Chapter 59: Settle down the south of the Yangtze River, go home and divide the fields
"It's interesting!"
Yang Xin sat on the chair of the Grand Master on the top of Shunke Mountain, holding a teacup and crossing his legs.
He was wearing a python robe and a big black hat on his head, and a Qingluo umbrella cover on his head. He stood with the handle of a knife on both sides. He was very polite to the eunuch party in the movie. The bandits were surrounded by guns and guards, and the guard circle expanded to 200 meters. The entire top of Shunke Mountain was full of patrolling bandits...
It's really impossible to be slutty.
The emergence of the rifled rifle is a huge threat to him.
Even though the rifled rifle was still bad at this time, it could still be shot in the head within 150 meters. When the unruly Americans were rebelling, the Kentucky rifle could already be sniped within 200 meters. The guy who did not shoot at Washington was said to be shot to death by a Kentucky rifle 400 meters away. The predecessor of the Kentucky rifle was the Yeage rifle, which is the product of this century. A modern 17th-century Yeage rifle tested a 90-meter distance spreading accuracy of 15 centimeters, which means that a well-trained gunman could easily shoot him in the head within 90 meters.
It was a little farther before.
In order to lurk, they hid 130 meters away.
But one bullet in the six rifles still hit a precise hit, and the one on his face was an accident.
It's really impossible to be slutty.
The advancement of technology has begun to withdraw the peerless generals.
Their times have come to an end.
"See, they look more elegant than us!"
Yang Xin said.
On the mountain plain a mile wide in front of him, a real battle is about to begin.
However, the strong attack on Maofeng has begun. Kong Youde led a brigade of bandits to attack the fortress of Changjie Army with the support of eight mortar cannons. The latter was just a small village built with wood and stone. After all, the cost of building a bastion on a mountain with an altitude of nearly 200 meters was too high. Besides, this fortress only covers the flanks of Xishan Fort, Xu Xiake and his men never thought that Yang Xin would attack from this direction, and also brought a mortar cannon that could be carried to the top of the mountain.
After this thing built a fortress to bombard the Toumao Peak at Ermao Peak, Qian Shijin, who was in Hengshan, knew that he had to attack.
Then the Chang'an army attacked.
This army with two infantry brigades and five hundred cavalry, with the help of hired Dutch officers, arranged a standard Dutch brigade-class formation on this narrow mountain plain, one mile wide and five miles long.
To be precise, it is a third-line array.
The first two battalions form a vanguard, each battalion is a square formation, with muskets on both sides of the spear in the middle. Every forty people is a team of muskets, leaving a passage between the teams, which means that they learned the latest, because this was improved by the Dutch later, and there was no need for a passage between each column. In addition, there were sixty musketeers in front of the spearmen. The two battalions combined are actually a standard temporary regiment. The minimum standard combat unit of the Morris system is the battalion, but in actual combat, two battalions usually form a temporary regiment to be dispatched.
Behind the forward is the real main combat force. The huge line composed of four battalions almost completely cut off a mile-wide mountain passage.
There are two battalions behind.
A total of eight battalions form the third-line array of the first two middle and the fourth one behind the second.
As for the cannons, they were hitting the hillsides on both sides of the vanguard, and the height was used to overlook the battlefield, and the cavalry formed a formation to provide protection for them. The cavalry was obviously too poisoned and could not see the spear. They should have been purely playing with European cavalry wheel shooting. At this time, the Dutch were still holding this point. In fact, European cavalry was like this. Even cavalry attacked with muskets and fired. Only after Gu Erye was educated by the Winged Cavalry, they began to change.
But the new cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were basically not so stupid. They were all Cao Wenzhao's tricks. When rushing for infantry, they used muskets. When cavalry attacked, they would hit the spear first, and then pull out their guns to make their faces.
At this moment, the entire Chang'an army was dispatched.
This regiment organized by the Jiahu and Hangzhou gentry trained eight battalions, each with 550 people, and there was still a 500 cavalry left. As for the auxiliary troops, they were not prepared to go out to fight, so they handed over all the combat and transportation on the local area to the gentry.
It is obvious that Qian Shijin wants to do his best to comfort his brother's spirit in heaven here.
"I heard that they hired a Dutchman and went to such a school. They learned to fight with a famous general of the barbarians and brought a military book written by the famous general."
Yang Huan said.
"Well, are there any Morris students?"
Yang Xin said somewhat surprised.
However, Morris' military academy seems to have trained more than a thousand students. One of them was unsuccessful in the army. It was not impossible to run to the Ming Dynasty to make a living. After all, the Dutch had only a little army. Morris wanted to collect a full version of 24,000 people in his life and failed to get the third-line formation.
However, the three-line array in front of me is still very well-shaped.
Moreover, all the spearmen are half-body armor, musket soldiers are all breast armor, and they have a certain jumping effect with a fold line on their chests. In fact, musket soldiers are completely unnecessary, but they are panicked if they don’t wear them. Even Yang Xin has matched them. Anyway, it’s only 15 mm to prevent bows and arrows. However, the spearmen are really heavy armor, and their half-body armor is two millimeters or even thicker, and they are basically immune to bows and arrows. As for muskets...
That's left to fate!
"Our team is indeed not as well-organized as them."
Yang Huan said.
The bandits have also been arranged.
The battalion-level combination of the Bandit Army is no different from that of the Chang'an Army. The only difference is that Yang Xin did not set up a third-line formation, but instead pressed all the main forces to the front line, leaving only two battalions of reserves behind. The Chang'an Army needs to consider the issue of retreat once the troops are defeated, and Yang Xin does not consider this at all.
Behind him is the militia area.
Behind Chang'an Army were countless tenants who were looking forward to him winning.
This point has a principled difference, but his front line has been slightly modified. There are two small spear formations that look like Gu Erye, mainly because the battlefield is too narrow and he cannot set it too wide. Besides, there is no big difference between these two formations. In fact, the formations of all the eras are not decisive, and the most backward Spanish phalanx is also used in Europe. When Gu Erye was killed in the Battle of Lucen, his opponent Emperor ** was still the Spanish phalanx.
The most important thing these days is not to be afraid of death.
"Take it!"
Yang Xin stretched out his hand and said.
Yang Huan waved his hand quickly, and the soldiers next to him immediately lifted a huge bronze trumpet.
The speaker Yang's amplifier was upgraded. The small speaker used to be too bad, so he specially made such a giant one, which was specially placed on a wooden rack, and a pitch structure was designed below, which could adjust the angle and align it in a certain direction. Then the speaker Yang walked to the speaker, first adjusted the angle, aimed at the formation of the bandit army about four hundred meters away from the straight line at the foot of the mountain, and then took a deep breath and shouted like a landlady...
"Brothers!"
His roar instantly shocked the mountains and forests.
A large flock of birds were frightened.
The soldiers lined up below turned to look at the top of the mountain...
"Master Sir, what did the marquis say?"
Liu Zhe, the captain of the bandit army, asked their whistle commander Li Jin curiously.
Li Jin, who had been promoted to the commander of the whistle, stood in front of the formation with axe and a gun, with two small flags in their backs, which were used for contact. There was also a flag bearer carrying a big flag next to him, and he also had a small flag behind him. This set of flag language must be learned separately, and only four of them can understand one whistle, and the other two are deputy commanders and coaches who are fighting behind the team. This is the rule of the bandit army, and the main rank must be at the forefront of his subordinates.
Li Jin raised his hand and signaled him not to speak.
Even if Governor Yang's voice spreads here through amplification, it is very ethereal.
Under the silent gaze of a graceful bird, Li Jin listened with his ears, and the voice continued to mist over their heads.
Suddenly he showed excitement...
"The Marquis said that after pacifying Jiangnan, I will take us home to divide the land!"
He shouted.
Then the entire team was filled with joy in an instant, and all the soldiers let out excited roars, and then their roars spread to other whistles, and there was also cheering, and boiling cheers continued to spread, and more and more soldiers cheered because of the news.
However, at this moment, cannons spewed out flames from the artillery position of the Chang'an army, and the whistling shells immediately hit the front of the formation...
"Don't be afraid, pacify Jiangnan and go home to divide the land!"
Li Jin raised his axe and yelled.
At the same time, the cannons here opened fire. Amid the rumbling cannons and the whistling of shells above their heads, the soldiers who had really participated in the war for the first time were waiting with fear. Suddenly, a fierce roar, Li Jin instinctively hid to the side. While he was dodging, a two-pound shell hit the spear formation, causing blood and flesh to splatter, and even someone in the sixth row fell down.
"Stay!"
Li Jin yelled.
At this moment, not only did he not have fear, but his body seemed to have awakened something, full of irresistible thoughts of killing.
Liu Zhe quickly carried out the dead bodies and wounded soldiers. The soldiers with rescued from behind squeezed through the gap and carried them away on a stretcher. Then the substitute soldiers rushed up from behind. Everyone was still waiting there, and the artillery battle between the two sides continued. However, neither side had any cavalry. On such terrain, there was nothing else to do except for head-on collision formation. However, the cavalry of the Chang'an army was limited, and it was useless to bump into the enemy. The number of cavalry in the bandit army was much more than that of the Chang'an army, but in this environment, cavalry was used to hit hard...
In fact, this is not the case, and there are few cavalry that will collide with such infantry formations.
The task of the cavalry is very simple, to block the flank attack of the enemy cavalry or attack the enemy's flanks. After victory, relying on speed to bypass the formation to attack its logistics supplies. If you fail, you have to cut off the logistics by others.
Cavalry warfare is indeed the key to victory.
Because the failure and fleeing of the cavalry means that an army loses its logistics, loses its flanks, and even cannons are difficult to protect, so failure is the inevitable result.
However, the real battle will eventually have to be fought by infantry.
Artillery bombards, infantry rushes, infantry is this fate!
"Transfer, move forward!"
Chapter completed!