrapped up his camp day by day, but there was nothing he could do. This trench can't trap anyone, and the officers and men of the Huaiyang Army can bury this trench when they go out, but if the 20,000 soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Zuo leave the side, it is equivalent to being hung here.

The brigade of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Zuo went to fight Yingshangcheng, but gave up the water transportation of Yingshui. Travel overland to Yingshang Castle.

There are two long enclosures inside and outside, and Chen Liu led the Huaiyang army between the inner and outer long enclosures, watching He Yilong, Liu Xiyao and others waiting at the head of the city every day, and after seeing the arrival of the army of Lao Hui and the King of the Reincarnation. The breakthrough offensive, which had been immersed in it for many days, was launched again.

The troops led by Chen Liu, the general of the Huaiyang Army, were suddenly overstretched at this time, although it was an established strategy to besiege Yingshang City and attract all the troops of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo to this Yingshang City, but the troops were too few, although I heard that the troops of Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, in Shouzhou, had already moved towards this side.

The soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left in Yingshang City, this time the means really tore their faces, and all the civilians in the city who could be mobilized were mobilized. They were driven out of the city to attack the long siege.

This method is really not commonly used by the fifth battalion of the left side, after all, it is usually in the name of this Tianxingdao, but at this time, it can't take care of anything.

But the Huaiyang army is not ambiguous, as long as it enters the firing range, it will fight, and it will never be soft, these people on the wing have always been afraid of officers and soldiers more than of thieves, and they were beaten like this. Turn around and run. The soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing who were lined up behind them were rushed to pieces.

As a result, it took a lot of effort to clean up the situation, although the breakthrough method was disgraceful. However, in the eyes of He Yilong and others, the interception of the officers and soldiers outside is different, most of the forces are outward, and the internal forces have become weak, if the internal and external forces are launched at the same time, it will be difficult to break through.

The generals of the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left Battalion in the city were extremely depressed, obviously looking at the officers and soldiers outside far fewer than themselves, but no matter how they broke through and fought, they could not break through the short two-story long encirclement, to be precise, even the low wall could not be broken, the firearms and cold weapons were blocked layer by layer, the rigorous organization, and the high fighting spirit were all things they had never seen. These generals of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left sometimes couldn't help but think to themselves, if 10 out of 10 officers and soldiers in the world could be like the city, then there should be no mention of rebellion.

When the troops of the two battalions came to the edge of Yingshang, the leaders were skeptical of the decision to come to the rescue of the Alliance, and the fortifications and barracks under Yingshang City were more troublesome than those built by the officers and soldiers encountered on the way, although the terrain around Yingshang City was smoother and wider.

But under such terrain, the sharp firearms of this officer and soldier were easier to use, and at a safe distance, the two battalions of Lao Huihui and the King of Reincarnation took a short rest.

At this time, they saw the flag flying at the head of the city, and the five battalions of the fifth battalion of the left had been fighting together for many years, and they had their own way of contacting each other.

After staring at the banner for a few moments, some people naturally understood the meaning of the banner and immediately made corresponding arrangements.

Around the ring of Yingshang City, the troops of the Huaiyang Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion are in front of the inner circle and the outer circle, and their only exit is at the junction of the east gate of Yingshang City and Yingshui, all the reinforcements and baggage supplies are carried out through the water transportation of Yingshui, and on the water, the Jiaozhou Battalion can occupy an absolute advantage by virtue of firearms.

The two battalions were in the direction of the north gate, and now Chen Liu was also observing here, although he was on guard, he was still relatively relaxed.

After all, according to the intelligence, the other party took a lot of land routes to get here, this is different from the north, July and August are abnormally hot and humid, and the terrain is divided by the water system, the movement of a large group of people and horses, not relying on the river but just walking on land, people will always be tired and abnormal.

The large army is not a machine, and it always has to rest and recuperate before the battle can have a good effect, so General Chen Liu did not think that there would be a battle on the afternoon when the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Zuo arrived.

However, his idea did not last long, and in the camp array, which had only been quiet for a while, people shouted and neighed, and the banners rolled, obviously mobilizing to prepare for the attack.

Chen Liu was stunned, scolded in a low voice, and was just about to arrange, but he heard movement behind him, turned his head and saw that the people at the head of the city were running, and the city was also in a noisy situation.

"Leave a battalion at each city gate, and the fleet on the river be on guard, and drop the damn cannon!!"

The Huaiyang army has been besieging the city for nearly a month, and it is on guard every day, and the battles are continuous, but it can't be wiped out, so it can only be consumed, waiting for the soldiers and horses of the 5th Battalion of the Left Battalion to come to the rescue.

This is different from the short encounter, where a long siege and daily tension can really sharpen one's nerves and endurance, or to put it more appropriately, it is torture.

The long-awaited Lao Hui Department of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution and the Reincarnation King Department have already come to the surroundings of Yingshang City, and the waiting and torture of these days have finally come to an end, everyone is a little excited, and the energy is also full, but more than a month has passed, and everyone's numbness is also a little inertia.

Between the outer and inner periphery, a road has been built out of the soft land as much as possible, and the artillery everywhere has been transferred in this direction.

Chen Liu looked back and forth, and ordered again:

"Yang Chenwu, you lead six battalions in the inner circle, but only give you three battalions of firecrackers, block all the people inside, and Lao Tzu will deal with these new thieves."

Yang Chenwu, the commander of the battalion who was already in a different position, calmly received the order, and went to shout to organize the defense of soldiers and horses, the distance between the inner and outer long enclosures was not so wide, and it was really necessary to carefully distribute the soldiers and horses to dispatch them.

On Chen Liu's side, it was much simpler, with four twelve-pounder guns, ten six-pounder guns, and fourteen three-pounder guns, which almost occupied the length of half a battalion needed to defend on weekdays, and the artillerymen were laboriously correcting the position of the artillery.

The long siege of the city was built in advance, that is, the battlefield was pre-set, and the battle could only be carried out under the long wall, and if you wanted to carry out siege operations in Yingshang Castle, there were not many places that could be launched.

Chen Liu, a staff officer of the Huaiyang Army, put the cannon away, and the front of the artillery was facing was the direction suitable for the charge, and if he wanted to rush over, he could only be poured by the artillery fire.

As for the soldiers of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo in Yingshang City, they were already tired and couldn't rush out......

"Let the little ones cover their ears so that they don't break their ears later!!"

General Chen Liu's shouting was full of spirit.