Chapter 807: A Smooth Counterattack
When the junction of the official artillery and infantry was located directly in front of Hu Hai, Hu Hai, who was lying less than thirty steps away from the mountain road, did not hesitate to aim the wound of the musket at an officer and soldier general who was riding a war horse.
Pulling the trigger, the gun rang out, and the commander on the war horse didn't even have time to react, so he fell off his horse......
At the same time, the other musketeers lying beside Hu Hai also pulled the trigger one after another......
On the mountain road dozens of steps away, there were no officers and soldiers who could be used to conceal themselves, and before they could react from the shock, more than 20 officers and soldiers were shot and fell to the ground one after another in the sound of gunfire like bursting beans......
The queue, which had just been neat, became chaotic in the blink of an eye because of the sound of gunfire.
At this moment, hundreds of musketeers who had finished firing a round of lead bullets immediately gave up and continued to reload their muskets. Drawing the bayonet hanging from his waist, he inserted the barrel of the gun, like a fierce tiger, and rushed out of the hiding place with a roar......
Of course, the musketeers rushed out with hundreds of bombardiers who were scattered on both sides of the official artillery.
These bombardiers hold cold weapons such as broadswords and spears in one hand and a grenade in the other......
When they rushed to less than twenty paces from the mountain road, it was as if they had agreed upon, and at the same time threw the grenades that had already been ignited in their hands......
The grenade exploded, and more than 100 officers and soldiers guarding the side of the Ten Franc machines were directly killed. The other officers and men were like frightened rabbits, scurrying back and forth on the mountain road with frightened faces......
The hundreds of bombardiers of the Haw Par Army are all recruits who have only been trained for ten days......
However, with a three- or four-fold superiority in strength, the opponent panicked. Even the most basic cold weapons are not equipped. Hundreds of bombardiers. Still in a very short time. Eliminate these officers and gunners......
As for the more than 100 musketeers with muskets in their hands, they looked down from the sky like a sharp sword out of its sheath, quickly cutting the ranks of officers and soldiers in two along the gap that had just been made with lead bullets......
More than 100 officers and soldiers who were about to be eliminated by the bombardiers were a section...... Two thousand ordinary officers and soldiers with almost no losses were counted as one section.
When the officers and soldiers who were walking in front finally reacted, under their respective general orders, they prepared to reinforce the artillery and rescue the artillery from the hands of the Tiger and Par Army.
More than a hundred musketeers were already lined up in three rows at the gap. Form a fairly dense musket formation......
In the face of the officers and soldiers who were returning to him, most of the musketeers in the musket array had a nervous expression on their faces.
After hearing the order to shoot, many musketeers did not even take a look, and pulled the trigger in front of them......
Then, under the order of the squad and platoon commander, he hurriedly began to clear and reload the musket in his hand......
The only thing they are thankful for is that they are now using fixed ammunition. No matter how nervous, it is impossible to make a mistake on the charge. Otherwise, throughout the course of the battle. No matter how good the musket is, it will explode because they have too much charge.
The sound of gunfire like beans was chaotic though. The intensity of gunfire is also far less than that of the elite of the Haw Par Army.
However, the officers and soldiers they faced were even worse than ......
A thousand officers and soldiers, in addition to a cold weapon in each hand, is equipped with a longbow that can carry out long-range strikes.
However, no matter how good the longbow is, the range is only fifty or sixty paces.
The muskets equipped with Dihuhai had an effective range of almost a hundred paces in front of the officers and soldiers who were armed with wallets......
Therefore, the archers of the official army had just rushed forward more than ten paces, and before they could enter the effective range of the longbow, they retreated with a wolf face because more than twenty archers bounced to the ground.
As a result, the remaining more than 800 ordinary soldiers of the official army could only attack forward with a desperate face without the cover of archers.
At this time, the narrow mountain road once again helped the Tiger and Par Army......
Launching an attack on a narrow mountain road, the total strength of the officers and troops was very large. However, no amount of troops can be deployed for four or five people at a time......
And the Haw Par Army in front of them, every round of gunfire rang out, almost forty buckshot shot flew towards them.
No matter how nervous the musketeers in front of them were, and no matter how inaccurate the lead bullets fired, the more than 40 lead bullets could still easily kill the five or six officers and soldiers standing in a dense row.
Therefore, the battle in front of them is a bloody one-sided massacre for the officers and soldiers......
No matter how the soldiers attacked, they were all shot by the Haw Par Army's interception lead bullets on the offensive road......
After losing hundreds of men in a row, the officers and commanders finally made a decision to suspend this senseless charge and abandon the artillery......
At the same time, the constant sound of fighting behind the musket array also stopped.
You don't have to guess to know that the ten Franc machine guns that the officers and soldiers had high hopes for have fallen into their hands......
Faced with this result, Hu Hai knew that he had succeeded for most of the encirclement and suppression operations launched against the official army......
After losing artillery, the only weapon that can pose a threat to you. The remaining seven or eight hundred soldiers of the official army, in front of the musket company under their command, in addition to being shot, did not even have a chance to return the phone, and you don't have to say encircle and suppress yourself.
Just when the officers and troops began to retreat and prepare to temporarily avoid the front, the musketeers, who had only more than 100 people, under Hu Hai's order, did not retreat but advanced, closely followed the retreating troops of the officers and troops, and continued to shoot them with a steady stream of lead bullets......
The final result was that the officers and troops, who had several times the superiority in troops, were coerced by more than 100 musketeers of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and after losing more than 100 people again, no matter how the army commander He Qianzong tried to restrain him, he could not avoid the collapse of the entire army.
At this time, more than 300 bombardiers who had finished cleaning up the artillery of the official army were still recruits.
However, the victory against the artillery of the officer army gave each of them confidence in this counteroffensive.
Therefore, with more than 300 bombardiers armed with cold weapons joining the battlefield, the officers and soldiers who had already collapsed became even more frightened at this moment......
If you surrender, you have to surrender, and if you flee into the mountains and forests, you have to flee into the mountains and forests...... During the entire counteroffensive and pursuit, not a single person had the courage and courage to turn around and resist......
"Won...... Battalion commander, we won......" Because of the expansion of the army, Liu Hong, who changed from a platoon commander to a company commander in less than a month, looked at the dense officers and prisoners on the mountain road, his face was as if he had eaten honey, and he rushed to Hu Hai, who had already proclaimed himself the battalion commander, with excitement on his face, and shouted loudly......
Hu Hai's heart was also very excited, but he didn't show it......
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he nodded vigorously and said, "I won, I didn't expect that we would win so smoothly...... I'm sure that when the news of this victory spreads, we will have a new ...... of development" (to be continued......