Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 396 take over
Li Wuliu is ambitious.

Zhunta is also full of confidence.

Both sides in the decisive battle are full of confidence in themselves.

The most nervous thing is the third party next to the battlefield, the soldiers and civilians watching the battle in Haizhou City!
After the Qing army appeared, Haizhou was naturally very nervous, but with the experience of being besieged last time, they did not panic.

Song Lian, in particular, immediately organized the people to kick off the city just like last time, and at the same time put the grain stores in Haizhou under control immediately.

Song Lian intends to replicate the last Haizhou war. Of course, without Yang Chao, he didn't have too much ambition, and he didn't imagine that he could wipe out all the soldiers like last time. He just wanted to be able to hold the city firmly.

But as for whether they can hold it, in fact, no one has much confidence. Last time, Yang Chao's elite soldiers were there, and everyone had the backbone. Now we can only rely on them.

Therefore, they have been trembling for many days. Yesterday, they saw a ship sailing from the sea, and then shelled the Qing army. Haizhou City suddenly rejoiced, because they knew that reinforcements were coming.

But they didn't know where the reinforcements came from. Today, quite a few people are in the east of the city, just to see the reinforcements, but at noon they saw the reinforcements starting to attack. This made many people feel nervous and have a little military common sense. Yes, they all sighed secretly, feeling that the reinforcement general had made a stupid decision, how could he fight the Tartars in the wild? Yang Chao is still good?

It has to be said that Yang Chao's reputation in Haizhou is extremely high. All the generals of the Ming army have made comparisons with Yang Chao, and they never get tired of it. There is often only one result of the comparison, that is, other people are not as good as Yang Chao.

"Look! Yang Ziqi!"

Soon, someone saw the Ming army marching out of the battalion and unfurling their banners.

Immediately more people saw it, and then the entire east wall burst into cheers.

Yang Ziqi, this is Yang Chao's soldier!

All of a sudden, the army and civilians in Haizhou changed from just thinking that the reinforcement generals would not rise sharply, to full of confidence in him.

"Yang's army, it's the Yang's army! Kill all the Tartars, good luck to Uncle Yang!"

Many people couldn't help shouting.

The cheers in the city made Zhunta, who had already lined up two miles outside Haizhou City, hesitant whether to send someone to keep an eye on Haizhou City, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up this idea. He felt that the soldiers in Haizhou City would never have the courage to go out of the city and attack him.

So I felt confident and boldly turned my back to Haizhou City. I have to say that despite the Yangzhou War, the Qing army still has a psychological advantage over the Ming army. After all, since Nurhachi raised troops, failure has almost come from their dictionary. Disappeared.

As for the two battles in Haizhou and Yangzhou, the captive soldiers also habitually found reasonable reasons for themselves, because the Ming army was cunning, not because the Ming army had any combat effectiveness.

At the front of Li Wuliu's formation were rows of soldiers pushing forward with wooden shields, and behind them were carrying spears.

The wooden shields in these people's hands are a bit special, because there are two small wheels installed under the wooden shields, which can be pushed and moved, which saves a lot of labor. Enough for shield soldiers to have a headache.

There is nothing special about such a large shield. It is actually a variant of the captive shield cart. The lower cart was removed and replaced with two small wheels. Obviously, the structure is more streamlined, and the movement is equally labor-saving.

"One two one, one two one."

Immediately behind the shield soldiers were rows of horizontal teams. The grassroots shouted to the main gate. Their teams were not conspicuous in the large army, they were just a part of the war machine.

And what's different from the past is that when advancing, these teams are lined up in a straight line, with eleven people marching in a line, and each row of the entire large square has a hundred such lines, which is a huge machine.

With the shield in front and the long column behind, they slowly moved towards Haizhou City, and soon they were one mile away from the captive soldiers.

And the two soldiers on both sides of the long line, like the shield soldiers in front, pushed a shield cart.

"Drip!"

Suddenly two crisp sounds sounded, with a sharp metallic tone.

This is a small bronze trumpet made by Yang Chao, and it is actually the charge trumpet of later generations.

The frontmost shield soldiers stopped advancing immediately, and then erected their shields.

Because the two trumpets they heard, one long and one short, meant "stand up shield!"

But the other soldiers behind them kept going and stopped three feet behind the shield.

The second row stopped three feet behind the first row, and so on, and the nine rows of soldiers finally stopped automatically.

"Dididi-didi!"

The hissing of the copper horn sounded, and all the soldiers took small steps, with their heads turned 45 degrees to the right. The short and long hissing of the horn meant that they were aligned to the right.

"Drip!"

Two short trumpet sounds, which means standing at attention.

At the same time, the soldiers in the left and right rows of the formation, the outermost ones who were also pushing the shields, immediately erected the shields, but instead of erecting them ahead of time, they erected them towards the outside. To them, the sound of the two trumpets was not standing at attention, but erecting the shields. .

In this way, the left and right fronts and three shield walls were formed to protect the entire phalanx.

A series of large-scale changes in the phalanx made the opponent completely unable to understand what it was.

"Turtle shell?"

Zhunta couldn't help but sneered, dismissing this, and wrapped himself with three shields, what kind of formation is this?
Although Zhunta couldn't understand the formation of the Ming army, it didn't affect his disdain for the formation. As a veteran who was used to fighting, he even knew the essence of the formation. It's just a stretch, not only can it be retracted to be beneficial to defense, but it should also be convenient to deploy to facilitate offense.

Therefore, the simpler the formation, the more effective it is, just like the cavalry wedge formation, which has been used for thousands of years, because the attack surface is narrow during the impact, and it is very convenient for the two wings to spread out to form a striking surface. , Do you want to fight, or use your strongest attack point to attack the opponent. If you can do ten people against one person, no matter how high the opponent's martial arts are, it will be a dead end.

However, the square tortoise formation of the Ming army makes Zhunta see no advantage, except that the team's attack may cause a little trouble, and it is inconvenient to deploy by yourself. The rear is blocked by the front. It is simply a waste of limited attack power on the battlefield.

After studying the formations of the Ming army for so many years, the most optimistic about Zhunta is Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation. When advancing, there is a long snake with a shield in front. There are similarities, but the civil servants of the Ming army always like to play with weird things. Maybe this is another whimsical idea of ​​a certain civil servant. As for the generals of the Ming army, they have long since fallen into the trap of relying on thick armor and leading troops to fight randomly. The degree of formation and the use of formations are not as good as the nomadic army.

At this time, the two armies were one mile apart, and Zhunta hadn't ordered an attack yet, but he wanted to see what would happen to the turtle array if he didn't attack.

At this time, he heard "D-D-D!" Two bronze horns sounded, and then he saw the formation of the Ming army begin to move slowly.

Putting down the brass horn on his lips, Li Wuliu couldn't help sighing, "This damn thing is really troublesome!"

To be honest, he didn't want to use the copper horn, it was too troublesome, although the password had been simplified as much as possible, but he was still not used to it, it was so much fun to use the shout like in the past.

But he also knew that it was unrealistic. A phalanx with a few hundred people can roar without any problem, but it becomes very laborious for a phalanx of thousands of people, and basically cannot be heard when it reaches tens of thousands of people. clear.

It is unrealistic to use command flags. On a tense battlefield, who would look at the officer's flag without incident? The most important thing is to pay attention to the enemy.

That's why Yang Chao thought about it, and found someone to make this sharp, high-pitched, highly recognizable copper horn.

In fact, Yang Chao has tried many instruments, such as the suona, such as the waist drum, and in the end the bronze horn is the best to operate.

And after many experiments, the signal was finally determined. Two short horns represent orders such as standing at attention and erecting shields, one long and one short trumpet represents advancing, one short and one long represents rest, and four short and long trumpets The representative looks to the right, and there are also orders such as preparing for battle and charging in an all-round way.

It can be said that this has been simplified enough. All the previous attack orders were cancelled, and the power to determine the attack was given to the soldiers.

Li Wuliu was riding a war horse, accompanied by [-] soldiers. According to the design, a phalanx of [-] people should be equipped with [-] cavalry, but the effect of joint training is not very good. There is still no consensus in the army on the use of artillery, but the phalanx alone is already terrifying. Li Wuliu even thinks that there is no need for other arms to cooperate.

So now only Li Wuliu rides the horse alone.

Riding a horse and following the phalanx slowly.

The shield wall at the front of the phalanx moved forward standing upright, with wheels underneath and a leather sheath nailed to the inside. The soldiers behind turned sideways and pushed forward one by one to keep it as stable as possible.

The most important thing is that after these shield cars are in motion, there will still be some fluctuations, and the shield wall will immediately become convex and concave, as if the wind blows the curtain gently rippling.

But this is not a good thing. The shield wall, which plays a defensive role, will obviously reveal its flaws. The only solution is to restore the shield wall to its full state before the enemy takes the opportunity to attack.

After advancing slowly for three hundred steps, Li Wuliu suddenly saw the Tartars move, and dispatched hundreds of cavalry to kill them.

Li Wuliu immediately blew the bronze horn, and the short four-beat sound of the horn represented "ready to fight".

The captive soldiers were still the old tactical cavalry. After the cavalry rode out of the battle, they slowed down their horses and ran slowly. At first they kept their fronts, but suddenly accelerated their horses a hundred paces away, and began to turn around, heading towards the flanks of the infantry formation.

Li Wuliu couldn't help but sneered, thinking to himself that a Tartar is just a Tartar, without any progress.

As soon as the thought in his mind fell to the ground, the Qing army cavalry had already rushed forward thirty steps obliquely. Everyone took out a bow and arrow in their hands, drew the bow fully, and kept aiming.

"court death!"

Li Wuliu snorted coldly, and just as he finished speaking, he heard a crackling sound.

A puff of white smoke came out of the gun barrel of the first bird gunner, and then a row of bird guns swept past like dominoes.

(End of this chapter)