Boom, boom, boom!
On the banks of the Syr Darya River.
In this sparsely populated wilderness.
This is the center of the nomadic belt of the Eurasian continent.
in history.
Countless nomadic tribes, driven by the armies of the Eastern Empire, rolled westward along this nomadic belt, lashing out at the Western countries.
Huns, Turks, Mongols.
Every time nomadic tribes from the east move westward, they bring bloody memories to Westerners.
As a result, they invented a lot of terms that are very weird when you hear them.
What a whip of God, what a yellow peril, something like that.
But this time.
Those who appeared here were not nomadic tribes from the east - strictly speaking, the Ming Dynasty's Western Army was also a sign of warriors among the nomadic tribes on the Mongolian plateau.
But their organizational model is undoubtedly quite advanced.
And they didn't use bows and arrows or scimitars.
It's not even a traditional cavalry force.
Instead, they are mounted infantry who can maneuver on horseback and fight on foot while dismounting!
At this moment.
Both sides were beating drums to attack the army.
One division of Russian troops had already set up three rows on the south side of the Syr Darya River. At the same time, several groups of cavalry were placed on both sides of the infantry row. Large-caliber mortar positions were also arranged behind the infantry row.
It seems that the Russian army is also a "new army" equipped with a large number of explosive bombs.
The Russian commander was standing on a high ground behind the position, standing on a horse and staring at the front line with a telescope.
This battle.
It can be regarded as the first time that the Russian army faced the Ming army after two years of "military changes".
This is a head-to-head contest.
At the same time.
This is also a head-to-head battle between front-loading rifled guns and breech-loading rifled guns.
Unlike the Ming Army, Emperor Zhu advocated the use of breech-loading guns instead of front-loading guns - even so, there was a lot of controversy among the staff of the Ming Army Marshal's Mansion.
On the Russian army's side, this controversy is even greater - most of Tsarist Russia's top brass support muzzle-loading guns.
There are of course many reasons.
First of all, the mechanical structure of the breech-loading gun is complex, and it is difficult to manufacture it on a large scale with Russia’s industrial capabilities.
Secondly, the breech-loading gun fires too fast, which puts a lot of pressure on the army's logistics.
Of course, the most important thing is that breech-loading guns have a much lower range than front-loading guns - this is the main reason for opponents.
Regardless of the outcome of this war, this debate will end, because the Ming army on the opposite side is generally equipped with breech-loading guns, while the Russian army is all equipped with rifled muzzle-loading guns.
"Hopefully we can win"
Musayev thought.
He also looked into breech-loading guns.
After dismantling it, he had to admit pessimistically.
If the future of the Army is breech-loading guns, then the Russian Empire may have no future.
Because the backward industrial capabilities of the Russian Empire simply cannot support the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops to reload and reload guns.
For countries with stronger industrial capabilities such as the Ming Empire, Britain, France, and even Prussia.
The difficulty for them to complete the rear-loading gun reloading is much lower than that of Russia!
If this battle fails.
Then the future of the Russian Empire will be lost.
It is different from the Russian army, which dispatched a division of more than 10,000 people.
The leading troops dispatched by the Ming army may be two reinforced infantry battalions, with about 3,000 people.
They also arranged an infantry line, with cavalry on both sides. What made Musayev pay more attention was the artillery position behind the infantry formation.
More than twenty howitzers were pulled out, with their black muzzles pointing diagonally toward the sky. The barrels were not as thick as the Russian mortars, but Musayev knew that these howitzers far exceeded the Russian army in terms of range and power. They were equipped with silly, big, black mortars that still fired wooden bullets.
"Chief of Staff! The Rakshasa ghost is about to attack!"
at the same time.
Behind the Ming army's front line, Fang Yu stood on the watchtower, holding a telescope and staring at the Russian army's line.
The Russians wore gray-blue military uniforms and lined up in a neat queue, with waves of skirmishers in front of them.
Although there is also a horizontal formation on the Ming army's side, it is still not as neat as the Russian army on the opposite side - now in the Ming army's tactical regulations, queuing to shoot has been cancelled.
Instead, there were assault groups based on companies and platoons.
"The first battalion is dispatched, approaching in skirmish formation. They lie down two hundred steps away from the enemy. The snipers advance two hundred steps and kneel down to meet the enemy!"
As the order is given.
A thousand Ming army infantry laid out two red attack lines in front of them, and moved forward slowly.
It seems that the Ming army has no new tactics!
When Musayev saw this, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief while silently assessing the advantages and disadvantages of both sides.
The advantage of the Russian army is its range!
I can fire from a distance of 600 yards.
The horse riding on the opposite side needs to be at a distance of 400 yards to enter the effective range!
A gap of two hundred yards, coming at this speed, was enough for the Russian army to fire two volleys!
The Russian army was more numerous than the Ming army. If two volleys came down, the Ming army on the opposite side would be crippled even if it didn't collapse!
In theory this is indeed the case.
But I don’t know why Musayev’s eyelids are always twitching.
Are there any other surprises?
Just when he was thinking this.
The unexpected happened.
"Stop the advance! Infantrymen lie down! Snipers kneel down and shoot!!"
The frontline officers of the Ming Army issued orders loudly.
On the battlefield.
All the Ming soldiers in the front row immediately fell to the ground.
The remaining two hundred Ming soldiers also knelt down on one knee, and suddenly seemed to be half shorter, their shadows hidden in the grass.
The Syr Darya River is rich in water and grass, and the grass grows quite tall.
Although not to the point where the wind blows the grass and cattle and sheep appear.
But it would be enough to submerge the lower legs of an average adult man.
After all the infantrymen in the front row of the Ming army lay on the ground, Musayev had to stand on his toes to see some pattering red spots.
How is this going?
Why are these Chinese lying on the ground?
This seems a bit outrageous, right?
Are they so afraid of death?
Musayev felt that his mind must not be able to move.
The Russian troops who saw this scene also stopped advancing.
"Why did the Chinese lie down?"
"Do you still want to fight?"
"Let's go home early if we don't fight!"
"You're hiding in the grass, how can you aim!"
The Russian infantrymen started shouting.
They instinctively felt something was wrong.
These Chinese seem to have brought some new tactics!
But they knew nothing about it.
"Colonel! What do we do now? We can't even see where these Chinese are!"
A Russian officer on the front line turned to look at the Russian colonel Turgenev who was in charge of commanding the front line.
Colonel Turgenev is fifty-eight this year.
It has been forty years since he joined the army at the age of eighteen.
It can be said that he is a veteran who has been in battle for a long time. If his family is not from a noble family, he must have a general on his shoulders now.
But after forty years of fighting, I have never heard of fighting while lying down.
Now facing the enemy lying on the ground, how should we fight?
If it were in the age of muskets.
It should be Ula's charge now.
But now the breech-loading guns equipped by the Ming army have a rate of fire several times higher than that of front-loading guns.
If ordinary infantrymen charge four hundred yards, they can fire at least twenty rounds of bullets.
A thousand breech-loading guns fire twenty rounds of ammunition, that’s twenty thousand rounds of ammunition.
With more than a thousand people on hand, he charged 400 yards with 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
Just thinking about this makes my scalp tingle.
"Stop moving forward."
Turgenev said loudly that he was a veteran.
Of course, I know that I can't do things that lead to death casually.
After observing the opponent's array.
He decided to learn from the sniper soldiers behind the Ming army infantry.
"Kneel down to meet the enemy!"
Following Turgenev's orders.
The Russian troops on the battlefield also knelt on one knee.
So a rather funny scene happened on the battlefield.
Most of the warring parties were lying down on one side, and there were more than 300 people squatting in the grass behind them.
On the other side, everyone was half-kneeling to face the enemy.
"Aim! Fire!"
Officers from both sides gave the order to fire almost at the same time.
On the infantry line where both sides were kneeling to face the enemy, blood suddenly spattered.
Gunshots were heard from both sides.
Jin Biao, squad leader of the 1st Dragoon Brigade of the Western Conquest Army, immediately jumped up and led the soldiers in his squad forward with their heads covered.
Counting while walking.
"1, 2, 3, 420, 21, 22, 23, lie down!"
He fell down with the sound of Beijing movie consonants.
The Manchu youth Jin Biao, who was less than 1.7 meters tall but dark and strong, suddenly jumped forward.
Almost at the same time, gunfire from both sides rang out again.
"Mom did a great job, I almost told you to do it here."
Jin Biao's heart was pounding.
Charge, lie down, charge.
This tactic was summed up by the Army General Staff of the Ming Army.
It is designed based on the advantages of breech-loading guns and targeting enemies who are generally equipped with front-loading rifled guns.
its purpose.
Just get as close to the enemy as possible, close to the designed distance and then fire, using the high rate of fire of the breech-loading gun to tilt the ferocious firepower at the enemy!
"Get up! Get up! Charge!!!!"
Gold Label jumped up again.
Even though he was a former bannerman, he was not from a wealthy family in Beijing. Back then, he almost begged just to get a bite of food.
Today's days are more exciting than before.
As a warrior selected to join the Western Army.
Jinbiao has its own pasture and cattle and sheep.
At the same time, he also has a land coupon that can be exchanged for 40 acres of military land in the Northeast. At the same time, if he makes meritorious deeds, he may get a hereditary title!
Life on the grassland is so hard!
I want to go back to Beijing!
Jinbiao, who once had a Beijing household registration, gritted his teeth, covered his head and rushed forward!
"this"
Musayev frowned.
He really didn't expect that these Chinese soldiers could actually complete such an unexpected set of tactics.
Lie down, charge, lie down.
The tactical moves are not difficult.
The hard part is doing this on the battlefield.
Rush forward risking enemy bullet fire.
This requires great courage to do.
People are afraid of death.
in Europe.
Who dares to let the soldiers lie down? There is a high probability that these soldiers will not be able to get up after lying down.
Who doesn’t know that it’s harder to get hit while lying down?
But it is easy to lie down, but difficult to stand up!
Queuing to be shot is dull though.
But at least it allows officers to better control the queue and avoid the failure of soldiers due to fear of death to the greatest extent.
But now the tactics of lying down - charging - lying down are testing the enthusiasm of the soldiers.
It seems now.
These Ming army soldiers are indeed very motivated to fight!
This made Musayev look very worried.
"Rush! Keep rushing!!"
While lying on his stomach, Jin Biao checked whether there were any missing parts on his body.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he found it intact, and then loudly ordered his soldiers to advance.
In fact, this set of tactics tests the abilities of the most basic non-commissioned officer squad leaders.
Under the stimulation of Jun Lutian.
The soldiers of the Western Conquest Army can be described as brave and not afraid of death.
"Lie down!!"
Look for the Russian army's rifled guns to ring out again.
Jinbiao suddenly jumped forward and roared loudly at the same time.
There are many squad leaders like him.
Along the way.
They have advanced more than a hundred steps
There were less than two hundred steps left from the enemy.
Although it's still quite far.
but.
This has already reached the shooting range of the Guangfu 6-year-old breech-loading rifle! !
"Fire!!"
Jin Biao lay on the ground, stretched the gun in his hand forward, put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, and caught a Russian officer in front of him.
boom!
Gunfire rang out.
next moment.
A stream of blood spurted out from the Russian officer's chest.
at the same time.
Bang bang bang!
Intensive gunshots rang out.
More than a thousand Ming army soldiers kept firing with their guns.
Dense bullets rushed towards the Russian army ahead like raindrops.
The soldiers of the Ming army even fired while shooting.
Also move forward to shorten the shooting distance!
Seeing that the Ming infantry had rushed to a distance of more than 300 yards, Colonel Turgenev knew that something was wrong.
He quickly turned his head and looked back - he was waiting for the order to retreat.
The order to retreat had not yet been issued, but the gun battle between the two sides was in full swing.
A fierce rain of bullets poured past, and the Russian infantrymen who were shooting from a kneeling position were immediately beaten to their knees.
The rifle they used was about 1.5 meters long without a bayonet. With the bayonet installed, it was taller than most soldiers. It was very inconvenient to load bullets while kneeling, especially when loading bullets in the enemy's hail of bullets. , panic is inevitable, and the reloading speed will also slow down.
Some inexperienced recruits would forget to take out the poke bar and fire it out together.
In contrast, the Ming army, which was lying prone and firing, was much more calm and relaxed.
The breech-loading guns in their hands can be loaded in various positions, and they are fast and easy to make mistakes. All they have to do is pull the firing pin and push the bullet into the magazine.
As a result, the difference in shooting speed between the two sides is not 6 times, but 8 times or 9 times.
The Ming army was raining down bullets, and the Russian army was sparsely firing back.
People were lying on the ground hiding from bullets.
He was half-kneeling and being shot at a fixed target.
The casualties on both sides were completely unequal.
Turgenev's hands were trembling. In just one or two minutes, one or two hundred of the soldiers on his hands had been killed or wounded!
Can this fight continue?
The drums of retreat began to beat louder.
Colonel Turgenev breathed out a sigh of relief. He stood up and was about to give orders to the soldiers and officers around him when he suddenly felt something hit him in the chest. (End of Chapter)
