In fact, the tactics of conducting a round of close-range volley fire or throwing a round of sugar grenade hammers before launching a bayonet assault are clearly stated in the Ming Army Infantry Drill Manual - Zhu Heji and his Military advisors and senior counselors also don’t care about martial ethics!
But having said that, if it were not for loading the bullets in the fusiliers and then fighting with the bayonet, or throwing a wave of grenades before the stabbing, it would be impossible for the fusiliers of the Ming Army infantry to defeat the Eight Banners New Army muskets in hand-to-hand combat. Soldier.
Because the latter have better martial arts skills and their equipment is more suitable for melee combat, the cotton armor they wear is more defensive than the hood armor worn by the Ming army infantry, and some of them also spend their own money to equip an additional lock. Armor - The bayonet of the Ming army may be able to penetrate a layer of cotton armor with iron sheets, but it is really difficult to penetrate the chain armor inside the cotton armor. . The armor they wore could only protect part of their body, and their arms were not protected by armor.
The Eight Banners New Army in this era still retained many of the characteristics of feudal landowner soldiers. Everyone had their own farm, and military status could be passed down from generation to generation, so they had the incentive to spend money to equip themselves. So many of them not only have "double armor", but also a second cold weapon, usually a short-handled ax that can break armor. When fighting in hand-to-hand combat, they often hold a knife in one hand and an ax in the other, and sometimes they even throw axes to kill!
The infantry of the Ming army were not only inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers in martial arts, but they also rarely spent their own money to purchase weapons and armor for themselves. Most of them are conscripts. If they cannot be promoted to captain after serving for two or three years, they will go back to their respective families. There is no such thing as inheritance of military status, so naturally they are not willing to spend their own money to buy equipment while serving.
However, the fusiliers did not respect martial ethics, but they formed a "dimension-reducing blow" against the Eight Banners soldiers holding swords and axes and wearing heavy armor... This kind of blow was not only physical, but also psychological. of!
Because the Eight Banners soldiers had no way of judging whether the flintlock guns held by the oncoming Ming troops had bullets in them?
Yes or no?
This is simply a question that makes people collapse just thinking about it!
What's more, the Fusiliers of the Ming Army also had grenade hammers hanging on their bodies, and the fuses of these grenade hammers were tied to their belts. They could be blown up by just taking them off and throwing them out.
It's hard to fight with such an enemy with a bayonet without shaking your hands!
In the battle at the entrance of the village just now, Jin Chengkai also completed the "five-step shooting" without respecting martial ethics and shot an unlucky Eight Banners soldier. However, he did not stop to reload, because he had already heard gunshots, explosions and shouts coming from the village. Obviously, the group of skirmishers who entered the village before were being besieged by the Qing army that outnumbered them, and they had to be rescued quickly.
Thinking of this, Jin Chengkai quickly called his men to rush towards the village. Because the roads in the village were narrow, it was impossible to form a horizontal formation, so Jin Chengkai ordered the soldiers who had not fired in the previous round of fighting to rush forward, and he followed behind with the soldiers who had fired empty bullets, and headed towards Gaoyang Cave together. Rush inside the village.
After rushing for a while, they had already rushed to the place where the gunshots, explosions, and shouts came from—the area around the big house that Jin Chengkai mentioned.
The skirmishers of the Ming army arrived there first, rushed into the house, and climbed onto the roof. Before the arrangements were made, a Qing army led by a leader had already rushed in from the other end of the village.
This Qing army leader originally had two hundred people, but Dadan, one of the cavalrymen, had been taken away, so there were only one hundred and sixty people left, but it was still four times the number of Ming army skirmishers. So as soon as they entered the village, they surrounded the Ming troops and beat them. In order to prevent reinforcements from the Ming troops, the Qing army commander also assigned a Dadan to guard the east and south entrances of the village, and then used the remaining One hundred and twenty people besieged the forty Ming troops in the mansion. When the fierce battle was in full swing, Jin Chengkai suddenly rushed into the battlefield with dozens of North Korean soldiers. A burst of gunfire and a wave of grenade hammers immediately stunned the more than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers.
The Ming army who was surrounded in the mansion also took the opportunity to fight back and rushed out with flintlock guns with bayonets. Although the number of the Ming army was still smaller than that of the Qing army at this time, the Qing army, which was attacked from both sides, was completely panicked. They left the village in embarrassment, leaving corpses and wailing wounded everywhere.
Just after two seconds, a Ming Dynasty flag with a red background and gold sun and moon fluttered in the wind over Gaoyang Cave.
However, the battle for the other three "holes" was not as clean and tidy as the battle of Gaoyang Cave. Although the Ming army responsible for capturing the other three "caves" also had no martial ethics, they did not fight the "central bloom" and "internal and external pincer attacks" like the battle of Gaoyang Cave.
Because the Ming army skirmishers who served as the vanguard did not rush directly into the most valuable mansion in the "dong", but began to occupy the land from the east or south entrance of the "dong".
The Qing troops who came in from the west and north of "Dong" also adopted a similar strategy, first occupying a few houses, setting up defenses, and then slowly fighting for them.
As a result, the battle for these three "holes" became a stalemate, with each side occupying half of the "hole". Later, the frontline commanders of both sides sent reinforcements, but the "battle of three holes" has turned into a village house. There was a battle for it, and those village houses all used granite mined from Bukhan Mountain as building materials, which was very strong, so no one could do anything to the other for a while.
However, the Ming army that captured Gaoyang Cave still had half of the first move. Gaoyang Cave was located in the middle of the battlefield. With this support point, the Ming army could move the rocket launchers to the southeast of Gaoyang Cave and set them up to bombard the nearby Qing army formations. , thus covering the Ming army infantry to launch an attack.
Around the last minute, the "Battle of Four Holes" came to an end temporarily, and the first-line infantry of both sides had already reached the forward position.
When the infantry on both sides marched at the front, they adopted relatively wide columns, so that they could march faster and expand not too slowly.
Because they were bombarded by the Ming army's "high-sugar rockets" during the march, the Qing army's infantry seemed to be moving a bit slowly, and they did not reach the intended position. Instead, they took more than a hundred steps before starting to open up. Line up.
Correspondingly, the Ming army's front line pressed forward an additional seventy or eighty steps, pressing within a hundred steps of the four "holes" near the battlefield.
However, after the deployment, the infantry on both sides had no intention of advancing forward, nor did they immediately pull up the artillery and rocket launchers to blast. Instead, they took out the shovels they carried with them and began to dig trenches and build parapets on the somewhat muddy land.
Now is the "sugar age". Facing opponents with a certain "sugar content", everyone has to be "in the trenches". If there were no earthen walls and trenches to "protect" the soldiers at the front from sugar, and an hour of bombardment with sugar bombs would knock them down, the casualty rate of front-line soldiers would be too high.
Therefore, the main task of the front-line infantry on both sides now is to dig life-saving trenches and pile up earthen walls before the opponent's artillery completes its deployment.
Of course, the firefight at the front cannot stop!
On the one hand, the battle for the three "holes" is still going on, and both sides have sent reinforcements.
On the one hand, the skirmishers on both sides dispersed and stood in front of the forward position, and began to shoot at each other with their flintlocks and matchlocks.
In fact, both sides already have rifled guns, but they have not achieved mass production, and the skirmishers on both sides don't like the rifled guns that are particularly difficult to load, so they still use smoothbore guns. Among them, the Qing army's skirmishers even Using an old matchlock gun.
However, these unrifled muskets can still exert considerable power in the hands of experienced gunmen - because both sides in the Ming and Qing Dynasties do not lack gunpowder, the training level of the musketeers on both sides is good, which is better than that of most Europeans. All musketeers must be strong!
The bullets of both sides were just coming and going at a distance of a hundred steps. Under their cover, the front-line infantry of both sides were working hard with sweat. In less than three quarters of an hour, two relatively rudimentary "trenches" were formed. Line" appeared at the front of the battlefield northwest of Seoul!
