The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 61 Tragedy

Zhang Jiayu led his men and ran for three or four miles, anticipating that the lure of the enemy had gone deep enough, he turned around and ordered his officers to gather the soldiers.

The task of luring the enemy was very dangerous. After he finished counting the number of soldiers in the whole team, there were only [-] soldiers left of the [-] soldiers.

Zhang Jiayu originally planned to let the soldiers return to the camp to recuperate, after all, they have completed the most difficult task.

But before he could give the order, he saw a large group of people rushing towards them shouting "Jianlu is powerful" and "Ming army is defeated".

Zhang Jiayu was extremely suspicious - even if his plan to lure the enemy into an ambush failed, at most he would switch to positional warfare.Even if the Ming army was too weak to fight against the Qing army, it shouldn't be defeated like a landslide in a short while.

He ordered his subordinates not to act rashly, after passing Su Guansheng and Wanji's defeated soldiers, he saw that the pursuers were only more than a hundred people.

The hundred and ten Qing cavalrymen saw a group of troops waiting in front of them, they thought it was the Ming army supporting the troops, and they didn't dare to go forward to fight, so they pulled their horses and turned back.

Zhang Jiayu knew that if the army fled all the way, Jinxi County would definitely be lost.

He immediately ordered the soldiers to pick up the weapons dropped by the defeated army, and then led the army to kill them back. He only reported his intention to delay the Qing army's pursuit to give Wandutang a chance to breathe.

Zhu Linmei called the herald and ordered the Dragon Guards to immediately line up on the Shuangchen River, ready to face the large Qing army.

As for the task of chasing down the enemy's rout, leave it to the dragoon company.To deal with the rout of the army, even if you put a few chickens behind, you can drive them around the world.

The pre-war plan did not take into account that the Qing army would have a large number of reinforcements, so it took a long time after his order was conveyed before the Dragon Guards gathered their formation.

Fortunately, the infantry has been lined up in neat rows, and at this time they only need to change formations and turn.

Gao Jinku rushed to the lower reaches of the Shuangchen River with his troops, but only heard sporadic gunshots. Just wondering, he heard a report from the detective Ma, "General, Feng Guerrilla's troops were defeated by the Ming army, and most of them have fallen into Shuangchen. river."

Gao Jinku's face changed drastically, that was his five thousand descendants!

He hurriedly fetched binoculars to watch, and saw three or four thousand Ming troops in strange clothes forming a long snake formation on the north bank of the Shuangchen River, waiting for them.

In front of the Ming army, his forward troops were thrashing in the Shuangchen River, with about [-]% left.

After Gao Jinku learned that Feng Junrui was in ambush, he desperately drove the soldiers to go to the reinforcements as quickly as possible. Unexpectedly, in just a short time, more than half of his five thousand elites were killed or injured.

"Damn it, Feng Junrui is such a waste!"

He was very clear about the strength of the Jiangxi Ming army. Except for Zhu Youmao and Zhu Youni's thousands of palace guards, most of them were recruits temporarily recruited by Yang Tinglin, lacking training, poor equipment, and low morale.

In several confrontations, the Ming army was defeated after a short fight, but Feng Junrui was beaten like this by the Ming army, how could he not be angry.

In fact, in good conscience, Feng Junrui performed well this time, defeating the ambush troops of the Ming army at one point, if not for the fact that Zhu Linmi's Dragon Guards were too buggy, he would have almost occupied Jinxi City by now.

Gao Jinku saw that nearly 2000 people in his direct army were still alive, so he was anxious to rescue them from the river.

He ordered in a loud voice: "Guerrilla Ningwei, lead the 6000 Chinese army to attack the Ming army head-on. The Ming army's formation is weak, and it should be broken quickly! Even if it cannot be defeated, it must be firmly held back!"

"Follow the order!"

"Guerrilla Liu Bolu, you lead my own soldiers and another [-] cavalry to the right flank of the Ming army. If Ningwei has broken the enemy, he will pursue and cover up the enemy. If he has not broken the enemy, he will attack both sides, and the enemy will be defeated."

"Follow the order!"

"Prince Qian Qichao, lead a thousand crossbowmen to follow Ning Wei and shoot the Ming army!"

"Follow the order!"

Gao Jinku arranged another 800 people along the north side to investigate whether the Ming army was in ambush, and sent more than a thousand soldiers to take advantage of the chaos to fish for people.

After finishing the arrangement, he drew his sword and pointed at the Ming army's position, "March!"

Ning Wei assembled the Qing soldiers and divided the [-] infantry into three teams to form three slender square formations to charge.

There are five rows of rattan players in front of each square, wearing cotton armor, with 40 people in each row.The rest of the musketeers, axemen, and spearmen followed closely behind.

He had seen the horizontal formation of the Ming army just now, it stretched nearly a mile wide, but there were only three rows of soldiers, and all of them were the weakest gun soldiers.

For this kind of formation, as long as the offensive formation is narrowed and the area of ​​​​the frontal shot is reduced, after two or three rounds, at most four rounds of fire, they can rush to the front of the gunmen.

With the top five rows of rattan players defending, the firecrackers should not cause too many casualties.

Once short hand-to-hand combat, killing these gunmen with thousands of knives, axes and spears is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

This time, he has landed a good job, and he can earn a fortune in the military!Ning Wei was very happy in his heart, and when his subordinates finished forming the formation, he immediately drew his sword and ordered, "The whole army goes out!" That posture seemed to be commanding someone to cut off the heads of the Ming army to calculate the military exploits.

In fact, his theory is very correct in this age of matchlock guns.Because the rate of fire and firepower density of the matchlock gun is relatively poor, if the enemy charges desperately, its firepower will be difficult to suppress the opponent, so it is necessary to use cold weapons to cover the Musketeers.

The most typical way is to mix arquebus soldiers and spearmen to form a square formation, move together and support each other.Qi's army's mandarin duck formation, the Spanish square formation, the Swedish square formation and other famous battle formations are all products of this tactic.

However, in the era of flintlock guns, due to the great increase in the attack power of muskets, everyone began to seek to spread firepower on as large an area as possible, and line infantry tactics became the mainstream.If the enemy concentrates on a certain point on the front line, the entire infantry line will form a semi-surrounding situation and quickly defeat it with crossfire.

As a result, Ning Wei, who didn't know what to do, was in tragedy.

Chen Xiongfei saw through the binoculars the three Qing army charging phalanxes that were side by side one mile away, and immediately ordered the artillery to start firing.

Each artillery team is responsible for exactly one artillery, and the tube team is equipped with binoculars.

Soon, a management team estimated the enemy's distance, and said loudly: "670 steps from the enemy's front." Then he called out the shooting parameters according to the gun list that he had memorized countless times, "The elevation angle is three points, the direction is right Dong, the largest charge."

Immediately, a loader stuffed the largest gunpowder pack into the muzzle, and another man then stuffed the iron ball into it.The loader immediately compacted the shells and powder with the ram stick.

Another person measured the elevation angle of the muzzle with a gun gauge, and told the fireman: "Two degrees up." The latter immediately rotated the screw on the tail of the gun, raising the muzzle by two degrees.

Then the lighter pierced the gunpowder bag with a hammer, inserted the ignition tube, "Ready!"

The corners of Chen Xiongfei's mouth curled up slightly, and he ordered: "Let go!"

The herald's small flag was raised, and immediately there were four thunderous roars.Almost at the same time, there were also four loud noises on the right side of the infantry line array.

Eight iron balls weighing about six catties roared and crossed into the charging phalanx of the Qing army, plowing out eight neat ravines in the crowd in an instant, and the forty or fifty Qing soldiers in the front row immediately turned into blood splatters. .

After the iron ball fell to the ground, it bounced twice in succession, breaking the legs of more than a dozen people before finally stopping.

In the Qing army formation, someone reached out and wiped the flesh and blood all over his face. He was stunned for half a second, and suddenly shouted hoarsely: "It's a cannon!"

"Where did the cannon come from?!"

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