Chapter 42: Halfway through the attack
On the banks of Lingxi, the Nantang Camp of the Ming Army in Zhejiang and the elite Zhejiang-Fuzhou Governor General Battalion of the Qing Army in the southeast were fighting with all their might. Since the front rows of soldiers on both sides were composed of spearmen, the long-time Ming Army player and the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing Army, the sprinting became the only theme on the battlefield.
Unlike the Ming army commander who mainly focused on protecting the soldiers in the rear and pushing the battle formation forward since the formation of the army, the Qing army's sword and shield soldiers were originally warriors in the army, and their mission on the battlefield was to destroy the strong and trap the formation, rather than providing protection for the spearmen like now.
However, this Ming army was completely different from other troops on this continent during the same period. It was not only because of the mandarin duck formation they used, but more importantly, the army had begun to continue moving along this road. Therefore, the Qing army, as the opponent, could only change with changes, but in this way, it lost the familiar routine that was originally used to defeat the opponent, and could only rely on the most primitive numerical advantage of [Pig][Tiu Island] novel to overwhelm it.
However, for the Ming army, the gap between the forces between the two sides was too big. If it weren't for the terrain of the west coast of the landing point with hidden and narrow river channels, which was not conducive to the deployment of the army or the encirclement, the current situation would have been worse.
But at this moment, the Qing army's military strength far exceeded the Ming army's strength that crossed Lingxi, and even reached a numerical advantage of more than twice. However, even if the training is more stringent, the physical strength of a person is ultimately limited. Once the physical strength is exhausted, the reaction will inevitably be affected. Then the difference between life and death on the ever-changing battlefield is the difference.
From the beginning, the Ming army achieved a very good exchange ratio by relying on the training effects achieved by modern military training in the military camp. However, as the battle continued, the Qing soldiers who had been through battle formations gradually adapted to the attack methods and rhythm of the Ming army, and the exchange ratio gradually decreased. Although it was shown that the army still maintained its advantage, the gap between the two sides was too big. If there was no final decision to end the battle as soon as possible, who would know what would happen in the next second!
Looking at the battlefield where the sound of killing sounds shook the sky, as the main general of this partial division, Li Ruixin was already anxious. Although he was not driven to the riverside by the Qing army at once by the geographical advantage, the Ming army's crossing speed was too slow. He could not concentrate all his strength to fight the Qing army from the beginning, so he could only continue to waste it.
However, as the battle continued, the Ming army's physical energy consumption began to affect the execution of tactical actions. Although I don't know that the exchange was still advantageous than the Ming army, as the longest-time cavalry general in the Ming army, I had already smelled some bad smell.
The battle formation designed by Chen Wen, which is composed of the spear formation and the mandarin duck formation, still maintains the style of the mandarin duck formation that emphasizes the offensive style in both offense and defense. As expected, when the Ming army was in a stalemate with the Qing army, the killer team of the Yuanyang formation between each team should attack the Qing army to disrupt the rhythm of the Qing army's defense. While the Yuanyang formation was advancing, the spear formation could also use this short gap to adjust the formation to continue the attack.
However, now, since the Ming army was still transporting the landing point behind, the army did not dare to move lightly, for fear that it would be detoured by the Qing army's cavalry. In this way, almost half of the power could not be guaranteed, and it was not easy to defeat the Qing army easily.
Looking back, I glanced at the landing site. It seemed that what he wanted had been transported, but because it was too heavy. The Ming army's boat and bamboo raft could not afford it, so I had to dismantle it and transport it, and it seemed that it was being reassembled at this moment.
"You guys are so quick!"
There is no way to continue waiting. If this formation does not move, the front row of the spear formation killers will sooner or later collapse on their own and will have no chance to turn the tables.
As the flag was pressed forward, the rhythm of the war drum suddenly changed. The killer team of the Yuanyang Formation, which always maintained a defensive posture, shouted "tiger", immediately formed a front-line pressure, and quickly crossed the line of the spear formation, relying on the waving of the wolf silhouette to quickly suppress the Qing army in front of them. However, this suppression ended here. The other weapons of the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation were too short. They could not compare with those spears. They almost just completed the formation change and fell into passive again.
But at this moment, the soldiers of the firearms team who were fighting in mixed battles with the killer team of Yuanyang Formation appeared one after another with the loaded Lumi guns and bird guns that had just been unfolded but still existed. After opening the fire door cover, the soldiers aimed at the Qing army in front of them and pulled the gun without hesitation.
There were too few musketeers in the Ming army, and the distance between the two teams was too short to provide a reasonable distance for these mesh guns. However, when the Ming army's shooting sounded, the Qing army, which had already relied on the longer weapons to suppress the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation, immediately had a strange phenomenon of lying down to the last of the people at each distance.
Whether it is the bird gun or the Lumi gun in the Ming army's musket, they are essentially front-mounted smoothbore guns. Not only is the range limited, but the accuracy of shooting is unbearable to look at Chen Wen. However, at this moment, the distance between the Ming army and the Qing army is only a few meters, almost hitting it with a face. If this is not possible, the craft would be too trendy.
Although compared to the front row battle formation of the Qing army, several people were shot at every distance, and most of them were not shot to death, it was nothing, but the Ming army's tactics were unheard of, and instead they beat the Qing army who saw all this at once.
However, this was not over yet. Before the Qing army was shot by the Ming army's musketeers, they could retreat to the formation, but saw that the musketeers who had just completed the shooting did not stand on the spot, but immediately hid behind the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation. At this time, the killer team of the long spear, which was still in place, immediately flattened the spear and pressed up with firm steps. However, the Qing army battle formation in front of them had a gap of large or small due to the Ming army's musketeers shooting.
Keeping a front line with other teams, the Qing army, with a heavy formation, quickly stabilized the battle formation again under the reprimand of the officers and the intimidation of the supervision team. But at this moment, the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team, which was in a state of assisting in defense between the Ming army's spear formation killer team, rushed up again...
Relying on the new tactics, the Ming army, whose troops were at an absolute disadvantage, began to advance step by step, and once suppressed the Qing army's governor's battalion, which had farther than its own. However, as the attack unfolded, the Ming army heading north was getting farther and farther away from the Lingxi River channel from southwest to northeast, and soon a section of empty space with insufficient troops was vacant.
Seeing that the Ming army had left the stuck road, the Zuoying Camp in front of him immediately drew a garrison to press it up. However, before he could command the soldiers under his command to go far, a burst of exclamations immediately appeared on the front of the Qing army formation.
The Ming army attacked several times alternately, and the Qing army gradually found the rules. The officers with experienced battlefield experience immediately began to order their soldiers to concentrate their strength to attack the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team that came out, because compared with the relatively dense long spear formation Killer Team, their weapons were more lethal when facing the Yuanyang Formation.
The time before the mandarin duck formation is very short, but every step forward has to move forward hard in a passive situation of being beaten. It often leads to casualties.
As this continues, the Ming army, which is becoming increasingly tired, will not last long. However, when the Ming army's spear formation protrudes again, the two killer teams in the middle of the battlefield suddenly dispersed, leaving behind the things that were just remembering the creaking sounds.
Folang machine cannon!
The black hole-like muzzle continued to advance with the Ming army gunners, and the long-drawn player who approached the front row of the Ming army's spear formation stopped.
The cold and dark gun mouth extended out, and the Qing army, who saw their beauty, stood there in a fright. But the next second, the Ming army's loading hand lifted the sub-gun of the Folang machine cannon and inserted it directly on the mother gun. The entire cannon formed a whole. After the loading hand was loaded, the cannon leader gave the order, and the gunner holding the torch pressed the torch on the fuse.
The moment the fuse was ignited, it immediately made a "snake" sound like a snake letter. After hearing the sound, the spear arrays on both sides could not help but shifted to the side a little, as if they could stay away from this monster who chose to devour. However, before they could move two steps, the two Folang machine cannons made deafening roars one after another.
As the captain of the Fourth Infantry Team of the Armored Sent, Luo Yongzhong always approached the soldiers under his command to fight. When the Folang machine cannon near him opened fire, he saw the flames and smoke. The shells passed a afterimage at a speed that was difficult to recognize with the naked eye and rushed into the Qing army's battle formation.
Driven by the gas and energy generated by the instant black gunpowder burning, the shells unstoppably pierced the Qing army in the first row, revealing their colorful intestines. Then they passed through the second Qing army at the same speed, and until they hit the entire battle formation, they landed more than ten meters behind the formation, stirring up a piece of soil and smashed a bullet crater.
From the first one being penetrated by the lower abdomen to the point where the injured part was getting higher and higher, even the head of Zhang Guoxun, who was standing at the end, was blooming, and a piece of red and white spurted out. Until then, the Qing army with fear and incredible eyes fell to the ground one after another.
At the same time, the same scene was staged in front of another tiger squatting cannon...
With a shot of power, a flesh-and-blood alley was penetrated into the Qing army's formation. Seeing such a scene, Luo Yongzhong, who had joined the army since the first year of Hongguang, has been fighting for many battles, only felt that he had already digested his appetite, and the sour water surged up along the esophagus, and it was not until the moment he was about to vomit.
He is the captain of our team and will definitely not be able to afford to lose this face.
But at this moment, the other soldiers who saw this scene didn't care about this. Even though they had killed people on the battlefield and received rewards with the merit of beheading, they saw a series of Qing army's bodies being shot out one after another by shells, and looked at the wounds that were emitting black smoke and burnt smells, and the degree of nausea was far from comparable to that of cold weapons, especially the distance was still so close!
For a moment, the vomiting of the Ming army on the battlefield contrasted with the stupidity of the Qing army. But who knew that the sound of the Qing army falling to the ground, which was bombarded by the first artillery, had just heard the sound of the Ming army falling to the ground, but the two Fran machine cannons of the Ming army opened fire again.
Since there was no time to reset after the last shot was fired, Luo Yongzhong saw that the gun rushed to the Qing army crowd sharply. After taking away the left hand of the first Qing army, he wiped the abdomen of the second Qing army and passed through the third Qing army's ribs, and directly brought the Qing army to the ground. Then, it seemed that due to the insufficient amount of gunpowder in the sub-gun, he began to receive the impression of gravity when he penetrated the second Qing army obliquely. He gradually fell down until the right calf of the last Qing army broke and slowly rolled to the foot of a supervisor team, smearing the blood, flesh, internal organ fragments and some unknown things wrapped on the toes of the supervisor team's shoes.
A moment later, the supervisory team made a scream that had never been seen before. Accompanied by this scream, the Qing army, who had recovered from consciousness, fled backwards in a panic while making unknown shouts, and the sound of the Ming army's third sub-gun loading, igniting and firing...
The field capabilities of this Ming army had once touched the long-standing veterans of the Superbiao Camp last year. At that time, they could still complain that the pig-like teammates of the Green Camp in the Four Mansions did not persist for a while and were defeated by this Nantang Camp first, which led to the defeat.
However, during this battle, the Ming army's field combat capability seemed to be even better than last year. It really suffered a lot.
It would be fine if it was just like this. Although the Qing army had only the Superior Battalion this time, its troops were far more than the Nantang Camp, which was still crossing the river. It was only a matter of time before they could be crushed. With this idea, the soldiers of the Qing army persisted with the inspiration of the officers and the intimidation of the Superior Team's retreat and death.
However, when the tiger squat cannon carrying a sub-gun approached the shooting at an unimaginable speed, it was as if a thick log was pressed against a camel that only requires a few ears of wheat. After being completely stunned for a moment, the fighting will begin to collapse and collapse. After all, this thing is not something that normal humans can withstand. Who knows whether the target of the next shot is them.
With the repeated fires of the Ming army's Fran machine cannons, more and more Qing troops began to flee backwards. Once collapsed, once they appeared on the battlefield, they would be infected like the fastest-spreading infectious disease. Everyone has selfish intentions. When everyone else turns around and flees, those who stayed will face more enemies and are unable to survive.
Seeing that the sixteen sub-guns carried by the Ming army had not yet been used up, the Qing army collapsed first. As the flag was pressed, the war drums sounded again. As soon as the general attack order was issued, the Ming army rushed up immediately after the tiger roared, chasing the Qing army tightly, and driven the Qing army to flee under the command of the flag and drums, killing all the wounded soldiers encountered along the way and the Qing army who were trying to resist.
At this moment, there was no time to consider how many shells the two Folang machine cannons behind him had. He did not care that the Ming army's troops were still at an absolute disadvantage. The Qing army, the two battalions of the Dubiao Left Camp and the Dubiao Right Camp, fled north under the Ming army's drive, and in an instant, they would defeat the Dubiao Middle Camp, which was left behind as a reserve team, and fled together.
After chasing for several miles, the Ming army in the brigade gave up the pursuit. After the Ming army on the east bank completely completed its landing, it immediately went north along Lingxi to meet with the main force of the Ming army.
The next morning, the messenger arrived at the Ming army camp in Longyou Town. After learning the general situation, Chen Wen ordered the entire army to pass through the Lingxi defense line, which was empty due to the news of the defeat of the Super Biao Camp.
However, at this moment, he did not make any effort to continue chasing the direction of retreating from the Dubiao Battalion. There was a Dingyang River between Lingxi and Quzhou Prefecture, which was a big problem for the Jinhua Ming army, which had almost no ability to fight. Now, instead of forcing Dingyang River to cross Dingyang River, it is better to attack Longyou County as soon as possible. While opening up the waterway and ensuring the safety of the rear road, you can also meet that old friend who has never been masked - the General Jinhua Army, known as the "Boy of Spreading Money", who is famous for his "Boy of Spreading Money", to join the treasure.
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A few days later, while the main force of the Ming army besieged Longyou County, Luo Chengyan, in the southern part of Dongyang County, had previously met with Yu Guowang, several rebel leaders from Zhou Qingui fell to Lu Wenlong, the envoy of Zhejiang Governor Cao Conglong, the chief clerk of Jinhua County. He listened to the official's wish to read Cao Conglong's title on behalf of the Lujian court.
At the end of last year, under the contact of Yu Guowang, Chen Wen held a banquet in Zhou Qingui's hometown Yufeng Yuanli with the power of victory to discuss the inclusion with him.
Luo Chengyan originally had more than 500 rebels, including many young and old. Later, as the Ming army occupied Jinhua Prefecture, people continued to go down the mountain to return to their hometown to farm. When Chen Wen tried to recruit Luo Chengyan's rebel army, there were only more than 400 people left in his troops. In order to appease this rebel army that had persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty for decades in history, Chen Wen took out an official position in Jinhua Town to recruit these rebel leaders. Among them, Zhou Qingui, the leader, could even get the military position of the general, and existed as Chen Wen's direct military general.
Previously, Chen Guobao brought a brigade of cavalry to surrender, and Chen Wen only took out a general. Although this was the same as the army that had come back as the Ming army in Dalanshan, it was not easy for Chen Wen, who had just become the general of Dalanshan at that time.
However, the generals, guerrillas, and garrisons, Qian Zong did not successfully convince Luo Chengyan and others. When a rebel leader named He Decheng and other rebels were given the excuse that they were old qualifications in Jinhua Prefecture to fight against the Qing rebels, and asked Chen Wen to grant Zhou Qingui's position as the general and not interfering in military affairs, he was willing to serve as the chief of the Lu State. The inclusion negotiations were completely defeated by the generals of Luo Chengyan.
As the meeting ended unhappily, Chen Wen surrounded Luo Chengyan again. Until this time, Lu Wenlong came to recruit him in the name of Cao Conglong, and the troops stationed near him did not withdraw their defenses.
At this moment, after the appointment letter of Cao Conglong granted Zhou Qingui to be the general of the Zhejiang Governor Biao Battalion, Zhou Qingui and others of Luo Chengyan Yijun nominally became Cao Conglong's direct subordinates, and even Chen Wen had no right to command them in terms of law. However, what Lu Wenlong brought was only an appointment letter and silver rewards, official uniforms, weapons, armor, food, etc., but they were still not in place.
Chapter completed!