Chapter 289 Rotation
Guan Zheng finally realized the difficulty of Chen Zongqi carrying out combat missions in his early years with friendly forces. Guan Baihu felt ten times more painful than Chen Zongqi in this regard.
The bird gunner launched three formations in a row and retreated, with the purpose of stopping the pursuit soldiers behind him, and at the same time, he also gave Dafushi the opportunity to reorganize the army and withdraw from the camp in an orderly manner.
The big flint was only half done.
Seeing the three bird guns repelling the Hurons' front army, surging like waves, hundreds of corpses fell before the camp, the big flint really reorganized the formation, but he gathered more than 400 Mohawk warriors and rushed up again with a scream.
In addition, Guan Zheng's flag army also launched several formations at an extremely long range... To be honest, since they joined Beiyang and got the bird gun, they had never thought of firing the gun outside sixty steps, but they had to ask Dafushi to do the matter.
The effect is pretty good, although it is not as good as within thirty steps. Even if you just look at the lead balls with your naked eyes, you can feel them floating, but you can't resist the Hurons' dense formation being connected accurately.
Although there were only more than 400 big flints, many of them were still injured, but they rushed out with great momentum. They threw the spears out on the first charge. Hundreds of Mohawk warriors carrying hunting spears and stone axes rushed in front. The stone arrows flew into the enemy formation from their heads, and they were so scared that the Huron army, which spread out thousands of people, retreated twenty or thirty steps back.
The number of people but the organization is scattered is mostly useless.
Seeing that the people in front were shot by the bird guns in a row, the Mohawks were killed again. The people in front were afraid that the bird guns would be released and wanted to withdraw from the range. The people behind didn't know what was going on - they only knew that the front was retreating.
Therefore, the entire military formation retreated twenty or thirty steps ahead, and the last person had retreated fifty or sixty steps. If the chiefs in each small square formation were not for the Hurons, their front would collapse.
The morale of both sides is different from the fighting will. For Guan Zheng and Dafushi, it was an encounter in the field and was ready to retreat and give up the camp; but for the Hurons' war leader, the Chief Crazy Bear, it was a siege.
Look, there is a half-person-high "stone wall" outside the camp of the Iroquois, and there is a dark green "long house" in the stone wall. In expected, it is a difficult battle for the Crazy Bear. It is not surprising that the enemy will rush out in this situation, and it is also very dangerous.
Just like in the Central Plains, when siege, you will definitely not suppress all the troops first. You must test the attack and see the strength of the defenders and their fighting will; the situation will naturally be different if you meet in the wilderness.
The big flint rushed bravely, but he still knew a little. After only a moment of forming a formation between the two sides, he grasped the Hurons' steps to retreat. After a brief fight, he retreated under the cover of his own arrow rain.
Now he was holding a long-handled stone axe and jumping repeatedly at the camp gate towards the army formation of thousands of Hurons.
Anyway, in Guan Zheng's eyes, it seems that it is not very smart to do such a move without the cover of the Bird Gun Team.
The crazy performance of the big flint did not affect Hulan, the left wing of the camp, to break westward. With the support of the cavalry, the infantry on his side went out of the camp, approaching the enemy's 50 or 60 steps under the rain of arrows. Before the enemy charge, they released two handful of small flag arrows, taking advantage of the rockets to explode in the hinterland of the enemy's position, and thrust into a formation with spears and rushed forward.
The horse team took advantage of the situation and galloped with bows from both wings, easily defeating the four Huron small square formations.
Hulan just killed the formation and finally gathered a hundred people again. The formation had not yet been formed, and he met Guan Zheng's bird gun team again. He only fired a row of guns, and there were few living people in front of him. The big flint, which was planning to show off his skills again, left alone with regret.
He was disappointed, and on the other side, the chief of the Huron League, Crazy Bear, was directly stunned.
The solid "wall" fell down as soon as it was pushed. The cloth made into stone was supported by several branches of equal length in the soil. The same was true for the solid "long house", which was full of thick cloth. However, the wood, food, pots, pans and wooden carts left in the camp could comfort his heart slightly.
This time, after learning that the west of the alliance was invaded by the Iroquois, Crazy Bear led his troops to support. The Xiong clan tribes and pursuers from various villages merged into one place with 4,300 troops. Such troops were almost unimaginable when the two alliances in the north and south of the five major lakes did not engage in a full-scale war.
Four thousand three hundred vs. One thousand six hundred, they should have defeated them with absolute advantage, and even recruited more than seven hundred prisoners. In this way, after half a year of punishment and labor, they should be able to gather 5,000 troops to form an absolute advantage over the Iroquoi Alliance.
But reality is exactly the opposite.
In one encounter, the Hurons won nothing except some iron pots and twin-wheelers. The central army paid more than three hundred-man teams and injured, and the four hundred-man teams on the right wing were directly beaten.
Only more than twenty Mohawk prisoners were captured.
Not to mention how irritable the Chief Crazy Bear, who was wearing Mongolian-style iron armor and tied with a wrong rope, was so irritable that he was sitting on a two-wheeled wooden car.
Under his orders, the twelve hundred-man teams went to pursue the left wing of the camp. At this time, he no longer wanted to fight with this Iroquoi army, and only let his troops drive away the enemy. He repeatedly reminded the leaders of the troops not to leave the camp, so that they could find the situation and support them in time - he had to consider his retreat.
Before he could think of a way out, the troops who were collecting the spoils in the camp heard the sound of yelling from the west. Guan Zheng and others led the complete army of guns, spears, birds, and flags to send four horizontal formations. The horizontal formation was wider than their twelve hundred-man formations. The exhausted Mohawk warriors rushed back from the birch forest.
In the burst of smoke, hundreds of cavalrymen rode away from their flanks, and galloped towards their northern fields from the edge of the battlefield.
This time, the riders on the horse's back were put in their bags, some people supported their spears, some slapped the horse and danced their swords, and cut off their retreat with an upset roar.
Seeing that the twelve hundred-man teams that were put to the west to carry out the expulsion could not even wait for support, they were killed by the bird gunmen and returned. The Crazy Bear was about to rectify the military's strength and defend the camp, when suddenly his ears heard an unusual "hissing" sound in the noise. No one would have cared about this sound in such an environment, but it lasted for a long time and was too close.
Frowning around, looking around, you will soon find a short wooden pipe stretching out under a birch tree. A black line is burning rapidly in the hollow of the wooden pipe. The end of the black line is the opposite side of the tree being cut out of the gap.
Crazy Bear didn't have time to think about what this thing was. The frontline war was in a hurry, and the defeated clan warriors had already rushed their army out of the gap. Usually this means they were dead because the enemy would come in with the gap.
But the Ming army did not.
The four-way horizontal team advanced steadily at cold pace, while continuously placing guns. In the alternating smoke of gunfire, the panicked tribal warriors fell down in groups toward them.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from behind the crazy bear, followed by a terrifying sound of trees breaking. As the towering birch trees slowly fell down, more explosions appeared everywhere in the camp, followed by the earth exploded one after another, and the extremely long giant trees fell to the ground, and the flying gravel exploded blood mist from the smoke and dust rising from the camp.
Leaves flying in the blood mist.
The chaotic scene caused all the mad bear blood to surge into his mind, and he felt the world spinning.
Chapter completed!