Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 666

Daming Army.

Chongzhen, Xu Yingwei, Jiang Tianyi, and Wang Jiayan all laughed when they saw the Jiannu army changing formation.

"Isn't Jiannu stupid?" Jiang Tian said with a smile, "You actually know to put the green battalion in the front row as a bait, is this trying to lure our artillery to attack the green battalion with all its strength?"

"This is wishful thinking." Xu Yingwei said, "We won't be so stupid as to shoot."

Wang Jiayan immediately questioned the Jiannu artillery that was still in the Liaodong period: "Xu Gejian, if there is a chance to destroy the Jiannu artillery, it should be destroyed first. After all, the Jiannu artillery is still extremely sharp."

"It's too difficult to destroy the artillery." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "Didn't Wang Butang realize that the formations of Jiannu artillery are very spaced? The distance between adjacent artillery vehicles is even more than [-] steps! The distance between the front and rear is more than two Ten steps! With such a large distance, we may not be able to hit one shot even if we fire ten shots."

Wang Jiayan was immediately speechless, because the distance between the Jiannu cannons was indeed very large.

The second wave of bombardment by the 7 field artillery brigades just now had a very embarrassing hit rate. Of the 630 guns, only about 50 solid bullets hit the array of the Green Battalion.

And it failed to completely destroy Jiannu's cannon.

Every gun of Jiannu has a spare gun carriage.

Even the Camel Swing Cannon has a spare carrying camel.

In contrast, the first wave of shelling destroyed at least 100 Jiannu vans.

The reason is also very simple. The first wave of artillery hit the dense infantry formation just now, while the second wave of artillery hit Jiannu's super-spaced artillery formation.

After a long while, Wang Jiayan said: "The hit rate of the Jiannu artillery is a bit low, but it can destroy one by one. In this way, when the Jiannu artillery approaches, we can bear as little pressure as possible. Some."

Xu Yingwei said: "The Jiannu artillery can definitely get close to their range. No matter how hard our artillery can stop them, we can't stop them. Moreover, even if our artillery try their best to stop them, they may not be able to destroy Jiannu's artillery. Eleven, so it's better to kill the opponent's infantry with all your strength."

Chongzhen nodded: "Artillery is best used to attack infantry."

Regarding this point, Chongzhen has brought the scholars of the Shiziying to deduce countless times in the sand table.

The results show that attacking the opponent's artillery with artillery can hardly have a big impact on the battle situation, but attacking the opponent's horse infantry with artillery can cause a lot of damage.

Especially when shotguns are used at close range, the lethality is particularly terrifying.

Xu Yingwei smiled and shouted: "The order is that the field artillery brigades ignore the Green Battalion and instead attack the Eight Banners Han Army in the third row. When Jiannu's Chinese army comes into range, they will join the Shenhuo Battalion to face the Jiannu Central Army." Fight!"

It is the established policy of the Ming army to concentrate firepower to attack the Eight Banners Manchuria and give priority to hunting the Jurchens.

As long as the Jurchens who built the slave army were severely injured, the remaining Han and Mongols would be nothing to worry about.

After the order was transmitted, the seven field artillery brigades of the Ming army did not correct the shooting parameters, but continued to bombard the Eight Banners Han army that had just entered the range at the maximum firing angle.

After the Eight Banners Han army passed the attack range, they continued to attack the Eight Banners Manchuria and Jiannu's Chinese army.

Then the 7 field artillery brigades of the Ming army followed the Jiannu Chinese Army to continuously adjust the shooting parameters to ensure that most of the shells would fall on the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria.

Therefore, every minute or so, hundreds of bloody roads will be plowed out in the queues of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria, and every time a bloody road is plowed out, it means that a dozen or even twenty Eight Banners soldiers have been killed. Beat to pieces.

When the formations of Jiannu Zhongjun and Eight Banners Manchuria entered 1000 or [-] steps away from the Ming army, the situation got worse.

Because after reaching this distance, in addition to the 7 field artillery brigades, 4 360-inch mountain artillery pieces from 2.5 mountain artillery brigades also joined the shelling, so more blood was plowed out in the Eight Banners Manchurian formation.

It was another round of shelling, and nearly a thousand solid iron bullets roared and smashed into the ranks of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria.

Although most of the solid iron bullets landed in the middle of the queue and in the blank areas before and after, more than 100 bullets still hit the Jiannu Central Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria queue, plowing more than 100 blood paths in the queue in an instant.

……

Sony and others looked down from the observation deck, and the picture was extremely bloody.

I saw that among the dense and complete central army phalanx and the six small phalanxes on the left and right wings, more than 100 Manchurian warriors who were marching forward fell down in an instant.

That is really a string, a long string from beginning to end.

The shortest one has seven or eight warriors, and the longest one has more than 20 Eight Banners warriors.

Most of the Eight Banners warriors were killed on the spot by smashing their torsos or heads, but there were also many Eight Banners warriors who were only hit in the legs, feet or arms, and wailed there after being seriously injured and fell to the ground.

In this wave alone, more than 1000 Eight Banners warriors were killed or injured.

Counting the five waves of shelling before this, plus the damage caused by the sacred fire flying crows, the two yellow flag elites in the Chinese army's main formation and the other six phalanxes on the two wings have already suffered more than 6000 casualties!
So this short 300 steps is simply paved with the corpses of their Eight Banners warriors.

Seeing the Eight Banners warriors lying on the ground with their limbs shattered, Sony's heart was bleeding.

Sukesaha cursed with a black face: "Damn Minggou, this is just to catch us Jurchens."

"This is also expected." Sonny said in a deep voice, "However, if the Ming army thinks that they can intimidate us Eight Banners warriors, then they are wrong. We Eight Banners warriors will never be intimidated!"

The Eight Banners Manchuria is indeed very tough and has a very high tolerance for death.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, the Eight Banners Manchuria has suffered nearly one-tenth of the casualties, but the remaining Eight Banners Manchuria are still emotionally stable, their fighting spirit is still high, and they are still full of confidence in victory.

But Sony is also very clear that this situation will not last forever.

In the final analysis, Eight Banners warriors are also human beings who are also afraid of death.

If the artillery of the Ming army continues to bombard the Eight Banners Warriors, if such casualties continue, then no matter how tough the Eight Banners Warriors are, they will eventually collapse.

But fortunately, this situation should not last for too long.

Because the 400 red cannons of the green battalion have been set up.

There are also 500 Fran cannons from the Green Camp that have also entered range.

As long as the red cannons, Flang cannons and camel cannons of the Green Battalion shelled the artillery positions of the Ming army, the artillery of the Ming army would not care about bombarding the formation of the Eight Banners Manchuria, and the crisis would be resolved at that time.

However, it is still necessary for the Eight Banners Manchuria to increase the distance between infantry formations.

While thinking, there was another scream that seemed to tear the air.

And this time the screaming sound was sharper than before, as if it was right next to his ears.

Immediately afterwards, Sony felt a gust of wind rush past his ears, and the huge air wave instantly overturned him, and then there was a soft "poof" sound behind him, followed by a loud bang.

Immediately after the loud noise, there was another exclamation, and someone was calling Ama.

Sonny hurriedly turned over and sat up to check, and saw Ye Bilong lying behind him, the head on his shoulder was no longer visible, only a headless corpse was left spraying blood.

Along the direction of the blood spurt, Sony saw his eldest son Gabra.

I saw that the rear half of the watchtower had been smashed by shells, showing a big gap. Gabra was holding a guardrail that was about to break with both hands, and the ground was three feet high.

Sony hurried forward and pulled Gabra up.

At this time, Suksaha and others also got up.

Seeing Ye Bilong whose head was smashed, Sukesaha and the others were a little bit embarrassed.

Sony looked around the watchtower again, and saw that the two yellow flags' central army and the six army formations on the left and right flanks had once again plowed out hundreds of bloody roads, and at least thousands of people were killed or injured.

"Damn it!" Sony almost gritted his teeth.

But fortunately, the red cannons of the green battalion have begun to fight back.

And the Flang cannon of the green battalion is almost ready.

"Ming Gou, now it's your turn to taste the taste of being shelled!"

……

Jiannu's first volley of shells finally hit with a scream.

"Long live Lord, be careful!" Gao Qiqian rushed forward and opened his hands to block Chongzhen.

Lu Jiude's reaction was about half a beat slow, but after he realized it, he quickly rushed forward with a few young eunuchs, and then opened his hands to block Chongzhen.

Seeing this, Chongzhen couldn't help being amused.

Fuck it's a cannon, not a rifle.

Are you blocking the wool?Can't stop it at all.

However, Chongzhen did not scold Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude.

In any case, these eunuchs are well-intentioned and should not be scolded.

"Okay, there will be no danger on the watchtower, because Jiannu's red cannon, Fran cannon and camel cannon are basically at the maximum range, and they can barely hit our central army, but they still want to hit it so high Impossible."

The artillery shells of the Jiannu artillery hit at most the pillars of the watchtower, but the watchtower was built very solidly, so it was not afraid.

Chongzhen patted Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude on the shoulders, signaling them to get out of the way and not block their sight.

After Gao Qiqian and the others got out of the way, Chongzhen discovered that hundreds of deep grooves had been plowed out by Jiannu's shells on the artillery position in front of the Chinese army's phalanx, and many artillerymen had fallen in a pool of blood.

The medical soldiers who stayed in the rear rushed forward to treat them.

Chongzhen glanced over, and there were probably more than a hundred casualties.

Two other field guns had their right wheels destroyed and lay on their sides.

It's just that the artillerymen attached to this gun are replacing it with spare wheels.

Chongzhen moved his eyes forward and landed on the infantry line array in front of the Chinese army phalanx.

I saw the infantry in front of the phalanx sitting quietly in the trenches, without any casualties.

The trench with a width of nearly one foot and a depth of nearly five feet provided perfect protection for infantry.

As for the infantry on both sides, half of them entered the trenches to hide, and the other half retreated to the second half of the phalanx. The second half was beyond the range of the Jiannu cannon, so it was safe.

Looking around the left and right sides, the hollow phalanxes of the other five towns are similar.

Cavalry Town, because of its location, was not bombarded by Jiannu artillery.

(End of this chapter)