Chapter six hundred and sixty seventh offensive setback
After discovering this fatal weakness of the Ming army, Jierhalang immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops. He wanted to adjust his strategy and launch the offensive again.
When the Jianlu soldiers on the front line heard the sound of gold ringing coming from behind, they quickly retreated.
Jierhalang called several Niu Lu over to ask, and it turned out that countless small irregular holes were dug in the ground and the horses' legs were broken, which caused the people to fall over and the attack was frustrated.
Now that it is known that the Ming army did use this trick, Jierhalang has a corresponding solution.
Based on these Niu Lu's impressions, he once again sent out exploration horses to go to the battlefield to find out where the starting point of the small pit was.
Jierhalang planned to have the soldiers ride horses to rush to the starting point of the small pit, and then dismount and fight on foot. In this way, the Ming army's horse trap would be ineffective. At the same time, the Jin army could use the momentum of the horses to shorten the charge.
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When Jianlu Tanma moved forward to explore, he found that the Ming army also came out from behind the wall and attacked forward.
Although the Jianlu Tanma were few in number, they were all elite. They drew their bows and arrows to fight back.
Because of the darkness, both sides had to be relatively close to each other to find each other. Moreover, the Ming army used firearms, and every time they fired a shot, there would be a flash of fire.
This gave Jianlu Tanma a more accurate target, but at the same time, Jianlu Tanma could only estimate its arrows at the Ming army, and could not accurately hit the Ming army's fatal parts.
The Ming army was overbearing with weapons. As long as it hit a Jianlu Tanma, it would lose its combat effectiveness. However, if a Jianlu Tanma hit a Ming army, due to the darkness of the night, it would often not be a critical point, and the battle could continue.
Not long after, the situation on the front line was reported to Jierhalang. When he heard this, he was overjoyed. Is there something wrong with the Ming army? They actually left the wall and attacked on their own initiative.
So, with a wave of his hand, he immediately sent out five hundred archers to fight with the Ming army.
Ji'erhalang believed that the Ming army only had more than a thousand people, and they could be killed by just attrition.
But when the archers came up, the Ming army had already retreated, and the archers came up empty.
One of the leaders, Jia La E Zhen, sent someone back to report to Jier Harang that the corpses of the Dajin warriors in front of the Ming army's position, and even the corpses of horses, were missing. He also asked for instructions whether to continue the attack.
Jierhalang's face darkened slightly, and he understood why the Ming army just left the wall to attack in an effort to increase casualties.
First, they wanted to clean up the corpses and prevent them from becoming a cover for subsequent Daikin attacks.
The second thing is that the Ming army's wall could be built so quickly. Jierhalang is sure that there must be the remains of the Dajin warriors inside the wall.
Thinking of this, Jilhalang gritted his teeth in anger. He also figured out the starting point of the trap and started to attack according to the plan.
More than a thousand Jianlu carried shields and rode horses to approach the Ming army's position. Then when they were almost far away, they quickly dismounted, protected themselves with shields, and began to charge on foot.
Suddenly, the slightly narrow official road and both sides were covered with the shadows of Jianlu. The shield soldiers charged in the front, while the Jianlu archers behind provided cover.
Zhong Jinwei clearly saw the scale and methods of Jianlu's attack through his telescope. He quickly issued an order: "Ask the reserve team to come forward, and everyone will be beaten hard by me."
It turned out that Zhong Jinwei had already seen the previous Jianlu offensive through his telescope, and it was more of a tentative attack. Therefore, he divided the new soldiers into two teams, without revealing their full strength at once.
Ji'erhalang's estimate was correct. The night still affected the new sergeant's reloading speed. However, the extent of the impact was not as great as Ji'erhalang imagined.
Because the new army uses pre-packaged paper bullets, the loading method is much faster than the previous method. Both veterans and new soldiers in the new army have enough training to become proficient in this loading method.
To put it bluntly, you can reload ammunition even with your eyes closed.
Jilharang heard the sparse shooting of the New Army before, just because it was not the shooting of more than a thousand New Army. There were about 500 New Soldiers who were still taking the time to eat behind the formation.
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However, now that Jianlu's offensive is fierce, Zhong Jinwei has no reserve team.
Suddenly, the gunshots were loud, much louder than before.
Jianlu's shield was somewhat useful when it was far away, and could block the lead bullets of powerful crossbows. In addition, the archers' counterattacks also caused casualties to the new army from time to time.
However, because the new army was hiding behind the protective wall, and under the cover of night, the Jianlu archers were not accurate, and more of them were scattered. The helmets of the new army were all steel helmets. As long as they were not heavy arrows, they would generally not be able to shoot.
Something happened.
Only a few unlucky new soldiers were shot in the face by arrows that happened to fly, which increased the number of deaths of the new army.
After Jianlu came closer, casualties began to appear on a large scale. Because by this time, the power of lead bullets could no longer be resisted by shields.
Although the battle line was wide, more than a thousand Ming troops could only line up in two rows and take turns shooting. However, the speed of the Jianlu could not be increased.
One is because the holes in the ground have some influence on them, and even one can twist his or her foot accidentally.
Second, the Jianlu in the front rows were shot and fell to the ground, which added obstacles to the Jianlu in the back.
Therefore, the unfavorable speed of Jianlu made up for the weakening of the shooting frequency of the new army. Every shot of the flintlock made a Jianlu lose his combat effectiveness. He either returned to the underworld or lay on the ground screaming.
The battle situation on the front line was soon reported to Jierhalang again, and his original hope of easily dealing with the Ming army was dashed again.
He didn't understand why the gunshots that had been sparse before suddenly became dense again. Could it be that the Ming army's follow-up troops had arrived again?
Due to the darkness of the night, I couldn't check the specific situation, which made Jierhalang feel that he was better at fighting during the day.
He listened carefully for a while and found that the intensity of the Ming army's gunfire had almost stopped increasing, so he knew that the Ming army's reinforcements should not be many.
However, Dajin still couldn't rush to the Ming army's position with his shield. Jierhalang sighed secretly and ordered Jin Jin to withdraw his troops.
Then he ordered his men to go to Anshan Station immediately to transport ordnance to suppress the muskets. Since they could not directly capture the Ming army, they should have a serious fight.
One of his men admonished him: "Master, why don't you wait until daybreak before fighting?"
If we fight again at dawn, Daikin, who has a numerical advantage, will have a lot of advantages. Because he can see the specific situation of the Ming army, and with enough manpower, he can deal with the Ming army in a targeted manner.
Unexpectedly, Jierharang disagreed. He shook his head and said: "Since the Ming army used such a small force and ran so far to block our reinforcements from Dajin, it is obvious that there must be something wrong behind them and they are afraid of our reinforcements from Dajin."
Attack it, otherwise why would they give up the defense of Haizhou City and take the risk to block it here?"
When his men heard this, they all nodded "yes", it was still a wise master.
Because of Jilharang's change of strategy, the battlefield fell into silence temporarily.