Chapter 317: Battle (53)
At the moment when Bolo waved his arm and gave the order, the drums in the Qing army's formation suddenly sounded!
Zhang Quanbin's eyes tightened, and there was a stunning light in his eyes, and at this moment, almost no one around him dared to look directly at him, or even his face.
What is the brilliance of a famous general, after the war, many people said that at this moment, Zhang Quanbin is like a famous general!
But seeing that he waved his hand suddenly, he said loudly: "The flag is ordered, and the artillery battalion is aiming at me according to the elite of the enemy, and it is true, bombard me!" ”
"Yes, the artillery battalion is bombarding the enemy's new talents!"
The Chinese army in the battalion received the order, and for a while they were also extremely excited, turned around, and gave orders to the standard-bearers on the high place.
In the sound of the military order, the flagbearer on the Diao Dou flagpole was also desperately dancing the flag, issuing the flag to the car and artillery battalion on the right flank, and when he saw that the other party's flag-bearer was also waving the flag, signaling that when he received the order, the flag-bearer reported to the Chinese army again, indicating that the flag order had been transmitted as ordered.
There are a lot of flag languages in the Ming army, and Qi Jiguang has written a lot about the training of soldiers and the golden drum of the flag language in his military book. This is a genius and all-round general who comes out once in a thousand years, whether it is the marching formation, the use of weapons, or the trivial things, he is very detailed and precise in his own arrangement with one hand and one foot, and even includes the matter of camping and cooking stoves, which is also very detailed.
Originally, according to Qi Jiguang's arrangement, it was convenient for the flag to contact. However, the Ming army stretched for thousands of miles on the border, and there were distortions in the transmission of information.
The flag language of the Pingyu Army is also improved by Chinese and Western exchanges, concise and fast, and there is a complete set of rules and procedures from release to reply.
Almost at the same time as the preparation of the Pingyu army, nearly 3,000 elite Qing troops had already lined up with more than 200 people, with a wide front, under the banner of countless moves, these heavy-armored pikemen wearing double or three-layer iron armor lined up at a place of four or five hundred steps, and at this time they had already rushed wildly towards the front of the Ming army.
If you look down from the air, you can only see countless large flags waving in the wind, I don't know how many officers with various small flags on their backs are riding war horses or walking in the formation, urging these heavily armored pikemen to keep rushing forward, and the archers in front have exhausted their strength, and they are defeated in the confrontation with the musketeers.
When he was very depressed, he saw the heavily armored spearmen behind him rushing in formation, and many of them were happy.
They automatically dispersed, retracted their bows and arrows, pulled out their waist knives and pick-up knives and other handy weapons, and as soon as their spears broke through the enemy's large array, they could use the weapons in their hands and follow behind them to kill those defeated Ming troops.
Although the other party is an elite who has been rare for many years, and although he has been beaten by the firecracker on the opposite side, the myth of the so-called bow and arrow archery that has become famous and supported the arrogance of this small clan has been completely shattered...... The Qing army was more than a thousand shooters, and the firecrackers on the opposite side were less than four hundred, and there were nearly five hundred elite shooters in the Qing army, who did not even wear armor and stomachs, just to not affect archery, it was such a contrast, the firecrackers on the opposite side, under the cover of the shield hand, were not in a hurry or irritated, and killed at least more than 200 Qing troops in more than ten rounds of shooting, and wounded about 400 to 500, and their own casualties, including halberders and spearmen, would not exceed 200 people!
This exchange ratio, most likely from the later rounds of shooting, the fire gun has low requirements for physical fitness, high requirements for stable surnames, and bows and arrows must not only have accurate heads, stable surnames, but also have abundant physical fitness.
After ten rounds, the bow and arrow, although close to within a hundred paces, is already close to fifty paces, which is an effective killing distance for heavy armor defense...... But so what? The opponent's firearm is more lethal, the fight is the same accurate and steady, and the same speed is maintained, but the archer's arm strength is exhausted, and if he persists, he will die in vain!
At this time, their arrogance in archery has been wiped out, but they are still firmly convinced that the heavily armored pikemen behind them will quickly break through the Ming army line and avenge the dead and wounded Pao Ze brothers!
The heads of the people on both sides are getting closer and closer, and there are more than 20,000 soldiers on the battlefield for several miles, and each side has a distance, separated and blended, and the result of each small piece of battlefield may affect the entire overall situation, and the entire front is composed of these small battlefields of different sizes.
After the current battlefield, the commanders on both sides are also keeping their eyes on the most central battlefield.
There, it was the elite of the elite of the Qing army who charged the enemy, the main force of the main force, and the battalions such as the vanguard and the protector who had not been defeated since the hundred battles.
The defender is a new star in the Ming army, and its predecessor is the East Palace Nei Ying, which broke through the cavalry of Li Zicheng's imperial camp to intercept and pursue, and the number is limited and not worth mentioning.
Among the soldiers, nine and a half out of ten were recruits who had just joined the army for less than a year, and it was only half a year since the prince went out of Nanjing to recruit troops. Among them, they have experienced I don't know how hard and cruel the training is, starting from the queue and physical fitness, and then the protected combat skills training, the practice of real knives and guns in armor, the imitation actual combat training under the artillery, etc., half a year, the training time in the later generations is long enough, but in this very cruel era of cold weapons, a soldier from ignorance to can be familiar with the use of spears and broadswords in his hands to kill, and has a stronger body than the enemy, a firmer and stronger mind, can be familiar with his position in the formation, Those who can read the flag language, listen to the drums and whistles, and advance and retreat when they hear the sound...... It takes half a year to adapt, learn, and understand all of this, and you don't have to think much to know how difficult it is.
Admirably, they did.
Now in front of the eyes of the Qing army's heavily armored pikemen, there is a powerful battle formation as silent and powerful as a mountain, as dangerous and bloodthirsty as a beast!
The new army with determination, armor, and strong troops, the dangerous aura it exudes will never be under the strong army for many years.
In front of this formation, looking at the Ming army formation that was as shiny as a wall, some veterans of the Qing army who had fought for more than ten or twenty years knew the danger at a glance, and under this vigilance, their pace couldn't help but slow down a little.
Running headlong into the opponent's heavily defended battle formation is not the best choice. Many of the middle and high-ranking military attaches in the Qing army were also well aware of the dangers involved, just like the ordinary soldiers of the junior military attachés.
However, this battle has reached this juncture, and if you don't fight, you will be defeated, not to mention, and it will cause a laughing name that will be passed down through the ages, and no one can afford this responsibility.
The only way to do this is to come forward and fight hand-to-hand!
This is naturally the lowest plan, but it can only be so.
The number of forward battalions in the military formation is not much, only less than two hundred, in the eighth year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji selected the Bayala Sentinel as Ge Bush Xianchaoha, each flag set up two wings, select elite soldiers to enrich it, out of the police into the guard, is the last line of defense around the nobles of each banner, but also the elite of the forward when the forward rush.
Yue Le is the forward battalion Zhangjing with a white flag, plus the dozens of people handed over to him by Abatai, the department is nearly two hundred.
All of them carried small flags, and their hands were not necessarily the Eight Banners spear or tiger spear, but heavy and sharp slashing weapons such as long knives, tiger tooth knives, and iron scythes.
All of them are strong, tall and burly, the general image of the Qing army at this time is short and strong, the legs of the Luo circle are stout, the head is bare and a small handful of money rat tail pigtails, and the forward battalion is after all a carefully selected guard forward, in addition to martial arts, the image is still good.
At this time, more than 200 people wore triple iron armor, dressed in strong and stubborn, and under the leadership of Yue Le, they rushed to the front.
Seeing that he was already approaching the enemy's formation, looking at the layers of solid iron armor of the Ming army flowing with silver light, Yue Le was not only not afraid, but he was very happy in his heart.
Young people will never like to chase after a remnant of the enemy, and cut off the head of a cowardly enemy on a horse.
What you want is to be stubborn and stubborn, and defeat strong enemies in front of you!
It is necessary to use the strong martial arts tempered by his more than 20 years of hard work, decapitate into the air, pierce the human body with a spear, and see the strong enemies die in his hands one by one, from holding on to rout, and then chasing the dead and chasing the north, then there is a kind of happiness of winning a big war.
If it is the same as those previous tactics, there is no fun at all!
"Forward, speed forward!"
In the array, Yue Le was surrounded by more than ten of the most intimate guards, this tall, very heroic Zhenguo Gong's future is limitless, until the prince, and at this time, as the grandson of Nuerhachi, the son of the king of Raoyu County, he himself as the Zhenguo Gong, ruling in front, just this kind of heroic behavior, is already worthy of being a member of the clan, and also worthy of being the descendant of Taizu Taizong.
The people around him have this kind of thought, but they also hug Yue Le more closely.
Originally, there were many officers and men of the forward battalion who were sentinels and guards who went out to guard the army, the white-armored soldiers were the guard battalions, and the horse armor and infantry armor were selected into the cavalry, and the forward battalion was mainly guarded.
At this moment, there seemed to be an unusual movement in the car artillery battalion diagonally opposite, and many people, including Yue Le, squinted their eyes to look over there.
Compared to the disgraced fire formations of the striker shooters who had already hit, the artillery over there was even more terrifying.
Fortunately, the Ming army's artillery was obviously dominated by small-caliber Franc machines, and even if the artillery was barely fired at this distance, it was vain and powerless, and it was useless at all.
Thinking of this, Yue Le naturally waved his hand again and again and ordered, his forward battalion subordinates must rush into the formation before the enemy's car and artillery battalion rushes over, kill and defeat the enemy, and the first battle will definitely be his Yue Le!
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Just when Yue Le led the forwards, Laxi and other forward generals also reorganized their teams to perform a good show of the Qing army dismounting and breaking the formation, in the formation of the car artillery battalion, the crew members of the two six-pounder guns and nine-pounder guns were also aiming and adjusting the muzzles for the last time.
(To be continued)