Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 124 Decisive Battle ([-])

Kong Youde's subordinates were in a mess when they left the camp. Many people began to hustle and bustle because the camp gate was too small and difficult to pass through. Some even wanted to punch each other.

Although Kong Youde's troops are very powerful, their discipline is poor.They fight with weapons, experience, and bravery.

Fortunately, the soldiers and horses of the security regiment were still far away at this time, so Kong Youde's troops calmly came to set up a formation one mile away from the camp, and began to wait for the arrival of the enemy.

The creaking sound was getting closer and closer. It was a series of artillery being pushed to the front of the formation.The gunners hurriedly began to fill the sub-guns of the Franc machine gun with ammunition, and prepared to put them into the female guns in turn to fire. They fixed the tiger squatting guns with big nails and iron trippers, and placed gunpowder, lead and stones beside them.

After the artillery, there are gunfire soldiers and archers, and then there are long-distance soldiers and sword and shield soldiers, and the cavalry is pressing the two wings of the front.Kong Youde sits in the center of the army, surrounded by personal soldiers and supervising troops.

"My lord has an order, one person who kills a bandit will be rewarded with ten liang of silver!" Several soldiers with big throats began to shout and spread Kong Youde's order.

"Thank you, my lord, for the reward!"

"Thank you, my lord, for the reward!"

"Thank you, my lord, for the reward!"

Under the leadership of officers at all levels, the soldiers shouted one after another, and their morale reached a peak.

At this time, the reinforcements from the security regiment had approached less than a mile away.

At this time, Sun Zhi had a headache. At this time, the Tartars had already left the camp. Should they wait for the Tartars to attack or rush over?The enemy has more than a dozen cannons, if they wait for the Tartars to attack, I am afraid that the Tartars don't need to engage with their swords, they can just approach and use the artillery to blow up their own side.But if they rushed over, the next distance would be a life-and-death road, and countless people would fall under the triple blow of artillery, firecrackers, bows and arrows.

In fact, what Sun Zhi didn't know was that even though Kong Youde's Fran cannon was a small cannon weighing more than 150 kilograms, it still had a range of more than a hundred feet. At this time, the troops of the security regiment were already under the firepower of the Tartars.It's just that this is already the maximum range of the small Fran's machine gun. If it attacks, the shell may miss, and the range of the tiger squatting gun is less than [-] feet. Therefore, in order to maximize the results of the bombardment, Kong Youde did not launch the bombardment.

What Chen Chen and Li Taiping meant was that even if it was a field battle, the security regiment had better take a defensive position. After all, almost all of the 2000 regiments were infantry, and there were less than [-] cavalry.But the Tartars have more than [-] cavalry, which is a decisive force.When attacking, if the formation moves, it is easy for the Tartar cavalry to take advantage of it.

But Sun Zhi didn't think so. The Tartars had artillery, but he didn't.If the Tartars tripped up the cannon nails and pushed them to the front of their own formation, as long as they fired a few cannonballs, then their side would really be defeated.Rather than being so aggrieved by failure, it is better to survive from death and fight to the death.

Moreover, Sun Zhi also hoped that the head of the regiment could lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to attack the Tartars from the rear when he was fighting the Tartars, so that the Tartars who were attacked by the enemy would be quickly defeated.

Therefore, Sun Zhi decided to send troops to attack.Because of Chen Chen and Li Taiping's opposition, Sun Zhi ordered Wang Debin to lead the charge with 5000 troops from the Second Battalion, and let Chen Chen and Li Taiping's men follow behind.In this way, Chen Chen and Li Taiping gave up.

The drums were pounding, and the troupe members chanted slogans as they walked.

"install!"

"install!"

"install!"

The members of the Second Battalion, wearing wooden shields covered with wet quilts, walked towards the Tartars step by step in a neat formation.Although the second battalion has cavalry and musketeers, most of them are pikemen, so they cannot charge as quickly as the sword and shield soldiers.The pikemen have almost no combat effectiveness when they are out of the formation.The security regiment didn't have a strong military industry, and they could pull as many people as they had with as many weapons as they had, so the pikemen only had a long gun, and they didn't have sabers or anything.

When Kong Youde saw the bandits walking towards him in an array, the uniform formation made him a little dazzled.Let him know that he can walk so beautifully. The only regret is that the uniforms are complicated, which destroys this beauty.

However, Kong Youde is worthy of being a veteran who has fought in the battlefield for decades, but he came to his senses in an instant, and soon discovered the weakness of the bandits.Bandits have single weapons, rigid tactics, and lack of long-range weapons.The best way to fight against them is to annihilate the bandits out of the attack distance of their spears.

So, as the security regiment approached step by step, Kong Youde's Franco cannon fired, and the sub-guns loaded with ammunition were loaded into the mother guns one by one in turn.Shot after shot shot from the gaps in the wooden shield into the battle formation of the security regiment, splashing out bloody flowers.Fortunately, most of the cannonballs were blocked by the wooden shield, but the kinetic energy of the cannonballs was so great that the regiments behind the shield felt their stomachs churning, and a mouthful of blood spewed out.As a result, the regiment holding the shield was constantly replaced.

After walking thirty feet, some wooden shields were so shaken that they cracked.So, Wang Debin ordered to put on a spare shield and move on.After another thirty feet, Kong Youde's tiger squatting gun opened fire.The continuous projectiles hit the wooden shields with bangs, and some wooden shields were directly shattered.The regiment who lost the shield cover was directly exposed to the enemy's artillery fire, and there were hundreds of casualties in an instant, and the array was stopped.At this time, Wang Debin's troops were still ninety feet away from Kong Youde's main formation.

The situation is extremely unfavorable for the security regiment reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)