Chapter 44: The Contest (I)

"Whew." The soldiers and civil and military forces around him quietly breathed a sigh of relief, followed closely behind, and retreated to the periphery of the battlefield, trying to stay away from the blue-gray city walls of Jiangwan City.

Five hundred steps, it is said that it is very safe, although the range of the artillery of the Huai'an army is long, but the aim has to be achieved with the naked eye, five hundred steps away, the condor hand of one in ten thousand does not dare to say that he can see a figure clearly, and the Huai'an gunner whose eyesight can only be counted as one out of ten is even more impossible.

But everything is afraid of what if, in case God doesn't open his eyes and is blinded by him, the dead have nowhere to buy regret medicine to eat, so these days, as long as Dong Junxiao comes to the battlefield in person, his personal soldiers and subordinate officials are all sweating in their palms, if it weren't for the fear of the prestige of this "Dong Shaved Head" decisive killing, everyone would have fled far away, and they would not have gritted their teeth until now.

Their lives are precious, and they can't die under the fire of the Huai'an army in a daze, but the Han army ballistae in the team are not treated so well, against the direction of Dong Xiaoxiao's retreat, more than forty ballistas carefully built by color craftsmen, more than ten gun carriages captured from the hands of the red turban princes who don't know which way, loosely arranged in a fan shape, pulled by buffaloes, slowly approached the blue-gray cement city wall of Jiangwan New Town.

Thousands of elites of the Yuan army slowly followed the ballista and artillery carriage more than twenty paces away, Mongols, Semu people, Khitans, Han people, each of them looked dignified, their formations were arranged very strangely, like the scales on the body of a fish, combined in a specific way according to someone, each piece of Lin, basically composed of thirty soldiers, between every two scales, there is a huge gap.

All four generals, dressed in the uniforms of a thousand commanders, each rode a tall horse, shuttling back and forth in the procession, refusing to stop for a moment.

They did this, on the one hand, to better boost morale, on the other hand, to avoid themselves after stopping, become the target of the Huai'an army's gunners, the appearance of firearms, the rules of war, extremely dramatic changes, the more in the front line of the combat of the middle and low-level generals, the more profound the feeling of this, therefore, they have to force themselves to speed up the adaptation, keep up with this change, otherwise, they may soon become a corpse.

"Phew." A lead bullet swept a distance of four hundred paces and struck the ballista cart, causing the buffalo pulling the cart to stop in fright, and let out a low cry, "Moo,." ”

"Marksman, watch out for marksman."

"Put up the shield, put the shield up."

After the ballista cart, there was a panicked shout, and soon, someone rushed forward with a huge shield with wooden wheels at the bottom, blocking the buffalo pulling the cart tightly.

"Phew." The second buckshot flew in and hit the center of the giant shield impartially, smashing a big hole into the surface of the giant shield covered with iron sheets.

"Shieldman, shieldman, protect the gun cart, protect the gun carriage, the bullet can't penetrate the shield, at such a distance, the bullet can't penetrate the shield." The four commanders also reacted quickly, instigating their mounts, shouting orders as they walked back and forth through their ranks.

More shields were erected, covering all the gun carriages and ballista carts, and at this time, Song Kezhen, a sharpshooter standing at the head of Jiangwan City, said that he had shot the target, and he couldn't even see the shadow of the target, so he was so angry that he scolded in a low voice, and hatefully put the rifled musket at his feet.

"Zhong Wen, don't worry, they can't shrink behind their shields forever." Chen De, the deputy commander of the Fourth Army, patted him on the shoulder and smiled comfortingly.

For the young man sent down to the Fourth Army above, he likes it from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't talk about both civil and military, and he still has the style of an ancient hero, he never cares about any trivial things, and he will not cause any trouble to Wu Yongchun and him because of some other trivial things.

This is a rare fate for Chen De, who has seen all kinds of life and death in the Mengyuan army, and has been intriguing on the rivers and lakes, as for Song Ke's long history and military strategy, it doesn't matter, anyway, including the commander Wu Yongchun, the entire Fourth Army is learning and selling, as long as Song Ke is not deaf or blind, sooner or later he will have the opportunity to catch up.

"I'm trying to figure out as much as I can to see if I can stop the ballista cart two hundred paces away." Sensing the concern in Chen De's words, the commander of the Fourth Army, Shi Songke, turned his head and reported in a low voice, "I just saw through the telescope that these ballistae are the same as the ones that came over last time, and they all have fuses on the crossbow rods, and if they are allowed to get too close, I am afraid that the brothers will suffer losses again. ”

"Difficult." Chen De thought for a moment and shook his head slightly, "Although the range of the Divine Machine Gun is long, there are not many people here who can use it well, and besides, this gun is too troublesome to load, and if you change the gun once, the other party can at least take twenty more steps forward." ”

He said the whole truth, the rifled arquebus, no matter the power and range, are far more than the smoothbore gun, however, the firearm loading slow, the weak point of complex operation, is also multiplied by it, in order to ensure the tightness of the chamber, each bullet, the surface must be coated with a thick layer of tin-containing soft lead, and the size, but also to ensure that the inner diameter of the musket is close, so that when loading the bullet, the shooter must use a special strip to push the bullet to the bottom little by little, and when firing, In order to ensure that the bullet does not deviate from the target, it is also necessary to make efforts to firmly hold the butt with the shoulder and stabilize the muzzle.

Therefore, although the rifled gun named by the Great Craftsman Academy is better than the smoothbore gun, among the five main forces in Huai'an, they are not equipped with too much, and one can't stand the slow reloading of the gun, and in a short time, it can't train enough marksmen.

"Transfer all those Wu Xiucai to me, and organize a separate team using the Divine Weapon to be responsible for dealing with long-distance targets." Song Ke was rejected for one Jian, but he was not discouraged at all, and soon proposed a second Jianyi, "They have more opportunities to touch the thunderbolt in the martial arts hall, and their understanding is stronger than that of ordinary soldiers, and they can exercise a few more times, even if this battle does not work, they can use it in the future." ”

"Hmm." Chen De muttered in a low voice, this mention yì, but it made him a little moved, there are usually only two sources of students in Huaxia Wutang, the first is the key seedlings selected from the combat troops, and the second is the young students in Huaiyang who are interested in throwing pen from Rong, no matter which one, the basic quality and future prospects are far stronger than ordinary soldiers, using them as reserve envoys, it is really a bit of a sense of killing chickens, and in case the students lose too much, he will not be able to explain in the future, it is better to transfer them all to Song Ke, The latter led the students to shoot at the enemy from afar.

Thinking of this, Chen De, the deputy commander of the Fourth Army, nodded lightly, "I will transfer all the cadet companies to you, and then transfer the auxiliaries of two companies to you, responsible for loading bullets and gunpowder for them. ”

"Yes, the Admiral understands." Song Ke stood up and gave Chen De a new-style military salute cleanly.

As the saying goes, "drums don't need heavy hammers", he understood the meaning of the other party's last two sentences very thoroughly, and in his own previous statement, he also had the meaning of protecting these generals as much as possible, but he didn't say it too clearly.

"You take the opportunity yourself, and I won't interfere with your specific command later." Chen De smiled again and raised his hand to return the salute, and then turned his gaze to the surrounding soldiers, "Zheng Yi, you go and help Song Changshi gather the team, Sun Liang, mobilize all the artillery for me, intercept the ballista, start from the trench at two hundred and fifty steps, concentrate the fire on one point, tell the brothers to be patient, knock over one door, and then move on to the next one." ”

"Yes." The generals who received the order agreed in unison, and then hurried to carry out the task.

"Yang Shouzheng, all the trolls are under your command, specifically to deal with the enemy after crossing the moat, before crossing the river, no matter how loud they are, it will be nothing for you."

"Tiebiao, you go and bring the musket regiment, don't seek accuracy, only seek moderation, fight at the people on the ladder, how fast you can fight."

"Muhammad, you have a battalion of auxiliaries who are responsible for pouring fire oil, that thing was passed down by your Semu people, and there is no one here who is better at it than you."

"Liu Hulu"

"Ran Thirty-Five"

The flowing command came out of Chen De's mouth, and then quickly passed into the ears of the generals under his command, and all the generals either clasped their fists and saluted the old ones, or raised their arms to perform the new military salute, each of them received their orders, and quickly went down to prepare, taking advantage of the new round of enemy attacks before they came, polished their knives, cannons, and muskets, and put away the nails, rolling logs, thunder stones, and oil barrels in order.

The enemy troops outside the city, keenly feeling the powerful killing intent coming from overhead, have quickened their pace, and at the same time lined up more and more loosely, the people around each ballista and gun carriage are definitely not more than ten, between each ballista and gun carriage, there is at least six feet of space, this is the best advance formation they have tried with the lives of countless robes, even if a few of them are hit by the flowering bullets from the city wall, the surrounding accomplices will not be affected, but when attacking, the power will be affected to a certain extentIt is also difficult to maintain uniformity with each other like a tight formation.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." When the ten ballistae that walked in the front stepped over a filled trench on the ground, the six-pound rifled guns placed on the forts of the city wall took the lead and fired a round of flowering shells from a distance of two hundred and fifty paces.

In the absence of any sighting equipment, even if it is a rifled gun, the accuracy is still limited, especially for moving targets, whether or not you can establish a meritorious service is completely a matter of luck.

Obviously, the luck of the Fourth Army was consumed too much in the battle just now, and the rest was no longer enough to create another miracle, and five of the six high-bore shells fell into the clearing, blowing up five large craters of black holes in vain, only one, before the lead burned out, touched the rear wheel of a ballista, and immediately overturned it to the ground, and the thick crossbow bolts exploded on the spot, and with a bang, the buffalo pulling the cart and the surrounding Meng Yuan soldiers were blown to pieces.

The surrounding Yuan troops were taken aback, and the degree of the ballista immediately slowed down, and at this moment, more than 20 projectiles fired by four-pound rifled guns and four-pound smoothbore guns roared in, densely falling near the previous explosion point, kicking up thick smoke and dust.

"Click." A four-pound lead-packed projectile jumped up after hitting the ground, drew a strange folded line in mid-air, and smashed heavily on a huge shield with a round wheel at the bottom.

The giant shield that could resist the bullets, but could not resist the projectiles fired by the artillery, was immediately reduced to a pile of sawdust, and the high-spinning cannonballs continued to draw a strange folded line, passing through the team behind the giant shield, and the buffalo pulling the cart, the crossbowman responsible for aiming, the brand head responsible for igniting and supervising the battle, and the other unlucky ghost next to the brand head, all of them were thrown to the ground, and everyone broke their tendons.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." The other three flowering bombs drilled into the vicinity of a ballista behind them, and exploded one after another, and the huge smoke and dust threw the buffalo pulling the cart into the air along with the crossbow rod on the car, and the black powder contained in the crossbow rod fell one after another like sand, and before it reached the ground, it was ignited again by the spark caused by the cannonball, and suddenly turned into a huge ball of light, expanding, expanding, until it exploded,,。 Wrapping another ballista in the vicinity, a series of explosions came out, "Boom, boom"

When the smoke of gunpowder was blown away by the wind, the soldiers on both sides of the enemy and the enemy saw the scene near the attack point again, the three ballistas were completely wiped out of the world, and one was erased, along with more than 20 unlucky Mengyuan soldiers, and the six surviving soldiers who were lucky enough not to die from the gunpowder explosion stood alone between several charred craters, neither crying nor dodging, and completely turned into six pieces of walking dead.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up, their cannons need to be reloaded." Seeing that the situation was not good, Commander Han Er was the first to react, riding his horse and rushing to the side of the first row of ballistas, brandishing a steel knife and shouting.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak" The first row of ballistas continued to move forward, the whole team was awakened from the shock, and slowly pushed forward together, and the commander Han Er saw this, and straightened up on the horseback with satisfaction, and waved his arms to several other colleagues, "Don't be afraid, everyone together"

"Bah, bah, bah, bah," a large string of muskets burst through the air, and in the next moment, Thousand Commander Han Er lowered his head suddenly, looking at himself and his lower abdomen, six blood springs emerged.

"Ah,,。h He dropped his weapon, screamed and blocked it with his fingers, but to no avail, the strength of his whole body was quickly pulled away along the six bullet holes, the sky above his head was quickly amplified, and the sound of the horn in the distance became clearer, "Woo, woo, woo, woo,,。 ”

Like a wild wolf out of pack, calling out to his distant companions,

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