Chapter 385: Thunder Strike Array-for-tat

There are not many tricks in the way of warfare in any one era, and even before the gap between things really widens, there is no difference in the way of imperial warfare on the entire Eurasian Great 6.

If you want to see that kind of bells and whistles, you can only look for it in drama and literature, all battles are for killing and winning, everything is for practical use, and all means of war are selected and tempered by countless practices, and there is no room for any fancy.

The description of the image of the cart is pushing a standing gate board, and the door panel is hung with sandbags and the like, and behind it is a frame, wooden wheels, and someone is pushing it behind.

The cart was a large shield that could move, and the foot soldiers could hide behind the cart and wait for the opposing infantry array to rush up and attack.

The reason why there is such a clumsy and ridiculous looking weapon is because the firearms of this era are lethal, but not enough to kill.

Relying on the cover of wooden planks and sandbags, they can resist similar firearm attacks, and then rush to the opponent's front to attack, after all, even if the Ming army shoots indiscriminately outside the range, the firearms in their hands are also powerful, and they can be injured and killed when they get close.

Moreover, the generals and soldiers of the Ming army may not all be the kind of panicked enemies, and they will fight them if they are suppressed, so this cart is very popular.

Hitting people when they get close may be fatal, but the quality and power of the firearms made by the half-slave craftsmen is a joke, and with this oars as a defense, they can completely resist it.

However, this oared cart is now generally used to break through the solid infantry formation, if the infantry team is lined up, the cavalry needs to spend a lot of strength to capture it, if you want to fight a decisive battle, you will directly send foot soldiers to push the oared cart and rush over, directly into the opponent's array. Mess up the formation and give a crush.

The Ming army in front of them met all the conditions for using the lug, and it was said that this should be the last to take out the local goods, but Abatai did not hesitate to put this lug into the battlefield.

Although he was in his early fifties, his eyes were still very sharp, and he could see the artillery on the right flank of the Ming army under the loading and unloading of more than a dozen artillerymen. Soon they were put on horses, and several horses easily dragged the artillery towards the center of the line, and the earth artillery was so powerful that it could move so flexibly.

This kind of heavy firepower can be so flexible. What exactly does that mean. Abatai and the generals behind him naturally understood in their hearts. What does this mean now? They know better in their hearts. Abatai said solemnly to the soldiers around him:

"Send the order to Li Rui. Attack everyone half a future. Add one to him. If you defeat the other party. One per person. Two of him!! ”

Li Rui is the leader of the soldiers and horses of the King of Sanshun. It is said that it was also a guerrilla title in the Ming Kingdom. This time, he led the Han army. Half a future, and even two future merits.

If only it were in normal times. Who dares to give this reward to the Han people. I'm afraid someone is going to be shirtless and said. Say where you Abatai put the rules of your ancestors.

Even when I gave the Mongolian soldiers a future just now. The generals of the banners in the back were all unhappy. This time, however, no one spoke. It was the burst of fire that gave everyone a great psychological shock. I can be a boss. I haven't fought with the border soldiers of Daming a few times, so I can't accumulate a future.

Everyone in the Ming army has also seen firearms. It's not the same thing as the ground in front of it. Fang just rushed to the position of those Mongolian light horsemen. Until now, none of them have gotten up to the ground. That speaks for itself. Illustrating these may have been the first and Ming troops against the Mongols in position. Not stunned by the sound of gunfire. This was a common occurrence for cavalry in the early days of battle. Stirred by the smoke of sound and light. It's easy to convulsions and fall to the ground.

However, looking at the posture in front of him, those people are probably dead, of course, those with good eyes and sensitive hearing can also see those who are seriously injured or lightly injured and not dead, crawling out of the pile of corpses and moving towards the side of the formation, crying as they crawl. In the eyes of everyone, this is already a dead man.

Now everyone's attention is completely focused on the slowly unfolding array of lugs and carts of the Chinese army. The heralds quickly spread the order to the Han army.

"Old and young masters, the general has promised a reward. rushed in and each person had half a future, defeated the Han dog opposite, each person had a future, and worked hard!! ”

More than a dozen pro-soldiers dressed as knights marched out of the battle, galloping in the queue of the carriages and shouting, especially for these Han soldiers.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty outside the Guan, in addition to the status of people, they were also divided into 369 according to their ethnicity, the first class was naturally the Jurchen, the second class was Mongolian, and the third class was the Han people, and among the Han people, there was the difference between the Han Eight Banners and the Three Shun King Xu Shun Gong, and the Han Eight Banners were one level higher than the Three Shun King Xu Shun Gong.

In the previous battles, the troops of the king of Sanshun and the prince of Shun were all rushing in front, and the casualties of the infantry were greater than those of the cavalry.

The same is true since entering the customs from the Jielingkou, they are the first to take the lead in any drudgery, and it is not their turn to wash the city and loot the good things, and when it comes to carrying these looted materials, they have to work hard, and in this large army, even the Korean ground firecrackers look down on them, which is really disgraceful.

Who would have thought that today's general Abatai actually promised such a reward, everyone was really red-eyed, and the place where he pushed the cart forward was a little faster.

The so-called dead soldier is a person who dares to die, after all, it is not a safe place behind the cart, and when he rushes into battle, he must be the first to rush up and fight hand-to-hand to kill, not that a soldier with courage and ability cannot serve, according to the concept of this era, he must be a veteran.

For the Manchurian army, standing behind the carriage are the foot soldiers of the Han Eight Banners, these people are holding shields and broadswords, standing behind with indifferent faces, hearing the promise of the future behind them, they are not as surprised as the soldiers and horses of the King of Sanshun. Many of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty followed the Tartars outside the pass during the Nurhachi period, and it was often the whole clan of some wealthy clans in Liaodong who defected to the Manchus, and they also became members of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Their elite is not inferior to the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the experience on the battlefield is even more so, and the future of many soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty has accumulated a lot, and they are obviously not so tempted by this wish.

They are standing here, one is to charge. The second is that as a supervising team, for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the King of Sanshun is different from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, which has long been Manchurian, and it is still necessary to screen and use it. If there is chaos, these Han Eight Banner foot soldiers behind will be the first to kill.

However, pushing the cart to the front and back, the mood was completely mobilized, and there was a reckless shouting and shouting, and after a little quiet, the drums rumbled and beaten.

One by one, the oars were pushed out, the queues were arranged in front of the formation, and they were slowly arranged in a row, and then the loafers behind also came out. Rows of alignment.

The shouts and shouts here can also be heard clearly by the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Army on the other side, and General Zhao Neng didn't think anything when he saw the soldiers from the other side. Who would have thought that it was actually Chinese when he opened his mouth, and the place under the jurisdiction of Liaozhen has always been under the jurisdiction of Shandong Xingdu Division.

King Sanshun systematically stayed in Shandong for a long time, of course there was no problem with this accent, but the other party shouted in Chinese, but what kind of Han dog was said, after hearing it, Zhao Neng and a cadre of generals around him were stunned at first, then their faces burned, and finally they were extremely angry.

At present, the number of the Tartar army is greater than that of the Dengzhou army. Both sides encountered while marching, and both armies poured out of the nest, leaving nothing behind.

The formation of a large phalanx with a small phalanx such as the Jiaozhou battalion is certainly thick, but the front line is too short, and the left, center and right parts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are much longer than those of the Dengzhou army, and the Dengzhou army ground front is at most about the same length as the Chinese army front of the Tartar army.

In other words, the Manchu formation could wrap the three sides of the Dengzhou army and fight in a circle. However, Abatai estimated the strength of his soldiers and horses quite accurately, and his right flank may not have a problem, but the Han soldiers of the Chinese army and the Mongol soldiers on the left flank may not have this ability to attack the ground.

If you really go around to fight, you will see that the momentum is amazing, but it is you who will suffer the loss, and at present, the light riding is tempting, but this lull is also another way of temptation.

Both sides pulled out camp in advance, trying to give each other a surprise attack, but they were met in a dense fog on the way. Each of them has lost that suddenness. Halfway through the march, neither the men nor the horses were adjusted or rested. Not at its best. For the Dengzhou army, the Tartar soldiers and horses in front of them are too powerful, and for the Tartar soldiers and horses, the Ming army in front of them is too unclear to figure out the details, both sides have to be tempted, and they have to give their soldiers time to rest.

More than 20 rows of car, more than a dozen steps between each row, has been slowly pushed forward, hanging in front of the car big wooden shield is higher than ordinary people, in the middle of the position to leave an observation hole, in the back of the soldiers naturally have a sense of security, but on the opposite side of the Dengzhou Army soldiers look at the rows of rows of car, the visual and psychological shock is really great.

Although this is flat ground, the sound of the wooden wheels of the oars on the ground is indeed amazing.

On the Jiaozhou battalion's side, except for the morale-boosting shouts of Fang Cai, it is now just the non-commissioned officers and officers restraining the formation and constantly shouting orders to adjust.

In the direction of the impact of the oar, the artillery of the Jiaozhou battalion was already dragging over, and the artillerymen drove the horses away, and arranged the iron carts and powder barrels loaded with shells according to the drill code, and then quickly loaded the ammunition and prepared to shoot.

The distance between the two armies is constantly approaching, and the cart does not need to go as far as a mile, and these generals of the Tartar army in their own formation all want to see the battle situation on the opposite side.

In the past, there was a case of war, and the opponent's relatively well-organized array was pushed out by the car, and it couldn't bear the psychological pressure and collapsed in the process of slowly pressing forward, and I don't know if the Ming army on the opposite side would be like this.

The shield of the carriage is too big, not only obscuring the sight of the Ming army, but also cutting off the passage for the Tartar soldiers and horses to observe the opposite side, as the commander of the first army, Abatai can not leave his position without permission, but Yue Le and Tan Tai were beaten to both sides of the front by him to observe.

If the Ming army's front showed signs of disorganization or collapse, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry on both wings must take advantage of the situation and completely penetrate it.

But the two wings have been very quiet, no one has given any orders, it seems that the Ming army's front is really stable, although the sun is rising. But in this cold winter, no one felt any warmth, and Abatai, who was sitting on the horse, even felt a little cold on his legs, which were wrapped in fine leather.

"I'm really old!"

Abatai moved his legs, and secretly sighed in his heart, defeating this Ming army. If you tie this Tu Li Chen, maybe you can also have a prince's position to sit in, and then your own branch may be stable, and it will also be rich and glorious for several generations and more than ten generations.

The cart pushing at the front was almost two hundred paces away from the Dengzhou Army's ground front, and the soldiers who pushed the cart began to slow down.

After reaching a certain distance, the rook will also speed up the battle, and at this distance you also need to accumulate physical strength, move forward slowly, and push the cart up. That's a physically demanding job, and it's time to allocate your strength wisely so that you don't get caught up. The foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty took off the broadswords and shields tied to their backs and held them in their hands. They also have to be ready to fight.

One of the leaders put the sword and shield in his hand on the frame of the oar, leaned forward flat, and lay down on the lookout to look at the opposite side, in the process of marching, for fear of the impact, no one would climb to the lookout to look, at this time close, the leader of the first row of officers needs to decide the next move.

The lookout hole was a palm-sized square hole, and the leader's eyes widened as he touched the ground. When did the artillery of the Ming army on the opposite side actually move here from the corner of the right flank, it was quite difficult to move the artillery in the judgment and understanding of ordinary times.

It is not a big problem to transport heavy materials alone, but when shooting on the battlefield, digging pits, filling in burials, and nailing wooden pegs are all the same troublesome and time-delaying. At least during the period when the cart was pushing, it was impossible for the opponent's artillery to move over.

The surprise of the leader of the Han Eight Banners ended here, the direction he was facing was the artillery array, and he watched as a man stabbed something into the cannon body.

There was a muffled "boom", white smoke came out of the muzzle, and everything ended there......

Just behind this cart, the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Han who were holding swords and shields heard the muffled sound, and they didn't know what was happening outside, and their bodies subconsciously arched. The shield is placed in front of him. Almost this moment. You can see the head of the leader lying there watching as if it were west.

Plasma, ballast, and sawdust splattered everywhere in an instant, even if it was a cart with sandbags. It was impossible to block the bombardment of the three-pounder gun at this distance, and as for this leader, he deserved to be unlucky, not that the artillery in the Jiaozhou camp fired accurately, but it was certain that the gun was definitely not aimed at this firing hole.

Plasma and bones shattered from the crumbling of the head are all too good to say, but when the sandbags and thick wood of the cart are shattered by metal balls with huge momentum, the high splash of sand and wood chips is deadly, and the base point is the position where the cannonball hits the ground, forming a fan of damage behind it.

This effect, from another form of solid bullets to achieve the killing of flowering bullets, holding the sword and shield of the Han army foot soldiers, caught off guard, by the splash of debris all over the face, behind the leader of the foot soldiers is even more unlucky, the shell continues to fly high, this soldier is still holding a shield in front of him, how can he block it, directly in the body was pierced through a bloody hole.

The artillery of the Dengzhou Army was really jubilant, even if it was a practice shooting on weekdays, it was impossible to have such an accuracy rate, there were so many oars in front of them, and such a large target could not be hit at such a close distance, that is, the training was not at home.

Every time the cannon goes down, it must be able to smash one oar, and if you are lucky, you can also smash two, and you can see the foot soldiers hidden behind the oars being beaten and screaming.

The three-pounder cannon is not enough, the six-pounder cannon is down, and there will basically be no one standing in the oars and the foot soldiers sheltered behind them, and the fragments of those wooden planks are even more killers of the human body.

In the first round of shooting, the array of oars was opened in the middle of the opening, and the rooks in the back row were in a panic, and someone could be heard shouting loudly in strangely Chinese:

"You can't retreat, the military law of the Qing Dynasty is there, the retreating beheading, the family members are slaves to the armored people, continue to rush forward!!"

"After they finish the first shot, the second shot will still need to be loaded, and this opportunity will rush forward!!"

After the broken up of the oar. Those soldiers of the Han Eight Banners, who were lucky not to be affected by the flying debris, did not care to hide in the rear row of the ground carriages, they all shouted and raised their swords and shields to kill the artillery team, this was their only chance, they had already arrived in front of the enemy's formation, and it was too late to run back.

Such a move looks brave. However, for the array of the Dengzhou army, this kind of soldier charging with a broadsword and shield is a dish sent to the door.

The musketeers who were covering around the artillery emplacements calmly and calmly set up their firebolts and began to fire at the charging men, and none of the Tartar soldiers exposed to the outside of the turrets survived as long as they were within range of the muskets.

The degree of propagation of the cart was obviously accelerated, and the soldiers of the Sanshun Wang, who had been frightened in the back, had already taken out the strength to charge to push the cart forward desperately, but the time for the second round of artillery firing to arrive was much shorter than they thought, and at present, there was no salvo or round fire from the Dengzhou military and ground artillery shooting. It is loaded with ammunition and starts shooting, in front of this kind of lug array, dense. The target is so big that you don't even need to aim at it.

The soldiers pushing the cart and the soldiers behind the cart thought that it was the safest place to be sheltered by this vehicle, but who would have thought that this would be a place of death.

It was really in response to the order given by Abatai - the dead soldiers, these soldiers are indeed difficult to survive, the cannonballs keep falling, smashing the rooks to the ground, and all kinds of fragments after the rooks are broken. It is to cause all kinds of casualties in the next round, and those foot soldiers behind the oar, are confined in the narrow space between the oar, and there is no escape except for being baptized by shells and debris.

Many of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were on the verge of breaking down under such a shot, and they didn't care whether they were hiding or not, they rushed out directly from the back of the cart and rushed towards this side regardless of it.

This change belongs to the Jiaozhou camp in the middle. After the first round of shelling, the firearms commander in front of him had already increased the number of firearms on this front.

The deranged, wildly running sword and shield foot soldiers, in the face of the volley of the firecrackers, there is basically no possibility of dodging.

At this time, the ten guns of the Dengzhou Army all fired eleven rounds, which was really a hearty free fire, and at the beginning, it was still looking at the mighty Luche Brigade that had completely obscured the sight, but after the shelling was completed. In the area directly opposite the artillery team. It's actually completely opened.

Watching the army of Tartar soldiers dodge in the midst of their own fire, they howled to death. The whole Dengzhou army of the Jiaozhou battalion felt extremely happy, especially the people in front of the array who heard the group of people in Fangcai Tartar supervising the battle and shouting, their hearts were especially happy, and they were really relieved.

One can imagine what kind of gloomy expression the face of the Tartar soldiers and horses on the opposite side will be, and this idea makes people think about it happily.

However, the problem of the Dengzhou army was that they had too little experience on the battlefield, and eleven rounds of intensive artillery bombardment certainly caused great results, but after eleven rounds, a soldier took a mop dipped in water and stretched it into the chamber of the gun, and when he was about to clean it, the mop that was stained with water actually smoked.

It is conceivable what kind of high temperature is inside the gun chamber, this water-stained mop originally has the effect of cooling down, but after dragging back and forth a few times, the wet mop actually became charred black, obviously the temperature of the gun chamber is too high, these ten guns are all similar problems, and the barrels of several three-pounder guns are already red.

If it is the soldiers and horses of the Huaiyang Army and the Qingzhou Army, the firing gap of this artillery will be deliberately lengthened, so that although the density is a little worse, it can maintain a longer continuous fire.

The artillery stopped, and the remaining carts barely formed three fronts, still rushing towards this side, and only now did they know why the general who had been ordered would promise such a high reward.

Looking at the lug that entered the firing range, the artillerymen were still frantically cooling down the barrel, and the fire gun couldn't help but fire, but the projectile shot by the fire gun hit the sandbag on the thick wood, which would not cause any damage at all, and it could not stop the momentum of the car moving forward.

"The spear squad is forward, the artillery team and the fire guns are back!!"

Zhao Nengsenran ordered.

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