Chapter 487: Huang Hua Retreats Reluctantly (Second Update)
As soon as the command was given, there was a chorus of sounds of opening the safe. After that, the soldiers, who had been watching from the sidelines, began to aim in a three-point-and-one-line manner, each looking for the target position where they were shooting.
After all this was done, the Jiaozhi army only walked ten meters. But at this distance of ten meters, it can be clearly seen that their footsteps are beginning to speed up, obviously they are also worried that the mercenaries on the city tower will suddenly release arrows, and if the speed of the impact is fast enough, although it may not be guaranteed to dodge the bow and arrows, but at least there is a better chance of success.
The other party changed from a slow forward to a fast walk, and then began to jog, which was clearly a precursor to acceleration. The battalion commander Chen Bo, who led the team, stared at him, and held a 95-style gun in his hand, and he tightly pressed his shoulder with the butt of his gun, and used this as a support to put on a very standard and beautiful standing shooting posture.
Not only Chen Bo, but all the gun-wielding soldiers had made all the preparations before shooting, and now they can shoot the enemy and make meritorious contributions just by waiting for an order.
Finally, in the midst of the jogging, the front army of the 3,000 Cochin Army, the shield soldiers, had jumped to the critical point of 100 meters. One by one, the archers behind them took out their bows and arrows with feathers from the quiver on their waists, and they were ready to draw their bows and shoot.
"Shoot!"
Chen Bo's voice suddenly sounded at this moment, and with this voice, the first single shot of the Nine-Five Style in his hand was aimed at a figure in the Jiaozhi Army who seemed to be a junior general.
"Horn"!
"Horn Horn Horn..."
After a gunshot, a thousand guns were fired, and a burst of bean-like sounds came out, and I saw pieces of Jiaozhi soldiers fall to the ground in response.
There was no sound of bows and arrows breaking through the sky, and there was no meaning of black pressure arrow feathers covering the sky, there were only the sound of gunshots and bullets shooting straight out of the fire, which was completely different from the form of peacetime war, and suddenly caught the Jiaozhi soldiers off guard.
The first unlucky ones to be chosen were naturally the thousand archers.
They were the only ones who might pose a threat to the cold fronts on the castle towers, and they were naturally the ones who were hit the hardest. Many of the archers didn't even have the arrows they had prepared in their hands, and they had already fallen to the ground in response, and their heads were exposed with bloody holes.
There are also some archers who just took the arrow feather in their hands and fell to the ground, that is, when they died, they were all unwilling, obviously unable to understand why they had not released the arrow, and they had already died without seeing the other party's arrow feathers flying.
A thousand archers were the first to be unlucky, most of them died before they left the division, and less than 100 people released the bows and arrows in a hurry, but they had already failed to shoot at all because of panic or limited strength, or they had already lost their heads, and even if they arrived at the city tower, they did not shoot to the designated position at all.
"Leng Feng shoots!"
has already moved, just now it was the six hundred auxiliaries who fired first, which has caused a lot of casualties to the enemy, making the opponent's camp chaotic, Chen Bo, who seized the opportunity, shouted again, and the four hundred cold fronts began to attack from the farthest distance.
Six or seven hundred meters away, that is, the Fang Ye formation with swords, guns, swords and halberds in the Jiaozhi army, became the preferred target. Pity those Jiaozhi soldiers were still too far away, they were defenseless at all, and suddenly there was a dense burst of gunfire, and many soldiers fell to the ground with a look of confusion, this scene really frightened everyone.
The final distance of the bow and arrow is not one hundred and fifty meters, and at such a distance, only a few people with very strong arms can do it, and an archer like this can be called one in a thousand. Moreover, it is already very difficult to shoot up to 100 meters and shoot a bow and arrow at the target. In fact, the real killing distance of archers is about 60 meters, and at such a distance, people who only need to go through strict training and have a certain amount of strength can play a role in killing the enemy.
In other words, the actual attack distance of the bow and arrow is only sixty or seventy meters, but now, a new weapon has suddenly appeared, which can reach six hundred meters away to kill, which is equivalent to nearly ten times their attack distance, and it is no wonder that the cross-toes will be afraid, panic, and fearful.
This sudden attack also made the thoughts of the Jiaozhi soldiers at six or seven hundred meters become confused, so that even if they saw their companions die tragically by their side, few people still made preparations to flee, and they were really stupid at this moment.
Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was stunned and stupid, the bullets of Leng Feng and the auxiliary soldiers above the west tower of the northern belt city poured down as if they didn't want money, and one after another the Jiaozhi soldiers who were named were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.
There were too many enemies, too many targets, and too many options, so many soldiers changed their single shots to burst fire, and the gunfire became more dense.
In just a few breaths, too many corpses fell under the tower, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive finally began to wake up and began to retreat frantically.
But no matter how fast they run, at a distance of 600 meters, they will still become like living targets, and of the more than 1,000 people who run backwards, less than one-tenth of them are really lucky enough to survive.
The Cochin soldiers were raided by muskets, and after seeing the power of this advanced musket, they had long given up their plans to attack the city, that is, they could run as fast as they could, and many people threw their weapons and superfluous things on their bodies to the ground, just to move forward lightly and run faster.
In this way, it is difficult for the five hundred shield players who are at the front of the line.
Originally, they were at the forefront, relying on the shields in their hands, and ordinary bows and arrows could not hurt them. But the shield that seems to be iron-clad has already dropped a lot in defense when facing advanced muskets. There have even been cases where shields have been pierced by bullets.
Compared to the penetrating power of bullets, these cochin shielders with wooden shields have no effective resistance at all.
Yes, they took the wooden ones. As a cross-border with a lack of iron and various resources, there are only a very small number of armies that really have iron shields, which is what the elite of the elite can have. The usual army is only made of wood, and the long-range shots used to defend against bows and arrows are enough, and in the face of bullet raids, they are naturally inferior.
The wooden shields couldn't block the bullets, but they rushed too far forward, so that the position of the five hundred shield soldiers was embarrassing.
Run, right? Rushing too far ahead, you will definitely not be able to escape.
Rush it? The left hand is a wooden shield, the right hand is a short knife, the melee combat is better, facing the city nearly ten meters high is simply looking at the ocean sigh.
In particular, there were still some people in the hands of the 500 shields who wanted to retreat and were killed, but on the contrary, they chose to stop where they were, and none of the more than 450 people who stood in place and did not dare to move were harmed.
If you stop where you are, you will probably become a captive and lose your freedom, but you are much happier than dying in retreat. So there was a somewhat dramatic scene on the battlefield, that is, more than 400 shield soldiers seemed to wander outside the battlefield, standing neatly waiting for the judgment of the god of fate.
Uncle Chen naturally saw these nearly five hundred Cochin shield players, but when he saw that they did not act rashly, but stood there honestly, he also stopped the desire to kill the enemy. Bullets cost money, and the materials needed are not cheap, of course, it is good to save one bullet, not to mention that these nearly five hundred people are all strong laborers, for the sixth young master who pays attention to the population, this is a big gain.
Therefore, there is only one company of auxiliaries staring at these shield bearers, while the other Leng Feng and auxiliaries continue to do whatever they should do, and continue to shoot, just because the enemies who can run have run away, they have also changed from the original burst fire to the current burst fire.
Three thousand men rushed in, but in the end there were not even two hundred who actually escaped. In addition to the more than 400 shield soldiers, under the blow of just one pillar of incense, the Jiaozhi army suffered more than 2,000 tragic deaths.
This result completely frightened Huang Hua, the general of the Jiaozhi Army. Under this battle, he finally understood why Quyi City and Beidai City both fell so quickly, in the face of this advanced musket, I am afraid that no one can stop it.
"General, what should I do?" Seeing that the soldiers who rushed out reversed at a faster speed, and there was no one out of ten, a commander couldn't help but look at Huang Hua with a bitter face.
Huang Hua, who was frowning deeply, only made the decision to withdraw after a slight groan. More than half of the troops have been lost, and the morale of the army is so unstable, if the attack continues to be carried out in the future, it will almost be gone. Even if the king wants to punish him, he can only choose to retreat.
The general decided to withdraw the army, which made the commander next to him breathe a long sigh of relief, and then the order was issued, and the more than 2,000 Cochin troops who had been frightened were frantically retreating, and they were more than twice as fast as when they came. In this way, people really cherish their lives.
The Cochin army retreated, and not a single soldier cheered loudly above the tower. Perhaps in their eyes, this is a normal thing, and even if so, what is there to be happy about? On the contrary, there were two hundred people with a displeased face, and they were the auxiliaries who were arranged to guard the northern belt city.
Because there was a time before when the people of Jiaozhi in the city rushed to the city, Chen Bo was worried about the fire behind him, so he arranged for these two hundred people to keep an eye on him, which also made them not have any chance to participate in the war, and it was inevitable that there would be some complaints in their hearts.