Chapter Eighty-Eight: Breaking the Enemy
Li Zhaoji looked at Yang Yandi: "What are you going to do?" ”
"Let the vanguard led by Liu Shun change the spear, and tie a piece of wood diagonally under the spear, which can be used as a grappling hook to hook down these bamboo trenches." Yang Yandi said.
Li Zhaoji nodded, but Atta said: "Don't look at the clumps of bamboo, which are tied to the wooden fence, and the arm-thick wood is buried deeply, and it is difficult to pull it down." ”
Yang Yandi smiled, pointed to the artillery that had been placed in the front line, and said, "Then I have to hand it over to them." ”
Li Zhaoji said: "Yandi, Ah Shun, give you an hour to prepare, an hour later to open artillery to attack, and after the order, build a meal and eat enough to attack." ”
"What about us, what are we Kedagrans doing?" Atta found that Li Zhaoji's arrangement did not have his place at all, and it was clear that he had brought more troops than his army.
Li Zhaoji pointed to the woods on the east side and said: "If I were Kalaw, I would have escaped there if I couldn't stop the attack, you put your team there, and give them a hard blow when they escaped, remember, take more prisoners, kill less, the trading company needs strong laborers who can work." ”
Ata's eyes widened instantly: "I have brought the bravest samurai, to take on the most severe mission. ”
Li Zhaoji pointed to the volunteer team resting cross-legged in the woods, and said: "The courage and martial arts of the Kaidagran people will be demonstrated by these people, and I can't send untrained and armed soldiers to the front, that is a harm to you."
Atta, you'd better listen to me, we want as many people as possible to live to celebrate the victory and enjoy the victory, instead of watching the lonely widows in the village community cry, do you understand? ”
"I'm going to be in my place, and I'm going to make a look." Atta said with a fist shaken and a third of his anger as he beckoned his men and returned to his team.
Yang Yandi said: "Maybe we can let this group of familiar fans rush to kill a wave first, and test the truth." ”
Li Zhaoji shook his head slightly: "This is the battle for the trading company's foothold, to win, and to win beautifully." ”
Yang Yandi smiled and went to work.
The vanguard and the convoy took on an important task, the vanguard soldiers were busy reworking their newly acquired spears, while the convoy had the Kedagran warriors who accompanied the army cut down the trees, and they cut down many thumb-thick branches, cleaned them, nailed them into large plates, and reinforced them with thick branches.
It took three people to lift these cards, and just eight could protect all the vanguard in the back, but Yang Yandi asked them to make twenty, so that new men were deployed in the rear camp.
Boom Boom!
In the afternoon, the artillery began to prepare for fire before the attack, the rate of shelling was not very fast, and solid shells were used, the purpose was to destroy the supporting structure of the bamboo trench, Li Zhaoji looked at the effect of the artillery with a telescope, shook his head slightly, and said: "It's still too bad, the Franc machine is not used." ”
Most of the Franc cannons of the trading company were searched from the wrecks of Neilingding Island, and most of them were small cannons, which were not very powerful, and because of the backwardness of casting technology and the airtightness between the Franc machine gun and the mother gun, the charge was generally relatively small.
Li Zhaoji also wanted to use the four-pounder or six-pounder guns on armed merchant ships to transform them into field guns, but the fleet was also desperately short of artillery, so this matter could only be postponed and the Franco-generals.
The bamboo trench was just a temporary fortification made of wooden stakes and thorn bamboo, which could not withstand the long-term shelling of the artillery, and had begun to show signs of collapse and collapse, and Liu Shun, as the main general of the forward, could no longer bear it, carrying a spear and circling there.
Li Zhaoji beckoned him to his side, carefully inspected the armor he was wearing, fastened his helmet with face protection on his head, and said: "If the eldest husband wants to make meritorious achievements, it is not okay not to personally participate in the battle, but you must also be careful and careful, you are Lao Liu's nephew, and you have been by my side for the longest time, I hope to put more gold bars in the palm of your hand, instead of putting this armor in your coffin."
Do you know? ”
Liu Shun nodded heavily, his eyes were slightly moist, during this time he followed Li Zhaoji, from the Dongfang to Lingding Island, to Guangzhou and Tamsui, no one was by Li Zhaoji's side longer, and he had long thought of having an opportunity to show his ability, but he forgot Li Zhaoji's worries about himself.
"Don't worry, the shopkeeper, I'm sure I'll come back alive, and I'll cut off Kalaw's head for you." Liu Shun choked up and said.
"Go, a good man should make a career and kill more!" Li Zhaoji patted Liu Shun on the shoulder and said his last encouragement.
The infantry of the expeditionary army was trained for a period of time, but the coordination between the infantry and the artillery was completely blank, so the infantry began to attack only after the artillery team finished firing and withdrew and retracted.
With a rapid drum beat, the flags of each infantry team began to tilt, and the dense horizontal team still launched an attack on the bamboo trench defense line, the speed of the troops was not fast, everyone advanced with the drum beat, forming several zigzag lines, and countless spears pointed diagonally to the sky, like a forest advancing.
Kalou and Murro stood on the shooting tower, and when they saw the slowly approaching expeditionary army in front of them, their expressions became tense, their throats were dry, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down.
Both of them were experienced warriors, but they had never seen such a strict military formation, the ranks were neat, the pace was uniform, and the faces of the soldiers were resolute and serious, just like a group of fleshless Shura.
"Shoot arrows, we can't let them come any closer." After all, Murro is not as calm as Kalaw, he gritted his teeth and said.
The expeditionary army in front of him had reached a position of less than seventy paces, but this distance was still too far, and only a small number of Atayal's projection weapons could be released to that position, and the power was pitiful.
Kalou suppressed the excitement in his heart, he knew that he had to hold steady, and only by getting the enemy closer could he exert his power.
He remembered that when he attacked the Holy Hill that day, he encountered an earth-shattering volley, and he also wanted to follow suit and give Fu Lao an instant blow.
But he simply didn't have that opportunity.
"Musketeers come forward!"
As Yang Yandi gave the order, the arquebusiers in the guard rushed forward from the gap in the queue, and with a command, fired a volley at the bamboo trench fortifications.
After the salvo, a white smoke dragon was formed, spreading out horizontally.
"Ahh
Murro screamed and clutched his shoulder, which had been hit by buckshot.
And one of the heads of Shengban was shattered in front of Kalaw, and Kalaw immediately turned over and got off the shooting tower, and several shooting towers were attacked by lead bullets at the same time, casualties appeared, and the sound of gunfire and Shengban's screams also ignited the tense atmosphere.
The raw archers no longer obeyed the order, and fired back with all means, shooting arrows with soft bows, and throwing spears to the extreme, throwing spears one by one, all of which were behind the smoke and dust, but there, the soldiers of the convoy had already put the large rattan cards in the front, and the arquebusiers and vanguard soldiers who had reloaded their bullets were protected behind.
All kinds of throwing weapons hit the rattan cards and armor, making a clanging sound, the expeditionary army was a little riotous, but the formation was kept complete, and there were also unlucky eggs who were hit, the lightly injured got up and continued to fight, while the seriously injured were dragged to the rear by the behind, and the whole formation was chaotic and scattered, and the gathering was tighter.
After a burst of projection, the expeditionary army continued to advance, until it reached the front of the trench, and the big rattan cards with arrows and spears were directly used as bridges and covered together, so that the armored vanguard could directly cross, only half of the large rattan cards were used for this, and the rest continued to cover.
The arquebusiers continued to reload and shoot behind the rattan cards, killing one soldier after another at a distance of less than twenty paces.
And Liu Shun roared a tiger, led the armored vanguard to cross the trench, hooked the bamboo trench, pulled it down, and was hit by the Franco machine gun several back and forth bamboo trenches, many fences have been broken, and the whole section can be dragged to the ground.
After clearing a section of bamboo trenches, Liu Shun retreated first according to the prior agreement, and Yang Yandi wanted to see if the enemy counterattacked.
After waiting for a while, the counterattack did not appear, and the escort team continued to advance, first crossing the trench, placing the remaining rattan cards on the bamboo trench that had fallen to the ground, tying these together, and pressing the things that could not be dragged away for a while, and then, Liu Shun rushed in with the armored vanguard, followed by the escort team, and then the volunteer team.
In fact, after the musket volley, Shengban had already begun to collapse, and Kalaw killed several deserters, but he couldn't stop it, and he united his own guards to launch a counterattack, but just after concentrating, he was disrupted by a volley of arquebusiers who rushed in.
At first, the rebels and the escorts maintained their formation, stabbing them to death one by one with spears, but soon found that the enemy had collapsed, and the team immediately dispersed and chased them around.
Shengban's escape exposed his fragile back to the soldiers armed with various sharp blades, and he rushed to kill the soldiers in front of him and killed one after another.
On the holy hill, Zhao Dahe also led all the soldiers to rush down and give the enemy a flank attack.
The only thing Kalaw did right was to shout a retreat south at the time of the collapse, where there was a river.
In fact, most of the people on the battlefield could swim, but the soldiers in armor obviously did not dare to jump into the river like the shirtless Ikuban, but assisted the musketeers in killing the struggling guys in the water one by one.
Atta's soldiers and horses also intercepted some of them, but only a few, and captured more than seventy prisoners.
On the Holy Hill, Tang Mu rushed down with a short spear, but most of the enemies ran south, just as he wanted to keep up with the footsteps of Che Zhi Dan to rush and kill, he found that three or four guys fled to the cliff on the side of the Holy Hill, the first one had a bright feather on his head and many tattoos on his body.
Tang Mu knew that among the natives, the more tattoos, the higher the status, and the heart said that this was at least a commander or a tribal leader, so he chased and killed him with a spear.
Bang, Tang Mu shot with a pistol, this was the weapon that Zhao Dahe rewarded him after the last defense battle.
A gunshot rang out, letting the few people disperse, Tang Mu identified the leader, and kept chasing and killing, when he passed through a bush, a shadow flew out from it, the leader fell to the ground, and the axe in his hand was lost.
But the knocked down Shengfan turned over and pressed the attacker on his body, and seeing Tang Mu chasing after him, he directly pulled out a bone spike and aimed it at the attacker's head.
"If you come again, I'll kill him." Shengban shouted loudly, his body twitching, partly because of the fear of the firearm in front of him, and on the other hand, the constant pain in his shoulder.
Yes, he was Muro, at the moment of collapse, he chose not to follow the team, but fled into the deep mountains and old forests, but for some reason he was targeted by two teenagers.
"Get down on your knees and surrender, or I'll hit you in the head." Tang Mu pointed his pistol at Mu Luo, the first two words were the indigenous language learned from Shichiro Yoshida, and the back was Chinese, and he had already found that Mu Luo was afraid of the musket in his hand, so even if the flintlock pistol was no longer bullets, Tang Mu was still pretending to be a tiger.
The hesitation on Mu Luo's face was captured by Tang Mu, Tang Mu stepped forward again, and brought the pistol closer to Mu Luo little by little, the feeling of oppression made Mu Luo's whole body tremble, until the pistol was stuffed into his mouth, he didn't have the courage to stab the hostage in his hand.
"Quick, tie him up." Tang Mu shouted to the person who was kneeling on the ground coughing.
Li Si got up and tied up Mu Luo, Tang Mu asked: "Who are you and what is your name, what a useless guy, you were arrested by Shengfan." ”
Li Sizhi's face was flushed, and he said, "My name is Li Sizhi, and I came to fight with the big shopkeeper. ”
Tang Mu remembered that the last time he went back to Tamsui City, he heard that the big shopkeeper transferred a smart boy to his side to cultivate, and he also thought, can there be a smarter boy in this world than himself?
"It turns out that you are the Sizhi brothers." Tang Mu patted Li Sizhi's shoulder, no longer looking down on him just now.
At this time, several soldiers came after him, saw Mu Luo who was tied up, and asked, "Is this guy dead or alive?" ”
Tang Mu laughed: "Of course it's alive." ”
As he spoke, he hooked Li Sizhi's shoulders and said excitedly, "Our brothers caught it." ”