I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

On the front line, Dorgon watched Wu Jun's formation with binoculars, and kept issuing various orders.

"It seems that Wu Changqing wants to use cavalry to compete with our cavalry."

Dorgon watched Wu Jun's mobilization and analyzed some of Wu Jun's intentions.

"This, I'm afraid Wu Changqing also understands that we will not attack their hollow phalanx again. In order to protect the unprotected artillery and archers, their cavalry is forced to confront our cavalry. Apart from the cavalry, they have nothing else. Arms can compete."

Mao Wenci analyzed.

"Brother, let me take the cavalry to charge and let them see what a real cavalry is."

Dodo is very excited about the upcoming big battle, which is a famous battle.

If he was asked to attack the hollow phalanx, he might still be a little worried.

But now he is going to fight against Wu Jun's cavalry, but he is full of confidence. He did not believe that the Han cavalry in the Central Plains could compete with the cavalry who grew up on horseback.

Dorgon was silent for a while after hearing the words, and then agreed to Dodo's request to fight.

However, he only gave Dodo 40,000 men and another 30,000 cavalry, of which 10,000 were reserved as a reserve, just in case, for rescue. The other 20,000 people went according to the original plan to find an opportunity to attack the artillery positions of the Wu Army.

Wu Jun's artillery is relatively lethal, which is also a headache for Dorgon. To this end, he did not hesitate to dispatch 20,000 cavalry to deal with those artillery.

"Move the artillery to that hill, and use it exclusively to fight the enemy's central army."

Dorgon gave another order. What he was most afraid of was the Wu Jun's flintlock troop. He didn't have many ways to restrain himself. He could only concentrate all the artillery with great effect to deal with Wu Jun's flintlock troop.

As for other directions, don't count on firepower support, you can only rely on yourself to overcome difficulties and fill in by the advantage of numbers.

The transfer of hundreds of thousands of people is actually a very troublesome thing.

Moreover, the two sides also make some adjustments from time to time according to the other's formation.

For example, Dorgon wanted to use his only flintlock troop to fight the arquebuses of the Wu army, so that he could defeat a point of the Wu army.

He was a little reluctant to use the flintlock pistol troops to fight against Wu Jun's flintlock pistol troops.

However, Wu Jun will definitely not let him succeed. Wu Changqing is also mobilizing his troops to let his cavalry or flintlock troops deal with the 10,000 flintlock soldiers of the Qing army.

He had few troops and did not dare to let the formation appear weak points to prevent it from being used by the Qing army.

The two sides are fighting wits and courage, which has led to the fact that the two sides have met for more than an hour, but they have been arranging, and there has been no contact battle yet.

It was not until the two sides were transferred that they felt that they were not too disadvantaged and could accept it, the armies of both sides began to move forward.

As the soldiers on both sides entered the range of their own cannons, the cannons on both sides also began shelling.

There were countless black spots in the sky all of a sudden. The firing rate of artillery shells in this period was very slow. If you look carefully, you can clearly see the flight trajectory of the artillery shells.

"Change the team horizontally and expand the distance before and after."

On Wu Jun's side, after taking a few shots, the commander changed his formation to reduce losses.

If the formation does not change, one cannonball of the Qing army can kill more than a dozen of them, but after the formation, if one cannonball kills at most three or four of them, they will lose kinetic energy.

This evolution can greatly reduce battle losses.

Of course, this means that the distance between the two sides is still far away, and this kind of wide formation can be replaced on the way forward. When the two sides enter their respective ranges, then this formation is not conducive to fighting, and must be changed back to a dense formation.

Only a well-trained army would dare to constantly change formations on such a battlefield.

If there is a rabble, on this battlefield where artillery shells are flying, an evolution will be messed up. When chaos arises, the timid soldiers take the opportunity to flee, triggering a rout.

In front of Wu Jun's flintlock troops is the central army of the Qing army, a mixed phalanx composed of flintlock troops, archers, and sword and shield soldiers.

The first few rows were sword and shield soldiers, all of which were cannon fodder used to resist Wu Jun's bullets.

Up to now, the Qing army has also been clear that the cold weapon troops do not pose a threat to the flintlock troops at all.

Immediately behind these sword and shield soldiers are a large number of archers. They are also cannon fodder, but they are high-level cannon fodder, cannon fodder with the ability to fight back.

Their role is to use their only physical strength to shoot arrows quickly, and exchange fire with Wu Jun's flintlock troops.

Once they run out of energy, they can step back from the sides and play the real main force.

The Qing army was helpless. After all, they had too few flintlock troops, so they could only use this stupid method. Without this method, it was impossible to resist the impact of Wu Jun's flintlock troops.

The Qing army's requirements for their own central army were actually very low, and it was enough to barely resist the Wu army's flintlock troops.

After holding back the core main force of the Wu army, their cavalry came to decide the outcome.

Among the artillery of the Wu army, fifty were used to support the Chinese army.

At this time, their artillery shells also fell into the formation of the Qing army. Although the number of artillery pieces invested by the Wu army was relatively small, they all used howitzers, and their lethality was no less than that of the Qing army's 150 artillery pieces.

This is the suppression of weapons and equipment, which is very scary.

Nothing is more important in war than weapons, as history will prove in the future.

One by one howitzer shells fell into the formation of the Qing army, and each one could bring

Take a dozen or even twenty lives.

If it is an eight-pound howitzer, it is more powerful, and if you are lucky, you can take away dozens of them at one time. After all, the formation of the Qing army was quite dense at this time.

Dozens of people were killed at one time, the scene was quite bloody and cruel, and the hearts of the soldiers who saw this scene were racing.

"Continue to move forward, and those who retreat without fear will be cut. As long as we stick to a cup of tea, we can withdraw when the archers finish shooting their arrows."

The general in charge of supervising the battle shouted to the sword and shield warrior who was in front of him. Under this fierce artillery fire, some timid soldiers were so scared that they wet their pants.

Therefore, he had to shout for deterrence, and at the same time gave a promise to retreat, giving these soldiers hope of survival.

Although there is little hope, as long as there is a glimmer of it, they will fight for it instead of choosing to run away.

Not to mention that there is a supervising team behind them, even if they are lucky enough to escape the battle of the supervising team, but in this battlefield where people are everywhere, where can they escape?

If you flee to the direction of Wu Jun, you will be 100% killed by mistake. Run to the back, and 100% will be caught and beheaded.

In short, running away in this situation is 100% dead. And if you stick to a cup of tea, you still have a little chance to live.

The work of a cup of tea is not very long.

Because of this hope, the fighting will of many Qing soldiers has become stronger.

Soon, these sword and shield players entered Wu Jun's range.

"Stop advancing, change formation, dense formation."

The front-line commander of the Wu army shouted that if the Qing army's flintlock troops were in front, he would not have ordered the soldiers to stop so early, because the hit rate at this distance was still too low.

However, he saw that the Qing army rushing in front was a cold-weapon unit, so there was no need to continue to advance, just shoot directly.

Because, as long as the swordsmen of the Qing army wanted to fight back, they could only take the initiative to rush over.

This commander of Wu Jun also went to school and is proficient in the use of various arms.

Following this order, Wu soldiers changed their formations and then raised their guns in salvo.