Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

On August [-]th in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Huang County officially kicked off.

Strictly speaking, the Battle of Huang County started before dawn.With the help of a large group of civilians, the artillery team of the Ming army left the Ming army camp under the cover of a group of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion and a group of cavalry.Artillery should be erected about two miles away from Huangxian County and about one and a half miles away from the fortifications set up by the rebels outside Huangxian County.

Unlike modern artillery, the lethality of modern artillery is mainly reflected in the place where the shell explodes near the impact point of the artillery.In the Ming Dynasty, artillery used solid shells.However, the lethality of this kind of artillery mainly relies on the repeated ejection of solid shells on the ground, like a ping pong ball on the ground, to cause lethality. Therefore, the lethality is reflected in a line.Therefore, we understand that in order to exert the power of this artillery, the artillery must be erected as close to the enemy as possible.

Therefore, if a certain army wants to take the initiative to attack, then its artillery must be set up in the middle and front of its own army, and cannot be set up behind the safer army.

Moreover, we already know that the method of erecting artillery in the Ming Dynasty is also very troublesome, and it usually takes more than half an hour for a well-trained artillery. artillery positions.

In this Huangxian battle, the artillery that could reach a range of more than two miles was divided by Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion, which was more than three pounds of artillery. The Ming army had 34, while the rebels had 29.The difference in the number of artillery pieces between the two sides is not large.But the Ming army gathered its artillery together to shoot intensively, but the rebels wanted to disperse the artillery.Therefore, in a certain area, the artillery power of the Ming army will be far greater than that of the rebels.

But what is a little strange is that the Ming army's coach Zhu Dadian and the supervising army Gao Qiqian did not requisition the ten three-pound artillery pieces of Wu Shigong's Runing Camp to strengthen the Ming army's artillery team.

But this reason is: on the one hand, they may not know that the Runing Battalion has such artillery; on the other hand: unless the relationship is particularly good.Or it was really a matter of life and death, otherwise the various units of the Ming army would not borrow weapons and soldiers from each other.This is true even for direct superiors and subordinates.It can also be seen that Liu Zeqing and the others gathered more than 200 cavalry to be commanded by Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion, how rare this is!

Therefore, if Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian knew that the Runing Battalion had such artillery, it would be very difficult for them to borrow it, for fear of hurting their face if they refused.Of course, if he asked to borrow money, Wu Shigong would definitely not agree.And this question.It is also a major disadvantage in the Ming army.

The erection of the artillery of the Ming army went quite smoothly. When the sky turned pale, the soldiers of the Ming army left the camp after breakfast, deployed behind the artillery positions, and began to form formations.The artillery of the Ming army has already started its first salvo.

This volley was completely unexpected by the rebels, but the rebels also responded quickly.After a while of confusion.They sent a team of more than 300 cavalry to the artillery positions of the Ming army to clear the artillery that was a great threat to the rebels.The main force of the rebel army, more than 1000 people, also under Kong Youde's order, went out of the camp and began to form a battle formation.

Seeing that the rebels sent cavalry, the Ming army immediately dispatched a cavalry of more than 500 people.The battle between the two sides began with the battle between the two rangers.

In fact, in a large-scale battle between two large forces.This kind of battle between rangers at the beginning is not particularly important to the outcome, so in the last battle of Shahe, this kind of battle between rangers did not happen at all.

In addition to improving the morale of their respective troops, the battle between rangers.The main function is: harassment and anti-harassment; affecting the smooth formation of the enemy and protecting one's own formation.That is to say, it plays the role of flies and fly swatters.

But the battle between rangers has always been quite good.For example, in Romance, each of them rushes out of a general to fight against [-] rendezvous and so on, and the cavalry who can be used as rangers are always the cavalry with higher personal combat skills in the two armies, and they are in front of tens of thousands of people. Underneath, it shows personal bravery, which can arouse the personal heroism of those rangers.Therefore, this small-scale ranger battle was particularly fierce.

One-on-one, several-on-one, several-on-several... Anyway, both sides have fully demonstrated their small-scale cavalry combat skills.However, this kind of battle does not affect the overall situation. Seeing that it is impossible to clear the artillery of the Ming army, in order to preserve their cavalry strength in today's battle, the rangers of the rebel army dropped 100 soldiers under the order of their captain. After many corpses, they retreated voluntarily.

The Ming army also killed and injured nearly a hundred people in this short ranger battle.However, since the rangers of the Ming army finally controlled the battlefield, the soldiers of the Ming army gave deafening cheers for the victory in front of them.

After excitedly waving in the direction of the Ming army, the rangers of the Ming army also packed up the corpses of their comrades and the unowned horses on the battlefield, and returned to their formation amidst cheers.In the first battle, the Ming army won a small victory.

In fact, the battle between rangers is very similar to a strangling battle between spies.The duration is short, but the damage rate of both sides is quite high.

At this time, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qi dived into the watchtower that had been built long ago, and they were going to observe the situation and command the battle from the watchtower.The soldiers of the Ming army who came out of the camp were basically fully deployed at this time, and they lined up for battle.

But the watchtower in the Ming army is not only the one in the Chinese army.After seeing the craftsmen of the Ming army building a watchtower for their coach yesterday, Wu Shigong and the others, who are the general reserve team, also asked the craftsmen in their battalion to build one.And now, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing are also working as battlefield observers on the watchtower.

Seeing that Liu Zeqing still had a gloomy face, he was not happy that he was squeezed out and did not grab the starting position.Wu Shigong smiled and comforted him and said: "Brother Hezhou, there is nothing wrong with us not being in the front row. Look at this ranger battle, there are so many casualties. If we are in the front row today, let our cavalry participate in such a battle , we are going to cry to death."

"Actually, I see that the morale of the rebels is not bad today. At least they didn't hide behind the trenches and earth walls they dug and dared to confront us head-on. This shows that they must still have a few tricks behind them. You know, After the traitors rebelled, they have won consecutive victories until now. They are not impulsive young men. Since they dare to fight us like this, there are always some tricks in their hands."

"So I reckon that the battle at the beginning of today is not necessarily easy to fight, and the casualties may also be heavy. Let those fools who fought with us yesterday gnaw hard bones. We will fight again when the battlefield is stalemate. We can preserve our strength and take advantage of it.”

"What if today's battle is ruined? Don't we get nothing?" Liu Zeqing was still confused.

Wu Shigong shook his head, and continued: "If that happens, it will be our end now. Anyway, I can see that our coalition army is just a bastard. We have to fight this tough battle. We basically can’t get this cheap.”

"I can only think about the good side! In fact, as military officers, our military achievements are not important, and money is not important. As long as we have soldiers and strength, we will not come to you for military achievements and silver. Huh? And our official title and strength are too small, so we will inevitably suffer some losses now."

Then Wu Shigong pointed to the Qiu Lei troops in the central army and the Liaodong army on the right wing and said: "We are not like them. If there is any loss, the imperial court will make up for them. And if we lose our own strength, it is very likely that we will lose our strength." There will be a catastrophe, and even our official positions may be lost."

"Let me tell you something from my heart. My little brother is preparing for it. After returning to Runing this time, my little brother's Runing camp will try to stay in the local area to recuperate and recuperate. If he has enough strength, he will be able to speak louder in the future."

Liu Zeqing pondered thoughtfully for a while, then sighed and said: "My brother's words are indeed wise and famous. This time, when I return to Caozhou, I will also follow the method I just said. Whoever transfers my soldiers, I will He just doesn't go out." At the end of the speech, Liu Zeqing's expression was already gnashing his teeth.

Wu Shigong felt a little funny when he saw Liu Zeqing's expression.He continued with a smile, "Don't be so pessimistic. In today's battle, we don't have no chance. Not much to say, you see that the traitor army has already lined up and pressed forward. Let's take a good look. Now just wait for something unexpected to happen."

"To be honest, I'm a little unconvinced, little brother. Just wait for those bastards in front to make some mistakes and let our coalition forces explode their asses."

"Chrysanthemum explosion? What do you mean by this sentence?" Liu Zeqing immediately became interested in the famous modern Internet quote used by Wu Shigong.

When Wu Shigong told Liu Zeqing the true meaning of "exploding chrysanthemums", both of them laughed.

Liu Zeqing also jokingly said: "I knew I had this taste, I sent you some little boys a few days ago."

"Don't disgust me. The little boy is free, and the little girl is better!"

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Seeing the pressure of the rebel army, the artillery team immediately stopped firing and began to fire the artillery in a hurry to transport it to a safe place.

The Ming army also pushed forward slightly to cover the retreat of the artillery team, and the distance between the two sides soon approached to about one mile.At this time, a cavalry rushed out of the rebel formation, and he shot an arrow from a distance.

A letter was tied to the arrow.Of course it was the letter written by Kong Youde asking for security.But in the Ming army at this time, who would believe that Kong Youde would return?So after Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian roughly scanned the letter to see the content, Zhu Dadian tore up the letter to pieces, and then ordered: "Attack!" (To be continued...)