Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 284
The tactics used by Li Guo can be summed up in one sentence, "Infantry charge, artillery bombard, infantry charge while artillery bombards".

For a moment, there was a lot of killing and the roar of cannons, and the scene was extremely thrilling.

To say that Li Guo was the Napoleon of the Ming Dynasty is an exaggeration. His use of artillery at this moment has not yet reached the level of Napoleon's perfection, but has only taken a prototype.

In other words, Li Guo taught himself without a teacher, coincided with Napoleon, and adopted the "cannon group tactics".

"Cannon Group Tactics" is to concentrate all artillery, bombard a main target or a general attack direction, and then act quickly to seize a strategic position and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

All the artillery of the artillery battalion faced one direction. The shotguns fired by the tiger squatting guns attacked the enemy cavalry, and the solid shells fired by the Hongyi cannons were used to deal with the infantry phalanx densely arrayed by the enemy.

The firepower of the tiger squat gun and the infantry charging ahead entangled the cavalry of the opponent, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.The solid shells whizzed and roared, piercing through the enemy infantry phalanx.

When a solid shell hits, dozens of people will be killed or injured at once. The power is quite impressive, and it greatly deters the courage of the enemy infantry to continue to line up.

Not only that, the solid bullet will bounce like a bowling ball after touching the ground, and rely on inertia to continue to move forward for a certain distance, so different landing points are enough to deal with enemies at different distances within the range.

Of course, for shells to ricochet, the ground needs to be hard enough, or they will be stuck in the mud; secondly, the angle of incidence must be kept as small as possible, only in this way can they bounce. In order to ensure the angle of incidence, the artillery battalion is equipped with flat-firing cannons. .

After several rounds of bombardment, the enemy infantry fell down in pieces, bloody and bloody, with broken bodies and broken arms flying around, and the wailing sounded like ghosts crying together.

Ren Qi continued to watch, and shouted: "Good fight, good fight, the enemy's morale began to drop! It's a pity, because the artillery is too heavy, the movement of the artillery battalion is restricted, and the pressure on the infantry battalion is too great. Casualties were serious."

At any rate, Ren Qi had also led soldiers to fight in battles, and saw the flaws of the "cannon group tactics".

Napoleon in history, in order to maximize the advantage of artillery, created a tactic called "flying artillery tactics". He invented a new type of cavalry artillery, which is to combine cavalry and artillery. After concentrated artillery bombardment, they decompose and change into mobile The mounted artillery used flying artillery tactics to move the artillery to another location and continue firing.

However, this tactic requires special training, and the overall actions of artillery and horses must be closely coordinated in command.Learn warfare in battle, maybe one day, Li Guo or other generals will create cavalry artillery.

The reason is very simple. His Majesty the Emperor pays attention to the invention and application of firearms, and the generals will naturally follow his example and follow the example.

As long as it is not like the Manchu and Qing Tartars who took strict precautions against the taboo of firearms after they settled down, then people will continue to explore and create new situations.

Just when Ren Qi was worried that the infantry battalion would suffer heavy losses, Li Guo ordered the cavalry battalion to attack and attack the enemy's formation from both wings.

The Qing soldiers had already had enough of the Ming army's fierce artillery fire, and were panicking. Suddenly, Ming army cavalry appeared on both wings, and were torn apart like wind and clouds. The Qing soldiers collapsed completely, and many people turned around and ran away.

He Zhen sighed and ordered: "Withdraw!"

This battle lasted less than half an hour, coming and going in a hurry like a violent storm. The Qing army threw away more than 5000 corpses and fled in disarray.The Ming army suffered less than 300 casualties, which can be said to be a complete victory.

Li Guo did not order the pursuit, but ordered the soldiers to set up camp on the spot and clean the battlefield.

Ren Qi originally wanted to say that this place was in a river valley, which was not conducive to setting up camp, but after thinking about it, he did not say it out loud. He felt that Li Guo might have a deeper meaning.

Gunpowder smoke filled the air, and war horses screamed.There were dead Qing soldiers scattered all over the battlefield, as well as many tattered flags.

Li Guo inspected the battlefield and gave an order: "If the horses abandoned by the enemy are injured, it depends on the situation. If the wounds are too serious, they will be killed and eaten, and if the wounds are light, they will be sent to the military doctor for treatment."

Ren Qi and Silly Dazhu came to Li Guo's side on horseback, Ren Qi smiled and said: "General Li, congratulations on your victory, this battle was fought very beautifully, this officer opened his eyes!"

"Your Excellency has praised you..."

Silly Dazhu suddenly shouted: "Be careful!"

With that said, he flew up from his horse and threw Li Guo down.The two fell to the ground together, but fortunately, the pile of corpses in front of them slowed down the impact of the fall.

Li Guo was pinned down by Silly Dazhu and asked: "Shun Hou, what's wrong?"

"Someone shot a cold arrow..." Sha Dazhu said, blood gushing out of his mouth.

It turned out that a Qing soldier pretended to be dead and was lying in the pile of corpses.He saw Li Guo and recognized him as the commander of the Ming army, so he secretly raised his bow and arrow and aimed at Li Guo. Thanks to the stupid eyes and quick hands, he saved Li Guo's life.Silly Dazhu was shot in the back by an arrow and spit out blood.

Ren Qi had already found out what was going on, roared angrily, and when Silly Dazhu and Li Guo fell off their horses, he had already rushed in front of the Qing soldier, and chopped off his head with a knife in his hand.

"Straight mother thief, you are so fucking cunning!" Ren Qi cursed, turned around and saw Li Guo hugging the injured silly Dazhu, and hurriedly shouted, "Military doctor, come quickly, Shunhou has been shot!"

Silly Dazhu waved his hand and said: "It's not in the way, I didn't hurt my vitals, I can hold on."

"Shunhou..." Li Guo cupped his hands with tears in his eyes, "I have to save Shunhou's life today. I will never forget it. From now on, I owe Shunhou my life, and I can repay it at any time!"

Silly Dazhu said with a simple and honest smile: "General Li, don't say that. We are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty. We block each other's swords on the battlefield. No one owes anyone's life. I am a rough man, and Li Zicheng died in my hands. I don't know how to face General Li... I don't want to talk too much, they are all guys who poop in the latrine and face outwards, not like women and mothers-in-law."

Li Guo smiled and said: "Yes, they are all men who poop in the latrine with their faces facing outward, not those of mother-in-law and mother-in-law!"

The military doctor came to pull out the feathered arrow for Silly Dazhu, bandaged the wound, and said: "Shunhou's injury is not serious, he will recover after a few days of recuperation."

Li Guo shouted: "Come on, go through the battlefield again carefully, and kill everyone without leaving anyone alive!"

In the evening, Ren Qi came to visit silly Dazhu who was lying on the hospital bed, hugged a wine jar and said with a smile: "Shunhou, how about this wine?"

"It smells so good, it's a good jar of wine!" Silly Dazhu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at the wine jar with greedy eyes.

"What are you looking at? The military doctor said that you are injured and cannot drink. Haha, I have to enjoy the wine for you now."

Ren Qi put down the wine jar, brought two wine bowls, poured the wine, drank a bowl and glanced at Silly Dazhu.

Silly Dazhu was so angry, he cursed: "You are an imperial order after all, and you are the minister of the government, why are you so cheap? Get out, I will be mad at you to death!"

Ren Qi just laughed, enough laughing, took out a lotus leaf bag from his bosom, and said: "Curse it, keep cursing, I got you a beggar chicken, but you want to scold me, then eat it." It won't work."

"Seventh brother, my good seventh brother!" Silly Dazhu squeezed out a flattering smile.

"It's too nasty!" Ren Qi spat.

At this moment, Li Guo pushed open the door and walked in, saying: "Sir Ren, please, we are going to move our position. You guys pack up and leave immediately."

"Why?" Ren Qi asked.

"I decided that the enemy would come to sneak attack tonight, so I withdrew early, leaving an empty camp for that old bastard He Zhen."

"Oh, I don't have time to eat beggar chicken!" Ren Qi raised his brows at the silly Dazhu, and asked cheaply, "Do you want me to carry you?"

"I'll bite you to death!" Silly Dazhu grinned, his nose crooked in anger.

(End of this chapter)