The standard battalion of the general army is indeed stronger than the battalion soldiers, but the battle line of the Fuqing army is still indestructible, and the rows of Fuqing soldiers stand side by side, although most of their passion has dissipated, and they no longer make violent shouts, but they still silently repeat the action of stabbing. From time to time, the soldiers of the Fuqing Army were hit by stray arrows, or were injured to the ground, they did not scream, but gritted their teeth and endured until they were dragged down from the front line by their fellow villagers.

When fighting just now, Qu Xiucai's people were once replaced by other scholars, and Cao Xinmu also had the opportunity to rest and drink a sip of water after the round formation. When the formation was adjusted just now, the Qu family was sent to the front again, and if they were replaced by other heroes' troops, they might quarrel over how much to contribute and whether the task distribution was fair. Therefore, the lineup of the general heroes is not adjusted, each according to the destiny of heaven, and if he is beaten, he will be beaten all the way to the end, and he will idle the whole game if he has nothing to do, so as not to have disputes in the rotation, or let those slippery people take the opportunity to dodge.

However, the gentry's troops did not have such concerns, since it was Xia Juren's order, junior and junior scholars like Qu Xiucai did not hesitate to carry it out, and they did not even have the idea of bargaining; Besides, Qu Xiucai was ordered to replace, or came to replace him, all of them were his fellow villagers, and they were all related to him; There will be nothing to worry about, and no one will deliberately bully him.

For Cao Xinmu, this was the hardest battle since he left his hometown, and the battle had been going on for more than an hour, and the Qing army had not yet been defeated and fled en masse. Now Cao Xinmu and his friends don't have the strength to shout, they repeat the stabbing action over and over again, this set of actions they also used when grabbing water and fighting in groups, but at that time they were holding bamboo and wooden poles, and now they are bright spears, and they have also been trained and improved by the teaching team.

Even though the enemy on the opposite side was as strong as a tiger, and did not have the ability to disperse the dense spears while crossing the fence, there was a particularly brave enemy soldier just now, who looked like an officer. Not only did the man succeed in climbing over the fence, but he also tossed for a long time without being stabbed to death by the spear, and tried to cover his men to turn over and help him drive the spearmen back.

But not everyone was as brave as this enemy, and most of his men were stabbed back as they climbed over the fence - not necessarily with multiple injuries, but they just couldn't get over. The soldiers with the three-eyed guns did not just use their guns as flare guns, but from time to time they walked up to the front row with their guns and opened fire under the noses of the enemies who were climbing the wall. With the cover of the fence and the spear companion, the shooter of the Three-Eyed Gun has time to take aim calmly, and at this time, the long handle of the Three-Eyed Gun also plays to its advantage - the shooter usually lights the fuse first, and then holds the end of the long handle in both hands, and slowly stabs it in the face of the enemy on the opposite side of the fence, and then points firmly between the opponent's eyes and the bridge of the nose, waiting for the fuse to burn to the end - if you hit the firebolt, don't want to climb the wall and tie up, if you insist on climbing the fence, then no wonder you will be sprayed all over the face, Blowing up a deaf person in both ears - it takes a lot of courage to continue to climb the fence with the three eyes that were sneering at the fuse, and Cao Xinmu didn't see anyone who could do it anyway.

However, these three eyes also caused some trouble to the defenders, that is, they shot a large amount of white mist, so that the commander of this team, Xia Juren, and his subordinate Qu Xiucai and other officers could not see the enemy's situation clearly. However, even if there was a white expanse in front of them, it would not have much impact on Cao Xinmu and them, these soldiers still stabbed with all their might in the direction of the fence that might be empty, since the owner did not stop, then everyone would not be lazy.

I don't know how long it took, the surrounding atmosphere seemed to have become a little abnormal, there was no three-eyed gun coming up for a long time, and the machinery behind it that had been throwing stones since the start of the war seemed to have slowed down, Cao Xinmu and the others no longer pierced into the air, and the owner gave the order to rest.

The Qing army once again retreated to the starting position, and this attack cost Lin Feng hundreds of people, plus the loss of the last charge, the casualties of the five thousand green battalions have exceeded one percent, and hundreds of people took advantage of the chaos to flee the battlefield. After knowing that nothing could be done, Lin Feng finally ordered a retreat and looked east for a county seat to shelter.

When the order to retreat was given, the Qing army became even more chaotic, with a large number of wounded soldiers reaching out on the ground and wailing, begging their companions to take them with them, while more soldiers began to leave the ranks. Fortunately, the Fuqing army did not immediately launch a pursuit, which allowed half of the Qing army to calmly retreat in front of the enemy.

It was not until part of the Qing army had already withdrawn from the battlefield that the Fuqing army opened a few holes in its fence wall and began to slowly advance again. Although this advance was slow, it accelerated the retreat of the remaining Qing troops, who no longer cared about the wounded and baggage, hurriedly followed the pace of the front team, and left the battlefield at full speed.

"Victory!"

When the last Qing soldier fled the battlefield, there were deafening cheers from the position of the Fuqing army, and almost all of them, whether they were heroes or gentlemen, had happy smiles on their faces. For the heroes, this is their first victory after countless field defeats, which is of great significance, and for the gentry, it is the first victory, and the first field battle won a brilliant victory, so that many people even have the idea: "It is not difficult to win the battle".

Even Deng Ming, the commander-in-chief of this battle, also encouraged those gentlemen and heroic commanders who came to show his merits with a smile on his face - Gao Yunxuan, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Fuqing Army, was left out in the cold by most people, even if Deng Ming's prominent status is not mentioned, the role of this battle alone is not comparable to Gao Yunxuan, and it is Deng Ming who commands the whole army from beginning to end.

But Deng Ming didn't see it that way, but he was embarrassed to say to those excited gentlemen and heroes that he actually didn't command at all, and the whole battle was according to the standards of the Sichuan army, that is, the commander completely abandoned his duties, and watched coldly as the grassroots soldiers spontaneously brandished their spears on a fixed front.

The Shandong general army on the opposite side could not be compared with a commander like Deng Ming, and in the five years of the Tongguò campaign, Deng Ming's combat experience was already equivalent to that of a first-rate general of this era. Needless to say, Deng Ming, even his guards could clearly see the clumsiness of the opponent's command just now, as well as the endless flaws in the formation. In this short period of more than an hour, Deng Ming found at least five good fighters that could defeat his opponent in one fell swoop, but he still did nothing, just rode his horse and continued to watch the battle by the wooden fence.

It is also Qi Jiguang's invention to surround the cavalry in the middle of the chariot formation, first use the infantry to surround the cavalry regiment in the center, and then surround the chariot outside, which is still a fixed obstacle that cannot be moved. This completely cut off the possibility of cavalry attack, and also meant that the commander could not take the initiative to find fighters and use cavalry to establish a victory. And Qi Jiguang's explanation in his book of war is that if such a deployment is not carried out, the cavalry on horseback will not hesitate to flee from the battle, and the deployment of the chariot formation can ensure that his cavalry cannot leave the commander and infantry brothers to flee the battlefield before the battle.

Before today's battle, Deng Ming did not have an intuitive understanding of Qi Jiguang's problem. Just now he led the cavalry in the middle of the circle formation, watching the good opportunities to break the enemy and win passed by again and again, but Deng Ming could only sit idly and wait, and he had a personal experience of Qi Jiguang's pain -- Qi Jiguang, as one of the best military geniuses in Chinese history, was very handy in the special operations of small detachments to large corps, and was proficient in cavalry, infantry, and hot and cold weapons.

Although he had heard Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun introduce some of his views on military households, Deng Ming also knew that the military households of the Ming Dynasty had no dignity and honor, and their main business was begging, so the green battalion of the Ten Days Exercise was unstoppable compared to the Ming army, but Deng Ming also had certain hopes for the most elite northern border army - although they also had to sell their sons and daughters, and they were also composed of beggars and slaves. However, after personally commanding a battle formation similar to a car battalion today, Deng Ming knew very well that this must be too beautiful a fantasy. In Deng Ming's previous life, Zeng Guofan imitated Qi Jiguang's car battalion to establish the Hunan army, and the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army was undoubtedly much more effective than the northern border army commanded by Qi Jiguang, which was like this from the very beginning, because Zeng Guofan dared to put the cavalry and commandos outside the formation without fear that they would run away without saying a word, and Qi Jiguang did not dare; Zeng Guofan and Deng Ming both dared to use shields and fences to simulate the chariots of the Che Battalion, because they were still thinking about carrying out some offensives, and Qi Jiguang must surround his army with a heavy chariot that was absolutely immobile, completely abandon the ability to maneuver on the battlefield, and concentrate on how to ensure that the soldiers could stay on the battlefield -- compared with Zeng Guofan's Hunan army and Deng Ming's regimental training with the help of the Shandong gentry, Qi Jiguang's work focus was obviously more focused on how to prevent his own people from scattering in a hurry. His military heart was much more desperate than Zeng Guofan and Deng Ming.

"If one day we encounter the Fuqing army and fight them head-on, how should we win the battle?" After returning to his tent, Deng Ming asked his subordinates. Over time, as these talents become more and more experienced, and their tenants are experienced in a hundred battles, this Fuqing army will show more powerful combat effectiveness, and they may not even need a tangible wooden fence to restrain them, this model of gentry, celebrities and village party is a strong army in the feudal army, and even in the early modern army has a place. For example, in the Red Coats of the British Empire, many infantry regiments were structured in this way, with nobles as colonels, gentlemen as lieutenants, and soldiers as peasants.

"They don't have much combat experience." Immediately, a guard said, "Training is not lawful." ”

"They will continue to improve," Deng Ming shook his head, "I will also train officers for them." ”

"We can bypass their tortoise formation." It could be seen that Deng Ming would not agree to pay too many casualties for breaking through such a position.

"There's always a time when you can't get around, right? What if I encounter one? Deng Ming still refuses to give up.

"They like the three-eyed, and we can shoot them all from a distance with a bird gun and kill them all behind the fence." An assault team leader said.

"That's a way," Deng Ming nodded, "But what if they buy a lot of bird guns from us?" ”

Seeing that a few officers were about to stop talking, Deng Ming stopped them in advance: "Don't say anything about not providing proper training, or refusing to sell bird guns, this is not a problem that is so difficult that it cannot be solved by itself, as long as the Gentry House realizes that bird guns will make their turtle formation play better, even if we don't sell them, we will make them ourselves." As for the training, as long as they strictly follow the new book of discipline, they will be able to put up this kind of turtle formation, and sooner or later the army composed of the township party will make them dare to put the cavalry out of the formation and try to catch the fighters. ”

Many people proposed stone throwers, fire attacks, and flooding, but Deng Ming pointed out the shortcomings one by one, and continued to inspire tips. In the end, there were always people who felt that they should deal with the gentry's village party army like a siege, and the siege was either a blast or a cannon, but the cannon was too heavy and the firing speed was too slow.

"So we should probably design a light artillery that can be dragged by one or two horses on the battlefield and gallop like flying, after all, this turtle formation is not a real city wall, as long as we have a large number of light artillery that can find shotguns, we are not afraid of this slow-moving circle formation, open an opening and rush in." The main threat to the enemies Deng Ming encountered before came from their cavalry rather than infantry, but with the emergence of the Fuqing army, it was necessary for western Sichuan to consider how to achieve victory at the minimum cost in case of encountering an enemy army dominated by staunch infantry: "But this is just a precautionary measure, the problem of this kind of township party army is to defend the countryside with high morale, and the morale of leaving the hometown as a soldier has plummeted." But perhaps one day the House of the Gentry will be hostile to us, and we will need to enter their territory to defeat their resistance, and we will need a crushing victory to shock the hearts and minds of the people, and we cannot be helpless at that time. ”

The army relying on the clan is stable and cohesive, but there are also many shortcomings that are difficult to overcome, as long as these shortcomings are difficult for the Qing court to overcome, and Sichuan Xi can take advantage of them, Deng Ming does not have to worry that the Jin Gentry House will one day dare to stand on his opposite.

Although today's battle allowed the Green Battalion to escape, the Fuqing Army still killed more than 300 Qing soldiers and captured hundreds of seriously wounded prisoners, and the soldiers of the first and two former Green Battalions broke away from the army in the retreat. Deng Ming continued to let the officers of the Fuqing army sum up the lessons and lessons, so as not to try to get in touch with Asan, according to the reconnaissance of the rangers, the main force of the Qing army in Dengzhou had gathered in Huifu City, and the entire Dengzhou territory was empty. Deng Ming planned to sweep all the counties first, pull all the gentry of Dengzhou Mansion into the Fuqing House, and then pick the ripe fruit of victory in Dengzhou Mansion. It would be better if there were some more tug-of-war outside Dengzhou, so that the Fuqing army could gain more field experience, so that Jiaodong could give the Qing court a greater threat, and rely on this to gain de facto autonomy, and then Deng Ming would have an additional arms and military training market in addition to allies, which was the most profitable business in the world.

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