Hearing the dull sound of Spanish muskets firing, Nikan's face darkened again - this was an indiscriminate shooting! The Ming army was still a hundred steps away, and it was still late at night. He could only vaguely see the cold light rising and falling through the moonlight. Now he could fire

Can you beat it?

Seeing that Nikan was about to get angry, the "black man" quickly tried to dissuade him: "Your Majesty, let the people below be emboldened... Now the morale of the army is shaken and morale is low. If we don't make some movement, we are afraid that the soldiers will

Just coax them away!"

"This, this..." Nikan gritted his teeth, "Our Manchurian heavenly soldiers are so brave, how come we are in this situation?"

The "black man" shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, all the Manchurian heavenly soldiers in the past have been destroyed long ago. Today, those who are fighting are farmers from Guan who were lured by dozens of acres of land. What else can you expect?"

Nikan was speechless for a moment, and then felt that the man looked unfamiliar, so he asked: "You...who are you? Why do you talk like this?"

"The lower official, Duncan, is a subordinate of Old King Dingnan."

The old king of Dingnan was Kong Youde, and the Jia La named Deng turned out to be a remnant of the Kong family army. Nikan also remembered that when Duduo came out of the customs, he also transferred people from various Gushan in Zhenglv Banner, including

Kong Youde's subordinates were brought out of the pass by Kong Tingxun at that time. However, later Kong Youde killed himself in the Qing Dynasty by smashing his head with a brush and was killed in the Qing Dynasty. Kong Tingxun returned to the pass, and the troops he left outside the pass were annexed by Duduo.

Niulu was a unit and merged into the Zhenglan Banner Han Army. This Duncan was Niulu Zhangjing at the time, but he didn't expect that he had become a Jia La Zhangjing now.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter..." Nikan stamped his feet, "It's better to shoot indiscriminately than not to shoot at all. Let them be bolder!"

The group of old farmers under Nikana's command here have nothing to do. If they are pressed too hard, they are afraid that they will disperse! The young soldiers on the other side do not even frown and continue to walk towards the enemy at a walking speed.

Approaching - they did not set up any horizontal or square formations. It would be troublesome to maintain the formation during the night. And there is no need. They are not fighting in formation now, but attacking the enemy's camp.

, so we set up a relatively dense skirmish formation with companies as units.

But no matter how dense it is, it is still a skirmish formation, not a dense horizontal formation, which is comparable to a square formation. Therefore, 8,000 young soldiers put up a posture of 20,000 to 30,000 in the dark, which frightened the Qing army who did not know what was true.

Of course, Qin Mingtao's choice to launch an attack in a wide skirmish formation was not to scare people, but to prevent the attacking troops from being killed too much by the Qing's 3-pound cannon - the Qing's 6-pound cannon had already been destroyed.

It was almost there, but their 3-pounder guns never fired. They must be waiting for the Ming army's infantry to approach!

If they don't fire, they won't expose their targets, and the Ming army's 12-pound cannon won't be able to destroy them.

In addition, the use of skirmisher formations was also to lengthen the Qing army's key defensive fronts, increase the number of Ming army attacks, and prolong the Qing army's musket shooting time - the quality of the Qing army's muskets was uneven, and the quality of the gunners was also poor.

Once the fire is fired for a long time, there will definitely be a lot of mistakes. Either the gun will be fired out, or the gun will be used to explode the chamber...

Since it is a skirmishing formation, there is no concept of musket volleys. It is up to the soldiers themselves to decide when to fire. The superior officer can at most specify a rough distance.

Zhang Cheng knew that his vanguard battalion wanted to lure the enemy's 3-pounder guns into firing, so it could not fire too early. Because then the enemy would find themselves in a skirmish formation, and might not fire the cannons, but let the infantry fire.

He fought back. So he set the distance of the first fire at thirty or forty steps... But whether the people below can execute it all depends on their own consciousness.

As he got closer and closer to the Qing army's position, Zhang Cheng's heart was in his throat - if the Qing army's 3-pound cannon was placed in front of him, he would be martyred by that shell.

King of the country!

In addition, the musket fire on the Qing army's position in front was also very lively. There was a cloud of smoke and nothing could be seen. It was obvious that low-quality gunpowder with many impurities was used.

Suddenly, a particularly bright fire flashed out from the rising smoke ahead, followed by a deafening sound of cannon!

This should be a 3-pound bronze cannon firing, and the distance is very close, just a hundred steps away!

Needless to say, what came out must be shotgun!

Zhang Cheng could still hear the sound of the cannon and did not feel severe pain anywhere on his body, which meant that he was not shot. Since he was not shot, he had to launch a charge.

Now that the Ming infantry has approached the front line of the Qing army, the 12-pound cannons and 24-pound mortar guns in the rear have all stopped firing, and they cannot be used to suppress the Qing army's 3-pound cannon. Therefore, they have to rely on the troops rushing at the front.

The infantry used bayonets and flintlocks to kill those cannons!

Zhang Cheng turned his head hurriedly, wanting to give orders to the trumpeter following behind him, but did not find his figure. After searching again, he found that the seventeen or eighteen-year-old northwest boy had fallen to the ground and was motionless...

...I don’t know if he was killed by shotgun shells from the Qing army’s 3-pounder cannon?

"Guards! Charge!"

"The Guards...protect Daming and guard your father-in-law!"

Just when Zhang Cheng was distracted, the young soldiers under his command had already taken the initiative to charge - the enemy's 3-pound cannons were fired!

The sound of cannon is the order to charge!

Moreover, these young soldiers did not charge randomly, but rushed towards the Qing army's 3-pound cannon nearest them from all directions - they were really advancing towards the enemy's artillery fire!

A hundred-step sprint is almost like a race against death! If the Qing army's gunners finish loading again before they approach, they can gain a round of life. Otherwise, these young soldiers can seize these guns with bayonets and muskets.

Cannon!

Zhang Cheng stopped looking for a suona and charged along with his sword.

As these young soldiers got closer and closer to the Qing army's artillery array, some of them began to stop and raise their guns to shoot in the general direction of the Qing army's artillery. Because the smoke in front had not dissipated, they

There is no way to aim at the target, but they are not shooting randomly, but are interfering with the opponent's reloading... They can charge under artillery fire, but the enemy may not be able to reload under the rain of bullets.

I don’t know whether it was because the Qing army’s artillery skills were too poor or because they were disturbed by the shooting of young soldiers. Anyway, until the young soldiers rushed to the cannons more than 20 paces away, they did not fire again. At this time, in front of the Qing army’s formation,

The smoke has also dissipated, and the visibility has greatly improved - the reason for this is because most of the matchlocks that were fired randomly just now went mute, either because they were too hot to load, or they blew up their chambers, and some

Because the gunman was too nervous, he punched out all the bars...

Now that the firepower of the Qing army had been greatly reduced, the young men of the Ming army began to shoot accurately. Two to three hundred muskets were all aimed at the gunners who were busy loading the artillery. A burst of crackling guns turned the Qing army's artillery position into a

The place where corpses are buried!

After killing most of the Qing artillery, these young soldiers did not retreat or waste any more time reloading. Instead, they continued to charge with rifles with bayonets attached!

This frightened the musketeers who were leaning on the parapets and shooting at the front of the Qing army. Although they were equipped with sleeved bayonets, they had not received any stabbing training, nor did they have the awareness to fight hand-to-hand with their opponents - according to the standard

In the Spanish phalanx tactics, hand-to-hand combat is the job of the pikemen and sword-and-shielders! How can the musketeers fight hand-to-hand? If the musketeers even do the hand-to-hand work, what are the pikemen, sword-and-shielders to do?

So this group of musketeers stood up and retreated, running towards the pikemen who had formed a square formation in the rear. As they ran, they "ceded" the breastwork they had worked so hard to build to the charging Ming army, and at the same time gave up

There were 6 3-pounder guns that fired only one shot!

Nikan, who was supervising the battle behind the formation, was so angry that he almost jumped when he saw this scene - what kind of battle was it! He worked hard to build a position during the day, and let people take it with a single charge. He also took 6 artillery pieces.

They were taken away! He only had 18 cannons in total. Now the 6 6-pound cannons were all muted and the 6 3-pound cannons were taken away. How could he fight the next battle?
Chapter completed!