Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 338 This is the Seventeenth Century's Victorious Art of War! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)
The Manchurian cavalry under Yue Le's command skillfully controlled the horses. Among them, the cavalry in the rear of the team also took out long-range weapons such as horse bows and javelins. They were not the kind who would only attack the cavalry stupidly. I know the so-called Mongolian warriors who know how to ride horses and shoot arrows, but dare not fight hand-to-hand.In the early years, the cavalry in Manchuria took the all-round way. They could ride and shoot, charge into battle, fight hand-to-hand, and of course dismount to fight!

It's just that the comfortable life of "staffed citizens" after the establishment of Beijing made them lose the ability of their ancestors to take over the world immediately.But now the Qing Dynasty is still the year of Kangxi after all, not the year of Daoguang or the year of Xianfeng.The ruthless Manchurians of the older generation are not dead yet!With their precepts and deeds, it is not too difficult for the younger gang below to practice their lost martial arts again.In addition, this year's Eight Banners students do not have the habit of smoking opium, so their physical fitness is still online.So these Manchu heroes who followed Yue Le to the battle today are quite powerful.

The formation of these powerful Manchurian cavalry today is not dense, and the tactics used are not the dense horizontal or square group charges often used by the current Ming and Zhou cavalry, but more flexible wave charges.It's not that you keep charging with your head covered, but you will shoot arrows and javelins during the charge.If they encounter the enemy's long spear formation, they will even rush to the spear formation and kill the enemy by shooting close to the face.And after breaking through the enemy line, they will also fight hand-to-hand!
Of course, it doesn't matter if Yue Le's cavalry can't charge down if the enemy line remains motionless.This traditional cavalry charge is not a one-shot deal. It is common to charge more than a dozen formations a day, and it is rare to charge down at one time.

That's why Yue Le divided the [-] or [-] cavalry under his command into eight teams, preparing to charge and hit the wheels one by one.And the cavalry team he led was the second team among the eight cavalry teams, and a team of Manchurian cavalry was leading the battle in front of him. Letting the Manchurian cavalry take the lead and the second team was also a helpless choice.

After all, Emperor Geng Jingzhong of Dajing was a Han Chinese, so Yue Le and his Manchurian warriors in Dajing might not be coquettish bosses.Those Han army leaders in Dajing only looked at Yue Le because of his status as the head of the country, and there was no way to let Yue Le's cavalry escort their servants to charge.

But when Yue Le rode his horse to the field only 200 steps away from the Ming army's line, he felt that the Manchurian soldiers' first and second battles were right!Because the Ming army on the opposite side put out an extremely stupid "three-character thin line array" like a thin line.Such a formation is used to resist the charge of the infantry spear formation, let alone resist the cavalry?By the way, the infantry that make up the "three-character thin line formation" are all musketeers without a spear. Can such infantry stop the cavalry from charging into the formation?

It seems that Chen Yonghua really doesn't know how to fight!

As soon as he thought of this, the Ming army's first thin red line, which was a little sparsely populated, suddenly flashed rows of large and small fires!
And at this time, the Manchurian cavalry leading the battle in front of Yue Le was at least 180 steps away from the thin red line!

Oh, sure enough, I still shot indiscriminately!Yue Le thought happily.In fact, it is very common for musketeers to fire outside the effective range because they are afraid of the enemy approaching.On the contrary, it is extremely rare for musketeers who can put the enemy at a very close distance and kill them with one shot.

He had just been complacent for a while, when he suddenly saw a Manchurian warrior with a small braid on the back of his head twitching and twitching in front of him, as if struck by lightning, he twitched twice and fell off his horse !
What's going on here?

Yue Le was startled, and quickly raised his eyes forward, looked around, only to realize that something was wrong. There were many empty spaces on the backs of the horses running ahead, and where did the cavalry go?There are also some Manchurian warriors who fell on their horses and couldn't move!There are also some war horses that have lost control and are rushing left and right!Then he looked down again, and at a glance he saw a manchurian soldier lying on the ground, obviously seriously injured, still struggling!

Yue Le was shocked by this scene, the muskets of the Ming army could hit so far. Ah, what they used was the ridiculously expensive rifled gun!He has been fighting against the Ming Dynasty for several years, and he was once a Jiedu envoy of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he knows that Foshan, Guangdong has a rifle that can shoot far and accurately, but the price is ridiculously expensive, and it is difficult to buy a rifled gun.He also knew that Li Zhongshan's personal soldiers in the Shanzi Battalion were equipped with a small amount of this kind of rifled guns, and Li Fuchen's personal soldiers also had some, but the other Ming troops seemed to have none!
And the Ming army in front of them, which didn't even have armor, should be a mob soldier. How could they have rifled guns?Aren't they as rambunctious as they seem?Could it be that they were pretended by Shanziying?
"boom blah blah"

There was another burst of crackling gunshots, pulling Yue Le out of his own thoughts. He quickly looked up and found that he was very close to the "Three-character Thin Line Array" of the Ming Army. The team of Manchurian cavalry in front seemed to have few people left, and they were all scattered to the left and right. At this time, he saw the first of the "three-character thin line formation" less than a hundred paces ahead. The platoon of the Ming army had already squatted down, and then the three platoons of the Ming army raised their muskets at the same time. At least [-] muskets were pointed at him and the hundreds of Manchurian cavalry around him.

Suddenly, Yue Le felt a feeling of dying. He was now less than a hundred steps away from the opponent's gun. Facing the firepower network composed of [-] rifled guns (in fact, most of them were not rifled guns), he turned around repeatedly. The horse head had no chance of escaping. Yue Le opened his eyes wide and looked ahead in despair.

"You rebels, I will fight with you!"

Yue Le, who knew how dangerous he was, raised his carbine and uttered his loudest roar. At this time, his mount had already led him to a position less than fifty steps away from the enemy line, while the Ming army was still calm , No one fled, and no one opened fire, just pointed the black muzzle at the fast-approaching target.

With this kind of composure without panic in the face of cavalry charging, this kind of Ming army with all firearms is worthy of the word "elite"!And I... seem to be giving away the head!

Thinking of this, Yue Le finally took a big breath of air that smelled of gunpowder, and shouted: "Ama, Mafa, I really tried my best."

A piercing suona sounded, and the last thing Yue Le saw were three rows of muzzle flames, large and small!

"Hahaha!"

Behind the "Three-character Thin Line Array", Chen Yonghua grinned as he watched the battlefield full of gunfire, waving his folding fan while laughing.Just now, the second cavalry centurion of the Jing Army, which attacked its left flank, was fired by a battalion of musketeers and riflemen (both battalions of riflemen were concentrated on Chen Yonghua's left flank). The smoke cleared! The volley of more than 800 muskets killed and wounded most of the hundreds of Yasukuni cavalry, and knocked down many horses along the way, forming an insurmountable barrier of human and horse corpses in an instant—not that The Yasukuni cavalry behind couldn't jump over, but was frightened by the almost complete annihilation of the two centurion cavalry in front of them. Who would dare to send (heads) forward?
Seeing these Yasukuni cavalry fleeing in all directions, Chen Yonghua felt so beautiful in his heart.Who dares to say that he will not fight in the future?He Chen Yonghua also knows how to fight, and he can win!
In addition, it doesn't seem too difficult to win the battle!I commanded only two battalions and twelve cannons, so that the Jing Army's more than ten thousand infantry did not dare to move, and also repelled the flank attack of the Jing Army's more than a thousand cavalry!

It seems that the key to winning the battle is to form an infantry with all firearms, and the musket must use flintlock guns, preferably rifled flintlock guns. By the way, the bullets must also use special cork bullets!

With this set of winning tactics, the unification of the world is just around the corner!
Chen Yonghua, who had finally realized the seventeenth-century "Winning Art of War", suddenly felt enlightened, and loudly ordered Wang An beside him: "Wang Canjun, send someone to tell the general that Geng Jingzhong's soldiers and horses are unbearable." With one strike, he is asked to advance quickly and defeat Geng Jingzhong's Chinese phalanx in one fell swoop!"

"Order!"

"General, Wang An's two battalions have already suppressed the Jing Army's left flank, and also defeated a side attack of the Jing Army's cavalry. Concentrate your forces and attack Geng Jingzhong's Chinese phalanx, and you will surely win quickly!"

Li Zhongshan nodded. He has always been very confident in the fighting power of the Model Town. After all, the equipment and tactics of the Model Town are of a super high level in the [-]th century!However, the super high level in theory also needs to be tested in actual combat!

And today's battle is to use Geng Jingzhong to train Mo Fan Town. If Mo Fan Town performs well, then the Ming Army will have a direction for the next military reform. Now the military handicraft industry in Foshan is rubbing flintlocks and rifles. The production capacity has gradually increased, which is enough to support Daming to build more model towns.

In fact, the cost of building Model Town was not high—a flintlock gun, even if it was a rifled flintlock gun, was still cheap compared to the equipment of an armored warrior.

Moreover, the training of fusiliers is very easy. If you are sloppy, you can become an elite soldier in six months.This type of arms is a perfect match for the Ming Republic!
Wasn’t the modern republic system of Westerners established in the age of queuing and shooting?If knights in full armor still dominate the battlefield, why should the common people republic?Be a serf honestly!
Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan said to Li Zhongxian: "Zhongxian, let's concentrate our troops to the front of Geng Jingzhong's central army now. Except for the two battalions that attacked the Zeng Yangxing formation from the left wing, the other three formations of the Jing army have a battalion to contain them. Geng Jingzhong's Central Army formation arranged for five battalions to attack! Two battalions served as reserves.

In addition, the Zhongzheng cavalry was also transferred up, and let them line up behind the second battalion of our left wing to intimidate the enemy's right wing.When Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army is defeated, immediately engage in pursuit operations! "

"Yes!"

When Li Zhongshan was about to launch a fierce attack on Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army, the founding emperor of the Dajing Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse because of the death of his father-in-law Lao Taishan Yue Le!

The enemy obviously only has more than 2000 people, they obviously don't even have armor, they only have muskets but no spears, no matter how you look at it, they are all morons, but they are really too strong to fight!Zeng Yangxing on the left wing can be regarded as a mighty general, and the more than ten thousand soldiers under him are considered elite in Dajing, second only to the army directly led by Geng Jingzhong.However, these more than [-] people were crushed and beaten by less than [-] people under the personal command of Chen Yonghua, and they were seriously injured. They sent people to Geng Jingzhong for help!
What surprised Geng Jingzhong even more was that his father-in-law Lao Taishan Yue Le personally led eight or nine hundred cavalry to charge Chen Yonghua's left flank with eight or nine hundred cavalry and eight or nine hundred infantry. "Three-character thin line array" to fight, but in the end, with precise and intensive firepower, almost all the [-] Manchu cavalry led by Yue Le who rushed to the front were killed, and even Yue Le himself didn't come back?I don't know if I went down to see Abate?
And those Han Chinese cavalry who followed Yue Le didn't even have the courage to give away their heads, they were all scared away!
Waiting for these cowards to return to the front, why not add salt and vinegar to Yue Le's death in battle and the Ming army's strong firepower?At that time, the military will not be shaken?

When Geng Jingzhong himself was greatly shaken, someone suddenly shouted in a crying voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something is wrong, and the Ming army is coming to our side!"

What?Are they all coming to me?
Geng Jingzhong hurriedly raised his head and looked forward, his heart went cold.At some point in front of him, four or five thousand Ming army infantry had gathered!All of them carried bayonet-mounted flintlock guns and swaggered forward!

He hadn't recovered from the panic on his side, and someone shouted again: "Cavalry! Cavalry! The cavalry of the Ming army is here!"

Did the Ming army have cavalry?
Geng Jingzhong hurriedly raised his binoculars to look ahead, and soon found hundreds of "bright and blind" "Silver Armored Cavalry"!All of them were wearing polished iron armor, which shone silver under the sun, and each cavalry was carrying a ridiculously slender bamboo spear. The tip of the bamboo spear was made of fine iron, which also shone under the sun. With a frightening cold light!
I will be hunted down by such cavalry later?If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't be the unlucky emperor!Geng Jingzhong really wants to cry but has no tears!

"Your Majesty, quickly order the entire army to attack!"

At this time, Yu Renying, Geng Jingzhong's first assistant university scholar, suddenly came up to offer advice.

"Yu Renying, it's all your fault!" Geng Jingzhong suddenly turned his head and shouted angrily, "If I hadn't been the unlucky emperor, how could I have ended up like this?"

Yu Renying quickly explained: "Your Majesty, this is fate! You are the emperor's fate. If you don't become the emperor, you will change your fate against the sky, and you will definitely not end well!"

"I am now..." Geng Jingzhong is impatient, can he end well now?
"Your Majesty, don't worry!" This Yu Dashi was quite calm, "You listen to my analysis, now we just encountered the strongest soldiers of the Ming army, and we are a little bit overwhelmed."

"Isn't that urgent?" Geng Jingzhong glared at him fiercely, "Is there anything more urgent than this?"

"Yes!" Yu Renying nodded, "I speculate that with such an elite Ming army, they will definitely not divide their troops to take the defensive position, but will probably divide their troops into several groups to copy our rear!"

"Also, do you still want to copy my back?" Geng Jingzhong's face was ashen, "Then Jiande?"

"Your Majesty, don't think about what will happen to Jiande, there are more urgent things!"

"More urgent? What you said is" Geng Jingzhong's face was about to turn black.

"Liu Jinzhong!" Yu Renying said, "Liu Jinzhong betrayed us once before, if he knew that Daming had such a strong army, do you think he would?"

"Ah!" Geng Jingzhong's eyes darkened, and he almost fell out of his eyes.

Yu Renying said anxiously and quickly: "The emperor Liu Jinzhong has an army of [-]! If he takes advantage of the fierce battle between us and the Ming army to march towards Hangzhou, then we will have no way out!"

It's over!

Dajing is really about to perish!

Geng Jingzhong was trembling all over, "What should I do? What should I do?"

Yu Renying said: "There is no other way, but while everyone still has a little morale, launch a wave of counterattacks and put all our strength into it. If we can force the Ming army back a little, we can leave the battlefield and stay With the green hills here, don’t be afraid of running out of firewood!”

Evacuation sounds like a good idea!

Geng Jingzhong looked at Yu Renying: "Is there any place we can retreat?"

"Yes, yes." Yu Renying nodded and said, "We can retreat to Ningbo. Li Daoshi is the Minister of Commerce in Ningbo, and he still has some navy and army divisions in his hand. We can go to each other! Then we can find a way out! "

"A way out? Is there a way out?"

"Yes!" Yu Renying said, "I heard from Daoist Li that there is an island several hundred miles away from Ningbo, and the king's surname is Shang. The monks are probably of the same clan, and we happened to go to the same place."

Go to an overseas island country?

Geng Jingzhong thought for a while, and said to himself: It's better than being captured and executed by Ling Chi by Chen Yonghua!
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and gave a loud order: "Beat the drums! Enter the army, raise the Qinglong banner. Then pass the order to each formation, and now start the general attack! Tell the commanders of the towns that Dajing will rise and fall, and here is a blow. The whole army moves forward without hesitation!"

"Yes!"

A group of Geng Jingzhong's personal soldiers were still willing to die to protect him at this time. After agreeing loudly, they got on the horses one after another and conveyed Geng Jingzhong's order to the various formations below.

At the same time, a huge green dragon flag was also raised.According to the previous agreement, as soon as this flag is raised, the Jing army of each formation will launch a general attack!

And bursts of drums began to sound from Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army formation!It has been spread to the ears of Li Zhongshan, who is going forward and preparing to launch a general attack on Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army.

He immediately understood Geng Jingzhong's thoughts, so he said to the left and right: "Geng Jingzhong is going to do his best, and he's kind of good. This general wants him to die! Now, raise the general's flag!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)