Chapter 146, Defeat in Order?
They have high accuracy, while firing at a longer range, and seem to have a somewhat different effect from inferior arquebuses.
In just about ten minutes of shooting, Zhou Mingyue's 500 arquebusiers killed more than 1,500 people!
And their results were more than 170 people.
This is not surprising, if they hadn't been ambushed a long time ago and secretly attacked, the results of the battle would not have reached this level at all.
There are many soldiers in the Thermal Arthur army who are stronger than them!
At this time, Zhou Mingyue had to order the arquebusiers outside the exit of the mountain road to retreat, try to behave in a panic, but never allow the guns to be dropped, and to be orderly in the chaos.
As the arquebusiers who were secretly attacking withdrew, the soldiers of Rearthur City outside the exit of the mountain road immediately cheered, as if they had won an earth-shattering battle, and the smiles on their faces could almost flow like a river.
"Gunpowder (division commander)! This is the first battle we have won, and I think it was the protection of the great leader that forced the enemy to retreat. ”
The person who said this was a bullet (brigade commander), and the soldiers outside the exit of this mountain road were almost all his subordinates, so he was reminding Gunpowder that this was his own credit, but he did not forget to pat the big leader in Rearthur City, who was an elite of sycophants.
In addition, not filming Sima Farts directly under him is an unspoken rule in this world.
This was also one of the consequences of the Great Chief's rule over the city.
In order to prevent those officers from becoming ambitious and rebellious after mastering the army, the successive great chiefs of various cities have done a lot of work.
They sent a large number of spies into the army to monitor the behavior of the officers, but all the officers who engaged in the formation of a party were punished very severely, but those who ate the laqqa were punished more severely.
In such a situation, not filming the fart of the direct subordinate Sima has become one of the unspoken rules.
As for patting the big leader's ass, even if it is thousands of miles away, it should be.
"I'm afraid it's not a victory."
The gunpowder, who was wearing a tall and thin military uniform, looked at the retreating enemy, but his eyes showed a little worry.
"Not a win?"
The bullet, which had a bit of military talent, couldn't help but look at the enemy, but the more he looked at it, the more frightened he felt.
"Could it be that the enemy is luring the enemy deeper? Our actions were discovered in advance by the city of Nisya? ”
The bullet screamed.
"I'm afraid it's the same as you said, our mission has failed."
Gunpowder nodded, looking confident, and then asked the herald to signal the retreat.
At this critical moment of the war, although the mission failed, it was impossible for him to bury this elite army here, he needed to take his troops and throw them into the frontal battlefield to completely defeat the army in Nisya City.
He was somewhat sure of this.
If it weren't for the great boss who planned this plan to defeat the city of Nisia at a smaller cost, he would have appeared on the frontal battlefield and defeated the enemy!
As the heralds shouted the order, the army that was originally chasing the enemy immediately turned around and retreated towards the mountain road, and at the same time, the order was also passed backwards in the form of person-to-person transmission, so as to avoid congestion in the mountain road of the turning army.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Mingyue, who had always wanted to give an attack order and make as much as he could, was stunned.
His original plan was to wait for the enemy to leave half of the mountain road, and then start attacking, not asking for more, but only leaving a small half of the enemy behind.
After all, it's impossible to block the road.
As for pretending to be defeated in order, it was just to scare the enemy and prevent the enemy from chasing too hard, and all his more than 300 arquebusiers were killed.
And the defense measures at the entrance to the mountain road are just in case of accidents.
But what he never expected was that the enemy did not continue to chase the retreating arquebusiers, but turned into the mountain road to evacuate!
I'll go!
Really scared?
The effect of his own strategy is simply beyond imagination!
Of course, even so, Zhou Mingyue, who was full of joy, did not directly give the order to attack, but waited.
It wasn't until the rear of Retarthur's army turned to the exit of the mountain road and found that something was wrong that Zhou Mingyue gave the order: "Attack!" ”
Suddenly, the arquebusiers on the mountain wall lifted off the grass used for disguise, and then, without aiming, fired at the Rearthur soldiers in the mountain path.
At the same time, the arquebusiers who were outside the exit of the mountain road also opened fire under orders.
The iron pellet bullet flew towards the Thermal Arthur soldiers in the middle of the mountain path after the explosion of gunpowder, and in an instant, it opened holes in their chests, backs, hands and feet.
Such a close surprise attack dealt a heavy blow to the Thermal Arthur soldiers in the first place!
More than 500 Rearthur soldiers fell in the mountain path in the baptism of the first wave of bullets, although many of them only injured their hands and feet and other minor parts, but the sound of gunfire and their screams of pain were intertwined, and the rest of the Rearthur soldiers were immediately confused.
Even the most combat-minded officers in it had to desperately find a place to hide from the next attack.
They also know that at this time, saving their lives first is the first key priority, otherwise, when they hang up, they will not mention any command to counterattack.
Zhou Mingyue didn't have the ability to control the arquebusiers and accurately hit those officers.
It's okay to control one or two, but if you control a group, I don't know where the bullets will fly.
Hearing the sound of gunfire coming from the front of the mountain road, the gunpowder that had entered the mountain road for some distance was suddenly stunned.
Why are there enemies in the mountain paths?
However, his gaze immediately turned to the mountain walls on both sides of the mountain road.
As a gunpowder with regular military command talents, he did not think that there might be an enemy in ambush on the mountain wall.
But due to his ignorance of guerrilla warfare, he abandoned the idea when he saw that the leading troops were not attacked.
According to the orthodox ideas of a city army commander like him.
If the city of Nias had discovered their plan in advance, then it would have been possible to deploy heavy troops here early to prevent the enemy from crossing the mountain road and entering the heart of the city.
After all, for a city, the most critical issue should be to ensure the stability and security of the urban area, so as to be able to support a large-scale war.
If there is turmoil, chaos, and insecurity in the urban area, then even if some enemies are eliminated in the mountain pass, their actions will still be lost.
Not to mention, according to the way of thinking of the commander of the army of the city, such a mountain road, the valley should have at least more than five thousand people.