Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 242 "The Unbelievable Song of the Qing Dynasty" (Please subscribe!)

Huang Qing was on the front line, the temporary command post behind the trench.

When the Qing army began to press on, Huang Qing showed a little smile, and he said to the emperor's trainer Chen Mengwei: "It's time for the artillerymen of the Guards to perform."

The artillery training time of the Fifth Town of the Guards Army was not long, but their strength was good. In order to train his artillery battalion these days, Huang Qing fed a lot of ammunition to the artillery, so that they almost looked a little better.

The fifth town now has good firepower, with 80 tiger squat mortars, 50 12-pound field steel guns, and 30 24-pound siege guns.

"Load, launch!"

When the Qing army came into range, the tiger squatting mortars and field artillery opened fire suddenly.

Guards artillery preferred mortars to field artillery.

In order to continue the continuity of the bombardment, the artillery of the Guards divided the artillery into several artillery groups. After one artillery group fired, the other artillery group followed up, so as to repeat the cycle, making the artillery bombardment continuous.

In an instant, artillery fire roared!

The solid artillery shells and flowering shells flew across the sky together, hitting the advancing Qing army.

Some solid bullets hit the shield vehicles at the front of the Qing army array, smashing many shield vehicles to pieces.

More flowering bombs crashed into the formation of Qing army infantry, and the shells exploded, immediately blasting a group of Qing army infantry into corpses and broken limbs. The scene was quite bloody.

Seeing someone fall, the surrounding Qing soldiers were frightened. They were almost the ones who died. They were frightened, and they were too frightened to move forward.

"Don't stop, let's go!" The officer not far away yelled loudly, and some of the grumpy officers just whipped them over.

Thanks to the efforts of the officers, a small number of problematic places in the Qing army array quickly recovered.

What's even more frightening is that the continuous shells fell, killing the Qing army continuously, and the lethality was terrible.

Since flowering ammunition is a rare thing in this era, and the sound is loud and the scene of causing damage is scary, the morale blow to any army is serious.

The Qing army rushed for a while, and was beaten to death by the continuous bombardment, leaving hundreds of corpses behind, but couldn't move, and began to flee backwards.

Zhao Liangdong, who was overseeing the army at the rear, never expected such a thing to happen.

"The fake artillery has become so powerful, no wonder my son Zhao Hongcan was defeated!" Zhao Liangdong was surprised.

"Don't retreat! Kill me back!" At this time, Jin Guangzu, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, became annoyed. He immediately mobilized the Eight Banners soldiers of the Han Dynasty to act as temporary military police on the battlefield. The Green Battalion infantry who charged just now were driven back.

Jin Guangzu of the Hanbai Banner, who committed crimes and meritorious service in Yunnan, would have been dismissed and returned to the capital to return to the banner after Yunnan was pacified.

It’s just that Daming suddenly emerged in Myanmar. Although he was dismissed, he continued to stay in Yunnan to perform crimes and make meritorious service.

However, the artillery of the guards is really too powerful. This group of green battalions can be considered to have experienced many battles, but they dare not continue to move forward. On the contrary, they start to collapse in other directions, but they dare not continue to attack.

Zhao Liangdong already regretted bringing Jin Guangzu together for this military adventure. Both of them were frustrated people in the Qing Dynasty.

It seemed that Zhao Liangdong was not in a good mood. At this time, his good son-in-law Yu Qijun suggested: "Father-in-law, although the artillery of the Ming army is strong, the number must not be many. If our army presses up from multiple sides, we will definitely be able to break through the defense line of the Ming army. Go straight to Huanglong."

Zhao Liangdong thought for a while and had no other choice, so he nodded in agreement.

This battle made Zhao Liangdong very uncomfortable from the very beginning. The Ming army lineup was quite neat, and they always guarded their positions without wavering. As the attacking side, they could not break through the tortoise shell of the Ming army.

"Ignore the puppet Chinese army and attack from the left and right." Zhao Liangdong ordered.

Sure enough, the Qing army moved. This time, the Qing army directly ignored the powerful central guard army, but chose to attack the Ming army's formation from left and right.

The Qing army's attack was not completely random. Although they did not have a long infantry phalanx like the Guards, they also had a certain formation.

The shotgunners are in the front, the archers are arranged in the back, and the cavalry is in the back or on the wings.

The Qing army also carried small cannons that were easy to carry, such as mother and child cannons, to enhance firepower.

It can be said that the tactics of the Qing army still mainly consider the power of firearms, but the degree of neatness and flexibility is much worse than that of the Guards.

Seeing the actions of the Qing army, Huang Qing had already expected it.

Huang Qing also followed the previous strategy and ordered: "The artillery turns its muzzle to meet the invading enemy from the left wing, and the guards shift their firepower from the front to the right wing."

The right-wing battlefield is a thrilling queue to shoot.

The infantrymen of the Guards, who performed three bursts of fire, opened fire in unison under the command of the military musicians.

Three rows of musket bullets were fired with crackling smoke, like a barrage of bullets, directly knocking down the first row of Qing troops who had rushed over and hadn't raised their guns.

The Qing army's musketeers, whose lines were not neat at all, had no ability to shoot against the dense bullets of the infantry of the Guards.

It's just that once in a while a bird gunner can fire a shot, and then there is no way to achieve a stable reload at all, so he can only escape backwards.

The weak and sporadic shooting of the Qing army could not shake the morale of the guard infantry at all.

Even if occasionally a few soldiers were hit and fell by the bullets of the Qing army, the comrades in the back would immediately fill up their seats. The most dangerous first row was always full of Fusiliers of the Guards who raised their guns and fired!
People vividly call the infantry tactics of this period "queuing and shooting", but in fact it couldn't be more vivid.

This kind of battle is actually people on both sides shooting each other with rifles. Those who stand in the front need great courage. When they kill the enemy, they can almost guarantee that they will also die.

But only in this way can the front-loading muskets such as arquebuses and flintlock guns maintain the densest firepower in order to achieve the most advantageous results.

There was a massacre on the right wing, and the Qing army who attacked the left wing of the Ming army had better luck. Although they were bombarded by artillery, many Qing troops successfully broke through the front and attacked the Burmese garrison phalanx on the left wing.

Zhao Liangdong's Yunnan Green Camp can be regarded as the elite of the Qing army in this era, and its hand-to-hand combat ability is still very strong.

Just when Zhao Liangdong thought that the left wing was the last hope.

The naughty "March of the Grenadiers" rang out from the left wing. Zhu Kezang plagiarized this song, which will be called the bad song of the Qing Dynasty in the future.

"March of the Grenadiers" is the most famous and oldest infantry marching song in Britain. Its history can be traced back to the 17th century. It is the most commonly used marching song for British infantry when they march and attack. Use this to boost morale.

Until the 21st century, "March of the Grenadiers" is still one of the main repertoires played by the British Royal Grenadier Guards military band all year round.

Originally, the Qing Dynasty had to wait until 1840 to enjoy this charming little song. Thanks to the wise emperor Zhu Kezang, the world line was closed. Otherwise, in this time and space, the Qing Dynasty would probably perish without hearing this little song!

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