Chapter 179: Attack and Defend in Beijing

After receiving Chen Xin's order, the guerrilla detachment immediately dispatched a mobile force of 3,000 men to take the lead in crossing the Han River and heading towards the Korean occupation zone in the west. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Since the battle of the Han River the year before last, North Korea, which had been silent for more than a year and had not launched a large-scale counterattack against South Korea again, suddenly came with such a hand, which caught Ann Bulu off guard.

The 30,000 troops who had originally defended the Han River were gathered by him and went north under the leadership of Sukh Saha, with only more than 10,000 soldiers in Shangjing and the region, most of whom were still servant troops composed of Hangguo, and the surrounding areas were no longer armies.

Ann Bulu thought that the Koreans suddenly got 8 counties on the west bank of the Han River, and they should be temporarily satisfied, as long as they can delay for a while, there are only a few county seats, and they will occupy it.

When Sukh Saha has annihilated Chen Shin, he will be able to return to the division with a large army to deal a blow to completely deal with the invading Korean army and take back the occupied land.

Ao Bulu stood up and watched as the Korean army gathered more and more, gradually occupying a large area of land on the west bank of the Han River.

However, things did not develop in the direction he expected, after the Koreans captured 8 counties, they were not satisfied, and were building pontoon bridges, preparing to march towards the north bank of the Han River.

So Ang Bulu decided to use the tactic of delaying the army and sent an envoy to express his willingness to negotiate peace with North Korea.

But what Rang Bulu didn't expect was that the other party was not willing to negotiate at all, and directly killed the envoy, which was a bit of a violation of the rules.

He had no choice but to withdraw half of his tense forces and go to intercept the enemy, never allowing them to advance any further.

But something even more depressing happened, after the previous coup d'état was completed, the place where the military rations were hoarded was burned, and in order to eliminate Chen Xin, Ang Bulu could only order the countryside across the country to raise military salaries and food.

It's just that his orders are too vague, and the people below are too greedy, so they took the opportunity to start massacring and looting, and even slaughtered all the villages along the river that had helped monitor the movements of the Han River.

Just when Angbulu sent 5,000 men and horses to the Bucheon area to intercept the Korean army, the guerrilla detachment again sent 30,000 men to cross the river from other parts of the Han River.

Together with the 30,000 North Korean soldiers who were still building pontoon bridges by the river, they quickly surrounded the 5,000 former South Korean troops who left the city.

But to no avail, 5,000 people have been surrounded, and the two sides have fought a big battle on the north bank of the Han River.

Although the North Korean army was under the complete control of the guerrilla detachment formed by the Xuan army, after all, they were outsiders, and it was impossible for them to equip them with the new rifles and all kinds of new weapons and equipment of the Xuan army, nor could they learn the military practices of the Xuan army.

However, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the guerrilla detachment, so that they would not be easily eliminated in the situation of being fed by wolves, it was also necessary to find a tactic that had a certain combat effectiveness and could be restrained by the Xuan army.

At present, the guerrilla detachment of the Korean official army is composed of about 1,000 people as a battalion, with spears accounting for 70 percent, and the Xuanjun army has made 100 rounds of birds, with a caliber of 9 mm, and made of wrought iron to account for 30 percent.

They fought in a 60-man wide and 20-deep queue of spearmen, with the Birdmen occupying the four corners of the queue, a tactic that had begun to lag behind, but still had strong combat effectiveness, and was easy to train, and most importantly, it was completely restrained by the combat mode of the Xuan Army at this time.

Among the 5,000 former Korean soldiers surrounded by 33,000 people, there were 1,000 Jurchen cavalry, they broke a phalanx, but they themselves lost a lot of manpower, and the North Korean army had more than 30 phalanxes, these remaining cavalry saw that the situation was not good, and immediately fled, and after losing a third of their manpower, they ran out of the encirclement from the gap that had not yet closed, waiting for an opportunity to cruise around the perimeter.

The remaining infantry became the turtle in the urn, and the Korean army, which had an absolute numerical superiority, was wiped out on the plain with a dense barrage of spears and birds.

The cavalry on the periphery saw that they could not do anything, and immediately turned around and ran back to Shangjing.

After cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded, the North Korean soldiers and horses did not delay too much, and rushed to 5 kilometers outside Shangjing a day later.

According to Ang Bulu's idea, he is to resist the city and defend it, as long as the Sukh Saha in front of him wins, he can immediately wave his army to the south and clear out the invading Korean army like a plow, but he can't completely control the South Korean army at this time, after all, he was just a wrapper before, although he was a cronie of the Huang Taiji family, but the rude Jurchen officers did not all buy him.

Several powerful figures in the remaining army insisted on sending troops out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Korean soldiers on the grounds that the Jurchens had never been good at defense, and Ang Bulu reluctantly agreed.

The two sides fought two battles outside the city, although the Jurchen cavalry was extremely powerful, and repeatedly braved lead bullets to rush into the phalanx 30 meters away, and then used bows and arrows to kill several phalanx of Korean officers and soldiers, but the phalanx with bird-screws on the four corners also caused great damage to the Jurchen cavalry of more than 2,000 and less than 3,000.

After rushing for the third time, as soon as they counted, there were more than 700 cavalry, and now the nobles who felt sorry for the damage of their minions were no longer willing to rush into battle, but kept driving the servant army to attack.

The intensity of the battle just now was also seen by the servant army, who was willing to go up to send them to death, but under the pressure of the tip of the knife, the servant army could only move slowly, and when they were 200 meters away from the enemy, these people played with their hearts, and at this distance, they used bird guns to shoot at the phalanx of the Korean officers and soldiers from a distance.

Almost all of the bird guns used by the two sides were manufactured in batches by the machines of the Xuanjun Ordnance Factory, and the caliber, thickness, weight, and shape were exactly the same, but they did not teach the two sides how to order the charge.

The two teams equipped with the same type of bird guns, outside the effective range, played for more than half an hour in table tennis, and each only killed or injured a dozen people.

The Jurchens and veterans of the guerrilla detachments who supervised the war on both sides couldn't stand it, they didn't waste ammunition so much, and the life of the barrel was limited.

It was still easier to control the phalanx of the guerrilla detachment, which launched an attack in advance, and after entering the 100-meter range, the bird-gunners lined up in 10 rows began to fire volleys in turn.

On the side of the servant army, the establishment is chaotic, South Korea does not attach importance to the study of musket tactics, and even the Ming Dynasty has not trained the Sandan Society, which has been played for hundreds of years, and all the projectiles are shot out in one swarm.

The firepower configuration of the two teams is not the same, and the North Korean officers and soldiers only have a firearms equipment rate of 30%.

The South Korean servant army is slightly higher, reaching a fifty percent firearms equipment rate, this is because Chen Xin wants to use these servant troops as cannon fodder to fight against Houjin, but he didn't expect that now it is all cheaper Houjin.

Although there is a gap in the rate of firearms and equipment, the difference in numbers is also huge, and if you do a careful calculation, you can conclude that the North Korean army has less than 10,000 bird guns, and the South Korean servant army has only 5,000 bird guns.

When the servant army was at an absolute disadvantage of loading ammunition, the guerrilla detachment on the opposite side was still firing, and people were constantly dying around them, and most of the frightened servant army's hands were constantly trembling to reload ammunition, and the loading work that could usually be completed in one minute was not loaded at this time, and when the officer shouted several orders to shoot, less than one percent of the people fired the bird guns in their hands, if it weren't for the overseer team guarding, these people would have run away.

But seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and the platoon of guns was endless, they were about to play a sense of rhythm, and the shooting of these servant troops became even more panicked, and some people kept making mistakes, either only loaded with gunpowder but not with lead bullet, or the loading order was reversed, and the lead bullet was pressed under the gunpowder, and even some people's bird guns did not start without knowing it, and continued to load ammunition, and finally filled the barrel, a burst of gunpowder exploded the barrel, injuring their own people around.

Under increasing pressure, the servant army finally couldn't hold on, and they didn't dare to run behind. Afraid of being caught and killed by the Warlords, he shouted and scattered to the left and right.

In fact, the North Korean officers and troops in a dense formation almost collapsed, because the two sides were too close to shoot at a distance, although only 10 percent of the opponents fired bird guns, and only half of these people hit the rate, but just a few times they shot at each other, the North Korean officers and soldiers also lost 6 or 700 people, and some of the frightened soldiers also made all kinds of mistakes, and when the last two salvos were fired, only 60 percent of them fired a salvo.

The war in the era of musket fire was really too cruel.

After the collapse of the Korean servant army, the guerrilla detachment was afraid of the Jurchen cavalry and did not dare to disperse the pursuit, but continued to maintain firepower, and the phalanx composed of more than 30,000 people slowly pressed towards the Jurchen cavalry.

The Jurchen cavalry was unwilling to attack the phalanx again with lost troops, so they returned to the city and fired at the guerrilla detachments with bows and arrows on the city walls.

This time, the guerrilla detachment couldn't hold on, the big bow and heavy arrows used by the other side far exceeded the rate of fire of birds, and the thick arrows were almost all according to the key points, and the feathered arrows shot by the 2,000 archers hiding in the city walls firmly suppressed 10,000 birds.

In addition, the Jurchen soldiers on the city wall have the protection of the female wall, and the Korean officers and soldiers below are directly exposed to the field, which exacerbates the increase in the exchange ratio between the two sides. In desperation, the guerrilla detachment, which had suffered a large number of casualties, had to retreat temporarily.