Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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At this time, the Wulin Camp of the Ming Army has also woken up from a deep sleep, and is busy making fire and cooking with the Zhengling as the unit. The leaders of the advance team drove out of the camp in the dark, and headed towards their respective goals to seize the bridge over the Neijing River and a dozen villages on the north bank of the Neijing River.From time to time, the bells of the horseshoes rang. These are the passing horses passing news back and forth. All the information from all aspects was gathered to the Admiral Division of the First Army of the Ming Army in Wulin Town through them, and the orders of the Admiral Division of the First Army also They were passed to various strongholds in the frontier.

The map drawn by Fang Shiyu was also sent by one of the cavalry to the admiral's department in a ancestral hall in the center of Wulin Town, and placed in front of the first army admiral Yu Xiaoqian, deputy admiral Ling Zongjun, and joining the army Qiu Hu.And there are still three maps with almost the same content - the army division of the first army admiral's division released four hot air balloons in total, showing Yue Le's army clearly.

The young and a little too much Uncle Guo's army commander Qiu Hu took the map from a staff officer and looked at it, then he said to Yu Xiaoqian and Ling Zongjun who were standing in front of the map table and staring at a long series of wooden models: "Or 120 participants, as stated in the information posted above... The target should be the Neijing River in the north of Wulin. Yue Le probably wants to occupy the north bank of the Neijing River first, compressing us between the Yangtze River and the Neijing River, and then It depends on the situation to decide whether to fight or surround."

This time, Yue Le not only sold it thoroughly, but also made people see it clearly, so he almost sent the troop organization form and combat plan text to Qiu Huqiu for research.

Yu Xiaoqian smiled and asked: "Qiu Huhu, do you have a plan?"

As the "brother" of Zhu Heqi, Yu Xiaoqian knows politics very well. He is creating an opportunity for his uncle Guo... Now the Su family has a large number of generals in the middle school, and the noble concubine Ye Yuling is the main backstage, and it will not benefit anyone if it continues to develop.And the queen's eldest brother, Qiu Rong, was only a naval general and didn't know much about land warfare, so he had to promote Qiu Huhu, the "children's military adviser".

"Yes," the tiger-headed Qiu Hu said with a smile, "we can set up a pocket formation... Our people can cross the Neijing River first, and then form a pocket formation. After the Qing army enters, we can set up a pocket formation. Strike immediately without giving them time to deploy and build their fortifications."

Inner Jingjiang is a tributary of the Yangtze River, connecting the Yangtze River and Honghu Lake.In the area of ​​Wulin Town, the flowing route of the river forms a natural big pocket formation.As long as the Ming army crossed the Inner Jingjiang River, and then spread out with their backs, it would be a pocket formation.

Ling Zongjun asked: "What about the shelling? How long did the shelling last?"

"If you don't shoot cannons, let the grenadiers throw some smoke bombs." Qiu Hu said, "The area around the Inner Jingjiang River is full of paddy fields. Solid bullets can't bounce at all, and explosive bullets can easily be extinguished. Only [-]-[-]% of the ammunition can explode, and the effect of blasting bombs in the mud is not very good."

Ling Zongjun nodded, and then asked Yu Xiaoqian, "Admiral, do you think Ahuzai's plan is okay?"

Yu Xiaoqian said with a smile: "Generally it's okay... But we have to arrange a troop to detour behind Qingyao, so that's complete!"

"Okay!" Ling Zongjun smiled, "Then I'll come, give me two towns... I'll make dumplings for Yue Le!"

"Okay!" Yu Xiaoqian nodded, and then said to Qiu Hu, "The order will go on, and at three quarters of the ugly hour, all the troops must complete the assembly... In addition, the Division of Joining the Army will immediately draw up a plan and determine the locations of the towns!"

"Yes!"

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Yue Le reined in the horse again, stepped on the stirrup and straightened up, looking uneasily into the distance.

The fire on the surface of the Yangtze River has not been extinguished!Not only did it not go out, but it also burned very vigorously, and the sky was covered with a large area of ​​red.There were also fires flickering in Wulin Town—but that was not surprising, the Yangtze River was burned like that, how could the Ming army in Wulin Town sleep peacefully?This heart is too big!

But... Yue Le always felt that something was wrong!

He suddenly had a feeling of being spied on, quite uncomfortable!

But such a thing should be impossible!

Because Yue Le sent a large number of cavalry to open the way ahead, moving around the army, forming an airtight covering screen!

This is the advantage of having elite cavalry. The battlefield is one-way transparent to the side with a large number of elite cavalry.

If there is any commanding height nearby, maybe the Ming army can still overlook the battlefield from a condescending height.But here is a flat area, and the nearest commanding height is Chibi Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River!This is too far away, and there is still a Yangtze River blocking the transmission of news...

Perhaps the Ming army could see the light from the Qing army's torches from a distance, but they could only see it dimly, and it is impossible to know the specific situation.

And the advantage of the Qing army is great!

Now there are countless Chuanqi running back and forth, constantly bringing the military situation ahead.

"My lord, the rebels on the north bank of the Inner Jing River are burning down the village they occupy!"

"My lord, a small group of rebel infantry was found on the north bank of the Inner Jing River, and they seized several wooden bridges."

"My lord, the area around Wulin Town should be the old camp of the Ming army... There are a lot of fires flickering there!"

Hearing the reward, Yue Le just smiled: "The Ming army in Wulin should also know that we are here, and they are probably cooking. They are going to come and fight us after a full meal, right?"

Fei Yanggu, the hero next to him, responded with a smile: "My lord, if you are a rebel general, you will definitely dig trenches around the camp at this time... Let's march faster, don't let them build the camp too strong Otherwise, it will be difficult to fight!"

Yue Le waved his hands and said: "Don't worry... Wulin is on the bank of the Yangtze River. As long as the rebel navy in Chibi is burned, we can attack them by water and land, and we are not afraid of them defending to the death. They have no foreign aid, and it is a dead end if they continue to defend. So at this time, we must give them a little time, let them guard, and let's surround and trap them!"

"Your Highness is wise!"

Chapter 611 My lord, times have changed, and the Ming army has gone to heaven!

August 29, early morning.

When the sky began to dim and brighten, the open plains on both sides of the Inner Jing River covered the fields with armored soldiers.Two highly organized armies are heading towards each other under the guidance of their respective military flags.

Although they are walking towards each other, the postures of the two sides are completely different.

The Qing army, which had been rushing for dozens of miles, still maintained a large column, and the 120 leading-level columns were divided into three groups, advancing side by side, mighty and mighty.Groups of cavalry were scattered in front of and to the left and right of the army—although this area is densely covered with paddy fields, which is not very conducive to cavalry assault.But four legs are always faster than two legs, and now the vest soldiers sent by Yue Le to serve as light cavalry all retain the skills of riding and shooting, and their martial arts are also proficient. Even if they dismount and fight, they can beat the Ming army. Skirmishers... If the Ming army talked a little about martial arts, don't always fight people with loaded flintlock guns!

However, when these vest soldiers of the Qing army approached the Inner Jingjiang River, their bravery and toughness immediately had no room to display.Because they suddenly encountered the joint blocking of Ming cavalry and musketeers (skirmishers).In a circular area one or two thousand steps away from the Jingjiang River, the cavalry and infantry from both sides fought together, crackling gunshots, people shouting horses neighing, and rumbling explosions one after another. It was extremely lively. From a distance, it sounded as if what was happening was not a battle between the scouts of the two sides, but a battle between the main forces.

In fact, these vest soldiers of the Qing army really met the main force of the Ming army!It's just that they don't know it yet.If they can climb high and look far like Fang Shiyu, they will find that before the Qing army's brigade was launched, the Ming army had already launched a pocket formation with its back against the Inner Jingjiang River, and there was a mixed infantry and cavalry force with a population of more than [-]. The troops are moving in marching columns (not large columns) along the south bank and west bank of the Inner Jing River to the side and rear of the Qing army!

And these Qing army vests bumped into them indiscriminately, it was the grenadiers (skirmishers) sent by the Ming army infantry battalions that formed the pocket formation, and a small number of Ming army cavalry serving as security and reconnaissance missions.

Of course, there were not many cavalry in the Ming army, but there were quite a few grenadiers (skirmishers) with them!Moreover, they also relied on the rice and ridges in the fields to shoot, which caught the Qing army vest soldiers by surprise.

However, there were still some relatively vigorous Qing army vest soldiers who broke through the blocking of Ming army grenadiers and cavalry, and discovered a large group of Ming army infantry lurking in the rice fields on the bank of the Neijing River!

But what they saw were only a few "points" instead of the whole "surface", and they didn't have much time to look carefully, because the lead bullets from the opposite side were fatal!

So when these bits and pieces of information were sent back to Yue Le, the battle-hardened General Ningyuan Pingkou still made a fatal misjudgment.

He didn't expect that his every move was completely controlled by the enemy - he had so many cavalry to cover the army, and since the army left the camp until now, not even a single Ming army cavalry had approached his marching column.

Perhaps there were lurking Ming army secret sentries who had approached his army, but if these secret sentries had no way to gallop on horseback and had to send the news to the Wulin Ming army camp on foot, the day lily would be cold when the news arrived!

Therefore, Yue Le's judgment is that the Ming army deployed defenses near the bridges on the Neijing River, and his cavalry may have encountered the Ming army guarding the bridge.

However, he still ordered the army to temporarily stop moving forward, and ordered his Zhenglan Banner Zhongjun Gushan, who was the vanguard, to launch a large horizontal formation in front of the army, and then summoned all the Gushan soldiers to set up in a burnt-down area. The Chinese army in the village came to hold a military meeting.

In all fairness, there is no major problem with his arrangement... It's just that the times have fucking changed again!

Now the enemy is not only on the ground, but also on the water, and can go to the sky!

Looking down from the sky, isn't that clear?Besides, the people on the ground have nothing to do with the enemies in the sky except to look into the sky.

And the first person to see the Great Ming Soldier ascending to the sky was Zhang Zhongqi, who was old and dim-eyed.Although the old man has been a banner slave and a banner soldier all his life, he has never been a part-time official. After joining the army this time, he is still a shotgun soldier—he used to be a shotgun soldier in the old Eight Banners Han army, but now he just changed his job. A flintlock.Because he is a veteran, he was not nervous after lining up, and looked around with a smile on his face.

After receiving it, I saw a gray ball floating in the sky!

"Hey, why is there another ball in the sky?"

A child soldier named Dequan next to him also felt novelty when he heard this, so he hurriedly looked up and asked: "Where, where is the ball!"

Zhang Zhongqi pointed the flintlock gun in his hand straight up into the sky: "That, is that a ball?"

"It seems to be a ball!" Dequan was still laughing, "It's fun, how can there be a ball in the sky? Why doesn't it fall down?"

"Yeah, why didn't the ball fall down? It's unreasonable. What's the reason?"

"Is this ball very light? Lighter than the clouds in the sky?"

"It's possible...but what's this lighter-than-cloud ball made of?"

Well, the two of you are still discussing advanced physics issues on the battlefield...

As these two Qing soldiers who are very talented in "physics" began to discuss the "flying ball problem", the Qing soldiers around them also discovered that there is a ball in the sky!

This is so rare that no one has seen it before.

And as soon as there were more people discussing, the originally quiet battlefield became lively, chattering like a vegetable market.

The person in charge of Yue Le's Gushan is his eighth eldest son, a young man named Sai Leng'e - the previous seven eldest sons all died young!His life was the hardest, and he lived to be 21 years old, and he was lucky to be one of the first Qing soldiers to witness a hot air balloon.

He saw the celestial sphere, and he could see it more clearly than others—he had a telescope, so he saw that there was a basket hanging under the "celestial sphere", and there were two or three "fairies" in the basket!

"Immortals! There are immortals, and there are immortals in the basket under the celestial sphere... This celestial sphere is the magic weapon of the immortals!" Sai Leng'er, who was on the battlefield for the first time, danced happily.It was the first time he saw a fairy when he grew up so big!I don't know if these gods came to "enlighten" him.If so, should he stay in the world and become a high official, or should he follow along to cultivate immortality?

When he was thinking about whether to pursue the immortal way or stay in the world to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the vest soldiers guarding in front of his formation and on the left and right sides suddenly rushed towards him together, and at the same time there were messy gunshots , screams and hisses.

The sound of the two sides fighting brought Selen'er back to reality at once, but before he figured out what happened?The Ghoshhas around him shouted loudly.

"The enemy... there is a large infantry army of traitors right in front of us!"

"There is also a rebel infantry on the right side!"

"There is also on the left..."

While the people below were screaming, Selen'e also heard the sound of Ming army's war drums and the slogan "Kill the demons and restore China"!

This is not one or two people shouting, but countless people shouting!

Selen was completely stunned when he heard the shout, and didn't know what to do?Fortunately, his father, Yue Le, knew that he could not take on the responsibility of commanding an army of tens of thousands, so he sent veterans Laita and Zhao Guozuo to be the deputy commanders.

These two lieutenants are still online, and they were not dazzled by the "fairy" that suddenly appeared in the sky. Instead, they immediately issued an order to shrink the two wings inward, trying to turn the horizontal formation into a three-sided formation. The enemy's three-sided array.

But before the Qing army's change of formation was completed, the Ming army grenadiers who approached the Qing army's horizontal formation under the cover of the already growing rice had already thrown grenades and smoke bombs!

At the same time, under the cover of these grenadiers and a small number of cavalry, 24 battalion-level horizontal troops of the Ming army quickly stepped on the rice fields, approaching the Qing army commanded by Selen'e from three directions from the left, middle and right!

Chapter 612 Invulnerable!

Hong Xiguan, deputy general of the Zuoxie, the third town of the Ming Army, is also an "old brother". He took a group of brothers who were hanging out in Foshan together to join the army when Zhu Heqi marched into Guangzhou... It didn't matter much at first. After the recovery of Guangzhou, he became a deputy leader.

But after he was recommended by his superiors to go to the Military Academy on Huangpu Island for further study, he started to rise to the top!

I don't know why, but the sage emperor grandson seemed to attach great importance to him. Every time he went to Huangpu Island to give lectures, he would talk to him.After he graduated, he was directly transferred to be an attendant military officer.Later, he galloped on the Jiangxi battlefield with Zhu Heqi.

After the Battle of Jiangxi, he became a battalion general.Later, he fought the battle of Jiangnan with Zhu Heqi. Although he didn't make any great achievements, he was promoted to the position of deputy general by Zhu Heqi.After that, I went to Xiaolingwei to study for the first term, and then worked as an errand in the military division's mansion, and recently I was relegated from the army again.Although he is still a deputy general, Zhu Heqi had already told him when he summoned the generals participating in the battle two days ago, he was asked to work hard, and as long as he got credit, he would be promoted to the deputy general immediately!

Although this deputy chief soldier is also a deputy general, he is much more valuable than the deputy assistant general!Not only because the deputy general must be the deputy chief soldier for a period of time before he is promoted to the chief soldier.It is also because once the chief soldier leaves the team for business, the deputy chief soldier can act as the chief soldier... Now it is wartime, and it is very easy to act as the chief soldier to make meritorious service.Even if there is no chance to make meritorious deeds, as long as you perform well during the period of acting as the general soldier, you will still be recorded as a small meritorious service.Accumulate a few more minor merits, and after a period of qualifications, the promotion to the rank of general will be a matter of course.

But in the military and officialdom, at the level of general and lieutenant general, it is extremely difficult every step of the way!

So Hong Xiguan is very energetic now, and now he is leading three of the four infantry battalions under his command (there is one left as a reserve).And the third town where Hong Xiguan is located is an elite "old brother town", and the source of soldiers are all from Guangdong. Among them, the left association is a Cantonese association, and the right association is a formidable Chaozhou association.

But no matter the left or right association, they are all qualified to sing "Love to fight will win"!

In addition to the military songs in this old brother town being different from other towns, their training and equipment levels are also the best.

In this era, guns were plentiful in Guangdong, so most of the soldiers in these old brother towns were able to use arquebus proficiently before joining the army.After enlisting in the army, it is natural to quickly master the shooting skills of the flintlock.

In addition, the "first row" in Old Brother Town is equipped with bulletproof breastplates!

The bulletproof effect of this "bulletproof breastplate" is hard to say, but the effect of "bolstering courage" is quite good.

And in order to make the people below believe in the effect of the "bulletproof breastplate", officer Hong Xi also went all out today, put on the breastplate, carried a spear, and walked in the gap between the middle barracks and the left barracks under his command .

He, the deputy general of the Association, took the lead. Of course, the battalion generals, chief leaders and deputy leaders below could not shrink back. They all put on bulletproof breastplates and led the team forward together.

Under the leadership of these officers, the soldiers of the three "Old Brothers' Battalions" also puffed up their chests. Amidst the rhythmic sound of drums, they approached the Qing army calmly and quickly. left wing.

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Zhang Zhongqi was on the left flank of the Qing army at this time. He and his companions were blasted with grenades and smoke bombs for a while while changing formation, and grenadiers (skirmishers) of the Ming army shot at them. Cold shot.Although not many people were killed or killed by the bombing, it also caused a lot of chaos.Among them, a group of relatively short child soldiers picked up the flintlock guns in their hands because they were too nervous, and shot indiscriminately.Not to mention emptying the ammunition, it also made the smoke in front of the battle thicker.

Zhang Zhongqi, Mr. Zhang is getting old, and he has been coughing for the past two days. When he was choked by gunpowder smoke, his cough became even worse.

Before he finished coughing, he heard the little boy Bing Dequan yelling: "The traitor, the traitor is coming up!"

Then, the participating leaders and assistant leaders who led the team shouted urgently: "Make the team, hurry up and make the team!"

Zhang Zhongqi also became nervous, so nervous that he even forgot to cough, and hurriedly stood shoulder to shoulder with the Musketeers beside him.

Regardless of the old and young of these Qing soldiers, those who are not old or young are still new Eight Banners soldiers, but their training level is indeed not bad.Amidst the orders of the officers, calm really quickly returned, and a crooked horizontal line was formed.

Although the horizontal formations of the Qing army and the Ming army are all three rows, only the first two rows are flintlock soldiers, and the last row is all pikemen.

And Zhang Zhongqi was in the back row of the two rows of Musketeers, and the child soldier named Dequan was standing in front of him at the moment.As soon as the two of them stood up, they realized something was wrong...they were not standing right, not facing the enemy directly, but facing the approaching Ming army diagonally.

The reason for this is probably because the horizontal team they were in was bombed before completing the change, and then completed the entire team in a cloud of smoke.

But it's too late to change the formation... Just tilt it, anyway, the soldiers who shoot will aim at themselves.

"Loading ammunition..."

At this time, Zhang Zhongqi could already hear the leader above giving orders in Chinese.The reason why Chinese is used is because most of the bannermen in the army cannot understand Manchurian...

Zhang Zhongqi didn't move. Of course, as an old soldier like him, he wouldn't panic and shoot indiscriminately.Dequan, who was standing in front of him, was busy loading ammunition.

At this time, the Ming army grenadiers hiding in the grass ahead were still shooting and harassing. From time to time, someone in front of the Qing army was hit by bullets and fell to the ground screaming.

"Gun flat..."

The officers shouted again.

Zhang Zhongqi hurriedly put the flintlock gun in his hand flat, and then looked forward with his presbyopia.At this time, the sky was already bright, and the morning glow shot on the breastplates of the Ming army officers and soldiers in the front row, reflecting a dazzling light, and old man Zhang quickly squinted his eyes.Just then the officers gave the order to fire.

"send!"

"Bah..."

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Officer Hong Xi saw a burst of flames flickering in front of him, so he knew that the other party was firing, so he immediately took the lead and shouted: "Swords and guns are invulnerable!"