Chapter three hundred and twenty first shocking battle
Following Zhu Dadian's order, dozens of warriors beside the commander's flag vigorously beat dozens of war drums. With the "rumbling" of the war drums, the Ming army officially moved forward and began to prepare for the battle.
Qiu Lei's Chinese Army was at the forefront, with General Yang Yufan leading the Ming Army on the left following closely behind. The Liaodong Army on the right was lagging slightly behind. As the main force of today's attack, the Liaodong Army was deeply prepared.
The essence of striking after one's strength!
The Liaodong Army also changed its position from the last battle of Shahe. They placed the infantry formation at the front and the cavalry at the back. This also returned to the conventional tactics in army battles.
Seeing the Ming army's pressure, the rebels pressed forward not to be outdone. As the queues of both sides got closer and closer, the atmosphere on the entire battlefield seemed to be solidifying.
When the leading queues of both sides approached a distance of about a hundred steps, and no one knew who shot the first arrow or fired the first firecracker, the long-range weapons of both sides rushed to open fire.
A large number of arrows were flying, as if they were trying to block the sun, making the soldiers on both sides feel as if they had arrived at the dusk of the end of the world. The sound of firecrackers shooting one after another, just like midnight on New Year's Eve, seemed to usher in the eternity.
The sound of firecrackers ceased.
The firing sound of the gun continued for a long time, which made some coalition military attachés unable to sit still. They jumped off their horses one after another, climbed up to the watchtower, and looked at the battlefield in the distance with Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing.
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"Fuck!" a military attache couldn't help but cursed.
At this time, the entire battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke after the firecrackers were fired, and the entire battlefield was soon shrouded in smoke.
It is not that these military attachés have not experienced battles involving artillery and firecrackers, but this is the first time they have seen the large-scale use of hot weapons. This has changed from a quantitative change to a qualitative change, making these military attachés who are used to seeing cold weapons fighting experience it for the first time.
The horror and power of hot weapon combat also gave them a great shock.
"Fortunately, we didn't become the vanguard again!" A military attache murmured happily. His words also expressed the feelings of these coalition military attachés. In such a firecracker shooting, individual military bravery must be insignificant.
Wu Shigong also looked at the battlefield blankly. But at this time, he could not see clearly what was happening on the battlefield. Wu Shigong did not know that this was what Clausewitz called "the fog on the battlefield" in a narrow sense.
explain.
Wu Shigong's heart was actually bursting with swear words. Everything he saw before him completely jumped out of Wu Shigong's common sense, and it was completely the era of foreign guns and cannons. Wu Shigong suddenly felt a little dazed, and he even wondered whether he had traveled through time again.
On the battlefields of Napoleonic Europe?
Who said that after China invented gunpowder, it could only make firecrackers and not use them in weapons? Who said that ancient Chinese firearms lagged behind those of the West? Who abandoned such sharp firearms, which caused China's decline after the Opium War?
, has fallen into a century-old national humiliation? Wu Shigong can’t wait to travel back to modern times immediately and give those experts who hold these views a few big slaps in the face.
Wu Shigong also had some unreal feelings in his heart. But Wu Shigong was not wrong. What he saw was the war with the highest technological content in the entire world at that time. There was no other war. And it included the entire Western world. And
In the Western world, it was only in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that firearms were used to this extent in warfare.
As for why China lagged so far behind in the use of firearms in the 19th century, the author briefly described the reason in the previous article, but it is not the focus of this article. Therefore, I will not say more.
As for the two sides in the Battle of Laizhou, the Ming Army was dominated by the Liaodong Army and the Jingying Camp. We already know that the Liaodong Army started with Li Chengliang's Liaodong Cavalry, and the iconic weapon of the Liaodong Cavalry was the three-eyed fire blunderbuss. So
How could they not be proficient in the use of firearms?
Among the Beijing camps, the Shenji camp is also dominated by the Shenji camp. The Shenji camp was established since the founding of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang. After nearly three hundred years of exploration and the inheritance of the father's legacy by the officers and soldiers of the Shenji camp, for
The use of firearms can be said to be very handy. Of course, the soldiers in the Beijing camp are pampered because they have been in the capital. Their will to fight is not very high, but how can this army that protects the emperor not have the best equipment? Therefore,
, the Jingying camp can also be called a strong army.
As for Kong Youde's rebels, they were also from Dongjiang Town, Liaodong Province, and they were equipped and trained by firearms expert Sun Yuanhua. Therefore, it can be said that their use of firearms tactics and understanding of firearms are on this battlefield.
Kong Youde had the highest number of rebels.
It can be seen that, except for the Ming armies on the three sides, the strongest armies of the Ming Dynasty at that time had gathered in the Huangxian battle. Although they had not yet created the same tactics as the "Spanish phalanx" like the West, they
Still showed a high level of tactics in the battle.
But we can also see that in the original history, in addition to unexpected surrenders, these elite Ming armies were defeated and defeated by the later Jin army, which mainly used cold weapons. So we must also understand this deeply:
In the battles at that time, it was not only the cavalry but also the cavalry that led to victory in the field battles.
It can be said that with the same level of training, if faced with a Spanish phalanx infantry equipped with muskets and spears in a field battle, the same number of cavalry equipped with cold weapons can completely defeat them.
die.
Therefore, in many literary works, the protagonist who travels to the past only practices formations and makes firearms, but wants to be a "bulldozer" in the late Ming Dynasty? That is completely a dream.
Seeing this kind of war scene, Wu Shigong's dream of firearms that he originally relied on also collapsed. But after a brief absence of concentration, Wu Shigong's bachelor's heart came into play again.
"Since the technological advancement of firearms is not big, then we should make up for it with quantity; since the number of soldiers is too small, then we should try our best to expand it; since the cost of raising soldiers is not enough, then we should squeeze out every penny we have. Anyway, since we have come to this
If you take one step forward, then move forward with a bloody head and fight for a way out at all costs." At this moment, Wu Shigong was determined to turn the Runing Camp into a fully mobilized and combat-ready war machine.
At this time, the battlefield was still shrouded in smoke, and the sound of gunfire was still coming and going. Of course Wu Shigong and the others could not clearly see the situation on the battlefield. They could only hear shouts of killing coming from the battlefield from time to time. It was estimated that the troops on both sides were relying on the smoke.
Take cover and get close to the enemy for melee combat.
Of course, the cavalry delivering the news still shuttled back and forth to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian, passing them news on the battlefield. The troops in the back row of the Ming army were also constantly mobilized, and even the Liaodong Army rushed into the smoke.
, and went into battle.
Suddenly, Liu Zeqing pointed forward and said to Wu Shigong: "These bastards treat us as thieves and guard against us."
Wu Shigong looked in the direction pointed by Liu Zeqing and saw that although all the Ming armies were moving forward, Qiu Lei's troops of the Chinese army and the Liaodong army's troops still stood motionless.
The troops below blocked the direction of the coalition forces' advance, and it seemed that they didn't even want to leave a bowl of soup for the coalition forces.
"Fuck!", "Fuck!"... The military attachés of the coalition were shouting and cursing.
"Anyway, it seems that this battle will not be fought for a short time. But with their preparedness, we don't have to worry about encountering a sneak attack. Let's let our soldiers take a rest first." Wu Shigong suggested helplessly. This proposal
It's really helpless. Isn't it possible that at this time, the coalition forces and the Ming army blocking their way will engage in a firefight?
Liu Zeqing also nodded helplessly, and then ordered: "The whole army dismounts and rests. Feed the horses well and be ready to fight at any time."
Like waves, the sound of gunfire was one wave after another. The smoke on the battlefield was always lingering. It was not until the battle lasted for nearly two hours that the tired soldiers and horses of both sides retreated amidst the sound of gold, and it was over.
The first round of fighting.
The whole morning turned into a stalemate. Both sides suffered more than a thousand casualties. So it can be said that in the process of frontal exchange of fire, the casualties of the army will not be too great. The losses of the defeated army are often
It was caused when he was being covered up by his opponent while escaping.
However, such a difficult battle still poured a basin of ice water on the head of the Ming army, which thought it could easily win.
At this time, Wu Shigong and other coalition military attachés were no longer standing on the watchtower, and could not clearly see the situation on the battlefield. There was no point in standing like this anymore. Wu Shigong rode his horse to the forefront of the coalition array to inspect.
Make sure your coalition forces remain in fighting condition.
At this time, a group of Ming troops belonging to Qiu Lei retreated behind their formation. It seemed that they were the troops on the front line just now. Many of them were injured. The most frightening thing was that their mental state was all gone.
Not very good. Walking around and sitting still are like a group of walking zombies.
"Hey! Why do these little brats look like this?" A general from the coalition army said with a sneer.
"Shut up!" Wu Shigong turned his head and shouted sternly to stop the words of President Qian. No matter how much he doesn't deal with them, they are still his allies. It is better not to say such irritating words. Besides, there is no guarantee that his own troops will come back from the battlefield.
It also looks like this!
Wu Shigong grabbed a military attache from the Ming army and asked softly: "Is there anything you can do for me? I have some medicinal materials and a few doctors here. Should I ask them to come over?"
"Thank you so much, sir!" The military attaché immediately saluted and thanked Wu Shigong.
After a while, Smart received the notice and ran over with dozens of medical soldiers from the Runing Battalion carrying medicinal materials...
Wu Shigong took a deep breath of the smell of gunpowder in the air and whispered to himself: "This is war!" (To be continued...