The battle on the dock continues. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I have to say that this gang of nomadic Hu Qi may really kill the red eye...... Of course, it is also possible to be blinded by interests. There are now more than a dozen Yizhou ships leaning at the dock, and it seems that there are not many people guarding the ships. So as long as these Hu Qi can be killed on the boat, then the money, food, and utensils piled up in the cabin will be things that they can loot at will, and God knows how many good things they want in their dreams?

It's just that where are the ships in Yizhou so easy to grab? If Zhao Yu and the others hadn't discovered the main force of the Hu cavalry lurking in advance, they would indeed be caught off guard by the main force of the Hu cavalry if they took the liberty of getting off the boat to support the town. But it's a pity that Zhao Yu is a very cautious girl, and she has been attacked in the port once before, so she is doubly careful about what may happen, and the plan of the hidden main force of Hu Qi to sneak attack the ship naturally failed.

The current situation is that although the dozen or so ships in Yizhou have docked, they have not actually completely docked, leaving a corresponding distance between them and the dock. In addition, these ships in Yizhou are relatively high, and if Hu wants to rush onto the ship, he can only rely on those narrow sampans......

Let's keep it simple. In the current situation, the ship can be regarded as a high wall, and the distance between the ship and the dock can be regarded as a moat. In other words, the red-eyed and obsessed Hu cavalry had no idea that they were actually fighting another form of siege warfare. And this form of "city defense warfare" is exactly what the Yizhou soldiers and ship sailors on the ship are good at.

Attack? It can't be attacked, but those ships are so close. And after Hu Cai's people and horses were red-eyed and distracted, they exposed one of their biggest shortcomings, that is, they lacked unified command and dispatch in the real sense, and most of them were rushing up with their own ferocity, but in this kind of battle, what use can your fierce spirit come in? No matter how fierce you are, can you compare to the long-term training and tacit understanding of the Yizhou soldiers?

All in all, the dock is gradually becoming a stalemate. There are many horsemen and horses, but they can't attack the ship; Although the Yizhou soldiers are well guarded, they are relatively few after all...... There were only a dozen large ships in total, and in addition to the more than 2,000 soldiers, although there were corresponding sailors and shipwrights, the total number was only about 3,000 people, and on average, each ship was only about 200 people.

For a large ship of the long-distance transport type, about 200 people per ship is already a limit number. To put it mildly, if it hadn't been attacked before, which made Zhao Yu increase the number of personnel accompanying the ship in case of accidents, then the personnel of each ship in Zhao Yu's fleet would be controlled between one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty people. After all, for every extra person you carry, you have to carry one more person in the limited space on the ship, which will reduce the corresponding cargo volume.

Just like that, someone suddenly noticed that hundreds of foot soldiers appeared on the eastern coast, and it is not difficult to know that this is Yizhou's foot soldiers just by looking at the uniform armor style. However, Hu Qi's people and horses didn't care about these hundreds of foot soldiers, because in a flat and open place like the beach near the sea, how could these few hundred foot soldiers block the impact of Hu Qi's fast horse? So almost casually, Hu rode about a thousand horses and rushed towards the hundreds of foot soldiers. And the Hu cavalry who were ordered to be separated were very unhappy, because in their opinion, rushing to the boat to rob the property was the right thing, and there was no oil and water to fight those foot soldiers.

Maybe it was because they had this resentment in their hearts and wanted to take those hundreds of foot soldiers out of anger, so they rushed towards those hundreds of foot soldiers with a roar. I thought that they could rush over and drop their swords again, but unexpectedly, these hundreds of foot soldiers all stopped when they were still nearly a hundred meters away, and the people in the front row all picked up a weapon that Hu Rider had never seen before and aimed it at them.

What kind of weapon is this? A spear is not like a spear because there is no sharp spearhead directly in front of it; A crossbow is not like a crossbow because there are no crossbow arms and crossbow strings at all. The whole thing looks like a weird long tube, and what good can such a thing be? It's hard to smash people to death, right?

Maybe you will have a snack when you see this strange thing in the middle of Hu Qi's horses, but when you rush forward with the others, how can you have so much time to think? And more people think that these hundreds of foot soldiers are not in the water in their brains, how can there be a reason to take such things when they go into battle? Isn't it death to use such a weapon, which is similar to a burning stick?

But soon, these Hu riders who rushed up understood that the hundreds of Yizhou soldiers were not holding fire sticks, but fire-breathing sticks......

"Fire!!"

With the sound of a pleasant sound in the infantry formation, the front of the more than 100 people in the front row of the infantry spewed out tongues of fire, and at the same time, there was a uniform "呑" sound. And these sounds made the Hu riders who rushed over stunned, but before they could react, a group of people had already splashed blood and fell off their horses. Some were killed on the spot, while others were trampled to death by the hooves of the horses that followed behind, and they also tripped over the legs of the horses behind them.

"One, retreat! Two, put! Three, prepare! ”

With the command of this pleasant female voice, the foot soldiers in the first row took a few steps back and gave way to the foot soldiers in the second row, and the foot soldiers in the second row spewed out tongues of fire again after the foot soldiers in the first row gave up their positions in front of them, and the Hu horsemen who rushed over in a blink of an eye fell from their horses again, and then the foot soldiers in the third row picked up the things in their hands. As for the foot soldiers in the first row, after retreating behind the third row, they immediately pulled away the weapon in their hands, took a gadget from a bag they carried with him, stuffed it into it, and then pushed the place where they had pulled it back into place......

Well, don't say it so much trouble. The weapons in the hands of these hundreds of Yizhou foot soldiers are actually the latest muskets in Yizhou. The artillery Lu Ren and Shirley came out a long time ago, and the musket came out a little later. After all, if the musket was to become a single weapon, there were too many problems to solve at that time.

In particular, Lu Ren, as a traverser, has no interest in the breech-type musket at all, because the breech-loading type musket is very slow in Lu Ren's opinion, and it is not as good as the lever-type arrow box crossbow in Yizhou in terms of shooting frequency alone. Of course, Lu Ren also understands that the advantage of the musket lies in the range and lethality, and the musket has very low physical requirements, unlike the bow and crossbow, which consumes a lot of physical strength to open the bow and pull the string.

However, in this era, it was really unrealistic to want to produce bullets in the modern sense, so after repeated trials and improvements with Shirley, he used his hands and feet on bullets and bolts. To be precise, the bolts of these muskets are large and thick, and the front of the bullet is a vertebral bullet, and the gunpowder behind it is wrapped in paper. After the bullet is inserted into the bolt, the bolt is pushed back into place, and the thickened bolt and barrel withstand the explosive force of the gunpowder while the vertebral bullet is fired. Basically, there is a little bit of unshelled ammunition, but you have to clean up the unburned paper when you reload. (This paragraph is pure, don't take it seriously.) ）

According to this design idea, it took Lu Ren and Shirley a few more years to basically finalize it, and finally appeared in the hands of some elite soldiers in Yizhou. But until now, the number of muskets of this type is not much, and the total is about three thousand, of which five hundred were given to Gan Ning, five hundred were given to Huang Zhong, Lu Ren kept one thousand for himself, and Zhao Yu was divided into five hundred. The remaining 500 or so were handed over to Gao Shun as training guns for training soldiers. After all, it is not realistic for this thing to replace the bow and crossbow at this time, so Lu Ren is kept as the most elite family background, and the outside world does not know about it.

And at this moment, Zhao Yu came to the scene with the five hundred musketeers she had assigned. Lu Ren actually had an explanation for this matter, that is, although these small number of musketeers were well trained, they still needed a certain amount of actual combat experience. Gan Ning's five hundred followed Gan Ning to run the Indian route, and Huang Zhong cruised the Southeast Asian islands, they all had to shoot at the target, so Lu Ren, the musketeer of these two goods, was not worried about anything.

As for the musketeers assigned by Zhao Yu here, Lu Ren repeatedly told Zhao Yu that as long as there was a suitable opportunity, he would pull out these five hundred musketeers for training, because Lu Ren's next big target was the northeast region, and it would inevitably collide with the Hu cavalry in the north, so it was very necessary to have relevant combat experience against cavalry. And now is the time of day, isn't it a good opportunity to gain experience?

I won't say more nonsense, just say that Zhao Yu led the five hundred musketeers according to the three-stage shooting mode of training, and in an instant, they had already fired several bullets at the Hu cavalry who rushed towards them. And at a distance of 100 meters, the corpse of Hu Qi immediately lay down on the ground. The most important thing is that the sound of the musket firing startled the horses that rushed over, and after the horses were startled, the shock team of the Hu cavalry immediately became a mess, unable to form an effective impact force, and as a result, they all became the target of the musketeers' practice.

Therefore, in just a few minutes, the shock team of more than 1,000 horsemen was basically wiped out, and those who died died and fled. However, behind this seemingly outstanding result, Zhao Yu's beautiful eyebrows wrinkled.

Zhao Yu herself is also a warrior on horseback, although she has been running on the sea all these years, but as long as there is a little time, Zhao Yu will still ride around on horseback, so her riding skills have never been unfamiliar, and she also knows the same riding tactics. Now seeing such a result, although his side has taken a big advantage, Zhao Yu has also keenly noticed some shortcomings on his side with his understanding of cavalry warfare...... (To be continued.) )