I want to be emperor

Chapter 177 Ming Army Cavalry
On June [-]rd of the eighth year of Chongzhen, outside Yuzhou City in the afternoon.

The sun is still high in the sky, and the hot sun shines on the earth, announcing that this place has entered the midsummer gathering.

Gao Zheng was wearing a suit of armor, with a red cloth strip tied to the top of his helmet, a red collar patch on the neckline of the cloth face armor, and epaulets with a red background, a vertical line, and a gold star sewn on both shoulders.

Gao Zheng, who was wearing a helmet, was sweating continuously on his forehead, and his back was already drenched with sweat.

As soon as he approached the battlefield, like many comrades in arms, he began to wear a full set of armor. His armor was not only heavy, but also tightly wrapped.

Wearing this kind of full body armor on a hot day is actually very uncomfortable.

But even if it was uncomfortable, Gao Zheng would not complain, let alone take off his armor.

A little more than a hundred feet ahead is the Ming army camp, and the battle may break out at any time. If he takes it off now, when the Ming army comes out, or if the superiors order an attack now, he will not have enough time to put on the armor.

Compared with the protective ability brought by the armor, it is nothing to be tired and hot now.

Gao Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked left and right at the same time. On the left and right sides were his own right troops, so densely packed that it was almost impossible to see the end at a glance.

He is very clear that at this time his own army has already listed a standard formation.

Just wait for the artillerymen to fire.

But after waiting for a long time, there was still no artillery firing from our own side. At this time, the one next to Gao Zheng was also wearing armor, but the top of the helmet was tied with a gray cloth strip, and at the same time, you were young with three vertical lines on a red background. The man came over and said:
"Captain Gao, the weather is too poisonous these days. If this continues, the brothers will probably be exhausted without having to fight!"

Gao Zheng turned his head to look at his chief secretary and said, "The higher-ups naturally have plans from the higher-ups, what are we worrying about, just wait!"

After Gao Zheng finished speaking, he couldn't help but look at his own whistle chief who was riding a horse in front again, but his own whistle chief stood in front of the formation on a horse and didn't move for a long time.

He turned his head to look at the so-called position of the battalion commander who was farther away, but because of the distance between the crowd, he couldn't actually see his own battalion commander, he could only see his own battalion flag flying high.

But this battalion flag is the same as before, and no flag was issued.

Gao Zheng is located in the middle of the battlefield, with friendly troops behind him on the left and right, and he is not riding a horse, but on foot like ordinary soldiers. He can't see too far at all, and can only see from the position of his own sentinel commander and some battalion commanders farther away. flag to judge the situation.

However, his battalion commander, Han Ziping, commander of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion of the [-]st Infantry Brigade, is very clear about the current situation.

Through the condescending observation while riding on the horse, and at the same time constantly receiving the banner information from the rear headquarters, Han Ziping knew the reason why the army hadn't launched yet, and even the artillery unit hadn't launched shelling yet.

That's because the artillery unit led by Brigadier Zhang Marin had just entered the predetermined artillery position, and before it had time to start shelling the enemy's infantry phalanx, the enemy's cavalry appeared on the left flank.

The frightened Zhang Malin hurriedly directed the artillery to turn the muzzle, aimed at the enemy cavalry, and at the same time ordered to prepare for rapid fire!

This group of cavalry that came out from the edge of the enemy's right wing, one could tell at a glance that they were the five hundred fine cavalry under Zuo Liangyu's hands.

There is a lot of armor, and most cavalry carry two sets of bows and arrows.

This cavalry is also an elite cavalry who can play horseback riding and archery!

Such an elite cavalry appeared on the edge of the enemy's right flank. Obviously, their goal was the artillery unit on the left flank of the Rural Protection Army.

In order to avoid accidents, Zhang Malin's artillery brigade immediately turned its muzzle and aimed at the threatening enemy cavalry.

At the same time, the cavalry brigade of Wang Xiazi's subordinates at the rear has also mounted their horses and prepared to fight.

In addition, the Ninth Infantry Battalion of the Third Infantry Brigade, which guards the left flank, has also urgently changed its formation, preparing to intercept the possible impact of the enemy cavalry to protect its own artillery units.

Due to the sudden appearance of enemy cavalry on the left wing of the Township Protection Army, the artillery brigade failed to shell the enemy infantry in time, which also delayed the time for the Township Protection Army to attack across the board.

The rural protection army played large-scale battles, regardless of whether they were attacking or defending, they had to first look at the effect of the shelling.

The shelling is still starting now, so naturally the infantry will not be allowed to rush up without artillery cover.

In today's battle, if nothing else happens, the Township Protection Army has to wait for the artillery and cavalry units to set the tone. This is the time for the infantry on the left and right wings to act. Well, there is no central army in the traditional sense.

This time, the Township Protection Army did not deploy the traditional left, rear, and middle three-way army, but only listed the left and right wings.

The [-]st Infantry Brigade is the right wing and the [-]rd Infantry Brigade is the left wing.

The distance between the two departments is still relatively far, about 200 meters, and about [-] meters behind the air strike position between the two departments is the queue of a thousand-strong pro-barracks.

The air strike position between the [-]st Infantry Brigade and the [-]rd Infantry Brigade is a blatant conspiracy. If the enemy chooses to break through here, they will be destroyed by gunmen from both sides and the front. sex blow.

If the enemy does not break through here, the personal battalion can serve as a reserve for two infantry brigades at the same time, and one of them can be reinforced at any time.

At the same time, on the rear right side of the infantry phalanx, there is the first supply battalion. This battalion is still the old rule, serving as the strategic reserve of the whole army, and it is also to prevent the enemy from attacking from the right.

On the left side of the infantry phalanx, there are the [-]st Artillery Brigade and the [-]st Cavalry Brigade.

The entire rural protection army has set up more than a dozen square formations, large and small!

As for the Ming army on the opposite side, they also listed many large-scale dense phalanxes, and there were even more of them.

Some of their phalanxes are behind the wall, while others are in front of the wall. At the same time, there are many arrow towers made of bamboo and wood on the wall, and a large number of archers are deployed.

But the most eye-catching thing is their right wing, that is, in the direction facing the left wing of the Township Protection Army, there are three large-scale vehicle formations.

This chariot formation is not a defensive formation composed of ordinary carriages, but a chariot formation mainly composed of carriages equipped with light cannons.

They often take the small cannon on a car as the core, and gather many people or even more than a dozen musketeers, archers, and spearmen.

And a number of carriages equipped with artillery formed a small car formation, and finally the multiple car formations merged into a large cart formation.

The Ming army's vehicle formation with light vehicle-mounted artillery as the core is very effective against traditional cold weapon infantry. It requires mobility and firepower, and it requires firepower. The Tatars in the north who once fought could not take care of themselves.

Until the Ming army met Dongyao who liked to play with heavy armor and shield chariots...

The field battles between the Ming army and the Dongkuo in the early and mid-term were basically in the same pattern. The Ming army relied on chariot formations, and the Dongkuo relied on heavy armor!
The results are also highly consistent. Most of the time, Dongyao pushes the thick shield chariot, carrying the shrapnel of various light cannons of the Ming army. Bow intensive shooting.

Then...then the Ming army collapsed.

The Ming army fought this kind of battle a lot, and it also lost a lot. It’s just that, when a normal army sees Dongyao equipped with shield chariots and heavy armor, and their own chariots can’t fight, they will find ways to offset the Dongyong Kidnapped's heavy armor advantage.

After all, this war did not last for one or two years, but for many years. Such a long time was enough for the Ming army to adjust its tactics.

For example, if those small cannons are useless, then they will find a way to bring their own more powerful Hongyi cannons to the battlefield,

If you can't pull it up, then reduce the weight and improve the gun mount.

In front of the Hongyi cannon, a mere shield car is nothing. A single shell can directly destroy a whole row of so-called shield cars...

What, you said that the technical content of artillery is too high and there is no way to improve it, that's fine, that's not playing artillery, let's play some traditional ones.

For example, heavy armor!
People pile up heavy armor in the east, and you can also pile heavy armor. Armor is not a technical thing, and you can make a lot of it if you have money.

A full set of armor used by ordinary soldiers costs two to thirty taels of silver. If it is half armor and the like, it costs more than ten taels of silver, and you can get you a few more taels of silver.

Get more heavy armor and throw it at Ji Liao, and Dongyao has been pushed to the ground...

What, you are sitting in the Kyushu of the world and the prosperous hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, but the number of heavy armor is no match for the Dongyao living in the poor mountains and rivers!

that……

There is no other way, let's defend the city!
Well, that's what the Ming army did. Up to now, the Ming army has been focusing on defending the city in the Jiliao area.

However, it has to be mentioned that the Ming army played chariot battles in Jiliao and was defeated repeatedly, but when they used the hinterland of the Central Plains to deal with the bandits, the result was completely different, and it was very useful.

At least to deal with the various rebels headed by Gao Yingxiang, that's one hit and one accurate.

After all, Gao Yingxiang and the others don't have much armor, let alone armor, and they don't have many serious weapons.

Now, Zuo Liangyu has directly moved this set of things to the Yuzhou battlefield, hoping that the three large car formations on the right wing will make a final decision, break through the left wing of the rural protection army, and then establish the battle situation.

The Ming army clearly set up three large car formations on the right wing, with a total strength of at least 2000 troops and hundreds of small cannons of various kinds.

Luo Zhixue was not blind, so naturally he confronted each other directly, and directly pulled all the eighteen cannons of the artillery brigade to the left flank.

Dongyao dealt with the Ming army's chariots by relying on thick shield chariots and heavy armor, carrying the Ming army's artillery fire to a distance of tens of meters, then shooting intensively with bows and arrows, and finally rushing up to fight and win in heavy armor.

The Baoxiang Army is different. Although there are many heavy armored infantry in the Baoxiang Army, the heavy armored infantry in the Baoxiang Army is positioned differently from the heavy armored infantry of the Ming Army and Dongyao.

The heavy armored infantry of the Township Protection Army is positioned to provide protection for the musketeers, not the main fighting arms.

The main means of destruction of the rural protection army is guns.

To be more precise, it is a [-]-jin long-barreled artillery.

(End of this chapter)