Chapter 83: Cold Afterglow

The main goal of Daomen is to destroy the living forces of the Sonnyang faction as much as possible, and the focus is on attacking the reinforcements. However, the Sonnyang faction is not a fool. If they cannot give enough pressure, the reinforcements of the Sonnyang faction will not try to attack Daomen head-on.

In other words, the more critical the situation of Ise Jingu is, the more desperate the reinforcements of the Sonnyang faction will be to rescue it. Therefore, Daomen’s frontal battlefield in Ise is not a feint, but a real attack, without any carelessness or deception.

In the battle of the battlefield, there is no such thing as two generals from each faction fighting in front of the formation, but all means are used. Therefore, on the battlefield of Ise, the most effective one is not a certain heavenly man, but hundreds of artillery. First, cover it with a storm of steel, and then use the alchemist camp as a supplement during the interval of artillery. After the opponent is crippled, the army will advance, mainly with the invulnerable black armor heavy cavalry, and cooperate with various infantry.

For the ronindo ronindo, although the sword in his hand is sharp, he can’t see where the enemy is at all, so there is no place for him to use it. By the time they really saw the opponent, they had already suffered heavy casualties and had little strength to fight again.

Such a battle is easy to fight. It does not require high requirements for the commander of the battle, but it requires high requirements for the foundation and logistics supply. The key is that it costs a lot. Only the Taoist sect can be so generous. In comparison, Fenglinzhou is only a link in the trade chain, but the Taoist sect controls the entire trade chain.

On the other side, the Zunnang faction organized the largest reinforcement, nearly 20,000 elite cavalry, more than 100 flag bearers, to rush to Ise.

The Taoist sect was commanded by Ding Wei Lingguan, who used 8,000 troops to block the elite reinforcement of the Zunnang faction.

At this time, in the telescope of Ding Wei Lingguan, the Zunnang faction cavalry launched a nearly suicidal charge.

This is the last afterglow of cold weapons and the sad song of an era.

With the order of Ding Wei Lingguan, the neatly arranged black-clothed people began to shoot one by one. In an instant, the charging cavalry seemed to encounter an invisible wall. The cavalry in the front was directly hit by bullets through the body and armor, and fell headfirst from the horse. Looking down from above, the charging cavalry fell down like mowing grass, as if there was an invisible tripwire that spanned the entire battlefield, and any cavalry who wanted to cross it would fall to the ground.

Blood mist filled the air, and corpses were everywhere.

The black-clothed men on the Taoist side held muskets and were divided into three layers. The outermost layer fired the muskets first, then retreated, and then the second and third layers continued to fire. When the second and third layers fired, the first layer loaded bullets and gunpowder, and the three layers took turns to fire without any pause.

This is an ancient tactic, placing muskets in three rows, in the array, the front row retreated, and the second row followed; if they did not retreat, the second row retreated, and the third row followed.

With the current technology of the Taoist sect, it is not impossible to develop a continuous-fire musket, but it is difficult to ensure the power of the continuous-fire musket, and it is impossible to ensure that it can penetrate armor and the physique of a warrior, or break the protective talisman, true qi and other means, so the Taoist long gun is still a single-shot type. This requires time to reload, so the three-stage shooting tactics are difficult to be eliminated and are still practical.

On this basis, the Taoist sect can only further simplify the process of loading ammunition for firearms, speed up the shooting speed, and strive to cause greater casualties before the cavalry charges. At the same time, a certain number of hand guns are also equipped, with only one round of ammunition. In the melee, face-to-face shooting is almost certain to hit. The only disadvantage is that it costs a lot. Every time a war starts, the amount of ammunition consumed alone is an extremely astonishing number.

After five rounds of volleys of fire guns, the cavalry of the Zun Rang faction suffered heavy losses, but finally approached the Taoist formation.

At this time, the biggest shortcoming of the fire gun was revealed, that is, it was weak in close combat. The fire gun was not much better than a fire stick in close combat.

The black-clothed man holding the fire gun began to retreat, and the spiritual officer holding a shield as tall as a person pushed forward to form a shield wall. Another spiritual officer holding a long spear stabbed forward from the gap between the large shields to form a spear forest.

The cavalrymen crashed into the shield wall and were pierced through by the long spears.

The two armies were stuck together and began to fight in close combat. The sound of metal collision and the screams of fighting continued to come.

It must be admitted that the cavalrymen of the Zunyang faction were all brave and good at fighting, and the previous volley of fire guns had made them understand that if they could not rush into the battle to win, they would only be slowly worn down by the Taoists with firearms, so they also fought desperately and had no intention of retreating.

The people and horses of both sides were mixed together, the weapons collided, blood splattered, and people kept falling to the ground. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a sea of ​​blood and corpses.

In vernacular novels, there are often scenes where the generals of both sides fight in front of the battle line before the two armies fight. However, in a serious battle between two armies, there is no single duel between the generals of both sides, and they all sit in command. However, sometimes, the generals are still proud to be able to charge into the battle line in person, that is, to lead the soldiers to charge into the battle line, one is to greatly boost morale, and the other is to show their own bravery.

Logically speaking, the commander-in-chief personally charging into the battle line is like the emperor leading the army in person, and he should be dissuaded by his subordinates, but the spiritual officials of the Taoist sect are an exception.

At this time, the previous charge momentum of the Zunrang faction has been dissipated. If they cannot kill through the Taoist formation, the advantage of the cavalry will be lost. There is no second charge, and they can only dismount and fight on foot. However, the cavalry has suffered heavy casualties in the previous five rounds of volleys. At this time, it is undoubtedly a foolish dream to want to kill through the Taoist army formation.

Ding Wei Lingguan put away the telescope, replaced it with a sledgehammer, and prepared to personally charge into the battle line.

On the battlefield, the brave should not advance rashly, and the cowardly should not retreat without authorization. Only when thousands of people are like one, advancing and retreating together, and cooperating properly, can they form the greatest combat power. If a common man is not a celestial being or an immortal, it will not make much sense.

The battle formation of the Lingguan consists of eleven people in a small formation, and the large formation is a three-layer formation, which is also three layers. The principle is similar to the three-layer fire gun battle method. The first layer fights fiercely, beats the drum, slows down a little, and beats the drum again. The second layer rushes to the front layer to fight, and the front layer does not reorganize the team. The drum beats again and slows down, and the drum beats again. The first layer rushes to the second layer to fight, and the original second layer does not reorganize the team. This succession of layers and waves allows the front-line soldiers to always maintain relatively sufficient physical strength. Like a three-layer wave, it does not feel anything at first, but it is very resilient and has a lot of stamina.

I saw Ding Wei Lingguan jump high, directly jump over the range of the three-layer formation, and fall behind the cavalry of the Zunrang faction, and smash down with a huge hammer in her hand that is almost as big as her.

A huge bowl-shaped depression was smashed at the landing point, the ground shook, and huge ripples visible to the naked eye spread out in all directions. All the Zunrang faction cavalrymen in the area were killed alive. Those with higher cultivation had blood flowing from their seven orifices and their five internal organs shattered. Those with lower cultivation were simply shaken into a mass of blood mist. Without exception,

After Ding Wei Lingguan personally entered the battle formation, it caused great chaos.

The black-clothed man and the Lingguan took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and under the leadership of Ding Wei Lingguan, they formed a reverse push.

At the same time, the sound of continuous drums came from the central army.

Advance when the drums are heard, retreat when the gongs are sounded.

The Taoist side also has cavalry, but when the Zunrang faction cavalry charged into the battle formation just now, they never made any moves, and only showed their prowess at this time.

The Taoist cavalry formation is tight, and the gap between each horse is very small. They are equipped with lances and sabers. The sabers are thick-backed heavy swords. Only such swords can cut through the opponent's heavy armor. If it is a light saber, even if there is inertia of charging, it is difficult to cause the effect of breaking armor. Then there is the medium-length fire gun, which is a melee weapon. It can be operated with one hand and shoot the enemy at close range. When there is no ammunition, it can also be used as a bone flower or a hammer. The effect of blunt weapons against armor is better than ordinary weapons.

In the rapid sound of war drums, accompanied by the rumbling of horse hooves, the Taoist cavalry, which has been preparing for a long time, finally appeared on the battlefield.

Daxuan started in the state of the underworld in the north. The water of Renkui in the north is the virtue of water, so it advocates the color of black and black, and the upper and lower parts are mainly black, so the Daxuan army is called the black-clothed man.

At this time, the thousands of cavalry rushing out were all black-armored and black-horse, like two black dragons.

Although the Taoist attaches importance to firearms, it does not despise the cavalry.

With the development of firearms, there were views denying cavalry in the Daoist sect and the imperial court. Some people believed that with the popularization of flying boats and the application of firearms, cavalry no longer had any need to exist.

However, the prevailing view was that cavalry would still play an important role in future wars, and that cavalry should not only continue to exist, but also strengthen its quality.

As a veteran who had fought on the battlefield for many years, the Protector of Xizhou expressed a protesting opinion. He believed that the history of cavalry was a history of changes in the periods when it was lifted up and the periods when it fell down. Cavalry has three basic characteristics: first, it has great speed; second, it can combine great mobility with destructive assaults on horseback that include extensive use of firepower and other weapons; third, all members are very closely united.

In the end, cavalry was retained, and developed into a black armored heavy cavalry with both men and horses wearing armor like a steel chariot.

Although these black-clad cavalrymen were not heavy cavalrymen wearing black armor, their iron armors were all new-style armors, with solid and dense armor plates. Ordinary projectiles and arrows would even be directly deflected. Even the arrows from the horse bows that were slightly closer would only be inserted into the armor, which looked scary but did not affect the combat. Only the lances and heavy artillery of the elite warrior cavalry could cause effective killing.

After the black-clad cavalrymen entered the battlefield, the Zun Rang faction began to retreat comprehensively. Their individual qualities should not be underestimated. The reason why they were defeated so thoroughly was, first, because of the tactics and methods, and second, because the gap between the weapons of the two sides was so large that it was difficult to make up for it with human power. Not to mention the generation gap in technology, the silver money spent was also heaven and earth.

To put it bluntly, the Taoist army was built with real gold and silver. Only with money can one use firearms regardless of cost. To put it bluntly, governing a country and its army is a problem: where does the money come from and where does it go? Solving this problem will solve more than 80% of the problems. This is also the biggest problem in every dynasty. No one knows where the money comes from, and no one knows where it goes.

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