Chapter 64, the Qing army also has something to fight

The sound of the drum came from inside the barracks of the Qing army.

"This is the Ju General Drum, it looks like the Tartar is going to make a move..."

Luo Jiangong listened carefully for a while and then said.

Fang Ke didn't pick up, as far as he knew, there were basically not many big clans here in Guangdong who supported the Ming army.

However, there are many low-level elders in the Heaven and Earth Society and the White Lotus Sect, and many of the sect members are clamoring.

Like the two of them, many eyes on the bank of the river are staring closely ahead.

If nothing else.

The first war between the Ming and Qing dynasties after a lapse of more than 100 years was about to begin.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, Reverse Ming is good at firearms, and has a large number of light mortars that can shoot flowering shells. The generals have a good plan. ”

In the big tent of the Qing army, all the generals gathered, and Fukangan was neatly draped and sat in a high position.

"Marshal, the range of firearms against the Ming Dynasty is limited, although it is farther than a bird gun, but it is not as good as a gun, a sub-mother cannon, our army only needs guns to guns, artillery to artillery, and set up against them, so what is there to fear, I am willing to lead the troops to fight and fight this first battle."

The one who was speaking was Yang Liufang, the general of the left battalion of the Guangdong Green Battalion.

It is the Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners Han Army.

can be regarded as the most loyal loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.

The Guangdong Governor's Left Battalion is also a relatively elite unit in the Guangdong Green Battalion.

That's why Yang Liufang has the confidence to take the lead.

"Good! General Yang Shen ordered 3,000 troops, and first went to test the strength of the reverse Ming! ”

Fukangan said immediately.

These days, Fukangan has repeatedly heard that the Ming navy swept back and forth on both sides of the Pearl River, and the Guangdong Navy Division was bombed into scum before the battle.

So if you want to fight the Ming army on the water, Fukangan, of course, knows that it is impossible.

He himself was not good at water warfare.

And the land battles .... What level the Ming army is, Fukangan himself can't figure it out.

Enough legends have been heard.

How will it really be to fight.

That's really hard to say.

.........

Soon.

Yang Liufang ordered three thousand green battalion soldiers.

Equipped with cannons, spears, and spears.

Form a huge phalanx and stand in front of the barracks.

Under the banner of Yang Zida.

Yang Liufang waved his hand.

A group of soldiers came up carrying several baskets of copper coins.

"Reward!"

Before you go into battle, put a round of rewards.

It's going to be a dead force.

"Lord Yang has an order, go into battle and reward a tael of silver! Win and reward three taels of silver! The family members who died in the war carried the flag to make the Han army's coating! ”

The heralds shouted in unison in front of the formation.

Immediately, the morale of this green battalion soldier was all buzzed.

Don't think that entering the Eight Banners to be the Eight Banners' cloth slave is a chore now.

That's something that many people can't ask for.

Entering the Eight Banners to do coating, it is equivalent to entering the "compilation".

In the future, if you have merit, you can raise the flag, and after becoming the master of the Eight Banners, the children and grandchildren will be the nobles of the Qing Dynasty.

In the late Qianlong Dynasty, due to the expansion of the population of the Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army have begun to be denaturalized in large numbers.

If you are alive, you can be rewarded, and if you die, your family will be put into the flag.

Neither end loses.

Of course, the morale of these local green battalion soldiers is too high.

Yang Liufang looked at the fighting spirit of his subordinates with great satisfaction.

With a big wave of his hand.

"Out of battle!"

Accompanied by bursts of gongs and drums.

The three thousand green battalion soldiers rumbled out of the barracks and pressed towards the camp of the Ming army.

...............

"It's coming!"

Of course, the reaction of the Ming army was also very fast.

In fact, even if the Qing army did not move, the Ming army was ready to fight.

The purpose of this battle was to tell the Fukang Anming Army about its strong combat effectiveness.

He had to gather all the Qing troops in Guangdong in order to be able to win.

"The morale is very high, and the arrangement is also very good, that is the small rapid artillery used by the Qing army, right?"

Napoleon was holding a telescope to observe the Qing army marching into battle.

The first was the four horizontal teams, which used carrying guns that were to be shot on the shoulder.

Then on either side of these four horizontal formations were about twenty sub-cannons, all erected on man-powered carts, which were pushed forward with the military formation.

The sub-cannon is a light gun that can be quickly loaded and fired, with a short range and mainly fires shotguns.

In addition to this, there were six long-barreled guns, the caliber was not large, but the barrels were very thick, and they were also placed on the cart and pulled by several mules. anus

And behind this array of firearms troops is a horizontal line of cold weapons.

In the middle are four rows of spearmen and horses.

The two wings are guarded by rattan soldiers.

The composite military formation formed by muskets, light artillery, and cold weapons was the combat characteristic of the Qing army in this era.

If it's the Eight Banners.

It will also replenish horse teams and archers.

The appearance of the musket did not immediately eliminate the bow and arrow, in fact, the bow and arrow were used in armies such as the Qing army until the nineteenth century.

During the Opium War, bows and arrows were still used by the Qing army.

Such a mixture of weapons is of course much more difficult to train than simply using a flintlock pistol with a bayonet.

That's why Napoleon praised the green battalion of the Qing army who were going into battle.

"Judging from the military formation of this army, they are a force to be reckoned with in the East."

Napoleon sighed.

Zhu Daohua nodded when he heard this: "It seems that this king underestimated his opponent, after all, this is the Qianlong Dynasty, isn't it..."

Zhu Daohua didn't go on here.

The Qing army of the Qianlong Dynasty was really different from the Qing army during the Opium War a few decades later.

The Qing Dynasty army in this era still had a lot of actual combat experience.

In particular, the war between the Qing Dynasty and Dzungar lasted for almost a hundred years.

In the end, it was during the Qianlong period.

The Qing Dynasty completely defeated Zhunger and slaughtered all of Zhunger.

It was able to penetrate deep into the northwest to exterminate the Qing Dynasty army in the Dzungar Department, and it was able to cross the Himalayas to attack the Khalkha Department.

Some of the troops in his military formation who can fight are also normal.

Moreover, Fukangan, the governor of Liangguang, as a famous general of the Qianlong Dynasty, was not bad at commanding the troops.

"What's not?"

Napoleon glanced at Zhu Daohua suspiciously.

"Nothing, how are we going to deal with it? Their guns and guns have a longer range than our flintlock guns and small-caliber mortars, so do you need to send out a battery of artillery? ”

The artillery company was equipped with large-caliber mortars capable of launching artillery strikes outside the range of the Qing army's guns and sub-guns.

But at the risk of being bombarded by the Qing army's six long-barreled smoothbore guns.

Looks like there are going to be some casualties this time...

Boss Zhu thought.

"Let the chasseur company go out, use skirmisher tactics to knock out the opponent's artillery first, and then let the first infantry battalion prepare for a column assault!"

Boss Zhu hasn't come up with any good solutions yet.

Napoleon had already begun to make arrangements.

As the scale of the war of the Ming army continued to expand.

Napoleon also got more and more into the state.

From a rookie commander at the beginning, he has now begun to look like the most powerful general of the nineteenth century.

"We've experimented with some new tactics during this time, and it seems that they can come in handy now."

Napoleon turned his head and laughed.