Chapter 496: Mutation
Seeing this situation, the regiment commander's gaze subconsciously shifted to the company guarding the middle of the city wall.
Unlike the chaos of the defenders on both sides, the defensive area, which lasted less than twenty battles, although many corpses also fell. However, the remaining hundred or so musketeers did not look panicked like the others. Instead, they unexpectedly stood in three small musket formations......
"How did Zhong Zhaoyu do it, in just a few days, he trained a group of recruits who had just joined the Haw Par Army...... It's really surprising......" Facing what he saw in front of him, the head of the regiment subconsciously spoke, his words full of incomprehension......
The deputy head of the regiment, who heard a hint of a different meaning from the words of the head of the regiment, hurriedly asked someone to call Zhong Zhaoyu over.
After listening to the regiment leader's question, Zhong Zhaoyu, who was still bumpy just now, immediately put his mind at ease.
Under the gaze of the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander, he directly spoke: "Commander, my thoughts"
"Actually, it's very simple, these recruits are soldiers who have not undergone basic training and cannot be called soldiers at all. If the musket formation we form is too big, I can't control them, no matter how great my ability is. ”
"In that case, I'll let their squad leader take care of them directly. With the platoon as a unit, a small musket formation was formed, and not only that, but I and the two deputy company commanders also went down to each musket platoon separately to supervise the formation ......"
"In this way, the whole company, plus those deputy platoon commanders, squad leaders, and recruits that each officer needs to manage, there are only five people left...... A veteran leads five recruits, and these recruits, no matter how frightened they are, can only bite the bullet and listen to the command. Otherwise, the military regulations of our Haw Par Army are not a joke......"
A word wakes up the dreamer. After listening to Zhong Zhaoyu's explanation. The head of the regiment was still full of doubts just now. Two rays of light shoot out directly......
Because, in the battle that just ended, the first company had already told everyone with the facts that Zhong Zhaoyu's method was very feasible.
In this case, if he popularized this method throughout the regiment, then the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers under his command would not fall into chaos again in the next battle. Let the Benxi county under his feet also fall into a crisis.
Just do what you say, under the trial of the two deputy regiment commanders, the regiment commander directly ordered: "You have all heard clearly what Company Commander Zhong just said...... Immediately spread this method to the whole group. All company commanders and deputy company commanders are all sent down to each infantry platoon to assist the platoon commander in supervising the formation, battalion commander, and deputy battalion commander. Coordinate ...... in the center"
After the order was given, the gaze of the regimental commander. It was transferred to Zhong Zhaoyu again.
However, at this time, the gaze that looked at Zhong Zhaoyu was no longer suspicious, but hot......
On the last trip to Houjin, Zhong Zhaoyu's watch in front of him made him stand out in front of the handsome. Although he still has a lieutenant colonel, the chief of staff has clearly told himself that as long as he can make another combat exploit and be promoted to the rank of colonel, it is definitely a sure thing.
And the battle in front of him, which surprised everyone, wasn't it a heavenly battle feat given to him by God? With a newly formed garrison regiment that has been trained for less than ten days, it can eliminate the 500 elite iron cavalry of the Tartars, and after wearing it out, it can definitely cause a shock in the entire Tiger and Par Army.
As for Zhong Zhaoyu, who is still standing in front of him, he is the hero of this battle. Because, if he hadn't had the idea he just had, if he didn't talk about meritorious service, maybe he wouldn't even be able to defend Benxi County under his feet.
Thinking of this, the regiment commander said directly to Zhong Zhaoyu in front of him: "Company Commander Zhong, you have done a good job...... When this battle is over, I will personally go to the division commander for you to ask for merit......"
"Go back immediately and take your brothers with you. In the next attack of the Tartars, we will continue to kill more Tartars and leave all the five hundred Tartars on the battlefield......"
As he spoke, the sound of horses' hooves sounded again on the battlefield outside the city.
Unwilling to lose, thinking that just after the battle, the defenders were lucky to repel their own Tartars. This time, he directly bet all his capital on this attack.
The remaining 300 or so Tartars, with vengeful fury, roared like tigers out of their cages, screaming and rushing towards the ruined walls.
Because the commander of the garrison regiment changed his tactics in time, coupled with the heavy losses of the garrison regiment just now. After all the veterans and company platoon commanders were decentralized, there were not even four recruits who needed to supervise the battle.
After killing several recruits who did not obey orders in a row, the panic in the garrison regiment was finally suppressed in the face of military regulations and death.
At this moment, although the face of the recruit was pale, his hands holding the musket were trembling. However, amid the incessant shouting and scolding of the officers around him, a musket formation of no more than one platoon had been formed.
Perhaps it is to boost morale, mediate the panic that still exists among the garrison regiments, and let everyone adapt to the battlefield as soon as possible.
The Tartars, with an unstoppable posture, had just rushed to a distance of one hundred and eighty paces when the order to shoot sounded on the city walls.
The sound of gunshots like bursting beans rang out on the battlefield one after another. It wasn't as messy as it had just been, but it hadn't killed a single Tartar.
However, this is also on a certain course, giving Tartar an illusion.
After the attack that had just ended, a group of Han recruits defending Benxi County had fallen into a panic. Otherwise, they would not have rushed to shoot before they were within range of the musket, wasting so much lead bullet in vain......
Under the influence of this delusion, the Tartars, who had just failed in the first round of the attack and were full of worries about this attack, immediately threw this worry behind him. Then, waving the saber in his hand, as if showing off his might, he rushed to Benxi County with a roar, and walked towards death step by step.
Of course, this unexpected result was not expected by the commander of the garrison regiment.
However, as the commander of the regiment, he clearly felt that the panic in the middle of the garrison regiment was dissipating little by little.
The most obvious change is that after several rounds of lead bullets were fired in a row, the hands of the soldiers clenched the muskets and no longer trembled...... Shooting, clearing, loading...... These movements, already invisibly, have become more and more proficient.
The time on the battlefield passed in a blink of an eye, just when the regiment commander watched the changes in his subordinates and nodded secretly
Having not taken the garrison in their eyes, they had already unwittingly rushed into the range of muskets.
"Bang bang bang...... Ahhhh......h
Seven or eight Tartar cavalrymen fell to the ground with a bang in the gallop of horses, and in the blink of an eye they were trampled into a pile of meat by the follow-up cavalry......
In the face of these losses, although the expression on the face of the Tartar changed, but, in the blink of an eye, it was replaced by arrogance again.
In the eyes of the arrogant Tartars, the loss just now can only be regarded as a fluke of the garrison regiment.
After all, now I can only be beaten passively...... It is not yet possible to scare the recruits of the garrison regiment defending the city into a thousand confusions and lose the ability to counterattack as they should.
However, as long as he rushes forward dozens or hundreds of steps, the Han people guarding the city wall will definitely be frightened and run around. At that time, he will be able to use his best cavalry archery to continuously shoot and kill the soldiers of the garrison regiment as he did just now, so that they will lose their combat effectiveness and have to give up Benxi County.
Of course, there is one thing that Tartar has not forgotten.
That is the company that inflicted heavy losses on itself in the last round of attack.
Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was led by Tartar, was not a fool, although the battlefield was very chaotic, he still decisively judged that the company that caused him to take care of his losses must be the elite of the garrison regiment.
Therefore, in this attack, Tartar Niu Lu Zhangjing directly selected one hundred and fifty Houjin warriors from the limited troops, specifically aimed at the first company, and launched an attack against the first company.
However, what the Tartars did not expect was that after the last round of battles, although the first company lost a platoon of musketeers, the combat effectiveness of the entire company had undergone a qualitative change.
In the face of the Tartars who rushed towards them without the slightest defense, the faces of the hundreds of musketeers not only did not have the worry and panic on the faces of the other soldiers, but became extremely hot.
Because, in the last round of battle, the results of fifty or sixty Tartar iron horsemen told them that the Tartars were also human beings and were afraid of death...... As long as you can use the musket in your hand to destroy the Tartars before they rush to a distance of fifty paces, you can destroy them as much as possible. The remnants of the Tartars, even if they could rush to a distance of fifty paces, would not be able to inflict too much damage on themselves. After all, the arrows fired by the Tartars are very limited, both in terms of accuracy and quantity.
Therefore, in the face of the stunned and stunned, he rushed to himself with more than a hundred tartars. Zhong Zhaoyu commanded a company, like a group of veterans, constantly shooting lead bullets at the Tartars, without showing the slightest nervousness caused by the approach of the Tartars......
The other soldiers on the city wall, although they were more and more panicked because of the constant approach of the Tartars. However, in the shouting and scolding of the officers around him, there was no picture of the collapse of the battlefield.
Still holding back the tension in his heart, he shot lead bullets forward round after round.
Of course, the accuracy of these buckshot bullets is not as good as a company.
However, the only thing that made the commander of the garrison regiment feel fortunate was that the Tartars who attacked Benxi County were only a few hundred people.
In just one hundred and fifty to one hundred paces, the Tartars lost seventy or eighty men.
Excluding the Upper White Tartars that a company had to face, the remaining eight or nine hundred people in the garrison regiment only had to face less than two hundred Tartars. A steady stream of Tartars flying out of the city wall is a blind cat that hits a dead mouse, and a round of one or two hundred buckshot can also kill several Tartar cavalry who show off their might. (To be continued......)