Chapter 290: Malay Chaos (7) -- Battle

The familiar sound of artillery rang out again, and the dozens of White Flag troops who ran at the forefront were immediately bombarded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoYang Ganming, who has been paying close attention to the battlefield, immediately knew that it was not good. Blow the horn and order the pursuing Ming soldiers to quickly retreat.

It's just that in Ajansha's troops, there are more than a hundred artillery pieces. Although only half of the Ming troops were bombarding, the hit rate was not low because the two sides were close to each other.

So when the remnants of the White Flag Army were bombarded into stragglers, several shells fell on the heads of the Ming soldiers. I heard a few bangs, and more than a dozen soldiers on horses rolled to the ground.

Some of the pursuing Ming soldiers immediately turned around and retreated.

However, under the bombardment of more than 50 artillery pieces, soldiers were dismounted one after another. Yang Ganming looked at it and scolded angrily: "It's so fucking ruthless!" Even your own people can do it! ”。

Although the White Flag Army was not a musket unit, its number, there were also nearly five thousand people. After the pursuit of the Ming Dynasty, only about 1,000 people were lost.

The rest of the defeated soldiers, organized, are also a large force. But the leader of the enemy army didn't know what to think, and he didn't distinguish between the enemy and me, and he was all blown up with his own people.

Compared to his anger, the second prince of Johor, Ajan Shah, was very happy. Although Da Ming is a behemoth, he is not capable of being an enemy. But with Britain as a backer, he didn't worry much about Daming's disadvantage for him.

And he has stood on the opposite side of Da Ming. Fundamentally, Daming was offended to death. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you kill the Ming soldiers or not.

It was for this reason that he killed the generals who spoke out to persuade him mercilessly. This is also to tell everyone that it is impossible to reconcile with Daming.

Besides, there are only about 2,000 Ming reinforcements who rushed in. His troops, however, numbered more than 20,000 men. This ratio of ten to ten gave him the confidence to annihilate this Ming reinforcement army. It is also good for his backers to see that Johor is not a small country that is too weak to fight back, and he is not a prince who only indulges in spending and drinking.

I thought that not long after, the news of the annihilation of the Ming reinforcements spread all over Nanyang, and I also became famous. The curvature of the corners of his lips was raised even deeper.

But at this moment, on the left side of the foot of the mountain not far away, there was a sudden sound of sparse artillery fire. Because of the proximity, as soon as it fell, many soldiers were killed. He was also caught off guard and was scratched by flying shrapnel.

The roaring artillery was also disrupted and stopped temporarily.

Those evacuated Ming soldiers took this opportunity to escape from the range of artillery. Yang Ganming, who was anxious, was also stunned. He didn't know where the cannon came from. Because of the terrain restrictions of Longluan Township, he abandoned the artillery accompanying him and went into battle lightly.

So according to common sense, there should be no artillery.

But soon, a general will come. With a happy face, he said that it was the artillery captured by the soldiers from the White Flag Army. He immediately took the binoculars and saw the soldier standing next to the artillery. Although he was dressed in the white uniform of the White Flag Army, he wore a dark green military cap on his head.

Obviously, this is a Ming soldier in the coat of the White Flag Army.

was hurriedly loading and firing the cannon, bombarding Liu Duofu in the enemy camp hard, not knowing that Yang Ganming was looking at him.

Originally, he should have enlisted in the army a few years earlier. It's just that when he was the village chief in the northern province of Daming, he accidentally cut off half of his left palm because of the use of newly invented harvesting tools. This disability has kept him excluded from the KPA.

Until last year, Daming expanded its enrollment, and the number of Chinese was not full. He was also awarded the title of a model worker because of his diligence and ability. was exceptionally admitted by the People's Army and became a Ming soldier.

Later, with the identity of a Chinese, he easily became a platoon commander. Although there are not many people in charge, he is a petty officer. This identity made him secretly happy for a while.

But in his heart, he still feels a little pity!

If that didn't happen back then, he would probably be a higher officer than a platoon commander now.

So this is finally an opportunity to go to the battlefield and compete for the military industry, and he will not let go of anything he says.

At the beginning of the enemy's artillery fire, they did not retreat but advanced. With more than 40 people under his hand, he changed into the clothes of the White Flag Army and sneaked to the vicinity of the artillery abandoned by the White Flag Army. Because they were all hung on the right side of the horse, there were only unmanned horses from the direction of the enemy.

It is also that there are not many war horses on the Nanyang side, and the Ming Dynasty equips them with sweaty horses imported from Central Asia. If you sell it outside, it's worth a lot of money. so that ordinary people will not attack the war horse.

In this way, they were fooled.

At that moment, the sound of artillery fire was booming, and Liu Duofu's ears were so bombarded that he couldn't hear the human voice. However, he still pulled his throat and asked the soldiers to adjust their angles and try their best to destroy the enemy's artillery positions.

Because he found that the artillery position of the White Flag Army was hiding a very big hidden danger. Like each artillery, the distance between them is extremely short. Once a cannon explodes, the adjacent artillery will be greatly affected.

There is also the placement of shells. Probably for the sake of simplicity of reloading, the solid shells were scattered around the artillery, and there was nothing to cover. If a spark falls, all these guns will have to be scrapped.

After all, the artillery positions were located in the rear of the army, some distance from the battlefield. In the White Flag Army, there were no very professional gunners. Turning a blind eye to such obvious safety hazards.

By analogy, the other military camps in Ajansha are no better than that.

Liu Duofu took advantage of this to destroy the enemy's artillery.

It was also because the Ming army did not have the artillery with corresponding heavy firepower to return fire, so it was forced to retreat. Therefore, if the enemy's artillery is successfully destroyed, it will be nothing, and it will be able to stop the pace of the Ming army's attack.

Yang Ganming watched from a distance and also saw Liu Duofu's intentions. He ordered two hundred musketeers to take the opportunity to charge. In order to gather enough fast horses, he also gave up his mount. Some of the officers also gave up their mounts.

So under the cover of artillery fire, a long column of dark green Ming troops, like a violent wind, quickly pounced on the enemy troops halfway up the mountain.

Although the recruits of the Ming Dynasty, in the first three months of enlistment, they have been intensively trained on how to fire artillery. That level of technology is by no means comparable to that of the enemy's motley artillery. But the captured guns were all British-made small-caliber smoothbore front-loading guns. Not only is the firing speed slow, the shooting accuracy is low, and the firing range is extremely short.

If you don't get closer, don't even think about touching the enemy's artillery.

So the shells fired one after another, not even touching the side of the enemy artillery. Liu Duofu was in a hurry, so he had to let the soldiers, pushing the artillery, get closer to the enemy camp. (To be continued.) )