Near noon on November 15th, the plains west of Seoul and beside the Han River were covered with soldiers. The two armies were well-organized and well-equipped. Under the leadership of their respective military flags, they marched towards each other. Getting closer and closer.
Since the plain to the west of Seoul is not very open, there are many villages, houses, and field ridges scattered throughout it. Some places are quite muddy, which is not very suitable for cavalry combat. In addition, there is a "high sugar" and a "low sugar" on both sides. "The firepower is not weak! Therefore, both sides did not show their cavalry at first, but only sent out infantry to form columns and quickly enter the battlefield. .
The columns on both sides actually look similar from a distance. They are both columns with a very wide front. In fact, they are a "leader" (associate-level) column split into five "deputy-level" (Dadan) columns. Level) small horizontal formations, and then stacked together to form a column.
In fact, a leader (zuo leader) of two hundred people was arranged into fifteen to twenty rows. This is not a column formed when marching on the official road, but a formation used by the infantry when advancing on the front line and on the battlefield.
This formation can be quickly deployed to form a horizontal formation with a wide front, or it can also be quickly formed into a hollow square formation.
In addition, neither the Ming army nor the Qing army has canceled the spear as an arm. Moreover, the number of equipment is almost the same, with one collar (left collar) equipped with forty spearmen - both sides are obviously learning from each other when carrying out military reforms.
However, there is a slight difference in the collar (zuoling) level infantry units on both sides. The Ming army has a large number of fusiliers, reaching 160! Forty of them are elite veterans who have received training as skirmishers and grenadiers, and they generally do not participate in "queuing to kill".
Moreover, all Ming army fusiliers, whether skirmishers or privates, were equipped with bayonets.
On the Qing army's side, the Qing army had only eighty fusiliers and forty matchlocks (and forty cavalry) under one aide. And the arquebusiers played the role of skirmishers and grenadiers - they did not have cable fuses, so their sky mines had to be detonated with live wires, and the match ropes carried by the arquebusiers were used to ignite the sky mines.
In addition, the Qing army was not equipped with bayonets, but was equipped with waist knives for melee combat.
The infantry on both sides did not cancel their armor. The Qing soldiers still wore eight-color cotton armor (with iron plates inside) and gun helmets. The Ming army wore cloth armor with iron plates and flying saucer helmets on their heads.
Just as the infantry on both sides were approaching quickly, the rockets on both sides began to scream strangely one after another!
The Ming army fired six rocket launchers! The shots were all made with expensive iron candy ammunition... It was like shooting silver coins!
In order to show that he had more money and more sugar, and at the same time to cheer up the Korean soldiers below who were going to the battlefield for the first time, Zhu Heji made a big move and pulled out all five rocket launcher collars in his hands and shot them.
Five territories, each with eight rocket launchers, a total of forty six-unit rocket launchers, lined up on the plain outside the Ming army's trench line to fire salvos.
This round of salvo consisted of two hundred and forty rockets trailing long tail flames, making a strange cry of "Jie Jie Jie", roaring towards the marching Qing soldiers. Because the distance was too far, there was nothing Accurate.
But there was too much ammunition to hold, and during the second round of salvo fire, three rockets still landed impartially on the advancing Qing infantry column! One of them did not explode. It just killed one Qing soldier and bruised and burned two or three Qing soldiers. However, it still scared the rest of the soldiers and fled in all directions. The scene was so chaotic!
The other two exploded shortly after landing! Although before the sugar bomb exploded, the surrounding Qing troops had already begun to flee. But how can two legs survive the shrapnel and iron beads that have been disintegrated by sugar pills?
After two loud bangs, thirty or forty Qing soldiers around the two rockets were knocked to the ground!
A dozen Qing soldiers were killed on the spot, and some were seriously injured, their flesh and blood were bruised by the blast, and they let out bursts of heart-rending screams. It hurt just to look at them!
But this is not the most unlucky thing...it exploded like this, it will hurt for a while and it will send you to hell. The worst injuries were those with minor injuries. These people's injuries didn't look serious, but most of them had shrapnel and iron beads burrowed into their flesh. If this cannot be removed, the wound will soon become inflamed and suppurative!
It will still be a dead end at that time, the only difference is that you will suffer a little more!
It is not that easy to take it out. Unless you can find anti-inflammatory garlic medicine, there is still a high possibility that the wound will become inflamed and suppurative.
Therefore, when the doctors of the Qing army saw such "gunshot wounds" and "explosion wounds", they usually refused to save them or chopped off their hands and feet...
And more than half of the rockets that did not directly hit the Qing army exploded after landing, and the battlefield was suddenly filled with smoke and flames.
The Qing army, which was originally marching in mighty formation, suddenly became a little timid. The marching speed slowed down, and there was confusion in several places.
When the Ming army in progress saw this scene, they burst into deafening cheers.
"Long live! The Ming Dynasty is victorious!"
The cheering infantrymen of the Ming Army became brisker in their footsteps, and their marching speed was much faster!
At the Xingzhou Mountain Castle north of Changling River, there was also a burst of exclamations at this time.
"Wow......"
"O God!"
"terrible......"
"Is this the power of magic?"
Those who exclaimed were all Kangxi's foreign military advisors. Although they had long heard about Ming Dynasty's "power of sugar", they were still extremely shocked when they saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears.
However, Kangxi looked calm... He had already experienced Zhu Heji's "several axes".
Moreover, countermeasures have been arranged, so there is no need to give any more orders now, just wait.
At this moment, in an open position outside the Qing army's camp on the south bank of Changling River, more than a hundred rocket launchers have been set up. Kangxi's confidant, Tong Guowei, the artillery commander of the Zhenghuang Banner New Army, stood straight. Face patrolled the position, and from time to time he loudly urged the artillerymen below to quickly take the rockets off the ammunition truck and put them on the launcher!
Rockets...the Qing Dynasty also has them!
However, the Qing Dynasty is "low-sugar", so it cannot afford sugar-medicine rockets and can only use sugar-free rockets.
Of course, the power of this sugar-free rocket cannot be compared with the sugar-powder rocket... The sugar-powder can be shaped, and when it is installed in the rocket body, it burns more evenly and can provide a more certain thrust. On the one hand, gunpowder does not provide enough thrust, and on the other hand, it cannot be shaped. It burns unevenly. It burns sometimes and explodes sometimes, and it is difficult to control the heat.
Therefore, the accuracy of sugar-free rockets is worse. At the same time, the charge of the combat unit is relatively small, and sometimes they will explode suddenly during flight.
However, Kangxi still organized two rocket launcher assistants in each of the direct-administered (banner-directed) artillery officers of the Shangsan Banner New Army under his direct jurisdiction. There were a total of six rocket launcher officers, and a total of more than one hundred rocket launchers were equipped. .
More than a hundred rockets with a four- to five-foot-long wooden balance guide rod were quickly placed on the launcher. With the order of Tong Guowei, who was ordered to command the six rocket launchers, the Qing Dynasty The empire's sugar-free rockets also roared into the sky!
Although they are sugar-free, these rockets still make weird noises! And the range is not close, although the accuracy is worse, the explosion power is weaker, and many rockets will explode before landing.
But the sight of more than a hundred rockets roaring across the sky dragging thick black smoke can still boost our own morale.
When the Qing infantry on the battlefield saw this scene, most of the fear in their hearts disappeared, and they began to cheer like the Ming army opposite, and continued to stride forward.
At the same time, continuous gunshots, explosions and shouts began to sound in several villages located between the two armies.
The advance troops sent by both sides to compete for these strongholds in the center of the battlefield have already begun to exchange fire!
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