Lord of Ming Dynasty

The smoke emitted was rushed to the enemy's side by the wind, blocking the enemy's line of sight, and had little effect on the line of sight of the Huaxia Army. Therefore, the Huaxia Army was able to cover the enemy at a distance of 130 meters. At this time, the enemy's infantry also joined in. The enemy infantry with arquebuses fired at this distance one after another. In theory, the enemy’s Jinkai 1 arquebus is useless at a distance of 150 meters. Their effective range is 55 meters, even if it is 60 meters. With three times the distance, they had no chance to kill Huaxia Army soldiers.

Knowing all this, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were not afraid at all, and they still stood and fired, doing their own things unhurriedly, but as the number of enemies increased and the number of matchlock guns increased, stray bullets inevitably appeared. Army shotguns can hurt people even if they fly over 150 meters away, but the lack of accuracy is what you want to hit. In fact, it’s just that you can’t hit accurately. It may hit hundreds of thousands of miles. If you hit it, you shouldn’t hit it. people.

But there is only the Huaxia Army on this side. Even if it is a stray bullet, it can reduce the number of Huaxia Army. Although the shotgun, the low-level version of the Golden Reform 1 is not powerful, it is also annoying. Unlucky people keep appearing, not because they were hit in the stomach , was hit in the arm, although there was only a pain of "ah," and then he could continue to fight, but there were also unlucky people who were hit in the eyes or important parts, such as the face, fingers, and calves. These vital parts can still reduce people's non-combat personnel, and soon 30 people were dragged out of the queue by the reserve team behind and handed over to the military for medical treatment.

After more than 40 minutes, the continuous shooting made the smoke on the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade, which still uses black gunpowder, unable to be blown away by the wind in time, which affected the accuracy. The enemy took the opportunity to approach, and the Huaxia Army had to retreat two Ten meters away, keep a distance from the enemy, take the opportunity to retreat and wait for the smoke to dissipate.

As soon as the firepower weakened, the enemy took the opportunity to rush up and approached a distance of 100 meters. At this time, the sound of gunfire broke out again.

A neat volley caused the enemy in the charge to lose more than a thousand soldiers and horses at once, but the enemy was still charging. When the enemy rushed into 30 meters, another volley sounded. This time the enemy lost more than 2000 people. The enemy hesitated, and there were not many cavalry rushing forward. The two salvos hit the cavalry the most. Two or three thousand cavalry were almost killed.

At this time, the regiments of the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army took turns shooting, the left wing, the right wing, and the middle, with the sound of drums coming from the rear, changing patterns, commanding and operating according to the number of enemies and the strength of the impact.

Of course, the commander was Zhang Qiang who was sitting far away on the horse.

The rhythmic command made the enemy a headache. Just after rushing to 80 meters, the enemy fired a volley, and all the soldiers in the depth from 80 meters to 120 meters were killed or seriously injured. Even if a few survived by luck, they continued to charge Soldiers, after feeling their situation, hesitated for a while, and in all directions, the rifled fusiliers in the column would shoot freely and kill each one. The leader, or even the leader, will immediately order his team to shoot a volley, then immediately exchange positions with other teams prepared in the rear, and retreat to the back to reload, so as to ensure the continuous firepower of the front line.

"Beep-beep-," a trombone sounded, and the whole queue moved forward ten steps quickly, raising their guns together, "beep beep-beep-," the trombone changed its rhythm quickly, with a few short short beeps, Signal the troops ahead to fire a quick salvo.

So the firepower like stir-fried beans fired a full-scale shot at the enemy.

"Woo--, woo--," two short horns sounded, the soldiers in the front row retreated quickly, and the soldiers in the second row quickly switched to the front row, raising their guns.

"Boom, boom, boom," the drum on the left wing sounded, and the soldiers on the left wing fired together, and then quickly retreated to the third row to reload. The soldiers in the third row quickly advanced, and when the drum sound fell, they all looked forward together Waiting for orders from behind.

Ma Bao was about to cry at this time. After repeated several times, the number of soldiers in his hands decreased rapidly. According to visual estimates, 8000 to [-] people had died. The cavalry in the rear who wanted to grab the credit also stopped, or slowed down their horses, wondering if they should return immediately, or avoid this slaughterhouse-like place.

Up to now, the cavalry who charged at the beginning were almost dead, and the infantry who caught up later had died several times. Everyone was shocked and afraid, and wanted to turn around and run away, but the impact of tens of thousands of people, the front wanted to Stop, the people behind don’t know what’s going on ahead, everyone gathers in the 200-meter-long space, crowded, there’s no room for them to retreat, some smart ones have already run to both sides, but most people still keep going Push the people in front and continue to rush forward. Maybe the people in the middle also sense that something is wrong, but they can see that they are only [-] meters away from the Huaxia Army, and there are so many people in front of them. It only takes more than a minute, and he will be able to rush over soon. When the person in front dies, he will be able to kill a few soldiers of the Huaxia Army and receive the reward.

Chapter 639 Death

The death of seven to eight thousand people was not the death of seven or eight people. The thick blood mixed with the pungent gunpowder smoke permeated the battlefield. The two new army town troops led by Ma Bao and Kong Youxing under the tuyere were already pale and pale. The extreme discomfort is only because there are comrades and brothers around him, and the number of people is so strong that they will not collapse and escape, but the impact on morale is undoubtedly the heaviest.

However, the next time the remaining 2 troops launched an attack, the situation of the war changed. The continuous battle for an hour used firepower to block the enemy's charge, but it also consumed a lot of ammunition. Many soldiers' ammunition was close to The bottom line was reached, so the firepower became sparse. Maybe it was a long time of fighting, maybe it was exhausted physically and mentally after two days and one night of chasing. The time of firing to load the bullet.

Often after the first row shoots, the second row has not finished loading the ammunition, or less than half of the people have not finished loading the bullet, so the gap in firepower comes out, and the third row has to be replenished. The bullets in the platoon have not been loaded yet, and the enemy is charging. Time is calculated. Even the fastest gunner cannot complete the actions of loading, moving, raising the gun, aiming, and shooting within a few seconds. A time limit, the formation of the three rows is not thick enough. At the beginning, since the muskets are fully loaded with three bullets, they can still handle one or two rounds. The latter three bullets become a burden. After loading, the second row can It's over.

So a rare thing happened. On the positions of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade, there was often a time interval of gunshots that was less than ten seconds, ten seconds. If an athlete were to run, it would be only 50 meters. After running, even if you are not an athlete, then a person facing the test of life and death can run almost as well, so the enemy quickly surpassed the 100-meter line. Ran to the 60-meter line.

60 meters, archers with stronger arms can shoot their arrows into the enemy's position, so the Huaxia Army inevitably suffered real casualties. The Manchu Qing soldiers in the Lu army were shot with bows and arrows. The bows and arrows in the hands of the Manchu Qing soldiers were heavy bows. The arrows were all spiked conical arrows. They could fly far and hit the target steadily, severely injuring the enemy. The casualties of the army have increased, and the formation has become a little chaotic.

The gunfire became intermittent, and occasionally a continuous salvo was organized to destroy the enemies who rushed close.

As the enemy approached, the number of the enemy was large, and the battle line was very long, so they surrounded the Guards Brigade, which had only [-] soldiers and horses, and the battle line had to be close together, and the enemy attacked from all directions.

At 30 meters, the artillery of the Huaxia Army opened fire, countless shotguns flew out, and the enemy fell in large numbers, but the enemy was already red-eyed at this moment, so he could not dodge, and kept stepping on the corpses of his own people to charge .

The drums of the Huaxia Army became denser, and the horns sounded quickly together. The three regiments quickly divided into three circular hollow formations, separated by 200 meters, each resisting the enemy. In the middle of the formation were wounded and horses. On the periphery of the formation are the three-pound guns and the musketeers of the Guards Brigade. The musketeers have already hung bayonets on their guns, ready to fight the enemy desperately and fight hand-to-hand.

Following the formation of the formation, Zhang Qiang led the personal guards into the middle of the formation of the third regiment. The trumpeters, drummers, trumpeters, and messengers all entered their respective phalanxes and fought on their own.

The three formations cooperate with each other, and the enemy floods into the middle of the three formations like a tide, and then they are killed by the musketeers in the second row. At this time, even the military doctor took up the extra muskets to attack the enemy, and the guards and cavalry rushed from the rear to the front formation from time to time, using short-fired guns to hit the enemy several times in a row , to make up for the shortcomings of insufficient firepower of each formation after the number of people is reduced.

A war horse neighed, and the cavalry who were blocked from the rear and couldn't let go of the charge also rushed in, hitting dozens of soldiers in a row, losing a lot of cavalry, and opening a gap, Zhang Qiang quickly led the bodyguards to rush forward, and the short-fired guns continued. Open fire, melee combat wiped out the cavalry rushing in, and then filled the gap. At this time, the guards were already on the periphery, and the situation of the third regiment was compared with the first and second regiments with 8000 or [-] troops left. The regiment was much more dangerous. Although they stayed behind the two regiments, the enemy rushed over from other directions, gaps, and space. At least seven to eight thousand people surrounded the third regiment, and attacked the third regiment one after another.

Because the battle flag of the governor is erected here, the soldier doesn't want to kill the general and seize the flag, and seize the enemy's handsome flag, especially those cavalry, they are unscrupulous, they even care about their own people, knocking down the soldiers of the Lu army along the way continuously. He even brandished a knife and cut down his own people, and rushed to the third regiment with a bloody path, and then crashed into the formation of the third regiment. Several times in a row, even Zhang Qiang was injured before he managed to close the formation and throw the enemy in. The enemy was completely killed, and the soldiers on the periphery no longer needed to shoot. They all fought the enemy with bayonets and stabbed many people in succession.

The handsome flag is like a magnet, attracting countless enemies to the third regiment's position. The third regiment has already fallen into hand-to-hand combat. Countless enemies poured in through the gap between the first regiment and the second regiment. Only a few People went to attack the first and second regiments, and most of the enemies came aiming at Shuai Qi.

This created many opportunities for the second regiment and the first regiment. They quickly gathered their formation and approached the third regiment 50 meters away. Only then did they use bayonets to attack some of the enemies who turned towards them.

Here at Ma Bao, he watched his more than 3 cold weapon troops hesitate to be killed by the enemy, blood flowed like a river, until the enemy's firepower became weaker and weaker, and his soldiers easily paid the price of 4000 people Forcing the enemy to change their formation, they were ecstatic after retreating and formed an formation, and ordered the remaining [-] troops to advance slowly, preparing to pursue them when the Huaxia Army finally collapsed.

However, he also found that he had fewer and fewer people. At the beginning, he was shot and killed by three guard regiments of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade. Later, the remaining [-] troops rushed into the middle of the three enemy regiments, and then were killed by the other two regiments. The first regiment fell to the ground like a target. At first, the Lu army could maintain pressure on the three regiments. Later, the two regiments of the Guards focused on attacking the attracted Lu soldiers like shooting targets, shooting those soldiers from both sides.

In the end, he could no longer see anyone attacking the enemy from his own direction in his line of sight. All the people either fled to the two sides, away from the first and second regiments, or swarmed to the middle of the two regiments. Faced with countless bayonets, they rushed forward like moths to a flame, and finally the gunfire stopped, leaving only the sound of cold weapons fighting.

The Huaxia Army has no bullets and can only fight hand to hand.

Ma Bao was very anxious, and kept urging the troops to advance, and soon approached the distance of 500 meters. After rectifying the soldiers and horses, he drew out his sword and said, "Fire."

"Cavalry Charge—,"

The rest of the Lu army cavalry rushed towards the enemy. At this time, there were only two thousand troops fighting with the Huaxia army. The cavalry charged and the artillery fired. The remaining two thousand Lu army saw the shells falling Even they exploded, and immediately dispersed.

So far, almost all the more than 3 soldiers of the Lu army have died. Perhaps after the war, we can find those nervous routs who can hardly speak clearly within a radius of a hundred miles. Exhausted, wounded all over his body, more than half of the soldiers of the Guards Brigade had been killed into a blood man.

Chapter 6 Forty Retreat

The enemy cavalry charged, and the artillery fire rushed. The Guards Brigade had already made preparations. When they saw the enemy approaching, they immediately retreated slowly. While retreating, they used sporadic muskets to block the enemy cavalry.

At this moment, the 100 soldiers and horses of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade have lost more than half of them after a fight. There are still about [-] soldiers and more than [-] cavalry.

The formation formed by the three regiments has been disbanded, and now they are all gathered together, around Zhang Qiang's remaining guards.

There are only more than 30 people left in the pro-guards. They stepped on the horses again. The cavalry and horses that were protected in the middle at the beginning are now only more than 100 cavalry. The battle eventually became inevitable, and they would protect Zhang Qiang from the encirclement.

The heads of the three guard brigades led the soldiers to retreat slowly, while retreating, while urging Zhang Qiang to break through.

Zhang Qiang did not expect to fight like this. It was the first time he saw the enemy fighting so tenaciously. It took him a long time to realize that it was because he was too eager to chase, which made the enemy jump over the wall. The enemy is already relying on the enemy's army, and the enemy's army can come to reinforce it at any time, but I have lost contact with my own army, which is too careless.

But now Zhang Qiang couldn't just run away, he told the infantry to leave quickly, and he led more than 100 cavalry to cover them, at least to stop the enemy's cavalry.

After some debate, Zhang Qiang calmly gave the order for the infantry to retreat, and then rushed forward bravely with more than 100 cavalry. Even if he had the best gun on his body, the bullets had already been exhausted, so he could only use cold weapons Fight the enemy.

Facing the remaining 100 or [-] cavalry of the enemy, more than [-] cavalry brandished their sabers and charged again and again, cutting the enemy off their horses.

Of course, the damage of one's own people is indispensable in this process. Although the cavalry of the Guards Brigade are elites who have experienced many battles, they are not casual cavalry where the opponent's strength is superior.

There are Manchu and Qing cavalry who have fought for decades. They are brave and extraordinary. There are Mongolian cavalry with rich experience. They grew up on horseback. Han army flag cavalry. The second generation of Manchus without the heart of the Han people. These cavalry are at the age of full blood, and they are also the age with the best physical strength and the age that most want to make contributions. The green battalion cavalry is not weak in combat effectiveness. In fact, there are also many people in the green battalion who have excellent riding skills and good combat effectiveness. Moreover, the green battalion soldiers have a characteristic. They cannot fight tough battles, but if they fight with the wind, their combat effectiveness will immediately increase by two or three times.

If it was any other time, these people might not be able to fight against the Huaxia Army, but now that the Huaxia Army is defeated, their combat effectiveness can be imagined. It will increase several times immediately, and they will be better at fighting than others. They are fighting against the wind. The advantages.

The infantry of the Huaxia Army retreated continuously, and more than 100 troops were killed or injured, and they retreated more than 500 meters. The enemy kept approaching, entangled, and pursued.

Zhang Qiang and his cavalry attacked again and again to buy them time, while other soldiers were constantly being chased by the enemy, strangling the cavalry who were chasing after the enemy. Although they were retreating, they also retreated in an orderly manner. This is the difference between elites and ordinary soldiers. .

The 500 troops were divided into three waves, and they covered and retreated alternately. The retreat was not fast, but it did not let the enemy's cavalry take advantage of it, and they fought and retreated, killing and wounding many enemy cavalry, and Zhang Qiang was not Blindly attack the enemy's cavalry, always keep your own team at a distance of about [-] meters, which can not only kill the enemy in large numbers, but also prevent the enemy's cavalry from chasing the infantry with all their strength.

But he can only do so. Many wounded soldiers of the Guards Brigade were inevitably killed. As the enemy infantry marched forward, they collected soldiers from the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army and brutally chopped off their heads. Now There is no such thing as a prisoner.

What the enemy wants is credit and rewards. All the dead soldiers were beheaded by the soldiers of Xinjun Town under Ma Bao and pinned to their waists. This era is so barbaric. Only dead bodies are recognized. The reward is based on the enemy's head.

Although Zhang Qiang was very angry about this, he had to bury it in his heart, how to keep these soldiers behind now, otherwise the whole army would be wiped out.

With every impact, Zhang Qiang found that his riding skills were superb. Every time he killed an enemy cavalry on the horse, he felt that his force value increased a little, just like playing a game. The experience is worth it.

Such a miraculous event made Zhang Qiang more and more excited as he killed more and more, and became more and more handy. The soldiers of the enemy's Xinjun Town were still fighting in the rear because they wanted to grab credit. The infantry on their own side endured grief and retreated. On the ground, farther and farther away from the battlefield just now, Zhang Qiang and his cavalry were also farther and farther away from the enemy.