Chapter 345: Desperate Survival
On the battlefield, the more you are afraid of death and the more you panic, the more the Grim Reaper likes to patronize you, which is a fact that everyone knows.
Therefore, when He Guozhong felt the panic that quickly spread among the musketeers around him.
frowned directly and roared loudly; "Soldiers, more than half of the Mongols in front of you have been wiped out by us. As soon as we shoot a few more rounds of buckshot, these Mongol cavalry will collapse directly. ”
"Don't forget, behind everyone, there are dozens of bombardiers under cover..."
"Hold it all for me, keep in formation, and continue to shoot at the Mongol cavalry......"
He Guozhong's words were like an alarm bell, which suddenly rang these soldiers in panic.
As soon as the words fell, the commander of the musket battalion shouted: "Brothers, steady... Keep shooting forward..."
"The first team... Shoot... Second team, ready to ......"
At this time, the sound ......of gunfire like popping beans sounded on the battlefield again.
The lead bullets that whistled out from the barrel of the gun once again reaped the lives of the Mongol cavalry on the official road.
Just as the musketeers regained their steady, methodically reloading....firing....reloading... When the same action is made. The bombardiers, who had been guarding behind the musket array, also began to move.
More than fifty bombardiers, quickly took out a grenade from the basket next to them ...
After lighting the fire rope from the grenade's tail with the fire fold in his other hand, he threw it forward with all his power.
More than fifty grenades emitting white smoke quickly crossed the musket array in front of them after drawing a beautiful arc in the sky. Go over the breastwork. Fly towards the Mongol cavalry, which is getting closer and closer to him.
The grenade landed and exploded. The fireballs and smoke that rose into the air quickly formed a fireproof belt composed of smoke and flames twenty-five steps in front of the breastwork.
As for the dense fragmentation generated by the grenade explosion, an impenetrable storm of steel was formed in this area.
All the Mongol cavalry who rushed into this steel storm, no matter how thick the armor they were wearing, all fell to the ground without exception and turned into corpses.
Morale was still high just now. Summoning the last shred of courage, hundreds of Mongol cavalry seemed to have seen hope of victory. In the face of the steel storm formed by the fragments of the grenade, there was a feeling of suddenly falling from the top of the mountain into the abyss.
And before they could react, a second round of smoke-filled grenades had already landed in front of and around them......
Not only that, but the lead bullets fired by hundreds of musketeers still continued to pass through the fire barrier, killing them from the front.
In the face of frontal lead bullets, overhead grenades......this almost three-dimensional attack, hundreds of Mongol cavalry. Directly in just one cup of tea, the loss of as many as one or two hundred people...
After the corpses of so many cavalry and corresponding war horses were piled up, a two-foot-high corpse wall was formed directly on the official road.
Under the influence of this wall of corpses. The follow-up Mongol cavalry had to slow down their charge.
And this, directly and invisibly, increases the time it takes for the Haw Par army to kill and injure them with grenades and muskets.
As more and more Mongols fell on this corpse wall, the height of the corpse wall slowly increased.
And here, invisibly, it has become an insurmountable copper wall for the Mongolian cavalry.
After the battle reached this point, the balance of victory in this offensive was already in my understanding, and it was slowly tilting in favor of the side of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
At this time, He Guozhong, who was still nervous just now, already showed a heartfelt smile on his face.
After suppressing the excitement in his heart, he shouted at the musketeers around him who were getting more and more vigorous: "Yes, just fight like this....brothers, don't show mercy, continue to beat me hard, and kill all these beasts of the Mongols." ”
The sound of gunshots like popping beans, the deafening sound of grenade explosions, lasted again after a cup of tea. The roaring hooves of horses on the official road finally disappeared.
None of the 1,000 Mongol cavalry who launched the attack escaped, and all fell on this 130-pace-long official road.
Dolgon, who was watching the battle from a few hundred paces away, was full of anticipation throughout the attack, which was directly more varied than the unpredictable weather.
When he saw that although the 1,000 cavalry had suffered heavy losses, they were still advancing towards the position of the Tiger and Par Army. He directly believed that these cavalry would definitely be able to break through the direction of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and he could also get rid of the end of being surrounded and annihilated here by the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Therefore, in the process of a thousand cavalry constantly dragging forward, many slaps on his face, full of hope from beginning to end.
However, as the sound of the grenade explosion reached Dolgon's ears, this hope was like a subordinate on the official road, directly shattered by the grenade... I became confused about my future and destiny again.
As time passed, hundreds of cavalry were finally unable to move forward under the interception of the grenades of the Haw Par Army, and the end of the entire army appeared in front of Dolgon. The confused expression on Dolgon's face had been unconsciously replaced by despair.
So, as soon as the 1,000 Mongol cavalry was wiped out, the desperate Dorgon fell into a daze again.
A generation of famous generals Dolgon, in this way, slowly lost his sharpness and enterprising spirit in the blows of Wei Zheng again and again, and even lost the last courage to fight.
At this moment, not only Dolgon, but all the subordinates behind Dolgon who saw this attack were also stunned by the results in front of them, and they were speechless for a long time.
At this time, the military advisor, who still didn't want to give in to fate, stared at a pair of red eyes, and continued to shout at the stunned Dolgon: "Lord Belle, we haven't lost yet..."
"Although the Haw Par Army in front of you is powerful, they are not equipped with artillery..."
"As long as our cavalry warriors rush to a distance of thirty paces, we can shoot them with a horse bow under the cover of the corpse wall...."
"The Haw Par Army in front of us has a limited number of troops, as long as we shoot half of their strength, the remaining Haw Par Army has three heads and six arms, and it can't stop us..."
"Lord Belle, the minions implore you to continue to send troops to attack the Tiger and Par Army and destroy them with a horse bow."
Under a pair of longing eyes, Dorgon finally spoke.
He said in a low tone to everyone: "Okay, Ben Belle will fight again....If it doesn't work this time, it means that God is helping the Haw Par Army on the other side, and he doesn't want me to Dolgon to escape today's life and death catastrophe..."
Under the orders of the adjutant general, the Mongol cavalry, which had previously been armed with longbows, once again assembled on the official road.
When they were ordered by Dolgon, with the loss of more than 500 horsemen, they managed to rush behind the corpse wall.
The Mongols quickly jumped off their horses and hid behind a wall of corpses that was already three feet high.
Then, he quickly raised the bow he held in his hand, bent his bow and arrow, and pointed it at the sky, ready to throw the arrow at the Haw Par Musketeers, who were hiding behind the breastwork thirty paces away.
"Shoot the arrows...", with a loud shout, more than 400 arrows quickly broke free from the shackles of the longbow. With a faint whistling sound of breaking through the air, it flew into the sky......
When they flew to the highest point in the air, the two-foot-long arrows, directly under the weight of the iron arrows, smashed down on the tiger and leopard musket array at an increasing speed.
"Shh The arrows that whizzed down from the sky pierced the musketeer's body with great ease.
Because the arrow fired by the Mongol cavalry was so sudden, the Haw Par Army musketeers, who were completely covered in white smoke, did not even notice it. The dense arrows directly caused fifty or sixty casualties to the four hundred musketeers who were densely gathered.
As the screams of the musketeers reached He Guozhong's ears. The excited expression on He Guozhong's face because of the victory he had just won was once again replaced by solemnity.
Before he could speak, the commander of the musket battalion beside him had already exclaimed with an anxious face.
"Bows and arrows, the Tartars actually attacked us with bows and arrows..."
"Lord He, the Mongol cavalry must be hiding behind their corpses, throwing arrows at us with bows and arrows, and shooting us."
"The brothers are not wearing any armor, and if the arrows fired by the Mongols were so dense all the time, it would not take a few rounds, and these musketeers around us would have lost more than half of ......"
"Lord He, what should we do next....whether to fight or withdraw, please make a decision immediately....We must not joke with the lives of our brothers..."
After He Guozhong's clenched fist slammed into the chest in front of him, he shouted with a face full of unwillingness: "Holy shit, if only Lao Tzu had a few mortars......even if the Mongols hide behind the corpse wall, we can attack them with flowering shells..."
After finishing speaking, He Guozhong directly took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and continued: "In order to completely leave these Mongols, we must preserve our strength as much as possible, hold them back, and wait for reinforcements sent by the marshal and cavalry General Zhao..."
"Order the brothers to retreat at once and quickly get out of range of the Mongols' bows and arrows..."
"Then look for favorable terrain and continue to drag them with grenades, flowering shells and muskets in our hands, the longer the better ...."
"Yes, my lord......"
The Haw Par Army retreated on its own initiative, and the remaining few hundred Mongol cavalry occupied the territorial wall without incident...
Faced with this result, Dolgon's first reaction was not to believe it.
It wasn't until he actually stepped on the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army that he sighed with a face full of shock: "We actually won, we really broke through the defense line of the Tiger and Leopard Army....... it is really a desperate situation..."
"Lord Belle is right, it is indeed a desperate situation....as long as we find the weakness of the Tiger and Leopard Army and prescribe the right medicine, we will definitely be able to defeat them..." (To be continued......)