Chapter 431: Rain of Arrows (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Yes, Hooray." Eunuch Song's somewhat tired and haggard face suddenly flashed with a hint of brilliance: "On that day, each of my Taizhou sergeants carried a bundle of straw and spread it all the way. In the beginning, everything went well. When they are a mile away from Hengyu, they will enter the range of the pirates' artillery, and because of this, the pirates may attack at any time. Lord Wu and General Qi Jiguang ordered the people to retreat and let the main force of the vanguard go up. ”
"My Taizhou army has a habit that whenever there is a battle, the officers must charge ahead and shout 'brothers, follow me', unlike the officers of other troops, 'brothers, give it to me', so as soon as the forward part attacked, Lord Wu and General Qi Jiguang rushed directly to the front. As soon as the slave and maid saw it, Lord Wu and General Qi rushed up, I am a prison army, and there is no reason to stay in the back to watch the excitement, so naturally I also charged forward to repay Jun's kindness. ”
Hearing that Eunuch Song had damaged other troops, Jiajing, Huang Jin, and Chen Hong couldn't help but smile, and even the corners of his mouth that had always been serious and arched slightly curled slightly: "Gonggong Song is really bold." ”
The eunuchs are villains in the eyes of civil officials, but I didn't expect that this Song Gonggong in front of him was a little bloody.
However, when he heard the Song eunuch say that Wu Jie rushed to the front line, Jiajing was shocked and couldn't help but say: "Wu Jie is at the front, isn't he a civil official, and he also goes into battle to fight, it's just nonsense?" Qi Jiguang doesn't have to worry, this person is nicknamed Qi Laohu, his martial arts are strong, and more than a dozen ordinary men can't get close to him. ”
Eunuch Song: "Long live the lord, don't worry, I don't have anything else in the Ming Dynasty, the three talk about the sophistication of the armor, but it is not comparable to the robbers, and the arrows of the robbers are shot on it, as if they are tickling." At the beginning, Lord Wu did not wear armor, and as soon as the enemy shot arrows, he was immediately put on iron armor by the guards. Pity. The straw on the ground was slippery. The adult was burdened with heavy armor, and one was unstable, and he fell into the mud. Like a turnip, stick it directly into it. It took a lot of effort for us to get him out. ”
"Poof!" Jiajing was drinking tea when he heard this funny scene. squirted out a sip of tea and spit directly on Hu Dashun's face.
Several other people also laughed forward and leaned back, and it was really funny that the famous people fell into such fields.
Gao Gong smiled: "Gonggong Song, you go on."
"Yes, Gao Xiang."
Eunuch Song continued, and his heart couldn't help but return to the blood-red battlefield.
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"Boom!" There was another cannon shot, and when I looked up, a swarthy stone bullet flew from the island, drawing a straight arc in the air. Drop off on the beach.
It was about a ballistic horizon that was too flat, sliding across the muddy ground like a splash of water, and hitting directly into the leg of a Ming soldier. After cutting off one of his lower legs. That's when I got into the mud.
"Ahh Blood splattered, and the soldier screamed. Immediately poured on the straw.
This sudden scene startled the auxiliaries lying on their stomachs in the mud, and only the main soldiers were still throwing straw in front of them.
There were also many people running around on the straw-paved road and in the mud, and the scene immediately became chaotic.
There were two guns in total, and after fighting for such a long time, only one soldier was wounded, and the lethality was very limited, but the psychological threat to people was very great.
Wu Jie happened to be standing at the end of the crowd, at the beginning he and Qi Jiguang were still riding horses, but the road was too narrow, and they walked step by step. Because after walking more than a mile, he and Qi Jiguang simply abandoned their horses and walked.
This cannon fired, and the soldier in the middle of the cannon was only about ten paces away from him, and suddenly, red and black mud spots rushed to his face and fell on him.
The air was filled with the smell of dirt and blood, but no one was afraid. Ancient cannons were solid bullets with limited lethality. Moreover, the enemy has only two shells, and the probability of being hit is more difficult than hitting the jackpot of five million. ..., and sure enough, next, although the enemy was still holding on to the artillery, they all fell short without exception.
The main soldiers were fine, and most of the other auxiliaries were newly recruited people, and they were all pale with fright. This kind of chaos made Wu Jie and Qi Jiguang separate, and when they looked up, they saw Qi Jiguang's banner of the Chinese army for a long time.
"My lord, where is Qi Shuai?" Hearing this shout, Wu Jie looked back and saw that it was the eunuch Song who supervised the army.
"What about the front, Gonggong Song, you are not sitting in the back, what are you doing on the front line?"
"Our family is also a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, how can we stand by and watch such a big battle?" Eunuch Song was also covered in wet mud and looked a little embarrassed. However, this guy is wearing a heavy iron armor, which looks majestic.
Everywhere there were people lying on the ground, blocking the straw road, the Song eunuch was furious, and while talking to Wu Jie, he ordered his guards to pull them up from the ground: "Let's go, I want to lie here and wait for death!" ”
At this time, there was a long horn behind it.
Wu Jie looked back, and another phalanx of about 1,000 people was dispatched, advancing along the two straw roads.
He naturally knew that because of the narrow terrain, it was impossible for the Qi family's army of more than 10,000 people and horses to be put into the battlefield at the same time, so they could only be divided into ten teams, with 1,000 people and 1,000 people attacking in echelons.
If the 1,000-strong troops in front do not land as soon as possible, and the troops behind squeeze over, they are afraid that the situation will be even more chaotic.
Wu Jie also realized that something was wrong, and constantly pulled up the people and auxiliaries lying on the mud ground.
At this moment, a "Woohoo!" sounded in the air overhead. The sound was so sharp that it made people's teeth sour.
When I looked up, the sky above me was dark.
Countless small black dots floated overhead, paused, and then swooped quickly.
"Arrows, arrows are coming!" Hundreds of auxiliaries were shouting loudly.
Wu Jie was also shocked in his heart: "Oops, Lao Tzu is not copper-skinned and iron-clad, if he is shot, he will die." ”
"Sneer...... Countless arrows will fall, into the mud, into the straw, into the human body.
People were screaming everywhere, and the mudflats, which had been swarthy just a moment ago, had turned white, and the ground was full of feathered arrows' white tail feathers quivering.
"Raise your shield, raise your shield!" With a loud shout, all the soldiers raised their shields high and joined them above their heads. It's like opening a big umbrella.
Wu Jie saw it. A man was shot in the shoulder, screamed and fell to the ground, slipping down the smooth straw into the mud. I can't get up again.
His heart froze, and the eunuch Song next to him shouted: "Lord Wu, are you okay?" ”
Wu Jie: "I'm fine. How are you? ”
Eunuch Song was already timid, and his face was frighteningly white. He followed Qi Jiguang to fight in the east and west over the years, although he did not go into battle directly, he was also an old fighter, and immediately shouted: "Forward, forward, we can't be beaten passively in this place, we are not rabbits...... Come on, put armor on Lord Wu. ”
Two guards rushed up. An iron helmet with a long lightning rod was fastened to Wu Jie's head. Then the heavy armor came over, at least twenty catties, and Wu Jiecha's shoulders were weak.
Between words. Another abominable "Woohoo! Sound. The enemy's second rain of arrows came again, hitting the shield overhead. "Seize and snatch", like a storm.
This time, Wu Jie was unlucky, and a feathered arrow shot viciously through the gap between the shields, hitting him right in the shoulder.
Fortunately, he was wearing iron armor, and with a clang, a small spark flew up.
At the same time, Wu Jie was shocked, and suddenly rejoiced: "This armor is really good, it can't be shot through." ”
In the midst of the noise, Eunuch Song laughed loudly: "Lord Wu, rest assured, these armors we are wearing are all the foundations that General Qi Jiguang has saved over the years, and they have cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, all of which are made of stainless steel. In order to pull up this heavy armor elite, the Taizhou Army has filled in all the gold of this year. Not to mention the bamboo bow in the hands of the Japanese Kou, even if their Japanese knives cut on it, it is useless. He happened to be hiding in a crowd of soldiers, his body curled up in a ball, looking a little funny.
Wu Jie was overjoyed: "Since this is the case, what are you afraid of, forward, forward!" ”
Immediately stood up, pushed away the guards around him, and strode forward.
In the distance, Qi Jiguang's handsome banner was hunting, and it was only two hundred meters away from the enemy's stockade.
At such a distance, if it is on flat ground, one charge is enough.
However, the road was so muddy that I had to push forward without being satisfied.
At this time, "Boom! With a bang, a ball of fire rose from the enemy's wall, and the broken human body and the curved cannon barrel rose into the air, and it took a long time to fall, smashing a Japanese coke directly into meat sauce.
"Artillery bombing, artillery bombing, forward!" The Ming army, who had been shot and squatted on the ground just now, stood up at the same time, cheered loudly, brandished their weapons, and strode forward.
It turned out that the rounds of arrow rain just now were of no use to the ironclad Ming army, and only shot and injured a few people. However, the two cannons also killed a few people, but the quality of the ancient cannons was poor, just now because they shot non-stop for a long time, the barrel had already turned red and deformed, and it immediately detonated the ** filled in, and blew up several Japanese gunners.
Without the harassment of artillery, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and they did not stop and continued to move forward.
Seeing that the offensive of the Ming army was unstoppable, suddenly, the enemy's gate was wide open, and about 500 Japanese robbers, wah-wah, wah-wah, rushed out screaming, and quickly lined up at the gate, obviously wanting to take advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold and beat Qi Jiguang coldly.
Wu Jie looked up and almost burst out laughing. Those widows are really short, about 1.5 meters each, and many of them are only 1.4 meters in poor baba, not as tall as the bamboo bow in their hands.
Little Japan, little Japan, it's really small!
These guys are all dressed as ronin, and most of them are not wearing armor, only a Japanese sword.
Just now I heard the Song eunuch say that the Japanese sword could not cut into the armor of the Ming army, and Wu Jie also had the courage to fight.
As long as it is a man, he will have the dream of killing the enemy on the battlefield and making meritorious contributions, Wu Jie's blood suddenly boiled, and he kept pushing away the soldiers who stopped in front of him, and ran forward: "Rush, rush!" ”
After running a few steps, I saw Lian Laosan. Only then did he remember that he didn't have a weapon on him, so he snatched a spear from his hand: "Old Lian, give it to me!" ”
At this time, a hand suddenly stretched out from the mud next to the straw road and grabbed Wu Jie's ankle violently: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, help!" ”
Wu Jie was caught off guard for a while, but he was pulled down and plunged into the mud.