Chapter 77: Instinct (Second Update, Asking for Support)

When the Vietnamese army attacked, although the field artillery of the Ming army continued to roar, but because of the problem of the grenade set time, it often did not have the desired effect, compared to the grenade, the most deadly is probably the shotgun, the shotgun loaded in the iron barrel flew out of the muzzle, like a sickle swept in the rice field, harvesting human life to the fullest, from three hundred fathoms to one hundred fathoms, this short two hundred fathoms (meters), is the distance from the power of the shotgun to be fully exerted, too far, will be too scattered, too close and not scattered enough. Now this distance is not far and not close, just right.

The shells fired by more than 30 field guns, each time like a salvo of thousands of firearms, became the most powerful support for the infantry line, and when the dense projectiles whistled through the air, they fell on the bodies of the Vietnamese troops, tearing apart their bodies in an instant, and turning them into a hornet's nest.

However, despite the guns of the Ming army, they still could not stop the attack of the Vietnamese army, and those Vietnamese soldiers in black uniforms waved their swords and guns in their hands, howled and continued to charge forward.

100 fathoms, 80 fathoms, 60 fathoms......

The swarming Annan soldiers were getting closer and closer, and the Ming army was just lining up, as if they were on a training ground, constantly firing their guns at the Annan soldiers, although the solid shells fired by the Annanite artillery occasionally tore a hole in the line column, so that several soldiers fell before they even screamed. But they still stood there motionless, reloading and shooting.

As the distance approached, the archers of the Annamite people would shoot arrows at the Ming army from time to time, especially the archers on the war elephants, and they attacked the Ming army from time to time, while the Ming troops who focused on the front often rarely attacked the war elephants, at most they only sent stray bullets to hit the war elephants, which aroused the ferocity of the war elephants.

The wounded war elephant howled and rushed towards the Ming army under the drive of the elephant slave, in the face of the impact of the behemoth, although Liu Han or Zhu Chen, they were no strangers to elephants, but they were still taken aback, as for the ordinary soldiers when they saw the elephant rushing forward, the huge elephant foot stepped on the corpse of the Annamite people, and when the corpse was trampled into flesh, they all became frightened and jumped, and they couldn't help but have a thought in their hearts.

Escape!

Just as this thought came to mind, the officers over there shouted loudly.

"Steady, steady!"

While stabilizing the troops on the side, Liu Han heard the squadron leader order.

"Squads two, three, and four, prepare grenades, the target is straight ahead!"

The soldiers who received the order all took out the grenade from their waists, then unscrewed the bottom cover, and immediately pulled the fire rope after the porcelain ball dragged the fire rope to be exposed, and then threw the grenade vigorously.

Although there were only a few steps to run, they still threw the grenade into the paddy field forty or fifty fathoms away, and of course, there were many people who were thrown directly into the middle of the Vietnamese army, and those Vietnamese soldiers didn't feel that those iron bumps were a threat at all unless they were directly hit in the head.

After throwing thousands of grenades, they did not explode in the first place, it would take a delay of five to six seconds before exploding. The Annan soldiers, who only thought it was an iron lump, continued to howl and rush towards the Ming army, and only a few Annan soldiers noticed that the iron lump was still bubbling in the water after it fell into the water. But that's all, after all, the bullets from the front continue to kill people.

Suddenly, at the moment when the two sides met each other, a series of violent explosions exploded at the feet of the Annan soldiers, and even some war elephants were injured at the moment of the explosion because they stepped on the grenade, and at the moment of the explosion, the elephant's feet were injured, but more war elephants were because of shrapnel scratches the unprotected abdomen, howling as if they were crazy, and completely ignored the command of the elephant slaves, and trampled the nearby Annan soldiers to death one after another.

Although occasionally a few war elephants rushed over, at this time, the field artillery in the rear blasted out barrels of shotguns, and those seemingly irresistible elephants were beaten into a hornet's nest before they even had time to react.

And the real most lethal thing was that dozens of mortars behind them suddenly opened fire at this time, because the range of the mortars was short, only about 200 fathoms, so they did not fire, but waited until the Vietnamese army completely entered the firing range, and then fired at the Vietnamese army in a burst of rapid fire.

Compared with the field artillery, which has half the power of timing inaccuracy, the mortar shell using the instantaneous thunder mercury fuse is extremely powerful, and it is precisely because of this that it will become the killer weapon of the Ming army. And this killer feature has been tried and tested in past battles, and this time is no exception.

Although the Jin army only has a total of 100 mortars, and the shells need to be transferred from the arsenal in the capital, but more than 60 mortars still fired hundreds of shells in just a few seconds, which seems to be not much, but it still makes the Vietnamese army completely shrouded in gunsmoke in the chaos, in the violent explosion, thousands of catties of cast iron turned into tens of thousands of fragments, passing through the air, tearing apart the bodies of the surrounding Vietnamese troops, and even the body of the elephant was torn into a blurred flesh and blood by shrapnel.

Compared with ordinary guns or field artillery grenades, mortar shells fired in a short period of time are like summer rainstorms, coming in a hurry, and it is precisely because of their urgency that they seem so sharp that those Vietnamese did not even have time to react, just stood there stupidly, allowing shrapnel to tear their bodies apart and blast their bodies into the air.

The sharp pain in his body made Ding Wenzuo want to move, but he didn't have any strength in his body, his eyes moved down, and he could see that there was an extra thumb-sized hole on the Western armor that originally blocked the gun, and the twisted and somewhat deformed hole was very conspicuous, and the sharp pain in his chest and abdomen reminded him that he had been shot, and the knife he was originally holding in his hand had fallen to his feet at some point, and between the gaps under the breastplate, blood was constantly gushing out.

As soon as his legs were weak, Ding Wen knelt left in the paddy field, where he knelt, his eyes were full of unwillingness, but more puzzlement.

How so?

This is obviously a Western armor worth 100 gold, how can it be pierced?

Ding Wenzuo couldn't know the answer anymore, those eyes were full of unwillingness, and the vitality in them was fading little by little at this moment......

Finally, Ding Wenzuo, who was kneeling in the field, fell down, his head fell towards the paddy field, and around him, there were Annan soldiers who were wounded and killed by the bullets, and even the paddy field was stained red with blood. At this time, there were still shells exploding in the paddy fields, and the water columns with yellow mud exploded from time to time on the bodies of the Vietnamese soldiers, and with the explosions, one person after another fell.

It was only at this time that the infantrymen, who were still a little nervous, breathed a long sigh of relief in their hearts. They knew that it was no longer possible for the Annamites to rush in front of them.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they listened to the orders issued by the captains.

"Get on the bayonet!"

When Zhu Chen and the others heard this, they hurriedly inserted the bayonet into the mouth of the gun and twisted it on the left. Even if there is an enemy who is close, you can stab them to death with a bayonet.

Without waiting for the Vietnamese to rush over, as the drummers beat the snare drums, the Ming army's position sounded more rapid drums.

This is the order to move forward!

It's time to attack!

With bayonet-wielding firearms, the warriors marched forward in a neat pace, and although the stagnant water and mud in the paddy fields held them back, they still tried to keep the ranks as neat and consistent as possible.

Occasionally, when they encountered a lone Vietnamese soldier, they would not hesitate to stab the crossing soldiers in the chest with their bayonets to help them free.

"Stay in formation!"

The saber held in his right hand rested on his shoulder, and Liu Han told the soldiers with a password as he advanced, as the leader of the squad, all he needed was to maintain a queue. On the battlefield, many times his role is limited to this.

However, at this time, the Vietnamese had not yet been defeated, and when the smoke cleared, when they saw the Ming army that had been killed, they even brandished their knives and guns again, as if they knew that as long as they rushed over, the Ming army would not be able to fire again.

For the enemy, who was only a dozen fathoms away, Zhu Chen and his comrades-in-arms calmly raised their guns. With the captain's long knife slashing again.

"Put!"

Another dense salvo. Even though he narrowed his right eye this time, he still clearly saw the blood mist raised by the lead bullet when it passed through the body of the Vietnamese army, and the blood mist seemed to explode as if the body exploded violently, exploding a cloud of blood mist. The clouds of blood mist filled the air, even if it was covered by the choking gunpowder smoke, you could still breathe the smell of blood in the air, and even when a gust of wind blew, you could feel that the blood mist was blown by the wind, fell on your body, and then merged into blood droplets...... Of course this is not visible, because their military uniforms are red.

However, at this time, Zhu Chen's heart seemed extremely excited, it was a feeling of blood boiling, his eyes also became hot, and he even began to yearn to shoot and kill now, and pierce the enemy with a bayonet.

It's a wild instinct. It's not even controlled by people at all.

Bloodthirsty cells have always been hidden in human genes, and as long as there are the right conditions, they will be catalyzed, and the battlefield is the condition that catalyzes this wild nature.

It's just that, compared to the Ming army, after this round of volleys, the courage of the Annan soldiers was completely dispersed, and when they looked at the Ming army close at hand, what they thought of was no longer attacking, but fleeing!

It's also instinctive to run!

This is the instinct of life, and the Vietnamese army, driven by the instinct of survival, fled backwards one after another, and did not even give the Ming army time to react.

Seeing the Vietnamese army who were so frightened that they ran back, all the Ming soldiers were slightly stunned, and then they didn't react for a long time, these grandsons are running too fast!