Chapter 67, the rotten Eight Banners

Balls of fire rose into the sky.

A company of hunters, seventy three-man combat teams, seventy grenadiers, and four hundred and twenty shells filled with five taels of yellow powder poured out in an extremely short period of time.

A black parabola with an afterimage formed in the air.

Upon landing, each shell will form at least twenty shell fragments.

The impact of the explosion of yellow powder.

A rain of dead metal formed by shell fragments.

All of this adds up to a splendid waltz of death.

Fire, blood.

Explosions, wails.

Chaos spreads quickly!

That's the blow.

At least more than 500 Qing casualties were inflicted.

And the rest of the Green Battalion soldiers were almost all frightened.

Weapons and flags were thrown to the ground.

Like a headless fly, it quickly disrupted the entire military formation.

In the midst of chaos.

Yang Liufang's Yang character flag was trampled on the ground at some point.

Even Yang Liufang himself was in such chaos, and he didn't know where to go by the rebels.

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

According to the "Skirmisher Tactical Discipline", all six shells must be fired within 20 seconds to be qualified.

And as the first company of hunters to be formed, this requirement is simply too lenient.

After pouring all six shells out in a very short time.

The mission of the Chasseur Company is considered complete.

Next...

It's about the infantry battalion.

.......

"Well played!"

Zhu Daohua saw the rise of time.

Napoleon, beside him, reminded: "Your Majesty, you can let a battalion of infantry go into battle!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Herald! A battalion of infantry attacked! ”

With the military order issued.

Three companies of the 1st Infantry Battalion, which had long been prepared, formed columns in three directions, jumped out of the trenches and quickly rushed towards the chaotic enemy formation.

About fifty paces before reaching the chaotic formation of the Green Battalion, they quickly formed a horizontal formation.

"Platoon guns! Salvo! ”

Bang Bang Bang!

The salvo of a thousand flintlock muskets suddenly caused the chaotic Qing army to fall neatly in front of the formation.

"White Blade Assault!!"

A few high-pitched suona sounds ran through the normal.

"Kill!! Long live King Ming! Long live the Ming Dynasty!! ”

Thousands of Ming infantrymen rushed into the chaotic Qing army formation with bayonets nine feet long, almost two meters long, flintlock pistols chanting slogans.

........

Silent.

Be quiet.

Silent.

The pin drop can be heard.

In the barracks of the Qing army.

From Fukangan, the governor of Liangguang, Sun Qijiao, the governor of Guangdong, and Wang Zhensi, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Green Camp Water Division.... and even the following votes of generals, guerrillas, etc.

All of them opened their mouths wide and stared at the scene in front of them.

This scene really subverted all their common sense of war.

Fukangan clenched the copper-shelled monocular in his hand tightly.

He has been leading troops since he was a teenager.

It has been more than 30 years now.

However, he never thought of it.

This war....

You can still fight like this!

There are more than 200 people.

Approached with a loose straggler, the kind of straggler that seemed so ridiculous to a veteran like him.

began to throw flowering shells.

And then....

A military formation of more than 3,000 people, which was still quite well-organized, collapsed like this.

Although the final collapse was caused by the Ming army pressing a thousand foot soldiers in the end.

But the key to all this is the scene that just began to disrupt the military formation.

If the Ming army now has a cavalry in its hands.

The 3,000 Green Battalions are all over.

Think of cavalry.

Fukangan was shocked.

"Quick, the horse team presses up and gathers the rout!"

Fukangan took a deep breath and gave the order.

This time it was a loss.

But that doesn't mean you've lost the battle.

In this formation, the 3,000 Green Battalion soldiers lost at least a thousand.

It's already a third of it.

Although the losses are significant.

But after the rout is brought back, there are still about 2,000 people after a little training.

Stomp Tread!!

The three hundred horses pressed up in a trotting manner.

Seeing this scene, the commander of the first infantry battalion, Chen Dewang immediately showed a solemn expression.

Cavalry is the biggest weakness of the current Ming army.

Nanyang is not a good place to raise horses.

After getting Guangdong, I don't know if I can get a good horse farm?

Chen Dewang took back his divergent thoughts.

"Hollow Phalanx!!"

As Chen Dewang's order was issued, the sharp sound of suona transmitted the order to the ears of every non-commissioned soldier of the first battalion of infantry.

Accompanied by the movement of the formation.

A hollow phalanx about twenty meters long and wide was soon laid out.

The sharp tip of the bayonet pointed forward, and behind the hollow phalanx, there were grenadiers fiddling with individual grenadiers.

"Launch!"

With the dull sound of grenadiers throwing shells.

A large number of shells pounced on the 300 horse team of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in front.

The performance of the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, who were trotting forward, surprised everyone on the battlefield.

Those Green Battalion soldiers who were expecting the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to save the situation were also dumbfounded.

The legendary heavenly soldiers had already beaten their horses to dodge before the cannonballs fell, and many of the vests of the Eight Banners of the Han Army also turned around on their horses, and the charging formation was suddenly frustrated.

However, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers still hid quite quickly.

Except for a few unlucky eggs.

This round of shells did not cause many casualties - the Eight Banners cavalry was not the shock cavalry of Europe, which was arranged in a dense shock formation.

Rather, it is a composite cavalry that combines long-range attacks and impact hand-to-hand combat with bows and arrows, and even includes dismounting to form a heavy infantry formation for hand-to-hand combat.

So their formation is not tight.

The projectiles of small-caliber mortars such as grenadiers fire very high ballistic parabolas, which means that the speed is not too fast, at least visible to the naked eye.

So in the case of intentional dodge.

Most of these cavalrymen on war horses still dodged.

That's it.

The original calculation of the horseback impact became a joke.

Fukangan, who was watching from behind, turned blue for a while.

In fact, if these cavalrymen could charge forward with the shells, they would have been able to rush through the blast area before the shells exploded - and then they would have a chance to inflict great damage on the infantry of the Ming army!

But now ....

Everyone saw that Eight Flags was timid.

The Eight Banners, known as the Heavenly Soldiers, although they were the Eight Banners of the Han Army, were actually scared and hidden!

And before that.

The green battalion soldiers of the Guangdong Governor fought for a while.

Could it be that the Eight Banners are not working?

Fukangan, who was pale, regretted sending the Eight Banners to fight.

He also knew that the Eight Banners were rotten.

But he didn't expect it to be so rotten...

This is a vest soldier.

The most elite existence in the Eight Banners.

Even the vest is the same.

What will happen to those foot soldiers?

Can this kind of performance still be able to control the Guangdong Green Camp?

Fukangan can't even imagine it.

"What a pity."

Zhu Daohua patted his thigh regretfully.

Although the vest soldiers of the Eight Banners did not perform well.

However, the Ming army, which lacked cavalry, still did not dare to let its battalion of infantry break too far ahead.

If you have a cavalry on hand.

None of the 3,000 Green Battalion soldiers could leave.