Chapter 281: Bird's Ten Strikes
Projectiles are everywhere, flesh and blood fly!
Because the road at the "Big Stone Gate" is very narrow, there are cliffs on both sides, and there is no way to avoid it. While the militias attacking on the back hid behind their shields and fired upwards with their birds, the bandits who rushed to the front lay down a few.
But the golden-eyed eagle is worthy of being a bandit leader with rich combat experience, and when he saw the barrel of the bird gun just now, he knew something was wrong, and immediately hid behind a bandit, using his body as a meat shield. The bandit was not as quick as he could react, and was shot in the chest with lead bullets.
Projectiles of this era were spherical rather than modern pointed, making it difficult to penetrate the human body. But because of this, the damage to human tissues is even greater. In particular, lead bullets, because of their soft material, often deform or even rupture after being hit into the human body, causing extremely terrifying injuries to the person who was shot.
This was the case with this bandit, who had only a small finger-sized hole in his chest, but a hole the size of a bowl burst out of his back, and all the broken bones of his heart and lungs and ribs came out of his head.
And several other bandits who fell at the same time as him were not much better. Some were shot in the abdomen, and their intestines and stomachs were shattered; Some were shot in the head, leaving only a front face, but the back half was separated from the body with the skull and brain.
At this time, let alone the bandits, it was Zhu Youzhen, who was in command in the center of the militia array, and he was a little frightened when he saw it. It is said that he can be regarded as a person who has seen a big scene, whether it is the battle of Zunhua or the battle of Guangning, the number of casualties is dozens of times more than in front of him. But whether it is shot with arrows, slashed with knives, or even bombarded with red-coated cannons, the cruelty is not comparable to this small lead bullet.
Only then did he vaguely remember that because lead bullet was "inhumane", the Geneva Conventions of his previous life also explicitly prohibited the use of lead bullet. However, of course, there is no Geneva Convention in this era, and even if there is, Zhu Youzhen does not intend to abide by it.
Because he knows very well in his heart that these so-called treaties and agreements are all shackles put on the weak by the strong. If the weak break the treaty, they will naturally be punished severely; But if the strong man violates the rules himself, he will do nothing, and he will find all kinds of unreliable reasons to justify himself.
In fact, to put it bluntly, there is only one sentence: the strong do not need to keep their promises, because the cost of what he says is very low, or even almost zero!
Therefore, for these hypocritical things, Zhu Youzhen resolutely rejected them from the beginning. What's wrong with cruelty? To treat the enemy is to be cruel, if you are not cruel, the enemy is a hundred times crueler than you!
Sure enough, after a row of bird guns was fired, the bandit leader Golden-Eyed Eagle immediately jumped up and forced a large number of bandits to charge down. Because he also knows the performance of the bird's gun, this thing has to be reloaded once for a shot, and then it has to be ignited with an arquebus, with a long interval in between.
Due to the heavy fog, when the two sides found each other, the distance had been shortened to less than twenty paces, which was converted into the modern metric system, which is about thirty meters. With such a short distance, even if the mountain road is steep, rushing from one side to the other is only a blink of an eye.
Therefore, the golden-eyed eagle was not very flustered, thinking that anyway, there were many of them, and as long as they desperately rushed to the enemy, their bird guns would all become burning sticks.
But no sooner had the bandits rushed a few steps forward than the roar of the bird's guns rang out again. Although there were still only six of them, the road was so crowded and close that the Bird Gunner didn't need to aim at all, as long as he shot forward and upward, he would definitely be able to hit a bandit.
"Up! Give me the! At this time, the golden-eyed eagle was like a gambler who had lost a red eye, desperately urging his subordinates to continue to rush up. He thought to himself that although the other party's bird gun was powerful, there would always be a time to stop. There are so many dead and wounded men today, if you can't wipe out the other side, it will be a real loss. So even if you take a mat, you have to pad it in front of the enemy!
It's a pity that his every move was already expected by Zhu Youzhen. Seeing that the bandits really wanted to use the crowd tactics to break through the blockade of the birds, a grim smile appeared at the corner of Zhu Youzhen's mouth, and he commanded loudly: "The bird guns start the ten-stage attack, and the shield hands are waiting for the opportunity to advance!" ”
The regiments immediately obeyed the order and used the tactics that had been practiced long ago. I saw that the bird gunners in the front row used their shields as supports, and after firing a shot, they immediately retreated backwards from the narrow passage behind them.
The six men in the second row had already loaded their ammunition, and even the fire rope had been ignited for a short time. Seeing that the vacant seats flashed in the front row, they immediately filled in and pointed their guns at the bandits in front. In just two or three seconds, the flames had crawled down the rope into the chamber of the gun, and the six bird guns in this row had been fired again.
The interval between the two rows of bird guns was actually compressed to less than ten seconds. In those ten seconds, the bandits advanced a little, but they were still about ten paces away from the shield-bearer at the front. A row of six projectiles passed, and several more were knocked down when they landed.
Immediately, the bird-gunners in the second row also quickly retreated, and the people in the third row made up for it. The Birdman, who had just retreated to the end of the line, was nervously reloading his ammunition.
The golden-eyed eagle gradually saw the doorway in the back, although the lungs were about to explode, but they were at a loss! Obviously, the opponent only had six bird-gunners shooting at a time, and it is said that the killing range is not large; But because the road is too narrow, these six bird guns have been completely sealed head-on.
If it were to be changed to other terrain, the golden-eyed eagle would definitely let the bandits outflank it from both sides. But the road here is full of towering stone walls on both sides, how can it be outflanked? This natural "stone gate" was originally a good place for him to defend against foreign enemies attacking the cottage, but now it has become a graveyard for bandits!
How did he know that Zhu Youzhen, Li Dingguo and others were not fools, how could they not reconnoiter the terrain and randomly choose the most difficult road to attack the mountain?
The reason why the militia took this road was actually because they valued the topographical advantages of Dashimen. Because of the narrowness of this place, the few bird guns can exert their maximum power.
Zhu Youzhen watched the movie "Burning the Old Summer Palace" in his previous life, and he still remembers the scene of the Eight-Nation Alliance's defeat of tens of thousands of Qing troops by monk Greenqin.
In that one-sided battle, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army lined up three rows of horizontal formations, and after the first platoon finished firing, it immediately retreated to reload, the second platoon stepped forward to shoot, and the third platoon was prepared in the rear. Although there were no machine guns at that time, under this reciprocating cycle, tens of thousands of Qing troops with only cold weapons were still killed.
Later, he learned that the tactic of daring is called "three-stage attack", and it is said that it was invented by the devil Oda Nobunaga. At that time, Zhu Youzhen thought, why do you have to hit three stages instead of four, five, and six stages, isn't that the shooting interval shorter? I'm afraid it can only be because the front of the battlefield is too wide and the troops are insufficient.
Since there were only 60 birds, when he was training in peacetime, he asked the regimental warriors to perform the "Ten Sections Strike" of six people per platoon. I don't want to really use it on the battlefield today, and show my might!
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