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The 441st chapter civilized and barbaric warfare (2)

Ma Kun and Ma Rufeng, who were standing on the mound, saw the Qing cavalry starting to charge quickly three miles away. They knew that the Qing army was forced to do nothing and prepared to take a gamble.

"Rufeng, look at how many meters these cavalry can rush into!"

"Teacher, there are quite a few 200 meters, maybe even 300 meters can't get in. The rain of shotguns cannot be rushed in!"

Ma Kun nodded, agreeing with Ma Rufeng's words.

As Ma Rufeng speculated, five thousand Mongolian cavalry were hit by shotgun after entering 500 meters. This is not a line of solid bullets. Each shotgun can shoot out 72 lead bullets the size of quail eggs, covering an area of ​​two meters high and three meters wide within a range of 500 meters. There are twenty artillery guns placed between two hundred meters in the gap between each regiment, and each volley can form a 50-meter-wide death zone. In order to charge, the Mongolian cavalry formed a wide front of one thousand meters long, which would be bombarded by hundreds of artillery guns. After entering 500 meters, the Mongolian cavalry was killed by two thousand people when they encountered the first wave of shotgun, and the other thousands were killed. Under the second wave of shotgun, the infantry had no chance to fire guns at all, and all five thousand Mongolian cavalry were destroyed.

The Descendant War was proposed by Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin. It is defined as the war ability of the two sides participating in the war has been a gap of about twenty years, and one side has formed a crush on the other side. There were several famous Descendant Wars in history, such as Spain used less than 200 people to destroy the Inca Empire; at the Battle of Baliqiao between the British and French Allied Forces and the Qing army, the Qing army suffered 30,000 casualties, while the British and French allied forces only suffered 12 casualties; and the most famous is the Gulf War, where the US military eliminated nearly 100,000 elite Iraqi Republic Guards without hurting one person on the battlefield.

Although the Qing army is at the peak of its strength, it is far behind the Guangdong New Army, which is far stronger than the British and French coalition forces in 1860, whether in terms of weapons, command ideas, personnel training, and logistics support, they are far behind the Guangdong New Army, so failure becomes inevitable.

The battle ended so quickly that even Dodott had ended without reacting. It was not until more than one hundred lucky Mongolian cavalry fled back Dudott recovered.

Duoduo asked He Luohui next to him with a pale face, "Why are the Ming army's artillery so sharp? Isn't that Fran machine cannon?"

As a general, He Luo didn't know these things. When Duoduo asked about it, he could only whisper: "Ten Kings forgive me for your sins, but I don't know!"

Duoduo gritted his teeth and said, "Ten thousand people, don't be gone in a quarter of an hour!"

The generals around were also frightened by the powerful firepower of the Ming army. When Duoduo was angry, he lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to speak.

Duoduo looked at the gang of wastes around him, why didn’t he ask for a fight like he did just now?

"You guys say, how to fight this battle?"

Seeing that no one spoke, Duoduo cursed in anger.

"Where did you guys just now go?"

After the Qing Dynasty generals entered the pass, they did not improve their ability to fight wars, but they learned to flatter the Han officials. Now when Duoduo got angry, they all knelt down and said, "The Ten Kings and Heavenly Talents will definitely defeat the Ming army and unify the whole world!" Some even flatterers shouted, "The master's intelligence is a hundred times better than me, and one idea is better than me. I will wait for one hundred. The slaves listen to the master's everything!"

It would be fine if he didn't say this, but Duoduo was even more angry and furious. No matter how he picked up a horse whip, he would slap these waste generals. While these guys were beaten, they scolded their Han masters in their hearts. They all said what they taught, why were they beaten?

It was still He Luo who was next to him who had observed carefully just now, so he quickly stopped Duoduo and said, "Ten Kings should pay attention to their health. I just watched carefully just now, and I had a way!"

"Okay, tell me!"

"Master, have you noticed that when the cavalry charged just now, there was no fluctuation in the middle of the Ming army opposite, and the formation of several platoons on the side was unstable. Some Ming soldiers even nervously fired their guns first. I wonder if the Ten Kings discovered it?"

Duoduo recalled the situation and asked, "He Luo, what are your plans?"

"Master, it seems that there are elite veterans in the middle of the Ming army, so it should be difficult to break through this place, and the two wings of the Ming army should be recruits. If a large number of cavalry breaks through this place, it should be able to break into the Ming army's formation!"

Duoduo nodded, this was a way. Duoduo thought for a while and said to the generals: "Yitu, you will attack the left wing of the Ming army with five thousand Mongolian cavalry. He Luo will, I will give you 10,000 elite white flags. This time you must rush in! He Luo will, if you make the first contribution this time, when you go back, I will tell the Regent to sign you as Dorobel!"

When the Mongolian Yi Trugang saw Barhu dead, he didn't expect it would be his turn so soon. Duoduo's meaning was very obvious. He let his five thousand Mongolians be cannon fodder and block the cannonballs for the elite white flag behind him. But he had no choice. Who said he wanted to live under someone's roof!

He Luo was overjoyed to hear Duoduo say this. Beile, it is seven or eight levels higher than his current leader. Beile is the Prince of Duoluo, and there are not many people outside the Three Banners who seal Beile.

"Please rest assured, my master, I will definitely open a gap for my master and eliminate these hateful Ming troops!"

Duoduo nodded. The cavalry he brought out this time was less than 100,000. Yesterday, he lost 50,000 cavalry in one battle by the damn Kundu. Although he was only broken up, the only one he could use was 5,000 Mongolian cavalry and 20,000 white flag cavalry. Now he was a desperate bet on He Luohui. Duoduo knew that if this battle failed, the entire 100,000 troops outside Nanchang City were in danger of being eliminated, so He Luohui could only win.

"He Luo will be, a good servant. As long as you lead people to penetrate the enemy's defense line, I will lead the remaining soldiers to reinforce you, it depends on you!"

Ma Kun on the mound saw a large half of the Qing army running towards his left wing and sneered: "I didn't expect that the Qing army was not all waste. I just saw that our wings were all new recruits, but even new recruits were not something you can deal with! Order and let the regiments prepare a hollow array!"

The hollow square formation was the product of Zhu Hongsan's introduction of Spanish instructors. After the Battle of Luzon, Guangdong captured a large number of Spanish soldiers, some of whom gained freedom through redeem, but a large number of ordinary soldiers and low-level officers became Zhu Hongsan's slaves. The agreement signed by Zhu Hongsan with them was that they could gain freedom after serving in the new army for ten years and gain equal status as officers during their service. The hollow square formation was the only way for Europe to deal with the impact of cavalry.

The Spanish hollow square formation is based on a battalion of three hundred people. Outside there are two layers of soldiers squatting down and bayonets are facing outward to defend horses. The two rows of soldiers behind form a staircase to open fire to kill cavalry. In the middle of the phalanx are wounded and officers. The hollow square formation improved by Zhu Hongsan is based on two battalions of one thousand people. The outer layer is still two rows of soldiers squatting down and defending horses. The back is three rows of soldiers, which can increase the firepower density. The increase in the number of soldiers is not conducive to activities, but greatly strengthens the firepower. When fully defending, there are four artillery guns at the four corners of the hollow square formation, which can use shotgun to strike cluster targets. Naturally, this square formation cannot be moved. In order to eliminate more Qing troops, Makun ordered this enhanced hollow square formation to be put forward.

Just as Ma Kun was watching the battlefield nervously, Zhang Jiayu behind him also ran to the mound. Ma Kun was very unhappy when he saw him coming up. Now, at the critical moment, why are you going up to make trouble?

"Mr. Zhang, the battlefield is dangerous, you should go back to a safe place behind!"

Zhang Jiayu shouted to Ma Kun in anger: "Master Ma, something is wrong. The guards you sent for me are not the Third Regiment, One Battalion, One Battalion, One Company, but the Third Regiment, One Battalion, Two Company!"

Ma Kun cursed in his heart, what's the difference between this damn thing? Are they all guards? What's the difference between the first company and the second company?

"Mr. Zhang, the war is urgent now, and I will not have time to mess around with you here! Come and send Lord Zhang back!"

When Makun's guard company heard what the commander said, the two of them were going to pull Zhang Jiayu down. Although Zhang Jiayu was a civil servant, he was so decent at this time and shouted loudly: "Makun, the prince is in the company. If the prince is in danger, your head will not be guaranteed, not only you and me, but your whole family will not be guaranteed!"

Zhang Jiayu's words were like thunderous initiation. What did Ma Kun hear? The prince is in his own army?

Ma Kun stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Jiayu's collar and cursed: "What are you, the stinky old man, saying? Prince? That prince?"

Zhang Jiayu didn't care about his official power at this time and shouted: "It is His Highness Zhu Hai, the crown prince of Emperor Shenwu, who is in your third regiment, battalion and company!"

At this time, Ma Kun was in charge of commanding the troops, so he quickly called his personal soldiers to ask him to go to the Third Regiment to transfer the First Company. However, just turned around and found that it was too late. The Qing army opposite had already started charging, and the artillery regiment had been replaced with shotgun. What made Ma Kun's soul fly away was that he found that the position of the Third Regiment was directly in front of the Qing army attacking.

Regardless of Zhang Jiayu's stunned Zhang Jiayu, Ma Kun stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Jiayu's collar, slapped Zhang Jiayu four times, and cursed: "You stinky old ninth, my Ma Kun's family of ninth are hurt by you!"

Zhang Jiayu was beaten and said without any response. Mumu said: "What are your nine-person family? My Zhang family is more than 100 people. My father is still alive, I am unfilial!"

Zhang Jiayu and Ma Kun thought that Zhu Hongsan's cruel methods had killed his eldest son. Zhu Hongsan's methods would never spare him. The two thought that they hugged each other's heads and cried bitterly when they were sad.

Just when Zhang and Ma were worried about their future destiny, Prince Zhu Hai didn't feel anything. He was in full swing. After all, he had never seen such a large army of more than 100,000 people again. He just saw that the 10,000 Qing army on the opposite side was killed by artillery before they even met. Thinking that such a strong army would be under his command in the future, how could a boy who was only fourteen years old be excited?
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