A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 316
The Shun Township Army still marched in formation, slowly approaching. After Kong Youde formed the formation, he ordered the Han army to load the medicine.

The equipment of the gunmen in his army is no different from that of the Ming army, except for the cotton armor, there are the waist knives of the gun, the gun, the medicine tube, the lead bag, the matchlock and other things.The loading is also quite cumbersome, which is several steps more than the fixed paper tube ammunition of the Shunxiang Army.

Of course, these Han army bird gunners cannot be compared with the elite gunners accumulated by the Shunxiang army with a large amount of quantum medicine.Seeing that the Shunxiang army kept approaching, the soldiers were even more flustered in reloading the gunpowder, and the officers kept shouting and roaring, which increased their inner panic.

Fortunately, Shunxiang's army was still far away and there was plenty of time. After a lot of fuss, Kong Youde's three thousand bird musketeers finally loaded their ammunition and lit the matchlock.

"go ahead!"

Amidst the sound of orderly footsteps, the eight-petal helmet and the wave scales of the red cotton and woolen cloak in front finally approached 250 steps ahead of Kong Youde's army.

Seeing this large army approaching such a short distance, Kong Youde and others' hearts were beating violently, especially the Han soldiers in front of him, all panting for breath, their faces pale.Even the veterans brought out by him are no exception.

"Pass down the order, and wait until the Ming army has approached a hundred steps before firing the gun. If anyone dares to ignore the military law and fire the gun first, the military law is ruthless."

Kong Youde said viciously, the guards beside him knew that this battle was no small matter, they faithfully carried out Kong Youde's orders, patrolling around the front and back of the army formation.

"Stop!"

After reaching this distance, Han Chao, who was on the left side of the front row of firecrackers, shouted orders, and thousands of troops responded in unison.Immediately, all the Shunxiang troops who were advancing densely stopped, and the sound of orderly steps fell silent.

"Dongnu fought with a triple formation. Our army first bombarded with artillery to break through the formation, and then fired rounds with firecrackers to defeat the slave enemy."

It was the first time I saw an opponent with pure firearms, and the opponent was the traitor Kong Youde who surrendered to the enemy. Han Chao, Wen Fangliang, Zhao Xuan and others were all curious and surprised.

Seeing the same color of the opponent's blunderbuss, everyone is more cautious. In order to reduce the casualties of the sergeant, it is the most ideal plan to bombard with artillery first and then shoot with blunderbuss.Several commanders facing the enemy quickly found the best attack method.

"Gunner ready."

"The gunner, check the powder, light the match..."

Han Chao, who was in charge of the firecrackers' operations, issued an order, and the officers of all ranks immediately shouted in response, and then the soldiers responded in unison, with the sound of firecrackers and firecrackers.

"A cannon, test fire!"

"put!"

Zhao Xuan's aiming hand on a red six-pound gun in front of Zhao Xuan was in good position, and the flag bearer beside Zhao Xuan swung vigorously, and the matchlock on the gunner's long pole ignited the priming charge, making a loud noise.A shell whizzed towards Kong Youdehan's army two hundred paces away.

When the gunners of the Shunxiang Army on the opposite side were preparing, Kong Youde was drumming in his heart: "They are going to bombard them with artillery, what should we do?"

In his heart, he regretted that the sharp artillery in his camp did not come with the army, so that his thousands of troops could only wait here to be bombarded.Looking around, no matter the servants or ordinary sergeants around him, everyone looked pale.

Amidst the loud noise of the artillery, the shell arrived with a howl.

There was a commotion like a tide, and all the Han troops stared at the shell, intending to dodge it, but where did they hide in the middle of the formation?
The arm of a team in front of the Han army flag was directly smashed, and then the iron ball blasted into Kong Youde's blunderbuss formation with a blood mist, and there was a crackling sound, and the iron ball broke several arms, legs and feet.In the end, the iron ball also pierced a bloody hole in the chest of a gunner, and the remaining power of the iron ball finally disappeared.

There was a hissing and crying, and several wounded sergeants lay on the ground rolling and howling.Looking at their miserable appearance, the lucky ones beside them all looked pale.The fighting power of their Eight Banners Han army is better than that of the Ming army, but it is far from being comparable to the Eight Banners Manchuria and Mongolian Banners. Even they can't bear the pain after being shot, let alone these traitor soldiers.

With just one shot, Kong Youde's Han army flag showed a violent commotion.Seeing the commotion in his own army, Kong Youde ordered his servants to stop the commotion, before he came back to his senses.The Shunxiang army in front of them made another sound like thunder. This time it was not a single shell, but dozens of shells of various sizes.

The voices of crying father and mother continued, iron balls rushed into Kong You's army formation roaring one after another, causing blood and flesh to fly from all of them.

Just over 200 steps away, all the artillery in front of the Shunxiang army can be fired at ease, and the accuracy is extremely high. This kind of dense army formation, an iron ball rushing into the formation, is a flesh and blood alley being rolled away.No amount of tyrannical physicality will work.If the body is covered with iron armor, it may also cause multiple cross damage.

An iron ball rushed into the back formation, blasted and bounced, and after smashing through several human bodies, it blasted the head of a servant not far from Kong Youde. The blood mist fell on Kong Youde's face, and he was stunned for a while.

"Ah, ah! ah..."

After a round of artillery salvo from the Shunxiang army, Kong Youde's entire army formation was covered with stumps and blood, and countless people who were hit by the artillery rolled to the ground crying.Standing in the formation like this and being beaten, coupled with the terrible artillery, his army immediately showed signs of collapse.

Especially in the former army, some Han army bird gunners ignored the enemy's distance, and raised their guns pointlessly, screaming loudly at the same time.Some people were still running around like headless chickens, and some even fled back while crying.Their escape not only affected the front army, but also affected the left and right wings of Kong Youde's triple formation, followed by the Chinese army...

Seeing that the whole army was about to collapse, Kong Youde woke up and shouted: "Stay where you are, don't move around..."

He jumped out with his personal guards, chopped down a few fleeing soldiers with his own hands, and drove them back.Driven by him, the officers of various ministries and teams also stopped their subordinates from collapsing.Many officers and sergeants in his camp are veterans of the Dongjiang Army who followed him back then. They have lived in battle for a long time and are quite brave.After they stopped and ordered, the signs of collapse finally stopped.

But going on like this is not the way to go. Seeing that the gunners of the Shun Township Army are reloading shells calmly, the second round of artillery salvo is just around the corner... If the Ming army artillery fires a second round of salvo, then my subordinates will definitely collapse, and even I am in the army. Cannot avoid artillery damage.

Kong Youde's eyes were red. He had been in the army for a long time, so he quickly figured out a way to deal with it.

He yelled: "Order, the whole army will move forward and meet you."

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On the hill, seeing that Kong Youde quickly stopped the disturbance of his subordinates and quickly figured out a way to deal with the artillery, Wang Dou nodded, thinking: "Kong Youde really has some talents, but it's a pity that he is willing to join the Qing Dynasty and serve as a slave for Huang Taiji."

Under Huanglong's big umbrella, Huang Taiji also nodded slowly: "King Gongshun is available."

However, he then sent an order to Zhenghuang Banner Baya Latuzhang Jingtu Lai to lead some Baya La heavy armored cavalry and slowly follow behind Kong Youde's formation to supervise the charge.If any soldiers of the Han Army Banner dared to escape, they would be killed immediately without hesitation.

Cao Bianjiao could clearly see that there seemed to be some rangers coming up in the Qing army formation, he immediately sent an order to his subordinates to send out a thousand cavalry to accompany the guards.

Just now, after dozens of cannons in Zhao Xuan's department fired a volley, thick smoke filled the front of the Shunxiang army's formation, and the choking smell of gunpowder smoke even spread to the noses of the gunfire soldiers waiting tens of steps behind.Through the gunpowder smoke, Han and North Korea heard the sound of drums in the opposite formation, and then the densely packed Kong Youde Han army came forward under the orders of the officers.

Unexpectedly, the Qing army on the opposite side took the initiative to meet them. As soon as the two sides approached, the artillery quickly lost its effect, and within two hundred steps of each other, it was time for the Shunxiang Army's firearms to fight.

Han Chao looked at it calmly for a while, and shouted, "Beat the drums and move forward."

Amidst the sound of drums, the Shun Township Army marched in order again. They passed the artillery of Zhao Xuanqian's artillery battalion, and marched away without hesitation.

On the opposite side, the German and Han army flags came in disorder. After passing by the Shunxiang army, they bombarded and rioted.Especially in his front army of the Triad, the blunderbuss soldiers huddled together, the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the officers.

"Stop, team up, team up."

Seeing that his entire army was coming to meet him, and the opponent's artillery stopped bombarding him, Kong Youde felt relieved, seeing that the opponent was approaching in a dense manner, and the distance was less than 150 steps.Kong Youde ordered to stop, and the whole army stood in line.

Each wing of Kong Youde's triple formation is divided into three teams, and each team is divided into several small teams.Each team is a team of 57 people in the original army, with a team leader and a team deputy, and the remaining 55 sergeants. They are divided into five rows with 11 people in each row.After firing the gunpowder, the front row gunpowders empty their guns and reload behind them, intending to keep the firepower uninterrupted, just like the tactics of the Great Ming Shenji Battalion.

There used to be more than a thousand soldiers in the former army, and there were more than [-] bird gun soldiers in one large group and six small groups, and there were more than [-] bird gun soldiers in each row.If the enemy's army is powerful, the front army can also be combined into a large group, with more than [-] blunderbuss soldiers in each row.However, Kong Youde's inertial thinking divided the front army into three groups. At this time, the front army was in chaos, but it was already the so-called front, middle, and rear three groups.

After the casualties from the bombardment just now, the front army had less than a thousand soldiers, Kong Youde roughly organized the team and divided it into five columns, even if there were many sergeants from other teams in each column, he didn't care.

In the chaos here, the Shun Township army was approaching a hundred paces in a dense manner.

"Fight, fight!"

The front army of the Han Army Banner, who was in the whole team, suddenly noticed that there was a dense layer of Shunxiang Army firearms approaching not far away. No matter the officers or soldiers, all of them screamed in panic.In the front row, more than [-] soldiers of the Han Army's banner bird guns raised their guns one after another.

At the same time, they suddenly discovered that the number of their own team seemed to be a little less. There were no more than [-] blunderbuss soldiers in their own row, and at least [-] to [-] on the other side...Kong Youde was also horrified to find that he had arranged his subordinates into four wings, which seemed to greatly dilute their own strength. Bird gun fire.

"Stop!"

When they were a hundred steps away from the Eight Banners Han army, the Han Dynasty ordered to stop, the marching drums stopped, and the orderly footsteps of the Shunxiang army stopped.

"Come forward on the front floor, prepare..."

"mighty!"

The six hundred firecrackers in the front row of the Shunxiang Army shouted in unison, and took a step forward collectively.All of them looked determined, they were the subordinates of the general who was the king of the three armies, they were invincible and invincible fighters of the Shun Township Army.Even facing the enemy's bird guns, they will not be afraid or hesitate at all!This is the vigor and confidence gained by the army after victorious battles.

Seeing the hundreds of firecrackers being raised on the opposite side, the faces of the flag bird blunderbussmen of the Han army on the opposite side were all ashen, and many of them went blank.Without waiting for the officer's order, they pulled the triggers of their guns one after another.Driven by them, more than [-] flag birds of the Han army in the front layer fired involuntarily.

The blunderbuss sounded like popping beans, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose, and more than [-] gunfire soldiers of the Shun Township Army fell down on the opposite side.

Although Kong Youde's blunderbuss couldn't penetrate armor at a hundred paces, the sergeant didn't have the power to fire a volley in panic, let alone the corresponding accuracy.But there were still some bird guns that hit the opposite Shunxiang Army soldiers.The excellent bird guns, the projectiles at this distance, hit the armor on their bodies, and it was like a big hammer hitting them heavily, causing internal damage, and even bleeding to death.

The sergeant who was shot fell down with a muffled grunt. An unfortunate gunner of the Shun Township Army was shot in his iron helmet. He fell backwards and rolled out, blood and brains splashing out.

(End of this chapter)