Chapter 117: Victory
The effect of the artillery bombardment, even Chen Xian was a little surprised, he had long thought that the cannon should be able to disrupt the opponent's team, otherwise he would not have deployed the team in advance and prepared for the attack, but he did not expect that the effect of the artillery bombardment would be so good and the chaos would be so complete.
Although he was surprised, Chen Xian had been prepared after all, so he did not hesitate to order the four companies that had been deployed to press forward......
The phalanx advanced, in order to maintain the formation, the speed could not be too fast, and the distance of more than two hundred meters took more than three minutes.
The generals on the opposite side are not straw bales, knowing that if they are dispersed at this time, there is a danger that the whole army will be annihilated.
Behind them is a primeval forest that is difficult to navigate, and there is only one path that can be walked, and once it breaks up and is congested in the intersections and woods, it will be difficult for anyone to escape.
Therefore, the generals on the opposite side, including Liu Erzu, and his brothers, did everything they could to maintain their troops after the shelling stopped.
To Chen Xian's surprise, in just over three minutes, the other party really gathered part of the team again.
On the one hand, this is because these soldiers are the henchmen of various leaders, and they are all fed on weekdays, and these veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time understand that if they are dispersed at this time, they are almost certain to die, plus Chen Xian waved his army to press, blocking the cannon behind him, removing the source of fear of the soldiers, and the number of Chen Xian who pressed up was too small, which was not enough to cause enough psychological pressure on these people.
So, under the hoarse summons of the leader, these soldiers slowly began to gather again.
Only Shi Qing's 1,000 musketeers completely broke up and fled into the woods regardless of it.
It's a pity that Chen Xian won't give them time.
When the team approached within fifty meters, Chen Xian stopped the team and couldn't wait to give the order to open fire.
Chen Xian's four companies and 200 musketeers actually did not pose a fundamental threat to the enemy, who still had nearly 2,000 men on the opposite side.
After months of adaptation and training, the soldiers on the opposite side also got used to the sound of muskets, although the muskets in Chen Xian's hands were much more powerful than the three-eyed guns, but these soldiers would not feel it for a while.
It stands to reason that the musketeers of more than two people can't break the knot of the opposing military formation, and it stands to reason that Chen Xian should take advantage of the opportunity that the other party has not yet regrouped to wave his army to cover up the killing......
But Chen Xian did not do this, and instead waved the army.
Did Chen Xian make a mistake? The results showed ...... It doesn't seem to be ......
Because after the sound of muskets, the opposing army was thrown back into confusion, and soon it completely collapsed......
The reason for this......
The reason is very simple, because at this time, Chen Xian cheated......
At a distance of several tens of meters, a semi-automatic rifle was used, and with Chen Xian's marksmanship, he hit a humanoid target, almost hitting a hundred shots.
While ordering his musketeers to shoot, Chen Xian also picked up his rifle and shot frantically like a bullet without money.
Before, Chen Xian kept observing with a telescope, just observing the commanders in these military formations.
At this time, these bandit leaders who were riding on tall horses and wearing dazzling armor, afraid that their subordinates would not be able to see them, fell off their horses one by one.
The successive downfalls of the leaders were the last stone that crushed the psychological defenses of these veterans.
Seeing that the opponent's battle formation was completely disorganized, Chen Xian gave the order for a general attack and sent all his soldiers out......
The four companies quickly spread out in battle formation, the pikemen still maintaining the phalanx, and the axemen broke away from the phalanx and came behind the swordmen and shieldmen, who took cover with their shields and quickly advanced forward......
This forest between East Zhuangzi and West Zhuangzi, because it is close to the Yi River, the ground is moist, and the bottom of the forest is very lush, and it is almost difficult for people to enter it.
Completely routed, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Village panicked into the woods, and they were soon entangled in dense bushes.
The people in front are entangled in the bushes, but the people in the back don't care about these, they just feel that the people in front of them are grinding and chirping, hindering their escape, you don't want to escape, Lao Tzu still wants to run!
After shouting a few times to no avail, the enemy behind saw that they were catching up, and in a hurry, the swords and guns were called!
All of a sudden, it was a complete mess......
When the team chased to the edge of the woods, they were stopped by Chen Xian, and only the musketeers were allowed to shoot into the woods......
After completely defeating the courage of the rout, Chen Xian ordered to stop shooting and take prisoners.
The battle ended so quickly, from the time Chen Xian gave the order to open the artillery, to the final cessation of the shooting, and the reception of the prisoners, it took less than half an hour in total.
Next, Chen Xian hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield, let the captives carry and support the wounded, and used the war horses discarded by the enemy to carry the spoils, and rushed back to Xinzhuangzi.
In this battle, the biggest trophy was nearly 300 war horses.
Although Chen Xian regarded the cavalry team with the greatest threat from the other side as the main object of artillery bombardment from the beginning, first, the cavalry formation was relatively scattered, and secondly, the cavalry was fast after all, and after two rounds of artillery bombardment, it was completely dispersed, so there were not many cavalry and mounts killed by the artillery.
Finally, when Chen Xian used semi-automatic sniping, after sniping a few leaders, he mainly took care of the cavalry, as long as there were cavalry leaders who wanted to gather his subordinates, they would snipe, so that the cavalry could never be gathered.
In the end, people can barely get into the woods, but don't think about the war horses, in that kind of panic when everyone is running for their lives, no one can take care of the precious war horses, just like that, nearly three hundred war horses were abandoned on the battlefield by the owners who were in a hurry to flee for their lives, and became Chen Xian's trophies.
According to rough statistics, in this battle, Chen Xian's command killed more than 300 people, including more than 100 people killed by artillery and more than 100 people killed by muskets; More than 300 were wounded, more than 400 were taken prisoner, and the rest fled into the woods.
Because it was getting dark, Chen Xian did not allow the pursuit.
On the way back to Zhuangzi, some more prisoners ran away, and Chen Xian ordered those who escaped to be killed on the spot, but those who ran away did not pursue.
Back in the new Zhuangzi, Chen Xian ordered the captives to be placed outside the Zhuangzi, in the grass hut that had previously received the purchased population.
A few pieces of Hu Biscuits and a bowl of soup cakes with enough meat whistles made the prisoners feel a lot more at ease.
If there is something delicious, at least it means that the other party will not kill them, otherwise it will be a waste of food.
The captured wounded were placed in the Zhuangzi, and the medics carried out simple treatment of the wounded overnight.
The next day, the wounded were transferred to three Zhuangzi and settled down, and the medical soldiers began to perform the operation non-stop.
Many of the new medics had no medical experience at all, but had only undergone simple hygiene training, and this time they had only seen one operation on a veteran before they had to start operating on their own to remove bullets from the wounded.
The medical soldiers who had watched Chen Xian's dissection and surgery last time directly began to operate on the seriously injured under Chen Xian's guidance.
Chen Xian also had the corpses left behind on the battlefield brought back and transported to Xiangshuizhuang, where they would be used as autopsy specimens for medical soldiers.