Chapter 130: The Battle of the Horse Wall (Part II)

Gullitt was originally a hundred households in the Beiting Army, and he was able to climb to the position of one hundred households in the strong Beiting Army, and his bravery and good fighting go without saying. He was transferred to the left battalion of the Han army as deputy Qianhu, and his position in the battalion was far more powerful than that of Shangguan Qianhu Han generals. In the final analysis, the Hague only trusts his own relatives and generals, thinking that only they can carry out their will to fight, and the rest of the Han army and the new annex army are all defeated generals and surrendered troops, so what qualifications can be valued and trusted?

Gullitt took off his iron helmet and threw it into the arms of the squire, clamped his legs, drove the horse out of the array, pulled out his heavy thick-backed scimitar and pointed at the other side of the bridge, raised his big hairy face full of horizontal flesh and scars, and shouted murderously to the three hundred soldiers of the left battalion of the Han army who were about to fight: "There are only two ways to fight with me Gullitt, either life or death!" Rush over the bridge, fight into those two walls, and live. You can't rush, you can't kill, or you dare to retreat - die! ”

The Han sergeants raised their guns in unison and shouted three times in a row: "Roar!" Roar! Roar! ”

When the soldier's momentum climbed to the peak, Gullitt took the helmet sent by the squire and put it on, the big scimitar slashed hard, the halberd pointed at the horse wall, the facial features were distorted, and the bloody foam splashed: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

Three hundred Han troops, with guns and cards in the front, archers in the middle, and sword and axe players in the back, their footsteps roared, rushing to the wooden bridge. Gullitt followed behind with his horsemen, banners, and golden drums, and behind him were dozens of servants carrying bamboo ladders.

As soon as The Hague moved, the Dragon Bird Army also acted immediately, and the second half of the military order they received was, "If the enemy moves, I will move first." ”

Behind the first barricade, Shen Pingbo lifted the Zhang'er cone gun that was placed flat beside him. This kind of cone gun has four edges, strong and difficult to break, the most sharp armor breaking, because it resembles an ear of wheat, also known as a wheat ear gun, in the nine colors of the Song army gun, the sharpest. Shen Pingbo's hand was held in the back third of the barrel of the gun, where there was a circle of iron gun grids, similar to the guard of a sword, and the gun was raised like a super spear sword. Although I am a little unaccustomed to it, I have to admit that with the addition of this round of gun grids, the piercing power is stronger when killing enemies, and I don't have to worry about the thick blood plasma splashed by the enemy flowing down the barrel of the gun, causing the palm to slip.

There are a total of eleven kinds of guns in the nine colors of the Song army's guns, and there are ten kinds of guns used for battle formations, but no matter which one, there is no such device as a gun grid. This is actually Zhao Lie's "invention", he directly simplified the long iron gauntlet used by Western knights into a gun compartment sleeve, which was inserted from the tail of the gun. In this way, when stabbing with a gun in one hand, the gun is more stable and more penetrating.

Of course, this kind of gun can only be used when holding a gun in one hand, and it is inconvenient to hold the gun in both hands, let alone use various marksmanship. However, the Song army's gun players are all holding guns in one hand and shields in the other, and they are closely arranged, both offensive and defensive. As for spearmanship or something, the two armies are facing each other, the group of guns pokes and the group of guns pokes away, one move divides the victory and defeat, and one blow sees life and death, and all the tricks and tricks are useless.

Shen Pingbo also leaned beside two shuttle guns, the head of which was shaped like a shuttle dart, and the barrel was straight and slender. This kind of gun is used for throwing, and the armor-piercing power is very strong, Shen Pingbo is very good at throwing shuttle guns, fast and accurate, but this hand is not popular in the Dragon Bird Army. Although the musket has a slow rate of fire, it is highly secure, unlike the tender gun, most of the body is exposed to cover, and it is easy to be a target for arrows. Shen Pingbo also admitted this, but he was not a musketeer, but a gun player, and he had to have his own long-range kill weapon.

Shen Pingbo held a gun in one hand, arranged the rattan hat and leather armor in the other, and then lifted the infantry next to the rectangular pointed bottom, stepped out of the pergola, stuffed the bamboo whistle in his mouth and blew hard: "Beep-gather!" Get ready for battle! ”

The soldiers of the Broken Battalion belonging to Shen Pingbo poured out of the pergola one after another, and drew their respective weapons from the weapon racks by the door: thirty musketeers, twenty gun players, one standard-bearer, one trumpeter, two messengers, two fireheads, three doctors, and ten auxiliaries. plus the team general Shen Pingbo, one team supporter, and five fire chiefs, a total of seventy-six people, this is the standard staffing of the first team of the Dragon Bird Army. Of these, 19 were "incomparables" (non-combatants) and 57 were soldiers.

The enemy was about to rush to the wooden bridge, and Shen Pingbo didn't talk much nonsense, so he simply gave an order: "The musketeers enter the position, and the gunners are ready." ”

Thirty musketeers crowded to the battlements of the barricade, one by one, and then protruded the barrels of muskets, which had already been loaded with ammunition, from the cross-holes. On either side of them, a group of musketeers was doing the same thing.

In the first barricade, there were three teams of soldiers, more than 200 people, including nearly 100 musketeers. Each musketeer had a shot hole, and the second barrier was staffed with the same staff. There are nearly 200 battlements in the short 100-meter barricade wall, and it is no wonder that even The Hague, who has experienced dozens of battles, feels that there are so many battlements in these two sections of the wall.

At this time, the fire commanders and officers behind the horse wall kept shouting and shouting, repeatedly reminding the sergeants of the precautions.

"Check the flint, the fire door, the ammunition loading."

"Don't put your fingers on the board! Repeat, fingers can not be placed on the board hit! ”

"Listen to the order and shoot. Those who dare to shoot without authorization will be punished by military law. If it is serious, the Fa will be rectified on the spot! Ears up your donkeys and listen to the truthβ€”the Fa-rectification on the spot! ”

"Pay attention to the vibration of the shoulder when firing to prevent reloading. If the barrel of the gun is damaged due to repeated reloading, the baton will be charged, and the demotion to auxiliary soldiers will be a small matter, and the damage to oneself will be great. Don't forget! ”

Shen Pingbo walked behind the musketeers of his team, tapped the back shoulders of the soldiers one by one with the barrel of the gun, and said loudly: "Don't be nervous, everyone, you all know the power of the musket, as long as you operate according to the usual practice, and treat the Yuan soldiers on the opposite side as a wooden target on the shooting range, it will become a ......."

With the shouts of the horses behind the wall, the Han gunners had stepped on the wooden bridge.

The wooden bridge was no more than five feet wide, and there were no railings on either side, so it was only enough for two people to walk side by side. The gunners of the Han army camp were squeezed into two long rows by the wooden bridge, and some archers were added in the middle so that they could return fire when they were attacked by the Song army on the way across the bridge.

Twelve or thirteen zhang long bridge, running and charging only ten breaths, Gullitt estimated that the Song army's arrow throwing could only kill a very small part of the soldiers at most, most of his soldiers could successfully rush across the wooden bridge, and then stand firm on the other side of the river, the archers put arrows to suppress the shooting, the servants took the ladder to pass the people, and the gunners and axes charged over the trenches and over the walls.

That's it for Gurlitt's attack.

In Gullitt's hideous and triumphant eyes, the spear players at the forefront had rushed to the middle of the bridge, and the thick log deck was trampled and jumped up and down, and even the water under the piers was shaking. A few small fish poked out of the water to take a look and hurriedly dived to the bottom.

Suddenly The Hague watched the battle from a distance, nodded slightly, Gullitt did a good job, and suddenly his eyes froze, what is the thing that sticks out of the hole of the battlement of the horse wall? It seems to be ...... Iron pipes. Could it be that this is the so-called musket? No, if this musket is capable of firing terrible projectiles from a distance, as his men say, it can attack the unprotected archers on the bridge from the left and right side of the barrage......

Almost at the same time, Gurlitt also realized this, but the arrow was ready to be sent or received, and the only thing he could do was to give the order to blow the horn and urge the charge to be accelerated.

Just then, there was a thud from behind the barricade. Before the aftermath disappeared, suddenly bursting beans sounded one after another, getting louder and denser, and finally merging into one, and the heavens and the earth were filled with this thunderous explosion.

Two hundred battlements, in just a few breaths, spewed out two hundred tongues of fire, cross-shooting at the bridge deck.

The wooden side cards in the hands of the two Han army gun players who had just stepped on the opposite bank suddenly burst, and a large amount of blood holes appeared in the two gun players, and blood gushed out as if they didn't want money. The gunners and archers in the back, whether they are covered by cards or uncovered, are as vulnerable as pieces of paper in the face of the whistling rain of bullets. The side cards shattered, the flesh spurted blood, and the entire bridge deck was shrouded in a bloody mist and wooden thorns that exploded in all directions.

All kinds of screams that do not resemble human voices resounded all over the world, and dozens of Han troops rolled down the river from the bridge deck, and the sound of puff and puff was endless, and it looked like dumplings from a distance. The clear water turned red in an instant, and many people struggled, rolled, cried for help, and finally slowly sank in the river......

A wooden bridge that is not too long, originally crowded with fifty or sixty soldiers, after the sound of bullets and bullets, no one stands on the bridge deck, the corpses are pillowed, paved all over the bridge deck, the whole bridge seems to be splashed with red paint, and the true color of the log can no longer be seen. There are blood dripping down the bridge edge and the gap between the bridge deck on both sides, ticking and ticking, like a dripping rain, but this rain is bright red and red......

The Hague, Gullitt and all the soldiers who were watching the battle in the battle all opened their mouths wide, collectively froze, and the smoke of gunpowder entered their throats without realizing it-this, this is a musket?!