Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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However, the Qing army did not have so many flintlock guns that could be used for queuing to shoot. A Qing army had only four assistant leaders for queuing and shooting. Each assistant leader usually had only 320 flintlock guns. There are only 6000 flintlock guns, and [-] participating collars are more than [-] flintlock guns... There is no way, the output cannot keep up!

The Ming army had more flintlock guns, and they had "freedom of flintlock guns".A leader of the Ming army is usually equipped with 160 flintlock guns, and their battalion only has four leaders that can be used to line up and shoot.So there are a total of 640 flintlocks, and the eight battalions have more than 5000 flintlocks that can be used to fight the fusiliers and grenadiers who lined up to shoot.

However, Liu Yan had drawn out some grenadiers to attack the Qing army before, so now there are only more than 700 fusiliers and grenadiers left.

In addition, the spearmen of the Ming army have all received flintlock training, and the immediate leaders of each battalion are also equipped with a large number of flintlocks.

Therefore, although the number of the Qing army has doubled, the number of flintlocks and gunmen (officers and soldiers who can skillfully use guns) owned by both sides is actually similar.

Although the shooting skills of the flintlock soldiers of the Qing army were better, the quality of the flintlock guns they used was far inferior to the flintlock guns used by the Ming army...

Therefore, the battle of "queuing up and shooting" was actually evenly matched, but on the evening of the [-]th, neither of the warring parties knew this.

The North Korean musketeers of the Ming army were all dreaming of "two squads of dreams", while the fusiliers of the Qing army thought they were heavenly soldiers.

Under the afterglow of dusk, the musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army, who thought they were heavenly soldiers, formed three rows of shooting lines, and slowly approached the Ming army's phalanx from the north, west, and east.But they don't have the guts to get too close to the Ming army, they are not lobster soldiers, and the Ming army has sugar grenades!If you get close, a wave of grenades will hit you, the consequences will be unthinkable!

So when the distance between the two sides was still more than 40 steps away, the Qing army leaders who commanded the battle gave an order to stop advancing.

"Rifle down!"

Seeing that the Qing army had stopped advancing, the participating generals of the battalions of the Ming army on the opposite side immediately roared... It's better to fire first!

The two rows of North Korean soldiers who had been able to understand these four Chinese characters for a long time and the grenadiers who participated in the shooting line (they were usually in the back row) put down the flintlocks in their hands without hesitation—in order to fight as hard as possible. To use his firepower, Liu Yan had no choice but to let the fusiliers and grenadiers under him form two shooting formations, and at the same time let the pikemen pull out a sparse formation to supervise the battle in the third row and act as a substitute.

"Rifle... shoot!"

The lingering sounds of the passwords of several battalion generals were still echoing, and rows of large and small fires and smoke suddenly flashed on the Ming army line!The "Heavenly Soldiers" of the New Eight Banners on the opposite side trembled and fell down a large piece as if they were suddenly struck by lightning.The screams were unstoppable, and there were fallen people everywhere on the front of the Qing army... Under the volley of flintlock guns, there really were no heavenly soldiers!

However, the Qing army at this time was still a bit ruthless. They had just been shot, and immediately returned the color. The leaders of the team also pointed their waist knives forward and gave orders loudly to let the musketeers below open fire quickly. .

When the Qing army's fusiliers heard the order, they quickly put down the muskets in their hands, and fired a volley of guns at the front of the Ming army.

Then I saw the Ming army also fell down in front of the formation, and some people cried out loudly: "Woo, two squads... I want to be two squads!"

"Reload, reload quickly..."

Immediately in front of the Ming army's formation, they remembered the urgent cries of the officers.

The musketeers who hadn't been shot heard the roar, and quickly took out the fixed paper shells and began to reload.

The Qing army did the same thing!

There are fixed ammunition on both sides, the soldiers on both sides have practiced the movements of reloading, and there are nervous soldiers on both sides who make mistakes...

When the Ming army finished loading first, they raised their muskets again, leveled their muzzles, and fired another salvo at the Qing army's front line!

After a while, the Qing army retaliated!

The fusiliers on both sides, just like this, you shoot and I shoot back and forth, bullets pour out, flying in front of both sides, the musketeers on both sides are like rice and wheat meeting a sickle, piece by piece. Fell to the ground.

No one knows when it will be the end, and there is no way to take a half step back... The Ming army has no way to retreat, and the Qing soldiers on the other side cannot retreat either.Emperor Kangxi has issued a death order, this battle must be won!

At the same time, gunpowder smoke still filled the front of both sides, and the sky was getting darker and darker.After one or twenty rounds of volleys from both sides, gunpowder smoke and darkness finally obscured the soldiers on both sides.

Moreover, the barrels of their muskets were already hot after continuous shooting, and they could not be used for the time being.

As a result, the shooting had to be suspended, and the ministers, governors, and deputy governors who were supervising the battle behind the Qing army were buzzing in their ears from the muskets, and their heads were buzzing... one or twenty rounds of gunfire Come down, the Korean recruits of the Ming army did not collapse!

And the loss on my side seems to be huge!

Taking advantage of the gap between the battles, the wounded soldiers were carried down like flowing water, and the wailing of dying came one after another. The doctors in the army were also dumbfounded seeing this scene.

They have been soldiers for so many years, and they have never seen so many casualties in such a short period of time!

If this battle is fought in such a way, the Qing Dynasty will be over... The Qing Dynasty has fewer people, and the Qing Dynasty has even fewer new Eight Banners disciples!

Chapter 559 Are you looking down on the cavalry and archery of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers?

"Tutang, it's impossible to continue like this! The loss is too terrible!"

"Lord Fei, 38 people have been killed or injured by the low-ranking officers, and all the wounded are gunshot wounds, which are difficult to treat!"

"Master Tong, this is exchanging the lives of our Eight Banners for the lives of North Koreans, it can't be like this!"

"That's right, there are as few as 1000 million North Koreans, and the one hundred and eighty thousand dead with the surname Zhu doesn't feel bad at all!"

"He doesn't feel bad no matter how much he dies! That's not his person..."

"That's right, if we change our lives with the rebel old Cantonese bandits, we will admit it, these Koreans..."

After discovering that the brothers down there were suffering too much casualties, a group of Dutong, Deputy Dutong, and the generals who directly led the troops all quit and came to Tu Hai, Fei Yanggu, and Tong Guogang to complain.

It's no wonder that they originally thought that the North Korean soldiers were weak soldiers who would be defeated at the first touch, and they were easy to deal with.

But I didn't expect this group of weak soldiers who were so weak in the hands of the Lee Dynasty of North Korea to be so strong now in the hands of the Emperor Zhu's family, they can change their lives one-to-one with the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers-in fact, the Eight Banners New Army The final loss must be more than the Korean soldiers, because the Korean soldiers still have life-saving garlic medicine!

Although it is a one-to-one exchange, these people are still losing money when they count their hands!

How many people are there in New Eight Banners now?There are only 24 households in total... and there are basically no big households, all of them are small households with three or four members, and the total number is 90 million... This still absorbs a large number of coated slaves, other householders, account holders, and green camp soldiers The number can only be reached after the strong men of Inner Mongolia, and it is impossible to expand it much.

Because the New Eight Banners say they are slaves, but in fact they are nobles. If you are a noble, you have to be treated a little bit.Now the standard salary is not fully paid, it has to be paid during the service period, but Lu Mi still has to be paid!They have to be allocated fields and houses, and the land allocated to them is still exempt from all taxes.

There are too many such masters, so there is no need for Zhu Heqi to fight, and Kangxi himself will go bankrupt!

Therefore, it is not easy for the New Eight Banners to maintain the current scale, and it is impossible to expand.

And the number of North Koreans is at least 900 million, which is almost ten times that of the new Eight Banners!The two sides have to change lives one by one, and the new Eight Banners must not cry to death?

And...these Koreans are not Zhu Hechi's inner circle!Hundreds of thousands of people died, Zhu and Qi didn't necessarily feel distressed, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty didn't necessarily suffer, maybe they were still secretly happy!

Tu Hai, Fei Yanggu, and Tong Guogang looked at each other and felt that this matter was too difficult.

But the battle has been fought for this sake, so why not stop?

If we stop now and withdraw our troops, wouldn't the emperor lose again?Your majesty is so wise, why is his martial luck so bad?

And to continue the fight... It is possible to wipe out the seven or eight thousand Ming troops who were besieged, but it seems that the Qing army will lose more than five thousand!

Moreover, the former leaders who were in charge of luring the enemy suffered a lot of losses, and they lost two thousand if they added one piece, and if they added the five thousand, it was almost a one-to-one exchange.

If this kind of victory is fought twenty or thirty times, the Qing Dynasty will have to win and subjugate the country.

"Tutang, why don't you use General Weiyuan to bombard the sugar bombs!" Fei Yanggu said to Tu Hai, "No matter how precious sugar is, it's not as precious as the lives of our Eight Banners!"

Tu Hai looked at Tong Guogang again, and Tong Guogang said: "Zhongtang, I heard from the emperor that that kind of variegated sugar can also make sugar medicine, but the power is not as good, but if you put more, it can make do with it."

Tu Hai nodded, "Sugar can make do with it, but human life can't make do with it... Let's do it like this, fire the cannon, blast his mother for half an hour first, and then send musketeers to go up and shoot ten rounds, and fire again if it doesn't work!"

This is how the infantry goes up after the artillery bombards, and the infantry bombards after the artillery fires!

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"Boom boom boom..."

When the Qing army's general Weiyuan artillery began to bombard the trapped Ming army again, Zhu Heqi had already arrived at the front line under the escort of the first town led by Su Zhanshan.

He is a little anxious now, there are more than 7000 people trapped in the eight battalions!And there is Liu Yan, the general soldier.It would be too ugly if the whole army was wiped out.

In addition, he also saw the "queue to shoot" from a distance just now, and of course he was shocked by the progress of the Qing army.

Today's Qing army can be said to be at the forefront of the world in terms of equipment level and tactical capabilities!

Is it okay to progress like this?Doesn't this turn into Qing imperialism?

Of course Zhu Heqi had to find a way to drag the Qing Dynasty back from the wrong route!

And when he, Su Zhanshan, and Yu Xiaoqian led the reserve team to the front line, that "ruthless Ling" Ling Zongjun had already organized an assault force, and was ready to attack the Qing army's cavalry group in the dark.

"What?" Zhu Heqi was also very surprised when he heard Ling Zong's army say that they would use infantry to drive out the cavalry of the Qing army. , but tens of thousands... Can our battalion-level column block their impact?"

"Stop it!"

Ling Zongjun gave a very positive answer.

"How to block it?" Zhu Heqi frowned and asked, "Do you want to blast a passage with rockets?"

"No need." Ling Zongjun shook his head, "The cavalry of the Qing army has been swimming around, and the rockets can't hit them."

The Qing army's use of cavalry to block the Ming army's road was not to arrange the cavalry in several horizontal formations to block the Ming army, but to treat the cavalry as infantry, and the generals of the Qing army were not so incompetent.

The Qing army's approach was to disperse the cavalry into groups and keep moving, making it impossible for the Ming army's rocket launchers to aim.

And if the infantry of the Ming army wanted to cross the "low wall defense line" they held firmly to support the trapped Liu Yan's troops, groups of Qing army cavalry would launch an attack.

Because the infantry of the Ming army can only move in three formations: marching column, horizontal column, and battalion-level column on the battlefield, and when they see the enemy's cavalry coming, they will only use hollow square formations to deal with them.

Therefore, it is difficult to break through the blocking of more than 1 Qing cavalry to rescue Liu Yan.

"Then what method are you going to use?" Zhu Hechi asked again.

Ling Zongjun raised his fist and said with a smile, "My lord, I plan to use this!"

"This is... Iron Fist?" Zhu Hechi nodded, "Maybe it's useful."

As he spoke, he looked up to the north.It was already dark, and on the battlefield under the starry sky, countless torches could be seen scattered in the wilderness, and they were still swimming. They should be the cavalry of the Qing army.

And farther away, you can still see flames rising continuously, it should be that Liu Yan's troops are being bombarded.

Judging by the intensity of the artillery fire, Liu Yan's eight battalions might not last long.

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqian had no choice but to nod: "Then let's try it first...Ruthless Ling, tell me, how do you plan to set up the formation?"

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"Dong dong dong dong..."

In the night, four battalion-level infantry in a diamond-shaped layout suddenly lit torches and drums, jumped out of the earthen wall that had been captured by the Ming army and swaggered towards the wall that had already been beaten again. After a round of shelling, the phalanx of the Ming army, who were fighting with the Qing army with the bonfires on, rushed over.

The cavalry of the Qing army who were responsible for blocking the rescue on the battlefield were all stunned when they saw this scene.

What does this mean?

Just these four battalion-level infantry columns, I don’t know if there are 4000 people, so they rushed to the area guarded by the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing Dynasty to rescue the comrades who were being shot?This is too fierce, right?

Bahai, who was in charge of commanding the cavalry from all walks of life, was also a little surprised when he saw this scene. Why did he look down on the invincible cavalry and shooting of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers?

"General," Anzhuhu, the deputy commander of Bahai, smiled and stepped forward to ask for orders, "Let the humble Baal tiger cavalry go meet them!"

The so-called Balhu cavalry is actually a collective name for the Mongols or savage Jurchen who were expelled from Siberia and the outer Northeast to the territory of the Qing Dynasty by Lao Maozi, and gathered in the Yamen of General Ningguta.

In the past two years, because Kangxi was busy with military and political reforms and cracking down on the Mongol Genghis Mandate of Destiny Khanburni, he could only let the Raksha people expand in the outer northeast, and there were even more Barhu people who were forced to flee to the area under the jurisdiction of General Ningguta. .

Bahai liked their bravery, so he asked for some of them to serve under his command, organized a few Balhuzuo leaders, and used them as his own trump card, and asked the deputy capital, An Zhuhu, to train and lead them.

Seeing that his beloved general invited Ying, Ba Hai nodded and said, "Okay, it's time for the Barhu warriors to meet the elite rebels! But the hollow phalanx of the rebels is still a bit powerful, so you can't charge hard."

"Don't worry, general, these Baerhu cavalry are very good at riding and shooting, and they are especially good at fighting at night... In the extremely cold place in the north, the winter nights are long and the days are short. They have long been used to hunting in the long night. Tonight, those Han Chinese and Koreans are just their prey!"

Chapter 560 After tonight, there will be no more invincible riding and shooting!

November [-]th, late at night.

Although the night is deep, today is the "fifteenth", a good day when the moon is in the sky.Although there was a heavy snowfall in Seoul during the day, and the temperature dropped sharply... But after the temperature dropped, the sky cleared up, and at night, "the moon came out".

Guarja Anzhuhu has a natural sharp eye, and at night like this, he can see the road clearly without using torches and lanterns.However, he still controlled the horse very carefully, and at a brisk pace, under the cover of the night, he quickly approached the Ming army infantry who were marching swaggeringly.Around him, there were countless undulating horse heads, and the money mouse braids on the back of the Balhu cavalry were swaying left and right in the air.

The surrounding Balhu cavalry seemed very excited. Although they were only the prey of the Cossacks in Siberia or the outer northeast, they never regarded themselves as weak... In their minds, the farmers who lived in the warm and humid southern Central Plains were the only ones. Is vulnerable to the weak.

Especially after they ran to the territory of General Ningguta, they were regarded as treasures by the Qing court, which was eager to search for "savage Jurchens" from the Northeast, and they felt that they were quite awesome... that is, compared to Cossacks are slightly worse than Sauron soldiers.

And this time they followed Kangxi to send troops to North Korea, which strengthened their psychological advantages... those farmers who cultivated the land were really vulnerable!From crossing the Yalu River to coming to Seoul, these Balhu cavalry have never lost a battle!

And tonight they met opponents who were not only "weak", but also stupid.Just a few thousand infantrymen rushed into the area guarded by more than 1 Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers.Moreover, they did not form a large infantry formation, but divided into four small formations, which did not look particularly close.Although there seems to be a circle of spears around the small formation, is this thin circle of spears really useful?

In addition, if they want to use the cover of night to smear their way, then don't light a torch!

Walking at night with a torch, who can't see them?These Ming troops are really stupid to the extreme, and they are really far behind the Cossacks of the Raksha Kingdom.

These Balhu people skillfully controlled the horses, and without using torches, they quickly approached their prey under the cover of night.At this time, they took out their Manchurian bows one after another, and drew beryllium arrows with thick shafts and wide arrowheads.Looking at the bows and arrows they use now, it is clear that Emperor Kangxi regarded these people from Siberia and the outer northeast as his own.They were rationed with good bows and arrows, and they were given padded gun helmets, and even wooden-handled grenades filled with granulated black powder.

So their current standard tactic is to shoot arrows first, and then throw grenades... This can be called "Balhu Grenadier Cavalry".If you practice with the Cossack who robbed Siberia again, you might be able to win.

It's a pity that what they encountered today was not the Cossacks, but the only "high sugar" army in the world!

About [-] Ming army infantry seemed to ignore the Barhu cavalry who were rapidly approaching them, and still marched unhurriedly against the night, and did not intend to form a hollow square, and even a circle of four battalion-level columns surrounded them. The pikemen were also very determined, still marching slowly with their pikes on their shoulders.

Didn't they see us?

Anzhuhu suddenly had a feeling of being underestimated, and he also felt a little bit of something bad.

At this time, the cavalry had already entered the distance of less than a hundred paces from the four columns of the Ming army battalion that were slowly advancing.

The four battalion columns finally came to their senses, but still did not form a hollow phalanx, they just stopped, and the pikemen on the side facing the Barr tiger cavalry led by Anzhuhu turned around and faced Barr The tiger cavalry, then put down their spears, and half knelt down.And the two rows of Musketeers behind them also turned around, but they still didn't level their muskets.