Barbed wire is such a famous thing, of course Boss Zhu wants to "invent" it.

In fact, this thing is not very technically difficult, especially in the Ming Dynasty, where even the railroad tracks can be paved, and it is certainly not difficult to get some barbed wire.

Moreover, historically, this thing was used by the Americans for grazing, and it was only used by chance in the military.

So when the starry night came, General Shengjing of the Qing court who arrived at the battlefield, and Lin Ning, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army in the Liaodong battlefield, saw two rows of simple barbed wire opened, blocking the front of the Qing army on both sides of the east and west, and the thin barbed wire looked not very reliable, so Lin Ning didn't care much, but held a telescope to observe the Ming army formation waiting for the Qing army to come up at Tieling Tunbao.

There were not many cavalry.

At least there are no serious cavalrymen.

It is several cavalry infantry battalions, this kind of mounted infantry, as the name suggests, is an infantry on horseback, usually fighting with black guns, and when fighting, they still have to dismount and line up in formation.

The number of people is also the same as the intelligence.

What is the use of that thin fence?

The cavalry can pass with a charge, right?

If he was facing another enemy, Lin Ning would have ordered the cavalry to charge.

But now facing the Ming army, he had to be cautious, temporarily stopped on the west side, and stopped at a distance of about five miles from the Ming army's battle array together with the six thousand Hui Eight Banners.

Lin Ning's arrival shocked the morale of the Qing troops on the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of cavalry "surrounded" this force of more than 10,000 Ming soldiers.

Let many Eight Banners officials cheer.

"Why are you going to kill thousands of them this time!"

"This is an unprecedented victory for the dynasty since the rebellion against the Ming Dynasty!"

"The Qing Dynasty still has to rely on us to pass the Eight Banners."

"Then they won't have to run, Lord Linning is leading tens of thousands of cavalry, they have a total of more than 10,000 infantry, how can they run!!"

All of a sudden.

The morale of the Qing army can be said to be a great shock.

Although in the pass, the Qing army's green battalion, green flag, and Baoyi army, and even the Manmeng Eight Banners and Sauron cavalry were all annihilated by tens of thousands, and almost all of them were defeated in one dozen on the battlefield.

But like now, it is still quite rare for tens of thousands of cavalry to surround the more than 10,000 foot soldiers of the Ming army who came from afar.

Even if you can't wipe it out.

With such a battlefield situation, how can you win a big victory?

Also arriving on the battlefield was the Russian Governor of Eastern Siberia, Lieutenant General of the Russian Empire Mikhail Mikhail. Kutuzov, as well as a dissident of the Russian Empire, an opponent of Her Majesty the Empress, and a scholar suspected of Russian traitor, Alexander A. Radischev.

"Your Excellency General, in front of you are the soldiers of the Ming Empire, how do they compare to your soldiers?"

Mikhail was also holding a telescope to observe the Ming army in front of him.

A military stronghold that did not look very reliable in Mikhail was quite well organized.

The soldiers were well disciplined and maintained a strict queue no matter what, in pairs and in groups of three.

The morale was also good, the nutritional status was also very good, the tall and strong body, and the face was swollen and red, indicating that the supply situation of this army was excellent, and the physical condition was much better than that of the garrisons and Cossack cavalry in the Russian Far East - in Irkutsk, soldiers were often not fed.

In addition, the Ming army was also very well equipped, with a large number of artillery, and soldiers generally carried flintlock pistols with bayonets and a few grenades with wooden handles on their waists.

However, when facing the Qing cavalry, they did not seem to form a line of infantry, but instead got into a trench dug in advance.

One trench, two rows of barbed wire.

This is probably the fortification of the Ming army.

Is this too rudimentary?

Mikhail thought.

Just a platoon of musketeers defending against the trenches.

The cavalry scattered as soon as they charged, right?

Although the grenades and mortars of the Ming army possessed a high density of fire.

But Mikhail still thought that the Ming army in front of him was too big.

Thanks to Boss Zhu's invention.

Now a military revolution is also taking place in Europe.

In fact, if both sides were equipped with a large number of flowering shells, the tactics of lining up to shoot would already be untenable.

But it's a pity.

At all times, the Army is a relatively conservative force in the army.

Even in the era when the rear loading rifle had already appeared.

Isn't there still an old stubborn man in the army who thinks that shooting on his stomach or kneeling insults the honor of soldiers, and insists that the soldiers under his command slap the team and hold up the whizzing bullets to send them to death?

So now the equipment of the Ming army is quite sophisticated in Mikhail's opinion, but there are too many debatable points in the defensive arrangement.

"So thin? You can break through by rushing straight over, right? ”

Heilongjiang General Shu Liang said.

Lin Ning shook his head: "There are many moths against the Ming, we can't underestimate it, I'm afraid it's a fraud!" ”

Jilin General Baolin also nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, you can't underestimate them." It's better to let people test it. ”

"Who will go?"

Lin Ning looked at the gray cloth rag not far away, stretching her neck to look forward.

"Let's go back to the Eight Banners and test it!"

"Only 6,000 shots back?"

Peng Jun frowned.

"It seems that the Tartars are scared of being beaten, and they don't dare to fight with such a big advantage."

Chen Jianhui said regretfully.

"Six thousand is six thousand, they want to test it, they will test it, and they will order an artillery bombardment, so that these more than 10,000 Eight Banner people will stand up and be bombed, and this town will see if the Tartars can hold their breath."

Peng Jun said with a sneer.

Now Lin Ning didn't dare to let go, but the direct motive for them to lead the troops south was to hope to take away the more than 10,000 bannermen of Tieling Tunbao, and at the same time, they didn't necessarily want to see if they could get some cheapness.

Now the pick-and-search sent six thousand inconsequential Hui Eight Banners to fight.

It's clear that he wants to be powerful and doesn't wear a helmet.

So Peng Jun decided to shell Tieling Tunbao, anyway, there were enough shells this time, and he didn't have to feel distressed.

But Linning must be distressed.

Because it was a people of more than 10,000 ancestors.

Lin Ning, who can't afford to die the people of his ancestors, will definitely not be able to hold his breath first, otherwise he can only watch the people of his ancestors being blown up.

It's cruel.

Song Shan's forehead in the Tieling Tunbao didn't feel the cruelty coming.

He's feeling good now.

is still inspiring the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers in the fort.

"Cheer up!"

"Let's shrink in the castle, and if you come in, you will kill one, and you will kill one by one!"

"Who are we eight banners afraid of?"

"There are tens of thousands of our troops outside, and now it is the reverse Ming who is surrounded, let's defend the fort and give the reverse Ming a middle flower!"

Inspired down.

The confidence of the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the fort, and even those who took weapons and formed a team, was unprecedentedly high.

If you can hit the reverse Ming under the Tieling Tunbao and frustrate the sharp spirit of the anti-Ming, then everyone in this fort will start to have merit.

At that time, the emperor will transfer the big guy into the customs and go to Beijing to enjoy the blessings, and there is no need to stay outside the customs to farm hard.

Everyone is Eight Banners.

Why can the Jingying carry cages and birds?

Those of us outside the gate will wield hoes to play with the fields.

"The military order is here, open to fight! Rejoice! ”

The artillery battalion, which had placed artillery emplacements on the front line, was overjoyed.

"Company Commander Luo, don't you know, in the past, we used to pick and search every time we shelled, where is this generosity."

"Of course I searched before, but I probably won't in the future."

Luo Jinyue - In the army, he changed his name to Luo Jin, that is, the commander of the 33rd Company of the Dragoon Battalion of the 2nd Brigade.

Now he is being ordered to cover the front-line artillery battalion.

"Why?" The battalion commander of the artillery battalion asked.

This young captain, who became a company commander at a young age, seems to have a pretty good family background.

It's compared to a certain hero who raised troops in Nanyang with the emperor back then.

Maybe his father was a marquis.

Therefore, the commander of the artillery battalion was also quite polite.

Why?

Of course, it's because the shells are cheaper.

He went to the artillery shell factory in Guangdong, where the assembly line was industrialized, and it was easy to produce tens of thousands of shells a day.

The cost of shell manufacturing is much lower than before.

So now the Ming army can also fight with artillery open.

Otherwise, it will be a fortress of little strategic value like Tieling Tunbao.

It would be nice to have one round of shelling.

After a round of artillery bombardment, it was the big-headed soldiers who charged with muskets and grenades.

But now.

If you can fight a few more rounds of artillery, it is best to just clean up the mess when the infantry comes out at the end, then the battle will be much safer.

And the win rate is also high.

In the future, in the war, it will be a competition to see who shoots more and shoots farther.

Luo Jinyue thought.

However, he also knew that this was not something that a small company commander of his level should know.

So he said with a haha: "It's all guesses, even the emperor came in person in these battles of Fuliao, and it is normal that the security in all aspects is more adequate than before." ”

"That's right.." The commander of the artillery battalion nodded, and then spat out the cigarette in his mouth fiercely.

"Hurry up and prepare for the shelling!"

Seeing that the artillery battalion was already preparing for the shelling.

Luo Jinyue also hurriedly ordered.

"Hurry up, get into the trenches, check your equipment, and get ready for battle!"

The dragoon battalions were armed with rifled guns.

With the advent of easily reloading Mini shells.

The weakness of the difficulty of loading the rifled gun was solved.

So now it's not just dragoon battalions.

Some of the infantry brigades with old qualifications have almost all been rifled.

Another consequence of rifled guns and rear grenades is that the Ming army now rarely uses the tactic of lining up to shoot.

At long range, you can rely on the accurate sniping of rifled guns.

Why risk enemy fire to run to thirty paces and shoot?

And rifled guns, grenades, mortars bring dense fire density,

It is true that the Ming army did not rely on dense formations to pursue the need for firepower density.

Therefore, the combat and training regulations of the Ming army have now begun to be improved.

The tactics of squatting and pit flow are starting to take over.

And at this time.

The target of Ha Guoxing, who was ordered to attack, also happened to be the area where Luo Jinyue's headquarters was located - the artillery position must be an important strategic target.

At this time, Ha Guoxing was also mobilizing the soldiers under his command.

In fact, there is nothing to mobilize, it is just some empty promises.

Because the Hui Eight Banners were originally formed temporarily.

Poorly equipped.

Not well treated.

Now it's just cannon fodder to consume the Ming army's defense line.

However, Ha Guoxing is very energetic.

Because it's not him who is cannon fodder.

Dye your crown red with thousands of times.

Ha Guoxing has no psychological burden at all.

"The time has come to make contributions to the Qing Dynasty! The first person to rush into the trench will be promoted two levels in a row, behead the enemy by one level, and be rewarded with ten silver dollars! Where to cringe is not the former! Chop!! ”

It was very wide, and the chaotic six thousand Eight Banners formed a large horizontal formation, and they were pressed forward and advanced.

No, this can't even be said to be a horizontal formation, but a phalanx.

Messy and sloppy, it looks loose.

Mikhail, who was seeing this scene from a distance, muttered to himself when he saw this scene.

"Such a soldier with such a crotch, but the opposite side does not seem to be clever, just a trench, a row of soldiers to form a defensive line, how can such a line of defense resist the impact of cavalry?"

"In this battle, is the Qing army going to achieve an unprecedented victory?"

(End of chapter)