[183] Zhenjiangshan was defeated and Jiannu

"Thirteen pikemen were killed and twenty-one wounded, and the musketeers were killed and eight wounded." After Li Xin reported the casualties, he closed the pamphlet and stood straight in front of Song Youliang, "In the battle of Xiaosi Mountain, our army suffered twenty-nine wounds and fourteen dead. ”

"Soldiers who died in battle should be compensated in time~" Song Youliang said: "Wounded soldiers should be treated in time, so how many Jiannu should be killed?" ”

Li Xin opened the pamphlet again and said: "I have won 1,309 first-class horses, and 543 war horses, of which two hundred horses can still be used, and the rest can only be used as vegetable horses." ”

Song Youliang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, kill all those vegetables and horses, let the soldiers have a full meal, and set off early tomorrow morning." ”

Li Xin asked puzzledly: "Junmen, this field has not been blackened yet, so you won't leave?" ”

"Hmm~ to maintain the physical strength of the soldiers, especially the infantry. Didn't you see them in armor and thick robes? It's only June, but it's getting hotter. It's useless to march in a hurry, have you forgotten what I said? Song Youliang said with a smile.

Li Xin replied: "Strategically offensive, tactically defensive, subordinates dare not forget!" ”

"That's fine~" Song Youliang said: "Although we are walking slowly, we make Jiannu invulnerable~ This is the key to whether we can defeat Jiannu." ”

"But the subordinates are worried~~" Li Xin said: "The infantry army does not carry much grain and grass, and it is getting closer and closer to the mouth of the Yalu River when it goes forward, and the water is getting shallower and shallower, I am afraid that it will be difficult for our army to support the sea ships." ”

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Jiannu will not wait until we are short of food and grass to attack, Jiannu is more eager to fight than me." ”

Li Xin thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that their army entered Kuandian and grabbed the wheat?" ”

"Exactly, even if we don't rob it, a fire will lose the crops in those fields, and then our army can retreat into North Korea in a big way, what should we do with Jiannu? Jiannu had to go hungry. Song Youliang said: "So, I thought that when our army reached the vicinity of Zhenjiang Fort at the latest, Jiannu would fight a decisive battle with our army at all costs." ”

The development of things was also as Song Youliang expected, and at the same time that he was advancing towards Zhenjiang Fort without hurry, the Jiannu army also set out from Phoenix City and quickly deployed defenses in the lower reaches of the Great Worm River. Haoge was stationed in the dangerous mountain fort and Jierharang to guard the Tangshan fort, and Ao Bai, as a pioneer, waited directly for Song Youliang's arrival in Zhenjiang Fort. Unbeknownst to him, Song Youliang stopped his advance and stationed his troops in the narrow strip of land southwest of Zhenjiang Fort before Zhenjiang Mountain to the Yalu River.

After seeing Song Youliang's array, Ao Bai said with a smile: "The southern barbarians are cunning, leaning on the mountains on one side and the river on the other, such a terrain is indeed not conducive to the outflanking of my iron wings. But it's enough for me to gallop on the Eight Banners. ”

Sebent reminded on the side: "Uncle, the firearms of the southern barbarians are powerful, and the iron cavalry charging into battle is really the next strategy~"

Ao Bai glanced at Sebent, "Who said I was going to charge the iron cavalry?" I've been at war with the Nanban for many years, and I don't know what tricks the Nanban has? Ao Bai waved his hand and said: "Take the chariot as the lead ~ the infantry follows, the cavalry follows ~"

Ao Bai has learned a lot of lessons through years of fighting with the Ming army, and the blind cavalry sprint in the past is no longer there. After the Jiannu attack, the chariots pushed by the four Jiannu soldiers were spearheaded, and this chariot was also used by Shuoto and Adali. The chariot was pushed forward slowly, and in front of it were sacks more than a man high, stuffed with dirt. There are elite Jiannu soldiers hidden in the back of the chariot, which cannot be penetrated by ordinary firecrackers, even with Mine's bullets, and the firecrackers kill in a straight line, unable to hurt the soldiers hiding behind the car.

"Open the cannon~" Although the musketeers of the Ming army were helpless for a while against these Jiannu soldiers hiding behind the chariots, in front of the well-trained Ming artillerymen, this kind of behavior was quite ridiculous.

With Song Youliang's order, the Ming army's twenty-eight 24-pounder Kou Feilin cannons fired together, and the hot wrought iron cannonballs whistled out, and after landing on the ground, they jumped happily a few times, and then plunged into the crowd of Jiannu without hesitation.

Boom~~ Seven or eight Jiannu chariots were smashed, and the flying sawdust injured the surrounding Jiannu infantry. However, the Jiannu soldiers did not panic or panic, but continued to advance slowly as if nothing had happened.

The distance was closer, and at this time several artillery pieces of different weights and calibers of the Ming army, from 18 to 12 pounders, began to join the salvo. Cannons of various calibers roughly formed three rounds of salvos, each of which could drop nearly thirty rounds of shells into the Jiannu infantry. At this time, the shells were replaced from solid shells to flowering shells, and the falling shells exploded in the crowd, taking the lives of some people each time. I have to say that these Tunguska goods are indeed extremely suitable war machines, although there are constantly explosions around them, although the blood plasma and even brain plasma of their companions are constantly spraying on their bodies and faces, they still stubbornly push the cart forward.

The distance of more than a thousand yards did not allow the Ming artillery to fire many times, and Jiannu still quickly entered the range of the muskets. At this time, some Jiannu began to raise their bows and arrows and began to shoot at the positions of the Ming army.

The feather arrows first passed through the field of vision of the spearmen in the front row, only to hear the general banner and the hundred commanders shouting: "Dodge the arrow~"

"Hi ~ Hi ~ Hi ~ " The heavy infantry holding the spear in his hand will stretch the spear more than a zhang long in his hand as far as possible, and then begin to swing the spear rhythmically from side to side, and more than half of the feather arrows shot by Jiannu will be knocked away by the spear, losing its original power.

The feathered arrows thrown by Jiannu were sparse and seemed to have limited lethality, but the Ming army still defended in strict accordance with the rules of warfare. The musketeers of the Ming army themselves also wore this light armor and iron helmets, and the vital parts of the body were also protected by iron pieces, such as heart guards. Therefore, the lethality of Jiannu's projectile to the Ming army was extremely limited.

After the bombardment of the Ming artillery, there were many gaps in the Jiannu car formation, so the Ming army's musketeers began to shoot intensively at these gaps. Although some results were achieved, after several volleys due to the obstruction of the carts, the expected effect was not received, and with the sound of a trumpet and the dancing of the flag, the musketeers began to retreat, and the swordsmen with steel swords and shields stood behind the spearmen.

Seeing that the artillery and muskets of the Ming army had stopped firing, the Jiannu infantry then mutated and advanced at a faster speed, and behind them, the cavalry of the brigade also began to move.

However, the Jiannu soldiers, who were in a relatively high position, soon found that the musketeers of the Ming army seemed to have grown taller and became condescending in the blink of an eye. Of course, they didn't know that while they were pushing the heavy chariot slowly, the Ming army was also struggling to swing the shovel, and in a very short time, they had built a trapezoidal mud improvised work block with a height of one meter, a length of 500 meters, and a width of two meters.

The Jiannu infantry continued to move forward, and soon entered the range of the Ming army's rear team firearms, because they were standing on the earthen platform, these firecrackers had a better angle of fire, of course, this was also relative, and the lead bullets shot by the rear team were still partially blocked by the car. At the same time, as the exposure became more sufficient, the number of musketeers killed and wounded by Jiannu's bows and arrows began to increase.

After the fourth volley of the musketeers, the Jiannu soldiers had also fallen in large numbers. However, the Jiannu soldiers, who were covered by carts, still successfully came into contact with the front of the Ming army.

"Kill~" The Ming army roared.

"Kill~" The spearmen of the Ming army wearing plate armor in the front row stabilized the spear with his left hand, raised his right hand over his shoulder, slightly lowered the spearhead of the spear, and then used his inertia to stab the Jiannu in front of him.

Burst~

The armor-piercing cone-head spear pierced Jiannu's cotton armor, and then pulled out of Jiannu's body with a blood arrow that splattered out, and then stabbed into the next Jiannu's body again with blood.

When the spearmen were fighting with the Jiannu, the sword soldier standing behind the spearmen took out a wooden grenade from his arms, lit it, and threw it into the crowd of Jiannu.

Boom ~ boom.

The grenade that exploded in the middle of the dense crowd caused huge casualties to Jiannu.

Some Jiannu crossbowmen secretly moved into the gap in the cart array, and just as they wanted to bend their bows and arrows, a few buckshot shot him in the head and chest. It turned out that the Ming musketeers who were standing on a high place were blocked by the carts, so they concentrated their fire on the gaps between the carts.

Some Jiannu soldiers tried to cut the spears of the Ming army with their swords, but when the spear reached his eyes, he found that the spearhead of the Ming army had a metal handguard nearly three feet long, which could not be easily cut at all. So he tried to use the weapon in his hand to dispel the dense spears, but only to clear the two spears from the assassination, he was immediately stabbed into a sieve by the other four spears.

The other Jiannu soldiers who tried to crash directly into the spear array and try to break away from the hedgehog-like spear formation in front of them also ended up with a few more blood holes on their bodies. The first few rows of Song Youliang's spearmen were all heavy plate armor, and the battle formation composed of heavy infantry was like a steel fortress, making it difficult for Jiannu to pass.

At this moment, Ao Bai was far away from the front line, just watching from a distance, and he couldn't smell the blood, because he had long been accustomed to it, and he was numb to the smell of blood. He only heard the constant roar of the Ming army's firearms, and his own yellow-studded Baturu people kept screaming in this shrill roar.

Jiannu's crossbowmen did not dare to get too close to the chariot formation, because the Ming army would throw grenades from time to time, so they could only hide a hundred paces away and shoot at the Ming musketeers. Soon, this kind of self-defeating shooting gave the Ming musketeers who had the upper hand in position, range and accuracy, and the Jiannu crossbowmen had no choice but to retreat farther and shoot arrows at the Ming army in the form of projectiles, not seeking a hit, as long as they could fall into the Ming army's formation.

"It's time to fight back~" Song Youliang saw that the Jiannu soldiers hit their heads in front of their steel Great Wall and broke their blood, so he said to Heinrich and Ludwig beside him: "It's time for you to show your skills." ”

Heinrich and Ludwig put their feet together, touched their chests with their right hands, and saluted Song Youliang: "Willing to serve you~~"

Woo~~Woo~~ A loud horn sounded in the Ming army's formation.

The Jiannu soldiers suddenly felt that the entire Ming army's front was slightly stagnant for a moment, and then, with a roar of overwhelming rage, the steel hedgehog in front of him began to move forward slowly, crushing him with the momentum of Mount Tai.