Chapter 603: Jin Zhong's Fear

"Push hard," a leader named Jin Zhong shouted loudly while beating more than 30 of his subordinates with a wooden stick in his hand.

Their small team of coats pushed five shield carts, and on either side of them, there were two or three hundred shield carts neatly lined up, and the formation was more than a mile away.

The shield cart rumbled under the impetus of thousands of coats, and the entire shield cart and the line of archers and musketeers who were dodging behind it marched in unison, like a wooden moving wall.

The shield cart is 2.5 meters tall and made of the best wood that can be found nearby, and is as wide as a car, with four small wooden wheels underneath it.

The front guard and top plate of the shield car are 25 cm thick, and in the process of fighting with the Ming army in the past, it has been clearly known that this thickness can defend against all the muskets of the Ming army, and the ordinary rifles of the Chinese army, at a long distance, can not penetrate this extremely thick guard plate.

Moreover, not all shield cars are the same, some of the cattle are richer, the officers are more enlightened, and they will also make some high-end shield cars.

This kind of high-grade shield car will be arranged on the top of the cowhide three layers, and then spread a thick layer of soil and water-soaked quilt, so that the shield car is almost invulnerable.

If you put it in World War II, if you don't count the attack power, the defense power of this high-level shield car can almost fight with the little devil's tank, maybe those bean chariots and the like, even can't compare to the defense of this kind of shield car.

There are also some well-made shield cars, the front guard plate is not fixed, but fixed with a live pin, lead bullet hit on it, the guard plate will go up and down to unload the impact force, lead bullet, iron bullet is often refracted to fly in the other direction, so that the shield car behind the dodging people and horses are not harmed at all.

Only those shoddy shield carts that had been rushed out under the whip had their front guards fixed to death. Because, such a shield car is easier to make.

However, those who can survive on the battlefield are smart people, and no one will put their lives at risk because of a few whips.

Among the shield carts pushed by the small team led by Jin Zhong, three of them were rough shield carts.

Behind Jin Zhong was a line of archers and musketeers. Others in the back were the Bayalas who oversaw the array.

All of them had strong bows in their hands, but if you looked closely, you could see that the feathered arrows they used were not sharp arrows with pointed ends, but wooden shafts with cloth heads, and no iron arrowheads, and the cloth on the bread in front of them was full of red dye.

If anyone dared to hesitate to advance during the battle, the Bayalas would shoot with the shafts of arrows stained with red paint in their hands, and after the battle, if they found anyone with a red mark, they would be beheaded.

In this way, not only can each bayala control a longer battle line, but also the maximum amount of cannon fodder can be preserved in battle, so that they will not be shot too much by themselves, resulting in no one to block lead and iron bullets for them in the attack.

Jin Zhong saw the earthen wall in front of him in the gap between the shield carts and wood, and the distance between the two sides was about 300 steps (more than 450 meters).

However, as an old man who has participated in many battles against the Huaxia Army, he knows very well that he is now within the enemy's artillery firing range.

There was silence on the reddish-brown earthen wall in front, and in addition to the gun emplacements in the gaps, some eye-catching artillery emplacements could be seen on the earthen walls.

In addition, that is, the military flag fluttering in the wind is the most eye-catching existence, and Jin Zhong can vaguely see the tiger on the red flag.

The road ahead was full of potholes and trenches, and there were some relatively large stones, which were painted with different paints, and it was obvious that these were the shooting markers arranged by the Huaxia army.

Although Jin Zhong is known for being vicious and spicy, he is actually the most feared person behind the shield carts around him.

He had already seen the strength of this Huaxia army during the Battle of Dalinghe, and after the battles of Jinzhou City and Fuzhou City, many people also fled back to Houjin.

Therefore, there are many rumors in various villages, although it is impossible to distinguish between true and false, but it is undoubtedly certain that the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia army is very strong, and no one at the bottom of the Houjin Dynasty dares to say that the Huaxia army is easy to fight with a clear conscience.

Fortunately, he was not there during the Battle of Fuzhou, and the clansmen who came back with Duoduo quietly told him about the situation on the battlefield.

When Jin Zhong heard that the Huaxia Army actually defeated the entire white flag in the form of white-knuckle warfare in the battle, a deep fear has been haunting Jin Zhou's heart.

Originally, he thought that the Daejin Congress would continue to prosper like this.

When the myth of the invincibility of the Jurchens was ended, as a traitor who had completely surrendered to the Tartars, and even his surname and first name had been completely abandoned, this fear in his heart was incomprehensible to ordinary Han people.

Moreover, as time passed, this fear deepened in Jin Zhong's heart every day.

However, Jin Zhong knew very well that no matter how fearful he was, it would be useless, on the battlefield, the rules of the masters had already been decided, and he had no way back except to advance.

This time, in addition to being a tentative attack, they also had to remove the marked stones along the way. In fact, the Houjin army also used this method to mark distances, so they were well aware of the role of stones.

As soon as he stepped into the 300-step distance mark area, he saw a flash of red light on the opposite side, and suddenly spewed out a cloud of gray-black smoke, which swirled over a gun emplacement on the opposite side, and could not be dispersed for a long time.

After a "whoosh" sound, a 40mm caliber infantry artillery shell flew out at a speed visible to the naked eye, crossed the low-stretched trajectory, and just as it flew in front of the shield car line, it landed on a slightly upturned ground, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground.

Then, the cannonball burst out of the smoke and dust, flew forward again, slowing down considerably, and slammed headlong into a shield cart not far from Jin Zhong's flank.

After a loud bang, the shells slammed into the front guard, and the shells that had slowed down were fortunately blocked by the thick wooden planks.

But unfortunately, the front was blocked, but there was a problem in the back, only to see the shield car vibrate violently, the front half suddenly jumped up, and countless pieces of wood chips burst out from the back of the guard, like rain to the back position.