Chapter 187: Confrontation
Sukh Saha, who was sitting in the distance, watched the attack of his 2,000 servant army, and after leaving behind hundreds of corpses, he was easily beaten back, and he didn't have the slightest anger, and muttered, "Take the initiative, it's really your style." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Silently calculating the speed of the firearm on the opposite side in his mind, Sukh Saha smiled.
"Less than one percent of veterans, ninety percent of recruits, explosive weapons that can be thrown, if this is what you rely on, then, Chen Xin, this time, you are dead."
Then Sukh Saha waved his right hand, and the 1,000 Jurchen cavalry lined up behind him drew an arc, rushing out from the right side of the array, and rushed straight towards the militia troops that had already left the city.
Then, he then ordered, "Send another 2,000 men through the two camps on the left and see how they react." ”
With the banner waved, the 2,000 servants at the front were ordered to come out, and these infantry were very close to the fortress, and although they were slower than the cavalry, they reached the established position before the cavalry.
Looking at the Houjin army slowly passing through the middle of Fort No. 1 and Fort No. 3, Chen Xin ordered "No heavy artillery fire, bombard two rounds with infantry artillery, and then let them pass." ”
After the infantry guns received the order, the range measurement found that the enemy was outside the effective range, but it was supplemented by the order to "let them go" later, and the gunners knew what to do.
The gun commander ordered: "The muzzle elevation angle is 11.5 degrees. ”
The gunner shook the high and low planes, and after a few laps replied, "The elevation angle is 11.5 degrees." ”
The commander of the gun again ordered "three packs of strong charges, one iron projectile." ”
The ammunition man picked up an empty copper gun, filled it with three packs of gunpowder and an iron round projectile, and delivered it to the loader.
The loader pulls the bolt and jams it firmly in place, then replies loudly, "Reloaded".
"Ready" The artilleryman shouted while the artillerymen covered their ears.
The gun commander paused for a moment and shouted again "Fire." ", and then pulled the gun rope.
"Boom" with a loud sound, the iron bullet flew out of the muzzle, when flying more than 1000 meters, it was obvious that the speed of the shell slowed down, and the trajectory of the shell could also be observed by the naked eye, about 5 seconds out of the muzzle, the shell finally approached the enemy's queue, but unfortunately, the iron bullet had begun to flutter at this distance, and finally failed to hit the enemy, flew over the crowd, landed on the ground not far away, and finally stopped after a few bounces.
The crew members of this infantry gun did not have the slightest frustration, but were elated, no way, although the cannons of this era were within the visual range of the naked eye, but the accuracy of the artillery was also poor to a certain extent.
The artillery of this era was basically used as a target in the effective range, and outside the effective range, it was able to get close to the enemy, which was already outstanding, and the gunners of other units did not know where the shells flew. So these artillerymen have the right to rejoice, to celebrate.
When another infantry artillery crew saw this scene, they felt a heavy pressure and looked at it carefully for a long time, and finally a set of procedures was completed, and after the cannon was fired, the shells slowly floated over the enemy's heads again.
Just when the artillery crew was caught in a complicated emotion that I didn't know whether to be disappointed or relieved, there was a fool among the enemy opposite, who seemed to feel that the slow shell was not threatening, and actually stretched out his hand and stopped the path of the shell.
It seemed to be a very slow "floating" iron bullet over the enemy's head, flying past the soldier's hand, and in a spray of blood, the soldier's hand disappeared completely from the elbow up.
The soldier looked at his exposed bony arm and froze for a moment, then suddenly let out a cry of intense pain.
The people on both sides who could see this scene all looked at the enemy soldier in amazement, and there was only one thought in their hearts: "Whose baby, why is it so owed?" ”
The next two infantry guns of the third fortress also fired two cannons and did not hit the target.
This small unit of 2,000 servants was bombarded by 4 guns, although only one unlucky guy was injured, and he brought it on himself, but the shells were so close that they also doubled the pressure, and they involuntarily accelerated their speed.
After this group of servants successfully passed through the junction of the two fortresses, they did not stop and went directly in the direction of the Yalu River.
Han Da saw that Chen Xin was still thinking, and stepped forward and asked, "General, do you need cavalry to attack and wipe out this small group?" ”
Chen Xin shook his head, "No, each fortress holds its post and sends an order to the armed guard force to be responsible for intercepting this enemy army." ”
At this time, south of the fortress, 1,000 Jurchen cavalry had also mounted 200 meters in front of the militiamen who were returning with their shield carts, and these cavalry were stopping their formation.
"5 infantry guns, slow fire, bombardment of these cavalry."
With Chen Xin's order, the artillery commander immediately selected five artillery groups, and after a period of tense calculation and loading, with the order, the five infantry guns bombarded the cavalry that was sorting out the formation.
When the stumps and broken arms flew sideways, several Jurchen cavalrymen could not control their horses and were taken back to flee, but Bayala in the back separated a few people, arrested these cavalrymen who didn't know if they were voluntary, and temporarily guarded them with the servant army who had escaped before.
The rest of the cavalry all looked at the officer who led the team, and the man who led the team didn't care about the queue, and immediately began to charge.
The rumbling hooves of thousands of war horses, rushing like a sea of mountains, immediately frightened most of the militia, fortunately there were officers from the Xuan Army and a basic militia of Yicheng, under the reprimand and slapping of these people, the militiamen immediately hid behind the shield cart and formed a gun formation with a company as a unit.
And inside the wall, the soldiers of the first company of the first squadron of the first brigade of the Xuan army also raised their four-year rifles, and firmly locked on the enemy's cavalry with the small holes and crosshairs on the ruler.
The cavalry had also taken out their riding bows, put on the feathered arrows used for projectiles, and looked at the muzzles of the black holes on the opposite side, these cavalrymen did not dare to rush directly to the range of 30 steps (45 meters) of conventional cavalry after all, far away at a distance of 100 meters, with a whistle, they crossed an arc in front of the Xuan army's position and turned to the left.
At the same time, when these cavalrymen passed by the militiamen's array, they would also fire the feathered arrows in their hands as quickly as possible. The feathered arrow drew a high parabola and shot at the militia positions ahead.
The squadron leader of this militia squadron was originally going to wait for the enemy cavalry to rush to within 50 meters, and give them a ruthless blow with accurate and fierce firepower, but when he saw the opposing cavalry turn, the squadron leader, as the commander, knew that his expectations had been disappointed, and he could only blow the horn in his hand fiercely.
At the same time that the enemy's feathered arrows rained down, a platoon of each company of the militia squadron opened fire at the same time, firing a salvo,