Chapter 381: Sniper
Several Jurchen armored soldiers who supervised the battle roared and took two steps forward, and involuntarily slashed at the necks of several Aha soldiers in the back row, and the Jin army array was suddenly splashed with blood, and the heads rolled wildly on the ground.
Under the coercion of the Jurchens' butcher's knife, the Jin military array began to advance again, but the chaos was still there, and the speed was as slow as a turtle crawling.
Seeing this scene, the battle-hardened silver art immediately realized that Aha Bing probably had little hope.
"Get ready, if those minions collapse, let's leave immediately!"
Yinshuke whispered:
"When I arrived in Gaizhou, I met with the women and children who left first, and then I took all the women, children and livestock and grain, and I took as much as I could, and went to Zhenjiang!"
Zhenjiang is on the edge of the Yalu River, which is the edge of the rule of the Jin Kingdom, and Yinshuke has already made up his mind that if Zonggan, Zongwang, and Zongbi must be held accountable for their defeat, he will lead his troops across the river and go to Goryeo to find a way to survive!
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The Qi army's offensive pace did not stop, and they had realized that the enemy on the opposite side was not a formidable opponent - it was rare for an enemy to become such a bear before making contact.
Therefore, the morale of the Qi soldiers was quite high, and each of the three field brigades sent 3 small phalanxes of 5 infantry companies to quickly approach the enemy.
At the same time, about 200 elite stragglers left the main formation, armed with bows and arrows or flintlock muskets, scattered in twos and threes in front of the Jin army.
This time, the troops carrying out the skirmishing mission were not just the usual selection of vanguards, but also dozens of divine soldiers carrying new muskets.
The flintlock muskets in the hands of these warriors had 4 rifles in their chambers, so they were also the first rifled flintlock pistols in the world.
These rifled guns were all equipped with the best musketeers in the Shenji soldiers, and Xu Shiyang also specially ordered the arsenal in Dengzhou to manufacture a batch of Migne warheads for them.
The rifled gun and the conical Migne bullet allowed these few sharpshooters to accurately attack targets of about 100 paces - this figure was much closer than the normal Minne range in the history of another plane, Xu Shiyang estimated that the main reason was that the flintlock pistol was still an open flame gun after all, and it was a cut worse than the fire cap fire pistol in terms of breath holding, and could not give full play to the full advantages of Migne.
However, the effective range of 100 paces is already quite good, which means that for the first time on the battlefield, there are real snipers, and in the case of a battle in formation, elite snipers can accurately snipe the opposing front-line commander before the two armies engage.
If the Tartars can't get rid of the snipers in advance, then both the real Tartars and Aha will inevitably suffer heavy losses before the engagement.
In today's battle, in order to preserve his strength, Wanyan Yinshu did not send elite skirmishers at all, which gave the Qi army snipers the opportunity to attack calmly.
After moving out of the array, the 60 snipers quickly stood at a distance of about 100 paces from the enemy formation, and then half-knelt and raised their guns to aim at the huge military formation of the Jin Army.
In the absence of enemy interference, the sniper's more important job is to choose the right target.
These sharpshooters have set their targets on people who are armed with waist knives and look like military officers who are babbling at others.
After a crackling burst of uneven firing, at least twenty of the ten small phalanxes were hit.
The sniper then turns his attention to the seemingly threatening enemy with muskets.
By this time, the Tartar artillery had already begun to fire, and twenty artillery pieces - including the general's cannon with sufficient range and the bowl cannon that could not reach the Qi army at all were firing.
The Tartar artillery positions in the rear were filled with gunsmoke and the sound of artillery shook the sky.
However, at this time, there were only 4 general guns that really threatened the Qi army, and the range of the small-caliber Shenji cannon and the Tiger Squat cannon was simply not enough, let alone the bowl mouth cannon that could only shoot shotguns.
And if the general artillery wants to achieve the first hit, it must have a deep mathematical foundation, and only the artillery commander who is proficient in ballistics can do it, and the Tartars naturally do not have such talents.
Therefore, amid the roaring cannonballs, the slowly advancing Qi army did not waver in the slightest, and the first round of Tartar firing failed to even make any hits.
After finishing the silver technique, you can close your eyes in pain.
In this round of shooting, Daikin's gunpowder production was gone for nearly half a month, but it failed to achieve any results.
What a tragedy.
"It's just that the god cannon and the tiger squat cannon shoot, at this distance, why does the bowl mouth cannon shoot?"
After a moment, Yinshu Ke roared:
"Cut down all those bowl gunners!"
Boom Boom!
As soon as the words fell, six iron balls flew over the artillery position of the Qi army.
Wanyan Yinshu couldn't help but shrink his neck, but fortunately, at this distance, the Qi army only had 2 general guns per brigade to shoot, and there was no first round of school shooting, and its results were not much better than those of the Jin army.
Of the 6 shells fired in the first round, 2 were high and flew directly over the head of the Jin army, and the other 3 were too close, and only 1 shell bounced twice on the ground and flew into a Jin military formation.
Since most of the energy was absorbed by the ground, the casualties caused by the shell were minimal, with only one Aha being knocked in the head and the other being broken to the bone.
However, this casualty alone still caused great confusion to the Jin army's phalanx, which had lost several officers under the sniper attack, and the small phalanx stopped again, and the Tartar armor who was overseeing the battle immediately rushed up and howled and slashed the slave soldiers.
The sniper immediately turned his attention to the warlords, and after a sparse burst of gunfire, several Tartar armorers fell.
The power of the overseer was weakened, and the Jin military array, which had been forced to the limit, collapsed directly!
The Aha slaves howled and turned and fled backwards, suffering heavy losses, and the remaining overseers could not stop the hundreds of routs, and were directly overwhelmed by the surging crowd.
The collapse of the first phalanx quickly set off a chain reaction, and the other two small phalanxes near this phalanx, although not hit in the first round of shelling, were still in deadly confusion.
The stragglers of the Qi army immediately seized this opportunity, and not only the snipers, but also the magic soldiers began to concentrate on this position, and the soldiers with flintlock muskets approached to a distance of about fifty paces to shoot at the Jin army, while the others threw light arrows at the enemy.
At this time, the Qi artillery carried out a second round of shooting at the Tartars, supported by the data of the last bullet impact point, this shot achieved more hits, 3 of the 6 shells directly slashed into the Tartar array, and one of the 4 pounds of iron bullets jumped in a Tartar phalanx that was about to collapse, and went straight through the 8 battle lines, causing huge damage to 5 dead and 4 wounded!
So the second phalanx also disintegrated logically.
Seeing this time, even Wanyan Yinshu knew that everything was irretrievable now.
"Withdraw." He said coldly.
"Master, are we really not going to be there?" That Meng'an still looked a little unwilling, after all, most of the losses now are Aha slaves of various races, and the four thousand Jurchen armor soldiers in the hands of Yinshu Ke basically have no losses.
"If we don't withdraw, we will lose it!"
Yinshu can make up his mind that he will never use up his strength here.