Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Today's battle in Seoul is actually an effort by Kangxi's "low-sugar army" to change their fate against the sky, and to use clever "low-sugar tactics" to challenge Zhu Hechi's "high-sugar army".

If Kangxi wins the Battle of Seoul, it means that his New Eight Banners Army has crossed the "sugar gap" and become a strong army that can use "low sugar" to defeat "high sugar"... It also means With Kangxi finally partially recapturing the fortune of the Qing Dynasty lost because of "sugar"!

Although Kangxi gave people a sense of victory these days, as a "man of science and engineering", he still knew very well how strong the "high sugar" army could be!

Therefore, after realizing that the "high sugar" Ming army was about to launch an attack, Emperor Kangxi rushed back to the mountain city of Xingzhou on a flying horse, and at the same time summoned the ministers in charge of the army, Dutong, deputy Dutong, and the four Mongolian Zasak counties. Wang held an emergency military meeting to discuss the strategy of fighting and defending.

Soon, all 23 Batulu, except Wang Fuchen, rushed to Kangxi, and a military discussion began immediately.

Now Kangxi also has a more reliable military map, which was made with the help of his Western military division.Kangxi also selected a group of young and bright-minded Eight Banners students to learn drawing, artillery, and Western military studies from the group of foreign military teachers. Sometimes he personally taught them "low-sugar military studies", which was equivalent to setting up an aristocratic military academy.

Nan Huairen is the leader of this group of foreign military divisions, and now he has led them along with him—these foreign military divisions also need to learn!Although they are masters in fighting the "sugar-free war", they don't quite know what the "low-sugar war" and "high-sugar war" look like.

In this regard, Kangxi is their teacher.

When Kangxi and his 23 Batulu men gathered in Xingzhou Mountain City, the foreign army divisions under Nan Huairen had already placed a fairly accurate battlefield map on a large table.

Kangxi waved to the Batulu people below after prostrating three times and kowtowing nine times: "Get up...there is no special map table with short feet here, you can't kneel down to read the map, so you don't need to be formal, stand together Just watch."

In fact, Kangxi himself didn't really like the low-footed map table in the Forbidden City—this map table was for people to kneel to look at, but Kangxi couldn't kneel, he had to stand to look at it, and his eyes were too far away from the map, which was very troublesome.

A group of Baturu thanked them for their kindness, then got up one after another, bowed and walked to the map platform, where they stood crowded together in a pile.

Kangxi stood alone at the other end of the map platform, glanced at everyone, and then said in a slightly dignified tone: "The rebels have more candies, but I have less candies... This situation cannot be changed for the time being, but there are less candies. There are ways of playing with less sugar, as long as we use the way of playing with less sugar, the chances of winning are still quite high.

What I mean is, let's defend first, and then counterattack... The cavalry of each leader is concentrated, and the infantry can be divided into three rows.Place [-] ginseng in the first row, [-] ginseng after [-] steps, and [-] ginseng after [-] steps.There was also a leader who was disassembled and placed in several villages on the battlefield to establish strongholds.

After the infantry, 35 Zuoling cavalry and Mongolian cavalry were placed two miles away.

Except for the fourteen leaders in the first row who were all arranged in a horizontal line, the other leaders in the second and third rows all formed a column.

In addition, the eight commanders in the second row are divided into two wings, and the twelve commanders in the third row are evenly arranged. There must be enough space between each commander to allow the cavalry to enter and exit. "

Kangxi's participating leaders are similar units to the Ming army's battalion, but the combination of participating leaders is higher. It is a composite of musketeers, pikemen, cavalry, artillery, heavy soldiers, and engineers. The number of participating leaders is roughly the same. Also one thousand.

The specific organization is one ginseng leader and five assistant leaders, including one banner and drum assistant leader, one cavalry assistant leader and three infantry assistant leaders.

Among them, artillery, supply soldiers, and engineers are all combined in Qiguzuoling. In addition, there are forty infantry and forty cavalry in Qiguzuoling.

And this kind of flag and drum assistant collar is also the foundation of every participating collar. It is a standing assistant collar, and the other four assistant collars serve in turns in normal times.

In addition, the infantry commanders of the Qing army were also synthesized. Each commander had forty pikemen, eighty fusiliers and forty arquebus soldiers.

When laying out the horizontal formation, eighty fusiliers will form a two-row horizontal formation, forty pikemen will form a sparse formation behind the fusiliers, and forty arquebus soldiers are usually experienced Rich "old guns" will be placed in front of the battle as skirmishers - Kangxi originally wanted to change rifled guns for them, but rifled guns are too difficult to build, the output is too low, and it is difficult to load, so they are not affected by "old guns" welcome.They preferred to use their familiar matchlocks.

After Kangxi finished talking about his plan, the 23 Batulus below also understood that in fact, they used the first row as "sugar ashes" to consume the "sugar power" of the Ming army. After the breakthrough, the second and third rows launched a counterattack, and the cavalry also waited for an opportunity to counterattack!

"Your Majesty," Shengjing General Ba Haifa asked, "Who is in the first row?"

Whoever is in the first row is unlucky!

Kangxi smiled, "Now one of the Gushans brought by Wang Fuchen has penetrated into Beihanshan... let's get two ginseng leaders from each of the remaining seven Gushans! But you can rest assured that I will not treat these fourteen badly." The one who is at the top of the ranks! Wait until Seoul is conquered, let them rob it for a day, and then others will go in and rob it!"

Ba Hai nodded, he has nothing to say, the conditions are not bad... High risk and high return!Moreover, each Gushan has people, and the losses are shared.

The emperor is more fair!

Kangxi looked at the crowd, and said again: "If there is no objection, then I will start to arrange the sections of Gushan to be responsible for defense!

I don't know where they will attack now, so I just arrange it casually, and the following leaders will have their own destiny!

In addition, I will not let Wang Fuchen hide in the mountains and relax... His task is to threaten the northern city wall of Seoul with bluff, and at the same time concentrate all his strength on Douli Peak! "

Chapter 551 The power of big sugar!

Around noon on November [-]th, soldiers on the plains to the west of Seoul and the Han River covered the field. Two well-organized and well-equipped armies marched towards each other under the leadership of their respective military flags. Getting closer and closer.

Since the plain to the west of Seoul is not too open, there are still many villages, houses, and field ridges, and some places are relatively muddy, which is not very suitable for cavalry combat. In addition, there are "high sugar" and "low sugar" on both sides. "The firepower is not weak!So both sides didn't show the cavalry at first, but sent infantry to form a column and quickly entered the battlefield.

The columns on both sides look quite similar from a distance, they are all columns with a very wide front-in fact, a "leader" (zuo leader) horizontal team is split into five "deputy leader" (Da Dan) Level) small horizontal formations, and then stacked together to form a column...

In fact, a 200-person collar (zuo collar) is arranged into fifteen to twenty rows.This is not the column formed when marching on the official road, but the formation adopted by infantry when advancing on the frontier and on the battlefield.

This formation can be quickly expanded to form a horizontal line with a wide front, and it can also quickly form a hollow square line.

In addition, neither the Ming army nor the Qing army has canceled the long spear.And the number of equipment is almost the same, one collar (left collar) is equipped with forty spearmen-when the two sides are carrying out military reforms, they are obviously learning from each other.

However, there is a little difference between the collar (Zuoling) infantry units on both sides. The Ming army has a large number of fusiliers, reaching 160!Forty of them are elite veterans who have received training in skirmishers and grenadiers, and they generally do not participate in the "queue to shoot".

Moreover, all the fusiliers of the Ming army, whether skirmishers or private soldiers, were equipped with bayonets.

On the other side of the Qing army, there were only [-] fusiliers and [-] arquebus soldiers (and [-] cavalry) in the Qing army under one assistant.And the arquebus soldiers played the role of skirmishers and grenadiers-they did not have a cable fuze, so their sky mines had to be detonated with live wires, and the matchlock carried by the matchlock gunners was just used to ignite the sky mines.

In addition, the Qing army was not equipped with bayonets, but was equipped with waist knives for close combat.

The infantry on both sides did not cancel their armor. The Qing soldiers still had the eight-color cotton armor (with iron sheets inside) plus gun helmets.The Ming army wore cloth face armor with iron sheets and a flying saucer helmet.

Just as the infantry on both sides approached quickly, the rockets on both sides also started screaming strangely one after the other!

The Ming army is firing six rocket launchers!They were shot with expensive tin candy ammunition...it was like hitting silver coins!

In order to show that he has a lot of money and sugar, and at the same time give encouragement to the North Korean soldiers who are on the battlefield for the first time, Zhu Hechi made a big move and pulled out all five rocket launchers inside his hands.

Five collars, each with eight rocket launchers, a total of forty six-pack rocket launchers, lined up and fired salvos on the plain outside the trench line of the Ming army.

This round of salvo consisted of 240 rockets dragging a long tail flame, making a strange cry of "Jie Jie Jie", whistling and flying towards the Qing soldiers who were marching, because the distance was too far, and they were not accurate.

However, there were too many ammunition to hold back, and during the second round of salvo, three rockets still fell impartially into the advancing Qing infantry column!One of them didn't explode, it just killed a Qing soldier, scratched and scalded two or three Qing soldiers, but it still scared the rest of the people and ran away, the scene was so chaotic!

The other two exploded shortly after landing!Although before the sugar bomb exploded, the surrounding Qing troops had already begun to flee.But how could the two legs run past the shrapnel and iron balls that were burst by the sugar medicine?

After two loud bangs, thirty or forty Qing soldiers around the two rockets were blown to the ground!

A dozen Qing soldiers were killed on the spot, and some were seriously injured, bloody and bloody from the explosion, and screamed heart-piercingly, it hurts to watch!

But this is not the most unlucky thing... If it explodes like this, it will hurt for a while and you will be able to go to hell.The most miserable ones were those who suffered minor injuries from the explosion. The injuries of these people did not look serious, but most of them had shrapnel and iron balls penetrated into the flesh.If this cannot be removed, the wound will soon become inflamed and suppurated!

At that time, there will still be a dead end, the difference is that you will suffer more!

It's really not that easy to take it out. Unless you can find anti-inflammatory garlic medicine, the possibility of wound inflammation and festering is still very high.

Therefore, when doctors in the Qing army saw such "gunshot wounds" and "explosion wounds", they usually refused to save them or cut their hands and feet...

And of those rockets that did not directly hit the Qing army, more than half of them exploded after landing, and the battlefield was immediately filled with smoke and flames.

The Qing army, which was marching in a mighty formation, suddenly became a little timid, and the speed of the march slowed down, and confusion appeared in several teams.

The ongoing Ming army burst into deafening cheers when they saw this scene.

"Long live! Great Ming wins!"

The footsteps of the cheering Ming army infantry became brisk, and their marching speed was much faster!

On the mountain city of Haengju, north of Changneungcheon, there was also a burst of exclamation at this time.

"Wow……"

"God!"

"terrible……"

"Is this the power of magic?"

Those who exclaimed were all Kangxi's foreign military advisers. Although they had heard of Daming's "big sugar power" a long time ago, they were still extremely shocked by what they saw and heard with their own eyes.

But Kangxi has a calm face... He has already experienced the "several axes" of Zhu Heqi.

And the countermeasures have already been arranged, so there is no need to issue any orders at this moment, just wait.

At this moment, in an open position outside the Qing army camp on the south bank of Changling River, more than 100 rocket launchers have been set up. Kangxi's confidant, Tong Guowei, the artillery leader of the Zhenghuang Banner New Army, is stern. Patrolling around the position, from time to time, he loudly urged the artillerymen below to quickly take the rockets off the ammunition cart and put them on the launcher!

Rockets... Daqing also has them!

However, the Qing Dynasty was "low-sugar", so they couldn't afford sugar rockets, so they could only use sugar-free rockets.

Of course, the power of this sugar-free rocket cannot be compared with that of a sugar rocket... Sugar medicine can be shaped, and when it is installed in the rocket body, it burns more evenly and can provide a relatively certain thrust.On the one hand, gunpowder can provide insufficient thrust, and on the other hand, it cannot be shaped, so it burns unevenly, sometimes burnt, sometimes fried, and the temperature of the fire is difficult to control.

Therefore, the accuracy of sugar-free rockets is worse, and the charge of the combat department is relatively small, and sometimes it will explode suddenly during the flight.

However, Kangxi still prepared two rocket launcher leaders in the direct-controlled (banner-directed) artillery leaders of the Shangsanqi New Army directly under his own control. There were a total of six rocket launcher leaders, and a total of more than 100 rocket launchers were equipped.

More than 100 rockets with a wooden balance guide rod four or five feet long were quickly placed on the launch rack. With the order of Tong Guowei, who was ordered to command the six rocket launchers, the Qing Empire The sugar-free rocket also roared into the sky!

Although they are sugar-free, these rockets still make strange noises!And the range is not close, although the accuracy is worse, the explosion power is weaker, and many rockets will explode before landing.

However, the scene of more than 100 rockets whizzing across the sky dragging thick black smoke can still boost their morale.

Seeing this scene, most of the fear in the Qing army's infantry on the battlefield disappeared, and they began to cheer like the Ming army on the opposite side, and continued to stride forward.

At the same time, in several villages located between the two armies, continuous gunshots, explosions and shouts have begun to sound.

The advance troops sent by the two sides to compete for these strongholds in the center of the battlefield have already begun to exchange fire!

Chapter 552 Liberate combat power, but also talk about martial arts!

When the rockets on both sides came and went, the fight was very lively, but not many people were killed, several bloody hand-to-hand combats were quietly unfolding under the cover of the roar of the rockets.

The two sides are fighting for four abandoned villages in the center of the battlefield. The names of these four villages all have the word "dong" in them, namely Gaoyang Cave, Shuise Cave, Yicun Cave, and Shangyan Cave.

Because Seoul is close to the stone mountain of Bukhansan, stone materials are very easy to obtain, so there are houses and yards built of stones everywhere... These four "holes" are no exception, and there are some stones built in the village. Even though the yard and the house have been burned, the stone walls are still standing there tenaciously.

Whoever can capture these four "holes" will take the initiative and cover their own troops, whether attacking or defending, which will be very beneficial.

Therefore, both Kangxi and Zhu and Qi immediately took out a similar number of teams to compete... Among them, the Ming army took out a battalion, and the Qing army took out a leader.

Since it is important, why not invest in more troops?

This is because these four "holes" are not big, and too many troops can't be "plugged" in.Moreover, the movement of the brigade is too loud, it is very likely that the opponent's brigade will also be attracted, and then there will be a big fight!

At present, the military strategists on both sides believe that it is best for the infantry brigade to build a "sugar-proof fortification" before the battle, so that the infantry must have a place to hide, and then launch an attack with the support of their own "sugar power" .

Although these four "holes" are important, they haven't reached the point where they have to fight as soon as they come up.

In addition, the commanders on both sides also want to try the depth of each other through the battle of these four "holes".

Jin Chengkai, who belonged to the second leader of the Zuoxie Vanguard Battalion of the No.11 Town of the Ming Army, also participated in this initial battle, which was later called the "Battle of the Four Holes".

His leader was sent to seize a village named Gaoyangdong. Although it was an inconspicuous small village, Jin Chengkai had visited it several times because a friend used to live here.I am very familiar with the situation in the village, and know that there is a big house in the village that once belonged to a certain "lord", and this house has a circle of low stone walls.As long as this house is captured, basically the whole village will be controlled.

So after he got the order, he immediately explained the situation to his superiors.His boss, Zhao Yiyuan, is an "old brother" from the Cantonese government. He has never been to a military academy, but he has rich experience and knows that the information he provides is valuable.So they immediately prepared the rope ladder for climbing the wall, and ordered the deputy of the skirmishers to set off first, trotting all the way to seize the big house!

Afterwards, Zhao Yiyuan led the remaining four deputy leaders to form a small column and rushed towards Gaoyang Cave.

Among the four deputy commanders, three of them were composed of Korean soldiers, and even the officers and non-commissioned officers who led the team were also Koreans—they were originally Confucian students!Only Zhao Yiyuan's Deputy Chief of the Long Spear was composed of soldiers from the six provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, the North Koreans under Zhao Yiyuan and Zhao Dazheng are very worried... North Korean soldiers are famously weak, although those North Korean officers and soldiers who belonged to Zhao Yiyuan worked hard during training, no " 996" instead of "715"!Zhao Yiyuan, who has been in the army for six years, has never seen a leader who works harder than them!

But can they do it on the battlefield?Fighting a war is not a part-time job, and it is not enough to work hard.

These North Koreans wouldn't be frightened when they saw the Eight Banners soldiers, would they?

Just when Zhao Yiyuan thought of the Eight Banners soldiers, gunshots, explosions and shouts of killing suddenly sounded in the village ahead called Gaoyang Cave!

Zhao Yiyuan reacted immediately, and immediately ordered loudly: "Blow the suona, blow it hard, keep blowing...everyone else, rush up!"

Now each leader of the Ming army is equipped with a drummer and a trumpeter. Among them, the drummer carries a drum on his shoulders, and he will beat the drum with a lively rhythm when marching.The trumpeter, on the other hand, carries a suona that can make harsh sounds, and when it is blown violently, the sound can be heard far away.

The purpose of Zhao Yiyuan asking the trumpeter to blow the suona was not only to give orders to his infantry to advance quickly, but also to signal to the deputy leader in the village ahead...to let them know that reinforcements had arrived!

The deputy leader led by Jin Chengkai was originally at the forefront. They have been training day and night these days, and they have memorized the meanings of various trumpets, drums, and golden sounds, and they have also formed a conditioned reflex Reaction.

Now that they heard the suona sound of "Charging", they immediately started charging without hesitation!

And the sound of the suona doesn't stop, and their charge can't stop!

Forty North Korean fusiliers held their bayonet-mounted fusiliers like this, shouting and running forward... No one thought about what was ahead?

Just when they were screaming and about to rush into Gaoyang Cave, twenty or thirty new Eight Banners birdgunners wearing red cotton armor suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village, each with a flintlock gun!

These [-] or [-] Eight Banners new army bird gunners were also well-trained, and immediately formed two horizontal formations, then leveled their muskets, aimed at the Ming army rushing up outside the village, and fired a salvo!

Twenty or thirty lead bullets roared in, and before Jin Chengkai's North Korean soldiers could react, they overturned six people!

However, Jin Chengkai's mind was already too hot at this time, and his mind was full of meritorious service, becoming an official, counterattacking, and letting the descendants of the Andong Jin family see how he stands out!

So how can he care about the enemy's bullets?And he also forgot that the flintlock gun in his hand was also loaded with bullets, and he could fire as long as he pulled the trigger... He thought he was holding a long gun in his hand!

He didn't open fire, and he didn't order his men to form a whole team. He just rushed like crazy, and the North Korean soldiers who followed him also went crazy, and they all charged with bayonet-mounted flintlock guns.

This stunned the Musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army.

What does this mean?Are they holding muskets?Why not fire?

Just when they were in a daze, Dadan Zhangjing, who commanded one of the Qing troops, suddenly shouted, "It's too late... Draw out your sword and hack them to death!"