170: Reactions caused by the Flower Skin Gun
The biggest advantage of the cavalry against the infantry is the maneuverability and impact speed of the horse, the infantry can't catch up, can't run away, as long as the cavalry don't give up their advantages to fight their own disadvantages with the infantry, then the winner belongs to the cavalry, even if you can't win, there will be no loss, this advantage will not disappear until the appearance of rapid-fire weapons.
These Qing soldiers who fought this is not an encounter or an ambush war also understand this, if the Jia La in front still suffers the loss of unknown opponent's strength is a forgivable mistake, then the attack launched by the Qing army in the back is self-inflicted and cannot live, and the casualties caused by continuous guerrilla attacks to the Ming army are very few, but the Ming army can take away a few horses and one or two casualties every time they shoot, and it will continue to come down in several waves. The only result of the Qing soldiers was to measure the effective range of the opponent's new firearm with their lives and to carry out a reloading after three shots; It's just that this information was exchanged for the lives of hundreds of war horses and more than a dozen elite cavalrymen......
What made these Qing soldiers even more unbearable was that when the Qing soldiers knew that they had kicked the iron plate and were about to evacuate, those Ming troops began to change formations and slowly advance forward......
These Ming army such actions completely angered the Qing soldiers, so many years, especially in the past two years, the strength of the Qing army has become greater and greater, the number of defeats is not only less and less, and even even if there are casualties, they can bravely snatch back their own corpses, in ancient times, there is no kind treatment of the enemy's corpses, ears, fingers and even human heads are important evidence of war exploits......
The Ming soldiers were furious with their actions, and they sent elite cavalry to attack the Ming camp and try to retrieve the corpses, so that the fighting between the two sides immediately escalated.
If the Qing soldiers concentrated more troops for a surprise attack, maybe they could really break through the camp of the Ming army to have a massacre, but what is good is that this team of showing off their might is too long, and it is a mess caused by livestock and captured slaves, and the speed and efficiency of the team assembly are greatly reduced, and the Ming army just fought a time difference that did not give the Qing soldiers more time and opportunities, so the battle between the two sides was really a one-sided massacre......
After losing hundreds of casualties, the Qing soldiers finally came to their senses and continued to fight like this, which would become a tactic to add fuel to the fire, and it was to constantly fill this big pit with human lives, stop the attack, and let the Qing soldiers stop continuing to refresh and expand the casualty figures, and let them only watch the Ming army cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers on the ground and take off their armor and slowly retreat......
The battle of this day finally ended with a great victory for the Ming army, although the results of the hundred or so people and the loss of 100,000 combat strength in the Songjin Battle are simply insignificant figures, but in this kind of day that has been accustomed to hearing all kinds of news of defeat, it is indeed like a warm wind blowing in the cold winter; And this result is still without water, and the hundreds of heads that are not filled by ordinary people already show the real surname of the victory. What's more, among the trophies brought back, there are several pieces of hanging armor used by the Qing cavalry, this kind of armor of the Qing soldiers is not easy to fake, especially the killing of a double-armored Niu Lu is even more exciting for a long time!
Chongzhen, who received the good news, was overjoyed, and what made him even happier was to hear that the battle not only killed so many Qing soldiers, but most importantly, his own casualties were minimal, only a dozen people were wounded by stray arrows, and one person died of serious injuries. Such a battle loss ratio is rare or even unprecedented in so many years, can it not make people happy?
And after learning more details of this battle, everyone understood one thing, that is, the team fighting this battle was equipped with a fast gun purchased from Guangxi Shanman Huapi, and so many corpses were all shot by Huapi fast gun! And it was just so many hundreds of fast guns that day that caused such a refreshing result, if you equip more fast guns to form such a combat team...... Some people are already thinking about how much they can achieve......
For this reason, many people began to tout Chongzhen's long-term vision, being able to endure the pain for a while, being open-minded and generous, not to be so calculating in Guangxi, but also knowing how to be generous, anyway, there was a voice of praise.
Just when the court was full of beautiful words of praise and praise, the news that Guangxi Huapishan was once again raising troops and rebelling came in the form of an 800-mile express report......
The next day, the people who were still full of praise and praise yesterday don't talk much today, and the people who didn't talk much yesterday have something to say today, and as soon as this artillery battle begins, the whole court becomes a battlefield of mouth artillery, and the point of the quarrel is not to have any views on this matter and come up with a solution, it is nothing more than a party struggle to kill the other party as soon as possible...... Chongzhen waved his sleeves away as always that day......
On the third day, there was still chaos in the court, but through Chongzhen's attitude yesterday, both sides found out the bottom, that is, these two pieces of news came to the end, this just used the fast gun of the flower skin to let everyone see the dawn of victory, can you do it again later! This happiness has not been happy for a day, and it has disturbed your good mood...... But what makes everyone embarrassed is here, Huapi's fast gun makes everyone understand that if they can equip a few more batches, they may be able to change the situation of erosion in the north, not only to resist external humiliation, but also to quell the rebellion and suppress Li Zicheng These rogues, but you Huapi suddenly came so handedly that people were caught off guard, did you continue to buy arms with you, or did you send troops to suppress you......
Of course, the people in the court also understand that the second article is purely blind, and whoever mentions it is unlucky!
Now all the dignitaries in the court have understood that these flower skins in the south are indeed powerful, and whoever proposes to go to the conquest is harming people, and whoever goes will die, either being killed by the flower skin or coming back after failure to be pinched and killed; And it is precisely because of this that everyone tacitly adopts the rebound mode, whoever proposes to expropriate the flower skin will go, that is self-inflicted and cannot live.
However, there must always be an answer to the matter of flower skin, but everyone is not sure about the attitude of these flower skins, whether it is to say and endure or to conquer and suppress the rebellion, they are not sure to understand it, and in the end they have to be like a classic line in a movie in later generations: then discuss and discuss, then study and study, then discuss, then weigh and weigh, then compare and compare, then consider, then observe, observe, look again, think again, wait, etc., etc., etc., etc......., etc Renegotiate......
In this way, after several days of renegotiation and renegotiation without doing anything, another good news came, another Ming army of more than 2,000 people was also in the southern area of Hebei, and also relied on fast guns equipped with flower skins, and this Ming army defeated tens of thousands of Liukou......
These rogues are actually a team under Li Zicheng's command, and these people who are wandering around are actually destroying production and can only be swept into chaos, just to find more food, don't look at the number of terrifying, but although the number of people is terrifying, the combat power is really limited, and there is a lack of training and even basic army records, especially the lack of cavalry mobility like the Qing army...... How could the rogues who were killed and injured by such rapid fire withstand such casualties, and the remaining rogues ran backwards even if their morale collapsed, and even the big knives of the overseers could not stop the collapse of the crowd......
After this news reached the Forbidden City, the balance that was originally deadlocked began to tilt, and it may be a fluke for Huapi's fast gun to win once, but what if it can win twice? And in the next few days, when the news came that the third army, armed with the Flower Skin Gun, had won another battle, the balance finally fell unbalanced; Although Huapi sent troops to cause trouble in Guangxi, after all, it belongs to Xiaokou Xiaochao, and its influence and harm are far less than that of giant bandits like Li Zicheng in the north and the Qing army outside the Guan, and these Huapi also seem to know how to save some face for the Ming Dynasty in a low-key manner, and after weighing the pros and cons, they acquiesced to the military operations of Huapi in Guangxi, and prepared to complete the remaining 2,000 fast guns and ammunition transactions, and the oracle was quickly transmitted to the south......
This is also the reason why the Guangxi officials only shouted the first half of the new round of military operations against the mountain villages -- the situation is stronger than the people!
And after these battles in the north, there is also a collateral effect that these Ming army teams have made a good advertisement for the flower skin fast gun - the flower skin fast gun, fast rate of fire, good accuracy, easy to load, not afraid of rain, solid and durable, is a must-have at home to kill people and goods, dear, don't you come to a shot?
However, at first, the opponents of the northern Ming army did not know the origin and origin of this musket, but money can make the ghost grind, and in any era there is no shortage of Han annihilation who betrays the country for the benefit of the Chinese, and it didn't take long for Li Zicheng and the Qing army to know that these fast guns were produced by Guangxi Huapi, called Xia-style rifles, but because they were loaded quickly and the guns were fast, they were also called Huapi fast guns.
In addition to this basic information, other information about these muskets was also shaken out: the Ming Dynasty political axes and Huapi traded 5,000 fast guns and delivered 3,000 of them and 150,000 rounds of fast gun ammunition, these 3,000 rifles were equipped in the three Ming troops defending Gyeonggi, and the remaining part was sent to the Imperial Forest Army Shenji Camp in the Forbidden City......
When the news leaked out, Li Zicheng and the people on both sides of the Qing army were surprised, they originally thought that these firearms were new products of Westerners, but they never thought that they were actually domestic products! What they couldn't imagine was that it was still produced by a mountain barbarian in a mountain nest......
But then again, who is who, take the map, where is the special drop in Guangxi? …… (To be continued.) )