Chapter 252: Whose Reinforcements

When this iron-born officer asked this question, his face had changed a lot. The people around them also had these worries, but only the recruits were supported and covered by artillery fire, and gradually raised their courage.

You must know that even if you count the sailors on the ship, Jiang Feng brought more than 1,000 people this time, but the strength of the soldiers on Linjia Island is close to 3,000, looking at the posture just now, although they were a little chaotic by artillery fire, but these people showed no sign of retreating at all.

Slowly retreating to the edge of the gunfire range, the four gunboats could not have been too close to the sea, and the mud and sand shells on the beach did not jump so well. Not to mention the fact that the shells are limited, when the two sides fight hand-to-hand, the artillery fire is useless at all.

If the soldiers who came to Linjia Island were all veterans of the Dengzhou battalion, these people would naturally be a hundred times more courageous, but here these recruits were only trained in the barracks at the foot of Yantai Mountain for more than half a year, and some of them were soldiers from the other four battalions in rotation.

Looking at the scene and formation of the Lin family, it is obvious that these soldiers are quite a bit of a doorway, and there are a large number of people, if they are entangled in a while, after the tide recedes, the reinforcements on the land not far from each other will cover up. Wouldn't the recruits in Dengzhou be in chaos.

At that time, I was made dumplings, but it was troublesome. The officer who reminded him just called a sailor who followed him ashore, this sailor was a local bandit in Shandong, and he was quite familiar with the tides and tidal flats in various places, so he was the main one to lead the way this time, and asked him in a low voice:

"How long do you think it's time before the tide recess when the beach road over there will be exposed?"

The sailor opened his mouth to answer, but he didn't expect Jiang Feng to speak at the same time as him:

"A little more than half an hour!"

The Tieding officer turned back in astonishment, Jiang Feng smiled mysteriously at him, and then shouted loudly:

"Sons, you come to play, the money and military merits you earn are much less than those in the past, are you red-eyed, are you uncomfortable, look, there are many heads waiting for you in front, beheading to defeat the merits!"

When this sentence was spoken, the nervous recruits' hearts gradually became hot, and the wealthy life of those officers who were born in Tieding on weekdays did not talk about him, even if it was the former soldiers of the Dengzhou Battalion, they were all considered solid people. These recruits can only receive military salaries according to the imperial court system, although they receive full military salaries, but who doesn't want to earn more and live comfortably.

As soon as I heard the encouragement of Jiang Feng's words, my thoughts became warm, the phrase "many heads" was used very well, the fearful minds of these recruits were gone, and now they were calculating there, so many things that could be exchanged for money were waiting for me to get them.

The junior officers began to urge the recruits to line up ashore, and after recruiting new recruits, before each battle, Liu Twelve suggested that Jiang Feng arrange for the officers to recite military discipline aloud, and an officer standing in the front row shouted loudly:

"Disrupt the formation, slash! The one who snatches the head, slash! Those who retreat from the battle, slash! Whoever cuts the head, slashes! ”

The cannonballs on the ship Jiang Feng estimated that it was almost seventy percent, of course, this time he didn't bring too many cannonballs, and the rest had to be left for self-protection when sailing, he stood in the third row of soldiers, raised the big knife in his hand, this is an order.

The artillery immediately stopped roaring, the officers of each platoon began to shout orders, and Jiang Feng's recruits began to trot forward.

If the recruits of this era rely on firearms, there is only one consequence, that is, they are timid and dare not fight hand-to-hand, which is almost a fatal problem for the current war situation, so except for Jiang Feng's headquarters, the soldiers of the rest of the battalions can be familiar with firearms in addition to rotation training.

The rest of the time they fought with broadswords, spears and bows and arrows, and now the seven hundred soldiers on the shore, although they were arranged in a square formation, were actually a group of five people, the first three were single swords and shields, and the back were two spearmen, and when they charged, the three sword and shield soldiers rushed side by side in the front, and the spearmen of the spearmen were between the shields, and when they charged, the pace of the five men was close to the same.

In melee combat, it is a combination of long and short, and if the opponent has an armored enemy, the single knife will be replaced with an axe and a steel pout. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the leaders of the Lin family on the opposite side began to form a team, and many women and children could be seen running towards the back of the mountain, and several mountains on the island must have built a lot of defenses and hiding places.

Jiang Feng's soldiers, under the guidance of the officer, began to step on the sand under their feet and slowly walked forward, such a terrain is very inconvenient for the soldiers to run, and the charge requires a short acceleration, it is not worth wasting strength at this time.

The distance between the two sides is more than a hundred steps, and the distance is already to the extent that it has begun to engage in short-handed combat, Jiang Feng, who was standing in the third row, shouted:

"Rush!"

The junior officers began to give orders one after another, and the recruits began to rush forward in small steps, the three shields in front were almost equal to a protective wall, and the spears sticking out between the shields were like poisonous snakes poking out of the gaps in the walls, which could be attacked and retreated.

The soldiers of the Lin family were also soldiers with shields in their hands, but they were holding round shields or so-called Baisheng cards, which were used with wooden planks painted with colors, and were used for ceremonial guards more than in battle.

And most of the short weapons they are holding are short weapons, and most of the battles at sea take place on ships, and the small space is often the short sword in the hand that has a greater effect, so the Lin family is also such equipment.

After Jiang Feng's sword and shield soldiers raised their shields to block the sparse bows and arrows on the opposite side, they all sped up, and at this time, the soldiers of the Lin family realized that the weapons and shields in their hands were actually helpless in the face of the opponent's five-foot spear exposed outside the shield.

But now that I think of this, it's a little too late, the sound of "poof" and "poof" is a series of thoughts, followed by a heart-rending scream, the spear in such a dense formation battle, almost no miss, the spearman pulled out the spear that was stabbed in the opponent's body, and then stabbed the past fiercely in the back.

After the first round of exchanges, these recruits found that the original six months of training seemed to be hell, and it was so useful, as long as the sword and shield hands coordinated well with each other, the spearmen could calmly stab out, and the same spearmen had no worries about assassination, opening up more space for the advance of the sword and shield soldiers.

These private soldiers of the Lin family on the opposite side began to look like they were quite courageous, but now they look quite bold, as soon as the two armies engaged, the private soldiers of the Lin family, who had hardly seen such tactics, were immediately killed and retreated more than a dozen steps, and more than 100 people had fallen.

But these people are still rushing up, after all, the experience of the recruits is still insufficient, some of the sword and shield men charge too fiercely, and the spearmen are separated, often when the three of them have no time to defend behind them, they are hacked to death by the private soldiers of the Lin family who surrounded them, after all, they are outnumbered.

The soldiers used for charging in the first two rows had already begun to fight, Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang had already rushed over first, Jiang Feng had a weighted broadsword in his hand, and Zhang Liang had a big axe in his hand, both of them were wearing quite heavy armor, and when they were on the beach, unlike their own barefoot soldiers, the two of them also wore leather boots.

However, the two of them usually have a very scientific and many leading methods of exercising their bodies, as well as the various exercises of Bajiquan, so that the strength of the two of them has no problem with the armor that adapts to such a weight, and the two of them cover each other and rush in directly.

The strength is greater than that of the Lin family's private soldiers, and the movements are more flexible, and the iron leaf leather armor on the body is even topless than the other party, which can be called a fortress of activity.

Every time the big knife in Jiang Feng's hand is swung, it will take away a life, and so is Zhang Liang, the Tie Ding are quite experienced to follow around the two of them, and after the two sides charge and collide, it is about half a pillar of incense, Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang and the dozens of people who followed them have already rushed sixty steps away.

The Lin family's formation was almost broken, and the recruits behind saw that the morale was even better, and the Lin family's soldiers gradually became a little unable to support it, and there were some signs of collapse, and at this time, someone behind the Lin family's formation shouted there:

"Our wives and children are all behind the mountain, if these strongmen break through the formation, it will be all over, and the tide will eb soon, everyone support it!"

As a result, these township soldiers Ding Zhuang, who was about to retreat, immediately shouted and pounced when they heard this, and they forced Jiang Feng's recruit charge queue back more than a dozen steps, but the recruit queue is now in accordance with the time of training, since it is a stalemate, the shield players in front are connected to each other in a row, and the spears in the back are stretched out, completely like a hedgehog, and there is no way to get out of the way.

Now it is possible to see that there are already large groups of soldiers gathering on the mainland a few hundred steps away from the island, the tide is gradually receding, and now the color of the exposed sand can be seen gradually, and there is a burst of cheers at the back of the Lin family's queue, obviously the rescue is in front of them.

Although Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang had no one to resist there, the recruits under their command gradually became discouraged, but they took advantage of the formation to resist there.

The sea receded, the sand was exposed, and the army on the continent suddenly waved a flag, and the bright red flag had a large silver character on it:

"Jiang!"