Chapter 318: Gap Bloody Battle
Tens of thousands of cavalry groups charged, and the flat ground was covered with a large area of black oppression, like a flood without embankment rolling forward, sweeping away any creature that dared to stop it, and the rumbling hooves were like thunder, almost breaking people's hearts, and the earth shook for it, and the rolling dust and smoke raised covered the sky and the sun. X
Boom Boom Boom ......
More than a dozen Franc machine guns on the fort at the head of the city opened fire one after another, and balls of fire and gunpowder smoke burst out in the dense cavalry formation, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown away, but they still could not stop the full speed charge of the Jin army's iron cavalry.
The cavalry was so fast that the city's artillery only had time to fire two shells, and the dense iron cavalry had already rushed into the dead end of the range of the Franc cannon, which was still roaring and bombarding, bombarding the dense infantry that was charging behind the cavalry, even if it could not stop the charge of the enemy infantry, it was necessary to kill as much as possible.
"Listen to my orders, first platoon, prepare, shoot."
With the officer's order, the first row of musketeers on the head of the city quickly retreated after firing, the second row stepped forward two steps, listened to the officer's command to release their guns, and then retreated, and the soldiers of the third row stepped forward, became the first row, and then fired, and so on.
All the musketeers had already experienced a short battle, and the tension in their hearts had disappeared, and they only mechanically obeyed the orders of the officers, repeating the usual training movements, and the rolling iron horses surging under the city looked to them like scarecrows on the shooting range.
The first wave of guns rang out, and more than a dozen knights fell from their horses screaming, and the horses neighed and fell with a bang, but the dense rain of bullets sprinkled on the city still could not stop the full speed charge of the iron cavalry.
Whoosh ......
After the knight at the forefront of the charge shot a powerful arrow with his riding bow, he immediately retracted his bow, drew his weapon, and roared into a large gap more than twenty meters wide.
Bang bang bang......
The musketeers on both sides of the broken wall opened fire and shot down more than a dozen horsemen, and more than a dozen spearmen who were arrayed at the gap were also shot by the arrows, and fell down with a miserable scream, and the dense spear array instantly appeared a gap, but under the command of the officer's shout, the wounded were quickly dragged away and carried to the rear for treatment, and the dead had no time to pay attention, and the soldiers behind stepped on the remains of their fallen comrades to fill in the position, and the spear array was replenished.
The Kanwai clan grew up on horseback since childhood, and they were born warriors, everyone is good at riding and shooting, and the archery method wants to be accurate, plus the spear array is densely populated, the target is large, and they can be shot without aiming, and the dozen or so arrows that come from them are all hit.
"Shield, shield!"
The officers in command before the battle shouted loudly, although all the officers had studied the precautionary plan, but the incident happened suddenly, the time was urgent, it was normal to forget some details, and it was not too late to find a problem and quickly remedy it.
The spearmen put their two-meter-long spears on the big shields, and some of the shield soldiers raised their shields with both hands to cover the top of their heads, covering themselves and their comrades under the big shields.
Tuk Tuk ......
Another wave of arrows spilled from mid-air, mostly blocked by the large shields, but a few arrows also penetrated through the gaps between the two large shields, and the unlucky soldier fell to the ground screaming with an arrow.
The spearmen lined up on both sides of the broken wall desperately shot and killed the incoming enemy cavalry, while the bombardiers behind threw out a thunderstorm with green smoke, blowing up a cloud of fire and billowing gunsmoke, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown everywhere, and the screams were endless, but they were completely covered by the sound of explosions one after another, but some soldiers were also shot by the flying arrows, and fell to the city with a miserable scream, and were trampled by countless iron hooves in an instant, and the bones were gone.
The Ming soldiers defending the city desperately wanted to block the full-speed charge of the Jin army's iron cavalry, and the Jin army's iron cavalry desperately rushed into the gap, and the two sides were now fighting for brave and fearless courage.
The thumping sound was accompanied by the mournful neighing of the war horse, mixed with a cry of pain.
The cavalry of the Jin Army, which rushed in from the gap, fiercely crashed into the iron shield array lined with spears, and the war horse was pierced by sharp spears, but under the action of inertia, the big iron shield in front of them was knocked down before they fell down in a sad manner, and the soldiers behind the big shield were crushed to the bones, or even the people with shields were knocked away, and they let out a painful scream, and those who died on the spot were spared this pain.
"Resist, resist, don't panic, resist, you can withdraw after a while!" The officers commanding in front of the battle shouted loudly, desperately boosting morale.
The dense spear array was a little messy by the impact of the iron cavalry, in the face of the crazy rush of the Jin army's iron cavalry, the most test at this time is the courage of the soldiers, if you are timid, throw down the spear in your hand and run away, as soon as the morale collapses, the entire dense spear array is finished.
After the reorganization, although there are still a large number of old army soldiers with all kinds of vices in the border army, but after a short period of strict training and brainwashing education of political work officers, coupled with strict military regulations and compulsory constraints, personal quality has been improved, even if they are afraid, but at least at this time no one dares to throw away the spear in their hands and run away, behind the spear array, there is a political work officer with a few rows of musketeers to supervise the battle, not to die under the knife of the golden soldiers, but also to be shot by the musketeers who supervise the battle, left and right is dead, there is no choice, Leaving a hard support doesn't have to die, as long as they support the improvised fortifications behind them and stack them, they can withdraw from the battle.
A large number of soldiers and civilians shuttled back and forth, they carried bags of cloth bags full of mud and sand on their shoulders, behind the spear array, a simple sandbag short wall was piled up in front of the musketeers, the speed of the Jin army's iron cavalry charge was too fast, and they could only pile up fortifications while fighting, fortunately, there were not many stray arrows that came over, and there were more than a dozen scattered ones, which shot and injured several soldiers and civilians, and they were all carried to the military hospital for treatment.
"Explosives, throw explosives packets at Lao Tzu!"
He Renlong, who commanded the battle at the head of the city, roared loudly, there were too many enemy horsemen who came in the tide, a large area of black pressure, a rain of bullets and a series of thunderstorms still could not stop the enemy from rushing into the gap frantically, and he was so anxious that he screamed, thinking that the power of the thunder was not strong enough, so he simply threw an explosive bag with explosive power no less than that of a flowering bomb.
Explosives package is generally used for blasting, not the standard equipment of the Ming army, but according to the wartime situation, the Liaodong Arsenal produced some samples according to Zhu Jian's requirements to do the test, which happened to be seen by Hong Chengchou, he thought that this thing exploded powerfully, and it was a sharp weapon to defend the city, so he asked the Liaodong Arsenal to specially make a batch of explosives to defend the city, and used it at a critical moment, and there were more than a dozen packs of explosives in the ammunition pile at the head of the city.
This batch of explosives bags ordered by Hong Chengchou weighs nearly 30 catties, and it is not all explosives, but also mixed with a large number of iron balls, which can be said to be an enhanced version of the giant thunder, which is extremely terrifying, but because it is too heavy, it cannot be thrown far away, and it is only suitable for throwing it down from a high place.
He Renlong took the lead, holding a bag of explosives himself, and a dozen or so strong soldiers next to him also held a bag each, lit the fuse with a torch, and then raised it high and threw it vigorously towards the gap in the wall.
A soldier standing at the broken wall held up the explosive bag with the fuse lit and was about to throw it down, when a stray arrow hit the chest, and the soldier screamed and fell off the broken wall, and the smoking explosive bag also fell.
He Renlong is a fierce general, often charge forward in battle, like a madman, so he got a nickname "He Maniac", his arm strength is extremely big, the explosives bag in his hand threw the farthest, smashed into a Jin army cavalry, smashed him screaming, fell off the horse, the explosives bag bombs fell on the ground full of rubble, was trampled by countless iron hooves, but still puffed green smoke.
The fuse of the explosive package was very long, and although He Renlong cut off a large section with his sword, he was worried that it would blow himself up, so he still left a long section and did not explode immediately.