Chapter 163: Crowd Tactics

Sheng Yong is not unable to accept death. It's that he really can't accept this way of dying, and the big husband takes the edge to step on the blade and spill blood on the battlefield, which is his duty. When, life and death hang between each other's fingers.

This is unacceptable to him.

This means that Sheng Yong's hard-working archery skills since he was a child have become a joke in one day.

If on the original battlefield, Sheng Yong, a general who has practiced archery since childhood. With a small group of elite soldiers, among the ten thousand armies, they all dare to kill one back and forth. In the battle of Jingyan in history, there are many records of the separation of King Yan and the army. It is because King Yan himself uses this tactic, a fierce general with hundreds of elite cavalry is enough to shake the infantry phalanx, once the formation is broken, the rest is to drive the defeated soldiers to impact the enemy formation. It's overwhelming.

This is the war that Sheng Yong wants.

The war that was desired.

Although it is said that He Xi, Ye Shen, and Fu Youde and others have carried out military reforms. But in essence, one is active and the other is passive. He Xi and others took the initiative to seek more strategic advantages through military reform. And Fu Youde can only passively use military reform to save the situation.

The two have different starting points, and the mentality towards the large-scale use of firearms is different.

He Xi, Ye Shen and others are all full of others entering the new era. And Fu Youde and others were kicked in by the times.

If it were possible, Fu Youde and the others wanted to leave everything in the past. It's just not possible.

No matter how complicated Sheng Yong's mood was, he wouldn't let his mood affect his decision at the moment, he closed his eyes and opened them suddenly. At this moment, there was no trace of weakness in his eyes. Some are just full of blood.

Sheng Yong ordered that all departments were only allowed to advance and not retreat. Order the cavalry to supervise the battle, and those who dare to review are beheaded.

The artillery positions were then ordered to move forward.

It was at this time that the Northern Army also made the final change of formation.

What was originally a phalanx turned into a horizontal formation. Keep artillery positions behind.

The two sides came within range of each other.

The first to speak out was nothing else, but the tiger squat cannon.

This guy's range is not much different from the range of the firearm, but the firepower density is far behind, although there are not many tiger squat cannons following every hundred households. But the moment is enough to achieve the effect.

Every 100 meters, a tiger squat cannon fired.

Suddenly, the first horizontal formation on the opposite side fell and many people fell.

The other side also fired back.

The two sides shoot at each other.

Within a hundred paces, corpses fell one after another.

The southern army was unable to bear it at first, and several of them retreated, although they were beheaded on the spot by a group of cavalry.

Immediately, the second team, the third team, and even the tens of thousands of troops behind rolled in. There is simply no end.

Sheng Yong had already made up his mind.

If you don't drain your opponent's blood in this battle, you will drain your own blood, and there is no third option.

However, in terms of firearms tactics, the Northern Army was obviously more mature than the Southern Army.

When the first column of the Northern Army suffered enough casualties.

At the sound of an order, the first column immediately retreated, following the traces left by the rear ranks. Withdrawn to the back.

Immediately, there was another artillery bombardment.

Then the second column of fresh forces was already in place and continued to fire at the Southern Army.

This is the method of retreat decisive battle.

On the whole, the Northern Army retreated layer by layer. Keep your distance from the enemy as much as possible and kill them with fire.

This method of warfare is clearly layered, requiring middle and lower-ranking officers to know when and what to do. When retreating, there is no confusion. The latter point, in particular, is particularly important.

To know. The criterion for retreat is to achieve a certain proportion of casualties. If you fight again, you may collapse before you let the retreat.

At this time, once out of control, the retreat becomes a rout.

That's a big deal.

But once it is done, it can give more confidence to the soldiers. Let them know that they always have a way out and that they will not be watching him

We're bareheaded. Although on the battlefield, anyone will die. But the fire gun shoots at each other, it's more about luck, depending on who is unlucky. As long as you can persevere, the above will give you a way out.

In this way, the Northern Army was able to bear more casualties than the Southern Army.

Under this arrangement, the casualty ratio of the Northern Army to the Southern Army was about one to three. Only by killing three Southern Army can it be possible to kill one Northern Army.

And Sheng Yong also saw the subtlety of the Northern Army's formation. But he couldn't change it.

On the one hand, middle- and lower-level officers all grew up in the era of cold weapons. I'm not too familiar with firearms. More are illiterate, and their receptivity to new knowledge is low.

In the rain of bullets, this kind of ability to change formations freely is completely absent.

It's not a person's ability, it's a system's ability.

On the battlefield, these officers, such as battalion officers and platoon commanders, must stand at one end of the queue. Commanding the shooting, the danger they faced was no worse than that of the officers who rushed into battle in the era of cold weapons.

It's even bigger.

The reason is very simple, officers in the cold weapon era have good equipment and armor, and it is difficult to be killed in battle. But the age of firearms is different. Even if you have armor, you don't have much resistance to firearms.

In the era of smoothbore guns, they, like soldiers, faced the enemy's bullets. It's just a bet on your luck.

If you think about it, the probability of dying is even higher.

It is not uncommon for officers to die in battle, and even if officers die in battle, the change of formation of the northern army is not deformed, because there are enough replacement officers.

Although He Xi and Ye Shen had always felt that the officers were very nervous, they were still barely enough on the whole. As the first army to be successfully trained, the First Army was mostly formed by the Liaodong Guard. There were many Koreans among the soldiers.

They got land in Liaodong and were grateful to the Beijing court. Willing to die. Deep down, they also felt that they were inferior to the Ming people, and they were particularly obedient to the management of the Ming officers.

In this case, as long as the officer does not die. Even if it doesn't crash.

One battalion, with a thousand households, the battalion senates. There are some difficulties in suppressing the appeasement, hundreds of households, money and grain officials, etc., dozens of officers, who want them to die.

But it was different on the side of the Southern Army. A lot of things are tied to the Lord's body.

The Southern Army, which collapsed before, was unfortunately eaten by the main general, and the upper body could not be found. They just collapsed naturally. At a loss on the battlefield.

In this case, the Southern Army was very reluctant to maintain the offensive, and it was simply impossible, so it was impossible to let the front carry out a rotational attack.

Only how much dies in the front, how much is made up in the back. Keep the offensive momentum intact. But in this way, it is conceivable how much psychological pressure there is on the soldiers.

Think about it, all the people who came forward were dead. It's your turn to step forward.

Who is not afraid. Who doesn't calf belly drilling.

One is to bet on luck, and if you are unlucky, you will hang. If you are lucky, you can retreat, and these people can rearrange themselves after they are put in order. Prepare for another fight. But here in the Southern Army, it is a form of light. It affects morale even more.

Although in Sheng Yong's opinion, the faster you rush over, the smaller the loss. But for the specific executioners, who dares to rush? The faster you rush, the faster you die?

However, the roots of the Southern Army are nothing else. It was the Ming army that had just been founded.

The courage of the Ming army is still there.

A soldier couldn't stand it anymore.

There is a team of warlords in the retreat, and as a hundred victorious Ming army, they are also arrogant, and they are not willing to flee from the battle. Not to mention that the white army is a guard system, he is not alone, there is a large family behind him, if he is executed because of the retreat, his family will be implicated.

And this kind of counter-shooting, the firepower on the opposite side is much stronger.

Not the way.

This kind of keeping a distance, the two sides shoot against each other, this kind of calm flow of play, not only Fu Youde is not adaptable, Sheng Yong is not adaptable, they are all trying to adapt. And the soldiers below are not used to it.

Because the officer was killed, this non-commissioned officer

He said, "Brothers, now it is better to have a good time if you advance or die, and if you retreat, you might as well have a good time. Brothers, come with me."

Then he threw away the firecracker, picked up the long knife and rushed over.

It's just that the charge of this soldier was immediately overturned to the ground under the dense fire, and the dead could not die anymore.

It's just that the charging formation he brought up affected the entire Southern Army.

Originally, the southern army still maintained the formation of firing at the northern army, but at this moment they rushed up in a swarm. For a while, it was crowded with people, and it was a real crowd tactic.