Chapter 50: Counterattack

The ordinary fire and gun tests have been carried out in a relatively orderly manner in the school field near the Imperial Horse Prison for more than half a month, but if this level of blasting test is carried out once, it is likely that the hole cards will be missed, so Xiao Xuan can only roughly guess the effect of such a large-scale attack based on the rules of some small explosions.

In order to ensure that the effect is not unexpected, the charge of the projectile crater is stacked according to the standard of at least five or six times. Of course, the result was also beyond Xiao Xuan's expectations, Xiao Xuan didn't understand that black powder had a total effect. When ordinary guns were fired, the black powder of the Ming army in this era was only one-fifth of the last black powder in Europe during the war or the Civil War. However, if dozens of catties of black powder are pushed up and released, the difference between the effect and the black powder of later generations is two or three times rather than five or six times. The scattered six or seven taels of gravel and lead bullets flew as far as a mile and a half at most, and most of them also spread to a range of at least two square miles, greatly reducing the lethal effect on the ground people and horses.

However, even so, the benefits of this blasting attack in the dark of night are clearly apparent, unlike during the day, when the active dodging of personnel reduces the effectiveness of the projectile covering attack. It took a lot of manual work to produce more than 80,000 lead blocks and stones, which were not too different in weight and specifications, although many of them were scattered beyond the attack distance, but in a very short period of time, they still brought more than 4,000 casualties to the nearly 20,000 people besieging the Imperial Horse Prison, and most of these people who were hit by six or seven stones and heavy bullets at a height of at least 100 meters or more were either killed or disabled on the spot, and only a very few suffered minor injuries to their legs and feet due to the rebound and splashing.

When the screams of the attack were not only occasionally heard from a distance, but also a large number of people fell very close to themselves and the screams of familiar people were heard, the army of the Fifth Army Battalion, which was not very elite, could no longer bear it, and the battalion was defeated in an instant, and even some elites were no exception.

Xiao Xuan's team, which has just been established for more than half a month, is of course not elite at this time, perhaps because of the excessive fear brought by the elite of the enemy soldiers in the dark night before, in addition to Xiao Xuan himself, there are several battalion commanders and squadron leaders who are personally responsible for supervising the battle, and most people still dare not launch a counterattack charge at night under this favorable opportunity.

Fortunately, in this case, Xiao Xuan and some people around him had also expected when they deduced the battle plan before, and did not force the teenagers to launch a counter-charge in this night battle environment, but asked people to take the lost position as the primary goal, and mainly use bows and arrows that are not very easy to expose to launch projectiles in the general direction in the dark night.

Although there are not many people who can fight, there are still a lot of things like bows and arrows that are not forbidden weapons in the people. One of the advantages that the Ming army brought to Xiao Xuan at this time was because the training level of most of the army was very poor, and the level of craftsmen was not high. There are a lot of two or three bucket bows that ordinary soldiers who don't have much foundation can open, and such a bow with light arrows of about six or seven yuan can throw arrows at least a distance of about 100 paces and more than 150 paces away. As for the lethality, maybe even a very broken light armor can't threaten it? The border army of the Ming army is only about a quarter of the armor rate in theory, and the large number of armor of the Ming army captured by Jiannu is often selected to select some useful iron armor to supplement the armor. At this time, most of the people in the Fifth Military Camp were not much different from the Qing Army of the Green Battalion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which only had a number of uniforms. Even if the arrow only has the power of a dozen joules of darts or Zhuge repeaters when it falls, at least it can be seen in the flesh with a high probability.

Therefore, the 1,300 or so new officers and soldiers who were engaged in the counterattack, and even the more than 700 elites who were left behind to defend the Imperial Horse Guard, a total of 2,000 people, in the dark of night, and the 670,000 light arrows that were fired blindly in the direction of the general enemy, causing more than 2,000 casualties and casualties, further aggravated the rout of the Imperial Horse Supervisor's elite.

Wang Er did not flee at this time, because he was still quite sober-minded, and he roughly guessed that if he escaped first at this time, it was likely that there would be a fierce fight near the people who were supervising the battle at the corner of the street, and the risk was not small. As long as you are a little later than the last person, you can do it, but you didn't expect to be very unlucky to encounter a rain of arrows falling from all directions at night. Originally, Wang Er, who had armor on his body, upper arms and thighs to protect, would not be so easily injured in front of such a weak light arrow, but he was too unlucky to be hit by an arrow in the back of his calf, although the injury was not serious, but he had seen a lot of things, and he knew that if he dragged the injury and ran away and lost too much blood, anything could happen. However, because he had a killing record in the battle array before, Wang Er at this time did not dare to surrender to the remnants of this legendary eunuch party. There is no guarantee that those people will not use the captive's head as a head. At this time, it seems that it is no longer the ominous era of killing prisoners in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

However, at this time, it seemed that there was not much shadow of the enemy, and the cavalry of the Imperial Horse Supervisor also began to boldly and gradually light the torches that had been prepared. Those who did not flee were basically either wounded or disabled, or a very small number of elites who were ready to surrender and defect, and there were only twenty or thirty people in total who were quite able. Seeing this situation, Wang Er finally had no choice but to throw away the weapons on his body and raise his hand to surrender like the people not far away.

At this moment, the continuous screams came to mind again from the night, making all those who were about to surrender under the firelight feel creepy. It turned out that according to the pre-plan, when the torches were lit outside and the enemy attack was roughly crushed, more and more guards of each team of young men devoted themselves to the work of "collecting corpses".

According to the preceding requirements, everyone who had shown himself in battle, but was not particularly brave, had to fight at the end to share one of the enemy's wounded with each of them to be used for torture and killing, so as to train the courage of the recruits.

No matter how much the wounded to the ground pleaded, those who did not drop their weapons were shot with bows and arrows or firearms by a large number of people at a great distance, while those who abandoned their weapons and were wounded on the battlefield became good targets for melee hand-to-hand combat and were brutally tortured.

After all, this violent behavior also aroused the stubborn resistance of some officers and men of the Fifth Military Battalion, who were still somewhat courageous, and more than 10 recruits who were "trained for battle" were also killed or injured in this kind of purging and suppression.

Seeing this situation, Pang Tianshou said to Xiao Xuan after weighing it for a while: "Your Majesty, the prisoners will not surrender after all. If only in the future ... ”

Xiao Xuan already had his own thoughts on this issue: "From the end of Wanli to the first emperor Apocalypse, from Salhu to Liaoyang, Shenyang and Xiaolinghe, I heard that Jiannu beheaded thirty of my Ming officers and soldiers, six general officers, and a total of no less than two or three hundred thousand ordinary soldiers, and rarely left prisoners. If you kill a prisoner, you will make the opponent's will to resist become resolute. Then our army should have fought again because of the fear that Jiannu would not leave prisoners, why did it barely hold Ningyuan and Jinzhou only with the help of fortified cities and artillery? It can be seen that only rookies pecking each other will care about the rules of the game in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the strong army does not care about these rules. I don't want any adversary, domestic or foreign, to approach our army with mercy in mind, but fear more than fear. What's more, this time our army did not dispose of the prisoners left and right, and those who took the initiative to defect to us without serious injuries were welcomed by our army. Dealing with the enemy's wounded is just a pleasure for them. Limited medicine is of course to be used for our own wounded ... ”

Hearing such words, Pang Tianshou couldn't say anything more. It was not yet dawn, and in order to avoid accidents in the process of counterattacking and pursuing, Xiao Xuan did not plan to let these not very strong teams carry out night clearance tasks. But harvesting the firearms and armor on the battlefield left by the opponent is, of course, the most important process of victory. With the capture of these artillery and ammunition, the effective combat power that the enemy can use is greatly reduced, and the combat power of the enemy is greatly reduced. By the time the sky dawns, even if there are still remnants of enemies in the city, there will be more means at their disposal.