Chapter 393 The Southern Expedition and the Northern War 58 Fight Eight Banners Three Again
Yin Feng was wearing a full set of armor and standing on the city gate. When he saw the power of the cavalry group's charge for the first time, he couldn't help but be speechless. The Eight Banners cavalry refused to retreat and charged regardless of casualties. This was beyond the expectations of him and his subordinates. Although he concentrated the most intensive firearms firepower in this era, he still allowed the Eight Banners soldiers to rush to the parapet fortifications.
The temporarily arranged Luzhai and Jumamu could not resist for long. The Eight Banners armored cavalry rushing in front kept falling to the ground in the rain of bullets, but more blue-banner cavalry emerged from the smoke and rushed forward to rush away from Juma. Luzhai, rush towards the parapet fortifications with all their might.
Yang Dacheng brandished a flintlock musket and shouted: "President, fire!"
Yin Feng gritted his teeth and waved his hand, and ten heavy cannons appeared at the crenellations of Sanlipu City Walled City, and countless grenades were thrown down at the same time.
The main force of the cavalry with the blue flag tried their best to avoid the direction of the walled city during the charge. They split into two groups 50 steps in front of the walled city and rushed towards the parapet fortifications on both sides of the walled city. The cannon on the tower suddenly fired, and nearly a thousand kilograms of iron sand and iron blocks blocked the way. They attacked the cavalrymen with blue flags and knocked off the cavalrymen who were attacking the parapet like fallen leaves after autumn.
Behind the parapet, Zhang Pan, as a recruit of Yang Dacheng's Guards Battalion of the Second Division, could only do hard work: because he couldn't use a flintlock musket, he carried artillery shells for the artillery for a while, and saw what "shells" the artillerymen were holding. Papers such as "Range Scale", "Cannonball Altimeter" and "Sheet of the Instantaneous Movement of Cannonballs from Starting and Ending", constantly adjusting the muzzle pitch, confused him even more. Zhang Pan claimed to be the leader of the Ming army. He was born as a scribe and was somewhat aloof and arrogant, but now he has become a useless person in the Chinese army who can't fire a gun and doesn't know how to fire a cannon. Therefore, the commander of the first post of the commander's personal guard battalion of the 2nd Division where he was assigned had no choice but to assign him as a post. Coolie--carrying ammunition.
Yin Feng asked Jin Nige to translate some contents of Western practical ballistics, such as "It doesn't matter what the bullets of the cannon are, and the arrows of the bow wait as far as possible", "It doesn't matter what the bullets of the cannon are, the arrows of the bow are in their own way and in the air." "The maximum number of steps traveled is the geometry", and in the artillery teaching of the military academy, students are taught "Micrometer of how long it takes for artillery shells to travel through the air in seconds" and other contents. Correspondingly, each sentry in the artillery unit is issued a "Proportional table of distance of artillery shells" ", "Cannonball Altimeter" and "Cannonball Start and Stop Time" three numerical tables and their instructions for use. These practical artillery technologies quite systematically record the latest achievements of Western ballistic science, as well as the research on Chinese military weapons. The results of the exploration and research of all Chinese craftsmen.
Gunners generally use a measuring instrument "gun gauge". The gunner can aim and shoot in actual combat according to the "gun gauge" engraved on each gun. The gunners have all studied professionally in the artillery department of the military academy. They can In any case, after calculating or using the proportional method, the height and distance that each artillery shell can be fired can be calculated. Such gunners can be trained. Except for the Chinese Military Academy in Yin Feng's ruling area, there are no places in the country that produce such cannons. There is no other company in China.
When the musket shooting started, the deafening sound of artillery and gunfire confused him for a moment. He didn't know what to do. The surrounding Chinese infantry was divided into groups of ten and divided into three combat groups under the command of a commander. They fired in turn, with swift and orderly movements. After the Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows were able to hit the parapet fortifications, these soldiers turned a blind eye to the flying arrows and continued to do their work with a terrifying calmness: to Enemy shot.
Infantry brothers were constantly hit by arrows. As long as they missed their vital points and were unable to move, these injured Chinese soldiers continued to fight.
After the first wave of arrows came, Zhang Pan hid under the parapet and did not dare to raise his head.
A young, small Chinese soldier put a gun on his head and found him when he was reloading the gun. While holding his hand, he shouted something to him: The firearms around him were too loud, Zhang Pan. It took me a while to understand.
"...Hey, you're here, why are you, a new recruit, hiding here?"
The little soldier had a pockmarked face, he was younger than Zhang Pan, and his accent sounded like he was from Shandong.
Zhang Pan wanted to say that he didn't know how to use a musket, but when he saw everyone standing straight and not avoiding the arrows and insisting on firing, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He gritted his teeth and stood up: "I'll carry the ammunition."
He ran towards the ammunition cart behind the parapet fortifications.
At this moment, there was a series of shocking loud noises on the walled city, as if a strong wind suddenly blew around him, whoosh whoosh... countless shrapnel flew over his head, and a "Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff" sounded outside the parapet. Poof! There was the sound of countless shrapnel hitting the human body, followed by the screams of humans and the screams of war horses.
"Fix bayonet,"
Inside the parapet fortifications, the command "put on the bayonet" was heard. Officers at all levels kept repeating this order. Every infantry soldier of the Chinese Army pulled out a bayonet from his waist. After loading it on the muzzle, he raised it. The gun was raised diagonally upward.
Zhang Pan ran a few steps before he was grabbed by his chief. The tall, lean and capable chief from southern Fujian handed him a flintlock musket with a fixed bayonet: "You know how to use a spear," he said.
Zhang Pan took the gun and nodded.
The chief gave him a push: "Treat this spear as a spear. Do you understand? Stand in the queue and stab the enemy's horses when you see them. Quick."
Zhang Pan stood in the middle of the infantry brothers in a daze. His eyes were filled with smoke and he couldn't see anyone clearly.
Suddenly, a series of explosions occurred in front of him. The explosive air waves were mixed with shrapnel and unknown small things, and they flew past him. Zhang Pan was startled by the explosion of the grenade, and instinctively wanted to shrink back. , his back was blocked by a hand, and the long and gloomy voice of the southern Fujianese came from behind his head: "Don't step back,"
The sound of bullets fired by the rainstorm guns was still ringing, and the sound of artillery fire from the artillery positions on both wings seemed to have stopped. The gunners of the light field guns behind the parapet fortifications were busy loading ammunition, and the bows and arrows fired by the Eight Banners soldiers sparsely landed near the fortifications.
Suddenly, a war horse with a blue helmet and a blue-flag armored cavalry stood out from the smoke, and suddenly the man and the horse hit the parapet fortifications. Before Zhang Pan could open his mouth to shout anything, countless blue-flag cavalry came from behind. It stood out from the smoke.
Orders came from the Chinese army's position: "Charge,"
Zhang Pan was speechless when he saw the Chinese infantry brothers who were standing with him at the same time raising their guns and stabbing at the enemy's horses.
When cavalry charges against an enemy who relies on field fortifications for defensive operations, it relies on speed and impact to break the enemy's defensive circle, and then relies on the continuous impact of subsequent troops to defeat the enemy.
The cavalry with the blue flag suffered numerous firearm attacks along the way. The team had long been scattered. The most important factor in the cavalry charge: "speed" had disappeared invisibly after reaching the parapet fortifications, like a wave that had lost its momentum. The cavalrymen with blue flags were already at the end of their strength when they attacked the parapet fortifications. In addition, the parapet fortifications were three or four feet high, and horses that lost speed might not be able to cross them. Therefore, there were only a few hundred cavalrymen with blue flags who rushed into the fortifications. .
As a result, when the Chinese infantry launched a counterattack with bayonets like a forest, the blue-banner cavalry near the parapet fortifications immediately suffered heavy casualties. Zhang Pan was trapped among his brothers. Seeing the figure of the Eight Banners soldier, blood rushed to his head. , roared, picked up the bayonet and rushed over, and immediately plunged the bayonet into the waist of a cavalryman with a blue flag. His commander blocked the dying cavalry's sword for him, and shouted behind his head: "Don't be a hero, stay in line with your brothers,"
Amin and his men with the blue banner were also frightened by the bayonet charge of the Chinese army: they never thought that there were infantry in the world who dared to charge their cavalry team.
The huge cavalry group charge launched by Xianglan Banner, which gathered the main force of the entire army, fell short and was driven out of the parapet fortifications by the Chinese army's counterattack at the last moment.
At this time, some pull-action bronze field guns arranged behind the parapets had been reloaded and started firing again.
At the same time, after moving to the circular defensive position, the Chinese cavalry brigade came back and outflanked the two wings with blue flags.
Amin was dragged back to the rear by his Goshiha. A Jia La Er Zhen (Dutong) shouted to him: "Er Beile, the pirates are attacking our camp."
Amin's eyes were blood red and he looked around with a ferocious face. His Goshikhas and generals all avoided his beastly eyes.
In front, his large group of cavalry was already engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy; but in the rear, the camp was smoking, and he saw that it was being raided.
"Blow the trumpet and ask the front troops to withdraw." Deploy five Niu Lu and quickly go to recapture the camp.
"Master Baylor, it's not good,"
A man with a blue flag and a solid forehead ran over on a war horse covered in blood: "Master Beile, their heavy cavalry is coming up,"
"What,"
Amin turned around and saw that the Chinese army's heavy cavalry battalion had formed an iron wall, overwhelming the cavalry with blue flags in front of them and rushing them to pieces.
The heavy cavalry rushed diagonally into the Blue Flag Cavalry Group from the direction of the beach. It can be said that they hit the Blue Flag Cavalry Group right on the waist.
At this moment, Amin's troops encountered a countercharge by the Chinese infantry and cavalry in the south; they were hit hard by the Chinese heavy cavalry in the west. At the same time, the flying thunderbolt rockets were still falling on their heads and exploding indiscriminately; The fire in the camp behind was soaring into the sky. Amin gritted his teeth, but was at a loss for a moment.
The Blue Banner Cavalry, with nearly 5,000 corpses in Sanlipu, was defeated by the three branches of the Chinese Army's infantry, cavalry and artillery. The Sailor Musketeers took Amin's retreat and burned all the gains Amin had made in looting Liaodong for more than half a year. .
The defeated Xianglan Banner troops were chased all the way by the Chinese Army's cavalry, and the Marine Corps blocked the way ahead... When Amin led the defeated general to Fuzhou City with the remaining soldiers, he found that Fuzhou had been captured by the Chinese Army's Marine Corps from the sea. He landed and recovered, so he continued to escape and was chased by the Chinese army all the way. He finally escaped and returned to Haizhou. There were only less than 1,000 soldiers with blue flags in Gaizhou.