Chapter 527: The Battle of Songyue Mountain (5)
The fishing area where the blue jade once fought, which is now Bear Lake, was mostly part of Outer Mongolia in later generations - this pit is too deep to be repeated here. Later, Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mongolia were also quite praised feats, but unfortunately all this changed after the Xuande year.
With the popularization of firearms, the Ming army became more and more reliant on firearms, ignoring hand-to-hand combat. It's also a natural thing, long-range attack weapons can solve the battle, and who wants to rush forward with their head and fight with a knife and an axe?
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the image of the Ming army as unbearable for a war had been deeply ingrained - to put it bluntly, it was still afraid of the hand-to-hand combat of the Manchu heavy infantry. The firearms of that year were far inferior to the Makqin of later generations, and the craftsmen were shoddy, so there was a saying that "the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible".
But now the script has been reversed - with the rise of the Tuanshan army, the Qing army was pressed to the ground and beaten a few times, and then they also learned to be obedient - it was Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and now it is Hong Chengchou, the Taishi of the Manchu Dynasty, and the two of them attach more importance to firearms than anyone else. When the Manchu army began to be equipped with firearms in large numbers, their hand-to-hand combat ability naturally plummeted.
After the momentum of the Tuanshan Army's charge came up, many people in the Qing army began to close their eyes and put their guns down, looking at the posture, they estimated that they were ready to "strategic retreat" after releasing their guns......
A smile appeared on the corner of Pan Batian's mouth, who was supervising the battle in front of the battle, but soon returned to normal and became calm. He was very confident in the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Tuanshan Army, because Master Zhang's requirements for the Tuanshan Army were now concentrated in two aspects - the first was hand-to-hand combat, and the second was hand-to-hand combat......
From the moment these soldiers joined the Tuanshan Army, the two most important training subjects were shooting accuracy. The second is hand-to-hand combat skills.
Limited by the manufacturing process of the firecracker in this era, it is absolutely impossible for the later generations of target guns to hit the ten rings. If you don't miss the target, you are a qualified soldier. In training, about one-fifth of the soldiers stand out. This small group of people has more shooting skills than ordinary soldiers. Soon, instructors selected this part of the people and added them to the elite units such as the Fudo Battalion, the Blocking Team, and the Marine Corps, and the remaining four-fifths of the soldiers were ordinary members of the Tuanshan Army.
Ordinary regimental mountain soldiers only made qualified requirements for shooting accuracy -- that is, did not miss the target, and then shifted the focus of training to hand-to-hand combat ability. At present, the main hand-to-hand combat of the Tuanshan Army is to fight bayonets, and the soldiers practice every day, month after month, all of which are practicing this kind of assassination technique.
It is difficult to improve the accuracy of the firecracker, but the skill of fighting the bayonet is endless!
Pan Batian recalled in his mind a sentence that Master Zhang said most often: In this era when both sides use firearms in large quantities. In the decades that followed, it was not firearms that would determine the outcome of a war, but morale - and the source of morale was the ability to fight hand-to-hand!
The current hand-to-hand combat is different from the hand-to-hand combat of broadswords and spears, and now the soldiers are required to shoot when they have the opportunity, and if they do not have the opportunity to shoot calmly after close quarters, they carry bayonets and stab them.
Pan Batian's understanding of Zhang Li's words is quite profound, and what Master Zhang means is that the arms of pure hand-to-hand combat, such as the heavy infantry of Jiannu, are cliffs to be beaten by the fire troops of the Tuanshan Army; But if the enemy is also a firecracker unit, then the key to deciding the outcome is to see who dares to fight with bayonets......
The sky was already slightly white. It's just that the sun hasn't risen yet, but the vision is still blurry. Now, the Tuanshan army has rushed into the Qing army's formation, and a big stone in Pan Batian's heart has fallen to the ground - and then at this moment. In front of the Qing army's position, a huge explosion suddenly remembered "boom"!
Pan Batian was shocked, and his eyes widened as he stared at the billowing smoke!
"Boom, boom, boom-" Several violent explosions came, and the soldiers who rushed to the front of the Tuanshan Army suddenly suffered a large number of casualties!
Just when Pan Batian was confused. A colonel rushed from the front - he shouted loudly as he ran: "General Pan! Mr. Pan! The Tartars placed a large number of palm mines in front of the formation. Our army simply can't rush up, or even get off the ground! The soldiers at the front suffered heavy casualties......"
Pan Batian was in a hurry. I immediately asked a few questions, and then I figured out the situation. It turned out that the Qing army was full of palm mines at the front of the position, but now it is not very real, and the soldiers of the Tuanshan Army charging were unprepared, so they stepped on it and detonated the palm mines.
A mine in the palm of the hand explodes, and often brings several nearby explosions together, it is really a line of death!
Presumably, the Tartars were inspired by the charge of the cavalry sprinkled with thistles to defend against the cavalry, and scattered the mines in their palms in front of the battle to prevent the infantry of the regimental mountain army from charging. If it was daylight, the soldiers of the Tuanshan Army should be able to find out, but now it is dawn, and they can't see it clearly at all-this is the enemy's weapon to prevent night attacks!
In just a short moment, Pan Batian issued an order: "Send a flare, everyone withdraws, and make another plan!" ”
The heralds on the side shouted a promise, and soon two yellow signal flares rose into the sky, and the Tuanshan army immediately withdrew like a tide. At this moment, the Qing army also seemed to be in spirit, seeing the retreat of the Tuanshan army, they also began to open fire, and immediately many soldiers of the Tuanshan army were hit by the enemy.
After the troops retreated, Pan Batian had red eyes, bit his lip stubbornly, and quickly calculated how to deal with it in his heart.
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Shang Kexi came to the western position at the first time, after all, this was the direction facing the Tuanshan Army. When the Tuanshan Army Pan Batianbu launched a charge, the white flag armor Lazhang Jingta Mutu beside him sneered again and again, but did not say a word.
After Hong Chengchou and Hong Taishi took full charge of the military affairs of the Korean State, they mixed the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Han Dynasty -- this was different from the mixed model that Dolgon imagined at the beginning - the Han people were cannon fodder in the front, and the Jurchens picked up cheap in the back. Hong Taishi's mixed editor ruthlessly slapped Dolgon's face, and should have also slapped Huang Taiji, who had just died, in the face, maybe the old slave slave Hachi knew that Hong Chengchou was so "practiced" that the Jurchen warriors would also crawl out of the grave and fight with Hong Chengchou.
That's right, the mixed formation of Hong Taishi is that the Han people are responsible for shooting, and the Jurchens are responsible for hand-to-hand combat...... This Nima, co-authored to let the Jurchen warriors go to death!
Other Jurchens still think like that, but Tamutu is different.
Tamutunai is a veteran, about fifty years old. He was also a member of the "Eight Hatreds" who followed the old Khan's King Nuer Hachi to rise up against the Ming Dynasty, and he was naturally no better than the newly promoted Jurchen generals.
"Thinking of the old Khan King back then, he swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger...... Tamutu whispered this poem in his mouth, but his head shook slightly, and he repeatedly asked in his heart: I really fell into such a field, and I didn't even dare to fight with that mountain army in frontal hand-to-hand combat?! (To be continued.) )