396. Review of the empty panic of the outlying islands (3)
"King Zhishun's plan is really effective, attack more, and the Ming army has retreated!"
Shuoto was very satisfied with the current situation, the Ming army had indeed retreated, because he saw that Shang Kexi's men had landed on the shore, and this section of the shore, after the ploughing of artillery, there was no more Ming musket fire.
"Take this opportunity, take down the dock in one go, as long as we are allowed to land, then Phi Island is at your fingertips!"
Kong Youde sneered in his heart.
The number of troops reported to the Ming court by Dongjiang Town has always been exaggerated, but 12,500 is a real number, of which there are seven or eight thousand on Phi Island, plus the reinforcements with strong firepower, there may be about 15,000 defenders. And the total strength of their troops is only 27,800, and such a force cannot be completely defeated without a big war.
But Shuoto was in high spirits, and of course he wouldn't spoil the fun.
Looking at this island like a fish thorn in Manqing's throat, Kong Youde sighed silently.
Although he couldn't hear Shuoto's praise for himself, Shang Kexi had already discovered that his opportunity had come.
"Zhizhong, you take your own soldiers up!" He yelled at his son.
His family had been killed and wounded, and it wasn't until last year that another son was born, named Zhixin. Before that, he first adopted a distant clansman as his righteous son and named him Zhizhong. Shang Zhizhong listened to his order, immediately commanded his boat, and began to approach the dock.
He had 200 Eight Banners on his ship, and if he landed, he would be able to control the docks and open the way for the follow-up troops.
At this moment, Huo Yan finally summoned all the staff officers in front of him.
"Today's battle is an unprecedented shame for my tiger guard, and we retreat before we are ordered, this is the soldier we trained!" His first sentence was extremely painful, but then it was murderous: "Ladies and gentlemen, the petty officials sent us, not for us to be wine bags and rice bags here, now the situation is critical, if the Jianjiao is captured and the Phi Island is attacked, it will be extremely unfavorable to the petty officials' plans, I should be the first to fight to the death, what about you?" ”
"Why does Head Huo say such nonsense?" A staff officer sneered: "Although I didn't approve of intervening in the battle with Jianyu so early, but the matter has come to this point, when will our Tiger Guard retreat without a fight?" ”
"Okay, let's get together, each with a team, that's five hundred, that's enough." Huo Yan said sharply: "Melee hand-to-hand combat, do you dare?" ”
"Why don't you dare?" The crowd agreed.
Sun Lin watched Huo Yan gather the staff officers together with a telescope, and vaguely felt that something was not quite right, and then saw that they had selected five hundred people, all of whom were strong and brave, and he sent a personal soldier to ask Huo Yan what his plans were, but the news he got was that they were ready to fight back!
"This Huo Yan ...... It's really not worrying! After hearing the news, Sun Lin was shocked, what an anti-French counterattack, originally he thought that Huo Yan would withdraw from the range of Jianyu's ship artillery and then use muskets to harvest the enemy's landed infantry, but he didn't expect that he would go to fight Jianlu hand-to-hand!
"This is also a helpless move, you look at Jianyu's appearance, he is not in a hurry to attack, he is clearly preparing to take every step. If we wait any longer, Jianyu will have to transport all the cannons ashore, which is really a big deal at that time...... However, how come there is no Dongjiang soldier still in sight? ”
It stands to reason that Shen Shikui has already gone back, and he has to send some reinforcements, but until now, the Dongjiang army on Phi Island has been silent, and there is no movement at all.
"That's the only way to come...... Forget it, Shen Shikui just suffered a loss in our place, I don't think it will be so easy to come to the rescue, it's really damn damn, we came to work hard for him Phi Dao, but they shrank in the camp and didn't come out! ”
Realizing that Huo Yan's choice was the best choice at this time, Sun Lin could only accept it. At this time, he realized that his original plan seemed to be a little taken for granted, and without the cooperation of the Dongjiang soldiers, it was still a little difficult to rely on the Denglai soldiers to defend Phi Dao.
Huo Yan picked out all the armored infantry, seeing that some of these people were still panicked, Huo Yan was angry and scolded: "As a sergeant, it is the most glorious thing to die in the battle formation, what is the use of being afraid, this is an isolated island, where can you escape to?" ”
Everyone's hearts were cold, it was indeed as Huo Yan said, if they were defeated on Phi Island, there would be no way back!
"You are wearing heavy armor and holding sharp blades in your hands, when we defeated Jianyu in Gyeonggi, many of you also went through that battle, what is there to fear, follow me, rush!"
Seeing that everyone was recovering in anger, Huo Yan shouted loudly, and at the same time raised his sword and shield, and pointed suddenly.
Then, he was the first to rush out.
Behind him, fifty tiger guards, along with those Denglai soldiers, also embraced. They suddenly appeared, causing an uproar in the Han army banner that thought they had won the decisive victory, and the two sides were not far apart, but only about two hundred paces, and the Jianyu warships on the sea had time to fire a cannon indiscriminately, and Huo Yan had already approached more than ten steps away from the Han army flag.
At this distance, the artillery did not dare to bombard again, and if this bombardment continued, I did not know whether it was the enemy or me.
"Kill!"
Huo Yan roared angrily and swung his knife at an enemy soldier who ushered in, but the enemy was agile, dodged and dodged, and the return hand was a wolf milling, hitting Huo Yan's shield, Huo Yan only felt that the bones in his left hand seemed to be broken, and the person was also knocked back two steps.
Fortunately, the combat coordination between the tiger guards was extremely well trained, and another staff officer next to him immediately stepped forward, taking advantage of the opportunity that the enemy wolf did not retract, and stabbed the opponent in the chest.
These soldiers of the Han army banner all rushed to land on the beach, and in order to facilitate their movement in the sea, they did not have any armor on their bodies, and even the cotton armor was removed. So their defenses were quite limited, and when they were stabbed by this knife, they were immediately angry.
Ignoring the pain in his left arm, Huo Yan pounced on another enemy soldier, this enemy army was not so strong, and he slashed it over!
"Huh?"
Shang Zhizhong had just landed on the shore, and when he saw that the number of Ming troops was only five hundred, he rushed over like this, and he couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect that the Ming army still had the courage to fight. He also knew that the first to land on the shore was not well armed, and it was difficult to stop this Ming army, so he immediately beckoned Shang Kexi to his own soldiers: "Follow me to kill and retreat the enemy army!" ”
The personal soldiers sent to him by Shang Kexi were all elite, and they were naturally heavily armoured. If there is anything else to be gained from the Manchurians, it is that their heavily armored foot soldiers must admit that their combat power is still quite strong.
Having repelled several enemy forces that came to block him, Huo Yan rushed to the dock first, where the ships were unloading, his idea was simple, if he could drive the enemy troops ashore back to the sea, then the enemy troops could only retreat. Connecting several groups of enemy troops was not too strong, which gave him some confidence that this army was nothing more than that, but when about two hundred heavy infantry pressed over him, he realized that he had thought of the enemy simply.
"Kill Jianju!" He shouted to boost his morale.
The Denglai soldiers were like a turbulent current, slapping heavily on the Han army flag. Waves of blood bloomed between the two armies, and the two sides crowded on the not spacious docks, and the corpses of each other were in each other's hands, and the blood flowed together!
By this time, it had entered the critical season of this battle, and Sun Lin, who had already come down from the mountain, resolutely ordered: "Deputy Chief Chen, you stay here first, and I will lead the troops to support!" ”
Chen Hongfan's eyes rolled and he answered.
Although he was very dissatisfied with Sun Lin becoming the general soldier of a town at a young age, especially the general soldier of Denglai, he had to admit that this young general soldier had a kind of courage that was not afraid of death. Seeing Sun Lin rushing towards the shore with a thousand people, he felt that he had to do something about it.
"Now that the enemy and I are in one place, and the prisoners don't dare to fire cannons, what are you afraid of?" He shouted at the Denglai soldiers: "Let's put two rows of muskets far away to suppress the formation for General Sun's soldiers, don't you have the courage to do so?" ”
After the two sides entered a hand-to-hand encounter, Jianyu's artillery fire was no longer sounding, and the Denglai soldiers also regained their morale for Huo Yan and Sun Lin to come forward in person. Huo Yan had practiced them for half a year and finally had some results, and when they retreated, not many people threw away their muskets, but they would not go into battle empty-handed.
"Hey, does the Ming army still have the courage to fight again?" When Huo Yan came out, Shang Kexi was taken aback, this was definitely not the Ming army he was used to.
In the past, after the defeat of the Ming army, it could not be reorganized for a few miles, and the will to fight was not tenacious, but this Ming army was completely different.
Judging from the strength they have shown so far, they do not yet have the strength to defeat the 8,000 Yanguli head-on!
Thinking so in his heart, his eyes did not leave the battlefield, and saw that the five hundred people led by Huo Yan broke through his own obstacles and directly killed Shang Zhizhong's two hundred personal soldiers, and he was not good in his heart: the individual combat strength of these five hundred people may only be one-tenth comparable to his personal soldiers, but they are numerous enough to suppress his personal soldiers with their numerical superiority!
"Quick, get closer!" He said loudly.
However, at this moment, far behind the battlefield, on the Shuoto battleship, a handsome man glanced back in boredom, and then let out a scream.
A big ship with the tiger shark flag, I don't know when, actually appeared behind them!
The distance between the two sides was only about one hundred and fifty paces, and the other side's hull had already crossed over, and a row of gun windows opened, revealing the muzzles of the black holes!
The lookout's exclamation and the sound of the cannon sounded almost at the same time, and after a bang, two columns of water appeared around the Shuotuo ship!
"Damn, didn't hit, keep firing!" Yu Dahai couldn't help but curse when he saw that the sneak attack still didn't hit the target at such a distance.
When he was in danger, naturally a frigate ship came up to protect him, and the escort warship became the inverted frieze ghost of the second round of shooting of the Huaqing, and it was blown to pieces in front of Shuotuo, and the ship cried for dad and mother, all of which were crying for help!
However, this warship can be regarded as saving Shuoto's life, and his ship began to set sail to dodge, and the surrounding warships also rushed to protect it when they saw the flag. It's just that the fire of the Huiqing is fierce, and the accuracy is not bad, and the guns of the Jianyu warship were originally aimed at Phi Dao, and there was no time to turn the aim for a while, and the counterattack seemed to have no strength, but was found by the Huaqing to find an opportunity, and four ships were damaged and sunk in a row!
After finding out that it was attacked, Shuo Tuo was also a little panicked, but he had heard of the majesty of the Huaqing in the battle of Jianghua Island, and at that time, he beat Rausa into the sea with a dozen or so. Now that the battle situation itself is unfavorable, and it is on the sea that he is extremely unfamiliar with, he can only look at Phi Dao again with hatred, and immediately order: "Go, withdraw first!" ”
(To be continued)