Chapter 146: The Vicious Houjin Archer
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After seeing the effect of the shot, Yue Yang sighed lightly, the explosion effect of this solid bullet is really too poor, it seems that this time it should make people produce some flowering bombs.
However, although he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, Yue Yang couldn't show it, after all, as the commander of the whole army, his every move was related to the situation on the battlefield.
After frowning, Yue Yang ordered: "Order the artillery team, and the artillery team will immediately retreat after firing three sharply again." ”
"Yes!"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
With Yue Yang's order, the Tiger Squat Cannon began to shell again......
Looking at the rumbling cannons in front of him and the projectiles that drove his own soldiers away, Hafona was very dissatisfied. Although he always boasts of his bravery on weekdays, even people like him know that it is impossible for warriors to use their flesh and blood to resist those projectiles that are smashed like fashion, and even if you are the reincarnation of the overlord of Western Chu who can lift thousands of pounds, you have to run away.
Although he was depressed in his heart, he still had to hold his breath and command the battle.
And seeing that several shield carts had been destroyed just now due to the fact that the offensive formation was too crowded, he waved his hand and shouted, "Spread out...... It's all scattered...... Watch out for the dog's artillery! Speed up, rush to the front of Ming Gou's formation! ”
After listening to Hafeng'a's order, the Houjin soldiers and horses scattered and opened even more, which also led the Ming army's artillery team to achieve no results in the last three rounds of artillery bombardment, except for a few ricochets and a few auxiliary soldiers with shields in the process of collapsing.
After three rounds of artillery bombardment, the shield cart that rushed to the front was only a little more than 150 paces away from the phalanx. The officers of the artillery team did not have time to observe where the shells landed, so they urgently ordered the gunners to use hammers to knock open the iron nails under the gun carriage, and then the two gunners immediately grabbed the tiger squat cannon that had become hot with a large iron tong and ran backwards.
After seeing the artillery team leave, Feng Xiaoming also hurriedly commanded the two phalanxes to close, and the musketeers in the first row were ready to shoot.
At this time, the Houjin army had approached a distance of one hundred paces, and after reaching this distance, the Jin soldiers accelerated and began the final sprint.
Feng Xiaoming pointed forward with a long knife and shouted: "Shoot!" ”
From left to right, two hundred musketeers in the first row of the two phalanxes immediately pulled the trigger.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The fire guns rang out in unison. Two hundred firearms were fired together, and for a while, a large amount of white smoke and fire filled the entire front of the formation.
It's just that although the movement of the two hundred muskets is very large, the front and upper parts of the shield carts of the more than 30 Houjin soldiers in front of them are covered by thick wooden boards, and the wooden boards are also covered with thick leather quilts, although the power of the Mini-style rifle is very sharp, it can penetrate the armor of the Houjin soldiers at a distance of two hundred paces, but it cannot penetrate their shield carts, and the two hundred musketeers in the front row of the phalanx fired a volley, which made the leather quilts on each shield cart crackle and the projectiles flew sideways. The flagpoles were broken, but the Qing soldiers and archers hiding in the shield carts were unharmed.
"Grass!"
Feng Xiaoming scolded when he saw this, this word is a mantra that Yue Yang has often said since he crossed over, and it has gradually become popular in the whole army in recent years.
"The first row is backwards, and the second row is up. Don't hit the Tartar's shield cart again, hit the Tartar who follows the shield cart! ”
The second platoon of musketeers stepped forward, aiming at the warriors and archers who were advancing behind the shield cart with their shields in hand, and the Houjin soldiers and auxiliaries who followed closely behind.
"Shoot!"
"Bang ......"
Another burst of fire poured out, and white smoke filled the front of the formation, blurring the vision.
Soon with a light breeze blowing. The smoke cleared, and everyone saw that the result of the shooting was better than before. The wooden shields held by more than a dozen Houjin soldiers were directly knocked apart after being hit by the lead bullets fired from the Minnie-style rifles, revealing the sergeants behind them, and then they were beaten to a blur by the later lead bullets. Some people were lying on the ground screaming loudly.
The Houjin army was an experienced team, and many of the low-ranking officers in the ranks, such as Fendeshiku and Zhuanda, were not intimidated by the casualties around them, but on the contrary, they shouted loudly to order the soldiers to speed up their advance.
"Quick...... On the third row, shoot! ”
It's on this one. Feng Xiaoming couldn't care about anything else, so he could only order the gunners to speed up their shooting.
Each phalanx of the Ming army consisted of five hundred musketeers, one hundred in each row. There are five rows in total. The first five platoons were very fast, and in less than a minute, all five platoons of musketeers fired once.
At a distance of 100 paces, the firepower of the Mini firearm was also fully wielded. Although the Houjin army had a shield cart in front and a large shield in the back, the Mini rifle was not very good for those shield carts covered with thick wooden planks, but it was a great threat to the infantry who advanced with shields in front of them.
Many wooden shields were stunned by the crackling lead bullets that were torn apart, even if the wooden shields were not broken, but the strong kinetic energy carried by the lead bullets also beat the auxiliary soldiers holding the shields behind them to complain.
"Shooting ......"
"Shooting ......"
Seeing that the Houjin army was about to enter a distance of seventy steps, Feng Xiaoming was anxious, if he entered a distance of seventy steps, it would mean that the other party could also counterattack them.
Under the command of Feng Xiaoming, the raindrops of lead bullets hit the Houjin army, and many lead bullets hit the shield car and made the shield car crackle, although it was protected by thick wooden boards and leather, but it was still beaten to the point of sawdust.
The Houjin army behind the shield car is even more unbearable, originally the Houjin army in the previous battles with the Ming army, these wooden shields can effectively resist the Ming army's bows and arrows, but today in the face of such a dense and powerful attack, these wooden shields are a little unable to support, many wooden shields were torn apart, and the fate of the soldiers who lost the protection of the wooden shield can be imagined.
Yue Yang stood on the tall bucket cart, watching the Houjin soldiers and horses slowly support the phalanx approaching his own side with casualties, and his heart was also beating wildly, and now was the time to fight for casualties.
"His grandmother's fight, Lao Tzu wants to see how many casualties these Tartars can bear!"
Thinking of this, Yue Yang ordered with a calm face: "The baggage team is ready, once there are casualties on our side, they must be carried down immediately for treatment." ”
While thinking about it, the shield carts in front finally stopped at a distance of sixty paces from the phalanx, and a group of archers wearing cotton armor jumped out of the shield carts, all of them holding heavy bows and shooting towards the Ming army's array.
The bowstring sounded, and the first wave of more than sixty sharp arrows was fired at the firecrackers in the first row of the phalanx.
Soon, screams sounded in the phalanx and in the formation of the Houjin army almost at the same time.
The archers of the Houjin army, who had lost the protection of the shield cart, immediately became the focus of the musketeers who had been waiting for a long time.
In the roar, at least thirty archers were hit by lead bullets, and these archers who were just wearing a layer of cotton armor could withstand the powerful lead bullets. One by one, they were shot and fell to the ground, the lucky ones died on the spot, and some of the unlucky archers were beaten to the ground, broken hands and feet, or even disemboweled, and spread on the ground and wailed loudly.
In the phalanx of the Ming army, the arrows of the Houjin archers also flew almost at the same time, and some of the firecrackers were also hit by these arrows.
The bows and arrows of the Jurchens were very vicious, their arrows generally weighed four taels, and the arrows were very long, so they were also very penetrating, and when they were shot, they were large and heavy. Although the Ming army's musketeers all wore Yueyang's Goethe armor made of stainless steel, there was no guarantee that they would be foolproof.
Feng Xiaoming, who was commanding the battle in the middle of the two phalanxes, suddenly heard a sound of breaking the air in the air, and in a flash, a sharp arrow flew past his ear, and one of the guards behind him was shot by the arrow, and the arrow hit the guard's helmet, and there was a piercing loud sound of "dang", and the guard fell to the ground on the spot, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Around him, more than a dozen firecrackers were also hit by arrowheads, and one firecracker was actually shot in the right eye by an arrowhead, and the force of this arrow was also ridiculously large, and this firecracker was taken back a few steps by this force and fell to the ground and died on the spot.
The worst of all was a firecracker, who was hit by four arrows at the same time, and he screamed loudly and was carried back several meters before falling to the ground.
Yue Yang, who was standing on the bucket cart and commanding, saw the situation in front clearly, and he shouted with a cold face: "Order, baggage soldiers, immediately send a hundred people to step forward and carry the wounded down!" ”
In this battle, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the battle entered a white heat, and the Ming army began to suffer casualties.
However, fortunately, under the protection of Yueyang's armor made of stainless steel, the casualties of the Ming army were actually not very large, as long as they were not hit by arrows in the face, eyes and other vital places, even if they were shot in the chest or other places, most of those sharp arrows could not break the armor, and they were generally bounced out of the thick armor.
But what made Yue Yang angry was that soon a doctor with the army reported that the arrows used by those Houjin archers were soaked in horse manure, and once they were shot, the wounds were easy to fester, and they shot extremely accurately, they either shot at the face, or the neck, or the eye, so that the mortality rate of the firecrackers who were shot in these places was very high.
However, it is not without good news, to Yueyang's relief, his own firearms are not vegetarian, the firecrackers armed with modern weapons used the firearms in their hands to give the Jurchens a heavy blow, the first batch of Jurchen archers who jumped off the shield car after three or four rounds of shooting against the Ming army have basically lost everything, so that for a long time the other party did not shoot arrows at their own side.
But the same situation in the eyes of Hafona made him furious.
"Waste, a bunch of waste, what are you doing there, order those damn minions to press up, if we can't break the Ming army, we will all die!" (To be continued......)