Chapter 60: Fight Again
The Han Chinese, known as Mr. Yan, were in their forties, with three locks of beard and a sven language. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info He observed the neat queue opposite, and noticed the muskets in the front row, and replied after thinking for a moment: "Lord Yu, the Han people on the opposite side are dressed in civilian clothes, not the officers and soldiers of the guard, nor the soldiers who patrol the inspection, I am afraid that it is a private soldier who is strong and strong." Looking at its neat queue, the soldiers stood still, and no one made a noise, quite a bit of the style of the Qi family army during the Wanli period. The front row of firearms and the back row of spears in the queue are also the methods of picking up the teeth of the generals, imitating his firearms to kill the enemy and protect the firearms with spears. ”
Huang Mengjia frowned and said, "Who is General Qi, and what is the Qi family's army?" ”
"General Qi is the first general of the Wanli Dynasty, named Qi Jiguang, once the official worshiped the general army of Jizhou, the southern imperial Japanese invaders, the northern rejection of the Tatars, invincible, invincible, and the troops under his command were called the Qi army because of their courage and good fighting."
After listening to Mr. Yan's introduction, Huang Mengjia became even more irritable. What should we do in this situation now, and whether we can fight it or not? Last time, I lost with more fights and less, will there be a chance this time? And Mr. Yan also said that the other party has a firearm, and I am afraid it will be more difficult to fight than last time.
He has also seen this firearm, in the past, when he accompanied the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the rioting Li people's village, he saw the officers and soldiers use similar firearms, called bird guns, and ignited them with fire ropes, although the cast was slow, but the power was quite great, and the middle of them were either killed or injured.
Huang Mengjia's face was cloudy, he thought about it, and finally made up his mind that he still had to fight, no matter whether Chengmai could fight or not, if he ran away when he saw this Han team, how would he gain a foothold in the future? The biggest mistake in this attack on Chengmai is that he is too concerned about casualties, and did not take the county seat as soon as possible.
He said to Mr. Yan: "No matter what, I will have a battle with the other party, and it is better to end it now." ”
Mr. Yan also agreed, he gave advice to Huang Mengjia and attacked Chengmai, the plan was quite big, and it was impossible to run away when he encountered an inexplicable private soldier.
He reminded: "What the Lord of the Mountains says is very true. However, it must be noted that the opponent's firearms are similar to the shape of the officers and soldiers, and the firing range is not more than 100 paces, and after being cast once, it takes a long time to reload again. ”
Huang Mengjia praised when he heard this: "Mr. Yan's plan is brilliant, first lure him to fire, and then attack, he will definitely be able to defeat these Han people." ”
For some reason, he felt that if the other party was full of spears, it would be more difficult to fight, and the shadow left by the last battle was too deep, especially the amazing archery skills of the two Han people on the other side. On the contrary, in his cognition, soldiers who relied on firearms were certainly not as brave as spearmen, and the Han people who relied too much on firearms led to a lack of will to fight.
Xia Nan saw Huang Mengjia and a Han man muttering for a long time without movement, and he didn't bother to care about him, no matter how he attacked, anyway, his side was a rifle and a spear, and he didn't change everything, lined up, and waited quietly for the other party to attack. The 60 rifle-armed team members were divided into two rows, each with 30 people, the first row was half-kneeling, and the second row was standing, which was the battle formation arranged by Lin Weiye. According to him, this is the most commonly used line tactic in the British Army, compared to the three or even five rows of arquebuses that shoot in turns, this seemingly thin two rows, but can ensure the maximum short-term firepower delivery.
After waiting patiently for a while, it was estimated that in about ten minutes, Xia Nan saw that the other party began to move, and more than a hundred native soldiers first marched to a position about one hundred and twenty meters away, so they slowed down, brandished hook knives and shouted at this side, while the large army followed behind, keeping a certain distance from the front team.
Xia Nan asked Lin Weiye: "What is this for?" Why slow down and not rush over in one go? ”
Although Lin Weiye has never experienced the actual combat of firearms, as a senior military fan, he is very interested in the tactics on paper, and he concluded: "It is estimated that we are the birds of the Ming army, the kind that can be slaughtered by others when one shot, they are waiting for us to shoot and reload, and want to take advantage of this time difference!" ”
I see. Although the Qionghai rifle also has lethality at this distance - the maximum range can reach about 270 meters after testing - but the hit rate is very low, given that the opponent is a pure cold weapon unit, and there are not many archers, there is not enough long-range attack power, Xia Nan decided to put the opponent at a distance of about 70 meters, this distance can ensure a higher hit rate, and it is difficult for ordinary archers to form much damage at this distance.
Seeing that the tactics of luring the enemy to open fire did not work, Huang Mengjia and Mr. Yan looked at each other, this is not scientific! Generally, when they see the enemy approaching, the bird gunners who do not have the ability to fight in close combat will open fire, and whether they can hit or not is another matter, at least they can give themselves courage.
Mr. Yan said to Huang Mengjia in a deep voice: "Lord Yu, this is a tricky enemy, now it is difficult to ride a tiger, you can only attack hard, and casualties are inevitable after the opponent fires, but it takes time to reload firearms, as long as you can take the opportunity to rush in, attack the bird gunner with all your strength, let the bird gunner impact his spear array, and cause chaos, there is a chance to win, after all, we have the advantage of numbers." ”
Huang Mengjia felt that what Mr. Yan said was reasonable, and the other party was not fooled, so he could only give it a go.
He roared: "Everyone rush with all their strength, take down the Han people on the opposite side, who is the first to cut off the head of the Han people, reward a ploughing ox, and ten acres of paddy fields!" ”
This reward was very tempting for the native soldiers, who mustered up their courage and began to charge with all their might. The distance of dozens of meters ran in a few seconds, and Xia Nan estimated the distance between the other party and himself, and visually entered within seventy meters, and ordered: "Fire!" ”
Sixty members of the team had already loaded their rifles, aimed ahead, heard the order, and at the same time pulled the trigger, the earth-shattering sound drowned out all the shouts of killing, and the smoke began to fill, so that neither side could see the scene ahead.
In the smoke, the native soldiers in the back row could only see the clansmen in front of them falling down in rows like cutting leeks, as if there was an invisible sickle, neatly cutting down the native soldiers who rushed to the front. With wailing and screaming, all the clansmen in front of them fell, the smoke obscured the view, and the native soldiers who did not fall were frightened and stopped the attack.
Huang Mengjia in the rear was in a hurry, although he couldn't see how many casualties of the native soldiers were in the smoke, but if he didn't continue to attack, these casualties would be meaningless, he shouted: "Keep rushing forward, their bird guns can only shoot once!" ”