The team of firecrackers led by Liu Wenxiu are not ordinary firecrackers, but so-called grenadier firecrackers, which are firecrackers equipped with wooden handle grenades - this wooden handle grenade was also used by Zhu Youjian The treasure copied from Nizi is a hollow cast iron ball with a wooden handle. The hollow iron ball was filled with black powder, and a hole was opened in the ball for inserting a wooden tube fuse.
Because the power of gunpowder deflagration is limited, the charge in the hollow cast iron ball cannot be too small. If the charge is too much, the size of the iron ball must be increased, and the weight of the iron ball will certainly be increased. If you want to throw such an explosive iron lump far away, you don't have a few kilograms of strength.
Therefore, those who can choose grenadiers are strong men with great length and strength. There are not many such people in the youth army in front of the tent. A battalion of a thousand people can at most form a team of a hundred people, which is almost one out of ten.
You must know that the Youth Army in front of the tent is originally selected from the Youth Army in front of the tent, and the Youth Army itself is carefully selected. These warriors were carefully selected and trained rigorously for five or six years, and all of them had excellent martial arts skills. Maybe he can't beat the white-armored soldiers, but he won't necessarily lose in a hand-to-hand fight with the red-armored soldiers.
But when such strong men came into the hands of Zhu Youjian...he sent them grenades and firecrackers! Of course, hand-to-hand combat is also necessary, but you should first kill the enemy with firecrackers and grenades, and then fight in hand-to-hand combat.
And the use of firecrackers and hand grenades is not limited to lining up to shoot and lining up to drop bombs in the majestic formation - the desperate tactic of rushing to within 20 steps of the enemy's fire and then firing is just from the flintlock era. One of a variety of infantry tactics. Anyone who thinks of this as the only tactic is foolish.
The art of war is a trick! Is there anyone who is not sinister? Didn't the British lobster soldiers in history use black guns and cannons? Nothing!
Therefore, the team of grenadier soldiers led by Liu Wenxiu are not only good at shooting black guns, but they are also good at using grenades to trick people!
This time, the mission of Liu Wenxiu and his more than a hundred young grenadiers was to set up an ambush in the grass three to four hundred steps in front of the Ming army's main position, specifically to attack the white-armored soldiers of the Jin army. And try to support a "protection net" in front of the main position of the Ming army to prevent the cavalry of the Jin army from approaching the main position of the Ming army to harass and spy.
Of course, it is impossible for Liu Wenxiu's hundreds of grenadiers to cover the positions of an army of more than 20,000 people. This arduous task requires 16 grenadiers from the 16 infantry battalions under the 4 infantry regiments of the Youth Army (5 in total, one is a reserve), together with the same number of cavalry teams. Finish.
More than 3,200 infantry and cavalry were divided into 16 teams, like 16 trickling streams, flowing out of the newly formed main position composed of battalions and phalanxes. Then they divided into two groups and spread out on the front and left wing of the Ming army's main position... The grenadiers dispersed in groups of ten and quickly disappeared into the grass. The cavalry dispersed in teams of thirty or forty, and then formed horizontal formations. Three hundred steps away from the front and left wing of the Ming army's main formation, two "curtain walls" were deployed to cover the main formation.
On the periphery of these two "curtain walls", there are hundreds of cavalry who are good at shooting black spears, and they are currently competing with the vanguard of the Hou Jin Army.
The main position of the Ming army was firmly covered.
Don't think that when fighting in formation, you should set up a majestic formation so that the enemy can admire it... There is no perfect formation in the world. If the enemy takes a peek, they can always find weaknesses.
Moreover, the youth army in front of the tent was mainly infantry, and the Jin army behind the tent were all cavalry. Today's battle is a standard battle of foot and horse. The difficulty of fighting cavalry has never been to set up a strong formation that the cavalry cannot attack - if you can't even set up a strong formation, then what's the point of fighting in the field?
The real difficulty of infantry defeating cavalry is how to allow the infantry in formation to move and rest safely under the surveillance and harassment of the enemy's cavalry.
Because the battle between foot and cavalry rarely involves a single battle, and it is common for more than a dozen battles to go back and forth. Sometimes the winner can't be determined during the day, and we have to stay up all night to fight.
The side with a huge advantage in cavalry, because they have the initiative, can choose to fight or move, or they can cover their main force, so that they can fight the enemy with a small number of troops in a tiring battle while resting comfortably.
After spending several days and nights, you still haven’t exhausted your opponent?
But now the young army in front of the tent, which is mainly infantry, must not only defeat cavalry with infantry, but also defeat more with less. They must also fight this battle on the grassland on the west bank of the Laoha River, which is conducive to cavalry. OK?
Therefore, no one can easily see what the main formation of the Youth Army in front of the tent looks like... Whoever wants to see it, just risk your life!
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"boom......"
As a rocket exploded in the air and turned into a splendid fireworks, the Ming army's black lancers, who were at the forefront and were dealing with the advanced cavalry of the Hou Jin army, retreated at the same time. The crackling gunfire gradually became sparse, and finally there was no movement at all.
"Finally retreated..."
Abatai, who was ordered to command the 3,000 white-armored soldiers drawn from various banners and the 1,000 bird gunners from the Wuzhenchaoha battalion who led the charge, breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
It’s really not easy to fight in this first battle!
The opponents are too insidious. Judging from their skill on horseback, they are clearly not inferior to Dajin's horse soldiers. Moreover, the horses under their crotches are also Mongolian horses carefully selected. The armor they wear seems to be made of It is made of large pieces of iron sheet hammered out (actually spliced plate armor), and it looks sturdy... With good horses, good armor, and good kung fu, even if you fight a big golden vest soldier in an upright manner, you may not necessarily lose. .
But these people just want to cheat!
Some of the knights lured the enemy, while others hid in the weeds and used Rumi blunderbuss to assassinate the golden warriors. How cunning!
Fortunately, the Great Khan is not an honest person... He is already comparing himself to Zhuge, so how can he be an honest person? The Great Khan had long known that Zhu Youjian's cavalry would use black muskets to injure people. Therefore, the white-armored soldiers sent to Abatai are all Mongolian white-armor, not Manchu white-armor. Moreover, Huang Taiji also sent 1,000 gun soldiers from Wuzhen Chaoha camp to Abatai, asking them to use black guns against black guns!
It's just that the black gun is not very effective against black guns... In less than two hours, the bird gun soldiers of Wu Zhenchaoha's camp killed and wounded Xiao Erbai!
He is no match for me at all. My sweat’s hard work will be in vain again!
It turns out that after Huang Taiji was defeated at Yanshan, he paid more attention to the development of firearms. Therefore, they sent people to collect a group of craftsmen who could make fire guns from the Ping'an Road in North Korea and from the more than 200,000 Koreans who were captured and brought back to Daikin. They all raised their flags and were incorporated into the Wuzhenchaoha camp. We also selected 2,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Banners of Korea to specialize in practicing bird cannon... But this bird cannon seems to be difficult to practice. The bird cannon soldiers in Wuzhen Chaoha camp usually look quite similar. The bird guns they used were not very explosive, but today when they faced the Ming army's black gun cavalry, why did they only have to be shot?
"Amma," Abatai's second son Bo and Tuo also followed their father to the front line this time. Seeing the Ming army's cavalry retreat, they were a little eager to fight, "the southern army's cavalry retreated, let's chase them for a while. Bar!"
"Pursuit?" Abata glanced at his son, "Do you think we have defeated Hong Chengchou? This has just begun! What is our mission? We are to be the vanguard... We have to fight for the large group of people behind us. Find out the situation of the enemy’s formation and control the territory where troops are deployed!”
Bo Hetuo was a little disappointed, but he didn't dare to talk back to Ama. Just when he was about to ask for advice, the sound of gunshots suddenly sounded in front, and then he saw the Mongolian white-armored soldiers who had just followed the retreating Ming army cavalry. They retreated in confusion. One of the Jia La'e Zhen Pegasus arrived in front of Abatai's horse and loudly reported: "Master Beile, the slaves have discovered the Ming army...all that can be seen are cavalry, and there are also fire soldiers." Hidden in the haystacks to shoot us with black guns!"
