I want to be emperor

Chapter 297 Line Charge
During the fierce shelling, the Fifth Division and the Guards Division of the Chu Army also dispatched small and medium-sized troops such as sentries and battalions many times to carry out surprise attacks.

On the one hand, it is to continue to test, forcing the Ming army to expose more defensive forces, such as those short robes hiding behind trenches or parapets.

These short robes are no less powerful than field artillery in defensive operations.

If they are allowed to hide well and wait until the Chu army launches a fierce attack, and then run out for a round of shelling, it will cause huge casualties to the Chu army.

Even so, it is impossible to save the defeat of the Zuo Army of the Ming Army's new standard army, but if possible, Luo Zhixue still does not want the Fifth Division and the Guards Division to lose too much personnel.

Therefore, before launching the final general attack, it is very necessary to find out the opponent's short robe deployment as much as possible, and mobilize the [-]-jin mortar for targeted coverage bombardment.

Yang Sixing on the top of the mountain frowned!
The artillery of the Chu army on the periphery was still shelling violently, because the intensive shelling produced a lot of gunpowder smoke, and there was no strong wind today, which even caused clouds of white smoke to rise from the artillery positions of the Chu bandits on the opposite side.

These damn Chu thieves, don't they need money for shells? How long have they been fighting before and after, and they still maintain high-intensity shelling!

Looking at the past shelling of the Chu thieves, only the shells that have been fired are estimated to be several times the shells stored by their new standard left army.

What's more, the Chu bandits were still shelling, and it could be vaguely seen that there were dark triangular-like hills piled up behind each of the Chu bandits' artillery positions.

That is a hill of spherical solid shells piled up!
The Chu thief's violent bombardment once again refreshed his understanding of Chu thief.

The Chu thief is not only sharp in guns, but also fucking rich and willing to spend money.

The huge amount of cannonballs hit him as if they didn't want money, and Yang Sixing felt extremely heartbroken if he was hit...

With the sharp shelling, the Chu bandit suppressed the infantry and short gunners he had deployed in the front, and kept dispatching troops to launch surprise attacks in the process.

In the southern line of defense, even lost a lot of positions at one time, it was because of him that he sent a reserve team up, and regardless of the risk of the field gun barrel exploding, he carried out high-intensity rapid fire, which was worthy of killing the bandits. The offensive on the southern front was suppressed.

However, in order to suppress the Chu thieves back, their new standard army also lost a lot, at least two or three hundred soldiers, most of them were for counterattack. caused by the covering shelling.

It is worth mentioning that even the left army of the New Standard Army relied on trenches and parapets for defensive operations, but these trenches and parapets were purely used to prevent shelling.

When the infantry of the Chu army rushed up, the new standard soldiers hiding in the trenches would often take the initiative to walk out of the trenches to fight.

Why?

If you don't line up, relying on the firepower of muskets or even short cannons alone, there is no way to deal a devastating blow to the infantry of the Chu army who rushed up.

And when the infantry of the Chu army rushed up to line up, your soldiers of the Ming army were still foolishly hiding in the trenches, and they were still separated. The defense line would be broken by the bandits in minutes...

After all, the level of firearms these days is the same. Whether it is the Chu army or the Ming army, it seems that they all use trenches and other fortifications on a large scale.

But actually there is a difference.

The most obvious point is that the scattered infantry firepower is still not enough to cause a devastating blow to the infantry rushing up from the opponent. They want to deal a devastating blow to the enemy or resist the enemy's impact.

Then it can only be an array, relying on a dense formation to form a denser infantry firepower and a thicker infantry formation.

In fact, even during World War I and World War II, when the opponent's infantry rushed up, in order to avoid being broken down one by one and being killed by the enemy, the defenders would often launch a countercharge, and more tragic hand-to-hand combat broke out between the two sides.

In the age of arquebus, hand-to-hand combat is not an indispensable part.

However, whenever the infantry of the Ming army began to walk out of the trenches and line up, they would be targeted by the Chu army's shelling, which would cause considerable losses.

After this came two or three times, Yang Sixing couldn't help frowning. If this continues, the defenders on the southern front may not be able to hold on for a few times.

Even if it is consuming myself, I can't afford it!

Just when Yang Sixing was worried about the southern line, suddenly a general beside him panicked: "Bingxian, it's not good!"

Yang Sixing looked in the direction indicated by the generals under his command, and saw that on the northern front, the Chu bandits who hadn't made any big moves turned out to have a large number of gray bandit soldiers emerging, and then launched an attack towards the northern line.

And judging by the momentum, at least six or seven infantry battalions were invested, more than 4000 people!

This momentum is several times greater than the previous attack by the Chu thieves on the southern front who invested hundreds at a time, no more than 2000 people.

Are these Chu thieves about to launch a general attack?

And the direction of the general attack is not the south line that I had expected before, but the north line.

Oh no!
Yang Sixing couldn't help having such thoughts in his mind, but he quickly calmed down, and immediately said: "The artillery team will intercept immediately, and the supply battalion will immediately reinforce the northern line. No matter what, we must stop the bandit army! "

The supply battalion, this is already the last reserve team on hand.

However, the bandit army dispatched at least [-] infantry at one time to launch a fierce attack. The northern front could not hold it anyway.

As for what to do if reinforcements are needed from other directions after joining this reserve team.

What else can I do, grit my teeth and stick to it, anyway, Yang Sixing doesn't have a second strategic reserve team on hand.

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The sound of cannons on the battlefield was still rumbling. To the north of the battlefield, Li Dongshao was riding on a brown horse!

In front of him are the soldiers of the sixth battalion of the guards, who are now advancing in columns. In addition to infantry such as spearmen and musketeers, these guards also have gunners of two and a half catties of field artillery , and also directly pushed and pulled the portable two and a half catty field artillery to accompany it forward.

The Ming army has obviously reacted, and their field artillery began to bombard the northern battlefield, but there are only fifteen artillery pieces, and these fifteen artillery pieces have already engaged in high-intensity combat before, even if they are dipped in water The cotton ball is cooled, but the temperature of the gun barrel will not be too low, and metal weakness is inevitable.

Now the fifteen cannons can no longer shoot at a burst of rapid fire like when the battle just broke out.

Sporadic shells landed in the advancing ranks of the guards. Occasionally, some soldiers were hit to the end, and some of the wounded screamed.

But this still can't stop the advance of the Guards infantry!
When Li Dongshao saw that the troops of the two regiments in front had stepped forward one after another, he waved his hand, and immediately another regiment came out of the trench, and then formed a column to advance quickly.

The general attack is imminent, Li Dongshao has no intention of holding back, but intends to send three infantry regiments to rush up in one breath, and there is also an infantry regiment or even a supply regiment that can serve as a strategic reserve team and go to the battlefield at any time.

Just as Luo Zhixue expected two quarters of an hour ago!
The fifteen cannons of the Ming army can cause almost devastating blows to one infantry battalion in a short period of time, but the blow to a full three infantry battalions, a total of nine infantry battalions, is very limited.

Because by the time these fifteen artillery pieces had gone through several rounds of shelling and destroyed one of the infantry battalion phalanxes, the other eight infantry battalions had already rushed up.

This point, Luo Zhixue is very clear, Li Dongshao is also very clear.

Therefore, the guards either did not move, or the main force was exhausted when they moved, and it was difficult for the artillery units of the Ming army to ignore their heads and tails.

To put it bluntly, it is to bully people more by relying on military strength!

Well, the Ming army also liked to fight the Chu thieves in this way in the early days, relying on the large number of troops to attack at the same time, forcing the Chu army to engage in close combat with them.

Chen Yongfu, Lu Xiangsheng, Zuo Liangyu and others have all done this, but they all failed in the end!
Because the melee combat ability of the Chu army is actually stronger than the long-range attack ability...

Although the Chu army is now famous for its sharp guns, in the actual field battles, the Chu army will eventually launch an infantry charge and rely on the infantry charge to completely seal the victory.

The routine is also very simple. The spearman and the musketeer line up together. When they are tens of meters away from the enemy, the musketeer shoots a volley, and then follows the heavy armored spear with the spiked musket. Hands charge...

It's such a simple routine, but in the wars between the Chu army and the Ming army, every battle must be won, and I have never missed it!

The latest large-scale line charge was the encounter between the westward detachment and the tens of thousands of Ming troops in the east of Linxiang during the Battle of Wuchang last year!
At that time, an infantry battalion in the westward detachment directly launched a line attack on more than [-] Ming troops, and finally directly smashed the [-] Ming troops.

At least so far, the Chu army has never encountered a Ming army that can withstand such a set of attacks!

How should I put it, although there are few Ming troops who can carry the Chu army's shelling and even volley without dispersing, they are not without it.

Many sentinels of the Ming army camp, which are mainly elite soldiers, can actually do it.

However, there is no Ming army that can carry the last volley of the Chu army infantry and charge with bayonets and spears...

Now, the Ming army is once again facing the line infantry charge of the Chu army!
Moreover, this time the Ming army did not have any strength advantage, and was even at an absolute disadvantage.

Facing the first wave of more than 4000 people and nine infantry battalions' attack, the gunners in the artillery battalion of the Ming army couldn't stop it even if they tried their best.

Not to mention, most of these Ming army gunners are now powerless, because their artillery has been in high-intensity combat for a long time. If they continue to maintain high-intensity shelling, the risk of bombing will increase sharply.

The artillery battalion of the Ming army could not effectively intercept the first wave of the guards' attack at all, which made Yang Sixing look very gloomy.

When Yang Sixing saw a second attack of 2000 people from the bandit army on the opposite side, he finally closed his eyes slightly.

This battle is over!

(End of this chapter)