Chapter 892: The Thorny Path
The terrain is flat, with occasional gentle slopes. However, with a large water network and a large number of rice paddies and shrublands nearby, the terrain was not conducive to large-scale marches for the army.
The Ming army's multi-road columns came from a small road between rice fields one after another, and only then did they stop advancing less than 200 paces away from the enemy's formation. The general ordered each team to form a phalanx in horizontal formations. The soldiers continued to line up, and gradually formed a flat phalanx, and only the horizontal plane was wide enough not to be outflanked by the enemy infantry.
Flags flutter among the teams, mostly with Chinese characters written on them. After a while, a blue background yellow picture of the sun and moon group dragon flag moved.
Then a middle-aged general with a serious face and a thin figure walked to the front of the military formation with his hand on the hilt of his sword. The generals in the queue all clasped their fists and said, "Commander Lin." "This person is Lin Zixuan, one of the commanders of the navy. Probably because the food at sea is not very good, they often eat cold food, and there are few fat people among the naval generals.
Lin Zixuan kept nodding his head in response to the greetings of the generals, and he watched in front for a while. There was still a damp mist in the air, but the terrain between the two armies was already clear.
The terrain between the two sides is not easy to walk, there are wasteland with rocks and grasses, there are dry fields, and most importantly, two paddy fields divide the open land. Lin Zixuan summoned all the hundred households, arranged for a while, and then ordered to move forward immediately.
After a while, the flute was blown in the military formation. In the light military music, the shouts of the generals were heard everywhere: "Walk together!" ”
The teams began to march in formation in the horizontal blow, and soon the ranks were not in order. Because some people have to climb the ridge of the dry field, it is difficult to maintain a horizontal and vertical formation when walking over the rocks. But the soldiers still marched in a queue for the most part.
When the people reached the middle of the two rice fields, the hundreds of households in the middle stopped, and the soldiers stood in place. The horizontal phalanxes on both sides walked from both sides towards the dry land in the middle. When the phalanx on both wings passed, the hundred-household team in the middle followed.
Gradually, the Ming officers and troops approached to a hundred paces, and they had already entered the range of the enemy's infantry bows. The expressions on the faces of the sergeants gradually became nervous.
The thin mist drifted through the air, and beyond the sound of horizontal blowing, the noise of enemy troops in the distance could be faintly heard. The Ming sergeants were silent and kept their speed and continued to move forward.
Most of the people were still tired on their faces. The force commanded by Lin was not Zhu Zhen's army stationed on land, but naval officers. They have been adrift at sea for many days, and they just got off the warship today after the naval battle in Saigon Bay yesterday.
The sound of "pop pop pop ......" came from a distance, black shadows dotted in the air, and the arrows of the real people flew over. Arrows crackled against the wooden shields of the Ming spear and shield men in the front row, and there was a crisp metal crash in the crowd, and some sergeants were hit by arrows in their helmets and armor. From time to time, someone screamed and fell to the ground.
But the Ming army was still advancing, and the generals did not order a counterattack.
People walk through the mist in the rain of arrows as if they are walking a trail full of thorns. Some people sacrificed, some people were injured and shouted in pain, but the pace of the overall advance of the Ming officers and troops did not stop at all, did not hesitate at all, and the firm momentum was unstoppable.
After the second round of intensive throwing of enemy bows and arrows, the front of the Ming army finally passed through two rice fields, and they began to separate on both flanks. The spear and shield men in the front row, holding their shields against the enemy formation, blocking the sides of their bodies.
Because the Ming army did not return fire at all; The Zhenla army did not rush to kill, and still used the bow and arrow array in front of it to carry out unilateral shooting on the Ming army's military formation. Soldiers of the Ming army were constantly injured and left in place.
At this time, the soldiers of the Ming army looked really dull and stupid, constantly bearing the shooting of bows and arrows, but there was no response. The brisk rhythm of the horizontal blowing tune in the military formation is particularly comical. However, the queue was not chaotic at all, and the military discipline was extremely strict, and this scene may have shocked the enemy army a little.
The 100 teams have completed the formation adjustment step by step, and re-formed the horizontal formation of the flat phalanx and continued to advance towards the Zhenla people. The distance was within fifty paces, but the Ming army still did not stop. The archers of the Zhenla people began to shoot at the Ming army, shooting at close range, and the arrows were driven into the wooden shields, and sometimes the heavy infantry of the spear shield were also injured.
The archers of the Zhenla Army shot with pleasure, as if they were shooting at a live target.
When he was only about twenty or thirty paces closer, the Ming army general shouted and stopped abruptly. Two sergeants, carrying waist drums, waved their drumsticks and quickly "knocked ...... knocks".
With the shouts of the hundred households, the spear and shield soldiers in the front rows of each team squatted on the ground, and the infantry with firearms in the back raised their firearms. People could already see the swarthy faces of the real people on the other side, and even the confused and surprised expressions on their faces.
Each team raised the Yanling knife, pointed in the direction of the attack, and shouted: "Release!" The bright firelight shone brightly, and the "bang ......" at the mouth of the gun exploded intensively, and the smoke of gunpowder flew up.
At such a close distance, and the enemy army has a deep military formation, the lead bullet is almost inmissible. The real soldiers who were shooting happily before, suddenly many people fell to the ground screaming, and some people were hit by several bullets in a row, and they fell on their backs with convulsions. The soldiers were killed and wounded in rows like harvested rice.
A volley is like a one-hit kill. The enemy's bow and arrow formations were already in an uproar, and many people simply threw their bows and arrows and fled. On the gentle slope opposite, there was a lot of noise, it was like a fried pot.
The officers and soldiers had already changed their ranks, and the dense sound of the second row of salvos soon sounded again. Many of the fleeing enemy soldiers were shot in the back and fell to the slopes. The formations scattered all over there, the crowd fled, and the hillside was full of people.
After the three-stage attack of the front team of the Ming army, it was originally ready to advance again. But what surprised Lin Zixuan and others happened at this time.
The Zhenla army was not completely defeated. After the bow and arrow array dispersed, the elephant soldiers behind did not retreat but advanced, and counterattacked with a large number of foot soldiers!
The ranks of the enemy soldiers were very disorganized, and it was indeed difficult for an ordinary army to maintain its formation during the attack after a large formation. However, the enemy still gathered in one place in each team and came up in a group to kill the generals.
Lin Zixuan ordered a change of team. The 100 teams in front retreated, and the 100 teams that spread out horizontally in the back went up. The sergeants who had finished firing the guns were busy reloading as soon as they stood still, and they were now cleaning the guns with a strip to make sure there was not a single spark left. The military formation was busy, and countless arms were waving back and forth.
Elephant soldiers in hard leather armor marched with heavy steps, and the soldiers on the back of the elephants carried long weapons. The elephant's trunk flicks back and forth in the air. Behind them, a large group of foot soldiers held all kinds of weapons and shouted loudly, and the shouts on the hillside were deafening, as if they resounded through the mountains, forests and rice fields on the earth.
At this moment, some strong men and soldiers in the Ming army walked to the front of the battle together from the gap in the ranks. With the general's order, everyone picked up a short torch, lit the fuse, and then threw the pig iron thunder in his right hand forward with all his might.
"Boom! Boom, boom, boom......, boom" A huge explosion sounded, and the pig iron thunder that exploded on the ground flashed with firelight, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and countless pieces of iron flew sideways.
The deafening sound of the explosion and the dazzling light of the fire frightened the elephants into panic and chirping. The elephants all turned around and ran, frantically charging back into the crowd of the infantry of the Chenla army.
The huge animal, which is usually docile, is completely desperate at this time, and is rampaging through the crowd. The condition of the crowd of the Zhenla Army was simply miserable, with chickens and dogs jumping everywhere, fleeing, and screaming.
The 100 teams of the second formation of the Ming army used the Chun Han light gun and maintained the firepower with three blows to shoot at close range against the Zhenla infantry army. That's when the fire is added.
The crowd of the Zhenla army was like a flock of ducks drifting with the waves, first rushing forward, and then fleeing together towards the hillside.
The enemy did not hold out for even half an hour, and the whole army became a rabble, running on the hillside and in the woods everywhere with people. At the end of the short battle, the Zhenla people were defeated, and all that remained was to be hunted down and slaughtered.