Chapter 450: The Tradition of the Korean Soldiers

Because Choi Nam-jeong was worried that the soldiers pretending to be Kim Sang-hun and others would be discovered, he did not let them take bows, guns, etc. At this time, I suddenly saw someone running out to warn the Ming army, but these people were stunned and didn't know what to do.

The lean young man ran as fast as he could with his bare feet, and his mouth was still in Korean words. Although Zheng Chenggong didn't understand it very well, he could hear the difference from his demeanor and tone, and hurriedly beckoned the guards, "Cover that person here!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, the Korean soldiers reacted and threw the spear in their hands at the person who warned him.

Zheng Chenggong and the guards had just taken a few steps forward, when they saw the shuttle darts thrown by the subordinates of "Lord Jin", and at the same time heard the interpreter behind him say loudly: "Lord Admiral, he said that there is an ambush, let you go quickly!" ”

Zheng Chenggong frowned when he heard this, pulled out the short reed wheel on his waist and tightened the clockwork, and fired a shot into the sky.

The roar of the firecrackers made Cui Nanzheng's people stunned, and several Ming soldiers took advantage of this gap to take the young man behind them, and skillfully took off the flintlock guns to reload the ammunition, and then pointed straight at the grain trucks.

"Nishiba! Where did the wild cubs come from to spoil me and do a good thing?! Cui Nan was on a broken grass hut in the port when he saw Zheng Chenggong and the others retreating, and shouted to his subordinates angrily: "Beat the drum!" Rush up and slaughter these Ming troops! ”

As the dense drums sounded in the abandoned port, the ambush soldiers shouted and killed, and more than 100 people next to the grain truck were closest to the Ming army, and they also rushed up with swords and spears.

Liu Guoxuan saw the Admiral's loud whistle here, and hurriedly led his troops to help. The interpreter beside him grabbed the young man who called the police and asked a few words, then turned around and said, "General, he said that Lord Jin Shangxian was arrested by the rebels just now, and there are more than 2,000 ambush soldiers around here, who want to kill us, let us escape from the sea quickly!" ”

Liu Guoxuan was surprised, the Ming army that landed this time was less than 600 people, and when they came, they said that they wanted to carry grain, because more than half of them did not bring guns. And the water in the harbor here is very shallow, and the big ships cannot get close to the shore, even with the cannons on the ship.

He hurriedly said to Zheng Chenggong: "Lord Admiral, you get on the boat first, and I will take someone to break off!" ”

The latter frowned, but said in a deep voice: "No, His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King said that Lord Kim's single-minded resistance to capture is our greatest help in North Korea, and he must be saved!" He looked at the grain cart not far away, "And we also have to bring this batch of grain, otherwise we won't be able to last long in the Bohai area." ”

"But, my lord, there are two thousand thieves ......."

He only said half a sentence, and then heard Zheng Chenggong suddenly shout: "Release!" ”

Suddenly there was a burst of gunsmoke, and more than thirty soldiers beside him pulled the trigger at the same time. The Korean soldiers who rushed from the side of the grain cart were within twenty paces at this time, and this burst of lead bullets flew by, and immediately overturned sixteen or seventeen people.

Military discipline is too good and sometimes troublesome. These Ming soldiers did not get the order, and they kept watching the enemy rush to the front without firing. Liu Guoxuan hurriedly took over the command, pulled out the front finger of the saber, "Bayonet ready!" ”

"We must not withdraw!" Zheng Chenggong simply ordered, "Pass the order, let the infantry army land for reinforcements." The others have their backs to the dock and form a formation to defend against the enemy! ”

"Yes!" Immediately, a guard returned to deliver the order. As the flag on the shore waved, more than 20 small boats were lowered from the naval division's warship, and the sailor infantry rushed to the harbor.

The first 100 or so North Korean soldiers who rushed up to the "grain truck" only heard a bang, and then there was a scream in their ears, and they suddenly slowed down by nearly half of their feet. When the other half got into the smoke of gunpowder raised by the firecracker, he immediately heard a thunderous shout: "Kill!" ”

More than 30 bayonets stabbed out at the same time in the smoke, and then retracted at the same time, again accompanied by the shout "Kill!" "At the same time, it is flirting. It was just two simple actions, but the military formation was so neatly used that the more than forty people who rushed to the front didn't even have a chance to fight back, and they all died.

The Korean soldiers, who had slowed down a few steps, only heard two "kills", and when they looked up again, they were already missing their front team, and they were immediately frightened, and turned their heads and ran faster than rabbits.

Seeing this, Liu Guoxuan couldn't help grinning, "What if there are two thousand people with this kind of combat power?" ”

In fact, North Korea's soldiers and horses are the weakest in the entire East Asian region, and his neighbors around him – Japan, Houjin, and Daming – are far from being opponents in any of them.

Zheng Chenggong saw that the former enemy was temporarily retreating, and hurriedly ordered Liu Guoxuan to lead people to retreat to the brigade.

At this time, the 600 Ming troops on the shore were divided into two teams, forming a formation with the word "people" with their backs to the sea. It's just that because the number of people is too small, it can only form two rows of infantry lines, which seems a little thin.

But there was no fear on everyone's face, and they all calmly watched the enemy army approach.

Because Cui Nanzheng planned to "lure the enemy deeper" at the beginning, he ambushed a little farther away, and finally ran to about 100 steps away from the Ming army for a long time. Although he was a little surprised to see that the Ming people did not flee back to the sea, he was still ecstatic in his heart - these heads are all military merits! As long as the master is happy, he will be afraid to look at his face in the future.

Thinking of this, he waved his knife and shouted, "Give it to me!" Whoever kills one enemy will be rewarded three times! ”

When his subordinates heard the rich bounty, they immediately screamed and sped up a few points. When the Korean soldiers in the front row rushed to about sixty paces away from the Ming army, they heard a chorus shouting, "Aim!" ”

They were also surprised to see the earth-shattering fire boom in front of them, when hundreds of people were shot and overturned.

However, the number of guns held by these Ming troops who landed was really limited, and they could only discharge two rows of lines, and the density of firepower was far from forming the effect of a "buckshot wall".

Although there were many gaps in the "torrent" of enemy troops, the rest continued to move forward.

After Liu Guoxuan ordered a round of rapid fire, he was about to give the order to prepare bayonets, but he was surprised to find that the North Koreans had stopped!

Just don't rush like that......

Subsequently, some North Korean officers ran forward and backward to restrain the ranks. It took a while for Liu Guoxuan to see the clue - the front row of knife spearmen, the middle gunslingers, and the back row archers - this is intended to be shot in front of the face!

He guessed right. In fact, this is the tradition of the Koreans to fight, and those who can put bows and arrows will never let go of their guns, and those who can put guns will never engage in battle, and it is really time for hand-to-hand combat...... We can still run, run farther and continue to release arrows!

Therefore, when Japan invaded Korea during the Wanli period, they used bows and arrows to shoot at the Japanese iron cannons, which was called a tragic ......

Later, when Jianlu invaded, they planned to shoot Jianlu with iron cannons, but they encountered such a thing as a chariot, and they lacked a cannon to deal with it. So they were cut down by the elite infantry armor of the Qing army......

They could see clearly this time that the Ming army was using muskets like them, and there were no carts or anything like that, and they were happy in their hearts - they could finally attack the enemy from a distance happily.

It's just that how did they know that shooting with a bow and arrow, an arquebus and a flintlock gun, would still turn out to be a tragedy......