The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 193

Azig continued: "Turai and Tong Yangjia led the elite Han army in the Zhenghuang Banner and Zhenglan Banner to serve as the frontal attack."

"Hey!" Tulai and Tong Yangjia were overjoyed.The former has always been worried that Azig would underestimate the enemy and rush forward, but he can be careful to defend against the enemy as a forward.The latter only felt that the Ming army should be defeated in one blow, and that he would surely gain a lot of military exploits as a forward.

"Bai Yin Dai, lead the Zhenglan Banner pawns to cover Tulai's flanks. If the Zhenghuang Banner defeats the southerners, you will outflank them from both sides."

"Whoo!"

"Zhubutai, you command the main force of the cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry like Bateer form an array behind Tulai, and listen to me at any time."

"Whoo!"

In fact, it is different from most people's inherent impressions. Although the Qing army claims to be unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, in fact, there are not many cavalry, generally only accounting for about [-]% of the total force, and its main decisive force is heavy infantry.

In addition, the scene of the cavalry charging head-on at the beginning of the fight is a plot that is only available in movies.Similar to the tactics commonly used in Europe in this era, the Manchus also left the cavalry to play a role at critical moments.

For example, chasing and defeating the enemy, filling the loopholes in the formation, etc.Unless it is a last resort, cavalry is rarely used to forcefully charge the enemy's formation.You must know that Hou Jin is not a nomadic people, and their war horses are also very precious.

"Han Dai, I order you to lead 2000 troops from the Zhenghuang Banner and [-] troops from the Green Battalion to line up on the left wing of the Central Army."

"Whoo!"

"Cao Cunxing, the 6000-strong green battalion under your command is on the right wing of the central army."

"The end will obey orders!"

Azige finally glanced at the generals in the account, "This commander will personally lead the guard camp Baiba Yala to supervise the battle in the Chinese army. Today, except for the soldiers guarding the camp, the whole army will be repaired and rectified. Tomorrow morning, the army will be deployed to directly attack the main force of the southerners." !"

All the Manchu and Han officers under his command immediately surrendered in unison.

After Azige finished setting up his formation, another Xiaoqi found out the news, reporting that the Ming army had set up camp in the outskirts of Zhima County in Bali.

Azig hurriedly leaned over the map to check it carefully, and then laughed out loud, "These southern barbarians are so desperate that they chose such a place to camp."

He pointed to the map and said, "To the west of Guangguang is such a flat land, with a radius of dozens of miles. There is a flat river. In this decisive battle, there is no obstacle in front of our army, and we will definitely sweep the southerners in no time!"

Everyone in the tent laughed along with him, "Is the southerner dizzy? Haha."

"This is King Chen, I think he can only fight with Shi Fu and his like."

"It's so open and flat, I'm afraid it won't take an hour for the war to end."

"Hey, it seems that all the military exploits belong to Lord Tulai."

It's no wonder they were so excited. The south of the Yangtze River is mostly rivers and hills. The Jianlu's usual tactics of forming camps and advancing and cavalry raids are not easy to use, but it is very conducive to the positional defense warfare that the Ming army is good at.

Therefore, since crossing the Yangtze River, the Qing army has always felt restrained when fighting, which is not as refreshing as when fighting in the north.

Now that the Ming army chose such a large plain as a battlefield, how could they not be happy.

It's just that they don't know that the plain terrain is also more conducive to the firepower projection of the line infantry formation and the maneuvering of the large square formation.

……

The next day.

On the plain west of Zhima, the key battle that determined the direction of Ming Dynasty history began.

Azig was wearing a leaf red satin visor, a vermilion lacquered iron helmet on his head, and a bow immediately under a golden coiled dragon banner in the middle of the army formation. He held a telescope and looked up slightly at the Ming army formation.

He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, put down the binoculars and looked around, only to notice that his terrain seemed to be slightly lower than the enemy army, and it was a slow climb from his side to the Ming army.

"Hmph, it's no wonder that the Southern Barbarians want to use this place as a battlefield, so it's for this reason." He shook his head disdainfully, "It's just a little bit of an attack."

Zhuobutai beside him also looked at the Ming army, and said in surprise, "Master Belle, the formation of these southern barbarians is a bit strange."

Azig also saw just now that the Ming army formed a long snake formation.Moreover, the middle part is extremely thin, there are probably only three rows of soldiers, but the phalanx on the two wings can be thicker, but it is only five rows.

He had read the military report sent by Jin Shenghuan to the imperial court before, and he mentioned this formation of the Southerners, saying that this formation was all based on firearms, and the salvo was extremely powerful.

But it's so thin, once it comes into battle, it will be broken instantly.Azige sneered, Nanman always relied heavily on firearms and lightly fought, but which time was it not easy to collapse?

He had seen [-] musketeers of the Ming army outside the pass, and they were in a ten-row formation. Wasn't it overwhelmed by Huang Ama's army in half a day?
Moreover, he never saw the shadow of the cannon in front of the Ming army.

He sneered again, these southerners did not know what method they used to rush from Yanping to Shanguan in ten days, but it seemed that they must have marched all the way in such a hurry that they couldn't even carry the cannon.

He glanced at the former army formed by Tulai and Tong Yangjia, there was a cannon between almost fifty gunners.He could almost imagine the scene of the Ming army being bombarded and running around after the war started.

"To Lord Belle," a blue-armored cavalry galloped forward, cupping his hands and said, "The front battle is over!"

Azig turned his head and glanced at Cao Cunxing's troops on the right, and saw that their formation was still quite chaotic, so he couldn't help frowning, these green battalion soldiers moved really slowly.

He waved his hand to a soldier beside him, "Order Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren to lead their troops to attack the enemy directly."

"Whoo!"

……

The formation of the Ming army was very simple. The main force of the infantry of the Dragon Guards stretched out a line more than two miles long across the middle of the battlefield.

The Polu Battalion was divided into two parts to line up the two wings of the Dragon Guard infantry, with fourteen rounds on each side, forming fourteen standard Morris square formations.Among them, the heavy blunderbuss team is in the center, and the medium and light blunderbuss are on both sides.

Although there were a large number of people in the Polu camp, because the Morris phalanx required five rows in front and back, the width of the formation was less than three miles after it was expanded.

But even so, the combined formation of the Polu Camp and the Dragon Guards is nearly five miles wide, which is more than one and a half miles wider than the 4-strong Qing army on the opposite side.This is because Zhu Linmei left an infantry battalion, a dragoon battalion, and two infantry bureaus of the Polu battalion as a reserve team, otherwise the width would have to increase by about half a mile.

The most obvious advantage of such a large frontal width is that it can form a semi-surrounding situation for the enemy. At this time, the two wings cross fire at the enemy, which can cause several times the lethality of the direct frontal fire.Of course, the premise is that the infantry formation will not be overwhelmed by the enemy.

The cavalry of the Dragon Guards and the Polu Battalion also temporarily lined up behind the infantry, waiting for a one-hit kill when the enemy showed a loophole, or to fill in the loopholes in the formation.

As for the artillery of the Dragon Guards, they were still on standby in the bushes half a mile away from the main force.On the other hand, more than 30 light and heavy cannons of the Polu Battalion were all lined up behind the infantry squares on the two wings and covered with tarpaulins.

(End of this chapter)