Chapter 247 The enemy camp is embattled on all sides at night

Andrew was a little depressed, the two days of attack, there was no effect, those soldiers in the city, always able to fire before they put these guys into their own musket 'shooting' range, this kind of 'shooting' range, he had never seen it, if it weren't for the faces of those soldiers,

It doesn't make sense that the weapons in the hands of his soldiers are not as advanced as the firearms in the hands of these Ming Dynasty soldiers. To his dismay, the barrel-like weapons they had encountered when they had just landed seemed to be more stored in the small city, and whenever his soldiers tried to fire close to the city walls, they flew out along with the gunfire from the city.

For muskets with a fixed 'firing' range, after suffering several losses, the soldiers all know that as long as they do not approach the 'firing' range of the musket, they will basically not cause much damage to themselves, but this kind of 'indiscriminate' arrow weapons have never been allowed to 'touch' through, and the flight of the arrows has no trajectory and irregularity, just like a nest of wasps that have just left the hive, flying wherever they want, without any rules at all.

This mysterious weapon made the soldiers far more afraid than they feared the muskets on the city. In the past two days, it has been difficult to motivate the morale of the soldiers with the 'temptation' and 'confusion' that allowed the soldiers to plunder after the city was broken, and it is still difficult to say whether they can enter the city to rob it, but if they go to attack the city with bullets and arrows, it is very likely that they will lose their 'lives' here, everyone is here to make a fortune, not to send their lives, and the mercenaries have an account in their hearts.

"Today's roundabout attack from the flank failed again, I heard that a lot of soldiers died, maybe, tomorrow it will be my turn to attack with my men in a roundabout way!" Andrew secretly muttered in his heart, he didn't want to fight such a battle at all, except for the first day of fighting, there was still a bit of a battle, and in the next few days, where was it like a war? Except for adding some unnecessary casualties, it is simply useless.

Unfortunately, he could only command two companies under his command, and he could not command the others. If he had enough command authority to command the entire army, he would definitely not have such a humiliating style of fighting, at least, after the enemy's new defeat on the first day, he would take advantage of the enemy's 'chaos' and rush into the city regardless of casualties, and would not have been under the city for so many days.

In the past few days, the soldiers' dry rations are almost exhausted, and it is so difficult to replenish here, he really can't imagine what will happen if he returns to the fleet because of the lack of food, and the enemies in the city chase him out.

Yesterday, he proposed a plan to feign a withdrawal of troops and lure the enemy out of the city to chase after him, but unexpectedly he was unanimously rejected by several other commanders. The reason is very ridiculous, it is actually because of this, which greatly damages the face of the king's **, and the pride of these commanders cannot accept such a strategy to win a battle.

Is there anything more ridiculous in the world? The face of the king's ** people? The glory of the king's people? Are these the kings? It's just a mercenary army composed of a group of robbers and criminals, and they are not fighting for the kingdom, but for the nobles with a round belly, fighting for money, and the glory of the king of Guan! These guys are simply soldiers and their brains are broken.

Andrew cursed a few words in a low voice, the ground shook slightly, the candle on the empty cartridge 'medicine' box shook a little, he reached out and stabilized the candle. He didn't want to add to the list of dead an officer who lost his 'life' because of a tent fire.

The hand pressed on the 'medicine' box, and the 'medicine' box was still shaking slightly, and this shaking was not only not because his hand was holding down to stop, but it seemed that there was an increasingly violent posture, and in the end, he felt that the whole tent seemed to start shaking.

"Bang! Bang! Outside there was a gunshot, and he could tell that it was the disembowel of the beak muskets of the soldiers in his battalion, but then there was a short, dull sound of gunfire that he could not distinguish!

"There's an enemy raiding the camp!?" He stretched out his hand and copied the musket placed beside the 'bed', extinguished the candle, and without hesitation opened the tent and ran out, and at the moment when he lifted the tent, a wild cry that was almost 'into' human voice came from afar: "Cavalry, enemy cavalry!" ”

The sound stopped abruptly, and then there were countless thunderous horses' hooves, and at last, Andrew understood what the tremors he felt in the tent were all about.

"Go up, go up, back up the hill!" Andrew looked around, discerned the direction, and immediately waved the gun in his hand and shouted at the soldiers who were 'messing around'.

The enemy's cavalry had already appeared on the edge of the camp, leaving him little time to react, and for a musket unit without pikemen protection, a cavalry surprise was simply a nightmare for them. No matter where the cavalry came from, Andrew only knew that in the night', they had lost enough safety distance, and if they didn't quickly open the safe distance, when these cavalry rushed in front of these scattered and disorganized soldiers, they would be faced with an outright massacre.

"Happy!" Qiu Shi looked at an enemy who was hit by his own horse and flew away diagonally, and took his own horse's belly with his hand. Drawing a three-eyed firearm, he pulled the trigger on the back of an enemy who was trying to escape, and the guy ran forward with his teeth and claws, and then fell to the ground with a pop like a broken cloth bag, and then, Qiu Shi's horse's hooves kicked him mercilessly, and ran forward without looking back, behind him, countless swarthy shadows, followed by him, completely submerged the broken sack under the horse's hooves.

The great horsemen, like an unstoppable mudslide, rumbled through the camp, trampling everything that stood in their way, everything that stood in their way, and even if some of the people who were lucky enough to avoid the mudslide, they did not escape the little sparks that burst out from both sides of the mudslide. This is a troop of musketeers, and even if they run faster than their horses, can they still be faster than the projectiles of the three-eyed muskets?

Andrew's quick decision still played a certain role, and from this point of view, he really has the potential to be the supreme commander of this force. At least under his desperate command, most of his direct subordinates still reacted, and followed him up to a small hill closest to them, plus some stragglers of other companies that had gathered together, and there were still three or four hundred people behind him at this moment, which was already almost one-third of the strength of their entire camp.

Seeing that the cavalry at the foot of the mountain rushed to the foot of the mountain, they slowly adjusted their direction and rushed back towards the already messy camp again, and all the people on the mountain understood that those who did not have time to escape to the mountain were afraid that they would never be able to escape.

"Everyone counts their weapons and ammunition and prepares for battle!" Andrew couldn't see any face in the night, but the soldiers who were familiar with him could still hear it, and there was a hint of trembling in his words.

"Look, Captain!" A soldier called Andrew, and the teeth in his mouth rattled so loudly that almost everyone around him could hear it.

Andrew turned his head and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, and suddenly, a heart seemed to sink to the bottom of the sea.

On the back side of the mountain, dotted torches lit up, at first a few, then dozens, hundreds, and finally, the back of the whole mountain turned into a sea of torches, under which the faces of orientals were quiet and expressionless.

There is an ambush here! Without careful calculation, Andrew could tell that the enemies in ambush here were at least several times more than theirs, and in the corner of his eye, in the direction of that damn city, there were also scattered torches--- the enemies in the city began to leave the city!

There was a large force of enemy cavalry armed with muskets at the foot of the mountain, thousands of ambush soldiers waiting for them on the mountain, and the enemy with that kind of special 'firing' range musket in the city came out of the city to surround him, and he really couldn't think of where his hundreds of men lived.

"It's a trap!" His composure was gone, and he began to be a little hysterical, "A trap that 'lured' us all to kill in this hellish place, I shouldn't have come to this place in the first place!" ”

"Captain!" A voice came out of nowhere: "Except for our company on duty, the weapons and ammunition are complete, the others basically do not carry weapons, captain, our ammunition and ammunition are not enough to support a battle!" ”

"Let's surrender!" The sergeant of the report said with some difficulty: "Surrender in front of an absolutely superior enemy, there will be no damage to your honor!" ”

"Surrender?" Hearing this word, Andrew was stunned for a moment, and then his mood stabilized a lot: "Even if you want to surrender, it depends on whether people accept it or not, you call the soldiers with weapons in their hands to the front to defend, don't take the initiative to contact them, and then you ask, which people understand the words of the Ming Empire, after staying here for so long, someone will definitely understand!" ”

His anger did not make him lose his mind, and at this time, if he continued to fight, it was obvious that the lucky 'goddess' would not be on their side, and surrender was undoubtedly the only option if he could get a chance to survive.

"Find these people, let them teach all the people how to shout 'surrender' in the words of the Ming Empire, and when the enemy starts to attack, shout loudly together, and the soldiers on the defense should not fire and anger them until there is no enemy who has not endangered their lives!"

"Is there a white flag, forget it, certainly not, tell all those who wear white shirts and white 'trousers' to take off these white 'coloured' clothes, tie them to whatever they can find, and tell them that if they don't want to die, do as I say! Whether or not these enemies understand my intentions, we will do what we should do, and give the rest to God! ”

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