Chapter 11: Confrontation
Holding a Yanling knife to use as a command knife, Li Dazui stood on the side of the phalanx and shouted: "Musketeers prepare!" ”
The musketeers immediately removed the flintlock pistols from their shoulders, placed the butts on the ground, and quickly began to remove the ammunition from the leather box on their waists and began to reload the muskets.
Everything was carried out according to the procedures of their original training, and soon the musketeers were loading their flintlock pistols in their hands, holding them up with their muzzles facing the air, forming a three-row line.
The musket shooting method of three-stage shot, to say that it is not a mysterious thing, the little devil knows how to use this method to maintain the continuity of the musket's firepower, and Daming naturally has a master who wants to come up with such a method.
However, the musket equipment of the Ming army is not very high, and the bird gun is also in the Wanli period after winning the Korean War and defeating the Japanese, it began to gradually equip the Ming army in large quantities, but the number of equipment in the south is not very large, because the south is rainy, the climate is humid, the fire rate of the bird gun is low, and the accident rate of the explosion is high, and the official army does not like this kind of thing.
The officers and soldiers are also equipped with a considerable proportion of archers, using bows and crossbows to fight, and today there are dozens of archers in the guards of the Chongwu Institute, holding bows and arrows in front of the line.
After Mr. Qian, surnamed Bai, saw the battle formation of the sea wolf, his heart suddenly became furious, and he secretly scolded in his heart that there are still a bunch of pirates! It's simply an elite army of soldiers and horses, and I'm afraid that the most elite officers and soldiers in Fujian may not be able to suppress the momentum of these pirates.
After looking at the queue of the sea wolf soldiers, he peeked at the group of guards he brought out behind him, and immediately felt discouraged, this battle can't be fought at all! Now he thinks about it with his toes, and he knows that he will definitely not be able to defeat these pirates today.
This Yu Haiwolf didn't know how Lu Dao could train his pirates to look like this, although these pirates didn't have a few fat people, and all of them were also dark and swarthy, but their faces were very normal, none of them had vegetables on their faces, and all of them had oily faces, if they didn't eat well enough, where could they be so strong.
And the guards behind him are all yellow and thin, dirty like a flower child, this is more than Bai Qianzong himself has no confidence.
But it's not good for him to hurry up and leave now, run back to the Acropolis and hide! If that happens, someone will definitely sue him when he returns, and he will definitely not be able to eat and walk around at that time.
So he had to bite the bullet, roaring in the middle, so that the officers and soldiers behind him continued to advance forward, and the archers were ready to shoot arrows and arrows.
Li Dazui pouted his big mouth fork with a look of disdain, today he brought two hundred soldiers over, just to control the dock and prevent these officers and soldiers from Chongwusu from coming out to stop them.
But after seeing the guards of this Chongwu Institute, he personally felt that this battle should be too easy to fight, so he pouted, took two steps forward, turned around and yelled at his men: "Lao Tzu will give you a chance today, let you behave well, all of them, guns on your shoulders!" The phalanx queue remains the same, forward! ”
On the right side of the team, there was immediately a detachment leader with a bamboo whistle in his mouth, and the bamboo whistle was blown, and first a long whistle sounded, and all the soldiers immediately put their weapons on their shoulders and prepared to set off.
Immediately after that, the captain of the whistle began to blow the bamboo whistle high and low, and the rhythm was controlled at about one hundred and twenty times a minute.
When the whistle sounded, the soldiers of the sea wolf immediately began to step forward, and every step began to move forward with the whistle, and all the soldiers of the entire phalanx did not cause confusion because of this, everyone's pace was the same, and based on the left, they maintained a horizontal formation, and at the same time maintained a vertical formation, so as not to cause confusion.
Even the gunners of the twenty Tiger Squat Cannons who were on the left side of the team just now raised their Tiger Squat Cannons at the same time and followed the team forward.
The entire phalanx was like a moving wall, and it advanced forward in unison.
Regarding the queue training of the sea wolf soldiers, Yu Xiaotian borrowed the methods of the Western army, originally he also wanted to get a drum, set up a full-time drummer to control the speed of the army, and even wanted to make a bagpipe, but after thinking about it, he felt that the idea was ridiculous, even if he got bagpipes, no one would play that thing.
Later, considering that the marching drum should occupy the establishment, and in addition, the drummer should be specially trained, so he was lazy, thinking that the military training queue in later generations was a whistle, so he simply replaced the marching drum with a bamboo whistle.
Therefore, when the soldiers are marching and marching in formation, there are special personnel responsible for blowing the whistle to control the formation and the speed of the pace.
When the phalanx of the sea wolves began to move forward, the official army was suddenly a little confused, because this group of pirates was so surprising to them, they should be regarded as a regular army, but compared with this group of pirates, it turned out that they looked like thieves, and their momentum was completely suppressed by the sea wolf's soldiers.
Moreover, when the phalanx of the sea wolf soldiers marched, they pushed over like a mountain, which made the officers and soldiers suddenly have great psychological pressure, and they couldn't help but feel a little chaotic.
Bai Qian also felt very nervous, and hurriedly suppressed his soldiers, ordering them not to move on the spot, and those who retreated from the battle were killed! This somewhat stabilized the formation on his side.
Dozens of archers were ordered to step forward to set up arrows and prepare to fire, but the archers of these guards usually have very limited training, they have to work more often to eat their stomachs, and the time for farming is much longer than the time for practice, and sometimes they may not be able to perform once a month, and it is certainly hopeless to expect them to have good archery skills.
In addition, because of the lack of practice, the bows used by the archers are basically light bows, and the other uses light arrows, which seem to shoot closely, but the penetration of the arrows is very poor, and the leather armor cannot effectively penetrate dozens of meters away, which is very clear to Bai Qian and the archers under him.
There are only a few pro-soldiers under Mr. Bai Qian, because they are professional soldiers who are out of production, so they still have a little real kung fu in their hands, two of them are good at using bows, and the rest of the archers are basically indiscriminate.
The sea wolf's formation was in the sound of the bamboo whistle, slowly advancing forward, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and when the distance between the two sides was shortened to about sixty steps, Bai Qian's side really couldn't stand the pressure.
"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! Don't let them come close! Bai Qian's palms were sweating all the time, and he involuntarily shrank into the crowd and shouted loudly in the formation.
Dozens of archers have long been unable to withstand the pressure at this time, and they have long wanted to start releasing arrows, but they have rules, the lord will not give orders, if someone sends arrows without authorization, they will definitely be disposed of, when they hear the sound of Bai Qian chanting to release arrows.
These dozens of archers didn't dare to wait any longer, and hurriedly put their fingers on the string hard, and began to squeak and pull the bowstring, their arms raised, and they let go of the bowstring one after another with a gritted tooth.
I only heard a loud bowstring, and then a rain of arrows sprinkled down towards the sea wolf soldiers, because there were still about sixty steps away, the bow and arrow could not be directly aimed, and could only be fired by projectile, so the accuracy was definitely not good.
Dozens of arrows fluttered towards the line of sea wolves, and the pupils of the soldiers walking in the front row suddenly shrank, and they suddenly became nervous when they saw the arrows in the sky falling towards them.
But no one shook or stopped, and all the soldiers continued to march forward to the sound of the bamboo whistle.
Li Dazui was also observing the performance of his subordinates, and when he saw this scene, he was satisfied with the performance of his subordinates, so he shouted and ordered: "Stop advancing!" ”
The sound of the bamboo whistle stopped abruptly as soon as he gave the order.
All the soldiers immediately stopped, and continued to stand in the queue with their chests and stomachs folded.
The bows and arrows in the sky swished down and fell into the crowd of sea wolves, only to hear a few soldiers make a muffled sound, and two soldiers fell to the ground with a snort.
But the other soldiers did not squint, were unmoved, and continued to maintain their formation, which made Li Dazui very satisfied, and nodded secretly.
The training of the sea wolf soldiers is quite strict, as long as they are in the battle formation, everyone is in the queue, and no small movements are allowed, because whether they are marching or during the formation, if someone moves because of the enemy's attack, it will affect a large area, and the formation and marching rhythm will be broken immediately.
Therefore, the Seawolf soldiers are required to act according to the order, no matter what the situation is, they must act according to the order, even if the cannonball flies in front of them, they must stare at the cannonball and watch the cannonball fly over, and they are not allowed to dodge the slightest action, otherwise, even if they are not killed on the spot, they will be dealt with by military law afterwards.
For this reason, when the sea wolf soldiers were training, in order to solve the problem that some people involuntarily wanted to avoid and disrupt the formation when they were in battle, Meng Fei, Li Dazui and others thought of enough methods, first beating with sticks and beating military sticks, and then Meng Fei came up with a way to equip these soldiers with rattan helmets, let a large group of people stand in front of them, and throw stones at them while they were marching or when they were in formation.
As long as someone made a dodge action in the queue, they immediately pulled out and beat the military stick in public, so that after a long period of training, they completely cleaned up these guys, so that even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of them now, they didn't dare to move.
Today, the officers and soldiers released the arrows first, although these arrows fell into the crowd of sea wolf soldiers, but in fact, the killing and damage to the sea wolf soldiers was very limited, they used light arrows, the kinetic energy was small, and after the parabola fell, the penetration power was already very small, so when they fell into the ranks of the sea wolf soldiers, they did not cause much damage to the sea wolf soldiers.
Many people were only hit by arrows in the shoulder or in various parts, but the injuries were very light, and the two who fell were just more unlucky, one was shot in the head, the rattan helmet could not block the arrow cluster, and a hole was made in the scalp, and the other was even more unlucky, the arrow hit the face, so he fell to the ground with a scream.
Soon an ambulance soldier in the team dragged it down, but the sea wolf's queue also stopped advancing under Li Dazui's order, and the knife and card players responded to the queue, and when they reached the front of the queue, they bowed down and raised their shields, forming a shield wall more than half a person high, and behind them were the sea wolf's musketeers.