Chapter 442: Corpse Wall
Ji Lunhai was really not disappointed, the gunners of the Ming army did not finish shooting in a wave, and the thousand cavalry were reimbursed, and the battlefield was full of casualties of cavalry, and the corpses of men and horses almost filled the path of the Donghu soldiers.
While the cavalry was killed and wounded, the mountain artillery of the Ming army did not stop for a moment, and all the flowering shells were projected at the Donghu infantry behind, and the number of infantry was too large, as long as the flowering shells were not outrageous, they would bloom in the infantry group.
Gylunhai was most concerned about the cavalry at the front, and when the last cavalryman fell from his horse, he had a faint feeling: It's over, and the battle is over?
Ji Lunhai thought hard, and he suddenly found that all the cavalry were killed because there was no cover in front, and if the cover of the hillside and the city wall was used, the flintlock pistols of the Ming army would not be so unscrupulous.
Now the infantry is following in the footsteps of the cavalry, and after the flowering bullet strike, it is the flintlock pistol of the Ming army.
Will the infantry also be wiped out?
Ji Lunhai is unwilling, he has not been able to really fight with the Ming army until now, could it be that the last army of Donghu will be buried in his hands?
He deserved to be the best general of the Donghu Army, and at this moment of life and death, he finally thought of a way to deal with the Ming army, "Pass the order, gather the corpses of the war horses, use them as cover, and let the soldiers hide behind and shoot arrows." Ji Lunhai didn't believe it, the Ming army was all iron, could their blue clothes stop Donghu's sharp arrows?
Approaching the range of the flintlock muskets, the Donghu infantry began to clear the road of the carcasses of the horses, piled up in front of them, and they prepared to hide behind the pile of corpses and use their sharp arrows against the Ming army.
The gunners of the Ming army suddenly found that in front of them, the Toungoo soldiers were hiding behind the corpses of the war horses, their flintlock muskets had lost their target, and the bullets of the flintlock pistols were not enough to penetrate the corpses of the war horses and then burrow into the bodies of the Toungoo soldiers.
However, the Donghu soldiers were not able to release arrows to the Ming army for the time being, and the place where the war horse fell, it was the range of the flintlock pistol, and it was still outside the range of the bow and arrow.
Ji Lunhai also discovered this problem, although the Donghu soldiers reduced their losses, they still could not attack the Ming army, unless the corpses of the war horses were moved forward and the Donghu soldiers were brought into the range of bows and arrows.
Where there is hope, there is motivation, and Ji Lunhai quickly came up with a solution, which is actually very simple, that is, in front of the corpse pile, and then build a corpse pile, so that the Donghu army will be closer to the Ming army, and if it is repeated a few times, it will enter the range of the Donghu archers.
The Ming army discovered Ji Lunhai's attempt, and when the Donghu soldiers built up the corpse wall, the flintlock pistol gave up the salvo fire, and instead used the method of point fire, as long as the Donghu soldiers showed their heads, they would use the flintlock pistol to serve.
After paying some casualties, the Donghu soldiers finally set up a corpse wall bunker, and they began to hide behind the bunkers, greeting the Ming army with bows and arrows.
The battlefield entered the stage of mutual firing between the two sides, but the Donghu soldiers were protected by a wall of corpses, and the Ming army was completely exposed to the bows and arrows of the Donghu soldiers.
Bows and arrows flew like snowflakes in the sky towards the gunners of the Ming army, but if the Donghu soldiers dared to show their heads, they would be hit by flintlock muskets, and most of them used blind shots, and the hit rate was handed over to the Buddha.
The gunners of the Ming army stood too closely, and even if they fired blindly, the casualty rate was not low.
Constantly hit by arrows, fell, and was carried to the rear, the Ming army began to suffer heavy casualties.
Zheng Xing was furious: "How could these damn Donghu soldiers hide behind the corpses? If you have the ability, you will come out and die! ”
Of course, Ji Lunhai would not let his soldiers die, he finally saw the casualties of the Ming army, although the casualties were much smaller than his expectations, he still saw hope, saw the hope of defeating the Ming army, maybe in the next quarter of an hour, the Ming army could not support it.
Zheng Xing was indeed bleeding in his heart, and when he saw that the soldiers were constantly being carried to the rear, he was so anxious that he wanted to rush up by himself.
Impulsiveness alone can't solve the problem, the key is to be calm, Zheng Xing repeatedly reminded himself: calm down, calm down, you must be calm!
But now it's blood boiling, since it's not cold, how can it calm down?
"Master, what should I do?"
Zheng Xing was asked by the soldiers, and suddenly thought of a solution: "Mountain artillery, use mountain artillery to destroy the corpse pile of Donghu!" ”
"Division, the mountain cannon is too close to the corpse pile, and the artillery fire can't hit the corpse pile!"
"Stupid, the mountain cannon is so light, it won't move its position?" Zheng Xing was annoyed, he had never seen such a stupid soldier.
"Yes, Master, I see." The scolded soldier was not angry, but he was triumphant, "Donghu rabbit cubs, you wait, Lao Tzu will make you look good now." ”
The mountain cannon was lightweight, and the gunner moved the mountain cannon to the rear of the flank, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the bunker of the corpses of the Donghu soldiers.
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
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The Donghu soldiers who were stretching their bows and arrows could never have dreamed that the flowering bullets that were still hitting the infantry behind them just now would fall on their side at this time, and before the shrapnel flew over, the bows and arrows in their hands were so frightened that they didn't know where to throw them.
By the time the fragments and shock waves of the flowering bombs arrived, not only the Donghu soldiers, but even the corpses of the war horses were shattered, and even if the Donghu soldiers did not die under the flowering bullets, they would be exposed to the flintlock pistols of the Ming army!
When the gunners of the Ming army saw such a situation, how could they let go of the opportunity? The exposed Donghu soldiers were immediately beaten into a sieve by a large number of flowering bullets.
Zheng Xing was so happy that he couldn't help but shout: "That's it, fight well, look where your doggy Donghu soldiers are hiding!" ”
Ji Lunhai had a black line on his face: "Damn, Ming Jun." ”
"General, what should I do?"
"What else can I do? Gather the corpses of the war horses, and the Ming army will have so many of them, killing one less and one less. ”
The Donghu soldiers collected the corpses of the war horses again, but the corpses of the war horses had been blown up by the flowering bombs, and they simply used the corpses of the soldiers, and the wounded war horses wandering nearby were also killed by the Donghu soldiers as a cover for their lives.
Throughout the afternoon, the two sides made a big fuss about the bunker of the corpse wall of the Donghu army, the corpse wall was constantly blown up, and constantly rebuilt, every time the corpse wall was blown up, the Donghu soldiers hiding behind would be shot by the Ming army, but once the corpse wall was established, there would be Ming troops shot by the archers of Donghu.
Such attrition is unacceptable to both sides.
At sunset, the two sides seemed to have agreed, the Donghu soldiers stopped attacking, and the Ming army also stopped firing flower shells.
The southern bank of the Zhelai River has temporarily regained its tranquility, but the Zhelai River has been scarred, not only the embankment has been blown to pieces, but even the river water has been dyed blood-red, and only the fish foraging at night are particularly excited.
When night fell, Zheng Xing and Ji Lunhai had an unintentional dinner, and the darkness gave them plenty of time to prepare.
The soldiers of the Ming army were busy with something behind the battle, and Zheng Xing watched and pointed out at any time.
"Division, the Donghu soldiers have come out."
"Where did they go?" Zheng Xing didn't raise his head.
"The Donghu soldiers went to the place where the horses were carcassed."
"Could it be that the Donghu soldiers are cleaning up the carcasses of the war horses?" Zheng Xing glanced at the darkness ahead, but it was dark ahead and he couldn't see anything.
"The Donghu soldiers not only piled up the corpses of men and horses in the city, but also dug the earth under these corpses."
"Digging? Is it digging trenches? Zheng Xing closed his eyes, and he could think of Ji Lunhai's proud appearance.
"We didn't dare to get too close, we couldn't see clearly in the dark, we should be digging trenches."
Zheng Xing thought about it for a while, and felt more and more that he had done the right thing tonight, "Pay attention to monitoring and strictly prevent the Donghu army from stealing the camp at night." ”
"Yes, Master."
The day began, and the battle began again, and using the corpses of men and horses and trenches, the Donghu army withstood the flintlock muskets of the Ming army.
However, when the temperature was too high, the corpses began to deteriorate and emit a pungent stench, and the Donghu soldiers often had to take advantage of the interval between archery to spit and foam at the mouth or cover their nostrils with their hands to barely avoid the strange smell of the corpses.
The Ming army's mountain artillery blew the corpses to pieces, exacerbating the spread of the stench.
Compared with the stench of corpses, the casualties of soldiers are the main generals of both sides are the most worried, and there are casualties on both sides, depending on which side cannot hold on.
Now the Donghu army had the double cover of corpses and trenches, and the casualties were much smaller than those of the Ming army.
Zheng Xing couldn't hold it anymore.
The first row of gunners of the Ming army retreated back from both sides to a hundred paces away and re-lined up in defensive formation, and then the second and third rows of gunners also retreated, lined up behind the first row of gunners.
Ji Lunhai was dumbfounded, the retreat of the Ming army increased the distance between the two sides, and the flintlock pistol could still hit the Donghu army, but the bows and arrows of the Donghu soldiers could no longer reach the Ming army.
The Ming army again had an advantage in range.
When digging the trenches last night, Ji Lunhai did not expect the Ming army to retreat, in his impression, the Ming army had never retreated, this retreat, to the Donghu army problems, if you want to kill and injure the Ming army, the Donghu army must jump out of the trench and pursue on the ground without cover.
Gyllen is out of the way.
He ordered his soldiers to lie on the ground and crawl forward slowly, so that the area exposed to the Ming army's flintlock pistols was much smaller.
After handing over a large number of corpses, the Toungoo soldiers finally advanced more than 20 steps, and the new corpses were also called the new bunkers of the Toungoo Army.
Crawling slowly, the casualties are huge.
It took a huge price to close the gap in firearms range with the Ming army.
Seeing that the Donghu Army had obtained a large number of corpses, Ji Lunhai was so anxious that he was about to go crazy, but Zheng Xing was not in a hurry at all.
Zheng Xing's method was to retreat again, and the only two rows of gunmen left on the battlefield retreated a hundred paces away again, and the soldiers on both sides completely disengaged.
Ji Lunhai finally saw the defeat of the Ming army, he divided his troops into two ways, all the way to continue to pursue the retreating Ming army, and sent a thousand troops, all the way to the front of the side, to attack the position of the Ming army's mountain artillery, as long as the Ming army's mountain artillery, Donghu soldiers will no longer be subjected to the Ming army's long-range attack.