Chapter 325: Army, Formation, Battle

Although we knew that when we got closer, we should try our best to suppress the speed so as to avoid being able to charge or have no physical strength after the charge, the soldiers who broke into the camp, and those elite veterans, were unconsciously accelerating a little.

The leaders of the front team were shouting loudly. It was true that they would die during the charge, but they could not die in vain. At least, they had to rush to the other party.

A distance of hundreds of steps is not a short distance for the lineup on the battlefield. Qi Jiguang mentioned in his "New Book of Ji Xiao" that the march on the battlefield should take a slow step, stop after ten steps, organize the formation, and then continue to move forward.

When the two sides were approaching at first, they saw the opposite Shandong infantry taking steps larger than their own. Many people waited for the other party's formation to collapse.

Who would have thought that Shandong's soldiers came forward with such great strides. The monotonous rhythm of drums was so harsh in the ears of the camp.

This almost neat formation was pressing over like a mountain. It also added mountain-like pressure to every general and soldier of the Luo coalition, who already had the will to die.

When the distance was one hundred and fifty steps, the soldier who was walking in the front stopped. The drum sound stopped when the flag stopped. After hitting five monotonous drum beats, it also stopped.

The musket soldiers and spearmen stopped at the same time, and then the scene of the camp on the opposite side was stunned. The musket soldiers of the opponent began to quickly check the muskets in their hands and make preparations. The cavalryman who was holding the flag turned his horse's head and walked through the musket soldiers' front and walked all the way to the spear team.

Don’t they know that the flag cannot move around on the battlefield, and with this movement, the morale and morale of the entire army will fluctuate greatly.

The cavalry with some powerful cavalry skills were ready to step forward and kill the generals and seize the flag. They were really stunned. However, the soldiers of the Li and Luo coalition forces in the front team did not stop and still walked forward with big strides, and were about to take on the battle.

The soldiers walking in the first row were a little frightened when they saw the firearms raised by the other party, but they still pressed them down. They walked forward with a steady pace as much as possible.

One hundred and one hundred and ninety steps, there is a non-commissioned officer erecting muskets among every twenty musket soldiers. They ordered to dodge muskets at about the same time.

This is the order to open fire. The long line burst out loud and smoke. Li and Luo coalition soldiers fell to the ground without any suspense.

Ninety steps. It’s not a short charge distance. Although no one has explained this truth to the soldiers of the rebel army, these old soldiers who fought old wars all understand this truth.

But in the current situation, we had to rush forward. The soldiers who broke into the camp let out heart-wrenching howls. They raised their weapons and rushed towards the officers and soldiers dozens of steps away.

The second row of volleys were fired, and the third row of volleys were fired. Although the refugee soldiers stood loose, the front and back queues were still quite close. They rushed for a few steps. The refugee soldiers in the front three rows, and even the fourth row were knocked over to the ground by muskets.

Their steps did not stop at all, and they continued to rush forward. The officers and soldiers had a sharp firearm. If they were one step slower here, the officers and soldiers would have an additional chance to load ammunition, and one more brother would die here.

The three rows of fire were completed, and what surprised the soldiers in the front squad of Li and Luo coalition were that the musketeers did not load the ammunition and ran backwards.

Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and their generals, looked at Jiaozhou Camp's performance, and did not feel funny or thankful at all. Instead, they felt nervous. Among these refugees, some of them were the elite soldiers in Shaanxi who had seen the world, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, and the 40,000 elite soldiers trained by Lu Xiangsheng, were all seen, and they were also the top-notch soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

But compared with the soldiers on the opposite side, it is always a little worse. Not to mention the excellent armor, how to see the strength of an army when there is no war? Judging from its queue operations, if it is orderly and neat, it means that the training is good in normal times and the officers can also restrain the lower part. If it is chaos, there is no need to mention it.

Look at the musket soldiers on the opposite side, there were refugee soldiers roaring and rushing up behind them, but they were not panicked at all, and calmly ran back to the back of the infantry from the gap between the infantry platoon. How did they train soldiers?

Tian Jianxiu was in front of the left wing troops, and now he hated his recklessness. With such a soldier, he actually wanted to send cannon fodder to rush down. He couldn't help but look at Hao Yaoqi beside him. Now they were formed into a team. I don't know if both of them suffered losses in front of Shandong soldiers, so they were sent out.

"Old Hao, the Shandong official army is really amazing. It's so amazing. I have never heard of the imperial court in the past!"

Since his failure, Hao Yaoqi has been frowning with a gloomy face. Now his brow is getting deeper, and he said slowly after a while:

"It's a little better than the first time I met. If they used this strength to fight me, I wouldn't be able to gather so many soldiers."

When Tian Jianxiu heard Hao Yaoqi solemnly praise the enemy who was fighting with him on the other side, he felt very awkward, but when he opened his mouth wide, he wanted to refute something, but he felt that what Hao Yaoqi said made sense, so he could only sigh.

The musket soldiers ran back to the back of the infantry team. The musket soldiers' line was fifteen steps away from the infantry team. When they ran back to the infantry team, the front team of the refugees was still forty steps away from the spear team. There were twelve platoons in front, and the sixth team on the right raised the axe gun in their hands.

The drummer behind him started to beat the drums, not the kind of continuous marching drums, but the time interval was almost exactly the same.

From this battalion, Qian Zheng of the other battalions raised the axes and guns in their hands, and the drum beats sounded in sequence. The soldiers who originally held the spears vertically placed their spears flattened, leaned forward slightly, stepped forward without retracting their left foot, and putting force behind their right foot, with a short stride. However, the left foot was always in front.

The spearmen just slowly moved forward, but in this way, it was convenient to exert force and resist each other at any time.

The front team of Li and Luo coalition forces rushed to the front, so they were not afraid of hitting them like this. The muskets were the thing that scared them the most. A hundred steps away, they were beaten to death by the enemy before they had contacted the enemy. In any case, it made people feel unwilling and angry.

But I don’t know why the officers and soldiers did not use firearms too much during today’s battle. Soon, the infantry team was pushed forward.

The soldiers who fight with the vagrants are never afraid. Such a fight has been carried out with other officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. The vagrants dare to fight to the death, but the officers and soldiers do not have this awareness. They always win more and lose less. Since they are face to face, then fight!

But when they arrived in front of Li and Luo's soldiers found that although the expressions and eyes of the soldiers in the other side did not have their fanaticism, they were equally firm, and even this firmness must be surpassed.

The two sides collided, and at this moment, the shouts and screams rose high at the same time. Facing the spear that was rising straight forward, the militiamen running in the front could only use their flesh and blood to hit them hard, even if they were afraid of the steel jungle opposite. If they wanted to retreat, they would be squeezed up by the people behind them.

The commoner and even leather armor could not resist the puncture of the spear. The refugee soldiers also had spears, but the length was far enough. Some of them rushed into the gap between the spear and the spear with flexibly movements. When he was about to raise his knife to chop the spear beside him, he was stabbed by the second and third rows of spears.

The charge of the front team of Li and Luo coalition forces was like a huge wave, but the spear platoon of Jiaozhou Camp was a reef in the sea. No matter how the waves were surging or how they slapped, they would eventually hit the reef.

The spear is half a foot pointed, but the spear sleeve that is placed on the long pole is nearly one foot long. Even if you want to cut the spear rod, it is beyond your reach.

But these refugees in the front team were rushing wildly. A small leader was holding a big knife in his hand and followed behind. Several companions in front were either rushed to the front and stabbed to death by a spear, or were directly pushed forward by him and hung on the spear.

On the battlefield, life and death are fought. Even soldiers who have been trained in Jiaozhou Camp cannot always perform tactical actions. Some of them are not pulled out of their bodies in time, while others are separated and the gap gradually appears. The small leader of Cao Cao's army saw that there was a gap in front of them.

The big knife in his hand also stretched forward, and used it as a short spear and a wooden stick. He rushed forward a few steps. The big knife slashed left and right, and immediately cut off two spears, and then pushed apart the second row of spears. He was about to come to the other party. As long as a hole was opened, it would be opened in this kind of formation.

But as soon as he took a step forward, he suddenly felt a stinging pain in his lower abdomen. The pain immediately made all his strength in his body be instantly drained.

But his feeling was still very clear, and he could feel the other person's knife or something else slashing in his stomach. It hurt so severely that he couldn't even shout.

The big knife in the little leader's hand desperately wanted to cut under him, but his body seemed to be stiff. The third row of spears stared at him and stabbed him hard...

Many refugees who rushed into the spear and wanted to go further were knocked down in the formation. It was not a spear that killed them. Similarly, there were also flexible refugees who wanted to roll along the gap between the spears. It was not a spear that killed them.

The musket soldiers in Jiaozhou camp did not hide behind the spear formation after firing the muskets. In the Jiaozhou camp system, the military pay of musket soldiers was higher than that of spear soldiers. Similarly, their status was slightly higher. The musket shooting in this era was not as simple as modern times.

From reloading ammunition to shooting, there are more than twenty steps to be carried out. Compared with the training of spear soldiers, it is obviously much more complicated. Shooting with less than a hundred steps is also very demanding on psychological calmness. In the Jiaozhou Camp, all those who act as musket soldiers are generally veterans.

These people held higher military pay. In addition to shooting from muskets, they also had a character, which was used as short-distance weapons and melee troops.

Apart from muskets, the musket soldiers were all wrist-swords at their waists. They were long-range attacks from the entire Jiaozhou camp infantry system and also had to defend the spear soldiers of Jiaozhou camp nearby.

After three rows of fire, the musket soldiers running at the end handed over the musket to their companions, pulled out the swords beside them and drilled into the spear scene. They crawled, bowed, took the swords and went to the front to kill the enemies who were focused on the spears, and fought against those enemies entering the spear array.

Wang Da and Wang San are two brothers, from Gegoudian, Yinan County, Qingzhou Prefecture. Their family originally had seven brothers, but from Big to Seven, poor families didn't know how to read, so they just took them as names according to this ranking. However, their parents and the remaining five brothers all died in the famine.

Their family also has several acres of land, but in those years there was no grain harvest. The land was not close to the water source and irrigation was also troublesome. Even if they wanted to sell land to others, the landlords didn't want it. Wang Da remembered clearly. At that time, there were neighboring villages in their village. The former wealthy households and landlords also went bankrupt, and their situation was not much better than theirs.

The government did not provide any relief. Gradually, there were people who starved to death in the village, and some wanted to go out to escape from the famine. But the sadness was that they were already so hungry that they could not go far to escape from the famine. They didn't have long left the village and starved to death.

This scene makes people despair. After the child starved to death, some families in the same village did not bury the child, but ate it. They were so hungry that they could eat all the food around the village. However, after the couple finished eating, they went crazy and ran out of the village and died on the side of the road.

Wang Da told his younger brother at that time that if he couldn't help it, he would kill him, and then go as far as possible to find a way out.

The next reason may be their luck. Gegou Store is relatively remote near Yizhou and is attracted by the salt traffickers as a transit station.

At that time, Li Meng's power was just a half-official in Laizhou. The salt traders had to set up any points in the name of establishing industrial places, which was also the basis for the later military farms. Since they came to the local area, they had to win over a group of people as much as possible. At that time, there were major disasters everywhere in Shandong.

This kind of situation is rare in the whole village, but it is not rare. The salt trading team's ability at that time was only to save those people they could save.

It was so inexplicable that the three kings and kings had a meal and didn't have to starve to death or even more miserable scenes. They were counted as Li Meng's tenant according to the land deed.

When the military farm was established, Wang Da and Wang San also became a military farmer, and later he was recruited to become a soldier from the village. The two of them, who were helpless and bachelors, usually paid military pay at the same time as 30% of the veterans.

Over the past few years, the two brothers have really saved up a small amount of money, rewarding and punishing military merits in Jiaozhou camp, and soldiers from the military farmhouses who were born in the military farmhouse can become civilians after accumulating a certain degree of military merit, and will have their own land in the military farmhouses.

Wang Da always talked to Wang San that he wanted to accumulate military merits, let his younger brother go home, marry a wife, and pass on the family line for the Wang family. You should know that retired soldiers from Jiaozhou Camp are popular locally, and wealthy families are all rushing to get married, and your real estate industry has discounts in all aspects of taxation.

In the Jiaozhou Camp, it is not easy to accumulate military achievements. First, the troops of the Jiaozhou Camp are fighting in rotation with each army, and second, the Shandong soldiers and horses have always maintained a low-key position, and there are not so many opportunities to fight abroad.

Moreover, the Jiaozhou Camp was implemented relatively late. It was difficult for people like Wang Da and Wang San to join the Jiaozhou Camp and their new recruits to have any chance.

However, Wang Da and Wang San have been working hard to accumulate military merits and then retire from the army and start a family alone. For this goal, Wang Da also took the initiative to sign up to be a musket soldier and actively asked to participate in hand-to-hand combat during close combat, which was doubled in military merit. Of course, the chance of death in battle also increased.

Wang San, who was in the first row of the spear team, was not afraid of anything before and after the battle. No matter how bloody the scene on the battlefield was, he always felt that it was much more peaceful than the tragic phenomenon of the whole village waiting to die that day. Wang San stood up with a spear and walked forward slowly at the rhythm of the drum beats.

Every time during a battle, Wang Da always stands in front of his younger brother as much as possible. Wang San feels particularly at ease when he sees his brother.

The musket rang out, and then Wang San bent down and held the spear with his arms. Looking at the refugee soldiers rushing forward, Wang San was not afraid, but was a little excited. He could finally kill people. As long as he killed the enemy in front of him, he could obtain corresponding military merits after the battle.

After I have accumulated enough credit, I can’t leave first. When I was a child, I still remember my parents saying that if I get married and get married, I will go from big to small, and this opportunity will be given to my brother.

Behind him were all companions, Wang San was calm and stabbed the spear in his hand to take it back. As long as the enemy in front of him was stabbed, he immediately screamed and fell down. Every time he stabbed one to death, Wang San became happier and closer to his brother's two targets.

The spear was flat, but the spear was not peaceful. The infantry in front of the Li and Luo coalition forces could not retreat because the cavalry behind him had the function of supervising the team in addition to the second round of charge. Those who retreated were killed!!

But the spear front of the officers and soldiers was too tricky. They rushed to the front with weapons and found that they were facing several spears, and they were more than ten feet long. They could not reach the other party at all.

There were more and more people crawling under the spear and moving forward. The musket soldiers handed over the muskets to the back team, pulled out the swords on their bodies, and also entered the underside of the spear.

Although Wang San was concentrating on assassinating the enemy in front of him, he was gradually distracted. A few people, the comrades in the same row suddenly screamed and fell down. Although the people in the back row immediately made up, everyone knew that the enemy was not only from the opposite side, but also in danger below.

Wang San was even more nervous when he was inexperienced in the face of the enemy. The opponent rushed to the enemy and almost cut off the spear. Fortunately, his teammates around him took action to rescue him. Even so, Wang San couldn't help but look at him, fearing that someone would rush over.

The more you fear, the more you will be. You can see a refugee soldier crawling over the ground with a knife. Wang San was panicked, but he also knew that the spear in his hand could not be stabbed, and even the companions behind him could not be stabbed. The formation of the spear soldiers. In order to display the spears, there are gaps between people. In order to replenish such gaps, four or five rows of spear soldiers must be raised forward together.

If there is a assassination with a spear downward, it will immediately appear. If such a situation occurs, it will be a serious crime of violating military discipline.

As the man was getting closer and closer to him, the other party's knife reflected the sunlight through the gap in the spear. As he was about to come to him, his knife was already raised.

At this moment, Wang San closed his eyes. At this moment, he heard a scream in front of him. He looked down and saw that the refugee soldier had been driven aside by a musket soldier and wiped his neck with a knife. The musket soldier was very agile. When he turned over, Wang San saw that this was his brother.

"There are your comrades below, your enemies are in front of you, raise your spear! Don't bow your head!!"

At the right end of the array, General Qian of the Fang was also fighting with his axe and gun. During the battle, he still shouted loudly, not to distract his subordinates.

Wang Da was engaged in the so-called "rat battle" under the ground of the spear spear. Everyone crawled and bent down. Whether it was officers and soldiers or bandits, the movements of both sides were slow and deformed, but blood and cruelty were even better than the fight on their heads.

Not every refugee soldier can climb under the spear, and not everyone can get as close as before. Wang Da bent his waist and half-squatted on the ground and stared at a refugee soldier who had just crawled in. His face and body were covered with blood, which were all the blood stains of their companions after being assassinated.

The refugee also saw Wang Da. He held a spear in his hand. I don’t know if it was cut off the soldiers of Jiaozhou camp or his own.

The two of them slowly approached the waist of the cat. The short spear in the refugee's hand was not skilled. With this posture, they could not exert force at all. The body rushed forward and the short spear in his hand stabbed violently. This was a lifeless assassination. Wang Da leaned back and made a fake move.

Then he used one foot to force, but he reached the side of the refugee. The short knife in his hand pierced into the other party's ribs. The refugee twisted a few times and could not move immediately.

With short force and this kind of environment, Wang Da was a little tired even after training. He took a few breaths of heavy breaths, but suddenly he thought that if he had calculated the military merits, he had already killed five of them today. With his younger brother's contribution to the front line today, his military merits had almost accumulated enough.
To be continued...