Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 479 Regaining Guide
At this time, Li Wuliu's entire army was five miles outside the city.

In the center are five rows of blunderbuss soldiers, numbering 3 people, stretching 1 feet long, and the width of the front is longer than the city wall of Guide Mansion. Inverted triangle, or inverted pin formation, the left and right wings are in front, the central square is behind, and the commanding army is set up in the central square.

There are also [-] cavalry on the left and right sides of the Pinzi formation. These are [-] cavalry specially ordered from Zhao Kang. Zhao Kang has already trained [-] cavalry, and [-] will be given to Li Wuliu to make his drill more complicated. attack square.

At the rear, behind the connection between the Pinzi formation and the cavalry on the two wings, there are [-] artillery positions each, and Hu Quan personally leads the artillery here.

Now in Yang Chao's army, each army has its own artillery team, but Hu Quan's artillery is formed into an army alone, and the artillery is assembled and used. Yang Chao is still very clear about Napoleon's combat principles. When he was studying in France, he went to There are oil paintings like this in many museums.

At this time to attack Guide, Yang Chao transferred the artillery unit with the most powerful firepower. That is to say, when attacking the city, Hu Quan is equipped with a large number of red barbarian cannons to exert the greatest power. There is a suspicion of killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. The General Cannon and the Tiger Crouching Cannon are enough to suppress the enemy.

Yang Chao felt the ground tremble, opened the binoculars, and sure enough, Hu Quan's guns fired.

The sound of a thousand Hongyi cannons roaring together is really impressive. I saw a large number of shells flying past the junction of cavalry and infantry, rushing straight into the city wall of Guide Mansion, hitting the middle of the city wall All shaking.

Withdrawing his sight and returning to the artillery array, he saw one artillery carriage firing and retreating violently. The nimble artillery carriage dashed backwards, and after being dispelled by a steep upward slope, it fell naturally. Ten artillerymen immediately stabilized. Hold the gun carriage, wash the barrel, charge the powder, load the bomb, and then continue to fire.

It took less than a quarter of an hour to complete this series of steps. I heard that the most elite British gunners can fire a shell in two to three minutes, but Yang Chao's artillery can't do it. They don't have the financial resources to allow them to train intensively, but because they lack battle experience, they are inevitably nervous at this time. In normal training, they can fire two rounds in a quarter of an hour.

The Qing army on Guide City also fired back. Unfortunately, their only less than ten Hongyi cannons missed, and the only shells that hit in front of the artillery positions were also piled up in front of the artillery positions. The hilly soil ridges were blocked, and deep pits were dug out by artillery operations, but it was definitely not just for leveling the land and building buffer slopes. The soil ridges in front were also one of the results.

The Qing army's shelling not only failed to suppress the Ming army's artillery, but instead attracted dozens of times of retaliation. In less than half an hour, all their Hongyi cannons were reimbursed, and their small artillery could not hit the Ming army. For a while, he could only be beaten passively.

The dull shelling lasted for two and a half hours, from early morning to noon, and finally concentrated the bombardment on the front city gate. The city wall collapsed along with the city gate, but the artillery continued to bombard.

And teams of artillerymen opened their positions, pushing a thousand catties of general guns towards the city wall.

The artillery commander shouted: "The cannon will hit the head of the person who is holding it!"

Shooting the enemy's forehead, this slogan was originally put forward by Yang Chao to inspire the courage of the artillerymen, but now it seems to have become a motto in the army.

The tiger squatting gun advanced a thousand steps outside the city wall, and immediately began to bombard the targets on the city wall. More than 1000 general cannons came out, and immediately suppressed less than a hundred artillery pieces of the Qing army on the city, while the other firepower of the Qing army It doesn't have that much range yet.

Li Wuliu did his part, and also dispatched three thousand bird blunderbuss soldiers, who kept passing the artillery, stopped after reaching the moat, and then fired continuously at the gap in the city wall in a three-fold formation.

At this time, the shield carts were pushed out one by one, with bags of earth bags that had been packed long ago. Under the cover of cannons and bird guns, they pushed all the way to the moat, pushed the shield carts together with the earth bags, and then He ran back quickly, and one after another such shield cars kept pushing into the moat. After half an hour, a three-foot-wide passage was filled out.

Immediately, the three thousand iron cavalry on the left rushed up, and rushed straight through the passage to the gap.

The cavalry quickly came into close contact with the troops of the Qing army blocking the gap, and Li Wuliu sent infantry to advance under the city wall and began to fire towards the city wall, suppressing the Qing army's bow and arrow firepower.

Not to be outdone, Hu Quan dispatched [-] tiger squat cannons to push them in groups of two and began to advance rapidly towards the city wall.

Although the cavalry was the first to rush into the gap, the Qing army still had a strong will to resist. There were a thousand and eight bannermen behind them with their bows and arrows, but those who retreated were shot and killed immediately, so that these green battalion soldiers dared not work hard and blocked the cavalry for a while. At the gap, the conscripts are nervously building high sandbags behind the gap regardless of the danger.

The cavalry seemed to be out of support, and retreated slowly, backing around the two sides of the gap. At this time, rows of tiger squatting cannon carriages were revealed behind. A gun barrel as thick as an arm protruded, and these gun carriages touched the gap, and immediately sprayed out flames, and lead bullets the size of an apple flew out.

Since the gap is only more than ten feet wide, only more than 20 artillery carts can be arranged at a time. After firing one round, the artillery carts immediately retreat to the two sides, leaving the middle passage for the subsequent artillery carts, just like musketeers firing in bursts. , the dense shells continued, and after a full quarter of an hour, there was nothing in front of it, not to mention the sandbags piled up by the civilians, even the civilians and the Qing army in the back were scattered, and even the soldiers who supervised the battle in the distance The Eight Banners soldiers also hid in civilian houses to avoid being affected by shells.

At this time, the cavalry rushed into the city again, wielding their sabers and chopping down the scattered Qing troops along the street. The infantry also rushed in, slowly clearing out stubborn enemies street by street.

"All troops, mount the bayonets!"

Li Wuliu's trumpet sounded, and I saw more than 2 blunderbuss soldiers who had been in Yu's department took down the shining bayonet from the side belt (belt). The performance of the bayonet with three blood grooves is very good.

The blunderbussman took off the bayonet, put the tail of the bayonet on the three-inch wooden handle protruding from the blunderbuss, then pulled out two rivets from the belt, inserted them through the small holes on the bayonet sleeve, and put them on the wooden handle inside. There are also two small holes, so that the bayonet and the wooden handle are riveted together.

After hearing the order, the bayonet soldiers armed with bayonets began to move row by row, but the actions were not chaotic at all. Starting from the very center, they marched directly in the formation of mandarin ducks, avoiding too much frontal attack, and at the same time it was convenient for marching.

A team of mandarin ducks crossed the moat, entered the city, lined up mandarin ducks to charge in various blocks, and the bird guns with bayonets could not be reloaded, so none of them had only one bullet to fire. Start charging.

For a while, the sound of crackling birds and guns rang continuously in the city, radiating from the gap in the south of the city to all directions. After an hour, the sound slowly disappeared.

"Fortunately, the governor did not disgrace his life, and Guide City was taken!"

Li Wuliu galloped to report back to Yang Chao on a tall horse with mixed flowers.

Yang Chao had already seen it clearly.

"Your formation is useless, but I am optimistic about you. Continue to practice. It is best to find a chance to defeat the Qing army in a field battle on the plain."

"The commander of the cavalry, it's the Tartars who dare not fight with me in the field, otherwise they would have been defeated in one blow!"

In fact, the city has already collapsed. As early as when the tiger squatting bombarded the gap and the cavalry rushed in, the Eight Banners Governor's team fled first, and the green battalion reserve army on the city wall and left in the city had no will to fight at all. If it weren't for their officers All relatives of the family raised the flag and were sent to Beijing as hostages. It is estimated that they surrendered before Yang Chao came to fight.

"Okay, courage is commendable. Now go to the city with Bendu!"

Yang Chao rode a big pure white horse and marched towards Guide City under the escort of two thousand cavalry led by Li Liang and Zhang Dun respectively.

Soon into the city, cheers everywhere.

With victories after victories, Yang Chao's prestige in the army was unprecedented. This time, when he learned that Yang Chao came to supervise the battle in person, the morale had already risen to a feverish level before the station. Show your face in front of the tide.

At this time, the whole city was under the control of Yang Chao's army, and Yang Chao's soldiers were everywhere on the city wall. Yang Chao ran past the soldiers on horseback and waved to them. banner.

Whether it's a soldier or an officer, everyone cheered crazily wherever they passed, and some people even had tears in their eyes. Yang Chao felt that he was just like the sons of later generations, being fanatically admired by a group of people, It's a pity that they are all a group of big bosses. If it is a group of beautiful ladies, it feels really fat.

After winning Guide, a celebration banquet was held for three consecutive days, and the soldiers celebrated in three waves, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

At the same time, they greeted the gentry in the city, issued notices to calm the people, and took out military rations to help the people. Before the Qing army fled, they burned the warehouses in Guide City to a clean slate. , obviously they intend to stick to it for a long time.

"Immediately publish the news that our army has gone down to Guide Mansion in the Jiangnan newspaper and send it back!"

At the same time, the news of the catastrophe immediately spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River along with the newspapers.

"My lord, a group of scholars from the south of the Yangtze River is coming to watch the soldiers!"

Li Wuliu reported a strange news about Yang Chao. Under the call of Gu Yanwu, hundreds of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River even united to submit a petition to the Nanjing Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, requesting to come to Henan to observe the soldiers, and to see for themselves how the soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River regained the Central Plains !

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, let them come, these people are good writers, let them live with my army soldiers, but tell them that they have to write articles for Jiangnan News, treat them as them The food expenses, the governor will not give a penny (writing fee)."

(End of this chapter)