Chapter 395: Desperate
"Bow and arrow...... I really didn't expect that the cunning Zhu Dadian would use all the bows and arrows while we weren't paying attention......" He Guozhong, who was surprised by the arrows stuck next to his feet in front of him, couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
At the same time, another very difficult choice was placed in front of He Guozhong.
If the battle continues like this, keep the grenades unnecessary...... Under the continuous shooting of the archers of the official army, the soldiers under the command who stick to the city wall will definitely suffer heavy losses. Then, I watched the siege team of the official army climb the city wall, engage in close combat with the defenders of the city wall, and finally break through the salt field......
However, if you use your own grenades, you may only be able to hold out until tomorrow when the grenades are limited, and you will have to give up your weapons and fight with cold weapons with the officers and soldiers outside the city......
At that time, with the superiority of the officers and troops outside the city, the salt field will also be broken by the officers and troops.
Just when the second round of arrows fired by the officers and soldiers was on the city wall again, arbitrarily harvesting the lives of the soldiers under their command. A decision quickly came to He Guozhong's mind.
"Anyway, let's get through this difficult problem first. Things in the future, I'll figure it out later. ”
So, just between the calcium carbide sparks, a new military order had blurted out from He Guozhong's mouth......
"Artillerymen, immediately concentrate all six mortars and open fire on the Officers' Artillery Musket Corps......"
"Musketeer, immediately shift the target of the shot, aim at the archers of the official army fifty paces away, and hit the ...... fiercely"
"The artillery has a limited number of flowering shells, so we have to run out of flowering shells before we run out. Destroy the siege team of the official army at the foot of the city wall......"
"Grenade ready. Killed the officers and soldiers at the foot of the city walls with grenades. Give them a taste of grenades......"
When the order was given, the first to react was the six mortars behind the city walls, which had already been loaded with flowering shells.
After lighting the arquebus with a torch, six muffled shelling sounds, like thunder, sounded on the battlefield.
Immediately after, six flowering bullets streaked across the sky with a sharp whistling. It reached the ears of all people on the battlefield.
For the huge army musket array, the six flowering shells that fired at close range with an accuracy of more than 70 percent all hit the target without exception, and exploded in the middle of the military formation full of dense officers and musketeers.
When the six regiments of fireballs mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose from the musket array of the officers and soldiers, the counterattack of the Haw Par Army was officially launched on the battlefield......
The dense lead bullets, like a storm of steel with the breath of death, quickly flew towards the unprepared archers.
Because the distance between the two armies is too tight. More than a hundred buckshot whistled in, even if they didn't aim much. Also in the midst of the dense army archers, lightly took dozens of lives.
In the face of the attack, in the face of the call of death, the official archers had not yet reacted from their shock, and the second round of more than a hundred lead bullets had already arrived, once again taking the lives of dozens of official archers......
Dense lead bullets, round after round, when a steady stream of archers' lives were harvested.
The more than 1,000 officers and soldiers who had already rushed to the foot of the city wall and were launching the final attack on the city wall also ushered in the fatal blow of the defenders against them.
The grenade emitting white smoke was under the gaze of the officers and soldiers full of shock and puzzlement. The grenade, which had almost no lethality on the outside, fell directly on the side of the officers and soldiers.
And just then, the grenade exploded......
Face the fragments of a grenade that burst apart quickly, and face the black smoke and fireballs from the explosion of the grenade. The eyes of the officers and soldiers looking at the grenade had already turned from shock to despair at this moment.
Because, at the moment of the explosion, the fragments of the grenades flying around in the air, almost from all directions, pierced into their bodies and harvested their lives......
In the blink of an eye, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers at the foot of the city wall were covered by fireballs and gunsmoke from the explosion of hundreds of grenades, and their lives and deaths were uncertain......
Zhu Dadian, who was still full of confidence in this attack just now and thought that victory had begun to beckon him, was stunned in the face of the sudden accident on the battlefield and the sudden counterattack of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
When he was reminded by his subordinates, he reacted from his daze. The situation on the battlefield has changed completely, and it is far beyond what you have encountered......
The officers and soldiers, who were still imposing just now, have become sheep waiting to be slaughtered at this moment, and they have been slaughtered on the battlefield by the tiger and leopard army.
"How could this be, how could the situation on the battlefield become so fast...... The Haw Par Army, how can the Haw Par Army on the other side have artillery, and there are also flowering shells...... What kind of new weapon is the explosives they threw on the city wall, and why hasn't this official seen it...... Which of you can sue me. ”
Not only Zhu Dadian, but also the generals who stood behind Zhu Dadian, had never seen a grenade or such a bloody counterattack by the Tiger and Par Army......
Therefore, in the face of Zhu Dadian's gaze sweeping towards him, everyone was silent......
At this moment, a garrison general standing behind the side broke the increasingly silent atmosphere here.
He reminded Zhu Dadian loudly: "My lord, these problems are only known to the soldiers who participated in the battle!" Just withdraw them and we will know the answer...... The counterattack of the Tiger and Par Army is so sharp that if we don't withdraw our troops, the last general is worried that the 5,000 soldiers we sent out will be wiped out......"
When everyone's attention turned to the battlefield again, the Haw Par Army's counterattack and massacre of the officers and troops were still continuing.
The flowering bombs that are in their field of vision are the most shocking to them......
When a flowering bomb exploded, the officers and soldiers in the surrounding area were either directly torn to pieces by the flowering bomb, and could not even leave a complete corpse, or were directly blown to the ground by the flowering bomb, and their life and death were uncertain......
It can be said that under the attack of the Haw Par Army's flowering shells, the musketeers sent out by themselves, if they do not retreat immediately, will only be slaughtered.
At this time, Zhu Dadian's face had changed from solemn to gloomy.
Facing his subordinates behind him with shocked and heartache on their faces, he shouted loudly: "Then what are you still doing?" Don't you quit your troops right away...... Order the soldiers to immediately retreat and retreat ......"
After the crisp sound of gold sounded on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers who were suffering under the various attacks of the Tiger and Leopard Army. It's like a deflated ball, and it no longer has the courage to continue to persevere.
On the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, as long as the officers and soldiers who could still move, they all spread their legs and began to retreat. (To be continued......)