Chapter 495 The defeat of the garrison
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Soon, more than a hundred panic-like soldiers, led by Zhong Zhaoyu, climbed the broken city wall. Read the wonderful light novel, go to
Looking out of the city, a group of 500 people was found. Just one glance, I felt a murderous Tartar cavalry appearing at a three hundred steps outside the city.
Just one glance, the new recruits standing beside Zhong Zhaoyu were so scared that they didn't dare to breathe. Someone even had a face that turned pale because of fear.
If the soldiers around him were veterans ten days ago, Zhong Zhaoyu could say with certainty that even if the five hundred Tartars outside the city were so elite, the First Guard Regiment could eat them completely without even a single bone residue.
However, standing beside Zhong Zhaoyu was not the veterans who fought against the Later Jin Tartars, but the people who had just put down their hoes for less than a few days. Although the 500 elite Tartars outside the city were not large, from Zhong Zhaoyu's perspective, these cavalry must be very rare elite cavalry in the Later Jin Dynasty.
In this case, even if the first garrison regiment he is in has a three-fold advantage in military strength, it is difficult to gain advantage on the battlefield. After all, the huge gap between the Tartars and the garrison division lies there.
Just as more than a thousand soldiers of the garrison regiment were in worry and panic from top to bottom, the five hundred Tatar cavalry, who were standing at three hundred steps outside the city, moved directly.
Five hundred Taurus cavalry, divided into five, rushed towards Benxi County from different directions.
Soon, the speed of five hundred cavalry increased to the extreme
Looking around, although the number of the Tartar cavalry was not large, it created a shocking scene of more than 1,000 soldiers of the First Guard Regiment.
As the Tartars got closer and closer to the city wall, the city walls under their feet began to tremble with the sound of war horses and horse hooves. More than a thousand garrison soldiers defending the city walls were like headless flies, running back and forth on the city walls in panic. From them, they did not see any qualities that soldiers possessed.
Regarding the current situation, the leader of the First Guarding Corps saw it and was anxious.
However, the commander of the garrison regiment was not in panic like his subordinates because he still had the trump card of artillery in his hand.
Thinking of this, the garrison leader finally calmed down a lot.
Without thinking, he ordered: "Fire the artillery. Order the artillery, fire the artillery immediately."
After the roaring cannon sounded on the battlefield, the deafening explosion of shells sounded like thunder, outside the city. Amid this explosion, more than a dozen Tartar cavalry were directly overturned to the ground on the charge road.
However, when the second round of shells fired by the garrison regiment landed outside the city with a whistling sound, the attacked Tartars were obviously ready.
Because, the Tartars, who had just gathered together, quickly spread out as if they had been negotiated.
More than a dozen flowering bombs that exploded, only less than five Tartars were wiped out. When the third round of shells landed, the number of Tartars could be wiped out became only a handful.
At this time, the garrison commander had to place his hopes on more than a thousand new recruits under his command who were in panic. Soon, a slightly messy gunfire began to sound on the battlefield.
The flying lead bullets were basically unpredictable because of the fear of the battlefield and the Tartars outside the city.
Hundreds of leads bounced down in a round, and only a few Tartars were eliminated.
Faced with this battle, the garrison commander's face turned gloomy because of shame.
Just as the lead bullets flew far away and caused only a handful of casualties to the Tartars. The five scattered Taurus cavalry had already rushed to less than eighty steps from the city wall.
At this time, the face of the garrison leader had changed from gloomy to panic.
He did not expect that the new recruits under his command would be so unbearable. He also did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the Tartars outside the city would be so fierce, and they were simply incomparable to the Tartars he met in the Jin Dynasty.
In a panic, the leader of the garrison team had to play his last trump card, grenade.
Faced with the increasing fear of his subordinates around him, the leader of the garrison regiment had to roar loudly: "Why are you still standing there for musketeers, continue shooting, bomb throwers, prepare the grenade without the general's order, and no soldier will step back, otherwise military law will be engaged in military law."
As soon as the order was issued, the roar of officers at all levels began to sound on the battlefield.
Under the supervision of these officers, the subordinates who were still in panic just now gradually became stable.
At this moment, a scene that was beyond everyone appeared in front of everyone again.
The Tartar cavalry, who had already rushed to forty or fifty steps outside the city, did not continue to rush towards the city wall in a daze. Instead, they quickly turned their horses and rode around the city walls.
Of course, the Tartars, who lost dozens of people, did not show off their power to the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city. Instead, they picked up horse bows, bent their bows and arrows, and shot out rounds of arrows at the panic Tiger and Leopard Army on the city walls.
"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh ah ah" The slight whistling sound of arrows breaking through the air just sounded on the battlefield, and a scream filled with horror sounded on the city wall.
Under the attack of hundreds of arrows, dozens of Tartars fell into a pool of blood with horror on their faces before they could react.
Faced with death, more than a thousand new recruits who had just stabilized became chaotic again.
As more and more soldiers fell into the arrows shot by the Tartars, the chaos became more and more intense. The gunshots that could have been kept ringing just now have become weaker and weaker at this moment.
Because the recruits who have not been trained too much have no intention of continuing to defend the city in the face of death.
If officers at all levels had not killed several soldiers who wanted to flee on the battlefield and more than a thousand soldiers who were defending the city walls, they would have probably collapsed on the battlefield directly under the attack of the Tartars' cavalry and shooting.
Faced with the increasingly severe form of the battlefield, officers at all levels scattered in the garrison regiment had to pick up muskets themselves and shoot rounds of lead bullets at the Tartars dozens of steps away from the city wall at the fastest speed.
The first company where Zhong Zhaoyu is located is right at the city gate, and the arrow attacks he suffered are undoubtedly the most dense.
Therefore, the company led by Zhong Zhaoyu also did not get rid of the chaos.
However, after many challenges to life and death, Zhong Zhaoyu has developed the courage to remain calm in the face of difficulties. Of course, as a soldier, Zhong Zhaoyu has also had a lot of decisiveness and murderous aura.
Faced with chaos, Zhong Zhaoyu quickly emitted a murderous aura outward.
Because he knew that if he could not stabilize the soldiers under his command and defeat the Tartars outside the city, the more than 100 soldiers under his command would be killed by the arrows shot from the Tartars continuously at the city wall.
In this case, the Benxi County Town under your feet will be captured by the Tartars.
So, Zhong Zhaoyu, who was full of murderous aura, pulled out his sword and slashed the sword to a subordinate who was closest to him without hesitation.
A flash of light flashed, and a round head was cut off from his subordinates by Zhong Zhaoyu.
Facing the bloody scene in front of him, Zhong Zhaoyu shouted directly: "Everyone calms me down and there are those who mess around everywhere, he will be your fate."
"Plat-leaders at all levels should immediately form a musket array according to training."
"I and the two deputy company commanders personally supervise the formation. If anyone does not obey the order, he will be killed without mercy."
Facing the round head in front of him, the headless corpse was constantly gushing out blood. More than one hundred new recruits could only bite the bullet and form a musket formation amid the squad leader's screams and scolds, allowing the arrows shot by the Tartars to keep falling by their side, killing one comrade after another.
Seeing this, Zhong Zhaoyu breathed a sigh of relief while not relaxing his vigilance. Because the Tartars outside the city were still shooting arrows, and since the beginning of the battle, he has lost more than a dozen subordinates.
So, Zhong Zhaoyu, who had a murderous look on his face, ordered again: "What are you still standing there for the three-stage shooting you trained? Shoot, shoot immediately, you must fight back the Tartars outside the city, otherwise, everyone here will die."
"Squad one shot immediately"
"Retreat three steps, clear the chamber and load the bullet"
"Squad 2 immediately fired a shot and took three steps back, cleared the chamber and loaded the bullets"
As the orders of platoon leaders at all levels sounded on the battlefield, rows of orderly musket shootings finally rang out on the city wall that lasted for more than a mile.
Although most of the lead bullets shot were flew away because of the panic of the musketeers.
However, when every round of gunfire sounded, there were a few Tartars who were dismissed with screams.
More importantly, as the gunfire continues, the panic that covers the soldiers' faces becomes less and less. In this case, the lead bullets shot by the soldiers become more and more accurate.
In addition, the lead bullets shot from more than 200 officers of the garrison regiment were continuously fired. The Tartars, who kept shooting arrows outside the city, finally retreated after losing more than 100 people in a row.
Of course, in the round after round of arrows shot by the Tartars, more than a thousand garrison soldiers guarding the city wall also suffered losses of about 400 people.
Facing his subordinates beside him who were still scared, the leader of the garrison team finally relaxed.
Just as he looked outside the city, a picture directly attracted the attention of the group leader
Among the more than 100 corpses left by the Tartars outside the city, except for the sixty or seventy scattered scattered, the remaining fifty or sixty corpses were all in front of the continuous defense. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!