Chapter 446: Flickering
As time passed, the infantry formation of the Houjin Army was hard against the muskets of the Huaxia Army, and they approached each other to a very close distance.
The guys on the Houjin side have already thought very clearly along the way, that is, the farther and longer the distance, the more the Houjin army itself will suffer. After all, the fact that so many people died along the road is proof of this.
Therefore, they have already decided that they will not stay long in front of the Huaxia Army.
In their opinion, in the face of the Huaxia Army, whose long-range firepower is so powerful, it is only right to enter the state of hand-to-hand contact as quickly as possible.
Of course, this is not to say that the Houjin army will patronize the advance without starting to fight back.
The Houjin army is not so stupid, while the stragglers on both sides of the enemy are fighting each other for control of the middle area of the battlefield, the soldiers of the large army are not idle, but are still shooting while walking.
The muskets in the Huaxia army were constantly firing, and several special service platoons and musketeers in the group array were using dense firepower to suppress the Houjin soldiers who were beyond the width of their own battle line.
Located behind the main array of the Houjin army, there are also archers on the two wings, who are also counterattacking, and the swishing sound of arrows flying is mixed with the roar of muskets. It's like a shocking war song.
The long-haired hands walking in front of the column of the Houjin army were one of the priority targets on this road, and they were only the important targets that were attacked after the stragglers and cavalry.
Therefore, when the two sides approached, the pikemen in the front row of the Houjin army with spears of more than 4 meters had already lost everything.
Moreover, more importantly, because the Huaxia Army focused on attacking people with spears, the soldiers of the Later Jin Army naturally sought advantages and avoided disadvantages and did not touch the spears in the hands of the pikemen who fell to the ground.
Now, as the enemy and the enemy continue to get closer, the soldiers of the Houjin Army realize that they no longer have the most powerful long-handled weapons in array combat.
Looking around, the remaining soldiers in the Houjin queue had some short and heavy weapons such as big swords, tiger spears, bronze slips, and maces.
On the opposite side of the Huaxia Army, the people in the front row had already raised their long rifles with bayonets, forming a style of rejecting horses to block the approach of the Houjin Army.
As the distance approached, all kinds of means were used in the Houjin army.
In the end, just before the two sides met each other, in the military formation of the Houjin army, a black hand axe and flying knife were thrown out.
At the same time that some of the Houjin army threw a wave of flying axes and other things, the Huaxia army had already returned to the spy platoon in the large array, and there was another volley, causing an extremely violent long-range damage to the Houjin army.
Then, the soldiers of the special service platoon, under the leadership of the officer, began to fade to the rear of the main formation, and returned to the rear of the formation to reload ammunition and prepare for the next move.
Some non-commissioned officers who had been accustomed to hand-to-hand combat and had experience in close combat in the previous years of warfare rushed out when the enemy did not dare to rush directly into their own bayonet formations and slowed down.
They drew daggers and sabers that they carried with them, and, of course, some of the higher ranks, armed with flintlock revolvers.
Then, they crouched down and followed the formation formed by the Houjin Tiger Gun and other nearly 2-meter-long weapons, drilled under the gun line, and hid in the gap formed by the first row of Tiger Guns.
Although only a small number of non-commissioned officers of the Huaxia Army performed this kind of task, the impact on the Houjin Army was very huge. Because they had never seen this kind of fighting in the course of fighting with the Ming army in the previous decades.
Moreover, the stragglers of the Houjin Army have never conducted combat training under such long weapons.
When the space for movement on the battlefield between the enemy and us disappeared, some of the more reckless Tartars wanted to take the risk and rush forward to fight with the Chinese non-commissioned officers who were squatting under the array of spears and bayonets.
However, without exception, these guys who rushed straight forward were stabbed to death on the spot by the dense bayonet array.
In addition, there are some more clever Houjin troops, who saw those non-commissioned officers in Huaxia who attacked, after drilling on the junction line of bayonets and tiger guns, did not attack rashly, but chose to squat quietly.
They also squatted down under the bodies of their tiger gunners in the same way as the Huaxia non-commissioned officers, holding short weapons, and stared fiercely at the non-commissioned officers of the Huaxia Army under the barrels of the tiger guns, waiting for the opportunity.
These Houjin soldiers, having learned the lesson of the tragic death of the reckless attackers before, know that before the spears clash each other and divert each other's attention, these short soldiers must not take the initiative to attack.
The strings on the ground that died tragically under dozens of bayonets like meat skewers clearly told all the Hou Jin Jun who still had brains that impulsiveness would be easily pierced into a blood gourd by the other party's dense bayonets.
At this moment, time seemed to freeze, and both sides moved at the same time, slowly, step by step, squirming towards each other.
The non-commissioned officers who have fought for many years and know what they should and should not do on the battlefield are really performing very well and are extremely calm at this moment.
However, the Huaxia Army has been expanding continuously in recent years, so there are many new recruits joining each team.
The veterans and non-commissioned officers performed outstandingly, which is natural, after all, practice makes perfect, but the mood of the recruits at the moment is completely different from that of the veterans.
The vast majority of recruits only react to the sound of drums and trumpets that are so familiar that they want to vomit at this moment, and the voices of anyone else, even the shouts of orders, seem to be far away from the sky.
What's going on on the two wings is none of the recruits' business, in front of them, there are only tiger guns and broadswords that are getting closer and closer.
As the enemy approached, many recruits gradually began to redden, and subconsciously approached the enemy step by step according to the slow drum beat.
It has been said many times that the Houjin army is not a fool. I don't care about saying it again, Hou Jin Jun is definitely not a fool.
Therefore, at this moment, they will not be stupid enough to rush up and send it to the bayonets of the Huaxia army.
As the two sides got closer and closer, the amplitude of the steps of the enemy and the enemy became smaller and smaller, and slowly became wriggling.
The spear edge of the tiger gun flashed coldly, and the bayonet was not too much, deliberately not matte, but a bayonet coated with a layer of glitter paint, which was simply a bit frustrating.
This flashing light, in this era, represents a great threat, and under the mutual deterrence of friends and enemies, they are cautiously approaching their respective attack distances.