The four hundred and fortieth chapters of the blizzard and snow, the neighing of the horses, the grassland blood is like the sea (seventeen)
Mr. Zhang's order: "Order Huang Zhi's Silver Wolf Camp to move to the left wing!" He ordered Huang Zhi's Silver Wolf Camp to move to the left behind the central army, and 16,000 cavalry moved quickly eastward. Huang Zhi's army is worthy of being the leader of the musket battle in the Posou Army. They rode their horses in just half an hour to reach the east side of the Mengshi Camp in Xuzhen. When the Silver Wolf Camp arrived at the position, fifty people were left to lead horses per thousand-man army formation. Other soldiers took down the muskets behind them and began to find the vanguard. After each row, the Thousand General Officer led by a thousand-man army formation ordered the musket soldiers to load integrated ammunition. When the musket soldiers used a strip of ammunition to compact ammunition, they would raise their right hand to signal the loading.
In just one breath, Huang Zhi's army formed a formation and set up a man-made jungle. Zhang Ping'an used a telescope to see Huang Zhi's excellent performance and couldn't help but secretly praise: Huang Zhi was not very flexible in fighting, but the use of muskets was incomparable to other soldiers in the Slave Army. Not only did they enter the battlefield quickly, but they loaded ammunition faster, and the transition from array to attack was faster. As soon as Huang Zhi arrived behind the army, he met Xu Zhen who had been waiting for a long time. They roughly discussed the position of the enemy formation they had to face, and the cooperation between the two units was already at the junction of the two units, and at the same time returned to the team to attack the Jurchen army.
The satisfied Marshal Zhang seemed to feel a little uncomfortable with his throat armor. He first loosened the straps of the loose throat armor, then stepped on the stirrups with his feet and observed the enemy formation with a telescope. The terrain of the attack of the Pou Nu Army was better, and there was a gentle slope from north to south. Although the gentle slope on the grassland was basically not visible, at least the leader could see further. Zhang Ping'an saw the musket soldiers of the Jurchen traitor army. When he saw the formation of the musket soldiers of the Musket soldiers attacking the Pou Nu Army, he did not panic too much, but waited calmly for the opportunity to fire.
At the forefront of the attacking troops of the two wings of the Pou Slave Army, there is a row of shield players. They hold a half-man-high long shield to provide protection for the entire 100-man team. In Huang Zhi's Silver Wolf Camp and Lu Xiang's Heavenly Bear Camp, the spearmen are nowhere to be seen. They are already trying out new musket tactics, and the spears stay behind the formation with the horses, waiting to defeat the current enemy's pursuit. The musket test conducted by Zhang Dashen at the foot of Baishan, Huang Zhi and Lu Xiangsheng saw the mystery contained in it, that is, the standard shield of the Pou Slave Army and the armor on their bodies can withstand the attack of Jurchen muskets about 30 feet.
Since there was a long-distance firearm, they naturally abandoned the useless weapons of the cold weapons, spears, bows and arrows, and the standard crossbows of the Pound Army. The cold weapons they retained were also greatly reduced in these two units. In addition to combat knives, waist knives, and shields, the spears were only used by cavalry to rush forward. However, all the leaders of the Pound Army's troops believed that the standard musket of the Pound Army had a major flaw, that is, it was difficult to load ammunition on the horse's back. They once strongly asked Mr. Zhang to equip various units with hand guns.
However, it was already very difficult to make muskets in the blacksmith workshop in Ponucheng, and it was basically impossible to ask them to be cavalrymen to use handguns. Fortunately, the scouts of all the units of Ponu Army were equipped with handguns, so they would not suffer any losses when pursuing the enemy. Zhang Ping'an, who was sighing about the innovative military formation of Lu Xiangsheng and Huang Zhi, suddenly heard a horn sound from the Jurchen army formation opposite. More than 2,000 vehicles of various colors were pushed out from the gap between the Jurchen left and right wings formations. The wide one was a van led by cows and horses, and the wheelbarrow was a transport vehicle for the Ming traitors carrying armor on the Han army flag.
The ragged slaves Aha, the soldiers of the army, chanted slogans and struggled to arrange vehicles filled with earth bags outside the geese wing formation. There were also Han flag artillery soldiers. Four people carried tiger cannons in groups in a group of shoulder poles to fill the gaps between the vehicles. Zhang Ping'an was not too surprised by the Jurchens' changing formation. The Jurchens were good at learning from their opponents in war. It seemed that the Jurchens had learned the bulletproof method of the Bonnie Army. Fortunately, when dealing with this earth bag car formation, the Bonnie Army had found a way to deal with it.
This method is to use the tactic of *air-side explosion to attack the enemy behind the chariot formation as much as possible. Before General Zhang gave the order, each attacking battalion sent out his own artillery team to attack the chariot formation. Each battalion of the Pou Nu Army had 200 crossbows. Although there were no artillery, it was still more than enough to suppress the Jurchen traitors who had no top-level fortifications. Lao Yu's Pou Nu Army's artillery team first fired a round of three-inch firing lines for test fire.
Dragging the blue smoke to the enemy formation, this round of crossbow test fire exploded in sequence within three meters of front and back of the Jurchen chariot formation. Although the Mingzhi musketeers behind the chariot formation were blown up, they did not achieve the purpose of volleyball explosion. So, the artillery team cut the firing line two inches shorter, and the second test fire achieved the effect of volleyball explosion. However, many Mingzhi who had combat experience knew the power of the Slave Army, and also found a way to deal with it. They avoided the undercarriage and avoided the explosion above their heads.
The tactic method used by Lu Xiang Shengtian Xiong Bear Camp was to first clear the Ming genocide musket soldiers behind the chariot formation, then approached sixty feet in front of the enemy's army formation, and used muskets to shoot the enemy behind the chariot. Although far away from the left and right wing formation of the Posou Army, Zhang Ping'an still used a telescope to see the Ming genocide musket soldiers falling to the ground one by one, and the injured enemy's heart-wrenching shouts filled the entire battlefield. The two white flag cavalry of the Jurchens were always unmoved by the casualties of the Han flags on both wings. They had neither plan to attack nor had the desire to rescue.
The abnormal behavior of the Jurchen Central Army aroused Zhang Ping'an's alertness, and he did not understand the tactics of the two Jurchen white flags. The stranger the enemy's behavior, the more cautious Zhang Ping'an became. As the personal barracks of the central assault force, of course they did not dare to act easily. The traitors of the Han flag who had been unilaterally attacked by the Posubs Army's muskets were extremely uncomfortable. The farthest muskets in their hands could only hit fifty feet and were not accurate, and the Posubs Army bullied them from a distance with the muskets, but they had no power to fight back at all.
The Han flag musket soldiers hiding at the bottom of the chariot array were less concerned because they did not lead the Jurchen officers. They spontaneously used muskets to fight back at the Pou Nu Army's musket formation. This aimless counterattack was affected by the range of fire, only bursts of smoke columns were raised in front of the Pou Nu Army's musket formation. However, it still posed a threat to the Muskets Breaking Slaughter Squad cruising in front of the military formation. It was because the sharpshooter Slaughter Slaughter Squad was more forward, and although the range of muskets used by the Han flag Mingzhi was not enough, the stray bullets still knocked many sharpshooters to the ground.
The sharpshooter who was shot by the stray bullets caused them to retaliate wildly, and they began to focus on dealing with the Ming genocide musket soldiers who dared to challenge them. The sharpshooter of the Pound Army felt the wind direction and wind power based on his feelings, and aimed at the enemy with many years of practical experience. They could basically kill an enemy with a fire every time they fire. The auxiliary of the sharpshooter was specifically recharged for them. The sharpshooter of the Pound Army was focused on shooting quickly, changing the musket, and shooting again.
Although this sharpshooter's way of clearing the enemy takes a long time, it can avoid excessive casualties from the Pou Slave Army. After the Jurchens discovered the Pou Slave Army's way of using lead bullets to consume their vitality, Meleezhen Xiebole and Huba, who were commanding the front line, immediately changed their thinking. They also added earth bags at the bottom of the car array, leaving only one shooting hole to shoot against the Pou Slave Army. This emergency method that was temporarily thought out on the battlefield has received miraculous effects. Even the sharpshooter in the Pou Slave Army cannot shoot all the lead bullets into the shooting hole.
The strategy given by General Zhang before the war was to eliminate as many enemies as possible at the lowest cost. Since the enemy made a move, the Pou Nu Army, who had been fighting for a long time, quickly came up with a countermeasure. They built a two-and-a-half-mile-long earth bag guardrail on the front line, and then used the protective wall to cover it to continuously approach the ground. The Pou Nu Army also used a wheelbarrow to load earth bags, and immediately approached the Jurchen chariot formation at forty feet. At this distance, the most stable Jurchen chariots did not dare to calm down. As long as the Pou Nu Army went ten feet ahead, the Jurchen chariot formation would be broken by the Pou Nu Army.
Although the Bonnie Army's crossbow cannons were very powerful, after the crossbow cannons continued to fire for sixteen rounds, they had to replace the seriously worn bow rope. This gave Han army flag musketeers the opportunity to reinforce the front line. They did not rush forward in a swarm, but quickly approached the formation of chariots in a scattered formation. The Han army flag musketeers knew that if they could not quickly get into the bottom of the car, they would be attacked by the Bonnie Army without humanity, and the raging shrapnel would tear them apart.
In the first round of offensive of the Po Slave Army, it took nearly an hour for the Po Slave Army to advance ten feet, and no one of the leading soldiers in front of them was anxious about this result. Their wise and wise General Zhang wanted to use the Han flag musket soldiers to continue shooting to test the power of the Jurchen muskets. As Huang Zhi, the leader who had the deepest understanding of the muskets in the Po Slave Army, he judged that the enemy's counterattacks had begun to have problems with the enemy's counterattacks. The speed of the Han flag musket soldiers' counterattacks began to slow down, and the sound of the muskets shooting was not as loud as before.
The appearance of the enemy's musket soldiers in this state can only indicate that the firearms of the Jurchen Han Army flag muskets are overheated, and the firearms of the muskets are loaded to prevent the firearms from being recharged. Of course, the firearms of the muskets will not be so loud. Huang Zhi judged that the muskets used by the Jurchen Han Army flag musket soldiers are no longer useful, and this is a great opportunity for the Pou Nu Army to break the Jurchen chariot formation. He quickly ordered the flag-speaker to report to the Central Army of Zhang Dajun. After receiving Huang Zhi's notification, he also recognized his judgment very much. He immediately informed Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Tong's troops of the right wing of the Pou Nu Army.
Then, Marshal Zhang issued an order: at any cost, he would destroy the Jurchen chariot formation, compress the Jurchen army formation, and weaken the enemy's vitality for the final decisive battle. After receiving the order of Marshal Zhang, he began to make final preparations. They would break through the Jurchen chariot defense line in one fell swoop! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!