Chapter 100: Heavy casualties
When the company commander saw that the enemy had temporarily retreated and repaired, he also ordered everyone to clear the chambers of their guns as soon as possible, load their ammunition, get cover, and wait for the next round of enemy attacks. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It was only at this point that he had the opportunity to go to Lakshin's trouble: "Are you crazy?" Azig is the owner of the white flag, you injured him, how can you still gain a foothold in the Kingdom of Jin? How's it going, are people dead? ”
Hearing the question of the cavalry company commander, Lakshin quietly glanced around, and said in a low voice, "There is no need to scruple so much now, our task today is to intercept and kill several high-ranking people of the Jin State on the opposite side, and we must not let them reach the camp smoothly." ”
The company commander was shocked and intercepted and killed the high-level of the Jin State, isn't this a rebellion? And then another joy, I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. But immediately, his face darkened again, and he asked carefully, "Then what about our family in Jinguo?" They are hostages, and Jin Guo will not let them go. ”
Lakshin looked at the opposite cavalry company commander's face changed three times in a row, and felt that it was very funny, and almost laughed out loud, but he still forced himself to laugh and explained, "The commander-in-chief has already made arrangements, and now all the families of all the people in the army, none of them have arrived in North Korea."
"Then I'll rest assured, I'll do it here today, by the way, now that North Korea is in such chaos, where is the commander-in-chief going to place people?"
"Originally, it was set to be Nanpu, and everyone was about to get there, but today the situation has changed, and when I assembled, I heard the herald order to change the plan, stay in Nanpu for a while, and then take a boat south to go to other safer places."
"Okay, just know that the commander-in-chief has a spectrum in his heart, I'll go back to the position."
Now it was time for a positional battle, and the company commander ordered the horses to be put behind, so as not to be shot by mistake, after all, the cavalry company only had a hundred horses in total.
The horse carcasses on the bridge had just been moved together and several bunkers were formed on this side of the bridge.
But the bunker was too short and not well protected, so everyone took out their shovels and began to dig trenches behind the bunkers.
Only dug a shallow layer, and people in front of them were able to bend down and shoot, and the next round of attacks began on the opposite side again.
The Jurchen is a fishing and hunting people, and has always followed the principle of pragmatism.
Although after living in the Central Plains, it quickly became corrupt and degenerate.
However, in the first decades of their rise, they were very good at learning.
In the beginning, in the long hunting battles, they formed a fighting style of killing people with large bows and heavy arrows at close range.
Later, after learning about mounted archery during battles with the Mongols, the Jurchen elite began to be equipped with two bows, one for close-range armor piercing, one for mounted archery, or for continuous fire against a large number of unarmored targets.
Then, in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, the defect of insufficient combat population was obvious, and in order to be able to use all the manpower, the army began to be equipped with firearms, and all soldiers who could not shoot bows had to carry a bird gun.
Later, in the bloody battle with the Ming army, he suffered and saw the power of artillery, so he specially formed an artillery unit.
The enemy is not an NPC, even if the other party still maintains a barbaric and brutal slavery, but as a people who have survived the harsh conditions, they have done a good job in the current period in terms of learning lessons and lessons.
To say all this is to make one thing clear, the enemy is not stupid, on the contrary, they are still very smart.
Now the enemy has shown this cleverness.
Although they suffered a loss, dozens of people were killed and injured, but they also saw that there were only more than 100 people in front of them.
They dismounted far from the stone bridge and bunker, and divided into two groups, one for double heavy armor and one for cotton armor.
The group of people wearing cotton armor changed their bows and began to aim at this side, suppressing the people of the cavalry company, and after dismounting, these specially selected elites made the cavalry company suffer with their superb archery skills.
The flintlock musket has a slightly smaller shooting delay, and it can shoot at the enemy on the other side of the river, as long as it retracts its head in time, it is no problem, but it is more than 80 paces away, and the trajectory is already erratic, and after the opponent pulls out of a loose formation, it is not easy to hit the enemy with only six smoothbore guns.
And the bird gun, as an arquebus, has a slightly longer delay, and the shooters of the 2 squads have just leaned out, and before they have shot buckshot, they are targeted by the opposite side.
When the fire of the arquebus in their hands was completed, a rain of arrows came over, and all 20 people were shot, and several of them had several arrows stuck in their bodies, and the most exaggerated warrior was shot into a hedgehog, to say the least there were more than 20 arrows.
Fortunately, due to the long distance and the fact that all the cavalry were wearing armor, only 3 of them were shot in the front door and died on the spot, and the others were not a big deal.
The company commander first ordered the remaining bird guns not to shoot, carefully observed the effect of this round of bird gun volleys, retracted his head, and the company commander scolded the mother and smashed the ground with a fist.
It turned out that the distance between the two sides was too far, and the captured Korean bird guns did not dare to load too much gunpowder, and after passing such a long distance, the lead bullets were so fluctuating that most of them did not hit the enemy.
One or two lead stones were lucky enough to hit the target, but they couldn't do much damage to the enemy even if they hit the cotton armor, and several enemies just covered the hit parts, breathed their breath there, and quickly got back on their feet.
When the company commander saw this exchange ratio, he knew that he could not force it, and ordered the bird men to hide in the several layers of bunkers made of horse corpses, and not to raise their heads.
Then the ghost faces issued by the company to several officers were gathered together and issued to a few flintlock musketeers.
Then the order "From now on, until the next change of order, only the flintlock musketeer with the ghost face can shoot with his head exposed, and the other bird gunners can only stick out their muzzles when the flintlock musketeers fire rapidly as a deterrent and cover." ”
On the enemy's side, seeing that the suppression effect was obvious, another group of soldiers wearing double heavy armor was dispatched.
They gave way to frontal fire and came from one side towards the stone bridge, and the heavily armored enemy moved slowly on foot as the flintlock muskeliers and the opposing group of archers fired.
When they were 35 paces away from the stone bridge, they stopped and began to draw their bows and arrows to cover the advance of the group of soldiers who had shot arrows before.
This time, it was simply hit on the soft underbelly of the cavalry company, and at this distance, the strong bows and heavy arrows of these elite masters of the Eight Banners were able to break through any single layer of armor produced under these conditions, and the hit rate was surprisingly high.
Several flintlock muskeviers were shot in the face one after another and died, although the exchange ratio could reach 1:1, but there were few people on their own side, so they could not be exchanged like this.
The company commander knew that the bird-gunners could no longer hide, so he organized a bird-gun salvo.
But something embarrassing happened, buckshot hit the enemy wearing two layers of armor, and the consequences of insufficient charge reappeared.
Dozens of nearly 100 rounds of lead bullets were fired, and most of the enemies who were shot were only stumbling and then began to fire back again, except for three who were lying on the ground and did not know whether they were dead or alive.
In an instant, a rain of arrows fired by hundreds of archers covered the position of the cavalry company.
The terrifying rain of arrows knocked down nearly half of the soldiers in an instant.
This is a bombing, and everyone has never encountered such a large casualty since entering North Korea.
Looking at their comrades-in-arms who were full of feather arrows and fell to the ground and had not moved for a long time, the soldiers froze.
After the blink of an eye, everyone began to panic, and a few of the less courageous fell to their knees tremblingly, crying and calling out the names of their parents, wives and children.