Chapter 123 Coats, work hard!

Just when Zhu Daohua arrived with his troops.

Yang Yuchun's 17th Brigade was under tremendous pressure.

For three consecutive days, the Qing army launched a high-intensity attack.

Under the wave of offensives, the ammunition consumption of the 17th Brigade has almost bottomed out.

Even on the third day of the offensive, the 17th Brigade had not fired a single shot so far, which allowed the Qing army to better organize its strength to attack the Ming army's defense line.

The Qing army relied on a front line formed by sandbags.

A steady stream of infantry was put into combat.

The routine is still to use the southern green camp soldiers as cannon fodder. After first consuming a round of Ming army artillery and muskets, the Gansu and Shaanxi green battalions charge forward to fight grenades and engage in hand-to-hand combat. Then the artillery team of the Baoji Army takes the opportunity to push up the mortar carts and bombard them.

With absolute military superiority.

It can be said that the Qing army has completely grasped the main offensive advantage on the battlefield.

Troops were put in round by round.

The short distance of two to three hundred steps between the Qing army's sandbag wall and the Ming army's position has become a flesh-and-blood mill.

The ground here has turned into a faint red color.

There was a fishy smell permeating the air.

However, even after paying such a heavy price, the Ming army's position opposite was still as stable as a mountain.

Even though, on the third day, the Ming army on the opposite side no longer fired those terrifying shells.

However, facing the Ming army's defense line, they just couldn't break through.

With the help of muskets and grenades.

Just in front of the Ming army's line, the Qing army had already killed at least 3,000 people, and the number of injured was more than 7,000.

However, the fighting spirit of the five thousand Ming soldiers who had been guarding for three days did not decrease.

They could even wait until the Qing soldiers were more than twenty steps closer, first throw out a round of grenades, and then fire a round of muskets at extremely close range.

With just one move, the Qing army's hard-organized formation was disrupted, and then they rushed up from the trenches with bayonets in hand, forming a dense horizontal formation. Using bayonets, they could create an extremely terrifying exchange ratio.

This result made Qianlong, who was always paying attention to the battle situation from a high place, look increasingly ugly.

He originally thought that with the length of the musket and bayonet, it was nothing more than a short spear.

However, the tactics used by the Ming army fully demonstrated the power of this weapon - in fact, the combination of flintlock and bayonet can be regarded as a unification of human infantry weapons.

Before the emergence of this combination, the basic infantry unit usually required a combination of two weapons: a musket horizontal array and a spear horizontal array.

And before muskets appeared.

The infantry weapons are even more complicated.

Sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, archers.

At the same time, in order to deal with armored enemies, there must be infantry teams equipped with armor-piercing weapons, such as hammers, armor-piercing cones, etc.

However, when the combination of flintlock and bayonet appeared.

All the above cold weapons have basically been replaced.

The basic elements of infantry warfare are nothing more than long-range projection and close-quarters combat.

Previously, these two forms required different arms to be responsible, and the arms cooperated with each other.

But now, the advantages of flintlock guns far exceed those of bows and arrows - it is not that bows and arrows are not as powerful as flintlock guns. At least in terms of shooting speed, the attack speed of an excellent archer is much faster than that of a skilled musketeer.

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But archers are rare, and musketeers are easy to come by.

Good bows are difficult to make, but muskets can be produced in a standardized and streamlined manner.

Based on this, the number of archers' army cannot be expanded rapidly, but the number of musketeers can.

In terms of armor-breaking power.

No matter how expensive you are wearing armor.

Being bombarded by a musket at close range, even if the armor is not penetrated, the huge impact can temporarily wipe out the combat effectiveness of a steel tank infantry.

Melee combat.

Although the combination of musket and bayonet is not as long as a spear, it cannot be equipped with armor such as shields.

However, close-range musket bombardment is enough to shatter any infantry formation. After disrupting the local formation, it is simply a matter of choice for the fusiliers and bayonets arranged in dense horizontal formations.

"In the future, our Qing Dynasty will also train musketeers. In the future, infantry will be equipped with flintlocks, bayonets, and grenades. In the future, the battle formations will be composed of musketeers, artillery, and cavalry.

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Qianlong murmured.

I have to say.

Qianlong saw it accurately.

In front of the musketeers.

Those spearmen, rattan players, and those Eight Banners Jianrui battalion soldiers carrying Kantung machetes and wearing two layers of cotton armor.

It has no effect at all.

The only ones that can compete with the opponent's infantry are line infantry also equipped with muskets, bayonets, and grenades.

Fukangan couldn't help but frowned when he heard this.

What if the war turned into a line of musketeers lining up to kill each other?

How could the Qing Dynasty get more muskets and more people than the Ming Dynasty?

Let the Eight Banners disciples carry muskets and line up in a dense formation to engage in musketry exchanges with the enemy?

Just think about it.

It's enough to make one's scalp numb.

How many people are there in the Eight Banners?

How many Han people are there?

"We still need to train our coat army," Fukang'an murmured.

"Let the armored troops come forward!"

"Send out six thousand coated troops, three thousand as the vanguard, and three thousand as the reserve!"

Qianlong took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said.

"Your Majesty!" Fukangan was suddenly startled.

According to the previous plan.

This time we have to use the green battalion to fight off the 5,000 infantry of the Ming army.

The coated army can't easily go into battle and be consumed!

"Your Majesty, let the Green Battalion charge for a while longer. They are about to die! They have no more artillery shells." He Lin said anxiously from the side.

The Baoyi Army was Qianlong's trump card.

Moreover, after these three days of fighting, it was the mortar team of the Baoji Army that achieved the greatest results.

The fighting willingness and fighting spirit of the coated troops are stronger than those of the green battalion soldiers. Among the green battalion soldiers, they cannot even compare to the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion.

"There is no time, Zhu Daohua is coming." Qianlong said.

Fukangan and Helin were silent.

Three days.

There were nearly 10,000 casualties.

I can't even chew on this small piece of raw rice.

The position of the five thousand Ming troops was as stable as Mount Tai.

If in the end, under the watchful eye of the Qing Emperor, the Qing army cannot defeat even one of the opponent's partial armies.

This had a huge impact on the morale of the people throughout the Qing Dynasty.

It can be said.

This is the current situation.

The Qing army was already riding a tiger and was in trouble.

Qianlong also had to use his trump card.

"Get up! Get up! Run for a while, and you will have a full meal when you come back alive!"
To be continued...