Near noon on November 15th, the plains west of Seoul and beside the Han River were covered with soldiers. The two armies were well-organized and well-equipped. Under the leadership of their respective military flags, they marched towards each other.

Getting closer and closer.

Because the plain to the west of Seoul is not very open, there are many villages, houses, and field ridges scattered throughout it. Some places are quite muddy, which is not very suitable for cavalry combat. In addition, there is a "high sugar" and a "low sugar" on both sides.

"The firepower is not weak! So both sides did not show their cavalry at the beginning, but only sent infantry to form columns and quickly entered the battlefield...

The columns on both sides actually look similar from a distance. They are both columns with a very wide front. In fact, they are a "leader" (associate-level) column split into five "deputy-level" (Dadan) columns.

level), and then stack them together to form a column.

In fact, a 200-man leader (zuoling) is arranged into fifteen to twenty rows. This is not a column when marching on the official road, but a column used by the infantry when marching on the front line and on the battlefield.

formation.

This formation can be quickly deployed to form a horizontal formation with a wide front, or it can also be quickly formed into a hollow square formation.

In addition, neither the Ming army nor the Qing army has abolished the pike unit. And the number of troops is almost the same. Each collar (left collar) is equipped with forty pikemen. When both sides are carrying out military reforms,

Obviously they are all learning from each other.

However, there is a slight difference in the collar (zuoling)-level infantry units on both sides. The Ming army has a large number of fusiliers, reaching 160! Forty of them have received skirmishers and grenades

Elite veterans who are trained by the military, they generally do not participate in "queuing to be shot".

Moreover, all Ming army fusiliers, whether skirmishers or privates, were equipped with bayonets.

On the Qing army's side, the Qing army had only 80 fusiliers and 40 arquebusiers (and 40 cavalry) under one aide. And the arquebusiers served as skirmishers and grenadiers.

Character - They don't have a cable fuse, so their mines must be detonated with a live wire, and the matchlocks carried by the arquebusiers are used to ignite the mines.

In addition, the Qing army was not equipped with bayonets, but was equipped with waist knives for melee combat.

The infantry on both sides did not cancel their armor. The Qing soldiers still wore eight-color cotton armor (with iron plates inside) and gun helmets.

The Ming army wore cloth armor with iron plates and flying saucer helmets on their heads.

Just as the infantry on both sides were approaching quickly, the rockets on both sides began to scream strangely one after another!

The Ming army was firing six-unit rocket launchers! They were firing expensive tin candy ammunition... It was like they were shooting silver coins!

In order to show that he had more money and more sugar, and at the same time to cheer up the Korean soldiers below who were going to the battlefield for the first time, Zhu Heji made a big move, pulling out the five rocket launcher collars in his hands and shooting them.

Each of the five territories had eight rocket launchers, for a total of forty six-unit rocket launchers, which were lined up on the plain outside the trench line of the Ming army and fired salvos.

This round of salvo consisted of two hundred and forty rockets trailing long tail flames, making a strange cry of "Jie Jie Jie", roaring towards the marching Qing soldiers. Because the distance was too far, there was nothing

Accurate.

But there was too much ammunition to hold it. During the second round of salvo, three rockets still landed impartially on the advancing Qing infantry column! One of them did not explode, but only killed a Qing soldier.

, scratched and burned two or three Qing soldiers, but it still scared the rest of the soldiers and fled in all directions. The scene was so chaotic!

The other two bombs exploded shortly after landing! Although the surrounding Qing troops had already begun to escape before the sugar bombs exploded. But how could the two legs escape the shrapnel and iron beads released by the sugar bombs?

After two loud bangs, thirty or forty Qing soldiers around the two rockets were knocked to the ground!

A dozen Qing soldiers were killed on the spot, and some were seriously injured, their flesh and blood were bruised by the blast, and they let out bursts of heart-rending screams. It hurt just to look at them!

But that's not the most unlucky thing... It was so painful that it would take a while to go to hell. The worst injuries were those who were slightly injured by the explosion. The injuries of these people didn't look serious, but most of them had shrapnel and

The iron beads have penetrated into the skin. If they cannot be removed, the wound will soon become inflamed and suppurative!

It will still be a dead end at that time, the only difference is that you will suffer a little more!

It is not that easy to take it out. Unless you can find anti-inflammatory garlic medicine, there is still a high possibility that the wound will become inflamed and suppurative.

Therefore, when doctors of the Qing army saw such "gunshot wounds" and "explosion wounds", they usually refused to save people or chopped off their hands and feet...

And more than half of the rockets that did not directly hit the Qing army exploded after landing, and the battlefield was suddenly filled with smoke and flames.

The Qing army, which was originally marching in mighty formation, suddenly became a little timid, their marching speed slowed down, and there was confusion in the ranks at several places.

When the Ming army in progress saw this scene, they burst into deafening cheers.

"Long live! The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"

The cheering infantrymen of the Ming Army became brisker in their steps, and their marching speed was much faster!

At the Xingzhou Mountain Castle north of Changling River, there was also a burst of exclamations at this time.

"Wow......"

"O God!"

"terrible......"

"Is this the power of magic?"

Those who exclaimed were all Kangxi's foreign military advisors. Although they had long heard about the "power of sugar" in the Ming Dynasty, they were still extremely shocked when they saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears.

However, Kangxi looked calm... He had already experienced Zhu Heji's "several axes".

Moreover, countermeasures have been arranged, so there is no need to give any more orders now, just wait.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, in an open position outside the Qing army camp on the south bank of Changling River, more than a hundred rocket launchers have been set up. Kangxi’s confidants

, Tong Guowei, the artillery commander of the Zhenghuang Banner New Army, was patrolling the position with a straight face, and from time to time he would loudly urge the artillerymen below to quickly take the rockets off the ammunition truck and put them on the launcher!

Rockets...the Qing Dynasty also had them!

However, the Qing Dynasty is "low-sugar", so it cannot afford to equip sugar-medicine rockets, so it can only use sugar-free rockets.

Of course, the power of this sugar-free rocket cannot be compared with that of sugar-powder rockets... Sugar-powder can be shaped, and when it is installed in the rocket body, it burns more evenly and can provide a more certain thrust. But gunpowder is

On the one hand, it does not provide enough thrust, and on the other hand, it cannot be shaped, and it does not burn evenly. Sometimes it burns, sometimes it explodes, and the heat is difficult to control.

Therefore, the accuracy of sugar-free rockets is worse, and the charge of the combat unit is relatively small, and sometimes they will suddenly explode during flight.

However, Kangxi still organized two rocket launcher assistants in the artillery staff of the Shangsan Banner New Army under his direct jurisdiction. There were six rocket launchers in total, and a total of more than one hundred rocket launchers were equipped.

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More than a hundred rockets with a four- to five-foot-long wooden balance guide rod were quickly placed on the launcher. With the order of Tong Guowei, who was ordered to command the six rocket launchers, the Qing Dynasty

The empire’s sugar-free rockets also roared into the sky!

Although they are sugar-free, these rockets still make strange noises! And the range is not close, although the accuracy is worse, the explosion power is weaker, and many rockets will explode before landing.

But the sight of more than a hundred rockets roaring across the sky dragging thick black smoke can still boost our own morale.

When the Qing infantry on the battlefield saw this scene, most of the fear in their hearts disappeared, and they began to cheer like the Ming army opposite, and continued to stride forward.

At the same time, continuous gunshots, explosions and shouts began to sound in several villages located between the two armies.
Chapter completed!