Chapter 61: The Battle of Chongming Island (3)

The idea of the Qing army was very simple, and rushed into the camp of the Qi family army in one go and engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the three-stage gun formation is not a joke, the effective range of the flintlock pistol is 150 meters, once it enters this range, it means that the Qing army will be baptized like a metal storm, the first round of shooting, hundreds of soldiers fell to the ground, or died, or seriously injured.

The three-stage platoon gun formation pays attention to the intensive and continuous firepower output, because the opposite side is full of infantry, the Qi family army even has time to aim, and the shooting accuracy has also improved a lot.

"This damn thing, it's similar to shooting targets when we trained, and it turns out that the Qing soldiers are not so godly!" Some soldiers laughed loudly.

The closer the enemy became, the heavier the casualties became, and after the initial panic, a group of recruits had grown up..........

"Retreat, everyone, retreat! This army has too many firearms, and if it rushes down again, it will be sent to death. The generals of the Qing army saw the strength of the Qi family army and hurriedly ordered a retreat.

"His grandmother's, what kind of army is this, the density of firearms is comparable to that of 20,000 divine machine battalions, and my men can't even get close to the enemy within 100 meters." Another general who returned couldn't help but complain.

The advantages of the all-firearms unit were finally reflected at this time, and the firearms equipped with these 5,000 Qijia troops were already twice as high as the firearms penetration rate of the previous Shenji Battalion, and with the three-stage gun formation and the popularization of the new fixed-loading ammunition, it was still very easy to play, and the effect of the firearms unit of the previous 20,000 Shenji Battalion.

It must be known that before the advent of fixed ammunition, firearms troops, due to the tense battle, often made all kinds of mistakes when loading ammunition; some of them first filled the bullets and then loaded the propellant, and some simply loaded the propellant and then fired in a hurry; once the error rate of this kind exceeded 30 percent, the army was bound to be defeated.

Now with the advent of fixed ammunition, the error rate has been greatly reduced, and the correction is also very rapid, hardly affecting the rate of fire, so the Qing soldiers, who recklessly charged, suffered a great loss at once, and in less than 20 minutes after the battle began, they left behind seven or eight hundred corpses and hurriedly retreated into the woods.

The Qing army did not dare to attack, but the Qi family army was also happy to be idle, anyway, their task was to delay time.

"Quickly clear the chamber of the gun, load the ammunition, and don't slack off!" Qi Zhifeng reminded loudly.

Although the heart has blossomed, but it can't be easily expressed, this time the enemy doesn't know that the Qi family army is powerful, and he has suffered a secret loss, and it is estimated that it will not be so easy next time.

Just when the two armies were holding each other, a large group of generals suddenly came to the rear of the Qing army's camp, led by a man of about thirty years old, wearing a pair of blue armor, dignified.

"I've seen Lord Belle!"

A group of officers and soldiers saluted one after another.

It turned out that this person was not Li Shutai, but Bo Luo, the deputy commander of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Blue Banner.

Boluo, Manchuria Aixinjue Luo, a general in the early Qing Dynasty, the grandson of Nurha Chisun of the Qing Dynasty, and the third son of Abatai, the king of Rao Yumin.

In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), Bolo followed the Manchu army into the pass, broke Li Zicheng's army, entered Baylor, and now led a Zhenglan Banner, followed Duoduo to the south, and concurrently served as the commander of the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner, and was the commander-in-chief of the attack on Chongming Island.

"What's the matter, 10,000 people were driven back without even getting close a hundred meters in front of the enemy?" As soon as Bolo spoke, he was held accountable.

"Qi Qi Belle Ye, this Ming army is a little evil, the army of 5,000 people, all equipped with firearms, the projectiles are like a raging storm, and endlessly, our flesh and blood, it is really difficult to get close to within 100 meters!" Some generals told the truth.

"That's right, the formation of this army is strange, just like the mandarin duck formation mentioned in the war book." Some generals continued to add.

"Mandarin duck array? It seems that it is really the Qi family's army! Bolo sighed and said, "How long will it take for the Xiao Cavalry Camp to arrive?" ”

The spies who were bought before said that the island was garrisoned by the Qi army, although Bo Luo didn't believe that the current Qi army was really so brave, but he was still fully prepared, otherwise he would not have transferred 100,000 troops to the island to deal with the 50,000 Ming army without city defense.

Now the defeat in the first battle has once again alerted him.

"The fleet has docked, and this group of soldiers from the Xiao Cavalry Battalion has two associations (about 8,000 people)." A general replied.

Xiao cavalry battalion is one of the main arms of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at this time the Qing army has just gone south, has not yet carried out military reform, Xiao cavalry battalion is still relatively single, mostly Manchu light cavalry, although crossing the river to the island without war horses, but the archery of the Xiao cavalry battalion, also the first at that time.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was founded on cold weapons, and the importance of archers was much higher than that of firearms troops, and the training was also extremely strict, a qualified archer had to go through at least four or five years of intensive training, and he had to do it immediately and shoot nine out of ten, which could be called the elite of the elite.

This time, in order to deal with the newly formed Qi family army, which has been formed for less than a year, Bolo dispatched two Xiao cavalry battalions at one time, which shows the importance it attaches to it.

"When the Xiao cavalry battalion is in place, I will send five thousand rattan soldiers to cover the Xiao cavalry camp to attack, I want to see if the Qi family army is powerful, or the Xiao cavalry camp is more fierce!" Bolo said coldly.

The rattan soldiers arose in the anti-Japanese war in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because the rattan card after immersion in oil is not only lighter than the steel shield, but also can resist the arrows, and even the bird bullets 100 meters away can also be blocked, the Qing army has suffered the loss of the Ming army's firearms, so this rattan card was created to counter the Ming army's Shenji battalion.

Now the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner is also equipped with rattan soldiers, but their rattan size can only protect the chest and abdomen, and within 100 meters, it will also be pierced by birds.

However, if it can reach within nearly 100 meters, it is enough for the archers of the cavalry battalion to exert their might, and the more intelligent Han army borrowed more rattan cards from the brother troops, and the two rattan cards in each hand are just enough to protect the whole body.

Anyway, the commander only said that they should be on the front line, and he didn't say that they would go to the enemy camp to charge and kill, and they could complete the task with only armor and no combat knives.

"What kind of tactic is this? Could it be that they want to fight with us with bayonets with rattan cards? ”

When the Qing soldiers who had two rattan cards in their hands but did not carry swords, guns, swords and halberds came to the front of the Qi army, the generals of the Qi family army were also stunned.

And the other party does not charge, but only moves slowly, isn't this a live target?

"No matter what tactics he has, the rattan soldiers can only defend from a distance of 100 meters, if they dare to cross a hundred meters, they will fight me to the death!" Qi Jiajun decided to respond to all changes with no change.

"No, there are archers behind the rattan soldiers!" Someone quickly figured out the problem.

"Fire!"

At this time, the front-line commander of the Qi family's army didn't care about the question of whether it could penetrate a hundred meters away, and asked the soldiers to fire, because the range of the archers was only a little worse than that of the flintlock pistol, and a distance of 100 meters was already enough to kill.

"It's useless! Can't beat their rattan cards at all! "After a volley, some soldiers found that it had no effect at all.

"Aim at their legs and fire." Someone reminded.

The defense of the two-sided rattan card is not all-round, at least if you want to prevent the head, you can't prevent the legs, the head is naturally the most important, so the legs of most Qing soldiers are still exposed.

"Watch out for the arrows!"

"Ah..........h

At the same time as the Qi family army shifted its attack position, the Qing army's Xiao cavalry battalion finally exerted its strength, and round after round of arrow feathers flew towards the Qi family army camp.

The Qi family army is now an all-firearms unit, although due to the system, there is no change into the combat uniform of the Suzhou New Army, but also in order to reduce the burden, the armor on the body is removed, there is no armor protection, the lethality of the arrows is greatly improved, only the first round of arrows, the front row of the Qi family army has more than 70 people lost combat effectiveness.