However, this round of artillery bombardment did not completely empty the courage of the soldiers of the Li Dynasty, and Wu Wenyong also worked hard to boost the morale of the soldiers in the military formation: "They didn't have time to fire the second cannon!" Rush! Cut off a pirate head and reward ten taels of silver! ”

Ten taels of silver is a lot of money for an ordinary soldier, so the soldier who was a little hesitant mustered up his courage again and rushed forward. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wu Wenyong told the soldiers that the pirates didn't have time to fire a second shot, and he wasn't lying to them. There is such a thing as artillery, and the army of the Li Dynasty also has it. They have purchased artillery from the Dutch and the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty, of course, although the artillery bought from Zheng Sen is very similar to the artillery used by the Zheng family themselves, it is actually different in performance, which can be called a typical monkey version, just like the M1A2 tank used by the US military and the M1A2 tank sold to the dogs.

Whether it is using a cannon from the Dutch or a cannon from the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty, it takes a lot of time to fire a cannon, and now there is only such a small distance, no matter what, it is too late to fire a second shot on the opposite side.

This judgment is indeed correct, even the most elite Marines in the Model Army (the Marines themselves think so, the Army definitely does not think so. The fleet sailors will also have objections. At most, it can only be fired once a minute, and it can't last. With a distance of two hundred paces, it will definitely not take such a long time to rush up.

However, the soldiers of the Li Dynasty had to deal with not only four five-pounder cannons, but also more than three hundred flintlock guns.

"All of us take five steps forward in unison!" Gan Hui shouted loudly as he walked forward. The trumpeter began to play the whistle hanging on his chest rhythmically, and the soldiers marched forward to the sound of the whistle.

"Stand!" Gan Hui shouted, and the horizontal team immediately stopped.

"Put down the mask! Raise your gun! Aim! ”

With the command, the soldiers quickly lowered their helmets' visors. The gun was raised, ready to shoot. The movements are neat as if they were a person.

Wu Wenyong was not only trying to urge the soldiers to rush up, but also carefully observing the actions of the Haikou on the other side. As he saw the pirates stride forward and raise their muskets, he felt a chill rise from his heels, freezing his whole body.

When those pirates walked, every step was extremely neat. They walked forward, and the foot they took was on the same side, and the time it took for the foot to be raised, the time it fell, and the height to which the foot was lifted were exactly the same. And when they raised their guns, hundreds of people made movements as neatly as if they were one person. Wu Wenyong led the troops, such an army, he didn't say that he had seen it before, heard of it, and even dreamed of it. He knew how difficult it was for an army to be trained to such an extent, and how elite and well-trained an army that could do this should be.

Wu Wenyong originally thought that as long as he rushed forward and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the troops under his command would be able to defeat these pirates in one fell swoop by virtue of their superiority in numbers and weapons, but now, he no longer had such confidence at all. There are more than 2,000 people on his side, while his opponent has only three or four hundred. But the opponent is an elite that he has never seen or even imagined, and when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, does his side really have an advantage?

But now is not the time to think about this, the uniform movements of the pirates just now not only frightened Wu Wenyong, but also frightened the Li Dynasty soldiers who were charging, making their pace slow down a lot, but the distance between the two sides was still getting closer and closer, it was already close to about forty steps, and some Li Dynasty soldiers began to shoot at those pirates with soft bows in their hands.

At first glance, those pirates only wore helmets on their heads, and they didn't seem to be wearing armor on their bodies, but after the bow and arrow shot over, they hit the bodies of those pirates, but they flicked off weakly - the Zheng family has money, and now they have their own iron factory, and the model army has cuirass both in the army and the marines. It's just that, in order to facilitate concealment and ambush, there is also a green coat on the outside of the cuirass, so it looks like there is no armor from a distance.

Gan Hui still did not give the order to shoot, so the Marines still maintained the action of preparing to shoot motionless, as if they were cast in iron. Occasionally, a few arrows hit the Marines in the arms or legs, causing some damage to the Marines. But the men who had been hit by the arrows didn't even move. (The arrows fired by the soft bow are shot at non-critical parts, and the lethality is actually very limited.) ）

The slower the Li Dynasty soldiers, especially the ones in front, the slower they got closer to the muzzle, and subconsciously they might be hoping that the people behind them would rush in front of them to help block the guns. However, the people in the back couldn't see the situation in front clearly, so they rushed up all of a sudden, and then slowed down, but the people in front and behind were crowded together.

The distance between the two sides was already less than twenty paces, and Gan Hui finally gave the order: "Fire!" ”

More than 300 flintlock pistols unleashed an earth-shattering blow that swept away the more than 100 Li Dynasty soldiers who had rushed to the front. The soldiers of the Li Dynasty, who were following those soldiers, were surprised to find that all the people in front of them had fallen in an instant. Although in theory this was a good opportunity to charge the enemy, in reality, everyone was frightened by the thunderous blow, some stood still, and some even turned and ran back.

"Get on the bayonet! Charge! Gan Hui ordered. He had just fired a shot at a Li Chao soldier who was less than ten paces away from him, and now the muzzle of his handcuff was still faintly smoking. Gan Hui inserted the handcuff into the holster, then pulled out the long knife hanging from his waist. By this time, the soldiers had already drawn their bayonets from their waists and put them on the barrels of their guns.

The trumpeter blew the trumpet, and the soldiers rushed forward with bayonets in their arms. More Lê soldiers began to turn and flee. In general, at the time of the charge, the bravest and most eager to fight always rushed to the front, as a result of which these men were lost in a salvo of four five-pounder guns and more than three hundred flintlock muskets. These people are the backbone of the army, and after these people have all been consumed, it is natural for such a situation to occur.

Of course, there are still brave Li Dynasty soldiers, who still hold rattan cards and rush towards the soldiers of the Marine Corps, but their current charge is no longer in a neat and complete formation. And then they discovered an even more tragic problem - the swords in their hands could not cut the breastplates of those Marines, which also meant that they could not inflict direct fatal damage on the Marines.

There was no good organization and a lack of effective lethality, so those who rushed up were brought down almost in the blink of an eye, while the marines had no decent losses. White-knuckle warfare is always a special test of an army's morale and organization, and an army with low morale and poor organization will always collapse very quickly in white-knuckle warfare. After only a minute or two of contact between the two sides, the Li Dynasty army could not hold it and began to retreat rapidly.

"Hold on! Resist! The Retreater, Slash! Wu Wenyong shouted, and his own soldiers also drew their knives and cut down the two escapees. But it still could not prevent the rout of the army. Some of the pro-soldiers were even knocked to the ground by soldiers who were desperate to flee for their lives, and then ...... Then he was trampled to death by the crowd.

"General, general, brothers really can't stand it, let's withdraw!" A pro-soldier said to Wu Wenyong.

Wu Wenyong climbed a small mound, looked over there, and saw that the battle line was rapidly approaching his side, and he was afraid that it would be too late if he didn't leave, so he sighed, jumped down from the mound, beckoned, and a personal soldier led his horse over, Wu Wenyong sighed again and said: "Withdraw!" Then he flew up and kicked over the flag.

At this moment, the sound of artillery rang out again. This time, the marines used solid shells, which were fired with reduced charges. They raised the muzzle of the cannon so that the shell made a curve, passed the pursuing Marines in front of them, and entered the Li Dynasty army.

The shells fired from the five-pounder were not so fast that they could be seen by the human eye. Wu Wenyong watched the cannonballs fly, and then for a moment it even seemed to stop in the air, and then in his vision, the cannonball accelerated suddenly, fell suddenly, and whistled past him, causing a wave of air that made him almost fall, and then hit the soldier who was leading him and the horse behind.

The lower half of the soldier's body remained in place, but the upper half of the body did not know where it had gone. The horse was torn in half from the chest, and the large pool of minced flesh flew everywhere.

Looking at this terrifying blow, Wu Wenyong and his personal soldiers were stunned for a moment. An unprecedented fear made them stiff and unable to move.

This stiffness didn't last long, but when Wu Wenyong recovered, he found that he was about to become the person behind the palace, and the shining short spears (flintlock pistols with bayonets) of the pirates were only seven or eight steps away from him!

Because the infantry charge was carried out in advance, the assault of the fireships was a little slower, and it was not until the marines had already begun a white-knuckle battle with the soldiers of the Li Dynasty that the twenty fireboats followed the current, turned a corner, and pounced on the two warships of the pirates.

On one of the leading fireboats, stood Wu Wenyong's nephew Wu Xuanyi. Before turning that corner, Wu Xuanyi envisioned the battle scene like this:

The enemy's two warships were busy supporting the ground operation, so they slowed down, approached the shore, dropped a lot of sails, and focused all their attention on how to attack the ground target. After the fireboat appeared, they were in a mess, not only wanting to turn quickly, but also because they were worried about running aground on the shore, they did not have time to turn the muzzle, and as a result, the fireboat collided smoothly and burned the enemy ship into torches......

However, when he turned the corner, he found that things were completely different from what he had imagined.