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If there are well-made crossbows and arrows and well-trained soldiers, the range of crossbows is naturally comparable to that of black powder muskets.

Gunpowder eliminated bows and crossbows initially because muskets greatly reduced the training requirements for soldiers.

Of course, the above-mentioned premise of "excellent bows and arrows and well-trained soldiers" must not be missing, otherwise the end will be unilaterally massacred like the Battle of Baliqiao in the late Qing Dynasty——

The Battle of Baliqiao was not only a disastrous defeat for cavalry and archery, but also a disastrous defeat for lax armaments.By the time of the Anglo-French alliance, most of the Manchu and Qing people, whether they were bannermen or Mongols, had become useless people carrying cages and birds. To put it bluntly, the Qing army in the late Qing Dynasty was no better than the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty.

The rate of decline in the history of the Qing army was so amazing that it was basically disabled after 20 years of entering the customs. Those bannermen who were born in Beijing were almost the five scum of war.Later, Wu Sangui rebelled, if he hadn't died early, and Wu Sangui's troops who had experienced bloody battles counterattacked, the outcome is really uncertain.

In contrast, the Qing army under Duduo's command is definitely one of the most powerful troops in the world in terms of well-trained and strict military discipline, so even if it only relies on bows and crossbows, it will definitely have a battle with the Ming army!
Faced with the huge amount of firearms, they did not show a tendency to collapse in fear of the enemy at first, and they were still able to carry on for a while. will.

The only shortcoming of the Qing army was its armaments. The serious consumption of weapons and armor made the hardware level unable to support its full combat power.

On the southern line of the battlefield, the shooting is the most intensive and the most tragic. Because of the barrier of the Hengtang River to the battlefield, the two sides were unable to fight in close combat. From the beginning, they chose to go straight to the river and shoot across the river. Worry about musketeers or archers being melee.

Driven by the generals, the newly surrendered traitor army and Han flag archers numbly drew their bows and released their arrows repeatedly, pouring arrows like rain.However, the damaged arrows that are mostly recycled are very low in accuracy, and their crooked force is also quite discounted, which further reduces the lethality.

The only intact one-handed arrows in the Qing army were mostly equipped by the cavalry of the Eight Banners.When the supplies are insufficient, the Han army flag and the newly surrendered army can only use junk weapons, and there is no way to do this.

The main general of the Qing army along this road is Li Chengdong, the newly surrendered general, who was the guy who made trouble under Huaiyang Gaojie at the beginning.

Li Chengdong also knows the Ming army well, and he also knows the fighting style of Gao Jie, Li Fuming and other allies, so he also wanted to "resist the enemy on the beach" at the beginning. Relying on the fact that his troops generally prepared wooden shields of acceptable size, he felt that the Thirty to fifty steps away, and with the cover of a large shield, it should be able to hold the musket.

Bows and arrows can be projected, but muskets cannot be projected. If everyone has heavy shields in the front row, the side that gets close to the projectile can attack from the top and cause serious casualties to the opponent.When the enemy is strong and we are weak, Li Chengdong once felt that this was his only chance.

This idea was not wrong at the beginning, but it was a pity that the Ming army infantry he faced with Jiang Shoude and Lin Yangcheng were not of the same quality as the Gao Jie, Li Fuming, and Bai Guangen he was familiar with.

How can the Ming army of Jiliao have the sharp firearms of the Ming army of Huguang?The firearms of the Ji Liao Ming Army are easy to block, but it does not mean that the firearms of the Huguang Ming Army can also be blocked.

At the beginning of the confrontation between the two sides, Jiang Shoude's musketeers, under the cover of Lin Cheng's long spear phalanx, carefully switched to the front to fire and retreated to reload according to the code of practice.

After several rounds, as the arrows of the Qing army on the opposite side gradually became denser, although some Qing army infantry screamed and fell to the ground, most of the projectiles were still blocked. on the rise.

Jiang Shoude quickly realized that his firepower did not seem to be able to quickly weaken the opponent's output. He quickly assessed the situation and found that the distance between the two sides shooting across the river was very close, and the Qing army did not intend to change the status quo and keep their distance. He immediately ordered that the front-line musketeers switch to shotguns.

Ever since fighting the main forces of the Qing army, Zhu Shuren has instructed his subordinates to use double-headed slugs and install them front and rear when they are at long distances. No. slug to ensure armor-piercing kinetic energy.

The shotgun was not the first choice of the Ming army, because what they wanted to fight was no longer lightly armored or even unarmored units like the Peasant Army.The Qing army who used shotguns to hit iron-coated cotton armor had no armor-piercing ability twenty or thirty steps away.

Today's situation is very special, because of the existence of the Hengtang River, the two sides just stood at a distance of dozens of steps in the southern part of the battlefield, and they did not cross the river, and did not try to fight hand-to-hand. The queuing up to shoot war-like.

If it was another battlefield environment, without this river, it would be absolutely impossible for such a long-term shooting situation to occur, and they would have rushed through the last few dozen steps to fight together.

Since there is such a special environment, I would be too sorry to God if I didn’t use it. Under Jiang Shoude’s command, the musketeers on the southern front of the Ming army quickly re-used the shotgun shells they were used to. Suddenly, the number of bullets with a higher firepower density immediately increased. Seven or eight times as much!
Although the projectiles and iron slag blocked by the thick wooden shield still cannot penetrate the armor, the clumsy wooden shield cannot block in all directions after all. There are so many shotguns that it is easy to sneak through the defensive gaps, which immediately arouses bursts of blood. Flowers and screams.

Few people in Li Chengdong's department had heavy armor at all. The heavy armor wasted a lot in the two battles in Nanjing and Jiangyin, which caused the armor of the newly surrendered army to be stripped by the Manchu masters, so they were specially equipped with thick wooden shields for defense. At this time At this moment, the pain was unspeakable, and the casualties were heavy.

After only carrying it for a short while, Li Chengdong suffered thousands of casualties, and then retreated a hundred steps. In the process of retreating, there was inevitably some confusion and even trampling on each other.

If it weren't for the difficulty of directly and orderly wading across the Hengtang River, Jiang Shoude would have immediately asked Lin Chengcheng to cross the river and pursue him with a melee phalanx of long spears.

Even now, it's not like he didn't try, but as soon as he raised it, Lin Chengcheng expressed his opposition:

"Deputy General Jiang, don't rush in! Although the Hengtang River is cold and shallow in winter, it seems that it can only reach waist height, but it is very muddy. Our army will definitely mess up the battle if we wade in vain, and we will be attacked by Li Chengdong who turns back halfway!
Only forcing Li Chengdong back more than a hundred steps from the river bank, this distance is not enough for our army to cross the river, it is better not to seek merit but to do nothing, just hope that the Chinese army and the northern army can defeat the enemy.

If you insist on crossing the river, unless you can force Li Chengdong back for more than a mile, and you must first severely damage the morale of Li Chengdong's army so that he does not have the courage to organize a return attack, this is possible! "

Jiang Shoude knew that Lin Chengcheng's words were true, and he was indeed eager to attack. It seemed that both Ming and Qing had to stay on the southern front and guard across the river.

However, Lin Chengcheng's words were a reminder to him, and made him feel moved: It seems that it is not impossible to further break Li Chengdong's morale, or force the enemy back by more than a mile or two...

In a field battlefield like today, both sides did not use artillery at the beginning, because it was a mobile war. The deployment of Hongyi cannons in this era is too difficult, and old-fashioned artillery must have fixed turrets.

The ones that can drag and run with the army are at most light Francophones, or old-fashioned tiger squatting guns, and the tiger squatting guns are too old, so it is better to just change to turtledove guns or carry guns.

However, this kind of situation is already in the past tense among the Huguang Ming army. Zhu Shuren asked Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi to improve and invent the first generation of "retired red barbarian cannon", which can reach seven years in the west. At the time of the war, the level before the Napoleonic Wars,

The double-wheeled gun mounts plus some buffering and unloading mechanisms can already ensure that the artillery fires on the wheel mounts without shaking the wheels.

It's just that after this new and improved artillery equipment, I haven't caught the opportunity of a decisive battle in the field, so I can't use it.In the battle of defending the city, it is better to continue to use the fort cannon to unload the force, and the mobile "cavalry run" is useless.

Thinking of this, Jiang Shoude immediately asked the artillery team of the Chinese army for reinforcements, asking for some cavalry cannons towed by carriages. Frederick the Great's 1000-pounder cavalry gun.

It will naturally take time to apply for artillery reinforcements and deployments, so the southern front will continue to maintain this defensive posture in which Li Chengdong temporarily retreats and both sides shoot conservatively.

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While Li Chengdong continued to refuel his tactics and fill in the lines, the center of the battlefield, as the Hengtang River turned in this area, no longer stood between the Qing army and the Ming army. The two sides fought on this main battlefield, Naturally, it will be even more tragic.

Here, Zhu Shuren also gathered all [-] new "Made in Wuchang" rifles. He knew very well that this part of the front would face the main heavy armored troops of the Qing army, so the new rifles with the strongest armor-piercing ability must be used.

Those old-generation improved firearms that once shined brilliantly against thieves with light armor units may not be able to exert their maximum effect here.

At the beginning of the battle, Duduo tentatively sent cavalry to harass and charge the formation before the whole army came up.

The vanguards he sent were all elite cavalrymen of Zhengbai Banner who were fully armored and never lacked even horse armor.

Duduo would not interfere with the specific frontline command, and directly handed it over to Beizi Shangshan, the frontline leader. Whether he should directly look at the Ming army's weak gap to charge and kill, or sweep across the formation and shoot and harass, Shang Shan improvise.

Relying on the excellent armor of his troops, Shang Shan harassed and harassed the troops with his experience in fighting the Ming army, and he soon paid a heavy price.

Zuo Zixiong's phalanx of Chinese riflemen began to fire in turn at a distance of one hundred and thirty or fifty paces.Wuchang-made rifles are far superior to the accuracy and range of the previous generation of firearms. It is still easy to use double-shot front and rear slugs to tear apart the iron-coated cotton armor of Zhengbai Banner cavalry at a distance of a hundred paces, or to shoot blood one by one on the thick horse armor. Hole.

The deterrent sound of roaring gunshots, like rolling thunder, made every Zhengbai Banner cavalry officer feel lingering fear. Seeing that his comrades beside him were shot and killed by the Ming army, seeing that there was no space left, after dropping hundreds of corpses, they could only retreat temporarily. distance.

The generals of the Qing army in the distance gasped slightly, knowing that they could no longer charge directly with cavalry. The firearms of the Ming army were really sharp, and they had never seen a firearm that could break through armor at a distance of a hundred paces. It can be so fast.

"How can the Nanmanzi have such sharp muskets? Why haven't they seen it during the defense of Nanjing and Jiangyin?" Seeing this scene, Duoduo felt a cold feeling of being trapped even more.

How did he know that there were no defenders in Nanjing and Jiangyin, and the defenders of Jinshan Temple were really useless because the fighting distance was too short to defend the city.Zhu Shuren kept holding back, just waiting for the decisive field battle to be played out.

Fortunately, Doduo is also decisive. Knowing that he was put on the same line again, he quickly regained his composure:

"Let the infantry of the Han army flag of the Chinese army press up first! The cavalry roundabout, wait for the infantry to entangle the enemy before going up! Ye Chen, you personally lead all the cavalry with the blue flag, and reinforce the white flag. The front-line cavalry charge is under your unified command, the target There is only one, at any cost, go straight into Zhu Shuren's new musket array from the flank!"

Wanyan Yechen also knew that the whole army was at a critical moment, so he didn't refuse the prince's authorization, and directly took the order in a solemn voice.

Afterwards, Dodo also handed over the mission of the Han army flag of the Chinese army to the deadly battle, and directly handed it over to Zhang Cunren, his most trusted Han subordinate, and let Zhang Cunren directly and fully command the infantry of the Chinese army.

Wanyan Yechen, Shangshan, Zhang Cunren, the most trusted and highest-ranking generals under Duoduo's subordinates were all suppressed from the task.This means that all the capital has been put on the poker table and the chips are directly pushed.

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PS: Let’s finish writing the Armageddon tomorrow. I’m a bit stuck and I don’t think I can write anything new.