Chapter 1363: Conquering Zhongzuo City
Although the waves of the Houjin cavalry were fierce, they were greeted by the Haihan position that stood on the plain like a reef. After the sound of gunfire, the wave was shattered before it even hit the reef. After the horses and cavalry at the front were shot and fell, they were crushed by countless iron hooves behind, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the fallen horses resounded, and the scene was very tragic.
But the bullets fired by the Haihan army formation on the opposite side seemed to be endless, and even if the Houjin cavalry sacrificed their lives to attack, it would be difficult to advance further within a distance of 100 meters. Although Muteb collected all the armor and shields in the city to equip the cavalry before he set out, these protective measures still could not withstand the bullets fired from the Haihan rifles. These armors, designed to resist cold weapons, can only play a role in psychological comfort in this kind of battle.
The speed at which the Haihan army harvested their lives was no slower than the speed at which the Houjin cavalry charged. The hundreds of men and horses died as fast as they charged, so fast that Muteb, as commander, had not even had time to give the order to turn around, when he saw his charging cavalry being shot in a row and fell to the ground.
The slaughter was completed almost instantly, and the hundreds of horsemen did not make any waves in front of the dense musket array, and the person who rushed the most fiercely among them fell more than twenty meters away from the battle line of the Haihan army. Although this is only a few steps away for cavalry, it can be reached in a breath, but it is also the distance between life and death, and although the Houjin cavalry has the heart to fight to the death, they do not have the ability to cross this space.
Takahashi Minami did not take action personally, he just rode on horseback, stood behind the soldiers, and looked at the entire battle process with a calm attitude. He rarely rushed to the front line as he did when he was a company commander now, because he gradually began to understand that the value of his existence did not lie in how many enemies he killed with his own hands, but to ensure that the troops under his command could exert the strongest combat effectiveness on the battlefield. As a commander who influences the course of the war, the value is far greater than if he personally participated in the fight. What's more, as long as the victory of the war belongs to Haihan, then the battle merits he has obtained are far greater than the lives of several enemies with his own hands.
Although it is unclear how many Houjin remnants were in the castle of Zhongzuo, Takahashi Minami could judge that the main cavalry force of the other side should have been exhausted in the previous three engagements, which was undoubtedly good news for Haihan's battle plan. As long as the cavalry forces deployed by the Houjin in this area are wiped out, then the Haihan will have a lot less to worry about settling down here, at least in terms of logistics and supply, and no longer have to worry about the security of the road from the sea to the Zhongzuo City.
"Let's clean up the battlefield!" Takahashi Minami saw that the general situation was decided, so he ordered to start handling the sweeping work. As for the Houjin cavalry who escaped from the battlefield sporadically, he was not worried, and there were men and horses from his own cavalry battalion on the periphery to be responsible for intercepting and encircling and suppressing.
For the Houjin cavalry to charge so bravely to the death, Takahashi Minami insisted that it would be a lie to say that he was not shocked at all, and among the armed forces of the countries he had fought in the first few years, it was really extremely rare for an army to be able to do this level. These people are savage and not afraid of death, even in the face of an opponent with a huge disparity in strength like the Haihan Army, they will still launch a decisive charge, no wonder Da Ming will be defeated and retreated by such a group of seemingly primitive militants.
Gao Qiao Nan remembered that before going north from Zhejiang, Qian Tiandun also emphasized that the enemy he would fight in the Liaodong region in the future was extremely fierce. Although he had fought with the Houjin army several times in the past year, it was not until this attack on Zhongzuo Suocheng that Takahashi Nan had a deeper and more intuitive understanding of Qian Tiandun's words.
After receiving the order, the two platoons of infantry, armed with their bayonet rifles, began to clear the battlefield in a long line of snakes. For those Houjin soldiers who were seriously injured or trying to die and struggled, the Haihan soldiers were directly given mending knives or killed. And the horses killed in today's battles are already hundreds, even more than the cavalry battalion has war horses, probably enough for the troops to be stationed here until the beginning of next spring.
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Although the waves of the Houjin cavalry were fierce, they were greeted by the Haihan position that stood on the plain like a reef. After the sound of gunfire, the wave was shattered before it even hit the reef. After the horses and cavalry at the front were shot and fell, they were crushed by countless iron hooves behind, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the fallen horses resounded, and the scene was very tragic.
But the bullets fired by the Haihan army formation on the opposite side seemed to be endless, and even if the Houjin cavalry sacrificed their lives to attack, it would be difficult to advance further within a distance of 100 meters. Although Muteb collected all the armor and shields in the city to equip the cavalry before he set out, these protective measures still could not withstand the bullets fired from the Haihan rifles. These armors, designed to resist cold weapons, can only play a role in psychological comfort in this kind of battle.
The speed at which the Haihan army harvested their lives was no slower than the speed at which the Houjin cavalry charged. The hundreds of men and horses died as fast as they charged, so fast that Muteb, as commander, had not even had time to give the order to turn around, when he saw his charging cavalry being shot in a row and fell to the ground.
The slaughter was completed almost instantly, and the hundreds of horsemen did not make any waves in front of the dense musket array, and the person who rushed the most fiercely among them fell more than twenty meters away from the battle line of the Haihan army. Although this is only a few steps away for cavalry, it can be reached in a breath, but it is also the distance between life and death, and although the Houjin cavalry has the heart to fight to the death, they do not have the ability to cross this space.
Takahashi Minami did not take action personally, he just rode on horseback, stood behind the soldiers, and looked at the entire battle process with a calm attitude. He rarely rushed to the front line as he did when he was a company commander now, because he gradually began to understand that the value of his existence did not lie in how many enemies he killed with his own hands, but to ensure that the troops under his command could exert the strongest combat effectiveness on the battlefield. As a commander who influences the course of the war, the value is far greater than if he personally participated in the fight. What's more, as long as the victory of the war belongs to Haihan, then the battle merits he has obtained are far greater than the lives of several enemies with his own hands.
Although it is unclear how many Houjin remnants were in the castle of Zhongzuo, Takahashi Minami could judge that the main cavalry force of the other side should have been exhausted in the previous three engagements, which was undoubtedly good news for Haihan's battle plan. As long as the cavalry forces deployed by the Houjin in this area are wiped out, then the Haihan will have a lot less to worry about settling down here, at least in terms of logistics and supply, and no longer have to worry about the security of the road from the sea to the Zhongzuo City.
"Let's clean up the battlefield!" Takahashi Minami saw that the general situation was decided, so he ordered to start handling the sweeping work. As for the Houjin cavalry who escaped from the battlefield sporadically, he was not worried, and there were men and horses from his own cavalry battalion on the periphery to be responsible for intercepting and encircling and suppressing.
For the Houjin cavalry to charge so bravely to the death, Takahashi Minami insisted that it would be a lie to say that he was not shocked at all, and among the armed forces of the countries he had fought in the first few years, it was really extremely rare for an army to be able to do this level. These people are savage and not afraid of death, even in the face of an opponent with a huge disparity in strength like the Haihan Army, they will still launch a decisive charge, no wonder Da Ming will be defeated and retreated by such a group of seemingly primitive militants.
Gao Qiao Nan remembered that before going north from Zhejiang, Qian Tiandun also emphasized that the enemy he would fight in the Liaodong region in the future was extremely fierce. Although he had fought with the Houjin army several times in the past year, it was not until this attack on Zhongzuo Suocheng that Takahashi Nan had a deeper and more intuitive understanding of Qian Tiandun's words.
After receiving the order, the two platoons of infantry, armed with their bayonet rifles, began to clear the battlefield in a long line of snakes. For those Houjin soldiers who were seriously injured or trying to die and struggled, the Haihan soldiers were directly given mending knives or killed. And the horses killed in today's battles are already hundreds, even more than the cavalry battalion has war horses, probably enough for the troops to be stationed here until the beginning of next spring.
Although the waves of the Houjin cavalry were fierce, they were greeted by the Haihan position that stood on the plain like a reef. After the sound of gunfire, the wave was shattered before it even hit the reef. After the horses and cavalry at the front were shot and fell, they were crushed by countless iron hooves behind, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the fallen horses resounded, and the scene was very tragic.
But the bullets fired by the Haihan army formation on the opposite side seemed to be endless, and even if the Houjin cavalry sacrificed their lives to attack, it would be difficult to advance further within a distance of 100 meters. Although Muteb collected all the armor and shields in the city to equip the cavalry before he set out, these protective measures still could not withstand the bullets fired from the Haihan rifles. These armors, designed to resist cold weapons, can only play a role in psychological comfort in this kind of battle.
The speed at which the Haihan army harvested their lives was no slower than the speed at which the Houjin cavalry charged. The hundreds of men and horses died as fast as they charged, so fast that Muteb, as commander, had not even had time to give the order to turn around, when he saw his charging cavalry being shot in a row and fell to the ground.
The slaughter was completed almost instantly, and the hundreds of horsemen did not make any waves in front of the dense musket array, and the person who rushed the most fiercely among them fell more than twenty meters away from the battle line of the Haihan army. Although this is only a few steps away for cavalry, it can be reached in a breath, but it is also the distance between life and death, and although the Houjin cavalry has the heart to fight to the death, they do not have the ability to cross this space.
Takahashi Minami did not take action personally, he just rode on horseback, stood behind the soldiers, and looked at the entire battle process with a calm attitude. He rarely rushed to the front line as he did when he was a company commander now, because he gradually began to understand that the value of his existence did not lie in how many enemies he killed with his own hands, but to ensure that the troops under his command could exert the strongest combat effectiveness on the battlefield. As a commander who influences the course of the war, the value is far greater than if he personally participated in the fight. What's more, as long as the victory of the war belongs to Haihan, then the battle merits he has obtained are far greater than the lives of several enemies with his own hands.
Although it is unclear how many Houjin remnants were in the castle of Zhongzuo, Takahashi Minami could judge that the main cavalry force of the other side should have been exhausted in the previous three engagements, which was undoubtedly good news for Haihan's battle plan. As long as the cavalry forces deployed by the Houjin in this area are wiped out, then the Haihan will have a lot less to worry about settling down here, at least in terms of logistics and supply, and no longer have to worry about the security of the road from the sea to the Zhongzuo City.
"Let's clean up the battlefield!" Takahashi Minami saw that the general situation was decided, so he ordered to start handling the sweeping work. As for the Houjin cavalry who escaped from the battlefield sporadically, he was not worried, and there were men and horses from his own cavalry battalion on the periphery to be responsible for intercepting and encircling and suppressing.
For the Houjin cavalry to charge so bravely to the death, Takahashi Minami insisted that it would be a lie to say that he was not shocked at all, and among the armed forces of the countries he had fought in the first few years, it was really extremely rare for an army to be able to do this level. These people are savage and not afraid of death, even in the face of an opponent with a huge disparity in strength like the Haihan Army, they will still launch a decisive charge, no wonder Da Ming will be defeated and retreated by such a group of seemingly primitive militants.
Gao Qiao Nan remembered that before going north from Zhejiang, Qian Tiandun also emphasized that the enemy he would fight in the Liaodong region in the future was extremely fierce. Although he had fought with the Houjin army several times in the past year, it was not until this attack on Zhongzuo Suocheng that Takahashi Nan had a deeper and more intuitive understanding of Qian Tiandun's words.
After receiving the order, the two platoons of infantry, armed with their bayonet rifles, began to clear the battlefield in a long line of snakes. For those Houjin soldiers who were seriously injured or trying to die and struggled, the Haihan soldiers were directly given mending knives or killed. And the horses killed in today's battles are already hundreds, even more than the cavalry battalion has war horses, probably enough for the troops to be stationed here until the beginning of next spring.
(End of chapter)