Chapter 367: Leaving No One Alive
The leader of the Houjin tribe realized the danger, and rushed towards the outside of the valley with people, he learned the lesson of the fall just now, although he was running for his life, he was also very careful to control the horses to land on the ground without debris, which made his speed never improve, several people around the leader understood the meaning of the leader, and they who had been born and died on the battlefield immediately understood what it meant if they were trapped here, and urged the war horse to gallop while shouting loudly to his companions to follow, and soon they overtook the leader who became slow, Ran in front, not a few steps before someone with a horse fell to the ground, at this time it is not a problem to fall a few horses, as long as most of the people rush out of the valley, you can find the Han people to take revenge, so the leader desperately urged his subordinates to continue to rush forward, and the life and death of the Houjin people may be at this moment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the moment when the Houjin people were nervously fleeing, the muskets of the security guards on both sides of the valley rang out, and the standard three-stage shooting shot the bullets continuously at the Houjin people who were rushing forward in the valley.
The fear of death made the Houjin people speed up their escape, but this could not save them, the cavalry at the front stepped on the mines laid by the security army, after the continuous explosion, more than a dozen Houjin cavalry were knocked over to the ground by the flying steel balls, the Houjin people in the back thought that they were shelled by the Han people, and rushed forward faster, with their experience in fighting with the Ming army, after being shelled, the closer they rushed to the enemy, the safer it was. Their charge caused more explosions, and in the midst of the confusion no one could figure out what was going on, just rushed forward as they had done before.
A few lucky knights dodged all the mines and rushed over, but were stunned by the scene ahead, several rows of thick wooden stakes were buried on the road, and between the stakes were connected with spiked wires, blocking the entire road, and the security guards who were divided into three rows behind the barbed wire were waiting there with muskets, and saw the Houjin people running over, unceremoniously raising their guns to shoot, the security forces blocked the mountain pass There were not many people, but it was enough to use muskets to kill the Houjin people who stopped there with their war knives and kept cutting the barbed wire.
The Houjin had a numerical advantage, and they came to their senses from the initial chaos and immediately began to fight back. In order to achieve a good shooting effect, the security army was very close to the Houjin people, completely within the range of the Houjin people's riding bows, a rain of arrows flew in, and the security army musketeers who were standing there and kept shooting clanged, but the casualties caused to the security army were very limited, except for a few who were shot in the non-vital parts and were slightly injured, the rest of the security army was unscathed.
The soldiers of the security army not only had sharp muskets, but their protective equipment was also made to the extreme by Zhang Chu. Although according to the concept of warfare, musketeers are cheap consumables that can be easily replenished after loss, this is an important reason why muskets replace bows and arrows. But Zhang Chu, who came from modern times, really couldn't calmly face the sacrifice of the soldiers who lived and trained with him, so he invested a lot of strength to strengthen the protection of the soldiers.
According to the style of plate armor of later generations, the new armor forged by water power equipped the soldiers like cans, and even the faces of the soldiers were covered with masks made of steel. The bows and arrows thrown by the Houjin people did not play any role except for a sound.
The security soldiers were also nervous at first, some of them were new recruits who had never been on the battlefield, and they were even more afraid of the oncoming bows and arrows, and even wanted to turn and flee to the rear, to find a place to hide. But they didn't dare to really do that, the usual management of the security army is very humane, the squad leader and platoon leader will be patient with the soldiers who make mistakes, but the regulations on the battlefield are very strict, if they really turn around, the knife in the hand of the squad leader who is in charge of the command next to each team is not entirely for good looks, they will not hesitate to cut off the head of everyone who wants to escape.
The squad leader's loud order saved the recruits who had no master, and they heard the order to start their movements according to the usual training machinery, and after a few rounds, their movements began to flow smoothly, and the muskets of the security army continued to shoot at the Houjin people.
After the Jin people found that there were not many Han people on the mountain, but the guns and bullets that flew over were very dense, and they risked their lives to shoot past a shower of arrows but did not see the enemy fall, after a few rounds of Jin people's hearts were shocked, could it be that the Han people practiced the legendary invulnerability. The muskets knocked down the Houjin people on the periphery layer by layer. At this time, people with flexible minds judged the situation, the peaks on both sides could not be climbed, and the road ahead was blocked by barbed wire. The leader of the tribe did not know where he had gone. The people who were still alive couldn't care so much, so they turned and fled in the direction they came.
In the chaos, the Houjin people finally unified their understanding, turned the horse's head and retreated, it was this short U-turn time, half of the Houjin soldiers died under the bullets of the security army, and the remaining more than 100 people hurriedly ran backwards, but Zhang Chu would not let them go easily, the bundles of firewood and grass rolled down from the hillside blocked the way when the Houjin people came, when the Houjin people approached, several rockets flew over, and the firewood and straw bundles immediately set off a fire, and the strange flames burned much higher than the usual firewood. There is simply no way for men and horses to cross. It turned out that the security forces poured gasoline on the firewood and grass.
The gunfire of the security army chasing along the hill rang out again, and some timid Houjin people thought of surrendering, but the security soldiers did not have time to pay attention to the thoughts of the Houjin people, they were completely shrouded in the smoke after the gunpowder burned, and just opened the gun mechanically according to the squad leader's command, and knocked the Houjin people who were still on the horse off their horses.
The Houjin people were completely desperate, they desperately used the bows and arrows in their hands to shoot at the security team, no longer caring whether it was effective or not, they were thinking that it would be best to pull a cushion back if they died, but their ideas could never be realized, and the gap in equipment made their efforts all in vain.
The gunfire of the security guards rang out for a long time, and only stopped after it was determined that the Houjin people were indeed incapable of resisting. The security guards carefully walked down from the peaks on both sides of the valley with their muskets loaded with bayonets, examined the corpses that fell to the ground one by one, and found that the Houjin people, who were only seriously injured but not dead, unceremoniously made up a bayonet.
This is not because Zhang Chu is cruel, Zhang Chu originally brought fewer people and horses, and it is impossible to send another person to guard the prisoners, and Zhang Chu does not want the Houjin people to find out the methods and laws of the security army's operations so quickly.
It is best to kill all the Houjin soldiers who participated in the battle in every battle, of course Zhang Chu knows that this is impossible, but it is always good that the secret of the security army can be kept for a few more days.
The leader of this tribe was killed by lead bullets in the chaotic battle just now, so as to avoid being bayoneted, and none of the other Houjin people who came out to pursue failed to escape, and were all killed in the valley, but the battle was not over, there were still two or three thousand Houjin people in the valley, and the more tragic battle was still to come. (To be continued.) )