Chapter 505: Steady as Mount Tai The battlefield turns

The horses that rushed to the front, and the muzzles of the guns,

This is not unlucky, a group of people rushing forward with guns, there will always be people who rush in front to be hit, and these people also have this awareness, just to block for their companions behind them.

Although it was a three-pounder cannon, the shotgun loaded with lead and iron sand was excited at close range, and the power could be said to be amazing, and the horse that met the muzzle of the cannon, the knight on the horse was beaten so badly that the horse was almost beaten upside down and flew up, although the distance was very short.

The shotguns of a dozen guns formed a curtain wall of death within a distance of thirty paces in front of the muzzle, and the cavalry had already rushed within fifteen paces just now.

Moreover, the flying iron sand lead bullets themselves are relatively light, although the effective range is much shorter than that of artillery shells, but the distance of these iron sand lead bullets is very long, whether it is a person or a horse is splashed is a severe pain and minor injury.

The first few rows of cavalry blocked most of the lead bullets, and they fell to the ground with dead and wounded, but many cavalry behind were affected.

The mount is crazy, and it directly overturned people from the horse, this is the cavalry unit in the process of impact, the front is killed, and the companions behind can directly step on the corpse and jump over and rush over, but it can be affected to those queues and directly chaotic, that is the real trouble.

Some of the horses behind him restrained their speed, but they blocked their companions behind them, and some of them rushed into the chaos, which was even worse.

The horse is crazy or the person is injured, it is not complicated to calm down, and it does not take too long, such a short time, the artillery is too late to load and fire.

However, in addition to the artillery, there were 800 musketeers of the pro-soldier brigade behind the more than a dozen artillery pieces, and after the artillery was fired, they immediately lay directly on the ground in accordance with the prior agreement, and the firecrackers of the pro-soldier brigade behind them immediately ran forward, and the artillery stopped being their order to open fire.

For the most elite pro-soldier brigade of the Jiaozhou battalion, three or four rows of firearms can achieve uninterrupted rotation, not to mention the current eight platoons.

The cavalry, which had been hit by the artillery shotguns, had just finished the chaos, and some of the horses ran to the other side regardless of it, while others were overturned from their horses.

As soon as the chaos was controlled, the cavalry behind had to hurry up and rush forward, for the cavalry of the Shun army, the losses from the shelling were indeed heavy, but the losses were acceptable, looking at this appearance, they should still be able to rush over and crush the other party, followed by intensive firecrackers.

The fire of the firearms did not stop, and this time it was a real harvest of life, and all cavalry within range were beaten to the ground.

Some of the cavalry were lucky that their horses blocked the fire of the musket, but when the cavalry rose from the ground, he was still hit by the next firebolt.

Everyone knows that at the beginning, the generals at all levels of this cavalry just let their men scatter, and there was always a gap in the shooting of the firecracker, and they could rush in after enduring some losses, but after holding on for a few rounds, no one was willing to gamble on the gap between the shooting of the firearm with such a big bet.

Through the corpses and the artillery, one could see that the platoon of musketeers after that had finished firing, ran back to the back row along the gap in the queue, and rotated in turn, like an accurate machine, and no one could survive within the range of the musket.

The formation of this cavalry team is already scattered enough, and some of the cavalry in the back has left the relatively safe area, from the beginning of the battle, Guo Liang was there nervously staring at the distance between the opponent's cavalry and his own artillery, and now because the counterattack in the Shuai Qi area is extremely reasonable, the formation of the cavalry of the Shun army is too open.

"The artillery in the first row has not been replaced with shotguns, and it is bombarded according to the cavalry of the thieves!"

The gunfire over there did not stop, Guo Liang's voice was already hoarse, but he still had to give orders loudly with his throat, even so, the voice was not very clear, fortunately, the artillery team also had its own heralds, and Guo Liang himself was in the first row, so the order was executed quickly.

Only then did Guo Liang order to reload the shells, and the artillery that was already loaded with solid shells had to be reloaded nervously, which was a troublesome job.

Guo Liang, the commander of the artillery team, also calculated this, there are always more than a dozen cannons that can fire solid shells, at such a distance, the range of shotguns is far from enough, and only solid shells can hit.

Guo Liang's series of commands has many places for discussion, this is a battlefield where life and death hang in the balance, and the slightest mistake in command can easily cause a collapse.

The replacement of artillery solid shells and shotguns is actually a big flaw, but the Shun army and the Jiaozhou battalion are equivalent to a difference of half an era, one is a cold weapon, and the other is gradually transformed into a hot weapon, so the gap of half an era is enough to cover up some command flaws.

This is the so-called absolute power, and with such an advantage, it can be overwhelming.

The cannonballs whistled and fell in the ranks of the cavalry, and there was another scream and hiss, and suddenly, the cavalry team of the Shun army was facing a very embarrassing situation.

The guns and artillery in front, as well as the artillery array on one side, and the battlefield that was being strangled on the other side, suddenly made the space of this cavalry very narrow, and now they want to charge, they can only think about the death charge in front regardless of casualties, and the fire guns on the opposite side, no matter how you look at it, will not give them any chance.

Looking at the cavalry who was still menacing just now, after making a difficult and awkward turn in front, after leaving the battlefield in front of Shuai Qi, Huang Pingcai, the commander of the personal army, breathed a sigh of relief.

Coach Li Meng can be in danger, but he can't be so calm, if the other party really doesn't care about the impact of losses, it will not be a big trouble.

As soon as Huang Ping was about to persuade him, he heard Li Meng open his mouth and order:

"Pass my general's order, transfer three infantry regiments of the reserve to come over, and listen to my command!!"

Hearing this, Huang Ping's heart finally relaxed, but Li Meng's order did not stop, and said loudly:

"Commander Guo Liang, commander of the herald artillery team, prepare thirty artillery pieces and move with the army!"

The battle on the frontal battlefield became more and more intense, the two sides of the front just collided, and the loose and frenzied Shun army suffered a great loss, and was pushed back step by step by the spear phalanx of the Jiaozhou battalion.

But as the battle progressed, the ground was full of corpses, and the spearmen of the Jiaozhou battalion had to beware of tripping over the corpses under their feet when they were advancing, and the formation was already a little scattered.

The spear phalanx of the Jiaozhou battalion continued to advance, in fact, the formation of the Shun army was squeezed more and more tightly, and at the beginning, in addition to dying in battle, there was also the option of retreating, but now in addition to dying in battle, there is no way to retreat, and it can only fight to the death.

Even if the swords and spears of the infantry soldiers are of the best color, it is difficult to cause any damage to the opposite side wearing half-body plate armor, and the slow advance of the infantry array is also due to the consideration of the armor burden, the weight of this armor does affect the mobility, but it brings excellent defense.

But the formation gradually dispersed, but gave the Shun soldiers a chance, and gradually someone was able to rush through the not so dense spear forest, can rush into the Jiaozhou battalion spearmen, and take the sword to the gap between the opponent's lower plate and armor to assassinate, in the face of such an attack, the spearmen of the Jiaozhou battalion can only drop the spear, take out their own saber to resist, put down the spear, there is a gap in front, and when it comes to this step, it is often too late.

Of course, most of the Shun soldiers could not rush forward, and even if they did, the enemy soldiers of the Shun army in front of them would immediately fall under the assassination of the spearmen of the second row of Jiaozhou battalion.

The Shun army had to pay the price of seven or eight soldiers to exchange for a spearman of the Jiaozhou battalion, which was a great disadvantage for the Shun army's infantry team.

But there was finally an exchange, and there was a kill and wound on the Jiaozhou battalion, so that the Shun soldiers would not collapse and could support the fight.

Every time one of the Jiaozhou battalion fell, the soldiers in the back row automatically made up for it, and the soldiers' movements were very monotonous, that is, a simple assassination was withdrawn, and then the cycle continued, after the front flashed enough space, and then the line moved forward.

The Shun soldiers on the opposite side moved very fancy, some wanted to jump, some wanted to crawl from the ground, but they didn't have any effect.

The spear phalanx of the eight infantry regiments had a certain distance between each other, and according to the previous tactics, in each interval, the musketeers of the Jiaozhou battalion should have held the muskets at this interval and fired forward, or leaned out to shoot crosswise, but this time they all stayed in the rear of the infantry team.

Only when the soldiers of the Shun army enter this gap, the firecrackers in the back row will start to drive and attack.

"The power of firearms is indeed huge, but for these enemies, after the first wave is over, the enemy will not dare to move forward, they want to retreat, they want to flee, but the fundamental strength has not been damaged, but also to harass your army, but also to be your enemy, with a spear, the distance between the two sides of the battle is shortened to a dozen steps or face to face, he feels that there is also a chance to kill you, the enemy will always hold on, feel that there is a hope of victory, such a battle continues, there is discipline, training, physical fitness, equipment of the elite Shandong infantry soldiers, Can inflict more damage on enemies. ”

This is what Li Meng said before the battle, when he convened a meeting of the garrisons of various regiments, this battle is of great significance, and some things must be emphasized, and after emphasizing the significance of hand-to-hand combat with his subordinates, Li Meng also made other constraints:

"Today's battle is related to the belonging of the Central Plains, the luck of the world, you and force forward, and I will also inform you in advance that there will be a military law team to supervise the battle, and the military law will be marched in the battle!!"

Li Meng said plainly, but the people who heard it were solemn, and the military law was marched on the spot, that is, beheading, and with the discipline of the Jiaozhou battalion, there was rarely any situation of military law supervising the war.

The Judge Advocate Corps, which consisted of non-commissioned officers, was behind the eight regiments in the first column, but they had not yet been used.

The distance between the eight regiments in the first column and the eight regiments in the second column is getting bigger and bigger, on the battlefield, this is the so-called disconnect between the front and back, which is the most dangerous situation, Li Meng under the banner must have seen such a situation, but there has been no adjustment, just let the distance get bigger and bigger.

It seems that he has absolute self-confidence, and wants to defeat the entire Shunjun infantry with the 16,000 men in front of him, but there is still a large cavalry team ready to attack behind him, and this rush down, without the cooperation of the firearms infantry team, I am afraid it will be very dangerous.

After a period of stalemate and strangulation on the battlefield ahead, the infantry of the Shun army began to be unable to support it again and retreated.

On the one hand, the exchange ratio is too high, and the whole army can't support it, on the other hand, the infantry of the Shun army has begun to sort out the team during this period of time, and gradually there are rules, no longer rushing and fighting, so face-to-face sticking, the strangulation may be the soldiers of the Shun army.

Retreat a little distance, open up the space and keep charging, it is possible to break through the opponent's extremely tough spear phalanx, and the remaining archers and bird gunners also began to push to the front, the cold arrows of the archers and the shots of the bird gunners are of little use to the spearmen in front of the rows in armor.

But for the unarmored foot soldiers in the back, in addition to the head protected by the helmet, the possibility of the shoulder and upper body being hit by stray arrows is not small.

There was also space behind the Shun army to retreat, but the spearmen of the Jiaozhou battalion could not break away from the formation to charge, and a single spearman was meaningless in this battle.

Liu Zongmin, the commander of the Shun army, had sweat on his face and forehead, and now such a persistence does not know how long it can last, looking at the phalanx on the opposite side, the soldiers who can put into battle are the soldiers in the six or seven rows in front, and the spearmen in the back are still advancing slowly with spears erected, and these people have always been a new force.

Those scattered archers can do very little damage, and although there is a little space now, there is not much space.

General Liu Zongmin looked back at the horse team behind him, thinking about when he was going to put it into the battlefield, don't wait until the infantry of the front team is defeated before making a move, it will be too late.

"Yuan Zongdi, you bring 4,000 people, you must open the Chinese army of the thieves, you are not afraid of your death, even if you use human lives, you will rush away for me!!"

Yuan Zongdi on the side laughed a few times and scolded:

"I'm not afraid of my death, Lao Tzu threw his life this time and saw if he could rush away!!"

"Brothers, if you don't rush away from this thief's military formation, our big guy doesn't even have a chance to live, Lao Yuan's own brothers follow me to the front, Lao Yuan is behind you, I will suffer one if you run, Lao Yuan is behind Liu Zongtou's personal team, Lao Yuan also said, if Lao Yuan retreats, he will cut off Lao Yuan's head!"

Yuan Zongdi rode to his own team, shouted and began to shout, the soldiers below were all pale, but they all gritted their teeth and followed.

The earth-shattering artillery bombardment just now made people collapse and despair, if the horse army of the Jiaozhou battalion was here, it would be difficult for the enemy to break up.

But the foot soldiers moved forward slowly, and after this slow and cruel strangulation battle, it made many foot soldiers of the Shun army recognize the situation, and this situation will not be able to fight anymore.

Although Yuan Zongdi said it lightly and shouted forward, he actually wanted to lead everyone to rush over together, and if he couldn't rush away, he would die together, at the cost of abandoning some of the soldiers to protect the safety of most of the soldiers and horses, and the Shun army could be used many times in previous battles.

Moreover, this practice of sacrificing oneself to save most of his comrades can often arouse each soldier's sense of martyrdom and honor, and he can die calmly.

Yuan Zongdi was not a mobilization, and after finishing speaking, he directly led the infantry out in a crowded space, and at the same time ordered everywhere to concentrate the remaining archers and bird soldiers in the direction of the front.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, their firecrackers are behind, everyone is aiming and getting closer!!"

The commander of the brigade in charge of this team shouted loudly, while urging the soldiers to move forward, the non-commissioned officers and team officers of the two rows directly opposite the Jiaozhou battalion already felt that something was wrong, and they had to avoid the corpses on the ground, keep the formation neat, and fight the enemy on the opposite side, and the speed could not be fast.

But the archers and bird-fired soldiers on the other side are already mobilizing, and at such a close distance, everyone is not fully armored, and if they start fighting like this, they will always be injured and fatal.

The regimental garrison holding an axe and gun at the right end of the queue naturally saw it, and was even more anxious, so he could only shout for his subordinates to pay attention to protection.

Yuan Zongdi's attack was arranged by two regiments in the middle of the eight infantry regiments, that is, the fourth regiment and the fifth regiment, the two regimental garrisons were facing the same situation, but they did not have time to contact and coordinate.

He roared loudly, flattened his axe, and shouted angrily:

"The soldiers in the first and second rows put their spears flat and charge with me!"

Before the words fell, he had already rushed out in great strides, the officers of Shandong never fell behind when charging, his action was an order, and the soldiers in the two rows in front of him flattened their spears and rushed forward.

It has been moving forward slowly, and the soldiers of the Shun army thought that the team of the Jiaozhou battalion could only move so slowly, but they didn't expect to suddenly rush up.

The first few people were directly poked to the ground, and the archers and bird-gunned soldiers behind those people also shook their hands and feet, and their weapons were not melee things, and in such a situation, the only way to do it was to drop things and run quickly.

And on the other side, that is, on the side facing the 5th regiment, the archers and orniths completed their preparations and began the first wave of shooting.

If the bird gun hits the plate armor of the upper body, it will only stir up sparks in all directions, but this is not accurate, hitting the legs, hitting the rest of the parts, will cause damage, not to mention the bow and arrow, if you shoot at an elevation angle, the soldiers without armor in the back row will still be killed.

The first round of attacks from this ranged weapon, although it did not cause much damage, made the soldiers of the fifth regiment completely panic, and many of them put away their weapons and retreated.

The charge of the fourth regiment and the slight panic of the fifth regiment did not cause much loss, but this movement was seen by the generals of the Shun army, and this was an opportunity.

Whether it was Liu Zongmin, the general who commanded the infantry team, or Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang who was further away, not to mention Yuan Zongdi, the general who was in front, he raised his hand at the first moment and shouted loudly:

"Brothers, the thieves are in chaos, let's rush!"

The infantry of the Shun army, which had already been mobilized, shouted, and Yuan Zongdi put in the front was his direct army, which was also the elite of the Shun army, and when he heard his order, he paused slightly, and immediately opened the formation and rushed towards the fourth and fifth regiments of the fourth regiment that was slightly scattered in formation.

On the one hand, there was a disconnect between the front and back, on the other hand, the footing was unsteady, the regimental garrison of the fourth regiment rushed up to kill for a while, and when they saw the sudden retreat of the enemy's team that had been shrinking, they were suddenly a little panicked, and they were already out of touch with these two platoons, and if they were stopped by someone, it would be all over.

They were wearing plate armor and holding spears, but they were a little slower, even worse than the Shun soldiers in cloth clothes on the opposite side, and they had not retreated, they had already been caught up.

It turned out that the spears of the third and fourth rows of the team had just been put down, but when they saw their teammates come back, they had to put away the spears again, and they were chased by the Shun army to the butts of the first and second rows, and the first few rows couldn't hold it.

The two rows that ran out were directly scattered, but fortunately, the regiment was brave, the full armor on the body was well protected, and the axe and gun in his hand were suitable for close combat, so he actually held on, shouting while fighting:

"Throw away the spear in your hand and take your saber back to be a mouse!!"

The so-called rat is a soldier who fights a short distance with a saber and a soldier who crawls in under the spear, and now has a spear in his hand and is unable to move, so it is better to throw away the spear and move flexibly, and quickly run to the shelter of the spear.

This method really worked, and after dropping more than a dozen lives outside the queue, he finally returned to the queue, and Yuan Zongdi's Shun army team had already rushed up.

This time it was really a desperate charge, some people couldn't dodge in the process of charging, they directly hit the spear, were pierced by the spear, or were stabbed to death by the soldiers under the spear with a saber, but the people behind directly pushed the corpse forward and continued to rush forward, some of the spears were too late to be pulled out, and were deflected by the heavy corpse, and the people behind were assassinated by the spears in the back row of the Jiaozhou battalion, and the people behind did the same.

When the soldiers who were under the spear just saw this situation, they directly stood up with their sabers to block hand-to-hand combat, and the hand-to-hand combat of this kind of hand-to-hand combat with short weapons was offset by many, many advantages in equipment and training.

The other regiment was in a panic, and it was also rushed up by the other party who was so not afraid of death, and it was also a hurry, if it was under normal circumstances, the layers of spears, and the strict formation, the other party would not be able to rush forward, but now this situation is not normal, and the officers and soldiers have problems with each other's cooperation, and they were suddenly pushed to the front by the other party.

I didn't want to be scattered, and in desperation, I could only retreat, and the front of the eight regiments, which was originally a line, became a concave arc.

Li Zicheng, the king of the rear team, immediately saw this place, and Li Meng, the coach of the Jiaozhou battalion, naturally also saw this side.

Strangely, both of them actually smiled......