Chapter Ninety-Nine: Counterattack 1
At this time, the musketeers began the second round of firing, and there was a burst of guns, and as a result, several people fell to the ground with blood spraying mist, and the officers and soldiers and the villagers were really going crazy, they had no way to retreat at this time, and the people behind were still blocking the way for them to retreat, but there was a large number of wolf-like poles in front of them, which were approaching them, and finally someone began to realize that there was only a dead end to wait here, so he forcibly restrained the fear in his heart, brandished his knife and gun and shouted.
"Brethren, don't mess around! Damn, we're in ambush! (It's just nonsense!) Don't panic! There are a lot of us, don't mess up by yourself, rush up and fight with them! If this mess continues, there is only one dead end! ......" An officer in iron armor shouted hysterically in the crowd, it seems that this guy should be a general or chief flag officer under Ding Baoquan or something, with a little combat experience, and he can't run away, so he can see that it is not a way to go on like this.
At this time, Ding Baoquan was still behind and did not come up, the officers and soldiers and the townsmen were crowded together, although there were people in charge, but they couldn't control other people, not to mention that at this time, the Xingtian Army was shelling and firing guns on them, who still had time to find their own managers!
After hearing the officer's shout, some people also began to come back to taste, so more people began to shout, so that the people around them should not be chaotic, after all, there are many of them, although there is an ambush on the side of the pole, but the number of people can not overwhelm them, which makes some people see a glimmer of hope, so they beckoned the people around them not to mess up, go up to fight with the Xingtian army, maybe there is still a way to live.
Once someone comes back, these officers and soldiers feel a little like they are looking for the north, so crowded together is just a live target for adults, and their firecrackers and archers have not come up yet, even if a few come up, they are all crowded in the crowd and can't move, and they can't fight back at all, and now the officer makes sense, in addition to going up to fight, they are all huddled together, and they can only be beaten passively, which is similar to stretching their necks and waiting for a knife, rather than waiting for death, it is better to fight!
As a result, some of the brave officers and soldiers who were blocked here began to pick up the guys, slowly pushed forward, and made a posture to meet the battle.
"Come on! Rush up and fight with them! It's better than waiting to die! Grandma's! If you are a hero, rush forward! Kill...... "A strong man seems to be a steward among the villagers, or a member of a certain pole, he has seen blood on weekdays, and his courage is also stronger, as soon as he saw that someone had reacted and was ready to go up to play with his life, he raised the machete in his hand, and quarreled hoarsely, and rushed towards the rushing Xingtian army array.
As soon as one of them took the lead, the boldest of the rest became even more daring, and many of them shouted and rushed after the fellow.
Zhao Erdonkey's cheek twitched a few times, looking at the officers and soldiers who had reacted on the opposite side and the villagers, as soon as he saw that they had begun to recoil, his eyes swept over and these subordinates around him seemed to be a little shaken, and the pace was a little uneven, so he hurriedly shouted: "Stabilize Lao Tzu!" Hold on tight! Follow Lao Tzu! Don't mess around! Steady! ”
Anyway, Zhao Erdonkey has also experienced several battles, and his experience in hand-to-hand combat is already relatively sophisticated, and he knows that if he is in a mess in this case, then it will be over, let the opponent close to their body, then they have only a dead end, so he hurriedly pressed his own row of subordinates, at this time, the squad leader and deputy squad leader also restrained their subordinates loudly, and soon stabilized the formation, and continued to step on the drum and advance side by side.
And Feng Gouzi, who followed closely, also ordered at this time: "Brothers, speed up the pace!" Catch up! ”
As he spoke, he stepped up his pace, and led his row of people to stride towards the front row of people, until he was only one or two steps away from the subordinates of Zhao Erdonkey in the previous row, and basically stuck to the back of the people in the previous row, so he coordinated the pace under his feet and slowed down.
"The second platoon raised the gun, the head of the gun down! Fall! Feng Gouzi then shouted loudly again.
"The gun fell...... The gun fell ......" in the middle of his platoon, the squad leader and deputy squad leader immediately repeated his order loudly, and the pikemen in the second row immediately struggled to raise the spears above their heads, and then collectively flattened the barrels of their guns, basically just on the shoulders of the pipers in the previous row, and the tips of the guns staggered towards the front, forming a staggered with the spears in the first row, making their formation immediately double the thickness, and the gun forest was much denser.
The advantage of this is that the second row of pikemen takes advantage of the distance difference, which just makes the gun forest in front of the pikemen form a fish-scale layer, which greatly compensates for the density of spears between the pikemen in the first row, making it more difficult for the opponent to move away from the spearheads of the pikemen in the first row and perform hand-to-hand combat tactics close to the pikemen in the first row.
And at this time, in the recruit camp behind them, Xiao Tianjian personally gave an order: "There are all recruits!" Javelin ready! ”
The last time he dealt with Wang Tianlong, Xiao Tianjian tested his javelin tactics, which were indeed very effective, and killed Wang Tianlong's subordinates by surprise and broke on the spot, but in that battle, Xiao Tianjian also found that there were some problems with this, that is, after the pikemen in the front row threw the javelin, they would soon face the enemy, and throwing the javelin undoubtedly made people move deformed, and then when the spear was converted, it was easy to have a chaotic formation, and once it was taken by the enemy, it would be very dangerous to the pikemen.
So this time, when he was training the recruit camp, he asked the spearmen of the soldiers to give up this javelin tactic, and only let them train the queue spur tactics full-time, and he handed over the task of throwing javelins to the sword and shield bearers and recruits.
The sword and shield bearers were transferred by him to cover Huang Shengqiang's group of musketeers and gunners, so the task of throwing javelins fell on the recruits behind.
In these days, Xiao Tianjian collected the remaining javelins used before, and used ready-made materials to make a batch of new javelins, and equipped them in the new barracks, the most rudimentary javelin is just the shape of a javelin made of mountain miscellaneous wood on the mountain, and the front end is simply installed with an arrow on a bow and arrow, so as to ensure that each recruit is issued two javelins, which shows how much he is really stretched in terms of weapons and equipment now.
As soon as Xiao Tianjian ordered, the instructors of the recruit battalion repeated Xiao Tianjian's order loudly one by one.
The two rows of recruits, who were followed by the spearmen, immediately handed their spears or bamboo spears to their left hands, pulled out a javelin from behind their backs, clenched it tightly, and swung their arms back.
In each train of recruits, there is an instructor who is responsible for dispatching recruits, always waiting for Xiao Tianjian's orders.
Xiao Tianjian stood on a high place, carefully observing the distance between the soldiers and the enemy, and when he saw those officers and soldiers and villagers shouting, screaming and rushing to his side, his lips were also tightly pursed, he was not nervous at all, he was not born a warrior, he started from doing this business, it was only less than half a year, like commanding such a large-scale battle, for him, it was the first time in his life since he was born, the black pressure on the opposite side was all people, and he couldn't tell how many enemy troops rushed in for a while, but a big eye can also see that the number of enemy troops who have now entered the cottage has far exceeded his strength.
No one is born a command genius, Xiao Tianjian also crossed the river by feeling the stones, from childhood to adulthood, he has achieved this step in front of him, seeing so many enemies, it would be nonsense to say that he is not a little nervous in his heart, but he knows that he is the backbone of these hundreds of people at the moment, if he seems nervous, then don't expect his subordinates to be calm one by one, so from the beginning to the present, he has behaved extremely coldly, and used a tense facial expression to hide the tension in his heart.
Now that he has more manpower, he naturally doesn't need to go to the front line to fight, he doesn't want to stand in the front row as an assaulter every time he goes into battle, he knows the value of his existence, as a general, he only needs to be responsible for commanding, and the matter of fighting and charging will be handed over to his subordinates to do, if it is his turn to shoot, it should generally be the most critical time, so he consciously stayed behind the team this time, acting as a commander.
When he saw that the enemy had begun to come back and was about to rush up and fight to break the net, he secretly grabbed the handle of the waist knife carried at his waist, and stared at the situation in front without blinking.
When he saw that the front of the two armies was already approaching a distance of more than a dozen paces, he resolutely shouted: "Throw the javelin!" ”
When the instructors in the middle of the first two columns of recruits heard his roar, they immediately shouted: "It's all there!" Throw guns! ……”
After the call, the instructor himself took a big step forward as a run-up, twisted his waist and shook his arms, and with a muffled shout, he threw the javelin in his hand at a forty-five degree angle.
After hearing the roar of the instructors, the rest of the recruits also followed closely behind, one by one, and threw the javelin in their hands with a loud bang.
I saw that nearly a hundred javelins instantly crossed the heads of the two rows of soldiers and spearmen in the front row, and scattered like a torrential rain towards those officers and soldiers who were rushing towards the array of the Xingtian Army.
The strong man who rushed to the front felt that something was wrong, looked up, and was suddenly frightened, and hurriedly slashed the javelin that had fallen down, but just slashed a javelin, and the second javelin came immediately, no longer giving him any chance to react, only to hear him scream, a javelin went straight into his shoulder blades, and directly penetrated his back, and fell to the ground with him.