The Qing infantry led by Yue Le rushed up, and most of these sharp soldiers of the Manchurian Eight Banners were veterans since entering the customs, and there were few newly replenished bannermen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info finished the formation for the last time, and as the cavalry dispersed to the two flanks, they immediately launched an assault on the battle formation of the Ming army.

Dozens of paces in front of the Ming army's formation, wooden stakes were erected one after another at intervals, and the Qing army ignored these things that were only used in the city defense and rushed straight over. But at this moment, the artillery behind the Ming army roared. I saw that a few sporadic shells flew into the sky, and after reaching the highest point, they fell sharply and smashed heavily into the battle formation of the Qing army.

Under the acceleration of gravity, the huge cannonball hit the ground with a bang, and the ground shook like the sky was cracking.

In the smoke and dust, many of the Qing soldiers around them were shocked to the ground, and even more of them were shocked with a fishy sweet throat, and even their bodies were splashed with some wet and viscous liquid. But when the smoke and dust dissipated, and the smoke and smell of blood were in the crater, the pool of blood could only tell from the scattered fragments of clothing that he had once been a soldier of the Qing army, and the liquid that splashed on his body was sticking to impurities such as minced meat, broken bones, and skin tissue.

"Gross."

Seeing this scene, even some veterans who have accumulated years can't suppress the nausea, just like a chick who has never seen blood. Even those junior officers who supervised the battle could only let the surrounding Qing troops follow the battle formation as soon as possible like a sheep, so as to avoid further weakening morale.

In fact, the distance between the Ming army and the Qing army was not far away, and even the Ming army's musketeers had already been loaded in front of the battle, just waiting for that order. For such a short distance, if it had not been for the test firing in advance, the firing range of each gun was calibrated, and the fixed charge package was used, the error would not have been so small.

The shell just now was huge, unusual, and the size of the crater was also very large, which was caused by the mortar. There are only four such weapons in the Jinhua Division, although the number of kills and injuries is very small, but the four cannons have been fired into the battle formation of the Qing army, and each cannon is certain to die, and even the bones are gone, and the impact on morale is extremely huge.

Fear began to sprout in the hearts of some Qing troops in advance, but the strict military discipline of the Eight Banners Army for a long time prompted them to still act in accordance with the orders of the Ming Army and continue to attack the Ming Army.

In an instant, the fiery guns rang out, and the first platoon of the Qing army was almost empty in an instant. But when the Ming army's firearms team retreated to the formation, the follow-up Qing army immediately replenished and rushed up to the Ming army with a shout.

The javelins, flying axes, and knives in the sky covered the battle formation of the Ming army almost instantly. Flying axes, throwing knives, such weapons are difficult to help the iron armor of the Ming army, but the armor-piercing ability of the javelin, Rao is strong iron armor, and it is very difficult to defend. Fortunately, the tradition of facing the enemy in columns has never been abandoned over the years, and when the ironclad infantry is under the cover of the long player, the damage that the Qing army's throwing weapons can cause is minimal.

Before the throwing was over, the Qing army had already rushed up, and compared to the green battalion, their movements were more rapid, but the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies had also fought bloody battles for many years, and the huge amount of training was also one of the few in the army of the same period. And these perennial trainings made the soldiers of the Ming army almost subconsciously begin to implement the order once they heard it, without any consideration at all, and completed the transformation of the formation almost in an instant.

"Kill!"

The formation was re-expanded, and the Qing army had already rushed up, and the Ming army shouted and stabbed the spear forward, and suddenly a scream resounded over the battlefield.

With a spear of five feet and a foot, the soldiers' weapon training has no fancy martial arts, only a thrusting action. Years of practice, strength and precision have been strengthened to the maximum. The sword and shield warriors who relied on the Eight Banners to break the formation were stabbed by the Ming army, although the subconscious action was blocked with a shield, but the martial arts were different, the speed of the action was slow, and the direction was different.

In front of the Guards Battalion, as far as Huang Chengming's eyes could see, an eight-banner military shield resisted the spear of the Ming army, and slashed down, cutting off the barrel of the gun, but the head of the gun was still nailed to the shield.

In contrast, the Eight Banners Army on the left side of the Qing army was far less fortunate than him, stabbing two shots in a row, one of which was held up with a shield, but the other shot was directly stabbed in the neck without a chance to move. And after the Ming army who killed him had already formed a conditioned reflex and turned away the gun, there was still something like a throat hanging on the head of the gun. However, the sharp soldier on the right side of the Qing army swung the tip of the Ming army's spear and rushed into the inner circle at close range.

The pikemen in the front row were not only in a thin row, when the Eight Banners warrior entered the inner circle, he was immediately stabbed by the pikemen in the back row, and soon he was seriously injured and lost his combat effectiveness, and then was stabbed in the neck by the long card player in the front row.

In front of the guards of the frontal battlefield of the Ming army and the four bureaus of the second battalion of Shentang, the battle formation of the Qing army immediately became like a wolf's tooth and a dog gnawing at the first moment of engagement.

The old routine of projecting weapons opened the way, and the infantry soldiers quickly followed up to suppress the opponent's tactics of failing to strike a blow, and it immediately became a process of confrontation with the Ming army. However, in front of the Ming army's ironclad pikemen with firecrackers and a small number of long-handed players, this elite of the Eight Banners, although many sharpmen are wearing double armor, but they really can't play much defensive role in front of spears and firearms, and the weapons are too short, and the projectile of the foot bow is just a drizzle for ironclad armor of this thickness, so that it is always in a situation of being passively beaten.

It seems that the Ming army had already gained the upper hand at the beginning of the engagement. It's just that since he arrived in Jiangning in October last year, Yue Le has not done nothing, just waiting for reinforcements, and in view of the tactics of the Ming army, he has also made necessary tactical adjustments to the Eight Banners Army under his department.

Yue Le's flag moved, and the order was conveyed step by step along the banners of each flag, each Jiala, and each Niu Lu, and the people in front of them saw the order of Niu Lu Qi, and immediately shouted loudly.

In an instant, the sword and shield soldiers in the back row of the Qing army stood in a dense row, blocking their shields in front of their chests. And those sword and shield soldiers in the front row had already fallen into the confrontation with the Ming army, and after hearing the order, they no longer continued to dodge and move, but began to squat down as much as possible.

After the formation was converted, the shield array of the Qing army began to slowly advance towards the battle formation of the Ming army, which immediately attracted the attention of the spearmen of the Ming army. However, compared to the distance between each soldier, this shield formation almost reached a one-on-one battle with the front row of the Ming army, and the situation that a sword and shield soldier had to face one or several pikemen at the same time was immediately improved.

Spear thrusts, and the sword and shield soldiers only need to keep an eye on their opponent in front of them, the one who poses the greatest threat to them. Blocking with a shield was not difficult for veterans like them. In an instant, the one-sided situation just now was alleviated, and the killing speed of the Ming army against the Qing army was rapidly reduced, but the squatting sword and shield soldiers were quickly wiped out under the combined attack of the second row of pikemen and the long card players.

"The shield should be made bigger."

Yue Le looked at the battle situation in front of him, listening to the heralds' wave after wave of returns. This idea has not not appeared in his mind before, but the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army have always been sharp soldiers who break the formation, and the shield is too big to affect the rhythm and effect of breaking the formation, which is not conducive to the display of martial arts, so he can only retreat to the second, hoping that martial arts will cooperate with the shield array to reduce casualties, so as not to affect the effect of the sword and shield soldiers breaking the formation.

It's just that the shield array did slow down the killing speed of the Ming army, but the Ming army relied on the length of the weapon and the solid iron armor on the body, and the damage that the Qing army could cause was still very small, and although the Qing army effectively slowed down the killing speed of the Ming army, it still suffered a lot in exchange ratio, and it was not a way to continue like this.

"Lord Wang, let the bird gunner follow behind and shoot."

Liu Liangzuo's suggestion was immediately affirmed by Yue Le. It's just a bird shot, or not in front of the formation, if you are in the formation, you always have to squat in the front row, just like when the Ming army faced the Qing army just now, otherwise you will hurt the soldiers in the front row. However, if he can win the battle, he doesn't care about the death of a few minions who wronged Yue Le.

After receiving the order, Liu Liangzuo hurriedly gave orders to the Han Army Banner Bearers behind the formation, and next, a group of Birdbolts crossed the layers of the Manchurian Eight Banners battle formation, and only stopped when they reached the second layer.

"Squat!"

This has not been practiced before, but the Manchurian Eight Banners have always been well-trained, and their training volume and severity have been higher than those of the Ming army since the Nurhachi era, not to mention that if the Eight Banners themselves have a personal dependence relationship, the master above will give an order, and the minions below will naturally have no reason to disobey.

The sword and shield soldiers sparsely began to crouch, freeing up the eyes of the bird guns in the back row. But in this process, the squatting sword and shield soldiers temporarily lost the effective protection of the shield, especially the head and neck in the process of squatting in the face of the Ming army's spurt, it was inevitable to be attacked.

In an instant, one Qing army after another was stabbed to death by the Ming army in the process of squatting, and the casualties in this moment were even more than the sum of the shield array. The originally solid shield array became full of holes, but before the Ming army had time to rejoice, the black muzzles behind the shield array were displayed in front of their eyes.

There was a burst of "bang", and the gunpowder smoke in front of the Qing army rose sharply, and then the sword and shield soldiers in the front row rushed towards the battle formation of the Ming army like a run.

The Qing army's bird shots were only a few meters apart, and the loss of energy was very small. When this shot passed, the Ming army in the front row fell down. If it weren't for the arquebus, and enough distance between the birds, it is likely that the first row would have been empty in an instant.

Now is the best opportunity to break the formation, and the sword and shield soldiers in the first row of the Qing army rushed forward like crazy. It's a pity that the number of these sharp soldiers has been greatly reduced, and they were immediately blocked by the spearmen in the back row, and the battle once again entered the one-sided killing of the Eight Banners warriors of the honor guard and individual martial arts in the dense battle array.

What's even more terrifying is that when the Ming army's firefighters and firecrackers who couldn't get up got into the spear forest and pulled the Ming soldiers who fell to the ground in the front row back, some of them spat blood but staggered to their feet!

The Qing army knew the thickness of the armor of the Ming army, but it was only a vague impression, and they did not measure it personally. This kind of heavy armor has extremely thick armor leaves, and when you wear it, it looks like a humanoid tank, and it has reached the point where it affects the speed of travel. The small man in the light arquebus such as the bird gun, the charge and the weight of the projectile are already pitiful, coupled with the general bad habit of reducing the charge of the Ming and Qing armies in this era, in the face of this thickness of iron armor, its power is greatly reduced.

However, the distance is too close, the killing still exists, those Ming soldiers who staggered to stand up, or were knocked to the ground but did not die, even if they are still alive, but those who are shocked to the internal organs will inevitably spit blood, and those who hit the body will inevitably have bone cracks and fractures, and even internal injuries such as being hit by a sledgehammer may lead to lifelong injuries.

However, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the "resurrection from the dead" happened in front of the eyes of the Eight Banners Army, and this consternation can be imagined. Especially in the city of Beijing, in Jiangning and Hangzhou, there are rumors that the generals of the Ming Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang from Chen Wen to the general are all good at demon law. Now that "if you drink runic water, you will be invulnerable" has developed to the point of "resurrection of the dead", and with the ghost pattern on the iron mask, the psychological pressure of fighting such devils is immediately manifested.

The collapse is far from that level for the Eight Banners Army, but a little cringe still exists. Reflected on the battlefield, the tactical speed of reorganizing the shield array is much slower than before. If it weren't for the fact that the Ming army was also dragging the wounded back, and the pikemen in the back row replenished the queue to give priority to the sword and shield soldiers who had lost the protection of the shield array, this shield array would not have been able to be reorganized.

………………

"It's like I've seen this scene somewhere."

Being at the commanding heights of the town, with a telescope in hand, Chen Wen clearly saw every movement on the battlefield.

On the frontal battlefield, the infantry of the two armies began to attack each other, but on the whole, the Ming army with iron armor and spears had an advantage over the Qing army, which was still using short soldiers such as swords and shields, and it was inevitable that even those ripples just now were not enough to turn the situation around. On the battlefield on both flanks, the cavalry of the Qing army continued to shoot on horseback in front of the hollow phalanx.

If it goes on like this, even if both sides have the same level of tolerance for casualties, the Ming army will already have the victory, but what he wants is far from so simple.

"If you go down, there's no need to continue to spend time with them. The Guards Battalion and the Shentang Battalion increased the pressure, and the Dongyang Battalion and the Front Battalion were ready to extend the formation and force Yue Le's winner and loser out to Lao Tzu. ”