Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 515 Infantry Battle
After the military order was conveyed, the Ming army was mobilized immediately.

"Brothers, Qinggou has a Frang machine and three rows of blunderbuss in his hand. Be careful and run as fast as possible. If you can save one shot, it is one shot. Once the soldiers meet, our mission will be completed. This is what we have to do with each other." In the first battle between the Qing soldiers, if you don’t want to be looked down upon all the time, everyone will fight with me! After this battle, we can all raise our heads and be human, and return to Huguang in a glorious manner!”

In front of the Huang and Zhang Ming armies, Zhang Xianzhen was mobilizing before the battle, and the faces of the selected soldiers showed a sense of sadness, because they all knew that most of them would fall on the way to charge.

This is the fate of cannon fodder. They can only be blamed for not following the right person. Now if they want to clear their shame, they have to be cannon fodder, and they have to be beautiful.

"Dong dong~"

While Zhang Xianzhen was speaking, the drums of the Ming army were loudly beating, which boosted the morale of the soldiers and at the same time conveyed the order to attack.

"The commander gave the order. Brothers, remember, one is to follow the general and rush forward, and the other is to try to keep the formation as stable as possible!" Zhang Xianzhen roared loudly.

Wang Jiye also took a deep breath, raised the saber in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, get ready!"

Amid the sound of war drums, 5000 troops selected from the [-] Qiandong Ming army took up the escape cards and swords in unison.

At this moment, when the sound of the drum changed and the flag was waved, Zhang Xianzhen immediately yelled, "Let's go!" The soldiers behind him immediately stepped forward and rhythmically beat with their sabers as they advanced. The shield made a clanging sound.

At this time, the soldiers of the Qing soldiers saw the enemy's approaching. They were all disc helmets, red tassels, and purple flower double-breasted cloth armor.

"The order is that once the enemy enters the range, the Frang machine will release first. The enemy will shoot rounds at 150 paces, the enemy will shoot with bows and arrows at nearly [-] paces, and the enemy will retreat at [-] paces. The pikemen will attack."

In the Qing army, Hu Guozhu issued military orders loudly, seemingly ordinary, but he pointed out all the tactics, and he could be seen as an expert.

At this time, the Ming army was approaching within the range of Flangji, Zhang Xianzhen raised his weapon again, and shouted loudly: "Raise the shield!"

With a command, the soldiers raised their shields to protect their bodies and continue to advance.

"Shock!" Zhang Xianzhen shouted the order, and before he took the lead, all the 5000 people who had been walking slowly started running in an instant, their weapons and armor colliding with each other.

Almost at the same time, on the gun carriage in front of the Qing army, the fuse was ignited, bursts of green smoke rose, sparks swooshed into the medicine room, there was a loud "bang", and the iron bullet flew out.

The Qing army did not have flowering ammunition. This small Frang machine fired two types of shells: iron bullets and shotgun shells.

As hundreds of cannons fired at the same time, the iron bullets directly smashed the shields, and gaps appeared everywhere in the originally dense formation of the Ming army.

"Let go!" These gunners of the Qing army had an orderly division of labor and moved quickly. They immediately replaced a sub-gun, and their operation was not inferior to that of the Five Loyalists.

"Kill" the Ming army held up their shields and galloped with all their strength. There was still a distance of nearly three hundred steps. From time to time, there was a scream from the side of the soldier. then disappeared.

The soldiers didn't have time to look at the situation on the left and right. They had to rush to the front of the Qing army in the shortest possible time.

"Quickly change the guns!" "Get ready for the guns!" "Let go!" In the Qing army formation, the commanding officers urged their subordinates sharply.

Hu Guozhu saw the Ming army rushing down one after another, and when he rushed to the front of the formation, it was estimated that almost everyone died, and the formation also dispersed, with a sneer on his face.

"Not good!" At this time, Xia Guoxiang suddenly shouted, "Gao Yigong wants to outflank us."

Just when the Ming army was halfway through, seven thousand chieftains broke away from the formation and went straight into the steep mountain forest.

Most of these soldiers and horses are short-clothed and jacketed, and very few have leather armor. The equipment is relatively simple, but they are extremely flexible in the mountains and forests, like thousands of apes running around in the mountains and forests. The scene is very spectacular.

Hu Guozhu's face darkened when he saw this, he didn't expect that such a group of chieftains who grew up in the mountains and forests would be engulfed in the Ming army.

If he attacked the flank, he could still deal with it, but he was afraid that they would directly bypass the battlefield and cut off his back.

At this time, Hu Guozhu couldn't help sweating on his forehead, thinking whether to retreat quickly and leave the battlefield quickly while he was not entangled with the Ming army.

"Burn the mountain, set fire to the mountain." Xia Guoxiang reminded suddenly.

Hu Guozhu reacted, he looked at the direction where the flags fluttered, the wind helped the fire, and soon the mountain on the left could be lit, blocking the roundabout path of the Ming army.

Immediately, the flag was waved, and a group of Qing army archers left the rear.

"Bird gun release!"

Following this order, a puff of blue smoke rose from behind the shield wall of the Qing army. Two thousand bird gunners put the bird guns on the shield, and fired a row of bullets with a bang bang bang. The bird guns were put up again, and then the third column, and the cycle repeated.

The projectile hit the shield of the Ming army, and there was a loud bang, and sparks flew everywhere. A soldier was hit by several projectiles one after another, his body trembled, and finally fell on his back.

The 1000 Ming army braved the rain of bullets, and more than 150 people have fallen along the way, with a loss of more than [-]%, but the road is only halfway, and there are [-] steps left.

Gao Yigong saw that Zhang Xianzhen had attracted the firepower of the Qing army, and the five thousand Ming troops blocked most of the cannons and bird guns.

On the battlefield, the Ming army paid a terrible price, and the archers in the rear of the Qing army immediately bent their bows and set their arrows.

Arrow feathers flying all over the sky are frightening, but relatively speaking, the damage is the least, because the five thousand Ming army, as cannon fodder, chose sword and shield players with strong defense and not easy to die.

The biggest threat to the Ming army was the Frang machine that fired shotguns. The iron sand was shot out and splashed one by one, and soldiers of the Ming army were beaten with blood on their faces and died wailing.

Fifty steps, after the Ming army paid nearly half of the casualties, they finally survived the fatal distance of more than 300 steps.

Seeing this, Hu Guozhu pulled out his saber and shouted: "Cannons, musketeers retreat, infantry, go!"

In the formation of the Qing army, the flags were waved, and the shield soldiers in front of the formation moved their large shields, and the artillery team facing the Ming army immediately dragged the artillery vehicles back into the formation. The infantry, after receiving the order, let out a roar, turned the long spears that were originally upright, and instantly held them horizontally, and rushed away from the main formation from between the side shields.

These spearmen are more than twice as many as the Ming army rushing forward. Once they leave the main formation, the Qing army shieldmen immediately move the side shields, the passage is closed, and the shield wall is formed again. The spearmen immediately lined up, leaning closely together, forming a forest of spears, trying to stab the Ming army who bumped into them into hedgehogs.

Dozens of steps away, the Ming army could already see the face of the enemy. They lowered their shields a little, swept off the arrow shafts pierced with the weapons in their hands, shouted frantically, vented their fear, and charged forward without hesitation. enemy.

The two men and horses strangled together, and at this moment, in the Ming army's formation, the drums sounded again.

The sight of the Qing army was blocked by two melee troops, but Hu Guozhu and Xia Guoxiang saw it very clearly, and another Ming army infantry pressed up.

This time, because most of the firepower of the Qing army was blocked by the fighting troops, they came at a steady pace without rushing.

(Thanks to gdrthg for the reward)
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