Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 530 Trench Warfare

Dorgon has high hopes for the first wave of shelling tonight.

However, the cruel reality soon gave him a blow to the head.

The expected volley of guns did not arrive, but an unexpected explosion came.

A dazzling red light suddenly appeared in the darkness ahead, and then there was a bang explosion, and then a faint sound of weapons clashing, and shouts of killing, followed by the bonfires in the outer Ming army phalanx. They went out one after another, and the entire battlefield instantly became dark.

Dorgon's face instantly collapsed.

Hou Fangyu lost his voice and said, "What happened?"

"I don't even know this? This is the ambush army who met the Ming army."

This time Cao Eryu finally took the opportunity to show off his sense of superiority in front of Hou Fangyu.

Dorgon was also a little angry: "Jiang Xuan, an idiot, can't do such a small thing well."

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangtong was about to panic: "No way, I have to think of a way."

It wasn't until Jiannu Baoyi approached within [-] steps under the cover of the van that the Ming army finally vaguely saw the shadows of Jiannu and the van through the reflection of the snow.

Soon after the Ming army sent out the hunting team, Jiannu also sent out a large number of white armored soldiers.

Accompanied by the sound of "Boom" and "Crack" and "Crack", at least thirty vans were smashed or pierced in an instant.

But soon encountered a new problem.

Everything was just right, so a new tactic was born.

"Brother Ning, what you said is wrong." Jiang Tianyi said solemnly, "The Holy Majesty made it clear before leaving that this battle is a battle of building confidence, and only victory is allowed and no defeat is allowed!"

As a last resort, Xu Yingwei could only order to dismantle the vans on the other two sides of the car wall, but this is not a long-term solution, because it will take at most two hours, and the dismantled car walls on both sides will also be smashed to pieces .

After Jiang Xuan received the order, he decisively fired at the Ming army.

Gu Yanwu and the others soon arrived at the main formation.

Not surprisingly, a large number of Ming troops were also killed.

The blazing haystacks emitted a dazzling glare, illuminating dozens of steps in a radius like daylight, and the walls of the sidecars of the Ming Army's phalanx were illuminated at once.

For example, use partial vans to form a train formation.

It is to use the tiger crouching gun to fire randomly in all directions.

In the end, there was really no other way but to bombard them with cannons.

The Ming army immediately began to fire guns in turn.

Jiang Xuan was really an idiot, he lost his position just by meeting an ambush army. When the ambush army detonated a landmine to complete the warning, Jiang Xuan immediately stopped the entire green battalion from advancing.

It wasn't until another ambush army detonated landmines to warn that the Ming army didn't realize it.

……

"That's it." Gu Yanwu and the others agreed, and rushed back to the position immediately.

Chaotic battles in the dark have always been Jiannu's strong point.

However, tactics have never been good or bad, but only applicable or not, and the same tactics may change the outcome of a different battlefield.

This depth is just enough for the musketeers to stand and shoot in the trench.

The only way they could think of was to send a large number of hunting teams to roam the middle ground, specifically to search for and kill the infiltrated Jian slave "ignition team".

The Qing army continued to send out coated vans to light up the positions of the Ming army.

Even Chongzhen, a traveler, did not think of this point.

Gu Yanwu didn't mean what he said, but Xu Yingwei's heart moved when he heard it.

But they couldn't see clearly in the dark, and the Ming army had nothing to do when they found out.

Dorgon immediately ordered Jiang Xuan to fire at the current distance.

The tiger squatting guns in the formation also fired one after another.

After firing a shot, eight teams of Baoyi carried the temporarily collected large bundles of hay, and under the cover of the van, they approached the four Ming army phalanxes quietly.

"Hurry up and go back." Xu Yingwei said, "This time, Jiannu must be ruthless."

But the four of them couldn't think of any good way.

……

But coincidentally, it happened to be the Ming army's defense. What's more, because the ground was too frozen, the ring trench dug by the Ming army for a long time was only five feet deep and two feet wide.

With his keen insight into the battlefield, Xu Yingwei instantly judged Jiannu's intentions. Jiannu wanted to fight a war of attrition with the Ming army, sacrifice a small amount of coats and vans, light up the battlefield, and exchange their camel artillery for a war of attrition. The opportunity to destroy the Ming army's side car formation, and the Ming army did not have a good way to deal with it.

With the light of the fire, the camel cannons of the Qing army continued to launch shelling. At the end of the ugly day (3:[-] a.m.), the four sided carriage formations of the Ming army on the periphery were completely destroyed.

And this width is just enough to accommodate three rows of musketeers to shoot alternately.

Then send someone to ask Dorgon, do you want to continue approaching?
Dorgon really wanted to kill Jiang Xuan, but in the end he held back.

The effect of the second wave of shelling must be much better than that of the first wave.

So after playing ping-pong-pong for a while, they still couldn't stop Jian Nu.

Therefore, Dorgon couldn't wait to invest all the main force to launch a general attack.

"Then what can you do?" Gu Yanwu said angrily.

In the first confrontation between the two sides, the Ming army suffered a big loss. Most of the more than 100 soldiers of the new army were hunted and killed by Jiannu Baijia soldiers in more than a dozen hunting teams, and only less than ten escaped back.

It is a good tactic on the Liaodong plain or grassland.

The Ming army did exactly that.

It's just that only God knows the effect of this wave of shelling.

"The sidecar array can't be saved at first glance, and Jiannu's cannon can hit us at first sight. We can't dig a hole and bury ourselves first, and then drill out when Jiannu attacks?"

As you can imagine, the result is basically useless.

After sending away Gu Yanwu and the other four, Xu Yingwei readjusted the deployment of artillery.

But the flintlock can't penetrate the van at all.

Dorgon had already told Jiang Xuan to be careful of the ambush army, but he was still hit.

Xu Yingwei immediately summoned the four infantry brigade commanders Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and Lu Yuding to the main formation.

At this time, the camel swivel gun of the Green Camp had been reloaded.

The 100 4-inch field guns were temporarily organized by Xu Yingwei into 4 field gun heads, each of which was responsible for providing fire support to a hollow phalanx on the periphery.

After saying this, Xu Yingwei patted Gu Yanwu's shoulder heavily again, and said with a smile: "Brother Ning, it's really thanks to having you here this time, and I will report to Ming Shengshang later that if our army wins the Hunhe battle, you For the first time."

"Yes, there is a trench!" The eyes of Gu Yanwu and the others lit up instantly.

But Jiannu still set fire to the hay on the van before being beaten to death.

This is actually a mindset. In Chongzhen's subconscious, only when heavy machine guns and rear-loading rifles came out would trench warfare have real meaning.

Standing on the nest car, Xu Yingwei had a panoramic view of all this, and his heart sank instantly.

Chongzhen thought of using partial vans to form a car formation to provide protection for the musketeers of the Ming army, preventing them from being shot in line like the musketeers on the western battlefield.

But if you go to the mountains and forests in the southwest, or the tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia, it will only cause a burden to the army, which is a negative asset.

Although the combined ammunition of the tiger squat cannon can penetrate the van, it is not accurate.

Each Ming army phalanx has two vans loaded with hay approaching.

……

In less than two hours, almost at the hour of Haizheng, the four side-car formations facing Jiannu's car walls on both sides were basically beaten badly, and could no longer provide protection.

Because of the cover of night, the Ming army in the outer phalanx was difficult to find.

"There's nothing to worry about. If it doesn't work, we'll fight with Jiannu." Gu Yanwu said with a dark face.

But at this time, the Ming army also found that there was only one van and a small number of slaves approaching them in each direction, so they immediately sent out a sentry infantry to launch a counterattack.

Another example is the trenches. If the Ming army attacked, it would be useless.

"Bury it?" Xu Yingwei said excitedly after pondering for a moment, "Yes!"

By the way, the battalion-level and brigade-level chief officers of the new army are all filled by Qin Wang Shizi, and they are all temporarily appointed, that is, when there are combat missions, they are temporarily appointed, and the corresponding positions are automatically dismissed after the battle is over. When there is a war next time, the chief officers of the battalion and brigade levels will be temporarily appointed again.

But the trench warfare, Chongzhen really did not expect.

"Don't forget that there are still trenches!" Xu Yingwei said with a slight smile, "The infantry of the four outer infantry brigades and all the artillery of the Tiger Squat Artillery Command have all entered the trenches and waited for the final general attack of Jiannu."

Because the distance now is almost [-] steps, and it is blind shooting at night again.

"Brother Youzhen, what are you talking about?" Gu Yanwu was at a loss after hearing this.

In the days of front-loading muskets, trench warfare didn't make much sense.

Using the firelight to quickly complete the aim, the Green Battalion launched a second wave of shelling.

At this time, Xu Yingwei and others did not realize that one of their unconscious actions would make the firearms tactics on the Eastern battlefield go wrong again, and trench warfare would come out nearly 300 years in advance.

Of course, this tactic has great limitations, and it is useless if the enemy is not eager for a decisive battle.

The main reason is that those who are in the dark don't know where Jiannu's "ignition team" will infiltrate.

But at this time, the Qing army was obviously eager to attack. Dorgon wished to defeat the Ming army before dawn and capture Chongzhen so that Chongzhen would not run away with the Kongming lantern.

The attacking infantry successfully killed Jian Nu.

This time it's really a general attack. More than 6000 Eight Banners Han troops are pushing sidecars in front, 2 Eight Banners Manchurians are behind pushing carts, and there are [-] Eight Banners Mongolian and more than [-] Horqin Mongolian light cavalry Sweeping outside.

As for the green battalion and Baoyi, they retired after finishing their work and temporarily retreated to the rear.

Dorgon actually saw the Ming army in the trench, but he didn't care at all.

One is that because of the suicide lighting of the coated slaves, only a few small sections of trenches were lit, so Dorgon took it for granted that there were only a few small sections of trenches with Ming troops; Didn't take it seriously.

(End of this chapter)