Chapter 771: The Great King's Banner Changes at the Head of the City
Driven by Su's thick legs, the soldiers who were fighting separately gathered together in three or five people, or seven or eight people, to form a battle group and fight against the armoured soldiers who were fighting alone with collective strength. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The armor soldiers of Houjin are all hunters, and they have learned rich fighting experience in the process of hunting wild beasts, strengthened their combat skills in the process of fighting with the Ming army, and at the same time gained strong self-confidence, and the money and Ding Kou they captured in the battle can finally become their own wealth and clothed slaves, and the war can be said to be for themselves, and the will to fight is very firm. Except for a few border generals who fed them with silver, how could the Ming army called Huazi be their opponent.
Although the Qiong Navy has risen brazenly and has the momentum of the first strong army of the Ming Dynasty, it is strong on the whole, relying on strict military discipline and the combat mode of the modern army, rather than individual martial arts. In a one-on-one situation, even the veterans of the Qiong Navy can't beat these armored soldiers, let alone these independent regiment recruits who have only been trained for a few months? So in the case of a melee, it is at an absolute disadvantage.
But when they lined up, the scales of battle slowly tipped in their favor.
In the fierce white-knives battle, the Houjin army had no formation and cooperation, relying entirely on unreasonable brute force, and when encountering the Ming army that also did not cooperate, it was natural to drop ten times with one force, but when encountering this kind of assassination that relied on collective cooperation, it was difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, and became tied.
When Su Thick Leg deployed his troops, he placed almost all four infantry battalions on various sections of the city wall and convex corners, leaving no reserves. Excluding the four battalions belonging to the artillery battery, there were more than 3,000 infantry on the city wall, and the density of troops was very large in terms of the area on the city wall. Later, Jin was limited by the structure of the fortress, the troops were scattered and could not be concentrated, and the people who were cannon fodder also blocked the troops in the rear, so the number of armored soldiers who attacked was relatively small, and the reinforcements could not arrive in time, so they were at a disadvantage in terms of strength locally.
The various battle groups fought more and less, and the armor soldiers slowly began to have the upper hand, one after another killed or seriously wounded, and the rest of the people were forced to retreat again and again by the bayonet array, and when they retreated to the wall, when there was no way to retreat, in order to save their lives, they had to turn around and jump. Fortunately, the walls of the fortress are not high, so there is no fear of life if you jump down.
The speed of the Houjin army was very fast, and the speed of defeat was also fast, less than a cup of tea, "the city head changed the banner of the king", the attack and defense changed twice, the independent regiment first suppressed and then raised, and after a short period of downwind, it quickly reversed the situation.
Galtu rode on horseback, and the city walls were not high, and from a distance, he basically saw the process of the battle. Seeing that the defense line at the head of the city was about to be broken through, but after those Ming troops lined up in a horizontal line, they used the short blade of the spear head as a spear, and actually repelled the Dajin warriors who had almost no opponents in close combat!
After the armored soldiers on the wall died and ran, and the defenders had no pressure, the battle returned to the unsolvable mode of defending the city - the ferocious crossfire reappeared, and the dense rain of bullets flew indiscriminately towards the people and the Houjin armored soldiers, whether they had armor or no armor, the end was the same, turning into a bloody corpse on the ground.
Gartu's heart was cold, this is over, I didn't seize such a good opportunity, and there will be no second chance. He hesitated whether to send the Bayaradu at hand to try to save the defeat, but when he saw the lead bullets pouring down from the wall like raindrops, he immediately gave up this idea - he might be punished for losing the battle, but if he sent Bayaradu to die, Lord Belle would definitely cut off his own head with his own hands.
Instead of seeing hope of survival, the people who were driven were closer to death. The young man in the crowd no longer ignored the bullshit of those old men, picked up the swords and axes on the ground, and shouted: "Anyway, it's all death, fight with the Tartars!" ”
Some people took the lead, and many people followed suit, picked up their weapons and rushed back. Some people were a little hesitant, but after looking at the deadly lead bullets whizzing on both sides and the increasing number of corpses on the ground, they felt that there was no chance of survival ahead, and they also turned around and rushed back. The front of Houjin was relatively wide, and the number of people was large, and they gathered in one place to attack, and they actually had the upper hand locally.
The people who were as docile as sheep before suddenly bit back, which surprised the soldiers of Houjin, and they were caught off guard and were disorganized, and several armored soldiers died under the chaotic knife in the chaos. With the blow of firearms and the impact of the people, the Houjin army on the front line suffered heavy casualties and suffered from the enemy on its back, showing signs of collapse, which was a phenomenon that had never been seen in the Houjin army's nearly ten years of conquest in the Ming Dynasty.
At the critical moment, Bayara, who was serving as the overseer, made a move.
The silver-shining Bayala dismounted, raised his one-handed broadsword or axe, and trotted towards the surging crowd. Originally, he had no intention of fighting, and the armored soldiers who wanted to retreat saw Bayala's silver-white armor, shivered, and their deep-rooted fear of military discipline and Bayala overcame the negative desire to avoid war in their hearts, and turned around and rushed into the dense crowd again, braving the rain of bullets above their heads to slash and kill the people.
These strong and fierce Bayala rushed into the crowd like a tank, knocking the young man in front of him into the air, and then waved the axe and one-handed broadsword in his hand, and skillfully began to slash and kill the surrounding people.
When the people saw that these god-like Bayala were more terrible and ferocious than ordinary armored soldiers, the courage they had finally mustered disappeared immediately, and they threw down their weapons and ran around. Without the impact of a large number of people, the soldiers finally gathered their forces and stabilized their positions, but the city wall in front of them rained down like bullets, and it was still an insurmountable place of death, they did not dare to retreat, but they did not dare to continue to move forward.
The Chinese army in the rear seemed to accept the fact that the siege had failed, and the sound of gold finally sounded, and the soldiers were relieved, and the tide receded. The second siege was again declared a failure.
Lin Weiye held the pistol tightly and waited for the moment when the armor soldier pounced. He had already figured out that a single shot could kill a soldier at close range, and as for whether he had a chance to reload lead bullet to defend himself, it was up to God. However, the tide of battle quickly turned in favor of the defenders, and he never had a chance to fire this shot. When he saw the retreat of the Houjin army under the city, he breathed a sigh of relief, it was good to be alive.
Although Su's thick leg was not injured, but he was covered in blood—mostly from the enemy—he didn't bother to wipe the blood from his face and began to rearrange the defensive line. As long as the Houjin army does not evacuate, there is always the possibility of attacking the city again, and it cannot be taken lightly.