The Jurchen cavalry and militia squadrons began their respective shots almost simultaneously, and the rain of lead bullets and arrows advanced on their different trajectories, as if time had stopped at this moment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the Xuan Army, the militia will not be fully equipped with armor, they are just reserves, and the salary they are paid is not called military salary, but called subsidy, when there is no major event, only 5 days of training per month, and a subsidy will be paid once for training.

Of course, because the land occupied by the Xuan army is now taken from other countries, these militias are also responsible for helping the armed guard forces to stabilize social order and suppress local uprisings and riots, so a certain amount of armor is still distributed.

But even so, their armor rate is only about 1 in 10, and only the basic militia can be issued armor.

However, after this military mobilization, in order to reduce casualties during the war, the combat readiness warehouses in various places were opened, and all the stored spare, captured, and retired armor were taken out and distributed to the militia units.

The officers naturally wear the best two-year-old armor cotton armor of the Xuan Army, which is fully protected from top to bottom, plus the latest steel plug-in plate for officers, the protection is absolutely the best in this era.

The militia is a little worse, and the basic militia can get spare two-year-old Type B body armor, which is light and at the same time, it can also protect the chest, neck, lower abdomen and other vital parts.

The ordinary militia is more miserable, and can only be equipped with all kinds of chain mail and iron armor that have been eliminated before, as well as the captured Korean iron armor and the Japanese national equipment, and all kinds of them look like defeated soldiers who have appeared out of nowhere.

Although it is not good-looking, for the sake of safety, no one in the militia dares to take off these old armors when they are not satisfied, but they have to carefully maintain them from time to time to make the original worn armor as neat as possible.

Fortunately, because of the particularity of the militia, the ordnance factory specially designed and manufactured a unified helmet for the militia, giving them a little bit of the appearance of a regular army.

The most annoying thing that militiamen usually face is the enemy's bow and arrow, so this helmet has a wide round-brimmed brim, which can be tightly fastened to the chin with a canvas strap, and as long as you bow your head slightly, you can prevent the enemy's arrow from raining down on the face.

Now, when the two sides are firing at each other, these tattered-looking armor and well-crafted helmets can be considered to be of great help.

The rain of arrows fired by the enemy cavalry was inaccurate, but the number of raindrops was staggering, and these feathered arrows were thrown from the sky around the shield carts, clanging against the iron armor and helmets.

Although from time to time people were injured due to the angle of the arrows, the arrows that had been slowed down by the iron armor were no longer too damaging.

With the encouragement and reprimand of the officers and the basic militiamen, the arquebuses in the hands of the ordinary militiamen continued to fire one after another, shooting 18.5mm large-caliber projectiles at the Jurchen cavalry 100 meters away.

The soldiers of the spear platoon stood in the gap between the shield carts, pointed their spears in front of them, and stuck them at their feet to prevent the enemy from charging directly towards this side.

Although the two-year-old arquebus has been eliminated from the weapon sequence of the Xuanjun field troops, this does not mean that this arquebus is not good, it can shoot accurately at human size targets within 50 steps (75 meters), and it can still penetrate the sophisticated iron armor at 80 steps (120 meters) while ensuring the accuracy of the opposite target.

This kind of accuracy and power has far surpassed the mainstream muskets of the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and the Japanese at this time, and it was only because the field troops had better ones that he was withdrawn.

However, because of the simple maintenance of this weapon, the propellant is not picky, and the firing rate is almost 100 percent, it has a great reputation among the Xuan army outside the field troops, and the armed alert troops, militia units, and marines like this firearm very much, and have always asked to be able to equip as many as possible.

Now the rows of guns are constantly firing, and the two-year-old arquebus has lived up to everyone's expectations, as long as it hits the target, whether it is a man or a horse, it will definitely kill on the spot.

Despite the fact that there were many targets that were repeated and the speed at which the enemy skimmed by, the number of dead enemies and the number of lead bullets fired in each salvo were not equal, but the number of dead corpses continued to increase, and finally the corpses of men and horses were pushed together, blocking the path of the team behind.

The cavalry in the rear, they could not brake directly, the galloping horses did not allow them to do this, and the cavalry that was still charging behind did not allow them to do so, and in desperation, these cavalry could only find a place closer to the militia array to turn again.

The distance between the two sides was closer, the accuracy and power of the two-year-old arquebus was further improved, and the number of enemies killed and wounded skyrocketed.

Although the enemy's Jurchen cavalry rushed through the front of the militia position at a speed of more than 200 meters, they still suffered heavy casualties under round after round of platoon gun fire.

In addition, the 5 infantry guns also fired 2 single-headed shells with the slowest rate of fire during this period, and by the time this wave of cavalry had completed this wave and regrouped outside the range of the infantry guns in the rear, there were almost 500 cavalry missing.

This is also their decision-making mistake, if the Jurchen cavalry directly charged at that time and engaged in close combat, even if the Xuan army field troops in the rear helped, this militia squadron would have suffered heavy casualties, after all, arquebuses are not machine guns, and without such a fast rate of fire, it is impossible to stop the cavalry charge that is more than twice the number of their own.

And when they skipped the militia musket array, they turned sideways, exposing their horses to the greatest extent under the fire of the Xuan army.

Now, it was too late to say anything, and the militia squadron immediately sent dozens of lightly wounded into the fortress after this round of exchanges, and then, under the cover of infantry artillery, they slowly retreated into the No. 1 fortress by pushing the shield cart in turn.

While the remaining Jurchens were in a dilemma, Sukh Saha ordered Mingjin.

The cavalry leader who was lucky not to die breathed a sigh of relief and led the team back to the original starting point.

Sukh Saha pondered for a moment, then called out "Harji." ”

A short, stocky man walked up to Sukh Saha's side, "Master, you command." ”

"Retreat, set up camp, and build siege equipment."

"Wow."

"Tara."

"The minions are here."

"Go and catch some Ahha, you need to use it for siege."

"Wow."

Waiting for the two of them to leave, Sukh Saha turned to the nearby Jurchen officers and ordered, "Take turns to send your elite cavalry, give me a firm look at the roads around this camp, and definitely don't let Chen Xin escape." ”

"Wow, the slave obeys."

With that, Sukh Saha stood up, glanced deeply at Fort No. 1 in the distance, and ignored how these people allocated the time for patrolling, turned on his horse, and galloped towards the selected place to be repaired behind.

The cavalry, who had been following Sukh Saha and was ready to charge, also unloaded their equipment at this time and led their horses to the rear.

A few coats stepped forward to put away the table, chair, and tea, and quickly followed.