Chapter 275: Attack on the camp
After he unexpectedly defeated Sun Kewang's elite cavalry, he led his troops to hide in the nearby dense forest, Zhang's army frantically attacked the city, and the roar of killing shook the sky, Tan Biao ventured to sneak closer, watched with a monocular, and saw that Ainengqi's department was attacking the city fiercely, and the position at the head of the south gate changed hands several times, in order to reduce the pressure on the defenders in the city, he had to take the risk of attacking and raiding the back camp of Ainengqi.
However, in order to better play the effect of the surprise attack, he first sent people to clean up several groups of scouts that the Enench sent to search nearby, and there was an accident during the operation, and he had to shoot, but the gunfire was muffled by the earth-shattering roar that erupted from the other side of the city.
After Tan Biao was ready for battle, he led his troops to sneak as close to Ainengqi's rear camp as possible, and there was a lookout tower in the camp, which was soon discovered by the soldiers on the tower and called the police, Tan Biao had to lead his troops to charge.
It is said that it is a charge, but in fact, it is just like the usual training, jogging forward at an average speed, and the power and accuracy of today's muskets are still scum, and the effect can only be highlighted by relying on the battle formation that is shot in line, so the integrity of the battle formation must be maintained.
The rear camp is to store all military supplies and ensure the supply of the three armies, and naturally send heavy troops to guard it, and the main person responsible for staying in the rear camp will be Ai Nengqi's right-hand man Flying Monkey, his subordinates have 10,000 people, the lookout soldiers are very conscientious, and call the police in time, plus Tan Biao's department is a slow charge, the flying monkey has enough time to react, he led his troops out of the camp to line up, and even those cannon fodder who rested in the rear camp were driven out of the camp.
The flying monkey led the army out of the camp to meet the battle, and did not send anyone to report to Ai Nengqi, because there were only 1,000 people in Tan Biao's department who attacked, and there were 10,000 of his subordinates, plus the cannon fodder resting in the rear camp, there were more than 20,000 people, and the number was completely crushed, and just a spit could drown Tan Biao's 1,000 people alive, and he had no reason not to fight, and he didn't take the merits sent to the door.
Tan Biao led the slow charge, and the flying monkey also led the charge, he personally led 5,000 people to meet the front, and the other left and right outflanked, and all the second battalion of Tan Biao was wrapped in dumplings.
Although the second battalion was under heavy siege, it was not panicked, and quickly stopped changing formations under the command of Tan Biao, the outermost layer was a circular defensive battle array, and the second and third layers were also circular defensive battle arrays, encircling the commander, military doctors, weapons and ammunition in the center.
There are still more than 100 soldiers in the circle as bombardiers, and as a reserve, at any time to replenish the battle damage of the defensive circle, boxes of ammunition are opened, one by one thunder is placed on the ground, in order to prevent mistakes in tension or panic, accidentally ignite gunpowder, bombardiers and the stacked ammunition pile are separated by a certain distance.
"A platoon prepares, shoot!"
Following the officer's command, the soldiers in a row lit the fuse and took the lead in releasing their guns, and a dense rain of bullets hit the human body, bursting out a puff of blood mist, and the screams of being shot fell.
Because the troops of the Flying Monkey were copied in all directions, the speed of the charge was different, and the first to rush was the frontal unit led by the Flying Monkey himself, and the platoon guns of the second battalion were fired by companies and platoons.
The archers of the Flying Monkey Division also shot arrows and fired back, but the arrows were scarce, and most of them flew away, and the damage caused to the soldiers of the second battalion was basically negligible.
Ai Nengqi wanted to break the city before Li Baoguo, not only transferred the elites of the three armies to the front line, but also transferred all the archers, and now the archers are rookies, and they can't be called archers, and their strength is not well controlled, let alone accurate.
"Sons, rush, kill all these dog officers and soldiers."
The flying monkey roared loudly, inspiring his subordinates to charge at full speed, all the civilian troops were charging, most of them were honest peasants, but they were coerced into the army, and they were forced to go to the battlefield.
Although these rookies, who are not even recruits, are on the battlefield for the first time, they also know that the musket is powerful and the accuracy is even more scum, and the speed of loading ammunition is slow to death for the second time, and at most they can rush close after the second shot of the officers and soldiers, and they can fight hand-to-hand combat and white-knuckle combat, and the kitchen knives and woodcutters in their hands are better than the burning sticks in the hands of officers and soldiers.
However, when the burning sticks in the hands of the officers and men once again erupted clouds of fire and gunsmoke, they were all confused, didn't they say that it would take a long time to fire the second shot?
The dense rain of bullets knocked down a row of people, so many people crowded together to charge, the formation was so dense that you didn't need to aim, you could even close your eyes, as long as you put the gun flat, you could shoot at a target.
Bang bang bang......
When the third round of guns rang out, many more people were shot and fell, most of them were only wounded, rolling on the ground in pain, and the sound was terrible, and it also made the living people quickly lose their courage.
"Mom, the gun in the hands of the official army is a demon gun, and you don't need to reload ......"
I don't know who screamed, turned around and ran back, someone took the lead, someone followed, the rookies who were frightened by the demon gun turned around and ran back, and the people who rushed up behind were huddled together, and the formation of the whole charge was completely chaotic.
Another round of bullet rain came, many people were shot and fell, gasping for breath, another wave of bullet rain came, more people fell down screaming, and those who wanted to charge were also frightened, desperately running back, the frontal troops of the flying monkey collapsed like this, and the speed of the collapse was so fast that Tan Biao didn't believe it, he thought there was a tough battle to fight.
The left and right wings of the flying monkey collapsed faster, and the officers commanded in front of the formation saw that Zhang Jiajun was so vulnerable, and became bolder, so they simply let them rush closer and then fight, first threw a wave of thunder, and blew up the approaching people's army, and the ghosts cried wolf, and then the platoon guns were fired, and after the second round of platoon guns were bombarded, the people's army collapsed, crying and fleeing backwards, and the troops behind the pocket had not rushed up, and they withdrew directly when they saw this situation.
Only a few of the scattered people's troops ran back to the camp, most of them ran away in chaos, they were originally honest people, and they could only farm, but they were just coerced by Zhang's army, and they always wanted to find a chance to slip away, now is a great opportunity, and it is stupid not to run.
There are also many ruffians who run away who usually only bully their neighbors, bully the soft and fear the hard, they joined Zhang Jun's family just to rob big families and make a small fortune, but now the wealth has not been paid, and their lives may not be guaranteed, and when will they stay if they don't run away?
The Flying Monkey cut down more than a dozen routs, but they still couldn't stop the rout, but they were swept back to the barracks by the retreating crowd.
"Linear pursuit." Tan Biao shouted loudly and ordered the whole army to pursue, but the formation of the queue to shoot still could not be scattered, and it would be miserable if the people's army desperately counterattacked.
The linear pursuit is destined that the speed of the second battalion's pursuit will not be too fast, and the fleeing civilian troops can flee back to the barracks, except for those who scattered and fled, intent on running away, Tan Biao ignored these routs, and he didn't have time to pay attention to them.
"Close the camp gate, close the camp gate quickly."
The flying monkey hissed and roared, and ordered the camp gate to be closed, and guarded according to the camp fence, he found that there were many people under him, but now he didn't have time to count the losses, so he would defend the camp first, and at the same time send someone to ask the big leader Ai Nengqi for help.
There were still a lot of civilian troops in the battalion, but there were few archers, and the dozen or so arrows shot were completely ignored by the soldiers of the second battalion who rushed in.
The flying monkey realized how wrong he was, there was no archer to cover and suppress, and it was all nonsense to defend the fence, and the girl didn't give you a chance to fight in close combat.
Forming a team to rush out and fight with the Ming army is of course the best and most suitable tactic, but this is simply impossible, the Ming army has not blown up the camp fence, just jumped into the trench, many soldiers have rushed to throw away their weapons and escape, they are already frightened.
"Hold it off, hold it off!"
The Flying Monkey swung his sword and roared, directing his own guards to resist, and more than a dozen thunderbolts fell from the sky, followed by a series of explosions, and the flames and billowing smoke drowned him and the guards around him.
More than a dozen soldiers of the second battalion picked up the iron sword machete that had been thrown on the ground, cut open the camp gate, and rushed into it first, followed by the soldiers of the second battalion who were like tigers descending from the mountain.