Chapter 202 Car Array
The stone castle under the night sky, fire burst into flames.
Apart a hundred steps apart, the two Cossacks used the moon blade axe to build heavy Tsarist Russian muskets, and shot projectiles into the trenches that were running left and right.
At the same time, it is also shot with feather arrows.
After a brief silence, the Long Live Army in the trenches received a denser fire.
When the first volley of Taiping Guns in the world sounded, the deepest fear had surrounded the spoon.
The last time they suffered such a intensive firepower attack was many years ago, when the Tsar sent troops to encircle Yermak's Cossacks.
In just a few battles, thousands of Cossacks under Yermak died and fled, and in the end only 540 people were left.
The memory of the crushing defeat deeply influenced the officers and Cossacks at all levels under Yermak.
In the past, even if they were blocked by the Siberian Khanate by boat along the river, they would not panic because the losses were as expected.
But this is different.
The enemy and the battle process were different from what they expected. They had never encountered such a blow since they crossed the Ural Mountains.
Therefore, when encountering a scattered fire, the dozen musketeers who had just fired the formation were shot over and then the ground was overturned, and their morale was almost collapsed.
Before the first round of volleys of the Ming army was completed, they heard the shouts from the Mongolian light soldiers on both sides, saying that the enemy had retreated.
This disappointed the Wansheng Army Baihu, who was stepping on landmines.
They built a double-layer trench called the "Wanli Hail". The outer edge is short and divided into several sections, the inner side is long and several earth ladders are arranged in the trench. This trench was created by Emperor Wanli in command of the offensive and defense of the Imperial Guard in Tsinghua Park. It was an unusual "Chen Mu Hail".
Chen Mu's trenches were used to defend against blocking, and Wanli cared about his prestige. He believed that soldiers should not stay in the trenches. Even if they drilled into the trenches, they had to prepare for the next attack. Therefore, the outer trenches of Wanli trenches were built for the enemy.
After digging the trench, lay concave wooden boards below, pouring gunpowder, and covering a layer of wooden boards after pouring. Depending on the situation, prepare loose tubes and gravel. The leads are controlled by the inner edge trenches. Each section of the trench is a large mine.
The mission of the soldiers entering the outer trench is to attack feintly, block the enemy for a while and retreat to the inner trench. When the enemy's elite soldiers enter the trench to attack and defend against them, they will detonate mines and blow up the trench, and then charge forward.
Wanli is very useful in the deduction and martial arts performance of Tsinghua Park without soldiers. It scares King Lu, who is familiar with this tactic, dare not occupy the emperor's trenches at all.
I have a memory when I bombed the Two Sessions and saw the trenches hiding far away.
The Long Live Army did not know that Yermak, the Cossacks, had been defeated by the regular Tsarist Russian army before, and was still scared. They did not expect that the Cossacks, who were famous on the grassland, could not even hold on to the first round of the two general flags, and they began to retreat. They were at a loss for a moment.
Baihu also sent flag troops to cross the trenches and headed straight to Shibaozi to ask commander Zhu Yu whether to pursue him.
Zhu Yu, who had long thought about a battle with the Cossacks, was also helpless: Japanese pirates would never escape just by putting a few muskets.
The staff officer beside him even heard too much news about Cossacks' bravery and good at fighting from the tribe leader of the Kuchukhan alliance. He insisted on it with preconceived thoughts and reminded him: "General, be careful that the enemy's abnormality may be deceitful under the night."
It was really light from the night, and the wind and snow were wrapped around a hundred steps away and could not see anything clearly. No matter how the Mongolian cavalry shouted on both wings, the Ming army did not attack rashly.
The Cossacks did retreat.
Mavit and Scoop, the two frontline commanders, have prestige in the Cossacks, but they are not the backbone after all.
Whether the enemy's shooting of feather arrows that cannot penetrate the armor or the projectile that can make holes in the armor has a completely different impact on morale.
Just as Chen Mu has a different understanding of desperate efforts and dying.
The Cossacks rolled and crawled on the snowy field and came slowly and quickly. The first one to pursue the Mongolian cavalry in the north of Mo was the first to chase the defeated army. They raised their sabers and Guduo as usual, but with little success.
A saber will break when it hits the armor. Bone hitting it on the helmet can break half of the helmet, but very few can really hurt people.
The severe cold of Siberia made their shoddy and slightly thin weapons not durable.
On the contrary, the Cossack Moon Blade Axe, this thick weapon, still has unparalleled lethality when swung.
Once the riders were in a fight, they were soon caught off guard. After losing several riders, the Mongolian riders were all around, shooting with bows and arrows that were even harder to kill.
Because of baking bows and arrows, the habit of keeping bowstrings warm in your arms is more durable than cold weapons that have been exposed for a long time.
The dilemma that Siberian Khanate soldiers encountered once again fell on the riders in the northern desert.
It's too difficult, and it's hard to accurately hit the enemy under the night sky. Now that it's hard to shoot if it hits, it's still difficult to shoot.
When Zhu Yu's Mongolian riders told the enemy that it was indeed retreating and ordered the troops to go out of the trenches to pursue the battle, the Cossacks were not far from the chariot camp they set up.
"General, the scout said they got into the car camp."
Zhu Yu scratched his head and asked, "Do they have guns?"
The Rakshasa Kingdom also has a car camp, which is an information that Dong Yiyuan and He Bai didn't know, which made him a little worried.
It’s not that I’m helpless, but that I’m worried about how to break through the chariot camp.
The nomadic cavalry on the grassland may lack attack methods for the chariot camp, but for the Ming army, the chariot camp is not worried.
All we have to consider is cost, time and other issues.
So he decided to throw this trouble to the six hundred households fighting on the front line to worry about it, and let them use their own means to break the car formation. It really doesn't work, and there are big guys behind them.
The Franc machine box car is just a matter of bombing, it’s just a matter of pulling the chariot over and taking some time.
It is far less fast than the long live army carrying a tiger squatting on a horse's back.
The six long live army leaders in front were very decisive. They briefly observed the Cossacks' four-sided vehicle formation and quickly completed the task allocation. The four hundred households led their troops to surround the front, and the two hundred households went to seize the ship, completely cutting off the way for the Cossacks to escape.
The four besieged headquarters of the Hundred Houses did not enter the range of enemy muskets. They cleared the snow from all sides through nearly two hundred steps, swept away an open space, and nailed the tiger squat cannon.
They did not choose to rush to the radical tactics of throwing grenades in the chariot formation near the front dynasty, nor did they wait for the support of the Franchise van to arrive. Although the flying fish soldiers left the Qi Jiguang headquarters of Da Yuzi, they could also carry out air strikes against the Rakshasa car wall, which was only meter high.
The Cossacks who were besieging the camp did not know what fate they were waiting for. They carefully observed any shadows that might be regarded as enemies after the wooden wall shooting hole.
They knew that there was a large army outside the chariot array, and they could even hear verbal calls from the far away that were completely different from the Tatars, but they couldn't hear clearly or understand.
Until some moment, a distant gunshot came from the east, and then gunshots came from all three sides to cater to them.
Immediately following, huge cannons came from all sides.
With the sound of cannons, the overwhelming shots swept towards us.
Chapter completed!