This kind of "combination of Chinese and Western" formations is the embodiment of Zhang Zhidong's experience in studying military science in actual combat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

An officer with a ring-headed broadsword in his hand, under his command, three rows of soldiers with rifles lined up and marched forward amid the rumbling of cannons.

The rebels were clearly a little panicked and confused by the large-scale attack launched by the officers and troops during the night, and they did not shoot, and many people poked their heads out of the trenches and looked in amazement.

The officer raised the ghost head knife in his hand high and shouted: "First team! Fire! The ring-headed broadsword swung down like lightning as he shouted.

The officers and soldiers in the first platoon fired, and the bullets they fired were generally not very accurate, and only a few rebels were hit in the first round. The person who was hit twitched and let out a scream.

"Second team! Fire! The officer continued to yell. Rounds of guns passed, this time the shots were more accurate, accompanied by the sound of screams, by the moonlight, Lin Xu saw that many rebels were shot in the head, and they couldn't survive.

"The third team! Fire! ”

"Reload!"

Although they had been trained many times, and the officers and soldiers were also fighting very seriously, they were still in a hurry. Quite a few people were reloading while looking at the slain enemy. For many people, this was the first time they had killed someone in battle, just so far away and facing the enemy who was hiding. For these ordinary soldiers who have not been on the battlefield, the pressure of this stimulation is very high.

It took almost a minute to reload. The officer shouted: "Brothers, the rebels are ahead. If we defeat them, we will have a reward, our parents and family will have land to plant, and they will not starve to death, everyone says, what should we do? ”

"Kill!" Some of the leaders had been ordered in advance, and they were the first to shout.

"We are all from Xiangxiang, and our homes are occupied by the rebel party, what should we do?"

"Kill!" Many officers and soldiers shouted along.

"The traitor killed our fellow villagers, what should we do?"

"Kill!" The soldiers shouted.

"The traitor party has robbed countless gold and silver treasures, and it is right there, what should we do?"

"Kill!"

"The traitor party has robbed a lot of food, and it's right there, what should we do?"

"Kill!"

"The rebels have robbed a lot of women, and they are right there, what should we do?"

"Kill"

"Grab food! Grab the money! Snatch! ”

"Kill!"

The officers and soldiers were invigorated by such slogans. Fierce emotions were channelled into the mood of battle in the shouting of slogans again and again. No one loves killing, but for the sake of their parents, for the land, for the wealth, for the sake of women, in order to be able to live, some things must be done. Under the combined effect of various external environments and internal emotions, these originally simple villagers shouted "Kill!" one by one. "Gradually into combat mode.

Seeing that the soldiers had entered the basic state, at least the panic had been eliminated and the fear of killing had been eliminated, the officer shouted: "Forward! With that, he walked into the group.

The rebels did not realize what was happening until then, and they raised their muskets from afar, aiming at the surging stream of officers and soldiers.

The officer's sword was pointed straight at the rebels who dared to point their muskets at the officer, and the soldiers took aim as well.

"First team! Shoot! The officer swung his sword-headed sword again.

Time seems to go back to more than 100 years ago, when the Great Cadres conquered the Dzungar Department, the troops were in such a dense queue, there was no cover or anything like that, so they just stood straight and began to shoot at the enemy. There were many screams from the opposite side, and it should have been a lot of people who were knocked down. But the enemy is not just there to be beaten. There were a few sporadic gunshots, and then a dense burst of gunfire.

The officer in command was not hit, he did not look at it, and pointed his broadsword at the spot where the rebels had fired, and shouted: "Second team, towards the smoke over there!" Shoot! ”

Another round of gunfire, and a scream was heard from the opposite side.

The officer then shouted: "Third team, shoot!" ”

Lin Xu knew that this was the most primitive "queue up to shoot" tactic, and generally speaking, if it was at a relatively long distance, the troops would shoot several more times. However, the rebels' positions were not large in the first place, and there was no such time. After the third round of shooting, the officer raised his ring head sword again: "The foreign gun team loads the bullets!" The spears are on the march! ”

After shouting, he strode forward a few steps, following the spear team behind the foreign gun team past the foreign gun team that was reloading.

Generally speaking, after a cross-fire, it is a bayonet charge. But the foreign spear team of this officer army did not have bayonets, so the spear team took on this task.

"Spears, charge!" After the officer finished shouting, he raised his big sword without looking back and rushed forward. The spearmen rushed forward with their spears in their spears.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xu couldn't help frowning.

No amount of talk on paper is as good as an actual battle. Zhang Zhidong's military knowledge certainly comes from the books he has read (God knows what books he has read to come up with such a formation), but his performance on the battlefield is really worrying.

A military white man like Lin Xu, a scholar who has never experienced a battle formation, can now see what kind of result this kind of dense formation of white-bladed charge will be once hit by enemy artillery fire and platoon guns.

When he rushed forward at the beginning, it was actually quite good, what Lin Xu was worried about did not happen, and the hasty resistance of the rebels in the forward position was suppressed in an instant under the fire of three rounds of rifles. As soon as the pikemen charged, the shouting crowd overwhelmed the enemy in an instant. The newly recruited officers and soldiers had a kind of dazed excitement one by one, none of them had killed anyone themselves, but with the development of some childish battles, everyone rushed forward completely with the training on weekdays, with the officers who rushed to the front.

With a swing of his sword, the officer slashed off the head of a rebel with a firecracker. The soldiers in the back also waved their spears at the corpses of the enemy. The barrel of the gun was whipped like a whip on the headless corpse, and the headless corpse, which had already fallen backwards, was instantly whipped to the ground. Then the soldiers realized that the spear should be thorned and not drawn. The officer shook off the blood from the broadsword, then took the spear from the hand of a soldier with a face full of shame, shoved it into him, and shouted: "Follow me!" ”

With the spear in hand, the officer's killing speed increased a lot. The direct way to kill with a broadsword is to cut off the head, or open the stomach, or cut off the major arteries. And to achieve this effect, you need to be very close to the enemy. There are many choices of spears, first of all, the attack distance is farther than the big knife, and secondly, there are more options for supply, head, neck, chest, lower abdomen, thighs, a spear pokes down, as long as the strength is large, it can be fatal. The officer poked through several rebels who were trying to resist in quick succession, and rushed forward.

As long as their team captures the position, they can block the rebels outside the city gate of Xiangtan, and then the main force will annihilate them. But many of the soldiers of this officer army were participating in the battle for the first time after all, and there was no flag to guide them, and the troops did not have a sign to follow. The officer rushed so fast that when he suddenly saw a group of rebels emerge from a trench, he suddenly noticed that there were only a few people following him. Nearly 100 of its people ran away in a section of less than 200 meters. It's not that we don't have this lot, but it's divided into several sections. The foreign guns were at the end, and they were all their comrades in front of them, so naturally they could not shoot freely in front according to their training. The foreign gun team was originally at the front, so the flag of the unit was also here in the foreign gun team. The officer was careless for a moment and did not let the battle flag follow him, so the foreign spear team is now the flag bearer. Although there were also officers who commanded the foreign gun team to move forward, but after all, the foreign gun team had to reload ammunition, so they were far behind.

The spearmen in the middle had followed the officer, but the corpses of the many rebels who had been stabbed down on the way seemed to attract their attention. In particular, a rebel in the middle of the abdomen who was stabbed was holding his stomach and howling, and there were five or six helpless officers and soldiers standing beside him, and they pointed their spears at the rebel, not knowing whether to kill him with their guns or to capture this enemy who had lost his combat effectiveness.

Lin Xu immediately turned around and called someone over to participate in the battle. He knew that if the rebels then covered up, he was afraid that this army would collapse in an instant.

The officer was very brave, and when he saw the rebels, he rushed forward without hesitation. These rebels must have been born from scoundrels, and these rebels with muskets raised their guns and prepared to shoot as soon as they saw the officer and his men. The officer rolled forward and approached the enemy. Almost at the same time, the rebel muskets fired. There was a scream from behind the officer, and many of the spearmen were shot, and the officer didn't care if they were alive or dead. For if you turn back and look at him, you will die.

The spear assassination technique of this unit was taught by a well-known local martial artist, and in such a less-to-many situation, the martial artist's advice was to push the opponent away first. For a man as tall and powerful as the officer, a sweep is best. The officer was a martial artist, and he was still very good at spear skills. The advice to the martial artist is like a stream. As soon as he stood up after the forward roll, he rounded his spear and swept towards the man in front of him. Although a few people were swept away, only a "click" was heard, and the shaft of the spear was overwhelmed and broke into two.

The rebel soldiers were not slow to react, and although they were fiercely attacked by the officer, they were clearly not panicking, and they shouted and raised their swords and guns and rushed towards the officer who had half severed the barrel of the gun in his hand. Although there was a kind of desperation in the shouts of these people, the expressions on their faces were not full of fighting spirit. They are just this kind of "mourning soldiers" may be more terrifying. These people are simply forced by the threat of death, and people will be even more irrational at this time.

In the face of this kind of guy who has been cornered, it may be more appropriate to persuade him to surrender, but when the officer comes and holds half of the gun, it is obvious that there is no deterrent. Second, on his left and right, the two spears guarding him had been pierced separately. Both officers and soldiers exerted all their strength, and their spears pierced deep into the ribs of the two rebels, and the spear heads were almost all inserted. The two rebels' faces were contorted, and they couldn't even shout in pain, but just grabbed the barrels of their guns with their hands. In an instant, the weapons in the hands of the other rebels came towards the two officers. The officer was able to calmly retreat a few steps, and finally avoided the enemy's attack, but the two officers and soldiers were not so calm, and they tried to pull the spear back, but the spearhead penetrated deep into the enemy's body and was stuck. Second, when they pumped like this, the rebels who were shot were in severe pain and held on to the shaft of the spear and did not let go. Before the two officers and soldiers could let go and jump away, they were shot down by the rebels.

The two sides fought back and forth, and the officers and soldiers in the vicinity had noticed this. Seeing their comrades being knocked down, they roared and pounced. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight spears joined the warband attacking the rebels. Under the sharp poke of the spear, the rebels were shot one after another, but another group of rebels rushed up, and the two sides immediately fought together.

At this moment, the rebels' artillery suddenly rang out.

Originally, the rebels' artillery was not as large as the official army, and the artillery fire of the official army was quickly suppressed in the initial cannon fire, and it was the official army that dared to launch a charge in such a way, but what I didn't expect was that the rebels would suddenly open fire at this time.

Lin Xu guessed that it was likely that the rebels did not have many cannons and shells, so he hid one or two cannons in advance and fired them at a critical moment to make an emergency.

Whether his conjecture was correct or not, the officers and soldiers who were charging densely suddenly came under head-on bombardment, and the ranks were immediately thrown into confusion.

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