Chapter 550: Bloody Night
The barracks or post house where the Ming army was stationed is an independent building complex not far from Gyeongbokgung Palace, and there are no other buildings within 50 steps around, and the view is extremely wide and there is nothing to obstruct.
This is also the reason why Zhu Cijiong chose to be stationed here in the first place.
"Dog, hurry up and take your people to move the antlers to the street outside."
"Ah Mao, remove all the door panels, tables, and everything that can be removed, and then move outside to build a parapet."
"The others hurry up and rest, and when the fight starts, they may not have a chance to eat all night, and it's no wonder that I've not warned you when I'm hungry, hurry up."
When Zhu Cijiong came out with a Type 20 rifle,
I saw that the soldiers of the Ming army were eating dry food on the wine.
"King Ding, why did you come out?" Xia Wanchun said, "Go back quickly, it's dangerous outside." ”
"Brother Duan, what did you say?" Zhu Cijiong turned his face and said, "At the moment of the war, you let the main general Gu hide behind as a turtle with a shrunken head?" You can say it, but you can't do it. ”
Xia Wanchun smiled when he heard this, and stood beside Zhu Cijiong.
The soldiers of the Ming army next to him heard the conversation between the two and their morale was greatly boosted.
His Royal Highness King Ding is a golden body, but he fights side by side with them, and they dare not serve the death force?
"Dingwang, a jar?" Xia Wanchun took out a can of clear wine from the wooden basket next to him.
"Good wine." Zhu Cijiong took a sip and praised, "Drinking Ming wine on a cold day is the most enjoyable." ”
Xia Wanchun handed over another piece of beef jerky, and when the two were eating meat and drinking, a gunshot suddenly rang out at the street in front of them, and then a small group of Ming troops rushed back.
This is a sentry placed at the street corner ahead.
"Here we are." Xia Wanchun's face sank.
"Come on." Zhu Cijiong wiped his mouth and threw the wine jar on the ground again.
In just a few moments, more than a dozen Ming army sentries rushed back to the barracks, and then returned to the barracks through the gaps in the antlers that had been removed.
When I looked back again, I saw that the black-pressed North Korean army had quickly covered up from the street in front of me, and there were thousands of people, maybe more.
Xia Wanchun immediately raised his handcuff and shouted: "Mr. A, line formation!" ”
A total of 450 infantry stepped forward with guns, quickly set up a line formation, divided into three rows in front and rear, each row of 150 people, exactly 50 meters in front of the barracks, Zhu Cijiong and 100 scouts armed with Type 20 rifles climbed to a high place, ready to condescendingly and freely hunt the important targets of the North Korean army.
Soon, the North Korean army was approaching within 100 paces.
"Phew! Woohoo Woo! "The musketeers of the North Korean army opened fire first.
The "parapet wall" that was temporarily built in front of the Ming army with door panels, window panels or tables was beaten to the point of crackling, and several Ming soldiers covered their faces and fell backwards.
The medical soldiers accompanying the army quickly stepped forward and carried the wounded Ming soldiers down.
The Ming army in the back row quickly stepped forward to keep the front row of the queue intact.
"Woohoo! Woohoo! "A few more rows of gunfire rang out, and the North Korean troops approached fifty paces.
Immediately, the sword and spearmen of the Korean army crossed the musketeers and charged at the Ming army, and the archers of the Korean army were followed by the archers, drawing their bows and firing arrows as they charged.
Waves of arrows rained down on the Ming army's line.
Xia Wanchun turned his left arm horizontally to block the front door, protected the face door with the help of his cloak, and shouted: "All of them, stabilize me, don't panic, continue to stabilize ...... for me"
From time to time, the screech of Xiuxiu passed by my ears.
There is also the sound of tuk-tuk when the arrow misses through the cotton armor and hits the iron gasket.
Even the hat-shaped helmet on Xia Wanchun's head seemed to have been hit by an arrow, but Xia Wanchun didn't care, because the bows and arrows equipped by the Korean army could not penetrate the Ming army's hat-shaped helmets.
In a word, the armament of the North Korean army is worse than that of the Ming army before Jiashen.
The firearms are poor, the bows and arrows are not well maintained, and the lethality is simply unsightly.
Indeed, the Korean army's arrow rain attack did little to the Ming army.
The howls of the North Korean army resounded in the night sky, and Xia Wanchun could basically judge the distance between the two sides just by his voice.
Estimating that the North Korean army was approaching within thirty steps, Xia Wanchun did not hesitate to press down the handcuffs, and then aimed at a Korean saber player who was in the front and pulled the trigger heavily.
"Phew!" A puff of white smoke rose instantly, and the tiger's mouth was slightly numb.
When I looked closely, I saw that the knife player had fallen to the ground.
Luckily, Xia Wanchun's handcuff directly hit the face of the North Korean army.
Xia Wanchun's gunfire was an order, and the 150 Ming soldiers in the first row unanimously pulled the trigger.
A dense sound of guns rose into the sky, and a thick white smoke filled the air in an instant, and the Korean saber players who rushed to the front fell to the ground like wheat cut down in autumn.
The shoddy wooden plaque could not stop the lead of the 12.8 caliber flintlock pistol.
The seventy or eighty Korean saber players who rushed to the front row fell in an instant.
The remaining dozen or so sword players were stunned on the spot, but they couldn't turn around and run away at this time, because the spearmen behind them were pushing them forward, so they could only passively rush forward.
The second team of 150 musketeers of the Ming army quickly changed up.
There was another burst of gunfire, and the remaining dozen or so knife players all lay down.
The spearmen of the North Korean army who followed behind also lay down dozens of them.
At this time, the North Korean army in front was still confused, and the North Korean army in the back row was still pushing the North Korean army in front to rush forward, so the whole looked "very brave".
The North Korean army will be stunned, firstly because it is night, and secondly because it has never fought such a battle.
Row after row of North Korean soldiers screamed and scrambled to hit the muzzle of the gun.
"It's okay to be a thief." Xia Wanchun was a little surprised, and hurriedly ordered, "Mr. B, prepare the grenade!" ”
Xia Wanchun was thinking, in case General A's line formation could not withstand the charge of the North Korean army, let General B throw grenades, anyway, the Ming army was protected by a parapet, and safety was still guaranteed.
However, Xia Wanchun's worries are unnecessary.
As soon as he finished speaking, there were continuous gunshots on the roof behind him.
But it was Zhu Cijiong, who was standing on a high place, and a hundred scouts who shot him.
Zhu Cijiong and 100 scouts fired at the same time as the 150 musketeers of the 3rd Brigade of the First General Division, which caused even greater damage to the North Korean army, and even the rear of the North Korean army suffered casualties.
This salvo alone reimbursed at least more than 100 North Korean troops.
And at this time, the first few rows of North Korean troops who were lucky not to die finally recovered from their ignorance.
Then the North Korean army was unsurprisingly defeated, first the North Korean army in front, then the North Korean army in the center, and finally spread to the entire North Korean army, and thousands of people became a mass of scattered sand in an instant.
If it was in the field, Xia Wanchun would definitely order the trumpet to blow and the whole battalion charged.
But now it is in the city of Seoul, not only the terrain is complicated, but also there are Korean troops everywhere, so Xia Wanchun did not rashly order a charge, but only ordered the Ming army officers and soldiers to continue to advance repeatedly, and let go of the rout, and knocked down a lot before the Korean army ran away.
"Brother Duan, these Goryeo sticks are too useless."
"That's right, we haven't even finished warming up yet."
Several other leading soldiers teased Xia Wanchun one after another.
Xia Wanchun, who is a deputy general, said: "Don't be careless, hurry up and load ammunition." ”
After a pause, Xia Wanchun said again: "If nothing else, the North Korean army should attack me from several other directions at the same time, so General B, General C and General Ding can also enter the position, and General E is the reserve, once there is a critical situation in any direction, support immediately." ”
Xia Wanchun's judgment was completely correct.
Only a quarter of an hour later, the North Korean army launched a second offensive.
And this time it was really attacking from four directions at the same time, south, south, and north.
It's just that the Ming army was already prepared, and the North Korean army was beaten again.
In less than half an hour, the Ming army repelled two attacks by the Korean army.
But I saw that the open space around the post house was already full of corpses or wounded soldiers of the North Korean army, and the blood flowing from the North Korean soldiers almost stained the four streets red.
……
Gyeongbokgung Palace was also attacked by the rebels.
And there were more rebels attacking Gyeongbokgung Palace, and they even carried artillery.
With a "boom", the heavy and sturdy main entrance of Gyeongbokgung Palace was finally blasted open, and then the rebels swarmed in under the rain of arrows from the chamberlain and the Korean Janissaries.
But fortunately, there are many palace gates behind Gwanghwamun Gate.
The chamberlains and the Praetorian Guards could resist for a while with the palace gate.
But Lee, who had just stayed in Gwanghwamun to supervise the battle? But he was already frightened and lost his soul, and handed over the task of guarding the Qinzheng Gate and the Qinzheng Palace to the chief of the inner chamberlain, and hurried to Li Liang's bedroom.
Plum? I have no idea, I have to find Li Liang to get an idea.
"Father, father is not good, the rebels have broken through Guanghuamen."
Plum? stumbled into Li Kun's bedroom, and said in a panic: "How is this good? How good is that? Father, why don't we run from the Shenwu Gate quickly, while there are no rebels outside the Shenwu Gate now, how about it? ”
"Hutu, do you think the rebel party will leave the Shenwu Sect for you and my father and son to escape?" Li Liang was almost angry to death on the spot, and said in his heart, why did I choose you, a waste, to be the son of the world?
Plum? "What can I do?" ”
"Don't panic." Li Qi said in a deep voice, "Reinforcements will arrive soon." ”
"Reinforcements?" Plum? Panicked, "Father, are you sick and stupid?" The edicts of King Qin of Gangwon, Hwanghae, and Chungcheong have just been issued, and it will take two days for King Qin's army to arrive at the earliest. ”
Li Qi said: "Lone is talking about the Ming army, and the Ming army will come to reinforcements soon." ”
"Ming Army?" Plum? Shaking his head like a rattle, "The Ming army is now difficult to protect itself." ”
"Idiot, you forgot about the battle outside the Changyi Gate?" Li Liang didn't have a good breath and said, "The rebels are definitely not the opponents of the Great Tomorrow soldiers, no matter how many rebels there are, you only need to take the inner servants and the Praetorian Guards to hold on for half an hour, and the Ming army will arrive!" At that time, you and I, father and son, will be able to sit back and relax. ”
[The state has recovered slightly, three shifts today, two shifts in the future, and strive for three shifts]