Chapter 205: Frontal Defeat
The sudden situation stunned all the officers and soldiers, and they all felt that they were dazzled, how could this be? What kind of bird guns are these sea wolf tribesmen holding in their hands? Why can you hit so far? It's still so powerful, two hundred steps to pierce armor, and even penetrate the shield and then knock people down?
This made the officers and soldiers who were launching the charge a little dumbfounded, and they didn't react for a while, and continued to run forward with all their might, even stepping on the corpses of their fallen colleagues in front of them, maintaining the speed of running forward.
The sea wolf soldiers who had fired in the first row did not hesitate to turn to one side after the gunfire and walked to the back from among the soldiers in the back row, while the soldiers in the second row immediately took a step forward, and without saying a word, they raised the wolf's tooth rifle that had already been loaded in their hands and had been adjusted to the ruler, and once again coldly put on the shape of an enemy with the door and crosshair.
There was another roar, followed by a series of muskets, and this time more officers and men were knocked over on the spot.
Immediately after that, without waiting for the officers and men to react, the soldiers of the third row stepped forward again, took the place of the soldiers of the second row, and raised their muskets......
The standard three-stage fire was almost an impeccable perfect display, and the musketeers of the battalion and a company began to continuously release rows of muskets at the officers and soldiers opposite.
The officers and soldiers who were charging down, this time many of them really became dead soldiers, and they were cut down in front of the battle by the sea wolf's muskets like cutting rice.
200 steps...... Two hundred steps can actually kill people, and they are also armored soldiers! Although the quality of the Ming army's cotton armor is very poor, it is also cotton armor! It is not easy for an ordinary gun to break through it, let alone at two hundred steps?
For a while, the generals of the officers and soldiers, including the soldiers, were dumbfounded, and they couldn't understand what was going on, but they couldn't figure it out, but these dead soldiers who were charging were knocked to the ground one after another, at first they were in shock, and they didn't react for a while, or you pushed me and continued to rush forward, but when a few rows of guns came over, and a large number of colleagues were killed by their side, these people understood.
This battle can't be fought, although two hundred steps doesn't seem too far, but by the time the hundreds of them rush in front of others, I'm afraid they will have been killed by others, and they will be a fart when the time comes!
These guys came out to recruit for the sake of rewarding money, in order to get a rich and noble, and they are stabbed with real knives and guns, but they are not afraid, it is enough to kill one, and it is enough to earn one by killing two, and there is nothing to say when they are killed, only blame themselves for their bad lives.
But like this, they haven't even seen people's faces clearly, they are cut to the ground like grass, and they are killed by muskets, but it is not the result they want, this is not fighting desperately, but being slaughtered, no matter how big the nerves are, they can't bear such a blow.
The people who rushed to the front were constantly killed, and the people in the back finally couldn't withstand the pressure, I don't know who got up, screamed, lost the guy and turned around and ran, one with a group, a group with a piece, the whole formation that was charging was scattered with a bang, and all the people who had not been killed turned around and began to run towards the formation.
And the speed at which they fled back was even much faster than the speed at which they rushed forward, and all of them had a look of fear on their faces, and they used their strength to eat, only hating their father and mother for giving them two legs, and running wildly with their heads bowed, and even some people ran fast, and found that there were people in front of them blocking their way, and they didn't even think about it, so they slashed at the people in front of them with the knives and guns in their hands, just thinking about escaping from this terrible place quickly.
Chen Wencan's face was pale at this time, looking at the dead soldiers who had collapsed, knowing that today was probably over, and the morale of their entire official army had completely collapsed under the firing of this row of guns.
Chen Wencan shouted loudly, ordered no one in the army to be disorderly, and hereby ordered to shoot the soldiers who turned around and fled behind, and a rain of arrows shot over, and immediately shot more than a dozen deserters.
But some deserters were clever and didn't dare to run to the back, but actually ran to both sides, trying to bypass Chen Wencan, who was pressing the formation behind, and the personal soldiers he led.
However, Chen Wencan, as the commander of the land division this time, had more than 20 cavalry among the personal soldiers on hand, and Chen Wencan gave an order, and the more than 20 cavalry were divided into two groups and went towards the two wings.
The deserters had already had a psychological breakdown and did not dare to turn back, but more than a dozen cavalrymen rolled over, one by one, their knives fell, only to see blood splashing, these deserters were slaughtered by them in less than half a moment, all of them were stabbed in the back or stabbed to death by cavalry guns.
The horsemanship of these soldiers was still good, and after a circle, one leaned over, pulled their cavalry spears from the corpses of the deserters who had been stabbed on the ground, and galloped back and forth behind the formation, crushing the officers and soldiers who were about to move and try to escape.
This time, I saw that there were cavalry on both wings, and Chen Wencan and his own soldiers were watching with bows behind them, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to, so they once again stabilized the formation of the officers and soldiers.
The dead soldiers who had been sent out had fled back to their own ranks by this time, and some of the generals were so angry that they killed a few of the soldiers who had fled back to their ranks on the spot, and only then did they suppress the soldiers who had fled back.
But at this time, looking in front of them, there was already a layer of corpses, and although some of the soldiers were shot, they were not killed on the spot, and fell to the ground whining and wailing, making terrible screams and cries for help.
The weather has been very cold these days, and when you breathe, you can see the hot breath spewing out of the nose, and among the corpses and wounded who fell on the battlefield, the hot human blood is bursting out a lot of hot gas, and all kinds of swords, guns, weapons and flags are thrown everywhere, and they are inserted on the battlefield.
After the officers and men retreated, the company commander of the first company ordered two more rows of guns to be fired, chased after those deserters, and knocked over many people, which further intensified the fear of the officers and soldiers.
At this time, although all the officers and soldiers have not completely collapsed, but their hearts have completely become cold and cold, this one is down, the sharp muskets of the sea wolf tribe have left a deep psychological shadow on them, and this battle cannot be fought.
They couldn't figure out why the sea wolf's bird guns could have hit so far and so powerful, but they knew that if they were going to keep fighting, there was only one way to die.
The morale of the entire official army was not very high, but at this time it was completely gone, just like a walking corpse, standing on the battlefield in a daze, even including those generals, they were dumbfounded at this time, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Including Chen Wencan, he was already at a loss at this time, knowing that this battle could no longer be fought, and the morale of the officers and soldiers under his command had been completely destroyed.
But the problem is that now his battalion has been lost, and the recruitment of dead soldiers last night was only recruited with empty promises, and now it is impossible for him to take out so much silver, so he wants to let these officers and soldiers continue to work hard, and there is basically no possibility.
He never thought that the sea wolf would be so powerful, and he could still beat his people to death from such a distance, how could this battle be fought?
Thinking of this, Chen Wencan's heart was even more cold, and he couldn't come up with a way for a while, what should he do next, this is the first time he has faced such a predicament since he joined the army, he only felt that his head was constantly sweating, and his mind was chaotic, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
And when Chen Wencan and the officers and soldiers were panicked and at a loss, Li Dazui didn't wait for them to come up with a way, and acted first, and under Li Dazui's order, the generals of the first battalion began to act.
They quickly assembled into a phalanx at the sound of Li's big mouth, with pikemen on the four corners of the phalanx and musketeers lined up on the four sides of the line.
After the phalanx was formed, it seemed that the number of people was not much, the horizontal row was only about 50 people, and the vertical column was only more than 20 people, forming a rectangular formation, the whole formation was only 50 meters wide horizontally, and the depth was about 50 meters.
The officers and soldiers saw the sea wolves forming a phalanx and pushing towards them, and suddenly became even more panicked, Chen Wencan gritted his teeth at this time, knowing that if he didn't fight to the death today, it wouldn't take three days, and he wouldn't even have the ability to fight again, since the other party had taken the initiative to attack, it was impossible to escape, as long as he dared to order a retreat now, then it would definitely be a complete collapse.
When the time comes, he will be chased and killed by the sea wolf, then the thousands of people he brought will be completely finished, so he can only be ruthless, gritted his teeth, and immediately ordered the soldiers on both wings to advance forward, adjusting their formation into a concave pocket-shaped formation.
Chen Wencan secretly pondered, no matter how powerful your sea wolf is, there are only so many people, your musket is sharp, but our number is much more than you, as long as the Chinese army can withstand the impact of the sea wolf's phalanx, then the two wings can surround the enemy.