Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1901 The Sword Points at Japan (Yuanba)
After only one round of rocket salvo, the Korean army on the southern front collapsed inexplicably. This result was not only unacceptable to Quan Li, but even Zhang Wanbang was a little confused.

Zhang Shenrong opened his mouth and was able to stuff an egg. He was shocked for a moment, then scratched his scalp and asked the people around him: "Tell me, the North Korean army looks like... Is it possible that they are pretending to be defeated to lure the enemy?"

As he spoke, he was good at gesturing left and right, and said: "Do you remember that among the enemies I fought, the one who was so weak to this extent seemed to be the one who accompanied my father to suppress the refugees in northern Shaanxi when he was 16 years old.

That year when the plague of locusts followed the drought, the refugees from four or five counties had nothing to eat. They first surrounded Qingyang, scaring King Qing to ask for help everywhere. Later, I followed my father to rescue them. The refugees did not dare to fight each other, so they let Qingyang go north. Robbed Huanxian.We chased to Huan County again, and my father said that these people are actually bitter, there is no need to kill them, so we just fired a round of cannons at them.

Hey, guess what?A round of artillery was fired, and the 1000 refugees were so frightened that they all dispersed. They were poured out in the same mold as today's North Korean troops... The trouble later was that they would throw up when they caught the prisoners!Damn, we only had more than [-] soldiers at that time! "

An elderly servant leader beside him smiled wryly: "I thought that the Korean army had obtained a lot of armored weapons, and with the guidance of Mao Canrong (Mao Guoqi), they should have improved somewhat. Who knows... well, no wonder the Japanese invaders twice When they invaded North Korea, the North Korean army was beaten to the ground twice.

The soldiers like this have no military discipline, they are panicked when things happen, and the officers don't know how to immediately press down and stabilize their positions. They are really rotten from top to bottom, how can they be called an army.Just like this, the North Koreans still say that they are the elite. That old slave really doesn't know what the ordinary North Korean army looks like. "

Zhang Wanbang waved his hand and was about to speak when suddenly a messenger came to report that the Second Association had applied for the initiative to attack.

Taking the initiative to attack means the disintegration of the hollow phalanx, and the significance of the hollow phalanx as a unified system cannot be unclear.Now that it is clear that the Second Association Xietong also applied to take the initiative to attack, it can only be said that the Second Association Xietong thinks that the opponent's combat effectiveness is too poor.

The name of the Second Association is Zhang Sixiao, who was born in the Zhang family, but he worshiped Zhang Wanbang's father as a foster father, and he and Zhang Wanbang are usually called brothers.He was seven or eight years older than Zhang Wanbang, and he was experienced in many battles. He was originally one of the right-hand men left by Zhang Wanbang's father, and his judgment ability on the battlefield was quite outstanding.

Since Zhang Sixiao said so, Zhang Wanbang had to take it seriously.This fellow was a fat man, so he picked up the binoculars to look left and right, and halfway through the binoculars, stretched out his fingers and gestured twice, as if he was judging the distance.

Not long after, Zhang Wanbang suddenly got up, jumped off the commanding platform of the Chinese army, and said loudly: "The second battalion and the third battalion of the Second Association are allowed to attack, and they are required to drive the Korean army on the southern line to the north! The first battalion waits for an opportunity to attack, along the The inside line goes north to threaten the left wing of the North Korean army."

When he said this, the messengers on the southern front should leave here.Zhang Wanbang continued: "The [-]st Brigade and the [-]rd Battalion on the Eastern Front oppressed the North Korean positions on the eastern front with self-propelled vans. If they resisted, the [-]st Brigade and the [-]rd Battalion would stop advancing and shoot from behind the sided vans.

No artillery or rockets will be launched from the front of the eastern front. When the Korean troops on the southern front are also oppressed, the Korean troops on the eastern front will attack them together with artillery and rockets, but accidental injuries must be avoided. "

Zhang Wanbang is really a bold person with high skills. His arrangement is a bit like changing the formation from the word "mouth" to the word "ji", and the hook will be extended, so that the "vertical hook" becomes a Outflank and squeeze the sharp blades of the North Korean Army's east and south routes.

The problem is that his military strength is far inferior to the two southeast lines of the North Korean army. Rather than outflanking or not outflanking, it is better to say that the North Korean army is fighting as a refugee army, which belongs to the "sheep driving" type of combat.

But this was not all of his thoughts. Soon he gave orders to the Western Front, basically copying the "sweeping" style of the Southern Front, and let the Western Front go directly to the north to level the front.There is no doubt that he is ready to attack in an all-out way.

At the same time, Quan Li finally responded.Quan Li personally arranged for some soldiers to be dispatched to the Eastern Front as a supervisory team, in order to prevent the Eastern Front from collapsing inexplicably like the Southern Front. At the same time, because the previous plan could not be achieved, he simply planned to let the main force of the Northern Front enter the combat state and start to fight. Attack south.

The mentality of the North Korean army has undergone several changes so far: at the very beginning, when they heard that they were going to confront the Ming army, everyone was full of fifteen buckets to fetch water—up and down, not knowing what the future would be;
On the hilly hills of Songquan Cave, it was found that the Ming army only had more than [-] people. Everyone was relieved, and their morale suddenly became high, with the momentum of "defeating Zhang Wanbang and taking Hanyangjing lightly";

When going down the mountain, the North Korean army was greeted by a landmine, and two or three hundred people were reimbursed on the spot. Although the loss was only one hundred and one out of the total force, they were hit without even seeing the opponent's figure, and secondly, the power of the explosion Amazing indeed, so the blow to morale is not small;
Then came the wave of collapse on the southern line.It is clear that the Korean army has nearly ten thousand troops on the southern front, and although the enemy in front of them can see that they have enough firearms, the number is too small after all, less than a thousand at most, maybe only about [-], no matter how you look at it, it should be You can win if you launch an attack casually.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army only launched a round of rocket salvo, and the North Korean army, which was still marching and had not yet set up its formation, was stunned on the spot.

This round of rocket salvo by the Ming army was really "like a spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of trees and pear blossoms blooming", the effect can be called boiling soup and pouring snow.Not to mention that the North Korean army was unable to move forward and prepared to deploy, it even became a mess on the spot. Everyone seemed to be running around, hoping to avoid the rockets that hit the sky.

In fact, rockets in this era have very low accuracy, and it is completely unclear where they can hit. The Ming army can only control the landing point as much as possible in one area. It is a weapon that relies entirely on covering strikes to be more effective.

In addition, there is no mechanized operation such as automatic loading in this era. After a round of shooting, it is necessary to reload the rockets into the rocket launcher one by one.However, because the rocket car has only two operators, it obviously takes a long time to load 81 rockets. Therefore, in addition to defending the city, this weapon can basically be regarded as a one-time weapon unless it encounters a fool in the field—— It takes a long time to wait until the next wave is over.

However, the stunned North Korean army didn't think so much. They only knew that they had been terribly beaten by this round of rockets. Although no one knew exactly how much they suffered, everyone knew that they couldn't bear another wave. Such an attack, so they subconsciously think... they have lost and must run!
In fact, Zhang Wanbang knew that the North Korean army only looked miserable, but it might not have actually suffered serious losses. This was determined by the real lethality of the current rockets.

The current rockets do not have strong explosive power. It is a pipe dream to expect how many people will be injured by the explosion-how powerful can the explosion of black powder as thick as an arm be?
Directly hitting a person's chest and exploding on the spot may kill that person, but only about 400 rockets actually hit the North Korean army crowd just now, so in theory, at most [-] people were directly killed on the spot.

That's right, the random flying of pottery fragments produced by the explosion can definitely cause damage, but the "elite Korean army" on the opposite side is wearing armor.Although the quality of the armor that Ji Liao had cleared in stock was really mediocre, no matter how mediocre it was, it could still play a role. At least the chest and abdomen, which were important vital parts, could provide good defense.

The pottery splinters produced by the explosion only rely on the explosion of black powder as kinetic energy. If the opponent is without armor, it is quite effective, but it is difficult to deal with the opponent wearing armor. Only the neck and face are the must-kill areas.Other places, including the limbs, can generally only cause injuries, and it is difficult to even disable them.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Wanbang is very clear about the actual damage caused by the rocket offensive just now - the number of people killed and seriously injured is no more than a thousand people, and there may be a lot of lightly injured people left, but it will not actually cause combat effectiveness loss.

Of course, the second half of the sentence is useful for the Ming army, but it may not be necessary for the Korean army, because the Ming army that came to fight in North Korea is almost all elites, and the Korean army... Cough, according to Nanning Hou's high pragmatic standards, say they Even the army is a bit reluctant.

For most of the Ming army elites from the towns on the Nine Borders, minor injuries such as a cut in the arm are not serious at all.

After the high-level military reform, the benefits of the nine borders have been greatly improved. Not only the equipment has been standardized, but other equipment has also been standardized.

For example, according to the suggestion of the Medical Department of Jinghua Craftsman School, the simple medical treatment of the Ming army on the battlefield was improved. They all carried ten pieces of gauze and a small bottle of "Baibaodan" (similar to the old Yunnan Baiyao, divided into two pieces) in the sheepskin pouches around their waists. portion, powder and an insurance pill).

Injuries during the war were not considered serious, and the soldiers of the Ming army could take some Baibaodan first, and then pull out a piece of gauze to wrap it up, which would be regarded as emergency hemostasis.

There is a saying in Chinese medicine, to the effect that ginseng is used for those related to Qi, and Sanqi is used for those related to blood.The main medicine of Baibaodan is Panax notoginseng, which can be said to be miraculously effective for such injuries as hemostasis and blood stasis. This is why the army of the Red Dynasty would put Yunnan Baiyao on the altar—it was after countless The brutal battlefield has proven to be really effective.

However, if the Ming army's elite could not treat a small injury as a major event, the Korean army obviously couldn't do it.If Gao Yushi could witness the performance of this army with his own eyes, he should evaluate their level as inferior to that of the Qing army in the Battle of Baliqiao.

At least, although the Qing army in the Battle of Baliqiao was defeated by the British and French allied forces many times, they were able to regroup while retreating, and then launched an attack again. The whole battle lasted about eight hours.It seemed that the North Korean army could not do this at all, and they collapsed on the spot.

[Note: The Battle of Baliqiao was actually a series of battles. The mainstream assessment of later generations believed that the actual battle lasted about eight hours, and it was not that the entire army was wiped out on the spot. ]
However, there is one point in which these two battles are very similar, that is, although the cold weapon feudal army facing the firearmed army seems to have suffered a disastrous defeat, it actually suffered little direct losses on the battlefield.

The Battle of Baliqiao was exaggerated into the death of the entire Qing army in later generations. This is nonsense, and a large part of the reason comes from the fact that some witnesses in the British and French allied forces wrote their experiences in the style of "recording legends".

You must know that the Europeans have always been afraid of the "Oriental Tatar cavalry" because of the two tragic histories of Attila's Hun army sweeping across Europe and the subsequent Mongolian expedition to the west. of.When they defeated the so-called "main force of the Manchus and Mongolians" of the Tatar and Qing Dynasties, their inner feelings could be described as elated, overthrowing the thousand-year fear.

This kind of mentality made all kinds of records full of "legendary sense". In order to prove that it was not easy for him to win, he forcibly exaggerated the heroism of the Qing army, and even wrote that the whole army died in battle.

Actually?Studies of later generations found that the direct battle losses of the Qing army were only about 1200, roughly accounting for only 4% of the total troops participating in the war. The fighting will of the feudal army in the late dynasty was too high. If the general himself refused to take the lead, it was almost impossible to command the army to really attack.

The general takes the lead, and the enemy army on the opposite side is an army with hot weapons, so why is it strange that the general himself became part of the loss?The army in the era of hot weapons requires officers not to charge on the front line, otherwise you are heroic, but what about the command of the army after you die in battle?
Of course, Tsarist Russia is an exception, because Tsarist Russia has a high degree of feudalism, and the level of firearms has been lagging behind compared with Europe at the same time. It requires commanders to display the initiative of heroic combat to drive the entire army. This is why the loss rate of Tsarist Russian officers has always been high. the main reason.

What about the performance of the North Korean army?Let alone that!

According to Zhang Wanbang's estimation, just now this round directly smashed the North Korean army on the southern front and fired a volley of rockets. It actually killed at most 500 people, and there may be more than a thousand or at most 2000 people with minor or minor injuries. It will not affect the continuation of the battle.

However, nearly [-] people on the southern front of the Korean Army collapsed like this. Even Zhang Sixiao, who was in command at the front, thought that they should take advantage of the situation and attack, leaving them no chance to regroup.

Zhang Wanbang was a good follower, and not only allowed the attack, but even adjusted the entire army's battle plan at once.

He originally set up a hollow phalanx, treating the 3-strong North Korean "elite" as the two Mongol elites he faced in the early years, Xin Ai's direct line and Chaohua's direct line. Hit the head and break the blood, and finally invest in the elite to take the North Korean Chinese Army and win the victory.

It now appears that this is a serious overestimation of the strength of the North Korean army, especially the "organization" of the opponent.If the organization degree of Zhang Wanbang's troops is regarded as one hundred, then the organization degree of the North Korean army is no more than thirty, maybe only twenty or so.

Following Zhang Wanbang's order, the situation on the battlefield soon changed further.

The southern front of the Ming army pushed the southern front of the Korean army backwards like a duck. These defeated soldiers attacked the eastern front of the Korean army, causing the battle on the eastern front to shake.However, the Ming army did not bombard or fire rocket salvos on the eastern front, but pushed the vans forward and shot at the back of the vans at the same time.

The shooting during the maneuver was not intensive, and the damage caused was not large, but this momentum overwhelmed the already flustered and shaken formation of the North Korean Army's Eastern Front, causing the Eastern Front to collapse quickly.

The supervisory team sent by Quan Li had just arrived on the eastern front and was facing a collapse of landslides and landslides. Just beheading more than a dozen people, they were dispersed by a swarm of defeated soldiers. The so-called supervisory battle was out of the question.

The southeast, north and three roads collapsed in this way. Quan Li was shocked and thought that there was no chance of winning this battle. He was about to mobilize the main force of the northern line to retreat, but Zhang Wanbang's main banner had already reached the northern line.

The Ming army on the northern front did not hesitate at all, and immediately launched a forceful offensive.This time, the cannons and rockets were finally launched together, and judging from the intensity of the artillery fire, Zhang Wanbang should have mobilized the artillery of the entire army to launch it—but only for one round, because the infantry of the Ming army had already rushed forward.

Knowing the long-range killing distance of the Korean army, the Ming army did not rush forward all the time, but quickly formed an array outside the range of the Korean army, and then launched a pause salvo while advancing with the beat of drums.That is, walk a few steps and stop to shoot, and then complete the transfer while advancing in unison.

As a result, the North Korean Army’s northern line also collapsed, and the three-way army completely lost command. Quan Li himself asked the banner bearer to hold the flag high as he ran – he was not stupid, he knew that the collapse was irreversible, and this move was to let the defeated soldiers know that he was on the way. Which converge toward him.

The battle of Zhenling had just ended.

What Quan Li didn't know was that the [-] Outer Khalkha Mongolian cavalry sent out of the city by Zhang Wanbang earlier were grinning from the prairie at the defeated North Korean soldiers who had collapsed across the board.

Because of its peculiar origin, this cavalry has actually been independent of the Ming army's command system to a certain extent.This is not to say that they do not accept the command of the Ming army, but that the Ming army is a little hesitant about how to use a Mongolian cavalry.

As Wai Khalkha cavalry, they were also the "survivors" who stayed in the local area after the Yuan Dynasty and did not move westward. Obviously, their original status was not high.Their low status meant that they were relatively poor, so they definitely didn't have heavy armor, not even light armor.

After going to North Korea, Magui considered that they could be regarded as the direct descendants of Erde Mutu, a high-level pragmatic disciple, so he transferred [-] sets of cavalry armor from the military supply to them, and this cavalry was considered to be fully armored.

The armor of the cavalry may be the prototype of the "vest" of later generations. Its main function is to protect the torso of the body. It has very little effect on the movement, and it is also very light, which is very suitable for the highly mobile Mongolian cavalry.

This batch of poor Mongolian cavalry in Wai Khalkha did not expect to receive such a generous gift without fighting a battle. Participating in the looting against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army has never hit them, and the two sides have almost no grievances), and I have long thought of helping the Ming army on the battlefield, so as not to keep such a big personal debt in my heart.

Therefore, the North Korean army hit their guns this time-oh, the knife was on.
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In addition, when I was disconnected from the Internet, I still had code words. In order to make up for the actual disconnection, this chapter will add 1K words, and the next chapter is the normal update today, which will be released in about an hour or two. can. (The number of words above does not affect the text volume of 5K)
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