The first thousand two hundred and eighty chapters of the unification of China, the sun never sets (seventeen)
Shortly after Emperor Zhang Ping'an took his seat, a melodious horn came from the enemy formation in the west, and a soft numbness was transmitted from the seat to the whole body. Zhang Ping'an, an experienced battlefield, did not have to look at the battlefield, but he could think that this was the vibration caused by the enemy's army's dispatch. A stream of smoke and dust rushed into the sky from the west. As the smoke and clouds expanded, the rumbling thunder drifted to the Chinese military positions. Hundreds of thousands of people came out of the camp, like a continuous stream of black snakes leaping out of the cave, instantly covering the empty grassland. But he saw the various flags of thousands of miles away like the sea, and there was no sight at all. War horses and soldiers marched.
The shock caused by footsteps was breathtaking, and the horns echoed over the battlefield. The Mughal army set out today for about twenty infantry to enter the front line, and more than 20,000 cavalry were still pressing the formation in the rear. Zhang Ping'an, the emperor of the Chinese Empire who was watching the battle on the command position, believed that the Mughal army was still a strong army. They were arranged in a strict and horizontal and vertical formation that could be seen several miles away. Zhang Ping'an put down the tea bowl, leaned forward and put his right eye in front of the telescope, and could hear the crisp sound of the tea bowl due to the vibration in his ears.
Through the telescope, Zhang Ping'an could observe that the Mughal military formation belonged to a 1,000 square formation, with about 200 to 300 musketeers in each formation, and the rest of the infantry were mainly cold weapons. The front row of the Mughal infantry formation was a sword and shield hand. The round shield used by the Mughal soldiers was not large, and most of the war swords were Persian scimitars. Zhang Ping'an also saw from the telescope that there were dozens of artillery in the Mughal military formation, and these artillery were equipped with two-wheeled gun mounts, and seven or eight gunners pushed slowly forward. Behind the sword and shield hand were spearmen, and the officers led the troops were located on the left side of the front line, and the flag bearers and three flag guards were on the right side of the military formation. The officers were on the right side of the military formation.
It is far from the flag bearer. Even Zhang Ping'an, a veteran on the battlefield, could not understand the strange military formation of the Mughals. Whether it is the Thai military formation or the Chinese military formation, the position of the flag bearer and the officer is consistent, which is to facilitate the soldiers to follow the battle flag after the officers issue military orders. There are many noises on the battlefield and their ears are not very useful. The soldiers' eyes are relatively narrow. On the battlefield, they can only determine the direction of walking according to the battle flag of their headquarters. Mughal soldiers are very easy to distinguish between officers and ordinary soldiers. Officers are usually wearing fish scale armor and iron armor, while most soldiers have several pieces of iron sheets attached to leather armor.
After seeing it, Emperor Zhang Ping'an turned to Gu Xin with confusion and asked, "Why is this Mughal officer so far away from the battle flag?"
There is no need to say anything about Gu Xin on the battlefield. He put his eyes on the telescope and replied: "Master, the Mughals use the Mantha Bdal system, and each Mantha Bdal is in charge of his own servants. Below the Mughal army is only the officers sent by the emperor to supervise the battle, and the flag bearer adjusts the direction of the attack according to the horn of his own side. Therefore, killing the officers supervising the battle, there are Mantha Bdal in the Mughal army, and the combat power of the entire army remains unabated. Even if one Mantha Bdal is injured or killed in the war, the entire army has other Mantha Bdal, and the army has the ability to continue attacking."
Chief of Staff Gu Xin answered the questions of Emperor Zhang Ping'an about the Mughal military formation. After hearing this, Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "Haha! The formations of Chinese and foreign military strategists are different. Isn't this the same thing as the work of the general in our thousand-man army formation? Alas, I'm talking about a niche. Shouldn't Mansha Bdar in this Mughal military formation be a very rich officer? Why can't I see it from the armor? Could it be that the defense of officers and soldiers is not much different than that of the armor? Isn't this mentioned in the spy reported by the Intelligence Department?"
Emperor Zhang Ping'an's question disturbed Gu Xin. He curled his lips and said, "You don't read the intelligence of the Emperor's Intelligence Department carefully. Mughal Mantha Bdal also has a distinction between high and low. Mantha Bdal with excellent armor is mostly wealthy areas. Those newly enthroned Mantha Bdal have a strong family background, so they have to raise a large group of servants and equip them with weapons and armor. They don't have any extra money to build expensive armor. Master, please pay attention to the helmets in the Mughal army formation. Those with iron helmets must be Mantha Bdal. Only soldiers with thick heads and no iron helmets must be Mantha Bdal's servants."
After being educated by Gu Xin, Zhang Ping'an did not say anything. Recently, Zhang Ping'an has not been completely concerned about the war. Various domestic memorials have left him with no time to take into account some details of the current war. For this reason, Zhang Ping'an couldn't help but sigh: "Oh! I claim to be invincible in the world. Today I realized that there is a heaven outside. Hey! Hey! Hey! You little guy is better than me in war now!"
"Your Majesty, don't say these things that made me lose my head. In the early years, you didn't say that you were ashamed to ask the emperor about good things. What's wrong? You won't let someone talk." Gu Xin was not afraid of Zhang Ping'an at all. He did not give the emperor any face on the battlefield.
Chief of Staff Gu Xin amused Zhang Ping'an. He turned to the poster behind him and said, "Issued an order: I will set a rule for my descendants today. The Chinese Empire has no monarch and ministers when fighting, and generals should not be punished for their advice for the war. How about it..."
Emperor Zhang Ping'an originally wanted to show his broad mind in front of Gu Xin, but before he finished speaking, he was drowned in the sound of Mughal's intense war drums. The last three hundred elephants who came out of the camp in the Mughal army were carrying a huge war drum, and two strong men in silver armor were arranged on both sides of the war drums. The six hundred Mughal drummers almost beat the same drum beat. The deafening drum sound swallowed the noise of the battlefield, and also attracted the attention of the Emperor Zhang Ping'an of the Chinese Empire. With the sound of war drums, the Mughal army blew the horn of attack. The thirty-mile-wide Mughal army pressed forward together, as if the sea tide with a slow floating tide was wrapped in smoke and clouds.
It was approaching the Chinese army's position. I don't know if it was the heavy artillery of the Chinese army's Kolkata landing naval division that impressed the Mughals. Today, the Mughal attacking army was arranged ten miles away, and it was not a short time to go through the ten miles. It was because of this that Emperor Zhang Ping'an had the time to carefully observe the reality of the Mughal army. Originally, Zhang Ping'an gave a high evaluation of the Mughal army neatly, but after the Mughal army walked out one mile, the once strict more than 200 square formations evolved into a super-large large formation. As for what kind of military formation Mughals were, Zhang Ping'an, who was old in the war, did not see it.
This situation is a common problem for the alien army. Without regular rigorous training, it is impossible to compare with the Chinese infantry for dozens of miles without chaotic formations. Seeing this, Zhang Ping'an felt a little nervous and relaxed a lot, but he still saw another way, that is, the main attack direction of the Mughal army today. The Mughal army marched in chaos, but their middle road was thicker. From this, it can be seen that they wanted to seek breakthroughs in the defense zone of the Water Dragon Camp. Just when the Mughal army was three miles away from the Chinese army's position, they actually stopped and sorted out the formation again. They wanted to let hundreds of thousands of people beside the enemy.
The leisurely team in front of him was obviously not in line with Zhang Ping'an's expectation. He issued an order, and the Chinese artillery team shot at the enemy. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Chinese army's five-pound cannon roared, and one shot after another was exploded in the enemy's formation. The bombs were within three meters of radius, and no one was spared. The broken pieces of meat and the flying broken hands and feet stimulated the Mughal soldiers in the army. The explosion of the Chinese army cannon made the Mughal army, which lacked defensive weapons, go crazy. "Woo! Boom~~~!" The Mughal attack horn sounded from the rear, and hundreds of thousands of Mughal soldiers ignored whether the formation was complete, and they began to speed up their march.
Zhang Ping'an, the emperor of the Chinese Empire who was watching the battle on the command platform, then moved his body backward and turned to the Chief of Staff Gu Xin and ordered: "Start!"
Thirty horn hands in the north of the command platform blew a rapid sound, and the Chinese army's fifty-sided war drums behind the platform sounded, and the Chinese army artillery sounded in groups of inspiration by the war drums. Scattered muskets appeared on the Chinese army's positions, which were the leading officers in the enemy's army formation. The Mughal army that was attacking the Chinese army's defense line was rolling in like an outbreak of tsunami. The muskets sounded at the Chinese army's defense line were like a sickle swinged by the god of death, harvesting life. At this tense moment, two children wearing black armor came on the Chinese army's command platform. They were the grandsons of Emperor Zhang Ping'an, Zhang Sixian and Zhang Siyi. The two walked up to Zhang Ping'an and knelt on the ground on one knee, and said in a crisp childish voice: "Give me a blessing to the emperor!"
Zhang Ping'an, who has always been known for his strength on the battlefield, saw his two grandsons, his resolute eyes instantly became warm: "Get up, there is no need to pay too much attention to the battlefield. Come and give them a seat!"
Although Zhang Sixian and others had the status of the emperor's grandson, they could not be compared with the Duke of Zhao Gu Xin. The guards gave these two young emperor's grandsons two horse letters and let them sit in front of the emperor Zhang Ping'an. Just below the mountain more than three miles away, the dense rain of bullets of the Chinese army hit the positions everywhere. The seriously injured Mughal soldiers rolled and wanted to climb the camp. The Mughal soldiers wanted to return to the camp were destined to be a luxury. Many Mughal soldiers who had breathed a sigh of relief were trampled by a large group of people who flocked to them. Later, they were completely buried by the corpses of their compatriots. The yellow grassland of the Begurian grassland in the dry season ushered in the first precipitation, and the blood with a salty smell made the thirsty land moisturized. In front of the Chinese Army's positions, there was a death zone of twenty or thirty feet wide. The bodies of Mughal soldiers were piled up here, and more and more dead bodies formed a long blood and flesh embankment. Moreover, this flesh wall was raised in the Mughal attacks, and added an obstacle to the subsequent charge of the Mughal army.
Seeing the death zone caused by the fierce rain of bullets in the Chinese army, the Mughal musketeers also learned to hide behind the wall of corpses to fight back to reduce casualties. The Chinese soldiers handed a musket, and they relied on the half-man-high wall fortification to divide into three rows to attack the enemy musketeers. Because the musketeers of the Water Dragon Camp had a long defense line, the musketeers after the wall fortification could only barely line up in two rows, so the firepower strength was far less than that of the Tianxiong Camp and the Firefox Camp. This weakness of the Chinese Army in the middle was seen by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who came out of the camp to watch the battle. Although Shah Jahan was far away from the front line, he could still see the bent corpse wall of the Mughal soldiers, which was closer to their positions on the middle line of the Chinese army. Soon, the Mughal artillery was also pushed to the front line, and they fired live artillery at the Chinese army's positions as fast as possible. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!