Chapter 523: Shock
Originally, everyone was worried that the sixth young master would have pity because of the other party's weakness. After all, as soldiers, the battlefield is the best examination room, and if there is no battle, their sense of existence will only become weaker and weaker.
Now Yang Chendong has not been soft because of the other party's actions, and still decided to fight again. The battalion commanders of the seven auxiliary battalions became excited, but unfortunately there were only two places, and for a while they became the object of competition among the seven people.
For this obviously not enough place, Lu Zhuo, the commander of the auxiliary corps, is also very troubled. Speaking of which, the combat effectiveness of these seven battalions is basically not much different, and it is really not easy to choose who to send or who not to send. Later, after consulting Yang Chendong, he decided to draw lots.
Of course, Commander Lu Zhuo also said that if you are lucky enough to be drawn, but you don't perform well on the battlefield, the next time you have such a thing, you can only stand aside, and at most you will be used as the second echelon.
Luckily for the fifth and sixth battalions. It's just that the other battalions are not hopeless, as long as they don't perform well, that's the time for them to play.
In order not to give other battalions a chance, the commander of the fifth and sixth battalions gathered their company commanders, platoon commanders and even squad leaders, and held an emergency meeting, in their words, that is, if anyone drops the chain in the next battle, then don't blame them for being ruthless and directly expelled from the army.
This is expulsion from the military, not as simple as retirement. The latter at least doesn't join the army, and can do some other things, and with this resume of the army, there should be many units in the Red City that will rush to ask for it. But if it is the former, he is really expelled from the army, then he really has no face to see people, and it is even more painful than killing them.
Yes, there were eight hundred soldiers in the two battalions, and they were all screaming, and they looked like they would definitely do their best.
In terms of logistics, the soldiers of the two battalions had a good lunch of six meat and two vegetarian meals, and then after resting for a quarter of an hour, the 800 warriors jumped over the 3rd battalion of Leng Feng, which was playing the vanguard, and slowly approached the 30,000 Jiaozhi troops outside the city.
No matter where the Cold Front Warrior goes, he is the absolute main force. But this first battle didn't mean to ask them to fight, which made the company commanders below look displeased. Tiance, the commander of the first company, directly found the battalion commander Kong Quanxin and told the dissatisfaction in his heart. "Battalion commander, why didn't you let us go to the first battle? Does the Sixth Young Master have an opinion about us? ”
"Fart." Battalion Commander Kong Quanxin couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and then he shouted.
In comparison, among the three battalion commanders of the Second Regiment of Leng Feng, Kong Quanxin's temper is quite good. Although it is not as good as the second battalion commander Chen Bo, he has the atmosphere of a Confucian general, but at least it is much better than the first battalion commander Wu Sheng. But at this moment, he still couldn't help but curse people.
Don't blame him for his temper. This time the first battle didn't use him, and he was holding his breath in his heart.
I thought that the first battalion was still waiting in the Lang Son area to dig out the back road of the Jiaozhi army, and the second battalion was outside the city of Yinglou, dealing with the 100,000 Lancang army, so the heavy task of attacking Nanyu City would naturally fall on him.
Even before he was ready for pre-war mobilization. But who would have thought that the Sixth Young Master did not use them in the first battle, but sent two auxiliary battalions, which made him disappointed and naturally held his breath. Now that the company commander below is looking for him, it's strange that he can have a good temper.
Although there was anger in his heart, Kong Quanxin knew more clearly that he couldn't bring this temper to the army, so after scolding, he said: "Don't think too much, the sixth young master must have thought of using steel on the blade, don't you know that the other party's general is just a nobody in the Jiaozhi army?" Facing them, of course, we don't need a main force like us to shoot, so we should be ready and wait to hit their main force, that's what our cold front should do. ”
Kong Quanxin's idea is exactly what Yang Chendong thinks in his heart. It's just that in the face of 30,000 Jiaozhi troops, it is not the strongest army, that is, he has not seen the iron shield soldiers, nor has he seen the iron chariot appear, and the opponent is not an elephant soldier and a black soldier, so why did he send the strongest main force? Sending two auxiliary battalions is already very face-saving, although with 800 people against 20,000 people, it seems that the gap is so big, but Yang Chendong is still not worried at all in his heart.
The mercenaries have the strongest advanced firearms in the world, as long as they are not looking for death and rush over to play hand-to-hand combat with the opponent, hand-to-hand combat, the 800 battles and 20,000 will also have a great chance of winning.
Just like in the later period, the little Jiannu was just a few hundred cavalry and killed tens of thousands of Ming troops and fled in disarray. Even if they can do it, there is no problem with mercenaries.
Straight to the point. Two auxiliary battalions, 800 fighters walked out of the ranks of mercenaries, and began to approach the Jiaozhi army on the opposite side.
Li Shaozhong rode on his horse, and when he saw from a distance that the mercenaries had only walked out of a thousand people, he couldn't help but sneer, who was still very nervous, "These mercenaries are too conceited, do you really think that they are beaten with iron and can't be killed?" Hum! If you want to shake my army of 30,000 with less than a thousand people, you are looking for death, and I will fulfill you. Come on, blow the battle horn, rush up and kill them. ”
Although Li Shaozhong, who had an extremely superior military strength, knew that the mercenaries had advanced muskets in their hands, considering his superiority in numbers, that fear was quickly suppressed. And with the issuance of the military order, the 30,000 Jiaozhi troops also advanced step by step under the sharp horn.
There are 10,000 soldiers, and there is no boundary. Just outside the east gate of Xiyu City, when the team of 30,000 people was completely laid out, the pressure on people was still very great, at least these Jiaozhi soldiers were bold because of this momentum, and one by one they took a step and drank a killing word, and the sound resounded between heaven and earth, echoing for a long time.
On the west side of the city tower in the east, the king of Jiaozhi Lili and the crown prince and others are watching here.
When they saw that the mercenaries had only sent less than a thousand people, these people on the city tower couldn't help but have a trace of contempt in their eyes. Most of them are thinking in their hearts, even if your mercenary weapons are advanced, but with 800 to 30,000, it is too much. As long as these people rush in front of them, they can hide the mercenaries to death with a mouthful of foam.
Indeed, many Cochin people think so.
It's just that on the other hand, the mercenaries also have the same opinion, and that is the time for the auxiliaries to act as such.
When the footsteps of the 30,000 Jiaozhi soldiers began to move forward, the 800 auxiliary soldiers stopped there. Then one by one the fighters checked their weapons and ammunition, and after ten seconds, all the fighters picked up their guns again and looked ahead.
In fact, their weapons had already been checked I don't know how many times they came, and the action just now was just subconscious.
"Five battalions, target six to twelve o'clock, ready!"
"Sixth battalion, target twelve o'clock to six o'clock direction, ready!"
The two auxiliary battalion commanders gave the command to prepare for battle at the same time, and the eight hundred soldiers stood on the same line, giving people the feeling of a long green dragon, entrenched on the ground.
"Shoot!"
The distance between the two sides had reached a distance of only 400 meters, which was completely within the firing distance of the muskets, and the two battalion commanders gave the order to shoot immediately, and the sound of gunshots with a burst of horns and horns instantly suppressed the pace and sound of the opponent's advance, and the bullets flew sideways.
When the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, there were only about 1,000 people, but the Qing army that did fight tens of thousands or even more and the people's Boxer unity were defeated and retreated, which was precisely the power of muskets.
At that time, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army mostly used rifles in their hands, that is, the kind that needed to be reloaded for a shot. And the effective distance of such a gun is only two to three hundred meters. In comparison, it is much worse than the eighty-one bar in the hands of the auxiliaries.
Although the Bayi Bar was made by the Red Embedded City Arsenal, the extreme performance was far less easy to use than the Bayi Bar in Yang Chendong's warehouse, and the quality was better. But with a variety of detailed books and the best finished products there as templates, the performance of this kind of arsenal is still very good, and it has reached the effect of seventy percent of the original gun.
At least the effective killing distance of such an 81 bar has not reached the original 800 meters, but it can reach about 500 meters now, and now at a distance of 400 meters, every bullet fired can take a person's life.
Of course, in the face of a black oppressive enemy, there is no need to aim or anything, just shoot a bullet, as long as it does not hit the sky and the ground, it can hit people.
Shots rang out. When the 800 81 bars were called at the same time, the picture was still very exciting. And as their bullets poured out of the chambers of their guns, as their enemies, the cochin soldiers who had come from afar fell to the ground in pieces.
Before, they relied on the strength of the crowd and were full of morale. Even every step forward and shouting a kill word can indeed effectively boost their morale. But in the end, it's just to cheer yourself up, and when you really face life and death, whether this courage is still good or not, I really don't know.
With every bullet fired, a Cochin soldier fell to the ground. When such things happen one after another, and there is no sign of stopping, even if you still have the courage to shout the word kill, in fact, you have begun to be scared in your heart.
No one is not afraid of death, especially when they know that they will die, and they don't even have a fluke mentality, so you can imagine what kind of blow the morale of the army will bear.
Under the shock of advanced muskets, the morale of the Cochin army began to fall continuously...
As the figure continued to fall, only fifty meters forward, the footsteps of the Jiaozhi army began to stagnate, and even some of the timid began to tremble in their legs, wondering if they had retreated and fled.