Chapter 64: Field Battle
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Long-distance battles are a very huge test for an army, especially the newly organized team, blindly fleeing, will only be like Li Zicheng, unable to form an army and defeated.
This point has been verified on the battlefield of later generations, and only by constantly winning battles like the great men in the Long March can the army be stabilized.
Therefore, Gu Zhenhua has long wanted to win a few battles at a favorable time to boost the morale of the army. However, Wu Sangui was very cooperative, and took the initiative to catch up with the people, and Gu Zhenhua made up his mind to take this big traitor!
Of course, it is definitely not an easy thing to confront an old and cunning general like Wu Sangui, how to arrange the troops makes Gu Zhenhua painstaking.
After all, Li Xu, Guo Yunlong and others were born in the Guanning Army, even if they parted ways with Wu Sangui, the accumulated power of many years would make the soldiers panic and dare not fight.
Therefore, Gu Zhenhua did not hesitate to choose the troops brought by Zhou Yingjie, these border soldiers are more familiar with firearm combat, and they have also fought with the Tartars, and they have enough confidence in the Guanning Iron Cavalry. And Li Xu and Guo Yunlong are responsible for protecting the security of the wings.
The overall layout is well planned, and the specific battle formation also needs to use brains. Zhou Yingjie recalled Yang Liuqing's combat experience and said to Gu Zhenhua: "Seventh brother, I will use infantry to form a circle formation against the enemy, so as to have both offense and defense, and avoid the collapse of the whole army after breaking through the flank." Fully swing the advantage of the fire, defeat the enemy's vanguard, as long as the frontal resistance, the two wings of cavalry stand out, the enemy will be defeated! â
When Gu Zhenhua heard this, he immediately agreed to this proposal. After deducing the battle plan again, and after confirming that there was no problem, Gu Zhenhua ordered to choose a favorable position and form a formation to meet the enemy.
In the Chinese army, Zhou Yingjie and Xie Bin each took a battalion to form a strong front, and each battalion was divided into small phalanxes, each phalanx of forty-five musketeers, divided into three rows. In addition, at the junction of the phalanx, some reserve firecrackers were also arranged to deal with those fish that slipped through the net.
Without exception, these 1,000 people were all wearing heavy armor, especially the front row was given a double layer of armor to strengthen their protective capabilities. Anyway, Gu Zhenhua got a lot of armor from Shanhaiguan, and he didn't feel distressed at all.
Gu Zhenhua personally commanded a battalion in the second line, because he could not fully trust the firearms, Gu Zhenhua's battalion was completely cold weapons, with pikemen at the front, followed by sword and shield soldiers. Gu Zhenhua personally carried a machete to supervise the battle.
Between the first and second lines, a large number of carriages were also placed, which played the role of repelling horses. If the cavalry breaks through the firearms, these wagons can block the continued onslaught of the horses. Moreover, the scattered musketeers could continue to shoot under the cover of the carriage.
On both wings, the cavalry also did a good job of pressing the formation, and Gu Zhenhua finally finished arranging the enemy's formation, just waiting for Wu Sangui's arrival!
The big traitor didn't let Gu Zhenhua wait too long, and half an hour later, the dust was flying in the distance, and Wu Sangui killed him with cavalry.
The two rivals met again, and in an instant, the air on the battlefield seemed to freeze, and both sides were like wolves, staring at each other.
"Lord Wang, looking at Gu Zhenhua's way of forming a formation, he wants to use infantry to resist our iron cavalry, I think he is crazy, he is simply looking for death!" Adjutant General Yang Ming said proudly.
Wu Sangui frowned slightly, and said slowly: "Gu Zhenhua, this guy doesn't play cards according to common sense, he doesn't want to escape, but instead fights in the field, and he has formed such a strange formation, something is abnormal, and he can't be unguarded!" â
Wu Sangui said, waved his hand to call a guerrilla, and said to him: "You first take three hundred men and horses to feint, and see what the hell this guy Gu Zhenhua is doing." â
In this feint, the cavalry was divided into three teams, two of which were to contain the flanks and prevent Gu Zhenhua's cavalry from raiding, and the real main attack was the front.
More than thirty heavy horsemen in double armor rushed to the front, followed by some tall and long-arm archers, and many brave soldiers with various weapons. As long as the heavy cavalry in front can break through a hole, they will follow closely and expand the victory.
Although it was only a feint, the big traitor was also full of hope, maybe Gu Zhenhua couldn't withstand a charge, and the team collapsed all of a sudden, so Wu Sangui asked Yang Ming to be ready, as long as the gap was opened, the large army would immediately follow.
More than a hundred cavalry rushed towards the front unhurriedly, the horses' hooves trampling on the open field, and the sound was heard far away, which in itself was a strong deterrent. Many rabble, simply can't withstand this kind of psychological pressure, and will collapse directly.
However, Wu Sangui obviously miscalculated, as a soldier who came out of Zhou Yuji's hand, when the equipment was not as good as that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he could still create zĂ o Yang Liuqing loudly, and now he is armed to the teeth, where would he be afraid of Wu Sangui.
It wasn't until these cavalry came within a hundred paces that Zhou Yingjie and Xie Bin ordered the whole army to stand up. The soldiers were all clenched to their firearms, and their faces were full of resolute expressions.
"Shoot ready!"
At the sound of the order, the stabbing lala, the fire rope was lit, the gunpowder was loaded, and the soldiers in the front row fell to the ground on one knee and aimed the fire at the enemy.
The distance between the two sides narrowed little by little, and they soon entered about eighty steps, and they could even see each other's expressions clearly. The guerrilla was unimpressed with Gu Zhenhua's arrangement.
The range of this thing is good, but the good and the bad are mixed, and if you catch up with the bad luck, you don't hurt the enemy, but you hurt yourself first. If you want to point at the fire gun and fight against the Guanning Iron Cavalry, you are looking for death!
"Brothers, rush!"
At the sound of an order, these cavalry charged forward frantically, they roared and shouted, unstoppable.
Zhou Yingjie looked at these people with a sneer, and kept calculating the distance, seventy steps, sixty-five steps, sixty steps......
As long as they wait within fifty steps, they can penetrate their armor, and when Zhou Yingjie was counting, suddenly a gunshot rang out from the position. Shooting alone, the soldiers, who were highly mentally concentrated, mistakenly thought that they had received orders to fight, and all shot together.
The smoke of gunpowder rose, the gunfire was sparse, and the Guan Ning army that rushed in front was hit, and a few people were hit, and because the distance was about sixty paces, they could not kill the other party. Only one unlucky guy was hit in the front door and fell under the horse!
"Who, who shot!"
Zhou Yingjie was furious and asked sharply.
"The battalion commander is a soldier from Datong Town, not a subordinate of the general army."
Zhou Yingjie's face was gloomy, among his two thousand soldiers, after all, not all of them were brought out by Zhou Yuji, and there were many defeated troops from other places, they were not well trained, and they couldn't withstand this strong psychological pressure at all, and there was a problem in the battle.
Zhou Yingjie added a lot of caution when he was arranging the formation, but there was still a loophole, and he couldn't care about his anger, so he could only shout loudly: "Stabilize it for me, don't mess up!" â
Fortunately, those veterans of Zhou Yuji were very tenacious, and the chaos passed quickly.
However, Guan Ningjun also took the opportunity to rush to within thirty paces, which was already a very deadly distance, as if a war horse could break through the phalanx of the firecrackers with a leap. You must know that these firearms do not have bayonets, and hand-to-hand combat is not as useful as burning firesticks!
Zhou Yingjie's eyes were red, and he hurriedly ordered: "Shoot!" â
Finally the soldiers fired a decent salvo, and the red-hot lead pellets rained down on the enemy's body.
Thirty paces away, the fire gun was accurate and hateful, and the huge kinetic energy hit the human body, and every soldier who was shot was like being hit by a hammer, his body flew out sideways, and he fell heavily to the ground.
Some of the people's skin was open, the flesh and blood were blurred, and they fell directly to the spot, and some of the armor was sturdy, and they were lucky not to be shot through, but those soldiers were even more uncomfortable, and they opened their mouths one by one, spitting out pieces of blood with dark red internal organs, and their flesh and blood had been shattered!
In a volley, fifty or sixty cavalrymen fell to the ground, and even the horses could not escape death, and they fell to the ground one after another. The guerrilla who led the charge even had his head gone, leaving only half of his body, which was constantly bleeding.
Seeing such a tragic scene, the remaining soldiers were stunned for a while, and everyone changed color and couldn't help but want to flee back.
At this moment another volley was fired, and the remnants of the cavalry fell like wheat again, and only three or two lucky fellows turned and ran, not caring for anything.
The smoke cleared, and what remained in front of the battle was a corpse, and the bloody breath stimulated everyone's nostrils and nerves.
"Old Seven, it's just dangerous, if it's a little later, Guan Ningjun will rush in!" Gao Hongtu said worriedly: "Do you want me to remind the ninth brother and let him restrain his subordinates?" â
"Not necessarily!" Gu Zhenhua waved his hand: "I believe that the ninth brother can handle it!" â
Gu Zhenhua was as steady as Mount Tai and motionless, and at this time, Zhou Yingjie had already pulled out the guy who shot in advance and brought it to everyone.
"Brethren, this is just an appetizer, and the great war is yet to come. But there are two points that tell us, the first is that the firearms in everyone's hands are sharp and reliable, and we are completely able to defeat the Guanning army and the Tartars, and we must have confidence. Second, the black sheep will drag everyone down, and even the entire front collapses, for such people, I will not be soft! â
Zhou Yingjie said, the waist knife in his hand slashed down mercilessly, and a human head suddenly flew out several meters, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Everyone present was shocked, originally Zhou Yuji's subordinates were fine, and the others were all careful, for fear that they would make another mistake and lose their heads.
Just after the army stabilized, there were waves on the ground, and Wu Sangui's cavalry attacked again. This time, the big traitor concentrated a thousand elite horsemen and rushed like a tide.
"Come on, grandpa waits!"
Xie Bin and Zhou Yingjie both secretly gritted their teeth and prepared for battle, and these horses finally rushed to about fifty steps.
"Shoot!"
"Hit, hit hard, don't let a traitor go!"
Zhou Yingjie and Xie Bin ordered almost at the same time, and the gunshots like bursting beans rang out, and Guan Ning's army fell to the ground in pieces, and a thick bloody atmosphere enveloped the battlefield.