However, although the tactics adopted by the merchant army are very reasonable and can indeed reduce the losses to the bottom, the purpose of the battle is to break through the Qing army's defense line. From this perspective, the trench defense of the Qing army's clan is still very effective.
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But everything has its pros and cons. Pulling the formation apart can indeed reduce losses, and it also causes the troops to be unable to concentrate during attack. Now, the rifles are equipped with guns in front, so soldiers are not allowed when attacking.
Filling the bullet and shooting continuously, grenades are only effective within thirty steps, so it is difficult to form a strong impact in the final assault stage.
Although the fire efficiency of the Qing army was much slower than that of the merchant army, and there were no organ guns and grenades, which could not form a dense firepower network, the Qing army also had archers to supplement.
The Qing soldiers themselves could hide in the trenches and basically would not suffer any harm. Therefore, they could still cause certain blows to the merchant army. As the distance close to the position, the merchant army's losses were also increasing rapidly.
Under such circumstances, the Qing army still launched a strong attack on the Qing army's position, and many soldiers rushed to the Qing army's position, braved the Qing army's guns and arrows toward the Qing army's trenches, braved the Qing army's guns and arrows, and rushed to the Qing army's trenches.
Drop grenades in it. This is indeed the most effective method at present, and it can finally cause a substantial blow to the Qing army.
But at this time, many Qing troops rushed out of the trenches and launched hand-to-hand combat with the merchant army. The two sides immediately fought fiercely on the frontier of the trenches of the Qing army.
At this time, the weakness of pulling the formation when the attack began was exposed, because the distance between the soldiers was wide open, and when they were short-soldiers with the Qing army, they could only fight alone and could not go forward.
In this way, teams formed to cooperate with each other to cover the battle, and the subsequent troops could not be followed up in full time. However, the Qing army was fighting in front of its own defense line, with concentrated troops and continuous support. In addition, in terms of close combat capabilities, the Qing army also
It is not inferior to the merchant army, so it also has a great advantage.
Although the soldiers of the merchant army were very brave and tenacious, at this time, the advantages of firepower and weapons were greatly weakened, and they could only rely on their blood and courage to fight. However, in this regard, the Qing army was not inferior.
At this time, most of the Han army and surrendered troops were fighting against the Shang family army. However, Shang Shan had already issued a death order to defend his position and never retreat. Moreover, the supervising team was behind the Qing army and forced him to do so.
The Qing army had to fight to the death. In addition, the merchant army could not exert its firepower advantage at this time, so the Qing army had a lot of confidence, less timidity, and they were all very excited as a result.
The merchant army launched two consecutive attacks. Although they rushed to the trenches of the Qing army and fought hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army, they eventually failed and were all defeated by the Qing army.
Seeing that it was difficult to break through the Qing army's defense line, Li Dingguo had to order to temporarily withdraw his troops. During the battle on this day, the merchant army killed nearly 800 soldiers in battle, and the number of soldiers who were injured and lost their combat effectiveness was reduced by more than 1,000.
That night, Li Dingguo also recruited various divisions and brigade commanders to discuss countermeasures. However, the frustration during the day did not have much impact on the morale of the merchant army. After all, after countless battles, the outcome of one or two battles would not be easy.
Shake the confidence of the merchant army. Therefore, all the soldiers advocated that they should continue to attack Huangzhou tomorrow, and also strengthen the attacking forces, putting greater pressure on the Qing army.
At the same time, the generals also concluded that there are three points that need to be improved during the attack. First, we must strengthen the cooperation of infantry and artillery. Although the artillery has not had a great impact on the Qing army's positions, it can cover the infantry's attack, which is not entirely true.
No effect; second, we cannot rush around in the offensive, but we must fully utilize the advantages of the merchant army in range and fully suppress the firepower of the Qing army; third, once the gap in the position is opened, other troops must also be quickly
Follow up and increase the assault force.
The next day, the merchant army launched an attack on the Qing army's positions outside the city. This time, Li Dingguo also sent his trumpet troops, the 14th Regiment of the Ninth Division.
The 14th Regiment was the army started by Li Dingguo, and it has always been the strongest combat power of the Ninth Division. The current regiment commander is Zhao Yue. Although Zhao Yue is a little noble and has many complaints in his daily life, he is indeed the same in war.
After leaving the Hubei War Zone, he also made many military achievements and was highly valued by Li Dingguo. Therefore, after the establishment of the Sixth Army, Li Dingguo originally planned to promote him to the 22nd Brigade to be the deputy brigade commander.
But Zhao Yue didn't do it. He thought that if he wanted to be a regular official and a top leader, otherwise he would rather be just one leader, at least in one regiment, and he could have the final say. After hearing his thoughts, Li Dingguo just laughed.
He laughed, and did not avoid being forced, but instead allowed him to serve as the leader of the 14th Regiment.
Originally, Li Dingguo was not planning to send the 14th Regiment to fight when attacking the positions outside the city, but judging from the battle situation on the first day, the Qing army had begun to seriously learn the tactics of the merchant army, so he had to send the strongest troops to fight.
It can break through the Qing army's positions outside the city in one fell swoop.
Just when the merchant army re-arranged the offensive, the Qing army did not relax. On the first day of guarding the outside of the city, the Qing army only paid the losses of more than 300 people killed and injured more than 100 people, but only cleaned up.
The corpses left by the merchant army in the Qing army's position reached more than 400. In addition, 17 injured merchant soldiers were captured, more than 200 rifles, more than 300 grenades, and two thousand fire caps were seized.
More than five hundred.
Although the number of merchant soldiers killed in this battle was not large, judging from the comparison of casualties between the two sides, it was indeed a rare victory, and it was quite a lot of confiscated.
Due to the unique fighting style of the merchant army, the use of firearms has received unprecedented attention in China. In addition to the three formal camps of the Qing court, the Green Camp has a special firearm troops, and other Manchu and Han flags, as well as
The newly formed eight town troops are trying their best to collect firearms and establish firearm troops in their own troops. Even if there are only a dozen guns, they must be organized into a single army.
The weapons such as muskets, cannons, grenades and other weapons made by the merchant army are exquisitely made and have fast shooting speed. Grenades can explode with just a string, which is very convenient. Therefore, they are very popular among the Qing army units. They are just muskets made by the merchant army.
The matching fire hat must be used to use it. The grenade is also ignited with the fire hat. This thing has never been copied by the Qing dynasty, and one is less than one, so it is very popular. Even the generals of the Qing army have used it.
Be proud of owning firearms made by merchants.
But generally speaking, only weapons were seized, and the generals of the Qing army would be assigned to their own direct troops for use, and there were not many opportunities to seize merchant army weapons on the battlefield. The Han army basically had no share.
Although Shangshan also encouraged the generals to continue their efforts and must defend Huangzhou, and made a promise of heavy rewards, the muskets, fire hats, grenades, etc. seized this time were naturally distributed to the firearms of the Forward Camp. The soldiers of the battalion used it.
However, after yesterday's summary, the attack of the merchant army has changed significantly. First, it is to move the artillery position forward, so that most of the artillery can be concentrated, fired together, attacked the Qing army's city walls and positions, and at the same time, it also A batch of Thunderbolt Rockets were launched. The momentum was obviously much bigger than yesterday.
Although the artillery fire did not cause much casualties to the Qing army, the splashed soil, sand and gravel, the smoke from the explosion, and the splashed stubborn oil can still cause great obstacles to the Qing army's attack. The 14th Regiment, which was responsible for the main attack, quickly approached the Qing army's position under the cover of artillery fire. This time, there were no blind attacks. At about sixty or seventy steps away from the Qing army's position, there were two battalions. The soldiers immediately stopped, set up a formation, and fired at the Qing army's position. At the same time, there were more than 20 small artillery pieces, which were also set up and opened fire in front of the position.
This distance is exactly the limit range of most of the Qing army's muskets. Although the Qing army had trench cover and used some of the captured muskets to fight back, the horse was still suppressed by the firepower of the merchant army. The soldiers of the two battalions all crawled forward on the ground and approached the Qing army's position.
When crawling to a distance of less than 30 steps on the position, the soldiers of the merchant army gradually gathered and threw grenades at the Qing army's position. Suddenly, the grenades fell behind the trenches like raindrops and exploded. The sounds rang out in the Qing army's positions, and the Qing soldiers were suddenly screaming with squeals, killing and injured. The remaining soldiers could not bear it and jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the merchant army.
At this time, the charge soldiers of the Shangjia Army also got up from the ground and started a hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army. However, this time the Qing army was forced to fight out of the trenches, while the Shangjia Army was calmly engaged, not scattered wars. Therefore, both sides killed a difficult task. The two battalions, which suppressed the Qing army's firepower, quickly entered the battlefield. The Qing army's defense line had actually given up defense completely, but they both came out and Merchants engage in close combat.
In the command post behind the position, Li Dingguo saw the attack process of the 14th Regiment very clearly, and he was very impressed. Zhao Yue did have a few tricks and disrupted the Qing army's defense line with one hand. It seems that he was also last night. After some careful preparation, I really used the right person to use him as the commando today. Therefore, I immediately ordered the 20th Regiment to immediately enter the battle and defeat the Qing army's front in one go.
Seeing this, Shang Shan, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, hurriedly ordered Liu Zeqing's troops, who were guarding the second trench today, to immediately enter the battlefield and must defend the position outside the city.