Chapter 105 [Winning or Losing]
There will be no anger raising up troops. Ma Fuji has been in the future for many years, and he will not fail to understand this truth. But people are not machines, they always have seven emotions and six desires. Under Zhao Lie's repeated agitation, Ma Fuji finally became really angry, did not make any temptation, and invested all his troops at the beginning. This is actually related to his overconfidence - with six or seven times the number of troops, and most of them are veterans who have been fighting with him for many years, fighting a left-behind army of less than 100 people, and it is a newly recruited army, why be careful? Wouldn't it be happy to crush the enemy army with a thunderbolt and capture its generals alive, and the hatred in Yixue's heart?
Since you are already angry, then don't refrain from it, break out with the trend, and go down in one go. In addition to leaving more than 100 elite soldiers as reserves, Ma Fuji piled up more than 500 new annexed troops, and was shot by the other side dozens or hundreds of people, as long as he rushed to the ship, he would win.
Looking from the high slope where the horse was located, there were dozens of auxiliaries carrying long ladders at the forefront, followed by several rows of gunmen with spears and rattan cards, followed by the main pikemen with the largest number and scattered linen, and finally two rows of about fifty or sixty crossbowmen. Crossbowmen do not participate in boarding, but instead fire at the back of the formation to support melee soldiers.
In the sequence of soldiers under Ma Fuji's command, there were more than 300 crossbowmen, accounting for half of the total strength. In that year, under the Lianzhu Village, the battle of Chen Mingfu, the king of Sanba, Ma Fuji and Yun Conglong had thousands of crossbowmen "arrows and arrows" to defeat the Sanba pirates and achieve their prestige. It's just that a hurricane a few months ago sank nearly half of the military resources of the Ma Fu machine, and due to the climate, the remaining more than 100 bows and crossbows were unusable, and in the end only 50 or 60 bows and crossbows were barely scraped together, and the power was greatly reduced.
The auxiliary soldiers carrying the long ladder were the first to step into the tidal flats, because they ran in a hurry, and the weight of the ladder pressed their bodies, the muddy water was slippery, and several groups even fell into mud figures with ladders. The soldiers who followed behind all subconsciously slowed down, and the gunners also raised their medals. But the pikemen gritted their teeth, and sped up their pace despite the slippage, even if they fell into the mud.
Because, they have already entered the range of the bow and crossbow. Any charge, this is the beginning of death.
When the new sergeants rushed onto the beach, Shi Yang turned his head to look at Zhao Lie, who rubbed his face vigorously and exhaled a turbid breath: "No need to measure the distance, get closer." β
Originally, I thought that Ma Fu would be cautious in the battle, and first test the attack, which required a ranged attack. Unexpectedly, he actually pressed the whole army, and he won or lost. In this way, Zhao Hunt fell into the arms, put all the enemies closer, and all of them were overturned.
Shi Yang answered, and was about to turn around and give the order.
"Wait." Zhao Lie stopped him, looking at the crossbowmen of the new annex army who were slowing down and slowly advancing, his face was solemn, "Organize a few sergeants with good marksmanship, once the battle starts, focus on those two rows of crossbowmen." β
As soon as Shi Yang received the order, a cold voice came from behind him: "Let me go." β
Zhao Lie didn't need to look back, he knew who it was, and nodded: "Go ahead." β
Soon, Ding Xiaoyi, who was wearing windproof glasses, carrying a revolver on his waist, and carrying a musket and a steel shield, led three sergeants with good marksmanship to climb up to Wangdou together, erect a steel shield, and set up a musket. The four crosshairs aim at the crossbowmen at a distance of eighty paces, each picking a target and waiting for the target to come into range.
When the auxiliary soldier at the front rushed through eighty steps, Lao Wan's arms were tense, and he put his bow on the string, endured the pain in his arm, and slowly pulled away the small half, while looking at the escort team of his team. The escort team stared at the flag commander on the heavy platform, but the flag of distance measurement was not raised.
Seeing hundreds of people rushing towards him, Lao Wan's eyelids jumped and his palms were full of sweat. He heard the rough breathing of the nearby sergeants, and saw them shaking uneasily, wiping their hands on their clothes from time to time. From the eyes of his veterans, these sergeants were obviously new recruits, and they were afraid that they had not fought a few battles, and they might even face six or seven times stronger enemies when they went to the battlefield for the first time. If it weren't for the power of that weapon yesterday that left too strong a shock on Lao Wan, he would probably be thinking about surrendering again at this moment.
The auxiliaries had already rushed sixty paces, which was usually the distance of the infantry and the bow, and the ranging flag was still not raised.
Fifty paces, the enemy's shouting and scolding were very clear, and the voice of the former enemy commander and general Shi Yang finally sounded: "Check the guns and flints for the last time." β
Under the orders of the escort team and the support team, the soldiers checked the medicine bottles, lead bags, and ammunition respectively. In the end, it is the new recruits who are in battle, and there are many situations, some ammunition is not compacted, and some flints are seriously worn, and they cannot be wiped out of fire, and they are being replaced in a hurry.
Forty steps......
Shi Yang's loud voice sounded again: "Prepare, aim." Each person only targets the three people in front of him and the left and right, and they are not allowed to diffuse at will. "This is to prevent repeated firing at the same target, wasting ammunition and reloading time.
Thirty steps......
The face of the enemy was already very clear, hundreds of people were popping, the sound was shocking, the mud and water were splashing, and the pressure of the threat was breathless.
The officers had to raise their voices and shouted: "Steady, steady, fingers must not be placed on the board machine, and guns must not be released without an order." Violators will be killed! Violators will be killed! β
To Lao Wan's surprise, all the orders seemed to be given to the sergeants who were lying in ambush behind the women's wall grid, and the young soldiers in the cabin who had destroyed his squad and captured him with a single blow were silent the whole time, and they did not hear the sound of checking weapons.
Twenty Steps......
The crossbowmen at the rear of the enemy had advanced to sixty paces, stopped again, checked the bowstrings, drew arrows into the ground, and prepared to shoot.
The crossbow man who commanded the crossbowmen wiped his sweat vigorously, looked back at the hillside, and waited for instructions.
On the hillside, Ma Fuji's brows became tighter and tighter, and he couldn't understand it.
Generally, when the Song army was fighting, if it was defending the city, it was condescending, and it began to use bows and arrows to shoot at eighty paces, and at sixty paces, it was fired with crossbow arrows. If the two armies attack in formation, the vanguard of both sides will start to shoot when they reach 60 paces, and at 40 paces they will fire their bows and crossbows.
But the Song army in front of him was really evil, his army had advanced to twenty or thirty steps, and the other party still didn't make any movement. From the hillside he was on, the Song soldiers were all crouched behind the female wall, holding clubs for aiming, and there was hardly a crossbowman in sight. Well, it looks like there's a man in the stern with a bow - and only one.
Ma Fuji suffered greatly from the destruction of bows and crossbows by the climate, and he believed that the Song army was the same, but no matter what, the whole army would not have only one bow.
"My lord, are you targeted?" Seeing that the front army was getting closer and closer, and the necks of the bow and crossbow were getting longer and longer, the henchmen and generals beside him couldn't hold back any longer and asked for instructions in a low voice.
I don't understand! Ma Fuji subconsciously shook his head, and immediately realized that something was wrong, his expression was solemn, and he raised his hand a little forward: "Arrow." β
Seeing the green pennant on the hillside waving and the drum beating three times at the same time, the bow and crossbow Baihu breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and ordered loudly: "The archers are ready to ......"
Bang!
The bow and crossbow shook Baihu, looking down at the blood halo that was slowly soaking in his chest, his face full of incredulity.
"Who is it? Hit me with what? β
As soon as these two thoughts moved, the bow and crossbow Baihu heard a loud thunder that had never been heard before in their lives.
The horse was riding on the horse, and the thunder suddenly sounded, and the war horse jumped in fright. The horse was thrown off the saddle, one foot was stuck in the stirrups, the war horse jumped a few times, and the soles of the feet were twisted into bone cracks.
Ma Fuji was helped up by the panicked guards, ignoring the pain in the soles of his feet, and looked at the mudflats in an independent posture of the golden rooster - and then, his whole person became a duck listening to thunder.
The female wall of the warship shoots holes, spear holes, and arrow eyes, and at the same time, hundreds of tongues of fire erupt, large clouds of white smoke gush out, and the dense roar is earth-shattering, and the sound of waves hitting the reef is muffled.
The auxiliary soldiers who carried the ladder charge, the nearest was less than ten steps away from the warship, and they were all knocked down in an instant.
Dozens of gun players followed behind were already carrying their guns cross-body on their shoulders and ready to climb. With the sound of thunder, the rattan cards in their hands exploded like papier-mΓ’chΓ©, along with their chests, stomachs, limbs, and heads.
The unobstructed spearmen in the back were swept away by the lead sand, and many people's faces, chests, abdomen, and limbs exploded with bloody flowers. The worst one was beaten into a honeycomb in the chest, and his body was thrown backwards, and he died before he hit the ground.
The crossbowmen farther away did not escape being shot. From time to time, they were killed and wounded by projectiles fired from the lookout. From the beginning to the end, very few arrows were fired, and the results were zero.
Looking from the hillside where Ma Fuji was located, it was as if his hundreds of soldiers were blocked by a wall of air filled with white mist, unable to advance an inch, one after another, row after row fell.
The black mudflats turned red, and the corpses were filled with silt. More often than not, the wounded wriggling like mud worms, the terrible screams almost drowned out the thunderous gunshots.
It all happened so fast that the new soldiers didn't even have time to stop and turn around and flee for their lives.
After the thunder, the corpses were all over the field, the temperature was extremely hot, and the horse machine was extremely cold.