Chapter 376: The First Battle (Part II)
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Maybe it's because of the strong wind yesterday night, today's weather is also exceptionally cool, because of the hurry, these Wu troops are all fully armed, look at the equipment, that is also the first class in the Wu army, iron helmets, leather armor, knives, bows, guns are complete, maybe this is also the standard for all nights, they are indeed qualified to have these high-grade equipment.
Although Zhou Kuiyuan and the others had not really fought against the Wu army, since they were scouts, they naturally learned how to distinguish the Wu army and the Qing army's troops and officials' clothing. At this moment, the Wu army used the standard official system of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not the original Tuntian guard system, but the war system. From ordinary soldiers to the official positions above, from the deputy promotion and comfort experience of the seventh grade, the deputy of the seventh grade, the battalion meal to the front and back of the first grade, the scouts are very familiar.
The Qing army and the Wu army are different, they are divided into eight banners, and due to the different status, they are divided into three types: Ahha, armor people, and banners. Aha is a slave, basically Han Chinese, Koreans; The armor people are descended, and all ethnic groups are not uniform, and their status is slightly higher than that of Aha; The banner is the Qing army, with the highest status, and the establishment of the flag is divided into infantry armor, horse armor, white armor and bayala soldiers according to the force and type of troops. The strongest is of course the Baya soldiers, before the Qing army entered the customs, Ao Baike was a Baya soldier for many years.
Now that Zhou Kuiyuan saw these Wu soldiers, there were three of them wearing bright helmets, and the iron leaves were exposed. These people must be small leaders such as the leader of the Wu Army's scout team. Perhaps there were also officers with higher rank of hundred households. The remaining thirty-three were also dressed in leather armor. The armor is bright, and at a glance, you can know that he is the most elite sergeant in the Wu army. Wu Jun's elite Zhou Kuiyuan and others still know a lot, and they have studied all of them. The most elite army under Wu Sangui is his Guanning Iron Cavalry Unit, and the sergeants who can generally ride horses in the Wu army are also trained according to the training standards of Guanning Iron Cavalry, especially these scout teams, which are not inferior to the cavalry in Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Seeing that the first of these people were wearing armor, and three of them were wearing iron armor, the scouts who were ambushed next to the small slope were first shocked and then happy, and then returned to Yan SΓΉ with a smile on their faces. These people are brightly armoured, but it doesn't mean that these people are old soldiers. On the contrary, those who can wear these equipment in the army mean that they are veterans with very rich combat experience, and they are real professional soldiers, and their combat effectiveness must be very high. Without muskets but with knives and guns in hand-to-hand combat, the horsetail soldiers may not be able to defeat them. Although the scouts were very eager to gain combat merits, they also knew very well that these Wu soldiers in front of them were also a hard bone for the thirteen of them.
Everyone squinted and looked in the direction where Zhou Kuiyuan was lying on his stomach, Zhou Kuiyuan turned his head and looked at the dozen or so brothers beside him, gritted his teeth and crossed his heart, and shouted in a low voice: "Hu Bing, when the Wu army comes, you will quickly pull up the tripwire." The others waited until the Wu army was in chaos, and immediately shot at the Wu army. This is close enough, and I hope that the brothers will take up their spirits. Be sure to shoot one at a time, even if you don't kill all at once, it will make the Wu army lose its combat power. After the fight, he immediately ran up the slope to lure Wu Jun to dismount and pursue, and at that time we could continue to reload and kill a horse pistol again. But the premise is that this shot must be fired accurately, otherwise I don't want any of the brothers to have an accident today, have you heard it? β
Everyone nodded in unison, Kong Xiaoshan spit out the grass root that he had been holding in his mouth, put the three short guns loaded with ammunition in front of him, and then put the javelin on his back in his hand. "Damn, Lao Tzu's gun hasn't been opened for almost two months, and there must be no leaks today!"
As far as he spoke, these Wu soldiers came to the front of the hillside, the road here is not wide, and the Wu army is only five horses in parallel, and when the five Wu army scouts in the front row ran to the tripwire, the three Hu soldiers, who had been waiting a little anxious, pulled up the tripwire together. I only heard an exclamation and the neighing of the horses, and a dozen Wu soldiers in the front and three rows in the middle were tripped by the horse rope and stumbled in front of the horse, and the dozen or so Wu soldiers who were originally riding on the horse were caught off guard and fell off the horse.
At this time, Zhou Kuiyuan's shout also came from the hillside on the side of the road: "Fight!" β
With this loud shout, bursts of gunfire immediately rang out on the hillside, thirteen people, a total of thirty-nine short firearms, one shot after another were aimed at the Wu army as much as possible, and the twenty Wu soldiers who were still on the horse and still didn't react became a live target thirty meters away, they were the most conspicuous at the moment, so the bullets all beckoned to them for a while. The three shots per person only pulled the trigger three times, and it didn't take a few seconds in total, and the thirty-nine bullets were quickly fired, and almost everyone in the more than 20 Wu soldiers was shot, in short, there was no one to see immediately. The iron armor passed on Wu Jun's body did not play a protective role in the slightest, and the bullet was lightly shot into their bodies. Wu Jun's reaction on the horse was fast enough, and when he was not shot, he instinctively jumped off the horse quickly and dodged.
The Wu army suffered heavy losses in the sudden attack, but after all, they were also experienced in battle, and the remaining twenty or so people were immediately under the command of one of the officers, and they took the bows and arrows around them and prepared to return fire. But Zhou Kuiyuan and the others didn't end it after beating the short fire, there were still two javelins at hand, and when Wu Jun was just about to fight back, their javelins also flew over. There were a few more screams, this time the accuracy of the javelins was much worse than that of the short guns, and the twenty-six javelins of thirteen men had hit less than six men, and the others had hit seven horses. However, these six unlucky eggs are worse than being hit by a short fire gun, and their lives must not be saved, in fact, three of them have already burped.
After throwing the javelin, Zhou Kuiyuan, who had no time to watch the detailed results, immediately got up and ran backwards, and at the same time shouted: "Everyone, retreat!" After throwing the javelin, the scouts and Zhou Kuiyuan's movements can be said to be the same, as soon as Zhou Kuiyuan's voice fell, they all put away their guys and ran backwards, leaving only a few Wu soldiers with smoke and dust along the way.
The direction of the scouts' running had already been set, and it was quite consistent, and even as everyone ran forward, they didn't forget to take out a short-fired gun to reload ammunition. The short gun is much easier to reload than the long gun, but it also takes more than ten seconds to reload because it is running. And the Wu army behind saw that the people who attacked them actually fled, and they were stunned for a moment, and they all jumped violently. Regardless of the heavy losses around him, the Wu army officer immediately commanded the ten scouts behind him to follow and catch up, and he took the remaining six intact subordinates to immediately ride their horses to the back of the hillside. As for the remaining few who were not too seriously injured, they helped each other and simply treated the more seriously injured.
Zhou Kuiyuan led his brothers to run quickly up the slope, and after running for a while, it took less than a minute for them to see Wu Jun clearly, and the first to catch up was not the ten Wu soldiers who dismounted behind their butts, but the seven Wu army officers who rode around in front of Zhou Kuiyuan and the others. This slope is arc-shaped, and the horse speed of the Wu army scout is really fast enough, and when he turns the corner of the ramp, he is almost close to the front.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
The tense sound of six bowstrings sounded instantly, and six heavy arrows flew towards Zhou Kuiyuan and them at high speed. These Wu army scouts were indeed veterans with very rich experience in battle, and the six heavy arrows on their horses were also shot quickly and accurately. At this corner, Zhou Kuiyuan and the others were also taken aback when they suddenly found that they were coming, and he immediately gave an order: "Aim, shoot the horse!" β
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
The speed of the bullet was much faster than that of the arrows, but the six arrows of the Wu army were fired in a fraction of a second, and the attacks of both sides reached the opponent's camp almost simultaneously.
"Ahh
"Ahh
Continuous screams sounded on both sides at the same time, and the scouts on their side Zhou Kuiyuan and others reacted quickly, and two of the six people who were targeted, Zhou Kuiyuan, and other six people were able to dodge, but two scouts next to Zhou Kuiyuan were hit by heavy arrows because they couldn't dodge, and they fell to the ground with a scream, and they fell to the ground with arrows in their chests, and they fell to the ground and kept spitting blood foam in their mouths, seeing that they couldn't live! Two other scouts were shot in the thigh, and the other was shot in the shoulder and fell to the ground. And the Wu army is even more miserable, six Wu soldiers, including the officer, three of them were directly killed by bullets, and the remaining three were shot and fell off their horses and couldn't survive.
Zhou Kuiyuan and the others endured their grief and dragged the two wounded to the bottom of the slope, and they stopped running anymore, and after reloading the short fire guns on their bodies, they stopped and waited for the ten Wu army scouts a hundred meters away, waiting for them to come and eat! (Want to know more exciting news about "I Am Geng Jingzhong"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued......)