Chapter 191: Breaking the Enemy
At this time, the artillery is not better than modern, the firing range is short, the power is small, and the rate of fire is low, if the large corps rushes regardless of casualties, and runs at full speed with horses, it will soon be able to approach the artillery position, because of the relationship between the elevation angle and the density, the artillery will lose its temper, so it can only retreat and change to machine guns.
In order to ensure firepower, each infantry brigade of the Loyal Army was organized into a machine gun battalion, each commander also had a machine gun team, and each infantry detachment had a machine gun squad to provide them with strong fire support. Now more than 50 hand-cranked machine guns were lined up and fired at the same time, just like a sudden change in the wind and clouds, suddenly a violent storm and rain suddenly came, and bullets were sprayed towards Tiefutu, who was stubbornly attacking.
If the artillery fire is a point kill, then the current machine gun strafing is a face kill, the front of the entire Jin army's attack was blocked, and the Jurchen soldiers who had just escaped the clutches of death fell into the palace of Hades again, and a large number of soldiers were swept off their horses, and then trampled by thousands of horses' hooves.
"Marshal, collect the troops, rush down again, and the three thousand troops will be finished!" Wanyan Xiyin has seen the vicious battle under the city of Wonju, it is really a mountain of corpses, and now it is simply a reproduction of that scene, under the blow of the machine gun, he can barely move forward with the momentum of the horse, but with the increase of casualties, it has almost stopped, and the soldiers are simply riding horses forward to die.
"How so?" Zong Han was also stunned by the tragic scene in front of him, this was the first time he fought with the Krup army equipped with firearms, the first few times he missed it by mistake, every time he heard others talk about the sharp firearms of the Yuanzhou army, his face was colorless, but Zong Han scoffed, thinking that they had not met him. Otherwise, they will definitely kill them without leaving a piece of armor, and they will be dumbfounded when they really see it today.
"Marshal. It's going to be hard to get done! Wan Yan Lou said coldly, he was the chief general of the Battle of Yuanju. After yesterday's war, he opposed fighting an offensive battle with this Liao army equipped with firearms, but he laughed at his timidity, boasting that his iron cavalry was invincible, and his defeat was just an accident. But now that he, the king of dragons and tigers, has become a snake and rat, he has desperately pressed all his subordinates, but his proud iron cavalry can no longer withstand the heavy casualties and shows signs of collapse.
"Yelu Ma Wu, your speed headquarters has replaced the sudden speed department, and you are ready to fight again!" Zong Han looked at the vanguard army scattered and fleeing on the battlefield and ordered. If the rout rushes into the Chinese army, it will be scattered without the enemy hitting itself.
"Marshal, the enemy seems to be about to counterattack!" After Yan Saili looked at the enemy army in the distance, after the smoke cleared, the flag was waving there, and the trumpet sounded as if he was dispatching troops, and he hurriedly said.
"Ha Luha, it's just in time, let's let these damn people taste the power of the Jurchen warriors!" Zong Han Dalu said with a smile, you rely on firearms to defend and not attack, we can't do anything about you. But in terms of riding and archery kung fu, now the Jurchen is the first, "Seri, your department immediately stepped forward to prepare to meet the enemy, and I have a heavy reward for defeating the Liao army!" ”
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"Get ready to attack!" Jin Jun watched the collapse. The forbidden army of the Liao army led by Zhao Xin, who was a hundred steps away from the front army, also began to form a team, and with the sound of the password, the soldiers mounted their horses and raised their guns. They were heavily armoured and armed with riding spears. Carrying a longbow at his waist, he raised his long cavalry spear. The spear flags fluttering in the wind are like beating battle notes.
The Great Internal Forbidden Army led by Zhao Xin was composed of elites selected by the Khitan tribes with the Yuanzhou Army as the backbone, but it was precisely for this reason that she knew that the prince of Lu Dao would never provide them with firearms, but it did not prevent her from learning the new tactics of the Krüd Army, and trained a heavy cavalry based on the Hussars of the Krüd Army.
Hearing the sound of the change of formation, the wolf who provided fire support stopped firing the first brigade, quickly retracted the position to make way for the cavalry ready to charge, and the hussars immediately moved forward along the access road, and lined up in a horizontal column with the battalion as a unit, divided into five teams, the two flanks were covered by the four battalions of dragoons of the second and third brigades of the Krup, and behind the palace were their four battalions of hussars.
The sound of gunfire stopped suddenly, and Wan Yan suddenly felt that this world suddenly became quieter, but his eyes were red and could drip blood, and he still failed to pass the enemy's blockade line under his own drive.
"Dutong, the enemy has counterattacked!" A thousand-year-old reported to Wanyan in shock, only to see that the smoke of gunpowder had cleared and gradually revealed, and the cavalry of the Liao army had begun to slow down and accelerate towards them.
"Gather the remnants of the army and meet the enemy!" Tuhesu's lips trembled twice and said, this is really taking advantage of your illness to kill you, your side has been beaten to pieces, and the rear is changing formations, if you retreat at this time, not only will you be chased by the enemy, but even the Chinese army will be rushed.
The sudden commander blew the horn to re-summon the scattered generals to his banner, but it was too late to rearrange the enemy cavalry in the face of the rapid approach, and the loss of speed in the cavalry attack was equivalent to the loss of the impact force on which it relied on the most, so the sudden speed bombarded the hurriedly gathered cavalry, whether it was Tiefutu or light cavalry, on the battlefield, the purpose was to block the impact of the enemy army and buy time for the rear.
At this critical moment, he can sacrifice himself for others, and for the sake of the overall situation, he has not insulted his title of famous general. However, the effect of using such a remnant army that has not yet woken up from the panic to block the strong army that has been gathering for a long time can be imagined, the Jin army riders are desperately whipping their mounts, and some veteran soldiers actually do not hesitate to hurt the horses with daggers in order to increase the speed of the horses in the shortest distance, and shoot the arrows in the quiver at the fastest speed towards the oncoming enemy, because they know that this has reached the point of life and death, and they can't care much about it...
"Shoot!" The war horse has changed from trotting to running, Zhao Xin ordered, the trumpeter immediately sounded the military trumpet, one after another the command immediately conveyed the order, the charging riders put down the cavalry spear in unison, leaned forward, tightened the horse's belly with both legs, poked the cavalry spear out of the horse's head, and kept their eyes firmly fixed on the rapidly approaching enemy, and the armor on their bodies and the war horse successfully blocked the arrows that came from shooting.
'Didi Da...' The mournful sound of the military horn sounded again, this was the last order to launch an attack, the Khitan riders slammed their heels on the belly of the horse, the war horse was in pain and accelerated forward again, in a few breaths they had already met the Jin army, there was no doubt that the long cavalry spear made the efforts of the Jurchens come to naught in an instant.
The surviving soldiers scattered on both wings, trying to dodge the next wave of galloping 'Liao army' cavalry, but they were quickly surrounded and divided by the dragoons cruising on both wings, and they did not want to die but surrendered.
Wanyan Sudden Rapid Attack's death-defying attack only blocked a wave of Khitan impact and then collapsed, he was lucky to avoid this wave of attacks because he organized a counterattack in the back, and saw that he could not be defeated back to his own position under the escort of his own soldiers, and at this time, the five divisions of Yelu Ma who received him were still receiving the defensive formation, and the Seri Department as a substitute was moving forward, and the Sudden Rapid Department that fled back were all gathered in the front army, which inevitably caused chaos.
But Zhao Xin would not wait for them to coordinate before making a move, the first wave of hussars who completed the breakthrough task separated to the two wings, retreated in a circle to the rear team to replenish the consumption and lined up again to keep up, and at this time the second attack wave had already rushed into the front of the Jin army, knocking them to a stagger, and the formation shook greatly.
Zong Han was shocked, the enemy's attack was too fierce, he hurriedly took advantage of the enemy's attack to retreat from the next wave before the next wave arrived, and hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to shoot forward to stop the formation, to buy time for adjustment. But then he found that the enemy had slowed down the pace of his attack, and rushed out of the phalanx with more than two dozen chariots rushing towards them.
Zong Han didn't know what these cars were for, but everyone understood that this was the usual tactic of the Krüpts, using the wheeled vehicles as the lead to kill and injure the enemy, disrupt their formation, cause their confusion, and create opportunities for the cavalry to attack. As soon as they stepped forward, the crossbowmen became dishes on the table. Under the fierce fire of the machine gun, the crossbow army that had just been deployed was scattered, thinking that people are not stupid, they can't fight back when they are beaten, and who will do the thing of being poked and shot?
"Marshal, now that the enemy forces have all been pressed, and the rear and flanks are empty, quickly order the ambush to attack to relieve the danger of our army!" In the face of the fierce attack of the 'Liao Army', Zong Han seemed helpless, and Wanyan Xiyin hurriedly reminded him.
"That's right, quickly release the signal, so that Wanyan will quickly attack and copy their back road!" Zong Han slapped his head when he heard this, he was really stunned, how could he forget his back hand...
Zhao Ta did not follow the army outside to join in the excitement this time, but sat in the camp and waited for something, and this morning the scout reported the detected situation. Zhang Pu felt that the matter was very important, and hurriedly reported it to the prince, and Zhao Ta immediately realized that this was a strange soldier set up by the Jin army.
Because the goose-shaped formation they laid out yesterday is indeed a defensive formation, it is difficult for the enemy to break through from the front with echelon deployment of troops, but any formation may be perfect, and there are weaknesses, the weakness of this formation is at the bottom of the V-shape, if the front is attracted, and another division is sent to attack from the flank, then this formation will be broken.
Now the Jin army can think of sending a strange army to ambush behind the mountain, which means that they have seen through this formation, Zhao Ta originally wanted to trap and kill this enemy army, but a sudden message made him change his mind and decided to break the enemy with a three-talent formation.
"It's time for us to play!" Seeing the wolf smoke suddenly rising outside the battlefield, and hearing the long horn sound, Zhao Ta stood up and said to Jianxi... (To be continued......)