Chapter Seventy-Nine: Fighting in Formation

The Qing army lined up, with sword and shield hands in front and pikemen and archers in the back, but did not take the initiative to attack, but formed a formation, waiting for the Ming army to attack. Because according to the normal phenomenon at that time, the active attacking side was prone to chaos in the process of marching, and even the strictly trained Qi family army needed to stop and form a formation again after walking fifteen to thirty steps.

"Queue forward!" Gong Xiaoda yelled.

The Ming army marched in a neat pace, advancing to the sound of drums, the formation was as neat as a person, and everyone marched forward in unison.

Seeing the Ming army marching in formation, they actually walked a hundred steps, and the formation was not chaotic at all, Yang Ji, a general of the Qing army, broke out in a cold sweat on his head, and he was very shocked in his heart: What kind of strong army is this!

"Stop!" Gong Xiaoda shouted.

The shape of the Ming army stopped at the time of eighty steps away from the Qing army, and the swords and guns were neat, as tight as a whole.

"Heavy bird guns ready, musketeers ready, archers ready!" Gong Xiao shouted.

Seeing that the heavy musketeer had been prepared, Gong Xiaoda shouted: "Heavy bird forward!" ”

Twenty-four heavy musketeers, carrying twelve heavy muskets, crossed the ranks of infantry and appeared in the forefront. The twelve soldiers in front crouched down, their guns mounted on their shoulders, and the twelve soldiers in the back picked up their torches and waited for orders.

Qing Bing saw that it was this kind of extra-large bird gun again, and his heart was immediately horrified, and the shield hand in front of him knew that his shield was the same as paper paste in front of this kind of oversized bird gun. A shield bearer of the Qing army dropped his shield, turned around and ran, but was cut off by the overseer team behind him.

The formation of the Qing army's pikemen behind was also a little confused, and the Qing soldiers looked at this powerful heavy gun in horror, not knowing whether to charge or run behind.

"Put!" The Ming army's standard-bearer small flag waved.

Twelve soldiers slammed their torches into the fire door.

The "Boom Boom" heavy musket made a dull explosion sound, the muzzle of the gun spewed fire, billowing white smoke rose in the Ming army's position, and twelve bullets the size of goose eggs flew towards the Qing soldiers in front. This heavy bullet hit the shield, whether it was an iron or a wooden shield, and it could not stop a bullet the size of a goose egg. When the iron shield was shot, it immediately made a hole, and after the bullet passed through the shield, it smashed the Qing soldiers in a straight line behind; The bullet hit the wooden shield, and the shield was immediately shattered, and the bullet that penetrated the shield continued to pull out a line of blood, and the broken shield fragments, like shrapnel, threw the Qing soldiers behind them in a pool of blood.

The mountain road was very narrow, and the Qing army was crowded together. The bullet burrowed into the crowd, and immediately blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams were repeated.

Twelve heavy muskets fired in one round, causing nearly 100 casualties in the Qing army!

The twenty-four heavy gunners immediately raised their guns and retreated to the back of the formation to reload the gunpowder and bullets.

Yang Ji knew that if the Ming army fired a few more rounds of this weapon, he was afraid that his own people would be about the same. At this time, you can only rush forward to make this kind of big killing weapon of the Ming army useless.

"Kill!" Yang Ji pulled out his sword and pointed in the direction of the Ming army.

The drums of the Qing army rumbled in the formation, and a large number of Qing soldiers shouted and rushed towards the Ming army.

"Musketeers, out!" Gong Xiaoda shouted.

Three hundred Portuguese and British musketeers crossed the infantry formation and appeared in front of the formation, and the first hundred musketeers at the front pulled the trigger, and a row of gunfire sounded, some of the Qing soldiers blocked the bullets with their shields, but some of the Qing soldiers were not well protected, they were hit, and their bodies sprayed blood mist, and they fell on the way.

The hundred musketeers who had finished shooting retreated, and the one hundred musketeers behind fired a second row of fire, and another row of bullets drilled into the crowd of Qing soldiers.

By the time the third row of musketeers fired, the Qing soldiers had already rushed to within fifty paces.

Although ordinary muskets could not penetrate thick shields, the impact of bullets still made the Qing army almost unable to hold the shield, not to mention that some Qing soldiers were not protected by the shield.

The musketeers who had finished firing all retreated to the back of the formation, reloading gunpowder and bullets.

"Whoosh" The archers behind the Qing army threw a round of light arrows. The arrows flew over the heads of the Qing soldiers in front and landed in the Ming formation. Except for a few Ming soldiers who were injured in their hands and feet without protection, most of them were unharmed. The arrows shot at the helmets and armor were bounced off.

The Ming archers also threw a volley of light arrows and landed in the crowd of Qing troops. Although the killing effect was not very good, several Qing soldiers were still injured.

Gong Xiaoda waved the small flag in his hand, and the spear of the pikeman was flattened, slightly inclined upward, aiming in the direction of the Qing army. The already loaded musketeers passed through the gap in the pikemen's formation, stood behind the shield-bearers, and began to fire in three stages, overturning many of the clearers.

After firing, the musketeers retreated behind the pikemen, crouched on the ground and began to reload the paper packets.

The twelve heavy muskets were too slow to reload, the musketeers had already fired two rounds, and the twelve heavy muskets had not yet been loaded. At this time, the Qing soldiers had already rushed to the Ming army formation.

The charging Qing army was obviously in disarray.

"Kill!" Rows of spears spat out of the formation like lightning and pierced into the crowd of Qing soldiers.

Before the weapons in the hands of many Qing soldiers could play a role, they were stabbed into a hornet's nest by spears. However, the Qing soldiers behind quickly rushed to the Ming army, and the big swords and spears were slashed and stabbed indiscriminately.

The twenty ironclad soldiers in the front row of the Ming army stood still like a humanoid fortress, allowing the swords and spears of the Qing soldiers to greet on their shields and iron armor. These ironclad soldiers are all full body armor, and even the face door is protected, and the knives and guns of the Qing soldiers cannot wear the transparent army ironclad soldiers at all.

"Kill!" The sword of the ironclad soldier slashed out one after another, and a burst of blood splashed in the crowd of Qing soldiers.

Two Qing sabers and shieldmen rushed to an ironclad soldier, and two swords slashed down, slashing at the ironclad soldier, only to see a burst of sparks. The ironclad soldiers of the Ming army used a Miao knife to slash over a Qing soldier, and then smashed it down with an iron shield, smashing the head of another Qing soldier to pieces.

Although Wang Xinyu's ironclad soldiers are slightly inferior to Zheng Chenggong's ironclad soldiers, they are also invulnerable elite ironclad soldiers, and it is difficult for Qing soldiers to break through these heavy ironclad soldiers like iron cans, unless they are attacked with cavalry.

The pikemen stabbed their spears from the shoulders of the ironclads, and the Qing soldiers who pounced on the ironclads fell one after another. But there were still six of the most brave Qing soldiers who parried the knives cut by the Ming army's ironclad soldiers, rushed through the gap between the Ming army's ironclad soldiers and the ironclad soldiers, rushed into the Ming army's pikemen formation, and slashed indiscriminately with their knives. These Qing soldiers used their shields to block the spears that stabbed them, and although they were shot several times, they were not hit.

If the ironclad soldiers of the Ming army turn around, they can kill these Qing soldiers, but the ironclad soldiers at the forefront must ensure that the formation is neat, and they can't just go back to the rear formation, they can only face the Qing soldiers coming in front of them.

The Qing soldiers who rushed into the formation cut down the two pikemen, but a row of long-handled knives behind the pikemen slashed and slashed, lifting the shields of the Qing soldiers, and some of the knives cut down on the heads of the Qing soldiers, and some of the long knives were stabbed as spears and stabbed at the throats of the Qing soldiers. In the blink of an eye, these Qing soldiers were chopped into pulp by the long knife hands mixed in the pikemen formation.

The archers behind the Ming army's formation replaced armor-piercing arrows, and from time to time accurately shot cold arrows, killing the Qing troops in front of them one by one.

The roar of the muskets rang out again, and the musketeers behind the Ming formations stood on the stones on the side of the road on both sides, firing rows of projectiles at the two flanks of the Qing army.

The loaded heavy musket was also brought out, directly on the shoulders of the Ming army's long-handled swordsmen, aiming at the densest place of the Qing army crowd in front of it and blasting out a row of powerful projectiles, plowing twelve blood lines in the Qing army crowd.

The formation of the Ming army began to move forward, and twenty heavy ironclad soldiers were in front, like twenty knife carts, crushing in the crowd of Qing soldiers, slashing shields and smashing them, and everywhere they passed, the Qing soldiers fell down screaming. The pikemen in the back followed closely, and rows of spears stabbed out, and patches of Qing soldiers were tied into a hornet's nest.

With the combination of long and short weapons, melee weapons and long-range weapons, the Qing army has completely lost its fighting spirit.

"Ahh Several Qing soldiers turned around and began to flee.

Yang Ji and his own soldiers swung their knives again and again, cutting down several Qing soldiers who had fled. However, after hacking those deserters to death, Yang Ji found that his formation had completely collapsed, and he could not stop the pace of the defeated army's retreat.

The chaotic Qing army dispersed Yang Ji's Chinese army in a blink of an eye, enveloping Yang Ji and his own soldiers, and fled to the mountain road behind like a low tide.

In the chaos, many Qing soldiers fell and were trampled on by countless pairs of feet. There are countless Qing soldiers who trample on each other and die. The Qing soldiers who lagged behind were chased by the Ming army, cut in two one after another, and stabbed to the ground.

Looking at the back of the Qing army that disappeared on the mountain road, Gong Xiaoda was very disappointed and thought: It's a pity that I don't have cavalry, if there are cavalry, what a pleasant thing to chase the Tartar's ass and slash at this time! The hoplites were too slow to move, and the musketeers were not protected by heavy armor and did not dare to break out of formation to pursue the enemy.

Gong Xiaoda, with 2,500 elites, slowly advanced step by step, followed behind the Qing army, and gradually pressed towards Ganshi Mountain.

Yang Ji knew that if he ran back to find Gao Jinku like this, he would definitely lose his head. He saw that the Ming army did not catch up, so he gathered the defeated troops again, wanting to block it for a while and buy time for Gao Jinku. He wanted to block for a while, and then retreat, anyway, the Ming army had no cavalry, and he would not be wiped out if he was defeated for a while.

In Ganshi Mountain, the Qing army in Gaojinku built some improvised shield carts, and the auxiliaries and civilians also filled sacks with mud. Then the Qing army pushed the shield cart and went to fill the trench.

On the hills on both sides, improvised trebuchets kept smashing stones, killing and injuring many Qing soldiers. However, the accuracy of the trebuchet was too poor, and after smashing for a long time, only one stone hit the shield cart of the Qing army.

The smashed shield cart immediately fell apart, and the broken wood overturned a row of Qing soldiers behind the shield cart.

The Ming army behind the wooden fence shot with bird guns and bows and arrows, but the effect of bird guns was very poor, and the projectiles were blocked by the shield car, which could not penetrate the shield car at all. The light arrows thrown can kill some Qing army auxiliaries and people behind the shield cart, but the effect is not very good, and the archer's physical strength is also very fast when the bow is fired for a long time.

The Qing army's shield cart was pushed to the first trench, and the Qing army's auxiliaries and Minzhuang behind the shield cart began to fill the trench with sacks filled with soil.

At this time, the archers and birds of the Ming army fired volleys in rows, and the projectiles and arrows rained down, and the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang who were filling the trenches fell in large pieces.

Some of the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang looked at the random arrows and projectiles flying in front of the shield cart, and their legs trembled and did not dare to step forward, so they were hacked to death by the Qing soldiers who supervised the battle. Some of the people had just come out of the shield cart with sacks, and before they could throw the sacks into the trench, they were shot to death by random arrows.

On the hills on both sides of the small mound, the wolf's fangs kept rolling down, knocking over the shield carts on both sides. However, the shield cart in the middle of the valley is too far away from the wolf's tooth, and the wolf's tooth on the hill can't hit the middle of the road.

After losing more than 500 auxiliaries and people, the Qing army finally filled in the middle section of the first trench. But Wang Xinyu doesn't care about this, this first trench was originally filled by the Qing soldiers, but it just played a sluggish role.

The Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang pushed the shield cart and pressed up to the second trench.

"Cast!" Wang Xinyu roared.

The smoking bottle of the national surname, whirling in the air, flew out from above the wooden fence, and exploded in the shield car of the Qing army more than ten steps away.

The sound of explosions continued to rise, and the sturdy shield carts were blown apart one by one by the exploded Guojia bottles, and the Qing army auxiliaries and people pushing the shield carts fell to a large area screaming, and even the Qing soldiers who followed behind to supervise the battle were also affected. In the firelight, the burst bottle of the surname of the country flew out of broken porcelain pieces and thistles, knocking down a lot of Qing soldiers.

The national surname bottle is Zheng Jiajun's sharp weapon, and its power is much more powerful than the ten thousand enemies in "Heavenly Creation", and Wang Xinyu has improved the gunpowder, which makes the national surname bottle more powerful.

In fact, Wang Xinyu still had a secret weapon in his hand that he had not taken out: he had ten Guojiao bottles filled with Dana explosives in his hand, and these Guojia bottles were brought out by Chen Jinnan and asked Hong Xiguan to bring them out. Of course, Wang Xinyu will not use this super-powerful weapon now, only as a last resort, if the Qing army really wants to fight hard, he will throw those bottles filled with Dana explosives to surprise the Qing army.

Seeing that the shield car that had been built so hard was all blown up in a blink of an eye, Gao Jinku jumped like thunder.

"Attack the hills on both sides!" Gao Jinku saw that the hillside was not very steep, so he wanted to attack it from both sides.

As a result, when the Qing army began to attack the slope, the rolling wood and stones on it fell down, and the Qing army attacked twice in a row and was beaten back in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the defeated soldiers who Yang Ji didn't have time to collect fled to Gao Jinku.

"Big, big, sir, no! The pirates have been chased out! Lord Yang is defeated! The rout panted and reported to Gao Jinku.

If you don't rush across the valley quickly, you will be made dumplings.

Gao Jinku put his heart sideways, ready to make a desperate bet: "Prepare to attack!" ”