When Li Laiheng first fought against his old friend Fang Yiren in Yiling, he used the "Ten Thousand Enemies", an old-fashioned Ming army firearm. The old "Ten Thousand Enemies" were rough in workmanship and had poor practicality. The "Giants"
The "Ten Thousand Enemies" grenade used was improved compared to the traditional model of the Ming Army. Compared with the old model that weighed dozens of kilograms, the "Ten Thousand Enemies" used by Chu Chuang was actually a reduced gunpowder shell.
That's all.
The "giants" need to manually ignite the "Ten Thousand Enemies" and throw it into the enemy's position with their own arm strength before it explodes - considering that even these "giants" were carefully selected by Li Laiheng
For a man with a tall stature and strong arms, the range of throwing bombs is still very limited. Its power in field battles is far less powerful than the Hongyi cannon, and it is even less powerful than the salvo power of ordinary light artillery.
In the several battles since Li Laiheng went north, these "giants" in the Chu army performed very poorly in field battles. Even in the battle with Xiaoyuan Camp, their performance was very average, which was totally unworthy of Li Laiheng's huge investment.
spend.
The formation training of the "giants" is very limited. In hand-to-hand combat, although they are always taller than the enemies opposite them, their performance in confrontation is neither as professional as the spear team nor as brave as the sword players.
, the use of fire muskets is of course not as good as that of professional gunsmiths who use heavy bird muskets.
Although he had a mighty and burly body, he was inferior to others in every aspect, and Li Laiheng's many investments were in vain.
"This 'Grenadier' is really not as powerful as I thought..."
The deputy Gu Kecheng who was following Li Laiheng looked at a group of burly "giant" soldiers and sighed: "Is the commander finally going to use these high-quality soldiers to break the formation and face the enemy?"
Under Li Laiheng's armored ghost face, a burst of laughter couldn't help but come from:
"Hahaha! Of course! If you have a Gundam in your hand, why worry about not being able to break through the Dog Tatars' position? I have a Gundam, who can stop me?"
These "giant" soldiers were separately classified as a standard. Fang Yiren originally suggested giving them a brave and powerful name, maybe called Shenwu Biao or Dragon Wubiao.
However, Li Laiheng said that there was no need to go to such trouble. He simply named them Gaodabiao based on the tall stature of the "Giant" soldiers. Later, for some unknown reason, he changed it to Gaodabiao.
It sounds a bit awkward and strange, but it can make people realize the main characteristics of this troop at once.
That means people are tall and horses are big!
During the field battle, the grenades thrown by soldiers at the same time were actually not as powerful as a volley of heavy muskets. Although they were much more powerful than bows and arrows, they were more accurate than volleys of bows and arrows.
much lower.
Their past performance can basically be said to be lackluster.
But after using it for a period of time, Li Laiheng gradually discovered the true usage of the high-speed soldiers. And finally understood why such an offensive and defensive unit, which is not as useful as ordinary infantry in every aspect, will go down in history.
Leaving such a huge reputation——
Grenadier legend!
"Li Fengwu, it's time to cleanse Gundam's reputation..."
"Mark it and understand!"
The general who commanded the battle of Gaodao was Li Fengwu, a veteran general in the Chu army. He was a mighty general from Baoding. Since Li Laiheng went north, Li Fengwu has been ordered to lead the troops of Gaodao, because the organization of this army is very good.
He was not as good as others. Although he claimed to be an elite and invested a huge amount of money, he failed to make any achievements in every battle. Naturally, Li Fengwu and Li Fengwu were laughed at by many colleagues.
He was also holding back a fire in his heart, wanting to prove the power of Gundam on the battlefield.
"Gundam Standard...departure!"
The burly soldiers took a step at the same time. With such tall figures, their military appearance was indeed different from that of ordinary soldiers... But their military appearance could not determine the final battle performance. Judging from the past situation, even Li Fengwu himself needed to admit it.
, the field performance that reaches the standard is indeed very average.
Li Laiheng was very confident. He held his riding whip, pointed at Donglu's position and said with a smile: "You are here with me to create a field fortification? What a joke!"
From the time Li Laiheng joined the Chuang Army until now, only Chu Chuang has been involved in building field fortifications. This is the first time that Chu soldiers have to break through the field fortifications themselves!
The Qing and Ming soldiers hiding behind trenches and wooden fences, including Tang Tong's troops who retreated into the formation in embarrassment, had such a solid and consolidated line of defense that everyone seemed to have something to rely on.
The morale of the military gradually stabilized.
The Shun army cavalry who were wandering in front of the Qing army's formation suddenly separated from the queue. They only fired a wave of arrows and muskets tentatively in front of the trench, and did not violently attack the enemy's consolidated position. This made Jierhalang
Xiao Xiao was surprised.
It wasn't until Ji'erhalang saw the Gaobiao coming out from behind the shun army cavalry that he understood... It seemed that the bandits were unwilling to waste their precious cavalry in front of Haogou, and they still planned to use infantry to break the formation.
However, can we use infantry to rush through the position set up by Jilhalang?
Even if you rush over, how many of you will be left?
"Fire the gun!"
"Fire the gun!"
The Dashun army advanced rapidly, and around them, there were many other ordinary infantry of the Shun army as cover. The officers and soldiers of the Dashun army rushed straight into the shooting range of the Qing army, and the Qing soldiers relied on the solid wooden fence to launch their weapons.
Bows, arrows and muskets, the archers and musketeers on the Shunjun side also stopped to fight back, while the others continued to brave the hail of bullets and rush forward desperately.
In front of the enemy's central position is a trench that is not very deep. Such a trench will not play a great role in containing the infantry, but it will be quite difficult for the cavalry.
Some of the tall Gaobiao soldiers climbed across the trench, while others quickly threw bamboo baskets filled with earth and rocks into the trench.
A dense rain of arrows came towards the face. In order to quickly attack, the high-level soldiers wore very limited armor. Even the mighty general Li Fengwu was wounded by the Qing army's arrows. He covered his wound and finally saw that the enemy's wooden fence had appeared.
In front of me - all the Qing soldiers were hiding behind wooden fences. Even the firecrackers carried by the soldiers were probably unable to pass through this wooden fence to effectively kill the enemy.
For the soldiers who reached the target, there was a wooden fence in front of them that was difficult to climb. The enemy would use spears and short soldiers to kill any compliant soldiers who tried to climb. There were countless arrows and stray bullets overhead.
Faced with this dilemma, Li Fengwu laughed.
"Throw!"
With a bang, the high-level soldiers who were much taller than the average army raised their arms high above their heads. Together with the towering brim of their hats, it seemed like a dense forest was rising up in place!
bomb.
The grenades, which looked like snowballs and hailstones, drew a graceful curve in the air, crossed the wooden fence directly from mid-air, and landed among the crowd of Qing soldiers behind them.
With a bang, the grenade exploded violently in the enemy team. This sudden attack was completely unexpected by the Qing army. Even the mature and steady Jierhalang did not expect that the Shun army would have such a way to break through the field civil fortifications.
Method!
The wooden fence is strong enough to withstand the fire of ordinary muskets, but the light artillery that can destroy field fortifications is difficult to transport across the ditch to the front line. Although bows and arrows can also be used to kill the enemy behind the wooden fence at a curved angle, their power is very limited.
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The high-standard grenade, this grenadier's tactics actually has very limited effect in the field. Most of the time, the power of this kind of work is not as powerful as a round of the most common volley of firecrackers.
But when it comes to breaking through field fortifications, this is the most effective method!
Just as the Qing army was stunned by these grenades that fell like hail, Li Fengwu had already organized the Goudabiao soldiers to launch a swift surprise attack on the enemy.
This is different from the artillery bombardment. Even the best Hongyi cannon at this time cannot advance the barrage in sync with the infantry attack. Therefore, only when the firing of the Hongyi cannon completely stops, the infantry can continue.
Launch a surprise attack on the enemy's shelled fortifications.
But the grenadiers were different. They could throw grenades while pulling out their own wood-chopping axes to chop the Qing army's wooden fences to pieces, and create gaps in the enemy's camp walls and wooden doors!
"The fighter plane has arrived...Liu Shuai, it's time for us to rush in!"
Hao Yaoqi stood on his horse, already confident of defeating the enemy.