Chapter 70: Line up to be shot

Huang Degong's formation is almost identical.

In front were the knife players, behind were three rows of musketeers, and then three rows of spearmen.

It's just that the musketeers are in a large spaced formation, and the density is less than half that of the sword players and spearmen.

In this way, when there is danger, the spearmen can also step forward in time to replace the musketeers to form a dense spear phalanx.

Gao Di's army totaled 3,000, with more than 1,000 musketeers, Huang Degong's Ming army of about 4,000 people, and the three rows of musketeers added up to only about 1,000 people.

Then there are two wings of the Ming army and a small number of car battalions behind them.

In fact, whether it was the Ming army led by Huang Degong or the surrender army of Gao Di, they all originated from the Qi family soldiers, or it shows that the infantry tactics of the entire era in the late Qing Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty originated from the Qi family army.

The tactics of the Qi family army influenced an entire era.

The most well-known of the Qi family army is the Mandarin Duck Array.

The captain, two sword players, two wolf players, four spearmen, two palladium players and one musketeer, and later the wolf players were replaced by musketeers, and the number was also increased from two to four.

In reality, however, this tactic is extremely complex.

In the complex terrain of the south, it is often very effective to deal with the pirates.

But when it came to the northern battlefield to fight with the large corps of Mongolia and Jiannu, the Mandarin Duck Formation became a burden, so Qi Jiguang simplified it and introduced the Che battalion.

After the introduction of the Che Battalion, the Qi family army became a real firearms unit.

Not only has the proportion of arquebuses increased significantly, but a large number of artillery pieces have also been equipped.

Since then, the tactics of the Qi family's army have become sufficient food and salary, and guns and cannons have been paste-faced.

When encountering the Mongol cavalry or Jiannu, first use chariots to form a defensive formation, and the Mongol cavalry or Jiannu attack, they use vehicle-mounted cannons and arquebuses to cover their faces, and wait until the Mongolian cavalry or Jiannu are defeated, and finally send out cavalry to harvest heads, this set of tactics can be said to be tried and tested in the East Asian battlefield.

After the Dengzhou Rebellion, Jiannu also entered the age of firearms in great strides.

Then there was artillery bombardment and queue up on the battlefield in Liaodong.

The first thing that appeared in the East Asian theater was not to line up for shooting, but to line up for gunning.

Because the artillery in the East Asian battlefield is much more ferocious than that in Europe, when there were only cannon solid shells in the European battlefield, there were already tiger squat artillery that specialized in killing and injuring combatants on the East Asian battlefield.

Due to the Jiannu prison army behind him and the treatment is better than that of the Ming army, the fighting will of the Eight Banners Han Army is generally stronger than that of the Ming army, so every time they line up to be killed, the Ming army will basically end in defeat.

Then Jiannu sent the Eight Banners and the Mongol cavalry to harvest the heads.

The Eight Towns of the Songjin War were eaten by Jiannu in this way.

Therefore, the pot of Songjin's defeat cannot be deducted from Chongzhen's head, let alone Hong Chengchou's head, and it is difficult to deduct from the heads of Wang Pu and other eight town commanders.

In a stone war, Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of old battalions were also eaten by Jiannu in this way.

The old man said that Jiannu relied on riding and shooting to win the world, and this also deceived the child.

At this time, Jiannu's weaponry, tactics, fighting will, and the quality of soldiers were all among the top in the world, and it was deserved to be the world's first army in the 17th century.

Under normal circumstances, Huang Degong and Gao Di's battle would also be lined up to be killed.

However, there was a little accident here, Huang Degong found that there was no artillery on the opposite side, and at the same time, in order to guard against the Jiannu cavalry, he put a few side vans and artillery on both sides, and Gao Di's surrendered army was taken away by the Han army flag after the surrender of Jiannu, and became pure light infantry.

As a result, the first queue for shooting in the East Asian theater was staged so suddenly.

Whether it was for the Ming army or the surrendering army, it was the first time to line up to be shot, and there was no experience, so the commanders on both sides could only act on their own feelings.

About a hundred paces away, Gao Di took the lead and ordered the sword players to tie their feet.

The musketeers and spearmen stopped behind, and the musketeers lit the arquebuses to prepare for the shot.

The Ming army on the opposite side did not stop, and still advanced steadily under the command of Huang Degong, because there was no artillery on the opposite side, Huang Degong felt that it could be closer.

Fifty steps is the best.

"Phew! Woohoo Woo! "The musketeers of the first platoon of the Gordi army opened fire.

With a loud and dense whistling sound, the front of the surrendering army was quickly enveloped in smoke, and the vision began to blur.

Aobai's vision was also affected, and he could no longer see the situation of Gaodi's surrender to the army, when he couldn't help but curse in his heart, this is a bird gun and not a Franc machine gun, can it hit people from such a distance?

Moments later, the second platoon of musketeers from the Godi army stepped forward and opened fire.

After a loud bang again, the smoke in front of the army was thicker, and it was completely unclear now.

Ao Bai cursed, turned the vision of the telescope to the Ming army, only to see that the Ming army was still moving forward unhurriedly, and from time to time there were a few loud swan sounds coming from afar.

From time to time the Ming army fell, but in general,

The shooting of the surrendering army did not hinder the Ming army.

"Hey, that's interesting." Ao Bai was a little surprised.

Yabran also nodded and said, "This Ming army can." ”

"Well, it seems that the surrender army of Gaodi is not their opponent."

Ao Bai thought for a while and said, "Let Zu Zerun prepare them in advance." ”

A horse flag Ding immediately rushed from the small dirt slope to the rear of the Han army of the Zhenghuang Banner.

The Zhenghuang Banner Han Army, which followed behind the Gaodi Army, soon began to change its formation, and one by one the side vans were pushed to the front of the formation, the front and rear baffles of the side vans were also removed, and the iron drills used to fix the vehicles were also nailed into the ground.

The Ming army on the other side was ignorant of this.

Because the view is obscured.

……

"Steady!"

"Don't let it go!"

"It's all for me!"

Huang Degong raised his iron whip and walked slowly while yelling.

He originally had a green horse with a divine horse, but unfortunately he was snatched away by Chongzhen before leaving, so he could only march on foot with the soldiers.

"Steady!"

"Don't let it go!"

Just as he was roaring, there was a loud "woo" on the opposite side.

Huang Degong subconsciously tilted his head, and then there was a sound of gold and iron in his ears, and the phoenix-winged helmet seemed to have been hit hard by a heavy hammer, with a momentary dizziness.

There must have been a hammer hitting his winged helmet.

However, it was so far away that it was impossible for the gun to penetrate the phoenix-winged helmet.

Huang Degong quickly woke up from his dizziness and continued to move forward with an iron whip held high.

When the distance came to sixty paces, the number of casualties of the Ming army began to increase, and a succession of sword players fell to the ground.

At a distance of sixty paces, the bird's hit rate is greatly improved, and the threat to the knife player is greatly increased.

However, there were constantly spearmen who took their place, picked up the wooden cards, and kept the shield wall intact, providing close protection for the musketeers and spearmen behind them.

The distance between the two sides continues to be closer.

There are more knife players falling.

From time to time, musketeers fell to the ground.

Some fell to the ground and were silent again.

Some lay on the ground and wailed loudly.

There are also those who hug the thighs of the robe and cry for help.

Panic inevitably spread in the military formation.

A soldier subconsciously wanted to retreat, but before he could move, a loud voice came into his ears, it was the voice of Jing Nanbo Huang Degong.

"Keep going!"

"Don't stop!"

"Daming Wansheng!"

Looking at Huang Degong, who was holding the iron whip high and moving forward steadily, the soldier immediately stopped being afraid, and everyone Jing Nanbo did not flinch in the slightest, what is there to be afraid of as a pawn of yours?

The soldier's footsteps became steady again, and his gaze became determined.

Finally entering within fifty steps, Huang Degong immediately hissed and shouted: "Sword player, fight the formation!" Musketeers, shoot more and more, take turns to release guns! Che Camp pay attention to protect the wings! ”

The herald immediately waved the command flag, and the swan sounded.

The knife player immediately inserts the tip of the wooden card into the ground and squats down to resist it with his body.

The three rows of musketeers lit the ropes and clamped them to the snake-shaped triggers, while the last two rows stood by with their guns, and the first row of musketeers quickly raised their guns on the wooden cards and pulled the trigger.

"Woohoo!" A huge bang rang out.

Then a thick smoke of gunpowder filled, blurring the vision.

But a continuous scream could be faintly heard from the other side.

Under this round of shooting by the Ming army, the opposing army seemed to have suffered a big loss.

Godi's army did suffer a great loss, and in just one volley, fifty sword players fell to the ground.

Due to the many defects of arquebuses, even if they are well-trained elites, the rate of dumb fire in actual combat is close to 40 percent, and the rate of dumb fire in the vast majority of armies is 50 percent.

The Ming army had more than 1,000 musketeers, 35 per platoon, so in fact only 178 arquebuses could be fired successfully in each round.

Kill and injure more than 50 knife players at once.

This hit rate has exceeded 30%!

On the other hand, due to the premature firing of the previous army, by the time the Ming army approached within 50 paces, the firepower output density was not as good as before, and only less than 50 arquebuses could be successfully fired each time, even if the same hit rate, the killing efficiency was only a quarter of that of the Ming army.

So the gap is immediately apparent.

After two rounds of six platoons, Gaodi's surrender army had already suffered more than 300 casualties.

Since the smoke completely obscured the view, it was difficult to see the situation on the other side.

However, from the constant sound of guns, the continuous lead piercing the long wooden cards, and the continuous fall of knife players and musketeers, it can be seen that the Ming army has no signs of collapse.

It even felt that the firepower output of the Ming army had become more intensive.

Finally, the will of the Gaodi army reached a critical point and collapsed.

When the Ming army on the opposite side came over with another row of leads, and I don't know who took the lead first, the surrendering army, which was already in a scattered formation, suddenly collapsed and fled to both sides.

Behind him is the Eight Banners Han Army, so running back is looking for death.

The only way to survive is to run to the flanks of the battlefield, hurry.

"Don't run, resist, come back!" Gaudi also wanted to rescue it.

But soon, Gaudí gave up as well, turned around and ran towards the canal.

Speaking of escaping, Gao Di is an old business, anyway, just run towards the canal, with his experience, as long as the Eight Banners cross the canal, they will basically not care anymore, and this little life can be saved.