Chapter 482: An Ordinary Battle (4) (2 Chapters in 1)
Chapter 482 An ordinary battle (4) (two chapters in one)
Author: Uncle Long Legs
Chapter 482 An ordinary battle (4) (two chapters in one)
By the way! Hu Biao and the others are just ordinary people in the modern dimension.
But after honing in so many missions, I already have quite good experience and level in commanding cold weapon operations.
When we first formed the new army of the Song Dynasty with the Jin as the first imaginary enemy.
They definitely took this into consideration: the Jin side had a strong cavalry force, while their own side was dominated by infantry.
When it comes to mobility and impact, there is no comparison between the two sides.
So if the new army, which is almost pure infantry, suddenly encounters a large cavalry attack by the Jin people under different circumstances and circumstances, how should they respond?
In response to such a problem, they have wasted no less brain cells.
The purpose is that if such a situation does arise, there will be no counterattack ability at all.
Therefore, despite the fact that Xu Feng and Fan Zhu were reacting very hastily when they saw that a large number of cavalry were about to rush in.
In fact, in response to the current situation, the new army has some corresponding measures and has also conducted relevant training.
Specifically, the new army formed a circular battle formation with companies as units.
Spearmen, sword and shield bearers, and even musketeers with bayonets were outside, all raising their sharp weapons high, forming a circular hedgehog-like defensive formation.
At the same time, inside the circular formation, there were left a small number of hunters using improved muskets, as well as musketeers with ordinary muskets.
Allowing them to continuously reload and fire can be regarded as a means of defensive counterattack.
In addition, there will be a certain distance intentionally left between the two circular battle formations so that they can provide fire support to each other without inadvertently injuring neighboring troops.
You know! Facing the sharp spear array, the war horses will instinctively dodge, so the Jin cavalry can only pass through the gaps between the circular arrays.
Then when passing through, you will be attacked by two circular battle array musketeers on the left and right at the same time.
In short, this is a response method that should be effective in theory, but in terms of specific effects, even Hu Biao and the others don't know how many.
Everything needs to be tried in practice to know whether the actual effect is good or not.
At present, Xu Feng and Fan Zhu hurriedly rushed forward with almost all the manpower available from the division.
The purpose of doing this is actually very simple:
For the first and second regiments that were struggling with the Jin soldiers, the soldiers could calmly evacuate and start forming formations.
And they persisted until the third and fourth regiments who were resting at some positions behind the camp were able to form a fighting formation and come up to support them.
In other words, to buy enough time for the soldiers under my command to prepare a response.
How much time do they have to fight to achieve the above goals?
Frankly speaking, even they themselves don’t know how long it will take. Anyway, the longer they persist, the better.
As for the desperate call for help from Hu Biao in the current crisis, although they have already sent messengers to ask for help from the headquarters.
But they themselves also knew that it was probably too late.
Therefore, all current crises must rely on themselves...
"Retreat and form a formation. According to Chapter 3, Article 7, and Article 11 of the Infantry Drill Code, immediately retreat to the back and form a circular formation. Don't worry about the entanglement of the Jin people. I will risk my life to help you with it~
"
While taking a few guards with him, he rushed towards the front of the formation.
In Fan Zhu's mouth, he also yelled crazily.
At present, his target is very clear, which is about twenty steps away. When a group of artillerymen retreated, a small Folang machine left on the edge of the camp ran away.
This thing is also an important means for them to gain more time while waiting for a meeting.
In addition to these, there were a total of three explosive bags carried by the guards around him.
As Fan Zhu rushed over, the divisional clerks, cooks, grooms and other non-combatants all moved closer to their deputy division commander.
Soon, a team of about 200 people was assembled.
Because the number of muskets produced by the Ministry of Industry was limited, the non-combatants in these divisions were naturally not equipped with any long or short gunpowder weapons.
So at this moment, the weapons they are holding are all kinds of powerful.
There are all kinds of spears, long knives, shoulder poles, kitchen knives, forks and other things.
But even so, when these people rushed forward with their deputy commander, their expressions may have been a little panicked, but their eyes were extremely determined.
On the contrary, in such a process.
One company after another hurriedly retreated back, passing by Fan Zhu and the others.
The soldiers looked at their deputy commander who was moving forward firmly, their expressions were extremely complicated; they had almost predicted the outcome of deputy commander Fan in advance.
But at this moment, we were facing our own cavalry who were less than two miles away behind us, beating their horses desperately and rushing towards them at full speed.
The remaining infantry on the Jin side also reacted somewhat differently.
The vast majority of the golden soldiers were running desperately in the left and right directions, trying to avoid the charge route of these cavalry, so as not to be trampled to death alive.
But there is still a small portion of the Jin infantry, ready to fight.
Bo entangled those Song people by himself, preventing them from retreating and forming a formation, and then being easily killed by our own cavalry. Winning this battle was such a great achievement.
No! When Fan Zhu, who was leading the charge, led his men to the small Folang machine gun, which was only eleven or twelve steps away.
I saw a guy dressed as a golden captain, with about twenty soldiers under his command, just climbed over the earth wall on the edge of the camp.
The two of them just looked at each other and shouted "Kill~" almost in unison.
The next second later, both sides rushed towards their opponents with their own men.
Even though the captain only had about twenty people behind him, the people who could be his bodyguards were all burly, and they looked like elite warriors who had practiced martial arts for many years.
In addition, each person now has a fine piece of fine iron armor on his body.
He wields heavy weapons such as heavy broadswords, battle axes, and meteor hammers in his hands. In addition, he also has spare long and short knives, iron bones, and other weapons on his body.
It is a posture that is armed to the teeth.
Anyway, although they were small in number, the momentum of the twenty or so people rushing towards them actually seemed to be stronger than the team of Fan Zhu and others with ten times the number of people.
However, the outcome of the battle between the two sides in a very short period of time was so unexpected.
Because when he came up to meet him, Fan Zhu didn't even think much about it. He held the short blunderbuss in his right hand, raised his hand and fired at him.
An instant later, the golden captain's chest hurt, and his body, which had been rushing towards him like a wild boar, was shaken violently.
Even the steps under his feet became staggering.
When he lowered his head and glanced at his chest, he discovered that a hole the size of a finger had been punched in the family armor, and blood was pouring out like it was free.
The emotion that appeared in the eyes of this captain was not fear, but anger, a huge anger.
He never thought that he would suffer such a big loss since he had been practicing martial arts and polishing his body diligently every day since he was six years old. He thought that he had few opponents on the battlefield.
Therefore, he endured the severe pain in his chest and continued to move forward with a large sword in hand.
He made up his mind to kill the Song general in front of him.
After pulling the trigger, Fan Zhu directly let go of the blunderbuss in his right hand and let it fall to the ground; then he immediately touched it towards his waist.
In the blink of an eye, he pulled out a short blunderbuss and pulled the trigger again.
The golden captain's face felt as if he had been hit hard with a stick. His head was tilted back and he fell down like this.
After taking a look at the golden man with a bullet hole on his forehead and his eyes full of anger and injustice before he died.
In Fan Zhu's mouth, he cursed loudly:
"What era are you in? Who the hell wants to fight with you~"
While swearing such a sentence, Fan Zhu touched his right hand to his waist, and soon drew out a short blunderbuss, preparing to continue to recruit people to fire.
Good guy! The short muskets fired on this guy one after another seemed to be endless.
The reason why such a situation occurred is mainly because Fan Zhu still has some tricks up his sleeve.
He knew that given his own level, in such a limited time, even if he practiced hard without sleeping every day, his final melee level would not be as good as that of his opponent from a small school.
Not to mention those general disciples who have been practicing martial arts hard since they were young.
So he simply found a new way and didn't bring any swords at all before the start of each battle, but he had six loaded muskets fastened to his waist.
No, with two shots, he easily knocked down a disciple of the general who had been practicing martial arts for who knows how many years to the ground.
If it were two people fighting with cold weapons, whether he could withstand the three moves would be a big question.
The only disadvantage of doing this is that the weight on his waist is too much.
If it weren't for the belt around his waist, which was made from good cowhide; otherwise, with so many muskets attached to the belt, his pants would have fallen down.
When Fan Zhu opened fire, there were many short muskets beside him, and they were fired one by one.
Those were the guards beside Fan Zhu. Each of them was equipped with two loaded short muskets at their waists.
There is an old saying that goes, no matter who you are, you can play with birds; wrong! Birds of a feather should flock together, and these guards immediately opened fire with short blunderbuss.
In a very short period of time, after about seventeen or eight short muskets were fired, more than half of the twenty or so Jin soldiers were knocked down.
In such a blink of an eye, the remaining few people discovered that their comrades, including the general, were easily killed by the Song people, and they were extremely panicked.
Suddenly, he had so much martial arts skills that he couldn't even use two or three points.
Then, under the siege of opponents holding dung forks and kitchen knives, he was completely overwhelmed in the blink of an eye.
Unfortunately, after the above easy battle, they faced some difficult battles like a mantis trying to block a car...
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Fan Zhu and the others didn't have any extra time to rejoice that they had killed about twenty elite Jin soldiers in the blink of an eye, such a brilliant result.
Because only in such a short period of time, the Jin cavalry had already rushed to the front of the formation, only a mile away at most.
With such a small distance, given those people's current horse speed, it would only take thirty or forty seconds to reach them.
Rushing to the front and rear of the small French cannon, Fan Zhu picked up a blunderbuss filled with shotgun from the ground amid the sound of a steel collision.
The reason why the Xiaofolang machine gun has an amazing rate of fire is entirely due to this structure of separation of the mother and child.
As long as the blunderbuss is installed in advance, it means that a new blunderbuss can be replaced in about ten seconds, and a shot can be fired at the opponent immediately.
But even so, Fan Zhu couldn't guarantee how many shots he would be able to fire if he had the chance.
A blunderbuss was inserted into the small Folang machine cannon in front of him, and it was inserted into a gap at the rear end of the gun.
Immediately afterwards, a guard poked a small hole in a gun with a prod, inserted a lead, and was ready to launch.
At the same time, other guards also organized personnel from the division headquarters.
Throwing away the kitchen knives in their hands, they all picked up the spears of the fallen Jin men on the ground, forming a spear array with a total thickness of two rows.
With more than two hundred spears and dung forks all erected, it looks a bit powerful at first glance.
But compared to the large number of Jin cavalry galloping in front of them, such a small spear formation looked so shabby.
In order to ensure the necessary lethality, Fan Zhu resisted the strong impulse in his heart.
After the golden cavalry rushed a hundred paces, they took a newly lit torch and stretched it towards the fuse.
About two seconds later, along with the sound of "boom~", there was a burst of white smoke that was more choking than when a short gun was fired.
A large number of tiny iron beads were ejected from the muzzle.
Regardless of the size of these iron beads, each one is even smaller than a finger, but their power is not small at all.
When they sprayed out wildly in the shape of a fan.
The five or six golden knights who were shrouded in the killing range, whether they were war horses or knights, were covered in dense blood in an instant.
After adding knights, armor, and weapons, there are golden cavalry weighing thousands of kilograms.
In an instant, the mad rush was stopped on the spot, and then crashed to the ground.
Then, several riders behind them rushed too hard and had no time to react, and were tripped over by the fallen men and horses.
The cavalrymen further behind saw that something was not going well. Even in the emergency, they hurriedly pulled the reins and circled to both sides at a high speed, which was able to avoid the result of one person flipping over.
Inevitably, the speed of the originally high-speed charge suddenly dropped a lot.
It's just that the remaining distance of a hundred steps can still be reached in a blink of an eye for the cavalry who have reduced their speed...
Sure enough, it was the same. Zaifanzhu couldn't care about the musket he had just fired. The temperature on it was extremely hot.
He quickly took it off, picked up a new blunderbuss, and loaded it into the Xiao Fo Lang cannon.
Just when it was installed, before it could get stuck and the lead wire was installed, the golden cavalry had already rushed up.
Facing the earthen wall that was only a little more than one meter high, they just kicked the horse's belly with both legs and lifted the reins slightly. The warhorse under their crotches jumped over and headed towards the wall behind it.
Song people.
When the war horse landed, several spears were pierced into its chest and abdomen.
However, under the impact of the war horse, a clerk and a soldier from the logistics battalion screamed in pain and fell to the ground at the same time.
Because in the impact just now, not only the jaws of their hands holding the gun barrel were torn apart due to the huge impact force.
The key is that the broken gun barrel bounced up with huge force.
The section with wood residue directly penetrated their chest and abdomen without any protection, not even wearing a breastplate.
But even so, the two cooks behind them, regardless of the miserable condition of their colleagues in front of them, gritted their teeth and pushed forward again with the spears in their hands, filling the gap that had just been knocked out of the spear array.
The problem was that the Jin's cavalry charged too fiercely.
The two cooks were able to stand firm when another war horse bumped into them, breaking several spears and knocking them both to the ground.
The weight of over a thousand kilograms made the two guys with big faces and thick necks spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
Fortunately, at this time, the small Folang machine gun in the hands of Fan Zhu and others finally completed all preparations for firing.
After slightly adjusting the muzzle, Fan Zhu lit the torch in his hand. After another burst of cannon fire, this time at least ten riders were knocked down.
But Fan Zhu knew that they had no chance to fire another shot.
With such a clear understanding, he took out two short blunderbuss from his waist with both hands at the same time, picked them up and pulled the triggers one on the left and one on the right at the same time.
They knocked down the two golden knights who were about to drive their horses to jump, and knocked them off their horses.
Then, he let go and drew the gun again. Unfortunately, before he could continue to fire, a thrown meteor hammer accurately hit his chest.
Even though Fan Zhu was wearing a high-quality iron armor with a goggles, at this moment Fan Zhu flew up with the sound of his ribs breaking.
During this process, the blunderbuss in his hand fell weakly to the ground.
And I saw that the originally thin spear formation was knocked to pieces by the Jin cavalry after just a few collisions.
He was about to be completely knocked away before his eyes, and then a large number of cavalry swarmed in.
Then, when Fan Zhu fell heavily to the ground, he immediately fell into a dying state where more air was released than in.
In such a state, too many thoughts or resentments flashed through his head quickly.
For example, if the infantry faced off against the cavalry, without sufficient preparation, they would really suffer a huge disadvantage; if Hu Biao had just rushed to the street and lifted various restrictions, he could have beaten these cavalry into dogs.
And I risked my life. How much time did I gain, one minute, fifty seconds?
Where can I explain this nonsense?
It was at this moment that a guard who saw that the gun formation was about to collapse and could no longer stop the Jin cavalry decisively lit the explosive pack on his body.
The explosion that occurred instantly enveloped him, the few surviving warriors around him, and some of the Jin cavalry who had just rushed over.
After being inspired by this, the remaining two explosive packets were also ignited.
Such continuous explosions finally made the cavalrymen, who were full of fanaticism, wake up and pull down their horses one after another.
After throwing out flying axes and iron bones, they knocked down the surviving division personnel before they dared to continue jumping over the earth wall.
In this way, Fan Zhu and the others were delayed for about another minute.
It was precisely because of this critical minute when a somewhat trembling Jin cavalry rushed towards the hastily assembled people in the camp, forming a round formation like hedgehogs.
I was very surprised to see a dead Song general on the ground with a strange smile on his face.
Before he had time to think about anything, the iron hooves of the war horse under his crotch had trampled directly over the man...
These two chapters have been a bit busy to write. If there are any typos, please point them out and I will correct them later.
