Chapter 41: Half-Crossing (3)

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――The proud butcher trilogy "Han'er is not a slave", showing you the bloody history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

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On the east bank of the Lingxi landing site, the troops crossing the river were still trying to seize all the time to transport soldiers, weapons, and ammunition to the opposite bank, so as to increase even the slightest strength of the first and second infantry bureaus of the Nantang Battalion, which had already exchanged fire with the Qing army.

Taking advantage of the time when the Qing army was marching and resting, the Ming army on the east bank not only transported the tiger squat cannon and the attached gunners and big shield players to the opposite bank, but also sent the first two outposts of the third game over, and at this moment, more than half of the last two infantry posts of the third game had boarded the raft. At present, the Ming army is in a situation where it is only possible to transport the infantry over as quickly as possible to hold this place, so as not to be divided by the Qing army or drive the river-crossing troops into Lingxi.

Raising his arm and wiping the sweat from his forehead with the sleeve of his military uniform, the military judge once again confirmed the military order brought back by the herald in charge of liaison, and the corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally, but he had to order to change it again to prepare for Li Ruixin's counterattack plan.

However, before he could give the order, a series of loud artillery fires suddenly broke out in front of the Qing army on the opposite bank, blocking his command to exit.

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According to the old system of the Qi family's army, the number of tiger squat cannons carried by the infantry battalion was three for every 500 soldiers, but for Chen Wen, his opponent was not the kind of Japanese and Mongolian Tatars who did not have artillery, and he did not have the will to train the car artillery battalion for the time being, so it was changed to four per infantry bureau, and it was also equipped with a Franc cannon. It's just that it does not belong to the bureau as a unit, but to the battalion artillery team.

Such an establishment has reached the limit of the stocks captured in previous operations, especially the battle of Xiaoshun Town. If it weren't for the victory of the Ming army and the occupation of the battlefield, the artillery corps of the two battalions of Yiwu and Dongyang would still not be able to be completed.

It's just that the Qing army they are facing at this moment is the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, not only the elite troops in the Zhejiang Green Battalion, but also its commander Chen Jin was born in the Guanning Army in the late Ming Dynasty, and his understanding of firearms far exceeds that of his peers. Even Tian Xiong can't compare with it.

After the Ming army achieved a salvo with bows and arrows, fire guns and tiger squat cannons, the battle array of the Qing army was suddenly drowned in the smoke of gunpowder, and the Ming army, whose vision was blocked, could only perceive the wails of the wounded Qing soldiers and the movement of the Qing army behind the smoke of gunpowder.

When the smoke cleared, the Qing army in front of them didn't care about carrying all the wounded to the back of the formation, and directly carried the loaded tiger squat cannon they carried from the back of the formation to the front of the formation, and lit the fire gate in the shocked eyes of the Ming army!

The Qing army came on a hurried march, carrying a lot of tiger squat cannons, but they were also the same kind of small cannons weighing dozens of pounds as the Ming army. However, when these tiger squat cannons sprayed iron sand and stones at the same time, they instantly swept towards the battle formation of the Ming army like raindrops that changed the direction of falling.

In front of the Ming army. Since the Tiger Squat Cannon had just been cast, the big shieldmen who were on a covering mission were still there. When the cannons fired by the Qing army's tiger squatting cannon were scattered like a torrential rain on the Ming army's battle array, a series of hail sounded on these large shields made of thick wooden planks and iron sheets, and even some stones once broke the shields, but in the process they also completely exhausted the kinetic energy, so that they could not help the big shield players behind them.

It's just that the big shield hand can't cover the entire battle formation after all, plus the Qing army used the gunsmoke to cover the moment of the battle array. Before the firearms team in the front row of the Ming army could retreat behind the infantry team, it was instantly covered by the artillery of the Qing army.

A moment later. There were wails one after another in front of the Ming army, and many Ming shooters in front of the battle formation that were not covered by the big shield hand were injured by the tiger squat cannon, and even died by direct hits. As a result, for a while, the entire battle formation of the Ming army was like a wolf's tooth and a dog, and it was no longer as uniform as before.

Shooting at close range, this is a trick used by Chen Wen in the battle of Xiaoshun Town. And by taking this opportunity, the formation of the Sifu Green Battalion was quickly destroyed, and the tactical goal of defeating the current opponent before the Governor Battalion defeated the Yiwu Battalion was achieved.

But at this moment, the Supervising Battalion directly copied this tactic, which did not require much training and had no technical content, and even directly used it on the Ming army. In the eyes of the Qing army, it may be to govern others in the way of others, but it also instantly ignited the anger of Li Ruixin, the commander of the Nantang battalion.

The background of the cavalry general caused him to be more keen on offense than defense, but at the moment the Ming army was at an absolute disadvantage, according to Chen Wen's practice in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, the possibility of playing a defensive counterattack and turning the tables would be higher, so he had to bear the attack of the Qing army here. But who knew that after Wang Sheng copied the establishment of the old Nantang battalion, the Zhejiang Qing army was even more shameless to copy Chen Wen's tactics, if it wasn't for the fact that he crossed the river alone in order to stabilize the army's morale, and did not ride his horse to step on the snow, at this moment Li Ruixin was eager to ride his horse into the enemy formation and cut off Chen Jin's dog's head to vent his anger.

At the moment of signaling the flag, the soldiers of the firearms team supported the wounded and evacuated to the rear of the formation together with the firefighters of the various teams who had rushed over, and even those gunners and big shield players dragged the tiger squat cannon to cover the retreat alternately.

After looking down and asking the herald, he realized that the things he had ordered to be transported as soon as possible seemed to have just been loaded onto the ship, and it would take some time before the counterattack. Suppressing this anger, Li Ruixin immediately ordered the infantry team to step forward to respond. However, at this moment, the Qing army, which had just completed the shelling, began to advance again, and the speed of the march was even faster than before.

In a moment, at the moment when the Ming army was relying on the infantry to advance and cover the wounded, the firearms team, the gunners and the big shield bearers, the Qing army quickly passed the tiger squat cannons that had just fired.

After a few breaths, I saw the spearmen in the front row of the Qing army shouting and charging forward, and after running for a few meters, they quickly stopped, and then squatted. At this time, the sword and shield soldiers in the back two rows had already quickly ran out of the interval between each soldier in the front row with javelins, throwing axes and other throwing weapons, and threw their weapons at the moment of passing the pikemen.

The javelins in the sky streaked through the parabolas, and the throwing axes were aimed straight at the Ming army in the distance and spun and flew over. After this, the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers of the Banner Battalion rushed forward with shouts.

The projection of the Qing army quickly covered the front row of the Ming army, and at this time, the Ming army, which had just completed the covering task, was under the cover of two newly formed long players and two rattan players who replaced the boring and palladium players. Immediately squatted and set up a longitudinal formation when he was undergoing anti-pressure training on weekdays.

In an instant, the javelins and flying axes of the Qing army were densely tied to the shields of the Ming army, and more were inserted in the open space between the columns of the teams. Under the protection of four shields, the casualties of the Ming army who maintained the column were far fewer than last year, which only relied on a long card and a rattan card for simple protection. But at this moment, the Qing army of the brigade had already rushed up and aimed their weapons at the Ming troops who had not had time to change their formation.

The two armies are at war. Especially for infantry, formation is a top priority. The Ming army under Chen Wen relied on the wolf to contain the enemy's charge, so as to complete the formation. But now, the wolf in the newly formed spear array no longer exists. At this time, most of the Qing troops in the Supervisory Battalion had participated in the battle of Xiaoshun Town, and seeing that the wolf who had once put great pressure on them seemed to be still in the back row of the Ming army's battle array, the Qing army immediately rushed forward with weapons, trying to suppress the Ming army that had not yet changed its formation.

But at this moment, with the order of the queen of the battle. The spears that had previously been kept upright in the column immediately flattened from front to back, but the more they moved outward as they got to the back.

It's just that at this moment, one peacock after another peacock-like fans were formed, covering the entire battle array. Behind them, a group of mandarin duck killer teams supplemented the flanks of each spear array killer team, in the form of a guard, but those spear array killer teams never seemed to have the idea of changing formations at all.

The spear of the Ming army is five meters long, the same length as the wolf's spear, and the moment it is flattened. Some Qing troops who had not had time to restrain their feet were immediately stabbed in the cross, and even some Qing troops who had already reined in their feet were bumped into by the Qing troops who could not restrain their feet behind them. Thus it was also strung on top of the spear. For a time, only a few lucky soldiers in the army who rushed to the front row escaped this catastrophe by falling.

The charge of the Qing army was unsustainable, and in the next second, the spearmen in the front row of the Ming army retracted part of the fan surface, forming a half-open fan, and those mandarin duck array killer teams quickly replenished it. Thus a zigzag front was formed.

In the new establishment of the Ming army, the odd number of infantry teams in each outpost is the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team, and the even number is the Spear Array Killer Team, so that a heroic unit in the Nantang Battalion, the Fourth Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team of the Qianjia Outpost, was reorganized into a spear formation.

The new captain of the Fourth Infantry Brigade is called Luo Yongzhong. He served as a temporary auxiliary soldier in the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain, and because of his bravery, he was added to the Nantang camp during the expansion of Tiantai Mountain. Since then, along the way, he has fought almost every battle, and he has made many achievements, so that he can have the opportunity to surpass some of the soldiers who joined the Nantang battalion earlier than him to become the captain of this veteran infantry team.

At this moment, the fourth infantry team of the first outpost is in the center of the battle formation, the first round of the Qing army's charge has been contained, with the beating of the war drums, the Ming soldiers in the battle formation shouted "Tiger!" With a spear, he launched an attack on the Qing army in front of him.

At this moment, the front row of the Qing army was full of sword and shield soldiers who were good at fighting and spearmen with seven- or eight-foot spears in order to charge. In the continuous approach of the spear formation of the fourth infantry, these Qing troops had to retreat step by step, and as the commander of the team, the long card player who controlled the rhythm of the advance and retreat of the battle formation, the former fire soldier Shi Da Niu was sweating profusely, intending to keep the same line of advance with the surrounding infantry team, so as not to rush forward or press back too much, affecting the neatness of the battle formation.

After marching a short distance, after some spearmen assassinated a very small number of Qing troops who did not have time to escape, the Qing troops who were still in the front row did not enter the formation. At this time, a platoon of pikemen quickly made up for it, and the spears in the hands of the Ming army, who relied on longer weapons, were intertwined.

After a moment of stagnation, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties quickly began to stab each other. Improved from the Mandarin Duck Formation, the Ming army still maintained a relatively dense battle formation, while the Qing army still left a certain distance between each soldier in order to make it more convenient to fight and assault with sword and shield soldiers. In this way, although the length of the spearmen of the Qing army was not inferior, they were still at a disadvantage in the number of local battlefields, and could only rely on the overwhelming superiority of troops to gradually defeat the Ming army in the war of attrition.

The battle formation has stagnated, and the captain Luo Yongzhong behind him has already beckoned the archers in the firearms team to shoot, put the long card in front of him, and the spearman of the Qing army directly pierced the spear head on his long card in front of him, and pushed Shi Da Niu to a stumbling block, if he was not physically strong and powerful, he would be pushed to the ground by the Qing army if he didn't get it right, thus leaking the spearman behind him.

Maybe it was too strong, and the gun head of the Qing army stuck on the long card in front of him and couldn't pull it out for a while, and the shouts around him were staggered, and Shi Da Niu violently deflected the long card to the left. The Qing army successfully pulled out the head of the spear with this strength, but he also fell to the ground, and was immediately stabbed in the left leg and right chest by the two Ming spearmen behind Shi Daniu, and he was no longer breathing.

Putting aside this burden, Shi Daniu hurriedly re-protected the long card in front of him, and at the moment when he withdrew the long card, a Qing army backhand next to the Qing army spearman who had just been stabbed to death stabbed the spear at him who was exposed.

Such as a long spear, the thrust is the best means of attack, not only the soldiers of the Ming army have been training this method for a long time, but the Qing army in front of them is obviously also immersed in this way for a long time. The spear's thrust was unusually fast, and before Shi Da Niu could re-block the long card in front of him, the spear had already burst into his chest.

The next second was death, and the terrified Shi Da Niu dodged to the left, and the spear was inserted into his right arm. Under the severe pain, Shi Daniu could no longer hold the waist knife in his hand, and hurriedly threw down the long card, and with his left hand managed to pull out the spear head from his right arm, which had lost consciousness. However, as soon as he threw down his long card, another spear that he had just made up also pierced and went straight to his face.

Before he could break free of his arm, another spear stabbed him, and behind him was the spearmen of the Ming army who were still doing assassination movements, and there was no way to retreat. Seeing this, Shi Da Niu had no choice but to turn his head and forcibly let the head of the spear pass through the front door, but he cut a deep wound on his cheek that could be seen as a bone.

The pain of the wound on his left cheek came, Shi Daniu didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly tried his best to hold the spear on his right arm, not letting the Qing army on the opposite side twist the head of the spear, and then endured the severe pain and withdrew his arm from the head of the gun, and sat down directly on the ground. At this moment, one of the team's wings hurriedly rushed over on the rattan plaque on the side of the wing, blocking the spear that stabbed again, protecting him behind him, until the team's firefighters dragged him back for some distance before he was barely out of danger.

The war of attrition on the battlefield continues, and people fall almost every instant, but there are few people who are as lucky as Shi Daniu. Although the spearmen of the Ming army were more numerous and better trained than the Qing army on local battlefields, the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage in strength.

Seeing that the front could not be effectively broken through, the Qing army immediately began to extend the formation in the direction of the river beach on the left flank and the woods on the right flank, trying to form an encirclement trend. At this time, the Ming army had to put the third game that had just been transported over as a reserve on the battlefield to ensure that the Qing army's offensive could be blocked.

Although the Ming army completely transported the third game during this time, the strength of the Qing army was more than twice that of the Ming army crossing the river, and such a war of attrition was difficult to last, but there was still a long time before it got dark. Moreover, if the Qing army can gain an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield, it will inevitably raise fire and fight at night, and the Ming army will still have no hope of victory.

With the passage of time, the Ming army in the front row became more and more tired in the eyes of physical exhaustion in the continuous stabs, while the Qing army suffered more casualties, but still maintained an absolute advantage in terms of strength.

Due to the division of the two sides of the strait, the Ming army could not throw its troops on the battlefield at one time, and could only continue to fill the damage. The situation began to be unfavorable to the Ming army, and it may not be long before the Ming army in the front row collapsed after excessive damage. But at this moment, I heard a crunching sound, and the two Mandarin Duck Array killer teams in the center of the formation immediately got out of the way.

The next moment, when those two things appeared in front of them, the Qing troops who saw their beautiful faces all stopped stabbing or defensively, as if their souls had been sucked in. (To be continued.) )