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Chapter 204 Hearing the name of Shenfutai, the morale can be fully boosted

Zhu Wenzhen didn't talk nonsense with cowards like Liu Shunchen, he just took out the basic monocular binoculars distributed by Shen Shuren, and observed the enemy's situation from the watchtower in Chenglingji.

After confirming the size and distribution of Jiao Guangqi's troops on the opposite side, Zhu Wenzhen asked his subordinates to rest for half an hour, eat something to recover their strength, and then attack on time at noon.

For one thing, his troops would definitely be exhausted after traveling a long distance.Secondly, it's almost noon, and soldiers and horses will further suffer from physical exhaustion if they don't eat.

At the same time, experienced generals all know that if soldiers who are exhausted only rest for a quarter of an hour, the gain will not be worth the loss. The muscles will become sore and it will be difficult to exert strength.

The ancients may not know the scientific principle here is that "after a long period of exercise, once the muscles stop, lactic acid will accumulate and begin to excrete acid", but they still have simple battlefield experience.

If you want to rest, you should rest for at least half an hour, just to digest what you just ate, so as to avoid intestinal ulcer (appendicitis) and the horses resting.

For half an hour, the bandit army on the opposite side would not rest, they were still building blockades.

Perhaps the time difference of half an hour can allow them to dig the trench in front of the camp one foot deeper and wider, but the negative impact of this is not much different for the cavalry. In the subsequent battles, it will have a greater negative impact, no matter how you look at it, the officers and soldiers will make money.

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More than half an hour passed quickly, and the time came to the beginning of noon.

The first month of June in the lunar calendar was a very hot time, with the scorching sun in the sky, and more than [-] people under Jiao Guangqi's command were as tired as dogs because of camping, digging ditches, and logging.

And because everyone is working, they are more tired.The food in the army was also supplemented by killing and looting along the way, and rice noodles and mixed vegetables were different.Even if it's just a simple one-pot stew to make porridge, it will be a little more complicated and time-consuming than a single-grain meal, so the time for the thief army to eat will be later.

Jiao Guangqi never thought that the officers and soldiers might go out of the city to fight back in the field, so he did not optimize the meal time of the soldiers at all.

He just looked at the sun and felt that the weather would get hotter and hotter after noon, so he ordered everyone to work quickly and wait until the sun passed noon, and then eat at three o'clock in the noon.

This is also in line with common sense in life, because the hottest time in summer is from one o'clock in the afternoon to two o'clock, even hotter than twelve o'clock in the noon.

Even later generations of migrant workers who build houses in summer know that they have to take a lunch break from twelve to two o'clock.Jiao Guangqi asked the soldiers to seize the time to do more work in the morning, and eat and rest in the afternoon, which is already very considerate.

Who knows, Zhu Wenzhen is just so ignorant of martial arts.

Just after the first quarter of noon, he used the cavalry of the official army to finish their lunch first, and after the lunch break, while the bandit army had no lunch or lunch break, he opened the gate of the village in Chenglingji, and led [-] cavalry to fight out.

"The officers and soldiers dare to attack?" Jiao Guangqi, who was in the big tent, heard the roar and noise of horseshoes in the direction of the enemy's village in the north, and immediately forgot to eat. He jumped up with a dog leg as a snack, shouting loudly. Shout out to let the soldiers line up to meet them.

Li Dingguo gave him more than 1 horsemen. Even if a considerable part of them were cannon fodder for the newly attached army, at least three or four thousand were veterans, and the number of cavalry was no less than that of Zhu Wenzhen.

It is equivalent to two or three thousand cavalry, plus more than 8000 infantry, and Zhu Wenzhen on the opposite side of the battle has only two thousand pure cavalry. No matter how you look at it, there is a gap of five or six times in strength between the two sides!

Even if the morale of the officers and soldiers is high, well-equipped, and well-rested, can this five or six times the difference in strength be bridged?
Jiao Guangqi bit the dog's leg viciously, threw the rest away, and pulled out his saber with a grinning face. He supervised the battle and asked the soldiers to line up to defend. After that, let the cavalry outflank the countercharge.

The two sides quickly approached quickly, and the fight was imminent.

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Zhu Wenzhen has fought in Liaodong for many years. Not only has he fought with Cao Bianjiao, but he also traveled south and north with Cao Bianjiao's uncle Cao Wenzhao. He has been in the army for more than ten years.

Like the two generals Cao, he is a native of Shanxi.

If Shen Shuren hadn't been rescued by the butterfly effect, he would have been wiped out along with the main force of the 13 Ming army when Hong Chengchou was destroyed in history.

For him now, every extra day he lived was picked up.

Among the generals who were withdrawn from Liaodong, Zhu Wenzhen was an official and general, and he was the highest-ranking general who was willing to give up his original status and follow Shen Shuren.

The reason why he can think so openly has something to do with the fact that he lost some disabilities and cut off a few fingers during the fierce battle at Xingshan and Bijiashan.Therefore, he could no longer hold a weapon with one hand, and he also lost the ability to take the lead and lead the cavalry to charge.

Even if he returned to the north and continued to serve in the army with his original official position, he might not have a better future.However, Shen Shuren was particularly generous to the honorable veterans.

For all the defeated Liaodong soldiers who buried their names and pretended to be dead and laundered, Shen Shuren would retain their original treatment, and if the military salary was not easy to account for, he would pay the difference out of his own pocket.

Zhu Wenzhen had seen those crippled and useless veterans with a bleak future.This made him even more grateful to Shen Shuren, eager to prove that "even if a general lacks one hand, he can continue to use his remaining heat and command well."

At this moment, he was hanging a saber on the left side of his waist, and holding a revolver that was just produced at the end of last month in his right hand. He was in the middle army in a leisurely manner, commanding the soldiers to charge in an orderly manner.

The left hand missing two fingers cannot hold a saber, nor can it hold a revolver, but it can be used to press the revolver and hammer of the revolver——

Shen Shuren's latest revolver, the degree of automation is of course similar to Colt's oldest revolver in the 1800s, so it is impossible to "pull the trigger and directly complete the revolver, tighten the hammer, and fire the gun." The three major movements of the hammer".

For the old-fashioned runner, the hammer needs to be manually released to store power, and the trigger is only responsible for firing.Therefore, in many western movies, cowboys who play "American-style Iai" have to use the pistol with both left and right hands. One hand is responsible for tightening the hammer to charge, and the other hand pulls the trigger to fire.

Zhu Wenzhen's missing finger is just right for charging the hammer. In the past two months, when he is free, he focuses on practicing this hand. He knows that this is his future. , The most efficient opportunity to personally kill the enemy.

You must use this battle to prove that you are worthy of the general treatment given by Shen Futai!
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The two sides quickly approached within a hundred paces. Relying on the advantage of the infantry, the thieves soon began to launch long-range attacks sparsely.

Because the bandits came from across the mountains and traveled long distances to fight, the number of firearms was naturally very small.Li Dingguo left the few Flang machines captured by surrendering to the county town halfway, and they were not brought to Chenglingji.

Therefore, Jiao Guangqi's entire army only had two to three hundred old-fashioned firecrackers, not even accurate bird blunderbusses and Lumi blunderbusses.There is no equipment for the strong crossbow, mainly relying on a large number of bows and arrows to cover and shoot.

Jiao Guangqi didn't know any advanced musket tactics either. The muskets fired when the two sides were just a hundred paces away, and they used captured slugs.

Shooting a single projectile with a musket, more than 100 steps away, the hit rate is very poor.There have been rigorous tests in later generations. Even if you aim and shoot, the hit rate of a single projectile at 150 yards will never reach [-]%.
What's more, the equipment that the thieves casually aimed at and seized was still in disrepair and even rusty.

After more than 200 guns were fired, the cavalry of the officers and soldiers were only shot down by a dozen people, and not all of them were shot to death. More than half of them were shot by horses and threw them off.

Fortunately, slugs also have the advantage of slugs, that is, the projectiles are extremely powerful and cannot be blocked by iron armor, so as long as they are hit, they are basically dead, or at least seriously injured.

Of course, these casualties cannot shake the morale of these official cavalry who are regarded as "Quasi-Guanning Iron Cavalry".

The subsequent coverage of bows and arrows relied on the huge number and fast design speed to ensure that the cavalry shot three rounds before rushing to the front, taking away more official cavalry.

It's just that the armor penetration rate of bows and arrows against iron-coated cotton armor is basically zero, so as long as they don't get shot in the face or wrist, people will not be hurt.Most of those who were taken away were horses who were shot and fell off and fell. This kind of injury is almost not fatal, and only some fractures or internal injuries are left. As long as the battle is won, the battlefield can be cleaned up to rescue the wounded.

"This army cavalry is very elite? Where did they come from?" Seeing that the army was not moved by the long-range attack at all, Jiao Guangqi's expression became serious for the first time, and he became very serious.He had seen quite a few cavalry of officers and soldiers before, but he had never fought so calmly and solemnly.

It's a pity that he didn't have time to think about it anymore. The cavalry of the officers and soldiers quickly rushed to thirty or forty steps in front of the bandit formation.
Then, in accordance with Zhu Wenzhen's orders in advance and the new tactics that he had practiced hard for the past two months, the cavalry team was asked to temporarily adjust their direction and instead swept across the front of the bandit infantry.

The bandit musketeer only fired two shots in total, and then retreated to the back of the formation. At this moment, the spearman has already stepped forward, and Mimizaza is waiting to pierce the horse.Jiao Guangqi was also caught off guard by the sudden change of formation of the cavalry of the officers and soldiers.

"What is this for? It's impossible to imitate the harassment of the Tartars' cavalry and archery? To cavalry and archery is at least [-] steps away, or a little further? How could they approach within [-] steps and cross the front of the formation?"

Jiao Guangqi was in astonishment, and he was about to order the archers of all departments to start throwing and blind shooting arrows again, and the musketeers were also preparing to reload——

He hadn't thought of this kind of tactic just now, because the Han Chinese cavalry never played the fancy tricks similar to the Tartars, they always charged directly.Han Chinese cavalry have not had such excellent shooting skills since ancient times, how could they play these?
Therefore, in order not to cause too much loss to the long-range troops, Jiao Guangqi asked the long-range soldiers to retreat in advance before Zhu Wenzhen rushed to the front, and the front row was filled with pikemen.Now if I want to re-introduce the ranged soldiers, of course it will take a little time to change the formation and schedule.

Unfortunately, just as Jiao Guangqi was about to change his formation for the second time, there were bursts of violent roars in front of the formation.Thousands of Ming army weapons suddenly fired in turn. Although the sound was irregular, it was better than continuous, seemingly endless.

Zhu Wenzhen's troops were equipped with the two-month production capacity of Shen Shuren's iron yard in Daye, a total of 1000 two hundred short-barreled double-barreled nozzles, and wax-cased ammunition for rear loading.

Plus three hundred revolver pistols.

Of the 2000 cavalry units, 500 are equipped with cavalry firearms, and only [-] are pure melee cavalry.This is because Shen Shuren's production capacity can't keep up. If it can, he would like everyone to be equipped with muskets.

Anyway, there is no conflict between carrying a musket and a melee weapon, and you can still have powerful melee force with a musket.

There are more than 1000 guns, all of which are double-barreled, which is equivalent to more than 2000 direct fires, all of which are shotguns.

There are at least six small lead beads weighing half a penny in each ammunition, and some finely crushed iron sand for caulking.Adding up, there are more than ten thousand small lead beads, like a howling steel storm, sweeping towards the bandits' line.

The only disadvantage of this kind of shotgun is that it cannot penetrate armor. Other slugs have three-dollar warheads, but wax-shell shotguns only cost half a penny, which is only one-sixth of the slug, and the kinetic energy is also proportionally reduced.

However, now Zhu Wenzhen is not fighting the excellent Tartars of Tie Zha Mianjia, he is fighting Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

"Ah!" "Poof—" "My face—"

All of a sudden, Jiao Guangqi howled miserably in front of the formation. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, almost in a few breaths, fell down clutching their bodies in pain. The blood had not had time to penetrate, and the wounds were not obvious, but one by one. Crying like ghosts and howling like wolves, it made the uninjured comrades feel like falling into hell.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's army was much more elite than the [-]th Battalion of Ge Zuo, they had traveled across mountains and rivers, and their armor rate was still very low. Many heavy equipment were left at Sun Kewang's place in Zigui.

In addition to Li Dingguo's previous fierce battles and continuous consumption, the iron letters on the cotton armor of the main force also suffered losses and depreciation——

The frontal defense of the iron-coated cotton armor is not much worse than that of the old-fashioned armor and scale armor, but the disadvantage is that the gaps between the armor pieces are relatively weak. In order to move flexibly, the iron bars in the cotton armor are not overlapped and punched. It is fixed, but the cotton outer skin and the inner lining are sewn together. Some high-end nails are used to drill holes for the nail plate and nailed to the cotton inner lining.

This makes the iron bars in the cotton armor relatively easy to fall off. If the cotton layer is cut by the enemy's knife, the iron bars that have lost the cotton cloth may fall out, and the cotton cloth must be re-stitched and fixed.

In the previous two months, when Li Dingguo's troops fought bloody battles with the enemies of the Miao and Tu tribes, whenever they encountered a difficult attack, they would let the Tiezamianjia soldiers in the army go first.

In the face of tribal soldiers who lack sharp weapons, their seedling knives and hatchets may not be able to cut through the iron bars, but they can definitely cut through the inner and outer cotton linings with ease.

Li Dingguo didn't have time to stop to mend and repair. Many of the iron-coated cotton armor of the warriors in the army were missing pieces, and one piece was missing in the east and the other.

It's a pity that they obviously don't have this opportunity now.

Even if there is, the mere rate of hitting the armor will not change anything.

Jiao Guangqi's front line was just sprayed in the face by several rows within [-] steps, so that he couldn't take care of himself, and the dense spearmen were all swaying.

Only a small number of soldiers carrying temporary simple large wooden shields temporarily escaped the bad luck of the sprayers washing their faces.But as the left and right comrades staggered, once the pikemen's dense front loosened, the helpless soldiers would only be hacked and harvested from the side.

However, all this is not over.

The Ming army used not only the carbine nozzles used by the cavalry this time, but also rear-loaded ones!Wax shell ammunition can be reloaded in just a dozen seconds on a bumpy horseback.

After the cavalry formation of the Ming army swept across for a while, they quickly finished loading again, and another round of close-range and face-to-face bombardment. When Zhu Wenzhen's troops passed the entire front, they fired a total of four rounds of firepower.However, Jiao Guangqi's counterattack bow and arrow could not be scaled up at all.

Because there are many bandits and tens of thousands of soldiers, the frontal width of the front is much wider than that of the Ming army.When the Ming army adopted sweeping tactics, when passing through each section of the bandit army's front, it was "2000 men against 2000 men" locally.
After running past the first 2000 people, you will come to the second 2000 people, and then almost reloaded another round of ammunition.The mobility of the thief army was low, and the remaining 6000 people did not have Ming cavalry in front of them, so the archers could only watch, or shoot randomly at an angle, regardless of whether they entered the effective range or not.

After Zhu Wenzhen swept across Jiao Guangqi's entire line, from east to west, the bandits had already been shot by the firepower, causing the whole army to fall to and fro, out of formation.

The soldiers would not sit still, so many troops chose to fight on their own, and no longer obeyed the commander's command at all. Some of the spear teams who were shot and killed badly collapsed and started to flee.

As for the other parts with relatively small losses, it was because they watched the cavalry of the officers and soldiers pass thirty paces in front of them and killed them wildly with spray guns. Under the on-the-spot command, he chose to charge and chase out of the line of defense, wanting to stick to the cavalry and fight hand-to-hand.

One part of the front line fled, while the other part charged forward, pulling back and forth, and of course the whole army was in chaos.

Even if less than 2000 people were directly shot and seriously injured, it could still cause chaos for the rest.

The only thing Jiao Guangqi can count on is the cavalry he deployed on the two wings, which is also the most elite troops entrusted to him by Li Dingguo.Because of the deployment, the bandit cavalry did not suffer from shooting, and their strength was preserved very well.

Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, Jiao Guangqi's blood rushed to his head for a moment. He knew that if he beat the new force assigned by the second general like this, if he ran back with his life, he might not be able to escape the military law.

"You guys follow me to kill! The officers and soldiers only rely on their sharp firearms to kill us by surprise! All the pikemen charge forward! Take the initiative to fight hand-to-hand! All the cavalry charge with me!"

He also didn't care about the usage of the pikemen. He should have stood up and waited for the enemy to hit him, and let the various ministries fight on their own, so he charged at the nearest officer.

All of a sudden, the thieves trampled on each other, causing heavy casualties, but it really gave him some opportunities to stick Zhu Wenzhen.After all, there were so many thieves, and they ran around in several directions. Zhu Wenzhen really couldn't find a way to rush out, so he had to fight his way out.

"The revolving musketeers charge with me! The melee cavalry follows! The double-barreled musketeers change their sabers! Break out!"

The bloody hand-to-hand combat quickly unfolded. At this point, the double-pipe nozzles had no time to reload, so they had to empty the ammunition one by one, stick them on their backs, and stab and slash wildly with cold weapons.

But the three hundred elite soldiers under Zhu Wenzhen can still fire continuously with flexible revolvers, and they don't need to sweep across the formation, and they don't need to retreat and reload like the "dragoon half-turn tactics" of later generations.
As long as you charge straight ahead, fire intensively while charging, and change your saber after six shots.

Many rogue cavalry and pikemen were already within ten steps, or even within five steps, before being sprayed with iron sand by the pistol cavalry of the Ming army.

A lot of bandit pikemen looked incredible when they were shot: Obviously, as long as they rushed forward two or three steps, and with the help of the length of the pike, they could stab the tip of the pistol into the body of the officer cavalry, savagely make a hole...

But why can the officers and soldiers still fire a shot at a distance of only two or three steps?It's still this kind of ammunition with iron sand flying like an iron sand storm!

And if you are sprayed by a sprayer within five to ten steps, even if you are wearing iron-coated cotton armor, all living beings are absolutely equal and will undoubtedly die-not to mention iron-coated cotton armor, even the third-level armor in the chicken is not enough. easy to use.

The three hundred sharp-knife elites in charge of breaking out, each with six shots, was enough, and they were just born in Jiao Guangqi's siege, cutting a bloody path and directly killing the army formation.

Jiao Guangqi himself could not see the end of the battle.

Because his armor banner was too conspicuous, when Zhu Wenzhen rushed into the formation, he was met by dozens of pistol cavalry, including Zhu Wenzhen himself, who burst into a very close range and shot with pistols and emptied the runner.

Jiao Guangqi, together with his confidant guards, were all wiped out under the rain of bullets and bullets. The death was miserable and not tiring.

Zhu Wenzhen also couldn't tell under which sprayer Jiao Guangqi died, but anyway, after Jiao Guangqi's flag formation was cleared, one of Zhu Wenzhen's confidantes, the boss Zhu Lao Liu, personally brandished a saber and chopped up Jiao Guangqi's head was dedicated to his own general.

Zhu Wenzhen also had no time to take care of it, just nodded, and ordered everyone to continue to rush to ensure that Jiao Guangqi's troops were completely killed and fled. Then he gathered his troops, regrouped, and chased towards the south in an orderly manner.

Zhu Wenzhen has not forgotten that his purpose in today's battle is not to kill many people from Jiao Guangqi's troops, but to tell the defenders in Baling City and the reinforcements from Daming's official army that they have arrived, so as to encourage them to persevere. , so as not to be deceived by the thieves and surrender directly.

On the bandit side, with Jiao Guangqi's collapse, in less than a quarter of an hour, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan also received the Pegasus emergency report from the defeated cavalry who fled back, knowing the seriousness of the situation.

But no matter how much they wanted to organize to plug the leak, it was already too late.

The distance from Chenglingji to Baling City was only more than 20 miles, and the battlefield was several miles away from Chenglingji, so when Jiao Guangqi collapsed, Zhu Wenzhen was less than [-] miles away from the north gate of Baling City.

This distance, for the cavalry, can definitely be reached in a quarter of an hour.

So when Li Dingguo sent Bai Wenxuan to intercept him, Zhu Wenzhen had already entered the field of vision of the guards on the north tower of Baling City.

"There is a cavalry from the north! There are quite a few of them! It looks very imposing!" The defenders at the top of the city were anxious at the beginning, and the soldiers all looked north.

They were not sure about the identity of this unit, but when they saw more scattered soldiers fleeing indiscriminately in front of them, and the Baiwen Xuanbu seemed to divide their troops to intercept them, they more or less guessed that it was from the army Reinforcements are here.

"The imperial court's reinforcements are here! Baling City can definitely be defended! Don't pay attention to Li Dingguo's threat of slaughtering the city!" Such a thought arose in everyone's mind.

Later, the Ming army in the north of the city saw the scene that impressed them the most: Bai Wenxuan, who was attacking and intercepting, was soon repulsed by the cavalry who attacked with a chain of firearms shrouded in flames and roaring on horseback.

The reloaded [-]-barreled double-barreled carbines and [-]-barreled revolver guns are simply devastating to the kind of mobile interception enemy.Bai Wenxuan didn't even line up, so of course he would collapse at the first touch.

Zhu Wenzhen rushed hundreds of steps down the city in his spare time, and then the whole army shouted:

"Listen to the defenders of the city! Shen Futai's [-] reinforcements have arrived at Chenglingji! Today I came to Laodun from afar, and I will not fight Li Dingguo for the time being. Let me lead the cavalry to break through the siege and report the letter. You should work hard and repel Li Dingguo After Shen Futai, everyone will be rewarded a lot!"

"The reinforcements from Wuchang Shenfutai? Not the reinforcements from Jiangling Fangfutai?" Some old-fashioned soldiers were still there in a daze.

But more people with flexible ideas cheered and jumped up: "You are stupid! What's wrong with Shenfutai's reinforcements! Who doesn't know that Shenfutai is full of strategies, wealthy and well-armed! Only if Shen Futai comes to rescue us, our army will be victorious!"

A group of well-informed soldiers have already blown their saliva,
It seems that the morale of the army was instantly boosted just after the three words "Shen Futai" were reported, and the effect was comparable to hearing that Zhuge Liang was reincarnated and came to rescue him.

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PS: The war scene may be a bit too much nonsense to explain, so I will give you a chapter of [-] words.Eleven thousand words today.

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