Chapter 498 Bloody Battle in Zhuxian Town (3) [Two Chapters in One]
Chapter 498 The bloody battle in Zhuxian Town (3) [two chapters in one]
Author: Uncle Long Legs
Chapter 498 The bloody battle in Zhuxian Town (3) [two chapters in one]
After the battle formation where Fenghua Club was located was forcibly dispersed by the Jin people, who suffered more than two or three times the cost and even more casualties.
Not only Feng Hua Hui, a rookie deputy teacher, became the target of the Jin people's attacks at that time.
According to a characteristic of ancient warfare, his general flag with the word "wind" also became a key target of attack by the Jin people.
After all, in ancient wars, among the highest and highest achievements, there was a saying of killing the general and seizing the flag.
Therefore, when the formation was broken, except for the young man in silver armor, he went straight towards Fenghua Hui, and a king versus king came.
There were two more cavalrymen, kicking and beating their horses as they rushed toward the big flag.
At this time, this big flag was still being protected by a flag-protecting team composed of five guards, with one person holding the flag and four people guarding it.
Towards the left, another infantry company's battle formation was rapidly retreating.
Because for the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division, as long as this flag is still flying, their acting deputy division commander is still with them.
He saw the golden cavalry behind him charging forward.
The captain of the flag-protecting team made a prompt decision and asked his comrades holding the flag to continue retreating.
He led the remaining three teammates, holding up the muskets that had been hastily fixed bayonets but had no time to reload, and formed a thin battle line in front of the two cavalry.
After three to five seconds at most, the flag-bearer seemed to feel something and looked back while continuing to run.
He could immediately see that not too far behind him, four comrades had fallen to the ground.
One of the two golden knights had fallen off his horse and was lying on the ground, with a musket with a bayonet thrust into his lower abdomen. The other knight, bleeding from his waist, continued to rush towards him.
The four hooves were galloping rapidly, and they had even rushed to a position only five or six meters behind them.
A throwing ax came out of his hand and was already spinning towards his neck. In his haste, the flag-bearer only had time to twist his head.
The next second later, the flag-bearer felt that half of his neck had been split open by a sharp ax blade, and the surging blood dyed half of his body red in an instant.
The only thing I could be thankful for was that at the same time, the golden cavalryman flipped off his horse with a sway of his body.
It was the chasseurs in a battle formation next door who had finally filled their hands with an improved Brown Bess musket with a rifled barrel.
While turning his head to look for valuable targets to kill, he discovered the crisis of the flag guarding team here.
It's a pity that even though he aimed and fired as fast as he could, he still couldn't save the flag-bearer's life.
But it was also thanks to his shot that the dying flag-bearer used his last strength to insert the flag with an iron-tipped lower end into the wheat field on the ground.
After completing such an action, he died with a smile on his face and his arms around the flagpole.
He died standing, supported by the flagpole.
In fact, at this time, there was no longer a living comrade within a hundred meters of him.
Or to put it another way, before the war started in the morning, there were still more than 300 people in this guard battalion. After the formation was broken, in addition to about fifty lucky people, they managed to escape to the next door.
Friendly forces are in battle.
Including their deputy division commander who needed to be guarded, everyone else died in the battle.
In order to achieve such a result, the Jin soldiers lost at least 800 men.
So much so that after killing all the Song people around them, this one-thousand-man team of kidnappers only had more than a hundred people left. They looked at the corpses of their own personnel all over the ground, as well as those who had lost their masters.
War horse.
There are also the captains who are trying to get gold, and according to the truth, they can be promoted quickly, but they all end up dying in battle.
These battle-hardened Jurchens were at a loss for a moment, wondering whether they could win such a damn battle.
In the end, it was a surviving centurion who reacted first.
After knowing that even their Shangguan and the fifth prince of the Jin Kingdom were killed in the battle, even if they defeated the Song people in this battle, they would not end well.
He let out a howl like a wounded beast, and led his men to continue charging towards the next Song Dynasty battle formation that seemed to be endless and endless.
But in the process of continuing to charge, they obviously only need to control the horse's head a little.
He could easily knock over the Song people's flag and the Song people who were standing and dying.
But God knows why? Anyway, when they saw the corpse of the Song Dynasty man who was hugging the flagpole and dying with a smile, they instinctively avoided this target.
Let the flag of a rookie general representing Fenghuahui continue to fly on such a battlefield...
*****
Speaking of which! In fact, even if the battle flag with the word "wind" that represents the Fenghua Society fell down, except for the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division, which now has less than 4,000 soldiers, they would pay a little attention to it.
Other New Army officers and soldiers, as well as many netizens.
Even among the rookie netizens who were pulled over during this system mission like him, the two still surviving ones, Guifei and Chen Tang, didn't even have time to take a second look at him.
Without him, the two of them would be stuck in a difficult battle, unable to take care of him at all.
The imperial concubine's situation is a little better. She, Hu Biao, and the team leader are currently staying at the position of the central army, even if they are facing the impact of Wanyan Xiyin, who has broken his arm, and the main force of the kidnappers.
However, the Chinese army had three thousand troops fighting in formation. Although the fighting was fierce for a while, it was relatively safe.
Chen Tang, a rookie, is different, because the battle formation he is in is currently advancing.
Yes, that's right!
Even though the new army of the Song Dynasty faced an attack with twice the number of Jin troops, they still launched a counterattack.
To be more precise, they are the second and fourth infantry units. Since the war began, these two units have been recharging their strength without any loss in combat effectiveness.
Currently, battle formations are being formed one after another, and with the cooperation of each other, they are constantly advancing forward.
Because before the war, a group of netizens hastily reached a consensus that the desired result of this war is not just to defeat the Jin people.
According to the mission of the second phase of the system, they also asked the Jin people to completely withdraw their troops.
And in the battle, killing a golden coach failed to complete these two points.
If the Jin people suffered little loss, even if one hundred thousand cavalry survived after escaping, then as long as the Jin people regrouped afterwards.
There are still serious consequences of fighting them again instead of retreating.
Therefore, this battle must be a great victory, and the backbone of the Jin man must be broken in one battle.
Based on such a combat concept, the second and fourth infantry divisions need to continuously advance in this battle, all the way to the edge of the battlefield to surround all the Jin people.
It is impossible to completely annihilate the Jin people, who still have an army of more than ten to two hundred thousand.
But these Jin troops must be beaten until they lose the courage to fight for a long time and can only retreat to the north in despair.
It has to be said that using at most only 30% of the opponent's troops to surround an opponent that is three times more powerful is a tactic that is full of madness.
Of course, the process is also full of huge difficulties.
The problem is that they must achieve such a result before they can complete the requirements of the second phase of the system.
Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, Chen Tang, who is currently the deputy commander of the Second Infantry Division, knows that he must grit his teeth and keep moving forward...
"Ready, fire~"
Chen Tang, who was raising his voice, yelled out such a sentence.
Under such an order, the first row of nearly fifty musketeers fired almost forty-one or two muskets successfully.
Immediately, most of the thirty or so Jin infantry who were charging over were knocked to the ground.
The shields they held in their hands and the armor they wore had no defensive effect at all under the muzzle kinetic energy exceeding 2,000 joules.
Under such a wave of gunfire, the five or six golden men who survived only lived for two or three seconds longer.
Those were the soldiers who had just discovered that the muskets had not fired. As they were retreating, they pulled the hammer again, then quickly turned around and shot them, knocking them to the ground.
Twelve or thirteen seconds later, when these people had just retreated to the last row and stood up, they completed the refilling.
Chen Tang continued to raise his voice and shouted loudly: "Twenty steps forward, one, two, three...twenty; stop, prepare, fire~"
Under such an order, a new round of gunfire sounded, knocking down a group of golden soldiers blocking the front.
Throughout the entire process, he, as a deputy division commander, now assumed the responsibilities of a battalion and company-level junior officer.
There is no way! Facing the Jin army rushing towards them like a tide, it is quite difficult to just hold on, let alone the need to continuously push forward in the opposite direction like going upstream.
Even compared to the other 1st, 3rd, and 5th divisions, the 2nd and 4th divisions are veterans.
When the volley of guns opened fire, they fired fast and hard, and the small Folang machine guns fired from time to time; so much so that the golden men who rushed over were smashed to pieces as if they had hit a rock in the middle of the river.
However, in such a process, casualties also continue to occur.
After the war started, in less than three minutes, a guard company commander who was standing on the side of the first row of battle lines was nailed to death by a musket.
In such a situation, the deputy company commander spontaneously stepped forward.
As a result, the unlucky deputy company commander was on top for a mere twenty or thirty seconds before shouting "fire".
A wolf-fang arrow was accurately shot from his mouth, taking away his life.
Damn! The archery skills of these Jin people are so powerful. In addition to the famous Jurchens who are good at shooting, there are also many Han people in the north who are also good at archery.
Even under the current light autumn rain, the bows in their hands became soft due to moisture, and the bow power and accuracy were greatly affected. They still shot many of them to death.
Just like that, when one platoon is long, three platoons are long, before and after or after being shot.
Chen Tang, a deputy division commander, had no choice but to step up like a small company commander.
And every time he yelled an order, this guy lowered his head like a thief to avoid being shot with an arrow in his open mouth.
But even so, he didn't know how many arrows he had received on his forehead and Tianling Cover.
With the protection of a high-quality stainless steel helmet, even if he was hit by an armor-piercing arrow, it would still not be able to penetrate his helmet.
Just because after taking too many blows, it was like someone was holding a wooden hammer and beating him on the head over and over again.
After a long time, your head feels numb, right?
Even his body was covered with arrows like a feather duster. Each wound was not big, but combined it was quite fatal.
As for why the second platoon leader didn't step forward? This unlucky guy was hit on the head by a meteor hammer as early as two minutes after the battle started.
On the spot, there was an obvious dent in the Bailian Steel Helmet on his head.
Maybe such an injury wouldn't kill the unlucky guy.
It's just that his cervical vertebrae obviously couldn't withstand such an astonishing force; his face was twisted to the back, and even the hygienist gave up the plan of treating him...
"What the hell! How far do we have to go before we can advance to the designated position?"
Taking advantage of another wave of golden men being defeated in front of him, Chen Tang shook his numb head during the short gap while his musketeers were reloading.
He said something like this in a voice that only he could hear.
Mainly because at this time, he couldn't tell how long this battle had been going on through the gray sky above his head.
Maybe it was almost an hour, maybe it was only a dozen minutes, who the hell knows?
More importantly, he stood on tiptoes and looked forward. As far as he could see, there was still a large black mass of golden soldiers, with no end in sight.
Who knows? How long will it take to defeat him?
Or in other words, can we still kill these golden men and complete the planned battle plan of encirclement?
At the beginning of the battle, a battle formation like this consisted of a reinforced guard company and an artillery platoon equipped with two small Franco machine guns.
There are also some divisional clerks, cooks, and messengers.
After adding them all together, there are 362 people.
After fighting all the way to the current position, because almost every few steps forward, someone would be killed or injured, the number of people was already only half.
This represents a vicious cycle in which volley firepower continues to weaken, and casualties appear faster and faster.
After shaking his head, Chen Tang came to his senses and could not continue.
I glanced to the left and right, and saw another battle formation a hundred or ten meters to the left with only eighty or ninety people left, and now it was impossible to advance.
I immediately made a decision in my mind: move closer to each other, form two battle formations into one, and continue moving forward.
Immediately, he asked the ordering soldiers around him to take down two small triangular flags from their waist poles and wave them towards the other side.
A new command was also issued from his mouth: "Everyone, turn left, walk together, one, two, three~"
However, now, the personnel on both sides of the entire battlefield have basically entered a state of fighting in small units.
Relying on the grassroots officers on their side, who have improved their subjective initiative and have overall higher morale, the New Army will naturally fight in a more orderly manner.
Unfortunately, Chentang's battle formation was targeted by a high-ranking member of the Jin Kingdom.
It should be noted that this high-ranking official of the Jin Kingdom was not a Jurchen, but a Han civil servant: Liu Yanzong.
To be more specific, it is said that this descendant of Liu Bang, the Lulong Jiedushi envoy during the Tang Dynasty, was awarded a series of Zuopushe, Tongpingzhangshi, Privy Council, and Jiajia after the Liao Kingdom took refuge with the Jurchens.
The official title of a servant.
Now even in the army of Jin people, he is also a key figure with average IQ.
The reason for this is that this guy followed Wanyan Zonghan in the previous two battles between the Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, and he did not know how many strategies he devised.
It can be said that this guy played a considerable role in the occurrence of the Jingkang Disgrace.
So even though this guy was a civil servant, when the whole army charged, he was protected by a large number of guards and lagged far behind.
It can be said that this guy, who has been tied to the Jurchens for a long time and has no way out, saw Chen Tang change the path forward.
In a very short period of time, he saw the plan of the Song people in front of him to surround them.
While his heart was tingling with fear, this guy also started to get ruthless.
Waving a sword in his hand, he immediately dispatched dozens of personal guards under his command, driving away a large number of miscellaneous soldiers in the surrounding area, and rushed towards this side fiercely.
The process of bringing the two battle formations in Chentang closer to each other immediately became very difficult...
About two minutes later, Chen Tang stumbled to his knees with a groan.
It was a sharp arrow that came from nowhere. It coincidentally avoided the skirt armor on his leg and shot directly through the calf of his left leg.
In pain, he knelt down on one knee.
I don’t know if he was shot with an arrow and his tendons were broken. Anyway, Chen Tang stood up a little and then knelt down while gritting his teeth and struggling to get up.
Fortunately, soon after, a soldier with a sergeant logo on his breastplate, who should be a squad leader, supported him.
Prepare to hold him up and follow the team to continue the action.
But Chen Tang knew that he couldn't drag others down.
What's more important is that in a short period of time, their battle formation suffered thirty or forty casualties as they moved closer, many of whom were junior officers.
There is still a distance of forty or fifty meters from another battle formation.
If the grinding continues, I'm afraid both battle formations will be destroyed.
So after pushing away the squad leader, he issued his last order as deputy division commander:
"From now on, you are the acting company commander of the security company.
Go and lead the brothers to join forces together, and then move forward, forward, and forward until you break through these damn golden men and surround them~"
After saying that, this former PLA engineer braved a large number of arrows and jumped on one leg towards the rushing Jin men.
During this process, he tucked an explosive bag behind him under his arm and began to try to light a match with both hands.
Because the drizzle was getting heavier and heavier, two consecutive poles failed to ignite. Instead, one of them almost shot a gun and was nailed to death on the spot.
If it were in any other place, such an extremely embarrassed person would definitely be full of inexplicable joy.
But when he fell into the eyes of the squad leader who had been upgraded to who knows how many levels and became the acting company commander, he couldn't express his sadness.
Seven or eight seconds later, there was a huge explosion, and their deputy commander couldn't even find a larger piece of meat.
About half a minute later, the two broken phalanxes finally came together.
After hurriedly arranging the formation, the squad leader's crying voice sounded: "Forward, forward, keep moving forward..."
