Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 370
Yi Ding, who has less than a hundred riders, naturally cannot threaten the formation.

This is more just harassment before the two armies officially engage in combat.

Jiannu especially likes to play this game. Before the official battle, he will often send the white armored soldiers who are the most proficient in cavalry and archery to harass the Ming army's infantry formation endlessly.

The Ming army will send servants to expel them.

In most cases, both sides will fight each other.

In terms of top-level individual combat effectiveness, the Ming army has never been inferior to Jiannu.

Sure enough, the rebellious army also sent a team of cavalry to drive out Yi Ding, probably also a group of Ding.

There were about [-] cavalry from the rebel army, more than three times the number of Yiding cavalry.

But as soon as the two sides came into contact, the situation quickly turned into Yi Ding's massacre of the rebel army, because Yi Ding never stopped training even after he followed Chongzhen, but since the rebel army entered Wuchang Town with Zuo Liangyu, Extravagant and dissipated, hardly any serious training, all of them have fat around their waists.

The gap in equipment between the two sides was even greater, and Yi Ding was all in triple armor.

The cavalry of the rebellious army had at most two layers of armor, or even only one layer of armor.

There are also weapons. Yiding has a long-distance Lumi blunderbuss, a short-range Zhanmadao, and even a hidden weapon of chili noodles. The only weapon of the rebellious cavalry is a Zhanmadao.

In just one round, the cavalry of the rebellious army were rushed to pieces.

After losing nearly half of the cavalry, the remaining rebels finally fled back in a hurry.

Yi Ding didn't chase either, but gathered more than a hundred horses abandoned by the rebel army on the battlefield.

Gathering the horses and returning to the main formation, Hu Guozhu reported to Chongzhen: "My lord, these cavalry are simply chickens and dogs, and they will be easily defeated with only [-] barbarians in the end!"

"Hey, crushing is not an option." Chongzhen said, "It must be completely wiped out."

"Total annihilation is not a problem." Hu Guozhu turned his gaze to the cavalry battalion, "But it needs the cooperation of the cavalry battalion to attack. As long as the cavalry battalion cooperates, I promise not to let any cavalry escape."

After the temptation just now, Hu Guozhu really has this confidence now.

After a short pause, Hu Guozhu said again: "Your Majesty, please order the attack?"

"Don't worry." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "The cavalry of the rebel army are native chicken tile dogs, but their infantry are not native chicken tile dogs. Duke Chu just said that there are still [-] to [-] elite soldiers."

This situation is not much different from what Chongzhen knew.

In another time and space, after the Zuo army followed Zuo Menggeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Azig removed the old, weak, sick, disabled, and support soldiers, leaving only [-] soldiers in the end.

The [-] people still have considerable fighting power.

The [-] elite infantry lined up in formation, and there was a formation of partial carriages, so the cavalry could not rush.

If there is a strong attack, the cavalry battalion and Yi Ding will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and Chongzhen is reluctant.

The point is that there is no need for this, as long as the army blocking Yinxi crosses the river, the psychological defense line of the hundreds of thousands of chaotic troops in front will collapse in an instant, and then all that is left is to beat the dog in the water.

So letting Chongzhen take the initiative to attack will not take the initiative to attack.

The rebellious army can form a formation, so wouldn't the Ming Dynasty's official army not form a formation?
Immediately Chongzhen shouted: "Pass down my will, form a chariot formation, and resist the enemy in place!"

A total of 90 partial vans were immediately pushed to the front of the formation, and then turned sideways and spliced ​​together, quickly forming a car wall with a width of nearly 270 steps.

The height of the car wall is about seven feet.

This height is not high, but there is a parapet.

Where did these 90 vans come from?

It was transported to Huangzhou Prefecture by the navy in advance, and handed over to the new army in Huanggang.

The 2700 new troops that Chongzhen brought into the Dabie Mountains were only infantry battalions, and only after being integrated with the vehicle battalion and artillery battalion was the new army's final and complete form.

In the final form of the new army, each team is equipped with a sidecar and two mules and horses.

During the march, this van was responsible for transporting the supplies of the whole team, including the [-] pairs of cloth face armor of the whole team.

For this expedition, Chongzhen asked to march in armor to train the new army.

But in the future, before going into battle, the soldiers must preserve as much physical strength as possible.

The total length of the body of the van and the shaft is about [-] feet. After being joined with the front car to form a car wall, the rear of the parapet of each van can just accommodate ten musketeers standing side by side. This has been calculated. .

In this way, a van plus a team of soldiers is the most basic combat unit of the new army.

The commander becomes very simple when setting up the formation. He only needs to splice together the basic combat units one after another to form a long snake formation, a 7-character formation, a gate formation, or a completely closed formation. Rectangular formation, this rectangular formation with vans added is tougher than the hollow phalanx of lobster soldiers.

For example, now, what Chongzhen puts out is a typical one-word long snake formation.

This is mainly because there are few soldiers, and there is no need to worry about being flanked by the rebellious army, because there are cavalry protection.

Although the rebellious army also has cavalry, if the rebellious army dares to send cavalry to flank, it will be a contribution to the cavalry battalion and the eight hundred barbarians.

In less than half a stick of incense, the new army had already set up a long snake formation, and 2700 new troops also went up behind the wall of the car, standing in three rows at the front and back, waiting for the formation.

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Seeing that the officers and soldiers stopped moving after setting up their formation, the chaos army was a little confused.

Chongzhen, you don't talk about Wude, isn't it you who brought the officers and soldiers to attack now?How can we turn to the defensive when we reach the ground, waiting for us to attack?Playing a rogue.

"What should I do? Just waste it like this?"

"No, you can't spend a long time with officers and soldiers."

"I also think that Chongzhen must have a backup."

"Just talk nonsense, then you guys have a trick."

The dozen or so lieutenant generals of the rebel army immediately began to quarrel again.

Hao Xiaozhong said angrily, "Why don't we drive the whole army to launch a decisive battle?"

"Speaking lightly." Xu Yuxian immediately retorted, "Do you think we can drive the entire army? Can we keep the entire army in formation while attacking? What if we mess up the formation?"

It is not easy to get hundreds of thousands of people to form a formation, but it is even more wishful thinking to keep hundreds of thousands of people in formation when they attack. Even if you can think of it with your toes, it will definitely be chaos.

If the Ming army has already collapsed, then it's nothing, it's chasing after all, chaos versus chaos, it doesn't matter.

But now the Ming army has not yet collapsed, and has already set up a defensive formation. If they rush to fight in a chaotic manner, let alone hundreds of thousands, even millions are useless, because if they cannot maintain the formation, there will be no more people. It is the crowd, but the pit, and the crowd is the pit, the more people, the more chaotic and doomed.

When the thieves fight, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people often rush forward in chaos.

But every time, he was beaten to the ground by thousands or even hundreds of cavalry of the Guanning Army.

In a word, driving hundreds of thousands of people forward to attack is basically suicide.

Set up the formation and wait for the Ming army to fight, and you can still fight, but it is impossible to take the initiative to attack.

"Then tell me, what should we do?" Hao Jiaozhong said with a dark face, "If it's not allowed, then it's not allowed. In my opinion, we should just break up and go our separate ways with our own people."

"We can't break up." Xu Yong shook his head decisively.

"With hundreds of thousands of us gathered together, we can still compete with the Ming army, but if we divide our troops, we will immediately become the fish on the chopping board, and we can kill and eat as much as we want."

More than a dozen lieutenants of the general army were silent when they heard the words.

Because what Xu Yong said was true, otherwise they would have parted ways long ago.

Xu Yong said in a deep voice: "How about this, let's have a general in each town, don't use the servants to make up the number, want to be elite, gather a battalion and try to hit him first, and see how good the officers and soldiers on the opposite side can be? "

"Success, this method is fine." Everyone nodded in agreement.

Soon, the rebel army used a dozen or so to form a battalion of more than [-] people.

Then he chose a brave guerrilla to temporarily serve as the chief officer of the battalion.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of this battalion, each soldier was equipped with cotton armor.

Officers above the post chief are each equipped with a pair of straight body armor and a bowl helmet.

The guerrilla leading the team wore chain mail, cotton armor and iron armor from the inside out.

The weapons and equipment are one-three-six. The front row is dedicated to defense, the next three rows are musketeers, responsible for long-range strikes, and the last three rows are spearmen.

This is the standard configuration of Ming army infantry.

It took about an hour to finally get ready to attack.

"Attack!" The guerrilla led by the leader pulled the saber in his hand vigorously, and more than [-] chaotic troops lined up in a neat formation, and began to make great strides towards the Ming army ahead.

Hundreds of thousands of people cannot maintain formation while attacking, but a few thousand people can do it.

Soon, the [-] rebellious army approached within [-] steps of the Ming army. At this distance, if the Ming army had tiger squatting cannons, Fran cannons, or Hongyi cannons in the formation, they would open fire.

However, the Ming army was still silent.

Seeing this, more than a dozen deputy generals breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it seems that the Ming army did not carry artillery.

……

Xu Wuniu stood in the front row holding a flintlock gun in front of his chest.

Looking at the thousands of rebellious troops marching forward, Xu Wuniu felt nothing in his heart. The first reason was that he had already had the experience of fighting bandits, and the second reason was that he was protected by a car wall.

The wall of the sidecar is three inches thick, which is enough to resist the shooting of bird guns.

Unless the rebels have Hongyi cannons or Flang cannons, they can't threaten them.

After a while, the rebel army approached within [-] steps. The sword players in the front row squatted down one after another, while the musketeers in the second row raised their guns one after another, aiming at the Ming army chariot formation from a distance.

"Squat down!" Xu Yingwei pressed down hard with the waist knife in his hand.

Xu Wuniu resolutely held the flintlock and squatted behind the wall of the car.

The next moment, there was a crackling sound on the outside of the car wall.

Xu Yingwei, who was still standing, also heard a pounding sound.

It's just that Xu Yingwei's burly body only swayed slightly.

Seeing that the blunderbuss were useless, the rebellious army stopped shooting and continued to move forward.

It seemed that the rebel army was planning to rush to the Ming army's chariot formation and launch a battle to seize the wall.

(End of this chapter)