The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 476 The Attacking Sniper
"The captives have too many chariots," Zhu Lin said, "We must concentrate our artillery to break up the formation of the enemy's main infantry as soon as possible."

This is the first time the Dragon Guard Army has encountered such a large-scale battle on the plain terrain since its inception.Because the front lines of both the enemy and the enemy are extremely long, far beyond the range of the cannons, the artillery battalion can no longer choose a position like before, and just fire around.

At present, the artillery of the Ming army must move back and forth along the entire front to ensure that the firepower reaches every part of the battlefield, so as to destroy Jianlu's massive chariots to the maximum extent.

However, if the artillery battalion is used to suppress the firepower of the Jianlu cannons, a large number of Jianlu infantry will inevitably escape the artillery fire, and will soon approach the Ming army infantry under the cover of the chariot to form a confrontation.Although the infantry line of the Ming army did not hesitate to engage the enemy at close range, the casualties would have been very serious.

Zhang Jiayu looked up and glanced at the endless group of Jianlu chariots, knowing that the assistant king was right, but then there was a loud noise from Jianlu cannons, which made him anxiously said: "My lord, it's so convenient The only option is to attack the enemy artillery with cavalry."

While he was speaking, Zhu Linmi was using a telescope to observe the cannons on Jianlu's right wing, and saw thousands of cavalry in the same blue cotton armor forming an "L" formation, step by step, protecting a large number of cannons in the middle.

In this situation, if a cavalry force is used to charge forward, it will collide head-on with the captive cavalry, and the loss of the cavalry will certainly not be small.

This was the most difficult time that Zhu Linmi had felt since leading the Dragon Guard Army for so long.He frowned again and shook his head. In this battle, Leket brought a lot of heavy artillery, but the terrain, fighter planes, and enemy tactics were all against him. Could it be that he had to pay a huge price to get rid of Jianlu's heavy artillery?
"General, there are a large number of enemy cavalry gathered on the right wing of the captive formation. If the cavalry attack directly, I am afraid it will be greatly damaged." Suddenly, a young officer standing behind Zhang Jiayu cupped his hands and said, "From the subordinate's point of view, we can use the cavalry first." A team of hussars led the Jiannu cavalry away, and another team took the opportunity to attack the enemy artillery formation."

Zhang Jiayu immediately shook his head, "No, the Jianlu infantry of the brigade is next to it, and when you turn around, you can surround and kill those who rush into its artillery formation..."

"Wait," Zhu Linmi was reminded by the young officer's words, and immediately turned her head and said, "This method is feasible! But it needs a little change." Then she gave Zhang Jiayu another order.

After the latter delivered the military order and returned, Zhu Linmi pointed to the young officer and asked him, "Who is this, why is he so unfamiliar?"

"My lord," Zhang Jiayu said hastily, "he was recommended by Xuanqing to his subordinates. He is currently an alternate staff governor, and his name is Mu Yun."

Zhu Linmei nodded in relief, "Well, he's quite active, that's right. Let's remove the word 'alternate' from him."

"Yes."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cavalry of the Ming army, which had already been prepared for battle, led by Zhao Shichao and Ma Wenhu each with 500 men, circled out from behind the infantry line, formed a wedge formation, and went straight to the right flank of the Qing army.And another [-] or so inconspicuous infantry also got on their horses and followed them two or three hundred paces away, and rushed out together.

The distance of less than one and a half miles is almost a blink of an eye for the cavalry.The Jianlu artillery had no time to turn their muzzles in a hurry, and saw more than 3000 hussars rushing forward.

Chen Tai didn't expect that the Ming army would come up suddenly and desperately, and hurriedly ordered his troops to meet the enemy with brave cavalry.In an instant, nearly [-] cavalry from both sides attacked and killed each other on the flat grass. The sound of horseshoes was like a turbulent wave hitting the shore, causing the ground to tremble violently.

Then the cavalry on both sides took out their bows and arrows and the short-wheeled blunderbuss, and kept shooting at each other.Although the Ming army was relatively small in number, they still had the upper hand when they fought each other with firecrackers, bows and arrows.

Chen Tai predicted that the Ming army's cavalry would go straight into his own artillery formation and was about to order to short-circuit the enemy with sabers, but he saw the Ming army turning their horses' heads and flying past him on his right.

not good!The southerners are going to bypass themselves and turn back from the side and back to attack the artillery formation!Chen Tai was startled, are they really desperate? !Going around like this, even if they can break up the artillery formation, they will definitely be surrounded by Babutai's infantry.

But he was responsible for covering the right wing, but he couldn't let the Ming army exchange cavalry for their own cannons.

He turned his head and glanced at the other 600 or so Ming army cavalry who had fallen behind. He only regarded them as falling behind and left it to Li Zhongxing's Green Battalion cavalry to deal with.So he quickly ordered his subordinate Xiaoqi to turn their heads and chase after the Ming army cavalry, only waiting for them to turn around and form a stall to charge and kill them!

Li Zhongxing, who was at the back of the artillery formation, saw the "small group of stragglers" of the Ming army, and hurriedly ordered to form a team to meet them.But the southern cavalry under him were not as skilled in battle as Chen Tai's Jianzhou Xiaoqi. The Ming army came suddenly, and it took a while for these people to recover, barely keeping up with the officers and rushing towards hundreds of "enemy cavalry".

Li Zhongxing estimated the speed of the "cavalry squad" of the Ming army, and judged that it should barely be able to stop it before it burst into the artillery formation, but suddenly saw the six hundred or so people reining in and dismounting their horses a hundred steps away from the artillery formation. When the battle was over, they raised their blunderbuss and aimed at the Qing gunners in a "chaos".

No problem!Li Zhongxing thought to himself, in the time it took for his troops to bypass the artillery formation, the southern army would only fire two or three rounds of guns at most, and they would not be able to kill a few gunners.

As if to confirm his idea, the Ming army in front of the artillery formation crackled and fired their guns.However, the effect of this seemingly unmanned, scattered gunshot is extremely amazing-even if nearly [-] Jianlu guns were hit by bullets, they overturned.

There are more than 80 cannons in Luke Dehun's hands, with less than 900 gunners. That is to say, this round of guns has reduced its gunners by more than [-]%!
The operation of the cannon requires the close cooperation of multiple people. If there is no one in any position, the speed of firing the cannon will be greatly affected.When the more than 600 Ming troops began to reload again, the momentum of Jianlu's artillery had weakened by seven or eight points.

Gan Xinda glanced at the captive cavalry who were rushing towards him, estimated the distance enough to lead the team to evacuate, and immediately ordered to continue shooting by himself.

The soldiers of the Hunter Battalion are all sharpshooters selected in a hundred in the Dragon Guard Army, and their reloading speed is also extremely skillful. Less than half a minute later, everyone raised their guns to aim again.

Afterwards, more than 600 Type II Jaeger-guns fired one after another, and the high-speed rotating Minie bullets flew towards the Qing army gunners in a straight trajectory, and then mercilessly tore their bodies apart, sending them a cloud of flying blood. hit the road.

When Li Zhongxing's men arrived three or four hundred steps away from Gan Xinda's troops, the Dragon Guard hunters had each fired their guns three times, and the Jianlu artillery formation became a mess.

Gan Xinda immediately ordered the evacuation.In fact, there was only a few minutes of vacancy before and after the right wing of the Qing army, but they were attacked by the hunting battalion with precision and beheading.Most of the Jianlu gunners were killed or injured, and almost all the cannons were silent.

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