Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 426
"Could these soldiers be the army obtained by the Eastern Captives from North Korea? I heard that the North Korean army is famous for its firearms, but I never thought that I would recognize its lineup today. North Korea has always been a vassal of our Emperor Ming. , it has long been destroyed by the Japanese kingdom! Now that he doesn't think about the suzerain's kindness in helping him, he even sent him to help the emperor to abuse him! Such ungrateful acts are truly punishable!"

Sun Chuanting moved the binoculars away from his face, and said angrily to Qin Liangyu who was beside him.

Standing in the middle of the Ming army formation, Sun Chuanting and Qin Liangyu stood on a building car built by the Military Weapons Supervisor for several people to climb high and look into the distance. Sun Chuanting and Qin Liangyu each held a pair of binoculars, observing the formation of the Qing army condescendingly.

Facing the menacing main force of the Qing army, the Ming army formed a huge defensive formation.

On the left and right wings in the east-west direction, there are respectively placed the horse-rejecting formations that completely cover the Ming army, which were built by thousands of people who felled nearby trees.

The Rejecting Horse Formation was not only several miles deep, but also extended to the east and west sides for a distance of 150 steps. If the Qing army wanted to attack the Ming army's flanks from both sides, the first problem it faced was how to break through the tens of thousands of soldiers. Otherwise, it would be impossible to attack the Ming army from both sides.

The back formation of the Ming army was also heavily defended, with four thousand white soldiers, two thousand cavalry, and two Frang machine cannons, which tightly protected the rear.

This kind of horse refusal formation not only blocked the Qing cavalry's charge, but also blocked the Eight Banners infantry from the outside.

What's more terrible is that, in order to prevent the Qing army from dispatching Baoyi to destroy these horse-rejecting formations, the Ming army built ten forts along the longitudinal sides of the horse-rejecting formation.

These rammed-earth fortresses were built every two hundred steps, and the muzzles of the Francophones placed on them all pointed outwards, putting the entire two wings of the horse-repelling phalanx within the effective range.

If the Qing army wanted to dismantle and reject the horse, it would face the blow of the solid projectile of the Frang machine gun at two hundred paces.

If you want to demolish such a large horse-repelling formation, you have to be densely populated. If a solid projectile hits it, one can cause at least a dozen casualties. In this situation where you can only be beaten but not fight back, very few people can Withstand the bombardment.

If the Qing army dismantled the Trojan horse to a distance of about a hundred steps, the Frang cannon could immediately be replaced with shotguns for bombardment.

Each cannon will eject more than a hundred projectiles at a time. In front of these high-speed flying projectiles, even if the Qing army wears three layers of heavy armor, it is useless.

If you continue to move forward at the risk of heavy casualties, you will enter the crossfire range of the adjacent fort.

What's more, the two thousand crossbowmen of the white-armed soldiers were arranged on the left and right wings respectively. No matter where the Qing army gathered, these crossbowmen would rush over in a very short time and carry out large-scale destruction of the Qing army.

Calculated according to the limit of eight to ten bows per person, at least [-] long arrows and crossbow arrows will fall on the Qing army, which is an extremely terrifying number.

In the era of cold weapons, the opposing sides often lose their fighting spirit when they reduce their personnel by [-]% at one time. No matter how strong the Qing army's fighting spirit is, [-]% of the casualties will cause them to be defeated quickly.

Even if the 500 long arrows were calculated with a hit rate of at least [-]%, they would still cause more than [-] casualties to the Qing army. Under the combination of artillery and bows and crossbows, no army could withstand it. So many casualties.

Just in case, the Ming army also arranged [-] white soldiers each in the horse-rejecting phalanx.

These white soldiers can sit and rest when the Qing army attacks, and when the almost impossible situation of the Qing army breaking through the horse-repelling formation occurs, the white soldiers who are waiting for work will go into battle and calmly harvest their heads.

Because even if the Qing army rushed into the formation, their physical strength was almost exhausted.

In the era when firearms were not popular, fighting was extremely exhausting, especially the traditional cold weapon army like the Qing army.

It is impossible to fight the enemy for a long time in the midst of great fear and tension while wearing heavy armor and holding a weapon weighing several kilograms.

After all, people are not machines. When physically exhausted, facing an opponent who is not weaker than oneself, the only way left is to be ruthlessly killed.

In the middle of the battle against horses, the 500 gunners of the Qin Army were divided into two square formations, each with [-] people in a row, a total of six rows, and the distance between the two square formations was about three. Ten steps away.

Two thousand spearmen lined up behind the phalanx of gunners in groups of ten, ready to step forward to cover the gunners' retreat at any time.

The [-] musketeers were led by North Korean general Jiang Youcheng, who was over [-] years old. He led the two white flags in Dorgon to break through Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and forced the leader of North Korea, Li Zhenjin, to donate food and supplies. He also took out [-] musketeers. As a vassal army, he was selected to lead this group of gunners to Jianzhou.

Although Jiang Youcheng hated the Eight Banners soldiers for burning, killing, looting and other evil deeds in North Korea, the situation was stronger than others. Facing the powerful force of the Eight Banners, he could only swallow his breath and obey orders like most soldiers.

When he heard that this time he was going south to fight the Ming army, Jiang Youcheng was also extremely contradictory.

As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, for 200 years, North Korea has imitated and copied the regulations of the Ming Dynasty everywhere, no matter the official system, military system, culture, language, clothing and other aspects of the system and customs. He has the meaning of admiration for the whole kingdom of Ming Dynasty.

The culture of Ming Dynasty had a profound influence on the whole country of North Korea, and since Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, it has given great support and help to North Korea in all aspects.

Let’s not talk about it, let’s talk about Japan’s military conquest of North Korea during the Wanli period. If it weren’t for the desperate fighting by the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers, who drove the Japanese army out of the Korean peninsula with heavy casualties, North Korea is likely to The country has long since perished.

But now he wants to lead the soldiers to fight against the suzerain country, which makes Jiang Youcheng feel both guilty and helpless.

But until now, there is no way to change this fact.

Less than two miles behind him were thousands of Eight Banners elites, and more than a hundred steps in front of him was the Ming Dynasty official army waiting in full battle.

"Fill the sub-drug!"

Jiang Youcheng gave the order expressionlessly, and the trumpeter beside him blew the horn in his hand.

The North Korean gunners who formed the same formation as the Ming army began to get busy. The only difference is that each row of Korean gunners has 400 people, 100 fewer than the Ming army.

He stared at the dignified and silent Ming army in front of him, and felt ominous in his heart. A subconscious thought suddenly popped up in his mind: I am afraid that I am going to die in Daming this time!

The North Korean gunners, who had never experienced such a big battle, were obviously terrified in their hearts.

The loading procedure that can be completed with only a few tens of breaths during training usually took more than a hundred breaths to complete this time. The hands of many soldiers who sprinkled gunpowder into the primer pool were constantly shaking, causing A lot of gunpowder was spilled on the ground.

Jiang Youcheng saw this scene in his eyes, and his heart was already cold.

"Light the match!"

After all the soldiers were loaded, Jiang Youcheng ordered again loudly.

The short trumpet sounded again, and the gunners took out small pots from their pockets one after another, blowing up the tinder hidden inside and igniting the matchlocks.

"Go forward!"

Following Jiang Youcheng's order, the two North Korean guerrillas each led the phalanx and began to move forward.

The firecrackers and gunpowder used by North Korean musketeers were unimproved, and their effective range was only about forty paces. According to their usual training, they had to walk within the range before they could stop firing.

What they never imagined in their dreams was that although the Ming army on the opposite side was also a firecracker, its range and power had far exceeded that of the old-style firecrackers that had never improved.

The current Daming is still far ahead of North Korea in all aspects, and it is still an existence that North Korea can only hold a candle to.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

The North Korean gunslinger who betrayed his suzerain finally embarked on a road of no return.

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