Chapter Seventy-Seven: Fifteen Steps

"Stand up to Lao Tzu, you damned Nikan." Taktan's roar rang out in the front row.

Zhang Zhongqi raised his head sluggishly, and Tak Tan was beating a Bao Yi with a waist knife, who was looking for his position in a panic. Uzhen Chaoha turned from the middle to the east, and they had the advantage of maneuvering on the inside, and there was little need for movement, and this adjustment still caused huge chaos in Wuzhen Chaoha.

Until the infantry of Dengzhou Town had appeared on the opposite side, the adjustment of Wuzhen Chaoha had not been completed, several companies were mixed together, but several companies on the other side were too wide, and the officers were running around in front of the formation, coordinating the position of the formation.

The blue flag was canceled before the war, because Hauge became the new flag owner, Huang Taiji treated the blue flag as his own descendant, after the two yellow flags were eye-catching in Xiping Fort, Huang Taiji gave the new batch of flintlock pistols to the blue flag, and they became a team of all flintlock pistols, but the formation was still the same as before, and the formation was also six rows, and the two yellow flags had used three or four rows of battle columns.

The beaten Bao Yi is from their village, he seems to have been unable to find his team, walked in the front row in a few places and was squeezed out by others, he turned around twice helplessly, walked farther away, trying to find a position over there, just walked in front of Zhang Zhongqi, suddenly a knife flashed, the head of the Bao Yi flew out a few steps away, the severed body spurted blood and fell softly in front, and the surrounding Bao Yi exclaimed.

Warm blood beads flew through the air, and when they dripped on Zhang Zhongqi's face, it was already a cold feeling, Zhang Zhongqi's dull eyes had some activity, and his eyes slowly turned, looking at Tak Tan, who was standing not far in front of him with a knife.

"He kills." Zhang Zhongqi muttered.

His whispers were unheard in the background of the hustle and bustle of the battlefield. Taktan was looking around at the coat in front of him fiercely, "Death to those who break out of the queue!" Death to those who retreat! ”

The surrounding Bao Yi cowered and stepped back for a while, and Taktan shouted loudly: "Those Dengzhou Nikans are here to rob your wife and children's houses, and they will kill you all." You can only kill all the Nikans on the other side, and all of them can raise their flags......"

Zhang Zhongqi said godlessly: "He kills ...... people"

“…… You can go to the kingdom of Ming and loot things. The silver women are inexhaustible in food, and the two yellow flags of Wuzhen Chaoha killed those Nikans in Xiping Fort to a great defeat, all of them are ordinary muskets, and these Dengzhou Nikans will die the same. ”

The coats seemed to have some courage, and Taktan strode towards another section of the array, and the armored soldiers in this flag team shouted loudly. Let the soldiers hurry up and form a formation.

Zhang Zhongqi stared at the corpse on the ground, "He killed, killed ......"

“…… My baby. After Zhang Zhongqi finished speaking, his mouth opened slightly, his eyes suddenly condensed, and he turned his head sharply to look at the back of Taktan, and his eyes were full of ferocity that had never appeared in him.

Zhang Zhongqi's face twitched. Taktan's back had gone far away, and he was still staring at it, until the armored soldier who was in charge kicked him awake, Zhang Zhongqi turned his head, the armored soldier was waiting for him viciously, Zhang Zhongqi hurriedly put on a smiling face, nodded and took a step back.

The soldier went and urged the others. Zhang Zhongqi only concentrated at this time to look at the opposite side, there was a loud military horn, and the formation of the two wings of the Ming army quickly extended and stretched into a wide horizontal formation, which was about the same width as the array of Houjin, and the speed of the formation was something Zhang Zhongqi had never seen.

Then artillery appeared on both flanks of the Ming army, and they quickly entered the position under the tow of four or eight horses, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole diagonally at the Houjin Front, and a red military flag fluttered high in the middle of the array, and a flying tiger with teeth and claws on it was stepping on a skeleton......

Six thousand commanders rode to the battalion flag with their guards. Zhong Laosi had just finished observing the enemy formation, and the Houjin soldiers on the opposite side were flying with flags, and the cavalry was ordered to come and go in the formation, raising bursts of snow. But the formation of those Wuzhen Chaoha was still not completed, and the confusion of the queue also affected the position of their artillery. From the perspective of position, the two yellow flags of Wuzhen Chaoha are on the wings, the middle is blue, and the vest of the yellow flag is behind the battle.

Zhong Laosi smiled proudly, and ordered loudly to the three thousand commanders of the cavalry: "The right flank of the Guards cavalry is arrayed to suppress the Tianyou Army, the second general right flank of the second cavalry battalion is on standby, and the dragoons follow up behind the second battalion of the guards." ”

Zhong Laosi turned to the three thousand commanders of the second battalion, "The first and third general columns of the second battalion of the guards became horizontal formations, and the second general in the middle attacked in a frontal column of the company. Zhong Laosi rode on his horse and said loudly to the staff officer, "The salvo is commanded by the battalion headquarters, and no one is allowed to shoot less than fifteen paces." ”

Zhu Feng was stunned for a moment and said, "Why did the adults say fifteen steps?" Usually between 50 and 70 steps. ”

"Lord Chen wants the Guards Battalion to defeat the middle of Jiannu as quickly as possible, and when the salvo from fifty paces away, Lao Tzu will defeat them in one round."

Liu Yue hesitated: "Then Jin Bing may shoot two rounds, and the closer he goes, the more dead people will ......."

"The more slaves die." Zhong Laosi said indifferently, "After fifteen steps away from the salvo, all the bayonets charged, after breaking through Wuzhen Chaoha, the second general attacked the Houjin Khan Banner with a column, the dragoons looked for an opportunity to carry out the second wave of assault, and the right wing cavalry cut off the retreat of the Chinese army to the north, and Lao Tzu saw that he could run away on a dog day." ”

"The subordinates obey the order, but can they go to thirty paces and shoot a salvo."

"I believe what Lao Tzu said, the first round of salvo is the most important, let these Wuzhen Chaoha see, who the hell is the ancestor of the musketeers. Kill them all! ”

"Kill!" ……

The first and third of the two wings of the second battalion of the guards changed from a vertical formation to a horizontal formation, and the four companies of each lined up to form a wide front, the battle line of the two armies was on the right side of the seventh battalion, and the direction of the second battalion of the guards was northwest.

The second general principle in the middle is still a column, and the four companies are deployed in front and rear, with only the first company platoon in the first line, forming a fourfold superiority in strength in the local area, and they are responsible for the task of quickly attacking the Jinzhong army after the breakthrough.

Tang Wei was in the first company of the second general headquarters, and he naturally became the vanguard of the entire thousand generals, and the empty field opposite was scattered with corpses of people and horses. There were countless Houjin soldiers who were black and oppressed a mile away, and it felt as if he was facing thousands of enemies by himself.

Tang Wei's heartbeat suddenly began to accelerate, his palms were slightly sweating, his mouth was dry, he had imagined the battlefield countless times. Imagine himself calmly and heroically rushing into the enemy line and becoming a battle hero, but when it really came to the moment before the battle, he found that his hands and feet began to tremble a little.

Fortunately, there were their teammates on the left and right, and the battle infantry in Dengzhou was densely formed, and the width occupied by each person was only about two feet. The arms are almost all attached.

At this time, a thunderous cannon sounded, Tang Wei's eyes quickly turned to the wings, and several field guns there spewed a stream of flames forward, a puff of white smoke rose from the fire door, and the cannon body retreated, just stopped. Several gunners have already begun the second round of reloading.

Dengzhou's eight-pounder and four-pounder guns fired cross-fire from both flanks at the Houjin array, which was very shallow in depth, and the power of frontal fire was weakened, and diagonal fire could kill more queues.

The cannonballs flew across the Houjin queue, and several bronze cannons deployed by the Houjin soldiers also began to fire back, the shells piercing the air and leaving a hissing sound in the air. Pale white trails were smeared on the open ground between the two armies.

With the accuracy of the artillery at this time, the artillery bombardment between the artillery had almost no effect, the artillery on both sides took the opponent's infantry as a target, and the well-trained artillery in Dengzhou Town fired solid shells at a rate of three rounds per minute, and after the first round, the shells began to hit the Houjin queue continuously, and Tang Wei could see that the Houjin queue was broken through in many places.

The Houjin soldiers' artillery counterattack also followed, and a thick smoke erupted in front of a Houjin cannon opposite Tang Wei, and a black iron ball smashed twenty steps in front of Tang Wei with a "boom", bursting into a column of black and white smoke mixed with dirt. The scattered small mud blocks flew in all directions, but fortunately there was no ricocheting, and there was a vibration under Tang Wei's feet, and after a while, he saw a black hole with white smoke on the ground, and two more rounds of artillery on the Houjin position. There was a scream from the first general array next to him, Tang Wei's heart beat even more violently, and his throat was dry.

When his mind was a little blank, a familiar figure shook in front of him, Brother Guan's broad back appeared in front of him, Tang Wei's heart actually relaxed for a while, he had an inexplicable trust in this non-commissioned officer commander, it seemed that no enemy could beat Brother Guan, Brother Guan walked ten steps away from the front of the formation, turned around easily, and after a gesture, the stragglers of the two squads came out of the interval of the battle column, Brother Guan blew a bamboo whistle, and the stragglers pulled out of formation and walked forward in the sound of artillery.

Tang Wei knew that after the non-commissioned officer led the stragglers forward, it was the time for the infantry to attack, Xie Fei next to him felt Tang Wei's arm shaking, and did not turn his head and whispered: "Don't be afraid, fat man, it's up to this hammer to die, let's go home to do business after the fight, and never fight again." ”

Tang Wei agreed in a low voice, at this time, the stragglers in front of them advanced to twenty steps away, the flag of the second battalion of the guards leaned forward, and then the flags of the thousand headquarters and companies also leaned forward, the battalion trumpeter blew the trumpet, the loud military horn echoed, the commanders of each company in the front row came out one after another, standing in the center of the queue five steps before facing the enemy formation, the thousand general was in the front row on the right side of the column, and in the middle of the whole battalion, it was the battalion flag of the second battalion of the guards. Use the battalion flag to coordinate the advance of the entire battalion battle line.

As soon as Tang Wei heard this familiar trumpet, his nervousness eased slightly, and this trumpet made him kind. After the trumpet, Tang Wei patiently waited for the drum to sound, the company commander held a saber in his hand, stood at the front of the queue with his head held high, followed by a flag bearer, everyone in the front row could see the company commander, and the back row could see the flag.

"The whole company, the guns on the shoulder, the first platoon with the guns." Tang Wei and his comrades in the first row held the smoothbore guns with both hands with standard movements at the same time, the bayonets pointed upwards obliquely, and the two rows behind carried the guns on their shoulders.

"Knock knock knock", the ten foot drummers of the battalion headquarters struck four times urgently, and then beat four times in a row with the rhythm of fast walking, and then the flute player played the brass flute according to the rhythm of the drum, and the cheerful flute converged into the drum sound, Tang Wei's most familiar infantry march (grenadier march) sounded, he began to step in place, as soon as the first section was over, each company commander pointed forward with his saber, and the whole battalion began to step on the drum at the same time, making a neat footing sound, and walked forward.