Chapter 135 New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Array

I saw that these Shu troops were like cowboys in the west, quickly beating their hands # guns and changing bullets, and the sound of "click" and "bang" rang non-stop. Soon, however, they stopped, and the reason for this was that they ran out of bullets, and in this operation, only 30 rounds were dispensed for each gun, which was only enough for them to shoot five rounds.

No way, this kind of metal shell bullet is too expensive, not only expensive, but also rich and difficult to get, their production accuracy requirements are very high, without modern production equipment, it is indeed difficult and troublesome to do.

However, there were 300 people, a total of 9,000 bullets shot out at close range, that is, the mission hit rate was only half, and few of the four or five thousand people of the Wei army could still stand.

The Shu soldiers who finished the hand # gun did not look at their own results at all, nor did they clean up the battlefield, they stuffed the hand # gun into the cowhide gun on their waist, buckled the button, and under the officer's command, they turned back in unison, and then began to run.

These are all predetermined procedures, which were arranged early in the morning before the start of the war, and they should run away after the battle, not only to strike at the enemy with the greatest strength, but also to preserve their own vital forces as much as possible.

Everyone in the hand # gun team is a precious resource, the hand # gun in their hands is the treasure of the treasure, none of them can afford to lose, every hand # gun is a strictly confidential military material, subject to strict military control, they are absolutely not allowed to charge out and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

If a left#rourin# gun is lost because of this, and the secret of the left#rourist# gun is cracked by the enemy, the losses caused will be immeasurable, even if the results brought by the 50,000 horses of the Wei State are completely destroyed, it will not be able to make up for such losses, so it is not prudent to be cautious.

At the same time that the fire # gun team here is beating the hand # gun, the horse crossbow over there is also starting to wield its might. The ambush of the crossbow team was at the other end of the mine# explosion zone, where there were still about 6,000 Wei troops left.

The Shu army had a total of 50,000 men, divided into three armies, 15,000 in the front, 20,000 in the middle, and 15,000 in the rear.

Now they are attacking the front army of 15,000, and the # mines, traps and pistol teams have wiped out about 9,000 people in total, and now there are about 6,000 men and horses left. The remaining 6,000 men were all rounded up by the crossbow troops.

The crossbows were far more loaded than the pistols, so the Bu Qi, expecting them to achieve more success, placed them behind the blast area, where they could face the remaining 6,000 or so follow-up troops of the Wei army.

Almost at the same time as the hand#gun team was launched, the crossbow troops also began to be launched, only to hear the sound of "whoosh", which was the sound caused by the friction between the crossbow arrows and the air when the horse crossbow was fired. Each horse crossbow is far apart from each other, and each horse crossbow is about to manage thirty Wei troops, that is to say, the infantry arranges a horse crossbow hunting group every thirty people.

A horse crossbow hunting group includes so many people: a shooter, who is holding a horse crossbow and is responsible for hunting the pig's feet of the Wei army; Two receivers, each of whom carries a receiver, will hand over the receiver as soon as the archer empties the receiver to assist the archer in changing the receiver. In addition, they each have a shield and a knife, and can work part-time as sword and shield bearers to assist in defending the flanks of the team;

The two wolf whizzers, since they were sneaking over, could not carry a long professional wolf whick, so they used freshly cut branches instead of wolf whizzes. They were responsible for sticking long, leafy wolf trumpets out of the front of the ranks and used them to hinder enemy attacks; Two sword and shield men, in front of the hunting group, are responsible for withstanding attacks from the front;

Two pikemen, responsible for sticking their spears out of the gaps in their shields and stabbing them to death when the attacking enemy is blocked by the sword and shield men; The last one is the captain, who is responsible for commanding and filling in the gaps. This is the Mandarin Duck Butterfly Array that Liu Hou played when he played field games with Sun Shangxiang when he was a child.

Because the Hong army uses a lot of firearms, or it is an invulnerable rattan armor soldier, so almost no one in the Hong army uses this formation, Liu Hou has always believed in absolute strength, as long as there is more absolute strength than the enemy, just push it over, and there is no need to use any clever formation.

The formation commonly used by the Hong army is to send one or several columns to form a neat phalanx, and then push it over like a bulldozer.

Now there are not many people in the Hong army who still remember this formation, but Bu Qi remembers. Buqi was originally a general of Wu State, and Sun Shangxiang was taken back to Wu by Sun Quan that year, so he naturally brought this method back to Wu State.

This formation was used by Qi Jiguang when he resisted the Japanese, and it was invented after summing up a lot of experience of his predecessors, and it can be said that it is thousands of years more advanced than the battle formation level of the Three Kingdoms era, and it is indeed a very useful thing.

The armies of Zhang Fei and Pang Tong often used this formation to fight against the # army of the Wei State, and repeatedly achieved good results. Guan Yu Shoujingzhou also used this formation to fight against the # army of Wu State, and after suffering several losses, Wu Guo also practiced this formation in the army, which brought back the disadvantage.

As a result, the generals of Wu generally understood this advanced formation, and Bu Qi was of course no exception, he had led his troops to fight in Lingnan alone, and often used this formation against the enemy, and was well versed in the subtleties of this formation.

In this ambush operation, after thinking about it, although the crossbow changed the arrow box quickly, it was also relatively speaking, there was always a certain time interval in the middle, and this time interval was not good, and the Wei army who reacted pounced on it, the horse crossbow shooter would become a little fat sheep in front of the gray wolf.

So, as soon as he had an idea, he temporarily formed this mutated mandarin duck butterfly array. There are some differences between this mutated formation component and the traditional Mandarin Duck Butterfly Formation, the biggest difference is that the main force of killing and wounding is not pikemen but crossbow arrows. With the help of fantastic horse crossbows, this new Mandarin Duck Butterfly Array is undoubtedly countless times more lethal than the traditional Mandarin Duck Butterfly Array.

Although the soldiers lack training, such a strong lineup should also be able to temporarily hinder the dying attack of the Wei army, after all, each blocking group faces no more than thirty enemies, and relying on the preemptive strike of the horse crossbow, before the Wei army reacts, at least one-third of its strength can be defeated, then, the final formation needs to defend only about twenty people.

Sure enough, after the crossbowmen began to shoot, many Wei soldiers came to their senses and rushed up to destroy these people who attacked them, the launch of the crossbow was not like a fire # gun, there was no huge popping sound, and it lacked that shocking effect, so although the Wei army that was suddenly attacked was also chaotic for a while, it woke up faster than the Wei army that attacked the hand # gun team sneak attack over there.

These Wei soldiers were also elite, and after they came to their senses, they did not need the organization of officers, and they spontaneously flocked to the hateful enemies who attacked them. The lethality of the horse crossbow is relatively weak, fifty crossbow arrows are shot out in one magazine, and only about ten Wei soldiers have lost their combat effectiveness, not that the accuracy of these shooters is too poor, but that the penetration of the horse crossbow is too weak.

These elite Wei soldiers generally wear paper armor, and even some have leather armor, although the crossbow can penetrate these non-metallic armor, but after being blocked by the armor, the Wei soldiers who are hit by the arrow are often injured but not killed, and they can fight to the death. This leads to the fact that archers often have to shoot several arrows at the same Wei soldier in a row to knock them down.

Of course, the throat and eyes, which are exposed to the vital areas, can be fatal with one blow, but these places are relatively small, and not all shooters are sharpshooters, so it is often difficult to shoot these vital parts. Overall, the knockdown rate of a crossbow or, to borrow the technical terminology of a hand#gun, is only about one-fifth.

That is, only one Wei soldier fell out of every five arrows and stopped moving. These Wei soldiers who fell and lost their ability to move will not all die, if the rescue is timely, there will still be a group of people who can be rescued, and how many people can be saved depends on the capacity of the Wei army's medical system.

However, the Wei army is still an old-fashioned army, there is almost no medical system to say, there are only a few doctors with the army, in that case, how many people can be saved can only depend on God.

After each archer emptied the first arrow box, at least twenty Wei troops surrounded each blocking group, and since the infantry placed the blocking group in one group every thirty Wei troops on average, the Wei soldiers in the confusion instinctively rushed to the blocking group near them.

In the absence of unified command, there was no situation where all the Wei soldiers in the two adjacent sections rushed to one blocking group, so there would not be a dangerous situation in which one blocking group faced forty people at the same time.

The moment of the real test came, and the Wei soldiers who rushed up in chaos were blocked by two big tree branches, and their momentum was stagnant, and the original fierce arrogance was like being poured with a basin of cold water, extinguishing most of them.

However, they did not stop there, but chopped the branches with knives, and some of them were pikemen, so they used their spears to stab the branches indiscriminately, trying to stab the Shu soldiers hiding behind. Of course, their actions were in vain, for the length of their spears was far inferior to that of a wolf's lance, so they could only stab the air except for a few leaves.

The sword soldiers were more flexible, after they split the branches and leaves in front of them, they quickly squeezed into some gaps, and as a result, when they were about to approach the shield of the Shu army in front, they were stabbed to the ground by two spears # head-on, and the person who fell to the ground would not disappear like in the game, but stayed in place, becoming a stumbling block, which hindered the charge of his companions who were still alive.

It didn't take long for three or five Wei troops to fall to the ground, three or five people were not much, but they were not bad as stumbling blocks. Originally, under the obstruction of the wolf, the Wei soldiers had already advanced with great difficulty, and with the addition of three or five corpses as stumbling blocks, their advance speed was even slower.

And there are people who tripped over stumbling blocks in the ground, and those who tripped over them naturally had bad luck, because they were easily trampled on by their co-workers and could easily become new stumbling blocks.

Although it was trampled by about 20 people at most, it was not enough to be trampled to death, but it was certain that he would be trampled half to death. The frontal attack was difficult, and naturally there were people who thought about the flank, so some Wei soldiers went around to the flank of the blocking group to attack.

It's a pity that there is also a sword and shield soldier on the side (a part-time sword and shield soldier with an arrow box), and the captain sometimes uses a bow and arrow, sometimes a spear to support, so that these Wei soldiers who make a detour can't bargain for a while.

In fact, the real weakness of this formation is the back, but unfortunately the Wei soldiers didn't expect to go around to the back to attack for a while, and when they finally had a master to see the clue, the crossbow finally changed the arrow box, so a new round of slaughter began.