The unique skills of the 385 old horse

In fact, the best strategy at the moment is to take advantage of the enemy's confusion and retreat. As long as we get back within the cover of our own artillery fire, everything will be safe. The only thing is to let the murderous troops face the dispersed enemy.

It is not an easy thing to rush forward but retreat instead - leaving aside others, Pang Yu has absolutely no confidence in convincing Wei Aiwen who is gritting his teeth.

Maybe we can only ask Jie Xi or Bei Wei to come forward and give the order to retreat with the authority of the commander? But looking at the two men in front who are as strong as dragons and with murderous looks, it may not be possible to pull them back with just a few words.

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Just when Pang Yu was feeling embarrassed, he suddenly heard whistling sounds above his head. He looked up and saw, oh my god - there was a streak of sparks and white smoke in the sky, and there was actually another rocket flying towards this direction.

"I x, are they crazy, Lao Ma?"

Pang Yu was shocked and immediately fell to the ground. Xie Xi Beiwei and other fierce generals who were rushing to the front stopped being violent. While shouting air strikes, they turned around at the same time and ran a few steps towards the rear, looking for

He found a low-lying position and pounced in. The other officers and soldiers of the Qiong Navy also followed the same example, lying on the ground one after another, with one thought in their minds - are the artillerymen in the rear going crazy? Don't they even care about their own people?

But soon, the curse on the artillery turned into exclamation - the rocket passed over the heads of everyone here, but it landed with unusual precision on the rebel position opposite, with a loud bang, this time

But I saw clearly the actual scene of the rocket exploding in the crowd: against the background of a ball of black and red flames, countless human body parts flew out in all directions, and there was a scream from the opposite side.

And everyone here also exclaimed in unison - you must know that there is a small ridge separating this place from the rear artillery position, and they can't see each other at all. How can this rocket fire so accurately? It's really incredible.

However, when they asked Ma Qianshan about it afterwards, the latter snorted disapprovingly and said that you are looking down on me - I was trained by the Hefei Artillery Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The artillery extends its fire to clear the way in front, and the infantry behind it advances simultaneously with the infantry and artillery in coordinated offensive operations. This is a basic training course for modern artillery. At its most accurate, it can even control a range of fifty meters, which almost requires the infantry to rush forward against the explosion point.

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Qiong Haijun's rocket launchers are capable of beyond-visual-range combat, and Ma Qianshan can determine the trajectory based solely on calculations. But because there is a mountain ridge between them, he cannot see the position of the troops in front, so he has never dared to fire artillery to assist casually.

It wasn't until a grenade was thrown here and a large cloud of dust and smoke exploded that Lao Ma was finally able to roughly determine the location of the battlefield. He added a margin of one or two hundred meters forward and used this as the rocket launcher's shooting parameters to determine whether it was coming or going.

On the enemy's position at the front of the battlefield.

So in his opinion, this kind of long-range blind shooting is not a particularly difficult action - of course, considering the large error of rockets, any weird things can happen on the battlefield, so he only dares to

Launch a rocket without launching a salvo, and at the same time set a relatively large margin, and select the rear of the enemy's possible position to attack.

In this way, even if the two sides are entangled, the 400 people of the Qiong Navy here cannot occupy much space, and the enemy's position on the opposite side must be much wider. Even if it is only judged from probability theory, the chance of this rocket falling on our own people will not be

It’s too big. Moreover, everyone in the Qiong Navy, from soldiers to generals, knows how to avoid artillery fire, and their knowledge of hot weapon combat is far beyond that of the rebels... In this case, if they are accidentally injured, it can only be said that the frontline troops

So unlucky.

"Actually, if you could have reported the battlefield location earlier, such as launching a flare or something, I would have been able to use long-range fire cover, and there would be no need to engage in close combat with the enemy."

Ma Qianshan's final reminder made Jie Xi and others regret it - they still lacked actual combat experience. If they had known that Lao Ma had such skills, they would have used flares or flags to contact the rear, and would not have given the enemy a chance to get close.

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In fact, this is indeed the case - the rocket fired from outside the visual range not only blew up hundreds of people, but also completely blew away the last courage of the remaining rebel soldiers - you must know that this rebel army

Since the army raised its troops, it has fought its way back to Shandong from Hebei. It has been fighting for a long time, and it has fought dozens of battles with the government and the army. It has never suffered any defeat before.

Therefore, even though on the eve of the battle with the Shandong Camping Army, they had to return to the army after receiving news that the rear route had been lost, they were still very arrogant in their hearts. They always felt that their own army and horses were invincible in land battles, and that the legendary Southern Short-haired Army only occupied the sea route.

With advantage, if Dengzhou Mansion is empty and a sneak attack is successful, the army will definitely crush it in one attack.

And when they got the news that there were short-haired troops blocking the road ahead, but they only numbered one or two thousand, the whole army became even more arrogant, saying that those southerners had lost their minds and dared to come with such a small force.

Death. Only senior generals such as Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who had heard about the tactics and the power of firearms used by the Qiongzhou Army from the previously defeated soldiers, did not dare to neglect. They mobilized more than 30,000 troops, thinking of fighting on flat ground, and charged hard with more than ten times the strength.

Can you deal with the opponent? This army from the south has more powerful firearms, and the Shandong Army is best at firearms and has rich combat experience in this area.

——But they didn't expect that the power of the opponent's artillery was far beyond their imagination. They had just formed their formation and before they entered the battlefield, they were stunned by an overwhelming round of rockets. Tens of thousands of the most elite troops had not yet started the battle.

They were blown to pieces and scattered all the way. They ran away until they could no longer see the terrifying enemy army and then gradually stopped.

After that, they finally relied on the prestige of several generals to slowly gather the troops back together. The reason why they dared to attack the infantry formation of the Short-haired Army crazily was because they were forced to the extreme and saw that the opponent's number was extremely small.

The thought of revenge is unavoidable; and the other half is because after all, I have never been truly "defeated", and the fierceness that has slaughtered cities and destroyed areas since the rebellion is still there. I am really unwilling to rush forward without risking my life.

No matter how fearless they are mentally, the army is fragile after all - the Boxers of later generations all anesthetized themselves to the point of believing they were invulnerable. Even after being shot at by foreign gunmen several times, they still ran away crying and howling. What's more, these Shandong rebels came from Sun Yuanhua's command.

The Fire Gun Team was by no means ignorant of the power of firearms like the ignorant people in the late Qing Dynasty.

They originally thought that they could overwhelm the opponent with their absolute numerical superiority, but unexpectedly, the range, rate of fire, and power of the muskets used by the southern army in front of them were far beyond their original knowledge. Thousands of troops were forced to attack them.

The opponent's army of only four to five hundred people was beaten, but they couldn't get close. They finally got close to them, and when they were about to fight closely, another round of earth-shattering series of thunder exploded.

Therefore, the previous death blockade composed of bullets and the last two rounds of grenades had actually dampened the rebels' fighting spirit. When the Qiong Navy jumped from their positions to launch a countercharge, the rebel front line had already begun.

Retreat - At this time, all you have to fight for is momentum. If one side rushes forward, the other side will involuntarily retreat or even run away - later generations of the Qing army were able to support the foreign troops when they were shooting at each other. Once the opponent launched a hand-to-hand charge,

They immediately broke up and went to the Shandong rebels, who had similar reactions.

And when the rockets fell through the air and hit the rebels' rear line, they finally completely destroyed their last bit of courage. Historically, the Dengzhou rebels had to go through two battles in Shahe and Huangxian before they lost their fighting spirit.

In just one day, it completely collapsed.

So there was no need for Pang Yu to think about how to retreat. The other party had already taken the lead in escaping. Thousands of defeated soldiers scattered in all directions. This time, they were completely defeated. It is estimated that they would never be able to regroup unless they fled to Huang County.

Yes.

Jie Xi and Wei Aiwen, who were still suicidal, led a fierce pursuit, but the opponent had completely discarded their weapons and armor, and many of them were officers on horseback. The potential of people when escaping was very great, and the infantry here couldn't chase them away at all.

Not on.

But looking back, when Beiwei led people to inspect the battlefield, they discovered that they had achieved some unexpected results.

"...Is this really Geng Zhongming?"

Looking at the fragmented corpse in front of them, Xie Xi and others had a look of surprise on their faces - so many rockets were fired in the previous attack, several of which were aimed at the enemy general, but they failed to leave Kong Youde behind.

Or any one of Geng Zhongming. Later, Ma Qianshan fired a rocket, and it hit the center of the enemy's formation accurately, killing the future King Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why the rebels blew up the camp so quickly and collapsed was,

I'm afraid it has something to do with this.

"It was the prisoner who identified him. I asked several prisoners to identify him individually. They all said it was him. It should be right."

Beiwei responded that Geng Zhongming's body had more than ten pieces of shrapnel inserted into it, but the head was still well preserved, so it was not difficult to identify it.

"Okay, just cut the head off or carry the whole body away?"

The Qiong Navy does not record military merit with their heads, and the bodies of ordinary soldiers and generals in the rebel army have always been buried on the spot. However, Geng Zhongming is one of the five "du marshals" leaders of the Shandong rebel army. As the bandit leader, he will be

Those who gave it to the Ming court to show their merit had to be taken away.

Cutting off the head was too disgusting, so I finally decided to carry the whole body away instead of using the short-haired soldiers to do it themselves - so many unlucky guys who were bombed, there were always hundreds of prisoners with intact body functions, and they were taken over to work as coolies.

That’s it.

On the way back, Xie Xi was elated - he finally found evidence that could refute Pang Yu's "luck theory":

"What, what kind of bullshit luck? You can't just die with one shot - luck? As long as we are here, even the luck of the Qing Dynasty can be broken, let alone a mere King of Jingnan..." {Piaotian Literature
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