Chapter 120 Like Mountain Propulsion
When he saw the officers and soldiers in sight, Xiao Tianjian ordered the soldiers who were resting in place to get up and prepare for the battle. Just after the officers stopped, Xiao Tianjian and his men also stared at the officers in front of him.
The composition of this officer and army is basically similar to the opponents they encountered in the two battles of Tianlongzhai and Shifo Temple in the past. They are all composed of some officers and soldiers and some Xiang Yong. As an auxiliary arms, Xiang Yong is actually very common in this era, and the Xiang Yong's performance in individual battlefields are even stronger in the idea of family protection. The officers and soldiers of Yu Wei, especially in the battle of guarding the village, are even more powerful.
But after all, Xiang Yong is Xiang Yong. Your family's one hundred and fifty are pieced together, and it is impossible to concentrate on training on weekdays. Once it is applied to a large-scale battlefield, they can't give full play to their original combat effectiveness, and it is easy to become a plate of scattered sand, so the main fighting force of the battlefield still depends on the officers and the army.
The strength and intelligence of the officers and soldiers are basically the same. The number is about 4,000, including a battalion of about 300 cavalry, which shows that this officer is not the official army used by the town. Although the Ming army also lacks horses, the limited horses are still tightly supplied to the border army, as long as the border army, the proportion of cavalry Relatively, the proportion of guards in the mainland is much higher, and the current officer army obviously does not belong to the category of the border army. At best, it is the guard system and belongs to the category of the local army.
Although the two armies are still about two miles apart, and it is a little difficult to see the enemy's situation, it is a pity that the telescope of crystal lenses made by Xiao Tianjian has not been made yet. After all, first, crystals with high transparency are not easy to find, and second, it is not easy to grind crystal lenses. The jade craftsmen found I'm not very good at grinding crystals. The lenses grinded in the early stage can't meet the requirements, so Xiao Tianjian can only observe the enemy's situation with his eyesight.
Fortunately, Xiao Tianjian's eyes were protected quite well when he went to school. He didn't have any myopia, and his eyesight was quite good. Basically, you can see the general equipment situation of the other party. From the perspective of armor, the core of this enemy is still 2,000 officers, and only about 30% of the armored soldiers. Obviously, the number of soldiers is limited, and the rest of them are basically just wearing soy-red mandarin duck war jackets, which is only an auxiliary series among the guards. Needless to say, those township braves who are subordinates, the number of armored equipment is even more limited. Only a few leaders of the township braves will wear armor, and most of them are leather or cotton armor, and the number of iron armor equipment is very small.
In terms of weapons, the enemy on the opposite side seems to be much more complicated. There are basically everything in the cold weapons, such as long guns, long knives, bowling palladium, rattan cards, and step bows. On the firearms, the officers and soldiers brought 20 chariots this time. Each chariot is equipped with small copper Fran machine guns or iron cannons and other firearms. The number of equipment is not very large. It's more of the kind of three-eyed jigzag that Mingjun likes to use.
And Xiao Tianjian attaches the most importance to the other party's firearms. After all, the long-range killing ability of firearms is the biggest threat to him, but after looking at it, he is still relieved. Although the officers and soldiers who came this time brought more than 20 chariots, and the chariots are loaded with one or two flan machines or bowls. There are not many real large-caliber Fran machine guns. Maybe there are, but within his visual range, the officers and soldiers have obviously not invited heavy firearms to the front of the front, and they have just arrived here. Obviously, they have not lined up their troops ready to fight.
In this way, Xiao Tianjian is much more relieved. After all, in firearms, his advantage is only concentrated in the large number of bird guns, and in terms of artillery, he only has a batch of tiger squatting guns and three medium-sized copper Fran machine guns, and the newly cast field guns on Gao Su's side so far It has not been delivered for use yet. If the enemy's artillery is too large, he will definitely suffer a face-to-face fight.
At present, the enemy has only a few chariots pulled to the front, and these chariots are obviously not equipped with heavy firearms such as heavy flan cannons or general cannons, so Xing Tianjun has taken a lot of advantage of the firepower of both sides.
What makes him more ridiculous is that the officers and soldiers don't know why. After arriving here, they did not immediately sort out the battle queue, but were still in the marching array, huddled together and didn't know what they were doing.
But after thinking about it carefully, Xiao Tianjian still figured out the reason why the other party did this. First, the other party may have been scared by his Xing Tianjun. At this time, he was hesitating what to do. Second, the enemy did not consider the possibility that Xing Tianjun would take the initiative to attack. After all, Xing Tianjun came here first. It is also a phalanx formation, which looks like a defensive battle, and the enemy generals may be considering whether to take the initiative to attack.
So he immediately ordered to follow the trumpet soldiers: "Blow the marching trumpet, and the whole army will press the enemy!" Let's not wait for them!"
The division soldiers immediately raised a bronze number when they heard the order, but now the division soldiers of the Xingtian Army no longer use suona instead of the army number as before. Instead, after arriving here, they specially made a new army number with copper and re-made the order.
With a fast-paced trumpet, the middle flag also waved and gave instructions to the whole army to move forward. Therefore, the drummer in the main array of the Xing Tianjun immediately hit the drum in front of his chest twice. After hearing the two drums, all the generals were ready to set out. .
With the marching drum in the phalanx, the soldiers of the whole phalanx took their steps at the same time and walked forward collectively with the sound of drums.
Although Xing Tianjun's phalanx is more conducive to defense, it has absorbed some tactics of the Western army. This rectangular phalanx is not only conducive to defense, but also has a certain mobility. The whole army can move as a whole in the drum beat by the drummers, and can ensure that the team is on the marching. If it is not chaotic, it can be turned into on-site defense at any time.
And if you want to do this, it is basically difficult for the vast majority of troops in China to complete. After all, including the most elite officers and soldiers, they will only practice once every ten days and a half months at most. Usually, soldiers can practice some personal skills at most, and the war wants to maintain a neat collective action. It is very difficult, and before Xing Tianjun became an army, Xiao Tianjian paid great attention to the development of the overall combat effectiveness. What he spends the most time in training is the collective queue drill. It is also this kind of training that made Li Zicheng disapprove of it at the beginning. He felt that Xing Tianjun's training like this is a flowery, and it is through such strictness. With the queue training, Xing Tianjun can now achieve collective unified action and keep the array from being scattered.
Therefore, when the Xingtian Army's phalanx moves forward, it is moving forward as a whole, but the formation is always as neat as a tofu block. Such a formation alone is enough to create a great sense of pressure.
And the more than 200 hunters who were originally arranged on the left wing of the Xingtian Army were ordered to fall behind. They followed the Xingtian Army and looked at the Xingtian Army array that was moving forward like a mountain. These hunters were really suppressed. They had never seen so many people's neat and uniform actions like a person, nearly 2,000 people. The array actually marched forward without any chaos. In this way, they, who had never been to the battlefield, suddenly felt a sense of peace of mind, and followed their team members excitedly and marched forward one by one.
Wang Chengping, with more than 50 cavalry men, was also at the end of the phalanx. Looking at the phalanx of Xing Tianjun in front of him, he smiled bitterly.
He is also an officer and military background, and has led soldiers, has been a horse thief, and has experienced a lot of large and small battles. However, it is also the first time he has seen such a combat method of Xing Tianjun. Although he has seen Xing Tianjun's exercises in Lianhuazhai before, after all, it was not in the battle at that time, and it did not produce much shock. Li, on the contrary, makes Wang Chengping always have a feeling that Xiao Tianjian controls the soldiers and horses like this, and most of them are composed of flower shelves, but it is not too practical.
In this regard, he has secretly laughed at Xiao Tianjian's way of training. With this constant training queue, it's better to let the soldiers catch and practice some fighting skills!
And what really made him feel the horror of Xing Tianjun's training method was an exercise half a month ago. Wang Chengping once again laughed at Xing Tianjun's combat method, but as a result, he angered Yan Chongxi, and immediately Yan Chongxi had to compete with Wang Chengping.
Wang Chengping was not a stubble. He immediately agreed. The two led their troops in an open space outside the Lianhuazhai. Yan Chongxi took out half of the soldiers from his sentry and set up a small infantry phalanx in the open space, while Wang Chengping led more than 50 cavalry under his command as Opponent.
After Wang Chengping followed Xiao Tianjian, it turned out that he only brought about 30 men. During this period, some of his other subordinates who stayed in the north also followed Fan Xi's caravan and gradually came here to join him, so that the number of elite riders under his men reached more than 50, and the 50 cavalry ignored the infantry to 100. In Wang Cheng Ping seems to be very fair, and in his opinion, he has taken a lot of advantages, so he thinks that his more than 50 cavalry to deal with Yan Chongxi's 150 troops is not a problem at all.
But what he didn't expect was that he found the horror of the long gun phalanx used by Xing Tianjun. After the whole long gun array was arranged, the dense gun forest made it impossible for his cavalry to rush into their queue. If he had to rush hard, it was not impossible, but even if he dispersed Yan Chong. After Xi's infantry phalanx, he had to pay at least more than half of the cost of casualties, and the fifty firemen in Yan Chongxi's hand also brought him a great threat. Several trials basically consumed more than a dozen of his men, and the final result was that Wang Chengping ended in a complete defeat.
Although it was just a small-scale exercise, the impression of Wang Chengping was too deep that time. Now when he saw such a battle array as Xing Tianjun, Wang Chengping involuntarily had a sense of powerlessness. In the face of such a long gun-based phalanx, Wang Cheng I don't know if I can eat them if I have the same cavalry.
So after that lesson, he no longer dared to laugh at Xiao Tianjian's way of platooning and training. He trained his men honestly. Now, in addition to his original 50 subordinates, Xiao Tianjian also selected 50 veteran members of the Xing Tian Army from the army to give him, and asked him to train them. In the next step, Xiao Tianjian is likely to set up a special sentry cavalry team. At that time, of course, he will be a sentry general.
Today, when he came out, Wang Chengping did not bring the 50 new cavalry soldiers, but left them under Liu Bao as the left-behind emergency personnel, and he only brought the original brothers here. After all, this battle is not a small battle. Before those novices are trained, he dare not bring them out to fight. If you don't do it well, you will not only not be able to exert your due combat effectiveness, but also become a stumbling horse and ruin his business.
However, what makes Wang Chengping gratified is that Xiao Tianjian is a very generous person. He adheres to the principle of using people and does not intervene too much in his affairs at all. This makes Wang Chengping sigh. As a palm plate, Xiao Tianjian can't be done by anyone.
Wang Chengping thought while leading his subordinates to move slowly in front of them. They also got off the horse and walked to save horsepower and prepare for the next action.
Suddenly, there were a few gunshots in the front. After a while, the drummer in the Xing Tianjun's phalanx knocked out three accents again, and the whole phalanx stopped moving forward with a bang. Wang Chengping turned over his horse, looked forward, raised his hand and took off the long gun on the saddle. It seemed that the two armies in front of him It should have caught fire.