Chapter 396: Armor vs. Armor
Although the Ming army also suffered considerable casualties, no elite scattered soldiers and iron-armored soldiers were killed or killed, and no elite infantry on the battlefield were killed, only minor injuries, and those who died were auxiliary soldiers who had not received much training.
Zhao Peng's auxiliary soldiers were actually all the original Nanjing military households. In fact, the military households in the late Ming Dynasty were actually farmers. Zhao Peng did not train these military households much. On weekdays, they farmed in the imperial village and simply trained the use of firearms during the slack farm. The training time for each military household was less than three months.
The lives of these military households were exchanged for the lives of the Qing army's Eight Banners soldiers, and the average number of two military households could be exchanged for three Eight Banners archers. This kind of deal was too cost-effective.
On the other hand, a large number of casualties and injured archers were veterans who had been through battles. Every soldier was trained from childhood to adulthood to exchange for low-value military households. Such business losses were caused by heavy losses. What's more, Manchus was sparsely populated and relied on a few elites to suppress the Mongols and Han people. If the Manchu Eight Banners lost more people, they would not be able to suppress the Mongols and Han people.
While the Ming army used musketeers to deal with the Qing army's archers, the iron armored soldiers also fought with the dead soldiers of the Qing army's Eight Banners.
The Qing army's dead soldiers wearing triple thick armor took advantage of the opportunity of the Green Camp cannon fodder rushing to the city, followed closely behind, climbed up to the city, and launched a fierce battle with the Ming army's iron armored soldiers.
The Man Eight Banners Dead Soldier is a melee combat soldier wearing thick armor. Each of these Man Eight Banners soldiers has triple thick armor. They wear a chain mail at the bottom, and then a cotton armor on the outside, and an iron leaf armor on the outside. To deal with such a three-thick armored Eight Banners soldiers, in addition to firearms, only heavy weapons such as big axes and hammers can work.
However, the triangular bayonet of the new army of the Ming army can also break through the thick armor of the Qing army. As long as you stab it hard, the thick cross-sectional triangular spikes plus the weight of the musket itself can pierce the thick armor of the Qing army.
The Ming army's iron armored soldiers were wearing a whole piece of plate armor, and the shape of the plate armor had a certain curve. In addition to blunt objects such as hammers, big axes, maces, etc., it was difficult for sharp weapons to pierce the plate armor. Whether it was a spear or a long knife, it was easy to slide out when stabbed on the plate armor.
When the Man Eight Banners died in the sky, the Ming army's armored soldiers had already called all the thunders on their bodies to the Qing army in the Green Camp. Therefore, when the Man Eight Banners died in the sky, they did not taste the thunders on their bodies, so they escaped by chance.
However, before the Iron Armored Soldier of the Manchu Eight Banners approached the Iron Armored Soldiers of the Ming Army, the flintlocked spearmen behind the Iron Armored Soldiers gave the Qing army a row of fire.
"Bang bang bang" muskets roared, and the Green Camp soldiers rushing forward fell in pools of blood. Many of the Manchurian Eight Banners dead soldiers who were mixed among the Green Camp soldiers also fell down. The three thick armor on their bodies could not resist the smoothbore gun's volley within fifty steps. The bullets penetrated the three thick armor on the body of the Manchurian Eight Banners dead soldiers and penetrated into their bodies.
The projectiles that penetrated into the human body were transformed and rolled, leaving a huge cavity in the body, taking away the lives of these Eight Banner soldiers.
However, since the Man Eight Banners soldiers were mixed with the Green Camp soldiers, most of the damage of the Ming army's musketeers was absorbed by the Green Camp soldiers, and there were not many Man Eight Banners dead soldiers knocked down by bullets.
The infantry from both sides entered within ten steps, and the soldiers from both sides began to fight in close combat and entered hand-to-hand combat.
The formation of the Qing army, the swordsman of the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp was in front, followed by the formation of the spearmen holding spears. The Qing army of the Green Camp formed a relatively neat square formation and approached the formation of the Ming army's iron armored soldiers. The Qing army, which was arranged in densely, rushed up and collided violently with the formation of the Ming army's iron armored soldiers.
On the Ming army, the formation of the iron armored soldiers was obviously not as dense as that of the Qing army in the Green Camp. Relatively speaking, the formation of the Ming army was much looser. However, these iron armored soldiers were all invulnerable to the iron armored soldiers. The swords, spears, and spears of the Qing army in the Green Camp were of no effect on these Ming army's iron armored soldiers that were like cans of iron on their bodies.
The Qing army of the Green Camp that rushed up was split with an axe by the iron armored soldiers in front of the Ming army, and the musketeers behind them continued to attack. The musketeers were also equipped with wooden handles of the sky-shaking thunder. After the musketeers completed the volley, they took out the sky-shaking thunder, pulled the string, and threw the sky-shaking thunder into the densest place among the Qing army. Only a series of explosions were heard, and the green camp soldiers arranged in densely were blown up in pools of blood.
The Qing army, which collided with the Ming army's iron armored soldiers, fell one by one, but their death created opportunities for the death of the Manchu Eight Banners behind.
The dead soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners rushed up with armor-breaking weapons such as big axes, maces, long-handled iron hammers, and page hammers. Although the Ming army's iron armored soldiers had a strong ability to resist sharp weapons, they were also afraid of blunt weapons. If they were hit by heavy weapons in the hands of the Manchu Eight Banners, the iron armored soldiers would also suffer casualties. Therefore, Gong Xiaoda, who was responsible for commanding the formation, gave the order, and the personal soldiers shook the flag, and the Ming army quickly changed their formation.
The iron-armored soldiers retreated, and the musketeers who had already inserted the bayonets pushed forward. Several loaded musketeers fired bullets, and accompanied by the roar of gunfire, the dead soldiers of the Man Eight Banners who rushed to the front fell down a row.
Then, the team in the Musketeers formation was taking a step forward, and the Musketeers took a step back.
The New Army Musketeers are a team of ten people. Each team has a team holding a flag gun. The team only has a short gun on its body and is not equipped with a long-barrel musket, but the flag gun in their hands is equivalent to a spear.
The Qing army's dead soldiers used heavy weapons such as axes, maces, sled hammers, and page hammers as weapons, with the purpose of dealing with the Ming army's iron armored soldiers. However, the Ming army's iron armored soldiers took a few steps back and handed over the Qing army's dead soldiers holding heavy weapons to the musketeers to deal with.
The Musketeer's bayonet and the Musketeer's flag gun are the best weapons to deal with blunt weapons.
Weapons such as axes are heavy in weight. In addition, the Qing army's dead soldiers were wearing triple thick armor and swinging heavy weapons to fight, which consumed a lot of physical energy, but they were not as flexible as the flag guns and bayonets in the hands of the Ming army.
The iron-armored soldiers did not retreat, but stood behind the musketeers, used the short spear formation formed by the musketeers to resist the heavy weapons in the hands of the dead Qing soldiers, and then took action from the side and waved a big axe to slash the Qing soldiers.
The musketeers in front were in a straight formation, and the length of the flag guns that were ten feet long was far greater than the heavy weapons in the hands of the dead soldiers of the Qing army. A row of flag guns stabbed through them. The length of the axes and other weapons in the hands of the Qing soldiers was not enough, and they could not reach the length of the flag guns of the musketeers. They could only parry and had no power to fight back.
The musketeers cooperated with their team and used the bayonets to fight with the Qing army in close combat. The light and flexible flag guns and bayonets kept shaking, and while resisting the Qing army's attack, they stabbed the Qing soldiers.
In order to deal with these musketeers, the Qing army kept swinging the axe in their hands, which greatly consumed their physical strength.
The flag gun in the hands of the musketeers pierced into the bodies of the Qing army's dead soldiers. The tip of the flag gun was also triangular. It stabbed the Qing army. The solid triangular spear directly pierced the outer iron leaf armor of the Qing army, and then pierced the cotton armor, and even the inner chain armor. A row of flag guns in front stabbed out and pierced into the Qing army's body. Only a scream was heard, and the eight banners fell down a row.
Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Qing army's dead soldiers were greatly exhausted, the Ming army's iron-armored soldiers took a step forward and slashed the big axe in their hands, easily breaking the armor on the Qing army's iron-armored soldiers like chopping firewood, and chopping the greedy ink into a pool of blood.
The musketeers in front cooperated with the iron armored soldiers and used bayonets to block the weapons in the hands of the dead Qing soldiers. The musketeers behind had already loaded up, and then they output firepower at close range, knocking down a large number of Qing soldiers.
Chapter completed!