Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1900 The Sword Points at Dongying (Yuanqi) Generation Difference Advantage!

The North Korean army led by Quan Li marched swaggeringly, and at the end of his sight, he could already see the city wall of Hanyang and the North Korean palace Gyeongbokgung in the north of the city.Due to the terrain, this distance is about ten to twelve miles.

The current location of the North Korean army is called Songquan Cave. Of course, this is just a place name, and it does not mean that they all ran to a certain cave.

Songquan Cave is actually located in the northeast of Gyeongbokgung Palace. Between it and Gyeongbokgung Palace, there is a mausoleum outside Hanyang City. The Koreans call it Zhenling, which is the mausoleum of Queen Shindeok of North Korea.

Queen Shindeok is the wife of Joseon King Taejo Lee Seong Gye, the third minister of Goryeo, the daughter of Kang Yunseong, the king of Xiangsan Prefecture, and the wife of Jinsan Prefecture, Kang.She was the first concubine of the Joseon Dynasty, her emblem was "Xianfei", and she was posthumously titled "Queen Shindeok" after her death. She was later renamed Queen Shindeok and was buried in Zhenling.

Such a place is naturally very important to Li Chao, and it is usually guarded by soldiers.However, since the Imjin Japanese Invasion, the Korean army had already collapsed, and then gradually recovered with the help of Ming Dynasty's "clearing inventory", and 200 people were stationed again in Zhenling.When the Japanese army made a comeback, the Korean army has not sent anyone to guard it until now.

Theoretically, Zhenling should be empty now, and Quan Li is of course aware of this, but now he found signs of army activities on the hill of Songquan Cave.

Quan Li immediately ordered someone to send a telescope to check carefully. It didn't matter if he saw it, he was taken aback on the spot, and he quickly asked the people around him, "Do you know that there are other Ming troops who came to Beijing from other places recently?"

Everyone around said there was no such news.Quan Li didn't quite believe it, so he called the local old man to ask, and he also said that no new Ming army had arrived in Wangjing Hanyang recently.

Quan Li was surprised and delighted, and said: "That means Zhang Wanbang actually came out of the city to fight our army!"

The people around were also taken aback, and asked Zhang Wanbang how many troops there were. Quan Li smiled and said, "Songquan Cave is higher, so you can see it at a glance. Zhang Wanbang only has about [-] troops."

Among Quan Li's subordinates, there was an active general named Jin Zhizhong recently, who was overjoyed when he heard the news, and said: "Marshal Du, this Ming army is really used to domineering and insolent, with only 3000 men compared to our army's eleventh, how dare they dare to fight?" Come to die, this is a good opportunity for our army to defeat the enemy! As long as we defeat the Ming army under Zhang Wanbang, with the power of this great victory, Hanyang City can be conquered without attacking!"

The rest of the generals were also overjoyed and congratulated, and they called for battle one after another. For a while, the Korean army was full of fighting spirit, and they had the courage to wipe out Zhang Wanbang's troops.

With such morale in the army, Quan Li couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately ordered not to stay any longer, and went directly down the mountain to Zhenling.The North Korean army moved into action and prepared to go down the mountain.

Wait a minute—why make up the sequence before going down the mountain?This is because the land of Songquan Cave is mainly hilly mountains, and the North Korean army is on the mountain at the moment, and the bad news is that the road down the mountain is not wide, and only three horses can run in parallel—it is almost as big as a cart slightly wider.

As a result, the marching team of the Korean army down the mountain became "just like the snake on Changshan", winding and winding for several miles.

There was nothing to say about going down the mountain, but when the last part of the North Korean army was about to go down the mountain, there was a loud noise at their feet.

The ground was cracked, mud and rocks were flying, and the mountains were shaking like a giant python rising to the sky. I don't know how many Korean soldiers flew around like clay pots full of beans fell on the ground.

The huge explosive force not only blasted the North Korean soldiers at the center of the explosion into parts with broken arms and limbs, but even the North Korean soldiers farther around were blown away. At least two to three hundred North Korean soldiers were knocked out and bled on the spot. I can't afford it.

This astonishing scene stunned everyone. The vast majority of people didn't even know what happened, and couldn't understand an explosion of this magnitude. Many people thought they had offended the mountain god or the god of thunder, and they were so frightened that they shook like chaff. Kneeling and prostrating, muttering empty pleadings.

After all, Quan Li was more knowledgeable. After a moment of shock, he knew what was going on, and shouted: "Don't panic! This is an ambush mine first used by the Ming military. It was used by Mr. Gao Ge to quell the chaos in the Northwest. It's nothing The mountain god Thunder God is furious! All battalions immediately reorganize their troops, count and treat them!"

Quan Li's reaction is not unpleasant, but even so, the morale of the North Korean army has been severely impacted, and the previous high-spirited situation no longer exists.

Many people have seen the scene of landslides and broken limbs flying around just now. This is a huge psychological blow to a feudal army that is actually at the level of the cold weapon era.So many people came up with an idea in their hearts: two or three hundred people died before the battle, this omen is very bad...

The explosion just now used Jinghua-produced lead mines, which can actually be said to be a series of landmines, dedicated by the second bidder, first battalion and third company of Zhang Wanbang's department.

The main force of Zhang Wanbang's department is currently located in Zhenling, which is far or near, and they can all hear the loud noise from the direction of Songquan Cave.The Ming army has been staring at the situation there. The Ming army could hear the explosion just now, and the generals with binoculars could see the power of the explosion more clearly.

The loss of 300 people is not a lot, and it is not a lot. After all, the total number of North Korean troops is more than [-], and this [-]% loss is naturally not a traumatic thing.

However, what happened next was somewhat unexpected by the Ming army, especially as Zhang Wanbang frowned more and more - just such an explosion disrupted the entire formation of the North Korean army.

Obviously the explosion occurred in the rear, but the North Korean army almost collapsed even the front part, and many people were inexplicably frightened and ran around, causing the generals in the Korean army to send cronies and supervisors to behead more than a dozen people in a row. The chaos was suppressed.

Then Zhang Wanbang realized that it took too much time for them to regroup.Next, the North Korean army did not start again immediately, but the generals of each battalion began to give lectures, which seemed to be encouraging their subordinates...

After finishing all these back and forth and starting again, more than half an hour had passed since the explosion, and even Zhang Wanbang became anxious when he saw it.Fortunately, they set off to continue marching in the end, otherwise Zhang Wanbang would suspect that the battle would have to be postponed until tomorrow, and he and his men would have to "sleep on the grave" tonight.

However, this also made Zhang Wanbang even more sneer at the "last elite" of the Korean army.He believes that the performance of the North Korean army shows that their organizational discipline is extremely bad, and a little trouble can make these people panic.

According to Gao Pragmatism: Discipline is the foundation of an army's combat effectiveness.Therefore, the North Korean army is obviously not an elite soldier.

Seeing that the North Korean army set off again towards Zhenling, Zhang Wanbang relaxed a little and ordered the whole army to prepare for battle.

From then on, the Ming army began to form an array. More than 20 vans were placed on the outer front line, with many rocket vehicles mixed in between, and the musketeers were waiting behind the vans, ready to meet the enemy at any time.The second and third formations of the Musketeers lined up in the rear, ready to take turns filling up the first formation at any time for three-stage shooting.

The sub-center is a circle of four-sided artillery units. The reason why it is placed in the sub-center is that the artillery needs peripheral protection, and the second is that the small radius is conducive to the mobility of the artillery vehicles, so that the artillery fire can be deployed quickly and effectively in the battle. direction.

Needless to say as for the center, it is naturally the commanding platform of the Chinese army, where Zhang Wanbang leads the guards.In fact, his position is not very good from a certain angle, mainly because he is too close to the artillery, which may be deafening in battle.

But this is also impossible, because his total strength is too small. Although the overall area of ​​this large hollow square is not small, no matter how it is arranged, the artillery will not be too far away from him.

Of course, there are disadvantages and advantages in everything. The advantage is that both he and the artillery will pay special attention to eliminating potential safety hazards under such an arrangement. Things like Dong Yiyuan who almost blow himself up by himself will basically never happen.

In fact, the artillery is placed in the rear because Jinghua has developed an adjustable muzzle scale. Otherwise, it would be inconvenient to place the artillery in the rear, because it cannot be fired at a large elevation angle, and it is easy to accidentally injure the friendly troops in front when placed in the rear.

The North Korean army was delayed for so long that when they arrived at the preset battlefield of the Ming army, not only Zhang Wanbang's troops were already in full swing, but the second standard, the first battalion and the third company that had completed the mine explosion mission also rushed back to the Ming army's position ahead of them. Was arranged into the combat formation.

When Quan Li arrived in a hurry, he took a look at the Ming army and immediately breathed a sigh of relief—the Ming army deployed a square formation, which meant that they could only be beaten passively, and they didn't even think about taking the initiative to attack or fight after gaining the advantage on the battlefield.

The square formation has always been considered as a defensive formation second only to the circular formation in the past. In Quan Li's view, the Ming army actually gave up the initiative and could only be beaten passively. Even if they won the battle, it would be very difficult. Change formations for pursuit after victory.

In other words, even if the battle goes wrong, the North Korean army should be able to retreat calmly.

Facing this situation, Quan Li almost laughed out loud.Zhang Wanbang eagerly ran out of the city to fight me, but ended up setting up a tortoise formation. What's the point of this besides helping me train my troops?
Because his side's advantage was too great, Quan Li quickly recovered from the unexpected loss just now, and ordered to surround Zhang Wanbang's troops on three sides, leaving the west side vacant.

This is the most obvious strategy of encircling the three ques and one. The reason for leaving the west side unencircled is because the best way to go to Hanyang City from the battlefield is to the west.Leaving the west side in this way will leave a way for the Ming army to escape. Once the Ming army can't support it, it will flee westward.

When Quan Li's soldiers divided into three groups and semi-surrounded the Ming army, the Ming army did not respond at first, and waited until the Korean army on the southern route entered the range of the Ming army's artillery, and then suddenly opened fire.

Why did the Korean army on the southern front enter the range of the artillery of the Ming army?It was because their path was the most difficult, so in order to ensure that the whole army would not be delayed, the Korean army on the southern front took a short cut and entered the artillery range of the Ming army.

Originally, although Quan Li was dissatisfied with the performance on the southern front, he didn't pay too much attention to it. After all, accidents are the most indispensable thing on the battlefield. Who can guarantee that all predictions on the battlefield will happen, and everything that he hopes to avoid will happen? perfect avoid?It's enough to see it.

However, the Ming army soon made Quan Li regret this idea,

The artillery of the Zhang Wanbang Department of the Ming Army has a battalion, with a total of nearly 600 people, who control artillery and rocket vehicles respectively.Among them, the artillery is all the Army's No. 86 gun, and a gun crew is operated by five people, with a total of 72 guns; two rocket vehicles are a team, with a total of [-] vehicles.

Theoretically speaking, since the Ming army deployed a square formation, each side had 21.5 artillery pieces and 18 rocket vehicles. Of course, it is impossible for the artillery to have half a cannon, so there must be 22 pieces on two sides, and 21 pieces on the other two sides.But in any case, each side is about 20 guns and 20 rocket cars.

However, the feeling of the Korean army on the southern front is very inconsistent with this "theoretical" value. The Ming army first fired a salvo of rocket vehicles, and the first wave of 18 rocket vehicles fired overwhelming rockets. This kind of weapon has a certain explosive nature. It brought a very frightening large-scale fragmentation to the North Korean army.

At this time, the Korean army discovered that the rocket vehicles used by the Ming army were not the same as the rocket vehicles they gave to North Korea. At least the rockets fired by each rocket vehicle in one salvo must far exceed those given to North Korea.

This feeling is completely correct, because each rocket vehicle salvo of the Ming army is 9*9, which is 81 rockets.The propulsion of the rockets of the Ming army relied on the gunpowder at the back of the arrow to ignite the jet power, and the explosion was due to the gunpowder and broken pottery pieces built in the middle of the rocket.

The construction of this rocket was inspired by bamboo joints.To put it simply, when the power gunpowder at the rear is burned out, a lead wire inside passes through the empty compartment that exists like a bamboo joint between the two compartments. After burning in the empty compartment, the "bamboo joint" in the middle The gunpowder in the gunpowder caused an explosion, which blasted the built-in pottery fragments to cause damage.

As for why there is an empty compartment between the two gunpowder compartments, of course it is to control the explosion time. Generally speaking, it is to control the explosion at the moment the power burns out and lands—this is difficult to be precise, but it can be achieved at present not bad.

A rocket car fires 81 rockets capable of exploding and ejecting "face damage pottery", which means that even if there are exactly 18 rocket cars in each direction, they can shoot 1458 rockets in one salvo!
In fact, these rockets did not completely hit the crowd of North Korean soldiers. In fact, the hit rate of rockets has always been relatively worrying. This round of rockets may not even hit the crowd (less than 458), and some of them almost hit the crowd. Hit the same position, failed to produce maximum effect.

However, the feeling of the North Korean army is like facing purgatory!

In their feelings, the Ming army's overwhelming rockets fell, and countless pottery fragments flew up from the explosion.The accuracy of these pottery fragments does not matter, but each pottery fragment can be compared to a dart thrown by a legendary martial arts master.

Although a single piece of pottery is not very powerful because the possibility of hitting the vital point is very low. , There were screams everywhere.

The bad is the screaming, many people will not die at all, but too many people are injured.Countless hoarse screams add up to make people feel like they have entered purgatory. They just feel that everyone around them is suffering great torture, and those who are lucky enough not to be injured feel chills down their backs and shiver, wondering if it will be the next moment. Do the same for yourself.

To make matters worse, the injured people would not just scream, but would also run around subconsciously, which immediately caused chaos in the formation of the Korean army on the southern front and turned the whole thing into a mess.

Quan Li, who stayed on the North Road, just stared dumbfounded at the nearly ten thousand elite Korean troops on the south line, who collapsed on the spot after such a mere round of rocket salvo.All the formations and formations were completely disintegrated in an instant, and the whole team seemed to have been cast by a spell, and they went boldly and returned in a mess.

Quan Li's mind was buzzing, his mind was muddled, and there was only one voice that couldn't get away: The southern line has an army of nearly ten thousand, is this defeated?
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