Many of the servants were wearing armor. Regardless of the iron or cotton armor, it was extremely heavy once they entered the water. In panic, many people fell into the water and could no longer get up. They were dragged by the armor and sank to the bottom of the water.
Jiang Suo was not wearing any armor, not even an iron helmet. Apart from carrying a Nanyang-style rifle on his back, he only had an ordinary robe and uniform, just like an ordinary soldier. During the days when he worked with Jiang Suo, Song Ming often joked about Jiang Suo's pretense, saying that it was safer for him to fight like this, but no one listened when he gave orders. He has also been persuading Jiang Suo to wear armor when he goes into battle - with Jiang Suo's current status, it is no problem to get a decent armor. But Jiang Suo always refused because he was "not used to wearing it". Most of the servants he commanded who used Nanyang rifles did not wear armor.
It wasn't until he was running for his life that Song Ming realized the burden of his armor.
This was not the first time that he had run away for his life on the battlefield, but he had never disliked the heavy armor - usually he was always on horseback, while the enemy used swords, guns, bows and arrows, and the armor had a greater chance of survival when escaping. It is more appropriate to wait until you reach a safe place before "abandoning your armor and running away".
Jiang Suo walked lightly and ran a long distance in a few seconds. Song Ming was wearing a battle armor and had no war horse. He ran all the way to the bridge and was already exhausted. Jiang Suo shouted to Song Ming behind him: "Mr. Song Qian, if you want to survive, take off everything you can!" Song Ming suddenly woke up, first threw away the iron helmet on his head, then took out the dagger and ran, While cutting the armor tether on his side, he tried to take off the armor on his body.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The next wave of Australian artillery shells was extremely accurate. A row of artillery shells struck across the river. One shell directly hit the pontoon. Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and limbs were broken everywhere. The surface of the river was instantly stained red with blood. The pontoon was also broken. The Ming Army soldiers were caught off guard on the bridge and fell into the water with violent shaking.
Song Ming, who had just taken off his upper armor, was knocked down by a cannonball that landed directly in front of him. As soon as he lost his balance, he immediately fell into the water. Although Song Ming knew how to swim, the heavy armor made him sink quickly. He was already exhausted after a day of fierce fighting. Even his struggle became increasingly weak. He began to suffocate, and then slowly began to hallucinate. His life was constantly replayed in his mind. When he was six years old, his father began to teach him martial arts, and when he was sixteen years old, he went to school for the first time. " "Reading the school"; getting married, children being born one after another; the battle of Chengmai...
Song Ming's consciousness began to disappear slowly. In a trance, he seemed to feel someone pulling him up desperately, but this feeling slowly disappeared. Then Song Ming felt his eyes darken, and then nothing. knew.
Jiang Suo successfully reached the other side, crawled on the beach and gasped for air. He had never breathed so much in his life. His lungs were heaving violently involuntarily, and the smell of blood filled his mouth. He turned around and saw Song Ming lying motionless on the shoal like a dead man, with half of his body still soaked in the water. When he saw Song Ming falling into the water, he threw away his rifle and dived to save people without even thinking about it, but even though he was in the fishing village, No matter how good he was in water during his training, it was not easy to tear off his armor underwater. Although he had tried his best to drag Song Ming to the shore, he now looked lifeless. He wanted to drag him to the shore to control the water, but his whole body was sore and he had no strength at all.
He survived in the end. Although the pontoon bridge was broken, most of the surviving Bangshan defenders escaped across the river. Many people finally swam across the river despite artillery fire and rifle fire from bandits. Now when they reached the shore, they felt safe and collapsed on the rocky beach, gasping for breath. Even if the cannonballs and guns were flying around my head, I couldn't care less.
But very few people escaped. None of the servants he trained were wearing armor. Looking carefully, there were only twenty or thirty people surviving on the river beach. Jiang Suo felt a sense of sadness. Seeing that not even one of the new troops he had brought on Bangshan remained, he couldn't help but feel sad. His heart was filled with sadness. Why did so many people die?
The Kun bandits' cannonballs flew over the river from time to time and landed on the river beach. The soldiers who had been paralyzed on the river beach quickly fled towards the city.
He wanted to ask a few people to carry Song Ming - whether dead or alive, he had to be taken to the city. However, the soldiers passing by turned a deaf ear and walked by completely indifferently. Jiang Suo was dressed like a big-headed soldier at this time, so no one would listen to his orders.
After a while, I met several soldiers of Song Ming who had narrowly escaped death. They braved artillery fire and kept searching on the river beach, and finally found Song Ming. Only then did Jiang Suo think of what Master Yi had said to him: You still need a few soldiers to be reliable when going into battle.
At night, the sound of artillery ceased. Before dark, Zhu Quanxing led the 3rd Battalion to occupy Beishan in the east of the city, and then came to the north of the city to confront the Ming army. Apart from sporadic exchanges of fire along the way, they successfully completed the set combat objectives.
After the occupation of Bangshan, only a small number of troops were left stationed. The engineers opened and repaired roads overnight so that the artillery company could be stationed in Bangshan after dawn. Guijiang is firmly in the hands of the First Mixed Brigade.
Now, except for some sentries, most of the Fubo Army soldiers have fallen asleep. At this time, Zhu Mingxia had just finished inspecting the troops in the south of the city and climbed the mountain again.
The report of the Bangshan battle had been sent to him half an hour ago. In the Bangshan battle, the Fubo army and accompanying soldiers and civilians totaled 19 killed and 67 injured. There were more than 200 dead bodies of officers and soldiers, and more than 400 prisoners. . This casualty ratio alone is insignificant - this still does not include the number of casualties suffered by the Ming army during the bombardment of the Guijiang Floating Bridge.
The capture report was completely meaningless to him. The various firearms abandoned by the Ming army were of no use to the army except for being refurbished by the Planning Institute. There was not much food stored on Bangshan.
To sum it up: I chewed a hard bone, but not much meat.
However, Zhu Mingxia had to pay attention to the Ming army's tactics in defending Bangshan. He and Xu Xu personally went to Bangshan and carefully observed the fortifications and discarded weapons left by the Ming army. He also specifically questioned several prisoners and held a small meeting with officers and soldiers who participated in the war to learn first-hand information on the battlefield.
Judging from the corpses on the battlefield, the Ming army on Bangshan was clearly divided into two parts. One was the traditional Ming army, with or without armor; the other did not wear armor and wore much shorter robes and uniforms. , more fit. He has canvas ammunition equipment similar to that used by the Fubo Army. I carry flash caps and paper-wrapped ammunition with me, and there are usually Nanyang rifles left nearby.
This is probably what intelligence personnel said was the "new army" of the Ming army trained by "spies".
Xu was taking pictures and drawings on the Bangshan position with his assistant, and the Military Intelligence Bureau was collecting relevant intelligence. Especially collecting Nanyang style rifles. Every Nanyang rifle left on the battlefield will be picked up regardless of whether it is damaged or not, and the damaged ones will be pieced together so that they can determine how many Nanyang-style rifles the enemy used. From the gun number on the gun body, you can roughly check the date of manufacture and sales status.
There has been controversy in the Senate about the export of Nanyang rifles. Whether it was Quark's sales to the feudal states in Southeast Asia or its sales to various Ming armies in Shandong, they all caused controversy. After all, the guns sold don’t have eyes. However, this kind of trade is not only extremely profitable, but also has strong market demand. So arguments are arguments and sales never stop. Export sales in Shandong also received firm support from the Huaxia Society - the Huaxia Society believed that because the Senate was doing business with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the necessary "trade balance" must be made for the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Mingxia was not very interested in the Nanyang Rifle. Although this gun was exported in large quantities, due to limited ammunition, it was difficult for any hostile force to equip troops with this rifle on a large scale, and it would not become a big success.
What interests him instead are the firearms from this time and space. A large number of firearms abandoned by the Ming army were collected on the battlefield. There are more than a hundred turtledove guns alone - this thing is what Xu Guangqi said is a "sharp weapon" that costs nine taels of silver. Xiong Wencan is really willing to invest his capital!
Judging from today's battle situation, the Ming army made full use of the existing firearms in their hands to fight: the firearms left on the battlefield indicate that they used a large number of turtledove guns and various large and small flange cannons, especially a large number of small French cannons. Lang machine gun--actually not much different from a heavy matchlock gun like the Ikaruga gun. Weapons such as bird guns and three-eyed guns that were often seen in the Battle of Chengmai and the Battle of Pearl River Estuary were not found. Obviously, the Ming army commanders realized the shortcomings of these two commonly used firearms: the power of bird cannons was too small, and the range accuracy of fire door guns was too poor; they began to try to use heavy-range matchlocks and other firearms with greater range and power. Although they cannot be used by individual soldiers, they are not a big problem in position defense battles. It also played an effective role in blocking and delaying the Fubo army's attack during the battle.
The Hongyi cannon, which had always been regarded as an artifact by the Ming army in the past, was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there were many tiger squatting cannons with a near-range killing effect, all of which were placed at the top of the traffic trench to block the trench. It can be seen that the commander fully considered the actual combat effects of firearms.
The enemy is making rapid progress!
He looked at Wuzhou City from the top of Bangshan Mountain and thought to himself.
From the layout of the bastion, to the construction of trenches, the use of projectile weapons to hinder the advancement of the trench digging of the Fubo Army, and the fighting in the trenches. The artillery movement and close-range shooting as well as the active use of new firearms... all revealed that the enemy not only began to understand the Fubo Army's combat mode, but also began to figure out how to deal with it.
From the Mopan gun mounts and fire attack ships on the Little Three Gorges to the Bangshan position, they all reflect the technological and tactical innovations within the Ming army. This kind of groping and trying still seems clumsy. On the one hand, their technical level is not enough, and on the other hand, it may be a structural problem. But what is clear is that the enemy is trying to learn how to fight them. It is different from the officers and soldiers who went into battle in Chengmai and Pearl River Estuary completely ignorantly.
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