Chapter 1125 The Power of the Musketeers
If Zhao Kuo said this in the era of cold weapons, there were more or less some intentions of bullying others and looking down on others.
But the problem is that the troops under Zhao Kuo are no longer just in the era of cold weapons, and he has begun to evolve towards hot weapons.
Zhao Kuo said to Li Mu on the side, "You have been training for so long, so you should have taken it out for a walk."
Before, Zhao Kuo handed over the team of musketeers to Li Mu for training.
And since muskets are still being replenished in the future, the number of musket soldiers Li Mu can train now can still have about 11,000 people, except for those generals and senior officers.
This number is indeed a lot for Li Mu, and it is definitely enough for Zhao Kuo.
No one may not understand what the order of magnitude of the 11,000 musketeers are, so we can compare them with historical wars.
During the First Opium War in history, the British Empire sent 28 warships and 18,000 combatants to defeat the Qing Dynasty, which was still in its heyday, and forced the Qing Dynasty to ced Hong Kong.
Among these 18,000 combatants, most of them were musketeers.
You should know that the Qing Dynasty, which was fighting against these 18,000 musketeers at that time, occupied nearly 14 million square kilometers of land and a population of nearly 400 million.
The Qing Dynasty, with a population of 400 million, could not defeat 18,000 musketeers. So could the mere 150,000 Yuezhi cavalry in front of him fight against 11,000 musketeers?
The answer is obviously needless to say.
This is Zhao Kuo's confidence, because the weapons used by these musketeers under Zhao Kuo are just the same as those used by the British Empire in history, and they all belong to front-mounted flintlock smoothbore rifles.
Of course, this kind of gun and the funeral gun have many shortcomings. It is all behind in terms of performance, range, rate of fire and reliability. However, it is a real hot weapon after all. After all, it is a hot weapon used by the British Empire to defeat the Qing Dynasty without any suspense.
The shame of history needs to be remembered by every descendant of China, and Zhao Kuo remembers it very clearly, so now he has to return this shame to all Westerners with this shame.
Let’s start with the Yuezhi people in front of them with high hair, deep noses, and obvious characteristics of white Aryan nomadic people.
After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Li Mu immediately laughed. The Grand Marshal of the Great Han Kingdom had a very sufficient confidence on his face.
"I can say something to Your Majesty here today. Your Majesty does not need to mobilize any other troops, I only need to bring these 11,000 musketeers to fight.
If I cannot win this time, I will come to see His Majesty with my head."
After Li Mu said this, other Han generals beside Zhao Kuo could not help but look at each other, with a look of surprise on their faces.
It is obvious that Li Mu's self-confidence has reached enough, and he is willing to use his life as a bet. Considering that Li Mu is the deputy prime minister of the Han Dynasty, this bet is actually very important.
After hearing Li Mu's words, Zhao Kuo's lips tilted slightly and said to Li Mu: "This is the first war between us musketeers. You want to be recorded in history. You have to perform well, otherwise even if I can spare you, those historians who are straightforward will not let you go."
After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Li Mu couldn't help laughing out loud: "Please rest assured, your Majesty, we will never have any problems this time."
Looking at Li Mu riding his horse and leaving, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly, and then issued an order to the Han generals beside him: "Everyone has heard what Li Mu said just now, and all the troops are spread out. This time we are mainly helping the musketeers to scoop the formation. Let the real protagonists sing their own operas."
With Zhao Kuo's order, the 150,000 Han cavalry immediately dispersed very neatly, forming a very wide formation, slowly approaching the Yuezhi army in front of him.
Not far away, the Yuezhi King naturally took all this into view, and then a puzzled expression appeared on his face.
"What exactly does this Han emperor want to do?
The formations are so dispersed, would he want to have a big fight with me?"
For King Yuezhi, he is certainly not unfamiliar with the battle between cavalry.
The space required for normal cavalry combat is actually quite large. It is no exaggeration to say that if more than 100,000 cavalry combat, its space may be distributed to hundreds of miles wide.
But the problem is that even if the cavalry has such a large combat space, the cavalry should be relatively concentrated at the beginning of the battle, so that the commander can be more convenient for the commander to issue orders.
Zhao Kuo actually spread out these cavalry completely from the beginning. Could it be that Zhao Kuo had completely predicted the situation on the battlefield in the future and planned to rush up and start fighting directly?
But no matter what, since he had seen the Han cavalry on the opposite side form a formation, after all, the Yuezhi King naturally had to make corresponding countermeasures, so he also issued an order very decisively.
King Yuezhi turned his head to look at the five great Yuezhi marquis beside him and said in a deep voice: "I also know that you may be more or less disagreeable in your daily life, but this time we Yuezhi face an unprecedented powerful enemy. I hope that everyone can unite when facing such an enemy, so that we can gain real living space for our Yuezhi.
I can guarantee that if we can win this battle, then no matter which tribe we have, I will make enough compensation and compensation after the victory."
I have to say that this time, in order to get Yuezhi out of this crisis of possible destruction, the Yuezhi King did try his best.
After hearing what the Yuezhi King said, the five great Xihou present said that we must follow the king's orders unconditionally, and this time we must fight with the Han people to the end and drive the Han people out of this grassland.
On the surface, it is said that, but at present, it is impossible for anyone to tell the Yuezhi King what he thinks.
Kushan Xihou returned to his tribal position with a calm expression, and then someone asked Li Jian to find him.
Li Jian's expression looked quite calm, bowing to Kushan Xihou and said, "I wonder what is the reason why Lord Xihou asked me to come here?"
Kushan Xihou stretched out his hand and the Han cavalry not far away spoke indifferently: "Your Majesty the Emperor is also a victorious general. Why did he actually set up such an inexplicable formation today?
Could it be that he really doesn't want to win a battle?"
After hearing what Kushan Xihou said, Li Jian was silent for a few seconds, and then answered: "I don't know."
"have no idea?"
Kushan Xihou was also stunned, and then showed a sarcastic smile: "You actually said you don't know?"
Li Jian smiled slightly and said calmly to Kushan Xihou: "The minister of the department said that if I really know what the meaning of the formation of troops like His Majesty, then I will not stand in front of you as a spy, but should lead thousands of troops on the opposite side as a general to launch a charge."
After hearing Li Jian's words, Kushan Xihou was silent for a moment and found that it seemed that the truth was true.
At this moment, Qiu Juche, the son of Kushan Xihou, suddenly spoke: "Sir, Father, look, the Han people have sent troops, etc. Why is their troops an infantryman?"
At the end of the day, Qiu Juqi's face showed a look of confusion.
In fact, it is not just a hill to cut. When Kushan Xihou cuts along the hill and looks over, he realizes that it seems that it is really the case.
The main force of the Han cavalry had completely scattered. In the center of the Han cavalry was an infantry unit, slowly advancing towards the Yuezhi people's central army.
"What's going on?"
Kushan Xihou suddenly fell into doubt.
Could it be that these Han people are really crazy?
Thinking of this, Kushan Xihou couldn't help but look at Li Jian, who was still calm in his expression.
If that is true, then Li Jian will probably live to the end soon.
On the other side, the Yuezhi King also immediately discovered this situation.
At the beginning, King Yuezhi thought he was seeing an illusion, so he immediately sent a scout to reconnaissance.
After the real investigation was completed, the scouts returned, and the King of Yuezhi was convinced that the other soldiers of the Han people did not advance. The only one who was heading towards the Yuezhi people was this infantry team with about 10,000 people.
After confirming this, King Yuezhi was surprised, happy, and a little confused.
"Can the emperor of Han really be stupid? He doesn't really think that he can defeat our hundreds of thousands of cavalry with these 10,000 infantry."
Now the Yuezhi King burst into laughter here. For him, he originally thought that this war should be difficult to win, but now the Han people suddenly made such a stupid decision, which made the Yuezhi King's hope of winning seem to have increased a lot.
The Yuezhi King immediately issued an order: "Send the order and let the eldest prince and the second prince attack immediately with 30,000 cavalrymen to encircle the infantry from both left and right routes.
We must use the fastest speed to eat this group of infantrymen while the Han people have no time to support them!”
Although the Yuezhi King does not seem to be a person who can defeat the Han Kingdom, in fact, this Yuezhi King has gained a great reputation in the Western Regions in the past few years. Almost everyone in the Western Regions in the east would tremble after hearing the name of Yuezhi King.
So after so many wars, the Yuezhi King's grasp of the timing is inaccurate.
According to the current situation, if the Yuezhi people can really eat the Han infantry army that suddenly appeared here, it would be a perfect victory and would also greatly boost the morale of the Yuezhi people. By that time, victory is likely to wave to the Yuezhi.
The Yuezhi King had a relatively good position in command of his subordinates. After conveying the order, he immediately divided two cavalry and surrounded the musketeers and vanguard troops from both sides.
Of course, this scene soon fell into Zhao Kuo's eyes, and Zhao Kuo's face did not have any worry, but only expectations.
"Li Mu, Li Mu, let the whole world see what kind of huge energy our musketeers can burst out."
As the real protagonist on the battlefield at this moment, Li Mu rode on the horse, holding a musket that had been uploaded in his hand. Looking at the two Yuezhi cavalry who were constantly approaching in front of him, his face also showed a very expectant expression.
I don’t know that in the past six months, although Li Mu has been practicing with muskets almost every day, it is just practice. After so long, Li Mu has not even killed even one person with muskets himself.
Today is undoubtedly the best occasion for the musket in your hand to truly play the role of a magic weapon that can harvest your lives.
Li Mu smiled and immediately issued an order to the musketeers behind him.
"According to the previous operation, don't worry, remember to listen to me, and wait until these cavalrymen enter the range, we will fire again."
Of course, it is impossible for everyone to hear Li Mu's words with tens of thousands of musketeers.
But this doesn't matter, because in addition to himself, Li Mu also had a group of officers who could help him and convey his orders to everyone's ears in full.
After receiving Li Mu's order, the musketeers immediately dispersed and divided into two parts, each facing a cavalry team.
Li Mu stared at the Yuezhi cavalry from the left, and the gun in his hand was raised, staring at the Yuezhi general in front through his aiming heart.
1000 steps.
800 steps.
600 steps.
550 steps.
500 steps.
Li Mu took a deep breath. After ensuring that his heart was indeed locked in the other party's head, he did not hesitate at all and pressed the trigger in his hand hard.
After a "bang", flames ejected from the barrel, and the bullets quickly fired along the barrel.
Li Mu's gunshot undoubtedly became a signal for all musketeers to shoot. In the next second, countless dense bangs sounds sounded, and many bullets left the barrel and flew fiercely towards the enemy not far away.
This is the first appearance of the Musketeers in this world! It is also the first shot fired by the Musketeers in this world!
Chapter completed!