Chapter 668 Bad Situation
After the Tiger and Leopard Army was actually equipped with grenades, although they had experience in combat used in offense, they were used when the opponent was not equipped with firearms and was completely suppressed by themselves.
Whether in later generations or at any time, the greatest function of grenades is used for defense.
The Tartars in front of them dared to use grenades in the attack without any advantage.
Don't they know that if the North Korean New Army can equip muskets, they must be equipped with grenades...
When the North Korean New Army is defending the earth wall from a high position, will the grenade be thrown further away in the hands of the North Korean New Army?
However, no matter how shocked the tiger and leopard army scattered among the Korean New Army, they reacted as soon as possible.
Looking at the grenade above his head getting closer and closer to him, he exclaimed loudly...
"The grenade is a grenade... Use the grenade to counterattack immediately..."
"What are you doing when you are still stunned? Immediately throw the grenade that lands on the city. You must not let the grenade explode on the earthen wall.
Due to the limitations of technology in this era, whether it is the grenades equipped by the Tiger and Leopard Army or the imitation of the imperial court and the Later Jin Dynasty, they all use a long fuse rope to ignite the gunpowder contained in the grenade body, thereby causing an explosion.
And this creates a limitation...
In order to ensure the safety of grenade use, a long fuse often takes several seconds or even ten seconds to burn before the gunpowder can be ignited.
And this is why the Tiger and Leopard Army used grenades and held the grenade fuse in their hands for a few seconds before throwing them out.
Only in this way can an explosion occur in a very short time after the grenade lands.
Otherwise, as long as the opponent reacts quickly, it is entirely possible to pick up the grenade again at the moment the grenade lands and throw the grenade that has not yet exploded...
Although the Tartar in front of him was equipped with grenades, he did not know how to use him best.
This gives the North Korean New Army a chance to reduce casualties and counterattack.
The order had just roared out from the mouths of the Tiger and Leopard Army officers beside him. Some of the new Korean soldiers who had seen the huge power of grenades quickly picked up the grenades that landed at their feet. Then, they threw them back at the Tartars dozens of steps away.
Just as these grenades came to the top of the Tartars, some grenades whose fuses were slightly shorter exploded...
Of course, although the North Korean new army responded very quickly. However, they were a new recruit who had just been in contact with firearms for half a month.
On the panicked earth wall, there were still many grenades with white smoke that were not thrown out by them. Then, an explosion occurred on the earth wall filled with the Korean New Army, blowing up more than a dozen unmanned lands in a radius of one meter.
However, when the grenade exploded, the muskets had turned into grenades in the hands of the North Korean army that were not bombed.
Facing the constant explosions around them, facing the death and screams that were close to them, they were afraid, and their hearts were filled with fear.
However, under the threat of the Tiger and Leopard Army officers around him, he still gritted his teeth and insisted on not escaping his life.
Using his hands that had already begun to tremble, he ignited the grenade, and then threw it hard at the Tartars' attacking troops.
So, this scene happened on the scene.
The moment the explosion sounded, the continuous gunfire on the earthen wall stopped directly.
Then, dense grenades flew back and forth between the enemy and us, and then fell into the dense crowd and exploded...
After all, the new North Korean army that defended the earth wall had as many as 2,000 people, and they also had a high advantage. They could throw grenades further away.
In this case, the New North Korean army only threw out three rounds of grenades, and the areas where the Tartars attacked troops were located were covered by the thick black smoke produced by the grenade explosion...
At the same time, grenades flying towards the earth wall of the North Korean New Army also became a handful of them.
Especially after the fourth round of grenades of the North Korean New Army exploded. In the area where the Tartar attacking troops were located, except for the constant explosions, no grenade was thrown out...
It is obvious that less than 500 Tartar offensive troops were devastatingly hit by the North Korean New Army during this grenade attack...
As the black smoke shrouded on the battlefield slowly dissipated, the tragic battlefield slowly appeared in front of everyone.
Although the entire Tartars' offensive road was covered with Tartar corpses in various postures, these corpses could still leave a whole corpse. At first glance, although it was very gloomy, it could not reach the level of blood and fear.
However, the official road about thirty steps away from the earth wall is very different.
Here, not only is it covered with a thick layer of Tartar corpses, but it is also covered with various broken limbs, broken arms and internal organs that were blown by grenades.
More importantly, because a large number of corpses were directly blown into pieces, the entire area was almost dyed red by the blood of the Tartars, and there was no place to take their feet, which was very tragic and bloody...
Faced with the ending of a Thousand-Person team's entire army, Ao Bai's face turned gloomy and terrifying.
He clenched his fists and bit his lip, unable to speak for a long time.
However, through the strong murderous aura that continued to emanate from Ao Bai's body, the subordinates standing beside him knew that Ao Bai must be very angry at this moment...
Of course, during the entire process of grenade bombing, although the Korean New Army was condescending, it still suffered at least 200 grenades from the Tartars.
The battle stopped, and the earth wall that was only two battles wider, was also dyed red by the blood of North Korean soldiers.
In order not to affect morale, the bodies of soldiers who died in battle were dragged down from the earth wall as soon as possible.
However, on the earthen wall stained with blood, broken limbs and broken arms can still be seen everywhere.
Smelling the strong smell of blood in the air, looking at the faces of completely unfamiliar comrades beside him, the Korean New Army soldiers who survived the grenades, all had pale faces, and were still scared and full of fear at the battle that had just ended.
However, no matter what, they once again defeated the new round of attacks of the Later Jin Tartars and wiped out thousands of Tartars.
Under the agitation of the surrounding tiger and leopard army officers, the earthen wall that had been silent for a long time slowly burst out with cheers from the bottom of their hearts.
However, the situation of the new army is not as good as it seems.
Because the musketeers on the earthen wall remained around 2,000 people from beginning to end. Therefore, for ordinary Korean new troops, they were not aware of the casualties of their own troops.
However, Battalion Commander Xu, who served as the commander of these new army, knew very well.
Chapter completed!