Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 612

The cannons were like thunder.

At the head of Zhangqiu City, Zhu Yihai and the ministers climbed up and looked into the distance. They could see the battle formations more than ten miles to the north of the city, but the distance was too far to see clearly.

"Order, Jinwu Town Guard Hussars to move out!"

The sound of war drums sounded in Zhangqiu City.

The emperor's bodyguard conveyed orders to the generals of Jinwu Town behind the city.

Zhang Mingbin, the commander-in-chief of Jinwu, received the order and ordered, "Hussars attack!"

The guerrilla horse of the hussars, Ying Biao, jumped on the horse excitedly when he heard the order, pulled out his flintlock pistol and held it up high, shouting, "Boys of the hussars, Your Majesty has named us Musketeers. We are the first to go to the battlefield. It's glory."

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win, attack!"

A thousand hussars mounted their horses, their splendid cloaks waving like banners.

With the sound of the horn, a thousand hussars began to run.

Zhang Mingbin looked at the high morale of this team, and even felt a little envious, "As expected of the emperor's hussars, these guys are equipped with the latest short-style quick-fire guns, and the first rider is equipped with two flintlock pistols and even a saber. They are the latest royal sabers."

"The hussars are also from our Jinwu riding town." All the officers said.

"The hussars are really good-looking when they run." Some people also praised them.

"I don't know if these Mongolian Tartars are reliable in fighting!" Zhang Mingbin said.

"Don't worry, they are my Ming Mongolian Tartars, the emperor's royal guard hussars."

The hussars are equipped with the most advanced and expensive flintlock short guns, as well as two flintlock pistols, plus the royal cavalry saber, and their standard bright cloaks. These cavalry with breastplate and heavy armor are poor.

And such a cavalry with advanced equipment is actually mostly Mongols.

The emperor valued the hussars mainly composed of Mongols.

"Now is the time for them to show their loyalty and bravery."

Zhang Mingbin nodded, "Let the breastplate riding standard, dragon riding standard, spear riding standard, and hunting riding standard be ready to attack at any time."

As the most elite cavalry unit in the Daming Imperial Battalion, the hussars in Jinwu Town are not the best in terms of equipment, nor are they the strongest in terms of combat effectiveness.

There are also cuirassiers who also wear sabers and flintlocks. They are equipped with heavy cavalry, but they are also musket-based cavalry who also use charge-shoot-turn-load-recharge.

The hussars are the light cavalry in the Musketeers, and of course there are the lighter-equipped Chasseurs.

There are also more traditional Lancers or Wing Banners, who still retain their lances and sabers, and adopt traditional charge tactics.

There are also horse-riding maneuvers, but mainly dragoons who dismount and shoot at foot.

There are many types of cavalry in Jinwu Town, with good equipment, high salaries, and additional cavalry allowances. This time it can be regarded as the official appearance in the war. Compared with previous small-unit reconnaissance and raids, this battle is rare. Great armies fight.

Ten miles away from the enemy.

Mounting their horses, the hussars quickly completed the formation, and then began to trot to trot.

From four hoofbeats to two hoofbeats, the sound of the two hooves landing is relatively neat.

Quickly up and running.

The sound of horseshoes began to sound chaotically, and the horses often vacated with all four hooves.

However, the Mongolian hussars have excellent riding skills, and they have a good grasp of the rhythm.

They kept running at a pace of about 1 steps (250 meters) per minute.

An excellent cavalry does not depend on how fast it can charge, but on how to control the rhythm.

It can be faster or slower.

Cavalry who can control the speed and rhythm can also charge the fastest when charging.

And controlling the speed of the horse can prevent the formation from collapsing.

Even the cavalry also needs a formation, even the Musketeers need a formation.

Ordinary horse thieves or ordinary nomadic cavalry, only about [-]% can really fight, and the remaining [-]% are bastards who follow the crowd, and many people may even be timid.

Therefore, it is necessary to start the attack at a farther distance. By constantly adjusting the speed, the horse has more power to prepare, and when the distance is about sixty steps, it will launch a charge.

As for the heavy cavalry, they usually start running at about a hundred paces, and start the final charge when they are twenty paces away.

In contrast, the hussars can start attacking from ten miles away, and when they can run slowly and quickly to a distance of about a hundred steps, they can already launch a charge.

This is a stone's throw away.

A thousand rides, maintaining a very neat rhythm, even walking at a fast pace like a drumbeat.

Ten miles, that is, about ten minutes of brisk walking, can enter the charging distance.

The bright and gorgeous cloak fluttered and rushed out from behind Zhangqiu City.

One hundred steps at a slow pace, three hundred steps at a fast pace.

A thousand steps to start running.

Ma Yingbiao was a veteran of the Eastern Zhejiang Army, and his ancestors were also Mongols. However, after two hundred years, he had been Sinicized. Apart from his beard and round face, he didn't seem to have any Tartar blood.

He had already given the order when he set off.

When they are two hundred steps away from the enemy's cavalry, they must start charging, because their armor is light and the horse's burden is not heavy.

Of course they are hussars, and the basic tactics are not a one-rush to the bottom, but a semi-circular tactic, charging, shooting, turning, loading, charging, and shooting.

They need more space.

They usually train and charge at [-] paces, although the optimal distance is [-] paces, or even closer to [-] or [-] paces.

They were still ten minutes away from the battlefield.

In the Shence army camp, the battle has already heated up.

Three thousand full cavalry had already rushed into the camp and were strangled together with about five thousand Ming troops. However, unlike Tulai's imagination, they broke through two camp fences and entered with heavy casualties, but the Ming troops did not collapse. .

Instead, he was trapped.

When the three-pound guns in the battalion were firing desperately, and when the Ming army was fighting battalion after battalion, Tulai, who had already led his troops into the Ming camp, woke up.

This camp seems like a trap.

The deployment of the Ming army is basically a field camp. It seems to be fighting against two camp fences, but in fact it is basically a fighting method in which the sentry camp is the camp and supports each other.

So rushing into the camp and breaking the two fences didn't actually have much effect.

They rushed in and arrived, but they also completely lost the advantage of the cavalry's fast maneuverability, they couldn't run anymore, and they only felt the firepower of the Ming army doubled after entering.

He didn't know that this kind of deployment was actually similar to the pattern of a hollow square formation. The Ming army did not rely on the protection of the battalion fence, but its own formation of sentinels forming a battalion.

The battle camps formed by battalion posts do not need to rely on battalion fences and ditches. They themselves are thorny hedgehogs, and the musketeers are also bayonet soldiers.

There are many gaps between the battalion posts, but it is these gaps that have greatly increased the casualties of the Manqi.

The horses instinctively followed these gaps, and as a result, they were attacked by soldiers from all directions in the sentries of the Ming army camp.

Manqi is very tough, still fighting desperately, fighting at close range, they are not timid at all, stabbing with spears, arrows, arrows and knives, taking away one Ming army after another.

But this did not change the overall situation on the battlefield. If they killed one or two, they would often suffer three or four casualties.

They were obviously riding horses and could run amok, but they were beaten and fell off their horses one after another.

Casualties on both sides continued to surge,
But both the Ming army and the Qing army continued to fight. No one was afraid, and no one gave up. They were all holding their breath, and no one wanted to give up.

The Ming army, especially the Ming army behind the first fence suffered heavy casualties, but Wen Hu, who was in charge of the command, did not let them retreat, but deployed them according to the pre-war schedule to gather them together.

Two sentries and one sentry, two battalions and one battalion.

Slowly shrink towards the center of the battalion and continue to fight.

The cavalry of the Qing army was running slower and slower, and the entire camp had been surrounded by air leaks and holes everywhere, but this did not prevent the Ming army from resolutely counterattacking.

The Qing army could cut gaps in the barracks one after another.

But in the face of a battalion of hundreds of soldiers, those who kept spraying flames, shooting lead bullets, and even shooting with one or two small cannons from time to time, and those groups of two or three carrying guns If you want to hit them directly, you will find that those musketeers have turned into bayonet soldiers again. Their muskets are equipped with long bayonets. Although they are not as big and long as infantry spears, they are still the nemesis of knights.

They can only run around, and then ride and shoot, or stab, or projectile, but the counterattack of the Ming army is more powerful than them, those guns and artillery are unstoppable.

Especially those heavy guns, even if they wear double armor, they can't stop his one shot, and those who hit them will be killed instantly.

The Ming army on Girl Mountain and Yuhuang Mountain remained silent.

On the contrary, outside Zhangqiu City, ten miles away, a thousand hussars were killed.

Looking at the Mingqi who came quickly, although there were not many in number, Tulai was already a bit desperate. The Ming army camp was like a quagmire. I thought it would be good to just rush in, but now I am stuck in a dilemma. Ming reinforcements arrived again.

Turai couldn't help crying out.

"Why haven't our troops arrived yet!"

Dressed in bright armor, Tulai was flanked by the army guard Baya Laqi, and their armored mounts were obviously the chief generals of the Qing army.

Wen Hu saw him rushing towards his banner.

This guy obviously wants to kill the general and capture the flag, so as to defeat the Ming army.

"Nine-headed bird blunderbuss, let me keep an eye on that captive general!"

The two teams of heavy gunmen in Wen Huqin's sentry immediately aimed their heavy guns at Tulai, and the other teams of gunmen also fired at Tulai.

Even several small Francophones launched rapid fire at them, spraying out pieces of shotgun shells.

At this time, the Qing army was somewhat exhausted. The Ming army suffered heavy casualties and was still fighting fiercely. Even the auxiliary soldiers with spears and broadswords did not collapse and flee. They just kept gathering and continued to fight back.

Tulai wants to kill the general and capture the flag, and end the battle as soon as possible.

A row of bird guns knocked down several of Tulai's guards. They responded with bows and arrows and shot guns, and also hit several Ming soldiers.

Tulai also holds a strong bow and shoots continuously on the horse.

One arrow shot down a musketeer, and just as he drew another heavy arrow, his chest suddenly shook, and then again, two heavy Hydra guns shot him. He was wearing a double layer of cotton armor, Two balls of bright red blood burst out of his chest.

He lowered his head in disbelief, and the horse was still leading him forward, but the heavy arrow in his hand had already fallen to the ground. Five of his exclusive heavy arrows cost eight taels of silver, but he couldn't even hold them at this moment.

With a bang, a piece of shotgun swept across.

A small lead shot directly in his face, knocking off half of his face.

Tulai fell straight on the horse.

The full cavalry who rushed to the front of the banner formation in the camp were also under the fierce blow, and finally split into two parts. They failed to hit it head-on, but split into two groups to bypass.

No one even paid attention to the first-class public, Gu Shan'er, who had fallen from the horse.

In the distance, the hussar battalion had already arrived, and on the other side of the Xiujiang River, Bo Luo finally arrived with more than ten thousand follow-up main forces and appeared on the battlefield.

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