Chapter 505: As stable as Mount Tai, a turning point on the battlefield

The horses rushing in the front were just right at the gun's muzzle,

This is not a bad luck. A team of people rushed forward against guns and cannons, and there will always be people rushing in front of them and these people also have this awareness, just to block the companions behind them.

Although it was a three-pound cannon, the shotgun containing lead and iron sand was activated at close range, and its power was amazing. It happened to meet the horse that was hit by the muzzle. Not to mention the horse's knight was riddled with holes, the horse was almost beaten backwards, although the distance was very short.

The shotgun of more than a dozen cannons formed a dead curtain wall within thirty steps before the muzzle. The cavalry had rushed within fifteen steps just now.

Moreover, the splashed iron sand lead bullets are relatively light. Although the effective range is much shorter than the shells, the distance between these iron sand lead balls is very far. Whether it is a person or a horse who is splashed, it will be severe pain and minor injuries.

The front rows of Shun Army cavalry blocked most of the lead bullets, and died and injured and fell to the ground. However, many cavalrymen were affected. When the people were hit, they were just screaming or forcing them. When the horses were hit, they stood up and neighed in pain.

The mount was crazy and directly overturned the person from the horse's back. This was the cavalry unit during the impact. The front was killed, and the companions behind him could jump over and rush over directly on the corpse, but they were affected by the queues and were directly in chaos. That was the real trouble.

Some of the horses behind stopped the horse's speed, but blocked the companions behind them, and some of the horses could not be stopped, but rushed into the chaos, which intensified.

Whether a horse is crazy or a person is injured, it is not complicated to calm it down, and it does not take too long. In such a short time, the artillery has no time to load and fire.

But in addition to artillery, there were 800 musketeers from the personal soldiers behind the dozen cannons. After the artillery was fired, they immediately lay on the ground according to the prior agreement. The musketeers from the rear immediately ran forward, and the cannons stopped and their orders to fire.

One hundred people are in a row and eight rows of rotation, which can completely achieve uninterrupted shooting. For the most elite personal soldiers in Jiaozhou Camp, the third or fourth row of musket shooting can achieve uninterrupted rotation, let alone the current eight rows.

The chaos of the cavalry, affected by artillery shotguns, had just ended. Some horses ran towards the other side regardless of the care, while others were overturned from the horse.

The chaos had just been controlled, and the cavalry behind had to hurry up and rush forward. For the cavalry of the Shun Army, the losses caused by artillery were indeed heavy, but the losses were acceptable. Judging from this appearance, they should be able to rush over and destroy the opponent, but the next one was intensive fire from muskets.

The fire of the muskets was intensive and did not stop. This time, it was a real harvest of life. All cavalrymen within range were beaten to the ground.

Some cavalry were lucky that the horses blocked the fire of the musket for him, but when the cavalry stood up from the ground, he would still be hit by the next musket.

Everyone knows that at the beginning, the generals of this cavalry at all levels just let their subordinates spread out. There is always a gap in the shooting of the muskets. They can endure some losses and rush in. However, after persisting for a few rounds, no one is willing to use such a big bet to bet on the gap in the shooting of the muskets.

Through the corpse and cannons, we can see that the musketeers who were shooting in a row after that were finished shooting, ran back to the back row along the gap in the queue, and rotated in turn, as if there were accurate machines. No one could survive within the range of the muskete.

The formation of this cavalry team was already scattered enough. The cavalry behind had already left the relatively safe area. Since the beginning of the battle, Guo Liang was there nervously staring at the distance between the opponent's cavalry and his artillery. Now, because the counterattack in the Shunqi area was very reasonable, the formation of the cavalry in the Shunjun was too wide.

"The first row of cannons that have not been replaced with shotguns, bombard the thieves' cavalry!"

The gunshots over there did not stop like beans. Guo Liang's voice was already hoarse, but he still had to give orders loudly. Even so, the sound was not clear. Fortunately, the artillery team also had its own messenger, and Guo Liang himself was in the first row, so the order was issued and executed quickly.

Guo Liang just ordered the replacement of shells. The artillery that was already loaded with solid shells had to be replaced with nervous installations. This was a troublesome job.

The artillery leader Guo Liang also calculated this correctly. There are always more than a dozen cannons that can fire solid shells. At such a distance, the range of the shotgun is far from enough, and only solid shells can hit it.

There are many places for discussion about Guo Liang's series of commands, which is a battlefield where life and death hang around for a moment. If a slight mistake in command makes it easy to cause a collapse.

The replacement of solid artillery shells and shotguns is actually a big flaw, but the Shunjun and Jiaozhou camp are equal to half an era, one is cold weapons, and the other is gradually transforming to hot weapons. Such a half-era gap is enough to cover up some command flaws.

This is the so-called absolute power. With such an advantage, you can overwhelm everything.

The shells roared into the cavalry's formation, and there were screams and hisses. Suddenly, the cavalry team of Shunjun was facing a very embarrassing situation.

The muskets and cannons in front, the cannon formation on one side, and the battlefield strangling on the other side suddenly made the space of this cavalry very narrow. Now they want to rush, they can only think of the death charge in front of them, regardless of casualties. The musket shooting on the opposite side will not give them any chance.

Seeing the cavalry who was still aggressive just now, after turning hard and awkwardly in front of him and leaving the battlefield in front of the flag, the personal commander Huang Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

Coach Li Meng can be calm in the face of danger, but he cannot be so calm. If the other party really attacks regardless of the losses, wouldn't that be a big trouble?

Just as Huang Ping was about to persuade him, he heard Li Meng's orders:

"Tell me the order, and transfer three infantry regiments of the reserve team to come over and follow my command!"

Hearing this, Huang Ping finally felt a little relieved, but Li Meng did not stop the order and said loudly again:

"The commander of the artillery team, Guo Liang, prepare thirty artillery pieces and follow the army!"

The battle on the front battlefield became more and more intense. The fronts of both sides had just collided, and the loose and crazy Shun Army suffered a great loss and was pushed back step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step.

But as the battle progressed, the ground was full of corpses. When the spear soldiers of Jiaozhou camp advanced, they should also beware of being tripped by the corpses under their feet. The formation was already a little scattered.

The Jiaozhou Battalion's spear formation was constantly advancing, which actually squeezed the Shun Army's formation tighter and tighter. At the beginning, in addition to death in battle, there was also a choice to retreat, but now, apart from death in battle, there was no way to retreat, so we could only fight to the death.

Even if the swords and spears of the Shun Army infantry are excellent, it is difficult to cause any damage to the opponent wearing half-body armor. The slow advancement of the infantry array is also considered as armor burden. The weight of the armor does affect the mobility, but it brings excellent defense.

However, the formation gradually dispersed, giving the soldiers of the Shun Army a chance. Gradually, some people could rush through the less dense spear forest and rush into the spear soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, and use swords to assassinate the gap between the opponent's lower plate and armor. Faced with such an attack, the spear soldiers of the Jiaozhou camp could only throw their spears, take out their own swords to resist, and put down the spears. There was a gap in front of them, and at this point, it was often too late.

Of course, most of the soldiers of the Shun Army could not rush in front of them, and even if they were killed in front of them, they would immediately fall under the assassination of the second row of Jiaozhou battalion spearmen.

The Shun Army had to pay almost seven or eight soldiers to exchange for a Jiaozhou battalion spearman. This exchange was a great disadvantage for the Shun Army infantry.

But finally there was an exchange and a killing and injury to the Jiaozhou camp. This situation prevented the soldiers of the Shun Army from collapsing and could support the battle.

Every time a soldier in Jiaozhou camp fell down, the soldiers in the back row would automatically fill up. The soldiers' movements were very monotonous, just simply assassination and retracted, then repeated, and after dodging enough space in front, then lined up and moved forward.

The Shunjun soldiers on the opposite side had fancy movements, some wanted to jump up, some wanted to climb over from the ground, but they had no effect.

The spear phalanxes of the eight infantry regiments have a certain distance between each other. According to the previous tactics, at each interval, the musket soldiers of Jiaozhou camp should fire forward with muskets at this interval, or poke out and shoot cross-fire, but this time they stayed behind the infantry team.

Only when the soldiers of the Shun Army enter this gap will the musket soldiers in the back row drive away and attack.

"The power of firearms is indeed huge, but for these enemies, after the first wave, the enemy dare not move forward. They want to retreat and escape, but their fundamental strength has not been damaged. They also have to harass your army and be enemies with you. With a spear, the distance between the two sides' battles is closer to more than a dozen steps or face to face. He feels that there is a chance to kill you. The enemy will always persist and feel that there is hope for victory. Such a battle is continuous, disciplined, trained, physically equipped, and elite Shandong infantry can cause greater damage to the enemy."

This is what Li Meng said when convening the guards of various regiments to meet before the war. This battle is of great significance and we must emphasize some things. After emphasizing the significance of hand-to-hand combat with our subordinates, Li Meng also made other constraints:

"Today's battle is related to the belonging of the Central Plains and the luck of the world. Everyone should work together to move forward and also inform you in advance that there will be a military law team to supervise the battle in this battle, and the military law will be marching in the formation!!"

Li Meng said it plainly, but everyone who heard it was solemn. When the formation was in the army, it was the law of the army, which was the beheading. With the discipline of the Jiaozhou Camp, there were few military laws to supervise the war. Today, the commander came up with it alone, which shows his importance to this battle.

The military law team composed of non-commissioned officers was after the eight regiments in the first row, but they had not yet been used.

The distance between the eight regiments in the first column and the eight regiments in the second column is getting bigger and bigger. On the battlefield, this is the so-called disconnection between front and back, which is the most dangerous situation. Li Meng, under the flag of the commander must have seen such a situation, but there has been no adjustments, just allowing the distance to grow bigger and bigger.

It seems that he has absolute confidence and wants to defeat the entire Shun Army infantry with his 16,000 troops from his front team, but there are still a large group of cavalrymen waiting to go behind. If this rushes down, without the cooperation of the firearms team, it will probably be very dangerous.

After a period of stalemate and strangle, the infantry of the Shun Army began to fail to support and retreated.

On the one hand, the exchange ratio is too high, and the entire army cannot support it. On the other hand, the Shun Army infantry has begun to organize the team during this period, and gradually developed a structure. They no longer rush around and fight indiscriminately. When they are stuck face to face, the soldiers of the Shun Army may be strangled.

Only by retreating a little distance and opening up the space to continuously rush through the opponent's extremely tough spear array can you break through the opponent's extremely tough spear array. The remaining archers and bird gunners also began to hit the front. The archers' cold arrows and bird gunners' shooting were of little use to the front rows of armored spear soldiers.

But for those infighters who were not wearing armor behind, in addition to the heads protected by helmets, it is very likely that their shoulders and upper bodies will be hit by stray arrows.

There was room behind Shunjun, but the spear soldiers and infantry in the Jiaozhou camp could not break away from the formation and charge. The single spear soldiers were meaningless in this battle.

The commander of the Shun Army, Liu Zongmin, had sweat on his forehead. I don’t know how long it would last for such persistence now. Looking at the square formation opposite, the soldiers in the six or seven platoons in front were able to fight. The spear soldiers behind were still standing spears and slowly advancing. These people were still new forces.

The damage that those scattered archers can cause is very limited. Now, although they have opened up some space, the space is not large.

General Quan Liu Zongmin looked back at the horse team behind, thinking about when he would go to the battlefield, and didn't wait until the infantry in the front team was defeated before taking action. That would be too late.

"Yuan Zongdi, if you bring 4,000 people, you must open a hole in the central army of the Lu thief. You are not afraid of death. Even if you use your life, you will rush out for me!!"

Yuan Zongdi, who was beside him, laughed a few times and cursed:

"I'm not afraid of my death. I'll throw my life on this time to see if I can escape!!"

"Brothers, if you don't break the army of the Lu thief, we all don't even have a chance to survive. Old Yuan's own brothers followed me to the front. Old Yuan is behind you. If one runs, I will be devastated. Behind Old Yuan is the personal army of General Liu. Old Yuan also said that if Old Yuan retreats, he will chop off Old Yuan's head!"

Yuan Zongdi rode to his own team and started shouting. The soldiers below all looked as if they were ashen, but they gritted their teeth and followed.

The earth-shaking shelling just now made people collapse and despair. If the horse army in Jiaozhou camp attacked directly here, it might be possible to disperse the entire enemy army.

But the infantry slowly moved forward. After this slow and cruel strangle battle, many infantry of the Shun Army realized the situation. This situation would not be possible.

Although Yuan Zongdi spoke easily and shouted forward, he actually wanted to lead everyone to rush over. If he couldn't rush away, he would die together. At the cost of abandoning some of the soldiers and protecting the safety of most soldiers, the Shun Army has used many times in previous battles.

Moreover, this practice of sacrificing oneself to rescue most of one's companions can often arouse the martyrdom and glory of every soldier, and go to death calmly.

Yuan Zongdi was not a mobilization. After saying that, he led the army out in the crowded space, and at the same time sent orders everywhere to concentrate the remaining archers and bird gun soldiers in the front direction.

"Don't be afraid, no need to be afraid. Their musket soldiers were behind, and everyone aimed and approached!!"

The brigade in charge of this team shouted loudly, urging the soldiers to move forward together. The two rows of non-commissioned officers and team officers in the two rows of Jiaozhou Camp had already felt something was wrong. They had to avoid the corpses on the ground, keep the formation neat, and fight against the enemy on the other side, so the speed was not fast.

But the opponent's archers and bird gun soldiers were already mobilizing. At such a close distance, everyone was not fully armored. If they started fighting like this, they would be fatal.

The guards holding an axe gun in his hand were naturally seen, and they were even more anxious, so they could only shout to let their subordinates pay attention to their protection.

Yuan Zongdi's attack was two regiments among the eight infantry regiments, namely the fourth regiment and the fifth regiment. Both regiment guards were facing the same situation, but they had no time to contact and coordinate. They were preparing to defend, but the other regiment guard remembered the previous several standings.

He shouted loudly, put the axe gun flat, and shouted angrily:

"The soldiers in the first and second rows of the soldiers flattened their spears and charged with me!"

Before he finished speaking, he rushed out with great strides. Shandong officers never fell behind when charging. He acted as an order. The two rows of soldiers in front all rushed forward with their spears flat.

As he kept moving forward slowly, the soldiers of the Shun Army thought that the Jiaozhou Camp team could only move so slowly, but they unexpectedly rushed up suddenly.

The first few people were directly poked to the ground. The archers and bird gun soldiers behind the people also shook their hands and feet. Their weapons were not melee things. When encountering such a situation, the only way was to throw things away and run away.

On the other side, that is, the side facing the Fifth Regiment, the archers and bird gun soldiers completed their preparations and began the first wave of shooting.

If the bird gun hits the plate armor on the upper body, it will only stir up sparks. But this one is not accurate. If it hits the legs and hits the rest, it will cause damage. Not to mention bows and arrows, if the shooting angle is elevated, the soldiers without armor in the rear row will still be killed.

Although the first round of attacks of this long-range weapon did not cause much damage, it made the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment completely panic, and many people put away their weapons and retreated.

The charge of the Fourth Regiment and the slight panic of the Fifth Regiment did not suffer much loss, but this trend was seen by the generals of the Shun Army, and this was an opportunity.

Whether it was General Quan Liu Zongmin, who was commanding the squad, or Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, further away, and Yuan Zongdi, who was in front of him, he raised his hand at the first moment and shouted loudly:

"Brothers, the thief of Lu is in chaos, let's fight!"

The Shun Army infantry, which had been mobilized, was shouting. Yuan Zongdi placed the front of him with his direct army, and he was also the elite fighting force in the Shun Army. When he heard his order, he paused and immediately opened the formation and rushed towards the Fifth Regiment, which was slightly scattered in the formation.
To be continued...