Chapter 504: Strangling Battle

Before going to the battlefield, the generals had various plans and plans. Those who had received traditional military education naturally read military books and battle strategies, while those generals who were refugees fought again and again in life and death.

But in every battle, there are too many uncertain things happening. It is these uncertainties that lead to the direction of the battle situation.

The generals of the military power and generals have already known to take advantage of these uncertainties on the battlefield, and make this uncertainty a factor that increases their chances of victory.

Except for a very small number of talented people and the generals’ personal guards, the other troops themselves are synonymous with this uncertainty. Since the remnants of the three major expeditions and the generals of the Liao Town General Li, the Ming army has often been a joke on the battlefield.

Once an army of tens of thousands and tens of thousands of people goes to the battlefield, except for the main general's team that can be controlled by personal soldiers, the rest are all for fun. When winning, there is still some help. When losing, it will even endanger yourself and kill each other.

But Shandong never encountered such a thing. Long-term and continuous training, strict and clear instructions, and efficient and responsible battlefield commands conveying. On the battlefield, every regiment, every team, and everyone becomes a strictly controlled part, forming a terrible war machine.

Originally, the Shun Army was relatively controllable. After all, the tens of thousands of infantrymen on this battlefield were the most elite veterans in the Shun Army, but just now, the sea of ​​steel and fire completely eliminated all controllable factors.

The earth was shaking, and no one could survive the dead metal storm. Almost six hundred shells bombed the formation of the Shun Army. This shelling caused almost seven thousand casualties.

If a qualified artillery officer sees such a battle, he may beat his chest and stamp his feet, because this artillery can cause better damage and more effective blows.

However, in fact, the effect of this shelling was not just killing, but this shelling did more important things. This firepower coverage, which was at the peak of the times, completely destroyed the confidence and discipline of the soldiers of the Shun Army, and destroyed the most important things on the battlefield, morale and courage.

The commander of the Shun Army will indeed be executed by his subordinates, but in this state, it can only be said that the order coincides with what his subordinates want to do.

The extreme depression and fear after the shelling requires venting through running and fighting. If there is an enemy ahead, rushing up and fighting with the enemy with real swords and guns is much better than dying in such a desperate storm of metal and flames.

After rushing out, the generals at all levels below could no longer hold back the soldiers. The brigade and the whistle managers all found that the soldiers below were rushing forward frantically and could no longer control them.

The archers and bird gunners were indeed pushed to the front, but they rushed like this and could not even aim or prepare. The first row of the Jiaozhou camp musketeers on the opposite side had already half-kneeled down.

The Jiaozhou Camp musket soldiers arrays in front are stacked, almost completely covering the front of the charge. There are also gaps between the musket soldiers and musket soldiers. After all, the musket soldiers are hung with reserve fuses and ammunition bags. They are too close to each other and are easily splashed by Mars, which is dangerous.

Through the array of musket soldiers, you can see the spear formation that is still advancing behind. The musket soldiers seem to be sparsely inserted into the front wooden stakes.

This wooden stake resists horses seems to be easy to cross, but this is a wall of death...

The earth-shaking shelling was no less shocked than the soldiers of the Shun Army opposite the earth-shaking shelling. But the same was true after the shelling, the shock turned into incomparable confidence.

The palms of each soldier were dry, and some people's ears were still buzzing, but all kinds of movements were very standard, meticulous and stable.

For the soldiers of Shun Army who were rushing in front, preparing to shoot arrows or firing bird guns, they knew better the significance of the musket array on the opposite side than their companions behind them.

Shandong's muskets were far and powerful. They knew that many people had experienced these rumors, but at this moment, they had no choice but to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands and fire the bird guns.

The charge of the Shun Army seemed to be a tide. These soldiers holding bows and arrows and bird guns were at the forefront. They could not turn or turn back, but could only move forward in the direction of the tide.

If their movements change slightly, they may be trampled to death by the people behind them. However, while running, the bow and arrow are not accurate, and they can't even shoot far, because the action of the bow cannot be complete, and there is no need to mention the thin-tube weapon of the bird gun.

The soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp who set up muskets there were ready to shoot were not affected at all, but were still preparing to shoot and fire...

You can take a few steps forward, get closer and then hit the second round, which may cause damage. The archers and bird gun soldiers of the Shun Army think so.

But moving forward, the range of the Jiaozhou Camp's musket is within the range. The officers who are the commanders of firearms have some specialties. They naturally have to be proficient in firearm operation and training, and at the same time, they also need to have some talent in visually measuring the distance.

In the battle, it was unrealistic to expect professional craftsmen to follow Li Meng to calculate, especially relying on the estimation and calculations of the firearm commander.

This is also a skill that makes perfect. If you practice more, you can judge it almost the same. You can see the soldiers of the Shun Army running into the range.

No one was waiting to get closer and fight or something, and he directly issued an order. There was an officer holding a saber on the right side of each row of musketeers in each regiment and swayed it hard and issued a loud order:

"Open fire!!!"

The shooting commands of each regiment were not issued at the same time. The muskets on the battlefield were fired one after another. After the first row opened fire, they were still running forward, trying hard to stabilize their body balance and making shooting moves. The archers and musket soldiers in the Shunjun rushed forward directly. Some of them were just injured by the muskets on the opposite side.

After all, the musket soldiers in the first row of Shandong soldiers were squatting down, and the bullet line of the heavy smoothbore gun was parabola down, although the muzzle was deliberately raised.

But after falling to the ground, even kneeling on the ground, he could no longer stand up. He would soon be pushed to the ground by his comrades behind him, and then he would never get up after being trampled.

The first row, the second row, the third row...the fire was densely displayed, as if it was a volley. After the volley was completed, the musket soldiers did not rotate in formation and loaded ammunition to shoot, and just fired as quickly as possible.

With such intensive shooting, even if the people in the front charge were strong, the people in the row of people charged were all beaten to nothing. The soldiers in the back row finally got colder by the storm and slowed down.

This kind of shooting with good effect did not last. It was just one round. After the shooting, Shandong musket soldiers who had already received the order ran back with the muskets, looking as if they were disintegrated.

Of course, the formation of the musket soldiers was still very complete and not scattered. They ran towards the back along the gap in the spear formation. The soldiers of Shun, who were originally beaten to stagnate, saw the musket soldiers in front suddenly disintegrated, and the hesitation and fear in their hearts just now disappeared again.

Judging from the distance between the two sides, they can still catch up. They can take advantage of this sudden retreat to win the battlefield, and the offensive of the Shun Army became fierce again.

When the musketeers opened fire, the spear phalanx behind them was always moving. When the fire was finished, they turned around and retreated, and the spear phalanx also rushed up.

"Stop!!"

Seeing the Shun Army craze getting closer and closer to each other, the guards of each infantry regiment made loud orders, drums sounded three times, horns sounded twice to stop vomiting, and the infantry regiments stopped.

This sudden stop made the soldiers of Shun Army on the opposite side very uncomfortable, because each of them was thinking about when both sides were moving forward and when they could collide together.

But the other party suddenly stopped. Will there be any problem? Many soldiers of Shunjun who were running in the front subconsciously slowed down, but their companions who were following them didn't have time to stop, and there was another commotion and chaos in the formation.

"Hold the flat spear high and move forward!!"

The generals next to the infantry array gave loud orders again. The soldiers raised their spears to their shoulders, turned their wrists, poked their upper bodies forward under the bow, and moved them forward in small steps.

The soldiers in the back row extended their spears out from the gap and stacked them layer by layer, and the entire infantry phalanx moved forward like a steel hedgehog.

Although the soldiers of the Shun Army were running at high speed, it did not mean that they would actively collide on these cold spears. Although many people wanted to use shields to cover them, and use this speed to hit them, mess up the opponent's formation, and then take advantage of the situation to cover them up.

But the formation of Shandong soldiers and infantry is like this. If they bump into it, they will not have any other consequences except being stabbed into a sieve.

In this case, you can only slow down and wait for an opportunity to enter through the gap in the opponent's formation. As long as you break a hole, you can take advantage of the situation and break through.

The person in front was about to stop, but the person behind was pushing. The front of Shunjun was already in chaos, but the Jiaozhou battalion spear formation on the opposite side was still rubbing forward step by step.

Hold the flat spear high, the tip of the spear is obliquely downward, and the enemy parts that are aimed at are the heart and throat, which are both key points of the upper body.

Attacking these two places does not require assassination too hard. Just stab in, it will be fatal damage. If someone wants to get in under the raised spear, the second and third rows of spears will be dealt with.

Although the soldiers of Shun Army were crowded, they would still collide sooner or later. The chaotic formation caused the unit distance. The number of people in many places was not the largest. In such face-to-face fighting, the number of people in unit distance is the key to determining the outcome.

The quadratic formation of infantry spears in Jiaozhou camp ensures that the maximum number of spears is always maintained at each distance, and a soldier of Shun Army often faces more than two spears.

In this case, no matter how the soldier of the Shun Army fought, whether he was holding a long weapon or a short weapon, what he could do was simple, either retreat or die.

The people behind kept shouting and yelling and rushed forward. Shunjun was already crowded in the back team, and people were crowded on the flat ground, and no one could see clearly what was happening in front.

As the crowd became dense, everyone was worried about whether there would be artillery bombardment on their heads. Everyone heard the sound of killing in front and wanted to fight in front.

But when crowded to the front, it was nothing more than being stabbed and stabbed to death in the spear of the soldiers in Jiaozhou camp. Fortunately, several people who broke in were stabbed by the spears in the back row.

The infantry formation of Jiaozhou Camp stepped forward, and it seemed like it was slow and the amplitude was not large. However, this ensured the stability of the formation in the fierce battle, so that the soldiers would not disperse each other and could rely on each other.

Although the soldiers of the Shun Army were running with great strides and looked fierce, they actually did not cooperate. Although they were a large army, when they were actually fighting, they seemed to face the entire queue of the other party alone.

The sound of fighting and screams were intertwined, and the spear array of Jiaozhou camp was constantly moving forward, and a large number of corpses fell down in front of their array.

If such a battle continues, there will be no suspense. As the infantry formation of Jiaozhou Camp is pushing forward step by step.

When the infantry of the Shun Army rushed out, they were extremely fierce and seemed unstoppable, but when they rushed to the Jiaozhou camp infantry array opposite, they were still blocked and were beaten back little by little.

"My guns are fired here. You can start firing again and rush to fire. If I hurt my brothers, I will never end up with you!"

In front of the Shiqi, eight hundred musketeers were behind ten three-pound cannons. The artillery leader Guo Liang had a loud voice, and even Li Meng, who was on the horse, could hear it clearly.

The battlefield was so big that the infantrymen were strangling there, so the headquarters of Li Meng's flag was naturally empty. Li Zicheng, who was slightly higher, would naturally not miss this opportunity.

Thousands of horses who had finally sorted out had escaped the array and rushed towards Li Meng. Seeing that the enemy chief was too arrogant, the place where the flag was located was still a distance from the several queues behind him, and they were a little out of touch. If they could take advantage of the situation, they rushed over.

Of course, this assaulted Shun Army cavalry did not expect to kill the opponent's commander, but when his thousands of cavalry came over, the troops where the opponent's commander's flag would definitely not be able to resist it.

If you can't beat the head coach, you must retreat for the safety of the head coach. Taking advantage of the retreat of the opponent's head coach, it can cause chaos to the opponent, and it can reduce the pressure on the front infantry.

Li Zicheng, who had already retreated to the horse team, also saw clearly when observing the formation. The infantry rushing to the front was entirely because of the accrued tone in advance.

Because of the pressure of artillery bombardment, they had to fight to the death. It would be fine if they could use this courage to move forward without considering life and death, but now they were blocked by the infantry of Jiaozhou Camp. After the momentum was completely consumed, the other party would push back.

The battle on the battlefield is not just a head-on battle. Since the space on the left wing has been opened, we can do something here.

For example, the horse team, which was originally planned to use at a critical moment, split a team to attack the opponent's insane flagship lineup, and take this opportunity to see if the entire situation can be revitalized.

Under the commander's flag, there were two thousand personal soldiers surrounding him, and there were artillery positions on the right were arranged there. A cavalry of thousands of people ran out from the opposite side, so the movement could be seen clearly.

After the eight infantry regiments here advanced forward, Huang Ping, the personal commander, was worried. The soldiers and horses of the head of the flag were hanging alone outside the formation. This was really unsafe. Seeing the thousands of cavalry attacking from the mountain, they immediately changed their faces and hurriedly persuaded Li Meng to say:

"Master, the thief has taken this foot and wants to use cavalry to raid. The commander has a body of 10,000 gold, and the defense here is thin. Let's go back to the rear team for safety."

"I didn't come here to see you. What are the fears of thousands of cavalrymen? Li Chuang is already behind this era. Huang Ping, do you know that there is such a saying? If you fall behind, you will be beaten!"

Li Meng said it very easily, but Huang Ping was ignorant and worried. He was unheard of the words that he would be beaten if he fell behind. He really didn't know why the general suddenly mentioned it. Li Meng did not take it seriously and said with a smile:

"Then the order Guo Liang to use artillery to block the cavalry, Huang Ping, and dispatch the personal troops to come forward to assist."

The general's decision had already made that Huang Ping would implement it no matter how worried he was. However, Guo Liang of the artillery team was careless and did not care. He directly placed fifteen three-pound cannons in front of the commander's flag. Eight hundred personal soldiers dismounted, holding muskets and set up a shooting queue, behind the cannon array.

When the cavalry rushed down, they saw the opponent quickly transferring the artillery that had just been on the other side to the face. Although the cavalry of the Shun Army saw the rapid deployment of the artillery array in Jiaozhou Camp just now, they still felt that the artillery was a bulky thing and would not rotate anywhere they stayed.

But the artillery soldiers in Shandong put the gun mount directly on the horse and quickly moved it to the front. Their actions were extremely fast and effective. Some people were cleaning the gun chamber and some people were removing the gun mount there, and there was no such thing as dragging the water.

Within less than five hundred steps, the brigade of cavalry would not take much time to rush over, but in such a short time, Jiaozhou Camp had completed the launch of artillery.

The mighty general of the Shun Army, who led these thousands of cavalry, felt his scalp numb. Before leaving, the King of Chuang had a reminder that it would be best if he could cause chaos to the other party. If he could not cause reversal, he would not be punished.

But so many cavalrymen rushed down, so there was no reason to go back like this. Moreover, even if more than a dozen cannons were killed in one round, dozens of cavalrymen were killed. Seeing that the leader of the thief Lu thief did not have many troops around, and the infantry brigade behind showed no sign of being transferred.

The closer the distance, the greater the chance of the mighty general of the Shunjun led the team. When the brigade was still walking down, the mighty general began to shake his arms.

The thousands of horses of the Shun Army began to disperse gradually, and the thousands of cavalry rushed forward in a fierce manner, raising the smoke and dust in the sky, making it seem that the momentum is no smaller than the infantry fighting there.
To be continued...