Lord of Ming Dynasty

The No.20 Fourth Field Brigade stationed in the west relied on the cavalry of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade to fight against the Lu army sent by Hong Chengchou, restraining Hong Chengchou's attack on Weifang Mansion. There were at least [-] Han flags, [-] cavalry, The troops of Wantuanlian and Xiangyong were restrained, and at the same time, the Lu army had to guard against the Fifth Field Brigade in the east. Three new army town troops, [-] green battalion troops, [-] Han army flag troops, and [-] Mongolian cavalry were placed in front of them. Troops, [-] Manchu troops, and the remaining five Xinjunzhen troops will all attack the Fifth Field Brigade.

Nearly a hundred cannons of the Fifth Field Brigade were deployed in the county seat. In addition to the original three red cannons of the Qing army of 500 jin at the head of the county seat, four general cannons, Hong Chengchou's five new army town troops mobilized More than [-] cannons, even dragging a lot of old Ming and Qing cannons from the rear, a total of [-] cannons, bombarded the defense area of ​​​​the Fifth Field Brigade day and night.

It seems that this is the main battlefield, but Weifang Prefecture has become a secondary battlefield. The Fifth Field Brigade, which has many defensive experiences, has experienced many offensive and defensive battles in Raozhou Prefecture, Nanchang Prefecture and other places. It can be said that the Huaxia Army The essence of defense has been learned. With [-] troops and [-] young men recruited from the city, they set up three lines of defense outside the county seat, replicating the defense experience of Raozhou's prefecture.

Hong Chengchou had fought in the Battle of Raozhou Prefecture and Fucheng. Faced with such a situation, he did not spare his life. He dispatched nearly [-] soldiers with cold weapons from the Lu Army to die. The soldiers of the Huaxia Army broke through two lines of defense in a row, and blasted the county town within a five-mile radius into white ground, the surface of the moon.

Then two new army town troops were dispatched to attack in waves. The Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns continued to emit rows of noises, flames, and white smoke, approaching the last line of defense of the Huaxia Army, which was also the third line near the city wall. line of defense.

Geng Quanli's whole body was as dark as a miner who went down a coal mine, and the military uniforms were hanging on his body. The other generals were also very embarrassed, but they still did not lose confidence. He sent a regiment of 2000 troops, and some of the people in the city were recruited. 3000 people transported ammunition and supplies for the first line of defense, and 700 people supported the solid bullets of more than [-] enemy artillery pieces, repelling the Lu army's attacks time and time again.

It has been fighting for a week. There are three battlefields. Each battlefield uses weak troops to deal with the enemy's strong troops. Those who can survive are wounded. The remnants of the army and the people who were loyal to the Qing army.

Seeing that the Qing army launched an attack again, the soldiers of the first regiment raised their guns one after another, lit the matchlocks in their hands, and concentrated their minds, ignoring the solid bullets that kept falling around them, the iron bumps weighing dozens of catties, and ignoring the fact that they were shot. The screams and cries of the comrades-in-arms were against the soldiers of the Lu Army Xinjun Town who were lined up neatly and constantly approaching.

At 300 meters, the soldiers of the regiment have lost 500 people in the artillery fire. Even transporting the wounded and the shells, hundreds of civilians died in the bullets, but the soldiers of the regiment stood still, watching the enemy approaching 200 meters away.

"Get ready, get ready in the first row," the war-torn veteran of the fifth brigade, a white-bearded Baihu in his 50s, shouted loudly. This kind of scene kept happening in other trenches. Many of the soldiers who joined the army at the age of 20 have not retired after more than ten years, and they are extremely firm in terms of combat experience and combat confidence.

Many of them have reached middle age now, and even at that time, many of them joined the army in their 30s, and they are now in their 50s, and they still have not retired from active service. The retirement system of the Huaxia Army is only for those who are not suitable to stay in the army The old and weak soldiers, as well as many disloyal and unsteady personnel, for those experienced veterans, they were all promoted to officers, and these people accounted for 80.00% of the fifth field brigade, because of their knowledge level and vision, And other aspects can't meet the standards of middle-level officers, but the Huaxia Army still has to appoint them to lead recruits.

Especially this time when the Huaxia Army was short of troops, it only added a lot of recruits trained by recruit battalions with no combat experience to the Fifth Field Brigade, and did not dispatch young recruits with combat experience from other armies to supplement, so many Veterans have to shoulder the burden and continue to stay at the grassroots to command those recruits.

170 meters, 150 meters, the veteran waved his arms decisively and shouted, "Fire."

As a result, rows of salvo fire appeared in the trenches in many areas. At this time, in order not to hit their own people, many cannons of the Lu army had stopped firing, and only some heavy artillery were extending to the rear to block the reinforcements coming out of the city. Three lines of defense.

At this time, the nine-pound and six-pound guns at the top of the city joined the ranks of strikes and began to fight back against the enemy. The Lu army suffered the most violent artillery fire. Many of the Huaxia army's artillery used solid ammunition, and there were no flowering ammunition. The field brigade has to show the illusion that this kind of shells are not enough, and they have to be used at important nodes, so not many shells are fired into the enemy's queue.

This is because the Fifth Field Brigade faced ten times the enemy's strength and had to keep some trump cards. Otherwise, if the enemy restrained it, it would only result in the destruction of the entire army. The battle on the western front was not over, and Geng Quanli didn't know when In order to get reinforcements, his biggest reinforcement is the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, but it is not the time to use the Fourth Cavalry Brigade. The main role of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade is to cover the battlefield, attack the enemy's cavalry, and provide support for Weifang Prefecture. Provide support for No.20 Seventh Field Brigade and No.20 Fourth Field Brigade.

Chapter 633 It's a shame

At a distance of 150 meters, the two attacking troops of Xinjun Town were hit hard at the same time. Each of the leading troops of Xinjun Town of the Lu Army was a regiment with 150 troops. There are hundreds of troops hiding in the artillery holes under the city gate waiting for support, enduring the enemy's heavy artillery fire, but the enemy's salvo at a distance of [-] meters caused them to be hit by dozens of soldiers at the same time, The advance of the troops came to a halt.

The officers of the Lu Army drew out their command knives one after another, slapped them one by one, drove them forward, and accelerated their pace to approach the Huaxia Army's position, because their Jinkai 1 imitation matchlock guns could only fire at a distance of 120 meters, and at a distance of 55 meters. To exert its power, only at a distance of 33 meters can it guarantee accurate hits on the assembled enemies.

In this way, they had to endure the artillery fire at the head of the city, the attack of the enemy's six-pounder guns hiding in the trenches, the attack of the three-pounder guns, and the volley of guns fired by the Huaxia Army's Jinkai 2 matchlock guns.

Except for a small number of soldiers in Xinjun Town who are recruits, many of them are veterans trained from fighting the Huaxia Army on the Yangtze River defense line. They know that if they don't speed up their pace, they will only be beaten by the Huaxia Army die.

So without waiting for the officer's order, many veterans quickened their pace as soon as possible. In less than a dozen seconds, they endured two rounds of volley fire from the Huaxia Army. Nearly a hundred people fell, and nearly three or four hundred soldiers were killed or injured. Finally, they rushed to 120 At a distance of one meter, some hundreds of households of the Lu army waved their command knives like the Japanese army, and roared, pointing at the trenches where the Huaxia army was hiding.

So the first volley of the Lu army rang out, which directly suppressed the firepower of the Huaxia army, causing many Huaxia troops to hide and reload urgently. Only some unlucky ones were concentrated by the stray bullets and fell down in the trench with a scream.

At a distance of 120 meters, the Lu army began to spread out like the Huaxia army. They bent forward and marched forward. At this time, the Huaxia Army in the trench started its third volley. Many Lu troops who bent over and charged were killed, and nearly 100 people were lost at once. At this distance, the accuracy of the Huaxia Army has improved a lot. Many people are Veteran, almost hit 200%.

At a distance of 170 meters before, their hit rate was only a pitiful seven to eight percent. It is really a smooth-bore matchlock gun, and it is impossible for even a god to accurately predict the flight direction of the bullets of the muzzle-loading gun at this distance.

The enemies who were killed were all unlucky ones, and it was also because the Lu army was too dense.

At a distance of 150 meters, although this is still the case, it has improved, and at a distance of 120 meters, this is very close to the actual effective range.

At a distance of 100 meters, you can already aim. Anyway, there are many enemies, and you can kill many people with luck.

There were more than 2000 people in the second row of impact, and more than 300 people died at once, and more than 100 people were injured. shot.

After the first row finished shooting, continue to cross them and attack, and the third row followed behind, occupying a distance of 120 meters after the first row shot and continued to suppress the enemy.

Hong Chengchou looked at the battlefield, but he was still dissatisfied, and said to the messengers around him: "Order the third regiment of the two new army towns to attack, order the green battalion to attack, and spread out. I need to capture the last line of the enemy when it gets dark. The defense line, the enemy is approaching the city, we can’t miss it again today, otherwise let the chief soldiers of the two new army towns come to see me.”

The messengers didn't dare to be negligent, and hurried down to convey the order. Soon, the third regiments of the two new army towns, under the cover of the artillery that fired again, passed through the battlefield of more than five miles and approached the main position of the Huaxia Army. The Wanhan Army Banner Unit and the [-] Green Battalion troops dispersed and ran into the battlefield.

The re-fired artillery of the Lu army prevented the artillery of the Fifth Brigade of the Huaxia Army on the top of the city from providing fire support to the Huaxia Army on the defense line, and also cut off the transfer and supply work of the people from the city gate to the moat. The artillery was removed from the city wall, and the observers were left behind, and then they ran into the artillery hole to hide, while the hundreds of soldiers hiding under the city wall, under the order of the officer, passed through the traffic trench and braved the enemy's cannon fodder to support the front line.

After that, the two thousand militiamen who ran out of the city gate also jumped into the traffic trench to support the front line. The front line was only more than 500 meters away, but the 3000-odd troops lost nearly seven or eight hundred soldiers before they reached the front line trench and joined the battle against the enemy. Go in the middle of the block.

A winding trench was filled in an instant, and the entire defense line was covered with flames from Jinkai 2 matchlock guns.

The Musketeers of the Lu Army who had leaped to a distance of 60 meters were immediately hit by a huge blow and fell to the ground one after another. At this time, most of the 80 soldiers were suppressed at a distance of 80 meters. Many of them lay on the ground doing nothing. The distance of 60 meters, a short distance of 20 meters, became a natural moat, which could not be passed.

Many soldiers in the third row also fell at a distance of 100 meters. The 5000 troops lost more than [-] troops and could no longer move forward.

When the soldiers of the third regiment rushed up, they had almost all casualties. Many soldiers could not even escape. Maybe they could escape with luck at a distance of 120 meters, but they could not escape at a distance of 100 meters.

At this time, it is no longer a volley, but a free shooting. The soldiers of the Huaxia Army in the opposite trench are not young children. Even the militiamen are soldiers who have experienced many battles. There are soldiers of the Qing Army and soldiers of the Ming Army. There are Lu soldiers, Mongols, and Manchu soldiers who have surrendered and become regulars. The militiamen of the Huaxia Army are not just any peasants. Farmers can serve as them. They are an elite force in the era of cold weapons. The veterans who survived the battle, even the young ones, were soldiers with poor quality from the new barracks. After this battle, they all grew up to be regular soldiers at least at the level of the garrison battalion.

This is the tradition of the Huaxia Army. Cold weapon troops are directly converted into militias. Recruits who are not qualified for training also have a way out. The quality of the D-level field brigade.

Some C-level field brigades are simply garrison regiments directly merged with the elite militia troops to upgrade into regular troops, but now the Huaxia Army has eliminated the D-level and C-level field brigades, and those soldiers have become soldiers of the garrison regiment, stationed in various places, and now Plans are underway to phase out the B-level field brigade and replace it with the A-level field brigade.

Therefore, the level of these militia units is at least the same as that of the Lu army's Xinjunzhen soldiers, so joining the battle against them will not be at a disadvantage.

The addition of another 60 troops made it difficult for the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, but it did not change the situation of the battle. However, there were too many enemy troops. With the [-] soldiers of the Han Army Banner, they charged desperately and gave the soldiers of the third regiment a chance. It quickly jumped to a distance of [-] meters, causing damage to the Huaxia Army continuously. At this time, the Huaxia Army's artillery also increased its firepower output, which could barely withstand the enemy's attack.

[-] Green Battalion soldiers joined, and they were also firearms troops plus bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, swords and spears. At this time, the firepower of the Huaxia Army was a little weak.

Seeing this moment, Geng Quanli had to let the artillery go to the top of the city to provide fire support to the first line of defense at the risk of being destroyed. Although there were not many, it also caused heavy losses to the green battalion soldiers and Han army banner soldiers who were charging, and some places even collapsed up.

Seeing that the enemy was like this, Geng Quanli directly sent another regiment of field brigade infantry to join the battle group, so there were [-] troops on the line of fire to open fire on the enemy.

Soon the Lu army had to retreat, losing more than 8000 Xinjunzhen soldiers, [-] green battalion soldiers, [-] Han army bannermen, and even hundreds of Manchu cavalry.

It was already dark, and Hong Chengchou had to order the troops to retreat five miles and stationed on the trench defense line of the first Huaxia Army. The other wounded and collapsed soldiers were escorted back to the camp.

Hong Chengchou was very angry. It has been more than a week, and it has been a week since he actually launched the attack on the Fifth Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army. He lost three troops from the Xinjun Town, which is more than 4 troops, and there are still 1 troops left. Eight thousand green battalion troops, [-] Han banner troops, four thousand Mongolian cavalry, two thousand Manchu cavalry, one thousand Manchu Qing infantry, a total of eighty-nine thousand troops, almost wiped out the troops he brought this time.

The battalion was full of wounded soldiers, and there were no more than the strength of the two new army towns that could fight. He didn't want to count the green battalion soldiers and the Han army bannermen anymore. If they were stationed there, it might be possible to fight the Qing army, but not the Huaxia army.

At this time, the staff said to him carefully: "Your Majesty, although the two new army towns that attacked the No. 20 Seventh Brigade of the Huaxia Army surrounded the county, they also caused huge losses to the enemy, but they also suffered a lot of losses themselves. The Green Battalion soldiers were killed, 100 Han Banner soldiers were killed, Xinjun Town had a total of [-] soldiers killed, [-] Mongolian cavalry were killed, and more than [-] artillery pieces were destroyed, making them unable to attack.”

"Report," a servant appeared outside the tent, Hong Chengchou's temples twitched a few times, his heart sank, and he had a premonition that something was wrong.

The staff glanced at him, and said to the servant: "Tell me," the servant said clearly, and said loudly: "The three new army town troops that besieged Weifang Fufu City, ten thousand Mongolian cavalry were attacked by the No. 20 Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army, the fourth The counterattack of the cavalry brigade, the [-] Mongolian cavalry lost [-] soldiers and horses, and the other troops collapsed and are retreating. The three new army town troops lost [-] soldiers and horses, unable to attack anymore, and are also retreating. The admiral asked for instructions whether to continue to attack .”

"Urgent report," another servant rushed in waving a letter.

Without waiting for him to speak, the aides hurried forward a few steps, snatched it over, lowered their heads to disassemble it, checked it, and then said to Hong Chengchou with a serious face: "Your Majesty, Ma Deli lost [-] troops and lost [-] troops. Of the [-] young and strong troops recruited, Kong Youxing lost [-] soldiers and horses, and retreated to Wenxia County.

"Boom," Hong Chengchou angrily swung the teapot on the table down to the ground, the teapot was broken into eight petals, and the tea splashed all over the floor.

The staff looked at him, and Hong Chengchou said angrily: "Read,"

The staff member bowed his head and continued: "Ma Bao said that the Ninth Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army attacked from behind and surrounded Jining Mansion. Now that Jining Mansion is in danger, he cannot deploy troops to rescue them. The First Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army is approaching in front of them. In the county seat, he asked His Majesty to send reinforcements, otherwise he would not be able to hold on, so please make a decision, whether to retreat or rescue the Jining Mansion with the whole army?"

"Let Ma Degong die, let Ma Bao retreat, and bring me back the remaining soldiers and horses. There are more than two and a half Xinjun Towns. I can't lose those troops anymore!"

Hong Chengchou was almost shouting, roaring, with red eyes, blushing and shouting to his staff.