Chapter 381: The Gentleman's Golden Drum (Twenty-two)
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His plan sounds a little bold to several people, but when you think about it, it is really feasible.
Using infantry to hide artillery, waiting until the Yue people approached and suddenly firing a salvo, in fact, these small cannons were used as muskets, using the formation of the Yue people to instantly collapse the Yue people, causing deterrence, and those Yue people on the right flank were mostly some of the previous routs.
Remove the threat from the right flank, and then use the infantry to defend the front, and you can support it.
The commander of the Sixth Brigade pondered for a moment and said, "I thought that we would also form a thick infantry formation here, as long as we held out until the left flank surrounded us. ”
Six fingers said in a loud voice: "Tyrannical Heavenly Things, Violent Heavenly Things!" These brigades on our right flank were all above the first level when they were assessed, so why do we have to put them in a thick formation and lose the advantages of our formation being orderly and marching like the wind? ”
"Our formation is already dense, if we set up a thick formation, the Yue people may really not be able to disperse us, but there are enemies in all directions. The formation was thick, and the artillery could not play it, and after the musketeers fired twice, they could only cover the flanks of the infantry formation with short swords...... We are not like the brigades on the left flank, we are forty percent of the musketeers. ”
He understands the role of these brigades that are suitable for military reform, and he has learned a lot before, so it can be said that they are all on paper.
However, talking about troops on paper is not necessarily useless, or a person who talks about troops on paper is far better than someone who has never talked about soldiers, especially since the composition of these brigades is unprecedented, and there is no such thing as actual combat experience crushing people who talk about soldiers on paper.
The big war is imminent, and after discussing it, these people still agree with Six Fingers' idea.
At this time, it can also be noticed that the Chinese army of the righteous division is also moving slightly to the right side slowly and unchaotically, so as to increase the defense of the right wing and the junction of the Chinese army.
If you are just positive, although the elite Junzi army of the Yue people has not yet engaged with the righteous master, the psychological advantage accumulated before makes these people logically think that the righteous master is not afraid of any strong army in the world.
Then the only threat is on the right side, and there is danger when people go around to the side. Six Fingers' proposal is also aimed at this matter, attacking as defense, and removing the threat on the right side with a slam blow.
Immediately, the 7th Brigade, where Six Fingers belonged, was deployed on the right side according to the agreed result.
At the back of the spearman company, fifteen reloaded small cannons were hidden, which did not participate in the frontal bombardment of the Vietnamese army formation and the suppression of the archers.
The two spearman companies on the front of the artillery, the two best in the assessment of the 7th Brigade, were in a slightly sparse formation according to the order, and as soon as the enemy approached, they were to concentrate quickly, leaving a perspective for the small guns behind.
The musketeer company of the king of Shu Qing was divided into the left side of the seventh brigade, according to the plan, if the Yue people collapsed, they were the musket company that followed the spearman company to pursue: this time the pursuit was to chase the scattered Yue people without a chance to regroup, Mozi attached great importance to this in the city defense technique, and it was also clear during the usual training, although there were many defeated troops, in fact, they had no combat power, and you chased hard in the back, and the defeated troops that could not be reassembled were a mass of scattered sand, and a dozen people could catch up with hundreds of people.
This kind of thing was originally done by cavalry, but the cavalry of the righteous division had a total of five hundred, and this kind of thing could only be done by relying on only two kinds of foot soldiers.
The military drums of the Yue people sounded, and the king of Shuqing couldn't tell who these Yue people were, or which doctor they belonged to, or whether they were the gentlemen's army or the priests' pawns, and it seemed to him that there was no difference.
It is said that the Yue people are brave, but the previous offensive battle can see that the Yue people's bravery is also like that.
Once this psychological advantage is established, the panic disappears.
Before the war, it was clear that they were just fishing bait, and after successful fishing, they had to change from bait to anvil in Peixian's blacksmith shop, and the left flank of the righteous master was a sledgehammer for striking iron.
Since it is an anvil, it is naturally hard and victorious.
Look at your own company, in this offensive battle, there are only three wounded in your own company, which does not affect the operation.
The spearmen company next to him also had fewer wounded, because there were not too many hand-to-hand battles at all, the previous six brigades were nearly 9,000 people, and the main force of the Yue people was not on the opposite side of the right flank at the beginning, with 9,000 elites against 10,000 Yue soldiers, and there was also the support of muskets and cannons and cavalry, which was really like a hot iron knife to cut the pickled lard in the soldiers' marching rations.
Now their task is those Yue people on the right, and since they say that the positive matter has nothing to do with them for the time being, King Shuqing will not find a way to step on his feet to see what is happening in the place where the front drum is shaking the sky.
He just stared at the Yue people in front of him.
Most of those Yue people were defeated in previous battles, and if the Yi Division's cavalry was enough, or they just thought about breaking through on the right flank, these Yue people would not have a chance to fight again.
But now that the king of Yue has regrouped them, it seems that there are very many of them, and he can't count how many there are.
The Yue people began to approach with the sound of drums, and these Yue people began to approach, led by nobles in front, riding in a chariot or fighting on foot with a sword, slowly approaching the location of the king of Shuqing.
They didn't dare to rush in advance, and they were finally smarter.
Fortunately, the order issued by the 7th Brigade was strictly forbidden to shoot in advance, but to wait until the Vietnamese approached about 30 paces and then fire in three rows together, relying on artillery to defeat the Vietnamese in one fell swoop.
There was no artillery bombardment, no musket fire, and these Vietnamese people were much more neat than just now, and they kept approaching the long formation of the Seventh Brigade in the rumbling of drums.
King Shu Qing calculated the distance, and finally waited for his own flute, and shouted at the same time as Yu Su, one left, one right, one front and one behind: "Raise the gun!" ”
As he shouted, he raised the musket vigorously, carefully examined the arquebus, and then half-crouched on the ground.
This time, in order to defeat the Yue people at one time, the 7th Brigade made a big gamble, and the musketeers were all arranged in three rows, that is, relying on a salvo and the artillery hidden behind the spearmen, they broke the Yue people in one fell swoop.
After the king squatted, the soldiers in the second row stood in place and raised their guns, and the soldiers in the third row moved back a little, taking advantage of the "disadvantage" that the gap between the arquebusiers must be large, so that they could hit the enemy without hitting themselves.
In the previous brief engagement, these musketeers had also adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield, and the accumulated psychological advantage also convinced them of what they had learned in their usual lives: living to the death, it seems that the closer you get, the more dangerous it is, but the closer you get, the greater the chance of hitting the enemy, and the enemy is also more dangerous, depending on who is more willing to spare their lives, and who ultimately spares their lives.
The Yue people got closer and closer, and the musket of King Shuqing became more and more resolute.
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The Yue people on the other side felt a little lucky.
They were frightened by the righteous teachers before.
In previous offensive battles, artillery salvos, musket volleys, then spearmen charged, cavalry flanks charged and pursued......
The six brigades of the righteous division on the opposite side used the most extravagant configuration to hit the weakest wing of the Vietnamese people, and the battle really collapsed in an instant.
A lot of Yue people don't know why they ran away before.
I saw that the partner next to me fell down in an instant, the dead people were miserable, and the panic of those who survived, I don't know who fled first, which caused more people to flee, just thinking about staying away from this group of people.
Stay away from the strange thing that will fly out of the iron balls.
Now, I'm much luckier.
Those things that would fly out of the iron pills were bombarding other places, and the righteous master he was facing was dead and silent.
Many Yue people thought, let those iron pills be smashed and don't go, as long as they don't smash me.
They had cowered for a while, and there was no danger.
When they got closer to only seventy or eighty paces, the line of the righteous master was still as calm as death, as if the fighting on the other side had not affected these people in the slightest.
When they finally advanced to fifty or sixty steps, the Yue people were finally relieved, and the originally lost courage was gradually reborn, and the nobles shouted with swords and waved their flags, ready to attack.
After the first few Yue people ran up, they suddenly realized that something was wrong.
The distance of fifty or sixty paces, once you start to impact the run, is actually very fast.
The first few Yue people found that the spearmen of the righteous master opposite them were originally loose, but suddenly there was a strange horn sound from the opposite side, and those loose spearmen quickly moved to one side, revealing the muzzles of a whole row of black holes in the back.
In the sunlight, the small copper cannon reflected the green luster, and the eyes of the Yue people burned with the torches held by the righteous gunners, and the brazier thorns placed behind the cannon to burn the red iron chisels.
"It's over!"
The Yue people who rushed to the front saw the black hole aimed at their cannon muzzle, and immediately thought of the fear of the previous battle, he had seen his partner's head directly shattered by this thing.
The courage of this impact stems from the fact that they thought that these terrible weapons were bombarding other places, but they did not expect to appear in front of their eyes now.
And so close, so much.
The Yue Ren in front almost subconsciously lay on the ground, covering his head with both hands, which was easy to be trampled to death during the impact, but he would rather be trampled to death than be smashed off his head by an iron ball.
And a few people next to him turned around and ran, shouting, "Run! Run! ”
At the moment when the Yue Ren who was subconsciously lying on the ground fell with his head in his hands, fifteen cannons loaded with small iron pellets of broken stone opened fire at the same time.
The sound of the cannon was also the signal for the musketeers to shoot, and the three musketeers in a row also pulled the copper hook at the same time.
Buckshot, gravel, iron pellets...... All this was scorched by gunpowder, and with the speed at which it could harvest life, it formed a rain that could not be washed away. Rain of buckshot and iron pellets.
At a distance of thirty paces, you can hit someone even with your eyes closed.
With a single salvo, the Yue people instantly put down more than 500 people, many of whom were within the fan of the fifteen small cannons.
The death of 500 people may not be too much compared to the battlefield of 10,000 people, but if these 500 people die at the same time, the shock will be incomparable.
The Yue army formation, which was originally a somewhat formation, instantly appeared a huge gap, and it was even looser than before.
Fighting a war requires a formation, and without the support of the formation, it is just a bunch of loose sand.
Fighting a war requires morale, and even a nobleman is no match for a morale-fighting apprentice.
And this salvo made the Yue people lose these two points.
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