Chapter 389: A Strong Contrast
The rumbling footsteps and neat commands continued to sound in the Qingzhou army, and a team of riflemen marched forward firmly in a neat formation to the sound of war drums, and they were getting closer and closer to the rogue who was approaching them.
"Stop!"
"Reload!"
With the shouts of everyone in the queue, the sergeants stopped one after another, took out the fixed Mini bullet from the cloth bag on their waists and stuffed it into the chamber, and then stabbed it quickly with the strip, and then loaded the powder into the powder magazine, and in this way, the sergeants who had completed the preparation for loading raised their rifles and aimed them at the hungry soldiers who were trying to approach themselves.
At this time, Sun Kewanghe, who was watching the movements of the Qingzhou soldiers on the hillside, also felt a little strange, and he asked Luo Rucai beside him with some curiosity: "Old Luo, what are these officers and soldiers doing?" With such a thin formation, I only need one or two charges to crush them, is the general of that Ming army an idiot? ”
Luo Rucai hesitated for a moment before saying: "Maybe they want to use firecrackers to deal with us, this Ming army's firearms are very sharp, I have seen with my own eyes that their firearms can hurt the enemy at a distance of three hundred steps, and they are extremely sharp." ”
"Three hundred steps to hurt the enemy? Haha......" Sun Kewang was stunned for a while, and then patted Luo Rucai's shoulder and laughed: "Old Luo, you haven't woken up yet, is it still called a fire gun if you hurt the enemy in three hundred steps?" Just call them artillery. ”
Although Sun Kewang had fought with Li Zicheng for six or seven years, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was experienced, but he had never seen a firearm with a range of 300 paces, so Luo Rucai's words could undoubtedly only be reduced to a joke in his ears.
A trace of anger flashed in Luo Rucai's eyes, since this Sun Kewang didn't listen to his words, he couldn't blame himself for not reminding him when he suffered a loss. However, although Luo Rucai had fought a battle with the Qingzhou army, his men and horses were mainly crushed by Heitie with 3,000 cavalry, and when he fought against the infantry of the Qingzhou army, he had already boasted more than half of his men and horses, so he did not have a direct understanding of the power of the Qingzhou infantry to fight in formation.
Seeing that the distance between the two sides was close to three hundred steps, Sun Kewang pulled out the long knife on his waist and shouted, "Brothers, rush me!" ”
A large number of hungry soldiers shouted in unison, shouting hoarsely one by one, holding spears and wooden sticks and roaring towards the Qingzhou army.
Standing on the far left of the first row, Mr. Bai drew his scimitar, pointed his sword diagonally at the sky, and shouted a word fiercely with his nostrils: "Put!" ”
"Bang ......"
A deafening sound sounded, accompanied by a burst of white smoke, the muzzles of a hundred Mini rifles spewed out hot fire, and the lead bullets that rushed out of the muzzles spun quickly and rushed forward, without hesitation, they plunged into those bodies without any cover, and the blood flowers bloomed almost at the same time, and the hungry soldiers who rushed to the front almost had a blood mist on their bodies, staggering and rolling to the ground one by one, and the smell of blood and the terrible howl soon resounded in front of the battle.
"Whoa......
After the first round of gunning, the sergeants of the first team immediately turned and walked backwards, and the sergeants of the second team immediately stepped forward, and when they took the place of the first row of robes, the butts of the Minnie rifles had automatically pressed against their shoulders.
"Raise your gun, aim!"
"Put!"
Mr. Bai, who was in the second row, did not hesitate at all, and shouted out the password that he usually didn't know how many times he had trained!
In this way, in the light of the Dao Dao fire, one white mist after another continued to rise, and countless hungry soldiers who charged forward screamed and fell to the ground in various postures, but these hungry soldiers seemed to be crazy today, and still roared and rushed forward, as if the death of their companions in front of them had nothing to do with them.
When the gunshots rang out, Sun Kewang was indeed frightened at first.
"Are these Ming firearms really going so far? A distance of 300 paces can also hurt the enemy? ”
But then he laughed disdainfully, even if these Ming army's firearms are powerful, they will take half a day just to reload after a shot, during this time these firearms are not as useful as a burning stick, as long as half of his six thousand hungry soldiers rush to those Ming troops, they can easily disrupt their queue, and then those armored soldiers can follow up to expand the results, Sun Kewang firmly believes that with this set of crowd tactics, there is no formation in the world that he cannot break, Not even the Tartar soldiers, who are rumored to be miraculous.
Watching the hungry soldiers rush forward one after another, Sun Kewang nodded with satisfaction, as long as this offensive is maintained, those officers and soldiers will collapse sooner or later, which has long been proven by the ignorant army for several years, but the situation that followed was beyond his expectations.
"Bang ......"
The sky at dusk, the orange-red sun shone on the earth, on the plain, the corpses were slowly increasing and accumulating, in front of the battle, countless hungry soldiers were killed and wounded, both the dead and the wounded were lying on the ground, the blood flowing out of the ground continued to accumulate, at first the thirsty earth couldn't stop sucking the bright red blood, but the blood flowing out of this place was too much, and the speed of the earth absorption was not as fast as their flow, so that the blood slowly gathered into a small blood pit in the low-lying places, In the light of the setting sun, it looks so dazzling and hideous.
The front of the Qingzhou army was already shrouded in white fog at this time. The wind in the evening was not strong, and the white fog floating in the air did not drift away so quickly, these white smoke slowly shrouded the entire Qingzhou Army position, and a choking smell of gunpowder and blood wafted everywhere on the position, this mixed smell of blood and choking gunpowder smoke was a kind of torture for everyone, even the sergeants who were used to the smell of gunpowder smoke smelled almost like vomiting at the moment, and more importantly, the gunpowder smoke everywhere had covered the sergeants' vision so that they could no longer shoot normally, Many sergeants were already shooting with their senses.
At this time, the voices of the hundreds of generals came from the camp, "The first team and the second team are on the shoulders, forward!" ”
"Whoa......
The sergeants, who had formed a conditioned reflex to the order, immediately put their guns on their shoulders without hesitation and strode forward.
When the sergeants stepped out of the smoke of gunpowder about forty paces away, they finally saw what was going on in front of them.
At this time, in front of them were piles of corpses, they were lying on the ground in a dense manner, their shapes were different, some were head forward, some were head backward, and some were strangely twisted into a ball and shrunk to the ground, but they had a common feature that most of them had one or more blood holes in their bodies, and countless blood was flowing out of their bodies, and some of the hungry soldiers who had not died were howling desperately in the pile of dead people, and the situation was terrible. Shicai, these hungry soldiers rushing forward in a dense formation are the best targets for the Qingzhou sergeants.
But none of these tragic situations could touch the hard-hearted hearts of the generals, hundreds, or thousands of generals in the front, and the continuous commands still came out of their mouths.
"Stop, guns up!"
"Ready, put!"
"Put!"
The successive roars continued to sound in front of the formation, and after several rounds of shooting, the Qingzhou army at this time was closer to the hungry soldiers, and it was already close to a distance of a hundred paces, and the two sides could even see each other's faces clearly.
While the strong smell of blood tested the nerves of the Qingzhou soldiers, it also kept pouring into the noses of the hungry soldiers, looking at the corpses of their companions who had been lying on the ground, and smelling a disgusting smell of blood in their noses.
After all, these hungry soldiers are not well-trained iron-blooded divisions, they are just a group of farmers who have not received any training, they are originally best at holding hoes and digging in the field to eat, although they have joined the rogues, but it is just for a mouthful of food, at this moment, seeing that the companions who rushed in front of them have turned into a miserable corpse, they are finally afraid, and all kinds of negative emotions suddenly come to their hearts.
These hungry soldiers fought with the courage that had been mustered before the battle, and when the battle was going well, they would become formidable warriors, but when the battle was bad, they would also become the first to flee, and at this moment, they began to fear.
The rounds of shooting of the Qingzhou army just now have caused nearly 1,000 casualties among them, and the dense corpses in front of them gave the hungry soldiers an unparalleled shock.
"Bang ......"
A projectile from nowhere struck the head of one of the hungry soldiers, and when the head of the leader, who was only wrapped in a red scarf around his head, exploded like a burst habit, and splattered blood mixed with white brains that splashed the heads and faces of several hungry soldiers around him, the hungry soldiers finally broke down, and they howled and threw down their sticks and spears, and ran backwards as fast as they could.
"Oh no, the sentry has been killed!"
"Run!"
Soon, fear spread like a plague on the battlefield, and many hungry soldiers threw away their weapons, turned around like a tide and ran backwards.
Sun Kewang on the hillside at the moment his face was unusually ugly, he didn't expect that the original offensive of nine out of ten was disintegrated so quickly, and the Qingzhou firearms were also unexpectedly sharp, it couldn't help but shoot far, and the speed of the design was also very fast, the Qingzhou army could easily travel a powerful firepower net in three rows, and beat the hungry soldiers to the head, and the loss of less than a bag of cigarettes was more than two percent, and the other party did not even touch a hair.
Such a strong contrast made Sun Kewang almost despair......
(To be continued)