I want to be emperor

Chapter 120 Fierce Battle

The generals of the guards had already had a lot of opinions on letting their guards take the lead. Now that Chen De took the initiative to stand up and lead the soldiers of the headquarters to participate in the battle, they felt a little better.

Even if Hong Chengchou forced us to fight to the death with the thieves of the Township Protection Army, we can't just fight to the death with the thieves, you, Chen Yongfu, have to send your descendants up.

Chen Yongfu scanned the surrounding people, even if he didn't want to, he knew that he couldn't mess around at this time.

After thinking for a while, Chen Yongfu said to his son Chen De with a serious face: "You lead a thousand soldiers to supervise the battle, and once you open the gap, rush in and kill him without leaving a piece of armor."

You can fight, but you have to let the guards at the front open the gap to fight again, don't rush directly to the front stupidly.

Chen De immediately nodded and said, "My son takes orders!"

On the Ming army's side, under Chen Yongfu's arrangement, they slowly moved forward after dispatching troops again.

This time the Ming army put out about 600 guard soldiers and 600 headquarters soldiers, with a total strength of about [-].

The guards were still at the head, and they formed infantry phalanxes. There were a few musketeers and archers in the infantry phalanxes, and there were more than a dozen light artillery pieces between the phalanxes.

After they finished forming about 800 meters away, following Chen Yongfu's order, even if many of the guard soldiers in front were dejected and frightened, they had to trot and run forward.

After the first attack, they also knew that they couldn't just line up slowly and stupidly, they had to advance faster, otherwise they would be bombarded by the bandit army round after round and couldn't take care of themselves.

This rushed over quickly, even if they rushed within two or three hundred meters, they could still use two or three hundred catties of light artillery to launch a counterattack.

It won't be the same as the first attack, it will be unilaterally subjected to the shelling of the bandit army from beginning to end, without even the slightest counterattack.

Seeing the Ming army coming up again, Zhang Malin, the director of artillery and concurrently the first artillery sentry officer, was not polite, and directed the [-]-jin artillery that had been cooled for many rounds to continue firing.

In the previous burst of shelling, each of the [-]-jin long cannons under his command fired seven or eight shells in a short period of time.

After firing shells at the maximum combat rate of fire, even after each shot, a wooden stick wrapped in cloth will be dipped in water to clean the barrel and cool down. However, the accumulated temperature in the barrel will still be relatively high. If you continue to If it is fired, after a few more rounds of shells are fired, the rate of fire has to be reduced to avoid bombing accidents.

After the Ming army retreated before, these artillerymen were not idle, but continued to cool the barrels with cloth balls dipped in water.

No, these Ming troops seemed to have discussed it a bit better, and after the artillery post had just lowered the temperature of the barrel to a normal level, these Ming troops came up again.

As the six [-]-jin long cannons of the artillery post roared again, the attacking Ming army inevitably suffered continuous losses.

But soon, Zhang Malin saw that these Ming troops were different.

The advance speed of these Ming troops was much faster than that of the first attack.

These Ming troops have been trotting from the very beginning. According to this, I am afraid that they will be able to advance to a distance of two to 300 meters without waiting for their own side to fire a few rounds of shells.

Thinking of this, Zhang Malin said to the deputy next to him: "Get ready for the shotgun, and shoot the shotgun quickly when the enemy enters Baizhang."

At the same time, he said: "Notify the artillery teams of each infantry battalion, and let them get ready. This time, the officers and soldiers are probably going to charge up in one go."

Although the [-]-jin and some [-]-jin light artillery in the Rural Protection Army are now under the jurisdiction of the artillery teams of the infantry battalions or some independent infantry artillery teams, as the leading artillery general in the Rural Protection Army, Zhang Ma Lin still believes that he has an inescapable responsibility to guide the operations of these light artillery units.

Of course, Lin Dongsheng, Huang Dingquan and other infantry generals disagree with this...

Zhang Malin saw the unusual behavior of the Ming army, and Luo Zhixue, who had been paying close attention to the changes on the battlefield, also saw the unusual behavior of the Ming army.

He said in a flat tone: "It seems that they have learned to be smart and know that they can't be a target by moving forward so slowly."

An Yongduo said: "I have learned to be smarter, but the change is still not enough. I am afraid that they will not have to go a hundred feet away, and their formation will be completely disorganized. Then they will be attacked by us again." The intensive strikes of the shotgun will cause complete chaos."

Luo Zhixue didn't answer, but asked, "Wang Dazhuang and the others, where have they been? How long will it take for the second cavalry post to arrive?"

Ernst and Young said: "A quarter of an hour ago, our order to send troops has been in contact with the Fourth Infantry Battalion. Now Brother Wang and the others are about four miles away on the west side of the battlefield. They have recovered their physical fitness ahead of time and are currently rushing to come. It is expected to arrive on time within two quarters of an hour and launch an attack from the west."

"The second cavalry post is in accordance with the order, and it has now joined our side rear and the first cavalry post."

As he said that, An Yong said: "Should we let the two cavalry post attack? The enemy is rushing so fast, the formation must be scattered, and our cavalry may rush out and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop."

Luo Zhixue shook his head slightly: "There's no rush, just let Blind Wang get ready, don't rush into battle."

Under the command of the Township Protection Army, the first cavalry post led by Wang Xiazi and the second cavalry post led by Ma Dapao are very expensive.

This kind of elite light cavalry cannot be used indiscriminately to charge the formation, even if the enemy's formation has collapsed, it cannot be easily used.

If he rushed in and got into a melee with the enemy's infantry, no matter how many enemy troops he could kill, if his own elite casually damaged dozens of cavalry, Luo Zhixue would be heartbroken to death.

Now the battle is going smoothly, and no matter how you look at it, there is no great danger for your side, and there is no need to take precious elite cavalry to take risks.

Hearing what Luo Zhixue said, An Yongduo consciously closed his mouth, and he also knew that he was getting impatient, so he came up with a bad idea.

Huang Guangmao on the side watched Ernst and Young close his mouth. Although he looked expressionless while paying attention to the battlefield, there was a hint of joy in his heart: "Soldiers are born as soldiers. This knowledge is still too bad. This time Nanxia has mentioned bad ideas at least three or five times."

"Continuing on like this, no matter how nostalgic the general is, he won't keep him in the important position of chief of staff for long. And after Ernst and Young get out, my chance will come."

Although Huang Guangmao was a surrendered general, since he surrendered to the bandits, in fact, Huang Guangmao, like many former officers, soldiers and generals who surrendered to the bandits, began to devote himself wholeheartedly to the cause of rebellion.

As for Huang Guangmao personally, with the continuous development of the Rural Protection Army in the past six months, his personal expectations for the Rural Protection Army and Luo Zhixue have increased.

According to the development momentum of the Township Protection Army, I dare not say whether it will be able to compete for hegemony in the future, but it is very possible to pull tens of thousands of people to rule one side.

And it's not too late to join the army by himself, and he can continue to accumulate qualifications and military exploits with the development of the Rural Protection Army, and become one of the top generals in the Rural Protection Army.

But Luo Zhixue has been slow to let him lead the army, so he can only think about fighting for the position of chief of staff.

Huang Guangmao's guess was correct. With the passage of time, especially after the Rural Protection Army became larger and larger, Ernst and Young became more and more incompetent as the chief of staff.

After all, the position of the staff office in the Rural Protection Army is very important, not only to formulate strategic and tactical combat plans for the whole army, but also to support military expansion training.

When there were only a few hundred people in the past, Ernst & Young could barely manage it, but now that the size of the Township Protection Army has expanded to more than 4000, and it is still expanding at a high speed, it will not take long to break through the 6000 mark when.

Ernst & Young's capabilities have been increasingly unable to keep up.

Even Ernst Young has been working hard to read and write in recent months, and even asked his literate subordinates to read military books such as Sun Tzu's Art of War to him, but his ability still cannot keep up with the development of the Rural Protection Army.

Luo Zhixue was already thinking about it, and after this battle was over, he would change positions for An Yong and let him become a battalion commander and lead the troops.

As for the subsequent candidate for the chief of staff, he has not yet made a decision.

Huang Guangmao, Fei Bingqing, and Xu Zhixian, the head of the Operations Section of the Staff Office, are all candidates. It remains to be seen who will be elected as the Chief of the Staff Office.

And these things are all follow-up matters, now Luo Zhixue is not in the mood to consider the issue of the director of the staff department after Ernst Young.

As Zhang Malin's artillery continued to fire, the Ming army continued to approach after paying a certain price of casualties.

Soon, some of their forward soldiers came to a distance of about 200 meters from Zhaozhuang's first infantry line of defense.

And at this moment, Huang Dingquan, the battalion commander of the First Infantry Battalion, ordered the two hundred catties of light artillery under his command to prepare to fire.

As a result, many [-]-jin guns that were originally hiding behind the parapet bunker were pushed up.

These light artillery have been loaded in advance, just wait for the enemy to rush up and fire.

In fact, before these light artillery fired, the [-]-jin long artillery under Zhang Malin no longer used solid bullets for bombardment, but replaced it with shotgun shells for large-area coverage.

And when the [-]-jin light artillery in the Township Protection Army also fired a large piece of shrapnel and iron beads, the Ming army, which was charging, suddenly stopped.

If you look closely, you will find that the more than a hundred Ming troops rushing to the forefront have almost all fallen in front of the shotgun attack of the Xiangbao Army.

But even so, the generals of the Ming army kept urging their soldiers to continue the attack, and at the same time let the remaining artillerymen pull out their light cannons and start to fight back.

The battle between the two sides has entered the most intense time at this time.

Even though they suffered a lot of casualties, these guard soldiers of the Ming army were still forced to move forward. At this time, the one who took the lead in the charge was no longer the ordinary recruited guard soldiers, but the guard soldiers Stay soldiers.

These guard soldiers who were originally hiding behind the ordinary guard soldiers are successively passing the ordinary guard soldiers in front and charging.

It didn't take long to see about [-] guard soldiers in armor rushing up with knives, spears, bows and arrows, muskets and other weapons.

(End of this chapter)