The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 232 Mixing Hot and Cold Weapons
The mode of meeting is good. The officers of the "Red Banner Army" brainstorm and participate in decision-making and debate, and their judgment and command level can be improved.

The senior officers above the general banner of the "Red Banner Army" are no longer illiterate, and they all bring notebooks and pencils to write and draw during meetings, as if taking notes seriously.

Although at least more than half of the people made a lot of typos, and many people simply drew circles to replace words they couldn't write, but they all could roughly understand the content of their records.

Now these officers and assistants in their respective general banners and Baizong took out their notebooks and read aloud the latest instructions from their mentors, assigning tasks, and soon everyone understood how to act the next day.

What the Patriarch meant was to slow down and change the raid to a gradual one, so as not to reach Qingcheng at once, lest the Karaqin people are too concentrated and have a city to rely on, causing the "Red Banner Army" to be in an embarrassing situation where they cannot advance or retreat for a long time. .

Deliberately exposing the position of our army, let the Karaqin cavalry leave Qingcheng dozens of miles to fight with our army, and lure them to attack the infantry's temporary circled position with a wheelbarrow. This is a revised tactic. The key to winning a big victory is the bait It cannot be swallowed by the Tartars.

This means that about [-] infantry and [-] conscripts may have to face double the attack of the Tartar cavalry.

Song Pengfei was under a lot of pressure. Although he had a thousand blunderbusses and 120 guns that could be fired, but the lethality would only make five or six hundred enemy cavalry lose their combat effectiveness at most.

If the Tartars were not afraid of casualties, as long as they rushed into the position, the tragedy of the unarmored gunmen would be massacred one-sidedly. How could it be child's play to fight the bayonet with the cavalry?After all, the blunderbuss with the bayonet is too short, so it is not as effective as using a long ash pole spear to assassinate.

This was the first time that the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" had confronted the enemy as the main force. Huang Han knew his position in the hearts of the "Red Banner Army", so he decided to personally guard the infantry's main formation together with the infantry and laborers.

Huang Han ordered Han Zi, Yang Danian, Yuan Siming, and Wang Zhanpeng to lead the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army". The timing for their attack was half an hour after the Karaqin cavalry charged the infantry position.

Fighting in this era pays attention to fighting at one stroke, then declines, and exhausts three times. The time when the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" launched a countercharge was the time when the cavalry of Karaqin "exhausted three times".

Huang Han is familiar with historical examples of cold weapons meeting hot weapons. During the Second Opium War, the Battle of Baliqiao between the British and French allied forces against the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry can fully illustrate the problem.

The battle was full, and the Mongolian cavalry suffered over 12 casualties, while only [-] were killed by the British and French allied forces.This is still a battle of tens of thousands of horses and tens of thousands of foreign devils who are no longer equipped with armor and have traveled thousands of miles across the sea to penetrate into the hinterland of China.

The French parliamentarians refused to give too high a reward to the French general Montauban. They believed that what happened at Baliqiao was just "a battle that made people laugh."

Therefore, Huang Han did not think that the casualties of the "Red Banner Army" were uncontrollable. After all, the defense of the musketeers was much stronger than that of the British and French allied forces, and two layers of cotton armor were enough to deal with the light arrows flying all over the sky.

The Harqin cavalry will not be resolute and ruthless characters. They cannot be so strong that they can persist in fighting even when they are attacked by large and small lead bullets. position.

Huang Han was well aware of the Mongols' mangu evil tactics, and often the Tartars would take advantage of the flexibility of the light cavalry to disrupt the enemy's formation by going around the infantry formation in circles, and wait until the enemy was in chaos before making a breakthrough.

But they will soon face a very serious problem. The infantry of the "Red Banner Army" did not hesitate to take the trouble to carry a total of 860 wheelbarrows with guns on them. Using these wheelbarrows with three pewter spears inserted into the formation can be done in less than a breath.

It is also convenient and quick when it is necessary to change formations and move forward. The entire position is actually a mobile existence.

If the cavalry dared to drive their horses directly into the infantry formation of the "Red Banner Army", they would be ravaged by guns within a distance of [-] paces, and abused by bird guns once they approached [-] paces.

The next thing is not over yet, the archer's armor-piercing cones will shoot out continuously, can they really rush to the front of the unicycle, will the war horse foolishly bump up against the shining gun head?
Therefore, Huang Han believed that he understood the enemy's tactics, and the tactics adopted by the "Red Banner Army" were new things.

It is a new tactic of mixing hot and cold weapons with a unicycle equipped with a wax rod long gun as an obstacle to curb the speed of cavalry, long-range attack with a raised gun, medium-range strike with a bird gun, and short-range rapid fire with bows and arrows.

At the last moment, there will be spearmen, sword shields and hand-to-hand combat, and the Harqin Tartars must not be used to it.

Huang Han even doubted whether he would use spearmen and sword and shield hands, because the Tartars of this era have long lost the pride they had 400 years ago. It can be seen that the most beautiful and noble women in the country have exchanged peace with each other.

The Karaqin Tartars were able to move forward in spite of the firepower of modern wars, and they would not be reduced to begging for mercy from Jiannu.

The next morning, all the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" were dispatched to continue searching for the yurts to kill the Tartars and save the Han people. Huang Han ordered Song Pengfei to lead all the infantry to conduct on-site drills. He wanted to review the results of the infantry's training in the past six months.

The infantry marched three miles in marching mode and received Song Pengfei's order to form an formation. The army laborers pushed the wheelbarrows to their positions, the white wax rods were inserted in place, and the spearmen and sword shieldmen appeared in the preset positions reserved for them step by step. The release process does not really fire.

The next order is to resume the marching state, and the infantry and military conscripts will push the wheelbarrows and take down the ash rods and long spears according to the prescribed order and continue to move forward.

After walking for three or five miles, the meeting will start again. Originally, these training subjects were compulsory courses for infantry and military service training, and after going through the training before the battle, they were still inspected by the head of the house. Everyone did it well.

After noon, calculating the distance, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" should be about seventy or eighty miles away from Karaqin Qingcheng. At this time, many Tazi scouts were found.

They set off at dawn, and the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" who had completed four plunders also came to assemble one after another. They would not go forward to intercept the Karakin cavalry, but followed the infantry five miles behind.

When a large group of Tartar cavalry begins to attack the infantry formation, the cavalry will jog and gradually accelerate to the battlefield. At this time, the speed of the cavalry reaches the best, and the enemy cavalry should have been discouraged by the infantry's firearms.

Hanzi, Yuan Siming and others all dispatched scouts to report the results of the morning's battle. There are indeed a lot more yurts in the nearby Tartars.

More than [-] knights of the "Red Banner Army" found several settlements within a few miles after setting off. In one morning, more than a dozen small tribes of the Karakin people were suddenly attacked.

(End of this chapter)