Chapter 214: Sniping
Tong Yangjia said something with a relaxed front and a person beside him, and was stunned when he heard what Tulai said, and hurriedly picked up the binoculars in his hand to look at the battlefield ahead, and saw that the Qing army was in chaos, and if there were no two hundred red armor behind him, I am afraid that it would have really collapsed.
He was shocked in his heart, you must know that although these green battalion soldiers surrendered from the southerners, they were far stronger than the combat power of ordinary Ming troops.
Just like that Li Chengdong, who led 20,000 soldiers to surrender at the beginning, and finally only left 5,000 elite soldiers into the green camp, and followed Bolo's southern expedition, and the rest were all dismissed. In fact, the Qing court has always done this to all surrendered Han troops, leaving at most three adult horses, which can not only improve combat effectiveness, but also save military salaries, food and grass.
Therefore, even if it is an ordinary green battalion, it has few defeats against the Ming army. In fact, most of the Ming army in Jiangnan was defeated by the Qing army's green camp in history, and Li Chengdong once led his 5,000 men and horses from Nanzhili to Guangdong, and the Ming army was invincible.
But right now, Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren's 7,000 men and horses didn't even hold up a stick of incense, and they had a tendency to be defeated by the Ming army!
Tong Yangjia didn't dare to think about it anymore, and hurriedly urged his subordinates to speed up the march. Without Han and Zhang's cannon fodder in front to block the enemy's guns and artillery, the soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command would have to pay several times more casualties.
As Turai and Tong Yangjia gave the order together, the Jianyu Forward Battalion immediately trotted up, and the formation was chaotic for a while.
At the forefront of the battlefield, Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren's troops ate several rounds of salvos from the Dragon Guard, and the situation was even more chaotic.
The arquebus-using battalion had switched to platoon fire after the initial salvo due to its slower reload, and although its firepower was weaker than that of the Dragon Guards, it still maintained a lot of pressure on the Qing army.
The captives watched the people next to them fall in a pool of blood one by one, and they were all terrified, they all knew that if such a fierce shot came again, how could it be their turn to be shot!
But behind them, the fierce Bayala was holding a knife to force them forward, and under the usual accumulation, these green battalion soldiers did not dare to resist at all, and slowly advanced thirty or forty steps, and they were about to meet the Ming army in a short battle.
Gan Xinda's left eye narrowed slightly, raised his gun and put the crosshair on the head of a captive bannerman, and then held his breath and pulled the trigger. The Type 2 Hunter Gun instantly spewed out a high-speed spinning Mini bullet, accurately opening a hole in the captive's head, and the "Zhang" character weapon immediately fell.
Gan Xinda took out the gunpowder bag and the conical warhead from the ammunition bag, completed the loading with his hands and feet, and was searching for the next target, when he heard a bang next to him, and then the second company of the hunters said to himself: "Six." To say that these Jiannu are really not bad today, they are almost three times dead, and they can still rush forward. But it came just in time, my second-class merit ......"
Saying that the listener had no intention, Gan Xinda frowned slightly when he heard this, according to the battles he had participated in in the past, the captives would begin to rout after being killed or wounded at most two percent, and today these enemies can still withstand it.
A gust of wind blew away the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, and he immediately discovered the key point - the warlords in the rear of the captive army, lined up in a straight line, dressed in bright cotton armor, and armed with a single sword.
Compared to ordinary warlords, these people are not only extremely strong, but also extremely ruthless, almost to the point that they can be slashed down almost as soon as someone is within five feet in front of them. It was the other Qing soldiers who were constantly driven forward by them as if they were avoiding evil spirits.
Gan Xinda narrowed his eyes and said to the herald: "Order all the chasseur companies, and focus on the last ones wearing blue armor for me!" "Red armor bayala is just a title for the elite armor of the Qing army, not just wearing red armor, but mainly blue armor.
"Yes!"
Gan Xinda waited for the herald to leave, and raised his gun to aim at Bayala in the rear row of the enemy army. Although the enemy army at the front was less than thirty paces away from him, the overseers were still ninety paces away from the entire battle formation.
He took a deep breath, and barely moved the rifled gun that weighed nearly ten pounds. The next moment, I saw his right index finger hook slightly, and with a bang, the Mini bullet rushed through the gap between the enemy troops, and flew straight towards a red armor baya in the distance.
The man was raising his knife to slash at a Qing soldier who was slower at his feet, and he was about to fall to the ground, when he suddenly heard a miserable scream, but it was the overseer who cut the man who suddenly burst out of his chest a blood flower the size of a bowl, and the huge impact lifted him upside down and flew out.
The captive soldier who was almost hacked to death by him was stunned for a moment, touched his neck, and then realized that he was still alive, and when he looked up, he saw a gap in the front line of the warlord's team, and then looked back at the Ming army that was constantly bursting out of dense lead bullets, and immediately threw his legs and ran backwards.
Similar situations soon appeared everywhere in the Qing army's formation, and as Bayala, who was supervising the battle, was killed by the Dragon Guard hunters one after another, more and more captives turned around and fled.
Soon, Hongjia Bayala had been killed by more than thirty percent, and they finally realized that they were the target of the Ming army, and they no longer dared to line up in a straight line for a while, but looked around for concealment.
But how can you still supervise the war?
Finally, when the Long Wei Army released the tenth round of salvos, Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren's troops could no longer support it, let out a miserable scream, and fled backwards with a bang.
"Rubbish!" At this time, Turai could see the green battalion soldiers scattered and fleeing in front of him without binoculars, and scolded secretly. However, his forward battalion was already about a mile away from the Ming army, and he gritted his teeth and reached the engagement distance.
He turned to the general next to him and said, "Pass on my military order, slow down the pace, reorganize the battle formation, and prepare for the battle." ”
"Huh!"
As his order was sent out, the 8,000 bannermen of the Qing army's forward battalion stopped troving and began to form a formation.
One by one, the carts were pushed to the front of the battle formation by the brigade's coating.
The carts were made of solid wood, more than seven feet wide, with four small wheels, and a thick wooden plank more than six feet high was mounted on the front, and some were nailed to it with iron sheets, and behind the planks were sandbags.
This kind of wooden cart was the decisive weapon of the Qing army to fight all over the north and south of the river. Every time they fought with the Ming army, they would use their chariots to defend themselves against fire guns and crossbow shots, especially the Ming army's three-money bird guns, which could not shoot through this thing at all.
The Qing army under the protection of the chariot fought back with birds and bows and arrows all the way and continued to advance, once the Ming army approached, they immediately rushed out and won the victory with knives and spears in hand-to-hand combat.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the Ming army was demoralized due to lack of pay and other reasons, coupled with insufficient training, they were most afraid of white-knuckle warfare.
However, due to the need to maintain a fast marching speed in order to attack Shanguan this time, Azig was unable to carry a large number of chariots. Yesterday, when the Qing army was about to fight, the Qing army urgently made a batch of crude cars, and at this time there were only seventy or eighty chariots in front of the battle.
But Turai believed that against the Ming army, these cars were sufficient.