The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 435 The Different Ming Army
Naturally, Liu Guoxuan would not allow the enemy troops to form an formation in a leisurely manner. The soldiers of the Ming army had already finished filling the flintlocks in two or three strokes. He immediately gave an order, "Aim!"

"put!"

The sound of thunder-like guns rang out, and blood fog immediately rose from the chaotic North Korean army formation, and even several teams shrank back screaming.

However, the firepower density of the Ming army was not enough, and there were still seven or eight hundred North Korean former troops barely setting up their positions at a distance of more than 50 steps.As the officers of Cui Nanzheng ordered to shoot, feathered arrows and lead bullets shot at the Ming army one after another.

Fortunately, the guards of Zheng Chenggong, Liu Guoxuan and others were still wearing cotton armor. These more than a hundred people were all at the front of the battle, blocking most of the bow and gun fire.

North Korea's firecrackers originated from Japan, but they tried their best to save materials, so the bullets cost less than two and a half cents, so they had to go up to fifty paces before firing.The infantry of the Daming Navy mostly carried out the mission of attacking the enemy's rear. Zhu Linmi specially ordered the Ordnance Bureau to make a batch of cotton armor for them. The inner armor was made of high-quality spring steel produced by Longnan.

Under the ebb and flow, although many Ming soldiers were shot, only two or three were injured, and the rest were safe and sound.As for those arrows, since the Ming soldiers who landed wore helmets, they had almost no effect.

Rao Cui Nanzheng has more than twice as many troops as the Ming army, but their shooting speed is also twice as slow as that of the Ming army, and the power of firearms, armor, military discipline, and morale are far worse.

In addition, the Ming army always fired in a tight formation, and their shooting skills were much higher than those of the North Korean soldiers who could not fire ten shots in their lifetime. Therefore, the two sides fired at each other for several rounds. Collapsed with casualties.

On the other hand, in the infantry line of the Ming army, although more than a dozen people fell down, someone would immediately come up to pick up their weapons to fill the gaps, and the overall formation remained standing.

Cui Nanzheng saw that the front team not only failed to open up the situation for a long time, but also faintly showed signs of retreating, so he cursed angrily, led the [-] rear troops to press forward, and cut down more than a dozen escaped soldiers in a row, ordering his subordinates to gather the defeated soldiers move forward together.

As Cui Nanzheng went into battle in person, more than 500 enemy soldiers had gathered on the opposite side of the Ming army. Bows and blunderbusses suddenly became denser, and from time to time, naval infantry soldiers were injured and fell to the ground.

Liu Guoxuan turned his head and glanced at the sea. The small boat carrying the reinforcements was still two or three hundred steps away from the shore. Although everyone was paddling desperately, it was obviously still a while before they landed.

Another unarmored soldier in front of him was shot in the thigh by an arrow, and immediately lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground sideways.

He was very anxious in his heart, if he continued with this posture and waited for the reinforcements to come ashore, even if he could hold the battle line without being defeated, he would definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

When he raised his eyes, he saw a big banner swaying in the wind in the distance. He couldn't help but clenched his saber tightly, pointed at the banner and said loudly: "The order, the firecrackers will be handed over to those who are not armored. Follow me with a knife and take the enemy general!"

"Yes!"

The Ming army's formation was adjusted extremely quickly. It only took the enemy army to reload ammunition once, and more than 100 soldiers gathered beside Liu Guoxuan.He ordered nearly a hundred soldiers who didn't hold guns, and ordered them to follow behind the others, and then he pointed forward with his knife and roared, "Kill!" He took the lead and rushed out.

The more than 200 Ming troops immediately followed him and shouted in unison, "Kill!" With a single sword in his hand, he directly attacked the enemy's formation in the north.

Liu Guoxuan chose the timing very cleverly. Just as the Korean soldiers in front of him let go of a round of guns and were pouring gunpowder into the barrels, they heard the thunderous shouts of the Ming army, and a group of troops rushed towards them like beasts.

There were three to four hundred soldiers directly in front of Ju Cui Nan, but they had never seen such momentum before. Before the Ming army rushed to the front, these people carried forward the tradition of the Korean army - turned around and fled.

In fact, Liu Guoxuan didn't know that the North Korean soldiers were not good at melee combat, he just wanted to surprise the enemy to buy time for the reinforcements, but he didn't think that his two hundred or so soldiers were as straight as a knife cutting tofu, cutting the enemy line into two sections in an instant.

He hardly met decent resistance along the way, and after a while he could already see the generals standing under the banner of the enemy army.

Cui Nanzheng broke out in a cold sweat, and said to himself that the Ming army was exhausted and weak, but how could these people be as fierce as wild beasts? !

He hastily ordered his subordinates: "Hurry up, send people to surround them!" After leaving behind his confidant officers, he hurriedly retreated northward.

Liu Guoxuan charged forward again, and the troops who were facing Cui Nanzheng immediately rushed to shoot. The Ming army had to adjust their formation and let the unarmored soldiers back.

Even after such a short delay, thousands of North Korean soldiers surrounded them, still stopped dozens of paces away as usual, and began to form formation.

Zheng Chenggong saw that the enemy's central army kept retreating, but the two wings surrounded the middle. He immediately realized that Liu Guoxuan was located, and hurriedly ordered: "The infantry line moves forward ten steps."

"aim!"

"put!"

"Ten steps forward..."

Liu Guoxuan glanced at the enemy troops around him, chose a relatively weak position, and said loudly: "Keep in formation! Fight out with me!"

"Yes!"

"kill--"

However, due to the large difference in numbers between the two sides, they had just engaged in battle with the enemy on the east side, but they were unaware that bows and blunderbuss were coming from several other directions, and even a dozen people were injured and fell down.

Liu Guoxuan's eyes were blood red, and the saber in his hand was flying up and down, invincible to those who stand in his way, but he has less than 200 men under his command, and it is difficult to kill through many enemy formations in an instant.

He saw the soldiers around him being shot by the enemy, and felt his wrists go numb, knowing that his physical strength was running low.He couldn't help sighing in his heart, is my life going to stay here?It's a pity that we can't see the day when the north will drive away the thieves and the country will be restored...

At this moment, they suddenly heard a large roar on the south side, and Cui Nanzheng's troops were stunned for a moment, and then the commotion immediately spread throughout the entire army formation.

"Cannons! The Ming army has cannons!"

"Run, the enemy has come ashore with cannon!"

"I'm afraid there are dozens of cannons listening to the movement, run away..."

It was the reinforcements of the Ming army that had already landed.They carried improved tiger squat guns, and set them on the pier to bombard the enemy.

These guns were redesigned by Zhu Linmi, and many defects of the original tiger crouching guns were corrected.For example, the muzzle no longer expands outwards to reduce air leakage loss; the gun body gradually becomes thinner forward to reduce unnecessary weight; it is cast in bronze, which is thinner than the iron cast gun body.

The weight of the new cannon has been reduced to less than fifty catties, but the range and power of the gun have been slightly improved.Coupled with a movable bracket that can be adjusted in height, it is simply a seventeenth-century version of a mortar.

In fact, the reinforcements only brought five new tiger squat guns ashore, but they carried a sharp weapon that was forgotten by the Dragon Guards—the Thunderbolt, which is the "fragmentation grenade" improved by Zhu Linmi when she was in Longnan.

(End of this chapter)