Chapter XXXVII
The 5,000 Liangshan soldiers left behind in the camp were swaying idly, and many people gathered around the fence to watch the excitement. Those chiefs and Dubo can't take care of it, after all, these people were all lawless strongmen and heroes before, and they really reprimanded them in person, and they showed you 100% behind their backs, so they can only turn a blind eye.
"It seems that Dong Ping is not giving up, but he didn't expect that with the backbone, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army should not be underestimated····· Without help, these 4,000 people would not be able to shake each other. "General Heijia stood on the lookout of the big camp and saw Dong Ping constantly mobilizing soldiers, and immediately knew his plan, but unfortunately he was not optimistic.
Four thousand people want to capture a county seat, if it was okay before, but now Hantan County not only has a master, but also thousands of forbidden troops, and it is difficult to capture without twenty or thirty thousand people.
"Would you like to help? The gap in the proportion of battle losses is too large, and unless we transfer troops from the rear to fight like this, we will have no place to borrow, and these recruits are too nonsense to be reliable at all. The red-armored general frowned and looked at the recruits below who shouted and shouted to gamble on the wins and losses of both sides, obviously having given up on relying on their strength.
However, for the sake of the two of them, something must be done, otherwise once Dong Ping wastes all his troops, there are only enough of them to do with more than 1,000 people, and it is estimated that they will not even be able to hold the camp.
As for asking for help, it can be, after all, Liang Shan has prepared for the big battle, but the face of the two is estimated to be gone, and most of the advantages accumulated have to disappear. After all, the heroes of Liangshan are all people who want to save face, a person who has no face, no matter how good you say, people will not care about you.
"Well, the main thing is that long-range attacks can't suppress the other party, otherwise the proportion of hand-to-hand combat losses won't be so large, it should be the other way around, you send three hundred musketeers to help them, at least let them climb the city wall." The black armor general understood Dong Pingjun's weakness very well, after all, no one would easily take out the archers he had worked hard to train and collect, resulting in the newly formed front army lacking sufficient long-range suppression capabilities.
And these people don't have a sense of self-protection at all, even if they don't have armor, it's good to use a shield to block arrows, but when they run, they dare to lose anything but weapons, this is still an attack, if they run away, they don't even lose their underwear.
"Okay, it's good to let your subordinates move a little, and it's good to increase your level." The Red Armor General nodded in agreement, and went to issue orders in person, he was very precious to these special troops under his command.
The special class of the original Water and Fire General is too strange in the eyes of the trialists of modern thinking, and it seriously lacks direct lethality, so it is simply transformed according to its own ideas. It just so happened that the artillery and musket technology of the Song Dynasty already had a basic form, especially the heroes of Liangshan, who thundered the sky and thundered Lingzhen, and the technology of making artillery was superb, which gave him great convenience and was successfully completed.
As soon as the three hundred red-jacketed musketeers left the camp, they attracted a lot of attention, and many of the trialists exclaimed in surprise.
These people have lived in the main god world for three years, and they have seen a lot of swords and swords, but the power of modern firearms is still indelible, and I don't know how many trialists have tried to make these things. But it's not that simple, and the very few successful ones also face cost and technical problems, after all, firearms are not only about propellants, but also about the barrel. It is a pity that in the era when there were no machine tools and could only rely on manual work, mass production was only a dream, and a small number of old-fashioned muskets were not as good as bows and crossbows.
In the Song Dynasty, the sudden sight of large-scale musketeers immediately caused a panic among many people, and only the aborigines did not react.
Four thousand people attacked the city, that scene was not ordinary, even Yan Yi's eyes widened, any order for a war of this scale needs to be issued in advance, and it will be too late when it comes. And once there is a mistake, it must be filled with more lives, but the forbidden army's will to fight is too poor, and this method of filling the flesh hole is estimated to be difficult for them to implement, so they must be more cautious.
The 1,000 Forbidden Army archers behind the city walls continued to shoot the feathered arrows in their hands at a fixed frequency, and at this speed they could continue to draw their bows eight to ten times, but the hit rate was pitiful. However, at this time, the hit rate or anything was no longer important, only enough coverage was needed, so that the Liangshan soldiers had to disperse and dodge, preventing the Liangshan soldiers from gathering enough troops in a siege wave and causing excessive pressure on the forbidden army defending the city.
Yan Xu didn't know why he didn't pull out all the 3,000 archers of the forbidden army, as long as a few rounds of arrows could kill half of the 4,000 people who attacked, why bother?
Or Yan Yi took advantage of the time to explain to the lord, or for the sake of training, the physical fitness and skills of the forbidden army are not bad, but there is no war all year round, which has caused them to become honor guards, and their will has not changed at all, but they just use the profession of the forbidden army as a means of making a living.
Therefore, Yan Yi took advantage of the fact that the battle was not fierce enough to take turns to adapt these long-peaceful forbidden troops to the atmosphere of the battle. After all, this is only the front army, and the large army of Liangshan has not yet been dispatched, so if you don't hurry up and get out a group of elites who can fight tough battles, you will definitely not be able to hold the county seat at that time.
The Liangshan soldiers rushed to the city wall under the rain of arrows, desperately climbing up while dialing the spears they had stabbed, and constantly brandishing their weapons to threaten the other party. But Yan Yi had already prepared, and there was a sword and shield soldier standing next to each spearman, which could not only help the spearmen wearing thick armor block the knife, but also fill the gap exposed by the spearmen's use of long weapons, so that a Liangshan soldier would not have a chance to climb the city wall.
When the Red Armor General confidently pulled the musketeers out, he found a problem, the archers of the forbidden army did not climb the city wall at all, but stayed in the city wall to shoot in formation, and the longbow had a longer range than the musket, and in order to ensure sufficient hit rate and power, the musketeers had to brave the rain of arrows to shoot.
The Red Armor General was dumbfounded, it was impossible to withdraw, once he did this, Dong Ping, who was in a hurry, could directly kill back, but he was really reluctant to go up······
"Come on, the harvest will give you priority to replenishing troops, not to mention that you don't plan to design a new musket and add gunners." The black armor general didn't expect it, after all, although they led the troops, they didn't have any decent combat experience at all, and they all needed to pay tuition, so they had to pay the money first.
Gritting his teeth, the red-armored general ordered the musketeers to advance.
These special units are not afraid of death, even if arrows are falling from the sky, they are still lined up and shoot with guns.
There was a roar, and more than twenty people fell from the spear forbidden army on the city wall a hundred meters away, causing a wave of chaos.
This hit rate bunker, and all the trialists who knew anything about muskets were dumbfounded.
The old musket is not rifled, and the bullets are also large and small lead balls, which need to be stuffed with cloth when loading, and sometimes even need to use cork, and the hit rate is very pitiful, as long as the distance is more than 30 meters, the hit rate cannot be saved, and it is purely by luck a hundred meters away.
Obviously, the other party's luck can't all be so good, and there must be something special about these classes.
Even if he knew what, at this critical juncture, it was impossible for Yan Yi to mobilize the archers of the forbidden army to target the musketeers, otherwise, once there was no suppression of the rain of arrows, there was a great possibility that these Liangshan soldiers would rush to the city wall, and the limited number of shots must be used at critical moments.
Fortunately, these forbidden soldiers who were afraid of death wore two or three layers of armor, plus a distance of 100 meters, not many died on the spot, and the extravagant forbidden soldiers had the habit of wearing silk. Because the fine silk can wrap the arrow, even if the arrow is wounded, it will not cause more serious secondary damage due to the barbs on the arrow. With a gentle tug of silk, the lead bullets that have entered the flesh can be removed, and then disinfected with spirits and applied with gold sore medicine, and the mortality rate is very low. It's not at all like Westerners, in order to prevent lead poisoning, they usually cut it when they get shot.
Wearing leather armor, helmets and carrying shields, the soldiers quickly took the soft pockets and went up the ladder to the city wall, and quickly put the wounded soldiers into the soft pockets and put them down along the city wall, so that they did not have to carry the wounded up and down from the chaotic and narrow city wall, which not only saved time but also improved efficiency.
The originally timid soldiers were now very active, and no wounded could escape their eyes, so it was important not to let a single wounded die on the city walls.
The fact that the soldiers were so active was completely related to Yan Xu's orders, firstly, once the forbidden army suffered too much loss, they would definitely be sent to the city wall to fight with people, and secondly, once a wounded person died on the city wall, they would be deducted from their double salary during the war.
Unlike in the past, I have never even seen what the soldier's salary looks like, but this soldier's salary is really paid in his hands, and he is naturally unwilling to be deducted before he is hot, not to mention that he does not need to face the enemy directly, as long as his hands and feet are sharp, there is almost no danger, and the fool will not work hard.
After calculating the casualty ratio, neither Yan Xu nor Yan Yi had any intention of changing their tactics, allowing the intensity of the battle to remain at a certain level, and at the same time constantly sending new forbidden troops through hundreds of people as units, and replacing the forbidden troops with excessive physical exertion.
In order to familiarize the forbidden army with the atmosphere of war, both turned a blind eye to the musketeers outside the city, allowing the other to fire every two minutes. However, the barrel of a dozen rounds overheated, and the musketeers had to step back and wait for the barrel to cool, and during this time, at least double-digit muskets had various problems, and some were even injured.
Trialists who had become familiar with musketeers became less enthusiastic about firearms, after all, primitive firearms had no advantage over bows and arrows in terms of range, power, or rate of fire. The only advantage is that you don't need complicated training, as long as you are familiar with the loading and firing of muskets, you can go to battle. And as long as there are enough spare muskets, and even a special loader, the musketeers with less physical exertion can fight for a long time on the front line.
But the trialist is not a novice who has never seen the world, and those who have a bit of brains have found a lot of faults, and if they want to modify it, the price they pay is not ordinary.
It is not difficult to improve the musket, even if it is only the first Chinese, a little understanding of firearms can make a decent musket, after all, this thing is just a metal pipe on the wood, what is the difficulty.
However, if these shortcomings are to be corrected, it cannot be done without the support of the state, because it involves the upgrading of a country's overall industry, and the manpower and material resources spent are absolutely astronomical. During this period, I don't know how many people will be offended, after all, it is impossible not to offend people by replacing one weapon with another.
Anyway, playing with firearms on a large scale is definitely a thing that outweighs the loss for the current trialists with shallow roots.