Huang Hu is not a cavalry general, but a typical Guangxi wolf soldier king-style infantry general. However, he has a high prestige among the wolf soldiers in southern Guangxi. With a call, thousands of people follow him, and the soldiers of Siming Mansion and Siming Prefecture The wolf soldiers began to gather towards him.
Huang Hu did not wait for everyone to get closer. When about two thousand people gathered around him, he began to yell for these people to form a team. The problem with beach landing is that it is easy for everyone to get on the boat, disembark and grab the beach. The formation was scattered, so now that the front line was slightly stable, he, who was experienced, immediately seized the opportunity to reorganize the team.
When I say hurry up, I really mean hurry up. Before even a stick of incense has passed, Huang Hu has initially completed the formation of the team, temporarily fine-tuned the command sequence, and then immediately led this group of people forward.
Attack is the best defense. Huang Hu may have never heard this sentence, but he must have come to this conclusion from many years of war experience. He knew that although Zheng Jun's attack just now was defeated because the main general was killed, Retreat, but that player's level may not be too high in the future. Now that the attack has failed, the opponent will definitely make adjustments and will soon regain their strength and fight again.
After all, once the Ming army lands, Zheng Jun will basically be trapped in Qinghua Gucheng.
So now we have to seize the time. Waiting for the opponent to attack has never been the habit of the wolf soldiers. It is their hobby to rush over and kill people. Therefore, Huang Hu's move made these elites of Huang Zhiting's direct line very excited. Two thousand people gathered into a fist. He hit Zheng Jun in front of him hard.
In front of them, Zheng Jun was indeed reorganizing and preparing to charge back. At the same time, they also called reinforcements from the rear.
Zheng's army of about 3,000 men had just assembled when the wolf soldiers led by Huang Hu arrived.
This is not a confrontation between the two armies before the war begins. There is no time for archers to shoot from a distance and then infantry to move forward. The wolf soldiers at the moment are all a group of hungry wolves, and they will rush to kill the enemy when they catch them.
Of course, the wolf soldiers' habitual round of javelin is still unavoidable.
It has to be said that although these wolf soldiers are not as tall as Gao Jingshi's servants, they are really strong. When they run forward and throw the javelin in their hands, it is estimated that the average distance is more than thirty feet - this distance The javelin world record of later generations is only about three feet away, but it is their average level.
Zheng Jun's weapons are diverse, including harpooneers, but they don't like to use them intensively like the wolf soldiers. In fact, the wolf soldiers used to prefer small-scale centralized use, but later Gao Pragmatic gave Huang Zhiting suggestions, and Huang Zhiting asked Huang Hu to use them. I went to do some experiments, and used a single hundred households as a small organization to form five or six hundred households to throw javelins together. One simultaneous throw was one wave, and it was divided into three overlapping waves and they were thrown in turn.
This tactic was obviously modified from the three-stage musket attack. It would most likely not be used by ordinary Ming army troops, because these people are equivalent to rushing towards the opponent's bows and arrows or even the threat of musket salvos, without javelins. Amazing courage is definitely not enough.
But the wolf soldiers have such courage. These people have long been instilled by the chieftains with too many weird concepts of inferiority and values that are difficult for outsiders to understand, which is almost like some religious brainwashing.
For them, if they rush through a few rounds of javelin, the enemy will collapse. If they are lucky enough to survive, then they can use the second move and go directly forward to let them try the bamboo spear array. Some people in later generations believed that the original idea of Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation came from the "three or five groups of wolf soldiers who spontaneously formed to cooperate with each other." Although this is not necessarily true, it at least illustrates the bamboo spear formation of the wolf soldiers. Powerful.
Huang Hu was also an experienced player in fighting. Seeing that the opponent was about to complete his reorganization, he ordered a quick three-stage javelin throw without saying a word. Needless to say, the wolf soldiers' discipline in carrying out the chieftain's orders was so great that Zheng's army was overwhelmed by the three-stage javelin after four teams of hundreds of households had passed.
Many unlucky ones who were close were even nailed to the ground by the inertia of the javelin, and some who were lucky enough to survive screamed in agony, which was extremely desolate.
This kind of puncture injury, as long as it hurts a slightly more critical part, is basically impossible to save in this era, and because the bamboo pole is not very thin, even if it penetrates the thigh, arm, etc., it can easily cause blood vessels to rupture... Battlefield Yes, this is hopeless.
After the third stage of throwing, the Zheng army directly lost more than 400 people. In this era, it was already a heavy casualty. However, Huang Hu's remaining strength was not exhausted. After throwing a javelin, the wolf soldiers stepped back to rest for a while. The remaining soldiers who did not participate in the third stage of throwing were About eight hundred wolf soldiers had formed a bamboo spear formation and charged forward.
The Bamboo Spear Formation is indeed somewhat similar to the Mandarin Duck Formation. It does not necessarily have to stand in place and line up honestly, slowly approaching, but can directly charge forward - in fact, this is somewhat similar to the "infantry" of later generations. "Squad offensive tactics" emphasize small-scale coordinated operations.
Gao pragmatic understands the principles, but doesn't know much about specific training and command, while Huang Hu is just the opposite. He may not know the principles, but he is definitely good at applying it.
These eight hundred wolf soldiers are actually divided into eighty "infantry squads". Each infantry squad has a small flag, which is equivalent to the squad leader. He selects the enemy, and then the entire "squad" fights together under his command. .
After a round of killing, Zheng Jun collapsed in front of them. In fact, no more than 200 of their people were killed by this round of bamboo spear array, which was not as good as the previous three-stage javelin throw. However, the feeling of the enemy being killed in front of you was different from the feeling of facing them. The feeling of long range throwing is different.
Not only did this group of wolf soldiers cooperate with each other tacitly, ten of them were like one person, but their faces were full of fanaticism and excitement, as well as some inexplicable cruelty. Zheng Jun was attacked and killed by them as they approached, and almost all of them were slaughtered, with all kinds of resistance. It caused almost no harm to the other party.
What a fart!
I don’t know who was the first to throw away the weapon in his hand, scream and turn around to run away. Anyway, in an instant, thousands of Zheng soldiers all lost their weapons and turned around to run away. Many of them even took off their half-masks as they ran. A, in order to escape lightly.
Zheng's army of three thousand men completely collapsed.
Here Huang Hu defeated the Zheng army in front of him, and more wolf soldiers approached from behind and from all directions. Huang Hu took the opportunity to regroup and reorganize in order to form a greater combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
The collapse of Zheng's army in front of him angered Ruan Youliao, the commander of Zheng's defense line along the river who was watching the battle from behind. Ruan Youliao was furious and mobilized his troops to fight in person.
This time he was accompanied by not only his three thousand elite direct descendants, but also twenty war elephants sent by Ruan Huang.
As Huang Hu organized his team, he did not forget to observe the situation ahead. Those war elephants were too tall and Huang Hu spotted them from a long distance away.
There were elephants in Guangxi in the past - the Ming Dynasty even set up an elephant taming guard in Guangxi, which was under the jurisdiction of Nanning Prefecture, in Hengzhou, east of Nanning - so Huanghu was not unfamiliar with elephants.
However, there are fewer and fewer elephants in Guangxi. In fact, there are only empty shells of the elephant tamers. The Communists don’t know if they can put together a circus. It is completely nonsense to use it for fighting. They are now just a few people. The first mascot is the garrison soldier.
But this was enough for Huang Hu. He knew that it was not difficult to deal with these war elephants. The difficulty was that he did not expect to encounter war elephants, so he lacked preparations - for the wolf soldiers who were so bold in fighting. He said that there was no need to use any fire attack to deal with the war elephant, as long as he had an extended bamboo spear. A group of wolf soldiers gathered around and poked the war elephant's eyes randomly. As long as one eye could be poked out, the war elephant would go crazy.
There is no need to attack parts other than the eyes. Although a bamboo spear with an iron tip can still pierce the body of a war elephant, it is actually very dangerous to pierce a war elephant with a bamboo spear when it is moving, because it is easy to be stabbed. Take it flying, and no one can tell what will happen next.
Moreover, war elephants have thick skin and thick flesh, so this skin injury is not fatal to them. The truly fatal and effective attack part is the eyes. There is a high chance that war elephants will go crazy if their eyes are poked out, but they are intelligent creatures after all. They know that they cannot afford to offend the enemy who pokes their eyes out, so they will usually turn around and run away - this will cause them to completely destroy their lineup. Crush.
But the problem now is that he does not have an extended bamboo spear. Ordinary bamboo spears can also be used to poke, but the risk is more than ten times higher - being slammed by such a giant beast, no matter what your normal body shape is. Cow, that is, a dead person.
Huang Hu's mind was spinning crazily. He thought of a way and immediately shouted loudly to summon the wolf soldiers who were usually the most accurate in throwing spears - yes, he planned to use spear throwing to blind the war elephant's eyes!
However, before he could implement this method, Gao Zhang hurriedly came from behind.
Along with Gao Zhang came Gao Jingshi's direct lineage in this battle, his bodyguard group.
At the same time, in addition to thousands of Longqing II muskets, there were also cannons.
After Gao Zhang listened to Huang Hu's brief introduction to the battle situation and told him about the threat of war elephants, he decisively ordered the deployment of artillery - as Gao Pragmatic had always emphasized, artillery must be used intensively!
Since the large No. 3 Folan cannon had not yet been transported across the river, Gao Zhang placed one hundred and twenty relatively small Tiger Crouching Cannons in front of the formation, and all preparations were completed in the shortest possible time.
The elite soldiers commanded by Ruan Youliao personally carried twenty war elephants and had already marched to a mile away.
Huang Hu quietly gave a wink to the harpooneers under his command, meaning that if the Gao family's servants could not handle these war elephants, they would still attack. The hundreds of "elephant hunting harpooneers" who had just been temporarily arranged by him to command Hu nodded, indicating that he understood.
Gao Zhang did not pay attention to Huang Hu, but carefully observed the distance. When the war elephant immediately approached the hundred feet distance he asked the artillerymen to locate, he suddenly shouted: "Fire! Fire!"
"Bang...bang!"
"Bang...bang!"
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One hundred and twenty of Qi Jiguang's favorite squatting tiger cannons roared in unison, and all the projectiles were fired a hundred feet away.
The man is on his back and the horse is overturned - no, the man is on his back and the elephant is overturned. Three unlucky war elephants were directly hit by artillery. One of them had his head blown off by a cannon, which exploded into a ball of blood and broken bones. He fell to the ground and crushed two Zheng soldiers to death.
The other two were hit in the back and of course shot to death. The body of the mahout sitting on its back was completely gone.
The last one had better luck. Due to the angle, one of its hind legs was broken off, and it also fell to the ground with a crash, throwing the mahouts on its back several feet away. The war elephant made a pitiful cry like a whistle, which suddenly caused the other war elephants to become unstable. They became anxious and struggled from side to side. No matter how much the mahout urged them, they refused to step forward.
The elephant is actually a timid vegetarian animal.
Afraid of fire and loud noises.
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