In this case, even if we do not consider the quality of the muskets, the shooting level of the soldiers, morale and other things, simply comparing the density of firepower, the Ming army infantry phalanx on the opposite side will definitely lose!
And this is also the reason why the Dachu Empire Army did not hesitate to fully equip the flintlock muskets and build a new first-class division after the mass production of the flintlock muskets. Even a flintlock musket at this time cost more than ten taels of silver. , the cost is almost three or four times that of a matchlock gun.
The firepower density can be several times higher at every turn, which is enough to form a huge tactical advantage on the battlefield.
And this is also reflected in today's battle!
The two sides only engaged in three rounds of shooting. The Ming army array opposite had already fallen close to a hundred people, while the Chu army's fallen soldiers were only less than ten.
Such a huge battle loss ratio directly frightened the Ming army array on the opposite side!
The leading Ming army general didn't know what to do and continued to shoot? I'm afraid it won't take long for them all to be shot dead by the other side.
Moreover, in the case of cross-fire, the large number of spearmen on one's own side will be of little use.
Take the initiative to rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat?
The idea is good, but can they still rush forward?
Can't rush!
When there were hundreds of casualties, the phalanx of only more than 600 people had completely collapsed. Before the leading Ming army officer could order a charge, they had completely collapsed!
The remaining five hundred people threw down their muskets and spears and fled toward the rear of the battlefield without looking back.
The collapse of a Ming army infantry phalanx is just the beginning of today's battle!
As more infantrymen of the Chu army continued to line up, the infantry phalanxes of the Ming army were defeated one after another. They also tried to take the initiative to rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat, but the firepower of the Chu army's line formation was too dense. They suffered heavy casualties before they even rushed forward.
The remaining soldiers who can charge forward often have to face the dense forest of bayonets on the opposite side!
A few occasional breakthroughs will not affect the entire battle situation!
And with the continuous casualties and defeats, more Ming army formations began to flee or even surrender on the spot!
Although Sun Chuanting asked his men to resist stubbornly, their military morale had already hit rock bottom. Being able to resist until now instead of surrendering at the beginning was a sign of Sun Chuanting's ability to manage the army.
In fact, if it weren't for Sun Chuanting's relatively high personal prestige and his relatively strong control over the army, the Ming army would have collapsed on the way to escape.
Now they were once again being pursued and attacked by the Chu army. Many people who had run all the way no longer wanted to run anymore, let alone follow Sun Chuanting to Longxi.
Moreover, because today's battle was a losing situation no matter how you looked at it, many generals simply surrendered after seeing that the situation could not be reversed.
And some Ming troops who were willing to resist also suffered an almost devastating blow!
The infantrymen under the 24th Division formed infantry arrays of three or even two columns in units of battalions and sentries.
Under the cover of dozens of field guns in the rear, they formed a tight, almost shoulder-to-shoulder formation, sweeping the entire battlefield with their flintlocks.
After watching the left wing collapse in front, most of the right wing surrendering, and the Chinese army also completely collapsed!
Sun Chuanting did not show any expression of despair or anger, but had a calm face. He took a deep breath, then pulled out the long sword at his waist and said to the hundreds of generals or guards behind him:
"Commanders, follow me to kill the thieves!"
Immediately afterwards, he grabbed the horse's belly and rushed out first, and directly in front of him were tens of thousands of Chu soldiers in tight formation!
When more than a hundred personal guards and a few generals behind him saw this scene, more than ten people immediately chased after him, but more people looked at you. One of them said: "Everything is over. !”
Sun Chuanting didn't care about the soldiers or generals behind him who didn't follow him. Instead, he led more than ten people who followed him and rushed toward the Chu army array opposite.
A Chu army infantry formation on the opposite side saw more than a dozen Ming troops on horseback rushing out from the remnants of the Ming army in front. They didn't care who they were. The battalion commander who led the army immediately shouted: "Fire!"
As gunfire continued, more than ten people were shot and fell off their horses one after another!
Sun Chuanting was no exception. He fell off his horse after being shot multiple times. Lying on the ground, he still opened his eyes and looked at the sky!
In his sight, the sky was clear and cloudless!
In the fifth year of the Chu Empire's succession, on the sixth day of April in the first year of Longxing in the Western Ming Dynasty, it was sunny at the foot of Qishan Mountain in Fengyang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was the right minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right capital, the prince Shaobao, the governor of the three sides, and the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces; in the Longxing Dynasty of the Western Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting, the scholar of Wuyingdian, the minister of the Ministry of War, the prince Taifu, and the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces, died in the battle. !
The Ming Dynasty lost its last pillar of the country and ushered in its complete destruction.
Just three days later, the Chu army caught up with a team of more than 10,000 people from the Longxing regime who fled westward. Emperor Longxing fled in a panic under hundreds of personal guards, and the rest were either surrendered or killed.
One day later, Emperor Longxing's troops were chased by the Chu army. Emperor Longxing Zhu Changhao died in the rebel army, and his son and others were all killed.
The Longxing regime was officially declared over!
After the news of Emperor Longxing's death spread to Sichuan, Shanxi, Yunnan and Guizhou and other places, the civil and military officials in Yunnan and Guizhou immediately supported Zhu Youzhu, the king of Gui who fled to Kunming, Yunnan, as the emperor and gave him the title of Xingwu.
This man was the third son of King Gui Zhu Changying. After Zhu Changying died in the Chu army, his third son Zhu Youzhu inherited the title of King Gui and fled to Guangxi.
As the Chu army marched into Guangxi, he fled to Yunnan. However, he was frail and sick, and he didn't know how many days he could live.
In addition to Yunnan and Guizhou, civil and military officials in Sichuan recommended Shu King Zhu Zhi to supervise the country. However, this man and Emperor Chongzhen were separated by more than ten generations of blood. The ancestor of the Shu King was the son of Zhu Yuanzhang. In the eyes of many people It was unjust and unreasonable to come here, and he himself was probably afraid that he would not have a chance to surrender after the Chu army entered Sichuan, so he refused to supervise the country several times. Unfortunately, the local civil and military officials of the residual Ming Dynasty did not give him a chance to refuse, and forcibly The name of the prison country was attached to his head.
They needed a flag after all!
A banner that not only fights against Chu thieves but also competes for power with southern Yunnan and Guizhou cannot let people like them listen to the local officials in Yunnan and Guizhou, right?
In the end, Zuo Liangyu was still indispensable, even though at this time Shanxi under his command was already facing attacks from three sides by the Chu army, and even the city of Taiyuan was about to be lost.
However, this did not prevent Zuo Liangyu, who had already retreated to the Loess Plateau in advance, from proclaiming the emperor Zhu Changzi the king of Lu in Yan'an and granting him the title of "Shao'an".
And with the death of Zhu Changhao, his son also died. Now Zhu Changzi is the vassal king with the closest bloodline in the Ming Dynasty clan.
With the death of Emperor Longxing, the Ming Dynasty joined forces and created two emperors and a supervising state... and their internal situation was even more chaotic than before.
Because Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou started fighting first...
The whole situation is even more chaotic than when Chongzhen died last year.
But all this did not have much impact on the Chu Empire!
No matter what actions were taken within the remnants of the Ximing Dynasty, the Chu Empire was still executing its strategic plan step by step: to recover Shaanxi-Gansu, Shanxi and other places, and then send troops into Sichuan.
With the death of Sun Chuanting, most of the main force of the New Qin Army under his command surrendered, and a small number were annihilated. The strategic goal of the Western Front Campaign has been successfully completed.
Next, the strategic focus of the Chu army was Shanxi and the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, where Zuo Liangyu was based.
We also need to allocate some energy to deal with the Eastern Front. When the Chu army launched the Western Front campaign, I don’t know if the Eastern Front was out of a desperate mentality. When the Chu army violently attacked the Western Front, they also mobilized The troops once again tried to launch an attack on Shanhaiguan, and sent a large number of cavalry to bypass Mongolia to attack the Great Wall.
Although Dongli failed to successfully enter the Pass, the two sides also fought several medium-sized battles around the Great Wall.
Therefore, the senior leaders of the Chu army have decided to further strengthen the reinforcements to the northeastern front line. All kinds of weapons, ammunition, food, grass and even troops will be reinforced one after another.
However, in the strategic plan of the Dachu Empire, the northeast direction will still focus on defensive operations.
After all, the remnants of the Eastern Ming Dynasty and the Xi Ming Dynasty are different. The remnant troops of the Xi Ming Dynasty are like grasshoppers in the autumn and cannot survive for much longer. What's more, they are in internal chaos and even struggle with each other. They no longer have enough strength to organize a large army to resist the Chu army. Attacked.
This was very obvious when the Chu army attacked Shaanxi and Shanxi, even though these two places had the two most powerful military forces in Ximingli: Zuo Liangyu's army and Sun Chuanting's army.
But these two major military groups were still unable to fight against the Chu army.
And last year, they even fought with each other.
Looking back at the Eastern Banners, they were actually a highly unified regime, and in the past few decades of battles, they had successively recovered Eastern Mongolia and North Korea. Their Eight Banners military system still has certain desirability today, and its morale is generally Relatively high, the will to fight is more tenacious.
Moreover, they can uniformly allocate resources such as money, food, weapons and armor, and they will not be like Xi Ming. If one million silver is scattered, it will be a great gift to have three to five million taels of silver used in the army.
Their ability to organize and mobilize is far beyond what the remnants of the Western People's Army can compare with today.
Finally, there is another very crucial point. After they control the Mongolian tribes, they can not only directly command large numbers of Mongolian cavalry to fight, but also obtain a large number of war horses from the Mongolian grasslands.
It has many cavalry, as well as mules and horses for its infantry and artillery, and its mobility is very high.
Unfortunately, the Chu Empire was short of horses, let alone cavalry.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry cannot be said to be elite. After all, most of the Chu army's cavalry came directly from the cavalry surrender of the Ming army. Some of these surrenders were poor and some were good, but overall their combat effectiveness was limited.
More importantly, there are not many cavalry even with poor combat effectiveness!
