Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 181 The Death of Daishan
Just when Daishan and his subordinate Niu Luerzhen made fun of the Ming army.

Mang Gurtai from the Zhenglan Banner and Amin from the Xianglan Banner also appeared in sight.

Dai Shan first wondered if the Ming army is so small, does it still need soldiers and horses from the four banners to go together?Then I felt that these two flags were here to pick up cheap, to grab his spoils.

I took another look at the thin military formation of the Ming army. There were no cannons, trenches, or fences. How could it withstand the elites of the two banners twice their size.

Then he ordered the attack without hesitation, preparing to let the troops of the two banners rush directly into the gap between the Ming army's phalanx, and let the Ming army have a good taste of their heavy arrows.

The hollow phalanx is the most important formation to deal with the cavalry. It is the most trained formation in the Legislative Army on weekdays. The hollow phalanx formed by brigades is often used to attack each other, so that the soldiers can feel the atmosphere of the cavalry attack in advance.

Facing the attack of the two red flags of Jiannu, the soldiers of the Legislative Army in the phalanx were still chatting in a mood,

A veteran said to the recruit:

"When I finish this battle, I will go home and marry a wife. We have killed so many Tartars today, so it must be a second-class merit, and maybe we can also be a first-class merit.
Thirty acres of land have already been allocated to Lao Tzu for his military exploits, plus the original [-] acres allocated to him, this time, after the battle, he will get exactly [-] acres of land. "

The recruit next to him asked the veteran;
"Did the governor really give the land?"

The veteran laughed and said:
"The bastard still dares to question the words of the governor. Without the governor, you can eat meat. The governor never pays our military pay. There are extra rewards during the festivals. The land that the governor gave me has already received two crops of grain. ,

The yield of that kind of corn is much higher than that of wheat. As long as you listen to the governor, you are right. The [-] mu of land given by the army has been allocated to you a long time ago, and the canals have been repaired. They are all good water. Water the ground.

Every family in our Yansui town has new words written by the governor. If it weren’t for the fact that I couldn’t read well, I would have already established a disciple of the governor. "

After listening to the veteran's words, the recruit seemed to have more confidence, thinking that he would do more meritorious service and be a landlord.

Just then the battalion commander started shouting:
"Prepare to meet the enemy, everyone hold steady, no fire is allowed without orders."

Because there was no mark set up in advance, Liang Chen could only use his pocket watch to calculate the impact speed of the Jiannu cavalry and how long it would take for them to rush into the army formation, so as to grasp the best time to fire.

At the moment when Jiannu came into range, Chen's rectangular hollow phalanx, facing the two sides of the Tartar cavalry, opened fire first under the command of the bugle.

After the ammunition was fired, the soldiers in the first row immediately squatted down and erected the flintlock guns, forming a bayonet forest.

The soldiers in the second row and the third row continued to load ammunition and prepare for the next round of shooting.

The five cavalry regiments formed a total of fifteen hollow phalanxes, and the distance between the hollow phalanxes was more than 50 meters, leaving enough space for the enemy's cavalry to run.

Fifteen hollow square arrays form a large rectangular square array.

Dai Shan, with his soldiers and horses carrying two red flags, was 100 meters away from the phalanx when he saw the white smoke coming from the firecrackers of the Ming army phalanx.

He Daishan thought to himself, the Ming army still hasn't changed!If you start firing at such a distance, who can you hit?

Then I felt that the soldiers around me seemed to have dropped their horses, and I looked back.

Not only his pro-army, a large number of the most elite white armor soldiers who were originally on the front line were knocked down.

At this time, Shancai understood why the Ming army dared to fire from such a distance. It turned out that their firecrackers could hit farther than the Lumi blunderbuss of the Liaodong Ming army.

The original tactics of the Eight Banners were to shoot arrows directly at the face of the Ming army with heavy bows and heavy arrows at a distance of 20 to 30 meters from the Ming army. Destroy the Ming army phalanx.

The Ming army would only be chased and killed by the cavalry if they turned around and fled. If they didn't run, they would have to face the heavy bow of the Eight Banners and shoot straight at the facade.

Even in dismounted battles, the Eight Banners used heavy bows at a distance of 20 to 30 meters to attack the face of the Ming army. In the past, this set of tactics was invincible against the Ming army.

The distance of 100 meters was fleeting when riding on a horse. A row of firecrackers directly hit Jiannu, who was blinded by two red flags. dense.

However, it still caused hundreds of casualties to the Legislative Army. This is the most serious casualty suffered by the Legislative Army since the start of the war today.

The wounded soldiers were immediately dragged away, and the soldiers in the back row stepped forward to block the gap. Everything had been trained countless times. They had no fear at this moment, and could only accept orders instinctively.

After Daishan shot an arrow, he rushed in directly along the gap in the phalanx. After entering, he felt the power of the phalanx, and was immediately attacked by the phalanx on the left and right, and more Tartars were shot down by the horses.

The slave cavalry who rushed into the phalanx could only continue to advance along the gap between the phalanxes. The gap between the phalanxes scattered the slave cavalry. The horses instinctively avoided the forest of bayonets and did not dare to get too close to the phalanx .

Facing attacks from all directions, the Jiannu cavalry didn't care about archery and only wanted to rush out of the phalanx.

There were also some Jiannu who rushed into the phalanx thinking about their bravery after being shot down from their horses. Unfortunately, they were facing the dismounted cavalry of the Legislative Army. Each cavalry was equipped with two short guns.

Some officers even bought four of them themselves. Now they are holding short guns, and they are looking for these fallen slave cavalry to fight. No matter how thick your armor is, you can't stop the short-range bombardment of short guns.

After the first round of shooting, all the phalanx except the soldiers in the first row entered a state of free fire.

Just like shooting a target, facing these slave cavalry in the phalanx, the soldiers kept reloading and reloading the flintlocks in their hands relying on the instincts trained by machinery.

Shooting, aiming, loading, a Jiannu cavalryman fell off his horse, maybe he was still wondering why these Ming soldiers didn't run, the Ming soldiers used to leave their backs to them.

The [-] slave cavalry of the two red flags, less than half of the original ones were able to run out of the phalanx intact. This is because the strength of the Legislative Army is a bit small. If the strength is doubled, most of the slaves will not be able to Live out of the phalanx.

Daishan, the banner owner of Zhenghongqi, had already died in the phalanx, and Daishan's sons, Yuetuo and Shuotuo, were lucky enough to survive.

Mang Gurtai and A Min, who were watching the battle from a distance, saw Dai Shan rushing towards the Ming army without waiting for them at the beginning.

It's a pity that I lost a large amount of spoils, and then I saw the two red flags rushing into the Ming army's formation. In the white smoke constantly rising from the Ming army's phalanx, they fell off the horses, and even the military flags fell down.

(End of this chapter)