Chapter 190 Killing one enemy and rewarding thousands of households
"Everyone, get up and get into formation quickly!" Ying Tianhu knew that he didn't have much time to think, let alone hesitation. He had to gather the soldiers as soon as possible. Any moment of hesitation would
will cause irreparable consequences.
The casualties or even the collapse of the troops are nothing. What's more important is that once the puppet Tang rebels come over, they will most likely die here!
However, even though he knew that the situation was extremely urgent, he still took several deep breaths in succession, and while ordering the soldiers to form formations, he squinted his eyes to observe the pseudo-Tang rebel army that suddenly appeared in front of him.
These pseudo-Tang thieves seemed to have no musketeers, but at the forefront were dozens of sword and shield bearers wearing armor, and behind the sword and shield bearers were a group of archers.
However, even if these Tang thieves did not have those musketeers who were extremely troublesome, those heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers were not so easy to deal with.
He also knew a lot about the Puppet Tang Thief Army. He knew that there was a small group of ruthless bandits in the Puppet Tang Thief Army. These ruthless bandits were all wearing armor and carrying steel knives and shields. They were typical heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers.
, such soldiers are among the most elite even if they are placed in the Ming army.
These heavy armored infantry, placed on the cold weapon battlefield, are the most elite on both sides, and they are also the force that directly affects the outcome of the battle.
In the Ming army, they were generally personal soldiers of various generals, and low-level officers were such soldiers.
Seeing these heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, Ying Tianhu did not dare to have any contempt. These people in the lead also caused a lot of losses to the Ming army. Even though the opponent had no rightness at all when they charged, they looked in a mess.
But just relying on the armor, steel sword and shield on the opponent's body, it is not that easy to deal with.
It is impossible for ordinary light infantry to stop these people. If you want to stop these tough and heavy-armored units of the opponent, you must be your own elite.
And if you want to stop them with these ordinary guard light infantry under your command, you must use a tight formation!
Therefore, he knew very well that his time was running out and he must immediately organize his troops to form a formation to resist.
If a tight formation is not formed in time, and if the formation is still as loose as it is now, and is charged by the opponent's heavy armored infantry, then the entire army will collapse!
And he couldn't make people lie down to avoid bullets like before, because there were no musketeers on the opposite side, only dozens of archers, and for the thrown bows and arrows, there was basically no difference between standing and lying down.
While Ying Tianhu was shouting, the other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already discovered that something was wrong. Many small officers from hundreds of households and general banners had already led their men to form formations.
Fortunately, they had just begun to prepare to set up camp and light a fire for cooking. The soldiers did not completely disperse. They were also on guard against attacks by the puppet Tang rebels along the way, so the formation was quite fast.
When the Ming army formed a formation in a hurry, Butcher Chen and the others had already brought their troops to kill them, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, eighty meters away!
When they reached this distance, Butcher Chen held up his butcher's knife and shouted: "Kill, everyone rush over and kill him!"
"The first meritorious service will be rewarded by the commander-in-chief!"
"If you kill an enemy, you will be rewarded with a thousand households!"
As Tufu Chen rushed, he casually promised various titles and official positions. Unfortunately, the gangsters behind him were not very excited about this.
Who are you kidding? It’s just a few guerrillas and thousands of households. They are useless. Why not give them a pot of wine and share it with everyone!
Everyone knows that the official title of the Tang Dynasty is worthless. Even the bandit soldiers who are illiterate also know that the various titles in the army range from hundreds of households, to thousands of households, and even guerrillas.
Titles such as , deputy general, and commander-in-chief are all worthless things, that is, they are just words that sound nice.
What really comes before are the actual positions at all levels, such as the three levels of officers: corps commander, deputy captain, and captain, or those positions in the Privy Council.
Therefore, if Butcher Chen wanted to rely on official positions to boost his morale, he should at least provide actual official positions, such as corps commander, deputy captain, etc.
But then again, it's because the various titles such as Qianhu, General Soldier and so on are not valuable, that's why Butcher Chen is so generous and casually shouts them out. For those real positions, Butcher Chen doesn't have the guts to promise them on the spot.
However, although these fierce bandits despised Butcher Chen's stinginess and were unmoved by his morale-boosting words, this did not prevent them from shouting various fighting slogans and rushing after Butcher Chen.
They were originally the bravest and most unafraid of death bandits in the entire Huangzhu Mountain. Every time they fought, they would rush to the front and fight. This charge was a common occurrence for them.
Secondly, if you win this battle, there will definitely be a reward!
Of course, the actual reward cannot be some rubbish title like Qianhu, General Soldier, etc., but something more real: such as meat, wine, and women!
Or maybe be promoted to an official position and become a junior corps commander!
These are the reasons why they really care and fight for it!
As for the slogans Butcher Chen is shouting now, everyone pretends not to have heard them!
These fierce bandits rushed to the front with long knives and shields, and the archers behind them also trotted to keep up!
Then the distance shortened, and when it was more than sixty meters away, several officers of the archer were already shouting "Ready!"
These archers quickly stopped, and then one by one began to bend their bows and unload their arrows!
"Shoot an arrow!" Following the orders from the officers, nearly forty archers fired the first arrow in unison!
"Free Fire!"
Immediately afterwards, these archers did not stop shooting arrows, but continued to bend their bows and shoot arrows!
The reason why there is a high level of free fire instead of waves of volleys like before is because the quality of the archers in the archer team varies.
Some archers were born as hunters and their archery skills are quite good, while some are half-way monks whose archery skills only stop at the simplest bow-bending and shooting. Therefore, the accuracy and frequency of their bow-bending and shooting are quite different.
Still very big.
In order to ensure the most efficient firepower, the archers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty did not insist on chasing volleys of firepower. Everyone was free to shoot as many arrows as they could!
As the archers began to shoot arrows, the arrows continued to fly towards the Ming army's array. Although the distance was still a bit far, and the arrows were not powerful enough because of the projection method, there were not many people in the Ming army who were wearing armor.
Most of them are wearing single clothes. Even though the power of this bow and arrow is a little weak, it can cause effective damage as long as it hits.
However, the number of archers was limited, the arrows were not dense enough, and the Ming army was not stupid and would use shields to block. Therefore, the actual casualties caused by the first two waves of arrow rain to the Ming army were limited.
At this time, more than ten people in the Ming army started to fight back with bows and arrows!
However, the number of archers of the Ming army was better, and the enemies they faced were heavy-armored sword-and-shielders like Chen Tufu. These heavy-armored sword-and-shielders all wore cloth-covered iron armor, and their defensive abilities were not as good as those of light-weight sword and shield bearers.
Infantry can be compared.
As long as they are not extremely unlucky and are hit on the facade, it is difficult for this kind of mid-to-long-range bow and arrow to pose a practical threat to them.
However, it would be a bit dangerous to be shot by a Ming army's bow and arrow at close range. Although armor can protect people, the power of military bows can still penetrate ordinary armor at close range.
But then again, few archers will still bend their bows and shoot arrows when the enemy's heavily armored melee soldiers rush ten to twenty meters in front. They will run behind the melee soldiers.
Most archers or crossbowmen will start to retreat within thirty meters of the enemy, or simply give up their bows and arrows and draw out their sabers for melee combat.
When the distance between the two sides approaches twenty or thirty meters, they have actually entered the stage of close combat, and what will follow will be a hand-to-hand fight between the two sides.
This was the case at this moment. Butcher Chen led more than thirty people and charged forward like a tiger. Although during the charge, several unlucky ones were shot by bows and arrows, except for one person who was unlucky at close range.
was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. Although several other people who were shot were slightly injured, after being protected by armor, although the arrow penetrated the armor, the remaining power was not enough to cause them any damage.
Too much actual damage actually inspired the blood types of these gangsters even more.
Soon, under the leadership of Butcher Chen, they ran into the Ming army's array!
Ying Tianhu had seen the tall and powerful Chen Butcher early. When Chen Butcher and his men rushed up, Ying Tianhu was not to be outdone, and directly led several low-level officers and his own soldiers, the total number was about
More than twenty people came to greet him!
But before he could meet them, Butcher Chen and the others had already fought their way through the ordinary Ming army light infantry.
Wherever these heavily armored bandits passed, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and screams continued!
However, despite their fierce fighting momentum, which seemed to have caused a lot of damage to the enemy, in fact, the actual damage caused by their impact to the Ming army was not as great as that caused by the archers in front.
These light infantry can't be beaten, but they can dodge and run away!
So although Butcher Chen looked like a tiger infiltrating the flock of sheep and killing everyone, in fact it was all the Ming army who escaped by themselves. The most they could do was catch a few unlucky guys who couldn't escape and chop them twice...
Therefore, after Chen Tufu and others charged in, the number of enemy casualties they caused was not very large, but the chaos caused was more terrifying than if dozens of enemy soldiers died directly.
When Ying Tianhu finally rushed over with more than a dozen of his own soldiers and wanted to fight Chen Tufu and the others, the ordinary guardsmen could no longer bear the pressure of such huge casualties and began to collapse!
Seeing this scene, Ying Tianhu knew that even though he didn't bring his own soldiers to fight, he already knew that this battle could not be fought. If he foolishly rushed forward with his own soldiers, it would probably be on this day next year.
It's my own death anniversary.
He looked left and right, then he took a big breath, and then said in a strong voice: