"Raise your gun--prepare-release!" After two rounds of artillery fire from the rear front, the command on the skirmish line rang out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The musketeers, who served as skirmishers, leaned against the bunkers they were looking for, and fired a volley at the earthen wall at the entrance to the village ahead. The green camp birds that showed their heads behind the earthen wall were coldly knocked down.

"All of them, free fire!" Next to Deng Siniu, Shi Changyan said loudly.

Yan Zhan is a native of Sichuan, he was born in a family of Xingwu, his father and uncle were both Sichuan soldiers who participated in the bloody battle of the Nianhun River, and both sacrificed their lives for the country in that battle. Unlike Deng Siniu's initial slightly ignorant motivation for joining the army, Yan Zhan can be said to have come with enthusiasm and hatred for the country and family from the beginning, whether in peacetime or wartime, the ability and enthusiasm he showed did not speak, although he did not talk much, he had a high prestige among ordinary soldiers.

Looking at the calm and resolute face, Deng Siniu felt more stable in his heart, strictly followed the password, and completed one tactical move after another according to the training he usually received.

After the skirmish line has completed a salvo close to the enemy line, free fire begins. The musketeers skillfully reloaded, locked onto their targets, and white smoke rose and the sound of gunfire continued to sound like firecrackers set off during the New Year.

As soon as the Qing army's bronze cannons showed signs of firing in this direction, the stragglers quickly moved away in a flexible formation and continued to shoot in a relatively safe place.

The Green Camp Jizhou Town Bird Gunners stationed in the fishing village were also well-trained and could skillfully complete a series of firearms tactics such as the three-stage strike. The bird guns in his hands were also created under the cruel accountability system of the Ministry of Industry of the Manchu Dynasty, and they were several grades stronger than the inferior goods in the hands of the original Chongzhen Dynasty's northern border army. In the past two years, he has also performed quite well in the suppression of the civil uprising in the north.

It is precisely because of this that the town of Jizhou was sent by Tan Tai to guard the key point of the fishing village. They were guarding behind the earthen wall, originally intending to wait for the Ming line to come within range of their own before starting a salvo. Unexpectedly, the main formation of the Ming army was still out of range, and the stragglers who were elusive in the ruins in front of the village had already fired at them first.

This kind of unreasonable playing made the green battalion soldiers feel like they were beaten on the head. The bean-like bullets continued to knock down the green battalion soldiers behind the earthen wall, and they also continued to ignite the tension and panic in their hearts.

As time passed, this plague-like nervous panic finally reached a tipping point in its outbreak. As the first green camp bird gun couldn't help but pull the trigger, hundreds of bird guns were fired one after another, and the front of the fishing village was instantly shrouded in white smoke, and even the officers' shouts and scolding were quickly drowned out by the sound of raindrops.

However, this kind of haphazard shooting did not pose a threat to the Ming army at all. The officers of the Green Battalion shouted loudly for the Bird Gunners to reload.

The skirmish line of the Gangfeng battalion was still firing freely and unhurriedly, and the large francs and three-pounder guns on the rear front were also methodically firing at the fishing village. The two-pronged approach continued to heat up the panic on the first line of defense of the Qing army.

The line of sight was blocked by the white smoke, and gradually I couldn't see the Ming army on the other side, but the companions around me were shot and fell down from time to time, I don't know if it will be me next? Driven by this emotion, many of the Green Battalion Bird Fighters who had reloaded their ammunition once again opened their own fire, shouting at the officers' commands.

This kind of random blind fighting did not help much to kill the enemy, but made the smoke of gunpowder blocking his vision become thicker and thicker, and even the shooting of his own artillery was greatly affected, and the effect became less and less.

The Gangfeng battalion only used a skirmish line of 200 men to stir up the first line of defense carefully arranged by the Qing army.

"Damn, this group of Nikans is only afraid of bad things!" The supreme commander of the Qing army stationed around the fishing village, the left wing of the Manchurian left wing with the blue flag, Mel Zhangjing Sha Erhuda, saw the situation in front clearly, said to himself viciously, and then called a Manchurian Jia Lazhangjing beside him, "Kurg, take your people around the flank and drive the puppet Ming army away from the army." ”

Kurg took the order and left. Shaerhuda said to the Zhenglan Banner Han Army Gushan next to him: "Bayan Gushan, you also go to the front and keep an eye on it personally." If the Nikans at the front can't hold on, replace them in time, but don't run into our own defenses when you pull back. If there is anything bad, I will slaughter him on the spot! ”

Mel Zhangjing Sha Erhuda ordered Gushan Ezhen Bayan to come, and he didn't feel anything wrong at all. And Bayan also accepted the order honestly, and didn't think that there should be anything wrong at all. There is no way, although he Bayan is the son of Li Yongfang, the forehead of the old slave, and he also raised the flag and changed his name, he still does not have much confidence in front of the real Manchurian master.

Under the attack of the straggler line and artillery of the Gangfeng Battalion, the first line of defense composed of the birds and gunners of the Green Battalion Jizhou Town fell into chaos before they could exert their strength.

By the time the front line of the 1,000th Brigade of the Gangfeng Battalion in the back continued to advance, only scattered counterattacks remained on the Qing army's defensive line.

The 1,000th Brigade of the Gangfeng Battalion took the opportunity to speed up, and the 2nd and 3000th Brigades followed suit. The layers of fronts are surging and undulating, and the momentum is like a rainbow.

More than 200 Eight Banner soldiers, led by a Jiala Zhangjing, rushed out of the village from the flank and launched an attack on the straggler line of the Gangfeng battalion. Because the positions chosen by the stragglers were extremely tricky, with rocks and convex and concave trees, the Eight Banners could only dismount and attack. The musketeers on the stragglers line fired back as they retreated, and even if the Eight Banners rushed in front of them, they resolutely engaged in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, and then continued to retreat after breaking away from the entanglement, in an orderly and fearless manner.

The main formation of the Gangfeng battalion had already pressed up, and the Eight Banners who attacked the skirmisher line did not dare to push too hard, and quickly retreated after driving the stragglers for a distance.

Although the skirmish line had been withdrawn, the Green Battalion Bird Men behind the earthen wall had not fully recovered from the confusion, and it was clear that there was no chance to organize a salvo again. The surging Ming army front was close at hand.

In an instant, the tidal wave of shouts resounded in the sky.

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The 1,000th Brigade was the first to attack the fishing village. The bird-stricken-hand of the green camp Jizhou Town retreated, and the melee soldiers who had been prepared for a long time came up like a tide.

The combat power of these green battalion soldiers adapted from the northern border army of the original Ming Dynasty is not bad. The reason why it left the impression of being weak and vulnerable to the world back then was mainly because the old military management system of the Ming Dynasty was almost out of order, and the food and salary could not be guaranteed, so it was naturally defeated again and again. Although the Manchu Qing was barbaric, it was an emerging political and military entity after all, and the military management system could operate effectively.

The melee soldiers on both sides were close to each other, and the battle became increasingly fierce.

On the east side of the fishing village, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and four or five hundred cavalry from the two blue flags turned out of the village and launched an attack on the Gangfeng battalion from the flank.

At this time, the 1,000th Corps had already entered the fishing village and engaged in white-knuckle warfare, and the 2,000th Corps followed up became the focus of the Qing cavalry's attack. Sha'erhuda's purpose was clear, even if it could not defeat the Ming army that followed, at least delay it to create a partial advantage in the main force of the village.

The cavalry of the Qing army was menacing. The advancing 2,000 Corps came to a halt, and the unison of the tiger roar in the formation shook the earth. The spearmen on the outer layer placed their spears one foot and two feet long diagonally, stepped on the tail of the spear shaft with their right foot, and grasped the spear shaft with both hands so that the tip of the spear pointed diagonally upward. Hundreds of spears one foot and two feet long made the phalanx look like a hedgehog full of spikes.

At present, among the three thousand corps of each infantry battalion in Huguang Town, the establishment of the 1,000th corps is relatively flexible, and it can be used to form a phalanx or be used for close combat, while the establishment of the second and third thousand corps is focused on phalanx warfare. In this way, when the 1000th Brigade is engaged in close combat with the enemy, if the enemy is mainly infantry, the 2nd and 3000th Brigades can come forward to support at any time, and if the enemy has a sufficient size of cavalry, the 2nd and 30000 Brigades will set up a spear phalanx, which can not only stabilize their formation, but also effectively cover the rear of the 10000th Brigade.

In the face of this kind of "hedgehog" covered with spikes, the Eight Banners Cavalry, which belongs to light cavalry and is not known for its impact power, is not easy to talk about at all, so it can only gallop around the periphery and fire arrows.

In previous battles, if the Ming army was encountered, the Eight Banners Army did not directly use cavalry to break through the phalanx, but used the speed advantage of the cavalry to disrupt the phalanx by throwing arrows, or directly used artillery to scatter the phalanx, and then sent heavy infantry to complete the fatal blow.

But now the phalanx of Huguang Town is not the kind of phalanx that the Ming army lacked countermeasures against the cavalry in the past and could only be beaten, and a large number of flintlock muskets and light artillery offset most of the Qing cavalry's shooting advantage.

Throw a rain of arrows at the phalanx in the gallop, and when the phalanx fires, use the speed advantage to bypass it far away, adjust the formation, and then take advantage of the gap between the phalanx's fire to re-attack and disturb the arrows...... Hundreds of Qing cavalry inflicted some casualties on the 2,000th Gangfeng Corps in this way, but their own casualties were not small. In the fierce roar of guns, the screams of wounded horses and the screams of cavalry on the battlefield appeared from time to time.

"Damn, these horseback Tartars are really fleas, and they can't be chased away." Seeing that the advance of the 2,000th Brigade of the hundreds of Qing cavalry troops had caused a lot of trouble, Lu Qiwu scolded to himself, if he had five hundred cavalry in his hand, he would not allow the Tartar cavalry to be so rampant.

But scolding and scolding, he was not too anxious in his heart. He believed in the soldiers under his command, and believed that the 1,000th Corps would not suffer even if it faced the main force of the Qing army in the village alone. If the battle continues, the Tartar cavalry that comes out to attack will definitely break their bones first.

He never had the slightest doubt about whether the Gangfeng Battalion could take the fishing village in front of him and the important fulcrum of the West Road battlefield on its own.