Chapter 392 The Southern Expedition and the Northern War 57 Fight Eight Banners Two Again
The Chinese army used the night time to build defensive fortifications to wait for the decisive battle with the main forces of the Inlaid Blue Banner tomorrow.
While Liu Xiang was busy eating steamed buns, he accidentally found a tall and tired man wearing a Ming army robe among a group of Chinese military generals on the gatehouse, who was wearing a military robe and described as a tired tall man next to Yin Feng. He couldn't help but feel confused.
Yin Feng was gnawing on the steamed buns at this moment and was asking the Ming soldier: "...In this way, Brother Zhang fought with the Eight Banners soldiers many times, which shows what their tactics are."
The Ming army soldier who was very disharmoniously joined a group of Chinese generals was Zhang Pan. In the afternoon, he saw several captured Eight Banners soldiers, and rushed forward and punched and kicked them desperately. A Chinese soldier finally pulled him away. Zhang Pan went to the Chinese military officer again to ask for battle and asked him to send him weapons to kill the Jurchen Tartars. Just so happened that Yin Feng discovered a small riot here while inspecting the battlefield and left. Come here, Zhang Pan now knows that this tall middle-aged man is the president of the Chinese army and the leader of the pirates claimed in the court's official documents.
He knelt in front of Yin Feng and asked to join the Chinese army to kill the Tartars.
Yin Feng has a good impression of his actions. He heard that he was a child of a noble family or a scholar, but he was willing to join the army to fight against the Eight Banners soldiers to avenge his family. Such people were rare in the Ming Dynasty, so Yin Feng brought him with him. At the top of the city wall, he asked him some questions while having a meal.
Facing the legendary murderous giant Yin Feng on the sea, Zhang Pan did not look restrained, but replied calmly: "The typical tactic of the Jurchen Tartars is that those who focus on heavy armor hold a spear and a big sword in front of them, and wear light armor. The man was shooting arrows behind him. I heard that the Jurchens concentrated the blacksmith at the north gate of his capital. The ironworker's residence was extended for several miles, and they specially made armor: armor, masks, arms and vests were all exquisite iron; the finished armor was directly Use arrows to test the shooting, without sags, reward blacksmiths with no scratches, otherwise they will be killed without mercy. Our official army fought with the Jurchen Tartars in Anshan Post, and our army fired three-eyed guns together, but they were still quickly captured by the Northern infantry The rush forward and moved the Jumamu away immediately without any injury. The reason was that the Northern Barbarians could block the bullets fired by the three-eyed gun. Once the enemy soldiers broke through the Juma and rushed into our official army, our army was powerless. If you fight with it, you will surely collapse..."
Yang Dacheng said: "The Tartar cavalry that attacked my chest wall formation in the afternoon were mostly light armored archers. It was probably to be able to quickly pursue our cavalry, so their armored cavalry did not come up... However, even heavy armored soldiers were blocked We can't stand our heavy rain guns and flintlock gun bullets,"
Zeng Qing said: "I have seen the three-eyed gun of the official army. The barrel of the gun is only more than one foot long. The so-called "the advantage of the heavy armor lies in the belly length". The barrel of our army's flintlock gun is three feet long, and the bullets are The speed is far greater than that of the three-eyed gun, and its lethality is far better than that of the three-eyed gun. The three-eyed gun cannot penetrate the heavy armor of the Northern Lu cavalry, while our army's flintlock musket and heavy rain gun can be within a hundred steps. It is easy to penetrate, this is the conclusion drawn by people from the Weapon Research Department through experiments.”
"Yes, in the battle of the eastern suburbs of the capital, after the three-eyed guns of the official army were fired, the bullet landed in just a few dozen steps, and it was impossible to hurt our army at all. Therefore, our army was not afraid of the official arms... Then again, , The official army had poor melee combat capabilities. Once our army entered the formation, no one dared to fight us in close combat, and the entire army immediately collapsed... When facing the Jurchen Tartar soldiers, the official army should be the same, so it is fought repeatedly. Failed,” Yang Dacheng looked at Zhang Pan and said proudly.
However, Zhang Pan had no intention of defending the Ming Dynasty's official army, and just nodded and said, "The army of the imperial court has no desire to fight, and the generals are greedy for life and fear of death. They rely on firearms to strengthen their courage in the battle. The Eight Banners Cavalry began to firearms randomly when they were far away from the sky. Once captured, they were captured. The cavalry charges, and our officers can only fire one weapon in the battle, and they cannot hurt them at all, so they will be defeated every time..."
Yin Feng knew that Zhang Pan was talking about the fatal weakness of the Ming army: When the Ming army faced the Chinese army or the Jurchen Later Jin army, the lethality of long-distance firearms and the ability to meet the enemy in close combat were greatly inferior, so they were defeated repeatedly. ,For the use of firearms, the Ming army also had serious problems in various aspects such as military industry system, officer training system, soldier training, and discipline enforcement. This fatal injury is directly related to the rigid system of the Ming army and the overall military system of the Ming Dynasty. , simple local reforms are useless.
Yin Feng stood up, patted Zhang Pan on the shoulder and said, "If you want to join our army and fight against the Jurchen Tartars, aren't you afraid of being punished by the court? You are a scholar, and I am a rebellion of the court, the leader of the pirates, ”
Zhang Pan said seriously: "The younger parents and brothers were killed by the Tartar soldiers. Those who are sons cannot avenge their parents and family members. They are a seven-foot man. I can see clearly now that I cannot avenge such bloody feuds by relying on the court. , Only by relying on your Chinese army can I avenge you. In any case, I am irreconcilable with the Tartars. I hope the president and the king will fulfill the filial piety of the villain."
Zhang Pan knelt in front of Yin Feng, crying in silence. Yin Feng sighed and helped him up: "Our Chinese soldiers do not kneel down. Soldiers do not have to kneel down when they see officials, no matter how big or small, they need to join our army. Let's start from this point. Let's start,"
Zhang Pan has lived in Liaodong for many years and has long been disappointed with the government. After observing these days, Zhang Pan actually has a very good impression of Yin Feng and his Chinese army: the leader of pirates like Yin Feng who are in harmony with the generals around him, It was absolutely impossible to see in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. Yin Feng did not show off his airs, but naturally had a high prestige. He was able to listen to his subordinates patiently and listened to his opinions. He had the style of famous generals in ancient times. Such a person was Zhang Pan in the Ming Dynasty. He had never seen anything in the officialdom, and the combat capabilities of the Chinese Army made him admire and envious, so he did not hesitate to join the Chinese Army.
Yin Feng said to Yang Dacheng: "I'll leave this Mr. Zhang to you, let him start with the new recruits, Zhang Pan, how about it?"
Zhang Pan tried hard to stand attentively like the Chinese military members, saluting with his hands and chests, and was so excited that he couldn't speak.
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In October 19, the land of Liaodong in the 48th year of Wanli, the flags of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were floating everywhere, and Manchus with braids swaying behind their heads were everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the fields were rampant. The Ming Dynasty's official army had retreated to the narrow west of the Liao River. There are dozens of fortress-like fortress-like cities in the corridor of western Liaoning.
Only in southern Liaoning and around Sanshilipu, at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, the front of the Eight Banners soldiers was strongly blocked.
With Sanshilipubao Village as the center, a circular defensive position with a diameter of about two miles is now like a monster spitting fire from all directions, with smoke and gunfire, and explosions endlessly.
Starting from the morning, the main force of the Inlaid Blue Flag cavalry launched a total attack on Sanshilipu. Amin invested nearly 9,000 of his main troops at one time to attack the Chinese army's defensive positions. He fought the camp himself and left only five bulls. The infantry and baggage troops were defended.
The Chinese Army sent an envoy with the blue-bottom Chinese flag and the two-character "Jinghai" flag to send a message first. Amin had no intention of having any dialogue with the other party in front of the formation, and used a bow and arrow to slap the person. The messenger drove him back.
After all, Amin is a general with rich combat experience. Although he does not believe the words of the deserters yesterday, after the army headed south this morning, Amin still sent more than 1,000 vanguard troops to test the enemy's reality.
What the vanguard saw was an extremely large ring formation, covered with various firearms and strange boxes. The best war horse of the Eight Banners soldiers could barely cross the chest wall fortification after the head swayed, and the darkness was full of people. On both sides, on the plain between the Montenegro Mountains and the Bohai Sea, the black-clad cavalry of the Chinese army ran back and forth, stirring up waves of dust.
The vanguard tried to rush forward carefully, but was not fired by firearms. However, the Chinese cavalry brigade on both wings of the ring formation rushed in. After approaching, they first flintlock pistols and cavalry brigades fired in succession, and then the cavalry brigade rushed forward. Come up and take the fight.
Most of the vanguards of cavalry in the blue flag are light armored archers, but this move by the enemy cavalry makes them completely irresistible. Whether it is flintlock pistols or cavalry rifles, although the range is short and the power is small, it can deal with light armored archers. But it is still more than enough. Besides, the Chinese army has as many as 5,000 cavalry, which is far more than the vanguard of the Inlaid Blue Flag. As a result, in one round, the Inlaid Blue Flag vanguard lost half of its men and quickly turned around and ran back. Amin saw the vanguard eating from a distance. He was furious and ordered: "The whole army charges, and then kills him without mercy after breaking the formation."
When the Chinese cavalry saw the enemy brigade dispatched, they immediately turned their horse's head and retreated to the sides of the circular position. Their mission was to attract the main force of the Lanqi cavalry to the circular defensive position.
Starting from 1,000 steps away from the Chinese Army's circular formation, the Eight Banners soldiers were bombarded by hundreds of thunder rockets; at 500 steps away from the circular formation, there were loud noises on the Chinese Army's positions, twenty gates on the east and west sides of the position. The thousand-pound smoothbore cannon began to fire solid iron bullets, forcing the Blue Flag cavalry to spread their wings to form a formation of evacuated crane wing formations.
When the Chinese Army's howitzers opened fire, the first row of explosions of flowering shells and shrapnel smoke formed by the explosion, flooding the entire group of cavalry in the blue flag. When the blue flag cavalry in the blue flag rushed out of the smoke, the first row of cavalry in the blue flag was flooded. The formation on the front line is already sparse.
About 250 steps away from the ring array, the ring array suddenly burst out with deafening loud noises. Nearly 4,000 Chinese infantrymen opened fire. At the same time, half of a hundred heavy rain guns were also ignited. When the fuse burned out, it was ignited. While carrying the launching medicine in the entire row of gun barrels, the Inlaid Blue Flag Cavalry Brigade entered a place 150 steps away from the ring formation.
"Boom," the rainstorm gun began to spit fire, and an operator was trying hard to turn the winch, allowing the huge rainstorm gun to slowly strafuse left and right.
So, the cavalrymen in the blue flag fell off their horses as if they had hit an invisible wall, and they were all over the horses, and they were neighing and roaring, and chaos. At the same time, a row of thunder rockets fell into the crowd, causing a bigger confusion.
Amin ordered the Goshhas around him to blow the horns, pressing all the rear teams up, and urging the entire army to continue charging. At this moment, the army of the Blue Flags has launched a mile wide, and the storm team is nearly 500 steps deep. At the same time, It was killed by the Chinese army from rocket launchers, cannons, solid bullets, flowering bullets, infantry musket bullets, heavy rain gun bullets.
When the cavalry inlaid blue flag rushed to fifty steps away from the enemy formation with guns and artillery fire, forty hair-type bronze field guns arranged behind the chest wall with the infantry brothers opened fire. This was a huge shot attack, with the blue flag.
The cavalry rushing in the front fell to the ground almost at the same time, and the cavalry in front of the front almost completely destroyed in an instant.
The shotgun had just been fired, and the second batch of fumes of the rainstorm guns had been lit, and the cavalry of the blue flag at this time were still rushing forward continuously...