Chapter 380: Kill these turtle grandchildren for me
It was noon, and the sun on the grassland was particularly scorching, reflecting the blood-stained tidal flats of the Liao River.
Forty steps...... Thirty steps...... The ships were getting closer and closer to the shore.
"Shoot the arrows!" Azig shouted as he was escorted by his guards.
Thousands of Tartar archers took their bows and shot at the warship.
Babutai, Babuhai, Azig, and the new general of the Tartar Middle Route Army, Wakda, ordered in unison.
The arrow feathers covered the three ships in an instant, like a bullet from the previous one.
"Get down—get down!" Liu Hong gradually shouted at the soldiers who were still insisting on shooting.
He still said that it was too late, all the soldiers of the Ming army were not afraid of death to shoot and change ammunition, and they turned a deaf ear to the arrows of the Tartar soldiers, and more than a dozen soldiers were hit by arrows in an instant.
Grandma's, these two stunned people, brave are not so brave, aren't your lives your lives? Liu Hong gradually scolded in his heart!
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" The former Guan Ning Army, the current deputy Qianhu Kuoduan of the Banzai Mountain Thousand Households, rushed to the deck with a large group of Guan Ning soldiers carrying shields.
Bang bang bang - the shield was mounted on the side of the ship by Guan Ning's soldiers like battlements, and the arrow feathers shot the three warships into hedgehogs.
But it doesn't stop there, the arrow feather is an arrow feather after all, the hull can't be shot through, and the front is protected by a shield, and the AKM between the shields can still continue to cause terrifying lethality.
The entire artillery position of the Tartars was almost abandoned, and the gunners were beaten to the head of the rats, and then they were completely annihilated by the Tartar warlords.
The Tartar archers still tried their best to release arrows at the warship, although they were protected by shields, but there were really a lot of Tartar marksmen, plus the warships were so close that through the gaps between the shields, the soldiers of the Thousand Households fell from time to time.
But for the Tartars, the casualties were still not proportional.
On the tidal flats on the bank of the river, the corpses of the Tartar soldiers had been piled up, and the arrows had little effect, and Azig hid behind the guards and cursed.
"My lord, the warship is about to dock, and the lowly border army asks to land!" Wang Yuanba had already put on his armor, and the drastic physical exertion during the paddle caused him to feel as if he had just taken a bath.
But all the border soldiers, like their generals, had fearless flames in their chests, and they wanted to kill the enemy, to make meritorious deeds, to lay down this mudflat for the emperor behind them.
"Wait a minute!" Liu Hong's face gradually turned cold.
"Brothers, get on the grenade and kill this group of turtle grandchildren for me!" Liu Hong gradually pulled out a grenade from the waist of a soldier beside him, pulled the fuse and threw it towards the Tartar group on the shore first.
The Ming soldiers on the deck of the warship also did the same, each drawing a grenade, and the grenades on the three warships smashed in a parabola at the Tartar soldiers who were rushing towards the warship.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
An area thirty or forty paces in front of the three warships was instantly shrouded in black smoke, and it was unknown what kind of hell was inside the smoke, only to see the Tartars panicked and began to retreat.
"Lao Wang, it's now, grab the beach and land! Often, fire cover! Seeing that the Tartar soldiers were in a panic because of the grenade, Liu Hong gradually saw the right time to give the order.
Five hundred carefully selected frontier warriors came down from each of the three ships, and they rushed into the smoke and dust, and instead of drawing their swords, each took out the grenade on his waist and caused more explosions in front of him.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom - 1,500 frontier warriors were invincible, and the Tartar archer battalion collapsed in less than a quarter of an hour after the frontier army disembarked.
"The soldiers of the Thousand Households disembarked! AKM shooters continue to strafe the red cannons! "The ships that have docked have become dead targets, and they must be stared at the Tartars' artillery for accidents.
Fifteen hundred soldiers of the Thousand Households armed with rifled guns disembarked from the ship and quickly lined up, and the three infantry phalanxes of 500 men formed a phalanx in an instant.
"Ready! Fire! "The respective generals issued orders almost simultaneously.
Bang bang - bang bang - three infantry formations slowly advanced as they opened fire on the Tartars behind the smoke.
In the front, there were border troops throwing grenades, and in the back, there were rows of guns firing continuously, and then there were more sharp, and the barrels of the guns were suddenly red.
Although the Ming army was small in number, only 3,000 people, the Tartar soldiers could not get close at all.
A quarter of an hour later, Zilharang's eyes were red, he took a deep breath and gave the order to retreat.
He had to admit that the brave Qing warriors could not break through the defenses of the Ming army at all, and the sharp muskets and terrifying explosives continued to create hell.
He was worried that if he didn't give the order to retreat, there would be no need to give orders, and the Eight Banners were already on the verge of collapse, and the knives of the Overseer were all cut and still gradually exhausted.
The defeated soldiers are not enough to be brave, if they really retreat, then these tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers will all become stragglers, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Can't hold it anymore? Liu Hong gradually muttered in his mouth, and at this moment his heart was finally put in his stomach.
If the Tartars hold on for even a quarter of an hour, they will find that the terrifying explosives are slowly decreasing......
The newly produced grenades were twice as large and twice as heavy as later generations.
In order not to affect the soldiers to cut and shoot, each person can only carry five grenades around their waists, and the battle just now was fierce, and the Ming soldiers could only meet the enemy with grenades in a hurry.
Fortunately, most of the Tartars had never seen such a projectile firearm at all, and they were shocked by the huge power for a while, and they did not know how many grenades the Ming army had.
All they saw was the constant explosions around them, and the soldiers around them also kept falling to the ground, their broken limbs flying wildly, and there were bombed dirt pits everywhere.
"Demon God! They are demon gods! "I don't know which of the Tartars howled as they ran, taking the grenade as the demon god's punishment for them.
Generals such as Zilharang and Azig worked hard to maintain control of their subordinates, but the Wakda of the Central Route Army was obviously incompetent, and the Central Route Army was already hit by the main force, and some of the Tartar soldiers scattered and fled, out of control.
"Don't pursue, Wang Yuanba sent people to destroy the thirty red-clothed cannons, Chang Yu, the musket team is on standby!" Liu Hong gradually ordered his subordinates in the smoke and dust.
After all the three warships disembarked from the Ming army, Malaki, who was shivering in the cabin, immediately turned the rudder and headed for the Ming army camp on the other side of the river.
Chongzhen, several Ming generals and a group of guards who stayed behind stood on the high place of the barracks and watched across the river, since the three Galen ships docked, in order to injure friendly troops on the embankment, Kong Ermao stopped firing cannons.
"It's back, the ship is back!" A sharp-eyed general shouted excitedly, but Chongzhen's expression was still solemn.
The warship that docked on the shore was particularly eye-catching, except for the tail of the warship, which was full of arrow feathers, and those who didn't know thought it was the Ming version of the grass boat borrowing arrows.
There are no more soldiers on the ship, but it is full of arrow feathers, is it an accident? This is also what Chongzhen is most worried about.
"Your Majesty the Great Ming Emperor, His Excellency the Duke of Anguo has taken the beach, and I hereby order the small ones to come and meet the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to support!"