Chapter 88: Moving the Wall (Third Shift, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Kill!"
Again, when the roar that resounded through the sky fell, the main formation of the Qing army, which had been blown up, had already been broken away. But the saber still kept swinging and falling, like a guillotine in the countryside, mechanical but effective.
When designing the tactics of heavy infantry at the beginning, Zhu Mingzhong followed the simplest principle - simplicity, after all, for the vast majority of soldiers, the more complex the tactics, the more difficult it is to master, and the longer the training time is required. According to his idea, the heavy infantry in heavy armor does not need a variety of tactics and formations at all, they only need to form a phalanx, and then crush forward with a canned shell, and their weapon is similar to a long-handled chopping knife that can cut through heavy armor, and the only tactic is chopping.
And in order to carry out this tactic, the formation of the heavy infantry was so tight, like a wall, that the opponents who were skilled in tactics and skilled in changing factions could not use their strengths at all. What's more lethal is that due to the dense formation of the heavy infantry, so that the enemy on the opposite side has to face three or four chopping swords at the same time with one person, even the most experienced enemy soldiers, at this time, there is only one choice, which is to be "beaten" to death - even in this process, it is difficult to cause casualties of the wall charge hoplites, in addition to the protection provided by the heavy armor, the tight queue provides the best protection for the heavy armor.
This kind of heavy infantry tactics, which borrowed from the anti-riot tactics of later generations, is Zhu Mingzhong's proud work, and it can be said that it is his only "original" tactic. However, as soon as he met the enemy, he fully demonstrated his might, and the heavy infantry at this time was like an effective killing machine, crushing forward.
But people are only people after all, although on the training ground, continuous training tells them to maintain the formation, to achieve "moving like a city", but the corpses on the ground have become a stumbling block for the queue, and slowly the neat "iron wall" began to become messy, and the neat iron wall only lasted for a short period of ten seconds.
When this iron wall appeared on the battlefield, it shocked everyone, and Da Su was even more shocked to the pale, almost unable to believe all this in front of him, once upon a time, the heavy infantry was the trump card of the Eight Banners inside and outside the pass, and now, this iron wall completely subverted his understanding.
As a veteran of the battlefield, Dasu naturally would not be frightened by this iron wall, but after only a moment of surprise, he immediately issued an order to adjust the military formation, after all, it was not the Qing army's own formation that was dispersed, but only the front formation.
"Order the Left Wing Army to take the white flag as the leader and face the thief Kou ......"
Dasu, who has been accustomed to calling himself "orthodox" for more than ten years, does not even now admit that the enemy in front of him is the "Ming army", and in his opinion, these things in front of him are just thieves. And the changes in the queue of thieves like an iron wall also fell in his eyes, and he naturally would not miss such an opportunity.
Under the wave of the flag, the Eight Banners of the Left Wing Army immediately greeted the whole team, and the Qing troops whose formation had been scattered did not retreat, but retreated to the two wings, and the whole process fully showed the proper quality of a group of veterans. At the same time, the Left Wing Army had already risen forward and stood in front of the iron wall of the Loyal Army.
"Kill the dog!"
Although he knew that almost all the soldiers under his command were Han army flags, Olebu, as the vanguard of the white flag, still shouted this sentence when he was about to meet the enemy, and those Eight Banner soldiers also shouted.
"Kill the dog!"
"Kill! Kill! ”
The same words, the same blood, but shouting a few completely different words, one side is willing to be a slave, but the other side is unwilling to be embarrassed!
In this deafening shout, the two armies, which were separated by several feet, suddenly collided together. The moment when the heavy armored soldiers of the loyal and righteous army and the armored soldiers of the Qing army collided head-on.
"Boom!"
Faintly, people seemed to hear a crash like summer thunder.
The sound of the impact was the sound of swords and spears slashing on the armor, and the loyal soldiers with heavy blades and the Eight Banners who were also good at armor and foot combat collided together.
Chopping horses and heavy knives and slashing in the air, the maces, swords and other weapons in the hands of the Qing army's armored foot soldiers also greeted the loyal officers and soldiers.
When thousands of blades were raised high, they even blocked the sunlight in the air, so that the light seemed to suddenly dim at this moment, and the next moment, a cloud of blood mist suddenly erupted between the two armies, and the blood mist was like a suddenly rising mist, and instantly enveloped the place where the two armies collided. Hundreds of human heads, stumps and severed arms rose in the blood mist and were dragged into the air, and those heads and severed arms rolled in the air, falling to the ground and being trampled into mud by the iron boots under the feet of the infantry of the two armies.
At this moment, the ranks of the two armies immediately recessed a large piece, like two violently colliding cars, when the front of the car was deformed and dented, the formation of the two sides was disrupted, whether it was the heavy infantry of the loyal army or the armored soldiers of the Qing army, in this instant impact, the queue fell into chaos.
The soldiers in the back row of both sides have not come to rush to replenish, the other party has already killed, has rushed into the formation of the Qing army armor soldiers, although the entry of more than ten years, has lost the courage of the year, but as a veteran in the army, they still fully show their fierce side, armed with mace, chopping sabers and other heavy weapons of the Qing army with weapons to tear the armor of the loyal officers and soldiers, but the other Qing troops use shields against the nearest loyal soldiers, in the shield to block the swords at the same time, the waist knife in the hand is attached to the shield, Stabbed at the edge of the armor of the loyal officers and soldiers, and the gap between the hems of the armor was empty.
These Qing soldiers who have fought for half their lives are wearing armor, and they know very well where the weakness of the armor is, and they also know that on the battlefield, either the enemy dies or I die, perhaps sucking the blood of the Han people for more than ten years like a parasite-like life, which has already made them no longer the martial arts of the year, but the memory of the battlefield in their bones has not faded, at this time, the experience of a hundred battles is their biggest reliance.
After the chaos of the camp of the iron wall, under the cunning attack of these Qing soldiers, the screams of the heavy armor of the loyal and righteous army, which originally seemed to be indestructible, were heard endlessly, but in just an instant, the loyal and righteous army fell a whole layer. The Eight Banners in armor on the opposite side marched forward, and the boots covered with iron plates on their feet either stepped through the corpse or directly on the corpse, and continued to wave the blade in their hands, stabbing the loyal soldiers in front of them through the gaps in the armor.