Chapter 551: It's going so well
After taking a deep breath, Zhao Hu directly opened his mouth and ordered: "Send a signal immediately, and the whole army will launch a surprise attack on the North Korean army......"
As soon as Zhao Hu's words fell, three screams sounded behind him. Accompanied by the screaming sound, three signal flares that drew three beautiful arcs in the air quickly flew into the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After the three signal flares rushed to a height of dozens of feet, they exploded without hesitation, and three brilliant fireworks exploded.
Faced with this situation, the three thousand tiger and leopard army iron horsemen jumped on the war horse as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, with a hot face. Draw your saber, show your grenades, and prepare for the assault.
At this moment, the company commander at the front of each company spoke: "Brothers, the battle exploits are just around the corner, and how much you can get depends on your ability...... Cavalry company, with me, launch a surprise attack on the enemy......"
Thirty cavalry companies, under the command of signal flares, were like sharp arrows off the string, directly piercing the main position of the Korean army.
Facing the explosion of signal flares that suddenly sounded overhead, and facing the roaring horses' hooves and shouts of killing that suddenly sounded behind him. The North Korean army, which had not yet realized that it had been surrounded, did not react for a long time from top to bottom.
When they woke up from the shock and subconsciously looked behind them. Thirty cavalry companies had clearly appeared in front of them, and showed them their hideous faces and strong combat effectiveness.
"It's the cavalry unit of the Haw Par Army, how could the cavalry unit of the Haw Par Army run behind us, and there are so many people, what are we doing with the scouts scattered around, why is there no warning......" the chief general of the North Korean army. With a panicked look on his face. Shouted.
The lords of the armies will be frightened like this. Not to mention those subordinates and ordinary soldiers who follow the commander-in-chief.
As soon as the commander's words fell, one of his subordinates shouted with a frightened face: "General, the cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army is menacing, and our reconnaissance cavalry must be finished...... These cavalry are about to rush in front of us, what are we going to do? ”
At this time, the main general with a frightened face finally reacted.
In the face of the horses' hooves, the sound is getting louder and louder. He was getting closer and closer to him, and at a glance, he looked like an iron horse of the Tiger and Leopard Army with almost no end in sight. The commander-in-chief of the North Korean army exclaimed almost subconsciously.
"So what are you doing all the time? Immediately command the soldiers to block these tiger and leopard cavalry, and we must not let these cavalry rush in front of us...... Otherwise, we're all finished......"
For this order, the subordinates did not immediately receive the order, but pointed behind them with a wry smile on their faces, facing the iron cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army. The North Korean army, which had been completely covered by panic and chaos, said in his heavy and helpless tone.
"General. Do you think that with these soldiers behind us, we can stop the iron cavalry of the Haw Par Army? ”
Facing the battlefield is getting worse and worse for yourself. The face of the commander-in-chief of the DPRK army became panicked again. As if he was dying and struggling to the death, with a face full of unwillingness, he continued to shout: "If you can't stop it, you have to stop it, do you want to see the 20,000 troops that were supposed to be brought from North Korea annihilated here?" ”
In the chaos of the battlefield, under the coercion of the bloody heads of officers at all levels of the Korean army, a defensive line that seemed to be the same thing on the surface, but in reality, only God knows, was finally formed before the arrival of the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
At this moment, thirty cavalry companies of the Tiger and Leopard Army happened to rush to a distance of less than forty paces from them.
Forty paces of attack at the speed of a cavalry charge is definitely a blink of an eye for them.
When the Korean army, which was in front of the cavalry, faced the cavalry close at hand, began to close its eyes, and with its trembling hands, clenched its spears to meet the impact of the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army, an accident occurred......
The cavalry of the Haw Par Army, lined up, did not wave their sabers and came back to them.
Instead, he raised a grenade that the defenders in front of him had brought heavy casualties to him, and threw it in his direction with the speed of the horse's charge.
The grenade had just come out of its hand, with a faint whistling sound, and flew towards itself. A sabre with a snowy handle was quickly held in the hands of the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the blade forward, screaming and killing itself.
In the more than 10 consecutive days of fighting, the North Korean troops who participated in the siege battle, without exception, all experienced the tremendous power of the grenade explosion. As for the North Korean troops who did not participate in the offensive, they heard about the powerful power of the grenade.
Therefore, in the face of the rain of grenades flying towards them one step in advance, the North Korean army, which had finally mustered up the courage to block in front of the cavalry, once again fell into an unprecedented panic.
Even though they knew that they were retreating backwards now, they would definitely usher in the officers' broadswords against them, and these frightened North Korean soldiers still did not hesitate to flee to the rear.
In their eyes, instead of waiting here to be killed by a grenade, it is better to take a chance and run for their lives to the rear. After all, there are so many people who are running for their lives with him, and the officers around him may not necessarily find him.
Besides, even if he is favored by the officer and hacked to death by the officer with a big knife, he can still leave a whole corpse. And if you are hit by a terrifying explosive such as a grenade, you are likely to be blown to the ground.
However, no matter how fast they are, they can't fly faster than a grenade.
The frightened North Korean army just turned around and was about to flee for their lives. The whistling grenade had already landed next to them and exploded.
More than three thousand grenades exploded at the same time, and their power can be imagined. As the sound of a violent explosion sounded, fireballs mixed with a large amount of black smoke, like mushrooms after a rain, sprung up one after another on the defense line hastily formed by the North Korean army.
The 3,000 officers and men of the Tiger and Leopard Army on their horses saw very clearly that the Korean troops were blown to the ground by grenades before they could flee for their lives.
Under the shroud of gunpowder smoke and black smoke, a tight line of defense that was still blocking everyone just now is already full of gaps at this moment.
Such a great opportunity, of course, the 3,000 Tiger and Leopard Army will not let it go.
The 3,000 soldiers staring at a pair of bloodthirsty eyes, like 3,000 hungry wolves, pounced fiercely on a panicked Korean military formation that had no ability to resist because of fear.
"Boom ......" lost its way to stop the galloping cavalry one by one, as if it had hit a piece of paper, rushed into the North Korean military formation as if it had entered no man's land, and began to arbitrarily slaughter the North Korean troops approaching him in the military formation.
The chief general of the North Korean army, who was protected by more than 10,000 soldiers, faced the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army, who had completely fought with his subordinates. The facial expression, which was still nervous and frightened just now, has been covered with gloom and despair at this moment.
Because, with his understanding of the battle situation, the remaining fifteen thousand soldiers under his command no longer have the slightest morale at all. In this case, the only way left for these people is to be slaughtered by the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
As a general commander, there are no soldiers under his command, so what's the point of living.
Under such circumstances, the chief general with a face full of despair could only mumble to himself with despair.
"It's over, it's over, a whole army of 20,000 people is buried in my hands like this...... What kind of face do I have to go back to China, it's better to die here for a hundred ......"
The subordinates standing around, of course, would not watch the commander of the first army die in front of everyone like this.
If this kind of thing really happens, then I will definitely not be able to escape a joint and several responsibility.
Besides, if the Lord is about to die, after returning home, who will bear the responsibility for the defeat of the army, and who will bear the wrath of the court.
Therefore, at the critical moment, these subordinates did not hesitate to prevent the master from making any irrational decisions.
"General, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, you must hold on, North Korea can't do without you...... As long as we return to North Korea, there will definitely be a chance to make a comeback...... Please don't be discouraged, general, hold on......"
As soon as this subordinate's voice fell, another subordinate followed closely behind and said, "General...... The Han people have a saying that if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid of burning without wood...... As long as you, general, live, we will have a chance to make a comeback, and our Korean army will also have a chance to re-enter the Ming Dynasty and Liaodong......"
After finishing speaking, this subordinate shouted directly to the guards beside him: "What are you still doing? If you don't protect the general right away and withdraw from the battlefield...... Quickly, protect the general from the battlefield. If something happens to the general, all of you will die......"
The main generals have all retreated, and those subordinates who are guarding the main general's side will certainly not continue to stay here to die.
Taking advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army was entangled by more than 10,000 soldiers, the officers at all levels gathered around the main general mounted their war horses one after another and quickly rushed out of the battlefield along the few remaining gaps in the battlefield......
The officers were gone, and the North Korean army, which was already demoralized on the battlefield, had even less courage to continue fighting.
Facing the cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army fighting everywhere on the battlefield, facing the increasingly strong smell of blood on the battlefield. Fears and thoughts of surrender quickly spread on the battlefield.
Just when the Korean army, with a frightened face, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army. More than 3,000 soldiers of the Second Infantry Division of the Tiger and Leopard Army, which defended the county seat, did not act as spectators.
Three thousand iron horsemen had just appeared and rushed into the positions of the North Korean army. The commander of the 2nd Division felt that an opportunity to destroy the Korean army outside the city was already in front of him.
As a result, the gate of the county seat, which had been closed for more than ten days, was opened for the first time.
After more than ten days of passive beating, the 3,000 musketeers who were holding back a bad breath in their hearts were like a flood that burst the embankment, quickly gushing out of the county seat.
After forming a company-based musket formation outside the city, they pressed directly from the front of the North Korean army.
The flat-ended muskets, a hedgehog-like array of muskets, pushed forward while firing lead bullets at the North Korean troops who were getting closer and closer to them.
Under the rain of lead bullets, the North Korean troops, who were only equipped with cold weapons, were like ripe wheat, which were cut down to the ground in pieces and turned into corpses...... (To be continued......)