MTL - Number of People-Chapter 2613 There is no way to avoid the desperate battle of Guizi Scroll (

  Chapter 2613 Guizijuan desperate battle, unavoidable (1)

  With the continuous appearance of various flags and troops entering the area of ​​Changyongbao-Wujingying-Hupiyi, the battle between the Zhou army and the Jianzhou army finally evolved to a situation where it was impossible for both sides to retreat.

  Nurhachi stood on the high ground on the side of Wujing Camp, holding up the binoculars seized from the First World War in Shenyang, carefully observing the Zhou army who was gathering for an attack a few miles ahead.

It has to be said that the situation of the Zhou army has changed a lot compared to three or five years ago. The spearmen and sword and shield soldiers have been greatly reduced in size and have completely become auxiliary arms, while the firecrackers have become a well-deserved infantry army. help.

This can be seen from every formation, in the center, with two wings, and a linear offensive, with appropriate swords and shields and spearmen sandwiched in between, the artillery team is hidden behind, and the other part of the cavalry is used as an impact on both sides. The camp or the reserve team that covers the interception has become the standard configuration of the Zhou army's operations.

  But even with this standard configuration, the Jianzhou Army knew it well, but it was a bit powerless to break or crack it.

  The equipment of the Jianzhou Army has basically not changed significantly. Although they know that the popularization of firearms has greatly weakened the elite advantage of Jianzhou armored soldiers, their own side has no good way to deal with it.

In fact, after capturing Shenyang, Tieling, and Anlezhou, there were actually more than 100,000 Han Chinese in the Jianzhou-controlled area. In addition, Li Yongfang and Li Yongfang also bought and rebelled Han Banner troops. There are also 10,000 to 20,000 people. It is not a problem at all to form a decent firecracker or even artillery team.

But it is a pity that Li Yongfang's department came too early. At that time, the firearm replacement in Liaodong had not yet fully started, so Li Yongfang's department had less than a thousand firecrackers. On the contrary, Jin Yuhe and Shijia brothers who came over later The number of firecrackers in the department is even greater, with more than 3,000 firecrackers.

But the problem is that one of the biggest problems with Zhou Jun’s firecrackers is that they are extremely dependent on logistical support, special gunpowder, blunderbuss and related parts, and once they are trained, they will wear out a lot, requiring a huge repair team to replace parts at any time Even the whole gun.

  Although these teams have mutinied over, the logistics support has always been in the hands of the military town and has not come over.

   Lost all kinds of guarantees, especially the guarantee for special gunpowder, these firecrackers became tasteless.

According to Da Zhou's requirements, the training has to be continued, and the gunpowder they brought with them when they rebelled was limited. Once they continue to maintain the original training intensity at Da Zhou's side, it may be exhausted within a few months. do.

   Jianzhou can actually develop and produce some gunpowder, but it cannot compare with Dazhou in terms of power and impurities.

After trying Jianzhou’s self-produced gunpowder, many gunpowders either blocked the chamber, or were scrapped because it was difficult to clean the chamber, or the shooting accuracy and distance were greatly reduced, and the standardization and consistency of the projectiles were not as good as before. This greatly restricts the performance of these firecrackers, and even becomes a tasteless situation.

   This is also Nurhachi's biggest heart disease.

I watched thousands of firecrackers in my hands, but they couldn't really put them to great use. For small-scale operations, you can try to use them intensively, but if you want to use them on a large scale, there is no need to solve the gunpowder and parts. impossible.

To solve these two problems, the Great Zhou side has long guarded against death and cannot buy them at all. It can only be solved through North Korea to Japan and the Xiyi people. But if it continues to be consumed like this, how can there be such a possibility? ?

This is why Nurhachi tried every means to seek a war to break the deadlock and to obtain the most critical elements of a few years of development. Once he returned to the original Jianzhou Jurchen site, there was nothing he could do to improve and increase the use of firearms. The opportunity and the possibility.

Fortunately, the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the armored soldiers of the Jianzhou Army are still enough to undertake a fierce battle, and the advantage of the well-trained armored cavalry over the Zhou army cavalry is still obvious, but the forged steel cavalry that was widely used by the Great Zhou cavalry Zhanmadao has greatly weakened this advantage. Nurhachi is worried that if this continues, this advantage may soon become a disadvantage. This is also a trend that worries him.

  Nurhachi took a deep breath, he wanted to take a look at the situation of the two sides in this battle.

Although the numbers of the two are not too large, our side is the Zhenglan Banner of Lao Sitang's ancient times. There are more than 2,000 people, including more than 1,000 armored soldiers, and more than 400 armored cavalry are swimming behind the side. Choose an opportunity to attack.

Looking at the banner on the opposite side, it should be the Ganning Township, with about 3,000 people, slightly more than the Zhenglan Banner. For the Zhenglanqi elite, there is still a gap, even if it is slightly smaller than the opponent, the fourth child should be able to beat the opponent.

   But Nurhachi knew that this was only in theory. In a real fight, there were too many variables. Even he was not very optimistic that the fourth child would be able to defeat the opponent smoothly in this situation.

  With the sound of golden drums and the movement of flags, both sides are beginning to approach and prepare for the battle.

The fourth Zhenglan Banner is still standard equipment, and the archers have already started to prepare, but well-trained archers are still a consumable item that cannot withstand wear and tear for the Jianzhou Army. In a battle, although one's own archers can cause huge damage to the opponent, but one's own side also has to face the blow of the opponent's firecrackers, which will turn into a war of attrition.

  The key is who can complete the full and breakthrough in the process of facing each other, and whether the reinforcements can arrive in time to join the battle and give the opponent a fatal blow.

  Nurhachi believed that the opponent's commander, like himself, was observing the battle from a high place, and he had already issued an order to bring up the reserve team to prepare for the battle.

So in fact, there are not too many tricks in this kind of battle. What you can see, think of, and do, the other party can also see, think, and do, and eventually it may evolve into a bigger battle. The scale of the duel, or just choose the right time to come to an end and wait for another battle.

  Anfeyangu is already anxiously arranging for the reserve team to start moving eastward, preparing to launch a sharp blow from the left flank and completely penetrate the opponent's right flank. It is best to force the opponent's formation to collapse and then be defeated.

  But Nurhachi believes that the other party is also responding.

Either it is the same as Anfeyangu's arrangement, and it is also a blow from the flank, to see who will defeat who first, and compete with the sharpness and thickness of their respective spears and shields, or they will simply come back and use reinforcements to fight against the reserve team. Reinforce the reserve team and fight another tough and tragic engagement.

In this kind of great war where dozens of troops and more than 100,000 people gathered, it is wishful thinking to try to use some kind of surprise attack or to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop, unless you can suddenly throw an overwhelming army into the battle, but when everyone is in full swing While paying close attention to the situation of the battle, where did you suddenly pull a new army of at least 10,000 to 20,000 people to join the battlefield?

As Nurhachi expected, the opponent also chose to attack from their right flank, that is to say, both sides chose the same tactical move, wanting to hit an uppercut from the opponent's flank to see if they could break through the opponent's formation first line of defense.

   Watching a part of the changing formation pressing up from the left side, Tang Gu also quickly issued an order, commanding his subordinates with round shields and spears to line up to meet the enemy.

  The archers held their breath and silently calculated the paths and angles. Accompanied by the miserable roars of the sentinels, arrows rained all over the sky, throwing them obliquely.

At the same time, the Gan Ning army, which also relied on the formation to advance, also raised its own body armor shield. This wedge-shaped shield mixed with wooden boards and iron sheets has reduced a lot in weight, and can be folded in the middle through mortise and tenon. A convenient hook is also added on the back, which can be hung obliquely on the waist to fit tightly, so as not to affect the pace during travel.

At the very first moment, they brought in the composite armor shield, and covered the body according to the angle of arrow projection. Of course, it is impossible for everyone to cover their own body well. There will always be unlucky people who will encounter misfortune, but with At the same time, the heavy-duty firecrackers had already been set up, and the first round of shooting started when the Jianzhou Army archers shot the first wave of arrows.

The gunpowder smoke all over the sky can't stop the arrows from falling, just like the leather shield of the Jianzhou Army on the opposite side can't stop the huge impact brought by the heavy-duty firecracker projectiles. Some people added iron leaf armor, and it was useless. With the power of gunpowder at such a distance, everything was meaningless.

  The projectile violently tore apart the armor and internal organs of the Jianzhou armored soldiers, and even broke through the muscles behind them and penetrated into the body of Paoze behind them, causing secondary damage.

  Accompanied by the first round, the second round and even the third round of firecrackers and bows and arrows, the soldiers of Gan Ning Town began to change their formations.

  Their three rounds of shooting won the time for the artillery team behind to set up the artillery array. As they moved away from the front, the wide horn-shaped open surface brought a good view and strike surface for the concentrated bombardment of the tiger squatting artillery.

There was another sharp copper whistle and roar. Eighteen tiger crouching cannons were arranged in a pattern of three, four, five, six, and sometimes diverged, bursting into full bloom. The time difference in the middle was almost negligible, and this round of cannons The shot almost directly destroyed the front of the Jianzhou infantry who had just had time to run and charge.

More than 180 people wailed and fell to the ground in this round of shelling, with blood flowing all over the field, and their stumps and bodies flying around. Although the number of people seems to be acceptable for a charge initiated by thousands of people, but The blow to morale is irreversible.

  (end of this chapter)