Beiyang new warlord

The huge lethality of the heavy artillery magnified the panic by an unknown number of times. The originally steady drum beat was three or four times faster, and they didn't care about saving the infantry's stamina. There was still one kilometer away, and the western army had already begun to trot and launch a charge. However, after rushing to a distance of about 500 meters, the second round of more intense artillery fire came. While not abandoning the heavy artillery, Mao Jue also equipped his troops with field artillery, and the proportion was not low. The legion, ten heavy artillery pieces, forty field artillery pieces, and the six corps were three hundred cannons spraying anger together. Four to five thousand shotgun shells, large and small, bombarded the Western Allied Forces more intensively. Thousands fell.

Fortunately, after surviving this terrifying blow, they finally came within range of the Western coalition forces to fight back. The French artillery and Spanish gunners who reached the range finally ignited the artillery fire in fear, and the roaring shells fell on the Ming Dynasty. In the army lineup, it also brought casualties to the Ming army. The shells he fired can be regarded as a boost to the morale of the sluggish coalition forces.

Moreover, the improvement began to gradually increase, and finally sprinted into the 100 meters. The western arquebus gunners at the front couldn't wait to hit the trigger, and the crackling bullets jumped straight to the Storm Legion Expeditionary Army who was also neatly arrayed. A puff of white smoke burst out, but the gun was held stiffly, and a bloody hole popped out of some thighs or arms, and fell down moaning. They suffered a round of gunfire for no reason, but the Ming army did not fight back.

"Their firearms are not as good as ours, attack, fire!"

This scene made the lieutenant generals and colonels at all levels who actually commanded the troops ecstatic, and waved their command knives forward. The excited shouts continued one after another, and the morale of the inspired matchlock gunners became even higher. , In addition to the back row, at a distance of 80 meters, the second row of musketeers fired, and the crackling bullets hit the expeditionary army formation more intensively.

This round, dozens of people were shot and fell down again, but the Ming army, who relied on their bodies to resist the bullets, still did not fire back.

50 meters, 30 meters, advancing step by step, the Ming army insisted on holding out four rounds of gunfire. Two or 300 people were knocked down in a pool of blood, dragged behind by medical soldiers with red gourds hanging from their sleeves, and did not fight back. Until the distance between the two armies was close to 20 meters.

Many years later, the survivors of this great war still clearly remember that scene. They have been calm and motionless, wearing black armor, like the famous British black prince back then, like a living statue, and suddenly waved The command sword came out, neatly like a person, tens of thousands of bayonet flintlock guns in the first row were slammed down amidst the clattering sound, white gun smoke filled the entire battlefield, followed by the second row, third row Platoon, this is no longer a war, but a complete massacre. In this round of gunfire, [-] to [-] Western infantrymen were killed on the spot, and the two rows of spearmen in the front row almost The entire army was wiped out, and in an instant, the thick European array was flattened by three or four columns.

Under the unbelievable eyes of those arquebus gunners, the expeditionary army with bayonets charged directly without even loading them. On the ground, on the entire front, the four corps that entered the battlefield have a thinner lineup. The expeditionary force with only 2 people has the upper hand in each of the battlefield formations, pressing the opponent's more than 4 people to fight and kill. Blood was dripping, and there were many dead bodies.

In the powerful offensive, the Saxon mercenaries and Italian mercenaries, who were slightly less effective at the edge of the coalition forces, had already started to retreat first.

Fortunately, the Western Allied Forces still have the last axe. The reason why France was able to beat Spain in the 30 Years' War is that their strength lies in the construction of their cavalry, which is led by passionate French sword-wielding nobles, holding matchlock carbines and French swords on the chest. Tens of thousands of armored cavalry also launched an attack after a step late, and the French commander's offensive target was very skillful. He did not attack the main line of the expeditionary army and participated in the scuffle that had already been completely confronted. Instead, he turned Aside, Daming's allies, the parliamentary army array.

Britain's unique and unique geographical environment allows it to escape from the complicated and fierce conflicts in Europe, but it also makes the British army lack the training of war, and as the main force of the cavalry, it is now popular because of Cromwell's assassination Panicked and full of anger, this blow really hit the weak point. Amidst the fearful roar of the British, the menacing French knights also staged a round of shooting in line. 30 meters away, the carbines fired in unison, and the extended spear phalanx Immediately, a large area was knocked down, and then taking advantage of the chaos along the gap, cuirassiers wielding sabers and long swords wedged into the infantry formation, galloping fast horses, sharp swords across the air, row after row The British soldiers fell down clutching their throats, and some simply lost their heads.

The confrontation lasted only seventeen and eight minutes, and the British army was already on the verge of being defeated.

Frowning slightly, Mao Xingjian waved his hand slightly in disgust as he watched the scene through the binoculars. Beside him, Li Dingguo, whose pupils were already filled with blood, and Song Yongzhong, who was equally dull and calm, bowed neatly on the horse. She stroked her chest and followed behind. Mao Yuer, who was also wearing the cotton armor of a Ming army general, but still looked good, clenched her fists excitedly. She, the eldest brother of the prince, finally fulfilled her dream of serving as a woman in the army and galloping on the battlefield.

The hooves of the horses were rushing, and the Ming cavalry, who had been supervising the battle at the right rear, also stepped forward with rolling iron hooves!

Chapter 9. The end of the road

The brave and skilled French knights failed to save the battle in the end, because Mao Xingjian still had six regiments of cavalry in his hands, dragoons that were advancing hand in hand with the French army!And the equipment of the Ming army is even better. Their flintlock carbines are far more powerful than matchlock carbine. Amidst the thunderous sound of horseshoes, behind the French cavalry who are still fighting in the British army formation, a bean-popping gun The sound suddenly rang.

In the sky, the battlefield was like a picture of Taiji. The dark and dark Ming cavalry who rushed out suddenly did not rush into the battlefield rashly. Instead, they made a big bend around the battlefield on the left, and immediately bit the French cavalry's buttocks and bombarded them.He had already drawn out his saber for hand-to-hand combat, and the matchlock hanging on the gun was naturally extinguished. Suddenly, he encountered thousands of Ming army cavalry shooting at him. It could be that they were harvested by the Ming army as they followed the brigade while cursing and cutting wheat in the gunfire.

The French knights charged bravely, and they had completely penetrated the British formation at this time, but Cheng Yaojin, who was killed in such a way, made these proud Gallic roosters furious, and abandoned the half-empty rear of the expeditionary army. Roaring, Marshal Nescher of the French Cavalry jumped into a rage and raised his saber again, pointing at the expeditionary force who was circling in front of the British army, and launched a second charge. Once again, there was a shocking sound like a landslide In the middle, tens of thousands of French cavalry rushed up roaring and brandishing sabers.

However, the Ming army did not have the chivalry that the French army believed in. It should be cavalry or cavalry. Song Yongzhong was not in the mood to fight hand-to-hand with the opponent's superior force. A sharp turn was made, allowing the vanguard of the French cavaliers to pass by, even leaving the battlefield, and ran straight to the Thames in the north to escape.

Run and run!Liaodong iron cavalry is really cheap. The fine cavalry composed of naturalized Mongols and prairie Ban Shengmin ran and turned around and shot behind them. Those brave and bloody French knights were shot down one by one from their horses. The despicable move made the French army furious, and they chased and killed them regardless.

Then the French cavalry, which was enough to determine the situation on the battlefield, followed Song Yongzhong's buttocks and left the battlefield.

Without the French cavalry to hold back from the flanks, it also took away the last hope of the Western Allied Forces to come back. Without the French cavalry, the British Parliamentary Army, which had been pierced and was about to be defeated, gathered together again, and the positions were even tighter. Some, the butterfly effect is not too far away, the British army can last for another 10, [-], [-] minutes, Mao Xingjian acted like a seasoned old general, and decisively pressed all the two corps of the reserve team, facing the already crumbling from the side The main force of the Western Allied Forces launched an offensive.

Such a scene of despair stood before the French and Spanish armies.The musketeer was wielding a slender sword, relying on his superb sword skills, he managed to get his sword into the chest of the Ming army rifleman in the middle under the siege of three bayonets. The gun pierced through his back, covered the bloody wound, and turned his head in horror, but the dark Ming army line rolled up from the flanks like waves, and the gleaming bayonet was like a mountain of knives from hell like that.

Finally, the main position of the Western Allied Forces, which had been struggling for more than half an hour, collapsed. Even the proud French nobles and the mighty Spanish conquerors threw away their weapons hastily and fled back in panic.

Fortunately, there were many people. Not far from the sea, more than 2 Prussian and Swedish troops reorganized the phalanx defense line. It was the right time for Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and rearranged his formation behind the lost positions of the Western Allied Forces.

The outcome of the main battlefield on land is basically settled here. The only thing that is still anxious is the cavalry led by Song Yongzhong and Mao Yuer. The flexible cavalry team ran more than half a circle around the plains near London. They did not fight the French. Here , The Mongolian horse with insufficient explosive power but long endurance has brought out its advantages to the fullest. The French horse is prepared for heavy cavalry. The little man from the Gorilla Grassland is still able to handle it with ease.

However, while running, Song Yongzhong seemed to be in a daze, and he didn't pay attention. He led the Ming army cavalry straight to the Thames River, and when he found that there was no way to go, he had to turn off abruptly. A nearly ninety-degree bend, and continued to run eastward.In this way, it gave the French knights who had been shot for a long time after chasing the Ming army's ass a chance.

After all, he was from several generations of nobles. Nesher immediately seized this opportunity and left the command of the brigade to his subordinates. The cavalry bent along the river and continued to follow the Ming army, and continued to chase and kill. The cavalry marshal was furious. His father led a group of sudden cavalry to separate out, took a straight road from the left, and cut straight to the flank of the expeditionary cavalry ahead of time.

The horseshoes are like thunder, and the French knight, who has a sharp weapon and can't use it, is almost red-eyed and licking his tongue. He angrily swipes his saber and kills fiercely. In terms of space, there is no room for the cavalry of the expeditionary army to move around. Look up. The Ming army was about to be intercepted and fought an unequal battle away from the main force. At this moment, Mao Yu'er stepped forward.

With a cry of pride, holding up her own flag, she suddenly left the cavalry. The excellent riding skills she had practiced since she was a child allowed her to hold the flag with one hand, but let go of the horse's reins with the other hand, and took out An exquisite ivory-handled revolver, if only she rode alone, it would not be able to change the situation in the slightest, but following behind her, five or six hundred black revolvers were pulled out.

According to Ming's current level of smelting, revolvers are still expensive and difficult to equip on a large scale. However, it is enough for each regiment to equip a brigade of guard pistols.

Nesher, who had never seen a Ming army revolver before, still lowered his body indifferently. The saber was almost attached to the ear of his horse, and he was aiming at the delicate neck of Mao Yuer, who was at the front carrying the flag and took the lead. Just like in his dream, Mao Yuer's pistol was aimed at his head non-stop.

The next moment, crackling gunshots rang out first like fried beans.

This cavalry horse racing chase came to an end. More than 300 cavalry fell off their horses. The Ming army of the brigade roared and rushed past the side, while the French knights, exhausted and frothing on their horses, rushed to the place anxiously. They coach Nesher.

On the right chest, at the edge of a hideous wound, blood gushed fiercely, and he sat on the ground sluggishly, until he was supported by his subordinates, the cavalry marshal roared in horror like a madman.

"These people must be servants of the devil, and their weapons must have been cursed by Satan! Otherwise, why can they fire continuously?"

"impossible!"

The impossible is possible!After all, the Ming cavalry was not defeated, and the exhausted Nesher cavalry returned to the beach where they landed. Behind the thin phalanx, he said that he met faces that were also devastated.

Conquering most of the world, the arrogant Western Army has completely tasted the taste of complete defeat in the British Isle. Now they rely on only the navy, which is nicknamed the transport brigade.

But can the Navy really count on it?

At this time, the North Sea was also raging with war. Warships passed by one after another, heavy cannon fire one after another, broken ship planks, floating corpses, like the garbage discarded by human beings in the future, everywhere.

After all, it is a sea nation. Even the Royal Navy of Ming Dynasty, which is fighting hard to catch up, is only half a catty with the opponent in sea battles. The same heavy battleship, the same tonnage of cannons, and the same high morale of the sailors, but after all, Daming still has more black technology. Ironclad ships !

A huge explosion roared, like a mushroom cloud erupting on the water. After the ironclad ship on the far left, after experiencing high-load operation, the boiler was finally overwhelmed and exploded by itself!A monstrous fire erupted from the lifted cover of the ship, and the perfect protection turned into a perfect cage at this time, and the entire ship quickly turned into a living oven under the high temperature.

However, around this exploded ironclad ship, there were as many as seventeen or eight western main sailing ships that were destroyed and half sunk. The ironclad ship with [-] mm forged steel armor is still seriously insufficient in lethality, the only thing that can stop it is to hit it alive!

Just four ships involved more than 60 capital ships of the Western Fleet. On the frontal battlefield, what the Royal Navy was facing was still a battlefield where the more fought the less.

Looking back at the friendly ships that were still spraying fire from the turret, even Sun Chun couldn't help showing a throbbing on his face. She had no choice but to give orders loudly to the microphone that was also constantly emitting hot breath.

"Stop the boiler for cooling, stop the ship on the spot, and continue the bombardment with the turret at a thirty-degree angle at eight o'clock."

Against the collision of three sailing battleships and a bull-like iron-clad ship finally stopped the spinning propeller, more than a dozen monkeys climbed over and stood behind the iron-clad ship covered with two layers of thick iron. The Dutch sailors who kept beating on the opening of the fence suddenly heard the sound of a flood. Before they had time to jump down in horror, the hot steam had already rushed up. The screams came out suddenly.

The main naval gun creaked and moaned. Below, the steering steam engine was also burned to the extreme, but dozens of cables were entangled on the tall gun barrel, making the naval gun almost immobile. On the opposite Dutch battleship, the enemy The captain of the warship still roared and fired at the top of his lungs, and the heavy [-]-pounder solid bullet hit the one-meter-thick bulletproof glass with a bang, and at the same time a huge water ripple was smashed outside the glass, shaking Sun Chun's ears were buzzing.

However, when the talented female gunner was upset, the Dutch sailor on the opposite side suddenly yelled in horror, and then, a louder explosion sounded, engulfed by the mushroom cloud of the explosion of the gunpowder cabin, and the vibration wave shook the heavy ironclad ship. It shook violently, and for three or four seconds, the gunpowder smoke dissipated slightly. Half of the Dutch ship that trapped the iron-clad ship just now was gone. As Sun Chun looked around, a larger and taller line emerged from the gap in the hull. battleship.

The Pangu-class treasure ship Liaodong.

He could vaguely see his boss, Fat Admiral Pang Hai, smiling and waving a generous slap at him, a relaxed smile also surfaced on the face of the number one female general.

On the sea level, hundreds of European warships were full of style, fleeing the battlefield in a hurry, and they also lost the naval battle!

Chapter 9 Eleven. The Age of the East

May [-], [-] AD, was an out-and-out disaster for the vast Western Europe.

At sea, the huge fleet of the multi-national coalition of the Navigating Nation suffered a crushing defeat. On land, the powerful army that considered itself the center of world civilization also suffered a devastating defeat. However, the most fatal thing was to flee with the fleet. More than 700 A stranded troop carrier, more than 9 coalition forces from various countries, Prince Philip of Spain, Duke Andrew of Prussia and a large number of European nobles were trapped and died on this side of the English Channel.

There is no escape.

The patriotic enthusiasm of the British is still there. Even if it is like night, thousands of braziers are burning, and tens of thousands of tents that have been conscripted from nearby are carrying wood in full swing, and building a village on the spot. The three wooden villages are in the shape of a character The beach where the Southern United Fleet ran aground was surrounded. On the sea, the three surviving ironclad ships and their boilers exploded. All the ironclad ships were towed away, and the huge fleet also went to nearby Birmingham for rest and maintenance. However, there are still about [-] battleship formations patrolling the North Sea to prevent these turtles in the urn from escaping again.

Along the Thames River, the expeditionary cavalry who raced for an afternoon led the horses and drank the cool river water. Now that the British Industrial Revolution has not yet started, this is not the notorious foggy city of later generations, but it is not afraid of drinking bad stomach .