Chapter 203: The two armies face each other
Chen Wencan thought that the more than 1,000 town troops directly under him led by him were already considered elite, and there were 200 personal soldiers among them, who were definitely good at fighting, but when he looked at the array of sea wolves, he had a stern sense of frustration.
Although the strength of the sea wolves is not very large, only more than 1,000 people, less than 2,000 people, and the number of troops on both sides is about four to one, but after these sea wolves are lined up, it makes people have an irresistible pressure.
The more than 1,000 sea wolf tribes, all dressed in uniform indigo power suits, with a belt tied around their waists, and a leather bag on the left and right sides of it, it can be guessed that it may be filled with ammunition, and most of them are wearing a leather armor.
This leather armor style is very simple, it does not cover the whole body, only covers the torso part of the human body, like a vest, but there is a standing neck guard at the neck, and the limbs on the body are not armored, which saves a lot of material and workmanship.
Most of these sea wolf tribesmen were armed with muskets, and some of the soldiers were armed with spears up to four meters long, all of them were carried on their shoulders when they left the camp, and the queue was extremely uniform, and after the camp was completed, with an order, all the spears and muskets stood on the side of their right legs.
The formation of the entire waves, horizontal and vertical, is as neat as the cut out of the tofu blocks, horizontal and vertical, and from any angle, it is so neat.
Chen Wencan also thinks that he knows the soldiers and is a good hand at commanding the army and training the troops, but after seeing the array of sea wolves, he still can't help but sigh, compared with the town soldiers brought by him who think they are elite soldiers, the queue of the official army is impossible to see at all.
Not to mention that the mandarin duck jackets they wear are worn out one by one, some people's clothes are torn and full of holes, it is obvious that they have not been changed for many years, only to say that the spirit of the soldiers, in this comparison, their officers and soldiers can not be seen, most of the officers and soldiers are yellow and thin, after wearing this uniform, you can still know that they are soldiers, but after taking off this clothes, it is not too much to say that they are called Hanako.
As for weapons, not to mention, the weapons equipped by the officers and soldiers are obviously much more complex than those equipped by the sea wolf troops, with spears, swords, three-eyed guns, bird guns, and even weapons such as hooks and forks, and the arrangement is also very messy.
These officers and soldiers are not from the same place, each has its own generals to lead, although they are arrayed, but they are also in a bunch, and they can't be compared with the sea wolf's generals at all.
And the soldiers of the sea wolf looked at it, all of them were ruddy, and they obviously ate well, so they looked so strong, and they were all shy and chesty, and they stood wherever they wanted, and there was a feeling of not moving like a mountain.
What moved Chen Wencan even more was that these sea wolf tribes, each face was cold and cold, without a trace of expression, although the appearance was different, but it gave people a kind of like casting in a mold, invisibly exuding a murderous aura.
As a person who has commanded the army for many years, Chen Wencan immediately saw that these sea wolf troops have not only undergone harsh training, but also many of them have participated in actual combat, and they have seen people who have killed the formation by standard, such soldiers are the most difficult soldiers to deal with, once they go into battle, they will abandon a qiē idea, not only regard the enemy's life as nothing, including their own lives, but also not in their consideration.
Although he hadn't seen the battle yet, Chen Wencan's heart had already been a little empty, knowing that today was completely kicked to the iron plate, he couldn't figure out why this group of pirates could train into such a group of soldiers and horses, such a team of soldiers and horses, it can be said that he has only seen a fierce soldier in his life, and its elite Cheng Dù is even far more than the two hundred personal soldiers led by him.
Chen Wencan couldn't help but start to be a little frightened, although he also caught 6,000 officers and soldiers in his hands, but he knew very well that these officers and soldiers were two catties, these people had very little training, although they were Fujian's elite soldiers, but there were not many people who had seen the battle, except for some personal soldiers brought by the generals of each army, less than two percent of the people who could really be called able to fight, and most of the rest belonged to the scum.
Will they still be able to win this battle? All the officers, soldiers, and generals, including Chen Wencan, were already timid before fighting at this time.
But the matter has come to this, if they don't fight, they can't do it, and now they have almost completely run out of food on hand, if they can't recapture this barracks today, then they will be out of cooking at night, trapped on this Nanri Island, they are now heaven and earth, there is no way to enter the earth, only to fight.
So Chen Wencan had to take a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, lifted the reins of the horse, let the war horse go to the front of the queue, turned around and shouted: "The brothers have listened!" Although the pirates are fierce, but they are still thieves in the end, although our army and sailors were defeated, but we still have so many people, far more than their number, in terms of marching and fighting and arranging troops, how can they be our opponents?
Today, we will drive them back to the sea and recapture the camp, and Zhu Junmen will definitely mobilize the fleet to defeat this group of pirates and take us back to land!
The dead men elected by the various ministries last night are listed! As long as you disrupt their formation, then Ben will lead his troops to press, and he will definitely be able to recapture the battalion!
As long as he takes back the camp, he will never break his word, and he will definitely be rewarded! ”
As Chen Wencan's voice fell, the generals of all the troops immediately summoned out a group of dead soldiers who had been recruited from their respective subordinates last night and ordered them to rank in front of the army.
This time, the generals of all the troops have invested blood, and they have taken out the people who can be selected for war, and even some of their own soldiers have been selected by them, in order to be able to recapture the camp in this formation, and now, they have no way to retreat, if they can't get the camp back today, then they will be wiped out here.
So no one dared to play tricks anymore and took out all the strength they could.
In this way, they actually made up six or seven hundred people, these people can be said to be among the officers and soldiers who have seen battles, and they are considered fierce, although they do not come from an army, but as an assault force, once they are launched, they are quite powerful.
None of them used firearms, but each wore a piece of cotton armor and carried in his hand the weapons they were most adept at, some with shields, some with spears, some with long knives, and even some with large axes.
After these people came out of the queue, a thousand general officers immediately came out of the queue, personally led the team, and arranged the people with shields in front of the queue, and the rest of the people did not line up carefully, all of them were attributed to the sword player, and after the queue, it was also quite a bit murderous.
As the war drums sounded, the men began to move, and instead of running and charging forward, they first slowly pushed towards the sea wolf formation under the guidance of the sword player.
Chen Wencan led the rest of the officers and soldiers, followed closely, kept a certain distance, and was ready at any time, and after these dead soldiers rushed through the enemy formation, they then pressed up to cover and kill, and finally recaptured the camp in one fell swoop.
Looking at the actions of the officers and soldiers, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but sneer when he stood in the formation, the ideas of the officers and soldiers were too naïve, and it was a joke to want to break through his army formation just by relying on such a method.
But he did not interfere with Li Dazui's command, and continued to quietly observe the situation on the battlefield.
Li Dazui turned his head to look at Yu Xiaotian, as if he was asking Yu Xiaotian's opinion, but seeing that Yu Xiaotian didn't say anything, he knew that Yu Xiaotian was asking him to be in charge of command, so he nodded, turned around and shouted: "Artillery preparation!" ”
At this time, the left rear of the sea wolf, has been arranged several twelve-pound mountain howitzers, these guns belong to the battalion level of the direct artillery, mainly responsible for battlefield suppression, because of the light weight, even if the animal power is insufficient, you can also rely on manpower to pull the army to act together, very suitable for field artillery use, compared to the Ming army commonly used those Franc machine and tiger squat cannon, are much more powerful, can completely suppress the Ming army's firepower.
What's more, although today's Ming army seems to have a lot of people, but because of insufficient preparation, the battalion was captured, and there was no artillery at all, so the sea wolf was even more superior in terms of artillery.
The artillerymen had already prepared the cannon at this time, and just waited for the order, and the eight twelve-pounder guns lined up in a line, and began to reload the artillery under the command of the commander of their artillery company.
"The target distance is calibrated at 300 paces...... Rush to shoot! Put! The commander of the artillery company was excited, waved a small red flag in his hand, raised it high and gave a loud order, and when he heard that the guns had finished aiming, he waved his arms forward.
I saw that the eight guns on the artillery position suddenly began to spew flames from left to right, and then a series of cannon sounds sounded, and the cannons began to sit back violently for a distance.
Eight twelve-pounder shells whistled out of the barrels and flew straight towards the enemy troops who had advanced to the Seawolf formation for about 300 paces.
I only heard the sound of gasping cold air among the officers and soldiers, and some people even exclaimed, when they saw the sea wolf's cannon fire, they felt a sense of worry, everyone knows, no matter how good the armor they wear, in the face of such a cannonball, it is almost like paper paste, and it is a death if they encounter it.
A few shells landed accurately in the enemy group, and the shells were immediately bounced up by the solid ground when they landed, and continued to fly forward, almost instantly opening up several bloody alleys in the official and military arrays, and where the shells passed, a blood mist suddenly rose, and the stumps and broken arms and the internal organs of the human body flew in all directions.
Immediately there was an uproar among the officers and soldiers, and it seemed that they were in danger of collapsing.
"Steady! Kill the escapees! Stop and kill! Kill those who confuse the hearts of the army! ......" Chen Wencan exerted his strength to eat milk and shouted loudly.
Under the vigorous pressure of Chen Wencan and the generals of various departments, the commotion of the officers and troops was slightly eased, and regardless of the comrades who were injured and killed by the shells, the large army continued to advance forward.