This Qing is wrong

Chapter 195 Galdan Laying Flat
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The camel cannons bombarded the stone bullets happily (Zungar is relatively poor, only stone bullets can be supplied in unlimited quantities).

Don't underestimate stone bullets, a stone hitting a human body with huge kinetic energy is enough to kill.

Of course, the lethality of stone bullets is still quite different from that of iron bullets...

It's a pity that it is still difficult for the thin battle line of the Scottish Highland Guard to be hit by shelling.

The lethality of artillery against vertical formations and traditional square formations is much higher than that of horizontal battle formations.

This is also the reason why in the era of queuing up and shooting, when facing the enemy in field battles, everyone likes to become a line of battle.

Doing so can not only increase the firing range of muskets, but also reduce the death rate of one's own infantry under shelling.

General Zhungeer couldn't help frowning when he saw the few results achieved by his camel cannon.

He kind of understood why the Yaodao war puppets on the opposite side had to be arranged in such a thin 'long snake array'.

This formation has excellent anti-gun capabilities.

However, the flaws of this formation when facing cavalry are also very obvious.

That being the case...

"The warriors of Changshengtian, the people of Zhungeer, the disciples of the true Buddha...

Charge with me! "

The cavalrymen of the Zhungeer Department shouted frantically, and in the eyes of outsiders, they were high-pitched and strange howls.

The camel cannon began to retreat slowly, with armored heavy cavalry in front, and a large formation of Zhungeer cavalry with light cavalry on the left, right, and rear, and began to move forward slowly, accelerating.

The Zhungeer light cavalry on the two wings accelerated faster and inserted obliquely into the two wings of the Scottish Highland Guard.

However, before these Zhungeer cavalry could close the distance between the two sides to the effective range of cavalry shooting, the musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard on the opposite flanks had slowly transformed into a horizontal formation facing outwards, raising their muskets at The rushing Zhungeer light cavalry fired a double salvo!
Zhungeer Qingqi, who hadn't started bending his bow and nodding his arrows, suddenly turned his back on his back!

After the volley, the Musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard reloaded on the spot under the command of the Scottish bagpipes, and the two rows of Musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard stepped forward, raised their guns, and fired!
Two rounds of double volleys came down, Zhungeer Qingqi said that he was very hurt!

They had never been hit by such a dense flintlock volley!

Because the flintlock does not need a matchlock to ignite, the queue can be lined up shoulder to shoulder. The firepower density is unimaginable for the army in the matchlock era!

Most importantly, cavalry targets are bigger and easier to shoot.

When the guns were shot out, the Zhungeer Qingqi on horseback almost fell off their horses in pieces!
Such tragic casualties immediately caused chaos in the Zhungeer Qingqi's charging formation, and many Zhungeer Qingqi had to slow down to avoid their own corpses and even horse corpses.

The infantry of the Scottish Highland Guards on both wings who were advancing in salvo did not mean to be out of touch with the main line of the center, because the infantry of the Scottish Highland Guards in the main line of the center also slowed down, waiting for the friendly forces on the two wings to catch up.

Obviously, the Zhungeer Qingqi, who were harassed by the two wings, were completely defeated. They suffered heavy losses, and they didn't even dare to approach and shoot arrows urgently.

A thought involuntarily popped up in Zhungeer Qingqi's mind - he shot so accurately from such a distance, if he charged close, wouldn't he be dead?
Everyone is just out for a meal, so there's no need to put your life on the line!

What's more, if you win the battle puppets of the demon way, their weapons and equipment and corpses will disappear, and you will not get any benefits...

It's no good to win, but to lose... No, there's no need to lose, as long as you rush forward, your own life may be reversed.

Even the illiterate knew how to do this business.

The Zhungeer general in the rear saw the Zhungeer light cavalry who were attacking first on the two wings, bypassing and leaving the two wings of the Yaodao war puppets in fear, and wanted to cut people angrily.

Fortunately, the main force of the Zhungeer cavalry charging in the middle is the real decisive battle. The failure of the two wings to harass cannot affect the entire battle situation.

After the Scottish Highland Guard saw that the main force of the Jungar cavalry was getting closer, the pitch of the Scottish bagpipes changed suddenly.

Rows of burly men in plaid skirts with bare legs stopped in unison. The first two rows formed a standard double-row salvo formation, raising their guns, aiming, and shooting in one go!
Amid the roar of the volley, the Zhungeer armored heavy cavalry in the front row suddenly fell down.

Even the charging speed of the fierce Zhungeer cavalry had to drop.

But this is not over yet, the first two rows of Musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard suddenly knelt on the ground on one knee, giving way to the rear two rows of guns that had been raised horizontally.

Immediately, another round of salvo bombardment came out!

You must know that when the musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard fired their first salvo, they only fired when the Zhungeer cavalry was brought within 50 steps.

Even though the Zhungeer cavalry's charge speed decreased due to the large number of casualties caused by the volley of guns, they still rushed to twenty or thirty steps before ushering in the second round of volley.

After the two rounds of gun volleys were over, the Scottish bagpiper dropped the instrument in his hand, drew out his saber, and rushed up with the rest of the Scottish musketeers shouting.

"Scot, never back down!

The British Empire must win! ! ! "

Either the Scottish Highland Guards holding bayonets or war knives collided with the scattered Zhungeer cavalry with a dense flow of people.

With such a collision, the Zhungeer cavalry, whose speed had been dropping again and again, could not run at all, and fell into the endless besieged and desperate besieged by musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard.

The rushing Zhungeer light cavalry followed behind, as if hitting a wall of meat, they were constantly stirred up by the Scottish Highland Guards who were shouting and fighting.

In this way, two rounds of close-range volleys and a bayonet charge, the Scottish Highland Guard stunned the charging Zhungeer cavalry into stagnant cavalry.

The Zhungeer cavalry who rushed up later had to slow down and fight in order not to accidentally injure their own people.

The Central Route Army fell into frantic melee combat, but the sound of gunfire from both wings kept coming and going.

Many Zhungeer light cavalry tried to go around and fight, but were shot all over the head with volleys of guns by the Scottish Highland Guards on both wings...

Fortunately, there are many Zhungeer cavalry after all, and the Zhungeer light cavalry at the rear watched the battle in the middle road fall into a tragic fight, and they detoured to the rear of the Scottish Highland Guards, and then charged.

However, after Scotland Lindenwan noticed it, he immediately called back the musketeers of the Scottish High and Low Guard Regiment guarding the two wings, and kept shrinking the melee combat group, abruptly placing an additional guard battle line behind.

The Zhungeer light cavalry who circled behind charged towards the Musketeers of the Scottish Highland Guard, but were beaten back by rounds of guns.

After the reorganization, he rushed up again, but was repulsed again...

Even if they were lucky enough to enter hand-to-hand combat, they would often be killed and retreated.

Not long after, the Zhungeer cavalry on the frontal battlefield couldn't bear it anymore, and fled the battle group one after another.

However, General Zhungeer was not reconciled to such a failure. Taking advantage of his strength, he reorganized the Zhungeer cavalry that had retreated before, and sent them to charge again.

As a result, every time they rushed to kill, they would be hit by a two-round row of guns, and they had to slow down (if they didn't slow down, they would easily trip over the corpses of their own people), and then fell into a melee battle group like a meat grinder.

The number of Scottish Highland Guards was getting fewer and fewer, and the cross-section of the regiment was getting smaller and smaller, but the combat effectiveness did not weaken at all. On the contrary, the corpses of the Zhungeer cavalry were strewn all over the field.

General Zhungeer was horrified to find that the casualties caused by these seemingly inconspicuous Scottish Highland Guards who did not even have armor on the Zhungeer cavalry were much higher than the previous Mongolian Qixue army!
What's happening here?
Could it be that the lethality caused by bayonets and lead bullets is more terrifying?
The bayonet is not enough, but the volley of guns is true and has caused unimaginable heavy damage to the Geer cavalry.

With the failure of the Zhungeer cavalry's repeated charges, a large number of battlefield deserters appeared in the fierce Zhungeer cavalry!

For cavalry, if you want to desert the battlefield, it really shouldn't be too simple.

That's how all the 10,000+ steppe warriors ran away...

However, this scene happened to the Zhungeer cavalry. Not only the general Zhungeer who was in charge of commanding the battle could not accept it, but Ge Erdan couldn't believe it either!

The result is that the size of the Zhungeer cavalry is the same as that of the Scottish Highland Guards, and they fight less and less!

Gradually, the number of Zhungeer cavalry who fled even exceeded the number of Zhungeer cavalry who died in battle.

In desperation, Gerdan had no choice but to give the order to retreat.

The Zhungeer cavalry who had just been repulsed heard the sound of retreating, and they felt as if they were being amnesty. Many of them even made up their minds that they would definitely find a chance to run away when it was their turn to charge next time.

Those monsters and war puppets are really unstoppable...

Less than half of the remaining Zhungeer cavalry, using the mobility of the cavalry to quickly break away from contact with the Scottish Highland Guard, swarmed into the temporarily opened gate of Guihua City.

The Scottish Highland Guard, running on two feet, could only watch helplessly as the remnants of the living retreated into the tall city.

Lindenwan, Scotland is full of resignation!

He was full of self-confidence, and kept fighting according to this rhythm. The first ones who couldn't hold on were definitely the living cavalry who were greedy for life and afraid of death.

Unexpectedly, they stopped their losses early and retreated!
Pooh!A bunch of cowardly bedbugs!

Scottish Lindenwan spat hard on the ground and cursed mentally.

Subsequently, the two sides entered into a brief period of peace.

The Scottish Highland Guards who have been fighting for a long time are recovering their strength, and the Zhungeer cavalry who have withdrawn into the city are calming their hearts that are on the verge of collapse...

However, only an hour later, Gerdan saw the Scottish Highland Guard, holding ropes and muskets, striding towards the wall of Guihua City in rows of guns.

Guihua City is a prairie city. Compared with those tribal settlements on the prairie, the defense is naturally strong, but compared with the cities in Han, the city defenses are relatively shabby, let alone a moat, even a moat The trenches are not deep enough or wide enough!

The Zhungeer cavalry who dismounted saw the Yaodao war puppets swarming forward and backward, and they all manipulated the small artillery transported by the Zhungeer Ministry to bombard them.

Compared with the camel cannon, this can barely be regarded as a real artillery. It is all artillery built with the technology left by the Mongols back then, which is equivalent to the level of the tiger crouching cannon in the Han Dynasty.

With this level of artillery, it is enough for the Zhungeer Ministry to dominate the grassland!

Of course, this does not represent all the artillery of the Zhungeer Ministry. The Zhungeer Ministry still bought and replaced many old and antique artillery from the Raksha Kingdom, but those artillery are powerful enough, but they are also very heavy. Transporting it to Guihua City was really difficult...

Therefore, they were all used by Ge Erdan on the territory of Zhungeer headquarters as a fortress to defend the city.

From the perspective of artillery quality, the Zhungeer Ministry is not weaker than the Qing court, but the Qing court has an advantage in the number of artillery. After all, Zhungeer's artillery is mainly bought, but the Qing court has a large group of Han artisans to help make it .

The range and power of the small artillery in Guihua City were not satisfactory, but the Zhungeer cavalry had full confidence in their artillery.

On the grassland, even a tiger squat cannon can be considered a big killer.

However, the Zhungeer cavalry was quickly taught a lesson by the Scottish Highland Guards, realizing how bad the artillery in their hands is!

They were actually shooting each other, and lost to the muskets of the Scottish Highland Guards, and they were completely defeated!

Scotland Lindenwan, who stayed behind and was in charge of the command, looked at the living fortresses on the top of the city of Guihua that were called out one by one by the guns, and laughed: "This kind of old-fashioned artillery dares to move out, it is really reckless!"

Not only Zhungeer's small cannons were abused, but those dismounted Zhungeer shooters were also shot by the Scottish Highland Guards to doubt their lives.

Whether it is the firecrackers in the hands of the Zhungeer cavalry, the inferior matchlock guns from the Luocha Kingdom, or the hard bows in the hands of the Zhungeer cavalry, they were all beaten by the precise marksmanship of the Scottish Highland Guards!

The condescending Zhungeer cavalry never dreamed that they would be so miserably suppressed by long-range firepower!

The gap between the weapons and shooting capabilities of the two sides is as deep and wide as a chasm!
The weapons are not good, the shooting skills are not good, and you still play a fart, what is the difference between suicide and suicide?
It didn't take long for the Zhungeer cavalry to lie flat...

No matter how urged they are, they will not show their heads and shoot at the Scottish Highland Guards.

Even if they have an absolute advantage in military strength.

Galdan, who had already retreated to a safe place in the city, heaved a helpless sigh after hearing the report on the frontline defense of the city, and gave the order to gather supplies and evacuate.

The absolute suppression of firepower made Gerdan completely give up his fantasy.

Of course, retreating would lose a large area of ​​territory, damage personal prestige, and even lose the position of leader that had been accumulated with great difficulty on the grassland, but at least it would be possible to bring back as many Haoerlang from the Zhungeer Department as possible.

The Zhungeer Ministry is his core strength!
The Zhungeer warriors who died today can catch up with the sum of the Yarkand Khanate and the Heshuo Special League Banner. The Zhungeer has a total population of just over 100 million. At this time, all the dead are elite warriors, Galdan I really can't afford to hurt...

Compared with Kangxi, his background is far behind.

Kangxi didn't even dare to fight Li Changqing with the full Eight Banners, so how could Ge Erdan not repent?
(End of this chapter)