The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 753 Make them lose their courage

The shell landed not far from him, and the people around Wang Weiguo panicked, and several cavalrymen fell off their horses.

The soldiers shouted: "General, General."

Wang Weiguo suddenly came to his senses, and quickly shook his head to stabilize his mind.

He looked at the battlefield again. On the huge battlefield, there were only wounded and corpses of the invading army everywhere. In some places, it could even be described as a mountain of corpses.

A large number of invaders died in front of the battle like a suicide attack.

The army of the Ming army did not move, as stable as Mount Tai.

Even, so far, the Ming army has not suffered many casualties.

The Ming army's artillery fire made it impossible for them to get close.

This is the first time Wang Weiguo has seen such a huge disparity in battle.

He suddenly felt a sense of fear.

"Time will tell?" Am I getting carried away?

Originally, he had always listened to Ding Yi's words, but after Li Zicheng came out of Shangluo Mountain, the situation became better and better, with more and more soldiers and horses.

Wang Weiguo's mentality changed.

I am the number one general under Li Zicheng. If I join you, Ding Yi, how old are you in Dongjiang?

You can't blame me for this, I made it all by myself, I worked hard with my life, what did you Ding Yi help me these years?
Except for saying a few words and providing some information, I did it all by myself?
You can't blame me?

The more Wang Weiguo thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he looked around fiercely: "Everyone is ready, whoever retreats will be killed, the whole army will move forward and charge."

"rush."

The Chuangjun roared wildly, and the rolling Jingqi rushed forward.

The battalion in front was collapsing and fleeing in all directions, spreading around like a disaster. Fortunately, the battlefield was more than ten miles long, so it would not have much impact for a while.

Break through the army and ride forward finely, beheading all infantry that dare to retreat.

The infantry had no choice, many people had no choice but to turn back again under the call and beheading of the officers.
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Li Nian is Li Yan's younger brother and is the general manager of Buyingqian.

In Taiyuan, he saw how Ding Yi attacked the city and broke through Taiyuan within an hour with a very powerful kerosene bomb.

Fortunately, they had a large number of soldiers and horses in Taiyuan at that time, and they broke through from the east gate of Taiyuan.

But when they rushed out, they were severely injured by the Ming army's gun soldiers. At this time, Li Nian witnessed the power of the Ming army's gun soldiers.

In this battle, he was placed on the right side of the army and rushed to the Ming army's formation near Lugou Bridge.

He once suggested to his elder brother Li Yan that the Ming army's blunderbuss soldiers are powerful, and if they use infantry to charge the battle, they will undoubtedly die, which is no different from suicide.

Li Yan also proposed to Li Zicheng, but they were all ignored.

At this time, Li Nian had only one hope, that the Ming army's blunderbuss soldiers were impatient and would be scrapped after a few shots.

And they have a lot of soldiers, and they use the tactics of crowds, and the ants are attached to them.

As soon as the battlefield started, Li Nian brought up a large shield. This shield was temporarily reinforced by a craftsman yesterday. A layer of iron sheet was attached to it, and a layer of cotton armor was sandwiched in the middle.

The big shield became a lot heavier at once, but Li Nian could only do this in order to save his life.

Sure enough, as soon as he came up today, Li Zicheng let the infantry attach him.

Immediately, ants-like troops rushed forward one after another.

Li Nian was very smart. He kept walking behind others. If the person in front was about to be killed, he immediately switched to the back of another person, trying to let as many people in front as possible to block him.

They had casualties from within 150 meters.

At the beginning, there were not many casualties, because the distance was long, and the Ming army was not able to fight so far, it all depended on luck.

After entering 130 meters, the situation deteriorated a bit.

Li Nian, who was walking more and more slowly, was in the middle of the Chuangjun, and he saw the front from a distance, falling down row by row, screaming in all kinds of ways.

No matter how the striker walked, it was still about 100 meters away, as if it would never be able to move forward.

After a while, the corpses in front of them piled up.

Many people were injured, not seriously, but after they fell, someone else fell behind them, directly crushing them.

It would be better if a companion pulled them out, but everyone didn't have the time to care about others, so many intruders were crushed to death.

Not long after the fight, Li Nian felt that something was wrong, so he hurried to slow down so that more people could surpass him.

At this time, the front suddenly started to stagnate. I don't know who was the first to get down, and then more people got down to avoid the bullets.

This still has some effect, but the progress is slow.

The army in the rear is still moving forward.

Soon, an order was passed from the rear to the front, and everyone got up and continued to rush forward.

Immediately the cavalry rushed up, and if they didn't charge, they would be rammed by the cavalry.

When Li Nian heard the news, he could only bite the bullet and stand up to direct.

"Raise the shield, lift the shield if you have a shield, squat down and trot forward, move left and right when running, don't run in a straight line." Li Nian kept yelling to the surroundings, and asked people to pass the words away.

Crouching is to narrow down the shooting target, and moving left and right is Li Nianjue's method, which can make it difficult for the Ming army to aim.

But he didn't know that there were tens of thousands of people on both sides of this battle. There were too many soldiers and horses, and both sides were very dense. It didn't matter whether you aimed or not.

Not long after, they stopped again after entering within 100 meters.

The Ming army's guns at this distance were more violent, and they could hardly lift their heads, and they fell as much as they went up.

This is not a war, this is a one-sided massacre, Li Nian's heart is bleeding.

Many people had no choice but to be killed, so some people squatted down and put the bodies of the dead and injured brothers in front of them to block the guns.

At this time, there is no brotherhood anymore, and everyone just wants to live.

The cavalry behind the Chuang army is equivalent to the supervising team, whoever dares to retreat will be killed.

But they couldn't rush forward, they could only put the corpses of their companions, even the living ones, but the injured bodies, against the front to block them.

Li Nian himself squatted under the wall of corpses piled up by three corpses.

He desperately lowered his body, not daring to raise his head, a small half of the shield in his hand was outside.

Bang, suddenly a gun hit his shield.

He raised his head slightly to look, hissed, and took a breath.

Although iron and cotton armor were added, the shield was still pierced.

An archer behind him slowly moved to his side.

"Brother Nian, Brother Nian."

"Don't move around, the Ming army's guns are too fierce, and it won't take long for them to explode." Li Nian said.

"I'll try to shoot an arrow." The man actually smiled, and after speaking, he leaned back, not daring to show his head, and drew his bow and arrow, aiming at mid-air.

Zheng, an arrow is thrown.

At the same time, Li Nian and he cautiously stretched out their heads from both sides to take a look, then retracted quickly.

With a swish of the arrow, it landed more than 30 meters away from the front of the Ming army, which was far from enough.

The two retracted their heads and looked at each other.

I was quite aggrieved, and I couldn't shoot it with an arrow at all.

"I'll do it." At this moment, another person crouched and ran over not far behind.

This man was actually holding a bird gun in his hand.

The Chuang army did not pay much attention to firearms, and there was no special firearms battalion. Cannons were only used for defending the city, and they were hardly used in field battles.

This person used to be a Ming army, a peasant army who surrendered.

He picked up the blunderbuss, lit it, raised it, bang, fired a blunderbuss.

Quickly squat down.

Also missed.

He was a little unconvinced, reloaded the gunpowder, reloaded the bomb, and got up again.

Bang bang bang, three or four gunshots came from the opposite side.

There was a puff of a gun, and it hit the man on the head.

His body crashed behind Li Nian and Archer.

The two looked at each other again, with chills on their faces.

Because their forward stopped, more and more infantry rushed up behind them, and the crowd became denser.

Sometimes the Ming army dropped a cannonball with a bang, causing a large number of them to be killed or injured.

Li Nian's face turned green, and he kept screaming in his heart, don't hit me, don't hit me.

Suddenly, many people cheered.

Li Nian stretched out his hand and saw that it was the Ming army changing formation, the first four rows of blunderbuss went to rest at the back, and the rear four rows of blunderbuss stepped forward.

"Come on." Li Nian waved his hand.

Go, Chuangjun rushes forward across the board.

The Ming army changed formation, allowing them to rush forward to within 80 meters.

But soon, bang bang bang, the Ming army's gunshots rang out again.

Those who rushed up fell down again.

The successor hurriedly did the same as before, stacking up the fallen brothers as shields.

When Li Nian stopped, he found that the archer who had just followed him had been blocked by others on the ground, erected like a shield.

He looked at the archer with an ashen face, and felt chills in his heart.

At this time, the cavalry rolled behind him, and a large number of horse troops were getting closer.

The artillery of the Ming army also began to bombard freely.

The horses screamed, the cavalry screamed, and the cannons tore the cavalry into pieces. Only then did the infantry battalions realize that what they encountered was not bad compared with the horse army.

After the horse army rushed up, the infantry retreated one after another.

But because there were too many battalions ahead, it became extremely difficult for the Ma Jun to walk within 150 meters.

There are 10,000+ infantry battalions ahead, all dead and alive, how can you get up with so many horses.

The biggest advantage of the horse army going up is probably that it blocked the way for the infantry to retreat and delayed the collapse time of the Chuang army.

Because Li Nian has been walking slowly, he is in the front of the army.

Their closest ones are all within 70 meters, and Li Nian is still more than 100 meters behind.

A wave of cavalry rushed up at this time, and the cavalry kept avoiding the corpses and wounded on the ground, unable to rush at all.

Li Nian watched and shook his head secretly, fighting with Ding Yi's gunmen, the cavalry had to charge up.

Now this is tantamount to jogging over, just like infantry, they are courting death.

Sure enough, with the artillery and the guns of the Ming army, a large number of cavalry fell off their horses.

"Oh..." A war horse that lost its owner ran to Li Nian by itself.

Li Nian's heart moved, he hid behind the horse, patted the horse's ass, and motioned him to move forward slowly.

After a while, many people around started to follow suit.

Some cavalry saw that the infantry battalion in front could not rush up, so they also started to jump off their horses, hid behind their horses, and drove their horses forward to resist the gunmen's shots.

At this time, it can be seen that the peasant army and the official army have fought for several years, and they have gained experience.

The intruders fought wits and bravery with the Ming army on the battlefield, desperately trying to find ways to reduce the damage caused by the gunmen to them.

Even the Manchu Tartars did not have this kind of reaction.

Man Qing and Ding Yi have been fighting for so many years, but they still know only one move, let the cavalry charge into the formation, and use artillery to bombard them.

Even at the end of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, when dealing with the Eight-Power Allied Forces, this cavalry was still used to charge the battle.

In contrast, the peasant army is more cunning. After all, the peasant army that can survive now has survived countless life-and-death battles with the official army.

Many people have a strong desire to survive.

At this time, the infantry battalions seemed to find that this was a good idea, and they gave way one after another to let the cavalry drive forward.

Li Nian's side is on the front line of more than ten miles, the first wave of troops rushing into within 50 meters of the Ming army.

As if inspired by them, the Chuangjun on the left and right nearby became excited, and a large number of Chuangjun began to think of ways to rush forward.

After entering 50 meters, the Chuang army began to shoot arrows non-stop. The Ming army also suffered casualties, but they were still very small, because the number of archers in the Chuang army was not as good as that of the Manchus.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have never lost against the Manchus, let alone the peasant army.

The two sides continued to shoot at each other, causing casualties.

Chuangjun almost uses corpses to pile up every step forward.

Before the Chuangjun cavalry rushed into the formation, the Chuangjun infantry battalion was basically blocked 80 meters away and could not rush up at all.

After the Chuangjun cavalry came up, relying on the horses as cover, the Chuangjun in many places began to rush within 50 meters.

Ding Yi looked at the battlefield ahead with a telescope from behind, and said to the people around him: "Although we have strong firepower, if we have enough troops, we are not afraid of death, and if the ants keep attaching, we can still make it."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Their four-stage shooting can already be continuous, almost non-stop, but in order to ensure that the wear and tear of the flintlock guns is minimized, they will rotate a batch every ten rounds.

This is already the best and strongest flintlock gun in the world, and it can guarantee continuous shooting.

But Chuangjun's 10,000+ cavalry rushed together, which was also continuous, and they would still be approached by them.

It seems that the only thing that can defeat the ants in this world is neither muskets nor machine guns, only courage.

In the famous Battle of the Somme in history, the Maxim machine gun appeared for the first time, but the British and French allied forces on the opposite side had no idea that there were such weapons in the world. They charged continuously, and Maxim killed 6 people on the first day. People, countless injured.

But under such circumstances, the British and French allied forces still used ants to go along with their courage, rushed up, and broke through the second German position.

Even the Maxim machine gun couldn't stop the ants who were not afraid of death. That was because the machine guns at that time also needed to rest.

Of course, even the best machine guns of later generations will have to change their barrels after a long time of use.

Theoretically, there is no infantry weapon that can resist continuous ants.

"What can defeat the enemy is not weapons, but courage." Ding Yi shook his hand fiercely at this time: "The only way to defeat them is to make them lose their courage."

At the same time as Ding Yi finished speaking, a large number of cavalry at Li Nian's place in front had already rushed within 30 meters with their horses and a few infantry battalions.

"Sure, light the fire and throw it freely." The Ming army in the back row shouted.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, grenades were thrown up.

Li Nian was hiding behind a horse. The horse had been shot five times and was still alive. He was secretly happy.

Suddenly, I saw countless black spots flying up in front of me.

Then they flew into their formation one after another.

No, Li Nian reacted quickly, without even thinking about it, he just lay down on the ground.

It's not that he knows how to dodge the grenade, but subconsciously lay down on the ground to be safe.

Boom, boom, the next moment, there were explosions everywhere at the scene.

There were explosions within 30 to 50 meters in front of the Ming army formation.

Chuang Jun had already seen the hope of rushing up, but suddenly there was a wave of explosions, and now even the horses could not withstand it, some were blown down, and some ran back after being blown up.

After the explosion, the scene was in a mess, and many successors dared not go forward.

Then there was another burst of gunshots ahead, and the area within 50 meters was instantly cleared.

(End of this chapter)