Chapter 278: The Battle of Taiping 3
The three-stage attack is actually not a new way of playing in the Wu Army, but the three-stage attack of the Wu Army is not the same as the current Zheng Jiajun, the Wu Army's fire gun is standing in three horizontal columns, the soldiers in the last column are only responsible for loading, and the middle column is responsible for handing the loaded fire guns to the back, and then handing the empty fire guns to the back, and the soldiers in the first column are only responsible for releasing the guns. Oriental Reading Network, but the shortcomings are also very obvious, the soldiers in the back are very cumbersome to reload, the huge recoil and sound of the soldiers in the front when they release the gun make them very easy to feel fatigued like the loader, although the soldiers are relatively relaxed, but the matter of passing the fire gun with both hands is easy to be chaotic on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke and loud noises, and it often happens that the empty fire gun is handed to the front or the loaded fire gun is handed back to the loader. The consequence of this is that the soldiers in the front line cannot fire the musket or the loader reloads the musket twice or even many times. The former is fine, and there will be no accidents, just let the soldiers pass to the rear, but the guns that are loaded twice or more will explode. The gun is different from the rifle, the charge of the propellant is far away The rifle ammunition is much tighter, and it will explode directly after two loads, the wall of the gun is often made of pig iron, and the barrel of the Senate rifle is much thicker, once it bursts, it is like a huge grenade exploding, and it often causes damage to a large number of fire guns. Because the fire gun itself has a short range, small power, and easy to blow up, so in the Wu Dynasty army even trained not many soldiers are willing to use it, now He Yilong also has a hundred and ten fire guns, but basically as a way out to shake the pomp and listen to a sound, those fire guns in their hands can hit how far the fire guns in their hands, how much medicine should be loaded, the heart is not at all. As the commander of this army, He Yilong himself naturally knew how many catties he had, so he would not push the firecracker to the front to fight against the opposing army at all.
However, the Senate rifle is different from these firearms, the barrel of the Senate rifle is drilled directly from a steel bar, and its material is naturally not comparable to the wall of the fire gun made of pig iron, so the soldiers will not be afraid of exploding the chamber from the time of training, although the rifle ammunition is not as accurate as the old world, but the basic weight is still about the same, so the range and power are unified. Although the four-column shooting used by Zheng Jiajun looked like a three-stage shot, each rifleman was only responsible for his own rifle, and he was responsible for everything from loading and checking to aiming and firing. This is very necessary, first of all, soldiers only fire their own rifles, they must be able to be familiar with the characteristics of their weapons, even if the production of Senate rifles is a mass product, but there will always be some differences in assembly and calibration, which requires soldiers to actively adapt to weapons in the process of use; Secondly, everything will start to become chaotic in the battle, once it is chaotic, the soldier can only look at what is within a few steps in front of him, if it is like a three-stage attack by the armed army, the battle has not yet begun, and several guns may be lost. Therefore, Zheng Jiajun strictly followed the infantry drill that he learned in Dongfang Port, requiring that the combat gun should not leave everyone and not leave the gun.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Zheng family army were half-kneeling on the ground one by one and nervously loading their weapons, they knew that their salvo just now had caused damage to the enemy, making the other party feel afraid, so they would rush to hand-to-hand combat with great momentum, in fact, they had already experienced many battles, but they had never faced so many enemies before. Now the soldiers in the front line as long as they have eyes know that there are at least a thousand enemies are now coming in a mountain of waves, although the Senate rifle is very powerful, but at most it is only a bullet to solve an enemy, in the farther away there are thousands of enemies in the rear ready to move, obviously waiting for the two sides to fight together to rush to pick up salted fish. Everyone in the salvo just now has already fired their own ammunition, and now all the rifle shooters are calmly loading, although the Zheng family army has been dominating the previous battle, but now everyone knows that the scale of the battle has been upgraded, although they can't understand the infantry drill of the Senate, but they have also heard that they should be calm and calm.
The cannon fodder team on the opposite side is also slowly moving forward at the moment, the distance between the two sides is now within three hundred meters, the cannon fodder is not unwilling to run, but now the weather is too cold, can't run, these old and weak women and children are often just wearing single clothes, these days in order to rush across the Yellow River in a hurry to be driven all the way to run wildly, thousands of people died along the way, at the moment it is in a hurry, not even a bowl of full food, one by one is so cold that the trembling steps are staggering, not fast at all, if it is not for the back of the team to drive, I am afraid that I would have sat down and waited for death.
"First column! Get ready! "With the rapid beat of the drums, the little flags in the first column shouted loudly and commanded. The reloaded soldiers continued to kneel in a half-kneeling position, just with the muzzles of their rifles pointed to the ground. The soldiers who heard the order hurriedly stood up, but because they had been kneeling on the ground for too long, their legs and feet were a little numb, and the cold wind was blowing in from the gap in their shabby winter clothes, and the situation was not optimistic at this time, so they shivered a little.
After the hatred is far away, the enemy hates the trouble, and the strange learning ship
The small flags in the second column saw that the first column had finished standing up, waved their hands, and the soldiers in the second column also stood up one after another, at this moment in the Zheng family army column, the soldiers were wearing tattered winter clothes of various styles, and many of them had to wear several layers of single clothes because they were not able to buy winter clothes, one by one bloated, and the mandarin duck battle jackets on the outside were also bulging at the moment, like a large group of fat people with limited mobility.
"Aim!" With the command, the soldiers of the first column leveled their rifles and began to aim at the enemy who was entering two hundred meters in the distance. The image of the enemy in the distance began to become clear, and the faces full of despair walked slowly like walking corpses, and the Warlords not far behind them were still behind them, yelling and screaming at them, whipping them with whips and clubs, and desperately driving them away.
The only grandson of the ship is not a family, and he hates to make trouble
"Shoot!" With a crackling and continuous firing sound, a cloud of smoke erupted from the muzzles of the first row of flat guns, almost obscuring all the view from the front, and the soldiers who had just finished firing hurriedly returned to their half-kneeling state and began to load, while the soldiers in the second row began to aim. With a gust of north wind, it quickly blew away the gunsmoke. In the distance, there was a pile of dead people, the wounded screamed, most of them fell on the snow and rolled and struggled, and a few of the lightly injured were stimulated by the pain, screaming and turning to run, and the rebel soldiers of the Overseer hurriedly rushed forward and cut them to the ground with quick swords. "Rush! Rush away! The officers and soldiers are not virtuous, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are also killed! "Do the right thing for heaven! Kill the officer! "Unscrupulous officers and soldiers, there is no forgiveness for killing!"
The cannon fodder was now cold and hungry, driven forward and continued to march, completely unaware of who had let themselves fall into such a field, and under the provocation of the overseers, they were full of resentment towards the officers and soldiers who shot at them in front, and unconsciously the pace under their feet began to speed up a lot, and some even began to rush forward.
"Shoot!" The small flags in the second row shouted and gave orders, and there was a dense platoon of guns over, and the cannon fodder who charged just now suddenly seemed to hit an invisible wall, and fell to the ground covered in blood one by one, due to the heavy casualties of the two cannon fodder regiments in the first row, the formation became very thin, and at this moment, a row of guns came, and the cannon fodder and the supervising team behind them were killed and wounded.
The north wind continued to blow, and the smoke of gunpowder was almost impossible to obscure the view and was directly blown away, and the cannon fodder clearly saw that those unscrupulous officers and soldiers crouched down and lowered their heads to pound something after shooting, and another row of officers and soldiers holding long-barreled birds were revealed behind.
The land is the enemy, the place is cold, and the ball is the main queen
"They still have?" "How many more do they have?" "I'm going to be killed!" "Run?" Stimulated by the hot blood, these cannon fodder, who were numb in the ice and snow, have recovered their senses at this moment, and no one will feel that they are possessed by a god, only knowing that in the face of such a platoon of guns, there will be no possibility of survival at all, so it is now a big mess. The Overseer behind them was beaten by the round of fire just now, and they were beaten so whimpering that they had already run away. Left behind these cannon fodder without a command, they neither dared to rush nor escape.
Soon the cannon fodder regiment behind came again, "Rush! Go kill those officers! The Overseers hid behind the crowd and shouted, and the cannon fodder was now wrapped around those who wanted to escape, forcing them to turn around numbly and walk towards the front line of the armed army.
These people walked in the cold snow, and from time to time some tripped over the corpses lying on the ground, and their bodies were even more red with blood. Many people's feet don't talk about shoes, they don't even have socks, only pieces of footcloths that are stained by mud and water so that they can't see the original color, and many people's feet are also cut by ice slag, and they have been frozen black at the moment.
"Shoot!" The platoon guns in the third row finally fired, because the cannon fodder walked into a distance of two hundred and thirty meters, so the accuracy and lethality had a qualitative leap before, and the cannon fodder in the first row was directly swept down a whole row, and the screams and cries for help came and went.
After not being suspicious, the ball was made troubled by loneliness
"Not yet collapsing?" Xu Wei couldn't help but say secretly, to be honest, he felt very strange that the enemy, who had suffered three rows of guns and had fallen at least about 300 people, had not collapsed, and when he suppressed bandits in Fujian, even if only five of the hundred bandits fell, they were all scattered in a hurry, and now with such a battle casualty rate, the chaotic army has not collapsed, which is simply unreasonable.
Zheng Zhihu laughed, "Isn't it better?" "They will not break down, they will come closer, they will come closer, they will die faster, and when the time comes, I will rush to kill their brother when they are defeated." ”
Xu Wei is not as optimistic as him, he knows that the group of enemies in front of him is not the same thing as the bandits he has dealt with before, these enemies are fierce and brutal, and they don't care about the casualties of their own people, and what is even more troublesome is that there are at least about 2,000 prisoners in the hands of people who can be used as cannon fodder, these people can consume at least 3,000 to 4,000 rounds of ammunition for the Zheng family, and the Zheng family army also brought a total of 60,000 rounds of ammunition, and if there is a battle next, these 60,000 rounds of ammunition are not enough at all.
Moreover, the rear of the enemy could faintly see that the cavalry was already ready to move, waiting for the infantry of both sides to come back from their left flank and give them a fatal blow. Now the location of Zheng Jiajun is actually not good, although there are many mountains in Shanxi, but it is basically surrounded by mountains, once you enter the mountains, there is a flat river inside. Now the location of the Zheng Jiajun is the terrain of a horse and a flat river, their front and rear are flat land covered with ice and snow, presumably it should have been farmland before, and the cavalry not only rushed fast in such a plain terrain, but also escaped faster. Therefore, if you want to take the initiative now, the only way is to find a way to block the cavalry, as long as the possible detour direction of the cavalry is blocked, then this one is still possible, but if you can't resist it, it is likely to collapse for thousands of miles. Thinking of this, he hurriedly leaned into Zheng Zhihu's ear and said a few words, Zheng Zhihu's face changed, he raised his binoculars and looked at the cavalry in the distance, nodded, and called a herald over to give a few orders, the herald's face showed a look of disbelief, but he still gave his hand and left.
The battle continued, when the fourth round of salvo was completed, the third cannon fodder regiment had already begun to have casualties, the first two teams of the overseers had already fled to death, the third team of cannon fodder could only carry the lucky ones in the first two teams who were not killed by rifles and continued to walk forward, and the third team of the superintendents also began to lose confidence at this moment, slowing down the pace of progress under their feet, and looking back at the situation behind them. Behind him is He Yilong's main force, but at this moment, the main force is five hundred steps away from the cannon fodder of the third team, and the pace of walking is also moving slowly, speaking of which is to maintain physical strength and wait for the two sides to close the distance before impacting, the fact is that they were frightened by such a terrible casualty rate in front.
He Yilong couldn't help but be a little annoyed, raised his whip in his hand, and pointed at the martial army in the distance, "We have five or six thousand people, why are we afraid of more than a thousand martial troops?" Even if you rush to step on them, you will trample them to death! Rush me! As soon as the words fell, someone under him directly put a gun in the direction of the Wu army, which was equivalent to reminding the whole army to attack, so the soldiers under He Yilong suddenly rushed forward, "If you want to die, you won't die for thousands of years!" "Kill the officers and soldiers and divide the silver!" "Grab money, grab food, grab girls!" The rude slogans were shouted loudly, and for a while, morale was greatly boosted, and everyone rushed quickly towards the array of the armed army.
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