Listening to Liu Bagou's words and looking at the donkey he was riding, Li Xuan felt quite awkward!
It seems that when there are more horses in the future, Liu Bagou and other important ministers will have to be equipped with a horse when they go on an expedition, otherwise it will be really awkward.
As for now, let’s just be aggrieved!
There was no way around it. The Tang Dynasty was extremely short of horses. Nowadays, there are only a few horses, and they are all either thin or old.
More importantly, most of the few horses were taken away by several officers of the Guards, and were ridden by Wang Danxu and the team officers respectively. The reason why they were able to take away most of the horses in the entire Tang Dynasty
Most of the horses were used not because they wanted to charge on horseback, but because they had to be condescending when commanding the troops in combat. Otherwise, the white smoke billowing from the muskets would block their sight, and the officers would not be able to see clearly where the enemy was.
So when you see the officers of the modern army in movies and TV dramas riding horses and exposing themselves to the enemy's firepower, don't think they are stupid and want to be targets, but because they are needed for combat, that's how they line up to be shot.
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Also, don’t think that they are so gentlemanly when they play queue to shoot. They don’t aim at the officers. That’s because the accuracy of muskets at medium and long distances is extremely poor. You aim at the officers, but you don’t know where the bullets will fly. The look in your eyes
No matter how good you are, you can't stand up to a broken gun!
Therefore, there is no difference in the probability of being hit when those officers are riding horses and walking on the ground.
The Guards went to the modern army, so most of the few horses in the Tang Dynasty were taken away by them.
As for the standing army, only Butcher Chen was equipped with a pony. However, since the last duel with Cai Erhu, the pony foamed at the mouth during the charge, butcher Chen continued to fight.
At that time, I just walked honestly and didn't dare to fight on horseback. Otherwise, I would have fallen to death if I didn't get hacked to death by the enemy.
As for the others, including Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, they were all naked, without any mosaics, and they were extremely serious infantrymen.
Li Xuan and Liu Bagou were watching the battle and discussing at the same time.
Wang Danxu, Fang Dongquan, and Huang Xueren in front slowly stepped forward with their troops!
Although they did some early concealment this time, it was not an ambush after all. They were discovered by the Ming army thousands of meters away, so ambush, encirclement and the like were naturally not used, and they could only use frontal pressure.
Go up.
They detoured all the way to the rear of the Ming Army based on the news from the prisoners of the Ming Army. This morning, the spies reported that a large number of Ming troops were found in the front, and those Ming troops also brought food. It was very likely that they were Ming troops.
grain transport team.
So they rushed over in a hurry, but after they rushed over, they found that the Ming army here had more than a hundred regular guard soldiers.
After everyone discussed it, they felt that if they were more careful, they would be more certain of winning, so in the end Li Xuan made the decision: fight.
Their confidence is so great because they have great confidence in the Guards. According to their plan, they will use the main force of the Guards to force the enemy's formation step by step, and then Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu will kill them from the flank with sword and shield soldiers.
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As long as the enemy's formation is disrupted, it will be a great victory!
At this time, Wang Danxu slowly stepped forward with the Guards. In the previous battle, three deserters were killed and several more were killed and injured. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Guards, Li Xuan
Wang Danxu was authorized to select more than ten people from the standing army to supplement the army.
In the end, Wang Danxu selected fifteen people from the standing army to add to the Guards. However, the people Wang Danxu selected were not strong and powerful gangsters, but some who looked honest and honest. They kicked him.
It's so boring that I can't even fart.
This makes many veteran gangsters in the standing army quite dissatisfied. They don’t want to go to the Guards and suffer, but they think it’s my business whether to go or not. But if you don’t choose me, you don’t give me face.
’s matter.
What's going on? I'm such an awesome person, so I can't get under your eyes and join the Guards, Wang Danxu?
But it’s true!
The core of the Guards is to make soldiers obey orders. Although those veteran bandits have good physical fitness and high force value, they are the kind of veterans who will turn around and run away when the limelight is not right.
People like this will only lead other people into trouble when they join the Guards. During the battle, they will probably be the first ones to run away!
So Wang Danxu would rather have honest people who don't look very outstanding, or even smart!
After the replenishment, the number of the Guards was slightly larger than before, and it had already exceeded the ninety-man mark.
The more than ninety Guardsmen did not move very fast, and they did not put down the spears in their hands. Even the musketeers still carried their matchlocks on their shoulders.
All this is to save energy and better maintain the formation.
However, although the Guards did not move fast, they kept advancing steadily, and their formation was not disordered at all during the advance. As a result, their overall speed was even faster than that of the standing army.
Because the standing army has to walk for a while, and then it has to stop and regroup, otherwise it will be chaotic while walking.
As time passed, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. When the distance between the forwards of the two sides was only three hundred meters, the soldiers of the Guards stopped their progress under the order of the officer!
The spearmen organized their formation, and the more than twenty musketeers began to reload, but they still did not light the match, because the match burned faster. If the match was lit too early, the battle would not have started.
Just burned out.
It is worth noting that these musketeers have already used fixed-loading gunpowder when loading. They use small bamboo tubes to pack the gunpowder required for one round in advance. When loading, just take out a small bamboo tube and pour the gunpowder.
This avoids being too nervous and putting in too much or too little gunpowder during battle.
After all, Li Xuan is a time traveler no matter what. Even if he doesn't understand any military theory, he still knows something about it. So when he built the musket, he decided on the inserted bayonet, front sight, and rear sight.
As well as simple small improvements such as fixed gunpowder.
Even based on the sensitivity of later generations to data, he also determined some specific data of the musket, such as length, weight, caliber, etc.
The caliber of the musket is four and a half, which is approximately equivalent to fourteen millimeters in later generations. This caliber was chosen because if the caliber is too large, not only will the recoil be too great, but more importantly, the weight of the gun will be too large, which will affect the soldier's mobility.
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But if the caliber is too small, the power will be seriously insufficient, and the damage to the main enemies of the Ming Army of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the soldiers of the Ming Army will be seriously insufficient.
You must know that the Ming army was widely equipped with cotton armor, and this kind of cotton armor had quite good protective capabilities against early muskets with insufficient muzzle kinetic energy.
So in the end, a compromise solution was chosen, which was four and a half minutes, equivalent to the caliber of 14 mm in later generations.
For a gun of this caliber, after its projectiles are fired, the maximum effective killing range can reach 120 meters, but if it is to cause effective damage to personnel wearing light armor, it needs to be within 80 meters. If the enemy is wearing heavy armor
, then this distance needs to be further shortened to within fifty meters or even forty meters.
Seeing that his musketeers were ready, Wang Danxu nodded to the flag bearer beside him. Soon, about seventy archers came out of the standing army array!
These archers walked at the front of the standing army array, and then began to step forward together with the guards!
The Guards only had more than twenty musketeers. In large-scale battles, their long-range firepower was naturally not enough, and they needed the support of archers from the standing army.
When the archers of the Guards and the Standing Army stepped forward, a large number of spearmen of the Standing Army also followed, but Chen Tufu and Cai Erhu, who were leading about eighty people with swords and shields, slowly came from the other side.
near.
Since Cai Erhu launched a charge with light armored sword and shield soldiers in the battle a few days ago, Li Xuan has promptly adjusted the strength of his troops. He did not let him bring archers anymore, but asked him to switch to light armored sword and shield soldiers.
soldiers.
In this case, Cai Erhu, a ruthless man, can cooperate with Butcher Chen to launch a charge together!
After the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty moved into action, the Ming army was obviously in a panic, especially the civilians.
Looking at the approaching puppet Tang bandit army on the opposite side, Wu Baihu waved his hand, and immediately dozens of archers came out of the Ming army array and stood in the front row of the array!
As long as those puppet Tang rebels entered the shooting range of the archers, Wu Baihu would not hesitate to order the archers to shoot and turn these rebels into a hornet's nest.
Time passed bit by bit, and the puppet Tang thief army was getting closer, even closer!
From one hundred steps to eighty steps, they were almost within the effective shooting range of the Ming army's archers.
Not long after, Wu Baihu frowned, because he saw that the pseudo-Tang thief army stopped about sixty-five steps away, and then there were about 20 people in the array of the pseudo-Tang thief army.
The man raised a strange-looking long stick in his hand.
A few seconds later, a horse-riding leader of the Pseudo-Tang thief army was seen swinging a long sword. The next moment, Wu Baihu heard a burst of intensive snapping sounds, and the Pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side also floated in front of the formation.
A burst of white smoke.
It's a firecracker!
He was very familiar with this sound and the white smoke. This was the scene when the fire cannon was fired. Seeing this scene, Wu Baihu couldn't help but show contempt. They fired from such a distance. Didn't they know that the fire cannon in their hands was going to be fired?
Can it be powerful enough within a distance of twenty or thirty steps?
As expected, they are a group of extremely ignorant bandits and refugees who don’t know any tactics at all!
But as soon as this idea came to him, he heard a scream from his own military formation. He turned his head and saw that one of his archers had fallen. At this time, he was shouting
He was rolling on the ground while screaming.
Can you still hit it from such a distance?
At this moment, Wu Baihu felt that the world had become a little incomprehensible!