Chapter 273: The Temptation Failed Fiasco

If you regret it or not, you don't have time to think about it now. Two thousand cavalry ran up, and the Derg class pressed the formation behind, and the lone barbed wire fence seemed to the Derg class to be useless. It's not going to collapse in one go. It was not the Eight Banners that entered the battle, they were all soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the Derge class led five hundred cavalry with the Eight Banners to sweep the formation at the end. The calculation is to see and then talk.

With the impact of more than 1,000 cavalry, Zhang Biao would have been nervous in the past, but after experiencing the battle of Beizhili, the Houjin Army had no pressure to kill them in the eyes of veterans such as the green leather soldiers in Dengzhou.

At a distance of 1,000 meters, the cavalry rushed up in 90 seconds. Zhang Biao was surprised that he began to rush so far away. But there wasn't much to worry about. The artillery fired methodically, a shot in 25 seconds, and 12 guns met in positions where the infantry squad was a little ahead. The artillery fire is not very dense, but at this time, the pursuit is not to kill the effect, but to disrupt the opponent's formation.

After two rounds of shelling, white smoke rose from behind the infantry phalanx, and 400 Congreev rockets flew out. It's not as simple as disrupting formation. The rocket dragging the tail flame is not only lethal, but also deterrent. One rocket after another covered the area of 5-600 meters in front of it with a width of 200 meters, causing few casualties, but the entire cavalry formation of Houjin was completely chaotic. There are countless frightened horses, panicked, and the rider can't control it at all.

When it comes to dealing with cavalry, the power of artillery lies in the shotgun, and the power of Congreev's rockets lies in the deterrence of war horses.

The formation is messy. The cavalry who was rushing forward could only try to control the horses and run on both sides, so as not to collide with the horses behind. But this kind of thing is not something you can do if you want to, it's not one or two startled horses, it's hundreds, not counting the dozens of human or horse corpses and wounded people who were nailed to the ground by rockets.

The formation of the impact was obviously slowed down after being disturbed by the rocket, and when it continued to move forward after a slight slowdown, it was only five or six seconds before another wave of rockets attacked. This thing is just a shelf, a box, light and easy to carry. Rack it to the ground. Take the rockets from the box, and just point them one by one.

After three successive waves of rocket strikes, the entire shock cavalry had no formation to speak of, and acted entirely on instinct. The third round of shelling rang out again. After the fight, the shotgun begins. About 300 cavalry rushed to about 200 meters. Platoon guns rang out. Stormy and rainy. The sound of buckshot biting flesh is like the sound of dense drums.

At this time, the Derge class looked very carefully, and the Dengzhou green skin was actually four rhythms. Shoot on the left, shoot on the right, shoot on the left, shoot on the right. The essence is a four-section shooting, two rectangular phalanxes, with a distance of less than thirty meters in the middle. It was such a loose formation, but it caused huge casualties to the remaining cavalry. You must know that among these cavalrymen, there are either three layers of cotton armor, or a layer of cotton armor on the backing and a layer of chain mail on the outside.

Whether it is cotton armor or chain mail, in front of the guns of these Dengzhou soldiers, it is similar to the effect of stabbing people with spears at close range, and one by one knights or war horses are overturned to the ground. What's even more terrifying is that in the end, hundreds of cavalry desperately rushed into a hundred meters, and the strong bow took advantage of the speed of the gallop, and after shooting the bow and arrow, the 12 guns in the front fired shotguns.

12 fans, 12 pools of blood, almost within a short period of five or six breaths, there is no warrior on horseback on the front.

The smoke had not yet cleared, and the soil on the fan-shaped ground was already soaked with blood. Although there is enough attention paid to the greenskins, the Derge class is still stunned at this moment. The previous casualties were not small, but they were still within the endurance, and under the continuous blows of artillery, rockets, and guns, Houjin's cavalry still had the courage to move forward. But these 12 shotguns broke the backbone of the Houjin cavalry. At this moment, as long as everyone can control the war horse, they will turn around and run as soon as possible.

The green-skinned position fell silent, and the Jiannu who ran back scattered and scattered, it would be boring to waste ammunition at this time, after all, it was not an infantry, and the guns chased it, and the artillery chased it, how could it leave a little tail. The scattered cavalry ran up, and it was difficult to inflict too many casualties.

This tentative attack, from the beginning to the end of the battle, only fifteen minutes before and after, when he saw another green soldier arriving with a red flag, Derge did not hesitate to turn his horse's head and retreat into the camp.

Zhang Biao gave the order to clean up the battlefield, one infantry squad took on the task, and the others rested on the spot. The bayonet was inserted into the card slot, and 200 officers and soldiers moved forward along the official road. There was no barbed wire on the road, but there was blood fifty meters away. The thick smell of blood was disgusting, they were all veterans, and there was no pressure to deal with. Whether it is a man or a horse, as long as he is injured and falls to the ground, it is a bayonet to go up. At the end of their wails and lives, when a veteran stabbed a man to death, the stabbed guy still had the strength to grab the bayonet, was ruthlessly kicked, and fell on his back unwillingly.

The sappers then appeared in a horse-drawn cart, which was full of dirt, and shovels were constantly sprinkling dirt on the road, stepping on it with their feet, so that the troops could advance along the official road. When the earth was finished, the corpses were thrown into the cart and pulled away cart by cart. The weather is hot, and if not treated in time, it will stink and cause plague. Compared with hygiene, the Dengzhou camp is definitely ahead of the times.

The follow-up troops arrived one after another, and when Chen Xie arrived with the artillery battalion, the battlefield was almost cleaned up, except for the smell of blood in the air, only those dead war horses remained.

Horse meat is not delicious at all, but for the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion, especially the veterans, it is definitely much more delicious than luncheon meat. Chen Xie, who was on horseback, looked at Kiba Station five miles away, and after listening to Zhang Biao's report, he smiled slightly and said, "Well done." Order, retreat three miles back and set up camp. ”

About three miles behind the battlefield, there are two small hills on both sides of the official road, and the terrain is not high, fifty or sixty meters. The advantage is that the slope is not too large, and the place is large enough. Camped on both sides, sandwiched by the main road, Houjin thought about the past is a dream. Unless you give up taking the big road and take the small road to the sea. But with so many people, no matter how fast the trail goes, it may not be able to be completed in ten days or eight days.

Fiasco, there's no doubt about that. Yue Tuo and the main force of Houjin, who were watching the battle, watched the more than 1,000 cavalry rush up, and at first felt that victory was inevitable. Just fifteen minutes later, the results came in, and everyone who witnessed the battle from afar realized that there was a problem. It's going to be over this time.

With a gloomy face, Derge saw Yue Tuo, who also had a gloomy face. After looking at each other for a minute, Yue Tuo pretended to be indifferent and said, "What about the casualties?" Derge shook his head with a wry smile: "I went to one thousand and five, and I came back less than one thousand." ”

Yue Tuo obviously twitched his cheeks, his muscles jumped, his eyelids drooped downward, and he said lightly: "It's no big deal, our reinforcements are almost here, and when the time comes, the Ming army will be defeated." ”

The words were loud and clearly deliberate. But at this time, he could only say anything, and he had to smile and say, "You rest first, I'll go and see the camp." Derge is also experienced in the battlefield and knows the importance of morale, so he nodded and said, "I'll go too, let's show the brothers together, we can still laugh." ”

Yue Tuo nodded and said, "It's okay, let's go together and discuss." ”

Chen Xie was not idle here, there were a lot of things to camp for, and he had to walk around to take a look. First of all, there is the water source, a river flows at the foot of the mountain, there is a spring in the mountain, and the water of a small stream flows into the river and meanders to Kiba Station. Ancient roads were often on the river's edge. This is an inevitability, and the importance of the road in the time of war is not to be said. And the movement of the army must follow the river, leaving the river will cause a lot of serious problems.

Drinking water, washing, these are inseparable from living water. There are tens of thousands of people, drinking water is a problem, and bathing is also a problem. Not to mention the consequences of not having water to drink, if you don't take a bath for a long time, you will inevitably suffer from diseases. Therefore, with a little idea of the history of warfare, it is not difficult to find that it is almost rare for a large army to advance away from the river. Only in a few cases did the army not go along the water source.

Chen Xie's top priority is hygiene, the camp is built on a hillside with a river on the side. The weather was hot, and the soldiers had to bathe every day. The quoted water must be drunk boiled, and urine and urine must be concentrated in one place for burial.

After walking around, when Chen Xie returned to the headquarters set up on the hillside before dark, he saw dozens of sappers who had been captured and were busy near the spring. The wooden fence enclosed a place, Chen Xie joined in the fun, and when he looked at it, he realized that it was Hongguo and other female soldiers who were directing the sappers to work.

"The bottom of the pool and on both sides had to be covered with stone slabs. What the? Not so slate? You can only use wood, wood is wood, move quickly, we wait for the bath. "Dressed in a military uniform, with one hand on the waist, and a red fruit with one finger, the figure is very straight from behind. Especially after the armed belt is tied, the waist is held thinly, highlighting the hips.

The pond makes full use of the living water in the spring, is about three meters long and one meter wide, and is covered with peeled wood at the bottom, as well as on both sides. Female soldiers are all treasures in the Dengzhou camp, and when any of the soldiers are not injured, offending them is equivalent to offending the entire Dengzhou camp. The strong men were caught and worked, and the sappers worked very hard.

Chen Xie watched quietly for a while, then turned around and returned to his tent headquarters. The rejuvenating of the female soldiers is definitely not superfluous. Once an offensive and defensive battle is formed for more than ten days, the role of this small pool will be great. Of course, I can't use it now, and after repairing it, the waterproof comes in, and I have to wait for precipitation, so I have to spend a night. It is estimated that the female soldiers are the ones who poke the water and take a bath, and now it can only be like this.

Chen Xie must be specialized, and this is not an era in which officers and soldiers are equal. When the soldiers took turns to go down to the river to bathe, Chen Xie could only wait for the fence to be completed, and it was estimated that he would have to wrap a curtain before someone would invite him to take a bath. (To be continued......)