1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 510 Bingfeng ([-])

Yue Zhongwu stood in the first row of the array. He checked again whether the bullets and gunpowder of the musket had been loaded, then gently raised the musket with the muzzle facing down, and then looked up at the front.

"Don't be nervous, Jiannu is vulnerable in front of us!" Yue Zhongwu said in a low voice when he heard the rapid breathing of a companion next to him, "As long as we keep shooting, they won't be able to rush over."

Yu Dasheng glanced at Yue Zhongwu with some shame, then opened his mouth wide and took a deep breath.He is a supplementary recruit recruited from Hanzhou this year, and he is assigned to Yue Zhongwu's team.When I first came here, I was full of pride and confidence, thinking that I would make contributions, get promoted and get rich.They used to be the local soldiers of Hanzhou, and they also went to kill the natives in the inland. A few days ago, they even followed the old army to attack the city in North Korea. The battle process was extremely relaxed.

But at this moment, when he was really about to face Jiannu's cavalry charge, he became inexplicably nervous, swallowing saliva non-stop, his heart was beating very hard, and even his hands holding the gun trembled a little.Gein, after they came to Denglai, they often heard the fleeing people and the soldiers of the Ming army mention how cruel and invincible Jiannu was.

Although his companions in the Marine Corps showed disapproval, there was still a trace of fear in his heart.If Jiannu was not very capable of fighting, how could he have fought from Baishan Heishui to the hinterland of the Central Plains, and drove Li Zicheng's Dashun army with millions of troops to run around.

"Attention, Jiannu is starting to charge!" The combat staff officer on the top of the city put down his binoculars and shouted towards the formation of the Qi army below the city.

"Wear a helmet!" The company commander in the front ordered loudly.

"Put the visor on!"

"Prepare!"

"Raise guns in the first row!"

Yue Zhongwu calmly raised his musket with a smile on his face.This Jiannu is too contemptuous of people. Looking from a distance, there are only a hundred or so armored cavalry rushing to the formation. You know, we have seven companies here, more than 800 muskets, and artillery cover behind us. It is you Jiannu Even if all the cavalry rushed over, it might not be able to shake our formation. If they insisted on rushing, it would be nothing more than giving away their heads.

After several confrontations with Jiannu, the veterans of the Second Marine Battalion already had a huge psychological advantage when facing Jiannu, and they knew how powerful their musket formation was.As long as one's own muskets keep firing, a small number of cavalry can't get close at all.

"Get ready!" The company commander raised the command saber in his hand high, and the Jiannu armored cavalry had rushed to a distance of more than a hundred meters before rejecting the horse.

However, the more than one hundred Jiannu cavalry made a sharp turn tens of meters in front of the rejecting horse, barely pressed in front of the rejecting horse, then changed direction, and then rushed towards one side.

"Tartar!" The company commander on the side of the queue lifted his visor and spat on the ground, "You're playing tricks on your grandpa!"

Afterwards, the more than one hundred Jiannu cavalry began a wonderful "circus performance", galloping back and forth in front of the Qi army, shooting a few feathered arrows at the Qi army from time to time, and then ran away with their horses, leading the formation soot.

"Are we just watching Jiannu playing monkeys in front of the battle?" Li Fade, the commander of the [-]st Marine Battalion, said angrily.

"We stand in front of the city and wait for work at leisure, so Jiannu can walk there." Niu Hu said calmly: "They have come from a long way, I guess they can still eat at this time. Let's compare with them , who has patience. Order the second battalion and the artillery squadron to continue to guard, the first battalion and the third battalion to rest in place, and the cavalry squadron to dismount."

Hearing the movement from the back of the queue, Yu Dasheng couldn't help but glanced back. Seeing that the soldiers in the next few rows all sat down in place, some even took out the kettle to drink water, and some took out the sugar jar and poured it out. Take a handful and pop it into your mouth.

"Stay vigilant, don't get distracted!" Yue Zhongwu reminded softly.

When Yu Dasheng heard the words, he immediately turned his head, held the musket in both hands, and looked straight ahead.

In the formation of slaves, Bahana was riding on a horse, and he couldn't help nodding. The black-clothed army on the opposite side was an elite division.Knowing that the more than [-] cavalry sent by our own side are wandering back and forth, they are testing their details and showing off their strength at the same time.But the opponent remained motionless, did not show any look of fear, and ordered most of the soldiers to rest where they were.

"Try to attack!" Bahana ordered to the leader of Zhenglan Banner Haise next to him: "Go up a hundred armored horses, and try to dismantle the rejected horses first."

"Hey!" Haise heard the order, rode back to the formation, ordered a leader to charge forward with a hundred armored cavalry, and took the opportunity to dismantle the repelling horses in front of the enemy's formation.

"More than a hundred cavalry rushed out of the Jiannu formation!" The staff officer in charge of observing the enemy's situation at the head of the city shouted loudly.

Hearing this, Li Fade turned his head to look at Niu Hu, with eagerness in his eyes.

Niu Hu held up the binoculars, still observing the enemy's situation, and did not issue any orders.This meant that if more than [-] Jiannu cavalry came charging forward, they would have to rely on the second marine battalion at the front to fight the enemy alone.

"Damn it, I'm really going to rush over this time." Xu Chuanxing complained softly, and then ordered: "Get ready to fight!"

"Fight!..."

"Raise the gun!"

"Prepare!"

"When Jiannu shoots arrows later, lower your head a little bit. As long as your luck is not that bad, you won't hurt us." As the team leader, Yue Zhongwu whispered to his teammates in the middle of the queue.

Yu Dasheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took a deep breath, and then held the musket tightly with both hands, staring at the place where the smoke and dust rose in front of him.

"Jian Nu is close to rejecting the horse!"

"Jiannu more than ten rode off his horse!"

"Jianu is removing the Juma!"

"First column, walk together!" The company commander on the right side of the array issued an order.

"Get ready!... Let it go!" Seeing that the horse was 100 meters away from the front, the company commander slammed down the command knife in his hand.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." More than 40 muskets fired instantly.

After Yu Dasheng pulled the trigger, his mind was at a loss, and he suddenly didn't know what to do.

"Stand back from both sides and get out of the way!" The platoon leader on the far right of the queue shouted loudly.

Yue Zhongwu kicked Yu Dasheng, who was in a daze, and motioned him to lean over and retreat from both sides to the back.

"The second column is ready!" The company commander looked through the rising gunpowder smoke, and saw more than ten Jiannu fell in a haphazard manner at the place where the horses were refused in front of him. Has such a good effect.

The more than two hundred Jiannu cavalry who came to charge the battle were a little dazed by this round of volley. They watched helplessly when the sound of gunfire rang out, and the dozen or so companions who were going to dismantle the rejection horse were shot and fell to the ground. Several wounded armored cavalry were shouting at the top of their lungs.

From such a long distance, the opposite firecracker still has such a great lethality!

When confronting the Ming army in the past, it is not that they have not experienced the opponent's firecracker shooting, but that thing is only a threat from dozens of steps away.More than sixty steps (about 100 meters), it is impossible to penetrate my Qing armor.

"Go to some more people and dismantle the horse!" The leader of the team ordered in a cold voice: "Move quickly and break a few holes."

A dozen or so cavalrymen rode up to Juma without any hesitation, then got off their horses and ran towards Juma quickly.

"Get ready!... Let go!" Seeing more than a dozen Jiannu abandoning their horses and coming to the ground, the company commander was a little happy. Isn't this Jiannu a bit stupid, rushing to die one after another? .

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." There was another round of volleys, and Jian Nu, who had run up to reject the horse, immediately threw down more than a dozen of them, and the rest of them seemed to wake up, turned their heads and ran back.

The eyelids of the leader of the Eight Banners Zuoling jumped a few times, hiss, the black-clothed army on the opposite side is sharp!If the fight continues like this, the more than two hundred cavalry who came up may have to be reimbursed before rejecting the horse.

The leader looked back at the brigade behind him, and seeing that there was no signal to withdraw from the formation, he gritted his teeth and ordered more than ten people to go to the horse refusal place, ordering them to make several openings so that they could rush into the enemy formation .

After sacrificing more than ten armored cavalry again, Jiannu finally broke through two refusal horses, allowing several cavalry to pass through.The leader of the team didn't delay any longer, he kicked his horse's belly with both feet, and rushed towards the black-clothed army formation with the remaining 150 cavalry.

"The first battalion is ready!" Niu Hu ordered loudly.

More than [-] officers and soldiers of the first marine battalion held muskets and quickly formed a three-row shooting formation, standing behind the officers and soldiers of the second battalion.

Seeing more than a hundred Jiannu cavalry charge rapidly, the Second Marine Battalion also quickly changed formation, forming three rows and forming a dense firepower output formation.

"First column, get ready!"

"……put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." More than 70 muskets sounded almost simultaneously, and suddenly, a puff of gunpowder smoke filled the front of the battle.

"Second column, ready, let go!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The continuous musket fire sounded like fried beans under the city of Ye County. The prince Zhu Cihong, who was hiding on the tower to watch the battle, opened his eyes wide. Looking at the place where the horses were kept in front, there seemed to be an invisible wall. The slaves fell there row by row, and some wounded horses neighed and wanted to jump up and escape from here, but they were either tripped by nearby rejecting horses or hit by subsequent musket bullets, and then they were powerless. fell to the ground.

In less than a quarter of an hour, all the nearly two hundred Jiannu who rushed to the formation were shot and killed near Juma, because the smoke of gunpowder obscured the sight of the commander in the formation, so that the firecrackers continued to shoot, killing some near-death soldiers. The war horse was completely killed on the ground.

"Stop shooting!" Niu Hu ordered loudly after receiving the signal from the combat staff officer at the head of the city.

After the order was issued, the hustle and bustle of the battlefield immediately calmed down. After about an incense stick of time, the smoke in front of the battle gradually dissipated. Niu Hu let out a sigh of relief when he saw the messy battlefield ahead.

The first battle is complete!
"Order the first battalion to send soldiers to clean up the battlefield and restore the horse refusal!"

"Order the second battalion to withdraw to the rear, temporarily rest and check the damage!"

"Order the third battalion to set up a guard in front!"

Yue Zhongwu held his musket, walked backwards, and turned his head to watch dozens of officers and soldiers of the first battalion go out to clean the battlefield. He smacked his mouth regretfully. It's a pity that these new brothers Go for a bargain.

In the formation of the cavalry of the Qing army, Bahana looked sternly at the position where the battle had just occurred in front of him, and was shocked in his heart.My two hundred and eight banner athletes in the Qing Dynasty failed to reach the enemy, and were shot and killed by firecrackers more than 60 steps away!Although they are soldiers of the Mongolian Eight Banners, they have also gone through battles and fought all the way from Liaodong, and their strength far exceeds that of Guanning Army and Li Zicheng Army.Even if you can't shake the enemy's formation by rushing in, you won't be able to wipe out the entire army?

Moreover, from a distance, the enemy's losses should be very slight.Oh, the Ming army stationed in Ye County is really not easy!

"Lord Du Tong..." Hai Se also had a serious face, and he softly called out to Bahana: "Let's wait for the infantry to arrive before attacking this city. If the losses in Ye County are too great, I'm afraid those ex-Ming soldiers are not easy to suppress."

Bahana nodded, looking at the density of the opponent's firecrackers, I am afraid that it may not be a good idea to fill in the remaining eight or nine hundred cavalry.Moreover, the artillery on the other side of the city did not fire from the beginning to the end.He didn't think that the opponent didn't want to waste gunpowder and bullets, so he didn't fire.The enemy seems to be very confident that they can withstand the small-scale charge of our Qing cavalry with only firearms.

Just when he was about to order the whole army to retreat and prepare to find a suitable place to set up camp temporarily, he suddenly heard the armored cavalry in the formation start to clamor loudly and curse from time to time.

"Lord Du Tong, the bandit army is... killing prisoners!" Hai Se pointed forward and said angrily.

Bahana looked in the direction Haise pointed, and saw forty or fifty black-clothed soldiers holding long swords at the place where the Ming army refused to horse in front of them, one by one making up for the Eight Banners armored cavalry lying on the ground. The knife, regardless of life or death, stabbed fiercely.There are also some soldiers who started to rummage through the corpses after making up their swords, as if they were looking for property.

These soldiers in black don't want to be captured!Bahana watched with a gloomy expression, and remained silent for a long time.

"Do you think Jianu will be enraged and rush over?" Niu Hu asked with some uncertainty.

"Probably not." Li Fade shook his head and said, "Maybe we were frightened by our volley of guns just now. Besides, they are all cavalry, so I don't think it will be consumed any more."

Sure enough, the Jiannu cavalry began to turn their horses around and ran towards the northwest of Ye County, leaving a cloud of smoke and dust behind.

"Cavalry squadrons follow up and see where Jiannu has gone." Niu Huling said, "But don't fight Jiannu lightly."

Hearing this, Fu Jinbiao immediately led more than [-] cavalry to gallop in the direction where Jiannu left.

"Retreat, return to the city!"

When the Qi army entered Ye County, the new Ming army and many civilians stationed in the city lined up on both sides of the street, looking at their neat and orderly marching ranks with a little awe.Fight head-on with the Jiannu invaders, kill hundreds, and force the Jiannu to flee far away. Qi's army is mighty!

Jiang Yongrui, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Denglai, stood on the tower with the prince, and was also watching the Qi army marching in.Sharp guns, high morale, well-trained, and strict discipline are the most intuitive feelings of Prince Zhu Cihong.Although it was just a very short and small-scale outpost battle just now, the overall combat quality displayed by the Qi army still shocked the Ming Crown Prince and officials who were watching the battle.

When the Jiannu cavalry charged towards the Juma Gap, they also immediately shot arrows at the Qi army formation, but although a few people in the Qi army formation fell to the ground, the entire formation remained motionless, and no soldiers screamed or fled. , The soldiers in the rear row silently filled the vacated positions in front, and continued to shoot calmly under the order of the officer.

"When did our Ming army have such a good fighter?" Zhu Cihong said in a low voice.

"I will devote myself to it, and in time, I will also train such a strong soldier for Your Highness!" Jiang Yongrui bowed and saluted.

"Thank you, Jiang Qing!" Zhu Cihong tried hard to imitate his father's appearance, and encouraged him: "If we restore our great Ming Dynasty and rebuild our career, Jiang Qing will be crowned king by this palace!"

"I am terrified!" Jiang Yongrui knelt on one knee, "For Daming and His Royal Highness, I am willing to repay you with all my heart!"

Niu Hu walked at the back of the queue, and when he crossed the city gate, he couldn't help but look back at the Juma place where the battle had just taken place. Hundreds of new troops from the Ming Dynasty had already rushed there, stripping off the armor of Jiannu, and some He was beheading Jiannu with a knife.

"The real battle is about to begin!"

(End of this chapter)