Qiming 1158

Chapter 968 Daming Iron Fist
The first battle of Shenji Camp took place in the surrounding area of ​​Dachang Town, Ningzhou.

A large landlord family surnamed Zhou gathered two or three thousand tenant families, mobilized more than 2000 strong men as armed forces, and established a decent military fortress, which looked quite powerful.

He gathered all the strong men he could use, armed them, and pulled up a team of more than 2000 people to strictly guard his own territory.

Not only that, he also released words, saying that if people do not offend me, I will not offend others, but if others offend me, I will offend them!

It is best for the officials not to conspire against his five-generation family business. If they live together peacefully, he is still willing to pay a certain amount of taxes.Let you get nothing, but also pay a heavy price!
He thinks that the emperor is far away from the sky, and he is used to the life of a soil emperor. Now that the real emperor is going to disturb the beautiful life of his soil emperor, he can't swallow it.

So he decided to resist.

More than a dozen village-level peasant associations in Ningzhou, led by two township peasant associations, organized more than a thousand peasant armed forces to attack the Zhou rebels. People, forced to retreat, adopted an encirclement tactic.

However, as a large landowner, the Zhou family has a large amount of grain in storage. Even if this siege strategy is used for a year or two, it may not work. They can even use the land in their fortress to continue farming, continue to obtain food, and fight a protracted war.

In desperation, the Ningzhou Farmers Association asked the regular army for support.

So this task was given to the Shenji Battalion. He Feihu led the Shenji Battalion to the battlefield on the seventh day of September. After a little observation of the decent military fortress, he nodded.

"It's really decent, but in front of the artillery, it's just a chicken and a dog."

Su Haisheng, who followed along, was quite suspicious of He Feihu's statement, but he didn't say it clearly, and just waited to see the performance of the firearms unit.

He Feihu surveyed the surrounding terrain and decided to attack frontally.

He asked Su Haisheng to place the thousand cavalry he brought on the other three sides to prevent the people inside from fleeing. He planned to attack from the front and make a frontal breakthrough.

Su Haisheng kindly reminded him.

"Being surrounded on all sides and leaving no way to survive is a big taboo in the military. They will fight desperately and stubbornly, and our army will suffer great losses. It is inappropriate to lose too many soldiers' lives for this group of insects. It is better to give full play to the advantages of cavalry. Let them go the same way, and then chase after them with cavalry, and they will be victorious."

He Feihu knew what Su Haisheng meant, but still shook his head.

"Their army is like a piece of paper in front of the artillery. It will be broken with a poke. There is no possibility of desperate resistance. I am confident that this group of rebels will be completely collapsed in the shortest time, and there is no need to pursue."

Seeing how confident he was, Su Haisheng didn't say anything. He just did as He Feihu said, placing his cavalry on the other three sides of the army camp, and surrounded him on all sides.

He Feihu brought fifty chariot and cavalry cannons. He looked at the size of the military village and decided not to use all of them, but only thirty.

He lined up the ten chariot and cavalry cannons in a row, and after the remaining ten, there are ten more, ready for the echelon launch.

He expected that one round of artillery strikes would completely destroy the frontal defense of the army village, and seriously shake its military morale.

The muzzle of the Chariot General's cannon is facing the military fortress, and the shooting distance is almost 250 meters, which is an effective range proved by exact experimental data.

Behind the artillery line is a phalanx of firearms.

The firearms phalanx is not all musketeers, but a phalanx composed of swordsmen, pikemen, crossbowmen, cavalry and musketeers.

When Su Yonglin designed the firearms phalanx, he made reference to the early European musket phalanxes, such as the famous Spanish and Dutch musket phalanxes. These traditional musket phalanxes were mainly composed of pikemen and musketeers, and most of the time they lacked other arms. cooperation.

Su Yonglin took into account that while the Ming army was weaponized, it also had an extremely elite cold weapon combat unit, and the range of the divine arm bow and strong crossbow was indeed longer than that of the arquebus, so it was not meaningless.

The bow and crossbow are still like this, not to mention the cavalry and other melee arms. They are not replaceable by the current firearms. At the same time, the European musketeers were often beaten by the cold weapon army.

It is a long process to replace cold weapons with firearms, and in this process, the existence of cold weapons is necessary.

Giving up cold weapons in one go and adopting too many firearms units would be very disadvantageous.

For example, when Zhu Ming's army fought against Hou Jin, they suffered from too many firearms and weak field troops. In the case of humid weather, firearms could not function at all. The entire army was wiped out.

What really caused a huge blow to the post-Golden Eight Banners army was the white-rod soldiers with all-cold weapons.

Although firearms are the mainstream in the future and are destined to become the king of wars in the future, for now, they cannot be without the strong assistance of cold weapons.

Therefore, the Daming version of the Shenji camp gun square has a strong color of cold weapons.

The sword and shield fighters stood in the front, followed by the musketeers, followed by the pikemen, and finally the crossbowmen, and then the cavalry on the two wings, and the artillery unit as the main supporting force, followed the army.

When advancing, the team forms a phalanx.

During the battle, the phalanx spread out towards the two flanks and turned into an assault formation, and the cavalry served as the auxiliary of the two flanks to protect the safety of the two flanks of the infantry assaulting the formation.

Before the official start of the war, the artillery was fired first, bombarding the enemy's army formation, trying to destroy the enemy's army formation.

If the enemy's army formation is really destroyed, the cavalry will attack and take the back path, and the infantry will quickly advance to the attacking army formation, achieving the effect of completely annihilating the enemy.

If the enemy's formation is not overwhelmed by artillery, the regular operations will continue.

In regular operations, the sword and shield hand is at the forefront as the cornerstone to stabilize the army formation, and the crossbowman takes the lead in firing arrows to form a rain of arrows because of their superior range, and conducts the first round of shooting at the enemy army formation.

When the army formation was close to the range of the arquebuses, the three rows of arquebusiers completed the shooting at the fastest speed, and the crossbowmen continued to shoot without interruption.

After each line of arquebusiers finished shooting, they quickly moved behind the line of lancers, before the line of crossbowmen, and the line of lancers gradually advanced.

After the three rounds of arquebuses were fired, the three rows of arquebusiers retreated to the core of the army formation to reload the ammunition.

At this time, the main forces in the battle become swordsmen and spearmen, because the enemy's army is likely to collapse, and spearmen and swordsmen can begin to harvest the enemy's heads and expand the results.

Later, if the musketeers need to fire again, the commander of the army can issue an order to repeat the tactics until the enemy completely collapses.

However, according to the calculations of the General Staff, the enemy's formation without the equivalent firearms basically cannot survive three rounds of shooting and will face collapse.

No matter how the elite army is under the attack of artillery and musket, it is difficult to maintain the integrity of the army formation.

At least the sword and shield fighters and the spearmen at the forefront can hardly resist the impact of lead projectiles, regardless of whether they have shields or armor. They are bound to be severely hit and are on the verge of collapse. Seizing this fighter, their own sword and shield fighters and spearmen should Has the ability to quickly destroy them.

He Feihu knew very well about the power of firearms and the coordination of this set of tactics, and he was very confident. He believed that the group of turkeys and dogs in front of him were not the opponents of Shenjiying at all.

What's more, this battle is likely to be an offensive and defensive battle and a street battle, not a field battle.

Artillery is best at attacking stationary opponents.

At this moment, the Zhou clan rebels in the military village were already ready to fight, and they all climbed up the arrow tower to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

Not only did they have bows, they also had crossbows, and even large bed crossbows.

When the peasants attacked this army village before, they were shot by a large bed crossbow, which caused great losses, so they were defeated.

And this also strengthened Su Haisheng's determination to completely destroy this family - just kidding, they are all equipped with crossbows, which shows that this family has the intention of rebelling.

This is no ordinary landlord and gentry, and it takes a heavy punch to deal with it.

But before he could throw a heavy punch, Su Yonglin sent him an iron fist for him to use.

Living in the back of the entire array, Su Haisheng watched the movements of the gunners with anticipation.

(End of this chapter)