Chapter 390: Fighting Thorns
Sun Kewang was shocked, he was an old man who had been following King Chuang for six or seven years, and in these six or seven years, he had fought with officers and soldiers in large and small battles, but he had never seen such an elite and well-trained army.
The nerves of the army on the other side seemed to be made of steel, and they were unbelievably ruthless, whether they were facing the horrific corpses or the frenzied attacks, they were so indifferent.
Yes, it's indifference, they don't have the excitement and cheers of ordinary armies after winning a battle, nor are they like the shock of ordinary people after seeing the sea of corpses and blood, some only have indifference, as if they just did a trivial thing just now.
"It's a terrible army!" This is how Sun Kewang feels now, at this moment, he suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill slowly surging from his spine to his head.
"Old Sun, those hungry people have retreated, do we still want to order the armored soldiers to attack?" Luo Rucai's voice came from the side, but Sun Kewang felt that there was a tremor in his voice.
Sun Kewang stretched out his tongue and licked his lips that had been bloodied, and a slightly spicy smell of blood slowly passed into his mind through the taste nerve on his tongue, and this familiar feeling made Sun Kewang's brain, which had been occupied by fear, begin to return to normal operation.
"The attack can't be stopped, or we'll be finished!" Sun Kewang grinned with yellow teeth, and a violent aura poured out on his face full of meat.
Luo Rucai also nodded, although he was very embarrassed by the Qingzhou army, but he still has the least vision of being a rogue for so many years, if they retreat at this time, as long as these Ming troops pursue, their fate will definitely be extremely miserable, rather than this, it is better to give it a go, even if it is better to fight the people and horses than to kill them when they are pursued by the other party.
Sun Kewang continued: "Lao Luo, you have also seen that this Ming army is the only enemy we have seen in our lives, and fighting them in the usual way can only be sent to death in vain, I want to change the way of fighting." ”
"How?" Luo Rucai looked at Sun Kewang with some curiosity.
"Surround them, their number will not exceed four thousand, this is still including those cavalry, their firearms are not very powerful, let's scatter and rush over from all directions, as long as we can rush in and fight with them, we can bite them out of a piece of meat even if we bite with our teeth, I don't believe it, these Ming troops can't be poured iron!"
"Okay!" When the battle reached this point, Luo Rucai also let go, he stomped his foot violently and said, "I'll go and reorganize those hungry people and let them attack again." But Lao Sun, you still have to lend me a team of swords and axes, if anyone dares to escape, don't blame Lao Tzu for killing him! ”
"No problem, you go!" Sun Kewang also let go, he transferred 500 soldiers from his armor soldiers and handed them to Luo Rucai to act as sword and axe men, and he commanded less than 3,000 armor soldiers to surround the other party after dispersing, and then rushed towards the other party from all directions.
As soon as Liukou divided his troops, Cheng Kai, who was standing on a dirt slope and watching the battle with a clairglass mirror, saw it, and he immediately ordered the team to start shrinking the formation, and the soldiers who had already moved forward immediately returned.
Since the cavalry played a small role in the defense, Hei Tie led the cavalry to wander around in the distance, and in less than two teas, three thousand riflemen formed a defensive circle around the dirt slope where Cheng Kai was standing. As soon as they formed a formation, another group of rogues wearing all kinds of light armor and cotton armor, armed with spears and broadswords, rushed from all directions with a wild roar.
"Raise your gun, put it!"
"Fire!"
In the constant roar, the rogues who kept pouring in from the surroundings fell to the ground.
The madness and misdeeds of mankind in times of war are on full display at this time.
At this time, Cheng Kai's eyes were almost all dense figures, their faces were full of crazy looks, these rogues were either wearing light armor, or only wearing a thin dress, and the weapons in their hands were also varied, including spears and knives and wooden sticks and hoes, these people were desperately rushing towards the formation of the Qingzhou army.
At this time, Sun Kewang and Luo Rucai had already begun to make a desperate bet, they desperately drove their subordinates to attack Cheng Kai and them, before launching the attack, Sun Kewang also promised those hungry people and armored soldiers that if they could completely annihilate the Ming army in front of them, he would give Ming Chuang Wang and transfer all of them to the old camp, even if they could not be transferred to the old camp because of their old and weak, he would also transfer them or their families to the inner camp specially set up by King Chuang to settle his family.
Even Sun Kewang didn't expect that when he read out this decision, all the armored soldiers and hungry soldiers were boiling, what did they risk killing to join the rogue rebellion, not to have enough to eat, if they could join the old camp or the inner camp, then they would be able to eat every day in the future, instead of being hungry and full like now.
The energy of the hungry people burst out under the temptation of full food was amazing, and without Luo Rucai mobilizing, the hungry soldiers launched one attack after another against the Ming troops who retreated around the hillside with the armored soldiers......
As the battle continued, the sun slowly set in the west, and the scenery of this village called Xizhuang became unusually desolate and solemn, at this time, on this flat plain, white smoke and choking gunpowder smoke, countless roars accompanied by the sound of gunfire echoed on the earth.
In front of the defense line of the Qingzhou army's foot soldiers, there were waves of rogues like a tide, and as far as the eye could see, all the black pressure was wooden sticks and spears, and the faces that had become crazy because of hunger. They were killed outside the line one by one, but the rogues behind did not pause at all, and shouted and pounced with their weapons held high.
In the face of the crazy attack of the rogue, Cheng Kai did not change in the slightest, and still coldly observed the battle situation in front of him, but in fact, he was secretly frightened in his heart.
Although the combat power of these rogues is not worth mentioning, the madness that they burst out at this moment cannot but be amazing.
Cheng Kai didn't expect that the rogues who originally thought that they could be solved with just one charge would show such a strong tenacity, and now they could force themselves to form a circle to protect themselves, if it weren't for the tattered clothes and equipment of the rogues on the other side, he almost thought that he was now fighting with the Manchu Tartars.
"Bumper Bumper ......"
Slowly, the originally neat row of gunfire on the battlefield gradually became incoherent, and Cheng Kai's originally expressionless face began to become grim.
"Not good! The barrel of the rifle is starting to overheat! ”
It is undeniable that the Mini rifle is an excellent weapon in breech guns, but it also has the common problem of all hot weapons, that is, the chamber will be red and hot after a long time, generally speaking, after firing twenty to thirty rounds in a row, it is necessary to stop to cool down the barrel, otherwise the gunpowder in the barrel will spontaneously ignite or explode due to overheating.
The sound of the sparse falling on the hillside was quickly noticed by Sun Kewang, and he was ecstatic and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the firearms of these officers and soldiers are going to be dumb, everyone rush me!" ”
"Kill!"
A celebrity Kou roared forward with a weapon, in the eyes of the rogue, these officers and soldiers are nothing more than firearms, as long as their firearms do not sound, then they are like toothless tigers, they can only let themselves kill, but is this really the case?
Looking at the swarming rogues, Cheng Kai took a deep breath, although the military regulations of the Qingzhou Army clearly stipulate that in battle, it is necessary to use the advantage of firearms in their hands to attack the enemy as much as possible, and try to fight the enemy as little as possible, but this does not mean that the Qingzhou Army will not fight hand-to-hand. On the contrary, the Qingzhou army attaches great importance to hand-to-hand combat skills, and this is an important part of the special training of the Qingzhou soldiers during the training period for new recruits; Pang Gang has always believed that an army that does not dare to see red with bayonets is not a qualified army, and this truth will not become obsolete even in the 21 st century.
"Get on the bayonet!"
Soon, there were thousands of shouts in front of them.
"Woo ......"
There was a sound of metal clinging, and a series of shiny Mitsubishi bayonets were attached to the tips of the Mini rifles.
Cheng Kai shouted: "Prepare to fight the stab!" ”
"Protection!"
"Raise your gun!"
"Drink!"
The riflemen in the most row raised their rifles in unison and pointed them in front of them, without any fear on their faces.
Standing in the front row of the east, Captain Qian Mingtong clenched the spear in his hand, staring at the rogue who was rushing towards him, this was an armored soldier wearing light armor and holding a long knife, this armored soldier did not look very old, at this moment he was showing a crazy look, and together with his companions next to him, he raised the weapon in his hand and slashed it desperately.
At this time, there were also bursts of orders in various accents in the Qingzhou military array.
"Thrust!"
"Kill!"
Qian Tongming clenched the rifle in his hand and stabbed at the rogue in front of him along with the robe beside him, and the swarthy bayonet glittered like a poisonous snake in the light of the setting sun and stabbed into the throat of the rogue in front of him.
The stabbed soldier fell to the ground with a bayonet in the throat and a sound that sounded like a rooster with a throat cut out.
Qian Tongming twitched the bayonet and ignored the rogue, and the officer who trained them in the boot camp told them that even the strongest person with a throat piercing could only die of despair.
"Kill!"
Qian Tongming, who killed someone with a bayonet for the first time, trembled with excitement, as if he felt a nameless force surging into his body, and before he had time to think about it, he rushed with his companions, and the bayonet on the tip of the gun stabbed into the heart of another rogue......
(To be continued)