Chapter 134: The Cornerstone of the Empire
The appearance of Yang Qing and the five hundred cavalry stopped all the cavalry that had already rushed to Checheng.
This is a cavalryman.
This is the opponent that ordinary cavalry fear the most.
On the sturdy Hequ horses with horse armor, the former Wu Sangui's slaves with bright silver armor and iron-faced faces, and the current soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion of the Ming Dynasty, held spears with small pennant flags, like a steel wall, lying across the flanks of the entire battlefield. In front of them, Count Yang, who was wearing a scarlet cloak, was carrying a pair of Tieyi, which seemed to be a claw of a sickle dragon, looked at the hesitant enemy with a arrogant look...
"Run!"
Wang Yuncheng roared.
Then he grabbed the flag next to him and waved it violently.
The drummer behind him also beat the war drums desperately.
But the cavalry still did not dare to continue moving forward. They knew very well that if they continued to move forward, the loyal and brave man who had been legendary as a god descending to earth would lead the legendary cavalry to attack them by the mythical cavalry.
And they can't stop the cavalry.
Although this ancient cavalry king era has become history because of the emergence of firearms, the problem is that these light cavalrymen do not have firearms. They only have cavalry bows that are certainly not wearing heavy armor, can only cut off infantry goose feather swords, and can only be used for melee. What is the opposite? The dense spears that look like a dense forest! One inch long and one inch strong. When the cavalry hedges, they can't even reach the head of their opponents, and they are stabbed to death by these scary spears. They are all playing with this, and they don't understand this.
"This bunch of waste!"
Wang Yuncheng roared angrily.
Then he watched as his only chance was lost in the strange confrontation.
Then the second car city is completed.
As the horses were placing on one after another, the soldiers who were originally hiding in the side van rushed out with caltrops and kept hitting their periphery through the horses. The walls of the side vans formed three lines of defense. On the walls of the side vans, one Franchiser extended his muzzle, and the bird guns of the bird guns were also raised above the walls of the side vans. On both sides of the side vans, the boring hands turned into axe gunners...
This is a change.
Compared to Tong, Yang Qing thought it was more suitable for axes and guns, so the original Tong was changed to an axes and guns, and they also worked as part-time grenades.
After all, the axe and gun are melee combat.
It is good to let them throw grenades in groups before they need to pick up the axe gun.
Another change is that the rattan player who was originally part-time bird gunners has now been changed to a part-time gunner. Two people are responsible for raising the guns to make up for the insufficient projection of the bird gun. After all, this thing can be loaded with a shotgun, and when it encounters a shield car, it is much stronger than the bird gun. In addition, compared to the Franchis fixed on the car, they can carry this thing and move at any time, and they are not sword players. In fact, their other weapon is a two-handed sword. The defense of the side van is enough to ensure the protection of soldiers. This long sword has more effective lethality for enemies who try to climb over the wall or try to rush into the neutral assault, especially when the cavalry breaks in.
In fact, the combined soldiers and surprises of a side van were two Franchises, one large lifting pole, four axes and guns, two captains each with a spear and a bow and arrow, and four bird guns. All soldiers also had melee swords.
And this is the composition of tactical units.
In fact, a brigade of the Checheng City also has special artillery and cavalry. The former is a mountain-splitting cannon equivalent to a three-pound cannon. In addition, the improved version of the tiger squat cannon is actually a mortar cannon, which can use a flowering bullet with a wood-pipe fuse. There were similar ones in the Ming Dynasty, but it was a reed tube, and the price was too expensive. Generally, it was not used.
The mountain-splitting cannon is located in the four corners of the entire Checheng.
And they were specially designed for gun cars, which could hide behind the walls and shoot like modern artillery equipped with shields.
There are only three hundred cavalrymen.
Their responsibilities are to counterattack in the direction needed when the war is tense, or chase the enemy when the enemy flees, but they are usually mainly used for reconnaissance. In essence, these brigades are still infantry, and the four such brigades are one army, each brigade has a battalion, and each brigade can also form a battalion when necessary. This is actually institutionalizing Qi Jiguang's tactics, from the tactics of the originally just the Qi family army to a tactic that can be said to be the national standard of the Ming Dynasty, just like the Spanish platoon. Although Yang Qing does have many better things, he cannot guarantee that the generals like the Ming Dynasty can understand and master those new tactics!
At least they all understand Qi Jiguang’s trick!
"General Wang, why haven't you attacked?"
Hou Fangxia urged.
"Observation, how can you attack this!"
Wang Yuncheng said angrily.
These car camps locked the road ahead of him, on his left is Ganjiang River, on his right is a mountainous area, and on his right is this road leading to Nanchang. If he doesn't open the car camp, he won't think of moving forward. If he wants to open the car camp, he will really have to fight to the death. It is impossible for this thing to pile up without human life.
Unless he has the red cannon.
But this had to be transported from Changsha. Although he was attacking Nanchang, he never thought of actually siegeing the city. The gentry in Nanchang had already contacted him. Of course, the latter did not like the new policy. They wanted Chongzhen to be beaten by Zuo Liangyu and teach this increasingly arrogant emperor to learn to be a human being! Obviously, Wang Yuncheng didn't know that the Checheng in Jingying also had cannons. Although the mountain-splitting cannons cannot be compared with the Red Cannons, those mortar-squatting cannons can hit more than four miles, which is actually equivalent to twenty-four pounds of mortar cannons. There is no pressure on the Red Cannons that use the flowering bullet to bombard him.
"General, don't you want to enter Nanchang? Hongdu New Mansion, Wuhua Tianbao!"
Hou Fangxia said in a seductive tone.
Wang Yuncheng was entangled.
"Waiting for the Red Cannon!"
He said.
"The red cannons were transported from Changsha, and I'm afraid Yang Qing's subsequent army will also arrive."
Hou Fangxia said.
Wang Yuncheng continued to struggle.
"You can get at least one million gold and silver after taking Nanchang."
Hou Fangxia continued to bewitch.
"Observe, line up to attack, and attack Nanchang without blocking the sword for three days!"
Wang Yuncheng roared.
His subordinates instantly burst into an excited roar like they were injected with chicken blood.
Speaking of which, for these soldiers, these five words were like fairy sounds. As for the chariot city that stretched across the front, they were completely ignored. Even the glory of Yang Jue Ye was dim in the distance, and all the arrivals immediately lined up to prepare. Yang Qing held his troops and watched them prepare for the attack. In the afternoon, all 40,000 troops were all arranged in an array. The left side of the cavalry was on the left with Ganjiang River as the barrier. The heavy cavalry formed a formation to block Yang Qing's possible assault, and the light cavalry took the lead in launching an attack.
Thousands of cavalry rushed toward the city of Checheng, and raised their cavalry bows to shoot at the city of Checheng.
But this is useless.
The wall guard of the side van blocks the direct sharp arrow like a city wall. After the upward shooting, it cannot penetrate the cotton armor and helmets at all. On the contrary, the shooting of the Franz and the guns made the cavalry fall continuously.
The light cavalry retreated soon.
Immediately afterwards, the infantry pushed various light artillery, including Franjets, forward, but before they could enter the range, the mountain-splitting cannons at four corners of Checheng and the mortar cannons in the city began to fire, especially the mountain-splitting cannons with three kilograms of solid bullets, which were quite accurate. The shells within one mile kept falling into Wang Yuncheng's infantry formation, and even hit his artillery. The shells of the mortar cannons fell behind the formation and directly hit his heavy cavalry.
Although it is just a solid bullet, it still has a great impact on morale.
Fortunately, there is still three days to support you without sealing your knife.
Soon these artillery reached the same distance that could be fired, but at this moment, they also entered the range of those Fran aircraft. In fact, both sides had similar weapons, but the quality of the Jing camp was better, and this was enough. Fran aircraft, mountain-splitting cannons and even large lifting poles. The Checheng completely turned into a fire-breathing monster. The dense shells kept concentrating their firepower and bombarded wildly. Wang Yuncheng and Hou Fangxia looked at the unprecedented firepower in a daze, and also watched their artillery collapse in a blink of an eye.
"Roar up!"
Wang Yuncheng finally woke up and shouted like crazy.
The infantry charge finally began.
The cold-armed infantry swarmed forward and the early firepower of the hot weapons collided fiercely on this early spring field. The fighting spirit inspired by the temptation of not sealing the knife for three days, and the fighting spirit supported by sufficient military pay and no worries. However, the limited firepower projection could not stop the surging number of infantry. After falling down countless dead bodies, infantry soon began to step across the subway caltrops and cross the horses and directly attack the defense line of the shield chariots.
Yang Qing widened his eyes.
The most important moment is here.
Soon he smiled with satisfaction. The soldiers behind the shield car did not flee. The axe gunmen quickly began to throw the original version of grenades, and then picked up axe guns amid the explosion and began to slash at the enemy who was stunned.
But the latter is still continuous.
Even if the one in front wanted to turn around and escape, they could only move forward with firepower under the pressure of the dense infantry and the cavalry driving them.
Similarly, the soldiers of the Beijing camp who had just entered the battlefield did not retreat at all. The bird gunner and the Fran mobile phone kept completing the process of loading and bounced off fire, shooting enemies close at hand, even if the spears of these enemies were almost stabbed into their faces. The axe gunner and the knife hands kept chopping or piercing the enemies trying to rush into the city of Checheng. The archers who used bows and arrows to supplement the rate of fire, like the Qing army, kept shooting sharp arrows through the enemy's face at less than five steps...
The real bloody battle began like this.
"This is the cornerstone of the empire!"
Yang Qing, who was watching the battle from a distance, expressed his gratifying emotion.
Chapter completed!