Several flintlock battalions in the first town of the Ming army's model and several pro-soldier assault battalions of Wu Guogui almost collided head-on! And the people on both sides seem to be in a hurry, and they don't take a moment to spread out the formation, and they set up a good formation, it's all about attacking!

The general of the Ming army, "Li Polun", was mainly afraid that the cavalry of "Wu Lucher" would not be able to withstand it if he would charge again, and directly beat the Laodao River into Waterloo.

And the "Wu Lucher" side did not care about protecting the "horse power", because there was a rather hard-working "Li Luxi" behind his buttocks, and the vanguard sent by "Li Luxi" was very close to the rearguard troops of "Wu Lucher", so close that they could shoot each other with rifled flintlock pistols! Therefore, "Wu Lucher" also wants to defeat "Li Polun" as soon as possible, otherwise he will attack "Li Polun" and "Li Luxi" when he turns back, then he will become a sinner who buried Wu Zhoutianxia.

The battle between the two armies of "Li Polun" and "Wu Lucher" first began between the 4th and 8th flintlock pistol battalions of the Ming army's model town and the left battalion of "Wu Lucher's" personal troops. Although the flintlock battalion of the Ming army did not open a hollow phalanx, they did not spread out a horizontal formation, let alone pull out a "thin red line", but directly entered the battle in the state of a marching column.

The so-called marching column is a column, with a flintlock platoon forming four horizontal columns, and five platoons of a flintlock pistol team (including the team headquarters platoon) followed by a platoon to form a column. A battalion belongs to five teams, and one team follows one team to form a larger-scale column. The eight battalions belonging to the Model Town were divided into two large columns of four battalions each, and they marched in unison.

A column of this width could not march on the official road, and could only go through the wilderness, and if the two large columns were close together, it could actually be regarded as a "rectangular array" of almost 20 by 100.

Because the depth of this "long phalanx" is too great, and most of the soldiers who "form the long phalanx" are carrying flintlock pistols with bayonets on their shoulders, and they walk in the sun with an astonishing momentum, looking like rows of moving steel jungles. Rao is the pro-soldier of "Wu Lucher", and he doesn't have the confidence to give them a sudden breakthrough - the "big depth" of a hundred platoons, how can they burst out? Moreover, the three rows of musketeers in the front were all carrying rifled guns, and after they saw a group of cavalry rushing towards them, they immediately stopped advancing in a piercing suona sound, and then the first row came to a shooting kneeling position, the second row raised the muskets flat, and the soldiers in the third row put the muskets directly on the shoulders of the soldiers in the second row, and the soldiers in the second row used them as human gun racks.

As a result, all sixty flintlock rifled guns were aimed at the Wu cavalry in front, and then they couldn't help but say that it was a row of accurately aimed guns!

Although the firing distance was quite far, more than 150 paces, it could not stand the rifled gun and the Mini bullet, but it was far and accurate, so it was put under the command of more than a dozen "Wu Lucher" on the spot. Among them, eleven or two people were hit by enemy bullets, lost the value of rescue on the spot, and fell off their horses screaming. Although the rest of the people themselves were not shot, the war horse under the crotch was hit by a bullet. Those horses were already "working overtime", driving for most of the day, and now they don't let them take a breath and eat something good to sprint directly, they can't stand it anymore, and if they are shot again, why don't they fall to the ground on the spot and wait for death? The horses have all flipped over, and Wu Zhoutu, who was riding on their backs, hasn't all been raised?

Seeing the assault cavalry rushing in front of the crowd, the Wu Zhou assault rider who followed behind knew that he was afraid, and no one was just facing the front of the Ming army column in front of him. And it's impossible to penetrate such a thick enemy formation!

Therefore, these Wu Zhou cavalry had to make a detour to the left of the two battalions of Ming rifled spearmen, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army had not yet opened a phalanx and make a surprise attack from the relatively thin flanks - in their impression, it was not so easy for a marching infantry to successfully open a hollow phalanx, after all, this involved the coordination of the two different arms of the pikemen and musketeers, no, this group of Ming troops was pure muskets! There are no spears, are they not afraid of cavalry assaults?

Then there was an even more wrong situation, this group of Ming musketeers did not try to form a hollow phalanx at all, they just came to "turn left", "turn right", "turn back" - the three columns of musketeers on the right turned to the right, the three columns of musketeers on the left side of the large column turned to the left, and the three lines of musketeers on the back of the large column turned back, and the others did not move.

After completing the turn, the musketeers came to a kneeling position in the front row, and the back row held the muskets on the shoulders of the middle row in three rows of salvos to shoot at the Wu Zhou army that tried to pass a hundred and ten miles in front of them.

Although most of the musketeers behind the Ming army's flanks were armed with ordinary flintlock smoothbore guns, the bullets they used were all "chrysanthemums" with wooden stoppers on them. This bullet is different from the rifled gun used with a longer body and a "mini bullet" with grooves in the lower middle and lower parts of the bullet body, which is a stubby round head bullet with a cavity at the bottom of the bullet, and can also be stuffed into a small piece of cork base. The principle of this bullet is similar to that of the Mini bullet, and it can also be regarded as a Mini bullet for smoothbore guns. According to the tests of the Guangdong Jiangwutang, the effective range of a smoothbore gun with such a bullet can be doubled!

If used by highly trained infantry, it can easily hit a target at a distance of 150 paces in training, and there is a high probability of hitting a target at a distance of 100 paces in actual combat.

It is very difficult to wear a horse in a hundred steps, but there is still a certain probability of wearing a horse in a hundred steps and a person in a hundred steps.

And when a battalion of Wu Zhoutu cavalry circled to the left side of this large column of the Ming army, stopped a little at a distance of 100 paces from the Ming column, and prepared to launch a charging column, at least 2780 smoothbore guns loaded with short cork shells opened fire!

These Wu Zhou cavalry were all stationed in Hunan with Wu Guogui, and they had all seen the power of rifled flintlock pistols. But they also knew the rarity of flintlock muskets, so they had no idea that they would be hit by the dense fire of the "flintlock muskets" a hundred paces away from the enemy line. Caught off guard, forty or fifty Wu Zhou cavalry of less than 1,000 people in this battalion were killed and wounded, and more than 30 war horses were also overturned. And the rest of the Wu Zhou cavalry were blinded. Could it be that the Ming army in front of him is not only a full-flintlock rifle, but also a full-rifled gun? That's too wide, isn't it?

Before these Wu Zhou cavalry could react, a rapid drum sound had already sounded!

It turned out that Wu Guogui, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, made people beat the drum.

And the drums are the commands!

It's the order to charge!

Wu Guogui's level of army management is still very high, and his pro-army assault cavalry can even do the order and prohibition, although he knows that the rifled flintlock pistol in front may be a bit much, but when the drum sounds, more than 1,000 cavalry soldiers of this battalion still launched a charge without hesitation.

However, although their charge was resolute, they were a little hasty, and did not complete the whole team, but a large group of cavalry and horses rushed up in confusion.

The reason why Wu Guogui was in a hurry to launch an attack was actually to disrupt the deployment of the Ming army and prevent them from launching in time, so that his troops could deploy the formation first, and then launch a fierce attack, so this cavalry charge was actually a feint.

However, the charge of more than a thousand Wu Zhou cavalry still looked very imposing, and these Wu Zhou cavalry armed with spears were like a tide, surging forward, rushing towards the "long phalanx" of the Ming army.

This is thousands of cavalry, even if it spreads out one after another, it is a very large area, almost drowning the "long phalanx" of the Ming army in front!

However, the Ming musketeers were not intimidated by their imposing lancers. They're the infantry of Model Town!

Exemplary! Of course, he was particularly powerful, particularly disciplined, had a particularly strong will to fight, and had a particularly high level of training, and often trained with Li Yat-sen's personal guard cavalry, and had long been accustomed to being frightened by those cavalrymen wearing expensive plate armor that were bright and blind. Compared to them, the chaotic cavalry in front of them is nothing at all?

The company is not in order to charge, it is not professional at all, and I am not afraid!

If the cavalry could not overwhelm the opponent in momentum, but let them calmly reload their bullets, calmly aim, and calmly fire a volley, then this charge would have no effect.

With a piercing suona sound, the first three rows of musketeers on the left side of the Ming army's "long phalanx" fired a salvo again, and Wu Guogui, who was supervising the battle not far away, seemed to see a hurricane sweeping in front of his precious cavalry formation, and dozens of cavalry fell to the ground one after another like dead leaves that had been blown off, and some of the horses that were frightened or injured and had not yet lay down fled indiscriminately, which suddenly disturbed the already chaotic Wu Zhou Tu cavalry even more chaotic. But they were still surging forward, but their scattered formations were starting to have a negative effect at this point.

Due to the lack of dense formations to restrain them, the cavalry in the charge had the option of avoiding the enemy's dense bayonet formation. I saw that most of the turquoise cavalry wisely avoided the hedgehog-like phalanx of the Ming army, divided into two groups, and poured on the left and right sides. Although dozens of lancers bravely rushed into the rectangular phalanx of the Ming army, they also successfully knocked out large and small gaps, and also loaded some Ming musketeers into the air, and then fell heavily into the crowd behind.

But the "long phalanx" with a thickness of dozens of lines is not at all something that a few dozen brave Wu Zhou cavalry can break through!

The Wu Zhou cavalry, who were unable to disrupt the Ming army's formation and suffered a lot of losses, were unable to immediately launch a second round of attacks, so they had to retreat first to regroup and accumulate horsepower.

After successfully withstanding the first wave of the impact of the enemy's cavalry, a long suona roar suddenly sounded in the rectangular array of the Ming army. Then, this rectangular phalanx suddenly swelled in four directions, forward, backward, left and right, and in a very short time, it opened into a large hollow phalanx composed of 2,000 people.

As soon as this hollow phalanx was formed, the Ming army on this line had a reliable support point. Immediately afterwards, two more double battalion columns rushed up from the left and right flanks of this hollow phalanx. Wu Guogui knew that he couldn't give the Ming army a chance to form a front, otherwise it would be difficult to fight! So he immediately mobilized four battalions of "double spearmen" and two battalions of cavalry to attack the two new double battalion columns of the Ming army.

The confrontation, which was more fierce than the previous battle, was staged immediately, and this time Wu Zhou had four more battalions of infantry troops! So they first came a wave of cavalry to attack and stop the Ming army from deploying the formation. Then the cavalry retreated, and the "twin pikemen", armed with pikes and muskets, took advantage of the cavalry rush to complete the deployment, forming a six-row horizontal line of four pikes in the center and muskets on either side, and then launched a charge.

The two double-battalion columns of the Ming army also frightened Wu Zhou's "double spear" soldiers, and after repelling Wu Zhou's cavalry, they also immediately began to change formations, but they did not open a hollow phalanx, nor did they form a horizontal formation, but expanded into two shock columns - the front of the formation was wider, but it still belonged to the column. Subsequently, an even more fierce confrontation unfolded on the two wings of the hollow phalanx of the Ming army that had just opened.

At the same time that the eight battalions of both sides of the Ming and Zhou sides were engaged in fierce battles, more Ming troops and Wu Zhou troops drove to the battlefield! They all rushed to both flanks of the battle line, trying to outflank the enemy's flanks.

As battalion after battalion was put in, the two sides became longer and longer, and soon a battle line more than ten miles wide was formed.

Tens of thousands of troops on both sides fought fiercely on this front. The sound of gunfire, artillery, and shouts are mixed together to form the most magnificent battlefield symphony!

And such a fighting line is not just one on today's Laodao River battlefield, but there are at least four!

It was the battle line formed by the main forces of the Ming army and Wu Yingqi at the beginning of the battle - the battle on this front began first, and by the evening of September 22, the two warring sides had been fighting fiercely for eight or nine hours. After Li Yat-sen left, Li Fuchen took over the command, and under his organization, the Ming army launched an assault on the front line of the Wu army one after another, the number of casualties on both sides increased sharply, and the breath of death spread throughout the entire front, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides lying on the ground were everywhere!

The roundabout troops of the Ming army and Wu Yingqi's right flank covering troops formed a second engagement line, and the fighting on this engagement line was extremely fierce! Wu Yingqi's right wing was almost broken by Li Zhongzheng!

However, after Wu Shicong led the cavalry to counterattack, Li Zhongzheng's offensive momentum was contained, and he was forced back by Wu Shicong and Ma Bao. However, the strong firepower and tenacious style of the model second town quickly helped Li Zhongzheng stabilize his position, and also caused great casualties to the opponent, and the whole front was full of corpses!

The blocking forces led by Li Yat-sen and Wu Guogui's front formed a third engagement front, and the battle on this front was white-hot from the beginning, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides even before the completion of the unfolding, and finally had to fight while fighting. When the horizontal formations, columns, squares, and hollow phalanxes of both sides were all spread out one by one, the front line had already become a stalemate.

And the musket of the first model town is also a well-deserved grim reaper on this front, reaping the lives of Wu Zhoujun wantonly, repelling their wave after wave of attacks.

and the battle line formed by Wu Guogui's palace army and Li Laishun's troops. It is the fourth dead line on the battlefield of Laodao River today! Li Laishun's "Li Luxi" performance today was also quite positive, but his troops' combat effectiveness was not very strong, and the flintlock pistols equipped were far less than those of other parts of the Ming army, and they were at the level of shoulder to shoulder with Wu Zhou's army, and the number of cavalry was also very small, and there were not many artillery pieces that could be pulled onto the field battlefield. In short, the strength is mediocre.

But Li Laishun is still the "most beautiful boy" in Li Yat-sen's eyes, and it is precisely because of his dedication to duty that Li Yat-sen did not become the Napoleon of Waterloo. Li Laishun almost bit Wu Guogui's ass and rushed to the battlefield.

Therefore, Wu Guogui only mobilized 20,000 or 30,000 people to attack Li Zhongshan, and at the same time, he had to take out 20,000 people to resist Li Laishun, making it like meat in a meat bun, and almost two pieces of steamed buns were crushed!

And the battle is going on to this point, and the victory or defeat is a contest of wills!

At this time, perseverance is victory!

"Persistence, persistence, perseverance to the end, is victory!"

Li Zhongshan was already red-eyed at this time, and he didn't care about the threat of the enemy sharpshooters, but just rode his war horse and galloped back and forth behind his own battle line, and kept cheering for the Chinese soldiers who were fighting hard!

And the eight unpretentious, but philosophical words of "perseverance to the end is victory" are the motto of the martial arts hall founded by Li Yat-sen. When the battle is at its fiercest, it's often about who can persevere to the end!

Hold on a little longer, and maybe it's a victory!

"Chong, rush with Lao Tzu. Daming will win! The general is invincible in the world! ”

This is the cry of Li Fuchen, the king of the south, when he once again led the cavalry of the Ming army that had rested enough to charge! He really went out for the sake of the "Eighteen Sons of the World", and twice braved the rain of bullets and bullets, rushed through the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, and launched a surprise attack on the enemy formation.

The real Lu Bu is here, but that's it, right?

"Model Second Town Forward! Moving Forward"

When the sky was getting dark, Li Zhongzheng organized another model army charge, and at one time he threw in six battalions of flintlock musketeers, forming a wide horizontal formation, closing in on the enemy formation, using heavy fire to try to suffocate his enemy.

"Rush, rush again. After this battle, I promise to divide the house and land for the big guy! ”

Li Laishun was a real man, he carried a horn rolled up in cowhide, and while riding his horse behind his own battle line, he promised the soldiers below to divide the house and land. The lesson that Li Zicheng summed up is that we can't let everyone work in vain!

You have to give real benefits to go, so that you can persevere!

And this battle, which lasted to the end, was victorious, and when the night of September 22 completely fell, it was finally time to decide the winner and loser.

Because of people. After all, it is more persistent than a horse! A flintlock pistol, after all, is more persistent than an arquebus!

In the face of heavy casualties, in the face of the exhaustion of the horsepower of the horses, in the face of the arquebus fire was crushed by the enemy's flintlock guns, in the face of the artillery ammunition was all exhausted.

Wu Zhou's army has finally begun to collapse!

(End of chapter)