Chapter 41, soldier to soldier, goods to goods

"This.... Forest... Lord Lin, are you still fighting? ”

Liu Qianxing did not sit on a sliding pole, but stood on a carriage.

However, when I was questioned, my legs and stomach were cramping.

I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods.

On the side of the coalition army, there are 20,000 Qing Heavenly Soldiers and 60,000 Turen troops.

When he first came out, he was still a little majestic.

In the view of Liu Qianxing, who has a lot of experience in group fighting.

With these 80,000 people.

Let's not say that it is a whip to cut off the flow.

How can you crush Pontianak!

Wait until this battle is over.

He can get the canonization of the Qing Dynasty, and this West Borneo will become the world of the Liu family.

Just now...

When I saw the Ming army coming out of the camp.

His enthusiasm was poured cold water.

The ranks of the Ming army on the opposite side were as neat as knives and axes.

And what about your own side?

It's messy like a wet market.

After seeing the army on the opposite side come out, he was also frightened and a little confused.

If it weren't for the numerical advantage, it would be too great.

I am afraid that these patchwork Chinese underworld armies and native tribal armies will become the courage to "meet the enemy and flee again".

Lin Guoliang frowned.

The Ming army on the opposite side was not numerous.

But the elite is really the elite.

Wearing a very energetic cotton uniform.

He carried a musket nine feet long, and a bright bayonet stuck in the tip of the spear.

Two squads of 20 men formed a horizontal platoon, three platoons formed a platoon, and three platoons were an infantry company, and each full company had 180 soldiers and 20 officers, which was exactly 200 men.

Three companies lined up to form a very open frontage.

is walking slowly at a neat pace.

The number of people is small though.

But it has come out of a kind of overwhelming momentum.

Lin Guo's conscience was shocked.

"Guangzhou City.... No, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers in Beijing are nothing more than that, right? ”

Lin Guoliang thought.

The image of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Although Qianlong was well aware that his Eight Banners were not very capable of fighting, this was the biggest secret of the entire Qing Dynasty.

Eight Banners is not very good at this, but it must not be known to the Han people.

So in the propaganda caliber of the Qing Dynasty.

The Eight Banners are still heavenly soldiers.

As soon as the heavenly soldiers came out.

There is nothing that cannot be won.

Now Lin Guoliang imagined the anti-Ming army in front of him as an army on a par with the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers in Beijing.

It's already a bit of a big rebellion.

Fortunately, there is no mind reading in this world.

No one knows what Lin Guoliang is thinking.

He frowned and said, "Major Glopp, why don't you test it first." ”

Dutchman Glop is knowledgeable.

Of course, he knew that the army on the opposite side was not simple.

But in any case, there is a numerical advantage on their side.

"I agree."

Glopp put down the monoculars in his hand,

He and Lin Guoliang were the actual commanders of this coalition.

"Why don't you send 2,000 Chinese musketeers and 3,000 natives to fight in hand-to-hand combat first, and then the rest of the army will be deployed as reserves? Let Captain Vester take command of this battle. ”

"Good!" Lin Guoliang nodded in agreement.

He knew that these Dutchmen had some skills.

At least he is more capable than his colleagues and subordinates in the Guangdong Green Camp.

There are rules for dispatching troops.

A Dutchman officer came out of the ranks, and Glopp explained: "Captain West, you are in charge of directing this round of attack, dispatching 10 six-pounder guns, remember, you don't need to storm it, just fire at the enemy's muskets within 100 yards!" ”

"Yes! Major!! ”

100 yards is about 90 meters.

This distance is actually about the limit of the effective range of the flintlock smoothbore gun.

To hit a target with a flintlock smoothbore at this distance, it is possible that a well-trained soldier can use as many firearms and ammunition as possible.

But now the coalition forces certainly don't have such soldiers.

Therefore.

This attack was just a test.

Just when the coalition forces were still messing around to point troops to battle.

The Ming army on the opposite side appeared again.

Two armies of about the same number as the Ming army in front came from both sides, and it seemed that they were preparing to cooperate with the army in the middle to form a pincer offensive!

"Pincer offensive?"

Lin Guoliang and Glopp were shocked.

These Ming troops are too... Confidence, or arrogance!

In the face of an enemy who is dozens of times the number of his own, he actually made a posture of taking the initiative to attack!!

"Ordered the army to shrink up, and they actually wanted to attack us from the front, from the left, from the right at the same time? This is also too arrogant! ”

Glopp said with a deep breath.

And at this time.

The 2,000 Chinese musketeers and 3,000 natives who were ready to fight had also been pulled out.

Although there is some confusion.

But a military formation was formed in front of them.

Three thousand Chinese musketeers lined up in crooked lines.

The natives formed a group of hand-to-hand combatants that looked like a phalanx.

After the two sides started firing at each other and the smoke from the muskets obscured the battlefield, they rushed up to bite the opponent and disrupt the battle.

With the advantage of numbers, the chaos was fought together, and only a part of the army was needed to entangle the Ming army.

The rest of the army will be able to storm Pontianak without hindrance.

The battle was won.

.....

However, the dream is beautiful, and the reality is skinny.

It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with Glop's arrangement.

The only problem is that he overestimates the ability of this rabble under his command and underestimates the strength of his opponent.

The Ming army did not give the opposite side a chance to shoot at all.

When the five thousand vanguard soldiers and horses on the opposite side came out of the battle in a chaotic manner.

Behind the rows of military formations of the Ming army, ten-man squads quickly advanced in columns.

swaggered towards the front of the coalition army.

At a distance of about two hundred meters from the opposing military formation.

The hunters began to shoot in a half-crouched position.

When the Qing Heavenly Soldiers and the Turen hand-to-hand combat soldiers here were not yet known.

Bang bang gunfire came and went.

About seventy hunters opened fire one after another.

Patches of blood mist suddenly appeared on the side of the coalition forces.

More than a dozen men fell to the ground.

Screams rang out one after another.

"It's a hunter! Damn it!! ”

Grope had just cursed.

On the side of the coalition forces.

More than 2,000 Chinese musketeers couldn't wait to shoot.

"Ceasefire! Ceasefire !! ”

Glopp's angry voice was quickly drowned out in a burst of gunfire.

The tactics of the hunters were also very common in Europe, but firing at such a long distance and firing so accurately that Glop judged that the rifled muskets were being used on the opposite side.

This musket was in the private collections of many nobles in Europe.

There is not much mass equipment for the army.

However, Glopp knew the advantages and disadvantages of rifled guns: they could shoot accurately and far, but they were extremely difficult to load.

So if the coalition forces don't shoot, they only need to endure a dozen casualties and continue to advance, and they can force these hunters who have already fired bullets to retreat.