The Tatars were as still as a mountain, calm and calm, with disdain and contempt on their faces.
The two forward battalions of the Ming army slowly approached. Each battalion adopted a four-by-four formation, with one head, two wings and one tail deployed to maintain the formation. Each team set up a mandarin duck battle formation.
This time Zhang Minzhen did not send cavalry to charge.
Instead, they directly pressed forward with infantry, and the most elite cavalry remained with the officers to serve as the reserve team of the camp sentries.
"Keep formation!"
"Hold down the position!"
"No rushing!"
"No turning back!"
Officers at all levels were roaring loudly and commanding their subordinates. At this time, the veterans were still calm, but the recruits were already a little nervous, not because of fear, but because they were excited about entering the battlefield for the first time.
Some people hold the spear too hard, their knuckles turn white, their palms become sweaty, and their throats become dry.
Some people are so excited that they want to run at any time.
There were people frequently watching from left to right.
The officers and veterans played a great role at this time. They continued to direct the soldiers, and from time to time they would use their scabbards and spear poles to beat the balls of the overly nervous recruits.
Let your team maintain its formation at all times.
The two sides were nearly a hundred paces away.
The experienced officer had already shouted, "Raise your shield!"
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the Tatar formation on the opposite side heard the sound of bow strings one after another, and the Tatar formation fired their bows.
The roar was like a rain of arrows.
Tatar bow shot.
The arrows were shot far and heavy. The two battalions of the Zhenbiao raised many shields, but there were still many soldiers without shields. Those with shields in the front row were not injured, but those without shields in the middle and behind were shot all at once.
The young man who was hit by the arrow screamed and fell to the ground.
Some people were shot to death on the spot, while others were injured and screamed.
The officers shouted louder.
"Keep going, don't stop!"
"Archers, shoot the arrows!"
This is a battle of wills.
Lives were ruthlessly taken away in an instant.
Finally, some recruits were frightened and nauseated, some were even more excited and couldn't hold back their swords and rushed forward, some were vomiting in fear, and some even turned around and wanted to escape from the Shura field.
The servants of the officers now acted as supervising the battle team.
They unceremoniously knocked down the fleeing soldier on horseback. A servant with a dark face lifted the recruit who was knocked to the ground and cut off one of his left ears without ceremony.
The new soldier screamed, and the servant slapped him in the face.
"Fucking softie,"
"I will give you another chance. This time I will only cut off one of your ears. Now return to the team immediately and let me continue to move forward. If you dare to run away again, next time I will slit your throat and chop your head!"
The new recruit covered his face and screamed in fear.
In front of that fierce-looking servant, I had no choice but to turn around.
After a recruit had his ears cut off, he turned around and walked a few steps, then tried to turn around and escape. He was chased by a servant on horseback and knocked over again. Then he slashed his head without hesitation.
"Anyone who escapes from battle will be killed!"
The servants carried the head and showed it in the ranks. The veterans turned a blind eye while the recruits were shocked.
"You damn thing, look ahead. The enemy is in front, not behind. After the battle is over, I have to check the wounds. If someone gets wounded on his back or butt, I will hold him accountable for desertion."
"A man, since you have chosen to serve as a soldier, don't be afraid of death. Fighting is not that scary. Just obey your superiors and follow your brothers to move forward. If you lose your head, it will not be more than a scar as big as a bowl. Eighteen years later, it will be
A good man."
"Your Highness has already awarded a reward. If you kill a true Tatar soldier, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. If you capture a true Tatar alive, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. If you kill a fake Tatar, you will be rewarded with five taels of silver. If you capture a true Tatar alive, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
"Even if you're unlucky enough to be hacked to death, the one who died in battle will still receive ten taels of pension, the injured will receive eight taels for the top class, six taels for the middle class, and four taels for the bottom class. You can even get food for your family!"
The actions of the servants had immediate results.
The panicked new recruits quickly calmed down, and even many veteran veterans did not dare to do many tricks at this time.
Zhu Yihai's military pay and rewards for his newly built army were relatively generous, although this richness was only compared with the arrears of the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty.
In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, the frontier army's salary, food, military merit rewards, pensions and other standards were higher than Zhu Yihai's current standards. However, the problem is that the Ming Dynasty's finances collapsed early, and all of this was only on paper and could not be implemented in practice.
The standard Zhu Yihai has set now is only what he can temporarily bear. Although it is not high, it is already extraordinary if he can fulfill it.
You must know that Zeng Guofan later trained his troops to fight the Taiping Army, and the military system was imitated by Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty. The monthly pay for the brave soldiers of the Hunan Army was set at four liang, and the monthly pay for the brave soldiers was even higher.
And the rewards are also higher, for example, if you kill a Taiping soldier, you will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. If you capture one alive, you will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver. Wounded soldiers will be given rations of silver. The first grade will receive 30 taels, the middle grade will receive 20 taels, and the lower grade will receive a pension of 10 taels.
Sixty taels, each item is at least twice as high as the green camp soldiers.
Therefore, the Hunan Army raised its troops generously and developed a fighting force.
Of course, Zeng Guofan was also a thief. For example, although his pay was much higher than that of the Green Camp, he always only paid half the pay, which meant that the soldiers always owed half of the pay. In this way, if you run away, the rest will be gone. If you
If you work hard, you may have a chance to get the remaining half in the future, which is a lot of money.
Not to mention that the rewards and pensions of the Hunan Army are very generous. On the other hand, there are often opportunities for robbery.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Hunan, which was far behind Jiangxi next door, was able to rise rapidly in modern times. The most important thing was the rise of the Hunan Army. Not only did they plunder Jiangxi and collect too much money, but also through war, the Hunan Army
Everyone made money from top to bottom.
After the Hunan army returned home, they took the money home, bought land, and built a large number of academies. Many originally poor Hunan soldiers also became landlords. After seeing the outside world, they allowed their children to go to school.
Since then, Hunan has risen and become a place of great influence in modern times.
Those killed in battle will be given sixty taels. Zhu Yihai cannot afford it now, so he will give him ten taels for the time being.
Even if he is killed, he will not be able to give twenty taels, so he will give ten taels first, and the two Tatars will give five taels.
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward.
Soldiers are fighting for their lives, so you can't just talk to them about your feelings for your family and country, and you can't just talk about loyalty. Although money is vulgar, it is the most basic thing.
After all, Zhu Yihai came from the capital era, so he could understand these things very well. He tried his best to raise money to provide security for the soldiers.
"Raise your gun and use your shield!"
"Tiger, tiger, tiger!"
Zhejiang veterans call out tigers three times before going into battle. This is the tradition of the Qi Army.
After three tiger roars, the two armies met in close combat.
Spears stabbed each other, swords and axes clashed.
The archers and gunmen were still shooting at each other from behind, and the whole battlefield was roaring with all their strength.
Zhenbiao's two battalions of 1,600 men engaged in a head-on battle. They faced three Tatar infantry formations of about 400 men. Basically, two sentries besieged one infantry formation.
Then the four battalions of Shenji and Yongwei came up from both sides.
Make steady progress.
The Tatars seemed not to have expected that these Ming troops could be so stable.
With the sound of the horn, the officer under the Tartar flag seemed a little panicked. He looked at the overwhelming Ming troops pressing up from both sides, and ordered the more than a hundred cavalry on each side of the wings to mount their horses, trying to use the cavalry to overtake the two Ming troops first.
After all, the Ming army in the middle was a bit tough, so he decided that the two wings must be weak.
"Stand firm!"
"Raise your gun, the cavalry is coming!"
"Shield!"
The two battalions of Shenji on the left and the two battalions of Brave Guards on the right. Their respective officers also discovered the Tatars' intentions and quickly took command.
Mattim wore an ugly skull-shaped Sava helmet on his head. His head, face, and neck were all protected under the skull. He was wearing half-body armor and was not afraid of the horsemen charging at him.
He gave orders calmly and calmly.
The pikemen of the Shenji Battalion quickly built a pike phalanx in the front row. These pike phalanxes were basically Spanish phalanxes. The organization of the Shenji Battalion was slightly different from other battalions.
They were modified from the Spanish phalanx used by the Franco mercenaries. A battalion is actually composed of four pike companies and one musket company.
Zhu Yihai built the Shenji Battalion and adjusted the mercenary formations to form a battalion with four sentries, one sentry for pikemen, and three sentries for musketeers. The pikemen accounted for only 25%, but the musketeers accounted for 75%, which greatly increased the number of soldiers.
Number of firearms.
This is a more offensive-oriented formation.
At this time, the Shenji Battalion, with mercenaries as instructors and the backbone, was also quickly forming its formation.
The spearmen wearing breastplates quickly formed four dense horizontal lines. Due to the temporary lack of enough muskets and well-trained musketeers, the recruits mainly held spears. Each battalion was divided into four sentry formations, and the spearmen in each sentry
They were densely arranged, with the elite Franco gunners deployed at the four corners and front row of the gun array.
This dense phalanx still has strong maneuverability, especially since there is a row of musketeers in each outer row of the phalanx, and there is even a more elite sword and shield unit that can jump out and attack at any time.
A large number of new recruits in the Shenji Battalion basically didn't even have armor at this time, just a long spear.
But although the long spear that is more than five meters long seems simple, when the recruits are crowded together shoulder to shoulder, they undoubtedly feel much safer.
"All pikemen are ready. When ordered to stab to the left, no straight thrust is allowed!"
Mattim gave orders over and over again in his not-so-standard Ming dialect.
The musketeers' platoon of muskets, coupled with the pikemen's collective left thrust, is a very simple tactic. The soldiers huddle closely together, and then the five-meter long spears collectively thrust to the left. The four corners and the front row of musketeers take turns firing muskets, maintaining the
Powerful firepower output and terrifying defense capabilities.
On the battlefields of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, this Spanish phalanx shined brilliantly, and was performed perfectly in the hands of the mercenaries. Although it was later bombarded by King Gustav of Sweden's artillery, they were still
It's very remarkable.
There is no other way to defeat them except bombardment with artillery or troops with the same firearms.
Traditional cold weapon troops are basically unable to defeat them, especially traditional cavalry.
Now, facing more than a hundred cavalry, Mattim had a disdainful taunt on his lips. He had two battalions of 1,600 people. Although there were more than 1,000 recruits, the spear formation formed by the recruits was still very powerful.
The combat effectiveness, and the hundreds of elite European mercenary musketeers under his command, are the key to victory.
The soldiers are wearing cotton armor and are extremely tough, but this person wants to rush away from them?
Dream on!
More than a hundred captives came running like a sharp sword.
"Raise the gun and stab with the left!"
The musketeers were the first to fire. At about twenty or thirty steps, the musketeers had already started to fire continuously, with constant bangs and bangs, and smoke rising everywhere. The musketeers adopted a three-stage shooting tactic in turns, while keeping their positions unchanged.
When switching tactics cannot be used, continuity of shooting must still be ensured.
The horsemen who rushed in front neighed and screamed, and several of them were overturned in one fell swoop!
