Chapter 489: Divine Force

Although the Yuan army was brave, it had not yet made a close encounter with the enemy, and nearly 2,000 soldiers had fallen in such a situation that they had never encountered before, even if they knew the power of the musket in advance, they were so frightened that they had no will to fight, and fled with their lives.

This gave the musketeers a chance to play, and the Imperial Guards, who were still quite nervous, also became relaxed at this moment, just like the usual training, methodically firing one round of ammunition after another.

In the absence of pressure, there is no need to even aim, as long as you shoot in the direction of the retreat of the Yuan army, you can almost achieve a gun hit. More than 10,000 soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army took turns shooting, turning the battlefield into a training ground.

Retreating to the army formation five hundred meters away, Zhang Hongfan bowed his head and said: "Great marshal, the last general is incompetent." ”

Ah Shu said lightly: "General Zhang, it's okay, you have already rushed to the enemy's guardrail, which can be regarded as a big step forward, but why did you suddenly retreat?" Blocked by the sword and shield hands, no matter how good Ah Shu's eyesight was, he couldn't see the musketeers of the Southern Dynasty lying in ambush on the ground.

"Back to the marshal, the guardrail of the Southern Dynasty camp is divided into two layers, the upper and lower layers, I didn't expect that there were more than 3,000 Southern Dynasty Imperial Forest Army ambushed in the lower layer, our army just rushed to the front, it was attacked by the musketeers lying on the ground, the incident happened suddenly, the distance was close, our army was defenseless, and could only retreat. Marshal, when a musket is fired at close range, even an ordinary shield cannot resist it. ”

Ah Shu nodded and said, "General Zhang, General Ashuhan, you guys rest first." ”

"Yes, Marshal."

Jiang Wanzai, who was commanding the battle in front of the Guanzitan camp, saw that the Yuan army had retreated, and hurriedly ordered the wounded to be treated and the defense line was consolidated.

Unconsciously, the first rays of light in the morning have appeared in the east, looking ahead, the smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, everything has been clearly seen, within eighty or ninety steps in front of the camp, there are corpses of the Yuan army everywhere, and on the ground a little farther away, dozens of mutilated war horses and hundreds of Yuan soldiers killed by artillery are scattered and poured.

Although they were all corpses of enemies, Fang Ling still couldn't bear to say: "Brother, it would be great if there was no war, they are all living people, and they will die in the blink of an eye." ”

"Ling'er, there will be a day." Although I said this, I remembered that 800 years later, didn't war still exist?

Yuan Jian said: "Your Majesty, Weichen made a rough estimate, after this battle, the Mongols were killed or wounded about four or five thousand, but most of the sword and shield players who rushed to the front were Han soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

I nodded, and said inappropriately: "If Kublai Khan unifies China, then the Han people will be reduced to the third and fourth people." ”

"How is it third, fourth, etc.?" Fang Ling didn't know why and asked.

"I guess that the Mongols are naturally the first class, the people of the Western Regions should be the second class, the Han people and Jin people in the former north are the third class, and the current Han people in our dynasty belong to the fourth class." This is how the Yuan Dynasty in history was distinguished.

"Brother, Kublai Khan will definitely not be able to unify Greater China, so your prediction this time is very wrong."

Yuan Jian smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Kublai Khan's dream of unifying Great China is impossible to realize, the power of firearms is unstoppable, and if it continues to develop like this, even if it is as martial arts as Weichen, it will not be able to stop firearms." ”

"Well, this is the trend of history, and no one can change it."

"Brother, shouldn't we all learn how to use muskets?"

"If the rear-loading gun comes out, then it's really time to learn hard." I smiled and looked north, only to see that the large army of the Yuan army was still standing in place, and had no intention of retreating.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Yuan army attacked again.

It was almost a replica of the first battle in the early morning, perhaps because of concerns about the power of the artillery, and this time the Yuan army attacked with fewer people. The difference is that after being beaten back, the Yuan army once again launched a charge with the same force. In the rounds of artillery and musket fire, the Yuan army only attacked about fifty paces away from the camp and retreated again.

"The interval between the firing of the guns of the South Korea is getting longer and longer, and it seems that the heat resistance of its barrel is still very limited." Boyan said.

"Not bad." Ah Shuwei bowed his head and said, "General Ashuhan." ”

"The end will be."

"This commander has allocated you 8,000 cavalry archery troops, including 1,000 cowardly Xue Shenkuers, plus your own men, a total of about 12,000 people, divided into four teams, to shoot at the southern camp in turn, without saving feather arrows. The firing speed of the Southern Korean artillery will become slower and slower, and the power of the musket will be greatly reduced in the range of 120 to 180 steps, so it is important to let the musketeers on the upper level of the Southern Korean guardrail reduce the number of shots. ”

"Yes, Marshal."

"General Zhang Hongfan."

"The end will be."

"This commander will allocate another 5,000 sword and shield men, 10,000 infantry troops, plus the remaining 1,000 sword and shield men in your headquarters, to attack 16,000 together, and launch a new round of attacks on the southern camp."

"The last will obey." Although Zhang Hongfan answered neatly, his heart was still up and down.

"Suddenly, the general listened to the order."

"The end will be."

"This commander ordered you to lead 2,500 divine forces to attack the Southern Dynasty camp with General Zhang Hongfan."

"Yes, Marshal, the last general will obey."

"Alright, generals, let's go."

Zhang Hongfan was overjoyed when he heard that Ah Shu ordered Hu Tingchu to lead the divine army into battle. The Yuan Dynasty's Shenli army has a total of 5,000 people, composed of strong men of each army, all of whom are holding heavy shields in their left hands and heavy weapons such as axes in their right hands, which are equivalent to heavy armored infantry.

Tens of thousands of cavalry archers, under the command of Asahan Khan, were the first to rush out.

Yuan Jian, who was on the arrow tower, said while watching: "The Mongolian army in the distance has begun to move again, Your Majesty, this time the scale seems to be much larger, the number of cavalry of the Yuan army should be no less than 10,000, it seems that Ah Shu is going all out." ”

"Well, the order goes down, and the 20th Army of the Third Carriage goes up to the upper level of the guardrail and prepares to cover the Royal Forest Army."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The herald responded and immediately went to inform the forward commander Jiang Wanzai.

As the Yuan cavalry archers approached, the artillery was the first to roar. After a round of bombardment, Crete personally checked the heat of the barrels, and although the auxiliaries kept pouring cold water on the guns, the heat dropped more and more slowly. Crete knew very well that after ten consecutive rounds of firing, the firing frequency of the artillery would be reduced by about half, but fortunately, the thirty cannons did not explode.

"Hey, why is our artillery slowing down?" Many soldiers with fast brains thought to themselves, but they couldn't help but think too much, the feather arrows of the Yuan army had been shot overwhelmingly, round after round, and there was almost no gap.

With the help of the Twentieth Army, the sword and shield men in the Royal Forest Army breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise, it would be really difficult for them to protect the safety of the musketeers, and even so, the musketeers on the upper level of the guardrail could only curl up under their shields.

"It seems that I still underestimated the skills of the Mongols, and I should have built another layer of protection on top of the guardrail."

Fang Ling persuaded: "Brother, it's okay, it's a big deal to let all the Imperial Forest Army go down to the lower floor to shoot." ”

"That's also a way, but it loses the effect of three-dimensional shooting."

At this time, the sound of artillery rang out again, suppressing the rain of arrows of the Yuan army for a while. After this round of artillery, the infantry of the Yuan Dynasty began to attack, and at the forefront were a thousand sword and shield men and five hundred divine forces. The shield of the Divine Force was obviously larger, and almost all the soldiers behind the shield were gone, only showing a pair of feet and running on the ground, unlike the shield of the sword and shield hand, which could only protect half of the body.

Ninety paces away, Xie Daolin gave an order, and the musketeer pulled the trigger at the same time, and one after another ammunition shot out, hitting the shield of the Divine Army, but it could only be paused for a moment by the impact force, but it could not penetrate at all.

Xie Daolin was shocked, subconsciously looked in the direction I was, and then said, "Let's go." ”

By the time they reached fifty or sixty paces, many of the shields held by the sword and shield men had been pierced, but the heavy shields of the Divine Force were all unharmed.

Wen Zhang, who was prostrate on the ground, could see a pair of feet of the Divine Force exposed, and when the distance between the two sides was shortened to thirty steps, Wen Zhang ordered: "Soldiers, aim at the enemy's feet, release." ”

"Crackling" gunshots rang out, and the more than 200 Shenli soldiers who rushed in front suddenly felt a pain in their feet, and immediately fell to the ground. The man behind did not have time to react, and continued to charge forward, also being hit by the musket on his exposed feet.

Since its formation, the Mongol Divine Force has been invincible, so it has also developed an arrogant mentality, and how can the musketeers shoot lying down.

The flickering stabbing in the distance was the first to react, and hurriedly shouted: "Pay attention below." However, in the deafening sound of gunfire, the people in front of him could not hear it at all.

Xie Dao breathed a sigh of relief and said secretly, "No wonder the emperor instructed that musketeers should practice different shooting methods such as standing shooting, squatting shooting, and prone shooting. ”

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Song army breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they could pause for a while, but they saw that the second batch of divine forces rushed up again, this group of divine forces was about a thousand, and after receiving the instructions of the sudden stab, they became cautious and tried not to show a gap.

The 1,000 cowardly Xue Divine Marksmen in the cavalry army did not stop firing arrows because the Divine Force rushed in front of the opponent's camp, and the accurate archery skills were reflected at this moment, almost no feather arrows fell in their own team in front of the main camp, but all of them were shot ten steps before and after the guardrail, which also made the shooting speed of the upper musketeers much slower.

I couldn't help but secretly say: "Cowardly Xue Army, Divine Army, really extraordinary." ”

Twenty steps, fifteen steps, ten steps, five steps, after the cowardly Xue army stopped shooting, the Yuan army finally rushed to the guardrail, and the remaining eight hundred divine forces danced battle axes and took the lead in slashing towards the guardrail.