Great Qing Dynasty talker

2000 Wu army infantrymen wearing red and black uniforms were divided into eight square formations, with five in front and three in the back. They advanced slowly to the beat of drums and followed the company flags.

In the middle of the square was a horse-drawn light artillery.

Abu Khan was shocked and angry at once.

The combat mode of the Wu army was too similar to that of the elite foreign infantry regiments of Rakshasa that had invaded the Khanate many times.

The little Juz Sultan was even more terrified.

Lesser Juz is located in the westernmost part of the Khanate, on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The Russians have invaded and built more than 50 fortresses. They keep saying: "Lesser Juz must accept the protection of Empress Catherine."

The flintlock rifle, fortress and Cossacks, these three elements combined form the lingering shadow in the heart of the Little Juz Sultan.

Ptsd relapses instantly.

Sultan wiped his sweat and looked around nervously.

……

The Kazakh bronze cannons and the Wu army's skirmishers opened fire almost at the same time.

Under the gaze of both parties.

Kazakh gunners suffered continuous casualties, and Wu's scattered soldiers also suffered sporadic casualties.

Skirmishers can be reloaded almost as quickly as cannons.

But skirmishers can move quickly, while artillery cannot.

In full view of the public, the Kazakh artillery was turned into waste by a group of nimble skirmishers.

First, two groups of gunners escaped.

Then all the gunners ran away.

The only thing that is worthy of praise is that these people did not forget to nail the cannon's fire port with iron nails before fleeing to prevent it from being used again by the enemy.

Abu Khan pointed with his whip:
"Centuria, kill these town pariahs."

……

The gunners, who were composed of civilians from the Khanate's towns, were hacked to death by their own people on the battlefield.

That's right,

Gunners are a high-level military unit, and illiterate herdsmen simply cannot handle them.

Therefore,
The Khanate would draw craftsmen from towns to serve as gunners; at least they could do math and write and were dexterous.

After killing all their own deserters, the cavalry rushed towards the scattered soldiers of the Wu army, waving their scimitars.

The skirmishers immediately ran behind their own musket formation and continued to reload.

The officer raised his sword:

"The square stops."

"Raise your gun."

"Get ready~"

"put.

Hundreds of flintlock rifles fired at the same time, instantly reducing the hundred-man team that was chasing them aggressively into a team of ten.

……

Looking at the embarrassed backs of the enemy cavalry, the Wu army cheered collectively and reloaded on the spot.

The small drum beats, keep moving forward.

The stragglers arrogantly left the main camp and fired at will.

In the convex half-moon formation on the opposite side, unlucky guys were constantly shot and fell to the ground, causing a commotion.

"Steady, steady."

The leader shouted at the top of his lungs to maintain order.

suddenly,

The Wu army on the opposite side stopped, this distance was very strange!

80 feet!
Smoothbore rifles have no accuracy. However, Wu Jun fired brilliantly.

Straddling!

Thousands of lead bullets fell into the densely packed half-moon array, instantly causing people and horses to fall to the ground.

……

Wu's light artillery was also deployed.

"fire."

A row of solid iron balls rolled into the crowd, further exacerbating the chaos.

Alalu, a 50-year-old man who was conscripted, felt his ears buzzing as he looked at the half of his neighbor who had died tragically in front of him.

After 30 breaths,

The second wave of lead bullets followed.

3 0 After a break,

The second wave of shelling followed.

The good convex semicircular formation was beaten to a bloody nose.

……

"The Khan?"

Abuhan's eyes twitched, and he bit his back teeth and squeezed out a few words:
"Infantry half-moon formation, attack."

The military order was passed down.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the infantry phalanx finally moved.

Looking at the enemy infantry phalanx rushing towards him, Wei Jun let out a long sigh of relief.

Infantry is good.

I would rather encounter infantry than cavalry.

In fact, no enemy general would deploy his own cavalry for large-scale combat when the infantry and cavalry are mixed together. This is unreasonable.

The infantry must go first.

Infantry is cheap, cavalry is expensive.

The Khanate's cavalry generally had a higher status than its infantry.

The families of the cavalry at least had a pasture and dozens of cattle and sheep, while the infantry were mostly propertyless tenants and vagrants.

……

The veterans thought of nothing more, just reload, shoot, reload, shoot.

Even if there are occasional casualties, the right thing to do is to do your best to shoot lead bullets.

The artillery also fired crazily.

Directly in front of us, rows of enemy soldiers with scimitars were shot and fell to the ground, like they were being cut into wheat.

After four consecutive rounds of volleys, the formations of both sides changed.

The convex half-moon formation turned into a concave iron pot formation.

The cannon fodder in the middle suffered heavy casualties. They refused to move forward and huddled together on the spot.

The elite infantry on both wings advancing normally became a salient, like the two claws of a crab, pinching its prey from both sides.

……

The Wu army also began to shrink.

It changed from an inverted "two"-shaped formation to a "mouth"-shaped formation.

The gun is centered.

The shooting continued and the air was filled with smoke.

Gradually, I could no longer see the figure clearly.

The Kazakh infantry suffered heavy casualties and their attack momentum was clearly weakened.

But~
Abu Khan's supervision team arrived. They rode on horses, holding scimitars in their hands, urging the infantry to charge forward bravely and use their humble bodies to absorb the enemy's bullets.

During the charge,
Some sharp-eyed supervisors discovered that the Wu army's muskets had an incredibly high firing rate.

10 breaths per shot!
This is very unreasonable.

……

A supervisor with good eyesight who could see the gender of a marmot from two miles away stood on the saddle, shielded the sunlight with his right hand and looked into the distance.

When he saw this, he felt cold all over.

The enemy actually loaded bullets from the back of the musket.

How is this possible?

He fell into a state of great self-doubt and rubbed his eyes repeatedly.

An unknown writer once said:

There are actually no secrets in this world. If you think someone is mysterious, it means you are not close enough to them.

Alalu, the 50-year-old cannon fodder who was at the front, felt deeply about this.

Because he was indeed close and saw clearly.

The Wu soldiers in the front row kneeling and shooting were using flintlock breech-loading rifles, while the Wu soldiers in the back row were still using flintlock muzzle-loading rifles.

Alalu was desperate, he knew he would never be able to return to the tattered felt tent alive.

After just a few dozen breaths~
A lead bullet shattered his knee.

Alalu fell to the ground and was immediately trampled by countless pairs of big feet.

……

The archers of Dajuz also joined~
Follow behind the infantry and suppress them with 45-degree projectiles.

The Wu army began to suffer casualties and their formation became chaotic.

Faced with the endless scimitar warriors, Wei Jun used his second secret weapon of the day - the grenadiers.

In a short time,

At least 500 spherical bombs shaped like chains were thrown more than ten feet away by strong grenadiers and exploded under the enemy's feet.

Explosions, shrapnel and wailing.

The courage that the Kazakhs had finally mustered was rudely interrupted.

The iron chain fixed on the ball is to facilitate the exertion of force.

Under the same weight, the throwing distance of hammer is greater than that of shot put. Double-layer bombs (inner layer with gunpowder, outer layer with tiny lead pellets) use the tiny lead pellets flying all over the sky to cause damage, which is more scientific and civilized.

The Wu Ting Military Industry Department has never stopped developing new weapons.

……

Robot dogs are not afraid of death, but humans are.

After witnessing the failure of the second attack, Abu Khan was no longer angry. He realized the seriousness of the problem.

The Khanate was in great crisis.

It is only one step away from the destruction of the country.

"Archers, lancers, scimitar cavalry, all of them, come at me."

The Big, Medium and Small Yuz each sent out a team of 1,000 men, and the Khan's tent sent out a team of 1,000 men. This was very nomadic.

The cavalrymen's hooves rumbled and their scimitars shone brightly.

But they need to clear out their own infantry scattered along the impact path before they can reach full speed.

The cavalrymen waved their scimitars and cursed at the top of their lungs.

"Go away."

"Don't block the way."

……

Wei Jun, who had been standing on the artillery carriage observing the battlefield, realized that the moment of the final stress test had arrived.

He excitedly gripped the hilt of his sword and shouted:
"Hollow Square Array!!"

The officers of each company shouted one after another:

"Hollow square, bayonets."

"Breechloaders back off!!"

Both sides were racing against time and adjusting their formations.

Abu Khan kept wiping the sweat off his face. He looked at the enemy general on the hill, who was as steady as an old dog, and his cavalry and artillery did not move at all. What great confidence did he have?

around,

The tribal leaders were talking about it, and their tone and attitude were not very good.

He vaguely heard a sentence:
"If Wu's army is less than 10,000, they are invincible."

Instantly, he wanted to chop the bastard who said this to death on the spot, and then step on his corpse and tell him:
"If there are less than ten thousand Rakshasas, they are invincible."

"It's Rakshasa."

……

A hollow square formation with bayonets everywhere.

The tip of the knife is either facing forward or upward.

Inside the hollow square, one or two cannons with the highest firing angles were placed, ready to launch a critical strike on the cavalry.

The breech-loading flintlock musketmen were free men who stood on empty ammunition boxes and fired continuously.

The weapons they held were Maanshan Heavy Industry's new products, flintlock breech-loading carbines.

The design concept came from His Majesty, the greatest ordnance scientist of the 18th century, and was directly plagiarized from Hall's 1819 flintlock breech-loading rifle.

【Reminder picture】

The design concept of this gun is very advanced.

It is a practical flintlock breech-loading rifle designed using existing technology before the advent of percussion caps and metal bullets.

The parts of Wu's military industry were well standardized, with very small tolerances.

So this gun is just right for the military level of Wu State~
……

The most important part of the gun is a movable bolt made from a whole block of steel.

When reloading~
The soldier opens the bolt by pressing a trigger-shaped spring hook below, then lifts the bolt upward to tilt the muzzle upward.

Bite open the paper shell of the bullet and pour some gunpowder into the chamber.

Then stuff the remaining part into the chamber.

Then, use your fingers to push the bullet shallowly to the deepest part of the chamber to lock the bolt.

It can be fired.

The advantage of this gun is its fast rate of fire, which makes it suitable for trench warfare.

The disadvantage is that when shooting, a lot of gunpowder gas will leak from the gaps, reducing the range and power by 6%.

……

The Kazakh cavalry began to charge, trying to disperse the hollow square formation of the Wu army.

However, the phalanx is much tighter.

The soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder with their bayonets pointed outward.

The horses shunned the square, unwilling to collide with the sharp bayonets. They had no intention of dying heroically for the Khan, but followed their biological instinct to pass through the square.

A brave lancer wanted to charge the phalanx and use the spear in his hand to break through the enemy's formation.

Unfortunately, the mount refused to cooperate with him.

Everything has spirit.

In nature, suicide among decent animals is rare.

Very few~
……

The lancer could only obey his mount and barely pass by the flank of the hollow square. Unwilling to give up, he took out an iron sword from the saddle.

Just wanted to throw ~
The warhorse was suddenly shot and let out a mournful cry.

He flew high into the air.

A dozen feet away, a breech-loader lowered his head to reload.

……

The side of a warhorse is too exposed to bullets, and the high rate of fire of a breech-loading rifle frightens the cavalry.

They no longer dared to stick to the phalanx and raid it.

Seeing that he could not break the formation, Abu Khan finally dispatched the most elite cavalry in the Khan's tent.

but,

They encountered the Wu army's pistol cavalry rushing down from the hills.

The Torghut knights, who were skilled in riding, had two pistols on their waists and a long spear in their right hands.

Shoot first, spear later.

When the horses collided, the impact was terrifying.

The shaft of the lance they used was specially made, very light and brittle. When the lance hit the archer, if the cavalryman let go of the lance, he would probably fall off his horse if he didn't let go in time.

After using the disposable cavalry spear, draw the cavalry sword~
Chop.

Fighting~
……

The Wu army's infantry and cavalry coordinated their movements and movements perfectly, and their tactics were superb.

The fight lasted for a full quarter of an hour.

The Kazakh cavalry was in an awkward situation.

If they fought in a scattered manner, they would be knocked off their horses one by one by the Torghuts. If they fought in a group, they would be bombarded by the artillery in the hollow square formation. When they fought against the infantry of the Wu army, the cavalry came to help.

To attack the Wu army's cavalry, the infantry opened fire on one side.

……

Abu Khan finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Nomadic Law:

What’s the use of a Khan who can’t lead people to rob and get rich?
waste.

Leave!
Leave now!
Seeing that the Khanate was about to fall apart,

Abu Khan, panicking, drew out his ancestral scimitar inlaid with gemstones: "Everyone! Follow me to attack, take the hill ahead, kill the general and seize the flag."

Before the words fell~
The scouts from the south came back angrily and reported:
"The Xiqing army came out of the camp to attack our army, and is now 10 miles away."

The wretched Yongyan decided to offer his loyalty.

At the same time, he accepted Concubine Xiao's advice - to have greater momentum but less casualties.

Letting a group of Kazakh cavalry go is just like keeping thieves to yourself.

Xiqing can only be used if the Kazakh army is there. They can serve as the vassal army of Wu army and fight against the Kazakhs in the front. Woof woof woof.

……

It has to be said that although Xiao Xiaoqi, this woman, does not understand military affairs, she really understands people's hearts and successfully put Xiqing on the chessboard.

A flag is always better than a discarded piece.

Before completely controlling the Central Asian steppes, the Wu army would not take action against Xiqing.

The logic here is simple:
If Wu Jun accepted and drove Xiqing to fight the Kazakhs, it would reduce casualties and save ammunition.

If Wu Jun does not accept Xiqing, then he will have to fight two against one.

Even if we win, the pressure of soldier casualties and ammunition consumption will increase.

From Xi'an to Kazakhstan, it is more than 4000 miles. With the Wu army's fighting style, the logistical pressure is simply terrible. How much manpower and material resources would it take to transport a batch of ammunition from Xi'an to here?

How could the Wu Ting court, which was always settling small scores, not be able to settle them?
In the short term, Xiqing is safe.

After hearing this, Yongyan felt that he had made the right decision to snatch Heshen's woman, because this woman was no ordinary person.

……

On the hills.

Looking at the billowing dust raised by the enemy cavalry group that was coming from behind after a circle, Li Xiaowu smiled.

Everything is calculated.

From the very beginning, I took the initiative, and every reaction of the Kazakhs was led by me, just like the battle simulation course in school.

"Adjust the gun position."

"Prepare the bomb."

"Ready the rockets."

"Prepare the circular barbed wire."

"Today, all the soldiers will follow me in a bloody battle. One battle will determine the fate of Central Asia!" (End of this chapter)