Chapter 280 The sword points at Japan (Yuanba) to destroy everything
After just one rocket salvo, the Korean army on the southern front collapsed inexplicably. This result was not only unacceptable to Quan Li, but even Zhang Wanbang was a little confused.
Zhang Canrong was shocked that he could fit an egg into his mouth. Then he scratched his scalp and asked the people around him: "Tell me, the Korean army looks like this... is it possible that they are feigning defeat to lure the enemy?"
As he spoke, he was also good at gesticulating with his hands, and said: "Do you remember that among the enemies I have fought, the only one who was so weak was when I was sixteen years old and followed my father to pacify the refugees in northern Shaanxi.
That year, a locust plague followed a drought, and the refugees in four or five counties had no food to eat. They first surrounded Qingyang, scaring the King of Qing and asking for help everywhere. Later, I followed my father to rescue him. The refugees did not dare to fight, so they let Qingyang go north.
We robbed Huanxian County. We chased Huanxian County again. My father said that these people were actually hard-working people and there was no need to kill them, so he only fired one round of artillery fire at them.
Hey, guess what? After one round of artillery fire, the 20,000 refugees were so frightened that they all dispersed. They were exactly the same as today's North Korean troops... The trouble later was that the prisoners were about to vomit.
! Damn it, we only had more than a thousand soldiers at that time!"
An older servant leader next to him smiled bitterly and said: "I thought that the Korean army had obtained a lot of weapons and firearms, and with the guidance of Mao Canrong (Mao Guoqi), they should have made some progress. Who knows... Alas, no wonder the Japanese pirates attacked twice
When they invaded North Korea, the North Korean troops were beaten to the point of running away twice.
Soldiers like this have no military discipline. They panic when something happens, and the officers don't know how to immediately suppress and stabilize the position. They are really rotten to the bones. They can't be called an army. With such things, the Koreans still call them elite.
, that old slave really doesn’t know what an ordinary North Korean army looks like.”
Zhang Wanbang waved his hand and was about to speak when suddenly a messenger came to report that the Second Association and the Union had applied to take the initiative.
Taking the initiative to attack means the disintegration of the hollow phalanx, and it is impossible for a co-union to be unclear about the meaning of the hollow phalanx. Since it is clear, the second association co-president still applies to take the initiative, it can only be said that the second association co-president believes that the opponent's combat effectiveness is too poor
, there is no need to set up a hollow square array, just go up and blow it up and you're done.
The leader of the Second Association is Zhang Sixiao, who was born in the Zhang family, but he worshiped Zhang Wanbang's father as his adoptive father, and he and Zhang Wanbang are usually brothers. He is seven or eight years older than Zhang Wanbang, and he can be said to have experienced many battles.
, he was originally one of Zhang Wanbang's right-hand men left to him by his father, and his judgment ability on the battlefield was quite outstanding.
Now that Zhang Sixiao said this, Zhang Wanbang had to take it seriously. This guy was always timid. He picked up the telescope and looked left and right. In the middle, he put away the telescope and extended his fingers to make two gestures, as if to judge the distance.
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Not long after, Zhang Wanbang stood up suddenly, jumped off the Chinese military command platform, and loudly shouted: "The second and third battalions of the Second Association are allowed to attack, and they are asked to drive the Korean army on the southern line north! The first battalion waited for an opportunity to attack, along the
The inner line moves northward to threaten the Korean left wing."
When he said this, the soldiers on the southern front sent orders and left. Zhang Wanbang continued: "The self-propelled sidecars of the 1st and 3rd Battalions on the eastern front are oppressing the Korean army's positions on the eastern front. If they resist, the 1st and 3rd Battalions will stop advancing.
, just shoot from behind the side car.
We will not fire artillery or rockets from the front of the eastern front until the North Korean army on the southern front is also suppressed, and then attack them with artillery and rockets along with the North Korean army on the eastern front, but we must avoid accidental damage."
Zhang Wanbang is indeed a very brave man. His arrangement is a bit like changing the formation from the word "kou" to the word "ji", and the curved hook needs to be lengthened, so that the "vertical curved hook" becomes a
The sharp blade that outflanks and squeezes the east and south routes of the North Korean Army.
The problem is that his military strength is far inferior to that of the North Korean army on the southeastern and southeastern fronts. Rather than outflanking or not outflanking, it is better to say that he treats the North Korean army as a refugee army, which is a "sheep herding" type of combat.
But this was not all he had in mind. Soon he gave orders to the Western Front, basically copying the "sweeping" style of the Southern Front, and asked the Western Front to go straight north to level the front. There was no doubt that he was preparing for a full-scale attack.
At the same time, Quan Li finally responded. Quan Li personally arranged for some soldiers to be sent to the Eastern Front as a supervisory team to prevent the Eastern Front from collapsing inexplicably like the Southern Front. At the same time, because the previous plan had already
Unable to achieve this, we simply planned to put the main force on the northern front into combat mode and start attacking southward.
The mentality of the North Korean army has changed several times: when they first heard that they were going to confront the Ming army, everyone was thinking about fetching water from 15 buckets - they were up and down, not knowing what the future would be like;
It was discovered that there were only more than 3,000 Ming troops in the hills of Songquan Cave. Everyone was relieved, and their morale suddenly became high, with the momentum of "defeating Zhang Wanbang and taking Han Yangjing lightly";
When they came down the mountain, the rear column of the North Korean army was greeted by a minefield, and two to three hundred men were killed on the spot. Although the loss was only one hundred and one in the total force, they were hit without even seeing the opponent's figure. Secondly, the explosion
The power is really amazing, so the blow to morale is not small;
The next step is the collapse of the southern front. It is clear that the North Korean army has nearly 10,000 troops on the southern front, and although the enemy in front of them can see that they have sufficient firearms, the number is too small after all, less than a thousand at most, maybe
It's only about 800. No matter how you look at it, you should be able to win by launching an attack casually.
Unexpectedly, the Ming army only launched a rocket salvo and was still on the march. The North Korean army was stunned on the spot before it could take up its position.
This round of rocket salvo by the Ming army was really like "a sudden spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear trees blooming", the effect was like boiling soup pouring snow. Not to mention that the North Korean army could not continue to move forward and prepare to set up their formation, they even made chaos on the spot.
They formed a group, and everyone seemed to be running around, hoping to avoid the rockets coming from the sky.
In fact, the accuracy of rockets in this era is very low, and it is completely impossible to hit anywhere. The Ming army itself can only try to control the landing point in one area, and it is a weapon that relies entirely on coverage strikes to be more effective.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition, in this era, there is no mechanized operation such as automatic loading. After a round of shooting, the rockets need to be loaded into the rocket launch vehicle one by one.
.However, because the rocket car only has two operators, it obviously takes a long time to load 81 rockets. Therefore, in addition to defending the city, this weapon can basically be regarded as a disposable weapon unless you encounter a fool in the field——
After playing one wave, you have to wait for a long time before the next wave comes.
However, the stunned North Korean army did not think so much. They only knew that they were badly beaten by this round of rockets. Although no one knew the exact amount of losses they suffered, everyone knew that they could not withstand another wave.
Such an attack, so they subconsciously think... they have lost and must run!
In fact, Zhang Wanbang knew that the North Korean army only looked miserable, but in fact it may not have actually suffered serious losses. This was determined by the true lethality of the current rockets.
The current rockets do not have strong explosive power. It is a daydream to expect how many people the explosion can injure - how powerful can an arm-thick black powder explosion be?
Directly hitting a person's chest and exploding on the spot might kill that person, but there were only about 400 rockets that actually hit the crowd of North Korean soldiers just now, so theoretically, at most, about 400 people were directly killed on the spot.
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Yes, the flying pottery shards produced by the explosion can definitely cause damage, but the "elite Korean army" on the opposite side is wearing armor. Although the quality of the armor Ji Liao clears out of stock is really average, but no matter what
Generally speaking, it can always play some role, at least it can have good defense in important parts such as the chest and abdomen.
The pottery fragments produced by the explosion only rely on the explosion of black gunpowder as kinetic energy. If the opponent is unarmored, it is quite effective, but if the opponent is wearing armor, it will be difficult. Only the neck and face are the sure-kill areas. Other places
Including the limbs, it can generally only cause injuries, and even disability is difficult to achieve.
Under this situation, Zhang Wanbang was very clear about the actual damage caused by the rocket offensive just now - the number of people killed or seriously injured was no more than a thousand people, and there may be a lot of minor injuries left, but it would not actually result in combat effectiveness.
loss.
Of course, the second half of this sentence is useful when it comes to the Ming army, but it may not necessarily apply to the Korean army, because the Ming army who came to fight in North Korea were almost all elites, and the Korean army... Well, according to the pragmatic standards of Nanning Hou Gao, they said they
Even the military is a bit reluctant.
For the Ming army elites, who mostly came from the towns of Jiubian, minor injuries, such as a cut on the arm, were not taken seriously at all.
After the highly pragmatic military reform, the benefits of the nine sides have been greatly improved. Not only the equipment has been standardized, but other equipment has also been standardized.
For example, based on the recommendations of the Medical Department of the Jinghua Artisan School, the Ming army's simple battlefield medical treatment was improved. They all carried ten pieces of gauze in the sheepskin bags around their waists, as well as a small bottle of "Baobao Dan" (similar to the old Yunnan Baiyao, divided into two
portion, powder and one insurance pill).
If the injuries during the war were not serious, the soldiers of the Ming army could first take some Baibao Dan themselves, then pull out a piece of gauze and wrap it around them. This would be considered an emergency stoppage of bleeding.
There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that if it is related to Qi, use ginseng, and if it is related to blood, use Panax notoginseng. The main ingredient of Bai Bao Dan is Panax notoginseng. For injuries such as stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis, Panax notoginseng is a miracle.
This is also the reason why the army of the Red Dynasty held Yunnan Baiyao on the altar - it was proven to be really effective through countless cruel battlefields.
But if the elite of the Ming army could not take a minor injury as a big deal, the Korean army obviously could not do it. If Gao Pragmatic could see the performance of this army with his own eyes, he would evaluate their level as even worse than the Qing army in the Battle of Baliqiao.
At least, although the Qing army in the Battle of Baliqiao was defeated many times by the British and French forces, they were able to regroup after retreating, and then launched another attack. The whole battle lasted for about eight hours. This is North Korea's point.
It seemed that the army couldn't do it at all, and they actually collapsed on the spot.
[Note: The Battle of Baliqiao was actually a series of battles. The mainstream assessment of later generations believed that the actual battle lasted about eight hours and was not a charge to the death and the entire army was annihilated on the spot.]
However, one thing is very similar between these two battles, that is, although the feudal army with cold weapons faced a firearm-based army, although it seemed to be defeated miserably, in fact, the direct losses suffered on the battlefield were not significant.
The Battle of Baliqiao was exaggerated in later generations to say that the entire Qing army died in the battle. This is nonsense. A large part of the reason comes from the fact that some witnesses in the British and French allied forces wrote their own experiences in the style of "recording legends".
You must know that Europeans have always been internally afraid of the "Eastern Tatar Cavalry" because of the two tragic histories of Attila's Hunnic army sweeping across Europe, and the later Mongol Western Expeditions that defeated the European coalition forces.
. When they defeated the so-called "Main Manchu and Mongolian forces" of the Qing Dynasty, their inner feelings could be described as elated, overthrowing thousands of years of fear.
Such a mentality made various records full of "legendary feeling". In order to prove that it was not easy to win, they forcibly exaggerated the bravery of the Qing army, and even wrote that the entire army died in battle.
In fact? Later studies found that the direct battle losses of the Qing army were only about 1,200, which accounted for only 4% of the total force participating in the war. If there is anything that makes later generations feel weird, it may be that the generals suffered greater losses——
But this is because the feudal army in the late dynasty had too much fighting will. If the general himself refused to take the lead, it would be almost impossible to command the army to actually attack.
The general takes the lead, and the enemy opposite is an army with hot weapons. So why is it strange that you, the general, have become part of the losses? The army in the era of hot weapons requires officers not to charge on the front line, otherwise your bravery will be considered heroic.
, but what will happen to the command of the army after you die in battle?
Of course, Tsarist Russia is an exception, because Tsarist Russia has a high degree of feudalism, and its firearms level has always lagged behind Europe at the same time. Commanders need to take the initiative to fight bravely to drive the entire army. This is why the loss rate of Tsarist Russian officers has always been high.
The main reason. [Note: This style still continues in the Russian army until the current Russo-Ukrainian war.]
What about the performance of the North Korean army? Let alone that!
According to Zhang Wanbang's estimate, the rocket volley that directly defeated the North Korean army on the southern front in the round just now killed at most 500 people, and left maybe more than a thousand or at most 2,000 people with minor injuries, but that
Theoretically, it will not affect the continued fighting.
However, nearly ten thousand people on the southern front of the North Korean army collapsed like this. Even Zhang Sixiao, who was in command at the front, believed that they should take advantage of the situation and attack, leaving them no chance to regroup.
Zhang Wanbang followed the good advice and not only approved the attack, he even adjusted the entire army's combat plan at once.
He originally laid out a hollow phalanx, treating the 30,000-strong North Korean "elite" as the two Mongolian elites he had faced in his early years. His intention was to defeat the opponent through resolute defense
They were beaten to death, and finally they used their elite troops to defeat the Korean Central Army and achieve a complete victory.
Now it seems that this is a serious overestimation of the strength of the North Korean army, especially the opponent's "organizational degree." If the organization degree of Zhang Wanbang's unit is regarded as 100, then the organization degree of the North Korean army is no more than three.
Ten, maybe only twenty.
As Zhang Wanbang's order was issued, the battlefield situation quickly changed further.
The Ming army's southern front pushed back the Korean army's southern front like a duck. These defeated troops attacked the Korean army's eastern front, causing the eastern front battle formation to shake. However, the Ming army's eastern front had no artillery fire or rocket volleys, but pushed the side.
The car moved forward and at the same time he shot at the back of the sidecar.
The firing during the maneuver was not intensive, and the losses caused were not large, but this momentum overwhelmed the already panicked and wavering North Korean Army's Eastern Front, causing the Eastern Front to quickly collapse.
The supervising team sent by Quan Li had just arrived at the eastern front when it was faced with a retreat caused by landslides. Just after killing more than a dozen people, it was scattered by a swarm of defeated troops. The so-called supervising the battle was no longer possible.
In this way, two of the three north and south routes collapsed. Quan Li was shocked and thought that there was no chance of winning this battle. He was about to mobilize the main force on the northern front to retreat, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wanbang's general's banner had already reached the northern front.
The Ming army on the northern front did not hesitate at all, and immediately launched a forced offensive. This time, artillery and rockets finally came together, and judging from the intensity of the artillery fire, Zhang Wanbang should have mobilized the entire army's artillery to launch it - but he only fired once
turn, because the Ming army infantry had already rushed forward.
Because they were well aware of the long-range killing range of the North Korean army, the Ming army did not rush forward. Instead, they quickly formed a formation outside the range of the North Korean army, and then launched a paused volley while advancing to the beat of the drum. That is, they took a few steps to stop and volley.
Shoot, and then complete the transfer while advancing in unison.
As a result, the North Korean Army's northern front also collapsed, and the three armies completely lost command. Quan Li himself ran and asked the flag bearer to hold the flag high - he was not stupid, he knew that the collapse was irreversible. This move was to let the defeated soldiers know that he was
Where to gather towards him.
The Battle of Zhenling has only come to an end.
What Quan Li didn't know was that the 1,800 Transkalkha Mongolian cavalry that had been sent out of the city by Zhang Wanbang earlier were now facing the defeated Korean troops who had collapsed across the board, showing a ferocious smile from the prairie.
Because this cavalry has a rather strange origin, it has actually been independent from the Ming army's command system to a certain extent. This is not to say that they do not accept the command of the Ming army, but that the Ming army has some ideas about how to use a Mongolian cavalry.
Hemp claws.
As the Zaikark cavalry, they were also the "remnants" who stayed in the area after the war against the Yuan Dynasty and never moved westward. Obviously, their original status was not high. Their low status meant that they were relatively poor, so they definitely did not have heavy armor.
Yes, even light armor was originally lacking.
After the expedition to Korea, Ma Gui considered that they could be regarded as the direct descendants of Erdemutu, a highly pragmatic disciple, so he transferred two thousand sets of cavalry armor to them from military supplies. This cavalry was fully armored.
The cavalry's hood may be the prototype of the "waistcoat" of later generations. Its main function is to protect the body and trunk. It has very little impact on movement. It is also very light and is very suitable for the highly mobile Mongolian cavalry.
This group of Mongolian cavalry from Outer Khalkha, who were used to being poor, never expected to receive such a generous gift without fighting, and were very grateful to the Ming army (another reason is that Outer Khalkha was originally far away from the Ming Dynasty, and there were few
Participated in the plunder of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army never attacked them, and the two sides had almost no grudges), I had long thought of helping the Ming army on the battlefield, so as not to always have such a huge personal debt in my heart.
So, even if the North Korean army hit the muzzle of their gun this time - oh, the knife edge was on it.
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I climbed down to check, and finally found a smashed beer bottle on the bay window platform outside the stairs, which had cut off the wires in my house. The maintenance man and I were shocked. What if a bottle was smashed down and hit someone?
How could someone do such a dangerous thing! They really have no quality at all!
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It can be published. (The above number of words does not affect the text size of 5K)