Daming Military Empire

Chapter 246

Li Mingfu, the commander of the [-]st Regiment of the Dingliao Army, was born as a Wu Jinshi. He was assigned to the Dingliao Army as a guerrilla general after the Jiaxu Military Examination High School in the seventh year of Chongzheng. He really has no experience in commanding actual combat, but He memorized the "Infantry Exercise Code" by heart, and he had practiced this kind of blocking warfare countless times during his usual drills, so he didn't panic when facing a hundred thousand bandits.

At this time, he was holding up the binoculars and staring at the shield wall in the front row of the rebel army. This kind of giant wooden shield is about two meters high. Using this as a reference, when the height of the giant shield in the binoculars reaches five squares, the enemy army will enter. The range of the [-]-type howitzer, when the height of the giant shield in the telescope reaches six grids, the enemy will enter the range of the [-]-type howitzer, and when the height of the giant shield in the telescope reaches eight grids, the enemy will enter The range of the [-]-type flintlock gun, when the height of the giant shield in the telescope reaches ten grids, then the telescope is not needed, the enemy is already close at hand, and the bayonet is ready for hand-to-hand combat.

It's a pity that the Dingliao Army is the third-class army of the Ming Dynasty. Each infantry regiment is only equipped with twenty 520-type howitzers and twenty 5000-type howitzers. The [-]th, [-], and [-]-type howitzers add up to a hundred guns. Even if there are only [-] people, it is possible to win the battle when encountering [-] bandits, but the Dingliao Army can't do it. Stall for time and wait for nearby friendly forces to come to support.

If you want to win the battle, then use dense shells to smash the front shield wall, and then the infantry will form a wave formation, control the distance from the enemy, try to consume the enemy with bullets, and then rush up when the consumption is almost exhausted. Throw a grenade and fight hand to hand.However, he only has forty artillery pieces in total, and they have the shortest range. According to the enemy's advancing speed, if he aims at the shield wall, he only has one chance to fire a volley. Smashing fifty or sixty giant wooden shields, while thousands of giant shields are densely packed in front of the opponent, smashing fifty or sixty wooden shields is meaningless at all.

However, if shotguns are used to directly attack the enemy behind, then according to the advance speed of the enemy, at least two salvos can be fired. The giant shield can block the bullets of the flintlock gun, but the shells can be thrown. The enemy behind the giant shield It is simply a moving meat target in front of the shells.

The height of the giant shield in the telescope has reached two blocks, which means that the enemy will enter the range of the Type [-] howitzer after about three minutes. Li Mingfu ordered decisively: "Order the Type [-] howitzer, the Type [-] howitzer The howitzers were all loaded with shotguns, and the infantry lined up in three ranks behind the retreat of the camp."

The messenger behind him waved the flag, the artillery immediately began to load the shells, and the infantry spread out like a stream of water, forming three rows.

Soon the enemy's giant shield reached five squares in the telescope, and Li Mingfu immediately ordered: "Launch the [-]-type howitzer, load the shotgun immediately after firing, and shoot five rounds in a row."

"Boom boom boom" There was a roar of artillery, and hundreds of egg-sized shotguns fell on the rebels. The infantry in the front row of the rebels immediately raised their giant shields to block their heads. However, it was almost useless because the shotguns were aimed at It's not the giant shield in the front row at all, but the infantry behind the giant shield.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh') the shotguns are only the size of an egg, and they can easily pierce through two or three people at a speed of nearly [-] meters per second." !At least a thousand people were lost in this round of volley. Of course, this is nothing to the [-] army. The leaders of all the rebels gritted their teeth and ordered to move on!

Seeing that the rebels continued to charge without stopping, Li Mingfu couldn't help but sneered, and when the giant shield reached six squares in the telescope, he ordered decisively: "The [-]-type howitzer is fired, and the shotgun is loaded immediately after firing. Shoot five rounds in a row."

This time it became lively. The [-]-type howitzers and the [-]-type howitzers on the side of the Ming army camp roared in turn. People from the rebel army kept falling down, and some fell down and stopped moving, but more Rolling on the ground in pain, the infantry phalanx, which was not very neat, immediately turned into a mess.

The leaders of the various rebels were frightened. There are more than 1000 people in one round, more than 1000 people in one round, and more than 1 people in ten rounds. You must know that the infantry of the rebel army is only 5 to [-]. They can't bear such a loss. So, they unanimously ordered, withdraw, withdraw quickly!
Luo Rucai, who was behind the formation, saw this scene, couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, and then shouted: "The cavalry immediately charged from the two wings, regardless of the formation, just rushed over, the sooner the better."

The messenger behind him waved the flag, and the two wings of the rebel infantry phalanx immediately heard the sound of dense horseshoes. "Booming," countless rebel cavalry rushed towards the camp of the [-]st Regiment like a torrent.

Finally came, Li Mingfu shook his head and gave a wry smile, this Luo Rucai is really cunning, he uses infantry to attract firepower, and then uses cavalry to charge, at the speed of cavalry charge, the artillery has no time to adjust the angle, and the [-]th type flintlock guns can only be used at most. It can shoot a salvo, and then, it is estimated that there will be no more.

He didn't expect that he would die for his country for the first time to command a battle. Although it was a pity, he was not afraid. He was already bearish on life and death, and he only had his utter loyalty to Daming in his heart!

He slowly put down the binoculars, pulled out the big knife on his back, and shouted sharply: "The order is that the infantry line up in a three-stage formation of high, low, high, and low. After a salvo, immediately bayonet and prepare grenades. Once the enemy enters within fifty steps, immediately Throw the grenade, and then rush forward to fight. Remember, we are the regular army of Daming, don't insult the Sun Moon Dragon Banner behind us, if anyone dares to take a step back, he will be killed!"

Naturally, such a complicated order could not be expressed in semaphore, and the messengers rushed out immediately, and scattered the orders. Soon, the infantry of the [-]st Regiment immediately formed a three-stage formation of high, middle and low, with the front row squatting, the middle row squatting, and the rear row squatting. The platoon stood upright, and everyone raised their flintlock guns and aimed ahead. There was panic, fear, and fear in their eyes, but no one retreated!

Li Mingfu looked at the neat formation, and nodded in relief. Sure enough, they are all good men, and there are no cowards in Daming's regular army.

At this time, the enemy cavalry was getting closer, and he couldn't help but slowly raised his left hand. The effective range of the flintlock gun was only more than 100 steps, and it could be judged by the naked eye without binoculars. When he was 150 steps away from the camp, he waved decisively and said, "Launch, mount the bayonet, prepare the grenade."

Once the cavalry charged forward, it took less than ten seconds to cover a hundred steps. When the gunshot rang out, the cavalry in front immediately fell down, but the cavalry behind still rushed forward desperately. Showing a resolute expression, he quickly loaded the bayonet, took out the grenade, and threw it out without commanding.

"Boom boom boom" The lethality of more than 4000 grenades is quite terrifying. Although not many people were killed, the enemy's cavalry is already in chaos. Has become a crazy horse.

Seeing this scene, Li Mingfu immediately raised the big knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Push it to the end, and follow me!"

After drinking, he rushed forward without hesitation. The general was so mighty, and the soldiers below also became bloody. They pushed them to the bottom of the wall, shouted, and the infantry and cavalry fought into a group in an instant. Qian Mingjun blocked it!
When Luo Rucai saw this situation, he immediately shouted anxiously to the retreating leaders of the rebel infantry: "Rush up, hurry up, time is running out, rush up to me if you want to escape, hurry up and solve this problem!" Thousands of officers and soldiers."

The leaders of the various rebels also understood this truth, and were about to organize infantry to join the bastards, but it was already too late. There were shouts of killing almost simultaneously from the left and right sides of the rebels, and the sound of horseshoes was heard in the distance. arrive!

(End of this chapter)