Chapter 44: One of the Eight Elite Banners
After all, Etuhun is only a leader, and there are only more than 300 people under his command, so it is impossible to have cannons. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners under his command are too bad, whether it is a bow and arrow or a bird gun, they have no strength and accuracy when they hit.
Seeing the weak attack of the Eight Banners, the North Korean guard was overjoyed: "It turns out that the legendary invincible Houjin Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are nothing more than that!" ”
The North Koreans immediately came to the spirit: "Brothers, get ready, guys!" When the golden tartars come up, they will be hacked to death! ”
Seeing the high morale of the Koreans on the front position, the Eight Banners soldiers who were advancing step by step with wooden signs in hand were actually a little timid, and did not dare to advance further for a while.
Etuhun is a second-generation Eight Banners in the capital who has never fought a war, and when he saw this posture, he was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all. Riding a horse to storm the formation of the North Koreans? These two and third generations of the Eight Banners in the capital just learned to ride horses a while ago, and it is okay to march on horseback, so forget about fighting on horseback. Let the infantry move forward? But if you go up, can you win hand-to-hand combat with the North Koreans? The morale on the other side is high.
Fortunately, because the Koreans were all infantry, they did not dare to take the initiative to rush out, and the two sides confronted each other like this.
"Etu Hun ! You rice bucket! Leave your useless garbage station out there! Behind the Qing army sounded the voice of the fierce general Amurtu.
Etuhun turned his head and saw a group of Eight Banners with a yellow flag coming from behind, and the number was not large, only more than 300 people. This group of Eight Banners soldiers came behind them and immediately divided into two teams, one of which was about 200 people, all of whom turned over and dismounted, removed a layer of cotton armor, and took out a bow from the horse, carrying only a quiver and a short knife; Another team of more than 100 people, riding on horseback, drew their sabers, and quietly waited for the opportunity.
The first team of more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers who dismounted took a step forward and advanced. When the Eight Banners came to a place more than a hundred paces away from the Koreans, they stopped, took out a light arrow from the quiver, and put it on their bows.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot those damned North Koreans for me! Amurtu shouted.
More than 200 soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Yellow Banner loosened their bowstrings, and a row of light arrows under black pressure flew into the sky, drew an arc, flew over more than 100 steps, and fell into the formation of the Koreans.
"Here comes the arrows, raise the shield!" The North Korean officer shouted anxiously.
The Korean sword player in front raised his shield, and the light arrows fell from the sky and fell, some of the arrows were tied to the wooden cards, but a considerable number of arrows penetrated from the air strikes between the wooden cards and the wooden cards, and pierced into the bodies of the North Koreans, and the Korean soldiers who only had a thin layer of cotton armor on their bodies could not resist at all, and there was a scream in the crowd.
"Put!" Amurtu shouted.
The second round of light arrows rose into the air, pulling out arcs, and the arrows like locusts in the sky pierced into the crowd of Koreans, and many arrows passed through the gaps and hit the Koreans, and suddenly the formation of the Koreans was much looser.
Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth rounds of feather arrows flew into the sky, pulled out a parabola, accurately penetrated into the formation of the North Korean army, and landed in the densest place of the crowd.
The Koreans wanted to fight back with the bird guns and bows and arrows in their hands, but their range was not as long as the range of the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners. The arrows shot rose into the air, and before they could reach the crowd of Eight Banners, they fell from the sky and stuck in the snow.
The Eight Banners soldiers opened their bows and arrows again and again, these Eight Banners outside the pass were superb in archery, throwing with light arrows, the physical strength consumed was not too great, the arrow rain was like a round, falling endlessly, just like the Houjin army outside the pass when they shot the Ming army, the bird guns in the hands of the Ming army could not pose any threat to them at all, and their bows and arrows could shoot the Ming army from a distance. Unless the Ming army has artillery, it can still threaten the Houjin army.
Being shot one by one in vain, but unable to fight back at all, was a great blow to the morale of the North Koreans.
"Rush forward and kill the Houjin Tartar archers!" A North Korean officer shouted.
About 100 North Korean hand-to-hand fighters in double armor jumped out of the formation, holding shields in their hands and broadswords in their hands, and rushed towards the Eight Banners who were shooting arrows.
The Eight Banners immediately replaced with armor-piercing heavy arrows, lowered the arrows, and shot round after round of feather arrows at the rushing Korean soldiers. The powerful armor-piercing heavy arrow pierced through the cold air and pierced into the crowd of North Korean soldiers who rushed out, and in the blink of an eye, more than 20 North Korean soldiers who rushed to the front were shot into hedgehogs.
This was followed by several rounds of armor-piercing heavy arrows fired in low, straight parabolas, and the shields of the North Koreans were full of arrows, and more than a dozen North Korean soldiers were shot through their bodies and fell in the snow.
"Kill!" One of the Eight Banners on horseback drew his sword and pointed at the North Koreans who were fighting back.
More than a hundred horsemen on horseback waved their whips, and their horses accelerated in the snow and rushed towards the Koreans. In the blink of an eye, the speed of the war horse increased to the extreme, the horse's hooves stepped over the snow, flying up bursts of snowflakes, and the Eight Banners cavalry wearing double armor rushed into the North Koreans like a whirlwind, and the war horse hit the shield, knocking the North Koreans out with their shields. The horse's hooves trampled over the Korean soldiers and trampled the human body into the snow; With the help of the galloping momentum of the war horse, the sharp saber gently slashed past the neck of the North Koreans, and one after another the heads of the North Koreans rolled down into the snow.
Within a short time, more than 100 North Korean soldiers who had the courage to launch a counterattack were all wiped out.
The Eight Banners cavalry stopped their footsteps and rode through the snow to watch the archers attack the Koreans. They will not attack the North Koreans who have not yet collapsed, after all, there are more than 500 North Korean infantry here, and the North Koreans are defending themselves with the help of terrain and wooden fences, and if the cavalry rushes hard, it will pay a lot of price.
Round after round of arrows fell, the North Koreans, holding their shields, began to retreat step by step.
The Eight Banners marched forward, the North Koreans took a step back, and the Eight Banners pushed one step forward, keeping light arrows thrown at them, and constantly shooting down the North Koreans who showed a little of their bodies, arms, and legs. On the wooden fence of the North Koreans, in the snow in front of the position, arrows were densely packed, and it looked like a piece of reed wool had grown out of the snow.
Look at the North Koreans' bird guns and archers have been crippled by the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners on horseback also took out their riding bows, drove the war horses to trot forward a few steps, and entered within twenty steps, the cavalry opened their bows and arrows, and the foot bows also shot out rows and rows of feather arrows, knocking over a lot of Koreans behind the wooden fence.
"Kill the Jurchen Tartars!" A North Korean general with blood-red eyes rushed out with more than a dozen North Korean soldiers.
None of the more than a dozen Korean soldiers could rush to the Qing army, but after rushing out more than ten steps, all of them were shot like hedgehogs and fell unwillingly in the snow.