Chapter 611: The formation kills the general sitting on the throne
The sound of cannons was like thunder.
At the top of Zhangqiu City, Zhu Yihai and his ministers climbed up and looked far away. They could see the fighting formations more than ten miles north of the city, but they were too far away to see clearly.
"Send the order, Jinwu Town Guards Hussars are dispatched!"
War drums sounded in Zhangqiu City.
The emperor's guards conveyed orders to the generals of Jinwu Town behind the city.
Zhang Mingbin, the commander-in-chief of Jinwu, received the order and ordered, "Hussars attack!"
The guerrilla horse of the Hussars responded to Biao's order, jumped on the horse excitedly, pulled out his flintlock handgun and shouted, "Boys of the Hussars, Your Majesty named us Musketeers, we are the first to go to the battlefield. This
It's an honor."
"Use me in the first battle. Use me to win. Attack!"
A thousand hussars jumped on their horses, their gorgeous cloaks waving like flags.
With the sound of the trumpet, a thousand hussars began to run.
Zhang Mingbin looked at the high morale of this team, even with a bit of envy, "They are indeed the emperor's hussars. These guys are equipped with the latest short-style rifles, and one cavalry is also equipped with two flintlock pistols and sabers."
They are all the latest royal sabers."
"Hussar Biao is also from our Jinwu Cavalry Town." A group of officers said.
"The hussar looks really good when running." Someone else praised it.
"I don't know if these Mongolian Tatars are reliable in fighting!" Zhang Mingbin said.
"Don't worry, they are our Mongolian Tatars of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the emperor's royal guard hussars."
The hussars are equipped with the most advanced and expensive flintlock short muskets, as well as two flintlock hand muskets, plus royal cavalry sabers, and their standard bright cloaks. In terms of equipment, they are no better than dragoons and lancers.
These cavalrymen with breastplates and heavy armor are inferior.
And for such a cavalry with advanced equipment, most of them are Mongolians.
The emperor valued this hussars, which were mainly Mongolian.
"Now is their time to show their loyalty and bravery."
Zhang Mingbin nodded, "Let the breastplate cavalry, dragon cavalry, lance cavalry, and hunter cavalry be ready to attack at any time."
As the most elite cavalry unit in the imperial camp of the Ming Dynasty, the hussars in Jinwu Town are not the best in terms of equipment, nor are they the strongest in terms of combat effectiveness.
There are also cuirassiers who also wear sabers and flintlock muskets. Their equipment is heavy cavalry, but they are also cavalry based on muskets that adopt the "charge-shoot-turn-reload-charge-again" method.
Hussars are light cavalry among the musketeers, and of course there are also lighter-equipped chasseurs.
There are also more traditional lancers or flag-bearers, who still retain the mainstay of cavalry and sabers and adopt traditional charge tactics.
There are also horse-riding maneuvers, but the main dragoons are dismounted and shooting.
There are many types of cavalry in Jinwu Town, with good equipment, high pay, and additional cavalry allowances. This is also their official appearance in the war. Compared with previous small-group reconnaissance, raids and other battles, this battle is considered rare.
Large armies fight.
Ten miles away from the enemy.
After mounting their horses, the hussars quickly completed their formation and then began to walk from a slow pace to a quick pace.
From the sound of four horse hooves to the sound of two horse hooves, the sound of two hooves hitting the ground is relatively neat.
He quickly started running.
The sound of horses' hooves began to sound chaotically, and the horses often leaped into the air with their hooves.
However, the Mongolian hussars have excellent riding skills and they control the rhythm very well.
They kept running at a speed of about 250 steps (360 meters) a minute.
An excellent cavalryman is not judged by how fast he can charge, but by how he controls the rhythm.
It can be faster or slower.
Cavalry that can control the speed and rhythm can charge the fastest when charging.
And controlling the horse speed can prevent the formation from collapsing.
Even cavalry still needs formation, even musketry cavalry also needs formation.
Only about 20% of ordinary horse thieves or ordinary nomadic cavalry can really fight, and the remaining 80% are bastards who follow the crowd, and many of them may even be timid.
Therefore, you have to start attacking from a farther distance. By constantly adjusting the speed, the war horse has more energy to prepare until it is about sixty steps away before launching a charge.
As for the heavy cavalry, they usually start running when they are about a hundred paces away, and do not start their final charge until they are twenty paces away. The heavy cavalry has a heavy burden, and their poor endurance depends entirely on sudden bursts, so they must charge at close range.
In comparison, the hussars can start an attack from ten miles away, and when they reach a distance of about a hundred paces by running slowly and quickly, they can already launch a charge.
This is a stone's throw away.
Qian Qianqi maintained a very neat rhythm, even walking as fast as the drum beat.
Ten miles, that is, about ten minutes of brisk walking, will bring you into charging distance.
The bright and gorgeous cloak fluttered and came out from behind Zhangqiu City.
One hundred steps at a slow pace, three hundred steps at a quick pace.
Start running after a thousand steps.
Ma Yingbiao was a veteran of the army in eastern Zhejiang, and his ancestors were also Mongolians. However, after more than two hundred years, he had long been Chineseized. Apart from his big beard and round face, he seemed to have no trace of Tatar blood.
He had already given the order when he set out.
You should start charging when you are two hundred steps away from the enemy's cavalry, because their armor is light and the burden on their horses is not heavy.
Of course, they are hussars, and their basic tactics are not to charge to the end, but half-circle tactics, charging, shooting, turning, reloading, charging again, and shooting.
They need more space.
In their usual training, they would also launch a charge at 200 paces, although the optimal distance is 100 paces, or even closer to 50 or 60 paces.
They were still ten minutes away from the battlefield.
In the Shence Army camp, the battle has become fierce.
Three thousand Manchus had already rushed into the camp and were fighting with about five thousand Ming troops. But what was different from Tu Lai's imagination was that they broke through two camp fences and fought their way in with heavy casualties, but the Ming troops did not collapse.
.
Instead, he was trapped.
When the three-pounder guns in the camp were firing desperately, and when the Ming army was fighting one after another, Tu Lai, who had already led his troops into the Ming camp, finally came to his senses.
This camp seems to be a trap.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The deployment of the Ming army is basically a field camp. It seems to be fighting against two camp fences, but in fact it is basically a formation of outposts and camps supporting each other.
fighting style.
So rushing into the camp and breaking the two fences actually doesn't have much effect.
They rushed in and arrived, but they also completely lost the advantage of the cavalry's fast maneuverability and could not run. Moreover, only after entering did they feel that the Ming army's firepower had doubled.
He didn't know that this kind of deployment was actually similar to the hollow square formation model. The Ming army relied not on the protection of the camp fence, but on its own formation of sentries forming a battalion.
The battle camp composed of individual camp posts does not need to rely on camp fences and trenches. They themselves are thorny hedgehogs, and the musketeers are also bayonet soldiers.
There were many gaps between each camp and sentry, but these gaps caused a great increase in casualties among the cavalrymen.
The war horses instinctively moved along these gaps, and as a result, they were attacked intensively by soldiers from the Ming army camp sentries from all directions.
The Manqi were very tough, and they were still fighting desperately. They were not timid at all in close combat, stabbing with spears, arrows and slashing with knives, taking away one Ming army after another.
But this did not change the overall situation on the battlefield. If they killed one or two, they would often suffer three or four casualties themselves.
They were obviously riding horses and could run rampant, but they were beaten and fell off their horses one after another.
Casualty rates on both sides continue to surge,
But both the Ming and Qing armies continued to fight, no one was afraid, no one gave up, they were all holding on, no one wanted to give up.
The Ming army, especially those behind the first barrier, suffered heavy casualties, but Wen Hu, who was in charge of the command, did not let them retreat. Instead, he allowed them to gather according to the pre-war deployment.
Two sentries merge into one sentry, two battalions merge into one battalion.
Slowly move closer to the center of the camp and continue fighting.
The cavalry of the Qing army was running slower and slower, and the entire camp was leaking from all sides with holes everywhere, but this did not prevent the Ming army from counterattacking strongly.
The Qing army could cut gaps in the camp fence one after another.
But facing a battalion of hundreds of soldiers, facing those who kept spraying fire, shooting lead bullets, and even shooting with one or two small cannons from time to time, and those who carried guns in groups of two or three
If you want to block the attack, you will find that the musketeers have turned into bayonet soldiers again. Their muskets are equipped with long bayonets. Although they are not as big and long as the infantry's spears, they are still the nemesis of the knights.
They could only run around, then ride and shoot, stab, or project, but the Ming army's counterattack was even more powerful than them. Those muskets and artillery were difficult to stop.
Especially those who carry heavy guns, even if they wear double armor, they can't block his shot, and those who are hit will be killed immediately.
The Ming troops on Lady Mountain and Yuhuang Mountain remained hidden.
On the contrary, from outside Zhangqiu City, which was ten miles away, a thousand hussars were killed.
Looking at the Ming cavalry arriving quickly, although there were not many in number, Tu Lai was already a bit desperate. The Ming army camp was like a quagmire. I thought I could just rush in, but now I am stuck here in a dilemma.
Reinforcements arrived tomorrow.
Tu Lai couldn't help crying.
"Why haven't our troops arrived yet?"
Wearing bright armor, Tu Lai was surrounded by a large army of Baya Laqi, whose armored mounts were obviously the Qing army generals.
Wen Hu saw him rushing towards his banner.
This guy obviously wanted to kill the general and seize the flag, so as to defeat the Ming army.
"With the nine-headed bird gun, keep an eye on the general and shoot him!"
The two teams of heavy musketeers in Wen Hu's guard post immediately aimed their heavy guns at Tu Lai, and the other teams of musketeers also fired volleys at him.
Even several small French guns fired rapidly at them, spraying out pieces of shotshells.
The Qing army was already weak at this time, and the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, but was still fighting hard. Even the auxiliary soldiers holding spears and swords did not collapse and flee, but continued to gather and continue to fight back.
Tu Lai wanted to kill the general and seize the flag to end the battle as soon as possible.
Rows of muskets shot down several of Tu Lai's guards. They responded with bows, arrows and spears, and also hit several Ming soldiers.
Tu Lai also held a strong bow and fired continuously on horseback.
One arrow shot down a musketeer, and just as he drew out another heavy arrow, his chest suddenly shook, and then again, two nine-headed bird heavy guns shot him. He was wearing double layers of cotton armor,
Two balls of bright red blood burst out from his chest.
He lowered his head in disbelief. The horse was still leading him forward, but the heavy arrow in his hand had fallen to the ground. Five of his own heavy arrows cost eight taels of silver, but he couldn't hold it at this time.
There was a bang, and a piece of shotgun swept past.
A small lead shot directly into his face, knocking off half of his face.
Tu Lai fell straight from his horse.
The Manqi who rushed to the camp's banner array were also hit hard and eventually split into two. They failed to hit the enemy head-on, but split into two groups and went around.
No one even bothered to pick up the first-class male who fell off his horse. Gu Shan'e was really desperate.
In the distance, the Hussars Battalion had arrived, and on the other side of the Xiujiang River, Bolo finally arrived with more than ten thousand of his main follow-up troops and appeared on the battlefield.