Chapter 412: Battle of Kaesong 2
After Yan Yinshu's eyelids jumped, he noticed that the Qi army's artillery had become more and more powerful.
He also had a number of various types of artillery in his hands, and the experience of using the silver magic was that he had to shoot at the enemy at the closest possible distance in order to achieve a good hit rate.
However, the firing of the Qi artillery was farther and farther each time, and in each battle, it was possible to get a hit by a few test shots, and it was not seen that the accuracy of the hit decreased with the increase of the firing distance.
Wanyan Yinshu felt that if this continued, sooner or later, the Qi army would be able to destroy a strong army with artillery fire alone—it didn't matter how many people there were, how many warriors there were, and how well the commander knew the battle formation.
It's completely tricky, no, and doesn't need to be a little fancy.
In fact, today's battle is similar to Yinshuke's idea.
After getting a direct hit, the Qi artillery had a very short period of calm - after finishing the silver technique, you could know that it was the Qi gunners who were adjusting the impact point.
In about half a pillar of incense, all the artillery was adjusted, and then a salvo was fired at the Jurchen army that was gradually approaching.
Boom Boom!
With a series of thunderous sounds, dozens of 4 or 8 catties of iron balls roared in, and in the eyes of the Jurchen armor soldiers, the speed of the cannonballs flying was not fast, as if they could reach down these black balls with a single stretch of hand.
But here's the reality: anything that gets in the way of a shell is out of luck.
Shells easily smashed weapons, shields, armor, and human bodies, destroying all obstacles in their path, and falling to the ground with countless pieces of flesh and steel, and then bounced again, continuing to repeat the process of killing, leaving only a disgusting alley of flesh and blood on the ground.
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The Qi army dispatched in too haste, and the troops to reinforce Goryeo were completely cobbled together by the garrison troops of the various brigades of the Qi army, the largest of which was at the battalion level.
Therefore, the artillery that actually participated in the war was also pieced together by various units.
The largest of these units was actually a teaching gun brought out by the cadets of the newly established Dengzhou Army College.
Coupled with the weapons put together by various units, there are a total of 6 4-kilogram guns, 5 8-kilogram guns and 12 flying artillery guns.
This is also an important reason why the artillery of the Qi Army fought quickly and accurately this time - the trainees and instructors of the Dengzhou Army College are the backbone of artillery skills directly selected from the front-line artillery team, and going to the school to study intensively is also a process of deepening training, rather than letting those newcomers who have never been exposed to artillery learn from scratch.
The Qi artillery achieved terrible results, and the first salvo of the artillery split 7 or 8 flesh alleys in the Jurchen array, and Meng An, who was commanding the attack at that time, was still roaring for others to fill the gap in the formation.
This was followed by another round of accurate and ruthless volleys, which instantly wiped away the Jurchens' efforts to regroup like spider silk.
A moment later, another volley was fired, and this time even the Jurchens themselves gave up trying to regroup.
The Qi army continued to shoot step by step, and in the fourth and fifth rounds, when the Jurchen army approached a distance of 70 paces and could return fire with light arrows, they had already lost almost 300 men, which was too much for a feudal army to bear.
If it weren't for the Qi army blocking their way home and putting on a posture of rushing to kill, the attacking Jurchens would have collapsed long ago.
Now, the Jurchens, who have been locked in cages and waiting for death, have no other way but to give full play to their barbarian nature and desperately try to find a way to escape.
"Keep up!"
The leader of the soldiers, Meng An, howled frantically:
"Rush! Rush over and go home! ”
Time was pressing, he did not dare to send stragglers to harass, and he did not even dare to stop and shoot arrows, but desperately urged the soldiers to follow him and try to approach the Qi front.
Behind them, Wanyan Yinshu also knew that it was a matter of life and death at this time, so he only left a few hundred Aha soldiers to watch the newly captured Goryeo slaves, and he led the last thousand True Jurchen armor soldiers and three thousand Aha soldiers to follow the first formation.
Now Yinshu can't care if Aha can watch so many slaves left, and his only thought now is to use all his strength to fight for a glimmer of life.
While the central front was helping to attract the artillery fire of the Qi army, the Jurchen cavalry on both sides began to slowly accelerate.
This is where all the hope of condensing the silver art lies, with a thousand cavalry on each wing.
On the left flank of the Qi army, there were also some cavalry arrays, and if the Jurchen cavalry could defeat them, they would still have the opportunity to use the power of cavalry to force the Qi infantry to make way.
Now, all the Jurchen generals, whether they are Yinshuke or the Dajin court in Liaoyang, admit that the Qi army's artillery is particularly powerful, and the infantry is also very strong.
However, they are all self-hypnotizing, constantly emphasizing their cavalry superiority:
The cavalry of the Qi army will definitely not be able to defeat us!
You can't beat us!
Certain!
Therefore, even when they saw the cuirassiers with men and horses and ornate equipment, the Jurchen cavalry still approached without flinching and prepared to fight on horseback.
On the other hand, the cavalry of the Qi army also ignored the central front that was fighting fiercely and slowly moved forward.
At this time, the Qi army had 3 cuirassier companies, 6 chaser companies and 5 dragoon companies on the battlefield, and all 1400 cavalry were concentrated on one side, and even the dragoons did not dismount, and participated in the upcoming cavalry battle with a pure cavalry attitude.
At the forefront of the cavalry of the Qi army were three cuirassier companies, and the entire 300 armored cavalry was arranged in a formation of 100 horses wide and three columns thick.
Behind them were five companies of dragoons, also a hundred horsemen wide and five rows thick.
There were 3 chasper companies on each side of the cavalry formation to provide cover, which was also Xu Shiyang's backhand after preparing to win the victory.
Both sides were in a large array of thousand cavalry, and after slowly approaching to three hundred paces, the Jurchen cavalry began to accelerate first.
The Jurchen army was relatively loose, while the cavalry of the Qi army was knee to knee, and there were almost no gaps between the cavalry, posing in a menacing cavalry wall formation.
A crisp trumpet sounded, and the Qi cavalry began to speed up, their pace slightly slower than that of the Jurchens, and the company commander-level officers with mounted spears kept looking left and right, and ordered their subordinates to keep the line in order with whistles and passwords—the cavalry charged in a wall-like manner, and formation and discipline were more important than anything else.
The distance between the two sides was two hundred paces, and the Jurchen cavalry formation also sounded the sound of horns, and they quickly increased their speed to the limit, and many people couldn't help but howl loudly.
And the Qi army still accelerated unhurriedly and gradually, and at a distance of a hundred steps, the speed of the Qi army's cavalry became a lot faster.
Fifty paces away, the last charge horn sounded, the cavalry of the Qi army just reached the highest speed, the first three rows of cuirassiers just put the cavalry guns in their hands flat, and then in the blink of an eye, thousands of cavalry of the two armies collided together like a torrent!