Chapter 617: Luring the Enemy Deeper
In the eyes of a more experienced general like Liu Wenxiu, although the formation of the Qi army was neatly arranged, it was a little too passive and cumbersome to really fight, and it was too stiff to move.
For example, the other party is composed of a phalanx, which seems to be divided and combined, and the posture is full, but it is useless.
In the end, the officers and soldiers will lose their morale and collapse.
There are only a dozen phalanxes in front of the firearms battalion, and the number of people is more than 10,000 points, and Wang Zheng has already mobilized a battalion of forbidden troops from the Chinese army to support, but it is definitely too late in a hurry.
Liu Wenxiu observed the other party's soldiers and horses from the Chinese army, until now, the forbidden army of the Xuanwu Battalion has not yet arrived at the venue, and at this speed, it will take a short time to arrive.
The Great Western Army is to seize this gap and rush over, even if it is scared, it must make the Qi Army Firearms Battalion unable to fire smoothly, otherwise if it continues like this, the Great Western Army itself will collapse.
In the eyes of Wang Heng, the leader of the Eighteen Zhai Horse Team, there is no one in the world who can face the charge of the Daxi Horse Team but his face does not change, at such a close distance, even if the other party fires, it will definitely not be himself who suffers.
Ren Hu, the commander of the Qi Army's firearms battalion standing on the mountain, also saw that these thieves were coming for him, and before he could say anything, the deputy general beside him was extremely nervous and said:
"Commander, the team of the Xuanwu Battalion has not yet arrived, should we withdraw one after another, the people in front of us will not be able to resist the attack of the thieves!"
Hearing this, Ren Hu shook his head and said:
"Originally, Lao Tzu was still worried about where to get the military merits, but he didn't think about it, the thieves really sent the first merit to Lao Tzu, and ordered him to go down, and tell the brothers to do whatever they want, don't panic!"
Speaking of this, Ren Hu snorted coldly:
"The thief is really still a thief, and he doesn't know how to use his brain to fight, and he will be pressed all over the place at the slightest temptation, and he doesn't want to think about what to do with the artillery battalion behind him? Relax, just with these thieves, we won't be able to beat them for a while, as long as we can hold on for a while, when General Zhaowei arrives with the Xuanwu battalion, they can't run away if they want to! ”
After he finished shouting, the adjutant general immediately understood that this was a plan to lure the enemy into the depths, and he didn't say anything, so he immediately conveyed the order, and the Qi troops in the dozen or so phalanxes in front of the firearms battalion also stabilized, and the general led by him shouted loudly:
"If the firearms battalion is not withdrawn, that is, I believe that we, brothers, will give this general a twelve-point spirit, kill his mother, don't keep your hands!"
"Fuck me!"
The Great Western Army had only rushed out more than 40 paces, and the firearms battalion actually came with another salvo, directly leaving more than a dozen bloody paths in the Great Western Army's formation, disrupting the formation they had just gathered again.
"Spread out, all spread out!"
Since they have already run here, it will be too late to retreat, and several officers of the Great Western Army listened to the wailing of the soldiers behind them, and they also gritted their teeth and gave orders.
At this moment, their only thought was to rush over and seize these artillery pieces for their own use, the other party's firearms were simply too terrible compared to the former Ming official army.
But they didn't expect that the other side not only had the technology to fire muskets, but even the artillery was much more advanced than the former Ming official army, not only the loading and firing speed was much faster, but each one was equipped with a crosshair and a light door.
The artillery of the Qi army seemed to have eyes, and under the wave of the gunner's small flag, it was simply pointing where to fight, and the formation had just dispersed, and before it had time to give another order, another round of rumbling salvo came over.
The reason why the firearms battalion of the Qi army has been shooting solid bullets is because the number of flowering bullets is too small, and they will not be used until the last moment.
Hundreds of artillery pieces of the Qi army roared together, and the shells hit the sky and changed to ten, ten to hundred, like a dense cluster of arrows tilting into the Great Western Army.
The large western army was falling at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the team, which was still in good shape, suddenly weakened a lot.
The Great Western Army originally wanted to spread out in formation to avoid artillery bombardment, and this kind of order was also the experience of several officers when they fought with the officers and soldiers before, but it happened to fall into the hands of Ren Hu.
The never-before-seen flowering bomb suddenly exploded overhead, causing more casualties and tearing apart the already scattered Great Western Army front.
Up to now, the Great Western Army has been full of corpses, casualties are incalculating, and the morale of the army is discouraged, but most of the Qi army on the opposite side has not even moved, except for the initial dispatch of the cavalry.
"Great Qi will win!"
"Great Qi will win!"
At this time, more than a dozen phalanxes in front of the firearms battalion moved together, and the soldiers held up their axes and guns in their hands, and under the orders of their respective officers, they pressed towards the dizzy Daxi Army with overwhelming momentum, and fought together in an instant.
An officer of the Great Western Army who was in the front was under constant fire from close range of artillery, and even his ears were a little buzzing, and he staggered for a long time and finally stabilized his body, but suddenly heard a shout of killing.
Suddenly raised his head, and saw that the phalanx of the Qi army had actually been killed in front of him, so he let the axe gun concentrate without preparation, and the axe gun that hit dozens of paces knocked him down with huge inertia, and brought down several soldiers of the Great Western Army behind without abating.
"Swing the axe!"
Hearing this shout, a whole row of Qi soldiers shook their axes and guns to the side, and the small axes slashed away with cold light, and the thin armor of the soldiers of the Great Western Army alone could not be guarded at all, and more than a dozen people were immediately cut down.
"Scatter!"
With another shout, the Qi soldiers of this phalanx scattered and began to attack indiscriminately.
The front two rows of heavily armored swordsmen held Pu knives and heavy shields, and wore refined "Qi Wu armor", which was an iron lump in front of the soldiers of the Onishi Army.
Unless a few people rushed up, few soldiers of the Great Western Army could cause damage to them, and some were even crushed to death by several Qi Wujia with shields.
Behind the Qi Wu armor swordsmen were axe gunners wearing full-body armor, and some of them threw their axes and spears directly on the ground, drew their sabers from their waists, or took out stainless steel tiger spears from their backs, and began to fight with the Great Western Army.
Fang Cai's order is only one word, but it contains a lot of meanings in the Qi army, the formation is still the first, the Qi army is known for its neat advancement, but when encountering individual situations, it is also necessary to suddenly disperse to give the opponent a fatal blow.
Once the officers in the formation gave this order, it meant that the soldiers no longer had to form a rigid phalanx, and could attack indiscriminately as they wished, with the sole purpose of knocking the opponent to the ground.
Many people have the meaning of gradually going crazy, the louder the artillery on their side, the more the Great Western Army screams, the more excited they are, and as the smell of blood gradually thickens, the killing becomes more energetic.
No matter whether it is a grassroots officer or an ordinary soldier at the lowest level, no one thinks that this Great Qi War cannot be won, and every time they defeat a thief of the Great Western Army, when they recount their merits after the war, their lives and their families will be better in the future.
Although this practice forced the Qi army to disperse one phalanx after another, it became extremely effective in this kind of melee raid, and the Great Western Army was bombed in turns, and it was already somewhat shaken, and many people even lost their basic judgment ability.
The soldiers of the Qi army took advantage of the weak gap of the other party, as if they were drinking too much and playing drunkenness, they cut down when they met people, and killed them when they saw them, and the so-called taking advantage of your illness to kill you is exactly like this.
Ren Hu, the commander of the firearms battalion, was also like this, standing on the Hongyi artillery truck, frantically waving the steel knife in his hand, dancing and shouting.
Although he himself did not take a step forward, he continued to cheer for the soldiers who were fighting in front of him, and the main general shouted so loudly and fought fiercely, which more or less had the effect of calming the morale of the army.