In fact, the tactics of conducting a round of close-range volley fire or throwing a round of sugar grenade hammers before launching a bayonet assault are clearly written in the Ming Army Infantry Drill Manual - Zhu Heji and his

Those military advisors and senior counselors also have no moral ethics!

But having said that, if it were not for loading the bullets in the fusiliers and then fighting with the bayonet, or throwing a wave of grenades before the stabbing, it would be impossible for the fusiliers of the Ming Army infantry to defeat the Eight Banners New Army muskets in hand-to-hand combat.

Soldier.

Because the latter have better martial arts skills and their equipment is more suitable for hand-to-hand combat, the cotton armor they wear is more defensive than the hood armor worn by the Ming army infantry, and some of them also spend their own money to equip an additional lock.

Armor - The bayonets of the Ming army may be able to penetrate a layer of cotton armor with iron sheets, but it is really difficult to penetrate the chain armor inside the cotton armor... and the cover armor they wear can only protect it.

Parts of the body and arms are not protected by armor.

The Eight Banners New Army in this era still retained many characteristics of feudal landowner soldiers. Everyone had their own farm, and military membership could be passed down from generation to generation, so they had the motivation to spend money to equip themselves. Many of them not only had "

"Double Armor", and also possess a second cold weapon, usually a short-handled ax that can break armor. When fighting in hand-to-hand combat, they often hold a knife in one hand and an ax in the other, and sometimes they will throw axes to kill people!

The infantry of the Ming Army were not only inferior in martial arts to the Eight Banners soldiers, but they also rarely spent their own money to buy weapons and armor for themselves. Most of them were conscripts. If they were not promoted to captain after serving for two or three years, they would go back to their respective families.

There is no such thing as inheritance of military membership, so naturally he is not willing to pay for equipment out of his own pocket while serving in the military.

However, the fusiliers did not respect martial ethics, but they formed a "dimension-reducing blow" against the Eight Banners soldiers holding swords and axes and wearing heavy armor... This kind of blow was not only physical, but also psychological.

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Because the Eight Banners soldiers had no way of judging whether the flintlock rifles held by the oncoming Ming troops had bullets in them?

Yes or no?

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

What's more, the Fusiliers of the Ming Army also had grenade hammers hanging on their bodies, and the fuses of these grenade hammers were tied to their belts. They could be blown up by just taking them off and throwing them out.

It's hard to fight with such an enemy with a bayonet without shaking your hands!

In the battle at the entrance of the village just now, Jin Chengkai also completed the "five-step shooting" without respecting military ethics and shot an unlucky Eight Banners soldier. However, he did not stop and reload the bullet because he had already heard the news in the village.

There were gunshots, explosions and shouts. It was obvious that the group of skirmishers who had entered the village before were being besieged by the Qing army that outnumbered them, and they had to be rescued quickly.

Thinking of this, Jin Chengkai quickly called his men to rush into the village. Because the roads in the village were narrow, it was impossible to form a horizontal formation, so Jin Chengkai ordered the soldiers who had not fired in the previous round of fighting to rush in front, while he himself

With the soldiers who had empty bullets behind them, they rushed into the village of Gaoyangdong.

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

The skirmishers of the Ming army arrived there first, rushed into the house, and climbed onto the roof. Before they could arrange their arrangements, a Qing army led by a leader had already rushed in from the other end of the village.

This Qing army leader originally had two hundred men, but one of the cavalrymen, Dadan, had been taken away, so there were only one hundred and sixty men left, but they were still four times the number of Ming army skirmishers. So as soon as they entered the village, they

These Ming troops surrounded and fought. In order to prevent reinforcements from the Ming army, the Qing army leader also assigned a Dadan to guard the east and south entrances of the village, and then used the remaining 120 people to besiege them.

There were forty Ming soldiers in the mansion. When the fierce battle was in full swing, Jin Chengkai suddenly rushed into the battlefield with dozens of Korean soldiers. With a burst of gunfire and a wave of grenade hammers, the more than one hundred soldiers were instantly killed.

The Eight Banners soldiers were stunned.

The Ming army who was surrounded in the mansion also took the opportunity to fight back and rushed out with flintlock guns with bayonets. 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 from both sides, was completely panicked and lost.

After leaving corpses and wailing wounded all over the ground, they left the village in embarrassment.

Just after two seconds, a Ming Dynasty flag with a red background and gold sun and moon fluttered in the wind over Gaoyang Cave.

However, the battle for the other three "caves" was not as clean and tidy as the battle of Gaoyang Cave. Although the Ming army responsible for capturing the other three "caves" also had no martial ethics, they did not fight as "quickly" as the battle of Gaoyang Cave.

"Blooming in the center" and "Internal and external attack".

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

The Qing troops who came in from the west and north of "Dong" also adopted a similar strategy. They first occupied a few houses, set up defenses, and then slowly fought for them.

As a result, the battle for these three "holes" became a stalemate, with each side occupying half of the "hole". Later, the frontline commanders of both sides sent reinforcements, but the "battle of three holes" has turned into a village house.

There was a battle for it, and those village houses all used granite mined 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 that captured Gaoyang Cave still had half the first move. Gaoyang Cave was located in the middle of the battlefield. With this support point, the Ming army could move the rocket launchers to the southeast of Gaoyang Cave and set them up to bombard the nearby Qing army formations.

, thus covering the Ming army's infantry attack.

Around the last minute, the "Battle of Four Holes" came to an end temporarily, and the first-line infantry of both sides had already reached the forward position.

When the infantry on both sides marched at the front, they adopted relatively wide columns, so that they could march faster and expand not too slowly.

Because they were bombarded by the Ming army's "high-sugar rockets" during the march, the Qing army's infantry seemed to be moving a bit slowly, and they did not arrive at the intended position. Instead, they took more than a hundred steps before starting to pull away.

Line up.

Correspondingly, the Ming army's front line pressed forward an additional seventy or eighty steps, pressing within a hundred steps of the four "holes" near the battlefield.

However, after the deployment, the infantry on both sides had no intention of advancing forward, nor did they immediately pull up the artillery and rocket launchers to blast. Instead, they took out the shovels they carried with them and began to dig trenches and build parapets on the somewhat muddy land.

Now is the "sugar age". Facing opponents with a certain "sugar content", everyone has to go to the "trenches". If there are no earthen walls, the trenches will "prevent sugar" for the soldiers at the front, and they will be bombarded by sugar bombs for an hour.

After fighting, the loss rate of frontline soldiers is too high.

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

Of course, the firefight at the frontline cannot stop!

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

On the one hand, the skirmishers on both sides dispersed and stood in front of the forward position, and began to shoot at each other with their flintlocks and matchlocks.

In fact, both sides already have rifled guns, but they have not achieved mass production, and the skirmishers on both sides do not like the rifled guns that are extremely difficult to load, so they still use smoothbore guns. Among them, the Qing army's skirmishers even

Using an old matchlock gun.

However, these unrifled muskets can still exert considerable power in the hands of experienced gunmen - because both sides in the Ming and Qing Dynasties do not lack gunpowder, the training level of the musketeers on both sides is good, which is better than that of most Europeans.

All musketeers must be strong!

The bullets of both sides were just coming and going at a distance of a hundred steps. Under their cover, the front-line infantry of both sides were working hard with sweat. In less than three quarters of an hour, two relatively rudimentary "trenches" were formed.
Chapter completed!