Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 732 Decisive Battle on the Western Front Eighth

In front of the formation of the Qing army, 1 horses barely lined up the formation as they advanced. The sword and shield soldiers in front began to protect their vital points with shields, arched their bodies, and the spearmen behind them raised their spears. Shining, the last archer took out a feathered arrow from his quiver, put it on the string, and prepared to draw it into a full circle as he walked.

This is still an old method of warfare. It is intended that after the two armies collide, they will fight with swords, shields and spears at close quarters, and the archers will shoot from behind. There is no problem at all.

But they encountered Keshengying. The biggest problem with firearms in the Ming Dynasty was their quality.

The corruption of the bureaucratic system made the entire military manufacturing of the Ming army like a child's play. The firearms were blown up to the point that the soldiers of the Ming army did not dare to use them. How to kill the enemy?
Many excellent tactics of the Ming army, such as three-stage shooting tactics that appeared during the founding of the country, were able to defeat the rebels, but gradually disappeared later.

During the Hongwu period, Mu Ying could use this method to defeat the enemy, but after more than 200 years, it didn't make sense.

The key to this is the problem of quality. The corruption of officials has led to the entire military manufacturing system, which is not as clean and honest as the Taizu period in the early Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yan also hated this. At the beginning, he set up a car battalion according to Qi Shuai's training method, and then marched north to Huguang. When he went out, he had [-]% of the firearms. When he came back, he had already become a cold weapon force.

At this time, the Lumi gun held by Ke Shengying is different. Although it cannot completely avoid the explosion of the chamber, the quality has undoubtedly been greatly improved.

One of the reasons for this is that the Portuguese were hired for the military weapons, and on the condition of the convenience of missionary work, they received the support of the Jesuits and absorbed the casting method of Xiyi.The second is that the Military Weapons Supervision established a system of rewards and punishments. Each blunderbuss was engraved with the names of the craftsman and the supervisor.The third is to explore and standardize the use of medicines in the charging of medicines.

In this way, the current batch of Lumi guns was created.

When the Qing army rushed within 150 steps, the soldiers of the first Ming army in a horizontal formation fired their guns first.

In the smoke, lead bullets flew out and hit the shield, and sparks splashed and hit the legs of the Qing soldiers. The advancing Qing soldiers immediately fell to their knees and wailed.

The general of the Qing army was taken aback by the fire guns of the Ming army. He had been in battle for a long time, and it was not that he had never eaten the volleyball guns of the Ming army, but this time he could feel the difference.

The range of the firecracker has been significantly increased, and its power has also increased a lot. It can actually cause damage at 150 steps.

"Don't mess up! Paste it, and they will be finished immediately!" The Qing general raised his knife and shouted, calmed down, and ordered the soldiers to move on.

The Qing soldiers, jumping over the corpses, and the wounded soldiers kneeling and howling, continued to advance forward in the basic formation, but within two steps, there was another sound of gunfire in the Ming army formation.

The Qing soldiers only heard this group of killers, beating gongs and drums and firing guns, firing row after row.

However, the archers of the Qing army were placed behind the swords and shields and spearmen, and the range of bows and arrows was not as good as that of firecrackers, and now they are even more out of reach.

When Bo Luo saw a group of Qing soldiers fell to the ground, his face was stunned. He became anxious and shouted in a hurry: "Let them charge!"

As soon as the Qing army's trumpet changed, the sound was rapid, and the bewildered Qing general realized that he was walking, and he probably died before the battle.

"Rush over! Hand-to-hand combat!" General Qing let out a loud roar, and the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty ran wildly after hearing the rapid trumpets and drums.

On the side of the Ming army, there was an orderly burst of firing, loading ammunition, and the running Qing soldiers kept falling to the ground. The soldiers who were shot were rolling on the ground and howling, but this did not stop the Qing soldiers from continuing to attack. .

Although these green battalion soldiers suffered heavy losses, as former members of the Ming army, they knew very well about the gunfire soldiers.

Although they don't understand whether the gunners of the Ming army have been beaten up today, they know that as long as they fight, they can't beat a group of gunners?

After a hundred paces, most of the gunmen in the front row of the Qing army had their swords and shields down. At this time, the archers of the Qing army who were running behind finally threw out the first wave of feathered arrows.

Arrows rained all over the sky, flying and falling like raindrops. In the formation of the Ming army, a large number of muskets fell to the ground with arrows, but the rest of the muskets remained motionless, just mechanically listening to the sound of gongs and drums in the horizontal formation, Come and repeat the actions of reloading, checking the matchlock, stepping forward to raise the gun to shoot, and retreating to reload.

They were not worried about the gaps around them, because as soon as someone fell down, there would be gunners in the back row to make up for it, forming continuous blows.

Compared with bows and arrows, firecrackers form an army in three months, and the advantages of simple training are gradually revealed.

Fifty steps, the firecracker has been able to penetrate most of the armor and penetrate the rattan plate.

"Bah bah bah~" After the gunpowder smoke rose, the Qing army fell down again. A rattan player of the Qing army was pierced by a lead bullet on his chest, and then hit him in the chest again. He rushed forward Under this blow, his body suddenly flew backwards, crushing an archer behind him.

At this moment, the gongs and drums in the horizontal formation were suddenly stopped, and Liu Wenxiu hissed and shouted, "Draw out the sword."

In fact, in the Ming army, there was a kind of blunderbuss gun that could be stuffed into the barrel, but because it was easy to fall off after being pierced, the Ming army seldom used it.

According to the "Da Ming Hui Dian", during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty in China, it was the first time that a spearhead was installed on an iron gun to facilitate assassination.

This method combines the performance of muskets and spears. From this point of view, the earliest origin of the bayonet was in China, and it was not until the middle of the sixteenth century, more than 100 years later, that Europeans installed spearheads on shotguns for assassination. The invention of prey.

The bayonet in the Western sense also appeared a few years ago, but it is still passed down to China.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers were about to stick up, if the Qing soldiers drew their swords when they got close, the momentum would inevitably be weaker, but after firing a blunderbuss at fifty steps, it hit the Qing soldiers' spirit, and then it was just right to hedge.

Following Liu Wenxiu's loud roar, the gongs and drums in the formation were retracted, and Ke Shengjun immediately retracted the Lumi blunderbuss and drew out his saber.

"Kill!" Liu Wenxiu raised his knife and shouted. Before this brave general of the Western Army, the soldiers behind him were shouting, cursing and killing, like a flood bursting out of a bank.

On the other hand, the Qing soldiers left a lot of corpses on the way forward, and unknowingly, the dense swords, shields, and spears in the front row were already sparsely sparse.

An archer of the Qing army had just finished firing an arrow when he heard the shouts of the Ming army. When he looked up, he realized that he had rushed to the front.

It's not that he rushed fast, but that most of the Qing soldiers who were fighting in close combat were killed by guns.

The Qing soldiers were stunned for a while. They originally wanted to fight close to each other, but now there were only a large group of archers left.

Of course, the archers of the Qing soldiers also had sabers, but their quality was not comparable to that of the Kesheng Battalion. In the first battle, Liu Wenxiu ran into the herd like a tiger, and the Qing soldiers immediately retreated.

When Bo Luo saw this scene, his liver and gallbladder were torn apart. He had to rely on these 1 people to buy time for the army to reorganize, but he was beaten and defeated after this face-to-face encounter. It was also disrupted by the rout.

"Give me the order, the cavalry is given to this king, to force the enemy's front army!" Boluo's eyes were red, and he roared in a hoarse voice.

Now he can only use the cavalry to rush forward, lest the front of the Ming army drive the defeated army into his infantry.

But before the Qing soldiers around him came and issued an order, the Ming army's trumpets sounded again, and the Ming army's cavalry who hid behind the left and right infantry rushed out again.

Seeing this, Bo Luo almost vomited blood.

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