A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 68 Battle
Seeing the situation in Wang Dou's team, Xu Zucheng was also quite surprised. He stared at it for a long time, stroked his beard and nodded and said: "This Wang Dou's army is strict and orderly, and he is a talented person!"

His relative Yang Dongmin said with a smile: "Then Wang Doumi met in Zhoucheng, and he is indeed capable!"

Lin Daofu next to Yang Dongmin remained calm, only Zhang Gui was quite complacent, after all this Wang Dou was a soldier from his Dongjiazhuang, Xu Zucheng praised Wang Dou, and his face was also bright.

Only Yang Zhichang, the defense officer of the Five Forts, looked at Wang Dou with a gloomy face. He also knew about the conflict between Wang Dou's Jingbian Fort and Luanzhuang Fort under his command. adults value him...

At this time there was already movement from the bandit camp, they came out of the camp to line up earlier, now the noise got louder, they were already coming here in a dense mass.

Xu Zucheng sneered and said, "The bandits are finally here!"

He ordered a few times, and immediately the flag officers beside him raised their flags, and everyone echoed. Wang Dou also asked the team to raise his own flag. Seeing the bewildered look of his soldiers on the flag, Wang Dou's heart skipped a beat. , it seems that my next step is to train the command flags of the sergeants.

Right now there are not many sergeants in Jingbian Fort, and all kinds of orders can still be given by the officers. However, with the expansion of the number of his subordinates in the future, the training of the Golden Drum Banner is imperative, and Daming is not his own army. The more chances to cooperate with friendly forces, the less familiar with flag orders, how to communicate with friendly forces?
However, it can be seen that among the more than 1000 officers and soldiers, not many people are familiar with the orders of the flag and drums. After all, they are the Guards Army, and they are neglected to practice on weekdays.As for the servants of the officers, they also pay more attention to personal martial arts, and their knowledge of the banners and drums is also limited.

After another burst of flag raising, the thousand sergeants marched in formation.

It's okay to stand still, but in this formation, apart from Wang Dou's soldiers, the formation of the officers and soldiers became chaotic, especially the ordinary guard soldiers on the two wings.But looking at the rogues on the opposite side, their formation is even more messed up.In contrast, the Guards Army here still looks a bit aggressive.

After marching in formation for a while, both sides slowed down a mile away and slowly formed a team.

Among them, the scouts of both sides traveled around, went to the opponent's formation for reconnaissance, and kept chasing and fighting for a while.

It can be seen that the cavalry on the bandit side are more flexible and sharp. They come in three or five, ten or dozens, and they just spy around the officers and soldiers in waves.On the other hand, the cavalry on the side of the Baoan state government army fell behind.

Wang Dou couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw that there were many cavalry on the bandit side, up to hundreds of people, but strictly speaking, there were only dozens of cavalry on the officer's side, and the rest, even if their family had horses, were just infantry on horseback. It must be the opponent of these thieves.

This is the advantage of the cavalry. They move quickly, fight when they can fight, and run when they can't fight. They don't fight with infantry, but only maneuver around the periphery. risk of collapse.

Moreover, these cavalry are the best of the bandits. Even if their infantry are wiped out, after these people escape, they can make a comeback at any time and easily gather thousands of troops.

Seeing these rogue cavalry come to spy in waves, many officers and soldiers in the formation are full of fear, and some even move their feet, wanting to escape.

Seeing this, Xu Zucheng was furious, and some servants and patrol flags beside him came out, beheaded several people immediately, and showed it to the public.Some people who behaved in a panic also cut off their ears, and there was a burst of screams immediately.

Seeing this, the faces of all the soldiers were pale, and everyone stood upright, so the morale of the soldiers was more stable.The sergeants whose ears had been cut off were all ashen-faced. According to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, even if they were not beheaded on the spot, they would be beheaded after the battle. They were dead, unless they could immediately Under the military merit.

Wang Dou also sighed, the laws in the Ming army have always been cruel, cutting off ears and beheading is a common practice, but fortunately the sergeants in his team have always kept standing, which comforted him.

In fact, it is common to panic before battle. Grandpa Qi considered the cruelty of the battlefield and believed that if a soldier can use one-tenth of the martial arts he usually learns in combat, he can win in combat.Using one-fifth, you can fight five with one.If you use half of it, you can be invincible vertically and horizontally.

Sergeants of Jingbian Fort can still keep calm when facing the enemy. In addition to the usual strict training, there is iron-like discipline and unique laws and regulations. Although Wang Dou rarely beheads when facing the enemy, he has more severe punishment. Fleeing on the battlefield, and expelling his whole family from Jingbian Fort afterwards, it is tantamount to killing the whole family by one person, which makes everyone awe-inspiring.

After beheading a few people, Xu Zucheng's complexion was not very good. He said: "There are many bandits and cavalry, and the officers and soldiers have many steps and few horses. Even if they are defeated, it may be difficult to chase."

The few people who were beheaded before were the soldiers of the guards in Shunxiang Fort and Five Forts, which made Lin Daofu, Zhang Gui, and Yang Zhichang feel ashamed. I'm afraid that after they escape, they will make a comeback again and cause even more harm!"

Xu Zucheng just nodded heavily.

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After the formation of the team, the two sides slowly approached again, making the atmosphere even more tense.

At about 150 paces, both sides stopped. Seeing that the rogues seemed to be coming out in droves, there seemed to be two or three thousand people, but they still gathered together in a mess without the slightest formation.Only those rogue cavalry looked very threatening. They were in groups of three or four, and they were just stalking around the periphery.

Then there was loud shouting and shouting, and about 200 people came out of the formation, holding swords and shields, and slowly approaching here.It turned out that they underestimated the officers and soldiers of Baoan Prefecture and launched a rush attack in advance, but they were poorly equipped, most of them wore simple leather armor and cloth armor, and only a small number of them wore iron armor.

Seeing this, Xu Zucheng's face turned green, and he just waved the flag and ordered to fight.

In this tri-fold formation, there are about 200 soldiers on the outpost, among which Xu Zucheng's servants have 70 people, and each team has seven columns of ten people, and each team has several three-eyed musketeers and archers.They are in the middle.

On their right side are Wang Dou's five soldiers, which are also arranged in several horizontal columns, and each row is spread out horizontally with the three talents in the mandarin duck formation.On the left side, there are dozens of people composed of servants from various castles, also arranged in several columns.

Under the orders of the officers, all the archers and gunmen in the outpost array came out.

The several teams of soldiers and soldiers in Jingbian Fort are all named after A, B, C, D, E, Ji, and Geng.Several teams of warriors are called Warrior A Team, Warrior B Team, and Warrior C Team.The soldiers are called the first team of the soldiers, the second team of the soldiers, etc.

At this time, the five teams of soldiers A, B, C, D, and E of Jingbian Fort participated in the battle. The officers of each team were Zhong Tiaoyang, Han Zhong, Gao Shiyin, and Yang Tong. The Han Dynasty is also the leader today. A team of soldiers fight.As for Qi Tianliang, he led the soldiers and medical officers, and was in the position of the central army.

At this time, several officers were all wearing iron armor, but standing beside their own team holding weapons.

Under Wang Dou's order, twenty blunderbuss soldiers from the five teams came out, none of them wore armor, but only ten people in a row, standing in two rows in front of the team.The blunderbuss in their hands had already been loaded with one round of fixed paper tube ammunition. At this time, they installed the matchlock in one sound and lit the matchlock in their hands.

Then the bird guns in the front row aimed at the death squads who were slowly approaching. Everyone's eyes were full of hatred. Since the rogues came in large numbers in early September, considering the insecurity of the livestock farm outside the fort, Wang Dou had no choice but to All the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the livestock farm were moved to the fort to be reared, making the tidy Jingbian Fort a garbage dump.

In particular, those buildings outside the fort suffered even more. The thieves burned all the fire, even the Lanzhou water truck was demolished and smashed, and the seedlings in the fields were ruined a lot. These things are the painstaking efforts of the military households in the fort, and they are eagerly destroyed by the thieves, how can everyone not feel sad?

At this time, everyone was furious, and they vented their anger on the rogues in front of them, and everyone planned to kill these damned rogues later.

Seeing the blunderbuss soldiers from Jingbian Fort come out, Xu Zucheng's servants and the servants of other forts next to him all showed mocking expressions, thinking that these peasant households in Jingbian Fort want to seek death, so they don't need to look for such a horrible As for the way of death, the chief flags of several servants shook their heads repeatedly.

The firearms in the late Ming Dynasty were poorly made, especially the blunderbuss. Due to the lack of materials by the Shangguan and the carelessness of the craftsmen, the thickness of the barrel of the blunderbuss was uneven, and the width of the bore was different. Said, especially prone to bombing, self-inflicted shooter.

Moreover, when their guns shoot, because the breech is not tightly sealed, it is easy to leak gunpowder gas, and sparks splash on the hands and faces, causing damage.

As a result, the Ming army in Bianzhen was generally unwilling to use bird guns. At this time, dozens of outpost officers and soldiers who came out at the same time as Jingbianbao bird gun soldiers were all archers and three-eyed gunners. Guns, flying swords and other bazookas, not a single bird musketeer.

Moreover, these people also consciously kept their bodies away from the Jingbianbao blunderbuss soldiers, fearing that their blunderbusses would explode later and hurt themselves.

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Of course, Wang Dou was not interested in paying attention to the eyes of these people. He just stared at the more than 200 bandits approaching ahead, while listening carefully to the orders of the Central Military Department.

The enemy entered the hundred paces, but the Chinese army headquarters still had no movement, eighty paces, no movement, seventy paces, no movement, obviously Xu Zucheng and others didn't know that the range of Jingbianbao's bird guns was so powerful.

At sixty paces, the bandit death squads shouted, red-eyed, and rushed forward with swords and guns, and the formation of officers and soldiers was in a commotion.

At fifty paces, a long swan sound sounded from the Central Military Headquarters. Wang Dou pointed forward with his long sword and shouted, "Shoot!"

Birds and guns blared together, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and screams of surprise came.

"shooting!"

"shooting!"

"shooting!"

The two rows of bird gunmen moved forward and backward in turn, reloading and shooting, shooting and reloading, and their fixed paper tube ammunition was reloaded extremely fast, maintaining the continuity of firepower.

"shooting!"

There was a lot of fire and smoke, and there was another scream.

(End of this chapter)