Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 208 The First Battle Between the New Army and the Eight Banners Army ([-])
"What's going on?" Through the binoculars, he suddenly saw an explosion in the cavalry formation that was attacking by his own side, and while Doduo's face changed slightly, his heart suddenly sank.

He didn't say anything, just stared at the battlefield.

The explosion continued, and some horses were also affected and became uncontrollable. Some soldiers were even thrown off by the horses.

But even so, without ordering a retreat, these Qing troops still did not flee and continued to fight back vigorously.

Only soldiers equipped with German weapons in the new army will be equipped with grenades, and in a battalion, the number of soldiers equipped with German weapons is less than one hundred percent, so the number of grenades is limited.

Before the last moment, Huang Hairu didn't want to use up all the grenades at once, so he immediately let the grenadiers retreat, and ordered the archers in the back row to start shooting back when the Qing army's formation was chaotic.

For this reason, he also transferred the archers of Xu Yong's department to the front, and some spearmen were also transferred to supplement the losses of the new army.

In the fierce battle just now, Xu Yong's troops were more of a bystander holding the formation. Except for some archers who participated in the battle, the other arms just kept the rear formation.

However, many soldiers saw the tragic battle and saw the huge damage done by the new army to the Qing army, so their fear of the Qing army subconsciously weakened a little.

Naturally, morale also improved a little.

Suddenly, with a "boom", a hole was broken in the shield formation, and several Qing troops seized the opportunity.

Heavy arrows shot in from the gap continuously, making it impossible for the new army to close the gap immediately.

"Boom..." Several Qing soldiers slashed fiercely at the shield with sabers in their hands.

The huge force caused the bodies of several shield soldiers to fall to one side, and even two of them couldn't even hold the shields in their hands, and the shields were directly chopped off.

"Kill, kill..." The Qing army rushed towards the gap like bloodthirsty beasts. The impact of the horses made the gap bigger and bigger, and the defense line might collapse at any time.

At this moment, a soldier of the new army turned his eyes fiercely, and each of them picked up an MG42 and roared: "Ah..."

"Chichichi..."

The 7.92mm caliber bullets raged crazily at close range. Suddenly, there were screams, blood rained, and a bloody world suddenly turned into a bloody world, like a Shura field.

The Qing army that was rushing through the gap turned their backs on their backs, and many of them were directly beaten into two pieces. Wounded and dead horses staggered and blocked the road.

The momentum of the Qing army, which was attacking frantically, was at a standstill, and the formation was also chaotic.

The "whoosh whoosh" arrows were shot very trickily and at an extremely fast speed. The soldier of the new army who was shooting wildly did not have time to react. Three heavy arrows were inserted into his chest, and he fell down weakly.

The roar of the machine gun stopped, but the offensive momentum of the Qing army was also interrupted, and the rest of the shield soldiers immediately joined together to block the gap.

However, as soon as this gap was blocked, another gap was broken not far away. The Qing army's attack was too fierce.

"Bang bang bang..." A soldier of the new army held up a submachine gun to suppress the enemy's crazy attack.

But the battle at this time was too chaotic. Although he caused a lot of casualties to the attacking Qing army, the suppression effect of the submachine gun was obviously much worse than that of the machine gun. A Qing army seized the opportunity and quickly shot an arrow.

At close range, the accuracy of the Qing army's arrows is extremely high, and they rarely miss.

Without the suppression of submachine guns, the Qing army quickly organized an attack, and the gap was widened.

"Swish, swish..." The arrows of both sides shot at each other at close range, and the soldiers fell down screaming one by one, which was extremely tragic.

Under Huang Hairu's order, Xu Yong immediately ordered a group of soldiers to come forward to support, hoping to drive the Qing army out and block the gap.

However, more soldiers from the Qing army also rushed in this direction. In terms of the quality of soldiers, even the new army was far behind the Qing army, let alone Xu Yong's soldiers.

Not only did they fail to drive the Qing army out, but they were killed for a while, and the formation was also chaotic.

"Boom boom boom..." The Qing army's horses charged wildly, and with the cooperation of the Qing army who entered from the gap, the shield formed by the new army finally couldn't hold on and was broken apart.

"Form formation..." the officers of the new army yelled, gave up the original defensive formation, and began to form small battle formations one by one.

This battle formation is an upgraded version of the mandarin duck formation, which strengthens the equipment of firearms. It is mainly composed of two shield soldiers, four spearmen, four musketeers and a captain, a total of 11 people.

The shield soldiers and musketeers are also equipped with Yanling swords, and the muskets used by the musketeers are short-barreled flintlock guns similar to pistols, which have a shorter range and less power than long-barreled ones, so they are more suitable for close combat.

The shield soldiers are mainly to defend against the enemy's attacks and cover their comrades. While the pikemen counterattack, they also create opportunities for the musketeers.

If it is divided into two teams, it can form two smaller combat units, which can be called the three-talented formation.

However, due to the rush of time and the chaos on the battlefield, only some soldiers successfully formed formations at the first time, some soldiers could not even find their own team, and some had to form formations with other comrades in a hurry.

Although the normal training of the new army is very strict, no matter how strict the training ground is, it is still very different from the battlefield.

The new army led by Huang Hairu is regarded as an old team. It has participated in the attack on Fujian and fought many times with Zheng Jun.

However, Zheng Jun's combat quality is naturally not comparable to that of the Eight Banners Army, and Zheng Jun is infantry, while the Eight Banners Army is mainly cavalry, and the fighting styles of the two sides are completely different.

Facing the vicious Eight Banners Army, even these veterans of the new army had a hard time coping. This was on the premise of having the advantage of weapons.

If there were no machine guns, rifles and other firearms to block the enemy, the front of the new army would have collapsed long ago.

But now that the two sides are in close combat, the firearms of the new army can't exert their original power, and the effect is greatly reduced. The situation is getting more and more unfavorable for the new army.

A cavalryman of the Qing army crazily urged his horse towards the nearest new army formation with a grinning grin. Even though it was one to ten, he didn't flinch at all, and launched an attack frantically.

Under the impact of the horse, with unparalleled momentum, the Yanling Saber fiercely slashed at the nearest soldier of the new army.

This soldier of the new army was a shield soldier. Although he was frightened by the momentum of the Qing army, he still didn't flinch and raised his shield in a hurry.

With a "boom", he only felt a huge force coming from the shield, and his body flew upside down involuntarily.

The momentum of the Qing army remained undiminished, and the Yanling Saber slashed horizontally, directly splitting the two long spears that were piercing it.

With two sounds of "bang bang", the two musketeers fired immediately, but the opponent's speed was too fast, and both shots missed.

(End of this chapter)