The sound of horse hooves rumbling like thunder, sweeping across the earth. In the southwest of the First Brigade of the First Division of the Chinese Army, a cavalry unit rolled forward. The blue-bottomed Chinese flag was waving among the cavalry group.
"The cavalry is here."
A cheer erupted from the Chinese army's slowly advancing team. Although military regulations stipulate that no noise is allowed during the attack, the cavalry regiment that came to reinforce from Wuqing County suddenly appeared in the south, which still caused cheers from the left-wing soldiers of the First Brigade. .
Cavalry has never been taken seriously in the Chinese army. In the wars in the South China Colonies, Luzon, Taiwan and other places, due to the terrain, climate and enemy reasons, there is basically no place for cavalry to use. Only this time. In the Jingqu The Chinese cavalry became an important combat force on the North China Plain
"Team Commander Zhao, where is Brigade Commander Huang?" A commander with a feather in his head ran past the formation, shouting loudly.
A sentry commander brought the messenger to Zhao Tie's office in the center of the team. The messenger saluted on his chest with his hands and shouted: "The cavalry regiment was ordered to come. The commander of the Lu regiment led the brigade to detour towards the enemy's rear formation. The light cavalry The three sentries and heavy cavalry are under your command. Please give orders to Commander Zhao.”
"How many of you are?" Zhao Tie asked.
"The third brother and the heavy cavalry. There are three hundred men in total."
Zhao Tieqi boarded his war horse and asked, "Has Commander Lu personally led the team to detour?"
"There are still a large group of people behind the enemy who are rushing in this direction. The cavalry regiment will delay the reinforcements of the enemy behind... He said: He will help you to restrain the reinforcements of the enemy behind. Wait until you defeat the frontal enemy. Hurry up Go and help him defeat the Ming army in the rear... The enemy's rear team seemed to be carrying many big cars. The movement speed was very slow, like a baggage unit..."
Zhao Tie laughed: "The baggage force and cavalry regiment can eat them with one charge. What else can we get? This Lu Xiaotian. If we calculate it correctly, we will definitely win. OK. Let your cavalry Brothers go to the left wing. After we defeat the enemy in the front of the central government, you will launch a charge. Cooperate with the infantry brothers on the left wing to defeat the enemy's right wing troops."
The First Brigade left a battalion on the bank of the North Canal as a reserve team. The remaining 5,200 people were divided into two attacking lines: no matter how strict the training was, the long snake formation with more than 5,000 people wanted to maintain one on the muddy terrain. Straight peak line. This is impossible. The Chinese army's offensive formation is in regiments. It is actually a Pin shape. The two regiments in front are parallel to each other on the left and right. In the middle is the artillery unit. The artillery behind the artillery Another regiment unfolds the attack line. Since the Chinese army array has only four rows in depth, the front width of their front line is far greater than that of the white-rod soldiers gathered in a group. In addition, the artillery is moving relatively slowly. The Chinese army front is moving. Gradually, a concave half-moon shape was formed, and a situation of surrounding the two wings of the white pole soldiers was formed.
The Chinese army and the Baigang soldiers were less than two miles apart. As the Chinese army slowly approached the place, the thunder rocket was launched from the Chinese army's front just like money.
The Thunder Rockets really have no accurate idea. Fortunately, five or six thousand white-pole soldiers are concentrated together. As long as the Rockets fly in their direction, they can hit something. Some rockets fly halfway and shoot at high altitude. It exploded like fireworks in the air. However, the aimless bombardment made the white-rod soldiers panic, fearing that the blind rocket would fall down and explode beside them.
The elite soldiers and generals of Shifu Tushi were completely unacceptable to rocket combat. They were good at mountain combat. The Ming Dynasty transferred them to the plains to fight. It was a mistake in itself. The white-rod soldiers began to be in chaos. Some people had already begun to throw them away. The spear was ready to escape. In order to maintain the army's discipline, Qin Liangyu stabbed several generals to death one after another. With her prestige, she stabilized the central front of the White Rod Army. However, her wing troops were in chaos. Although she was still It was not to the point of collapse. However, under the continuous attacks of the enemy's rockets, the soldiers were busy hiding and hiding, and they could not line up to meet the enemy.
Although the Chinese offensive troops were not advancing quickly, their pace was firm and steady. Soon they approached the range of four hundred steps of artillery fire. The artillery that could hit one mile in the Ming army was more than a thousand pounds and had never been used in the wild. During the formation battle, Qin Liangyu did not expect to be guarded against enemy shells at such a long distance.
"Boom boom boom." A group of flowering artillery shells fell on the position of the white-rod soldiers. A few of them did not explode. However, the explosive shells knocked down all the white-rod soldiers within nearly five steps. Qin Bangping and Qin Minping finally stabilized. The white pole soldiers and left and right wing troops that came down began to appear again.
Zhao Tie sent his own personal guard to help push the cannon cart. The cannon team followed the pace of the infantry brothers and quickly advanced to within 200 steps and within the range of the flintlock firing gun.
"Boom boom boom". Twenty-five light field guns began to launch shotgun attacks on the white pole soldiers cluster.
At the same time, the infantry brothers stood firm. The first row of flintlock gunmen in front lay down, the second row knelt down, and the last row of soldiers placed the gun on the shoulders of the third row of brothers.
"Woooo. Uh." The Conch issued a volley. The flintlock firing volleys of the first battalion began. The two regiments and eight battalions on the forward line of the First Brigade fired in turn. Raindrop-like bullets rushed towards White pole soldier.
The regiment on the second line line was lined up behind the artillery position, waiting anxiously for the sound of the snail that ended the shelling.
"Boom boom. Boom boom." The artillery began to shoot rapidly. It created the maximum shooting speed of the Chinese artillery at a speed of two minutes and three times.
A distance of only 200 steps (350 meters). Shotballs containing countless iron sand, iron blocks, and lead bullets are created in the square array of white-rod soldiers' spears arranged in more than a dozen rows. The white-rod soldiers are strictly guarding them. Discipline. The formation was still maintained under the bombardment of dense rockets just now. However, it was this formation that caused the Shipeng soldiers to fall down in pieces. Qin Liangyu never thought that. He had never heard of it. Cannons could be This is used in field combat.
Deputy General Zhou Guozhu arranged all 500 archers from the Shikatushi troops on the front line. The problem is that the effective attack distance of these archers is not more than 100 steps. Therefore, when the Chinese army was exploding and firing against the White Pole soldiers, the White Pole was The soldiers were completely in a situation where they could not fight back by just being beaten. Moreover, these 500 archers were placed on the front line of the square formation. They were the first to be hit. Without a single arrow, they were already slaughtered by shotguns and bullets in a short period of time.
Qin Liangyu was stunned by the scene on the battlefield and was at a loss for a moment. At this moment, a few miles behind their positions, a firearm fire broke out. A cavalry was wearing military uniforms of an officer and a fast horse Come to Qin Liangyu's central army formation.
Soon, Qin Liangyu's personal soldiers brought him over.
"Mr. Qin. The youngest is the personal soldiers of He Shixian, the deputy general general of Liaoyang. General He and Gong Niansui, the guerrilla warriors of the rear camp, led by Li Xibi, encountered pirate cavalry three miles behind the army. Our army is now Form a formation to fight. Lord He asked you to send reinforcements to support..."
Qin Liangyu smiled bitterly, with a blue face, and pointed at the front with a spear: "Support. I'm afraid our army needs support too. Look, the pirates are attacking our army. We can't take care of ourselves... Where is the troops of Lord Du Songdu, the General of Shanhaiguan. Where."
The cavalry of the Liaoyang Army shook his head: "I don't know. Our army has been attacking for three days. General Du's army has not been able to contact..."
Qin Liangyu snorted coldly: "Since this is the case, everyone should do their best. Our army will definitely move closer to General He's troops after defeating the enemy in front of us. Now we are going to launch a charge."
The white-rod soldiers' positions were drumming loudly. The white-rod soldiers who were hit by the shotgun, bullets, and thunder rockets seemed to be suddenly awakened. They all rushed towards the Chinese army's front.
At this moment, the Chinese soldiers were shooting freely according to the orders of officers at all levels. Everyone raised their shooting speed to the limit and shot at the enemy with all their heart's content. The smoke of gunpowder filled the entire battlefield. In fact, most flintlock musketeers had already I can't see the target position clearly. I just shoot in the general direction. The situation of the artillery is the same. The loader mechanically stuffs the fixed-loading drug pack into the gun chamber. The loader loads the shells. The gunner uses the ignition rod to ignite the launch drug. Fire the gun. Then clean the gun chamber, load the medicine, load the bullet, fire... In front of them was getting thicker and denser. The enemy was behind the gun smoke.
At this moment, the square formation of the Baigang soldiers was broken. Nearly one-third of the soldiers had fallen down. They were either dead or injured. Although the drums were louder, the guns and cannons were even louder. The Tujia soldiers who survived the square formation were surviving. Only half of the people noticed the sound of drums. The conditions developed by long-term discipline and training made them ignore them. The spears rushed forward and faced the dense bullet impact. Unfortunately, their charges seemed very messy and sparse. .There is no momentum at all.
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The brave white-rod soldiers' charge was quickly defeated by the Chinese army's bayonets. When facing the Chinese army's bayonets, the sparse spear soldiers could not be arranged closely in a line. In fact, the length advantage of the spears did not have much effect. The white-rod soldiers who fought alone were soon stabbed to death by groups of Chinese military musketeers in groups of three or five.
The Chinese military grenadier, who was specially trained, also threw grenades at the white pole soldiers. Then he rushed up with the smoke of the grenade explosion, stabbing the dizzy white pole soldiers to death.
After the Chinese army launched a bayonet charge, about ten minutes later, the Shiquan chieftain soldiers completely collapsed. The central phalanx where Qin Liangyu was located finally collapsed. She led the way and charged forward. She led her guards to fight to the death. She had no choice but to the left and right wings The troops were defeated by the Chinese army one after another. The Chinese cavalry had rushed into the square behind her. At this point, the defeat was decided. Qin Liangyu was powerless. From beginning to end, the white-rod soldiers were all suppressed and beaten by the enemy.
Soon, the Chinese cavalry cut off Qin Liangyu's banner, completely disrupting the formation of the Baiji soldiers. The last bit of morale among the Baiji soldiers also disappeared. Now, the battlefield is completely one-sided massacre scene.
A musket bullet killed Qin Liangyu's yellow horse. She fell off the horse and fainted. Her son Ma Xiangqian led his personal soldiers to drag her out of the battlefield and fled to the west.
Nearly 8,000 white-rod soldiers, between one offense and one defense, had a total of more than 6,000 casualties. Less than 2,000 people returned to Baoding alive.
At this moment, the Chinese cavalry unit, who was entangled with the Liaodong military vehicle battalion, sent a messenger and found that the positions of the Baigang soldiers were already full of Chinese military musketeers coming and going.
"Where is Commander Zhao? I am the correspondent of the Cavalry Regiment. I'll look for Commander Zhao."
Zhao Tie was holding a white-rod spear. He looked left and right. More than a thousand white-rod spear prisoners were being taken to the North Canal. A whistle sailor musket team rushed from the direction of the North Canal.
"How is Lu Xiaotian?" Zhao Tie asked the correspondent soldier carelessly.
"Captain Lu is besieging the enemy. The enemy is dominated by the chariot camp, with cavalry as the auxiliary. There are many firearms. Our cavalry rushed several times and were defeated."
"Oh. It's the Cheying Army. Ji Liao Border Army." Zhao Tie lowered his face and frowned and said, "What are their firearms?"
"The flag is from the Liaodong Army. Their firearms are just the Folang machine guns and bird guns, and the fast guns are not as fast as our army. However, the cavalry's cavalry's range is close to that of the enemy's firearms. There is no advantage over the enemy's firearms. Therefore, Commander Lu asked you to reinforce the artillery troops."
Zhao Tie was thinking about countermeasures. Huang Lue, the commander of the First Brigade, ran over happily: "Brother Zhao, Commander Zhao. I heard that the cavalry brothers are in trouble. The brothers are not satisfied yet. Let me lead the team to help the cavalry. Brother."
Zhao Tie asked the correspondents of the cavalry regiment again about the situation. He turned to Huang Lue and said, "The ship owner told us before the war. Pay attention to the chariot camp; this is the only unit in the official army that mainly uses firearms to fight. . Since we landed in Dagukou, we have never encountered a built-in chariot army. Now it seems that cavalry alone cannot solve the chariot camp. We just finished a battle. Gunpowder and bullets need to be supplemented. Captives need to be arranged. .Not a single hour, we can’t fight another battle.”
Huang Lei thought for a while and said, "Let me lead my personal guards to see the situation first. The brigade will be directed by you. You will set off in an hour."
Zhao Tie nodded: "The war started early in the morning. It's noon now. Everyone didn't even eat breakfast. They really needed a rest. Okay, bring my personal guards with us. The cavalry brothers, hurry over and help first. After an hour, I will take the main force of the First Brigade to the battlefield."