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Chapter 429 Defeating the Enemy in a Bloody Battle ([-]-word chapter)
To be honest, using the "hollow phalanx" to deal with cavalry has not been a reliable idea since ancient times.

Even in the more than a hundred years when the "Spanish Phalanx" became popular, this kind of tactic was also stupid, because if the enemy cavalry was good at riding and shooting, and they were fighting with you, the long-range musket output firepower of the phalanx infantry was simply not enough.

The cavalry can completely detour to the weakest side of the phalanx with long-range firepower, and then try it out. Once it is found that the musketeers in the formation are too slow to turn around and re-arrange, and there is a gap to exploit, they will immediately kill them.

Even though the cavalry will be stabbed with spears and spears at the beginning of the encounter with the enemy, but as long as they survive the hard time before the gap is torn, the hollow phalanx can be completely smashed and the backstab can be realized.

Who made the early Spanish phalanx only have [-]% musketeers, and the remaining [-]% were pikemen.Even in the final stage, there are barely half of the Musketeers.

When the line array is facing the enemy head-on, although there are few muskets, they can be used intensively, and the firepower density is not bad enough.In the phalanx, if the muskets are evenly distributed on the four sides, it is completely inferior to the enemy cavalry who gather the whole army and put all their eggs in one basket.

If it is not evenly distributed on the four sides, but still tries to use all of them in a concentrated manner, according to the detour direction of the enemy cavalry, so that the Musketeers always face the enemy cavalry, then another problem will arise:
The mobility of the cavalry is more flexible when sprinting, and the musketeers must line up strictly to ensure that they will not bombard their comrades in arms. If the cavalry circles around for a while, the musketeers themselves will be in chaos. Charge up, it will definitely cause a disaster.

The infantry and the cavalry are under great pressure. This is not a video game, which can make the bloody soldiers continue to fight to the death, and can change formations at will without panic and low morale.

Since ancient times, fighting on foot and cavalry, it is a taboo to change the formation repeatedly before the battle. Han Xin is not good at commanding, so he can only ask the infantry not to move after they stand on the ground, and those who retreat will be killed!

However, times have changed. In the West, hollow phalanxes crushed muskets, which happened before and after the Napoleonic Wars. An important reason was the widespread popularity of hoop-type bayonets and the fact that all staff were equipped with muskets, and they were no longer worthy of individual pikemen.

With such a high density of muskets, even if they are divided into four teams evenly without supporting each other, the long-range firepower is enough to crush the cavalry on the opposite side. The formation creates chaos, and if you are sprinted close to the body, you will fight back. The bayonet that has just been fired can also be stabbed directly, and there is no switching between far and near weapons.

At this moment, Bumbleshan and Suksaha encountered such a situation!

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"Bang bang bang-"

As Bumbleshan's elite cavalry of Zhengbai Banner approached Huang Fei's hollow phalanx between 150 and [-] paces, the Ming army's riflemen opened fire one after another.

If there are bystanders who don't know why, they may think that this is the Ming army's riflemen who can't hold back and don't shoot close.

But in fact, these soldiers strictly followed the military orders, because from Huang Fei to the garrison of each formation, and the commander-in-chief, they all ordered so that they should not spare their firepower and shoot with all their strength when the enemy just entered the effective range.

The goal of the Ming army is not to expect the first wave of strikes to cause heavy casualties to the Qing army. On the contrary, they are luring the enemy and forcing the enemy to move, so that the enemy will retreat early and launch a detour!
This is also the standard method of fighting against cavalry assaults that the well-trained elite Ming army rifle team learned from tactical exercises in the past three years!It's just that their enemies don't know it yet.

When Bumbleshan heard the dense gunshots, his hair stood on end slightly. This was not because he was timid, but because of human instinct.

Dozens of Qing cavalrymen also fell off their horses with muffled grunts, and many more were shot by their horses, throwing the cavalry off their horses.

The performance of the new rifle of the Ming army can fully compare with the Charleville 1763 model of the later French, and some performances can even surpass it.Even if the deterrent shooting is performed at a distance of nearly two hundred steps, the hit rate is impressive, but after the number is large, it is more than enough to kill dozens of cavalry and injure nearly a hundred cavalry at one time.

Looking at the casualties in Part [-], after a brief shudder, Bumbleshan reappeared a ferocious expression on his face, and the fierce thought of fighting for his life once again gained the upper hand in his brain:
"The musketeers of the Southern Barbarians are indeed concentrated in the front! Pass between the barbarians' formations, turn around to the rear, and trample them to disperse them!"

Bumbleshan's guess is absolutely correct if he is facing the old Ming army from three or five years ago.Because the firearms equipment rate of the Ming army at that time was so low, or even lower.

Being able to show such a strong musket fire density on the front shows that the Ming army has concentrated all the muskets to one side!The long-range deterrence of the other sides is useless!
Moreover, muskets are not as heavy as bows and arrows. Arrows are heavy, and their own kinetic energy carrying rate is high. Slow-flying arrows are also quite lethal. As a result, bows and arrows can be projected in a curved manner. Archers shoot arrows towards the sky behind pikemen, which can be relatively flexible. Either direction of the support formation.

However, the bullets of muskets are extremely light, and the kinetic energy maintained by mass is negligible. The kinetic energy is mainly maintained by the flying speed of the bullets. Once the speed of the bullets drops significantly, the lethality of muskets is almost equal to zero.

Since ancient times, the threat of musket shooting has been minimal, and it is necessary to stand in the front row and shoot flat. This will cause the musketeers to change formations and adjust the output direction, which will cause great confusion to the original army formation.

Seeing that the musketeers of the Ming army were impatient and exposed the truth in advance, Bumble was not angry but rejoiced, and rushed more and more fiercely.

Like a hot knife cutting butter, Zhengbai Qi Jingqi pierced into the gaps of the Ming army's hollow phalanxes, and directly implemented a large-scale detour.

As the army entered the battle, the enemy and us were intertwined, and Bumbleshan and Suksaha lost the ability to directly and finely command the troops under their command. After all, we are already among the enemies and we are among the enemies. Everyone is fighting mobile warfare. He couldn't find all his troops at all, at most he could only command the group of direct confidants in front of him.

However, the generals of the Qing army generally did not think this was a big problem. The grassland nomadic army had always had the advantage of a far more "flat management structure" than the Han army, and they were better at adapting to the situation and fighting on their own.

Back then, the Mongols were typical. Before the war, it was agreed who would attack and who would feint to contain them. But on the actual battlefield, once they found that the situation had changed and the troops originally stipulated to feint could seize better opportunities, they would not hesitate to take the initiative. Transformed into the main attack.The main attacking force planned before the battle saw that the friendly army was more suitable for the main attack, and would immediately switch roles and cooperate obediently.

The flatness of the Qing army is slightly inferior to that of Mongolia, but it is not too much, and it is naturally handy with the form in front of it.The various ministries were soon dispersed into Jiala and even Niulu as units, and they fought on their own.

Every Jiala Ezhen no longer needs to listen to the direct command of Bumbleshan or Suksaha, but can command by himself according to his war talent and military sense.

Some aggressive and gamblers of the Qing army, Jia Laerzhen, chose to go in one step, and went directly to the opposite direction of the side where the Ming army's guns were densely packed, that is, directly behind, and then closed the distance and launched a countercharge.

Some irascible Qing army Jia Laerzhen chose to attack the waist of the Ming army's phalanx as soon as he turned around to the flank, and he couldn't wait to completely turn back to the rear for backstabbing.

The specific tactics are varied and varied, but the ending is the same.

The imagined situation where the density would drop sharply after being hit by long-range firepower when they circled to the side of the hollow phalanx did not appear.

On the contrary, in every direction of the hollow square formation of the Ming army, the density of muskets is so high!
No matter which side the Qing army charged from, they were faced with barrages like a storm.

"Kill all the dog tartars!"

"Da Ming will win! There is no Tartar!"

For today's battle, Zhu Shuren prepared [-] new-style weapons made in Wuchang, and nearly [-] other relatively old-fashioned weapons.The left wing of the Ming army was the most important thing that had been conceived before the war, and more than half of its firepower had been assembled.

The infantry formed by Huang Fei and Lin has a total of [-] rods made in Wuchang!Five thousand old firearms!The total of [-] is enough for them to equip most of the soldiers with muskets. This density is beyond the imagination of the Qing army.

After three years of truce, the world has completely changed!

Times have changed!

Some people may wonder: wouldn't Bumbleshan and Suksaha observe the enemy's situation before they plunged into the trap?It has been three years since Shunzhi, and there are some binoculars in the Qing army, which have been popularized for a long time. The magnification and accuracy are not as good as those of the Ming army, but they can also see the status of the Qing and Ming army in advance.

It has to be said that the battlefield here is relatively flat, and the Qing army could not find a high ground enough to wait and see the enemy's situation in depth.Even with binoculars, you can only see the front row of the Ming army carrying muskets from a distance, and the soldiers who are blocked in the back row can't see clearly.

The Qing army estimated and speculated based on old experience and made wrong judgments. It was understandable that the Ming army was bluffing.

There are tens of thousands of people on the battlefield, and there is no condescending overlooking condition. How can it be so easy to see the reality in the back row?

And all of this, at this moment, is the time to pay the price and repay it.

Hundreds and thousands of cavalrymen of the Qing army fell to the ground in a short period of time after being shot by rifles.

Because the various ministries of the Qing army were fighting on their own, they couldn't respond in a unified and quick manner. They could only make judgments based on their own abilities and intuition.

Some Jiala foreheads are really brave, so they stand straight and continue to carry out backstab assaults. The Ming army infantry on the opposite side are all waiting in formation. Stance against sprinting.

Countless cavalry of the Qing army were shot on their backs as they approached, causing heavy casualties. Those who finally rushed to the front could not stand in front of the dense array of seven-foot-long bayonet rifles.

Under the crazily concentrated stabbing of bayonets, groups of cavalry were tied into hedgehogs. Even if they screamed and fell off their horses, they would be followed up with intensive gunshots, and their flesh and blood were immediately blurred and unrecognizable.

Paying such a heavy price, the results achieved by the Qing army were not so conspicuous in comparison.In addition to knocking some Ming army musketeers flying, the gains are really not that much.

Even if a small hole is torn in the hollow phalanx, the Ming army's reserve team will immediately fill it up, and the left and right bayonets will immediately press forward, stabbing the Qing army cavalry who lost their speed and fell into hand-to-hand combat.

The defense of the riflemen of the Ming army should not be underestimated either. Like the contemporary Dutch musketeers, they wore hydraulic forged steel breastplates and helmets to ensure key protection and spend limited load on the blade.

The defense of the limbs such as the arms and legs was abandoned, and only a thick layer of cotton was used for protection, which did not affect the movement and was convenient for precise aiming and shooting.

When facing the sprint of the Qing cavalry, such armor can also maximize its practical effect.Anyway, when being sprinted by the cavalry, the probability of fatal injuries to the limbs is extremely small, and the flexibility of the hands and feet can also facilitate the control of the landing posture when being hit by the side, and survive.

There is also a padded lining inside the breastplate, which can protect the viscera and buffer the pressure of being hit. These are the best solutions that have been verified.

The biggest disadvantage of this method of almost giving up the protection of the limbs is that when facing the enemy's light cavalry flying kites and harassing them with bows, the probability of riflemen being injured will greatly increase, especially modern riflemen. Equipped with a large shield against arrows.

However, the firepower density and range advantages of the new muskets have already determined that the cavalry of the Qing army in this era will not harass and shoot at you more than 100 steps away, and the Qing army will definitely die even worse.

Everywhere was restrained by the Ming army and fell into the Ming army's preset fighting style, which eventually led to the Qing army Jiala who chose to fight bloody to the end, and fell into a desperate situation.

At the same time, it was precisely because the Qing army used Jiala as a unit to fight on their own.And people's hearts are always inconsistent, and everyone's judgment on the battle situation is also different.

Those Jiala Ezhen who were more timid or more cautious, after paying the initial price of hundreds of casualties, had already begun to judge the situation, and would rather turn around and flee immediately, and be chased by the enemy for nothing on the way to escape. , but also resolutely choose a strategic shift.

As a result, all of these strategically contracted units of the Qing army were chased and shot by the Ming army, and the casualties were considerable.The Ming army, which repelled the frontal enemy, was free to deal with the stubborn Qing army who were still fighting with the friendly army and fighting to the death.

Less than half of the main force of the two white flags of the Qing army chose to fight to the end, and these people suffered double pressure on the battlefield and fell into an absolute disadvantage in local battlefield forces.

The hollow phalanxes of the Ming army carefully fine-tuned and moved closer, and soon those phalanxes where the battle had not yet ended, where the Qing army cavalry charged densely, were met with short bursts of fire from the Ming army's muskets from behind, and the chaos suddenly became more and more chaotic.

And these Ming soldiers who backstabbed the Qing army did not dare to open fire, because the Qing army and the friendly army were fighting together. If the Qing army was too sparse, a backstab of the Ming army might accidentally injure one of their own. ,
Therefore, they can only shoot at the Qing army in a particularly dense area. Once the Qing army is broken up and scattered, they will have to cease fire.Even so, a small number of Ming army musketeers were accidentally injured by their comrades in the process.

Fortunately, the forged steel breastplates of Ming army musketeers can block the kinetic energy of stray bullets two hundred steps away. Only those who are shot in the hands and feet will be seriously injured, which more or less alleviates the loss of accidental injury.

However, once the Qing army's intensive charging and tearing formations were broken up, forming loose cavalry fighting each other, the Ming army's bayonet soldiers could quickly clean them up.

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However, after more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the fiercest bloody battle on the west side of the main battlefield has completely decided the winner.

Zhengbai Banner, which charged the deepest, suffered the most casualties, and Bumbleshan, who led the troops, was directly killed in the battle.Zhengbai Banner had at least two more Jiala troops annihilated in the formation, strangled and wiped out by the Ming army, unable to escape at all, and the two Jiala Ezhen died directly in battle.

The other three Jiala finally realized that the disastrous defeat was not right, and fled in panic, but only two of the three Jiala escaped alive, and the other Jiala Ezhen was shot by the Ming army in the process of leaving. A hail of musketballs kills.

As for the officers at the Niulu level, more than a dozen people were killed and seriously injured in battle.

The cavalry with the white flag on the other side, because they didn't charge so fast and deep, suffered relatively small losses, and they recognized the defeat in time and fled. injury, not fatal.

Only one of Jiala under his command was wiped out, and the remaining four fled back with hundreds of people killed each.There were hundreds of wounded soldiers each, but as long as they were seriously injured and fell off their horses, they would undoubtedly be killed by the Ming army who won the victory and the right to clean up the battlefield after the battle.Only those lightly wounded who have not fallen off the horse can escape with their lives, and falling off the horse is directly equivalent to death.

While the two white flags were lured and severely injured by the hollow phalanx tactics, the Ming and Qing armies were not idle on the frontal battlefield in the middle.

After only one or two cups of tea after the exchange of fire on the west side, the frontal Chinese army entered a bloody fight.It's just because the Chinese troops on both sides have no room for detours, so the tactics are relatively old-fashioned.
There is no hollow phalanx, no lure the enemy to go deep, it is a majestic teacher who fights hard to the point of blood, a battle of righteousness and righteousness.The number of casualties in the battle climbed as fast as the "you have me, and I have you" kind of dog-tooth fight on the west side.

Just like a chemical reaction, even if two solid reactants are put together, there is only one contact surface between them, and the reaction speed is not too fast.

However, if two cups of liquid reactants are directly poured together and stirred to fully form a solution, the contact surface area will be countless times larger than that between solid reactants, and the reaction speed will naturally skyrocket.

The middle army of the Musketeers lined up majestically is like a solid reactant, and the hollow phalanx that lures the enemy into a deep fight is like a reaction solution, and it is clear at a glance which side will win first.

When more than half of the two white flags were killed and injured, and the other fled back in embarrassment, the Chinese army had just finished warming up.Compared to the 2000 or more heavy troops fighting against each other, this casualty was nothing.

As a result, the complete collapse of the two white flags quickly brought chaos to the Qing army's central army.

The musket formation developed by Huang Fei and Lin still needs time to readjust the formation, and then maintain a moderate speed to approach the Chinese army to support their comrades.

However, Cao Bianjiao's iron cavalry of the Ming army, who had freed his hands, was able to react quickly in a very short period of time, and immediately flanked the Qing army's flank.

What's more vicious is that Cao Bianjiao has also learned to be treacherous. He not only led the cavalry to quickly fill in, control the position, and compress the flank space of the Qing army.

He also learned how to use six horses and one vehicle-mounted cavalry gun to quickly deploy to the front with the cavalry. Deploy the cavalry guns.

When Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng's infantry arrived and rearranged their positions to intimidate the Qing army's flanks, the cavalry artillery was generally deployed, just in time for infantry coordination.

Yue Le of the central army of the Qing army has actually been paying attention to the movement of the two white flags to the west. When he learned that Bumbleshan was killed in battle and Suksaha was injured and fled, he also made a hasty response immediately and transferred from the central army. Part of the troops barely protected their right side.

However, when he hastily changed formations and dispatched, he did not expect the Ming army to deploy cavalry artillery. When he barely got into position, dozens of Ming army cavalry artillery fired violently at the Qing army's flanks. The right side of the Qing army's central army was battered, and more importantly, their morale was blown away. They never thought that their flanks could still be bombarded.

The cavalry artillery of the Ming army already had some models that used small-power explosive bullets, but the shells were too light to charge too much, so they mainly used solid iron ball bullets.

As we all know, the most tragic killing effect of solid iron ball shells on infantry and cavalry is achieved by "shooting sideways at the horizontal line and using ricochets to directly blind a line of people to death".

In the era of attacking and defending bastions, even the Musketeers on the city walls were very afraid of the siege artillery bouncing horizontally along the city walls, and it was easy for a single shell to kill many people.

At this moment, the situation on the right side of the Qing army's central army was the same. The flank of the horizontal team was exposed and was covered by a few ricochet bullets, directly piercing a whole row of candied haws, bloody and bloody, and morale collapsed instantly.

Under the tearing of the cavalry cannon, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Fei successively launched a charge, completely smashing Abate's right side.

The main force of the Ming army, Huang Degong, who was carrying the line from the front, also boosted their morale after seeing the friendly troops on the flanks succeed, and began to advance.The rifle team used a strict stacking method, advanced dozens of steps in turn, stopped to shoot, and then stopped to reload, allowing the friendly troops in the row behind to advance more and more, severely oppressing the battlefield space of the Qing army.

The 12 Qing army finally ushered in a complete total collapse.Several senior generals of the Mongolian cavalry first realized that the situation of the battle was irreversible, and began to flee northward.
Taking advantage of the fact that the friendly army will not be chased by the Ming army when they are carrying the line and crossing Shaoshui to return to the north bank, they calmly waded across the river.

In contrast, it was not so easy for those Qing troops who walked slowly to escape.There must always be a dead soldier in charge of breaking the rear to resist damage and hold back the Ming army.

Otherwise, no matter whether the Qing army swam across the Feishui to the east, or fled north for more than ten miles, wading through the shallower and narrower Shaoshui, they would be brutally slaughtered by the pursuers of the Ming army.

As for going to the west, it is absolutely impossible to swim across Shaopi, which spreads tens of miles across the lake. If you do not swim in a river that is only [-] meters wide, but swim a lake tens of miles wide, you will be killed. Not fast enough.

The "surrounded by water on three sides" battlefield terrain that the Qing army didn't care about before the war, at this moment, with the rapid collapse of the Qing army in less than half a day, it exposed its huge hidden dangers.

(End of this chapter)