Chapter 678: Ripples

How could the soldiers of the DPRK ever see such heavy artillery fire? A hundred cannons fired a few rounds, and the morale of many Korean soldiers and horses was a little shaky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the critical moment, 20,000 cavalry from Hamgyong Province were killed.

The cavalry of Hamgyong Province can be said to be the trump card of Korea, and this army has been stationed in the northernmost part of Korea for a long time to prevent the Jurchens or the Ming Dynasty from going south. The Joseon royal family invested a lot of resources in this army, and their weapons and armor were significantly better than those of other soldiers. During the Wanli period, the Japanese invaded Korea, and the Japanese army, which was chopping melons and vegetables all the way, mobilized the main force to attack the Hamgyong Province cavalry, but was almost crushed by this cavalry, and finally won by relying on the numerical advantage.

If there is still a trump card in the hands of the Joseon royal family, then this cavalry is undoubtedly the last trump card.

20,000 cavalrymen in cotton armor grabbed their sabers, violently crossed the friendly troops around them, and killed the tiger army. The hooves of the rolling horses knocked on the ground, knocking the earth and trembling slightly,

Li Xing looked at the cavalry rushing over, turned his head to Li Laosi and said, "I didn't expect that North Korea, a small country, also has cavalry. ”

Li Laosi nodded and said: "This cavalry looks quite combative, but it has no armor and can't withstand the long-range strikes of our new rifles." ”

Li Xing smiled: "Where can the North Koreans stop the big brother's marksman?" ”

Li Xing and Li Laosi were talking and laughing, and the cavalry of the North Koreans had already rushed into the range of the new rifles. In the smoke and dust, the North Korean cavalry was no more than 400 meters away from the three rows of riflemen.

The riflemen aimed at the galloping North Korean cavalry and opened fire.

Li Xing arranged 4,000 new rifles with scopes on the front, and fought cavalry at a distance of 400 meters, and these riflemen had a 40 or 50 percent hit rate.

In later trench warfare and rifleman shooting, the rifle's hit rate was very low. That's because later generations of shooters hid behind cover for long-distance combat, and when shooting, they occasionally exposed their heads out of cover and fired in a hurry. In such a battle, the shooting target is small and erratic, and the shooting is hastily fired under the pressure of the opponent, and the hit rate is naturally extremely low.

But in this era, in the battle of the cold-armed enemy rushing towards the Tiger Army, the shooting of the rifle was a completely different matter. In order to rush to the front of the Tiger Army's formation, the enemy using cold weapons must use a dense formation to charge the formation. The riflemen opened fire on the crowd-like enemy, and the entire enemy formation was a huge target.

As long as the bullet does not deviate too much from the top or bottom, the bullet will inevitably hit the target. If you can't hit the rifleman's aim, you'll hit the enemy next to you or behind, and if you can't hit someone, you'll hit your horse. Bullets weave through the dense cavalry queue, and it is almost impossible to pass through the dense cavalry queue without hitting a single target.

Moreover, when the rifleman shoots, there is no pressure to be attacked at all, and he can calmly aim and shoot, and the hit rate is naturally extremely high.

In the crackling of gunfire, 4,000 riflemen fired one after another.

The bullet pierced through the air at four hundred meters and mercilessly plunged into the ranks of the cavalry. As soon as the spinning conical bullet touched the North Koreans' cotton armor, it tore them all open, mercilessly burrowing into the flesh and blood beneath the armor.

In front of the Korean cavalry, a group of people turned on their backs.

Horses can run at high speeds of 40 or 50 kilometers per hour, or even faster, but that is in a race with no obstacles at all. On the battlefield, the situation on the ground is much more complicated. Not to mention the potholed and uneven ground, just the cavalry who fell off the horse in the front row and the war horse that fell to the ground after being shot were like stumbling blocks to prevent the cavalry from accelerating.

Once the Tiger Army's rifles began firing, the cavalry in the rear had to constantly jump over obstacles on the ground, or make a detour around the road. Coupled with the horse panic caused by the roar of the cannons on the battlefield, and the resulting small area of chaos, the horse's advance speed was greatly reduced.

After the first few rows of cavalry fell, the cavalry behind continued to charge. But after only a few tens of meters, the rifleman, armed with a new rifle, loaded his ammunition and fired again.

Another burst of gunfire rang out, and the cavalry in front of them spurted bloody columns of blood. Blood is as cheap as water that comes out of a shower head, spraying everywhere in front of the battlefield.

The riflemen fired only two rounds, and the cavalry of Hamgyong Province in North Korea were stunned.

In terms of melee combat, this cavalry undoubtedly has good combat effectiveness. The results of the first battle against the Japanese army are enough to show the strength of this cavalry. But these cavalrymen had never encountered such a one-sided battle, and they were killed and wounded in such a wide range of distances.

In the eyes of the cavalry, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army more than 300 meters away were still just black spots one by one. And these black dots can incredibly slaughter cavalry hundreds of meters away.

A weapon that transcends this era has this extraordinary striking effect. The North Korean cavalry is like a boxer who was knocked down by his opponent with the first punch after coming to power, where is the courage to continue fighting?

The cavalry, which was beaten twice by the new rifle and was beaten to the point that only more than 10,000 people remained, collapsed. The horsemen's eyes widened, and they curled up on their horses, and fled in both directions. As they fled, they looked at the riflemen in the distance in a panic, for fear that the riflemen would shoot again.

However, the riflemen were still slaughtering these defeated cavalry.

Before the cavalry could flee to a safe distance, the rifles of the Tiger Ben Army rang out again.

Another piece of cavalry fell in a pool of blood.

The cavalrymen who were still alive seemed to have seen ghosts, and they didn't even want their weapons in their hands, and threw them all under their horses. They only frantically drove their horses to run away into the distance, and more than 10,000 cavalry fled like more than 10,000 rats who saw the cats.

Li Laosi shook his head and said: "North Korea's soldiers and horses are vulnerable. ”

Li Xing laughed and looked at the Korean infantry in the distance with his binoculars.

Sure enough, in the shadow of the Hamgyong Provincial Cavalry rout, the rest of the Korean soldiers and horses collapsed one after another. The immediate trigger for such a rout was the artillery of the Tiger Army. No matter where the flowering bomb hits, it will cause a large panic. In the dazzling sparks of the flowering bombs, groups of North Korean infantry surged like ripples in the water of the lake, scattering and fleeing.

The other 100,000 Korean troops were all routed before they could reach the range of the riflemen.

In the Central Military Department of North Korea, the banner of the son of Zhao Xian fell. Apparently the supreme commander of the North Korean army also gave up and joined the fleeing army.

Li Laosi frowned, jumped on his war horse and rushed forward. He personally led the cavalry of the 3,000 Xuan Feng Division out of the battle, and was going to rush forward to kill the son of the Koreans.

Li Xing laughed, waved his hand and said: "The whole army is pursuing, and you will get a reward of two taels of silver for the first rank!" ”