Chapter 67: The Decayed Eight Banners
Balls of fire shot into the sky.
A hunting regiment, seventy three-person combat teams, seventy grenade launchers, and four hundred and twenty cannonballs filled with five ounces of yellow powder poured out in a very short period of time.
Black parabolas with afterimages formed in the sky.
Each shell will form at least more than twenty shell fragments after landing.
The impact of the yellow powder explosion.
A rain of death metal from shell fragments.
All this together constitutes a brilliant waltz of death.
Fire, blood.
Explosions, wails.
Chaos spreads quickly!
That's it.
It caused at least more than 500 Qing army casualties.
And almost all the remaining Green Camp soldiers were frightened.
Weapons and flags were lost everywhere.
Like a headless fly, it quickly disrupted the entire military formation.
In the midst of chaos.
Yang Liufang's Yang-character general flag was trampled to the ground at some point.
Even Yang Liufang himself was in such chaos, being rushed to nowhere by the rebel soldiers.
"Retreat! Retreat!"
According to the "skirmishing tactics drill", all six shells must be fired within 20 seconds to be considered qualified.
As the first Chasseur Company to be formed, this requirement was simply too loose.
After pouring out all six shells in a very short time.
The mission of the Chasseur Company is now complete.
Next...
It's just a matter of the infantry battalion.
.......
"Well done!"
When Zhu Daohua saw it, he became excited.
Napoleon beside him reminded: "Your Majesty, you can send the first battalion of infantry to fight!"
"Yes, yes! Send the order! The first infantry battalion attacks!"
As the military order is issued.
The three companies of the first infantry battalion, which had been prepared for a long time, formed columns in three directions, jumped out of the trenches, and quickly rushed towards the chaotic enemy formation.
About fifty steps before arriving at the chaotic formation of the Green Camp troops, they quickly formed a horizontal formation.
"Volley! Volley!"
Bang bang bang bang!
A salvo of a thousand flintlock guns immediately caused the chaotic Qing army to fall neatly in a row in front of the formation.
"Hand-on attack!!"
Several sharp suona sounds penetrated the normal state.
"Kill!! Long live King Ming! Long live Ming!!!"
Thousands of Ming infantrymen carried nine-foot-long, almost two-meter-long flintlock guns with bayonets attached, shouting slogans and rushed towards the chaotic Qing army formation.
........
silence.
Quiet.
Silence fell.
You can hear a pin drop.
In the Qing army's military camp.
From Fukang'an, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Sun Qijiao, the admiral of Guangdong, Wang Zhensi, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Lvying Navy... and even the following voting generals, guerrillas, etc.
Everyone stared at the scene in front of them with their mouths wide open.
This scene really subverted all their common sense about war.
Fukang'an tightly grasped the copper-cased monocular telescope in his hand.
He has been leading troops in combat since he was a teenager.
It has been more than thirty years now.
But it never occurred to him.
This fight...
You can still fight like this!
Just over 200 people.
After approaching with a loose skirmish formation, which seemed so ridiculous to a veteran like him.
Just start throwing explosive shells.
Then....
A relatively tight military formation of more than 3,000 people collapsed just like that.
Although the final collapse was caused by the Ming army finally overwhelming a thousand infantry.
But the key to all this is the scene that first disrupted the military formation.
If the Ming army now has a cavalry in hand.
These three thousand green camps are all finished.
The cavalry comes to mind.
Fukangan was shocked.
"Quick, the cavalry press forward and collect the defeated troops!"
Fukangan took a deep breath and issued the order.
This time we lost.
But that doesn't mean the battle is lost.
In this formation, the three thousand Green Camp soldiers lost at least one thousand.
Already one-third full.
Although the loss is huge.
But after gathering the defeated troops and training a little, there are still almost 2,000 people.
Tap tap tap! !
Three hundred cavalry troops pressed forward at a trot.
Chen Dewang, the commander of the first infantry battalion, immediately looked solemn when he saw this scene.
The cavalry is the biggest weakness of the current Ming army.
Nanyang is not a place where good horses are raised.
After getting to Guangdong, I wonder if I can get a good horse farm?
Chen Dewang collected his divergent thoughts.
"Hollow Phalanx!!"
As Chen Dewang's order was issued, the sharp sound of the suona conveyed the order to the ears of every soldier in the first infantry battalion.
Along with the movement of the formation.
A hollow square array about twenty meters long and wide was quickly laid out.
The sharp tip of the bayonet points forward. Behind the hollow phalanx, there are grenade soldiers playing with individual grenade launchers.
"emission!"
With the dull sound of grenade launchers.
A large number of artillery shells rushed towards the 300 cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in front.
The performance of the cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of the Han Army who were trotting forward surprised everyone on the battlefield.
The Green Camp soldiers who were expecting the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to take action to save the situation were also dumbfounded.
The legendary heavenly soldiers had already hit their horses to avoid the cannonballs before they fell. Many of the Eight Banners' vests of the Han Army reined in their horses and turned around, and the charge was suddenly frustrated.
However, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers hid quite quickly.
Except for a few unlucky ones.
This round of artillery shells did not cause many casualties - the Eight Banners cavalry was not the European shock cavalry that was arranged in a dense shock formation.
It is a composite cavalry that combines long-range attacks with bows and arrows, impact melee combat, and even dismounts to form a heavy infantry formation for melee combat.
So their formation is not close.
The ballistic parabola fired by small-caliber mortar shells such as grenades is very high, which means that the speed is not too fast, at least it is visible to the naked eye.
So when you intentionally dodge.
Most of these cavalrymen on war horses escaped.
Just like this.
The original plan of attacking on horseback became a joke.
Fukangan, who was watching from behind, turned pale for a moment.
In fact, if these cavalry can charge forward with the shells, they can rush through the explosion area before the shells explode - in this case they will have the opportunity to cause great damage to that group of Ming infantry!
but now....
Everyone saw the Eight Banners and became timid.
The Eight Banners, known as the Heavenly Soldiers - even though they were the Eight Banners of the Han Army, they were actually afraid and hid!
And before that.
The green battalion soldiers of Guangdong Supervision Bureau fought for a while.
Could it be that the Eight Banners is failing?
Fukang'an, who was ashen-faced, regretted sending the Eight Banners soldiers to fight.
He also knew that the Eight Banners was dead.
But he didn't expect to be rotten to this extent...
This is a cavalry soldier.
The most elite existence among the Eight Banners.
Even the vest is like this.
What happens to those infantry?
Can this kind of performance keep Guangdong Green Camp under control?
Fukang'an couldn't even imagine it.
"What a shame."
Zhu Daohua patted his thigh regretfully.
Although the cavalry soldiers of the Eight Banners did not perform well.
However, the Ming army, which lacked cavalry, still did not dare to let its infantry battalion advance too far forward.
If you have a cavalry on hand.
None of the three thousand Green Camp soldiers can leave.
