Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

"kill!"

The Musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army shouted loudly, carrying their muskets on their backs while shouting, then drew their waist knives, and rushed forward screaming.

The martial arts of these Eight Banners new troops are actually far stronger than the Korean soldiers, and even Zhu Heqi's old Guangdong brothers can't beat them.On the contrary, the elite soldiers of the two brothers of the Wu family are more ruthless than them in hand-to-hand combat...

If it was performed normally, Jin Chengkai and his men would definitely be chopped into minced meat.

But Jin Chengkai's people don't talk about Wude, they carry loaded flintlock guns to fight people hand to hand.And it wasn't a good fight, but when a hand-to-hand fight was about to start, someone suddenly remembered that he was holding a gun, so he fired directly!

There was only a "bang", and a lead bullet was pushed out of the muzzle by the detonated gunpowder. After flying less than five steps away, it suddenly crashed into the body of a burly man.

This burly man was holding a knife and was about to cut someone down when he was hit hard on the chest suddenly, only then did he realize that the flintlock gun in the opposite man's hand had actually fired!

How can he do this?

How can you shoot in hand-to-hand combat, and how can you fight in future battles if this is the case?As soon as he thought of this, the unbearable has actually made him lose the ability to think, and he didn't know where his inexhaustible strength went, he didn't even have the strength to stand, and he fell to the ground.

Then, before he lost consciousness, he heard more shots... and more people finally remembered that they were the Musketeers!

After a burst of bullets swept through, the Eight Banners New Army Musketeers guarding the entrance of Gaoyangdong Village were knocked down about ten people, and the rest of them didn't have the courage to fight any more, and ran into the village screaming.

Chapter 553: The Great Formation of "Sugar Age"

In fact, before launching a bayonet assault, the tactics of firing a round of gun salvos at close range or throwing a round of sugar grenade hammers were clearly written in the Ming Army Infantry Code of Practice——Zhu Hechi and his Those military advisers and high-ranking officers also don't talk about martial arts!

But having said that, if it wasn't for the good bullets in the flintlock guns before fighting the bayonet, or throwing a wave of grenades before the stabbing, it would be impossible for the fusiliers of the Ming army to defeat the muskets of the Eight Banners New Army in hand-to-hand combat. soldiers.

Because the latter's martial arts are better and their equipment is more suitable for hand-to-hand combat, the cotton armor they wear is more defensive than the armor worn by Ming army infantry, and some of them even paid for an extra lock Armor—The bayonet of the Ming army may be able to pierce through a layer of cotton armor with iron sheets, but it is really difficult to pierce through the chain armor inside the cotton armor.And the armor they wear can only protect the body part, and the arms are not protected by armor...

The Eight Banners New Army of this era still retains many characteristics of feudal landlord soldiers. Everyone owns his own farm, and military status can also be passed down from generation to generation, so they have the motivation to spend money to equip themselves.Many of them not only have "double armor", but also have a second cold weapon, usually a hatchet that can break the armor.When fighting in hand-to-hand combat, they often hold a knife in one hand and an ax in the other, and sometimes throw axes to kill!

The infantry of the Ming army is not only inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers in martial arts, but they rarely buy weapons and armor for themselves out of their own pockets.Most of them are conscripts. After two or three years of service, if they cannot be promoted to lieutenants, they will go back to their respective families. There is no such thing as military status inheritance, so naturally they are unwilling to buy equipment out of their own pockets while serving.

But the fusiliers don't talk about martial arts, but form a "dimension reduction blow" against the Eight Banners soldiers in heavy armor with knives and axes... This kind of blow is not only physical, but also psychological!

Because the Eight Banners soldiers had no way of judging whether there were bullets in the flintlock guns held by the oncoming Ming soldiers?

Yes or no?

This is simply a question that will make people collapse just thinking about it!

What's more, the fusiliers of the Ming army also had grenade hammers on their bodies, and the fuses of these grenade hammers were all tied to their belts, so they could be blown up by taking them off and throwing them out.

Fighting with such an enemy with a bayonet, it's hard not to shake your hands!

In the battle at the entrance of the village just now, Jin Chengkai also completed the "five-step shooting" that did not talk about martial arts, and shot an unlucky Eight Banners soldier.But he didn't stop to reload, because he could already hear gunshots, explosions, and shouts from the village.Obviously, the group of stragglers who had entered the village before was being besieged by the Qing army outnumbering them, and they had to be rescued quickly.

Thinking of this, Jin Chengkai hurriedly called his men to rush into the village.Because the roads in the village are narrow, it is impossible to form a horizontal formation, so Jin Chengkai ordered the soldiers who did not shoot in the round of battle to rush to the front, and he followed with the soldiers who had emptied their bullets, and headed towards Gaoyang Cave together. Rush inside the village.

After rushing for a while, they rushed to the place where gunshots, explosions, and shouts came out—that is, around the big house that Jin Chengkai mentioned.

The stragglers of the Ming army arrived there first, rushed into the house, and climbed onto the roof. Before the arrangement was completed, a Qing army led by a leader had already rushed in from the other side of the village.

There were originally 200 soldiers in the Qing army, but one of the cavalry, Dadan, had been taken away, so there were only 160 people left, but it was still four times the number of the Ming army's stragglers.So as soon as they entered the village, they surrounded the Ming army and beat them. In order to prevent reinforcements from the Ming army, the leader of the Qing army assigned a Dadan to guard the east and south entrances of the village. 120 people from Beijing besieged the forty Ming troops in the mansion.When the fierce battle was in full swing, Jin Chengkai rushed into the battlefield with dozens of North Korean soldiers. A burst of gunfire and a wave of grenade hammers immediately knocked out more than 100 Eight Banners soldiers.

The Ming army, who were surrounded in the mansion, also took the opportunity to fight back, rushing out with bayonet-tipped flintlock guns.Although the number of the Ming army was still smaller than that of the Qing army at this time, the Qing army, which was attacked by the enemy, fell into a panic. After leaving a lot of corpses and wailing wounded, they withdrew from the village in embarrassment.

Just after two o'clock, a golden sun and moon flag with a red background of the Ming Dynasty fluttered in the wind above Gaoyang Cave.

However, the battle for the other three "caves" was not as clean and tidy as the battle for Gaoyang Cave.Although the Ming army who was in charge of capturing the other three "caves" also did not talk about martial arts, they did not fight the "blossom in the center" and "internal and external pincers" like the Battle of Gaoyang Cave.

Because the stragglers of the Ming army who served as the vanguard did not directly rush into the most valuable mansion in the "cave", but began to occupy the land from the east or south entrance of the "cave".

The Qing army, which came in from the west and north of the "dong", also adopted a similar style of play, first occupying a few houses, laying out defenses, and then slowly fighting.

As a result, the battle for these three "holes" became a stalemate, with each side occupying half of the "hole", and then the front-line commanders on both sides sent reinforcements, but the "Battle of the Three Holes" has become a village house. In addition, those village houses also used granite quarried from Bukhan Mountain as building materials, which was very strong, so no one could do anything to the other for a while.

However, the Ming army who captured Gaoyang Cave still took half of the first move. Gaoyang Cave is located in the middle of the battlefield. With this support point, the Ming army can move the rocket launcher to the southeast of Gaoyang Cave and set it up to bombard the nearby Qing army formation. , thus covering the attack of the Ming army infantry.

At around the second quarter of the last hour, the "Battle of the Three Holes" fell into a stalemate, and the first-line infantry on both sides had already reached the forward position.

When the infantry on both sides marched at the front, they all adopted relatively wide columns, so that the marching speed was faster and the deployment would not be too slow.

Because they encountered the bombardment of the Ming army's "high sugar rockets" during the march, the Qing army's infantry seemed to be moving slowly, and they did not reach the predetermined position. Instead, they took more than 100 steps and began to pull away the large horizontal team. up.

Correspondingly, the front line of the Ming army moved seventy or eighty steps forward, and was within one or two hundred steps of the four "holes" near the battlefield.

However, after the deployment, the infantry on both sides did not intend to move forward, nor did they immediately pull up the artillery and rocket launchers. Instead, they took out the shovels they carried with them, and began to dig trenches on the somewhat muddy land and pile up parapets.

Now is the "sugar age", facing opponents with a certain "sugar content", everyone has to go to the "earth trench".If there are no earth walls and trenches as the frontline soldiers to "anti-sugar", the loss rate of front-line soldiers would be too high after an hour of sugar bombing.

Therefore, the main task of the front-line infantry on both sides is to dig the life-saving trenches and pile up the earth walls before the opponent's artillery is deployed.

Of course, the exchange of fire at the front cannot stop!

On the one hand, the competition for the three "holes" is still going on, and both sides have sent reinforcements up.

On the one hand, the skirmishers on both sides dispersed and blocked in front of the forward position, and began to shoot each other with the flintlock guns and matchlock guns in their hands.

In fact, there are already rifled guns on both sides, but they have not been mass-produced, and the skirmishers on both sides don't like the rifled guns that are very difficult to load, so they are still using smoothbore guns. Among them, the skirmishers of the Qing army even Using an old-fashioned matchlock gun.

However, these muskets without rifling can still exert great power in the hands of experienced gunmen-because both the Ming and Qing Dynasties are not short of gunpowder, the training level of musketeers on both sides is good, which is better than most European guns. Musketeers must be strong!

The bullets from both sides were coming and going at a distance of a hundred paces. Under their cover, the first-line infantrymen on both sides were sweating profusely. "Line" appeared at the forefront of the battlefield in the northwest of Seoul!

Chapter 554 Advance, the first assault wave

November [-]th, just after the application time.

The hustle and bustle of the battlefield northwest of Seoul suddenly became very quiet. There were no rockets whistling past in the sky, and there were no explosions roaring one after another on the ground. The villages where the Qing and Qing armies fought became quieter, and there were no more crackling gunshots.

On the battlefield, there was a depressing silence, and the air was filled with the tension that was unique before the war...

Two watchtowers made of wood appeared on the tower of Hanju Mountain City and the city wall next to the tower of Donui Gate in Seoul.

Next to a flying yellow dragon flag, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty had already boarded the watchtower on the mountain city of Hangju, holding a binoculars produced by the glass factory of the Inner Court Manufacturing Office, and scanning the Ming army's front.

The front line of the Ming army was more than ten miles long, extending from the foot of Zuduri Peak in Beihan Mountain to the vicinity of the embankment of the Han River.The Ming army guarding there had built an almost straight wall of sheep and horses with straw and soil, and dug two shallow trenches in front of the wall of sheep and horses.Of course, neither the sheep and horse wall nor the two shallow trenches are continuous. There are dozens of gaps and flat passages in between for soldiers and artillery to enter and exit.There are also several villages about the size of Gaoyang Cave distributed near the Ming army's first line, and they should have been occupied by the Ming army.

The Ming army on the front line was still constructing, and someone could be seen digging the soil, and someone was carrying straw bales that looked like rice sacks and piled them on the low straw bale wall.

Seeing this, they had to work until dinner before they could call it a day, so their first wave of infantry attacks should be launched after dinner and before dark.

If this wave of offensives fails to achieve a breakthrough, then the Ming army will either choose to fight at night - which is not conducive to their "sugar power", or they will have to fight again at dawn tomorrow.

After reading the general situation of the Ming army's first-line positions, Emperor Kangxi let out a deep breath, and said to Gabra and Duolong, the ministers of the interior guards standing beside him: "Have you seen it? My front row arrangement is almost exactly the same, this is how heroes see the same thing!"

What he said was a bit lacking in confidence, as if Zhu Heqi's arrangement was similar to his, which could prove his correctness...

Gabula and Duolong looked at each other, and they didn't know how to answer Kangxi's words to flatter them, so the two had no choice but to say: "The emperor is holy."

Kangxi also felt that he was becoming more and more wise, so he analyzed Zhu Heqi's next move. He pondered and said: "If I guessed correctly, he must have quietly deployed the long-barreled artillery to the front. Now Most of them are still pulling the bazooka to the front. When the bazooka's bazooka is in place, it's time to start bombarding! It should be bombarding my center or left flank... probably the center!"

Kangxi is now considered a battle-tested man, but he is no longer the novice who was bullied by Wu Sangui back then.Not only did he figure out a set of "sugar age" tactics with a group of Nanshufang ministers, imperial guards and foreign military divisions, but he also guessed Zhu Hechi's next move.

At this time, Zhu Heqi also boarded the watchtower next to the Dunyimen gate tower, holding a binoculars made in Nanjing to observe the Qing army's position in the distance.

The Nanjing binoculars he held and the binoculars held by Kangxi were actually made by craftsmen from Yanshen Town, Yidu County, Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province.

The glass industry appeared in Yanshen Town from the end of Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of Ming Dynasty. By the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, it had become the main glass producing area in China.However, Yanshen Town mainly produces colored glassware, and there is also transparent glass, but the output is not large, and the quality is not very good, until Zhu Heqi came up with a crystal glass formula and invited craftsmen from Yanshen Town to set up a factory in Nanjing.The craftsmen in Yanshen Town have fully mastered the method of manufacturing high-transparency crystal glass.

However, this method was quickly spread back to Yanshen Town from the glass factory in Nanjing, and Kangxi naturally had telescopes made of lenses polished with crystal glass produced in Yanshen Town... and from Zhu Heqi's side The technology that spread to Kang Mazi was obviously not just a crystal glass.

Because what Zhu and Qi are seeing now is an army that is very similar to their own Ming Army... Although their armor and clothing are still the same as the traditional Eight Banners soldiers, and the flags they use are also yellow, yellow, white, and white. White, true red, bordered red, true blue, bordered blue and other eight colors, but they are now adopting tactics and equipment, but they are obviously imitating the Ming army.

It seems that Emperor Kangxi's ability to learn is much stronger than those of his unsatisfactory descendants!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi put down the binoculars, and said to Yu Xiaoqian beside him: "It seems that Kang Mazi has learned a lot of real skills from us in the past two years, and he is more and more good at fighting. Wu Sangui's son If you want to meet him, you will probably not be able to beat him."

Yu Xiaoqian said with a smile: "But he met the king... He is a student who obviously hasn't learned enough, so he can't be your opponent."

Zhu Hechi laughed and said, "He doesn't have that much sugar...We monopolize [-]% of the white sugar in the world, and Wu Zhou owns the other [-]%. It's a pity that no one discovered that white sugar can be used to make gunpowder in the early years. Otherwise, where would it be?" Is there a danger of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty?"

In fact, sugar that is not clear can also be used to produce sugar medicine, but the power is less powerful.

As for white sugar with higher purity, in the 17th century, only the Chinese could produce it... From squeezing sugar cane to producing sugar with white flowers, there are twenty or thirty processes!

The current Europeans are still unable to produce, and it will take another few decades, and it will not be difficult after they have industrialized.

However, in history, Daming held the most powerful explosives before the industrialization era, but only used them for food. It is really a pity...

Zhu Hechi sighed, and asked again: "Are the rocket launchers in place?"

"It's in place!" Yu Xiaoqian nodded, "The shooting will start at the second quarter of Shenshi, and the shooting will end after an hour. The first assault wave of the infantry will go into the attack."

"it is good!"

Zhu Hechi nodded, "The lonely family is waiting for the good news of their victory!"

……

The commander-in-chief of the artillery group of the Ming army is Qiu Hu, an artillery soldier from the Army Joining Division of the Palace. He is Qiu Hui's youngest son, and he is just in his early twenties this year.

Regardless of his young age, he was one of Zhu Heqi's earliest "apprentices", and he was also the first batch of pharmacists who learned the "Black Sesame Jue" and "Tang Shui Jue"—Zhu Hechi took great care of this brother-in-law.

And in the eight years since he became a pharmacist, Qiu Hu has been going back and forth between the army and the military academy, completed all the courses of the army military academy, and even learned a little calculus from Leibtzny - this kid turned out to have a high IQ Xueba!

Qiu Xueba has already arrived at the front of Gaoyang Cave, and his rocket launcher cluster is placed in the southeast of Gaoyang Cave.

Another eight long cannon collars were also squeezed into Gaoyang Cave, or quietly arranged in the woods near Gaoyang Cave, waiting for Qiu Hu's order.

At this moment, Qiu Hu just looked at the pocket watch in his hand, which was a Chinese-style pocket watch made in Guangzhou, and instead of twelve hours, it had twelve hours plus eight quarters.The hour hand had already aligned with the word "Shen", and the engraving needle was about to point to the Chinese character "two".He strode back to his command position—this was the highest point of Gaoyang Cave, where the golden sun and moon flag with a red background was planted.He saw Qiu Hu pull down the big flag, shake it vigorously a few times, and shouted at the same time: "Fire! Fire!"

A group of eighty five-jin long-barreled guns first let out a roar, and the flames spewed out first, followed by thunderous cannons.Afterwards, forty rocket launchers also began to show their power, and the strange cry of "Jie Jie Jie" sounded, and more than 200 rockets soared into the sky, roaring and flying towards the Qing army's position ahead.

In the blink of an eye, pillars of smoke, earth and stone rose up in the middle of the front line of the Qing army!

Chapter 555 Be careful, Kangxi has a trap!

When the cannon sounded, Liu Yan, the No. 11 town commander of the Ming Army, trembled.He was also behind the "straw wall" on the front line of the Ming army. Behind this "straw wall" were full of soldiers and officers.Hearing the sound of the cannon, both the officers and the soldiers showed excited expressions... The soldiers did not dare to get up without a military order, but the officers all stood up straight from behind the "bad wall" and looked forward.Liu Yan who wanted to "kill Kang Mazi again" was also one of them.

The middle section of the Qing army's line was the hardest-hit area by shelling. The shelling effect of the eighty long-barreled cannons was not very good. Most of the solid bullets they fired flew over the earthen walls built by the Qing army.Even if a few shells hit the earth wall impartially, they were gone, and then... I don't know if they penetrated or not?But even if you beat them through, you won't be able to kill a few people.The damage they can cause is completely out of proportion to the momentum of the eighty cannon salvos.

But the rockets of the Ming army are amazing!

In the previous round of rocket shooting, because the rocket launcher was far away from the front and hit a moving target, it was naturally not very lethal-because the distance was far away, more propellants were loaded and less explosives were loaded, and The accuracy is also poor, just to scare people.

But now it is different. Gaoyang Cave is not less than two miles away from the front line of the Qing army, and the Ming army's rocket launcher deployed in the southeast of Gaoyang Cave is less than three miles away from the Qing army's position.Moreover, the position of the Qing army will not move, it is a fixed target.As long as the distance is measured accurately, the sugar rockets can bloom on the Qing army's position!

Only rockets with long tail flames were seen, falling like raindrops on the inside and outside of the earth wall, exploding large columns of smoke and flames.The fragments of the rocket bomb and the iron balls that burst out of the rocket's belly swept past like a storm.The Qing army placed a lot of refusal carbine guns and deer villages in front of the formation, and many of them were blown into pieces flying around.The smoke enveloped a large section of the front in an instant.At first, you could still see the Qing soldiers who were frightened by the bombardment running around, and then you couldn’t see anything, only thick smoke billowing—it turned out that the rockets fired by the Ming army were not all explosive bombs, but also Some smoke bombs that block the view.

Seeing that the Qing army's position had been shrouded in thick smoke, Liu Yan took out his pocket watch and looked at it. When he found that the quarter of an hour had reached "Four", he waved his hand violently: "Grenadiers... Come on!"

Following his order, several half-kneeling suona soldiers began to blow their horns. After a harsh sound of the horns, three or four hundred Ming army grenadiers turned out from behind the Ming army's "straw wall". .

Now the grenadiers and skirmishers of the Ming army have been integrated, and there are a lot of them. Each leader (company) has 40 people (a deputy leader).The reason why there are so many is mainly because the deflagration power of sugar powder is much greater than that of gunpowder, so smaller wooden handle grenades can be made, and there is no need for tall and powerful men to fill grenadiers.

In addition, Ming’s production of gunpowder is also very large, so the fusiliers can do more shooting training, and the veterans who serve as grenadiers (skirmishers) are often very good at marksmanship.

The grenadiers who came out from behind the "straw wall" did not form a dense formation, but after they dispersed, they held their guns and walked forward quickly.However, these people did not rush to the front of the Qing army's earthen wall all the time, but lay down on the ground after advancing for a certain distance, quietly waiting for the shelling to end.

As soon as the shelling is over, they will launch the first wave of "climbing attack", climb up to drop bombs, and bomb him first before talking about it!

And at the same time as these grenadiers lay down, the cannon of General Weiyuan of the Qing army also fired.

This General Weiyuan Cannon is actually a large-caliber mortar, which is used to fire sugar bombs!

The Qing army had little sugar, so they could only take the low-sugar route, so they couldn’t afford high-sugar rockets—the propellant and blasting powder of the rockets were all sugar medicine, and the Qing Dynasty, which did not produce white sugar, dared not be so extravagant.

Therefore, the Qing army could only use black gunpowder to launch sugar bombs, and it was impossible to follow the path of full sugar bombs. They could only use part sugar bombs and part black gunpowder bombs, and the two types of shells were sandwiched.

When Kangxi guessed that the Ming army might use the cover of Gaoyang Cave to attack his own center, he immediately mobilized more than 20 Weiyuan general cannons and placed them behind his position in the middle.After the artillery and rocket launchers placed by the Ming army in Gaoyang Cave and its surroundings were fired, they began to open flower bombs to Gaoyang Cave.

However, the accuracy of these mortars is really not flattering. After rumbling for a quarter of an hour, none of the shells landed on the rocket artillery positions of the Ming army. Instead, Gaoyang Cave was hit by several large black gunpowder shells, two of which exploded. There was a scary looking fireball.

But this scene is not the same as the scene where the Qing army was bombed by rockets in the middle road.

According to the plan of the Department of Joining the Army in the Ming Army Palace, the artillery preparations before the main attack will last for four quarters of an hour, from the second quarter of Shen Shi until the sixth quarter of Shen Shi. When the artillery is finished, it is time for the infantry to go on!

Four quarters of an hour of artillery preparation seemed very long, but at the same time seemed very short, and it was almost here all of a sudden.

Liu Yan has been looking at his pocket watch. When the engraved needle gradually approached the Chinese character "six", he gave the order again, "The first team... come out, the whole team!"

It was still those suona soldiers, and there was another burst of tick-tock suona blowing.The eight battalion generals who had long been eager to try were incorporated into the "first formation". As soon as they heard the signal to attack, they took a battalion flag from the flag bearer beside them, and then jumped onto the "straw wall" to insert the battalion flag. On the wall, as a signal to attack, they raised their arms and shouted: "Da Ming...Wan Sheng!"

The leaders under these battalion generals also witnessed almost the entire shelling.This was a concentrated shooting that lasted for a quarter of an hour, using as many as [-] rocket launchers and [-] long guns, and more than a dozen rounds of rocket salvos were fired in succession!Can anyone really survive such a violent, dense bombardment of sugar rockets?

Just when they were wondering, their superior had already planted the battalion flag on the wall—this was the signal for the whole team to go out!

So these leaders immediately urged their subordinates who were sitting on the ground with their backs against the straw wall to attack, only to hear them all shouting: "Da Ming soldiers, go out!"

Then I saw these leaders turn over the straw bag wall one by one, followed by the soldiers under them. These soldiers had all shrunk behind the straw bag wall before, and basically no one saw the spectacular scene of shelling.Now suddenly seeing rockets flying all over the sky, the positions of the Qing army were completely shrouded in smoke and flames, and everything was boiling.