Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 281 The Imitation of the Qing Army

Tangning didn't want to waste shells when fighting Oboi, a moving and scattered target, because the shells in his hand were precious.

A few shots could not solve the problem, and he was reluctant to shoot too many shells.

What's more, Tangning still didn't believe that the 2 enemy troops wanted to take advantage of him.

Moreover, the distance between Oboi's troops and his own side has been shortened to within the shortest firing range of the howitzers. If the artillery positions are not moved backwards, they will not be able to hit them even if they want to.

Of course, the speed of moving the artillery position is much slower than that of the Qing cavalry. It is not realistic to move the artillery position backwards and then shell.

In short, Oboi's troops escaped from the howitzers of the new army.

He himself didn't know that he had been carefully guarding against the shelling of the new army. For this reason, he ordered the troops to disperse as much as possible again and again, so that once the new army bombarded, the losses would be smaller.

Finally, the distance between the two sides was shortened to about five miles.

Only then did Aobai order the team to slow down a bit, take a short rest and organize the formation.

In order to prevent the whole team from being confused when being bombarded, he also divided the team into five teams, with a certain distance between them.

Obai used binoculars to observe the formation of the new army, and at the same time sent people as close as possible to the new army camp to inspect more carefully, and then reported to him.

The new army did not form a hollow phalanx as he had heard, but a large phalanx.

As expected, musketeers are placed at the front, followed by chariots, archers, spearmen and other arms.

Those chariots, or the chariots he is familiar with, must have been seized by the new army from Shengjing City, but now they are used to deal with him, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.

As for the artillery, they are placed on both sides in front of the formation, which can bombard the front, or quickly turn around to bombard the enemies on the two wings.

It can be said that the formation of the new army can't find any flaws, so Oboi didn't dare to launch an all-out attack rashly.

He sent [-] cavalry to launch a tentative attack from the front and both wings at the same time.

Facing the attack of only a few hundred cavalry in each of the three directions, the new army didn't even bother to use artillery and let them approach.

Although they were already close to the firing range of the artillery, they were not attacked, which made the attacking Qing army feel a little uneasy.

However, they could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward, but seeing the dense muzzles of the soldiers of the new army pointing at themselves, it made people feel chills all over their bodies.

Faced with this situation, there is no way to choose to retreat.

Finally, they got close to less than [-] feet away from the musketeers of the new army.

"Fire..."

With an order.

"Bang bang bang..." The new army soldiers lined up in three rows fired at the same time.

"Ah..." Following the screams, the cavalry rushed down one by one, and some war horses also screamed and fell to the ground.

For a while, the few hundred cavalrymen, who were not many in number, became even more sparse.

This scene then also happened on the two wings.

Aobai was terrified, in just one round of attack, he lost more than half of the soldiers he sent out, this kind of musket formation is really fierce.

Aobai knew that his temptation had completely failed, and the remaining people would only die if they rushed forward, so he immediately ordered to retreat.

The retreat horn blew, and the cavalry who hadn't rushed close to the new army's battle quickly drew an arc and turned around and began to evacuate.

It seemed that they didn't want to waste ammunition on these sparse targets, so the soldiers of the new army let them go.

Seeing the soldiers who came back in a state of distress, Oboi looked very ugly, his eyes widened, and he gave an order, and he directly pulled out two thousand bird musketeers, which were trained by Dorgon hastily.

Under the order, the two thousand bird musketeers lined up in three rows in front of the formation. Under the command of the commander, they began to advance towards the new army step by step.

Through the binoculars, Tangning saw the line formation of the Qing army. She couldn't help being taken aback, and muttered to herself, "When did the Tartars get trained?"

Some generals and staff officers around him were also a little stunned, obviously they didn't know when the Qing army also learned the line battle formation.

The intelligence department had already had secret agents infiltrated into the capital, and there was no news that the Qing army had trained a special line tactical team.

Either it was trained secretly by the Qing army, or its training time is still short, so it has not been reported yet.

Tang Ning was more inclined to believe the latter, because in official history, the Qing court did not use linear tactics on a large scale until its demise.

This tactic has appeared now, and it is 100% imitated by the new army, and the new army has only used this tactic to deal with the Qing army for more than half a year.

Tangning didn't believe that the Qing army imitated this tactic as soon as they saw it. They must have suffered many losses and had no other way to break through it, so they thought of imitating it.

Tangning couldn't stop others from imitating her own tactics. Since the Qing army also had this kind of tactics now, whether it's a mule or a horse, let's take a look.

See if Qingjun has really learned the essence, or if he has learned nothing.

So, Tangning carefully watched the enemy's marching pattern with a telescope. It was fairly neat at first, but as they walked, it became uneven.

Obviously, even the most elite full eight banners are far from being able to compare with the new army in terms of pace.

Perhaps when they thought about it, they were still a little far away from the new army's forward position, and it seemed that there would be time to organize the team when they were almost close.

Finally, the blunderbuss team of the Qing army entered the range of the artillery, but the new army still did not fire. The main reason was that the solid bullets were much less lethal to this line formation, not to mention that the Qing army only lined up in one line. Linear.

After the Qing army continued to approach for a certain distance, it finally began to organize the troops as Tangning expected, so that the team became a neat three rows again.

Tangning didn't give the order to fire the cannon until it was close to the firing range of the captive cannon.

"Boom boom boom..." The Mielu Cannon fired shotgun shells, and solid bullets the size of human eyes flew out.

"Puff puff..." The unprotected soldiers of the Qing army were shot, blood holes were opened in their bodies, and they fell down screaming.

Sure enough, the Qing army had learned some superficial facts, and they followed the example of the new army. The soldiers in the second row immediately filled the gap left by the fallen soldiers in the first row.

The team continued to march forward under the firepower of the new army, leaving corpses behind them, as well as wounded and surviving wounded.

In order to reduce soldier casualties, the commander of the Qing army even directly ordered the soldiers to run, which made it even more impossible to control the order of the team.

"Interesting." Tangning chuckled, pondered for a while, and waved to Song Yunwan who was not far away.

After Song Yunwan came over, she immediately issued an order. Song Yunwan nodded and sent someone to carry it out.

After paying a considerable price, the Qing army finally got close to only about sixty feet away from the new army.

Suddenly, the gunfire of the new army stopped. Although the Qing army was a little stunned, they took advantage of this short time to move forward while regrouping.

Their ranks had just been tidied up, but they suddenly saw the neat ranks of the new army separated, revealing several gaps.

A few soldiers quickly walked out of several gaps. Since the front soldiers were blocked by shields, they couldn't see the specific situation.

Suddenly, the shield was withdrawn abruptly, revealing the black muzzles of the guns.

(End of this chapter)