Chapter 138 The cavalry of the Guanning Army defeated the tiger squat cannon again It was invented by the famous general Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, and Qi Jiguang found that the Ming army's poisonous tiger cannon and bowl mouth running still have room for improvement.The bowl mouth cannon has a small belly and a large mouth, a short gun body, and insufficient firing range; The Poison Tiger Cannon was light, but its center of gravity was unstable, and it was difficult to quickly support the army by taking twenty or thirty steps back after each shot.Qi Jiguang transformed two old cannons into tiger squat cannons, one tiger squat cannon was 2 feet long at the end and the end of the cannon, and 7 iron hoops were added around the body, with a total weight of 36 catties.The other is more than 3 feet long and weighs about 64 pounds.With the tiger squat cannon in the southern war against the Japanese invaders, the Ming army began to enter the era of fully equipped tiger squat artillery.In the three years from the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618) to the first year of the Apocalypse (1621) after the start of the Mingjin War, there were as many as 600 tiger squat cannons in the firearms sent to Guangning, and the tiger squat cannon has become one of the main equipment of the Ming army in Liaodong.It can be said that as long as the border army of the Ming army is a general above the guerrilla level, unless it is a waste, they are familiar with the tiger squat artillery.Wu Sangui is naturally familiar with the Tiger Squat Cannon, but the problem is that because it is a mature weapon, this kind of artillery is often used as a medium and long-range weapon, firing at a distance of 300 meters or 200 meters.I never thought that Quan Xu would be like this, directly putting the enemy within fifty paces, and the other party was still cavalry.The closer the distance, the more powerful the iron sand and lead bullets ejected from the Tiger Squat Cannon, and at this distance, the air has a limited effect on the resistance of the scattered bullets.Therefore, the power of the tiger squat cannon is like a ghost, a big bombardment.In fact, Quan Xu's strategy is really not clever.It's like the principle of a musketeer shooting at close range and lining up to shoot.This is a hammer deal, if the Guan Ning army cannot be defeated, then the tragedy is the troops under Qin Chengzu.The artillery units and bowl-mouth guns in front of the formation will become victims of the swords of the Guanning army.Yuan Chonghuan saw very clearly that when Guan Ning's army rushed fifty steps in front of the opponent's formation, these rebels were actually in no disorder.Those artillery guns only fired one shot, and the Guanning army was defeated in a daze.He had an unbelievable delusion.These rebels are more like regular armies than the Ming army.The Guanning Army is a magical army, when it is strong, it is weak, and when it is weak, it is strong.Now they all see that this rebel army is not so easy to deal with.Although Wu Sangui acted to Inspector Yuan, in fact, Yuan Chonghuan really didn't take Guan Ningjun's loss to heart.The cavalry of the Guanning Army still had more than 8,000 at this time, and with Yuan Chonghuan's troops, the loss was not even three percent, what can this loss be?
Zu Dale and Zu Dabi brothers glanced at each other, they knew that this rebel army was not easy to mess with, and at the same time, if they didn't work hard, it wouldn't work.The Guanning Army began to adjust its deployment, and since it could not break through in the middle, it would break through from both flanks.The Guanning army grinded and grinded, and it took half an hour for the whole team to give lectures, and also singled out a few generals who were "ineffective in combat" and carried out military law in public.The whip in the hands of the "snap ......" military judge whipped to the flesh, and the flesh of those soldiers who were "ineffective in combat" was broken, and it was unbearable to see.The problem, however, is that if it's fair, it's a morale boost.However, the morale of the "ineffective operation" selected by the Guanning Army is not really ineffective in combat, but belongs to the one without a background.As a result, instead of raising morale, this move further reduced the morale of the Guan Ning army to a freezing point.The morale of the troops under Qin Chengzu's command skyrocketed.In this round of shelling, in fact, not only Zu Dale, Zu Dabi and the officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were stunned, but even the soldiers under the command of Qin Chengzu were also stunned.Zu Dabi decided to attack in person, he divided the cavalry into two parts, and released a battalion on the left and right wings, that is, more than 1,000 horsemen, to test the reality of Yuan Chengzu's command.Unlike the artillery on the frontal front, Qin Chengzu on the left and right flanks took advantage of his pikemen to put his spears on the ground and point in the direction of the Guanning army's attack.Then, forming a defensive front with large shields, there is nothing wrong with such a formation in itself.But the point is, the morale requirements are very high.Since ancient times, the nomadic wolf clan rode against the Central Plains Dynasty, has always been the light cavalry line of the huge infantry phalanx to release arrows, with a round of arrow rain to continue to kill and injure the opponent, to the opponent bloodletting, to create panic and chaos, when the opponent was disrupted by this endless attack, the elite troops suddenly killed, with lightning speed to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, and then, it is nothing more than a massacre, this style of play has large results, small casualties, has always been the northern wolf clan's forte.Since the Warring States period, the northern nomads have been fighting in this way, and for more than 2,000 years, they have been changing the soup without changing the medicine, relying on the advantage of mobility to defeat the Central Plains Dynasty, which is dominated by infantry.Many people have blown the "Mangu Gang" tactic into the sky, and they are ashamed to think that it is the original creation of the Mongols, which really makes people laugh off their big teeth.But in the same way, since the Warring States Period, the tactics of the Central Plains Dynasty to deal with these light cavalry have been consistent: the infantry and even chariots with long soldiers in their hands provide cover for the archers, and the archers are lined up in front of the battle with strong crossbows, enduring the repeated killings of the rain of arrows from the light cavalry, and use the strong crossbows in their hands to shoot at the light cavalry.This style of play was unfancy, but it was effective, and it was a dream for the light cavalry to disrupt the entire army before the crossbow array was defeated.The light cavalry has the advantage of speed and can move quickly, while the strong crossbow in the hands of the archer has the upper hand in range and accuracy, and the counter-shooting is basically a life for a life, and whoever can't bear the sharply increasing casualties will be the first to collapse.The Khitan and the Northern Song Dynasty were at war, and there was a principle that every Khitan general must follow, that is, "the array does not fight", in the words of Sun Tzu, it is "do not attack the dignified array", not that the Song army can easily defeat them with a formation, but once the Song army formation is formed, the whole battle will become a tragic war of attrition, and they cannot withstand such attrition.However, in the Ming Dynasty, the northern nomads were still the same, and the Ming army abandoned the tactics that had been inherited for thousands of years.The Ming army often encountered the charge of the Houjin army, and they stepped over first, and then were chased and killed by the Houjin cavalry all the way.The Guan Ning Army is also the style of the Houjin cavalry, not to mention that the army under Qin Chengzu has only been in the army for more than a month, and there has been no training, just non-stop fighting.In particular, the pig teammates of the White Lotus Sect sent four or five hundred heads to the Guan Ning Army, which frustrated the morale of the troops under Qin Chengzu, and at that time, they mainly attacked the two wings, and it was really possible to encircle Qin Chengzu in one fell swoop.When the time came, Quan Xu could only use the last resort to let Qin Chengzu jump into the river, and he would pick him up in the river and then flee the scene.Fortunately, the Guan Ning army was clever enough to fight the obviously weak frontal defense line, of course, after encountering thousands of casualties of cavalry, the Guanning army could endure the casualties and continue to attack, and Qin Chengzu's frontal defense line would also be scattered.It's just that, alas, there are not so many ifs on the battlefield.......The cavalry of the Guanning army began to attack the two wings under Qin Chengzu, and the distance between the two sides was only more than one hundred and fifty steps, however, the pikemen, shield soldiers and crossbowmen under Qin Chengzu did not move, and they were all very excited."
All the great immortals bless, our army will win!"
Quan Xu is different from the propaganda of the White Lotus Sect, he is not propagating any invulnerability, this kind of cowhide is easy to be pierced, and once it is pierced, it will collapse the army.However, Quan Xu's propaganda is: "Defend the way to eliminate demons, die for the Tao, and die in battle to ascend to bliss!"
”As long as you die in battle, you can go to Elysium to enjoy happiness, as for whether you can go, then who knows?
The dead people will definitely not speak again, and they will definitely not come to debunk Quan Xu's tricks.At a distance of seventy or eighty paces, Guan Ningjun began to draw their bows and arrows and shoot at the pikemen.The arrows of the "Xiu Xiu ......" dense arrows were like rain, like rain hitting banana leaves, crackling and crackling."
Defend the way to eliminate demons, martyrdom to get the way!"
As for the right wing, the direction of the White Lotus Sect is even more crazy."
Blazing fire, burn my body!
What is the joy of life, and why is it so painful to die?
For the good to eliminate the evil, but the light is the same.Joy and sorrow are dust.Have mercy on me, there are many sorrows!
Have mercy on me, there are many sorrows......"
The soldiers on the left and right wings facing the attack of the Guanning army, clenched their spears, held their shields, and some closed their eyes, smiling like crazy, as if they were not greeted by death, but by heaven."
Flutter, flutter!"
The pikemen's spears stabbed the horses of the Guanning army, and the long knives of the cavalry of the Guanning army slashed the sergeants under the command of Qin Chengzu until they died, and the faces of those soldiers showed a smiles of relief, happiness, and happiness.Guan Ningjun and Qin Chengzu's command are one life for life, no, to be precise, it should be two or three lives to exchange for one life for Guan Ningjun, just one pillar of incense.More than a thousand people fell under Qin Chengzu's command, but Guan Ningjun fell five or six hundred people.However, the more Guan Ningjun fought, the more frightened they became, they had seen too many enemies frightened, they had seen the enemy hideous, they had seen the enemy begging for mercy, they had seen the enemy crying, but they had never seen the enemy's smile."
Brush!"
A sword light slashed into the shoulder of a pikeman, and the blood on his shoulder spurted wildly, but he was full of smiles: "Demon Elimination Guard, I am martyred, I want to be promoted to Blissful ......"
The Guan Ning soldier was slightly stunned."
Puff......
A spear pierced through the lower abdomen of the cavalry of the Guanning Army and pierced out of his back.A cavalryman of the Guanning Army was so frightened that he turned around and ran.As one of the Guanning soldiers ran away, the more than 2,000 cavalry of the Guanning Army who participated in the attack were defeated in a daze."
Fire!""
Bang bang bang ......bang" and "bang dong dong......" muskets, tiger squat cannons, and bowls fired neatly, and the entire battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, flickering firelight, and the sound of cannons and guns rumbled.Yuan Chonghuan looked into the distance.It's a pity that the smoke of gunfire covers everything.PS: I fell asleep last night and wrote, and I went to do nucleic acid again in the morning, there were too many people, and I lined up for nearly three hours, and I worked hard to code four chapters today!.