"Someone from Houjin actually took the initiative to come over?"

When Xiao Lang heard the news, his face was naturally full of suspicion - even if he was an outsider, he knew that since the Houjin army launched an attack, only people from the Dongjiang side had surrendered, and he had never heard of anyone defecting.

"It can't be a ruse, right? The Manchurians were very good at playing tricks and conspiracies. ”

Xiao Lang reminded him when he saw Huang Long again, but the latter was not very worried about this - it was funny to say that although the Dongjiang Army and the Later Jin Han Army fought to the death, the members of both sides were actually from similar backgrounds. Many people even have a relationship with each other. Therefore, whenever one side is in a bad situation, it is very easy for the other side to surrender, and even without having to surrender, a large number of people will take the initiative to take refuge in it.

This time, the little leader who ran over overnight can be related to both Huanglong and Kong Youde, and he can be regarded as a member of the old Dongjiang Army. A few days ago, I went to Kong Youde's side when I saw that the shape was not good, but today I ran back again.

He brought back the latest news about Kong Jun: Kong Youde was completely frightened, and as soon as he saw the appearance of the Qiong Navy during the day, he took the initiative to put down the flag and hug his head, and after he returned, he shouted to retreat quickly. However, this army is not completely in charge of him - the Houjin side is in charge of the military department Belle Yuetuo and the household department Belle Dege two people are in charge of the battle, those two are well-known young Zhuang faction among the Manchurian nobles, but they are not afraid of any green-skinned short-haired army, seeing Kong Youde is so cowardly, he immediately whipped him, if it were not for Huang Taiji's special appreciation for Kong, he would have cut off his head on the spot.

Now that Yue Tuo had taken command of that army, he demanded to continue the offensive. It's just that because the Han troops, especially those Han troops who ran from Shandong with Kong Youde, had no fighting spirit, they had to let the Manchurian white-armored elite, who was originally responsible for supervising the army's escort, go into battle in person. However, Yue Tuo and the others were also more confident because of this - since their old Khan king raised his army with the oath of seven hatreds, the real Manchurian army has never been defeated against the Han army. Especially those Ming troops in the pass, they entered the pass several times and plundered. Often, a few hundred Manchurian armies could drive tens of thousands of Ming troops to flee in defeat, and they had long been arrogant to the extreme.

Now I heard that there was an army in the south of the Ming Dynasty that dared to cross the sea to send them to death, no matter how invincible Kong Youde tried his best to boast about those short-haired troops, Yue Tuo just sneered:

"Tomorrow, we will kill all those southern armies first, so that the Nikans can see the strength of our Dajin warriors!"

And Xiao Lang, after learning about the reaction within the Houjin Army, also laughed proudly:

"Very well, this way things will be much simpler-as long as you kill those two thousand Zhenyi, and the rest of the frightened waste wood will be self-defeating. It was decided: tomorrow the whole army will attack and defeat Yue Tuo! ”

The overflowing domineering spirit did not attract the little brother to bow down. Huang Long, who was standing beside him, was full of surprise:

"This ...... There are more than 2,000 people in the Tartars! Camp Commander Xiao, it seems that you only have more than 600 ...... under your command."

-- As a member of the "system" of the Ming army, although Huang Long had heard many times about the advantages and disadvantages of Qiongzhen's firearms from the military newspapers, after all, he had not personally witnessed the actual battles of the Qiong navy, so he naturally had little confidence in Xiao Lang's domineering. No matter how good you are in the Qiongzhen Fire Guns, there are only about 600 people in total, and there are more than 2,000 people in Manchuria alone. Originally, I expected to let the short-haired battalion help guard the southern city of Lushun, and it was just a matter of delaying for a while. Unexpectedly, the young "Battalion Commander Xiao" in front of him was full of confidence, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he would take the initiative to attack and defeat the other party. It really made Huang Long's heart tremble.

But no matter how scared he is, the troops belong to others, and of course the ideas are taken by others, and he has no right to speak. can only knock on the side to remind a few words, saying that the other party is not only commanding two thousand white-armored elite soldiers, but the rest of the Han army is also deployed by them, and when the time comes, tens of thousands of people will rush forward. As long as the momentum is up, who cares if you are an auxiliary soldier or an elite - it is also terrible for the clothed minions of the Houjin Army to charge if they don't want to die.

In this regard, Xiao Lang just patted the Qionghai rifle beside him, and sneered:

"It's fine. It's a big deal to let the brothers fire a few more shots. ”

…………

Early the next morning, two troops with the same high fighting spirit faced each other in an open field near the northern city of Arthur.

The Houjin side is really the elite, and those Manchurian white-armored soldiers who used to only hold swords and axes in the rear and supervise the Han army in front of them are standing in front this time. In particular, the first group of big men wearing heavy armor and holding strong shields were obviously about to charge.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty army, the Later Jin army has never been known for its formation, and those Jurchen warriors learned warfare through daily hunting and robbery, unlike the increasingly lax military drills of the Central Plains Dynasty. However, this time, the Jin army's formation was much more neat than their opponents—they had even set up a formation, while the strange short-haired army from the south on the opposite side had simply arranged two fronts.

Xiao Lang put two companies in front to form a line of fire, and led the remaining company as a reserve. A company has only more than 200 people, and if it is arranged according to the dense formation of this era, it is only a small group. However, the tactics of the Qiong Navy are based on the tactics of the straggler line of the later generations: a battle group of three to five soldiers is formed, and the distance between each combat group is more than ten meters, so that after dispersing, even if the front and rear two lines of fire are arranged, the defensive range of a company can reach about 200 meters, and the two companies are side by side, and the frontal width is not much worse than that of the 10,000-strong array in Houjin.

The two companies formed a line of fire, not flush with each other but slightly inclined at an angle, just to encompass the Houjin formation. If the opponent attacks head-on, they will be flanked by the left and right lines of fire, which is the posture that can best bring out the advantage of their own firepower.

However, such a skirmish line was a pure joke in the eyes of the generals of the Houjin Army - these battles were all face-to-face battles, and once someone penetrated the main formation, covering up from behind would mean complete defeat, so the tighter and thicker the formation, the better. And these green-skinned soldiers in front of them actually dispersed their manpower to such an exaggerated level, arranging a formation with only such a thin layer and only two lines? Wouldn't that just kill the other party with a random charge, what will they do when the time comes? Do you want to go back and fight again?

Chongzhen's six-year Manchurian army is still very elite, these white-armored soldiers are particularly rich in combat experience, even if it is just an ordinary warrior who charges into battle, he can understand some of the formations, originally saw that the strange green-skinned army on the opposite side is basically not armored, and he said that when he kills it later, will you rely on that green cloth clothes to block the arrows? And at this moment, seeing that they scattered their personnel so openly, they didn't even count as a formation at all, and immediately laughed and scolded, and some people even began to bet, saying that the Ming army general who commanded the troops on the opposite side must be a chick from a "general's family", and it is estimated that he has not even been on the battlefield once, so he will line up such a nondescript formation.

And a moment later, when the green-skinned soldiers on the opposite side began to collectively make another action, those Houjin soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then they all began to laugh wildly with their stomachs in their hands:

"What are they doing?"

"Digging a hole in the ground? …… Haha, are you afraid that we will cut it down and have no place to bury it later? Even have your own cemetery ready in advance? ”

“…… So soon even the graves were piled up? Haha, I'm really afraid that no one will bury it! ”

-- The two sides always had to make some preparations before fighting, and the Houjin army was in formation, while the Qiong navy was building improvised fortifications according to the combat regulations. The military training of the Qiong Navy was entirely based on that of the later people's army, in which the five basic skills of the infantry: shooting, assassination, explosives, bomb throwing, and earthwork were repeated as basic subjects. A skilled soldier in earth work can dig a one-man foxhole in five minutes with a steel sapper shovel, while piling up the earth in front of it to form a shelter - a bit like a grave pit and a grave to the outside.

"Laugh, laugh, I'll let you know later!"

The soldiers held their breath as they dug - it wasn't the first time they'd heard the ridicule from the other side. This kind of mockery can be heard every time you first encounter the hand-to-hand armies of this era, but the outcome is the same - the idiots will immediately run into their heads in front of these improvised fortifications, and henceforth they will walk around whenever they see them, without exception.

And on this side of the battlefield, Xiao Lang looked at the opponent's formation and smacked his lips again and again:

"Tut-tut, how dare you line up such a dense formation in front of us? It's a pity that the regimental artillery company hasn't had time to bring it over, otherwise it only takes a few shells to pass over, and they can learn how to behave in minutes! ”

As he said this, his gaze suddenly fell on a small part of the Qionghai rifle in his hand......

"Eh, by the way, this thing was attached to the rifle in the first place, it seems that it was just to temporarily replace the warp fire in the absence of artillery, right? Let's try it and see how it goes? ”

Xiao Lang fiddled with the barrel of the gun and erected a small iron plate with a scale from the receiver - a salvo sight, a small thing that was once popular in the development of old rifles: the rifle could shoot at a long range according to the scale marked on the sight. Of course, it is impossible to shoot with a single soldier with any accuracy, so you can only concentrate many rifles and use a salvo to cover the probability of betting.

At the moment, the two companies on Xiao Lang's side are building fortifications in front of them and preparing for battle, but he also has a reserve company on hand that can be used to fire a salvo, and the Houjin army on the opposite side is so densely arranged, it is simply a godsend target, and it is really a waste of such a good opportunity not to give them all at once. (To be continued......) T