Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 337 Look at that thin red line! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

When Chen Yonghua commanded two battalions and eight teams of red scarf musketeers to arrive at the front of Zeng Yangxing's phalanx on Geng Jingzhong's left wing, and began to prepare artillery fire before the infantry attack, Li Zhongshan gave the order for the whole army to press up.

The Daming Army Model Town on the Chashan battlefield is a mixed town of infantry, artillery, supplies, cavalry, and workers, but now only infantry and artillery appear in front of Geng Jingzhong's army.

Among them, the infantry has a total of 48 teams of three brigades and twelve battalions, each of which has a large establishment of 200 people. Only these 48 teams have more than 9000 fusiliers.

In addition, there are twenty scattered soldiers under each musket team. They are usually scattered on each ranking as shooting teaching. Shoot.

The artillery that appeared on the battlefield was an artillery regiment composed of six artillery teams, a supply team and an engineering team, all equipped with six-pound field guns, a total of 36 pieces.Before Li Zhongshan allocated 24 gates to Chen Yonghua, the remaining [-] gates were slowly pushed forward with the infantry of the other ten battalions.

As for the Cavalry Corps under the Model Town, it is now led by Li Zhongzheng and stands in a forest behind Chashan.
With the unhurried sound of military drums, under the guidance of bright red military flags, they began to slowly approach the remaining large square formations of the Jing Army.

If you can look down from a high place, you will find that the two battalions on the right wing of the current Ming army formation have advanced sharply, and they have pushed to a place that is only one mile away from the front of the left wing of the Jing army, while the remaining battalions have formed a It is roughly an array of two thick red lines, moving forward slowly, but it will take a while to fill up the left side of the two right-wing battalions that are protruding forward.

As for the right side of the second battalion of the right wing of the Ming army, there happened to be a small stream flowing through it. Of course, it was a standard stream in the south of the Yangtze River. Now it is the rainy and abundant season in spring, so it is impossible to ford.

In other words, if the cavalry of the Jing army wanted to attack the two battalions on the right wing of the Ming army, they had to hurry up. Otherwise, once the ten battalions of the Ming army pressed up, there would be less room for the cavalry to attack.

Geng Jingzhong, who was standing in the battle of the pole cart, could see clearly that he was also a little anxious, and he ordered the soldiers below: "Quick, go to King An to urge you. If you don't launch a cavalry charge, it will be too late." !"

"Yes!"

The soldiers below got his order, got on their horses, and looked for Yue Le's flag.When I found Yue Le, this Prince An of the Great Jing, Prince An of the Great Qing, Duke An of the Great Zhou alternate (too awesome, a veteran of the three dynasties!) was grinding with Bai Xianzhong, the general under Geng Jingzhong's command!

It turned out that Bai Xianzhong was unwilling to hand over the [-] cavalry in his hand to Yue Le - the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River was short of horses and did not have many cavalry, and the Jing army also shrank in the south of the Yangtze River was also short of horses.What's more, the horse administration of the Great Jing Kingdom was gone. Originally, Geng Jingzhong's vassal estate still managed some horse farms in Fujian, which could more or less provide Geng Jingzhong with some war horses.But when Dajing withdrew from Fuzhou, the racecourse outside Fuzhou city did not go with him, and even the people and horses plus the "field" were all surnamed Zheng.
So now most of the war horses of the Dajing Dynasty are "three dynasties old horses", and they are all castrated "three dynasties eunuch horses". up.

And those military leaders under Geng Jingzhong who are preparing to be four ministers also know the value of cavalry, so why are they willing to hand it over to Yue Le so easily?
So Yue Le had no choice but to coax and lie, and promised a lot of benefits for Geng Jingzhong, so he finally got together seven or eight hundred horses. Among them were his own two hundred horses!

"Bai Zongrong, the emperor is in a hurry. If you don't hand over the cavalry to me, you will miss the opportunity of the battle. It's hard to explain to the emperor. If you want to ask about the future in the west, I'm afraid it will be hard to talk!"

Yue Le is really good enough, he is still serving as Geng Jingzhong's lord, but he has already used "people from the west" to bluff people.

"West" of course refers to Wu Sangui!
Bai Xianzhong can ignore Geng Jingzhong from the "east", but he can't care about Wu Sangui from the "west".

However, he was still unwilling to hand over all the cavalry to Yue Le, so he just gave Yue Le 130 cavalry, and he kept seventy or eighty cavalry to save his life.

With the 130 riders given by Bai Xianzhong, Yue Le finally gathered more than [-] riders, and then he urgently organized these [-] riders into nine teams, each with more than [-] riders, and then began to attack Chen Yonghua's left flank. go ahead.

While Yuele organized a cavalry to launch an charge, Chen Yonghua had finished the artillery, and began to impact the infantry through the smoke cover made by the shells of both sides.

In his first wave of charge, he took out a battalion and four teams, almost [-] musketeers, forming four thin horizontal teams, pushing forward against the lead bullets hit indiscriminately in front.

The tempo of the army drum is getting faster and faster, and the red scarf musketeers are also walking faster and faster. In the field of vision in front of Chen Yonghua, there are all undulating head-colored scarves. Under the red scarves, there is actually a semicircular Iron helmet.It's just that this helmet doesn't have any exaggerated shape, and it's wrapped in red cloth, which looks almost like a bald head wrapped around a step.But there is really no armor, just a cotton robe dyed red.

The Zeng Yangxing Department on the opposite side also stopped shelling, and switched to shooting indiscriminately with shotguns, bows and arrows.It wasn't that the training of the Jing army was poor, but that a small number of stragglers of the Ming army walked in front of the [-] musketeers, and approached the seats only a few dozen steps away from Zeng's army, squatting in the grass, Use the flintlock rifle in your hand to roll the names of the Musketeers, Artillery Soldiers, and Officers of the Zeng Family Army!

The enemy has not approached yet, and there are already many casualties on my side, no one can stand it!So Zeng Yangxing had no choice but to let the shotgunners below start shooting, at least to strengthen everyone's courage.

At the same time, he also knew that the flintlock guns equipped in large quantities by the Ming army were very powerful when firing guns against each other. The pikemen under him were not opponents at all, and the archers were not good at it-good archers could fight against flintlock guns Bing, but a good archer is too difficult to train, and he doesn't have many men.Most archers, twenty paces away, may have a head, and fifty paces away is the "end of the soft bow".

Therefore, he simply mobilized seven or eight hundred forwards, all wearing double armor and holding plain knives, squatting behind his musketeers and archers, waiting for the Ming army's musketeers to approach, and launched a counterattack!

At this time, the four teams of Ming army musketeers had entered the distance where Zeng's army's shotguns, bows and arrows could exert their power, and sporadic casualties began to occur.And the two battalion commanders in charge of the Ming army did not have the idea of ​​​​playing "a volley of guns within twenty steps"-that would be a desperate effort!The life of the people of Ming Dynasty is still very precious, so we can't fight like this.

And the Ming Army has a lot of technology - hand-rubbed cork bombs, it's the Mini bombs!
This kind of mini bomb does not have to be stuffed into a rifled gun to exert its power, it is as easy to use as a smoothbore gun!Not to mention anything else, it is the "chrysanthemum" item that pushes away the lead bullet after the cork receives pressure, which can improve the airtightness of the musket by several levels.

Therefore, a well-trained musketeer can achieve good shooting accuracy at a distance of dozens of steps when using Minie bullets.This is also the reason why all the infantry in Model Town don't wear armor.

Following a burst of rapid and piercing suona sounds, the four teams of Ming army musketeers that formed a horizontal line all stopped advancing, and then they reorganized their ranks, turning three horizontal lines into two horizontal lines, and then began the musketeering. shoot!

At the same time as there was a thunderous bang, seven or eight hundred lead bullets were poured on the dense crowd like raindrops. After the first two rounds of salvos, the front row of the Jing army fell down!
But after two rounds of volleys, the front of these Ming army musketeers was filled with gunpowder smoke, because the visibility decreased, and the musketeers after that were not so accurate.

And Zeng Yangxing, who was frightened by the two rounds of overly accurate musket volleys, was waiting for this moment!
"Choose the front team, let me charge!"

After his loud roar, the passionate drums suddenly sounded in his army formation.Those hundreds of picks were all veterans who had been licking blood on their blades for many years, plus Zeng Yangxin gave a heavy reward, and even gave a reward of 50 taels of silver for the head of a red scarf soldier, all the fierceness in their blood inspired.Crazy shouts of killing suddenly resounded through the earth, and the dead soldiers of the Jing army in double armor jumped out of their phalanx.They don't form a whole team, they just cover their heads and move forward at the fastest speed, as if they just need to start a hand-to-hand fight with their opponents, and they will be sure to win!
In order to prevent accidental injuries, Jing Jun's muskets stopped shooting, leaving only archers and crazy.
The two battalion commanders of the Ming army also discovered that the dead soldiers of the Jing army had begun to charge, and they immediately issued an order to stop shooting and keep calm!
After two long suona sounds, all the musketeers stopped firing, and after loading their ammunition, they stood still.

There was no roar of guns and artillery on the battlefield for a while, only the shouts of the soldiers with all their strength left!
"kill"

Most of the gunpowder smoke had dissipated, and Chen Yonghua, who stepped on the saddle and stood up, also opened his mouth, staring blankly at the scalp-numbing scene in front of him: the battle line of the Ming army is so slender, like a thin The red line!Dozens of paces ahead of them, groups of infantrymen of the Jing Army, clad in strong and sharp armor, were screaming and launching a charge!
Can this stand up?

As soon as he thought of this, the two battalion commanders in front of him issued another order.Their orders turned into piercing suona voices. The musketeers of the Ming army who had stood still raised their muskets, put on the muzzles of their bayonets, and pointed at the Jing army rushing ahead.Everyone held their breath, waiting for the suona to sound again!
These Musketeers in Model Town are not cannon fodder who went to the battlefield after half a month of training. They are all natives of Huaixi. Receive training in the battalion. And the focus is on training in formation, marksmanship, obeying orders and queuing up to shoot!
The shouting and charging enemies are getting closer and closer to them!Thirty steps, twenty steps, fifteen steps and ten steps!

When the closest distance between the two sides was less than ten paces, a piercing suona sound suddenly resounded in the ears of the musketeers of the Ming army!

It's now!

Eight hundred muskets fired at the same time!Although it was a musket, it made a roar like shelling, and its lethality was no less than ten or twelve six-pound field guns that sprayed shotgun at the same time!

As for the soldiers of the Jing army, this time they really will not die with peace in their eyes!They were about to rush to the enemy. Among them, those closest to the enemy's Musketeers had already rushed within seven steps!

It is said that the gun is faster at seven steps, and the knife is faster at seven steps!But now how can it be that the gun is shot within seven steps quickly and accurately?
Almost none of the dead soldiers of the Jing Army who rushed to the front could escape the blow of the "seven-step gun". In front of the "thin red line" of the Ming army, all the dead soldiers of the Jing Army had been killed or were about to die. .

Even if there were a few who slipped through the net, they were all terrified and just stood there dumbfounded, not knowing whether to kneel down and surrender or rush forward and desperately?
And those Jingjun soldiers who rushed slowly were shocked when they saw the three or four hundred people in front of them all fell down at once!
Isn't this fucking too ruthless?
And just when they were too frightened to move forward, the Ming Army musketeers on the opposite side had already skillfully pulled out the fixed-loaded Miniature bullets, and quickly completed another loading with their hands and feet—the loading of the Miniature bullets was already It is easier than ordinary lead bombs, and these Ming army is "skilled". In terms of the time of the Western man, it is two30 seconds.The people over there hadn't responded, and the gun was already raised again.

"Run!"

I don't know which "genius" suddenly roared at this time, and the Jingjun "soldiers who fear death" who were already shrouded in fear all turned around and fled.But they were all wearing two layers of armor, and they had consumed a lot of energy when they charged just now. How fast can they run as fast as they can now?Can't run bullets!

"boom"

With a piercing suona, the roar of the flintlock salvo sounded again on the battlefield!

Surrounding Yue Le are the Manchu Qing cavalrymen who have followed him for many years. The riders' pigtails are swinging left and right in the air behind their heads. It didn't frighten these battle-hardened Manchurian warriors. They were no longer the Eight Banners dandies living a good life in Beijing, but were tempered into real warriors by years of cruel wars!

It is no exaggeration to say that their skills are comparable to their villain Ama!
So their charge cannot be blocked by two thin red lines!
That's right, on the left side of Chen Yonghua, two thin red lines and a faint line of stragglers also appeared at this time!
Facing the charge of the Manchurian cavalry, the battalion commander of the Ming army did not adopt a hollow phalanx, but a thin red line plus a skirmish line to deal with it.

From the point of view of Yue Le, who has fought battles for almost a lifetime (a lifetime will soon, and the point will come soon), this Chen Yonghua doesn't know how to fight at all, and he is commanding at random.

In fact, he did not completely guess. Chen Yonghua really would not fight, because all the commands were issued by Wang An who was next to Chen Yonghua!
In fact, all Chen Yonghua's attention just now was on the "death fighters" sent by Zeng Yangxing, and he didn't even notice that the cavalry of the Jing army had rushed to his left flank!
And when he turned his attention back from the front, he realized that the staff officers around him didn't know where they were going?After searching left and right, he found that the group had changed direction and all turned to the left. He quickly raised his head to look to the left, and was stunned for a moment.

On the battlefield, groups of cavalry are rushing towards the slender red line formed by several Ming army infantry one after another. Shouldn't they use a hollow phalanx?How to use these "thin line" infantry to deal with the enemy's cavalry?
Whose order is this?Isn't this commanding blindly?
Just as he was about to ask a question, he realized that Wang Anzheng, the Zuo Canjun of the Grand General's Mansion, was sitting on the ground on his horse, not panicking at all.

Since Wang An didn't panic, of course Chen Yonghua didn't. He is the "chief rudder", how could he panic?So he looked calm, took the reins, and rode up to Wang An. Looking at the cavalry of the Jing army rushing forward, he nodded and said, "Well, the cavalry of the Jing army are very fierce! Brother Can we stand it?"

Wang An said with a smile: "They are dying! The cavalry of the Jing Army has less than a thousand cavalry, and they may be able to break through our defense line if they rush up, but they have a team of more than a hundred cavalry. How can they charge over?"

I'm relieved when you say that!
Chen Yonghua nodded in satisfaction, took out a folding fan, and fanned it lightly. This appearance is comparable to his old lord, Zheng Jing, who always likes to dress up like Zhuge Liang.

(End of this chapter)