Chapter 50: Sudden Chaos

The buckteeth are in the first row, the thick shield gives him a good sense of security, their shield is also made of cowhide, in fact, all the equipment of Houjin is the same as that of the Ming army, and the management system of the weapon is also similar, each weapon has the name of the craftsman and the user, and the quality problem can be traced, and the responsibility of the user must be traced if the weapon is lost.

It's just that Houjin is in the emerging period, and has not become a dead pig like the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, and is not afraid of boiling water, and the requirements for the coaters during the war are very strict, and the slightest problem will be beheaded, which is to ensure the quality by high-pressure violent means, and Dengzhou Town is relying on its own quality control, through guò assessment and monetary rewards and punishments to meet the quality requirements.

So Bucktooth was very confident in the equipment, after approaching the river bank, the flintlock pissiers behind stopped shooting, Bucktooth pulled out his waist knife and put it on the knife holder of the shield, this is a very good and practical design, it is said that the inventor relied on this to get a reward of twenty taels of silver, and also increased his salary by one level, so that Bucktooth was a little envious.

Then he pulled out the short gun from his waist, this thing was of little use one-on-one, he didn't hit the last time he fought in the woods, but it was useful against the piles of people in front of him, he glanced at the other side, the same pile of shields.

Ten steps away from the river bank, there was no movement on the other side, Bucktooth knew that they were waiting for their side to go ashore first, and then besiege themselves in the narrow part of the river crossing point, but he had no other choice, the order given by the herald was to seize the ferry as quickly as possible, otherwise there was no need to use their special forces and sentinels to ride on, and they could wait for the soldiers behind to come up, because they were in the front and could only step on the river bank.

With a loud shout, the golden shields scattered and rushed forward, the riverbed where the bucktooth was located was slightly lower than the shore, and he only saw a dense group of human legs shaking under the shield line.

"Aim low. Don't rush ashore. Bucktooth shouted, and the shield soldiers in the front row fired short guns at the same time, and blood flowers exploded in the legs of the people opposite, and several shield soldiers fell to the ground screaming. The Houjin soldiers behind roared angrily and continued to rush, wanting to fight with the Ming army, so that the Ming army behind them could not shoot.

"Hold on!" Bucktooth inserted the short gun back into his waist, grabbed the handle of the knife and quickly took out the waist knife, more than a dozen Ming soldiers also shouted in unison, and the shields of both sides hedged away at the same time.

The thumping sound continued. Both sides were looking for each other's loopholes while colliding, brandishing waist knives to slash each other, and the narrow ferry was crowded with people, and suddenly flesh and blood flew sideways, and the waist knives rubbed against the shuttle armor and helmets. Burst into sparks. After the first team began to engage, the Ming army behind also quickened its pace, preparing to merge into the front to fight.

The bucktooth was strong and had a slight advantage in the first round of impact, and although he was pushed back a little by the opponent's advantage, his feet were not scattered, and the shield position was well maintained. Instead, the shield on the opposite side was crooked, revealing a small half of a fishskin figure with chain mail, and the buckteeth could not reach the face of the man, and the shield was used to resist the opponent's shield. The right hand reached out and stabbed at the figure, and the blade broke through the chain mail and pierced into the upper part of the left chest of the raw Jurchen, but it did not penetrate deeply.

The raw girl really roared angrily. Ignoring the pain, he slashed back at his bucktooth right hand, and a Houjin soldier stabbed him with a big knife behind him. Bucktooth hurriedly drew the knife and used the shield to block in front of him, the raw girl really broke out fiercely, kicked and slashed at the shield of the bucktooth, and pushed the bucktooth back again and again, and the eyes were about to retreat into the river, and suddenly there were a few roars in the ears, and the white smoke in front of him was in the sky, and the bucktooth was shocked to the point of dizziness, and the same was true of the Houjin soldiers on the opposite side.

The Ming army of the rear team arrived in time, taking advantage of the flexibility of the short gun that does not need space, and shot indiscriminately from the gap at close range, and immediately put down the first few rear Jin soldiers, and the battle between the two sides was filled with a cloud of white smoke, and the vision suddenly blurred.

But neither side could retreat, buckteeth opened their mouths wide to eliminate tinnitus, while continuing to stab forward with a knife, feeling that they had stabbed something again and again, and they didn't know whether it was a person or a shield, only to hear a scream and angry shouts from the other side, followed by a strong force hitting the shield, the shield was pressed down hard, and then there was a sharp pain in the left shoulder. Buckteeth were stirred by the pain, and his mind suddenly cleared up a lot, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a ladder knife retracting from the edge of the shield.

"Kill you dog!" The bucktooth was also aroused to be ferocious, and he raised his shield with force, and swung the ladder knife upward, and when he opened his eyes, the fish skin tartar was covered with blood, and he had already lost his shield, and his face was full of hideousness.

Bucktooth stabbed the Jurchen with a straight stab first, the Raw Jurchen actually grabbed the waist knife with a fierce empty hand, the ladder knife was still chopped, the bucktooth used the shield to get a square, kicked over with a kick from the bottom, and pulled out the waist knife, the raw Jurchen finally slowed down, the bucktooth did not stop slashing at the fish skin tartar again and again, the well-made thick back Qi family knife cut the chain mail on the left shoulder of the raw Jurchen section by section, that section of flesh and blood was blurred, the bucktooth was like crazy, and he did not cut off the head, and the shield in his left hand blocked the sluggish and weak chopping of the raw Jurchen, The Qi family knife in his right hand kept slashing at his left shoulder, and the steel knife stained with red and fine broke out several gaps, and the blade rolled up with white smoke in the air, drawing marks one after another, and the wound on the left shoulder of the birth Jurchen was deep one by one, and the white shoulder bone was already visible in the blood water.

Finally, with a bang, the whole left arm of the birth girl fell, his whole body was bleeding, his buck teeth seemed to have completed the task, and finally a knife pierced deeply into the heart of the birth girl, and after a fierce stir, the birth girl fell softly.

Before the bucktooth could catch his breath after the rage, another raw girl came up with a big knife in the back, and the bucktooth began to retreat again......

The two sides fought desperately at the ferry, the corpses were piled up all over the place, and then they were stepping on the corpses to fight, and the follow-up teams of Ming troops kept filling in this flesh and blood battlefield, and finally those Houjin soldiers lost more than half, and fled in panic shouting, and the follow-up Ming troops swarmed onto the riverbank, chasing those Houjin soldiers to slash and kill, many Houjin soldiers didn't even have time to get their horses, and fled in a panic to the north.

As soon as the ferry was opened with Zhu Guobin on the opposite side, he quickly waved his hand, and the horse stake of the sentry horse immediately dragged the horse across the river first, and then Tan Shen quickly led the cavalry to immediately start wading, but when he went ashore, there was some confusion because of the height of the riverbed, some horses could not go up for a while, and the cavalry came down and dragged and dragged, and the other horses were constantly passing guò, forming congestion at the ferry, and the formation became chaotic, and the smoke and dust were billowing on the road to the south, and the Houjin soldiers who returned to help were desperately coming.

Zhu Guobin took the position of the dust head. Frowning, he urged to the back: "Let Tan Shen speed up the whole team, inform Zhong Laosi of them, follow the tail of the cavalry to cross the river, and line up on the side of the Fuzhou River." ”……

"The detachment crossed the river first, then the four-pounder guns, and finally the phalanx. The four-pounder gun crew prepares shotshots. ”

Zhong Laosi was a little confused when the cavalry crossed the river and landed, and immediately roared at the herald, who quickly ran to give the order with the flag in hand, Zhong Laosi was not at ease. Another one was dispatched, he could reach the dust in the distance, the Jiannu striker was already in sight, the brigade behind should have also been drawn, and the striker would arrive soon after galloping with all his might. There was not enough time for him to cross the river.

The detachments with bayonet flintlock pistols were his treasure, fifty men in each company, commanded by a flag captain, who could provide both fire support and a certain ability to protect themselves, and when used intensively, they should generally be commanded by the deputy commander-in-chief. But Zhong Laosi decided to lead them personally this time.

The two teams soon arrived, and Zhong Laosi ignored the opposition of the deputy Qianzong, handed over the command of the division to the deputy Qianzong, and personally led the detachment to follow behind the tail of the cavalry. The cavalry had already moved a little west, freeing up the crossing for the men and horses behind to cross the river, and were now hastily arrayed.

After Zhong Laosi led the detachment to cross the river along the ferry, he moved a section south. Get out of the way, and then all detachments immediately dismount. The horses were handed over to the auxiliary horses and stakes beside them, and they formed two phalanxes of twelve rows and four rows. Thanks to Zhong Laosi's rigorous training, they were very fast in formation and began to check the ammunition.

At this time, the Jin soldier forward has been four hundred steps away, this forward has more than 300 people, the head is the white flag Baya Lazhen led by the white armor guard, they walked to maintain the basic formation, at this time to this side of the Ming cavalry has not yet formed a formation, these cavalry is very fierce and sophisticated, as soon as they see the opportunity, they immediately roared to the cavalry side, Dengzhou Town's sentry cavalry could not resist so many cavalry, and retreated to the west side.

Tan Shen's cavalry battalion finally sent three bureaus of cavalry to meet the battle, these cavalry training time is not long, coupled with the unexpected situation of the party, the formation is a little chaotic, some positions are even very loose, and the speed is not up, so it is at a disadvantage, the two sides in the middle of a confrontation, Houjin soldiers with a small amount of losses to break through the line, to the back of the unadjusted cavalry straight forward.

"Squat down in the first two rows! Rejection! Zhong Lao Siyi knew that the other party wanted to get into the melee, and with the help of individual combat skills, he gave priority to defeating the Dengzhou cavalry with the greatest threat, and immediately jumped off his horse and walked to the front row, roaring at the detachments on both sides, he opened his voice to the maximum, and it was clear in the thunderous hoof.

In front of the rolling cavalry, the detachment soldiers were a little nervous, subconsciously obeying the order, the first two rows of flintlock pistols with bayonets obliquely aimed at the front, and the spearmen refused to move almost the same, and the method of shooting first in the back row was also invented by Zhong Laosi alone, there was no such method in basic training, Zhong Laosi thought that letting the back row shoot first could allow them to load upright later.

The Houjin cavalry was already about one hundred and twenty paces, and Zhong Lao had a hideous look on his face, "The last two rows are ready!" ”

The soldiers in the back row turned sideways at the same time and erected the body of the gun, Zhong Laosi didn't give them much time to prepare, and immediately roared: "Aim!" ”

Forty-eight flintlock pistols were flattened in unison, aiming diagonally at Jiannu who was attacking the right flank, Zhong Laosi waited coldly for the Houjin army to enter eighty steps in the sound of thunderous hooves, "Release!" ”

The guns burst into flames, the platoon of guns fired a volley, more than a dozen of the front row of the Houjin cavalry fell to the ground in response, the cavalry was majestic at the same time, but also provided a larger target, most of the hit was still horses, they rolled violently on the ground, making the Houjin queue chaotic, some of the Houjin cavalry found the threat here, turned around and ushered in.

"Front row stand up! Aim! Zhong Laosi took out his short gun, his tone was still very steady, but the order was a little faster.

At his roar, the first two rows of soldiers stood and raised their guns, and the last two rows began to reload.

"Put!"

Another round of volleys, the Houjin cavalry in front of him fell more than ten horses again, and there was confusion again, but the other cavalry still rushed forward, Zhong Laosi now had no time to take care of the cavalry, there were fifty or sixty cavalry coming towards him. Zhong Laosi didn't dare to stay in the middle passage anymore, and dodged into the back row.

"Rejection of horses in the front row!" When he hid, he didn't forget to give the order, the soldiers in the front row who had just finished shooting squatted down in unison, the bayonets were unloaded and pointed forward, the soldiers in the second row stood and raised their guns, and the military formation was like a hedgehog with spikes,

The Houjin cavalry roared in, but the Ming musketeers in front of them did not collapse as they expected, but put on such a bayonet formation. They didn't know that this Denglai soldier often had infantry and cavalry confrontation training, and the psychological endurance of the soldiers far exceeded that of the ordinary Ming army.

The eyes of the horses were irritated by the dense bayonets, and these agile animals, regardless of their masters' control, bypassed the bayonets and ran to the rear or flanks, and even stopped in front of the formation, twisting the horses and turning around, the blades of the Houjin soldiers on horseback could not reach those soldiers, and some of the Houjin soldiers threw out their maces and iron bones in their hands when they passed by, knocking over seven or eight detachment soldiers.

Some of the Houjin soldiers rushed into the rear. Finding the stakes left behind by the detachment, they roared into the herds, slashed them or forced them to flee for their lives, and slashed the horses that had lost control, causing the herd to blow up in an instant. Fleeing in all directions, there were horses running around everywhere, and the whole rear was in chaos.

Fortunately, a phalanx company that had just come ashore crossed the river on foot, so there were only more than 100 horses in the rear, but the running of horses at this point also forced this phalanx to defend on the spot, so as not to be scattered by the horses. The musketeers on both flanks of them kept firing, attacking the nearby post-gold-armored soldiers.

The rear formation of the Dengzhou cavalry also exchanged hands with the main force of the Houjin forward, and the dense cavalry formation unique to Dengzhou was still fierce, although it was very hasty. It was still comparable to Jiannu's killing, but because of the speed, some places fell into a melee, and the Houjin soldiers had the upper hand in those places.

Zhong Laosi's Houjin soldiers who rushed over had already dispersed. And there were only more than forty people left, and the horses running around also affected the regrouping of those Houjin soldiers. With a third company on that side, these Houjin soldiers were not enough to shake this side of the battle line. Zhong Laosi knew that the most important thing now was to regroup the cavalry, so he immediately pointed to the place where the cavalry was fighting, and shouted to the two detachment flag captains beside him: "The detachment disbands the formation, attacks according to the squad, and responds to the cavalry." ”

The two flag captains were a little flustered, but fortunately, Zhong Laosi's order was very clear, and the two immediately received the order, and the two flag teams were divided into eight squads, and hurried to the place in the melee, where most of the cavalry lost their horse speed and were fighting with each other.

After these detachments arrived, they approached the Houjin soldiers to fire a volley, and then swarmed up, attacking the Houjin soldiers with three or two bayonet tactics, as soon as they joined, those Houjin soldiers who were slashing and killing began to be unable to resist, even if they were Bayala, they could not withstand the cheapest lead bullet, Dengzhou's bayonet tactics were also very fierce, as long as they cooperated tacitly, two or three ordinary soldiers could make a Bayala busy.

Dengzhou's sentry cavalry also re-entered the battlefield, with these highly skilled riders, the Houjin soldiers in front of the cavalry were even more demoralized, and began to retreat one after another, and the Houjin soldiers were shot off their horses in the retreat, and then they were stabbed to death by several bayonet soldiers.

Zhong Laosi stood alone by the river, constantly dodging the miscellaneous horses, observing the Houjin soldiers who rushed into the rear formation, while walking around looking for something.

"Artillery crew, come here!" Zhong Laosi finally found the group of overwhelmed artillerymen, they had taken down the artillery truck, wiped the water and loaded it, but their horses didn't know where to go, Zhong Laosi ran over and kicked and beaten, "It's all a pot of porridge, your mother is still hiding here, push Lao Tzu over." ”

He took matters into his own hands, and led a few gunners to push the gun cart to the rear, and the miscellaneous horses had basically run away, there were still more than 30 Houjin soldiers left, and there was a bureau of Dengzhou cavalry coming, these Houjin soldiers were running and regrouping, and they looked like they were ready to retreat, and the musketeers of the third company of the local defense took turns shooting at them, and the riders kept falling off their horses.

They kept an eye out for the phalanx and cavalry over there, but did not notice in the chaos that the small four-pounder gun crew was aimed at them and was running back to the south.

"Quick, torch!" Zhong Laosi saw that the other party was dense, and hurriedly shouted in a low voice.

"Drop, drop."

Zhong Laosi glared angrily, "What about the tinder jar?" ”

The artillery commander hurriedly handed over the jar hanging on his waist, and the Houjin soldiers over there had just passed in front of them, and had noticed that there were two people pointing in this direction, Zhong Laosi lifted the lid and fell down against the fire door.

The fire with the yin fire fell into the fire door, the four-pounder cannon roared, and in the long white smoke, seventy-two shotshots of one or two were rained down on the cavalry, and the artillery lead bullets in the close range were more violent than the musket bullets, and the blood mist in the cavalry group was raging, and the cavalry on the side of the artillery fell down in unison, screaming and screaming on the ground.

The roar of the artillery at close range also made the horses panic, several riders were thrown off their horses, and there were only about twenty of the more than thirty people left, and they did not dare to stay in panic, and fled desperately. A group of men and horses rushed up at the ferry, and they rushed past Zhong Laosi's four-pounder cannon, stopped the waist to intercept the group of Houjin soldiers, and cut down those panicked Houjin soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, Zhong Laosi found that it was Zhu Guobin who personally led his own soldiers over.

Houjin Qianfeng suffered heavy losses in a short battle, less than half of the 300 men remained, and the casualties in Dengzhou Town were also about 100, but they finally held the ferry position.

Zhong Laosi laughed for a while, and then blinked his eyes to the cavalry, the cavalry of the three bureaus was pursuing the remaining forwards of Houjin, and the two detachments were using bayonets to solve those Houjin's wounded soldiers, and the other cavalry began to regroup, and the situation had stabilized.

Waiting for the fourth company to go ashore, the two companies set up the two phalanxes in front and back, Zhong Laosi finally settled down, this initial formation can't say who wins and who loses, Dengzhou town chaos formation, the loss is not small, and Jiannu lost more than half, neither recaptured the ferry, nor broke through the military formation, let alone won the battle.

Zhong Laosi asked the deputy general to continue the whole team, he felt out the short gun on his waist, swaggered to the pile of people and horses that were attacked by scattered bullets, a rear Jin soldier was hit in the calf by a scattered bullet, just crawled from the pile of dead horses to the edge of the corpse circle, he approached someone, and hurriedly raised his hand to beg for mercy, Zhong Laosi didn't say a word, and put a short gun against his head is a shot, then Jin Bing's whole body shook violently, and the white brain slurred far away.

"Your damn dog Tartar, three hundred people dared to come and charge, and Lao Tzu's horses were gone, and I knew that I should have left the horses on the other side of the river, and I would have made a fucking mess." Zhong Laosi complained to himself, and walked to the next while loading the bullet.

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