I want to be emperor

Chapter 74 Huang Guangmao's Surprise
For Huang Guangmao, Funiu Mountain was a strange place, and Songshan Village was a place he had never even heard of before.

Although he led his troops to Lushan County to garrison in the first half of the year, most of the time he was stationed behind Luyang Pass. His main task was to support Luyang Pass nearby, ensure the logistics around Luyang Pass, and ensure the rear of the pass. Safe, occasionally lead soldiers to fight a dozen thieves.

When he got to the top, he was asked to exterminate the bandits in Funiu Mountain.

At that time, he only started to pay attention to Funiu Mountain, but this kind of understanding was only limited to the surface, for example, he knew that it was a big mountain and there were thieves in the mountain.

But he didn't know the more detailed situation, and he didn't even know the origin of the thieves in Funiu Mountain or how many people there were.

After leading the troops into the mountain, he once found the so-called Funiu Mountain rogues, and then chased them all the way west, almost all the way to Lu's side.

On the way, they also conveniently wiped out a group of thieves who fled into the mountain from the south, which is the subordinate of Tatianhu.

After the thieves fleeing west disappeared, Huang Guangmao turned back to Funiu Mountain, trying to get enough food and other goods from the hidden villages in Funiu Mountain.

However, even at that time, he didn't know the situation in the depths of Funiu Mountain, how many villages there were in the mountain, how many thieves there were, and so on.

It's just that he didn't care much about it at the time.

It doesn't matter how many rogues are left in Funiu Mountain, anyway, after he leads the army to kill them, he will wipe out all those rogues, and then bring the whole Funiu Mountain under control, so that he can get enough food.

But what he didn't expect was that Fei Bingqing, who he sent to the front, was wiped out first, and even surrendered as a prisoner of war. Before seeing Fei Bingqing, he didn't know how Fei Bingqing's troops were destroyed.

And when he himself led thousands of troops to kill Songshan, he encountered hundreds of bandits, and these bandits were not ordinary bandits, not to mention the huge number of archers, even some artillery.

This long-range firepower is more powerful than the officers and soldiers he leads.

Under such circumstances, Wang Jida was like a fool again and again forcing him to launch a strong attack, which finally resulted in the destruction of the entire army.

After the defeat, for the lives of hundreds of soldiers under his command, he chose to surrender in desperation, and then became a prisoner of war.

After becoming a prisoner of war, it was the first time he crossed Songshan Mountain and entered the depths of Funiu Mountain.

Songshan Village in the depths of Funiu Mountain is similar to what he expected, it is just a remote village, and the villagers in it are also refugees who fled from famine everywhere.

However, what is unusual is the so-called Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp in Songshan Village.

He was still a little surprised when he first learned from those bandit troops that the designation of this bandit army was the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp.

The Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp sounds too formal at first glance, it doesn't look like some kind of thieves, but rather like some township organizations organized by the government.

But after staying in the POW camp for a few days, after learning more information, Huang Guangmao felt that the rebels were more unusual.

It's that word again: regular!

These thieves actually still have a formal organization, which is the standard battalion organization among their officers and soldiers.

Not to mention the preparation, the key point is that the tactics and tactics of these thieves are also the same as that of the officers and soldiers, and they play more smoothly than the officers and soldiers.

It was the same as what Huang Guangmao saw now.

After surrendering, Huang Guangmao, who held the title of senior staff officer of the staff office, followed An Yongduo and other generals of the bandit army with an awkward expression, watching the exercise of the rural protection battalion in front of him from a distance.

Just looking at the formation, he knew that these bandits were not simple. The formation of each unit was tight and neat, and there was no loud noise, and the formation deployment of each arm was very standard.

Gives a very formal feel.

Even among the officers and soldiers, it is impossible for many troops to form such a neat and tight formation.

Take a closer look, these thieves have listed an inverted trapezoidal formation, with three infantry posts in front and two infantry posts in the rear.

In the middle of the three infantry sentry arrays in front, each has artillery deployed. One side deployed three [-]-jin light artillery pieces, and the other side deployed three [-]-jin artillery pieces. Huang Guangmao was very familiar with the three [-]-jin artillery pieces because they It was the three light cannons that he brought to Funiu Mountain that were finally captured by the bandit army.

On a low slope on the right side of the formation of infantry and artillery, there are hundreds of fine cavalry deployed, and on the top of the hill between the cavalry and infantry formations, there are also two [-]-jin long cannons deployed.

The first three infantry posts are that the spearmen line up in front, the archers shoot arrows behind them, and the sword shieldmen cover or fill in the gaps behind.

On the contrary, an infantry sentry in the second row has a somewhat special formation, with only spearmen in the middle, musketeers on both sides, and sporadic combinations of sword and shield hands in the back row.

As the formation was listed, after the drill orders were issued one by one, the 300-jin artillery fired one after another towards a place more than [-] meters away.

Then six two-hundred-jin and one-hundred-jin artillery pieces in the middle of the infantry array fired at targets 100 meters and [-] meters ahead.

After a burst of shelling, the archers in the front row began to throw arrows forward. Immediately afterwards, dozens of musketeers in the bandit army also stepped forward to fire, thus forming a fire coverage of 350 meters away and nearly 20 meters away. .

Under the cover of such powerful firepower, Huang Guangmao could hardly imagine what other troops could rush over.

After the fire strike, the spearmen of the infantry formation in the bandit army began to move forward.

These spearmen hold spears about [-] meters long, a one-handed waist knife on their waists, and a small round shield on their backs. However, these spearmen do not use shields or waist swords now, but It is purely holding a spear in both hands and stepping forward.

At the same time, some of the spearmen standing in the front row are still wearing armor. These armors are not good armor at first glance, that is, cloth face armor with a few pieces of bo iron inside, but it can equip a group of spearmen with armor. This is already very good.

When the spearmen advance, the archers and musketeers are also following up, keeping the formation perfect while continuing to shoot forward.

At the same time, the cavalry on the flanks also started to attack. I saw them circumventing the flanks and killing towards the predetermined target. It would be fine if these bandit cavalry just swung sabers or spears in a swarm.

But what made Huang Guangmao's eyes widen was that these bandit cavalry didn't kill them in a swarm, but were divided into three waves, one wave after another.

And instead of rushing straight up to kill with a saber, but turning around tens of meters away from the intended target, and bending the bow and shooting arrows directly on the horse's back during the turning process...

These hundreds of fine riders turned out to be directly playing difficult riding and archery, and they played very smoothly.

Those who didn't know saw it and thought it was an elite cavalry soldier in the frontier army.

Huang Guangmao is a professional general. He has been leading troops for more than ten years. He has seen countless rogues, but there has never been a group of rogues that is as formal and professional as the army of rogues in front of him.

how to say.

The bandit army in front of him gave Huang Guangmao the feeling that they were more like officers and soldiers than their officers and soldiers. Compared with these rebels, the thousands of Ming troops he led before Huang Guangmao looked more like bandits...

The cavalry in front had already completed a round of cavalry and archery attacks, but they did not withdraw from the battlefield directly or watch from the sidelines. Instead, they turned and temporarily withdrew from the battle, re-formed and drew their sabers.

At the same time, the spearmen of the infantry had already started to advance a considerable distance forward, and the muskets at the back were no longer firing. Instead, they stuffed something like a spearhead directly into the muzzle of the guns, followed by the spearmen. Keep pushing forward.

Those archers also put down their bows and arrows one by one, but put on waist knives and shields, and cooperated with the spearmen in front to make up for the imaginary enemy.

A few minutes later, Huang Guangmao saw the bandit cavalry who had withdrawn from the battle and charged forward again.

Their formation was tighter than before, and they didn't use bows and arrows. They all carried sabers and spurred their horses to accelerate.

Amidst the sound of rumbling horseshoes, these cavalrymen launched a cavalry intensive charge towards the open space ahead, that is, the direction of the imaginary enemy, and each cavalry hacked at the wooden stakes acting as the imaginary enemy with their sabers.

The charge launched by hundreds of riders was even bigger and more shocking than the momentum they had brought when they were riding and shooting.

Huang Guangmao couldn't help but open his mouth halfway, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

What the hell is this bandit cavalry who ran out from where? He can play riding and archery, and he can also play such a neat saber charge. One by one on the horseback swinging the knife sideways is extremely easy.

Even the official army can rarely find such an elite cavalry!
If you want to find this kind of elite cavalry on a large scale, you have to go to the frontier army, places like Jiliao or Yulin Datong.

As far as Henan is concerned, basically only Zuo Liangyu and Chen Zhibang have hundreds of such elite cavalry under their command, and these hundreds of cavalry are basically regarded as lifeblood by these two people, so it is not easy to use.

Huang Guangmao heard that in the summer, when his immediate boss Chen Zhibang led the army to wipe out a group of rebels, he used the fine cavalry under his command. It is said that dozens of people were killed and injured in that battle, which made Chen Zhibang heartbroken. for a long time.

Huang Guangmao didn't know until now that the rebel army that caused Chen Zhibang's Jingqi a lot of losses was the predecessor of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang camp in front of him.

After all, the predecessor of the Baoxiang Camp was the Yulin Mutiny Frontier Army, and was chased by hundreds of elite cavalry with a large number of infantry on the way. Later, Li Tonglin died in battle, and more than a hundred elite cavalry were killed and injured, only a few dozen people remained It's not something worth showing off. Naturally, no one will say this to Huang Guangmao just because they have nothing to do.

Amidst Huang Guangmao's amazement, the cavalry sentry had completed the intensive charge required in the exercise, and finally chased and killed the enemy's rout as required.

Yes, according to the exercise plan, the enemy army has been completely defeated at this time.

After all, the exercise, everything is arranged.

(End of this chapter)