Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 486 The calf is over!

The imagined battlefield: the cavalry on the opposite side charges, and the infantry of one's own side is lined up in a strict formation, aiming repeatedly with muskets, one bullet will take away an enemy.

The actual battlefield: The cavalry on the opposite side charged, and the infantry of one's own side scattered and hid behind the bunkers piled up with corpses. After aiming a little according to the feeling, they shot directly, then quickly ejected and reloaded, and then fired another shot.

In the era without Maxim, the soldiers had to prepare their bayonets by the way, and at any time they had to be ready for direct hand-to-hand combat after the cavalry broke through the line of defense.

If they lined up and aimed again and again like in the film and television drama, the only end for the infantry was to be broken up by the cavalry and slaughtered wantonly.

Let me tell you a cruel reality: Although Zhu Yuanzhang used a lot of artillery when he was chasing Mongolian Yuan, it was the cavalry that really played a key role.

And the more cruel reality is: the Rabbit family needed to aim again and again on the battlefield because they couldn't make bullets themselves, so they could only rely on repeated aiming to increase their hit rate.

Of course, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty now don’t have to worry about whether there are enough bullets. According to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, the ammunition that each soldier carries with him is [-] rounds of bullets and [-] grenades. The battalion-level units began to have professional logistics support teams. Responsible for the ammunition issue.

Coupled with the artillery equipped to the battalion level...

Therefore, when the Ottoman commander Katona began to look at the battlefield with the binoculars he got from some businessmen in France, he was completely shocked by the scene that caught his eyes - his own cavalry, and they were still in armor The elite heavy cavalry was riding a fucking horse and charging forward with a knife, but was blown up by a shell for no reason!
shells?

The dazed Katona looked in the direction where the artillery shells hit, but saw that the artillerymen of the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side were slowly moving the artillery forward, and Katona counted it several times. The number is eighteen.

Then here comes the problem: as far as Kanato knows, the Ming army on the opposite side is probably the strength of a regiment. According to the firepower configuration standards of the Ming army, there will probably be an artillery battalion under a regiment, and the artillery of an artillery battalion The configuration is generally eighteen guns, and each company has six artillery guns.

Now that the eighteen cannons are moving forward, where did the Ming army get the cannons to bombard their own cavalry?
Just as Katona was frowning and thinking, the Ottoman cavalry sent out by Katona suffered a catastrophe——Ottoman's war horse is indeed a good horse, whether it is endurance or sprinting explosive power, it is at the top level. The two cavalry opened up frontally, and the Ottoman cavalry was definitely the one with the advantage in maneuvering.

But, Ottoman's horses have not undergone special artillery adaptation training.

Whether it is the fragments and flames when the shells exploded, or the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and flying dust, they are all crazily stimulating the horses under the Ottoman cavalry.

When the first war horse was frightened, a large number of war horses began to be frightened.

The frightened war horses don't care who is riding on them, they just want to flee the battlefield as soon as possible, away from the smoke and shell fragments.

What's more terrible is the war horse, this kind of thing is very smart, they immediately judged that the shell came from the front, so they also instinctively chose to flee to the left, right and rear.

This is the end of the Ottoman army - the horses fleeing to the left and right are better to say, but the horses fleeing to the rear are the ones attacking the Ottoman army, especially at the end. It was Ottoman artillery, and artillery acquired at a great price!

"Stop them!"

Seeing that his war horses were about to attack his artillery positions, Katona had no time to think about why the Ming army had a few extra cannons. Instead, he issued orders one after another, trying to send people to stop those who were already frightened. war horse.

But it's useless.

War horses will obey orders when they are stable, but when they are frightened, there is no such thing as ordering or not ordering. They only want to smash away everything that blocks their escape route!Be it human or otherwise!
In order to completely stop those frightened war horses, there is only one way for Karato to go - to order to shoot his own war horses, so as to keep his own artillery position!
But what about that old saying?

The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat!
The artillery bought at a huge price is Kanato's heart, and so are the elite cavalry!

Any damage would be enough to make Kanato's heart ache to the point of bleeding!

However, the situation on the battlefield has always been changing rapidly - just when Kanato was hesitating whether to kill his own cavalry, those frightened horses had already rushed to the artillery position behind!

"It's over, it's over," Kanato couldn't help muttering as he watched the frightened warhorses start to attack his rear formation, "The infantry is over, the cavalry is over, and I'm also over..."

After today's battle, not only did it fail to scratch the oily skin of the Ming army, but it damaged an infantry and a cavalry-although the casualties were not too many, they were fatal to Ottoman's morale hit!
Whether it is Grand Vizier Suleiman or Mustafa Pasha, it is absolutely impossible to spare Kanato!

It's just that Carato didn't have time to sigh with emotion.

As the impact of his own cavalry on his artillery positions became more and more serious, Kanato also had to calm down and ordered: "Send orders to shoot and kill those frightened horses immediately, and order the reserve cavalry to control the horses and cover the artillery. retreat!"

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"That's the end?" Zhu Jianying looked at the class monitor next to him, Hu Xianliang, in a dazed look: "We went out to the front, are we really just here to seize the front?"

Hu Xianliang poohed bitterly, and then said resentfully: "Or else? I said that the bastards in the artillery would not give us a chance to charge and fight. What is going on now, am I right? You have to think about it." The addiction to war, except for those bastards whose shells have all been fired."

After scolding his own artillery, Hu Xianliang aimed his output at Katona, the commander of the Ottoman army on the opposite side: "That Ottoman commander is also a waste, and the sand sculpture didn't know how to ask for news before the battle? Who told you?" He, our Daming army has only eighteen artillery pieces in one artillery battalion?"

Hearing her squad leader swearing there, Zhu Jianying couldn't help laughing: "Squad leader, do you think there is a possibility that our "Daming Newspaper" told him that there are only [-] artillery battalions in our Daming army? Cannon?"

Hu Xianliang's face froze, and then he stopped the crazy output with a high amount of mother in resentment-it's no problem to scold the barbarians of Ottoman, and it's no problem to output a few words to his artillery brothers, but he is crazy about "Daming Newspaper" The output is another matter.

The "Daming Newspaper" was created by Emperor Zhu. In the hearts of the people of Ming Dynasty, it is the platform for Emperor Zhu to speak, and the people of Daming... Don't look at the people of Daming who will scold the government and the officials from time to time, but they have never been No common people ever scolded Emperor Zhu.

Of course, not scolding does not mean not complaining, for example, because Emperor Zhu is often exempted from taxes and taxes, spraying Emperor Zhu as the emperor of money, or saying that Emperor Zhu is not a good emperor because Emperor Zhu doesn't like the selection of women. and many more.

It's funny to say it, the people of Ming Dynasty generally think that Emperor Zhu's lack of sexuality is a shortcoming - as a good emperor, the most important thing you should do is to choose more concubines and have more children, do you understand, dear!

If the common people are like this, it is needless to say about the Ming army.

The Ming army, who almost regarded Emperor Zhu as a god, usually looked at people with their nostrils upturned, looking like the boss of the sky and their second child, looking down on this and that, and even the army, navy, and hot air balloon troops of the Ming Dynasty. They all looked at each other disliked, but when it came to Emperor Zhu, these Qiuba uncles seemed to be completely different people.

Boss?

No one can step on a horse!

In the whole world, only His Majesty the Emperor is the real Dragon Emperor!

Hu Xianliang couldn't help but snorted coldly when he thought that he almost exported the "Daming Newspaper" just now, and then began to greet the Ottoman commander Katona with a very high content: "I just can't figure it out." , will that sand sculpture on the opposite side fucking know how to fight?"

"My mother, my army can be overwhelmed by my own war horses. I'm afraid this level is not how to fight after learning from my wife? Or are these bastards actually similar to Jianyi?"

"If I were the commander of the Ottoman on the opposite side, I'd just find a piece of tofu and kill me so as not to embarrass myself here!"

Zhu Jianying stopped Hu Xianliang with a smile, and said, "Squad leader, I figured that the Ottoman commander on the opposite side would not let it go, maybe there would be other ways of fighting?"

Hu Xianliang curled his lips in disdain, and mocked: "Other ways of fighting? If it was replaced by Jianyi's green camp soldiers, I would still worry about whether they would change to night attack, fire attack, water attack and other tactics, but This Ottoman army... being able to send cavalry at the critical moment of the artillery position is already their greatest skill."

This is not Hu Xianliang's intention to belittle the Ottoman army, but the conclusion reached after fighting several battles with the Ottoman army and combining the battles in Ottoman history.

It's just that if you don't look down on it, you don't look down on it, but there is a little bit of caution that should be there.

Hu Xianliang thought about it and said: "The attack of the barbarians has been frustrated at the moment. You should be more careful when you watch the night, and you must guard against the night attacks of the barbarians. After all, we can't expect the barbarians to stay stupid forever."

The smile on Zhu Jianying's face faltered: "Night watch? Can't we take this opportunity to cover up and kill them?"

Hu Xianliang immediately slapped Zhu Jianying on the back of the head: "Covering? Ottoman's cavalry is indeed abolished, but it doesn't mean that Ottoman has no cavalry at all. The artillery position is difficult to move. You use two legs to hunt down Ottoman Cavalry, isn’t that delivering food to people? Besides, can you catch up?”

In fact, as Hu Xianliang expected, a new military order soon came from the rear of the Ming Dynasty, requiring the infantry who went out to seize the position to clean up the battlefield immediately after the Ottoman army withdrew and stationed there.

After this battle, Ming's army did successfully achieve zero casualties, but the consumption of shells was also huge - there were 24 cannons starting to speak, and more than 100 shells were smashed directly. It's cool, but the logistics side can't help but greet the artillerymen with a very high content.

As for the infantry... Although compared with the consumption of the artillery, the bullets consumed by the infantry are nothing, but according to the extravagant style of the Ming army that does not treat bullets as money, the bullets on each soldier There are still about [-] rounds left, and the addition of the bullets consumed by the three infantry battalions is also an astronomical figure. It is estimated that it is unlikely to move forward before the replenishment is completed.

This made Zhu Jianying feel a little confused.

The real battlefield turned out to be like this bird?
It stopped fucking, and it took a day or two to stop. There was no flash of swords and arrows, and there was no hail of bullets. It seemed that round after round of shells hit the past, and then the problem was solved?
It wasn't until Zhu Jianying approached Hu Xianliang with his mind full of questions that he got the answer from the veteran's mouth.

"Do you know what the most difficult years of our Ming army were like?"

Hu Xianliang looked at Zhu Jianying who looked confused and said with a smile: "To be honest, I have never experienced the most difficult years in our Ming army. After all, I have been in the Holy Emperor for 15 years when I joined our Ming army. I've only been a soldier for nine years."

"But I've heard it from veterans."

"When it is the worst time, it is normal to be hungry and full. Although it is not enough to say that you will be hungry for nine meals in three days, you will still be hungry for one or two meals in three days. Sometimes it is too late to bury the pot when there is a war in winter. For rice, those veterans just eat a mouthful of corn bread and a mouthful of snow."

"Sometimes when a disaster hits a place that has just been conquered, the veterans still have to give up their rations for the people to eat. They can only dig grass roots, catch rats, and snakes. Eat? Eat a fart!"

"Even five years ago, the Holy Emperor, our Daming army had a hard time—at that time, His Majesty said that the army had to give way to the people, and the money from the treasury was basically used to build roads and dig reservoirs, and there was not much to allocate. For our army."

"It wasn't until the monkey countries of Siam and Burma were eliminated, and a large amount of compensation was obtained from the Portuguese, that the life of our Ming army was a little easier."

"Do you know what those veterans envied most at that time? It was the garrisons stationed in Bangzi and Wa Kingdoms. Their food and drink were all provided by Bangzi and Wa Kingdoms. The conditions were much better than our local troops in Daming."

"At that time, how many rounds of bullets did each soldier of our Ming army have on average? It was only fifty rounds! Fifty rounds of bullets for that crap flintlock, do you think it can be used for nothing?"

(End of this chapter)