Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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The "holy master" who can conquer Galdan three times, of course knows how much he weighs.

So Xiao Mazi didn't go to Shilipu to take command at all, but stationed in Jianyang Town on the north bank of Jianyang River.Nalan Mingzhu led about 5000 cavalry from the Guard Battalion of the Coated Minion Army to protect the "Holy Lord of Mayan".

Excluding these 5000 people, there are still about 7 Qing troops concentrated on the front line of Shilipu. Kangxi originally planned to mobilize [-] troops.But when the sky brightened on October [-], Wang Fuchen's [-] Green Banner soldiers had not yet arrived.

In addition, Kangxi also placed thousands of people in Jingmenzhou and Huyaguan to guard the back road to Xiangyang.

So counting the [-] guards around Kangxi and deploying Shilipu—the Qing army on the front line of Jianyang Town is only [-] in total. After deducting the [-] that Kangxi took for self-protection, the rest are under the command of Zhuobutai Down.

Like Wu Sangui, Zhuobutai built a stronghold first, defended Shilipu Town and the pontoon bridge and wooden bridge (two bridges) on the Jianyang River, and then fought Wu Sangui.

The confrontation between the two sides actually started the day before, that is, on the afternoon of October [-]th when the main forces of both sides were busy setting up camp.

The first confrontation was the cavalry of both sides and the hammer-throwing soldiers of the squad.

The battle between cavalry and hammer throwers is for control of the battlefield!

Compared with the 10,000+ troops of the two families, the Shilipu battlefield between Jianyangshui and Zhangshui is quite open, and apart from Shilipu, Jianyang Bridge, and Herong Town, there is nothing to station troops and control the surrounding area. The gist of a large swath of the battlefield.

And the total strength of the two sides is only so small. After they are really deployed on the battlefield, the territory that can be occupied is also limited.

Whoever holds the remaining battlefield areas, or who can control more of the remaining areas, will undoubtedly have a greater initiative.It can cover the opponent's various scouts, prevent them from spying on one's own camp and rear, cover the deployment of one's main force, and at the same time gain more control over the enemy's movements and harass the enemy's main force and logistics lines.

In the original "rules" of the battlefield, whoever has more and stronger cavalry will definitely have a great advantage in the battlefield competition before the start of the battle.

This is why the party from the north with more and stronger cavalry can always fight against the southern army in the cold weapon era, with few exceptions.

However, the appearance of the sugar medicine Tianlei Hammer (named by Wu Sangui) has greatly changed the "rules" of cavalry dominance... After Wu Sangui received a sufficient supply of "sugar medicine", he immediately trained a The batch of "Hammer Throwing Squads" who are good at throwing thunder hammers is a 12-man squad similar to Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation.

These 12 people include a captain, a team deputy, two sword players, two musketeers, four spearmen and two hammer throwers.Among them, the captain and the deputy are also equipped with bows and arrows.

Without the Thunder Hammer, it would be very dangerous for such a small team to encounter the cavalry of the Qing army on the battlefield. Four long spears could not form an formation at all, and the firepower provided by two muskets and two archers was too weak.

But now with the addition of two "bomb-throwing" hammer throwers, the team's combat effectiveness immediately increased exponentially.

Although it may not be sure to win the cavalry of the Qing army, it greatly increased the risk of the cavalry of the Qing army.

If the hammer hits by chance, a team of cavalry will be disabled!

Moreover, Wu Sangui's hammer-throwing soldiers also carried fake sky thunder hammers, which looked almost the same, but they were just a lump of wood, and they wouldn't explode when thrown out, but the real ones were also very scary.And these fake thunder hammers are worthless, so everyone in the hammer throwing team equipped them.

When encountering an enemy, they will often throw seven or eight or even a dozen hammers...but only two of them are the deadly Zhentian Thunder Hammers.

This probability... is playing with the heartbeat!

In addition, the small number of cavalry under Wu Sangui was also equipped with a thunder hammer, and they were upgraded to grenadier cavalry!

This is great!It is simply a mobile "fort", and riding alone can sometimes blow up a team of Qing cavalry!

Although the probability of this is very low, the cavalry of the Qing army on the battlefield are all terrified!

They are all playing cold weapons, while their opponents are playing bombs...you will be scared when you see it!

So starting from the afternoon of October [-]th, the battlefield around Shilipu heard "booming" explosions from time to time.

The cavalry of the Qing army who were sent by Zhuobutai to compete with the Wu army on the battlefield twitched when they heard the explosion.

In the end, the cavalry of the Qing army on the battlefield simply hid from the grenadier cavalry and hammer throwing squads of the Wu army... Can't afford to provoke them, can't we still hide?

And Zhuobutai, who had been watching the battle from the watchtower of the Shilipu camp all night, could only let out a long sigh in the early morning of October [-], and ordered his cavalry to retreat to the vicinity of the camp, as long as the camp was firmly covered.

And the first main confrontation of Wuqing Jianyanghe battle also kicked off at this time.

On October [-]th, at three o'clock in the morning, with the rapid sound of drums in Wu Sangui's camp, groups of thunder hammer soldiers and grenadier cavalry first drove out of the Wu army's camp, and then spread out on the battlefield. A kind of "scattered formation" that can be said to have never appeared before, and then slowly approached the Qing army camp.

"This is……"

At this time, Zhuobutai had already left the Shilipu camp under the escort of a team of cavalry from the vanguard battalion of the coated slave army. He immediately stood on the battlefield and began to observe the enemy's situation - the army he commanded was also heading towards the camp at this time. open outside.But he doesn't need to watch this matter personally, Bahai, Shuotuo, Tong Guoyao, Leerjin and others will naturally follow the plan formulated during the military meeting yesterday evening and drive the [-] troops out of the camp.

And the remaining 1 elite soldiers plus half of the [-] cavalry in Kangxi's hands, plus the [-] Wang Fuchen who is expected to arrive this afternoon, will make up a reserve corps... at the critical moment. Wu Sangui's fatal blow!

And Zhuobutai, who was worried about Wu Sangui's new tactics all night, left the Qing army camp under the escort of hundreds of cavalry after dawn.

Because he has discovered a very serious problem - Wu Sangui seems to be better at using the Sky Thunder Hammer than Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe and others!

This is actually a matter of course. Wu Sangui, Ma Bao, Wu Guogui, Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong, Gao Dejie, and Han Daren are all experts in tactics.The new weapon "invented" by Zhu Hechi is in their hands, of course it can exert greater power!

Therefore, Zhuobutai must try his best to find out Wu Sangui's new routine before the start of the war.

Chapter 301 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (7)

"Kill the traitor... Be a slave! Go!"

With a cry from the bottom of their hearts, more than a hundred cavalry from the Vanguard Battalion of the Coated Slavery Army, under the watchful eyes of Zhuobutai, formed a group of hedgehogs and rushed towards the four squadrons of hammer throwers hundreds of steps away.

The four hammer throwing squads had a total of 48 men, less than half of the coated cavalry sent by Zhuobuthai.

But Zhuobutai felt a kind of tension that he never felt when he confronted the Ming army and the Nanming army.

Even if the opponent is Li Dingguo, who has been famous for two times, he is not as nervous as he is now... because Li Dingguo does not have a sugar medicine grenade hammer!

Under Zhuobutai's gaze, groups of Wu Jun's hammer-throwing soldiers on the opposite side knew something was wrong.But these people didn't panic, but after a suona sounded, they quickly moved closer and formed a square formation - each of the four teams was responsible for one side of the formation.

Only four spearmen, two sword players, and two captains and deputy captains carrying simple swords were lined up in a row.

Among them, four Zhangba long spears were inserted into the ground, with the heads of the spears pointing up, aiming at the galloping cavalry.The two sword players were half kneeling on the ground, holding their shields in one hand and raising their waist swords in the other.The two captains and deputy captains stood upright, pointing forward with their open knives.

Behind these eight people were two hammer throwers and two musketeers.Two of the musketeers had already raised their turtledove muskets and placed them on the shields of the two shield soldiers. The matchlocks had been lit, and the muzzles of their guns were aimed at the cavalrymen galloping ahead.

And the hammer-throwing soldiers... not two, but eight, stood in two rows inside the phalanx, all facing the galloping Qing cavalry, holding a "hammer" in one hand and a lighted torch in the other. booklet.

"Clap clap..."

The musket sounded!

As if they had heard the order of the hammer throwing, the eight hammer throwing soldiers quickly ignited the fuse of the thunder hammer in their hands, and then began to throw it outward.After the first batch of eight were thrown, they were ignited and another eight Sky Thunder Hammers were thrown, then eight more, and finally eight.

In the blink of an eye, 32 sugar medicine sky thunder hammers fell on the only way for the coated cavalry to charge.

Got it!

When Zhuobutai saw this scene, he knew what was going to happen?

Those two gunshots were actually the musketeers measuring the distance for the hammer throwers.

The musket sounded, indicating that the hammer-throwing soldiers were throwing hammers now, and there was a great possibility of blowing up the enemy's cavalry.And after this possibility is magnified 32 times, it becomes inevitable!

"Boom boom boom..."

A violent explosion sounded, and thick smoke and flames rose up at the same time.Almost at the same time, the coated slave cavalry rushed headlong into the continuous flames and smoke.

At least half of the 32 sugar hammers exploded successfully, and of these half, five or six really exerted their power and exploded among the galloping Qing cavalry.The flying shrapnel and copper balls suddenly turned into the world's deadly sharp blades, easily breaking through the cloth armor, cutting the flesh of people and horses, even getting in from one side, and then breaking out from the other side, by the way Take away a large mass of flesh and blood.

Any people or horses hit by these "sharp knives" immediately lost the ability to move forward, screamed, neighed and fell to the ground, making a final roar, or lost consciousness before reaching the ground.

The charging cavalry directly blasted a big gap, which was facing the phalanx of the hammer-throwing soldiers. At least ten knights fell to the ground with men and horses. He lay down on the ground, and several war horses were frightened and perhaps injured, neighing miserably while running wildly out of control.These dead and scurrying horses have affected the charge of the coated knights behind them... The horsemanship of this group of coated knights is still incomparable to that of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers back then.Now I was scared out of my soul by the scene of more than a dozen bomb explosions, and then let the frightened horses rush, and they were in a mess.Some wrapped knights couldn't dodge in time, and collided with the scurrying war horses.Some of the coated knights were even less capable, and the horses under their crotches were actually tripped over by the fallen horses and knights!

"Mingjin, Mingjin quickly..."

Zhuobutai, who was watching the battle from the rear, already knew how powerful the "Wu's Phalanx" was, so he quickly ordered Mingjin to take back the chaotic cavalry.And Wu Jun's phalanx didn't pursue them, but took advantage of the chance of the coated knights retreating chaotically, and knocked down several more with muskets, bows and arrows.

In this round of competition, there were few casualties on the Wu army's side, while on the Qing army's side, a dozen corpses and three or four wounded soldiers were still rolling on the ground and screaming.

Seeing this scene, Zhuobutai felt a little cold in his heart.

However, when Zhuobutai arrived at his newly deployed army with the coated knight who had just suffered a defeat, his spirits were already flying high again.Seeing Bahai, Shuotuo, Tong Guoyao, Le Erjin and others who were worried, he laughed and said to them: "Hahaha, Wu Ni is nothing more than that, this lord already has a way to defeat the enemy!"

"I wonder what the lord's strategy is?"

The tall, square-faced Bahai, who looks fierce, is a real person.He also knew that Zhuobutai had come back after losing the battle, so he couldn't figure out what kind of clever trick this "high imitation Oboi" had, so he asked in a buzzing voice.

"Arrange a strong formation, with shotguns, bows and arrows, general cannons, and general Weiyuan cannons in the front, infantry in the middle, and cavalry in the rear, so you can be safe."

Zhuobutai really had a way, and immediately took out a "positioned" formation to be beaten.

After all, Wu Sangui's hammer throwers rely on their arms as throwing tools, so the attack distance is limited.The long-range firepower of the Qing army is not weak, not only shotguns, bows and arrows, but also a large-caliber General Weiyuan cannon!

This General Weiyuan cannon is very powerful. It is a large-caliber mortar that can fire explosive bullets. It was just cast by Nan Huairen and the others not long ago.Because the mortar is relatively short, it is light in weight and easy to transport.

And the flowering bombs they fired were powerful sugar gunpowder bombs!

Although the sugar gunpowder of the Qing army is much worse than that of the Ming army and Wu army, and out of the need for secrecy, they did not make hand-throwed mines and sent them to the infantry, but only used trebuchets and large-caliber mortars emission.But no matter who it is, it is still enough to encounter the sugar bullets fired by the Weiyuan General Cannon with a caliber of about six inches!

Zhuobutai said with a smile: "With shotguns, bows and arrows, and General Weiyuan's cannon, Wu Ni's men can't fight them. Even if they can charge up, they have already been scattered. It is not difficult to repel them.

In this way, we can be invincible first, and then wait for King Yu to succeed in Hunan, and Wu Sangui will not be able to stay in Jingzhou. At that time, we will follow and chase, and we will definitely win a big victory! "

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"Father commander, the Qing prisoner seems to be fighting on the defensive!"

When the troops of Wu and Qing began to form formations, Wu Yingqi, Wu Sangui's son, saw Zhuobutai's intention and galloped to Wu Sangui's central army.

At this time, Wu Sangui had already boarded the Wangdou of a pole-watching cart, and was raised to a high place, holding a binoculars to observe the formation of the Qing army.

Hearing his son's voice, he knew that the boy had come back to scout the enemy's formation.At this time, he had already seen enough, so he put away the binoculars and asked the people below to put down their binoculars.

When Wang Dou began to decline slowly, Wu Sangui said to Wu Yingqi: "Zhubutai is really cunning and cunning... He knows that the opponent can't win the attack, so he started on the defensive. If the father did not guess wrong, he must have a second move in his hand." . If we can't get a quick win, it's going to be a bit of a problem."

"Father commander," Wu Yingqi laughed, "then dispatch the armored hammer-throwing artillery! This is our real trump card!"

Panzergrenadier... You know it's very powerful when you hear it!

Wu Sangui, the old bandit Wu laughed wickedly, and said to his son: "I planned to save this trump card to deal with Zhu, but now I have to use it to let Xiaomazi Kangxi know how powerful we are."

As Wu Sangui waved his hand, "Then let the old man's grandson Shi Cong attack!"

Chapter 302 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (8)

Armored Hammer Artillery... is composed of a shield car equipped with iron armor, a light mortar gun used to fire super-caliber sugar bombs, plus infantry who are responsible for pushing the cart, shooting, shooting, and hand-to-hand combat. It is a highly synthetic advanced unit composed of the artillery that fires the artillery, and the grenadier cavalry who are responsible for covering the artillery, advancing the infantry, and launching an assault after the enemy's formation collapses!

In short, it is very powerful and very advanced!

However, this "highly synthetic" advanced arm is not as complicated as it seems at first glance.In fact, it is to upgrade the shield car to a lower level, and cover the surface of the wooden shield with a few thin iron sheets, so that it is not easy to be penetrated by lead bullets shot by shotguns, turtledove footguns, and shotguns shot by artillery. .

Of course, this upgraded version of the armored shield vehicle can only carry lead bullets and shotguns at a relatively long distance. If the distance is close, it can block shotguns at most. It is impossible to block turtledove muskets, let alone artillery. .

But this "relatively long" bulletproof distance is enough for a light mortar following an armored shield vehicle.

This kind of light mortar and super-caliber bullets can only hit one or two hundred paces, and it can't hit it no matter how far away, and even if it can hit it, it is not very accurate.

At a distance of about a hundred steps, the armored shield car is enough to defend against the lead bullets fired by muskets and the shotgun bullets fired by artillery.

Moreover, the height of this kind of shield car is relatively low, that is, one person is tall, so it is not easy to hit it with solid shells fired from the cannon.

As the sound of drums sounded continuously in the front of Shilipu, armored shield vehicles gleaming coldly under the sun were slowly pushed out from the newly formed Wu army formation, and then An "iron wall" was pieced together.

From the lookout raised behind the Qing army formation, behind these "iron carts" are thousands of infantry, cavalry, and dozens of carriages of unknown contents.

Some of the infantry were in charge of pushing the iron carts. They were not wearing armor, but only wore short coats on their upper bodies. They bent over and pushed the push rods of the "iron carts", shouting the slogan "President...Long live!" and trying to move forward.

Behind them are rows of musketeers, archers, spearmen, hammer throwers, and sword soldiers.Roughly counting, there are sixteen or seven rows, and each row has no less than 200 people. There are more than 3000 soldiers in these alone.

These soldiers were all neatly dressed, wearing Ming Dynasty-style flying saucer helmets and cloth face armor, and slowly pushed over like a wall.

Behind them are more than 100 carriages. I don't know what is on the carriages?They are all covered with tarpaulins, so they cannot be seen clearly from a distance.Beside each carriage, there were five or six soldiers on foot.

The finale was thousands of cavalry, all wearing flying saucer helmets and cloth face armor, carrying bows and arrows and spears, walking slowly.

And at the end of the team, there was a young general wearing scale armor, a red cloak, and a shiny silver phoenix-winged helmet. There was someone beside him holding the general flag for him, with a striking sign on it. "Wu" word.

Although this army is still relatively far away from the Qing army's position, the murderous aura is already rolling in!

Zhuobutai muttered in a low voice: "This is...Wu Shicong, right? What the hell are these iron chariot soldiers doing?"

Zhuobutai had never met Wu Shicong, but he had heard that Wu Sangui had a very capable "grandson" who was able to lead troops to fight at a young age, and he never lost when he attacked various chieftains in Yunnan.

"It's so far away, it's going to..." Seeing the iron chariot array slowly approaching him, Zhuobutai suddenly understood something, and immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Fire the artillery, order the artillery team to fire the artillery!"

The trumpeters, drummers and messengers of the Qing army stood under the Wangdou. After hearing Zhuobutai's roar, some trumpeters immediately blew their horns.

The Qing Pao team is about to play!

It is said that the artillery of the Qing army during the Kangxi period was not weak!

In addition to the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon and Weiyuan General Cannon, there are also lighter general cannons and sub-mother cannons.

In particular, the mother and child cannon improved by the Franco cannon is excellent. This kind of artillery is very light, only [-] to [-] kilograms. The cannon body is slender. good.Not only can it launch iron sand bombs, but it can also launch solid bullets to bombard enemy warships.

However, including Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon, Weiyuan General Cannon and Sub-Mother Cannon, these relatively advanced firearms are all so-called Eight Banners firearms!

In the early years of Kangxi, there were mother-son cannons in the green camp, but in history, after the San Francisco was flattened and Taiwan was taken over, Kangxi told the scholars and others that "the mother-son artillery is a firearm of the Eight Banners, and it is absolutely impossible to make it in all provinces"...Of course By the way, during the Kangxi Dynasty, it was not that the Green Battalion soldiers could not be equipped with such advanced Eight Banners firearms.It’s just that Emperor Kangxi’s court no longer gave money to buy equipment, and there were good slaves who really loved the Qing Dynasty to “donate” from their own pockets. This “holy master” was too embarrassed to refuse, and would agree.

Who made Emperor Kangxi look good? The people below love the Qing Dynasty so much, how can you, a sage, not allow it?Don't love Daqing, this looks like a faint king!