Chapter 119: The Battle of Haiphong (Part II)
The undisciplined behavior of the pig's feet broke out with amazing combat effectiveness.
The team was still slowly but surely approaching the opposing guards. The ranks of the guards began to panic a little, and the movements and frequency of the archers' arrows began to be a little mixed.
"Damn!" Zheng Mingwu saw very clearly through the clairvoyance that the soldiers coming from the opposite side were all lined up with firecrackers, and he didn't understand, how could the firearms that were originally used for defense in the phalanx be able to press the front line? But if you have a firebolt, I don't?
"Firecrackers, step forward!"
The chaotic ranks became more and more chaotic, and the musketeers, who had been on both sides and in the rear of the formation, were driven by the officers to the rear of the archers, and were placed in the first line of positions while the archers were retreating.
"Bang!"
Facing the formation of the opposite gun, a firecracker felt a burst of oppression, in order to vent the depression in his chest, perhaps to embolden himself, he picked up the firearm and couldn't wait to pull the trigger on the opposite side. The fire rope touched the medicine pool, which immediately triggered the ignition of the gunpowder, and the angry projectile flew out of the mouth of the gun under the impetus of the gunpowder.
Driven by him, the firecrackers raised their firecrackers one after another and fired at the opposite side.
The musketeers in the queue were in this chaotic burst of shooting, and from time to time someone fell to the ground with a muffled snort, Zuo Tianpeng watched as a team officer was hit in the face by a flying projectile, and the projectile underwent a strange change in its trajectory under the action of human tissue, and it flew out from the other side, knocking the officer's full mouth of teeth to pieces.
There were people in the team who fell, either by hitting the vital point on the spot, or by hitting the limbs, falling to the ground and groaning, and then dragged aside by the officers who were escorted to the doctors behind for treatment.
"Bastard thing! Who told you to shoot so far! "Zheng Mingwu is very angry! Although the gunpowder purchased from Nanzhong is strong, the lethality effect is very average at a distance of 100 steps. After a few lashes from the musketeer's rank, he gave another order.
"Archer, step forward!"
The troops of the South Central Army on the opposite side continue to advance!
It's less than seventy steps!
Another round of arrows baptized the attacking team. This time, not only the first row, but also the third row behind Ah Jin, there were also people who fell to the ground with arrows, rode on horses, and aimed at the handsome flag on the opposite side from a distance, Ah Jin couldn't help gritting his teeth, less than seventy steps, if it was placed in the past, you could open fire, but today, you have to use the lord's tactics to try a new one!
Liang Manchu, who was pressing the formation behind the last column of sword and shield soldiers, waved the sword in his hand and shouted one after another, "Gunner brothers, hurry up!" Keep up with the team! While signaling his guards to help the gunners push the heavy gun carriage, in order to provide strong artillery support for the brothers in the exchange of fire after a while, the eight cannons closely followed the speed of the troops' advance.
Finally, it was forty steps.
The archers of the Su Guard lowered their arms, their bodies and willpower had been exhausted by the group in front of them, and they couldn't believe that someone would charge head-on under the dense rain of arrows.
"Swordsmen come forward!" Grinding his molars fiercely, Zheng Mingwu gave the order.
There was a strange scream, and the soldiers of the Old Guard, armed with swords and guns, rushed out from behind the archers and came to the front of the formation. I am going to use the five-meter spear and four-foot knife in my hand to teach a good lesson to the group of crazy guys in front of me, who can barely kick their breath, and tell them that this is not how they fight!
Seeing the pikemen lined up with spears and prepared to rush to the opposite side, Zheng Mingwu let out a long and secret breath, the march of the Nanzhong Army also brought him great pressure, and the momentum like a mountain almost suffocated him!
At this point, the distance between the two sides was less than forty steps from each other!
"Ready!"
The officers of each platoon finally waited for this moment, and they raised their arms and waved the recognition flag in their hands. With the passing of the flag and the password, the musketeers finally checked their weapons, whether the gunpowder was in good condition, whether the projectiles had been tamped properly, whether the flint was in place, whether the spring was sufficient, and after these checks, the musketeers raised their guns flat.
"First column, squat!"
"Second column, come forward!"
Zuo Tianpeng gave the order to adjust the formation for the last time. Nearly a thousand musketeers formed a dense jungle of two muskets.
Looking at the hundreds of firearms sticking out like tree branches on the opposite side, the pikemen of the Su Guard Army were slightly frightened, and after that, the fear, tyranny, anger, arrogance and many other emotions in their hearts made them shout and rush up with a howl!
At a distance of thirty paces, the facial features of the people could already be clearly distinguished, and the musketeers could clearly see the distorted expressions of the long-lancers of the old guards who tried to use their brute strength to kill the enemy army.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
The officers loudly and excitedly passed Zuo Tianpeng's order, and this tormented state finally ended with this order.
The officers' knives were accompanied by a deafening thunder, and the spearmen who rushed from the opposite side fell to the ground one after another, like rice fields in a rainstorm. Above the long queue, a dense burst of white smoke immediately rose and lingered for a long time.
The pikemen in armor, after being hit by this dense rain of bullets, seemed to pause slightly, looked at their opponents in surprise, and then died with regret and doubt.
Zuo Tianpeng rode on his horse and saw this scene very clearly:
Dense layers of pikemen rushed with shouts. The five-meter spear in their hands, the tip of the spear is bright, the cold light shines in the sunlight and shocks, the spear is as dense as a hemp forest and rises like a bamboo bush in the mountains, under the impact of the spearmen fighting for their lives, it is also a burst of swaying, a little frightened.
The musketeers pulled the trigger, and the sparks from the flint sputtered ignited the primer in the firegate, followed by the propellant in the gun, and the smoke mixed with the light of the fire erupted from the gun, and the two columns of more than 400 guns each erupted violently one after another, firing deadly projectiles one after another, and finally completing this exciting round of almost shouting volleys of firearms. Large white smoke billowed above the people's heads, and groups of old guard pikemen armed with mourning guns were knocked to the ground without formation.
At a distance of less than forty paces, the Nanzhong Army's fire guns made of ductile iron were almost impossible to resist, even if they were wearing armor also made of ductile iron, they could not resist this huge force. Even the huge impact force of the stray projectile flying from the side is enough to inflict internal injuries on the internal organs of a person until death.
The gunshots fired by the firearms were incessant, and the soldiers of the Guards who had been shot and fell to the ground lost the arrogance and murderous aura of Fang Cai, but just rolled on the ground one by one, howling in pain.
"Third column, come forward!"
Zuo Tianpeng wiped his eyes, trying to see more clearly, that's right, as the gunshots rang out intensively, a large number of Su Guard soldiers were knocked to the ground and saw that they couldn't live.
"Hah!"
The third column rushed to the front of the formation, and pulled the trigger again almost against the head and chest of the Su Guard soldiers, so that the scene of Fang Cai was played out again, although it was not as dense as Fang Cai's gunfire, but the shorter distance made up for this shortcoming.
While the musketeers of the third column were happily slaughtering the remaining pikemen of the Guard, their comrades had already completed the action of clearing and reloading their muskets, and under the urgent orders of the officers, they once again rushed to the front. This time, there is no longer fear and anxiety, there is only a desire for military achievements.
"Fire!"
Another round of dense bullet rain rushed towards Zheng Jiajun.
After two volleys, the pikemen of the Zheng Jiasu Guards who rushed on the opposite side were almost no longer able to stand on the ground. Hundreds of corpses lay on their backs in front of the battle, blood gurgling out of their bodies pierced by projectiles, moistening the autumn earth.
"My lord! Our cannon has arrived! ”
Liang Manchu and the officers of the artillery team rushed to Zuo Tianpeng's horse out of breath.
"Order the brothers in front of you to dodge, Lao Tzu wants to tell them with cannonballs, how to treat the uncle of the Celestial Empire!"
However, Zheng Mingwu and his subordinates seemed unwilling to give Zuo Tianpeng this opportunity.
When hundreds of former elite and invincible pikemen were knocked to the ground by two rounds of muskets, Zheng Mingwu was very aware of a hot stream gushing out between his legs. When he raised the clairvoyance in his hand with all his strength, he was surprised to find that the opposite side was preparing for the bombardment of the artillery team, and the musketeers who had killed their elite soldiers were already in a protective posture around several huge guns, obviously planning to bombard their formation with artillery before killing with muskets.
didn't have time to think about it, Zheng Mingwu turned the horse's head, ruthlessly gave the mount under the crotch a whip, and told the soldiers around him in a timely manner, "Quick!" Roll up my flag! ”
"Run!"
"Defeated!"
"If we don't escape, we'll all die here!"
Before the artillery team could complete the reloading action, the Su Guards on the opposite side were already in a state of collapse.
Zheng Mingwu took the lead, with his guards behind him, hurriedly rushed through the chaotic and noisy formation, and rushed straight to the west.
"The chiefs have all run away, let's run too!"
Such a shout was heard from the crowd.
With this shout, the gunners sent eight shells to the ranks of the Su Guards in a timely manner, the distance between the two armies was less than 100 paces, and the shells of the eight-pounder guns were enough to penetrate the entire formation!
Eight scorching cannonballs pierced the formation of the Su Guards, smashing to pieces of objects that tried to stop them along the way, and behind their trajectory were countless stumps, broken bones and flesh and blood, as well as burning vehicles, flags, and discarded armor and weapons.
Several soldiers didn't dare to blink, and right in front of them, a cannonball hit their team directly, and the upper body of the team flew out with the castration of the cannonball, and was thrown a few steps away, twisting and struggling on the ground, while the two legs remained in place for a while, and then collapsed. The culprit's cannonball, still unfinished, bounced a few times, and hit a horse not far away with a horse, the impact point was near the horse's back crotch, piggybacking on the guard's right leg away, human blood, horse blood mixed together, the guard fell to the ground, screaming in pain, trying to break free from the suppression of the horse's body, but it was too late, in the whistling of the cannonball, the painful groans of the gunner, the scene of broken limbs, blood continued to splash in the process, His comrades made the choice.
"Run!"
Countless big feet trampled mercilessly on the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground, and people threw their knives and guns in their hands and armor on the ground one after another, shouting and running away in the direction they came. The quicker one untied the cart and tried to ride away, but was immediately dragged off the horse by the men beside him, and took the horse and drove away.
The troops of the Su Guard have completely collapsed!
"Pikemen, sword and shield soldiers! The musketeers stay to clean up the battlefield! ”
Zuo Tianpeng looked at the formation of the other party fleeing with regret, if there were cavalry at this time, it would be good to kill all the thousands of people on the opposite side.
Liang Manchu led the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and let out a tiger roar and rushed out to kill.
Although it was a pursuit and defeat of the enemy, Liang Manchu was still very measured, taking the sentry as a unit, two long guns, and two swords and shields as a sentry to carry out a purpurana pursuit, once it was found that an officer was trying to restore the formation, organize the formation, and carry out actions such as defense or blockade and counterattack, he immediately became the focus of the pursuit force.
Each outpost was only responsible for pursuing the five-mile road, and after the five-mile road, it was replaced by another sentry, and the rest of the troops moved slowly through the ranks, forming a constant effective pressure on the retreating Su guards, but without exerting their own bodies too much.
After chasing thirty miles, Liang Manchu ordered the team to return to the camp.
At this moment, on the battlefield of Fang Cai, when the brothers of the baggage team brought up the steaming lunch, the results of cleaning the battlefield were also preliminarily counted.
In this battle, Zuo Tianpeng's troops killed a total of 171 people, most of them were wounded by arrows, muskets and artillery in the process of engaging the enemy, 447 people were wounded, of which 194 were seriously wounded, more than 1,400 Su guards were killed, more than 300 people were wounded, and more than 4,000 were captured, of which more than 2,000 were either people's husbands or soldiers of the Mo family army who were captured by the Zheng family's army, and they became prisoners again.
More than 20 military flags of the Su Guards were captured, the swords and guns could not be counted for the time being, there was a lot of grain and grass (many of them were materials that had just been seized from the Mo family), and Liang Manchu, who was in charge of pursuing the enemy, also sent people from time to time to send new battle reports or captured them, and these numbers were still being refreshed.
Although there was no total annihilation of the Su Guards, such a result also made people laugh from ear to ear.
However, when everyone was cheering for the victory in the first battle and raising their glasses, a very discordant voice came out.
"My lord, Lie, I think that in fact, we can play better today."
The person who spoke was the new staff officer Liu Zheng.
"The musketeers are advancing, and the distance between them and the artillery team is too long, if the musketeers are lined up, the artillery team can quickly follow up, complete the actions such as loading the column, and after the first round of shooting, open fire on the enemy, it is unknown that the Zheng army may be completely annihilated by our army."
That night, Zuo Tianpeng spread out his notebook and gritted his teeth and began to write today's combat diary. These diaries will be used as the original basis for evaluating merit and awarding merit and merit after the war.
In the remarks column, he wrote down Liu Zheng's opinion very seriously, "In the future, it seems that this tactic can be tested." ”
"On the way to Hai'an County, our army was ambushed by more than 40,000 people of the Nanzhong Army. The enemy used nearly 20,000 guns and concentrated more than 200 large and small artillery pieces to attack our army. ”
"The firearms used by the Li thief are all exquisite for a while, all of them are made of nine-turn stainless steel, the fire gun can penetrate the heavy armor two hundred steps away, and the artillery weighs dozens of catties. Our soldiers fought bloodily, although the enemy artillery fell like rain, but still shouted a fierce battle, and the enemy artillery fired, and then the cannon body was exhausted, the athletes held spears and the enemy hand-to-hand combat, the spear was broken with steel knives, steel knives were broken with fists and feet, relying on the heavenly power of our emperor, and finally broke out of the encirclement to reinforce Thang Long. ”
"Zheng Mingwu, the commander of the Chensu Guard, ambushed the enemy in Hai'an County, and the Great Thief Army was transferred to Thang Long. 》
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