18th century total war

Chapter 382 For Survival
"Soldiers!

Behind us is our home and relatives!
This time, our enemies are no longer human beings, and they will not take prisoners. Wherever they pass, everyone will be bitten into corpses by them and transformed into their own kind!
Use the sharp blades in your hands to cut off their heads. Victory will definitely belong to the Qing Dynasty!
In order to survive, for the family, and for the Qing Dynasty, attack! ! ! "

The exciting horn of attack sounded across the great plains that spread for dozens of miles. After the fall of the capital, the Qing government completed the assembly of all military forces in the surrounding areas at an incredible speed!

From the soldiers of the Eight Banners to the ordinary township brave folks, they all took up arms and gathered here to meet the tide of corpses!
An army of more than [-] troops formed a battle line tens of miles wide, fighting against the undead army formed by Resas who swept across the capital city and surrounding villages and towns.

It was not the sudden increase in the organizational power of the Qing government, but the threat of the army of the undead that made the people of the Qing Dynasty unite like never before.

Even the most ignorant farmer uncle in the field knows that in the face of the living dead, he can only be reduced to their corpses!
run away?

Can you run faster than the legions of the living dead who march day and night without eating or drinking?

The successively occupied villages and towns around the capital have confirmed all this!
At this moment, the Bannerman and the Han people are firmly united by the crisis of survival. Of course, they can stand together and fight together. The most important thing is that they don't think they will lose to the living dead on the other side.

There are not many truly terrifying ghouls among the living dead. There are only dozens of ghouls in the endless legion of undead...

As for the cavalry, they couldn't see any of them. For the Manchu Eight Banners who worshiped cavalry and archery, it shouldn't be too difficult to defeat them.

The only thing that needs to be taken into consideration is that the living dead have no fear, and every living dead needs to be killed.

As for the information about the commander-in-chief of Resas, the Qing government obtained very little, because the living people who saw Resas with their own eyes became part of the army of the undead...

Even the death of Emperor Daoguang was temporarily suppressed due to an existential crisis. What's more, the Manchu and Qing Empire had a complete set of inheritance systems. The Manchu and Qing Empire did not worry about finding a suitable heir.

However, if the army of the living dead is allowed to spread, the Qing Dynasty will be gone!
Whether it is light or serious, anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

Not only the nobles of the Eight Banners do not want the Qing Dynasty to fall, but the Han officials and even the gentry do not want the Qing Dynasty to fall. They are all vested interest groups. Qing system.

Especially in the northern Central Plains area, which was the focus of the Qing Dynasty, the large gentry here had basically been tamed by the Eight Banners nobles, and their loyalty was quite high.

After all, this is not the late sunny era when revolutionary ideas are everywhere...

Of course, the assembled army of 10,000+ also came from the northern Central Plains.

The large formation of the Qing army is a classic battle formation in the era of hot and cold weapons. The two wings are large groups of cavalry, and the middle is an army formation composed of various firearms and cold weapon infantry.

On the other hand, the legion of the undead on the opposite side, because of the "single type of arms" and the fact that even if the undead are commanded, it is difficult to form a square formation like tofu blocks, so groups of undead are huddled together to form a long line. The human sea front slowly moved forward and pressed forward.

As for those dozens of ghouls, they were naturally placed by Resas's side to protect his safety, including the only headless horseman!
Even Resas, in the face of such a large-scale decisive battle, did not dare to take it easy.

No matter how strong the regenerative ability of the vampire nobles is, it is impossible for them to be revived after being chopped into rotten flesh...

Unless it is the ancestor Queen Lilith!

However, Lilith has only one...

"Except for the absence of the mage group and fighting spirit, the formation of the Qing army in this new world is similar to that of the Arigado Empire. It seems that even if they are not in the same world dimension, the thinking mode of human beings is not much different."

With the bat wings spread out behind him, Rexas, who was stranded in mid-air, could not help sighing as he looked at the enemy formations that spread dozens of miles away.

After confirming that there were no anti-air moves in this world, Rexas began to spread his bat wings flamboyantly, floating around in mid-air, which could give him a very good vision.

However, Resas was not big enough to fly over the enemy formation.

For one thing, when Rexas maintained his human form, the flying height of the batwing was very low.

Secondly, the flying speed of the batwing is relatively slow, and the human on the opposite side has a musket that can be designed, and Lesas doesn't want to take the risk.

Even if the hit rate of that kind of musket is very poor, what if hundreds of muskets are fired at the same time?

If it was shot down and fell into the enemy's phalanx, Resas would be blinded.

It has always been a taboo for the vampire nobles to break out of the siege. They have a long life and are unwilling to take risks themselves.

Driving the endless undead army to consume and annihilate the enemy is what the vampire nobles like to do.

In order to preserve their 'energy', the zombie army moves forward at the same speed as the little zombies in the Resident Evil movie. Many of the zombies still have mutilated limbs and are limping forward...

This is still the army of living corpses formed after Resas's "careful selection". Those living corpses that can only crawl have been fed by Resas to strong living corpses, giving birth to several ghouls.

After all, in a world without magical energy, there are still too few warriors who want to polish their bodies enough to transform them into ghouls.

The long formation of the Chinese army is enough to equal the frontal cross-section of the army of the living dead on the opposite side. In terms of strength, the Qing army actually has the advantage.

This is also one of the reasons why the commanders of the Qing army felt that they had a sure chance of winning.

It's not that the generals of the Qing army were blindly confident, just look at the data comparison between the two sides.

The strength of the Qing army was about one-third to one-fourth larger than that of the army of the living dead. The statistics of the number of the living dead were too dangerous, and the scouts did not dare to approach them, so the generals of the Qing army could only get an approximate figure.

Of course, what made the generals of the Qing army confident was not the advantage in numbers, but the advantage in equipment.

There are tens of thousands of cavalry in the Qing army. After the capital was in danger, the soldiers of the Mongolian Eight Banners responded very actively. There is no way, the capital is not far from Mongolia!

Moreover, these legions of the living dead are still spreading towards the north. Can the Mongols not be anxious?

The Mongolian cavalry can be said to be the main source of the cavalry in this Qing army, accounting for two-thirds of the number, and most of the Mongolian cavalry are armored and sharp. Obviously, it is not the Mongolian Eight Banners nobles who use nomads to fill their numbers.

Following the report of the horse riding, everyone who got the news knew that the Legion of the Living Dead could "fight to support war", so they were not inclined to use cannon fodder to consume...

Even the brave and strong villagers in the army are not farmers who have just taken up arms. They are all trained troops led by the children of landlords and gentry.

In later generations, this would actually be equivalent to a paramilitary force, which would also participate in bandit suppression activities on weekdays.

There is no need for the Qing government to mobilize these township brave people, as long as they issue an order and tell them the horror of the undead army, these people will spontaneously organize the township brave people and come to fight with their own weapons and equipment !

Because this is not fighting for the Qing Dynasty, but for themselves!

The roots of those big gentry families are all rooted in the land, and they are more inseparable from their hometown than farmers!

The Legion of the Living Dead doesn't accept dogs and traitors, so what choice do you have besides desperately?

However, this army of 10,000+ all young and strong is not the entire strength of the Qing government, but only part of the military strength of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and most of the strength of the northern Central Plains.

There is no way, the time is too short. Even if the news reaches farther places, it will take a lot of time to assemble the army, and it will be too late.

You can't just watch the Legion of the Living Dead continue to slaughter cities and villages and grow stronger.

As for the defense of the city, the generals of the Qing army hadn't thought about it, but they didn't dare to defend the city in the face of the army of the living dead!

The army of the living dead is not very keen on attacking cities. Lesas prefers to let the army of the living dead attack towns that do not have many fortifications. where!

Therefore, if the generals of the Qing army really chose to defend the isolated city, they would never be able to consume those legions of living corpses who would not eat or drink...

This is why the Qing army chose to fight in the wild.

They have to.

A series of Hongyi cannons and general cannons were pushed to the foreground, artillery positions were set up on high ground, infantry phalanxes were in the front row, and there were also a large number of small tiger squatting cannons and other mortars.

Soldiers armed with muskets and crossbows were gathered separately and stood at the front, intending to use long-range attacks to consume the number of living corpses.

From the point of view of equipment, the fully equipped Qing army is not a bit stronger than the army of living corpses that can only rely on claws and teeth...

The advantages in cavalry and equipment are the greatest confidence for the Qing army generals to win!
Of course, facing the army of living corpses, everyone's morale is also one of them.

As the pre-battle preaching said, they were fighting to survive and fight with their relatives in their homeland, and the Great Qing Guozuo was put behind!
As the army of living corpses approached, noisy roars gradually reached the ears of the soldiers in the front row.

The Qing army formation is generally divided into three horizontal fronts.

The first is a battle line composed of the brave people of the township and a small number of green battalions.

In front of this front are groups of firearms soldiers who should be on the second front.

The first front line is also divided into two parts. The first part is the front row, which is the dead soldiers. The main body is the brave and strong people of the village.

The rear formation presses the front formation, which is not only a supplementary force during battle, but also a supervising team.

The second front is all green battalion soldiers, plus a small number of banner leaders (actually Han Eight Banner banner soldiers).

The second front also played the role of supervising the first front. It was divided into two front and back formations, and those flag leaders naturally followed their masters and were in the rear formation.

The last front is the uniform bannermen.

Many of them are bannermen who are not good at practicing martial arts on weekdays. Among them, the Han Eight Banners are the one with the strongest combat effectiveness.

As for the Eight Banners of Mongolia, they are all in the formation of cavalry on both wings.

Not surprisingly, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners, who are full of the Eight Banners, are at the back of the last front, and their main role is still to supervise the battle.

Because if the zombie army really hit here, it means that all the artillery has fallen to the enemy, and the entire Chinese army is almost pierced through, and the defeat is doomed!

As a matter of course, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners can only flee...

If it had been the early Qing Dynasty, perhaps the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers could have used their savage fighting spirit to make a comeback, but now the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers can only be used as a supervisory team!

Of course, the tens of thousands of cavalry groups on both wings would not watch the three fronts of the Chinese army being breached.

The flag bearer on the high ground suddenly waved the command flag, and the Hongyi Cannon took the lead in roaring, and a solid iron ball was blasted into the dense crowd of living corpses, bringing up a black corpse oil.

The corpse that has been transformed into a living corpse no longer has blood in its body, only half-solidified corpse oil is left, and the amount is still relatively small...

The group of corpses bombarded by the artillery was still advancing steadily, and did not intend to charge at all.

The sprinting of the living corpse requires additional consumption of 'energy'. In an environment without sufficient magical energy, if the living corpse charges frequently, sooner or later it will be 'burned' by itself, and finally reduced to a piece of bone.

Therefore, in non-combat situations, Resas would not order his undead army to charge with all his strength.

Only maintaining the most basic state of a living corpse, moving forward a little bit like a grandfather.

Not long after, the General Cannon also joined the shelling!

Until mortars such as tiger crouching guns fired one after another, the living corpses didn't launch a full sprint!

However, when the Musketeers in the front row all raised their guns, Resas used magic to let out a scream that only living corpses could receive.

All of a sudden, the roar of the zombie army suddenly became high-pitched, and the staggering steps suddenly turned into strong men, and the big feet began to step forward desperately, running at full speed!
The roar of musket fire and the rain of arrows from the sky could not stop the walking of the living corpses at all. Most of the knocked down living corpses got up from the ground one after another because they were not hit in the vital parts.

Under the command, the group of living corpses didn't even have many incidents of trampling on each other!

The Musketeers who had only fired one round saw the living corpses galloping at full speed, and immediately forgot the previous order to shoot two rounds, and withdrew into the second front line through the gap between the soldiers behind them with their muskets.

Including those crossbowmen!
Afterwards, even the gunners who operated the front mortars fled one after another, leaving only Xiangyong and Minzhuang who raised their big shields and thrust their spears forward.

(End of this chapter)