Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 63 Long Spear
On the battlefield, the two armies approached each other.

The Tartars were as immobile as a mountain, calm and composed, with disdain and contempt on their faces.

The forward two battalions of the Ming army approached slowly. Each battalion adopted a four-four formation and maintained its formation with one head, two wings and one tail.

This time Zhang Mingzhen did not send cavalry to charge.

Instead, the infantry was pressed directly on top, and the most elite cavalry were still assigned to the officers as the reserve team of the battalion sentinel.

"Stay in formation!"

"Hold your feet!"

"Don't rush around!"

"No turning back!"

Officers at all levels were shouting loudly, commanding their subordinates. At this time, the veterans were still calm, but the recruits were already a little nervous, not because they were afraid, but because they were excited when they first entered the battlefield.

Some held the spear so hard that their knuckles turned white, their palms were sweaty, and their throats were dry.

Some people are so excited that they want to run at any time.

There were people watching from side to side frequently.

The officers and veterans played a great role at this time, they continued to command the soldiers, and from time to time beat the recruits who were too nervous with their scabbards and spears.

Let your team maintain its formation at all times.

The two sides approached a hundred steps.

The experienced officer has already shouted the order, "Raise the shield!"

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, the sound of bowstrings sounded one after another from the Tartars on the opposite side, and the Tartars shot with their bows.

Howling is a rain of arrows.

The Tartars lobbed their step bows.

The arrows were shot far and hard. The two battalions of Zhenbiao raised many shields, but there were still many soldiers without shields. Few of the soldiers with shields in the front row were injured, but those without shields in the middle and behind were shot all at once. Little, the one hit by the arrow fell to the ground screaming.

Someone was shot dead on the spot, and someone was wounded and screamed.

The officers shouted even louder.

"Keep going, don't stop!"

"Archer, let go!"

This is a contest of wills.

Lives were taken away mercilessly in an instant.

Finally, some recruits were terrified and nauseous, some were even more excited, and rushed forward with their knives uncontrollably, some vomited in fear, and some even turned around and wanted to escape from the Shura field.

The servants of the officers acted as the supervising team at this time.

They unceremoniously rode on horseback and overturned the fleeing recruit. A servant picked up the overturned recruit with a black face, and unceremoniously cut off one of his left ears.

The recruit screamed, and the servant slapped him across the face.

"Fucking softie,"

"I will give you another chance, this time I will only cut off one of your ears, now return to the team immediately, let me continue to advance, if you dare to run away, next time I will cut your throat and chop your head off!"

The recruit covered his face and screamed in panic.

In front of that vicious servant, he had no choice but to turn his head.

After a recruit's ear was cut off, he turned around and walked for a few steps, then tried to turn around and run away, but was overtaken by the servant on horseback and knocked over again, and then chopped off his head without hesitation.

"Those who escape from battle, behead!"

The guard ran around in the ranks with his head in his hands to show off, but the veterans turned a blind eye, while the recruits were shocked.

"Fuck all look at the front, the enemy is in the front, not behind. After the battle, I will check the wounds. If a **** is injured on the back or buttocks, I will prosecute him for desertion."

"Manly man, since you choose to serve as a soldier and eat food, don't be afraid of death. War is not so terrible. Just obey your superiors and follow your brothers to go forward. Your head will only be a scar as big as a bowl. Eighteen years later, you will have another scar." hero."

"His Royal Highness has already awarded a reward. One real Tatar soldier will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and a real Tatar will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver. For beheading a fake Tatar, five taels of silver will be rewarded, and if he is captured alive, he will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."

"Even if his mother is unlucky enough to be hacked to death, those who died in battle will get ten taels of compensation, those who are injured will be given eight taels for the upper class, six taels for the middle class, and four taels for the lower class. Even family members can still receive food!"

The actions of the servants have an immediate effect.

The flustered recruits quickly settled down, and even many veterans dared not make many tricks at this time.

Zhu Yihai's salary and rewards for his newly built army were relatively generous, although this abundance was only compared with the arrears of the imperial court at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, the frontier army's salary, military rewards, pensions and other standards were higher than Zhu Yihai's now, but the problem was that the Ming Dynasty's finances collapsed early, and all of this was just on paper and could not be implemented.

Zhu Yihai's current standard is only what he can bear for the time being. Although it is not high, if it can be fulfilled, it is already very remarkable.

You must know that Zeng Guofan trained troops to fight against the Taiping Army later, and the military system was imitated by Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty.

And the rewards are also higher, for example, beheading a Taiping soldier, rewarding 20 taels of silver, capturing one alive, rewarding 30 taels of silver, wounded soldiers being given 20 taels of rehabilitation silver, upper class 60 taels of middle class [-] taels of inferior class [-] taels, and death in battle is [-] taels of compensation, Each item is at least twice as high as that of the green battalion.

So the Hunan Army paid heavily to raise soldiers, and then trained a soldier that could fight.

Of course, Zeng Guofan is also a thief. For example, although his salary is much higher than that of the green camp, he has only paid half the salary, which means that the soldiers always owe half of the salary. If you run away, the rest will be gone.If you do your job well, you have a chance to get the other half in the future, which is a lot of money.

Not to mention that the rewards and pensions of the Hunan Army are very generous, and on the other hand, there are often opportunities to rob.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Hunan, which was far behind Jiangxi next door, was able to rise rapidly in modern times. The most important thing was the rise of the Hunan Army. Earn money from top to bottom.

After the Hunan army returned home, they took the money back home, bought fields and land, and built a large number of academies. Many Hunan soldiers who were originally poor also became landlords. After seeing the outside world, they let their children go to school, so Since then, Hunan has risen, and in modern times, it has become a place of prosperity.

60 taels for those who died in battle, but Zhu Yihai couldn't afford it now, so he gave him ten taels for the time being.

I can't give 20 taels for beheading, so I will give ten taels first, and the second tartar will give five taels.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Soldiers are fighting with their lives. You can't just talk about family and country feelings with them, and you can't just talk about loyalty. Although money is vulgar, it is the most basic.

After all, Zhu Yihai came from the era of capitalism, so he can understand these things very well. He tried his best to raise money to provide security for the soldiers.

"Raise your gun, tree shield!"

"Tiger, tiger, tiger!"

It is the tradition of the Qi family army that the Zhejiang veterans shout three times before the battle.

After three tiger roars, the two armies fought close to each other.

The spears stabbed each other, and the knives and axes intersected.

The archers and musketeers were still shooting at each other from behind, and the whole battlefield roared and tried their best.

There are 600 people in the two battalions of Zhenbiao, and they are facing the battle head-on. There are about 400 people in the three infantry formations of the Tartars.

Then the four battalion leaders Shenji and Yongwei surrounded them from both sides.

Steady progress.

The Tartars didn't seem to expect that these Ming troops could be so stable.

As the horn sounded, the officer under the flag of the Tartars seemed a little panicked. He looked at the huge Ming army pressing up from both sides, and ordered more than a hundred cavalry on each side of the two wings to mount their horses, trying to charge the Ming army on the two wings with the cavalry first.

After all, the Ming army in the middle was a little tough, so he decided that the two wings must be weak.

"Standing!"

"Raise your gun, the cavalry is coming!"

"Shield!"

The two battalions of Shenji on the left wing and the two battalions of Yongwei on the right wing, the respective officers also discovered the intention of the Tartars, and they were all commanding quickly.

Matim wore an ugly skull-shaped Sava helmet on his head. His head, face, and neck were all protected under the skull. He was wearing a half-body armor, and he was not afraid of facing the cavalry.

Calmly and calmly ordered again and again.

The pikemen of the Shenji Battalion quickly built a pike phalanx in the front row. These pike phalanxes were basically Spanish phalanxes, and the organization of the Shenji Battalion was slightly different from other battalions.

They were improved from the Spanish phalanx commonly used by Franz mercenaries. A battalion is actually composed of four long spear companies and one musket company.

Zhu Yihai built the Shenji Battalion and adjusted the formation of the mercenaries to form a battalion with four sentries, one sentry for pikemen, and three sentries for musketeers. Number of firearms.

This is a more offensive formation.

At this time, the Shenji Battalion, with mercenaries as instructors and the backbone, was also rapidly forming formations.

The pikemen wearing breastplates quickly lined up in four dense horizontal formations. Due to the temporary lack of sufficient muskets and well-trained musketeers, the recruits mainly held long pistols. Each battalion was divided into four sentry formations. Arranged densely, and among them, the elite Franz machine gunners are deployed at the four corners and the front row of the gun array.

This kind of dense phalanx still has strong maneuverability, especially the outer row of the phalanx has a row of musketeers, and there is even a more elite sword and shield unit, which can jump out at any time.

The large number of recruits in the Shenji Battalion basically didn't even have armor at this time, just a long spear.

But although the five-meter-long spear seemed simple, when the recruits crowded shoulder to shoulder, they undoubtedly felt a lot safer.

"All pikemen are ready, listen to the order to stab left, and no straight stabs are allowed!"

Matim used his not-so-standard Da Ming dialect to order over and over again.

The platoon of musketeers and the collective left stab of pikemen are a very simple tactic. Soldiers gather in a dense group, and then collectively stab left with five-meter long guns. Powerful firepower output, and terrifying defense capabilities.

On the battlefield of the 30 Years War in Europe, this Spanish phalanx shined brilliantly, and it performed perfectly in the hands of mercenaries. Although they were later blasted to pieces by the artillery of King Gustav of Sweden, they were still Very impressive.

There is no other way of defeating them than by bombardment with artillery, or with troops of the same kind.

Traditional cold weapon troops are basically invincible, especially traditional cavalry.

Now, facing more than a hundred cavalry rushing forward, Matim showed a disdainful taunt. His two battalions consisted of 600 people. Combat strength, and the hundreds of elite European mercenary musketeers under him are the key to victory.

The captives were wearing cotton armor, and they were extremely sturdy, but this guy wanted to rush away from them?

Dream it!
More than a hundred captives came galloping like a sharp sword.

"Raise the gun and stab left!"

The gunners fired first, and at about [-] or [-] steps, the gunners had already started firing continuously, with constant bang bang bang noises and gunpowder smoke everywhere. The gunners used three-stage shooting tactics in turn, keeping their positions unchanged, In the case where the turn-in tactic cannot be used, the continuity of shooting must still be ensured.

The captive cavalry rushing in front neighed and was overturned several times in an instant!
　This battle is not considered a real confrontation with the Qing army. First of all, it is a reconnaissance force of the Qing army. One hundred, and the rest are the Han army flag and the incorporated surrender army. In the previous field battle, [-] soldiers were carelessly lost, of which the Eight Banners lost [-]%.

　　
　
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